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Docs for Sale
Catalogue
International
Documentary Film
Festival Amsterdam
Docs for Sale
19th International Documentary Market Amsterdam
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Human Interest / Social Issues
Experimental | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
0,8 Amps of Happiness
112 Weddings
The Netherlands, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’
Original Language: Dutch
Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video, 90’
Original Language: English
‘There will come a moment when I
decide to lie down in the snow to die.
Because living like this isn’t much of a
life. It really isn’t. It’s death. ’
These are the opening words of Lidwine
in this documentary. Severely depressed
and suicidal, she has tried everything
to break free from the downward
spiral she finds herself trapped in.
Electroconvulsive therapy, popularly
known as electroshock therapy, is her
last resort. Director Saskia Gubbels
intimately portrays three people who
undergo electroshock therapy. Will this
treatment give them back just a tiny
shred of their former state of happiness
they so long for?
As a part-time wedding videographer,
filmmaker Doug Block has taped 112
weddings. Doug long wondered what
became of those marriages. Driven
by deep curiosity, he begins to track
down and interview his wedding
couples, juxtaposing wedding day
flashbacks with present-day reality as
he explores themes of love and marital
commitment.
0,8 Ampère Geluk
Saskia Gubbels
Doug Block
112weddingsmovie.com
www.zeppers.nl/en/film/08-amps-happiness
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Frank van den Engel
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Judith Vreriks
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
INVOLVED TV CHANNELS
KRO-NCRV Television –
tel: +31 35 6773561
The Netherlands
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
Director Saskia Gubbels intimately portrays three
people who undergo electroshock therapy.
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PRODUCTION
Zeppers Film & TV
Canada (all rights) not available.
USA, France, Germany, UK, Sweden,
Israel, Finland, South Korea, Spain,
Australia (TV rights) not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
PRODUCTION
112 Weddings, LLC
Lori Cheatle
19 – 23 Ironmonger Row
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 253 6244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
As a part-time wedding videographer hired for his intimate
documentary style, filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street,
The Kids Grow Up) has taped 112 weddings.
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2014
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
17 Not Required Indians
1971
United Arab Emirates / Pakistan
/ India, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’
Original Language: Hindi/English
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
2010 UAE -17 Indians were sentenced
to death for murdering 1 man. They
would have ended up as statistics, but
their families who garnered support of
local media and Human Rights Lawyers,
pressuring both governments, into a
fair trial. Sharing spaces through this
trial, watching them collect proof of
innocence, leads us into an unseen
world of migrant slavery, starting in
Punjab it entraps workers into Sharjah.
Human Rights Lawyers reveal there are
1700 more Indian migrants languishing
in UAE jails-approximately 200 on death
row- testimony to the urgent need
of representation by Indian Embassy
overseas.
How did an anti-war effort turn into
one of the greatest heists in US history?
The year a few ordinary citizens took
on over-reaching powers of the FBI.
The never-before-told heist story has
striking parallels with current headlines
about privacy issues and government
surveillance in light of the Wikileaks
scandal and Snowden’s revelations
about the NSA.
Soniya Kirpalani
Johanna Hamilton
cargofilm-releasing.com/home/films/1971
www.notrequiredindians.com
SALES / CONTACT
Soniya Kirpalani
Sprocket Science Films
2104 Shiv Tapi, Hughes Road,
Gamdevi
PRODUCTION
Sprocket Science Films
Soniya Kirpalani
CO-PRODUCTION
Indovision Films – England
SALES / CONTACT
David Piperni
Cargo Film & Releasing
611 Broadway #630
PRODUCTION
Big Mouth Productions
Katy Chevigny
Marilyn Ness
10012 New York
4000007 Mumbai
USA
India
tel: +1 2129958139
tel: +91 2223670830
CargoFilm-Releasing.com
www.sprocketscience.net
[email protected]
[email protected]
Laura Poitras Presents: Before
Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks
& Watergate, there was 1971.
UAE 2010 – 17 Indians were sentenced to death for allegedly murdering
1 man. They were just statistics, until Human Rights, pressuring both
governments into fair trial, revealing modern migrant slavery.
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History | Investigative | Politics / Society
1989
2013
Denmark, 2014 color / black
and white, video, 58’/97’
Original Language: Romanian/
Hungarian/German/Russian/English
Subtitles: English
Belgium, 2013 color, HDcam, 49’
Subtitles: English
A young and unknown technocrat,
Miklós Neméth, is brought in to become
Hungary’s new prime minister. He is to
save the country’s appalling economy
and soon decides to remove the
massive border control apparatus from
the state budget. He soon finds out
that this decision sets him up against
formidable adversaries and communist
hardliners.
Director Anders Østergaard (Tintin and
Me, Burma VJ) recreates the events
of 1989 and invites the audience into
the secret meeting rooms through
a mixture of ’testimonials’, archive
material, recreation, and reconstructed
dialogues lip-synch’ed to archive
footage of the real political key
characters.
2013 looks back on a whole year with
ten unknown people filming their
own lives. Twelve episodes look back
on twelve months, with ten personal
stories.
A special mirror with a moving,
emotional trip along our daily lives. Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz
Joren Creylman, Jeroen Mertens
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION
Magic Hour Films
SALES / CONTACT
Sue Green
Lise Lense-Møller
The New Flemish Primitives
Huart Hamoirlaan 107
8050 Zurich
CO-PRODUCTION
Proton Cinema Kft. – Hungary,
Switzerland
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Belgium
tel: +41 44 3122060
– Germany,
tel: +32 470991891
www.firsthandfilms.com
Substans Film AS – Norway,
www.tnfp.tv
[email protected]
Radiator Film ApS – Germany
[email protected]
First Hand Films
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
1030 Brussel
PRODUCTION
Woestijnvis NV
Erik Watté
SBS Belgium – Belgium
DR – Denmark,
ZDF – Germany,
RBB – Germany,
VPRO – The Netherlands,
ARTE Deutschland – Germany
A political drama about the
collapse of the Iron Curtain.
January 2013 in the lives of ten very different people: young
and old, men and women, high end, low end…
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Catalogue No. 106
Politics / Society
Art / Music / Culture
24 Hours Jerusalem
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov
Germany / France, 2014
color, video, 26’/1440’
Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic/English
Subtitles: English
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 83’
Original Language: not applicable/
French/Lingala
Subtitles: English
Following protagonists from all
religions and backgrounds the event is
a message from the heart of a deeply
conflicted region. More than half of the
world population believes Jerusalem
to be their religious center. The city is
an icon since hundreds of years, and
makes the news headlines around the
world almost every day. Amongst the
symbols and politics, daily life of the
city’s diverse inhabitants clamors on,
intertwining the stories of Jerusalem.
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a film
about African beauty. Directed by
Oswald von Richthofen and produced
by Roland Emmerich. It is no classical
documentary. No boy soldiers. No
hunger. No safaris. Rather a poetic
homage to the eternal beauty and
sublime strength of Africa. An
exemplary tribute to the Surma tribe
of Southern Ethiopia, the dandy
movement of Brazzaville and the
voodoo wrestlers in Kinshasa. The
filmmakers show three unusual facets
of Africa. The result explodes cinematic
aesthetics. 35 Cows and a Kalashnikov
will illuminate your view of the Dark
Continent.
Volker Heise
Oswald von Richthofen
www.35cows.com
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
8050 Zurich
Switzerland
PRODUCTION
Zero One Film
Thomas Kufus
CO-PRODUCTION
Alegría Productions – France
tel: +41 44 3122060
BR – Germany,
ARTE Deutschland – France,
[email protected]
NRK – Norway,
YLE – Finland
Shot by 70 crews, this is a portrait of one day in the life
of the world’s most famous city. Behind the harsh politics
of our days lie daily routines familiar to all.
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SALES / CONTACT
Andrea Zimmermann
BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion
PRODUCTION
Oswald von Richthofen
Beethovenplatz 2
CO-PRODUCTION
Lohmann Medien –
80336 München
The Netherlands
Germany
tel: +49 172 8957789
andrea.zimmermann@
berghauswoebke-film.com
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is an unusual documentary about Africa.
A homage to the Surma tribe of Ethiopia, the dandy movement
of Brazzaville, and the voodoo wrestlers in Kinshasa.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Art / Music / Culture
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
5 Days in New York
The 50 Year Argument
Germany, 2014 color / black
and white, HDcam, 52’
USA, 2014 color / black and
white, video, 96’
On June 28th 1969 the New York
Police Department conducted a raid
on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on
Christopher Street in Greenwich Village.
To the surprise of the policemen, the
partying bar patrons decided to defend
themselves and fought back.
Today, this incident is celebrated in
a series of colourful and flamboyant
parties in cities all over the world.
Everywhere, people are remembering
the pioneers of the gay and lesbian
movement 45 years ago. 5 Days in New
York takes the viewers back to the
origins of the gay pride movement in
New York City.
Martin Scorsese and his longtime
documentary collaborator David
Tedeschi’s The 50 Year Argument
rides the waves of literary, political
and cultural history as charted by its
subject: the influential publication The
New York Review of Books, America’s
leading journal of ideas for over fifty
years.
André Schäfer
SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
SND Films
P.O. Box 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 4040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi
PRODUCTION
Florian Film
Anna Steuber
ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany
USA, Japan, Scandinavia, Canada,
Portugal, Latin America (TV),
Central Europe (TV), Netherlands
(TV) not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
6511207 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
HBO Enterprises – USA,
Germany, France not available.
BBC Arena – England,
Gay Pride on the
Hudson River.
WoWoW – Japan
The 50 Year Argument rides the waves of literary, political
and cultural history, as charted by its subject: The New York
Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Nature / Environment
6 Degrees
A 60 km/h
Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 81’
Original Language: Polish/Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
Uruguay, 2014 color, HDcam, 100’
Original Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
The film is inspired by Milgram’s ‘Six
degrees of separation’ theory with
its assumption that every person in
the world can be reached through 6
personal connections. The crew tries
to explore the chain of connections
between two randomly drawn
protagonists: a young punk-rock
musician from Warsaw, Poland and a
farmer from little village in Mexico.
Movie camera follow the everyday
life of all our protagonists and try to
discover what’s hidden beneath their
everyday masks. Doesn’t the longing for
love, acceptance, career, friendship and
a decent life reminds us of ourselves?
What if you are 50 and you realize you
are making the same mistakes as your
father? Which borders are you willing to
cross to avoid this?
Wanting to change his life, 50-yearold Mario Sabah from Montevideo
decides to leave everything behind. He
repairs his 1977 Mehari and recruits his
two sons to embark without money
on a life-changing journey of 150.
000 kilometers, 45 countries and 5
continents. Through interviews and
footage shot during the trip, At 60 km/h
tells us about family and sacrafice. And
about the value of keeping one’s word. 6 Krokow
Bartosz Dombrowski
Facundo Marguery
www.a60km.com
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Krakow Film Foundation
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Otter Films
Anna Wydra
SALES / CONTACT
Virginia Hinze
PRODUCTION
U Films
U Films
Virginia Hinze
Echevarriarza 3377 bis
Videitos Films
11500 Montevideo
Matias Sabah
Uruguay
tel: +59895372938
www.a60km.com
[email protected]
Which borders are you willing
to cross in order to not make
the same mistakes as your
father? Would you accept
his offer to travel around the
world?
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Catalogue No. 111
Investigative | Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Art / Music / Culture | Investigative | Author’s Point of View
The 986 Patent
Act and Wind
Sweden, 2013 color, video, 59’
Original Language: English/Swedish
Subtitles: English
Brazil, 2014 color / black and white,
16mm/HDcam/35mm/video, 72’
Original Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
The story of one of the biggest patent
disputes in European history, over
a patent for color graphics displays
invented by Swedish genius Håkan Lans.
What began as a dream of adding color
to the everyday world of computing
soon turned into a nightmare, involving
high-powered lawyers, FBI and
multinational corporations. The film
is a fascinating documentary about
Håkan Lans and his struggle to defend
his patent against giant multinational
corporations willing to do anything to
avoid having to pay the inventor. The
documentary features interviews with
Noam Chomsky, Apple’s founder Steve
Wozniak and Nolan Bushnell, founder
of Atari.
Act and Wind is a film montage, made
of clips of more than 150 fiction films
and documentaries. The film prioritizes
the most important ACT in the
cinematographic activity: THE CUT, the
passage from one time-space unit to
the next one.
Ato, atalho e vento
Marcelo Masagão
Michael Collaros, Felix Etzler
svtsales.com/programme-sales/the-986-patent
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SALES / CONTACT
Niklas Ahlgren
PRODUCTION
Bob 601
SVT
SALES / CONTACT
Marcelo Masagão
Michael Collaros
Agência Observatório
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Felix Etzler
Estrada do Layer
S-10510 Stockholm
SVT – Sveriges Television ABLuleå
06079-240 Cotia
Sweden
tel: +46 709 689832
– Sweden
tel: +55 1146124886
Marcelo Masagão
Brazil
www.svt.se
www.filmesdomasagao.com.br
[email protected]
[email protected]
What began in 1975 as a
dream of adding color to
computer monitors soon
turned into a nightmare
for the inventor Håkan
Lans, involving highpowered lawyers, FBI and
multinational corporations.
PRODUCTION
Agência Observatório
Act and Wind is a film montage, made of clips of more
than 150 fiction films and documentaries.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Advanced Style
Ady Gasy, the Malagasy Way
Madagascar / France, 2014
color, HDcam, 84’
Original Language: Malagasy
Subtitles: English/French/Portugese
Ady Gasy
Nantenaina Lova
Lina Plioplyte
advancedstylefilm.com
www.adygasy.com
The recent emergence of street style
as a cultural phenomenon has changed
the way we look at fashion forever.
In 2008, Ari Seth Cohen began a blog
depicting the style and stories of the
city’s senior set. As Cohen’s blog comes
to the attention of the international
fashion community, an industry
traditionally associated with youth, the
ladies find themselves in a position of
new-found fame and cultural influence.
The documentary focuses on some
of Ari’s favourite subjects, whose
eclectic personal style and spirit have
guided their approach to ageing. Each
offers their own unique perspective on
overcoming life’s obstacles with style.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 2536244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Baltics,
Iceland, Japan, Australia, NZ, UK,
Korea, Israel not available.
PRODUCTION
Teenage Peanut
Ari Seth Cohen
“The Chinese make things, the
Malagasy fix them. ”
Just for the time of a film, let’s reverse
roles: let’s imagine it isn’t for the
economists to demonstrate their
growth model, but for the farmers,
artists, craftsmen, and streetwise
venders to showcase their skills. Some
recycle tires into shoes, some make
lamps from cans, some transform zebu
bones into soap and medication.
Welcome to Madagascar, the island
where we prefer proverbs and
picturesque speech rather than
equations.
In times of crisis, the Malagasy way of
life is a mix of inventiveness, music,
fraternity, and above all, a sense of
creative recycling.
SALES / CONTACT
Marie-Clémence Paes
Laterit Productions
PRODUCTION
Endemika Films
Eva Lova
9 rue de Terre Neuve
Laterit Productions
75020 Paris
Marie-Clémence Paes
France
CO-PRODUCTION
Autantic FIlms – France
tel: +33143727472
www.laterit;fr
[email protected]
The story behind the fashion blog which became
an international phenomenon.
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Catalogue No. 114
Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Afternoon of A Faun
The Age of Love
white, HDcam, 54’
USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’
Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil
Le Clercq may have been the most
transcendent. Because of her
extraordinary movement and unique
personality on stage, she became
a muse to two of the greatest
choreographers in dance, George
Balanchine and Jerome Robbins,
who created his famous version of
Afternoon of a Faun for her. Then, at
27, she was struck down by polio and
paralyzed. She never danced again. The
ballet world has been haunted by her
story ever since.
Addie, 71, out late at a dance club,
doesn’t mince words, “I’m not looking
for some baggy-assed man to buy
me a fish fry. ” And long-divorced at
74, insists she’ll still find her “Fred
and Ginger romance. ” What brings
these seniors together is an intriguing
announcement: a first-of-its-kind Speed
Dating event exclusively for 70- to
90-year-olds. This heartwarming and
surprising film follows these intrepid,
pre-war speed daters over one summer
and brings to light the unexpected
hopes and emotions of older adults
who must now take stock of aging
bodies and life-worn hearts.
Nancy Biurski
Steven Loring
www.theAgeofLoveMovie.com
www.afternoonofafaun.com
SALES / CONTACT
Elizabeth Sheldon
PRODUCTION
Steeple Chase FIlms
Kino Lorber, Inc.
Ric Burns
333 West 39th St. Suite 503
10018 New York
WNET – USA
USA
tel: +1 212 6296880
alivemindcinema.com
[email protected]
Tanaquil Le Clercq was
the prima donna of the
ballet world until she was
struck down by polio and
paralyzed. She never danced
again. This is her story.
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SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
Films Transit International Inc.
PRODUCTION
Steven Loring Film Productions
Steven Loring
252 Gouin Boulevard East
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
www.filmstransit.com
[email protected]
Widowed and alone in
his small apartment in
Rochester, NY, Matt, 79,
sighs, “I just need somebody
to be romantic with!”
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Agora. From Democracy to the Market
Alive!
Greece, 2014 color / black and
white, HDcam, 52’/95’
Original Language: Greek/English
Subtitles: English
France, 2014 color, video, 80’/52’
Original Language: French
Subtitles: English
A feature length project covering four
years of Greek economic and human
downfall, with the point of view of a
long time world documentarist and
reporter filming his own country with
impartiality, delivering the chronicle
of the on progress laboratory of the
country’s public economical and social
fabric dismembering, meeting with
his fellow citizens with humanity and
empathy, reflecting their devolution,
and addressing economic governance,
when accessing the testimony of its
national and international key actors
and first hand backstage insiders.
Five men meet for a first parachute
jump experience. Held by intense
and vertiginous moments, a growing
friendship and hilarious moments,
the film is an opportunity for them to
express profound feelings about living
with HIV.
Yorgos Avgeropoulos
Vivant !
Vincent Boujon
andanafilms.com/catalogue
SALES / CONTACT
Iva Tkalec
PRODUCTION
Small Planet TV Productions
Visible Film
SALES / CONTACT
Stephan Riguet
PRODUCTION
The Kingdom
Yorgos Avgeropoulos
Andana Films
174, rue Stevin
Anastasia Skoubri
25 route de l’Echelette
1000 Bruxelles
07170 Lussas
Belgium
WDR – Germany,
tel: +38 5915185577
Al Jazeera Arabic – Qatar
tel: +33 4 75943467
Lyon Capitale TV – France,
www.visiblefilm.com
www.andanafilms.com
Cinaps TV – France
[email protected]
[email protected]
France
Marie-Odile Gazin
CO-PRODUCTION
Rendez-vous – France
The cost of greek crisis on
human lifes, witnessing
the rise of fascism but also
solidarity, while investigating
the global systemics and the
governance conducting highrisk economic experiments.
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Catalogue No. 118
Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Almost Friends
Always Together
Israel, 2014 color, video, 58’
Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic
Subtitles: English
Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 85’/52’
Original Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
Samar, 12, lives in Lod, a mixed city
marred by poverty and crime. She has
an Arab Israeli mother and a Palestinian
father from the Occupied Territories.
Linor, 11, lives in Tlamim, a religious
jewish settlement.
There are only 67 km between Lod and
Tlamim, but the girls are separated
by a vast national, cultural and
ideological abyss. As participants in an
education and technology program,
their relationship starts from online
correspondence. Meeting face-to-face
adds an intense component to the two
girls’ lives, sweeping them and their
families into a profound and complex
experience.
Is there a recipe for an ideal family?
25 years ago, Petr used to be an urban
man studying computer science. Then
he met Simona, and they decided
to pursue their dream of freedom
together. Choosing a traditional
lifestyle of self-sufficiency, love and
togetherness, the couple lead a frugal,
bohemian life in a self-made house in a
meadow in the Bohemian Forest, with
the bare essentials – and their nine
children. Can fatherly love become
suffocating for the children? Rejecting a
conventional lifestyle means sacrifices
for the whole family. Will they be able
to fit in modern society? Kim’at Chaverot
Nitzan Ofir, Nitzan Ophir
Stále Spolu
Eva Tomanova
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
8050 Zurich
PRODUCTION
Heymann Brothers Films
Barak Heymann
Yes Docu – Israel
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Iva Tkalec
PRODUCTION
Endorfilm
Visible Film
Jiri Konecny
174 rue Stevin
Ceská Televize – Czech Republic
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
tel: +38 591 5185577
www.visiblefilm.com
[email protected]
The dream of an
alternative family life
which just went too far.
Two girls, one religious Jewish and the other Israeli-Arab whose father
is from the Occupied Territories, start to correspond online, and find
themselves deep in a surprising, exciting, and stressful experience.
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History | Investigative | Politics / Society
Ambush
Andy Holzer – Beyond the Light
France, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’
Subtitles: English
Austria / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 50’
Original Language: German/English
L’Embuscade
Sébastien Dupouey, Jerome Fritel
Andy Holzer – Jenseits des Lichts
Werner Bertolan
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This is the story of 31 French
paratroopers who were thrown into
chaos for more than 20 hours of
continuous fighting with no cover. They
were up against heavily armed Taliban
forces that outnumbered them 5 to 1.
A story of heroism, sacrifice and blood.
9 were killed, 16 were injured and only
6 escaped unharmed. This band of
brothers were all from the 8th RPIMA
Parachute Regiment, they were friends
and most of them were young.
Brought to life with animated
sequences, Ambush allows the survivors
to tell the story of that fateful day.
SALES / CONTACT
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
38 Quai du Point du Jour
PRODUCTION
Brotherfilms
David Andre
Emmanuel Francois
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
France
tel: +34 634869646
www.javafilms.fr
[email protected]
The story of 31 French paratroopers thrown into chaos for 20 hours of fighting
with no cover as a result of an ambush – only 6 escaped unharmed.
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Despite being unable to see,
mountaineer Andy Holzer, has
experienced sacred places in
Jerusalem, the Jordanian desert and
the rocks of Wadi Rum. Blind from
birth, Holzer, from Osttirol in Austria,
became famous for his climbing
and mountaineering skills. This
documentary is not only about his
achievements, it is also about a pious
man and his journey to and across the
Holy land following Jesus’ Passion. This
journey leads through the desert of
Jordan and ends in Wadi Rum where
Holzer tries to climb dangerous ridges.
SALES / CONTACT
Berend Dreier
Red Bull Media House
PRODUCTION
Timeline Production Reichel &
Hinterbrandner GbR
Oberst-Lepperdinger-Strasse 11-15
Max Reichel
5071 Wals
Austria
Hans-Peter Stauber
tel: 00436622240-0
Servus TV – Austria
berend.dreier@
at.redbullmediahouse.com
This documentary accompanies blind mountaineer Andy
Holzer on his journey through the Holy Land.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Arctic Spleen
The Arms Drop
Italy, 2014 color / black and
white, video, 64’
Original Language: Greenlandic/English
Subtitles: English
Denmark / Sweden, 2014 color, video, 60’
Original Language: Danish/English
Subtitles: English
Piergiorgio Casotti
Andreas Koefoed
www.piercasotti.com/index.php?/
multimedia/arctic-spleen-video
Arctic Spleen is a personal intimate
journey inside the Greenlandic juvenile
world where nature, violence, boredom
and a strong cultural legacy have been
claiming for decades the highest and
saddest “toll”, lives. A documentary that
offers a different social perspective to
the 3. 000 Inuits community of Tasiilaq
and the other 6 villages that make up
the East coast of Greenland, one of the
currently lesser known societies in the
world. SALES / CONTACT
Ilaria Malagutti
PRODUCTION
Mammut Film Srl
Mammut Film Srl
Ilaria Malagutti
via Bizzarri 13
40012 Calderara di Reno Bologna
Italy
tel: +3951727536
www.mammutfilm.it
[email protected]
A personal and intimate
journey inside Greenlandic
juvenile world.
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Former British arms dealer Peter Bleach
is convicted of dropping 4 tons of
weapons over West Bengal in order
to start a civil war – facing a possible
death sentence in India.
Bleach was indeed part of the arms
drop, but he was working as an MI5
informer with a view to capturing the
mas¬termind behind it, international
activist Niels Holck, who was also on
board the plane. Whereas Niels Holck
made a dramatic nocturnal escape from
the Indian police at Mumbai Airport
where they had detained the plane,
Bleach was left to rot in an Indian jail
for eight years. SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Fridthjof Film
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Miriam Nørgaard
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
DR Danish Broadcasting
Denmark
Corporation – Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
This is the story of one the
world’s largest illegal arms
drops, and how it came to
pass with the knowledge
of three governments.
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Catalogue No. 20
Around the World in 50 Concerts
Art and Craft
The Netherlands, 2014
color, HDcam, 52’/94’
Original Language: Russian/
English/Dutch/Spanish
Subtitles: English
In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra tours the whole world to
celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50
concerts spread over 6 continents.
Unbounded passion and love for music
brings musicians and concert goers
together. Documentary maker Heddy
Honigmann lands with the orchestra in
Buenos Aires, Soweto and St Petersburg
and shows how the ensemble succeeds
in gaining the hearts of people with a
different cultural background. A journey
to the kernel and the power of music
which knows how to touch unexpected
emotions and which helps to overcome
the pain of living.
Art and Craft follows a prolific forger
of European masters from Picasso
to Monet, who donates his work to
museums instead of selling it. The
film uncovers a curious story at the
intersection of art and philanthropy.
Heddy Honigmann
Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
www.artandcraftfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PRODUCTION
Cobos Films
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Purple Parrot Films
Carmen Cobos
Autlook Filmsales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Kees Rijninks
Spittelberggasse 3/14
Non Sequitur Productions
1217 ZL Hilversum
AVROTROS – The Netherlands
A-1070 Vienna
Jennifer Grausman
Austria
CO-PRODUCTION
Yellow Cake Films – USA
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
www.nposales.com
www.autlookfilms.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Sam Cullman
DR – Denmark,
SVT – Sweden,
TVO – Canada,
Knowledge Network – Canada
Heddy Honigmann shows the
tour over 6 continents made
by the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra to celebrate
its 125th anniversary.
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Art and Craft follows prolific
art forger Mark Landis just
at the moment his elaborate
30-year con is exposed.
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Art of Darkness
Asger Jorn / Go to Hell With Your Money
Canada, 2014 color, video, 85’
and white, video, 58’
Subtitles: English
Art of Darkness is a feature
documentary intimately profiling
controversial painter and performance
artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. Bryan
is renowned for his commitment to
producing a self portrait every day,
which, to date, number well over
10,000. A complex individual with
admitted psychopathic tendencies,
Bryan narrates his dark, compelling
process and the experiences that have
shaped him and how he uses art to
help tame his inner demons. Bryan’s
famed ‘drug series’ of self portraits
while under the influence of a variety
of mind-altering substances, has made
him an internet sensation garnering a
legion of loyal fans worldwide.
The personal story of Asger Jorn,
the celebrated Danish painter and
founder of the COBRA movement who
struggled to achieve recognition in
his native country throughout his life.
He sacrificed everything for his art –
including his wives and his children. His
story is the myth of the penniless artist
who must endure so much for his art
and who only achieves world fame late
in life. Asger Jorn’s story is told by the
people who knew him, including his son
who never learnt to call him father and
the painter Bodil Kaalund whose father
was convinced that “Asger is destined
for greatness”.
David Parker
Lene Borch Hansen, Anna von Lowzow
artofdarknessfilm.com
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SALES / CONTACT
David Parker
DapaKapa Productions Inc.
PRODUCTION
DapaKapa Productions Inc.
David Parker
16 Howie Avenue
M4M 2J1 Toronto
Canada
tel: +1 416 7273348
[email protected]
A feature length
documentary profiling
controversial painter and
performance artist Bryan
Lewis Saunders who’s
captivating self portraits have
gone viral, garnering a legion
of loyal fans worldwide.
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Fiona O’Doherty, Louise
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Birk Petersen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
Asger Jorn only lived
to be 59, and the film
pays homage to an
uncompromising man with
unfailing faith in himself.
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Science / Technology
Austin to Boston
Backlight: Making the Future
USA / England / Australia, 2014
color / black and white, video, 72’
Original Language: English/Dutch
Subtitles: English
James Marcus Haney
Martijn Kieft
www.austintobostonfilm.com
tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2014-2015/
de-nieuwe-makers.html
5 old VW camper vans. 4 bands. 3
thousand miles. 2 weeks. 1 gloriously
backwards tour. The adventure starts
after a fire-fuelled final night at Austin’s
SXSW Music Festival, where the bands
(Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel
Rateliff, Bear’s Den) pile into their
rides and head northeast. They play
everywhere from bars to barns, rooms
to rooftops, packing out tiny venues
and wowing crowds with their unique
sounds. Featuring Mumford & Sons’
Ben Lovett and narrated by Gill Landry
this documentary is about a modern
tour, done the old fashioned way.
SALES / CONTACT
Monoduo Films
PRODUCTION
Sideshow Alley
Wildenbruchplatz 5
Ty Johnson
Decreasing costs of materials and
tools and the availability of all kinds
of information mean everyone
can become a maker, developer or
entrepreneur. Is this mass-production in
reverse and the start of a new industrial
revolution?
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PRODUCTION
VPRO
Helen Goossens
12045 Berlin
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Germany
1217 ZL Hilversum
VPRO Television –
tel: +49 178 1876787
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
www.monoduofilms.com
tel: +31 35 6773561
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
Benelux not available.
5 old VW’s. 4 bands. 3
thousand miles. 2 weeks. 1
gloriously backwards tour.
Featuring Ben Howard,
The Staves, Nathaniel
Rateliff and Bear’s Den.
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Decreasing costs of material and the availability of all kinds of information
mean everyone can become a maker or entrepreneur. Is this mass-production
the start of a new industrial revolution?
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Backlight: Power to the City
Backlight: Regreening the Planet
Original Language: Dutch/English/German
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Spanish/
Arabic/English/Hindi/Dutch
Subtitles: English
Kasper Verkaik
Rob van Hattum, Gijs Meyer Swantee
de-macht-aan-de-stad.html
groen-goud-2.html
While national governments are
mired in party politics and their own
bureaucracy, the cities are bursting
with energy, optimism and a sense of
resolve. Where national governments
fail, on a city level many problems
are solved more quickly and together
in collaboration with citizens. Isn’t
it high time that our cities are given
more power? What would happen
if pragmatic mayors took matters
more into their own hands and tried
to turn their cities into administrative
centres – outside the scope of national
politics? Inspired by the books by of
political theorist Benjamin Barber (“If
Mayors Ruled The World”) and Bruce
Katz (“The Metropolitan Revolution”),
and the mayors and citizens of Seattle,
Eindhoven and Hamburg, VPRO
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innovative power of the city. 34
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION
Helen Goossens
NPO Sales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
VPRO Television –
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
Inspired by the books of
political theorist Benjamin
Barber and Bruce Katz and
the mayors and citizens
of Seattle, Eindhoven and
Hamburg, VPRO Backlight
explores the growing and
innovative power of the city.
Two years ago, in the episode on ‘Regreening the desert’, the makers of
Backlight showed that greening deserts
is very well possible. They followed the
American-Chinese ecologist John D. Liu.
He recorded how a dry mountain area
was miraculously turned into a lush
and green oasis. He has since travelled
the globe to inspire people in other
countries to follow this example. The
Dutch ecologist Willem Ferwerda was
inspired by Liu and decided to work
with him. Meanwhile, that partnership
has grown out to a new organization,
Commonland, a foundation with a clear
mission: worldwide and large-scaled
restoration of ecosystems.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION
VPRO
NPO Sales
Helen Goossens
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum
VPRO Television –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
The Dutch ecologist Willem
Ferwerda works together
with the AmericanChinese ecologist John
D. Liu to green deserts.
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Catalogue No. 16
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
Ballet Boys
Bamako, Year 0
Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’/58’
Original Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: English
Mali / France, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’
Original Language: French/Bambara
Subtitles: English
Ballet Boys takes you through
disappointment, victories, forging of
friendship, first loves, doubt, faith,
growing apart from each other
and finding your own way and own
ambition. In short, everything about
being a teenager, all mixed with the
beautiful expression of ballet.
Aminata, Djibril Djeneba Hassan,
Kadiatou, Madou. They are Bambara,
Peul, Tamasheq, Songhai, Malinke,
Arabic. Boys and girls, young and old,
men and women. They are Malians,
currently living in Bamako and trying
to survive in a country in crisis. While
the situation threatens to explode in
northern Mali, which seceded from
March 2012, the population pays the
price of a State that has disintegrated
and of a dire economic situation. The
city holds its breath: the war may
break tomorrow. How do they survive
in everyday life? Welcome to Bamako,
YEAR 0. Ballettguttene
Kenneth Elvebakk
Stanislas Duhau, Julien Fiorentino
www.facebook.com/ballettguttene
SALES / CONTACT
Anaïs Clanet
Wide House
PRODUCTION
Indie Film
Carsten Aanonsen
9 rue Bleue
75009 Paris
France
tel: +33 153 952444
www.widehouse.org
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Jean-Christophe Soulageon
Les Films Sauvages
PRODUCTION
Les Films Sauvages
Jean-Christophe Soulageon
33, rue de Clichy
75009 PARIS
France
tel: +33 142295504
www.filmsauvages.com
[email protected]
What about people Malians
people after 2012’s events?
It’s not easy being a teenager, especially not seen through the eyes of these
three ballet boys – a film about friendship, ambitions, identity and passion.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
The Basement Satelite
Beats of the Antonov
South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 108’/52’
Original Language: Korean/English
Subtitles: English
Sudan / South Africa, 2014
color, HDcam, 65’
Original Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
South Korean artist SONG Hojun
dreams of building a satellite and
launching it up into space. In his
underground studio in Seoul, he
establishes OSSI (Open Source Satellite
Initiative) and devises a plan to become
the world’s first private citizen to
successfully launch a satellite. He also
launches an effort to sell 10,000 OSSI
T-shirts to raise the 100 million won
(US$96,000) budget, but things get
complicated. Online sales take a lot
of work, the launch date keeps being
delayed, and the technical challenge of
constructing a satellite also drives him
into a corner. Can SONG’s dream be
realized?
Beats of the Antonov tells the story of
the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba
Mountains in Sudan, showing how they
deal with civil war. Traditionally music
has always been part of daily life in
these areas, but now, it has a new role
in a society challenged by war.
KIM Hyoungju
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Hajooj Kuka
PRODUCTION
GONG Pictures
SALES / CONTACT
Steven Markovitz
Big World Cinema
Sunhee Han
PRODUCTION
Refugee Club
Hajooj Kuka
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
1st Floor, 27 Caledon Street
Big World Cinema
10997 Berlin
8001 Cape Town
Steven Markovitz
Germany
South Africa
tel: +49 30 47372980
tel: +27 21 4615962
www.riseandshine-berlin.de
www.bigworldcinema.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Music, identity and war in Sudan.
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Nature / Environment
Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology
Beaverland
The Bee Effect
Chile, 2014 color, video, 68’
Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’
Original Language: Swedish/English
Subtitles: English
Biologists and lovebirds Derek and
Giorgia have a mission: to do something
about the plague of beavers on Tierra
del Fuego. In 1946, fifty beavers were
introduced to the island, in the hope
they would lead to a fur trade. Without
predators, the pesky creatures have
thrived, and now evidence of their
industriousness is everywhere –
elaborate dams, and gnawed trees
being plentiful. In fact, they are
completely changing the ecosystem.
The locals are not happy, and wish
Derek and Giorgia all the best. The
trouble is, the beavers are rather good
at eluding capture.
In recent years there has been a
dramatic reduction of pollinators,
mainly due to pesticides, diseases and
changes in the agricultural landscape. If
this trend continues a large part of our
food production is under threat, and life
as we know it will look very different in
the future.
This beautifully photographed film is a
wake-up call about an environmental
disaster happening right in front of
our eyes. We get to meet scientists,
farmers, beekeepers and bumblebee
producers from USA, Spain, Slovakia
and Sweden.
The film is also available in 4K.
Antonio Luco, Nicolás Molina
Tina-Marie Qwiberg
www.facebook.com/beaverlanddoc
svtsales.com/programme-sales/the-bee-effect
SALES / CONTACT
Francisco Hervé
Panchito Films
PRODUCTION
Panchito Films
Francisco Hervé
Eulogia Sánchez 015 depto. 30
7500895 Santiago
Chile
tel: +56 978075885
www.panchitofilms.cl
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Niklas Ahlgren
SVT
PRODUCTION
Triq Produktion
Tina-Marie Qwiberg
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
S-10510 Stockholm
Sweden
– Sweden
tel: +46 709 689832
www.svt.se
[email protected]
Derek and Giorgia, a young couple of biologists, enter the hostile
land of Tierra del Fuego, in chilean Patagonia, to investigate
a devastating plague of beavers sweeping the area.
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Catalogue No. 133
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Before the Last Curtain Falls
Before the Silence
Belgium / Germany, 2014
Original Language: French/Dutch/English
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: Dutch/English
The film dives deeply into the
exceptional and heart-warming stories
of a group of aging transsexuals and
drag queens, who summon up their
bravery to take the stage once again
– perhaps for the last time. For two
years the protagonists have been
touring five continents, performing a
spectacular dance, theatre and music
show called “Gardenia”. Both tender
and lascivious, the stories unfold with
all of the glamour, courage, tragedy and
turbulence of lives lived as gender and
sexual rebels. Director Thomas Wallner
creates a profoundly human portrait of
our persistent longing for love.
A non stodgy documentary where every
person deals with their fears and vision
on the approaching death. In Before
the Silence we see through their eyes
and learn to think in a different way
about hospices and experience how
to make the last moments count, that
are brought with humour and touch
the core of palliative care. There is the
story of a man of nature, a man with a
criminal past and a nun with a secret.
Seven people give an insight in their
ending lives and experience that life
has more to offer to them, than they
expected.
Voor de Stilte
Richard Dols
Thomas Wallner
www.voordestilte.nl
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
CAT&Docs
Kerstin Meyer-Beetz
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
CO-PRODUCTION
Savage Film – Belgium
tel: +33 144617748
ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
catndocs.com/index.html
VRT – Belgium,
[email protected]
RTBF – Belgium
The exceptional and heartwarming stories of a group
of aging transsexuals and
drag queens, who summon
up their bravery to take
the stage once again –
perhaps for the last time.
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SALES / CONTACT
Richard Dols
Stichting Zuyderzigt
PRODUCTION
Stichting Zuyderzigt
Richard Dols
Achter de barakken 31a
6211RZ Maastricht
The Netherlands
tel: +31624870269
www.zuyderzigt.nl
[email protected]
A documentary about life
of dying people in a hospice.
During these last months
with fears, it appears that
life has more to offer to
them, than they expected.
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Beginning with the End
Between Heaven and Earth
Spain, 2013 color, video, 52’/80’
Original Language: English/Catalan/Spanish
Subtitles: English
Entre el Cel i la Terra
David Fernandez de Castro, Tono Folguera
David Marshall
www.bspfilms.org
www.lastormedia.com/#!d--aiguamolls/c1t0l
Emma and Ernie ate lemon meringue
pie together. Ernie taught Emma
about life. And Emma helped Ernie to
die. In 2002, a high school teacher in
Rochester, NY, invited nine high school
seniors to attend his new class. The
name of the class: Hospice. A decade
later, the program continues with
student volunteers learning about and
providing comfort care for the dying
and their families. The film follows
the real-life stories of four student
volunteers through their senior year.
In the quest to understand “the big
sleep,” they find a whole new kind of
awakening.
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
BSPfilms
David Marshall
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
Between Heaven and Earth is the
story of a group of young people who
dared to challenge the system preset.
Fighting with all their courage and
ingenuity, stopped the destruction
of what eventually has become one
of the largest bird sanctuaries in
southern Europe, a struggle which
ended on October 13, 1983 with the
creation, voted in Catalan parliament
unanimously, the first Natural Park in
Catalonia.
PRODUCTION
Intropia Media
SALES / CONTACT
Belen Sanchez
Lastor Media
Tània Balló
44, Ronda Sant Antoni 3-1
Lastor Media
08001 Barcelona
Sergi Moreno Castillo
Spain
Televisió de Catalunya – Spain
tel: +34 627018858
www.lastormedia.com/#!home-
[email protected]
eng/c20b9
[email protected]
A group of young people,
take the initiative to paralyze
the destruction of one of
the largest bird sanctuaries
in southern Europe.
“I held a woman’s hand who knew as little about me as I knew about her.
Her name was Ernie. She didn’t mind when I held her hand”. (Emma, 15)
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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
Big Fish Small Fish
Bittersweet
France / Ireland, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: Gaelic/English
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
John O’Brien, a fisherman from the
small island of Bo Finne in Ireland
found himself embarking on a crusade
he initiated, with an insular group
of international experts and NGOs;
a European campaign to regain his
ancestral right to fish.
Filmed over 8 years, this film is a
modern “David v/s Goliath” tale of one
man’s struggle to change the system
that took everything from him and to
try to understand and influence the
new reform of the Common Fisheries in
Brussels.
Filmmaker Marieke Niestadt gives
us a unique insight into the world of
female boxing. At the same time, this
documentary is showing a behind the
scene close up of what goes on inside
the mind, the heart and preparation of
a female fighter who wants to became
the best of the world.
It is an exciting and heartbreaking story
showing vulnerability, the fight against
inner demons and facing the loneliness
that may be encountered at the top. A Contre-courant
Loïc Jourdain
Marieke Niestadt
www.widehouse.org
www.mariekeniestadt.com/bittersweetfilm
SALES / CONTACT
Anaïs Clanet
Wide House
PRODUCTION
Lugh Films
Loïc Jourdain
9 rue Bleue
Idee Originale
75009 Paris
Carole Mangold
France
CO-PRODUCTION
Irish Film Board – Ireland
tel: +33 153950464
www.widehouse.org
[email protected]
France, Ireland not available.
France 5 – France,
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PRODUCTION
Marieke Niestadt
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
TG4 – Ireland
Understanding people, understanding Europe.
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Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Black White
Blood is Thicker than Water
Slovakia, 2014 color, HDcam, 54’
Original Language: Slovak
Subtitles: English
Spain / Chile / Armenia, 2014
color, HDcam/video, 52’
Original Language: German/
Armenian/French/Japanese/Arabic/
Spanish/Croatian/English
Subtitles: English
Cierna a Biela
Samuel Jasko
Cristián Leighton Cerda
www.maoproduction.com/film/
cierna-a-biela-black-white
This is a film unveiling the true sense of
help, inspiring tolerance and openness.
It describes and analyzes the cohabitation of two women unknown to
each other through their testimonies
and memories. Both Lucia and Katarína
tell their own life story. At one point,
their narratives intersect and we
find that the two women have much
more in common than just the same
residential address.
SALES / CONTACT
Samuel Jasko
PRODUCTION
MAO production
MAO production
Samuel Jasko
Tematinska 2
CO-PRODUCTION
RTVSLO – Slovakia
A series of trips, where ten Chileans
travel to the place of their origins.
Recorded in different countries of the
world, the protagonists confront the
challenge to dig into their family history
and ancestors. In this way, through the
affective memory, they search into the
past to resolve questions that’ll allow
them to live better in the present.
SALES / CONTACT
Daniela Bunster
Surreal Películas de la Realidad
El Bosque 1867
PRODUCTION
Surreal Películas de la Realidad
Daniela Bunster
7510920 Santiago
CO-PRODUCTION
Hayk Documentary Film Studio
Chile
– Armenia,
tel: +56 228138198
Zinea Sortzen – Spain
www.maoproduction.com
www.surreal.cl
[email protected]
[email protected]
Television Nacional de Chile –
85105 Bratislava
Slovakia
tel: +42 1905734492
RTVSLO – Slovakia
Chile
Docu-drama about an aging
psychologist living together
with an adult Roma woman.
Documentary series about Chileans searching their origins
traveling to different places in the world, in order to know
where they came from and the story of their family roots.
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Art / Music / Culture | History | Author’s Point of View
History | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Blue Notebook
Bombs Away
Poland / Switzerland, 2014 color /
black and white, video/HDcam, 72’
Original Language: Russian/Polish/English
Subtitles: Polish/English
Australia, 2014 color / black
Original Language: English/German
Natasza Ziolkowska-Kurczuk
Werner Boote
premium.redbullcontentpool.com/content/
traditionandinspiration/products/bombs_away
aurumfilm.pl/index.php/realizacje/201108-19-15-05-04/55-granatowy-zeszyt
A documentary about famous polish
composer, Witold Lutoslawski, a
brilliant musician and a mysterious
gentleman whose work and private
life becomes a great challenge for
a contemporary composer, Leszek
Mozdzer. He travels across Europe,
meets Lutoslawski’s friends and family
members trying to understand the
origins of Lutoslawski’s method. He
also finds the enigmatic Blue Notebook
which covers 25-years period – Witold
Lutoslawski’s observations and opinions
on the world, human nature, music and
art…
SALES / CONTACT
Leszek Bodzak
Aurum Film
PRODUCTION
Telewizja Polska S.A.
Witold Bedowski
ul. Niecala 15 lok.4
Aurum Film
20-080 Lublin
Leszek Bodzak
Poland
CO-PRODUCTION
Polish National
tel: +48 515 640 155
www.aurumfilm.pl
Broadcaster – Poland,
[email protected]
Lightcraft – Poland
At the end of World War 2, the world’s
largest art collection was stored in the
salt mines of Altaussee, Austria. Next
to it were crates full of bombs that
the Nazis intended to use to destroy
the mine, in order to keep more than
6,000 art treasures from falling into
the hands of the enemy. The film
Bombs Away depicts the enthralling
events surrounding the mine, and
shows the circumstances under which
the Rembrandts, Vermeers, Breugels,
Raphaels, Titians, Michelangelos and
the Ghent Altarpiece were saved.
SALES / CONTACT
Berend Dreier
5071 Wals
Austria
tel: 00436622240-0
PRODUCTION
tv and more.netTV & More
Rudolf Klingohr
CO-PRODUCTION
Red Bull Media House – Austria
berend.dreier@
TVP – Telewizja Polska
S.A.Channel 2 – Poland
This documentary tells the true story behind the events
that inspired Hollywood’s The Monuments Men.
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Catalogue No. 98
Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Politics / Society
Bordering on Treason
Boredom
Canada, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’
Trish Dalton
Albert Nerenberg
www.espressotv.co.uk/catalogue/
film.aspx?p=74&f=426
Bordering On Treason tells the amazing
story of Lorna Tychostup, a single
mother and photojournalist who
travels to Iraq continuously for nine
years to put a human face on a horrific
global tragedy. Visiting military units
and Iraqi families beyond the green
zone, she evolves from naive civilian to
established journalist. Through Lorna’s
personal journey, Bordering On Treason
explores the complexities of this war
and the possibility of hope.
SALES / CONTACT
David Hooper
PRODUCTION
Trish Dalton Films
Espresso TV
Trish Dalton
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: +44 1273730929
www.espressotv.co.uk
[email protected]
The story of Lorna Tychostup,
a single mother and
photojournalist who travels
to Iraq continuously for nine
years to put a human face
on a horrific global tragedy.
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What is boredom and where does it
come from? Can one really be bored to
death? How can you fight it? These are
only a few of the essential questions
posed by journalist and documentary
maker Albert Nerenberg, whose earlier
films have explored the themes of
stupidity and laughter. Despite its
satirical tone and entertaining use of
the cliched television reenactment,
Boredom offers some serious food for
thought on the evolution of boredom,
education and the younger generation
and our relationship with new
technologies.
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Intuitive Pictures inc.
Ina Fichman
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
The most dangerous
creature on this planet
is a bored teenager.
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Born to Fly
Boxing for Freedom
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 52’
Original Language: Afghan
Subtitles: English/Spanish
Elizabeth Streb is not a choreographer;
she is an action architect, constantly
pushing herself to jump a little higher
and fall a little harder. She reflects on
her evolution and influences and her
theory of movement – to walk on walls;
dive through glass; move so fast you
disappear and. . . fly. Can adrenaline
be a form of medicine? When does
movement become art? How does this
practice look on dancers’ bodies? How
do race, gender, sexuality appear on
their bodies? Born to Fly pulls these
elements together, to give a stimulating
and exciting texture to a tale that
speaks to Streb’s remarkable trajectory.
Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer
in Afghanistan, but she must deal
with her country’s traditions, fear
and her own fate in order to be a free
woman. Sadaf and her sister Shabnam
joined the newly created women’s
boxing team at the age of 13, when
they returned to their country after
being refugees in Iran. Her boxing
and academic achievements will turn
Sadaf into an example for many Afghan
young women, but her path will not be
without threats and difficulties. Catherine Gund
Juan Antonio Moreno, Silvia Venegas
www.borntoflymovie.com
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Catherine Gund
Aubin Pictures
Catherine Gund
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Spain not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
Doc & Film International
13 rue Portefoin
PRODUCTION
Making DOC
Gorka Gallier
Silvia Venegas
75003 Paris
France
tel: +330142775687
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
Elizabeth Streb is not just a choreographer; she is an action architect,
constantly pushing herself to jump a little higher and fall a little harder.
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Catalogue No. Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Brakeless
Bringing Tibet Home
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 77’/59’
Original Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
USA / India / South Korea,
2013 color, video, 82’
Original Language: Tibetan/English
Subtitles: English
In 2005, a commuter train crashed into
an apartment building in Japan and
killed 107 people when a driver tried to
catch up with an 80-second delay.
Piecing together personal accounts
of those affected by the train crash,
Brakeless looks at a society which
does not seem to know when to stop
its pursuit of efficiency. It examines
the way in which the characteristics
that are considered national virtues
– punctuality and loyalty to protocol
– have become societal impediments
and ultimately, dangers to the people
of Japan.
When New York based Tibetan artist
Tenzing Rigdol’s father passes away in
exile with an unfulfilled wish to take
his last breath in Tibet, Tenzing realizes
that his father’s dream to return home
to his lost nation is shared by all exiles.
Driven by this realization, the artist
embarks on a mission to reunite the
Tibetan land with its people, literally,
through an art project that involves
smuggling 20,000 kilograms of native
Tibetan soil to India. Kyoko Miyake
Tenzin Tsetan Choklay
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Bungalow Town Productions
CAT&Docs
Rachel Wexler
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
BBC – England,
France
IKON – The Netherlands,
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
DR – Denmark,
NHK – Japan,
[email protected]
ITVS – USA
Through a fatal train crash
and its aftermath, Brakeless
considers fundamental
aspects of Japanese society –
punctuality and punishment.
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SALES / CONTACT
PRODUCTION
Five by Nine Films
8434 60 Rd Middle Village
11379 New York
Tenzing Rigdol
USA
tel: +1 646 353 0222
[email protected]
When a Tibetan refugee
dies in exile, his last wish to
set foot on his native soil
remains unfulfilled. until
his artist son, embarks on
an unthinkable journey.
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Catalogue No. 146
Politics / Society | History | Human Interest / Social Issues
Broken Land
Bronx Obama
Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’
Subtitles: German/French
Subtitles: English
catalogue/broken-land
films/bronxobama
Broken Land is a journey with US
citizens living in fear along the border
with Mexico. They talk about murders,
dangers and invasion. Anxiety is
palpable. In front of them stands a wall
and around them the Border Patrol is
in action to protect their land. Why is
America, a country so emblematic of
freedom, is erecting a fence to respond
to its border war?
When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee
one day in 2008, his life changed
forever. He looked in the mirror and
he didn’t see himself – a middle-aged,
unemployed Puerto Rican father from
the Bronx. He saw the face of change,
of hope. . . of money. The film tells
the strange and improbable tale of
an Obama impersonator who tries to
cash in on a “look of a lifetime”and
chases a fevered American dream from
opportunity to oblivion.
Stephanie Barbey, Luc Peter
Ryan Murdock
deckert-distribution.com/film-
cargofilm-releasing.com/home/
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Deckert Distribution
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Intermezzo Films SA
Aline Schmid
RTS – Switzerland
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
SALES / CONTACT
David Piperni
PRODUCTION
Ryan Murdock
611 Broadway #630 Ne...
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
www.deckert-distribution.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Broken Land is a journey with
US citizens living in fear along
the border with Mexico.
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What if one day you looked
in the mirror and saw the
most powerful man in the
world staring back at you?
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Catalogue No. 148
Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Bruise
Bugarach
Iran, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/45’
Original Language: Persian
Subtitles: English
Germany / Spain, 2014 color, video, 95’/52’
Original Language: Dutch/French/English
Subtitles: English
Khoon Mordegi
Mohammad Kart
Bugarach – Chronik eines Weltuntergangs
Sergi Cameron, Ventura Durall, Salvador Sunyer
www.nooripictures.com
www.filmtank.de/p/bugarachchronik-eines-weltuntergangs
Bruise is the true story of a youth gang
in Shiraz; a historical city in Iran which
beautifully and poetically depicts the
people of a poor neighborhood who are
trapped in the vicious circle of violence,
ignorance and superstitions.
Israel not availabe.
PRODUCTION
Mohammad Kart
SALES / CONTACT
Katayoon Shahabi
Noori Pictures
84, Avenue de la République,
75011Paris, France
75011 Paris
France
tel: +33 676 418967
www.Nooripictures.com
[email protected]
Bugarach. Nothing ever really happens
in this bucolic village in southern France
at the base of the mountain that gives
it its name. But the villagers’ peace and
quiet vanishes when the news story
circulates around the globe like a viral
video that this close-knit community of
194 inhabitants will be the only place
on the planet to survive the December
21st apocalypse foretold by the Mayans.
Bugarach dives deep into the subject of
the apocalypse to reflect on the fears
and coping strategies of humankind
in times of deep material and spiritual
crisis in the Western world.
SALES / CONTACT
Thomas Tielsch
Filmtank
PRODUCTION
Nanouk Films
Ventura Durall
Lippmannstr. 53
Filmtank
22769 Hamburg
Thomas Tielsch
Germany
tel: + 49 40 431 861 0
WDR – Germany,
www.filmtank.de
TVC – Spain,
[email protected]
RTVE – Spain
Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
The story of people of a
poor neighborhood who
are trapped in the vicious
circle of violence, ignorance
and superstitions.
Five characters face the alleged end of the world in Bugarach,
the only place worldwide supposed to be saved. An existentialist
comedy about the spiritual crisis of the West.
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Catalogue No. Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Burden of Peace
Cain’s Children
The Netherlands, 2014
Subtitles: English/Dutch
Hungary / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 104’
Original Language: Hungarian
Subtitles: French/English
www.burdenofpeace.com
authors-documentaries/cains-children
Burden of Peace follows Guatemalas
first female Attorney General Claudia
Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity.
After taking office Claudia obtains
spectacular results and many high level
arrests are made. But her determination
encounters strong resistance from
powerful elites that have up to then felt
above the law. Will Claudia be able to
win this battle?
We have unlimited access to Claudia
from the beginning of her term.
Witness her battle against corruption,
impunity, crime bosses and former
political leaders responsible for
genocide. Watch an epic tale of
personal sacrifice and opposition, of
change and of hope.
Three men, they all committed murder
as children. They passed their entire
youth in communist Hungary’s most
brutal prison, where they were first
filmed. Disturbing archive footage
shows them confessing details of their
crime, and sharing their plans for the
future. Thirty years on the filmmaker
goes out to find them and discovers
untold secrets and a Hungary he has
never known. Fate, sin, and legacy –
seen through the eyes of Cain’s children.
Joey Boink
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Marcell Gero
deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/
SALES / CONTACT
Bart Voorsluis
PRODUCTION
Framewerk
Framewerk
Annemiek Munneke
Bart Voorsluis
Kalkmarkt 8
1011BD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
JBA Production
Jacques Bidou
Marienplatz 1
Marianne Dumoulin
04103 Leipzig
Germany
ARTE France – France,
tel: +49 341 2156638
HBO Europe – Hungary,
www.framewerk.nl
RTS – Switzerland
[email protected]
[email protected]
tel: +31207799222
A documentary about
Guatemala’s first female
attorney general who
battles impunity and
prosecutes former political
leaders for genocide.
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their
disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the
filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets.
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Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Calabash
The Case Against 8
England / South Africa, 2014
Original Language: Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
Gerardo Chapa, Alexander Flick
Ben Cotner, Ryan White
thecaseagainst8.com
kickstarter.com/projects/2021606417/
calabash-a-documentary-film
Calabash is the story of the first African
World Cup, told through the lives of
several extraordinary characters. A
Mexican fan attending his thirteenth
consecutive World Cup leads us into
the historic event while the native
South Africans prepare for his arrival to
the temporary football mecca. In the
weeks before the tournament, each of
the South African characters provides
glimpses into South African society
during this historic window of time,
as they chase their elusive World Cup
dreams.
SALES / CONTACT
Gerardo Chapa
Window Payne Productions
PRODUCTION
Window Payne Productions
Gerardo Chapa
1856 Micheltorena St.
90026 LOS ANGELES
USA
tel: 7138704785
[email protected]
The story of the first
African World Cup.
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A behind-the-scenes look inside the
historic case to overturn California’s ban
on same-sex marriage. The high-profile
trial first makes headlines with the
unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David
Boies, political foes who last faced off
as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore.
The film also follows the plaintiffs, two
gay couples who find their families at
the center of the same-sex marriage
controversy. Five years in the making,
this is the story of how they took the
first federal marriage equality lawsuit
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Denmark, Finland, Sweden (TV
right) not available. Thailand (all
rights) not available. Australia
(DVD & TV rights) not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION
HBO Documentary Films
Dogwoof
Ben Cotner
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 253 6244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
Shot over five years, The film
offers an inside look into the
case to overturn California’s
ban on same-sex marriage.
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Catalogue No. 154
Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Case of the Three Sided Dream
Cechanok
white, HDcam, 87’
Subtitles: French
Iran, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’
Subtitles: English
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was more than a
blind musician who could play three
horns at once, more than one of
the most exciting and amazing sax
players who ever lived. Beyond the
ability to play multiple melodies at the
same time, he was a warrior against
racial injustice, fought for people
with disabilities, and was a tireless
campaigner for a wider appreciation of
jazz. Packed with electrifying archival
footage, intimate interviews, and
inspired animated sequences; Kahan’s
film is a look at the man who wouldn’t
even let partial paralysis keep him from
pursuing what he called “The Religion
of Dreams. ”
This movie illustrates the full cycle
of falcon hunting and its method of
smuggling into its demand market.
It also shows the training methods
of dealing with birds and its use and
importance for the Arabs.
Adam Kahan
Mazyar Moshtagh Gohari
www.rahsaanfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Monoduo Films
PRODUCTION
Adam Kahan
SALES / CONTACT
Wildenbruchplatz 5
NO30,beheshti9,shahid beheshti
12045 Berlin
9813757544 Zahedan
USA
Iran
tel: +49 178 1876787
tel: +98 5433218169
www.monoduofilms.com
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
[email protected]
Each step in the cycle
of Arabic falconry: in
observational style, we see
everything from catching
field mice to falcon hunting.
Documentary film on the life and music of multiinstrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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Politics / Society | Investigative
Art / Music / Culture | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Chameleon
Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son
Subtitles: English
Denmark / Japan, 2013 color, HDcam, 32’
Original Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Danish/English
Chikara – Sumobryderens Søn
Simon Lereng Wilmont, Simon Lereng Wilmont
Ryan Mullins
www.final-cut.dk/films2.php?mit_
indhold_id=3&films_id=15
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a name
everyone in Ghana knows, but a
face that no one knows. A confessed
crusader of justice and champion of
the ordinary people, Anas Aremeyaw
Anas’s mission is to root out and expose
corruption in all levels of Ghanian
society. He has been called the James
Bond of journalism. Going deep
undercover, he disguises his identity
with Mission Impossible style makeup
and costumes. Chameleon takes us
behind take us behind-the-scenes of the
Tiger Eye Investigation bureau and on
the heels of Anas’s next big case.
SALES / CONTACT
Luke Brawley
PRODUCTION
EyeSteelFilm
Dogwoof
Bob Moore
Dogwoof
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 20 72536244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son
follows 10-year-old Japanese boy,
Chikara, and his struggle to become
a Sumo wrestler. His father was
a professional Sumo wrestler, so
expectations surrounding Chikara are
extremely high. The national Sumo
Championship is approaching and
Chikara wants to do well, especially
to impress his father. It’s a story of a
small boy in a tough sport, parental
pressure and expectations, but above
all, it’s a universal narrative about the
relationship between father and son.
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Final Cut for Real
Autlook Filmsales
Monica Hellström Weston
A-1070 Vienna
CO-PRODUCTION
Nordisk Film & TV Fond – Norway,
Austria
Danish Film Institute – Denmark
tel: +43 720 346934
[email protected]
The most famous person
you’ve never heard of.
Chikara is the story of a boy in a tough sport, parental
pressure and expectations and the universal narrative
about the relationship between father and son.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Politics / Society
Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Children 404
Children of the Holocaust
Russia, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’/52’
Original Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 51’/58’
Putin’s new law that forbids
“propaganda of non-traditional sexual
relations to minors“ hits millions of gay/
lesbian youngsters in Russia. Parents
and friends of gay kids now are obliged
to tell them they are sick, sinful and
abnormal. These teens have no forum,
find no help in Russia, you won‘t even
find them on the internet: Error 404. For
the first time, the bravest of them turn
to the camera in the new film of Winter
Go Away-filmmaker Askold Kurov.
Six remarkable stories of survival
from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities
during World War 2, brought to life for
a young audience through animation
and a series of follow on interviews to
camera.
Ruth, Martin, Trude, Heinz, Arek
and Suzanne. All well spoken elderly
survivors who recount their childhood
experiences of Nazi atrocities; their
escape from occupied mainland Europe
to Britain; adapting to life in the UK; and
the impact on their lives subsequently. Deti 404
Askold Kurov, Pavel Loparev
Zane Whittingham
childrenoftheholocaust.tumblr.com
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION
Askold Kurov, Pavel Loparev
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
SND Films
P.O. Box 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
Fettle Animation Limited
Kath Shackleton
BBC – England
The Netherlands
tel: +31204040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
Putin’s law forbidding “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to
minors” hits millions of queer youngsters in Russia. For the first time, the
bravest of them turn to the camera.
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Youth | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Children of the State
Children of Transition
Russia / Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 66’/58’
Original Language: English/Russian
Subtitles: English
Croatia, 2014 color, HDcam, 81’
Original Language: Croatian
Subtitles: English
Djeca Tranzicije
Matija Vuksic
Olga Arlauskas, Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
factum.com.hr/en/films_and_authors/
new_films/children_of_transition
In 2012 the Dima Yakovlev’s Bill stopped
the US and 15 European countries
from adopting Russian orphans. How
did these children become victims of
indifference, corruption and political
games? How does Russia’s orphanage
system annually digest billions of
dollars and thousands of lives? The film
shows how 500 000 Russian orphans
became victims of political games.
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
ArtVideo Studio
CAT&Docs
Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION
ArtVideo Studio – Spain
SALES / CONTACT
Nenad Puhovski
PRODUCTION
Factum
Factum
Nenad Puhovski
Nova Ves 18
10 000 Zagreb
France
Croatia
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
tel: +385 1 5484 321
factum.com.hr/en
[email protected]
[email protected]
Nowadays there’s a great
tension between Russia,
Europe and USA. The film
gives shows how 500 000
Russian orphans became
victims of political games.
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Children of Transition is a coming-of-age
story about David, Natalija, Lana and
Marta. What do a happy childhood and
healthy growing up look like? Are they
possible in a society which has not yet
reached its own maturity? This is a film
about the environment we create for
our common future.
Four stories. Four dreams of a
happy childhood. In a society
making it next to impossible…
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Catalogue No. 160
Chosen Ones
The Circus Dynasty
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 54’
Original Language: English/Finnish
Subtitles: English
and white, HDcam, 90’/58’
Original Language: Danish/English/German
Subtitles: English
Chosen Ones is a story about dancers
from the Finnish National Ballet
preparing to perform The Rite of
Spring at the Bolshoi in Moscow. With
125 jumps, dancing the solo piece is
compared to running a marathon. But
for the main characters, the journey to
Moscow is about more than just the
physical efforts. It is about overcoming
fear, realising dreams and being in
constant dialogue with your own body.
Benny Berdino, the owner of one of
Europe’s biggest circus, has a dream.
To make sure that his dynasty will carry
on, he hopes that his grandson, Patrick
Berdino, and the award winning circus
artist Merry Lu Casselly will marry and
one day carry on Circus Arena. With
their looks and skills they would be
the perfect match. But his dream is
threatened, because mixing love and
business is difficult and the Casselly
family is offered a lucrative contract
from the biggest circus in the world,
Ringling Brothers, in USA. Ditte Uljas
Anders Riis-Hansen
SALES / CONTACT
Jenni Tuovinen
Ja! Media Production
c/o Anna Blom, PRODUCTION
Ja! Media Production
Anna Blom
Valhallankatu 14-17 b
The Finnish Broadcasting
00150 Helsinki
Company YLE – Finland
Finland
tel: +358443755437
[email protected]
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SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION
Hansen & Pedersen Film og
Fjernsyn
18, rue Quincampoix
Malene Flindt Pedersen
75004 Paris
France
TV2 – Denmark,
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
NRK – Norway,
SVT – Sweden
[email protected]
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Art / Music / Culture
Circus Without Borders
CITIZENFOUR
Original Language: English/French
Subtitles: English
USA / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 114’
Original Language: Portugese/
English/German
Subtitles: English
Susan Gray
Laura Poitras
citizenfourfilm.com
Circus Without Borders tells the inspiring
story of two youth circuses from
remote corners of the world – an Inuit
village in Canada, and Guinea in West
Africa. The film traces their intersecting
journeys as troupe members confront
heartrending challenges and become
internationally-known performers
who return home to transform their
communities. We record the troupes’
triumphs and struggles, many of
which are the enduring legacy of a
history of colonization. We witness
poverty, deprivation, suicide and other
overwhelming social problems, but also
grace, resilience, the redemptive power
of the natural world, and the beauty of
the human form. SALES / CONTACT
Susan Gray
PRODUCTION
Northern Light Productions
300 Western Avenue
Linda Matchan
02134 Boston
USA
tel: 1617-789-4344 x214
[email protected]
Two world-class circus performers from opposite sides
of the globe return home to transform their struggling
communities through the joy and hope of circus.
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In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras
was in the process of constructing a
film about abuses of national security
in post-9/11 America when she
started receiving encrypted e-mails
from someone identifying himself as
“citizen four,” who was ready to blow
the whistle on the massive covert
surveillance programs run by the NSA
and other intelligence agencies. In June
2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald
flew to Hong Kong for the first of many
meetings with the man who turned out
to be Edward Snowden. She brought
her camera with her.
SALES / CONTACT
Dirk Wilutzky
Praxis Films Berlin
Hufelandstr. 36
PRODUCTION
Praxis Films Berlin
Dirk Wilutzky
10407 Berlin
ARD/NDR – Germany,
Germany
BR – Germany
tel: +4942803403
www.praxisfilms.org
[email protected]
USA, UK, Germany not available.
The drama unfolds in real time as Edward Snowden
reveals himself to journalists and blows the whistel on an
unprecedented world wide surveillance scandal.
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Investigative | Politics / Society
City of God – 10 Years Later
A Civilized Country
Brazil, color, video, 52’
Original Language: Portugese
Subtitles: English
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 58’/75’
Original Language: English/Danish
Subtitles: English
City of God – 10 Years Later revisits the
actors of Brazil’s defining film that
received 4 Oscar nominations in 2004.
What has changed for the residents of
Rio de Janeiro’s most famous slum as
well as the actors? While some of the
stars are able to continue their acting
careers, like Alice Braga (I Am Legend,
Predator), others glide into obscurity
or even worse criminality. A cultural
reference for Brazil’s social problems,
crime and violence.
Jørgen Lange Thomsen is a forensic
expert, used to examining the dead and
determining how they died. But one day
he is hired to solve a different type of
case that involves a group of Iraqis who
claim to have been subject to torture
during the Iraq war – and under the
International troops watch.
The case is of political importance and
the forensic expert’s conclusion is vital
to whether the case ends up in court,
accusing the Danish State of war crimes
in Iraq.
Cidade de Deus – 10 Anos Depois
Cavi Borges
Et Civiliceret Land
Nanna Frank Møller
www.autlookfilms.com/film/185
PRODUCTION
Luís Carlos Nascimento
SALES / CONTACT
Autlook Filmsales
Trappelgasse 4/17
1040 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 720 346934
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Made in Copenhagen
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Helle Faber
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 3520 2299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
City of God – 10 Years Later
revisits the actors of Brazil’s
defining film that received 4
Oscar nominations in 2004.
A forensic drama and a psychological thriller about a democratic
state’s ability to examine its own role in a complicated war.
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Coast Modern
Comeback
Slovakia, 2014 color, video, 85’
Original Language: Slovak
Subtitles: English
Mike Bernard, Gavin Froome
Miroslav Remo
www.twofold.ca
www.comebackmovie.sk
Travelling along the Pacific North West
coastline from LA to Vancouver, the
film showcases the pioneers of West
Coast Modernist Architecture, and
the homes that have become their
legacies. Stepping inside the most
inspired dwellings on the west coast,
we feel how the light and space of
a classic Modernist home can work
in collaboration with the natural
environment, taking us back to the
basics of true living – a sense of place,
light, and a deep connection to the
earth.
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
PRODUCTION
Twofold Films Inc
Leah Mallen
Time in one of Slovakia’s most guarded
prisons, where most of the prisoners
return regularly, passes very slowly.
Once out, they are empty-handed with
a criminal record. Will they be able to
start from scratch and is it safe for the
society? The story of repeat criminals’
reintegration and being trapped in a
vicious circle.
Slovakia not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Barbara Harumová Hessová
PRODUCTION
AH production
AH production
Barbara Harumová Hessová
Irkutská 14/D
85110 Bratslava
CO-PRODUCTION
Slovak Television and Radio –
Slovakia
Slovakia,
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +421 908786843
Academy of Performing Arts in
www.ah.sk
Bratislava – Slovakia
[email protected]
[email protected]
RTVSLO – Slovakia
Coming out of the prison
two recidivists evaluate
their past and look into the
future outside. Once out, they
fight with the reality. Can
somebody find a solution?
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Catalogue No. 9
History | Human Interest / Social Issues
Concrete Stories
Counterfeit Culture
France / Czech Republic, 2014 color
/ black and white, video, 52’/75’
Original Language: Czech/
French/Russian/German
Subtitles: English
In Concrete Stories, people from
different countries who live in concrete
buildings tell their stories as they relate
to industrial housing in the time of
clashing ideologies between East and
West. The film puts forward a European
story of standardization that has
ruled the lives of entire generations,
connecting various stories from all
around Europe to erase the stigma
concrete panel buildings often have, by
relating their historical and European
meaning.
Welcome to the dangerous and
sometimes deadly world of fake,
fraudulent, and faux products. For
many of us, the imitation industry is all
about fake designer handbags, watches,
and shoes Today it has mushroomed
into a global phenomenon, fuelled by
our own desire (or need) to buy things
cheaper and cheaper. Counterfeit
goods today include pharmaceuticals,
food, toys, electronic goods, car parts,
microchips and even spare parts for
airplanes. The traffic in counterfeit
goods is now estimated at a staggering
$700 billion representing nearly 10% of
all global trade.
Lorenz Findeisen
Czech Republic, France not available.
Geoff D’Eon
SALES / CONTACT
Veronika Janatkova
Axman Production
Senová né námestí 10
PRODUCTION
Axman Production
Veronika Janatkova
110 00 Prague
CO-PRODUCTION
Les Films du Tambour de Soie –
Czech Republic
France
tel: +4915784740921
axmanproduction.com
[email protected]
Both a capitalist invention and a Soviet symbol, the concrete slab
buildings link a whole destiny of people. A film about a shared reality.
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SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Tell Tale Productions Inc.
Edward Peill
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Counterfeit Culture is a one-hour documentary that explores the dangerous
and sometimes deadly world of fake, fraudulent, and faux products.
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Catalogue No. 167
Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Creators of Tomorrow
Cyber-Seniors
Austria, 2014 color, HDcam, 25’
Subtitles: English
Max Haidbauer
Saffron Cassaday
www.cyberseniorsdocumentary.com
premium.redbullcontentpool.com/content/
sports-and-lifestyle/products/creators_of_to
morrow?s=creators&productIndex=1
1 billion people do not have access to
clean water.
10% of children in Haiti are orphans. 3
million people in Mexico are without
electricity.
But there is a solution… In 2014, we
follow 3 social entrepreneurs who are
using their talents and creativity to
create positive change in the world.
Unscripted, authentic dialog. Filmed
and edited like a serial drama. Resulting
in a never seen before television
experience.
SALES / CONTACT
Berend Dreier
5071 Wals
Austria
tel: 00436622240-0
premium.redbullcontentpool.com
berend.dreier@
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PRODUCTION
OceanWatch Production Group
Sumesh Thakur
CO-PRODUCTION
Red Bull Media House – Austria
A humorous and heartwarming doc
where senior citizens learn about
computers from teenage mentors
and the connections made both on
and offline. The film focuses on five
individuals ranging in age from 77 to
93. While the seniors are absorbing
the power of technology, the teenage
mentors slowly come to realize the
spirit of life and the interesting
backstories of their much older pupils.
Patience and a sense of humor are
necessary for all parties involved,
creating a very interesting, entertaining
and meaningful story for the viewer.
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
The Best Part Inc.
Brenda Rusnak
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
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Catalogue No. 169
Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Science / Technology
DamNation
Dancing with Maria
white, video, 87’
Italy / Argentina / Slovenia, 2014
color / black and white, HDcam, 75’
Subtitles: English
This powerful film odyssey explores
the sea change from pride in big
dams as engineering wonders to the
growing awareness that our own
future is bound to the life and health
of our rivers. Where obsolete dams
come down, rivers bound back to life,
giving salmon and other wild fish the
right of return to primeval spawning
grounds, after decades without access.
DamNation’s majestic cinematography
and unexpected discoveries move
through rivers and landscapes altered
by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of
the natural world to knowing ourselves
as part of nature.
Maria Fux is a 90 years old Argentinian
dancer. In her studio in the heart of
Buenos Aires She accepts all kinds of
people in her classes forming integrated
groups of dancers. After a period of
training with her, a lot of them spring
out, as if something new is waking
up. Maria Fux is not an exception. She
is pushing her old body to the limits,
but there’s an unknown force coming
from inside, that drives her students to
a concrete change and makes her still
dancing. Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
Ivan Gergolet
www.damnationfilm.com
Japan, Canada, Korea not available.
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SALES / CONTACT
Liza Watt
Tiller & Tide Media
PRODUCTION
Felt Soul Media
Travis Rummel
Australia
Stoecker Ecological
tel: +61 415 098024
Matt Stoecker
www.tillerandtidemedia.com
[email protected]
This powerful film explores
the shift from pride in
big dams to the growing
awareness that, if we’re to
have healthy watersheds
and fisheries, obsolete
dams must come down.
SALES / CONTACT
Manuela Buono
PRODUCTION
Transmedia S.p.A.
Slingshot Films International Sales Igor Princic
via Salita di Gretta 7/1
34136 Trieste
Italy
tel: +39 3476273390
[email protected]
When you meet Maria you
start dancing with life.
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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Dark Side of the Chew
Dark Star – HR Giger’s World
Subtitles: English
Dark Star – HR Gigers Welt
Belinda Sallin
Andrew Nisker
www.darkstar-movie.com
It’s the world’s second most common
form of litter. It’s invisible to most.
Yet it lurks everywhere (including the
bottoms of tables, desks and shoes).
How did we become so addicted
to chewing gum and how is our
consumption of trillions of sticks a
year impacting our health and our
planet? Join filmmaker Andrew Nisker
as he travels our planet and speaks to
manufacturers, activists and scientists
to unravel the shocking truth behind
our obsession with the seemingly
innocuous, but not harmless, product.
Full of unexpected twists and bubblebursting surprises, Dark Side Of The
Chew will give you a lot to chomp on
if you’re hooked on this seemingly
innocent, age-old habit.
SALES / CONTACT
Phil Prieur
Take Action Films
PRODUCTION
Take Action Films
Andrew Nisker
867 Dovercourt Rd
M6H2X4 Toronto
Canada
tel: 1-647-882-9458
[email protected]
Join filmmaker Andrew Nisker as he travels our planet and
speaks to manufacturers, activists and scientists to unravel the
shocking truth behind our obsession with chewing gum.
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He feels at home in places we would
flee from and lives his life among the
very things we fear. Throughout his life,
HR Giger had inhabited the world of the
uncanny, a dark universe on the brink
of many an abyss. It was the only way
this amiable, modest and humorous
man was able to keep his fears in check.
Giger was merely the bearer of dark
messages, charting our nightmares,
drafting maps of our subconscious
and moulding our primal fears. A film
with and about the internationally
acclaimed and controversial painter,
sculptor, architect and designer (Oscar
for “Alien”).
SALES / CONTACT
Marcel Hoehn
T&C Film
Seesetrasse 41a
PRODUCTION
T&C Film
Marcel Hoehn
8002 Zürich
CO-PRODUCTION
Lucky Film – Switzerland,
Switzerland
SRF Schweizer Radio und
tel: +41 44 2089955
Fernsehen – Switzerland
www.tcfilm.ch
SRF Schweizer Radio und
[email protected]
Fernsehen – Switzerland
Austria not available.
Who is HR Giger? What kind of person is behind such terrifying
and disturbing yet aesthetic forms and beings? A film with
and about the controversial artist and Oscar winner.
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Daughters of Dolma
Daughters of Mother India
England / Hungary / Nepal,
2013 color, HDcam, 70’/54’
Original Language: Tibetan
Subtitles: English
India, 2014 color, HDcam, 45’
Original Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Daughters of Dolma takes viewers on a
journey revealing a distinctively female
experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the
Kathmandu Valley. The documentary
brings to the screen not just
Buddhist spirituality and qualities like
compassion and kindness, but Tibetan
Buddhist nuns as full individuals beyond
their monastic vows and religious
practices.
The eyes of the world are on India’s
rampant gender violence that suddenly
has hit the world’s headlines. An
insightful look inside the Indian society,
the Government and the swift and
radical changes being made in the
Police, the Judiciary and the community
groups, who are provoking for the first
time a national dialogue on the current
sexist attitudes of Indian society and
how to change them.
Adam Miklos
Vibha Bakshi
www.daughtersofmotherindia.com
www.daughtersofdolmadoc.com
US not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Elizabeth Sheldon
Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION
Alex Co and Adrian Szaki
Adrian Szaki
10018 New York
USA
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
V2 Film and Design PVT Ltd
Vibha Bakshi
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: +1 212 629 6880
tel: 1-514-844-3358
alivemindcinema.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Daughters of Dolma reveals a distinctively female experience of
Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. The documentary
explores how gender and spirituality are being redefined.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Author’s Point of View
History
David & Me
David Lama – Off Limits on Rock and Ice
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
David Lama – Das Unmögliche möglich machen
Hans-Peter Stauber
Ray Klonsky, Marc Lamy
cargofilm-releasing.com/home/films/david-me
content/tradition-and-inspiration/
products/david_lama_-_off_limits_on_
rock_and_ice?s=lama&productIndex=2
David McCallum has been behind
bars for 29 years for the murder of
Nathan Blenner in 1985, although he’s
always maintained his innocence.
The conviction was based on coerced
testimonies when he was only 16 and a
very questionable police investigation
from a dirty cop. Upon hearing of his
story, filmmaker Ray Klonsky vowed to
find the evidence that would vindicate
David, now his friend. In homage to
Errol Morris’ Thin Blue Line, the film
is an emotional roller coaster which
in the month of October, 2014 led to
David McCallum’s release from prison!
The current version of the film has the
original ending, but the film’s final
minutes will be revised to show David’s
triumphant release and will be ready in
December 2014!
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SALES / CONTACT
David Piperni
PRODUCTION
Aaron Hancox
Markham Street Films Inc.
Michael McNamara
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
[email protected]
Lama, 23, is the son of an Austrian
mother and a Nepalese father. He grew
up in Tyrol surrounded by mountains.
He was only five when he attracted the
attention of legendary mountaineer
Pater Habeler; he was only 10 when
he climbed his first 8a-route. In 2010,
he left the indoor climbing walls and
started concentrating exclusively on
mountaineering. It was in 2012 that he
set out for the first free ascent of the
‘Compressor route’ on Cerro Torre in
Patagonia.
SALES / CONTACT
Berend Dreier
5071 Wals
PRODUCTION
Hans-Peter Stauber
Servus TV – Australia
Austria
tel: 00436622240-0
berend.dreier@
David McCallum is a
convicted murderer from the
mean streets of Brooklyn
who has spent 29-years
in prison. Ray Klonsky is
a middle class, JewishItalian kid from Toronto.
This personal portrait explores the life of climber David Lama,
an exceptional talent and all-round alpine specialist.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Investigative
Davids and Goliath
The Day That Changed My Life
Original Language: Mandarin/English
Subtitles: English
New Zealand, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’
When reports first emerged from
China that state-run hospitals were
killing prisoners of conscience to sell
their organs, it seemed too horrible to
believe. But as human rights lawyer
David Matas and former Canadian
member of parliament David Kilgour
began to uncover the mystery, the
true picture became all too clear.
Their evidence suggests that tens of
thousands of innocent people have
been killed to supply an ongoing illegal
organ transplant industry. The story of
how they pieced together the evidence
and continue to fight against this
crime against humanity is a riveting
tale of both personal triumphs and
unimaginable horror.
The Day that Changed my Life is a
gripping and emotional documentary
that features ordinary people’s extra
ordinary stories about the day that
changed their life forever.
This powerful documentary is built
around raw, heartfelt, never-seenbefore interviews captured in the
immediate aftermath of the February
22nd 2011 earthquake in Christchurch,
New Zealand.
An insight into what it was really like to
be there on that fateful day. A blend of
carefully selected archive and powerful
dramatic reconstructions creates a
compelling and poignant story of how
the day unfolded for the trapped, the
searchers, the rescuers, the hopeful and
the grief-stricken. Leon Lee
Chris Dudman
davidsandgoliath.com
SALES / CONTACT
Leon Lee
Flying Cloud Productions Inc.
112-618 East Kent Ave S
V5X0B1 Vancouver
Canada
tel: +1 7789960616
www.flyingcloudproductions.com
[email protected]
Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David
Kilgour use their wisdom and courage to fight against one
of the world’s worst crimes against humanity.
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PRODUCTION
Flying Cloud Productions Inc.
Leon Lee
SALES / CONTACT
Polly Fryer
PRODUCTION
Polly Fryer
34 Baildon Road
TVNZ (TV1&2) – New Zealand
1021 Auckland
New Zealand
tel: +64 272 356 531
[email protected]
A gripping account of
ordinary people’s extra
ordinary stories about
the day that changed
their life forever. Meet
survivors of the 22nd
February 2011 earthquake in
Christchurch, New Zealand.
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History | Politics / Society | Nature / Environment
Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Dead Sea Living
Death – A Series About Life
Canada / France / Palestine,
2013 color, HDcam, 82’
Norway, 2014 color, video, 52’
Original Language: Norwegian/English
Subtitles: English
Who has not heard of the famous
Dead Sea, the world’s saltiest water,
its unique geographical form. Tourists
worldwide bathe in its waters for its
unique medicinal qualities. But the sea
is completely isolated with only the
Jordan River supplying water. Today it is
shrinking as the water input has been
cut off to save the water from the river
for agriculture. As a result, the Dead
Sea is dying. The film looks at solutions
such as the Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal.
We are all going to die – sooner or later
– but there can be great differences in
how we relate to death. It can appear
frightening or engage us, provide food
on the table or even entertain us. There
are those who avoid it and those who
deal with it on a daily basis. What is
death, and how do we best live with it?
A father and his 8 years old daughter
whose mother has died lead through
five episodes. Travelling the world they
appreciate life the more they learn
about death.
German Gutierrez
Eivind Tolås
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Ina Fichman
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
PRODUCTION
Flimmer Film AS
Johnny Holmvag
Lars Løge
8050 Zurich
Switzerland
NRK – Norway,
tel: +41 44 3122060
YLE – Finland,
RUV – Iceland,
[email protected]
SBS – Australia
Shot around the world on 100 locations in 25 countries tackling death
from the physical, spiritual, creative, commercial and political angle.
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Catalogue No. Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
180
The Decent One
Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries
and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Vanessa Lapa
Molly Bernstein
Austria / Israel / Germany,
Original Language: German
Subtitles: English
Through previously undiscovered
private letters, photos and diaries
that were found in the Himmler
family house in 1945, theThe Decent
One exposes a unique and at times
uncomfortable access to the life and
mind of the merciless “Architect of
the Final Solution” Heinrich Himmler.
Himmler writes, “In life one must
always be decent, courageous and kindhearted”. How can a man be a hero in
his own eyes and a mass murderer in
the eyes of the world? A unique portrait
of one the most prominent figures of
the Third Reich: The Reichsfuhrer-SS:
Heinrich Himmler.
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned
magician, who regularly provokes
astonishment from even the most
jaded audiences. Deceptive Practices
traces Jay’s achievements and mentors.
Featuring rare footage from his 1970s
TV appearances (doing 3-card Monte
with Steve Martin on The Dinah Shore
Show) and told in Jay’s inimitable voice,
this is a remarkable journey inside the
secretive world of magic and the small
circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual
devotees.
www.rickyjaymovie.com
www.thedecentonefilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
Cinephil
PRODUCTION
Realworks
Vanessa Lapa
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
Through previously undiscovered personal letters, photos and
diaries, found in 1945, the film exposes a unique access to the life
and mind of the merciless “Architect of the Final Solution”.
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USA not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Elizabeth Sheldon
PRODUCTION
Alicia Sams
Kino Lorber, Inc.
10018 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 6296880
alivemindcinema.com
[email protected]
Deceptive Practices is a
portrait of Ricky Jay, the
world-renowned magician.
It reveals the secretive world
of magic and the small
circle of eccentrics who are
its perpetual devotees.
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Author’s Point of View
Deep Love
The Dickumentary
Original Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Canada / Japan / USA / United Arab
Emirates / Germany / India / Iceland
/ Bulgaria / South Korea / England /
Greece, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’/60’
Asia is a life partner of Janusz, an
experienced scuba-diver who suffered
from a stroke. For Janusz life is pointless
without his passion. Together with his
friend Arthur, he is planning to go to
Blue Hole in Dahab. All three of them
are aware of the fact that this may be
Janusz’s last trip.
Asia is facing a possibility of losing her
partner forever. At the same time she
understands janusz passion. Despite
her inner objection, she will accompany
Janusz and Arthur in the preparation to
the trip and the journey to Egypt.
The Dickumentary tells the story of
the penis— from its evolution as a
biological structure millions of years
ago in prehistoric fish, to today.
Cultures have worshipped it, and
circumcised it. Men have sought ways
to make it larger. Traveling across 14
countries, featuring interviews with
more than 40 experts, it’s an epic
journey through a subject that doesn’t
get talked about nearly enough in polite
society. Jan P. Matuszynski
Sofian Khan
SALES / CONTACT
Marta Lachacz
Cor Leonis Production
Al. KEN 22/28
PRODUCTION
Cor Leonis Films ltd
Marta Lachacz
HBO Europe – Poland
02-797 Warszawa
Poland
tel: +48 504 025 052
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION
Capital K Pictures
Sofian Khan
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
[email protected]
Janusz is an experienced
scuba-diver who suffered
from a stroke. His life is
pointless without his passion.
Will his partner Asia support
his come back to diving?
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Everything you’ve always wanted to know about
the penis, but were afraid to find out.
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Nature / Environment | History | Human Interest / Social Issues
Die Before Blossom
Dinosaur 13
Indonesia, 2014 color, HDcam, 89’
Original Language: Indonesian
Subtitles: English
An observational documentary about
the end of childhood, describing
how young Muslim girls grow up in
Indonesia’s middle class of today. The
film portrays two families during a
decisive period of their daughters’
school careers in Yogyakarta. In the
meantime, the public education system
in Indonesia is changing under pressure
from Islamic politics parties. The once
secular institution is more geared
towards shaping millions of submissive
youth by including more religious
activities into the school life.
When Paleontologist Peter Larson and
his team from the Black Hills Institute of
Geological Research made the world’s
greatest dinosaur discovery in 1990,
they knew it was the find of a lifetime;
the largest, most complete T. rex ever
found. But during a ten-year battle
with the U. S. government, powerful
museums, Native American tribes, and
competing paleontologists, they found
themselves not only fighting to keep
their dinosaur but fighting for their
freedom as well.
Layu sebelum berkembang
Ariani Djalal
Todd Miller
dinosaur-13.com
www.diebeforeblossom.com
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
PRODUCTION
Tanamera
Ariani Djalal
75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION
Goethe Institut Jakarta –
Indonesia
Indonesia
tel: +33 144 617748
www.catndocs.com
[email protected]
The film tells about teenager stories that reveals significantly, yet the changes
are not always visible in Conservative Moslem Culture omnipresent.
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Middle East (TV rights) not
available. North America, UK
(all rights) not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
PRODUCTION
Statement Pictures
Todd Miller
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 253 6244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
The true tale of one of the greatest discoveries in history.
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Dior & I
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
France / USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’
Original Language: French/English
white, video, 82’
Dior & I brings the viewer inside the
storied world of the Christian Dior
fashion house with a privileged, behindthe-scenes look at the creation of Raf
Simons’ first haute couture collection
as its new artistic director – a true labor
of love created by a dedicated group
of collaborators. Melding the everyday,
pressure- filled components of fashion
with mysterious echoes from the iconic
brand’s past, the film is also a colorful
homage to the seamstresses who serve
Simons’ vision.
The untold story of how Black
landowners in Mississippi – who
controlled over 1 million acres of
land – were the secret weapon of the
American civil rights movement in the
1960’s. How a group of Black farmers
in the Delta miraculously acquired
10,000 acres of the most fertile land in
Mississippi as a result of a radical ‘New
Deal’ experiment in the 1930’s and its
knock on effects for the civil rights
movement in the 1960’s.
Narrated by Danny Glover.
Frederic Tcheng
David Shulman
dogwoof.com/films/dior-and-i
SALES / CONTACT
Vesna Cudic
Dogwoof
PRODUCTION
CIM Productions
Guillaume Roquemaurel
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 253 6244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
Frédéric Tcheng’s solo directorial debut brings the viewer inside
the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house.
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North America not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Sally Miles
Passion Distribution Ltd
PRODUCTION
Thunk It Media
David Shulman
77 Fulham Palace Rd
W6 8JA London
England
tel: 44 207 2586800
[email protected]
The real story behind
‘Mississippi Burning’ –
how Black landowners
in Mississippi provided
armed protection to the
non-violent civil rights
movement of the 1960’s.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society
Disportrait: Coming to Russia Proves to Be no Fairy Tale
Divine Location
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 52’
Original Language: Spanish/Russian/English
Subtitles: English
After his controversial dismissal by
the Spanish Minister of Culture from
the Madrid-based dance company
he directed for 20 years, Spanish
choreographer Nacho Duato takes on
the directorship of the Mikhailovsky
Ballet in St. Petersburg, seeing it
as a chance to redeem himself
professionally. However, great artistic
challenges lie ahead as the classical
dancers of the traditional ballet troupe
struggle with his contemporary vision
for a new Russian ballet.
Plunged into cultural and social
isolation, the new “Maestro” of the
Mikhailovsky Ballet–a gay icon in his
native Spain-must now face these
challenges and prove his standing. A light and often absurdly comic film
about the transition from an industrial
to a leisure society. We watch as a
beautiful artificial lake is developed
on the vast site of a former steelworks
plant: Lake Phoenix. In the middle
of one of the largest industrial areas
in Europe, Germany’s Ruhr region, a
luxurious residential area has been
developed, marina and lake-side piazza
included. We meet old locals, attend
client meetings and accompany new
residents who tell us of their plans
and dreams. Wir beobachten, wie sie
zu Gewinnern oder Verlierern dessen
werden, was man gesellschaftlichen
Fortschritt nennt. We watch as they all
become winners or losers in the game
called social progress. Alejandro Alvarez, Ulrik Wivel
Göttliche Lage
Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken
www.goettliche-lage.de
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Talal Al-Muhanna, Katrin Pors
SALES / CONTACT
Elina Kewitz
NEW DOCS
PRODUCTION
filmproduktion loekenfranke gbr
Ulrike Franke
Dasselstr. 75-77
Filmproduktion Loeken Franke
50674 Koeln
Michael Loeken
Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743
WDR – Germany,
www.newdocs.de
WDR/ARTE – France
[email protected]
Germany not available.
The film is an extreme and exhilarating close-up of
one of Europe’s biggest artistic personalities.
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In the middle of one of the largest industrial areas in Europe, the Ruhr
region, a beautiful, artificial lake with a luxurious residential area has
been developed – marina and piazza included. A light and often absurdly
comic film about the transition from an industrial to a leisure society.
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Do I Sound Gay?
Dockers at work
France, 2013 color, video, 52’
Subtitles: English
David Thorpe
Bruno Raymond-Damasio
www.doisoundgay.com
www.facebook.com/dockerslefilm?ref=hl
Journalist David Thorpe embarks
on a hilarious and touching journey,
confronting his anxiety about
“sounding gay” with comprehensively
exploring the linguistic, cultural and
historical origins of the stereotype of
the gay voice. Enlisting acting coaches,
linguists, friends, family, total strangers,
and celebrities, he quickly learns that
many people — both gay and straight
— often wish for a different voice.
Drawing upon movie and television
clips, the film traces a cultural history
of the gay voice which places Thorpe’s
self-consciousness in a broader context
and illuminates the complexity at play.
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Howard Gertler, David Thorpe
Autlook Filmsales
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
SALES / CONTACT
Guillaume Josset
PRODUCTION
la mandarine
la mandarine
Guillaume Josset
24a rue Pouchet
76000 Rouen
France
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
tel: +33142170103
www.lamandarine.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
A hilarious and touching
journey, confronting the
anxiety about “sounding
gay” with comprehensively
exploring the linguistic,
pop cultural and historical
origins of the stereotype
of the gay voice.
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The dockers of Nantes Saint-Nazaire
have been most directly hit by the
drastic competition from the Northern
European ports, and also by the latest
port reforms, forcing them to adapt
to the new situation. This film gives
a voice to the men on the wharves. It
reveals how they work, and provides
some answers. . .
A rough and genuine documentary
composed as an opera.
Are you ever be on the dock
with dockers at work?
Let plunge you into an
unknown and marginal
world, a workman’s world
undergoing massive changes.
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Catalogue No. Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
Does God Love Women?
The Dog
Subtitles: English
Does God Love Women? portrays Hilligje
Kok, a deeply religious but free spirited
woman in Staphorst, a village located in
the Dutch “Bible Belt”.
With passion and humor, Hilligje seeks
to improve the position of women
within her church as well as in the
orthodox Christian political party SGP.
But a visit by Hilligje’s gay son Willem
brings her off balance. Why did she not
show up at his wedding? Hilligje’s wellintended struggle for equality is now
putting at risk her friendships, family
relationships as well as her position
within the congregation.
Coming of age in the 1960s, John
Wojtowicz took pride in being a pervert.
His libido was excessive even by the
libertine standards of the era, with
multiple wives and lovers, both women
and men. In August, 1972, he attempted
to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his
lover’s sex-reassignment surgery. Three
years later, Al Pacino portrayed his
character instigating the unforgettable
crime on the big screen. The awardwinning film “Dog Day Afternoon” had
a profound influence on Wojtowicz.
When he emerged from prison six years
later, he became known as “The Dog. ”
Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren
www.thedogthemovie.com
SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
PRODUCTION
NOCTILUCA
SND Films
Maarten van Rouveroy van
P.O. Box 15703
Nieuwaal
1001 NE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31204040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
Does God Love Women?
portrays Hilligje Kok,
a deeply religious but
free spirited woman in
Staphorst, a village located
in the Dutch “Bible Belt”.
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Houdt God van Vrouwen?
Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
SALES / CONTACT
Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION
Unleashed Films, LLC
Cinephil
Allison Berg
Frank Keraudren
18 Levontin St.
6511207 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
The real story of John
Wojtowicz, the main
charecter portrayd by
Al Pacino in the awardwinning feature film
“Dog Day Afternoon”.
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Domino Effect
Don’t Lose Heart
Poland / Germany, 2014
Subtitles: English
The Netherlands, 2014 color /
black and white, HDcam, 82’
Original Language: Dutch/English
Subtitles: English
In Abkhazia, a post-Soviet “frozen
conflict” zone, patriotism runs deep.
While Sports Minister Rafael is busy
organizing an international domino
event to put his motherland on the
world’s map, his beloved Russian wife
is just an unwelcome foreigner. A black
sea black comedy with socio-political
commentary.
Hella de Jonge didn’t always get on
with her 88-year-old father. When he
had to move recently, she acquired the
legacy of her great aunt, who survived
the Nazi terror along with Hella’s
parents. A publicity photo from 1885 of
her great-grandfather as part of a comic
duo then inspired Hella to investigate
the history of her family. With the aid
of photos and documents, a videotape
of Hella’s mother’s testimony made as
part of Steven Spielberg’s Shoa project,
conversations and visits to places with
painful memories, father and daughter
have grown closer together.
Domino effekt
Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski
Hella de Jonge
www.helladejonge.nl
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
A-1070 Vienna
PRODUCTION
Otter Films
Anna Wydra
CO-PRODUCTION
Zero One Film –
Austria
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PRODUCTION
De Roje Hel
Hella de Jonge
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
In Abkhazia, a post-Soviet “frozen conflict” zone, patriotism runs deep.
While Sports Minister Rafael is busy organizing an international domino
event, his beloved Russian wife is just an unwelcome foreigner.
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Dora Maar in Spite of Picasso
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
Dora Maar a Pesar de Picasso
Angel Bofarull, Alejandro Lasala
John Pirozzi
white, HDcam, 107’
Original Language: English/Khmer/French
Subtitles: English
Spain, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 50’
Subtitles: English
Revelling in the songs of the Beatles
and the Bee Gees, in the 1960s young
Cambodians built a wildly popular new
type of pop that combined funk, soul
and rock with the hypnotic rhythms of
their own traditional music. But when
the Khmer Rouge came, the musicians
were the first against the wall, and
most of what once existed was lost
forever. Combining rare archival
footage, never-before-heard recordings
and interviews with the few surviving
artists, this is an impossible-to-resist
portrait of a music like no other – and
the power of rock ‘n’ roll to save a
nation’s soul.
The 50 minute documentary begins
by taking a look around the Dora Maar
Nonostante Picasso exhibition, which
took place at the Palazzo Fortuny in
Venice, in the Spring of 2014. In the
course of a detailed interview, Victoria
Combalía, curator of the exhibition
and Dora Maar’s biographer looks
back on the photographer’s life and
work, situating her within the artistic
context of surrealism and photography
in the France of the 1930’s. doramaarinspiteofpicasso.es
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
DTIF Cambodia LLC
CAT&Docs
John Pirozzi
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 144 617748
SALES / CONTACT
Pablo Damme
PRODUCTION
Mercedes Palomar
c/ Pintor Salvador Abril
Althea media s.l.
34 valencia
Silvana Pizzol
Spain
tel: 00 34 626041056
Televisió de Catalunya – TVC –
[email protected]
Spain
www.catndocs.com
[email protected]
The Khmer Rouge wanted
to destroy everything the
West had ever touched. But
the one thing they couldn’t
destroy was rock ‘n’ roll.
Aim of this documentary is to revindicate the figure of Dora
Maar as a world – class photographer, beyond the shadow of
Picasso, with her own perspective and her own light.
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Drawing against Oblivion
Drawing Dead: The Highs & Lows of Online Poker
Bärbel Jacks
Mike Weeks
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam/
DCP, 60’/52’/45’/67’
Original Language: German/Polish/English
Subtitles: German
Subtitles: French/Italian/Japanese/
English/Portugese/German/Spanish
“What happened to the children who
lay in the wrong crib?“ asks Austrian
artist Manfred Bockelmann. Born in
1943, he embarks on a mission: by
drawing their faces he wants to retrieve
from oblivion the innumerable children
who were murdered in the name of
racist mania and disappeared in the
archives as mere statistical numbers.
Remembering the Nazi terror through
the eyes of the artist who travels to
Auschwitz concentration camp and
to the US to encounter those children
who escaped from the death camps.
This film visualizes the horrors of the
holocaust without using archival
footage and is a strong plea for
vigilance against racism right here, right
now. From the Poker Boom of 2003 to Black
Friday, April 15th 2011, when the US
Department of Justice shut down online
poker, Drawing Dead follows the lives
of two players, Michael and Dusty, as
they deal with the highs and the lows
of America’s future favorite pastime,
online poker. www.drawing-against-oblivion.com
www.DrawingDeadPokerDoc.com
SALES / CONTACT
Andrea Zimmermann
PRODUCTION
Klaus Brecht
Kurfürstenstrasse 29
Final Frame
80801 Munich
David Kunac
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION
Graf Filmproduktion – Austria
tel: +49 0172 89 577 89
[email protected]
World premiere still open.
Remembering the Nazi terror through the eyes of an artist who draws
portraits of children murdered in the name of a racial fanaticism.
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NOT available for US Distribution
(US rights purchase by Brainstorm
Media in partnership with DirecTV).
SALES / CONTACT
Lucy Matthias
Journeyman Pictures
PRODUCTION
Bread Bag Boot LLC
Mike Weeks
4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton,
KT7 0RY Surrey
England
tel: +44 (0) 208 786 6058
www.journeyman.tv
[email protected]
Drawing Dead is a
documentary film exploring
the highs and lows of
online poker from two very
different perspectives: an
online pro worth millions,
and a gambling addict.
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Nature / Environment | Experimental | Human Interest / Social Issues
Dream House by the Border
The Dream of Shahrazad
South Korea / France, 2013 color
/ black and white, HDcam, 89’
Original Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
South Africa / Egypt / France
/ The Netherlands / Jordan,
2014 color, HDcam, 108’/56’
Original Language: Arabic/
English/Farsi/Turkish
Subtitles: English
Lyang Kim
François Verster
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ouse+by+the+Border&x=0&y=0
The film carries on to the succession
of the DMZ inhabitants’ accounts, in
rigorously frontal frames, completed by
an exploration of their interiors. After
the war, the region was covered with
mines, and it has been abandoned for
20 years. The Park dictatorship took the
initiative to clear the land toward the
end of the 1960s, in order to disengage
the country from a rampant famine;
this salvaging plan took as its model the
Israeli kibbutzim.
dreamofshahrazad.com
PRODUCTION
Lyang Kim
SALES / CONTACT
Lyang Kim
2, bis Rue des Cascades
75020 Paris
France
tel: +33 14 2467707
[email protected]
Weaving together music, politics
and storytelling, this film explores
recent political events in the Middle
East through the lens of “The 1001
(Arabian) Nights”. A charismatic Turkish
conductor uses Rimsky-Korsakov’s
‘Scheherazade’ suite as a tool for
political education. A young Lebanese
woman makes peace with her past
through storytelling. An older visual
artist obsessed with The Nights finds
new life through meeting a beautiful
young storyteller. Members of a Cairo
theatre troupe meet with mothers of
martyrs of the Revolution and turn
their testimonies into new storytelling
performances.
SALES / CONTACT
Heather Millard
Spier Films
PRODUCTION
Fireworx Media
Neil Brandt
42 Vicarage Crescent.
Middlewest Films
SW113LD LONDON
Wael Omar
England
tel: +447793030475
CO-PRODUCTION
Volya Films – The Netherlands,
www.spierfilms.com
Melia Films – France,
[email protected]
Hakaya – Jordan
This film signs the collective
memory of these people who
live close to the DMZ in South
Korea, under military control.
The Dream of Shahrazad explores recent political events in Turkey and Egypt
through the lens of the famous story collection “The 1001 (Arabian) Nights”.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Investigative | Science / Technology | Politics / Society
Drifter
Drone
Hungary / Germany, 2014 color, video, 72’
Subtitles: English
Norway / Denmark, 2014 color,
video/HDcam, 79’/78’/58’
Original Language: English/Pashtu/Urdu
Subtitles: English
Gábor Hörcher
Tonje Hessen Schei
www.kraatsfilm.com/drifter.html
www.dronethedocumentary.com
The young rebel, Ricsi, lives his life on
the edge. ‘Trouble’ is his middle name.
He is unruly, restlessly scaring up
problem after problem. Driving cars
without a license, theft and escaping
from the cops are all just a part of his
daily routine much for his parents’
despair. Ricsi won’t stand for routines
nor the expectations of his deadbeat
father. Afterall, where was he when
Ricsi needed him the most?
Drifter was shot over a period of five
years and is a portrait of a unique young
man who takes life in his own hands.
SALES / CONTACT
Marcell Iványi
KraatsFilm Production
PRODUCTION
Weydemann Bros.
Marieke Bittner
Lórántffy Zs. út 5.
KraatsFilm Production
1022 Budapest
Marcell Iványi
Hungary
tel: +36 205335633
www.kraatsfilm.com
[email protected]
Drone brings us inside the covert CIA
drone war. The film follows people
who live under drones in Pakistan and
drone pilots who struggle with the
new warfare. Drone covers diverse
ground from the recruitment of
young pilots at gaming conventions,
the re-definition of “going to war”,
to the moral of engineers behind the
technology, the world leaders giving
the secret “greenlight” to a targeted
killing program outside declared war
zones, and the people who fight for
transparency, accountability and justice.
Facing fast technological advancements
and lagging international legislation the
film shows how drones change wars
and possibly our future.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Germany, New Zealand, Australia,
UK, Ireland, Malta not available.
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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PRODUCTION
Flimmer Film AS
SALES / CONTACT
Tine Klint
LevelK
Lars Løge
Gl. Kongevej 137 B, 3rd F
1850 Copenhagen
tel: +45 48442201
CO-PRODUCTION
Radiator Film ApS – Denmark
www.levelk.dk
ARTE/ZDF – Germany,
[email protected]
TV2 Norway – Norway,
DR – Denmark
Drone brings us inside the
covert CIA drone war. The
film follows people who live
under drones in Pakistan and
drone pilots who struggle
with the new warfare.
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History | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Dusty Bin Dreams
El Gusto
Original Language: Swahili/English
Subtitles: English
Algeria / Ireland / United Arab Emirates
/ France, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’
Original Language: Arabic/French
Subtitles: English
Anne Campenhout, Eriss Khajira
Safinez Bousbia
www.quidam.ie/projects/elgusto.html
Eriss Khajira (1987, Kenya) grew up on
the largest dumpsite of East Africa: the
Dandora dumpsite. Tens of thousands
of people live on and around this
dumpsite, scavenging through the
waste of Nairobi’s residents. Khajira
goes back to the place of her youth and
she portrays five dumpsite inhabitants.
The result is a touching and shocking
documentary that shows the strengths,
the sorrows and the dreams of her slum
neighbors. Dusty Bin Dreams tells the
story of African poverty from the inside:
a story of hope, friendship, despair and
betrayal.
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SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION
EO
NPO Sales
Herma van Boven
Bart de Graaffweg 2
EO – The Netherlands
1217 ZL Hilversum
Safinez Bousbia’s ambitious and moving
documentary tells the amazing story
of the reunion and reconciliation of a
group of Muslim and Jewish musicians
fifty years after their separation during
the Algerian Civil War and follows their
story as they are brought back together
to form a new orchestra, “El Gusto,” and
perform at an extraordinary concert in
France.
SALES / CONTACT
Nelleke Driessen
Fortissimo Films
PRODUCTION
Quidam Productions Ltd
Safinez Bousbia
Van Diemenstraat 100
Heidi Egger
1013 CN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION
Eikosi Productions –
tel: +31 35 6773561
tel: 31206273215
The Netherlands
www.nposales.com
www.fortissimofilms.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Catalogue No. Human Interest / Social Issues
Elephant’s Dream
The Empire of the Scents
England / Belgium, 2014
Original Language: French/Lingala
Subtitles: English
Elepehant’s Dream is a portrait of three
state-owned institutions and their
workers in DR Congo. The interwoven
stories of a female post-office clerk in
the dilapidated Central Post Office, two
colleagues at the railway station and
the group of firemen in the only fire
station give an insight into their daily
lives and survival in the third largest
city of Africa, Kinshasa.
Their world is so different from ours,
yet at the same time so familiar and
universal. Together we question how
this society copes with the current
states and how it could see a revival.
This unique film embarks on a
kaleidoscopic portrait of what is the
sense of smell, exploring the rarest
of saffrons, exotic perfumes, follows
Italian truffle hunters as they explain
the aphrodisiac powers of the praised
mushroom. Astronaut Chris Hadfield
describes the smell of space, food
molecule expert François Chartier talks
about the sound of flavors, and Guido,
a metaphysical perfumer who has
created the scent of a woman, explains
how his perfume came to be.
The film also talks about whale poop,
also known as ambergris, the rare
and expensive substance that gives
perfumes their seductive animalistic
odor.
Kristof Bilsen
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
Kim Nguyen
PRODUCTION
Associate Directors
Mark Daems
75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION
Man’s Film Productions –
France
Belgium,
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
Limerick Films – Belgium,
Roast Beef Productions – England
[email protected]
RTBF – Belgium
Elepehant’s Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and
their workers in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
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SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Lowik Media
Lucie Tremblay
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
It is through our sense of smell that we feel, lust and create and yet
we know almost nothing about this most direct of our senses.
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Catalogue No. 204
History | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Ennahdha
The Erpatak Model
Belgium / France, 2014 color, video, 69’
Original Language: French/Arabic
Subtitles: English/French
Subtitles: English
Tunisia, end of October 2011. 10
months after the fall of Ben Ali,
the constitutional elections bring
Ennahdha, an Islamic party totally
underrated by the international
opinion, to lead Tunisia. 18 months later,
in spring 2013, Ennahdha that failed to
introduce the essential reformations
and to infuse the air of the revolution
to the country, will present itself once
more in front of the voters.
Zoltán Mihály Orosz is the hyper
energetic and ultra nationalist mayor
of Érpatak, a village of 1,750 inhabitants
in eastern Hungary. Mayor Orosz
is possessed by delusions of order,
discipline and control. He divides
the villagers into “builders” and
“destroyers”; supporters and opponents
of his Érpatak Model. The mayor’s
ultimate goal is the creation of a
“sacred and organic dictatorship” where
the supreme values are order, discipline
and fighting spirit as they unite the
community on a local level and the
nation on a country level.
Christophe Cotteret
Benny Brunner, Keno Verseck
SALES / CONTACT
Benoît Roland
Wrong Men North
10, box 3, Morisstreet
1060 Brussels
Belgium
PRODUCTION
Wrong Men North
Benoît Roland
CO-PRODUCTION
Veilleur de Nuit – France
tel: +32479439822
ARTE G.E.I.E. – France,
www.wrongmen.be
RTBF – Belgium
[email protected]
This documentary is a political and historical autopsy, of an Islamic
party anticipating to establish its authority on the future of Tunisia.
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SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
2911Foundation
Benny Brunner
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Mayor Orosz is possessed by delusions of order, discipline and
control. He divides the villagers into “builders” and “destroyers”;
supporters and opponents of his Érpatak Model.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Investigative
History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
The Escape
Escaping Riga
Germany / Denmark, 2014 color /
black and white, HDcam, 58’/45’/26’
Subtitles: English
Latvia, 2014 black and white, 16mm, 68’
While millions fled from DDR to West
Germany some families chose to travel
the other way. The Escape follows
Christoph Sender in his search for
answers. Why did his parents leave
the West? Why did they have to flee
16 years later? And why did he have to
loose his father and his two sisters?
With stunning archive material and
high quality re-enactment, The Escape
is a highly emotional story of a family
that puts everything at stake to live
in freedom during the heydays of
oppression in the GDR.
Two young boys are forced to escape
their native city of Riga. Later these
same boys turn out to be among the
most extraordinary personalities of
the previous century: one becomes a
leading commie film director and the
other a mentor to the entire British
Empire. This story will reveal the secrets
of the remarkably parallel lives between
Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin.
Die Flucht
Jesper Clemmensen
Davis Simanis
hansenogpedersen.dk
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
PRODUCTION
Hansen & Pedersen
Rise and Shine
Anders Riis-Hansen
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION
Kloos & Co. Medien – Germany
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
DR TV – Denmark,
[email protected] ARD/MDR – Germany
SALES / CONTACT
Aleksandar Govedarica
Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION
Mistrus Media Ltd.
Gints Grube
7 Granard Business Centre
NW7 2DQ London
England
tel: +387 66 405623
www.taskovskifilms.com
[email protected]
The touching story of one
family´s dramatic escape
from East Germany.
A garrulous philosopher and flamboyant film director trying to survive
the extremes of life somewhere between a tsar, a king and Stalin.
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Politics / Society
Euromaidan. Rough Cut
Evaporating Borders
Ukraine, 2014 color, video, 60’
Original Language: Russian/Ukranian
Subtitles: English
USA / Cyprus, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 73’
Original Language: Greek/English/Arabic
Subtitles: English
Three months of revolution. From
indignant protest to national unity.
From pots on their heads to batons
and body armour. From the euphoria
of victory to the mourning of the
fallen Heavenly Hundred. Revolution
as an explosion of revived dignity,
as the euphoria of freedom, as the
pain of awareness at the cost, as
the birth of the modern history of
Ukraine. Experience the three months
of struggle with young Ukrainian
documentary filmmakers, feel and see
the revolution through their eyes.
An essay in five parts, Evaporating
Borders is guided by the filmmaker’s
curious eye and personal reflections.
Through people she encounters along
the way, it dissects the experience
of asylum seekers in Cyprus: an exile
from Iraq is denied asylum within 15
minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists
roam the streets; activists organize an
antifascist rally; 195 migrants drown in
the Mediterranean. Evaporating Borders
investigates the effects of large-scale
immigration on the sense of national
identity in one of the easiest ports of
entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically
photographed and rendered, the
film passionately weaves themes of
tolerance, identity and belonging.
Roman Bondarchuk
Iva Radivojevic
www.facebook.com/EuromaidanRoughCut
www.EvaporatingBorders.com
SALES / CONTACT
Yulia Serdyukova
Docudays UA International
Documentary Film Festival
PRODUCTION
Docudays UA International
Documentary Film Festival
Dar’ya Averchenko
11 Mala Zhytomyrska str., office 10
Roman Bondarchuk
01001 Kyiv
Yulia Serdyukova
Ukraine
tel: +380 67 240 21 39
www.docudays.org.ua
[email protected]
Three months of struggle.
From indignant protest to
national unity. A chronicle of
the Ukrainian revolution in
ten episodes as seen by young
documentary filmmakers.
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SALES / CONTACT
Iva Radivojevic
PRODUCTION
Leandros Savvides
Ivaasks
Transient Pictures
503 Lafayette Ave 3F
Landon Van Soest
11205 Brooklyn, NY
USA
tel: +1 917 6697584
www.ivaasks.com
[email protected]
Evaporating Borders is a poetically rendered film about tolerance and
search for identity. Told through five vignettes portraying the lives
migrants in Cyprus, it weaves themes of displacement and belonging.
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Catalogue No. 209
Face it!
Factory Complex
Subtitles: English
South Korea, 2014 color / black
Original Language: Khmer/Korean
Subtitles: English
A personal, investigative documentary
about menopause. Like many women,
director Ingeborg Beugel didn’t know
what was happening to her. She
was irritated, confused, depressed
and didn’t feel like being intimate
anymore. She didn’t recognise herself
anymore and thought she was driving
insane. Too late she found out that
all these changes in her life were
linked to menopause. Beugel started
investigating and learned there is still a
lot to be exposed about this phase in a
women’s life.
South Korea’s drastic economic
development once surprised the rest
of the world. However, behind of it was
an oppression the marginalised female
labourers had to endure. The film invites
us to the lives of the working class
women engaged in the textile industry
of the 1960s, all the way through the
stories of flight attendants, cashiers,
and non-regular workers of today.
The form of labor seems to change its
appearance but the essence of a breadand-butter question remains still. The
film ends up in Cambodia, where we
encounter the repetition of the history
of labor that took place in Korea.
Ingeborg Beugel
Heung-soon Im
dokument.ncrv.nl/pagina/uitgebloeid
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
PRODUCTION
Interakt
Mira Mendel
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
A personal, investigative documentary about menopause.
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Jihye Park
Documentary Airways
#101, 3, Jahamun-ro 33ga-gil, PRODUCTION
Bandal Doc.
Min-kyung Kim
Min-kyung Kim
Jongno-gu
110-030 Seoul
South Korea
tel: +82 10 71572015
www.docairways.com
[email protected]
Female labourers in South
Korea in 1960s were treated
with lower wage and sexual
harassment. Such unfair
history of labor is being
repeated in different forms
and in other countries.
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Faith Love Desire – World Religions and Sexuality
farEAST – From Berlin to Tokyo
Glaube Liebe Lust – Sexualität in den Weltreligionen
Heinz Greuling, Hilka Sinning
FernOST – von Berlin nach Tokio
Manuela Jödicke, Johannes Unger
Germany, 2014 color, video, 52’
Original Language: Hebrew/Thai/
Hindi/German/English/Arabic
Subtitles: English
How can the anarchic power of
sexuality be tamed when one is young?
What is permitted and what is not?
What effect do the values prescribed by
various religions have on love, marriage
and sexual activity in our present day
and age?
The three-part series Faith Love
Desire explores this in five world
religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam,
Buddhism and Hinduism. A global
odyssey charting a course between
love’s intoxication and taboos and a
fascinating exploration of life’s most
intimate and beautiful side.
A unique adventure on the UNESCO’s
Asian Highways, the largest system of
roads worldwide. A journey through the
heart of Asia by means of a real voyage,
focusing on the people they meet
along the way and their stories. For the
first time in years, a camera team was
allowed to travel on the road through
Iran and Myanmar!
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
PRODUCTION
Bildersturm Filmproduktion
Birgit Schulz
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme,
Tobias Siebert
8050 Zurich
NDR – Germany,
Switzerland
WDR – Germany,
Austria
tel: +41 44 3122060
SWR – Germany,
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
RBB – Germany,
[email protected]
MDR – Germany
[email protected]
A-1070 Vienna
Intimate beliefs as told by Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and
Buddhists. Is Eros a devine gift or diabolical power? Throughout
the ages all religions tried to control people’s sex lives...
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
Felvidek – Caught in Between
The Fencing Champion
Slovakia / Czech Republic, 2014 color
Original Language: Czech/Hungarian/Slovak
Subtitles: English
Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 27’
Original Language: Danish
Subtitles: English
www.hornazem.eu
id=3&films_id=19#sthash.ljrouCKj.dpuf
Felvidek is a multiethnic Slovak/
Hungarian region in southern Slovakia.
Far too often the region has been
trapped in between the opposing
interests of political elites; far too often
its people have been tossed around
by the twists of history. In the 1940s,
many of them were forced to leave
their homeland. Some wounds are
hard to heal, some questions remain
unanswered but the future brings hope
for reconciliation. When memories are
not enough, the stories come to live
through animation.
The film follows 10-year-old Ruben
through a season of fencing. Ruben has
a great passion for fencing and has to
defend his title as Nordic champion, a
title that gives him a lot of respect from
the boys in the club. We follow Ruben
while he is preparing for the big annual
championship. Alongside the drama
that is played out on the fencing piste,
an even a greater story is unfolding
about some of the universal challenges
that children experience at this age –
like trying to understand girls.
Felvidék – Horná Zem
Vladislava Plancsikova
Fægtemesteren
Simon Lereng Wilmont
www.final-cut.dk/films2.php?mit_indhold_
SALES / CONTACT
Tomás Kaminsk
PRODUCTION
Mandala Pictures
Mandala Pictures
Tomás Kaminsk
Mariánska 18
900 31 Stupava
Slovakia
tel: +421 908 201674
www.mandalapictures.eu
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Final Cut for Real
Autlook Filmsales
Monica Hellström Weston
A-1070 Vienna
CO-PRODUCTION
Story AB – Sweden,
Austria
Sant & Usant AS – Norway
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
Slovakia, Czech Republic,
Hungary not available.
The film combines oral
history documentary, archive
footage and animation.
The narrative deals with a
sensitive theme: the forced
resettlement of ethnic
Hungarians in postwar
Czechoslovakia.
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The Fencing Champion follows 10-year-old Ruben through a season
of fencing and some of the universal challenges that all children
experience at his age – for instance trying to understand girls.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Youth
Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Fest of Duty
The Final Stretch
Iran, 2014 color, video, 60’
Subtitles: English
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’
Original Language: Catalan
Subtitles: English
The “Fest of Duty” is a religious
ceremony in Iranian elementary schools
designed to inculcate Islamic beliefs
and values in girls when they reach the
age of nine, traditionally recognized as
the start of puberty according to Islamic
practices. This documentary follows
two adolescent girls as they transition
into adulthood, eight years after their
official “Fest of Duty”, and observes the
impact of religion on their public and
private lives.
The Final Stretch is the story
of a community paralysed by
unemployment and immersed in its
own Grande Bouffe in a place, on the
delta of the Ebro river where the land
is disappearing each year, swallowed
up by the sea. A journey along the final
stretch of the river, an area submerged
in an overall crisis –economic, social
and environmental–, the reflection of
a society abandoned to excesses and
gradually devouring itself.
Jashn-e Taklif
Firouzeh Khosrovani
El Tram Final
Oscar Pérez
SALES / CONTACT
Firouzeh Khosrovani
PRODUCTION
Firouzeh Khosrovani
Africa Blvd., Tandis St. N.6, Apt.18
1915613643 Tehran
Iran
tel: +98 21 22050729
[email protected]
Finland not available.
PRODUCTION
Getsemani Produccions, S.L.
SALES / CONTACT
Irena Taskovski
Taskovski Films
Oscar Pérez
7 Granard Business Centre_Bunns
Lane_Mill Hill
TVC – Spain – Spain,
NW7 2DQ London
YLE – Finland
England
tel: +44 387 65652046
[email protected]
[email protected]
“Fest of Duty” is an Islamic
right of passage marking the
onset of puberty, and the
transition from childhood
into adulthood.
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Life inside a community
paralysed by the recession
and immersed in its
own Grande Bouffe, in a
place where the land is
gradually disappearing,
swallowed up by the sea.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Finding Fela
Fire in the Blood
India / England, 2012 color,
HDcam, 60’/90’
Alex Gibney
Dylan Mohan Gray
findingfela.co.uk/screenings?gclid=C
OSWur6l28ACFUfnwgodjkYA4w
Finding Fela tells the story of Fela
Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social
and political importance. He created
a new musical movement, Afrobeat,
using that forum to express his
revolutionary political opinions against
the dictatorial Nigerian government
of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence
helped bring a change towards
democracy in Nigeria and promoted
Pan Africanist politics to the world. The
power and potency of Fela’s message
is completely current today and is
expressed in the political movements
of oppressed people, embracing Fela’s
music and message in their struggle for
freedom.
UK, Ireland, North America, African
Continent, Australia, New Zealand,
Brazil, Scandinavia, Baltics, Iceland,
Former Yugoslavia not available.
www.fireintheblood.com
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION
Jigsaw Productions
Dogwoof
Alex Gibney
Jack Gulick
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 2536244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
Fire in the Blood is the story of how
Western pharmaceutical companies
and gouvernments blocked access
to low-cost AIDS drugs for the
countries of the global south during
the 2000’s – causing ten million or
more unnecessary deaths – and the
improbable group of people who
decided to fight back. Shot on four
continents and including contributions
from global figures such as Bill Clinton,
Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, here
is the important, never-before-told
story of the unlikely alliance which
came together to stop ‘the crime of the
century’ and save millions of lives in the
process.
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Sparkwater India
Dylan Mohan Gray
Rumana Gray
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Finding Fela is the
story of Fela Anikulapo
Kuti’s life, music, and
political importance.
An intricate tale of ‘monopoly, medicine and mass murder’.
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
Five Days to Dance
Flight of the Time
Spain, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 55’/79’
English/German/Basque
Subtitles: English/Catalan/Basque/Spanish
The Netherlands / Russia,
Subtitles: English
Monday morning, two choreographers
show up in a High School in San
Sebastián, Spain. They have five days
to get a classroom full of teenagers on
stage and perform a dance theatre. The
dance forces the teenagers to break
their social roles right on the moment
of their lives when they are being
strengthened.
The dreams of the three generations
of residents on a village on the Volga.
Some old people they tell about their
first love, which is the best memory
remains. One young man of the village,
he was in the war in Afghanistan, which
has determines his life. A boy of 16,
thinks back to his childhood, when he
could swim, run, was in love with a girl.
It is a sad but sometimes funny story
of three generations, whose best and
strongest times seem to be in the past,
perhaps just as the country itself.
Vlucht van de Tijd
Masha Novikova
José Andreu Ibarra, Rafael Molés Vilar
www.novdoc.nl
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION
SUICAfilms
First Hand Films
Rafael Molés Vilar
CO-PRODUCTION
REC Grabaketa Estudioa – Spain
8050 Zurich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
[email protected]
“If people can dance together, people can live together.” – A microcosmos
where a little big-bang takes place, an ode to youngsters.
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Masha Novikova
PRODUCTION
NOVDOC
NOVDOC
Masha Novikova
Frans de Wollantstraat 18
1018 SC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 621686907
[email protected]
[email protected]
A sad but sometimes funny
story of three generations
of village residents on the
Volga, whose best times seem
to be in the past, perhaps
just as the country itself.
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Science / Technology | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Focus on Infinity
Fonko
Austria, 2014 color, video, 79’
Original Language: English/Spanish
Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, video, 52’/90’
Original Language: English/
French/Portugese/Wolof
Subtitles: English
Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey
to the places, people and machines
that are involved in exploring the
origin of our cosmos and of our
existence. It is a very personal and
intuitive investigation into the roots
and boundaries of our imagination
dominated by sensual perception. Not
unlike an adventure, the film dares
to voyage into the unknown, to the
structures of our intellectual capacity
and drive to explore. It focuses on the
restlessness that characterizes the
natural sciences, and underpins the
never-ending human ambition to fully
understand our world.
The great music revolutions of our
times have come from Africa, and
the next one is brewing there right
now. Soon, our local music industries
will be swamped with it. Afrobeats,
Azonto, Kuduro and South African
House are club music styles based on
traditional rhythms, becoming a means
of expressing the identity for an entire
generation. Well known musical icons
will take the viewer on a ride into the
depth of a continent in deep social,
cultural and economical change. Joerg Burger
SALES / CONTACT
Dietmar Schwärzler
Sixpackfilm
Neubaugasse 45/13
Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén, Göran Hugo Olsson
PRODUCTION
Mischief Films
Joerg Burger
Georg Misch
1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: 0043.1.526 09 90 15
www.sixpackfilm.com
[email protected]
Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines
that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence.
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SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
PRODUCTION
Story AB
Tobias Janson
8050 Zurich
SVT – Sweden,
Switzerland
SBS – Australia
tel: +41 44 3122060
[email protected]
From the award winning makers of Concerning Violence and The
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, narrated by Neneh Cherry.
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Experimental | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
For Being Alive
For the Love of God
Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, video, 55’
In the end of 70s Wroclaw, city in the
west-south of Poland, became one of
the most important hubs of the new,
independent music scene. It was also
part of a broader phenomenon which
began at the time – the great boom and
probably the greatest development of
Polish rock music. Outside the official
circuit – rebellious and anti-system
Polish punk rock scene was born. The
film brings up the story of how it was to
be a young man in Poland at that time.
Former IT worker Alan John Miller
believes he is Jesus. He lives in
Queensland, Australia with his partner
Mary Magdalene. From what we are
told, his reach is global and his believers
travel thousands of miles to hear him
teach. The press claim he is a worrying
Jesus Cult leader, and with unique and
exclusive access, this documentary
sets out to find the truth behind his
belief, as he claims: ‘I am Jesus and I am
serious’. Za to, ze zyjemy, czyli punk z Wrocka
Tomasz Nuzban
Thomas Leader
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
PRODUCTION
touchFILMS
Aleksandra Wojtaszek
SALES / CONTACT
David Hooper
Espresso TV
PRODUCTION
Revolutionary Leader
Thomas Leader
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: +441273730929
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
[email protected]
Examining the world of a man who believes he has had a
2000 year existence as Jesus – and he is not alone...
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Forbidden Flight
The Forecaster
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
www.zuidenwind.nl/Verboden-Vlucht
filme/the-forecaster
The fascinating escape story of the
eastern German family Anhalt. In the
early 80’s the young couple Anhalt
from the GDR was building a single
engine aircraft to escape from the
communist dictatorship. They were
betrayed, arrested and imprisoned.
Relatives took care of the upbringing
of their two children. Thirty years later
the family looks back on their history.
What have been the consequences of
the failed escape attempt? And how do
these events affect their ideas about
freedom?
Martin Armstrong, once a US based
trillion dollar financial advisor, used the
number PI to predict economic turning
points with precision. When some big
NY bankers asked him to join “the club”
to take over Russia, he refused to join.
A few days later the FBI stormed his
offices accusing him of a 3 billion dollar
Ponzi Scheme – an attempt to stop him
talking about the real Ponzi Scheme
of debts that the US has build up over
the years and which he thinks starts to
collapse after October 1, 2015, a mayor
PI turning point he has forecasted.
Hester Overmars
Marcus Vetter
www.filmperspektive.de/de/
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
PRODUCTION
Zuidenwind Filmproductions
Joost Seelen
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Marcus Vetter
Filmperspektive
PRODUCTION
TV Plus
Michael Heiks
Sickstr. 36
Eikon
70190 Stuttgart
Ulli Pfau
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION
C-FILMS AG – Switzerland
tel: 7071368163
www.filmperspektive.de
[email protected]
SWR – Germany,
NDR – Germany,
ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany
Martin Armstrong developed a computer model based on number pi to
predict economy. Now his model is forecasting the world debt markets
starting to collapse after October 1, 2015.
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A Forgotten Crime
Foucault Against Himself
The Netherlands, 2014 color, video, 52’
Original Language: Farsi/English/German
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Foucault Contre Lui-même
François Caillat
Remmelt Lukkien, Elli Safari
andanafilms.com/catalogueN.
php?idFiche=1195&display=fiche
During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88)
Saddam Hussein bombarded Iran
with chemical weapons, while the
world looked on without interfering.
In A Forgotten Crime political and
military leaders, medical experts
and contaminated people relate
how this drama was experienced in
isolated Iran. The film irresistibly drags
the viewer into the ever increasing
humanitarian, military and political
drama of this chemical warfare, which
has determined Iran’s position in the
international political arena until this
very day. Former UN Secretary General
Perez de Cuellar and Joost Hiltermann,
author of A Poisonous Affair provide
additional information. Contains unique
archive material. Mostly filmed in Iran. SALES / CONTACT
Remmelt Lukkien
Lasso Film & TV Production
PRODUCTION
Lasso Film & TV Production
Remmelt Lukkien
Louise Wentstraat 268
Kino Safari
1018MS Amsterdam
Elli Safari
Michel Foucault died in June 1984. He
left behind a legendary work that has
been translated into all the languages
of the world, and that has been the
subject of a thousand interpretations.
The man was much like his work:
complex and contradictory. Our film
mirrors all the facets of his hectic life.
SALES / CONTACT
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
07170 Lussas
PRODUCTION
the factory productions
Frank Eskenazi
CO-PRODUCTION
INA – France
The Netherlands
France
tel: +31 20 6383930
tel: +33 4 75943467
www.lassofilm.nl
www.andanafilms.com
TV5 Monde – France
[email protected]
[email protected]
How the international community let Saddam Hussein bomb Iran with
chemical weapons for 5 years without interfering, and how this humanitarian
drama made a lasting impression on the Iranians.
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History | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View
Franco’s Promise
Freak Out!
France / Spain, 2014 color /
black and white, video, 123’
Original Language: Spanish/French
Subtitles: Spanish/French/English
Germany / Sweden / England /
Norway / Denmark, 2014 color /
black and white, HDcam, 56’/86’
Subtitles: French/English/German
La promesse de Franco
Marc Weymuller
Carl Javér
www.letempestaire.asso.st/Letempestaire/
La_Promesse_de_Franco.html
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/freak-out
Belchite, Aragon, is an emblematic
town of te collective amnesia that
struck Spain after the civil war. Today,
the injured memory of the population is
getting lost among the ruins of the old
village, destroyed after the fratricidal
fightings of the civil war and the streets
of the new village, built by Franco.
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Siméon
Faites un Voeu
PRODUCTION
Les Films de L’Avalee
Simon Gillet
14 rue de Mutzig
Faites un Voeu
67000 Strasbourg
Catherine Siméon
France
CO-PRODUCTION
Pantalla Partida – Spain
tel: + 33 9 54 32 51 42
www.faitesunvoeu.fr
[email protected]
Long-haired barefoot people. Free love!
Veganism! Experiments with drugs…
The sixties, right? Not quite. Over a
hundred years ago just outside the little
village Ascona, in southern Switzerland,
the alternative movement was born.
This is their forgotten story. Freak
Out! tells the untold story of a group
of middleclass kids who in 1900
revolted against their time and started
the original alternative community.
A community based on veganism,
feminism, pacifism and free love. Soon
it attracted most of Europe’s cultural
radicals. Through their eyes we unfold
the uncanny similarities between our
time and what they revolted against in
the early 20th century.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Vilda Bomben Film AB
Fredrik Lange
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION
ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions –
Germany
Germany,
tel: +49 341 2156638
Filmgate Films – Sweden,
Final Cut for Real – Denmark,
[email protected]
Hallum og Jensen AS – Norway
MDR – Germany,
SVT – Sweden,
DR – Denmark,
YLE – Finland
Belchite, Spain – the lost village. When the last living witness of Franco
is gone, will the civil war finally come to an end?
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Freedom is our Business
A French Laundry
Subtitles: English
Hannes Koch (23) and Benny Schaschek
(27) decided after a master class
audio engineering in Australia to buy
a Sailboat instead of flying back to
Germany. Their mission sail back to
Germany and record a CD with local
musicians. After 40. 000 km and
recordings in over 20 countries around
the world, they discovered that people
liked what they were doing. So decided
to make their dream business. The
documentary follows them in Jamaica
and tries to find out what freedom
exactly means in the eyes of this new
generation of youngsters.
Somewhere In the French Riviera,
François patiently irons a shirt with
some seasoned material from his
laundry. He makes slow yet confident
gestures. From every standing point,
his store seems to wear its history on
its walls. It won’t be long until François
(currently 89 y. o. ) quits what he’s been
doing forever, thus putting an end to
a daily routine that has lasted for 45
years in his shop. As he’s fronting this
prospect of oblivion, his face shows
nothing but bleakness.
Blanchisserie de France
Elisabeth Vogler
Marc van Fucht
Morbid Eye Pictures
PRODUCTION
Morbid Eye Pictures
Marc van Fucht
Linnaeuskade 8-2hg
109 BD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6944448
morbideye.com
SALES / CONTACT
Prune Allain-Bonsergent
PRODUCTION
Laurent Rochette
7 passage Gustave Lepeu
75011 Paris
France
tel: +33 6 82555935
[email protected]
[email protected]
Two young German students buy a sailing boat on Ebay and sail back from
Australia to Germany and record songs in every country they encounter. Their
freedom becomes their business.
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SALES / CONTACT
Marc van Fucht
François, a 90 years old man, is working in his dilapidated laundry in south
of France. It won’t be long until François quits what he’s been doing forever.
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Art / Music / Culture | History | Politics / Society
From Caligari to Hitler
From My Syrian Room
and white, video, 113’
Subtitles: English
Syria / Lebanon / Germany /
French/Arabic/German
Subtitles: English
Von Caligari zu Hitler
Rüdiger Suchsland
Hazem Alhamwi
www.caligarihitler.net
catalogue/from-my-syrian-room
„Metropolis“, “The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari”, M, “Nosferatu“, „People on
Sunday“, all rank among the most
influential films of European Cinema.
From Caligari to Hitler tells the story
of early German Cinema as the story
of social and cultural upheaval in the
first republic, between 1918 and 1933.
Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the
groundbraking book “From Caligari
to Hitler” on this “Weimar Cinema”,
is a central figure, as is Fritz Lang, the
most versatile of all Weimar directors.
An entertaining rollercoaster-trip to
the best period of German cinema
and into the abyss of German
subconscioussness.
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SALES / CONTACT
Anaïs Clanet
PRODUCTION
LOOKS Filmproduktionen
Wide House
Martina Haubrich
9 rue Bleue
ARTE/ZDF – Germany
How can you keep your humanity in a
country where you’re educated to erase
in yourself any singularity? In his early
years, the Syrian painter and filmmaker
Hazem Alhamwi felt free by drawing
ob-sessively in his own room. When the
Revolution started, he was unable to
face this terror immediately. Through
his memories, he tells about the will of
freedom of a whole country.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Cosmographe Productions
Nathalie Combe
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION
Hazem Alhamwi Productions –
Germany
Germany
Syria,
tel: +33 153 952444
tel: +49 341 2156638
www.widehouse.org
Germany,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Abbout Productions – Lebanon
75009 Paris
WDR – Germany,
From Caligari to Hitler shows
Weimar Cinema from 1918
to 1933. An entertaining
rollercoaster-trip to the
best period of German
Cinema and into the abyss
of subconscioussness.
How can one become a free
and responsible person when
he’s been educated to remain
a little soldier of the Assad’s
Regime?
FRANCE 3 CORSE – France
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Youth
The Future Is Ours
Gabriel Reports the World Cup
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Die Zukunft Gehört Uns
Marisa Middleton
Gabriel Verslaat het WK
Els van Driel
indifilm.de/en/cross-media-3/in-
mensjesrechten.nl
production/the-future-is-ours
A contact ad is placed, two senior
citizens meet. They fall head-over-heels
in love and move into a seaside house.
But wait, it isn’t that simple. You see,
Peter (68) likes it easy-going, while
Hanne (70) prefers to pull up weeds.
Hanne wants to aqua jog, Peter thinks
it’s useless. Hanne thinks Peter is lazy,
that annoys Peter. Hanne is so stressed
she collapses. And there’s Hanne’s
jealous son who keeps calling. Not to
mention the traumas of the past that
reclaim their place in this new life. The
Future Is Ours: An oddly honest look at
an elderly couple’s young love.
SALES / CONTACT
Arek Gielnik
Indi Film
Talstraße 41
70188 Stuttgart
PRODUCTION
Indi Film
Arek Gielnik
SWR – Germany
Germany
tel: +49 711 99797767
www.indifilm.de
[email protected]
Because of the 2014 World Cup, the life
of the Brazilian Gabriël is turned upside
down. A new rail line is being developed
straight through his neighbourhood.
Houses are being demolished, entire
families are forced to move and even
the children’s local football pitch will
soon disappear. For Gabriël this is a
nightmare. Gabriël is angry at the
inequality in his city and puts self-made
footage of bulldozers tearing down his
neighbourhood on a blog. By becoming
a journalist he tries to stand up for his
rights.
SALES / CONTACT
Anouk Donker
IKON
PRODUCTION
IKON
Anouk Donker
Oude Amersfoortseweg 79
1213AC Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6474208
www.omroep.nl/ikon
[email protected]
The Future is Ours accompanies an aging young love from
moving in together to the daily routine, looking closely at the
conflicts that emerge in the couple’s social environment.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Garden Lovers
Garnet’s Gold
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/72’
Original Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English
England, 2014 color, HDcam, 76’
The film peeks behind the pretty
facades of middle class life as the
protagonists tell their stories about
relationships, love and disappointment.
The scenes of action are their gardens,
which offer an unorthodox point of
view to the hopes and anxieties people
have in our society.
Twenty years ago Garnet Frost escaped
London and headed into the desolate
Scottish wilderness. When disaster
struck, he found himself trapped near
the mysterious Loch Arkaig. He was
saved and since then has been haunted
by a memento from his doomed trip:
an unusual wooden staff he found,
believed to be a marker for one of
history’s most famous lost treasures
– Bonnie Prince Charlie’s spectacular
fortune. Garnet’s Gold is more than a
fascinating historical insight into a lost
treasure: it’s a journey into the mind
of a man searching for meaning, about
dreams, inspiration and the resonating
power of hope.
Virpi Suutari
Ed Perkins
garnetsgold.com
autlookfilms.com/film/149
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
MADE
Ulla Simonen
A-1070 Vienna
YLE – Finland,
Austria
Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany,
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
RTS – Switzerland
[email protected]
UK, USA not available.
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SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
PRODUCTION
Simon Chinn
Cinephil
BBC – England
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
Follow one extraordinary
man’s quixotic and recklessly
brave adventure in search of
hidden treasure, in a belated
rite of passage to rediscover
the meaning of his life.
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Politics / Society | History | Science / Technology
Garwin
Gas Leaks
USA, 2014 color/color / black
Chile, 2014 color / black and
white, HDcam, 72’
Escapes de Gas
Bruno Salas
Richard Breyer, Anand Kamalakar
www.garwinthemovie.com
escapesdegas.cl
A feature length documentary film
about a scientist who is behind many
important inventions, including
the hydrogen bomb and the touch
screen. Richard Garwin has advised
every president since Eisenhower to
Obama. He was part of an elite group
of scientists who were asked to help fix
the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and
find solutions to contain the Fukushima
nuclear disaster in Japan.
SALES / CONTACT
David Hooper
Espresso TV
PRODUCTION
W&B Productions
Richard Breyer
25 York Villas
Trilok Fusion Media
BN1 3TS Brighton
Anand Kamalakar
England
Chile, 1972. During Salvador Allende’s
Government the building in which the
Third Session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD III) would take place, was
built in a record time of 275 days. Gas
Leaks delves into the convergence of 34
artists convoked to integrate their art
to the building’s architecture, and what
would later become of these pieces in
Chilean history.
SALES / CONTACT
Bruno Salas
PRODUCTION
TRAMPA films
TRAMPA films
Bruno Salas
Monjitas 658
8320104 Santiago
Chile
tel: 441273730929
tel: +56 2 2934 9382
www.trampa.cl
[email protected],
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Anand Kamalakar
Trilok Fusion Media
138 South Oxford Street, 2b
11217 Brooklyn
USA
tel: 011-7183980333
trilokfusionmedia.com
[email protected]
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Gas Leaks delves into
the convergence of 34
artists convoked on 1972
to integrate their art to a
building and what would
later become of these
pieces in Chilean history.
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Investigative | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Gas Weapon
Gay Meets Girl
Original Language: Swedish/
English/Russian/Ukranian
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Alex Shiriaieff
Tim den Besten, Nicolaas Veul
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/the-gas-weapon
En route to Ukraine on a journey to
investigate the role of gas in Russia’s
expansive foreign policy, director Alex
Shiriaieff unexpectedly found himself in
the middle of the Euromaidan protests.
The emotions on the barricades in
central Kiev formed a stark contrast to
the cold calculations of energy superpower Russia, striving to keep a firm
grip over its most important neighbor,
Ukraine. This offered a new sense of
urgency to the film, it offered a David
vs. Goliath dimension. Or, if you wish, a
Gas vs. Euromaidan dimension.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
PRODUCTION
Dixit International AB
Malcolm Dixelius
SVT – Sweden
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
[email protected]
The film offers a factual background to the complicated relations
between Russia and Ukraine and exclusive, emotional footage from
the dramatic events during the last winter in Ukraine’s capital.
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Friends and filmmakers Tim (26) and
Nicolaas (29) go searching for the
boundaries of their own sexuality.
They’re both gay, at least, they think
so. Tim decides to step outside his box
and tries, for the first time in his life,
to have sex with a woman. Through
this experiment Tim wants to find out
what the boundaries of his sexuality
are. They ponder their own sexuality
in the documentary, and how it is
defined. When they find a girl, the guys
travel to Paris, where she lives. Are the
boundaries of Tim’s sexuality really as
fixed as he always assumed?
SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
SND Films
PRODUCTION
VPRO
Karen Dijk
P.O. Box 15703
Madeleine Somer
1001 NE Amsterdam
VPRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 4040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
Gay filmmaker Tim (26) is searching for the boundaries of his own
sexuality, he tries to have sex with a woman for the first time.
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Genetic Me
Genoveva
Subtitles: English
Chile, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 68’
Subtitles: English
Our main character, Lone Frank, wants
to know how the advent of personal
genetics will change our individual
view of ourselves and affect our
understanding of human nature, the
understanding of your own personality.
Lone comes with a rather un-agreeable
personality herself, that has given her
many problems through life and she
is determined to change personality –
she simply wants to become someone
else. To find out how to change, she has
herself psychologically tested and she
gets relevant genes mapped out. Lone
believes solely in biology and believes
that the solution lies in knowledge of
your brain and genes.
Genoveva brings together family
memories and associations concerning
discrimination towards indigenous
people. A picture of an elderly mapuche
great-grandmother that nobody
knows is the starting point for this
documentary essay. Through the
analysis of that image, speaking with
family members, a trip to the towns of
southern Chile, and an actress stages
the photo, we see the existing prejudice
against indigenous people. It is a story
about how the image creates reality
and the importance to recognize our
mestiza identity.
Paola Castillo
www.facebook.com/Genoveva Documental
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Katrine Sahlstrøm
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Paola Castillo
Errante Producciones
PRODUCTION
Errante Producciones
Paola Castillo
Holanda 3634
7790765 Santiago
Chile
tel: +56 2 22092628
www.errante.cl
[email protected]
Chile not available.
This documentary film
takes us on a journey
into the new genetics of
human psychology and
behavior. It takes the format
of a personal quest.
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Investigative | Experimental | Science / Technology
Pernille Rose Grønkjær
The search for my long lost
great-grandmother, who
was “Mapuche”, orchestrates
a story that links family
memories with prejudices
behind contemporary images
of indigenous people.
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View
Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Georgica
A Gesar Bard’s Tale
Subtitles: English
Finland / China, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/82’
Original Language: Tibetan
Subtitles: English
We float above the plains of the
Flevopolder, the last reclamation
project of the Dutch government. We
see how various farmers carry out their
occupations in that ordered landscape.
Over two thousand years ago, the
Roman poet Vergilius wrote an ode to
farming and to life in the countryside:
Georgica. Some things have remained
the same: the seasons, the ground
has to be ploughed, the weather, the
sounds of the birds. However, when
the farmers hear the old texts, they
spontaneously conjure up stories
on what has changed, about the
influence of the food industry, about
contemporary regulations.
As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan
nomad. At 13 his life changed. Through
a series of visions, Dawa received
the gift of reciting Tibet’s King Gesar
epic story. Thousands of verses of the
world’s longest epic started pouring out
of the nomad boy, who would go on to
becoming a famous Gesar bard.
Katelijne Schrama
Donagh Coleman, Lharigtso Tibet
www.gesarbarddoc.com
SALES / CONTACT
Digna Sinke
PRODUCTION
SNG Film
SNG Film
Digna Sinke
Van Hallstraat 52 -2h
1051 HH Amsterdam
BOS – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
SALES / CONTACT
Elizabeth Sheldon
Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION
Illume Oy
Jouko Aaltonen
Jenny Timonen
10018 New York
YLE – Finland
USA
tel: +31 20 6867837
tel: 001 212 629 6880
www.sngfilm.nl
alivemindcinema.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Over two thousand years
ago, Vergilius wrote an ode
to farming: Georgica. Is there
something to be found for
a farmer in Flevoland that
has not lost its relevancy?
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Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad, whose life revolved
around herding yaks. At 13 his life changed when Dawa
received the gift of telling Tibet’s King Gesar epic story.
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Youth
Ghosts from the Past
Giovanni and the Water Ballet
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
In solitary confinement of a prison
Viggo wonders why he developed from
a sensitive little boy into a merciless
criminal. He decides to give up his
criminal existence for good and dives
into his past to avoid making the very
same mistakes a second time. Viggo
realises that the damage he suffered
because of his family might jeopardise
his new life. His quest, in which he
drags his two sister, leads to painful
confrontations with their past and also
with one another. The secrets of their
incestuous family and manipulative
father are unravelled little by little.
Ten-year old Giovanni has a dream:
he wants to compete in the
Dutch Synchronized Swimming
Championships. Because his chosen
field is viewed as typically one for girls,
not everybody is as understanding as
they could be. But Giovanni runs his
own race and Kim, his (girl)friend does
get what he is trying to do. When they
are alone they chat about the future.
Will Giovanni be able to take advantage
of Kim’s support and make it to the
Championships?
Spoken van Viggo
Cinta Forger, Walther Grotenhuis
Giovanni en het Waterballet
Astrid Bussink
www.windmillfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Annemiek van der Hell
PRODUCTION
Windmill Film BV
Windmill Film BV
Annemiek van der Hell
Moreelsestraat 2
NCRV – The Netherlands
1071 BK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 53148543
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Hasse van Nunen
Een van de jongens
De Kempenaerstraat 11B
PRODUCTION
Een van de jongens
Renko Douze
Hasse van Nunen
1051 CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 8943628
www.eenvandejongens.nl
[email protected]
Ex-criminal Viggo decides to make a clean sweep of his past. His
quest, together with his two sisters, leads to confrontations because
of the secrets surfacing from their incestuous family members.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Gitanistan: The imaginary State of Salento-Gyspy families
God Is Not Working On Sunday, Eh!
Italy / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 65’
Original Language: Romany/Italian
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Oronzo Rinaldi, son of Giuseppe Rinaldi
called “The Gypsy”, is a butcher. Born
horse trader, then become a butcher.
In the 70s his family traded about 300
horses every week. Claudio Giagnotti
called “The Horse”, grandson of
Oronzo Rinaldi, is a musician and music
producer known and appreciated in
Salento and the Mediterranean. Son of
a Gypsy woman and an Italian, he feels
50% Gypsy. Gitanistan come into the
houses of Gyspsy families in Salento,
South of Italy, discovering the history of
a merger and an interaction.
Despite their divided histories, the
women are struggling for a common
goal: reconciliation, equal rights and
political empowerment. Godelieve and
Florida represent thousands of women
who, without financial means or any
specific education, have managed to
build a vibrant, independent women’s
network. Today they play a decisive part
in reconstructing their communities,
reconciling relationships, and driving
social change. Rwandans cannot
simply wait for other forces – godly or
governmental. They see themselves as
the only guarantors of a better present
and better future.
Gitanistan: Lo Stato Immaginario delle Famiglie Rom-Salentine
Pierluigi De Donno
www.gitanistan.com
Leona Goldstein
www.godisnotworkingonsunday.org
SALES / CONTACT
Pierluigi De Donno
Maxman
Via Delle Drapperie 8
PRODUCTION
Maxman coop
Paolo Marzoni
40124 Bologna
CO-PRODUCTION
FREIM – Italy,
Italy
Dilinò – Italy,
tel: +39 32 77933467
Apulia Film Commission – Italy,
www.maxmancoop.net
Cineteca di Bologna – Italy
[email protected]
QA story of butchers and horse traders. Two circles meet, farmers and Gypsies,
interacting and merging in new families: The Gypsy- Salento families.
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SALES / CONTACT
Veronika Janatkova
PRODUCTION
Veronika Janatkova
Sonnenallee 65
12045 Berlin
Germany
tel: +4915784740921
[email protected]
Women organizing collectively to drive social change in the Rwanda of today.
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
The Gold Spinners
Good Things Await
Estonia / Finland / Russia / Latvia, 2014
color / black and white, 35mm, 72’
Original Language: Estonian/
Russian/Finnish
Subtitles: Estonian/English/Russian
Denmark, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’/58’
Original Language: German/Danish/English
Subtitles: English
The Gold Spinners is a story about
the birth, glory, and disappearance
of a peculiar, invisible, and mighty
business empire – the film studio
Eesti Reklaamfilm, the only company
producing commercials in the Soviet
Union. It might have been born in the
head of one man, but during its heyday,
the studio provided employment for
hundreds of people and its clips won
the hearts of millions. All this took
place in the „socialist empire“, under
the conditions of planned economy and
universal lack of everything.
Niels is 79 years old and one of the last
idealistic farmers in the agricultural
country of Denmark. He makes some
of the world’s finest products, praised
by the consumers, prized by the world’s
best restaurant, NOMA in Copenhagen,
and nursed in harmony with the
universe. But Niels’ ways of farming
in accordance with the planets and
the primal instincts of the animals are
not too popular with the authorities.
They are threatening to withdraw his
license to keep cattle, the buildings are
deteriorating, and with no successor to
take over, Niels risks seeing his life fall
apart.
Kullaketrajad
Kiur Aarma, Hardi Volmer
Bondemanden
Phie Ambo
SALES / CONTACT
Aleksandar Govedarica
Taskovski Films
PRODUCTION
Traumfabrik
Kiur Aarma
NW7 2DQ London
England
tel: +387 66 405623
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Danish Documentary
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
CO-PRODUCTION
Vintage Pictures – Iceland
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
DR – Denmark,
SVT – Sweden,
[email protected]
RUV – Iceland,
VPRO – The Netherlands,
Buddhist Broadcasting
Foundation – The Netherlands
The Gold Spinners is a
story about the birth,
glory, and disappearance
of a peculiar, invisible, and
mighty business empire.
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With the help of
microorganisms and planets,
he makes some of the
world’s finest products.
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Goodbye Gauley Mountain
Google and the World Brain
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’/54’
England / Spain, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’
Stephens and Sprinkle, two ecosexuals
in love, raise performance art hell in
West Virginia to help save the region
from mountaintop removal destruction.
This film, chronicles their love, activism,
and struggle to save their family home,
climaxing with their wedding to the
Appalachian Mountains.
Accumulating all human knowledge
in one repository has been a dream
since ancient times. Only recently,
however, has that dream become a
reality. Quietly and behind closed doors,
Google has been executing a project
to scan and digitize every printed
word on the planet. However a diverse
coalition of people mobilizes to stop the
fulfillment of this ambitious dream as
it uncovers a high-stakes multinational
heist.
Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens
Ben Lewis
goodbyegauleymountain.org
SALES / CONTACT
Elizabeth Sheldon
Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION
Beth Stephens
10018 New York
USA
tel: 001 212 629 6880
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Polar Star Films S.L.
Carles Brugueras
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
alivemindcinema.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Stephens and Sprinkle are two ecosexuals in love. This film, chronicles
their love, activism, and struggle to save their family home,
climaxing with their wedding to the Appalachian Mountains.
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Greece: Days of Change
The Ground Beneath Their Feet
Greece, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’
Original Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Urdu
Subtitles: English
In times of recession here is a portrait of
three Greeks trying to take their destiny
in their own hands. We follow Giorgos
finding the strength to overcome
his difficulties and put his life back
together. Then, Grigoris’ family as it
seeks a better quality of life leaving the
city. Finally, meet the activist volunteer
group behind the “potato movement”,
Ilias, as their activities impact the
society as a whole by challenging
the commercial foods supply chain
and practicing solidarity and direct
democracy. As the economic crisis
lingers and deepens, we may see the
necessity for initiatives like in Greece.
The Ground Beneath Their Feet tells
the story of two young women who
are paralyzed when a devastating
earthquake strikes the north of
Pakistan. Khalida and Ruqiya have not
only lost the use of their legs, but also
their place in society as their disability
will not allow them to fulfill their
culture role of becoming wives and
mothers. What does this mean for their
future? We follow their journey over the
course of fives years as they struggle
with their physical and emotional
recovery, and redefine what it means to
be a woman in the Muslim world.
Elena Zervopoulou
Nausheen Dadabhoy
www.onevibefilms.com
www.thegroundbeneaththeirfeet.com
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
One Vibe Films S.r.l.
Elena Zervopoulou
SALES / CONTACT
Nausheen Dadabhoy
DadaGirl Films
PRODUCTION
DadaGirl Films
Nausheen Dadabhoy
511 S. Woodland St.
92869 Orange
USA
tel: +92 321 208 2861
www.dadagirlfilms.com
[email protected]
Paralyzed in an earthquake two Pakistani girls must redefine
what it means to be a woman in the Muslim world.
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Nature / Environment
Guidelines
H2Omx
Mexico, 2013 color, video, 82’/51’
Subtitles: English
La Marche à Suivre
Jean-Francois Caissy
José Cohen
www.nfb.ca
Guidelines explores the world of
adolescence through a series of
tableaux that illustrate the occasionally
trying existence of young people at a
rural secondary school. During closeddoor meetings, the teens interact with
various authority figures whose job
it is to “set them straight. ” Outside
classroom hours, though, they regain
control of their world, the natural
surroundings becoming a playground
where they can test the limits of
their temporary freedom. A work of
patient observation relying mostly on
uninterrupted long takes, Guidelines
emphasizes the contrasts between the
regulated environment of the classroom
and the beckoning freedom of the
great outdoors, gradually revealing
the interior drama of adolescence,
with its shifts from fragility to reckless
abandon. The result is an original yet
universal portrayal of a sometimes
overwhelming life journey that we all
take.
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SALES / CONTACT
Chanelle Routhier
National Film Board of Canada
PRODUCTION
Johanne Bergeron
3155 Cote-de-liesse Road
H4N2N4 Montreal
Canada
tel: +1 514496 0693
Can a mega-city mobilize its’ 22 million
citizens to become water sustainable?
Mexico City was built not near water
but in the middle of a lake. To supply
it with fresh water is such a task that
it makes it compulsory to bring it
from other states. In addition once
sewage water leaves the city it ends
up in agriculture. This film is an
environmental case study of the Valley
of Mexico as it struggles to save itself
while its population grows.
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
Cactus Film and Video
José Cohen
Alejandra Liceaga
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
www.nfb.ca
[email protected]
[email protected]
Guidelines explores the
world of adolescence
through a series of
tableaux that illustrate
the occasionally trying
existence of young people
at a rural secondary school.
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Catalogue No. 257
Art / Music / Culture | History
Youth
Haga Palace – A Royal Home
Haiduc
Sweden, 2014 color / black
Original Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English
Haga Slott – ett Kungligt Hem
Sara Bull
Annelies Kruk, Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden
mensjesrechten.nl
svtsales.com/programme-sales/
haga-palace-a-royal-home
A unique film about Haga Palace in
Stockholm, the home of the Swedish
Crown Princess Victoria, her husband
Prince Daniel, and their daughter
Princess Estelle. This is the first time the
Crown Princess admits a TV team into
her home, and they were able to follow
the family for a whole year. The result
is an interesting documentary about
Haga Palace’s exciting history, as well
as an insight into what it means to be
member of a Royal family today. In the
film old archive footage is intertwined
with newly made interviews with the
Crown Princess and her family.
SALES / CONTACT
Niklas Ahlgren
SVT
PRODUCTION
SVT – Sveriges Television
ABLuleå
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Marie Nyreröd
S-10510 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46 709 689832
– Sweden
His nickname Haiduc means gangster
and it matches Nicu’s tough character.
He lives in a rough world; he ran away
from home aged seven, spent years
literally underground, in the sewers of
Bucharest, and is addicted to drugs.
Now he lives with Raluca. She keeps
an eye on the boys that, just like Nicu,
came from the streets. He has a bed
and is given meals. But the drugs have
all but ruined his body and he has to
decide: stop or become even sicker.
SALES / CONTACT
Anouk Donker
IKON
PRODUCTION
IKON
Anouk Donker
1213AC Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6474208
www.svt.se
www.omroep.nl/ikon
[email protected]
[email protected]
Nicu spent years underground, in the sewers of Bucharest.
Luckily he found a home. But he is still addicted to drugs.
He has to decide: stop or become even sicker.
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Youth | Investigative | Politics / Society
A Haircut Story
Happy Valley
Cyprus, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’
Original Language: English/Greek
Subtitles: English
In March 2013, Cyprus became the first
Eurozone member state to be subjected
to a bail-in on deposits, as a means to
rescue the island’s problematic banks.
Depositors of the two largest banks
of the island experienced a dramatic
haircut of their life savings. In this
documentary, seven stories emerge
from the black hole of the banks.
The town of State College, home of
Penn State University, lies at the heart
of an area long known as Happy Valley.
Its iconic figure for more than 40 years
was Joe Paterno, head coach of the
school’s famous football team, known
affectionately as “Saint Joe. ”
But in November 2011, everything came
crashing down on Paterno and Penn
State. Former Assistant Coach, Jerry
Sandusky, was charged with 40 counts
of child sex abuse. Filmed over the year
following Sandusky’s arrest, Happy
Valley chronicles the ensuing media
firestorm.
Danae Stylianou
Amir Bar-Lev
www.ahaircutstory.com
SALES / CONTACT
Danae Stylianou
Greenroom Productions
PRODUCTION
Greenroom Productions
Danae Stylianou
P.O.Box 51961
3509 Limassol
Cyprus
tel: 00357 25 354810
[email protected]
Seven stories emerge from
the black hole of the banks,
one year after Cyprus became
the first Eurozone member
state to be subjected to
a bail-in on deposits.
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Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION
John Battsek
Java Films
Passion Pictures
John Battsek
France
tel: 0034 634 869 646
www.javafilms.fr
[email protected]
This is the story of the
paedophile scandal that
rocked America in the town
of State College, home of
Penn State University, in an
area called Happy Valley.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Harder They Fall
Heaven Adores You
France, 2014 color / black
Subtitles: English
white, HDcam, 104’
Worth an estimated €350 – €450
billion, sports is the undisputed king
of entertainment, an ever expanding
business untouched by economic crisis.
But as the revenue generated increases,
so too does the price demanded of
high-level athletes. More and more
events, matches and competitions
to keep the public and their sponsors
satisfied, fill the coffers of club owners,
and boost profits for television
networks.
Eager for achievements, records and
rankings, the sports industry has
become a well-oiled grinding machine.
Countless champions end up physically
and psychologically broken by the
hellish pace of the sporting calendar. . . Heaven Adores You is an intimate,
meditative inquiry into the life and
music of Elliott Smith (1969-2003). By
threading the music of Elliott Smith
through the dense, yet often isolating
landscapes of the three major cities he
lived in — Portland, New York City, Los
Angeles — Heaven Adores You presents
a visual journey and an earnest review
of the singer’s prolific songwriting and
the impact it continues to have on fans,
friends, and fellow musicians.
Sport: le Revers de la Médaille
Xavier Deleu, Yonathan Kellerman
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Nickolas Rossi
heavenadoresyou.com
SALES / CONTACT
Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION
YUZU Productions
Java Films
Fabrice Esteve
Découpages
Ségolène Fossard
France
tel: 0034 634 869 646
SALES / CONTACT
Marc Smolowitz
PRODUCTION
Heaven Adores You LLC
673 Oak Street, #1
Jeremiah Gurzi
94117 San Francisco
Kevin Moyer
USA
Nickolas Rossi
tel: 415-370-0434
Marc Smolowitz
[email protected]
www.javafilms.fr
[email protected]
Post-career depression,
incapacitating occupational
diseases and the repercussions
of doping: when the sports
industry forces athletes to
surpass their limitations,
there’s a heavy price to pay...
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry
into the life and music of Elliott Smith.
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Catalogue No. 263
Hip Hop-eration
Home
New Zealand, 2014 color / black
Subtitles: English
These senior citizens may each be
almost a century young, but for Kara,
(94) Maynie (95) and Terri (93) the
journey to Las Vegas and the World Hip
Hop Dance Championships is just the
beginning of a life’s journey.
Along with twenty-seven other
nonagenarians, they defy the odds and
hip-hop their way into the hearts and
minds of young fans from around the
world as they learn to throw away their
wheelchairs and walking sticks and
push their bodies and artificial joints to
the absolute limits of old age.
“You’re all going …even if its in an urn” Forced to leave his home for another
country, Cyriaque Kouenou has ended
up in a surreal no-man’s-land. As a
fugitive, Cyriaque, has been wandering
from derelict churches to abandoned
buildings, never sure of when to pack
his belongings. Not able to return to
Ivory Coast or stay in The Netherlands
he’s forced to continue his Odyssey.
Ramon Gieling follows Cyriaque during
his performances as a musician and
tries to fathom the African mystic
and hermit. Like a filmscore his music
echoes through no-man’s-land. Bryn Evans
Ramón Gieling
www.inkubator.co.nz
www.pvhfilm.nl/home
SALES / CONTACT
Alex Lee
PRODUCTION
Inkubator Limited
Inkubator Limited
Paula Jones
Suite 2:3, 72 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden
1024 Auckland
New Zealand
tel: +64 9 3600222
www.inkubator.co.nz
[email protected]
You’re never too old to go
on the journey of a lifetime!
A troupe of courageous
cheeky senior citizens head
to Las Vegas to perform
at the World Hip Hop
Championships.
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SALES / CONTACT
Pieter van Huystee
PRODUCTION
Pieter van Huystee Film
Big Pete
Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 421 0606
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
A fugitive coping with his
surreal circumstances. Not
allowed to stay and not
able to return to his home.
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The Homestretch
The Hospice
South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 109’/54’
Subtitles: English
Kasey, Anthony and Roque are smart,
ambitious Chicago teens. Like many
their age, they struggle to keep their
grades up so they can graduate from
high school. What sets them apart
from others is that after the school day
ends, they don’t go home. Instead, they
spend their nights looking for a warm,
safe place to sleep. They’re among the
19,000 homeless students in Chicago
public schools, and like so many, they’ve
fallen victim to issues of juvenile
justice, immigration, foster care and
discrimination.
This film is set in a hospice located
outskirts of Seoul, where terminal
patients who cannot find any more
hope come to finalise their lives. On
average, a patient spends his or her last
21 days in the hospice, trying to make
the most out of what remains of life
and preparing for a peaceful death.
Some succeed in spending quality time
with their beloved, but others keep
struggling against the reality of their
imminent death. The film invites the
audiences to the hospice and offers
a unique opportunity to observe the
patients and how they deal with death.
Chang-Jae Lee
www.homestretchdoc.com
SALES / CONTACT
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
PRODUCTION
Spargel Productions, LLC
Kirsten Kelly
Anne de Mare
CO-PRODUCTION
Kartemquin Films – USA
France
tel: +34 634 869646
www.javafilms.fr
[email protected]
Three homeless teenagers brave Cicago winters, the pressures of high
school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.
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SALES / CONTACT
Min-Chul Kim
Documentary Airways
PRODUCTION
BaekDu-DaeGan Films
NagYong Choi
#101, 3, Jahamun-ro 33ga-gil, Between Pictures
Jongno-gu
Chang-Jae Lee
110-030 Seoul
South Korea
tel: +82 10 72190049
www.docairways.com
[email protected]
The terminal patients in
a hospice near Seoul are
facing imminent death.
The patients and their
families adopt diverse
ways of coping with this
unavoidable course of life.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Experimental
Hotel Nueva Isla
The House of Windsor: Royals & Animals
Spain / Cuba, 2014 color, 35mm, 75’
The formerly luxurious Hotel Nueva
Isla, now in ruins, is a shelter for people
living on the fringes of society. Jorge, a
solitary government functionary retired
who is losing his memory, spends his
time locked up in the building until the
evacuation becomes imminent.
For the first time, this film documents
the extraordinary relationship between
the Windsors and their animals. The
revelations come courtesy of staff
who cooked and cared for them. From
the footman who walked the Queen’s
Corgis, to the chef who cut carrots for
her horses, they tell a tale of pampered
palace pets – and hypocrisy. The
Windsors seem to trust their pets more
than most humans. For good reason: a
dog’s wagging tail trumps the contrived
smile of a courtier. . . and none of their
horses talk to the tabloids.
Irene Gutiérrez, Javier Labrador Deulofeu
John Curtin
www.hotelnuevaisla.com
SALES / CONTACT
Luis Renart
PRODUCTION
El Viaje Films
Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster Jose Alayon
Camino Viejo 61. Portal A, 1º derecha CO-PRODUCTION
Producciones de la 5ta Avenida
38028 Tegueste
Spain
tel: +34 691 814 018
[email protected]
– Cuba
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Kaos Productions
John Curtin
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Pet-crazy Britain has a
monarch to match. It is said
the Queen’s private passions
follow this order: “horses,
dogs, husband and kids.”
Don Quijote in Havana.
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History | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
House on its Head
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with
Ricky Leacock in Normandy
Dom na Glowie
Adam Palenta
Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
Poland, 2014 black and white, HDcam, 19’
Original Language: No dialogue
white, HDcam, 62’
www.lesblank.com/?portfolio=ricky-leacock
This unusual documentary shows
the family life of Wojciech Zamecznik
(1923–1967), an architect, set designer
and eminent poster artist. The film was
made thanks to the private archives of
the artist who loved to record his family
life, meetings and trips with friends.
Graphic works and experimental
materials, never published before,
complement the documentary
material. The film provides not only
an interesting perspective on the
artist’s everyday life, but also a rare
opportunity to find out about the life in
communist Poland of the 1950s.
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii
Karolina Puchala-Rojek
Filmmaker Les Blank visits his friend
and colleague Richard (Ricky) Leacock
at his farm in Normandy and records
conversations with him about his
70 years of filmmaking and his other
passion – cooking! In the early 1960s,
Leacock and others built hand-held
cameras that could record synchronous
sound, gaining unprecedented access
to their subjects and creating a body
of work that influenced the following
generations of filmmakers. Clips of
Ricky’s films, and his talent as raconteur
bring to life the highlights of Ricky’s
career and the magic moments on film
that, until 1960, had never been seen.
SALES / CONTACT
Gina Leibrecht
PRODUCTION
Les Blank Films
Les Blank Films
Les Blank
176-A Chattanooga St.
Gina Leibrecht
94114 San Francisco
USA
tel: 4156720245
www.ginaleibrecht.com
[email protected]
Les Blank’s joyful and moving
tribute to filmmaker Ricky
Leacock as these two seminal
filmmakers explore Leacock’s
historical adventures in
filmmaking and his other
passion — cooking!
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Catalogue No. 272
Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
I Am Here
I Am Kuba
China, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’
Original Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Norway / Germany / Poland,
Subtitles: English
During the summer of 2013, 12 young
boys with dreams who are born after
1990 battle each other for the No. 1 spot
in “Super Boys”, an “American Idol”-style
TV talent show with 10 years history in
China. They discover who they are and
learn to love others in the process.
When the family business goes
bankrupt, Kuba’s (13) and Mikolaj’s (8)
parents are forced to leave Poland to
work abroad. Kuba struggles with the
different roles in his life, shifting from
being the older brother in charge of
the house and a teenager who wants
to explore and hang out with his
friends. By following Kuba the film
tells a story that has become typical
in modern Europe. It is estimated that
over 100,000 Polish children are left by
their parents to be raised on their own,
or by aging grandparents.
Lixin Fan
Åse Svenheim-Drivenes
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
PRODUCTION
Oriental Companion Media
Rebecca Liu
Yun Zeng
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION
Sant & Usant AS
Tone Grøttjord
18, rue Quincampoix
Anita Rehoff Larsen
75004 Paris
Anita Rehoff Larsen
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
CO-PRODUCTION
AMP Polska – Poland,
ma.ja.de Filmproduktion –
[email protected]
Germany
NRK – Norway,
MDR – Germany,
TVP 2 – Poland
I Am Here follows the eager young hopefuls who audition for
the country’s most famous televised singing competition.
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Kuba’s parents have left Poland to work abroad. A comingof-age film, following Kuba (13) struggling with teenage
dilemmas while taking care of his brother Mikolaj (8).
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I Don´t Belong Here
I Want to Be a King
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English
Peter Schuster lives in an institution
for mentally handicapped patients. But
then things change for everyone. New
housing is built enabling the mentally
disabled to live next door to and among
‘normal people’. Stalenhoef follows
Peter during this seven-year building
process. At first Peter is delighted by the
development, but this rapidly changes
for him and his fellow companions,
resulting in insecurity, fear and stress.
Due to the financial crisis a lot of houses
are not sold and Peter and his fellow
residents are left to live together in an
empty neighbourhood. Now, more than
ever, Peter’s dreams seem unattainable.
Abbas has turned his own home to
a guest house in a nomadic area of
Iran. With the support of his wife and
three children, he runs a successful
ecotourism business. He has an
ambitious dream, creating a new tribe
by his own and becoming the sovereign.
Therefore, he plans seriously to fulfill his
dream and searching for a nomadic girl
to be the queen of his tribe. Since he is
Muslim, he has the right of taking more
than one wife at the same time. His
current wife and children are against
this idea and break up with him.
Ik Hoor Hier Niet Thuis
Mercedes Stalenhoef
Man mikham shah besham
Mehdi Ganji
www.pvhfilm.nl/idontbelonghere
SALES / CONTACT
Pieter van Huystee
PRODUCTION
Big Pete
Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 421 0606
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
Mentally handicapped
Peter trying to persue a life
according to his standards.
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SALES / CONTACT
Mehdi Ganji
PRODUCTION
DEFC – Documentary and
Ground Floor, No 116 Shokrollah
Experimental Film Center
Street, North Karegar Ave
Sahar Razavi
1413673871 Tehran
Iran
tel: +98 21 88639437
[email protected]
Abbas, an Iranian ambitious
job-creator, has a successful
business in ecotourism
with his family’s help, now
he wants to remarry to
promote his business, but
his wife is against him.
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Catalogue No. 276
Politics / Society
I Will Not Be Silenced
I’m Ringo
Australia, 2014 color, HDcam, 84’
Subtitles: English
Argentina, 2014 color, video, 106’
Subtitles: English
In Nairobi, an Australian woman’s
gang rape leads to a seven-year highly
publicised court case. Victims rarely
report rapes or testify against their
attackers in Kenya because they fear for
their lives.
Much is at stake as Charlotte seeks
justice against all odds. Her attackers
are in detention but her life is in
constant danger.
Her indomitable strength and sense
of outrage at the lack of rights for
Kenyan women is her inspiration,
and encourages many rape victims to
break the silence. This is a test case for
women in Kenya and those who work
for law reform there.
Argentine Boxer, Oscar Natalio
Bonavena, popularly known as
Ringo, was murdered at the gate of a
brothel in Nevada, Reno, in the USA
in 1976. Ringo, who had fought with
Muhammad Ali, had never lost hope
of having the chance of a revenge with
the American boxer. It`s still unknown
how Bonavena was murdered; however,
it`s well- known that he was killed by a
security guard called Brymer who had
been probably sent by Joe Conforte, the
owner of the brothel.
Soy Ringo
José Luis Nacci
Judy Rymer
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SALES / CONTACT
Georgie Eyre
Off The Fence
PRODUCTION
Rymer Childs
Lois Harris
Herengracht 105-107
Judy Rymer
1015 BE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
SBS – Australia,
tel: +31 20 5200222
BBC – Scotland
www.offthefence.com
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Gabriela Aparici
gapz cine srl
PRODUCTION
gapz cine srl
Gabriela Aparici
Lavalle 3726
1190 Buenos Aires
Argentina
tel: 5491154554919
www.gapzcine.com.ar
[email protected]
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Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
Imagined States of America
Imperfect Harmony
Les États Inventés d’Amérique
Alberta Nokes
Imperfecte Harmonie
Carmen Cobos
www.cobosfilms.nl
When you hear the word “America,”
what springs to mind? Car culture,
big business, advertising, religious
fundamentalism, the consumer society,
militarism, suburbia, office towers, and
the technology of paranoia? Imagined
States of America takes on the big
American myths to get at the heart of a
country that continues to fascinate the
world. Inspired by the photo collages
of Quebec artist Pierre Guimond,
and incorporating an intricately built
soundscape, the film is like a dream on
the verge of a nightmare, revealing an
America that’s rich in paradoxes.
SALES / CONTACT
Lorne Price
PRODUCTION
Johanne Bergeron
3155 Cote de liesse Road
Les Films de l’Isle
H4N 2N4 Montrealq
Ian Boyd
Canada
tel: +1 514 951 6512
www.nfb.ca
[email protected]
In Imperfect Harmony we follow
Andriessen and Jansons closely,
witnessing the final days of their
strained relationship. With barely
a week of rehearsals before the
world première, they must attempt
to reconcile their radically differing
sensibilities. But is it possible for
an austere, intuitive minimalist to
compromise with a conductor steeped
in a German Romantic repertoire, or
will he end up playing the second
fiddle? Will the concert be judged
as Andriessen’s capitulation to the
establishment or as a vindication of his
entire career? And will they overcome
their musical differences? At times the
outcome is far from certain.
SALES / CONTACT
Kees Rijninks
Cobos Films
Nicolaas Witsenkade 18-d
1017 ZS Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
Cobos Films
Kees Rijninks
AVRO – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31203203368
www.cobosfims.nl
[email protected]
Imperfect Harmony is a film about musical control, explored
through a clash between two maestros: avant-garde rebel
and Holland’s best-known composer, Louis Andriessen, and
chief conductor at Amsterdam’s RCO, Mariss Jansons.
Inspired by Pierre Guimond’s photo collages, and incorporating an
intricately built soundscape, the film resembles a dream on the verge
of a nightmare, revealing an America that is rich in paradoxes.
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In a Foreign Land
In Between
Spain, 2014 color, video, 72’
Subtitles: English
Israel, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’
Original Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English
EN-TIERRA-EXTRANA
Social-issues/In-Between
Gloria is one of the 700,000 Spaniards
who have left our country since the
start of the crisis. A native of Almería,
32, a teacher without a posting, and a
shop assistant in an Edinburgh store
for the past two years, Gloria has set
up, along with the collective that she
herself launched, an action, an event
which, with the motto “Neither lost nor
silenced”, expresses their frustration
and provides visibility and a voice to
those who wish to participate, from
among the over 20,000 Spaniards in
Scotland’s capital. Dana and Amit met when they were
25, they married and had 2 children.
Soon after their second child, Amit
turned ultra-orthodox. Dana stayed
secular. They are still very much in love.
Will their love be able to overcome the
growing gaps between them?
Beno Le’Bena
David Ofek, Neta Shoshani
turangafilms.com/filter/Film/
Spain not avalaible.
www.go2films.com/Family-
SALES / CONTACT
Lina Badenes
Turanga Films S.L.
PRODUCTION
Turanga Films S.L.
Israel, Sweden not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION
Miki Shalom
Go2Films
My TV Communications
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Lee Yardeni
28004 Madrid
TVE – Spain,
97787 Jerusalem
Spain
Canal+ Spain – Spain
Israel
Keshet – Channel 2 – Israel
C/ Escorial, 14-3D
Lina Badenes
tel: 34691719141
tel: 97225831371
www.turangafilms.com
www.go2films.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
They are not leaving they assert, but being thrown out.
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En Tierra Extraña
Iciar Bollain
A married couple struggles
when husband, Amit, turns
ultra-orthodox and wife,
Dana, stays secular. Will their
love be able to overcome the
growing gaps between them?
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In Country
In God’s Hand
Original Language: English/Vietnamese
Subtitles: English
Belgium, 2014 color / black and
Original Language: German/Dutch
Subtitles: English
In der Hand Gottes
Peter Woditsch
Mike Attie, Meghan O’Hara
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/in-country
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Oscar-Alpha MoPic
Mike Attie
CO-PRODUCTION
Naked Edge Films – USA
04103 Leipzig
Germany
One day they followed their vocation.
As priests, they preached love
relentlessly, sacrificing body and soul.
But slowly, doubts started to grow.
In order to keep their faith alive, they
decided to leave the church, without
looking back. The story of three former
priests, a Belgian, an Austrian and a
German; Three intimate confessions
confronted with the personal view of
the film director.
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Sophimages
CAT&Docs
Sophie Schoukens
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
CO-PRODUCTION
Artisan Films Hamburg –
France
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
VRT – Belgium,
[email protected]
[email protected]
RTBF – Belgium
An immersive feature
documentary about a
platoon of soldiers who are
recreating the Vietnam War
in the woods of Oregon.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
In Country is an immersive feature
documentary about a platoon of
soldiers who are recreating the Vietnam
War in the woods of Oregon. The
question at the center of In Country is
why? Why would these men – many
of them combat veterans of Vietnam,
Iraq and Afghanistan, still haunted by
their own experiences on the frontline – try to recreate a war that so many
Americans have tried to forget?
To preserve their faith, they
had to leave the Church.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Author’s Point of View
Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
In Papa’s Words
In the Dark
Original Language: Hebrew/Russian
Subtitles: English
Serbia, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’
Original Language: Serbian
Subtitles: English
“My dear sweethearts, today I
discovered that in spite of everything,
I only have four-five months of normal
life left. Starting today I will be talking
to you as long as my hand can hold
a pen. “ Anna (the director) was four
years old when her father, Dr. Semyon
Gurevich, passed away in the Soviet
Union. Years later, in Israel, she finds his
diary and discovers the legacy her papa
wanted to pass on to his daughters
after learning he had just months left
of his life.
An intimate portrait of Davor, a young
miner, working with his father in
a coal mine in the south of Serbia.
He struggles to fulfill his father’s
expectations while trying to find
his own way out. How much can he
do when everything seems to be
decided for him. The film explores
the metaphor of working in the dark.
It provides us with a frame through
which to observe life in Serbia today,
the disappearance of hope and belief
in changes, the resignation with which
people are approaching the new reality.
U mraku
Goran Stankovic
Anna Gurevich
www.facebook.com/in.papas.words
www.thisandthat.rs
SALES / CONTACT
Anna Gurevich
PRODUCTION
Lior Sagi
10 Weisel st. ap. 1
6424112 Tel-Aviv
yesdoco-DBS Satellite Service
Israel
– Israel
tel: +972 52 4227224
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Snezana Penev
This & That Production
Juzni Bulevar 126
11000 Belgrade
PRODUCTION
This & That Production
Snezana Penev
CO-PRODUCTION
Three Moons – USA
Serbia
tel: +381 11 786 2930
www.thisandthat.rs
[email protected]
Benelux countries not available.
Anna, the film’s director, finds her father’s personal diary
that he kept during the last months of his life.
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Davor, a young miner, works with his father in a coal mine in Serbia. He
struggles to fulfill his father’s expectations while trying to find his own way.
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India’s Daugther
An Insidious Trap
Denmark / India / England,
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
On 16th December 2012, Jyoti went to
see ‘Life of Pi’ with a male friend. At
9pm, they boarded a public bus to reach
home. On the bus were 6 men – a driver,
conductor, and 4 male passengers. The
men beat her friend unconscious and
gang-raped her for an hour as the bus
rode round the highways. After raping
her, the men shoved an iron rod into
her vagina. The youngest of the rapists
(17) put his hand inside her and pulled
her intestines out. The couple were
thrown out of the moving bus, naked
and bleeding.
From 1969 to 2001 an experimental
school, invited 400 kids to sail away
for many months to fully live an
adventurous life. This utopia revealed
to be one of the worst stories of
paedophilia. A trial finally took place in
2013. The film helps us understand why
silence and guilt have kept the children
from denouncing their aggressor. It
shows the ravages such acts have
caused in their lives.
Ecole en Bateau, l’Enfance Sabordée
Xavier Esnault, Réjane Varrod
Leslee Udwin
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Assassin Films Limited
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Leslee Udwin
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
SALES / CONTACT
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
PRODUCTION
Les Films du Tambour de Soie
Nicole Levigne
07170 Lussas
France Télévisions – France,
France
RTS – Switzerland
tel: +45 3520 2299
tel: +33 4 75943467
www.dr.dk
www.andanafilms.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
The rape case that shocked
India and the world.
The film examines the
societal values and we follow
the events leading up to the
incident and the aftermath.
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Into the Clouds We Gaze
Invasion
Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 66’
Subtitles: English
Panama / Argentina, 2014
Subtitles: English
Women pass through Ráda’s life as
quickly as tuning meets. The only
constant is his Ford Escort, which
isn’t exactly in best shape but means
everything to him. Ráda’s miniature
world on wheels is lined in white plush,
illuminated by green diodes, and loaded
with a roaring exhaust. But when
he leaves this small world, he runs
up against harsh reality and his own
limitations.
Invasion is a documentary about the
collective memory of a country. The
invasion of Panama by the U. S in 1989
serves as an excuse to explore how the
people remember, transform, and often
forget their past in order re-define
their identity and become who they
are today. The Invasion of 1989 is a
platform, a pretense, to talk about the
perils of sovereignty, democracy and
other endangered virtues of today’s
ultra-capitalist world, and to explore
the mechanisms through which
memory is turned into history, and how
our recent past shapes the identity of a
new Panama.
SALES / CONTACT
Kamila Zlatusková
Czech Television
Abner Benaim
PRODUCTION
Ceská Televize
Kamila Zlatusková
Behounská 18
65888 Brno
Czech Republic
tel: +420731433442
www.czech-tv.cz
[email protected]
A gentle love story from the harsh environment of northern Bohemia.
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K oblakum Vzhlízíme
Martin Dusek
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
PRODUCTION
Apertura Films
Cinephil
Abner Benaim
18 Levontin St.
CO-PRODUCTION
Ajimolido Films – Argentina
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
Following the 1989 U.S.
invasion, the film explores
how the Panamanians
remember, transform,
and often forget their
past in order re-define
their identity and become
who they are today.
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Invisible
The Invisible Friend
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Krystyna, who is almost 90, lives alone
in a small flat surrounded by books
and tens of copybooks which she
incessantly fills with the poems that
come to her mind. There would be
nothing strange about it if not for the
fact that Krystyna is almost entirely
blind. Thanks to the help of others
she can communicates her vision of
the world, which does not cease to
delight her. In the meantime, she is
preparing for an important journey to a
declamation contest where she hopes
to share her poems with the audience.
Filmmaker and parson’s son Hans
Busstra hoped to make a documentary
about the faithful whom are not
hindered by any doubt and go on
with life with Jesus at their side. He
found them. Ultimately however he
ended up mainly with himself in front
of the lense. His film about religious
doubtlessness became a film about his
own deep-rooted doubt in faith.
Eric, a non-believing friend tells him
comfortingly: ‘If Jesus truly concerns
himself with you, then he will surely
understand that you are searching’.
Niewidzialne
Zofia Pregowska
De onzichtbare vriend
Hans Busstra
www.sngfilm.nl/UK De Onzichtbare Vriend.htm
SALES / CONTACT
Zofia Pregowska
PRODUCTION
Warsaw Film School
Przechodnia 2/614
Maciej Slesicki
00-100 Warsaw
CO-PRODUCTION
Prego media – Poland
Poland
tel: 48698242645
[email protected]
Krystyna, almost entirely blind old lady, lives alone in a
flat surrounded by books and tens of copybooks which she
incessantly fills with the poems that come to her mind.
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SALES / CONTACT
Digna Sinke
SNG Film
Van Hallstraat 52 -2h
1051 HH Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
SNG Film
Digna Sinke
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6867837
www.sngfilm.nl
[email protected]
Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude
you?
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Iraqi Odyssey
Island 36
Switzerland / Germany / United Arab
Emirates, 2014 color, video, 162’
Original Language: English/Arabic
Subtitles: German/English
Tracing the emigrations of his family
over more than half a century, this
riveting documentary epic from
acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker
Samir pays moving homage to the
frustrated democratic dreams of a
people successively plagued by the
horrors of dictatorship, war, and foreign
occupation of Iraq.
Berlin. A hip melting pot. It’s the place
where the cool kids meet in cafes. In
the middle of the Kreuzberg district is a
camp – also known as the protest-camp.
For one year asylum seekers have been
living there in tents by choice, to take
a stand against isolation of refugees.
Among them is only one woman, the
Sudanese Napuli – her objective: the
change of asylum-law. While district
residents do not want to have the
refugee living in their neighborhood
and politics do not meet the demands
of the refugees, Napuli is always giving
the occupants of the camp hope.
Insel 36
Asli Özarslan
Samir
www.insel36.de
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
Dschoint Ventschr
Filmproduktion
Samir
A-1070 Vienna
Werner Schweizer
Austria
CO-PRODUCTION
Coin Film – Germany
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
This documentary epic from Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage
to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued
by the horrors of dictatorship, war and foreign occupation of Iraq.
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PRODUCTION
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Tobias Ebner
Marvin Rößler
Island 36 is documenting Napulis fight for freedom, her life at the
camp and illegality from her perspective. The film displays how
dangerous it is for asylum-seekers to claim their human-rights.
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History
Johan
Junior and the Swan
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English/German
Johan (12) dreams of going out and
discovering the world. He decides to
join a camping trip: a survival week in
the woods. During the camp he finds it
difficult, being the new boy, to secure
his place in the group and then as night
falls he suffers an attack of pitch-black
homesickness. Johan fights an internal
struggle to overcome his fears in order
to become a valuable member of the
scouting group.
The documentary portrays a young
adolescent struggling to leave his
comfort zone. October 1998. In the last Cold War spy
trial, three US citizens were convicted
of being agents for East Germany:
Kurt Stand (“Junior”), his wife Theresa
Squillacote (“Swan”), and James Clark
(“the Professor”). The verdict ended
their long careers as “Kundschafter”.
Very few Americans had sympathies
for Communist East Germany. Spying
for it was unthinkable. Why did these
three believe they were fighting for a
just cause?
Junior und der Schwan
Daniel Ast, Konrad Ege
Sjoerd Niekamp
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION
Cerutti Film
NPO Sales
Willemijn Cerutti
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6775318
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
Johan fights an internal
struggle to overcome his
fears in order to become
a valuable member of
the scouting group.
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SALES / CONTACT
Elina Kewitz
PRODUCTION
astfilm productions
NEW DOCS
Daniel Ast
Dasselstraße 75-77
RBB – Germany
50674 Koeln
Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743
www.newdocs.de
[email protected]
In 1998 three US Citizens are
convicted of spying for East
Germany. What motivations
did these three agents have
and why did they believe they
were fighting for a just cause?
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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Just Gender
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 57’/90’
After catching a glimpse of the billions
of dollars of good food that is tossed
each year, they pledge to quit grocery
shopping and survive only on foods
that would otherwise be thrown away.
Realizing that one in 10 people is food
insecure, the images they capture of
squandered groceries are shocking.
Just Eat It looks at our obsession with
expiry dates, perfect produce and
portion sizes, and reveals the core of
this seemingly insignificant issue that
is having devastating consequences
around the globe. Just Gender tackles the all too
often misunderstood world of
transgender, from common myths
and misunderstandings about
transgendered people, as well as the
distinction between sexual orientation
and gender identity. Through the
stories of transgender individuals
and their spouses, friends, and allies,
the film explores the confusion,
the isolation, and the fear felt by
many transgender persons. It also
reveals their growing awareness and
acceptance, and ultimately their joy in
blossoming comfort as transgendered
persons.
Grant Baldwin
www.foodwastemovie.com
George Zuber
alivemindcinema.com/justgender
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Peg Leg Films Inc
Jenny Rustemeyer
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Elizabeth Sheldon
Kino Lorber, Inc.
PRODUCTION
Buddha Dog Productions
George Zuber
10018 New York
USA
tel: 001 212 629 6880
alivemindcinema.com
[email protected]
Just Gender explores the diversity of persons under the broad
umbrella of “transgender,” including cross dressers, gender
questioning, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and
female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals.
We all love food and devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines
and foodie blogs. But we throw nearly 50% of it in the trash!
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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Just Playing with the Birds
Kamchatka – The Cure for Hatred
Switzerland, 2014 color, DCP 2K, 88’
Subtitles: English
Russia, 2014 color, video, 45’
Subtitles: English
The water in the creekbed getting
lower. At the village work is scarce,
those men who emigrated are having
difficulties coming back and those
who dreamed of leaving no longer
dare. Ezequiel, elder of the village,
remembers what was the hacienda.
Now his grandchildren starting to
be independent and he’s seeing the
deserted streets and dry fields. The
wind whooshes along the streets. Farm
animals are on the brink of starvation
and cactus is the only source of
nourishment left.
A film portrays Vechyaslav Nemyshev,
a military news reporter and a writer.
He is a typical representative of the
generation of people badly abused by
the Chechen War. And, having been
there 27 times, he was not able to come
back to normal life and he just ran
away to Kamchatka. He was filming this
“experiment on himself” for two years
in hopes that he would find the answer
to the question “How to get rid of the
nightmare inherited from that war?”
Jugando con los pajaros
Simona Canonica
Julia Mironova
www.jugandoconlospajaros.com
SALES / CONTACT
Michael Beltrami
PRODUCTION
E-Motion Films
E-Motion Films
Michael Beltrami
Via Gratello 18
6616 Losone
CO-PRODUCTION
RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera –
Switzerland
Switzerland
tel: +41 91 791 65 01
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Julia Mironova
Saint-Petersburg Documentary
Film Studio
PRODUCTION
St. Petersburg Documentary
Film Studio
Alexey Telnov
Sizova, 25
197349 Saint-Petersburg
Russia
tel: +7 911 2475800
www.cinedoc.ru
[email protected]
So close to the promised
land, yet so far away. In
a dusty Mexican village,
even dreams of the future
just seem to evaporate.
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Video-diary of Vyacheslav
Nemyshev, a military news
reporter who decided to
quit with war and start
his new life on the «End
of Earth» – Kamchatka.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Investigative
Katharine Hepburn, The Great Kate
Kidnapped For Christ
USA / Dominican Republic,
2014 color, HDcam, 85’/52’
The Great Kate peeps behind the scenes
of the golden era of Hollywood to
discover exactly how and why Katherine
Hepburn became one of the most
famous actresses in the glamorous
world of cinema.
She was an intellectual outsider with a
headstrong personality who embodied
a completely new charismatic female
on screen. Creating an image is nothing
new in Hollywood, but she managed to
control her own by skilfully playing with
the studio system. Katharine Hepburn
managed an unbelievable 60-year
career, keeping an outstanding open
mind, staying provocative and timeless
– something that still fascinates us even
today.
Every year, thousands of American
teenagers are kidnapped from their
homes and shipped to Christian reform
schools abroad on their parents’ orders.
Many of these teenagers are gay or
deemed ‘troubled’ and their parents
hope these schools will transform them
into ‘healthy Christian adults’.
When young missionary, Kate Logan,
learns of one of these schools, Escuela
Caribe in the Dominican Republic, she
sees the perfect opportunity to make
a difference. Knowing nothing of their
methods, and hoping to document the
positive effects a place like this could
have on struggling youth, she is allowed
to live on campus for a summer.
Rieke Brendel, Andrew Davies
Kate S. Logan
www.kidnappedforchrist.com
SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
SND Films
P.O. Box 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
Florian Film
Anna Steuber
ARTE G.E.I.E. – France
The Netherlands
tel: +31204040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION
Paul A.Levin
Java Films
Look Closer Media Inc.
Kate S. Logan
France
tel: +34 634 869 646
www.javafilms.fr
[email protected]
The complex tale of a film star – a woman well ahead of her time, a
woman regarded as the greatest American actress since film began.
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Every year, parents get thousands of American teenagers kidnapped from
their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad. Many of these
teenagers are gay or deemed ‘troubled’ ...
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Killer Slope
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Geertjan Lassche
Cédric Dupire, Gaspard Kuentz
April 2014 a Dutch expedition start to
climb the Cho Oyu, the sixth mountain
in the world. During earlier expeditions
two Dutch died at this Himalayamountain.
Filmmaker and investigative journalist
Geertjan Lassche closely follows the
group on their way up to top. What
drives these people? How ruthless
do you need to be? And are these
mountain climbers really as arrogant as
they seem to be?
The closer the group gets to the top,
the more we see all kinds of universal
dilemmas in and about mountaineering.
And then, after six weeks, the mountain
itself turns against the climbers.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION
EO
NPO Sales
Hans Van der Linden
Bart de Graaffweg 2
CO-PRODUCTION
Braambos – Belgium
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
Filmmaker and investigative journalist Geertjan Lassche closely follows
a Dutch expedition on their way up to top of the Cho Oyu.
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The Sonepur Fair in India is about to
begin!
Colourful multitudes cut through the
dusty, sticky air as the ecstatic sound of
drums fills the space.
An event like no other, it’s a carnival
of magical realism inhabited by exotic
dancers, exorcists, stuntmen and
elephant tamers.
“Roll up, roll up, our circus has come
to you,” cries a squeaky voice from the
loudspeakers.
Prepare yourself for sensory overload.
SALES / CONTACT
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
PRODUCTION
Studio Shaiprod
Jérôme Aglibert
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 4 75943467
www.andanafilms.com
[email protected]
The Sonepur fair in India is a gigantic carnival where each is going to give
itself in representation for the pleasure of spectators in search of shivers.
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Kung Fu Elliot
Lambert & Stamp
Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color / black and white, DCP, 117’
Original Language: English/French/German
Matthew Bauckman, Jaret Belliveau
James D. Cooper
films/kungfuelliot
Kung Fu Elliot tells the story of Elliot
“White Lightning” Scott, an amateur
martial artist who dreams of becoming
Canada’s first action hero with his
low-budget karate epic, Blood Fight.
This surreal documentary captures
two years in the lives of a passionate
amateur filmmaker, his supportive
partner Linda, and their outrageous
cast—all trying to realize their dreams.
SALES / CONTACT
David Piperni
PRODUCTION
Matthew Bauckman,
Jaret Belliveau, David Eberts
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
[email protected]
The film tells the bizarre
story of Elliot “White
Lightning” Scott, who plans
on becoming Canada’s
first kung fu action hero
with his low-budget
karate epic, Blood Fight.
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Lambert & Stamp tells the remarkable
story of Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert,
New Wave filmmakers from opposite
sides of the tracks who set out to make
an underground movie, leading them
to discover, mentor and manage the
iconic band known as The Who. This
complex relationship, deeply tragic and
brilliantly comedic, fueled the band’s
development leaving an indelible
imprint for generations to come.
Charged with a mad concoction of
noise, love and rebellion, director James
D. Cooper takes us on the surprising
ride and universal search examining the
sensitive and frightening bonds that
make it possible to create.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION
MOTOCINEMA, INC
Dogwoof
James D. Cooper
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 20 72536244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert,
two aspiring film directors
form to find a rock band
for their underground
movie, leading them to
discover and manage the
iconic band, The Who.
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The Last Gigolos
The Last Hour in the Sun
Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 82’/54’
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
The last gigolos are greying, but
nonetheless suave, gentlemen. They
spend their golden years on cruise
ships – as dancers and entertainers for
solvent, lonely and amusement-hungry
women of 60 years and over. Slowly,
the film reveals that happiness is mainly
down to everybody’s individual skill and
luck. But nevertheless, they will never
give up trying.
In The Last Hour in the Sun, director
Suzanne Jansen portrays her brother
Emile – a talented pilot – who has been
looking for employment for over six
years. Ever since the economic crisis, it
has become very hard for graduated
pilots to find a job in aviation.
This film shows the origin of his passion.
Flying enchanted him, it was carefree.
Just how different is that feeling, years
later, now his pilot’s license has expired
and his student debt torments him –
and our parents? A documentary about
letting go of expectations and the
ongoing exploration which comes next.
Die Letzten Gigolos
Stephan Bergmann
Het laatste uur in de zon
Suzanne Jansen
www.hetlaatsteuurindezon.nl
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
PRODUCTION
Made in Germany
Rise and Shine
Filmproduktion
Melanie Andernach
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION
ZDF – Germany
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
ZDF – Germany
[email protected]
The last Gigolos spend their
golden years on cruise ships
– as dancers and entertainers
for solvent but lonely women.
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SALES / CONTACT
Randy Vermeulen
PRODUCTION
Bananaz
Bananaz
Anna Beerstra
Randy Vermeulen
Rokin 69
1012KL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 44042556
www.bnnz.nl
[email protected]
A young pilot can’t find a job
in aviation because of the
economic crisis. Now, he has
to let go of his expectations
and the guild he feels
towards his family.
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The Last Impresario
The Last Limousine
Australia, 2013 color, HDcam, 85’
Germany / Russia, 2013 color /
Subtitles: English
Gracie Otto
Daria Khlestkina
dogwoof.com/thelastimpresario
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/the-last-limousine
A portrait of Michael White, the
enfant terrible of London’s theatreland in the 70’s, the man responsible
for introducing Yoko Ono, Merce
Cunningham and Pina Bausch to the
international audiences. He challenged
censorship with his hit erotic revue Oh!
Calcutta!, struck gold with The Rocky
Horror Picture Show and A Corus Line
and produced Monty Python and the
Holy Grail, My Dinner with Andre, and
John Waters’ Polyester. Fifty of his
closest friends (including Yoko Ono,
Kate Moss, Anna Wintour, John Waters
and John Cleese) introduce us to one of
life’s true originals.
USA, Canada, UK, Australia,
NZ, Italy not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION
Wildflower Films
Dogwoof
Nicole O’Donohue
EC1V 3QN London
England
tel: +44 207 2536244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
Faced with the relentless demise of
the factory they work at, Mikhail,
Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and
Luda – bosses, foremen, engineers
and workers of the giant Moscow
automobile plant ZIL – cling to
established routines and professional
pride to stay upright in a world which
crumbles around them. When an order
comes in for the production of three
of the factory’s legendary hand-made
limousines, once the center-piece of
Soviet military parades on Moscow’s
Red Square, Mikhail’s team of handpicked specialists throws itself at the
opportunity to show what they are
worth.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Marina Razbezhkina Studios
Marina Razbezhkina
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION
Germany
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
Al Jazeera English – Qatar,
[email protected]
YLE – Finland,
NRK – Norway
The most famous person
you’ve never heard of.
Moscow’s legendary ZIL automobile plant receives an
order for three new government limousines for the first
time since the collapse of the Soviet Union...
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | History
Last Stop
LAW not WAR
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: German
A vast and violent labyrinth lies right
in the heart of Tel Aviv. It is the Central
Bus Station, Israel’s main transportation
artery. Living in and around it are
thousands of refugees, children of
migrant workers with no identity of
their own, and hard-scrabble Jewish
families who feel like strangers in their
homes. This labyrinth is at the center of
their lives. Chaos rules in this impossible
meeting place. The racism that erupted
from its cellars has gotten out of
control and life continues precariously,
as if perched on a keg of gunpowder. A
war of all against all.
Moving portrait about the last living
Chief Prosecutor of the Nuremberg
Trials – the 94 years old Benjamin
Ferencz. The film is not only a
looking back to history but an actual
contribution to questions of war, justice
and the International Criminal Court
(ICC). As a young soldier he collected
evidence in the concentration camps
and at the age of 27 he became Chief
Prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial.
Later he became a passionate fighter
for the ICC, and today he embodies
the continuity from Nuremberg to
The Hague. Till today he is fighting for
peace and law instead of war.
Tachana Sofit
Julie Shles
Ullabritt Horn
www.go2films.com/Anthropology/Last-Stop
SALES / CONTACT
Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION
Dana Eden
Go2Films
Shula Spiegel Ltd.
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Shula Spiegel
97787 Jerusalem
Yes Docu – Israel
Israel
tel: 97225831371
www.go2films.com
[email protected]
Israel not available.
Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station is a perplexing labyrinth attracting
mainly refugees, children of migrant workers and hard-scrabble
Israelis. The portrait of the place mirrors the face of the country.
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SALES / CONTACT
Ullabritt Horn
PRODUCTION
Ullabritt Horn
Hochstr. 23
D 90429 Nuremberg
Germany
tel: + 49 911 9291804
[email protected]
Moving portrait of the last survivng Chief Prosecutor of the
Nuremberg Trials, peace activist and architect of the International
Criminal Court in The Hague – the 94 year old Benjamin Ferencz.
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Leninland
Lessons of Basketball and War
Russia, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Subtitles: English
USA, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 56’
Subtitles: English
Askold Kurov
Ron Bourke
www.lessonsofbasketballandwar.com
catalogue/leninland
In the USSR, the cult of Lenin had
replaced the Orthodox religion that
Communists wanted to eliminate. At
the end of Soviet era, in the village
Gorky, near Moscow, the last and the
most ambitious Museum of Lenin
was built. In former days it had 3000
visitors per week, now it’s only 20.
Today it looks like a temple of forgotten
civilization, a place that has fallen out of
time. But faithful to the ideas of Lenin
the keepers of the museum remain.
They wait for random visitors in the
abandoned halls – and for the return of
former times.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
Ethnogeographic Research
Foundation
Marienplatz 1
Vlad Ketkovich
04103 Leipzig
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION
Saxonia Entertainment –
tel: +49 341 2156638
Germany
[email protected]
The most ambitious Museum
of Lenin was built in the USSR
in 1987. Now this “Temple
of the God” is still open,
reflecting the situation in
society and in the country.
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Lessons of Basketball and War explores
universal issues of violence, cultural
identity and conflict resolution as
seen through the eyes of adolescent
girls – refugees from war and famine
in Somalia who have resettled in
a strange foreign city. Will Muslim
tradition and beliefs survive the
onslaught of sexualized, celebrity
obsessed America? Will teachers be able
to help students with little previous
education, rudimentary English and
a propensity for an abhorrent form
of personal violence? This film offers
an entertaining and moving account
of a year in their young lives and the
challenges faced by one dedicated
educator and peacemaker. PRODUCTION
Ron Bourke Films
SALES / CONTACT
Ron Bourke
Ron Bourke Films
Ron Bourke
11211 NW College Drive
97229 Portland, Oregon
USA
tel: +1 503 888 5386
www.lessonsofbasketballandwar.
com
[email protected]
Somali refugee girls struggle
to put the hostility and
distrust of war behind them
with the help of a dedicated
educator and peacemaker.
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Letting You Go
A Life after Trafficking
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Twenty-seven-year-old Sanne suffers
from borderline personality disorder,
chronic depression and insomnia. After
nine years of intensive treatment with
no positive results, she has decided
she does not want to live any longer.
Because she doesn’t want to traumatize
anyone with her death she chooses
self-euthanasia. Letting You Go is a
short documentary about a psychiatric
patient’s right to self-determination,
the longing for peace and the biggest
sacrifice a father can make out of love
for his child.
Over the past years many European
countries have seen a sharp
increase in the number of Nigerian
women involved in prostitution.
The overwhelming majority of
these women are victims of human
trafficking. Many arrive in Europe
following a horrifying journey across
the African continent. Once the
women arrive at their destination, the
traffickers present each of them with a
fictitious bill of 60,000 EURO, payable
at once. Prostitution is the only possible
way out of the debt. One woman
who experienced this nightmare is
Joy. Joy was trafficked to Denmark for
prostitution.
Ik laat je gaan
Kim Faber
Et Liv efter Trafficking
Anja Dalhoff
iklaatjegaan.nl
SALES / CONTACT
Randy Vermeulen
Bananaz
Rokin 69
1012KL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31644042556
www.bnnz.nl
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Bananaz
Anna Beerstra
Randy Vermeulen
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Anja Dalhoff
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation INVOLVED TV CHANNELS
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
The film depicts Joy’s journey back to Nigeria, her encounter with the
destitution and chaos of Lagos and how Joy establishes a new, independent
life for herself and her children.
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Catalogue No. 316
Life as Gift
The Lion’s Mouth Opens
Iran, 2013 color, video, 16’
Original Language: English/Persian
Subtitles: Persian/English
This Documentary film, recounting the
memories and experiences of an Iranian
woman with the heart failure who
require heart transplantation which she
has finally received, while depicts story
of the suffering families who are donors
of the organs of their lost loved one but
bringing life to the others.
This verité documentary is about
confronting life’s most daunting
moments with purpose and grace, and
about the impact of genetic bonds
and genetic testing on the people
we love and on how we face our
destiny. Stunningly courageous young
filmmaker-actress Marianna Palka
gathers her friends around her as she
finds out whether she has inherited
Huntington’s Disease, an incurable
degenerative disorder which took her
father and now has a 50% chance of
taking her body and her mind. Intimate,
suspenseful, and emotional, The Lion’s
Mouth Opens ultimately inspires us to
find a new dream no matter what.
Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh
Lucy Walker
www.lucywalkerfilm.com/THELION-S-MOUTH-OPENS
SALES / CONTACT
PRODUCTION
No.1703, 7th Floor, Doubral Bldg.
(Armineh, Ario, Armita), Khovardin
Blvd., Phase#1, Shahrak-e-Gharb
1465953111 Tehran
Iran
tel: +98 21 88572959
[email protected]
The story is about the life
of an Iranian woman, who
has waited more than a
year for a heart as a gift of
life and finally received it.
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SALES / CONTACT
Andrew Herwitz
The Film Sales Company
PRODUCTION
Julian Cautherley,
Marianna Palka, Lucy Walker
165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601
10016 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 4815020
www.filmsalescorp.com
[email protected]
A courageous young
Scottish actress takes the
boldest step imaginable to
confront her risk of having
inherited the incurable
Huntington’s Disease.
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Politics / Society | History
Little White Lie
The Look of Silence
Denmark / England / Indonesia / Norway
/ Finland, 2014 color, HDcam, 99’
Subtitles: English
Lacey Schwartz
Joshua Oppenheimer
littlewhiteliethefilm.com
thelookofsilence.com
Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s
story of growing up in a typical middleclass Jewish household in Woodstock,
NY, with loving parents and a strong
sense of her Jewish identity — that is
until she discovers that her biological
father is actually a black man with
whom her mother had an affair.
What defines our identity, our family
of origin or the family that raises us?
Lacey discovers that answering those
questions means understanding her
parents’ stories as well as her own.
SALES / CONTACT
Lacey Schwartz
Lacey Schwartz
PRODUCTION
Truth Aid
Mehret Mandefro
195 Plymouth St
11201 Brooklyn, NY
USA
tel: (646) 845-9302
[email protected]
Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work
filming perpetrators of the Indonesian
genocide, a family of survivors discovers
how their son was murdered and the
identity of the men who killed him.
The youngest brother is determined
to break the spell of silence and fear
under which the survivors live, and
so confronts the men responsible
for his brother’s murder – something
unimaginable in a country where killers
remain in power.
USA, Italy, UK, Denmark, Norway,
Finland, Indonesia, France, Germany,
The Netherlands not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
PRODUCTION
Final Cut for Real
Cinephil
Signe Byrge Sørensen
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
CO-PRODUCTION
Piraya Film AS – Sweden,
Israel
Making Movies Oy – Finland
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
ZDF – Germany,
[email protected]
ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany,
DR – Denmark,
NRK – Norway,
YLE – Finland
A film about denial, race, family secrets and a search for identity
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Love and Engineering
Love in a Straw
Finland / Bulgaria / Germany,
Subtitles: English
Our modern way of life is largely
designed by engineers. They are people
who like to invent and structure
technical things and who are more
at ease with figures and drawings
and natural science than in relations
with opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian
computer engineer living in Finland
claims to have hacked love, but can he
help lonely ( and shy…) engineers find
real love and real happiness? Atanas is
trying to develop a scientific formula
for mating and the finding of a perfect
wife. He uses other engineers as his
guinea pigs.
Family patterns are changing. In
Denmark sperm donation can still
be anonymous and the number
of women from around the world
travelling to the country to conceive
by artificial insemination has soared.
More and more single women now go
on the internet to buy semen and get
inseminated by a midwife in a clinic.
But what motivates single women to
make this choice: to become pregnant
without a father to the child?
Kærlighed på strå
Søs Hoffman
Tonislav Hristov
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
PRODUCTION
Making Movies Oy
Kaarle Aho
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Corporation
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Thomas Houkjær
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 3520 2299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
[email protected]
In many countries around
the world it is illegal, but
not in Denmark: to be
artificially inseminated
as a single woman.
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Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship
Made in BY
England, 2014 color / black
Subtitles: English
Italy, 2014 color, video, 52’/90’
Original Language: English/Russian
Subtitles: English
Love is All is an exploration of the
celluloid depiction of love and courtship
through the twentieth century,
Longinotto (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties)
and collaborator Ollie Huddleston
crafted the film entirely of archive
footage, featuring some of the most
iconic British cinema classics from
hundreds of hours of film from the BFI
archives. Set to the haunting, beautiful
music of legendary musician Richard
Hawley, we see the very first screen kiss,
rebellious teen love, couples flirting, gay
love, free love; Love is All captures the
spirit of all our love experiences, young
and old.
In the hearth of the civil and democratic
Europe there is still a dictatorship stuck
in the URSS times. Known as Europe’s
Black Hole, The Ghost Country, the
Republic of Belarus is an independent
state on the border between two
continents and two civilizations.
Made in By tries to look inside Europe’s
last dictatorship using the field of art
as access-key to enter the belarusian
society, and test how high are the limits
of freedom of expression.
Kim Longinotto
Luigi Milardi
madeinby.net
dogwoofglobal.com/films/love-is-all
SALES / CONTACT
Vesna Cudic
Dogwoof
PRODUCTION
Crossover Labs
Mark Atkin
Lone Star Productions
EC1V 3QN London
Martin Rosenbaum
England
tel: +44 207 253 6244
PRODUCTION
Luigi Milardi
SALES / CONTACT
Luigi Milardi
via di sotto, 5
65125 Pescara
Italy
tel: +393496096887
[email protected]
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
UK not available.
Love is All takes us on a journey through the Twentieth century, exploring
love and courtship on screen in a century of unprecedented social upheaval.
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An insider’s look at Belarusian
regime trough the eyes of its
most creative citizens. Arts,
literature, cinema, music
and theatre: the struggle
for freedom of expression in
Europe’s last dictatorship.
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Catalogue No. 323
Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
History | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
Making of Heimat
Maldarno
Subtitles: English
Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’
Subtitles: English
Jörg Adolph, Anja Pohl
Tayu Vlietstra
www.arriworldsales.de/movies/
making-of-heimat
Making of Heimat observes all stages
in the creation of this challenging
film and takes on Edgar Reitz’ point
of view on filmmaking. And in his
case filmmaking means a nearly four
hour long afterthought of the “Young
German Cinema” movement in digital
cinemascope and black and white! The
filmmakers strictly followed Edgar’s
dictum: “Don’t do an ordinary makingof but make a film that shows how
films are made!”
SALES / CONTACT
Ramona Sehr
ARRI Worldsales
PRODUCTION
if... Productions
Ingo Fliess
Türkenstraße 89
D-80799 München
Germany
tel: +49 89 38091288
www.arriworldsales.de
[email protected]
In between celebration of his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary
of the Oberhausen Manifesto, Edgar Reitz shot his latest film –
continuing the legacy of his world famous Heimat trilogy.
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The film Maldarno narrates the story
of the Arno, up to the present day,
describing the deep bond between
Florentines and their river, which apart
from being a symbol of Florence with
its bridges and buildings overlooking
the river, has been its lifeblood, the
main means of transport and the
driving force of its industries. It collects
interviews and testimonies of those
who are “in love” with it today. With
new images it introduces the aesthetic
dimension experienced by visitors and
guests of the city, citizens of the world
with whom the river speaks a universal
language of beauty.
SALES / CONTACT
Tayu Vlietstra
PRODUCTION
ff Fusionefilm
Fusionefilm
Tayu Vlietstra
via Pastine 23, Barberino Val d’Elsa
50021 Firenze
CO-PRODUCTION
Regione Toscana – Italy
Italy
tel: +39 055 8075408
www.fusionefilm.net
[email protected]
Maldarno is a tribute to the
river and the city of Florence.
In the flowing of its water,
dialogues and dynamics,
forms between different
generations, conveying its
state and soul.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Mamis: a family portait
The Man who Saved the Louvre
Cuba / England / Spain,
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Being gay in Cuba has never been
easy. Despite things have changed
considerably, homosexuality remains
to be a taboo. Women face the double
standard of being women and gay
in a very machista society – more
complicated is being a lesbian mother.
They don’t have access to adoption or
IVF techniques.
This is a story about some Cuban
women who found their way. Women
who never liked to ask for permission to
live their lives, despite the prejudices of
Cuban society. A story about families
who are tired of being treated as
second-class citizens.
At the dawn of World War II, a
resistance group organizes an incredible
exfiltration of masterpieces from the
Louvre Museum to save it off the Nazis’
hands. The man leading the operation
is Jacques Jaujard, museum’s director,
using his knowledge of the system and
his audacity to serve a universal cause:
saving the world heritage. Illustre et Inconnu – Comment Jacques Jaujard a Sauve le Louvre
Jean-Pierre Devillers, Pierre Pochard
Virginia Fuentes
www.mamisdocumentary.com
www.widehouse.org
PRODUCTION
Virginia Fuentes
SALES / CONTACT
Virginia Fuentes
Calle estrella Canopus 20 p1 2c
41015 Seville
Spain
tel: 0034 676144735
[email protected]
Mamis is a story about
Cuban lesbian women who
decided to cut their own way.
A story about families who
are tired of being treated
as second-class citizens.
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France, Canada not available. Existing
in French (original voice of award
winning actor and director Mathieu
Amalric) and also in English voice-over.
SALES / CONTACT
Anaïs Clanet
PRODUCTION
Ladybirds Films
Wide House
Hélène Badinter
9 rue Bleue
France 2 – France
75009 Paris
France
tel: +33 153950464
www.widehouse.org
[email protected]
“We don’t choose our enemy,
but we pick our fight.”
Jacques Jaujard (1895-1967)
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The Man who Saved the World
Manislam
Denmark, 2014 color, video, 90’/105’
Subtitles: English
Norway, 2014 color, video, 58’
Original Language: Norwegian/
English/Arabic
Subtitles: English
The story of Lt. Colonel Stanislav E.
Petrov who held the fate of the world
in his hands for a few crucial minutes.
When an alarm went off indicating
that five American nuclear missiles
had been launched against the Soviet
Union, he followed his gut feeling and
went against orders, convincing the
armed forces that the threat was a false
alarm saving the world from a nuclear
holocaust.
Three decades later, after his life
unraveled around him, his contribution
to the world today is recognized, and
he embarks on a spectacular journey to
save himself.
Why does a man in Kuwait inspired
by the 99 names of Allah and the
Quranic stories create comics about
super heroes called the 99? Why
does a man in Bangladesh travel
from one village to another where
he teaches the community how to
play a board game? Why does a man
in Indonesia encourage other men
wearing miniskirts in a demonstration?
They all have the same target. They
want to challenge the dark side of the
masculinities and they want to reform
Islam.
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Statement Film
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Jakob Staberg
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
CO-PRODUCTION
WG Film AB – Sweden
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
It is an epic tale about a man who is put to the ultimate test, when
he has to make a decision that can change our world forever.
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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Peter Anthony
Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Integral Film AS
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Jørgen Lorentzen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 3520 2299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
Director Nefise Lorentzen,
wrestles with the male power
of Islam, questioning its
masculinity by introducing
us to the male Muslims
who are working against
a Muslim patriarchy.
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Catalogue No. 329
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Maravilla
Marienborn
Argentina / USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 82’
Original Language: English/Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish/English
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black
Subtitles: English
Juan Pablo Cadaveira
Sabine König
www.maravillamovie.com
marienborn-film.nl
At 37 years-old, time is not on his
side. Sergio ‘Marvelous’ Martinez can
drop the world’s best boxers with
his lightning strikes, floor the most
beautiful women with his devastating
looks, and has a hard-scrabble
immigrant story and work ethic that
make him the hero of the Latin street.
But not having a powerful promoter
and speak truth to power, has left him
a virtual pariah in the notorious corrupt
world of professional boxing.
This is story of a man fighting to fight.
But the clock is ticking. It may already
be too late.
SALES / CONTACT
Sheri Levine
PRODUCTION
Forward Entertainment
Blue Production Company
125 East 87th Street, #15B
10128 New York, NY
USA
CO-PRODUCTION
BK Blu Productions – USA,
tel: +1 914 450 6781
Suzanne Richiardone – USA
www.forward-entertainment.com
[email protected]
The village of Marienborn in Germany
once was world-famous. It was the
most important and most guarded
border crossing of the Iron Curtain.
These days, Marienborn is a quiet place.
The Stasi-offices and checkpoints are
boarded up; grass is growing through
barbed wire. For 40 years the border
determined the lives of all 500 villagers.
Some acquired power and status at
Stasi border control. Others simply
secured a little job and kept their
mouths shut. After the fall of the Berlin
Wall, Marienborn became a broken
community amid the ruins of a fallen
regime.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum
PRODUCTION
Zuidenwind Filmproductions
Joost Seelen
NOS – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
A world champion boxer fights an unjust boxing
industry to reclaim the title he rightfully owns.
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A Match Made in Heaven
Match Me!
Israel, 2014 color, video, 45’/52’/75’
Original Language: Hebrew/Yiddish
Subtitles: English
Germany / France, 2014
Finnish/English/Lithuanian
Dating and matchmaking in the
“Haredi” (ultra-orthodox Jewish)
world has always been mysterious and
intriguingly different from the secular
world. At a time when the institution of
marriage in the modern secular world
is about to go bankrupt – increasing
divorce rates, infidelity, the trend
of extended bachelorhood, single
parenting, etc. – the question arises:
where are we going wrong? And what is
it about Haredi relationships that keeps
them strong and stable?
A Match Made in Heaven explore the
world of matchmaking in the different
sectors of the Haredi world and
observe couples in different stages of
relationships.
How does dating and finding love work
in an era where partnerschip has been
radically redefined? All people share the
yearning to connect and belong with
others and the hope of experiencing
genuine intimacy. Our three
protagonists Sarah (Austria), Johanna
(Germany) and Sampsa (Finland) search
for love in very different ways and show
that having faith in the most unusual
of methods can open up undreamt of
opportunities…
Shiduch mi Shamaim
Natalie Ginat, Ronnie Kay, Shay Werker
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
Lia Jaspers
PRODUCTION
Bdalak productions
First Hand Films
Natalie Ginat
Shay Werker
8050 Zurich
Yes Docu – Israel
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Elina Kewitz
NEW DOCS
Dasselstraße 75-77
50674 Koeln
PRODUCTION
Evolution Film Production
Sonja Kulkarni
CO-PRODUCTION
University of Television and Film
Germany
Munich – Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743
www.newdocs.de
Bayerischer Rundfunk – Germany,
[email protected]
ARTE France – France
For the first time orthodox
Jews in Israel allow a camera
to enter their personal lives
on an intimate level, enabling
us to discover the wisdom
behind their way of life.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | History
McIndoe
Me Girl, Me Princess
Argentina, 2014 color, HDcam, 47’
Subtitles: English
Three Men. Three Lives. One story.
As the pioneering work of World War
II Burns surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe
is commemorated with a public statue
in his honour, his story is brought to
life in the hands of the celebrated
sculptor Martin Jennings and through
the moving testimony of 92-year-old
wartime survivor Sandy Saunders.
As the three men and their three lives
intersect and intertwine, they offer us
one story: a heart-lifting celebration of
the human spirit. Testimony from the mother of a
five year old transgender girl This
documentary is more than an interview:
it is a privileged fragment of a complex
and singular story, but not a unique
one. Among many other things it is
a testimony that confronts us with
our own ideas about life, about “what
ought to be”, “what should be”, and
above all, what is. There is no answer,
but in her moving exposition Gabriela
delivers some clues to think about how
to face perplexity and bewilderment
with love, dignity and courage.
Yo Nena, yo Princesa
María Aramburú, Valeria Pavan
Barbara Myers
www.homegrownfilms.co.uk/#mcindoe
SALES / CONTACT
Paul Loman
Homegrown Films
PRODUCTION
Homegrown Films
Paul Loman
18 Surrenden Crescent
BN1 6WF Brighton
England
tel: +44 127 3505474
www.homegrownfilms.co.uk
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
María Aramburú, Valeria Pavan
SALES / CONTACT
María Aramburú
Tucuman 1694
1050 Buenos Aires
Argentina
tel: +54 11 43712539
[email protected]
A loving and openhearted
mother tells the remarkable
story of her little girl,
who was born a boy.
This documentary follows celebrated sculptor Martin Jennings in the
making of a public statue of World War II hero, Sir Archibald McIndoe.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | History
Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Memory of Ashes
Metal Bread
Spain, 2013 color / black and
Subtitles: English
Switzerland / Kyrgyzstan /
Memoria de las Cenizas
Mariano Agudo
Chingiz Narynov
www.3boxmedia.com/en/video/
history/memory-ashes
The spring of 2015 will be the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of the
concentration camps of Mauthausen,
Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau,
Neuengamme. . . Places where
thousands of Spanish republicans
were kept prisoners. Memory of Ashes
features the heartbreaking testimony
of four survivors of the Nazi horror,
who represent the voice of thousands
of Spanish Republicans who were
killed in the extermination camps. The
story of these men full of ideals flows
through all the great dramas of the
20th Century: misery, fascism, war,
deportation, genocide, exile.
SALES / CONTACT
Valentín Romero
3boxmedia
Hirschbergstr. 16
50939 Köln
PRODUCTION
Intermedia Producciones S.L.
Eduardo Moreno
Canal Sur Television – Spain
Germany
tel: +49 (0) 221 16924890
www.3boxmedia.com
[email protected]
Memory of Ashes features the heartbreaking testimony of four
survivors of the Nazi horror, who represent the voice of thousands of
Spanish Republicans who were killed in the extermination camps.
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The town of Mailuu-Suu was built in
1945 in the south of the Soviet Republic
of Kyrgyzstan, to accommodate a
processing plant for uranium mined in
the area. The plant was replaced years
later, when the mines were closed, by
a light bulb factory. At the time, this
large factory employed a third of the
local population. Since the demise of
the Soviet Union however, there have
been massive personnel cuts on a
regular basis. Tanya lost her job on the
lamp factory in 2005. She was forced to
find new ways of livelihood.
SALES / CONTACT
Tuba Gultekin Roche
Rhizome
2 Rue General Brulard
69003 Lyon
France
tel: +33478095558
PRODUCTION
Rhizome
Samuel Aubin
CO-PRODUCTION
CityLab – Kyrgyzstan
Lyon Capitale TV – France
www.rhizome-production.fr
[email protected]
Tanya tries to find new ways of living after having lost her job in a bulb
factory in Mailuu-Suu, a small town in the south of ex-Soviet Republic.
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Miners Shot Down
Mission Rape – A Tool of War
South Africa, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’/86’
Original Language: Xhosa/Zulu/English
Subtitles: Portugese/Spanish/
French/English/German
Original Language: Albanian/English
Subtitles: English
Rehad Desai
Katia Forbert Petersen, Annette Mari Olsen
current-affairs-politics/miners-shot-down
In August 2012, mineworkers in one
of South Africa’s biggest platinum
mines began a wildcat strike for better
wages. Six days later, the police used
live ammunition to brutally suppress
the strike, killing 34 and injuring many
more. Using the POV of the Marikana
miners, Miners Shot Down, follows
the strike from day one, showing the
courageous but isolated fight waged
by a group of low paid workers against
the combined forces of the mining
company, Lonmin, the ANC government
and their allies in the National Union of
Mineworkers.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
Uhuru Productions
Rehad Desai
Marienplatz 1
Anita Khanna
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
DR TV – Denmark,
SVT – Sweden,
[email protected]
RTS – Switzerland,
NRK – Norway
Miners Shot Down is a haunting glimpse into the days leading up
to the massacre of 34 miners in Marikana in August 2012.
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Despite increasingly refined technology
mass-rape as a tool of war is used in
modern combat. 25,000 – 40,000
women were victims of mass rape
during the Balkan war 1992-1995. When
a woman is raped, the entire family is
affected for generations to come. 20
years after these crimes only very few
cases of war crimes of sexual violence
have been investigated and prosecuted.
For the women in the film the rapes
remain a heavy, dark shadow in their
lives enshrouded by taboo. For these
women legal justice is the only hope to
regain integrity and life.
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Sfinx Film/TV ApS
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Katia Forbert Petersen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
The film shows how the ICTY downgrades the rape that was
committed against one of the main characters of the film
by a high-ranking and notorious officer from the war.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Politics / Society
Mom is Not Crazy
Money in Minutes
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Arabic/Chinese/
Spanish/Italian/Nepalese/English
Subtitles: German/French/English
Ima Lo Meshugahat
Mordechai Vardi
Matthias Heeder, Monika Hielscher
www.go2films.com/Family-Socialissues/Mom-is-Not-Crazy
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/money-in-minutes
Amira is mentally ill with a high risk of
suicide (Borderline Personality Disorder).
Married to Michael, they have four
children. She is an intelligent woman,
with a wide knowledge of Judaism. She
feels she must reveal her secret and
share it with her community in order
to feel safe in the outside world. Being
a religious woman makes this all the
more difficult. She meets with Rabbis
to try and make them understand. The
film follows her struggle to stay alive,
raise her children, and convince people
that having a mental illness does not
mean that you are crazy.
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Hedva Goldschmidt
PRODUCTION
Ami Drozd
Go2Films
Veradim
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Mordechai Vardi
97787 Jerusalem
Yes Docu – Israel
Israel
tel: +972 25831371
www.go2films.com
[email protected]
The film tells of a lesser-acknowledged
aspect of globalization: international
work-related migration as the business
foundation of financial service
providers. According to World Bank
estimates, around 420 billion US dollars
circled the globe in 2013, money that is
earned in the affluent North by migrant
workers and sent home to their families
via companies that are specialized in
money transfer, like Western Union and
MoneyGram. Their money transactions
produce the materials that convert into
profit. The film describes the incredible
logistics and controversial strategies
of an industry that shapes the financial
infrastructure of migration, using it as
an economic resource.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions
Heino Deckert
04103 Leipzig
WDR – Germany,
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
Al Jazeera English – Qatar
[email protected]
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Monsoon
Monte Adentro
Canada / France, 2014 color, video, 106’
Hindi/Marathi/Assamese
Subtitles: English
Colombia / Argentina, 2014
Subtitles: English
A cinematic journey into the terrain
where nature, science, belief and
wonder converge in one of the
most astonishing and breathtaking
landscapes on earth, Monsoon is a film
that captures the timelessness and rich
human drama of our engagement with
the natural world.
Monte Adentro explores the universe
of one of the last muleteer families
in Colombia and follows the lives
and mule train of two brothers – one
living in the city, the other still in their
mountain house – as they get together
for an epic mule driving journey to the
highest peaks of the Andes.
Sturla Gunnarsson
Nicolas Macario Alonso
www.monsoonmovie.com
France, Canada not available.
www.monteadentrofilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Philippa Kowarsky
PRODUCTION
Cinephil
SALES / CONTACT
Heike Maria Fischer
PRODUCTION
Flor de Producciones
Flor de Producciones
Heike Maria Fischer
CO-PRODUCTION
Point du Jour – France
Velazco 1536, P.A.
CO-PRODUCTION
Señal Colombia – Colombia
Argentina
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
CBC – Canada
www.flordeproducciones.com
Ina Fichman
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
[email protected]
Monsoon is a film that
captures the timelessness
and rich human drama
of our engagement with
the natural world.
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1414 Buenos Aires
tel: +54 11 48580258
Señal Colombia – Colombia
[email protected]
Monte Adentro explores
the universe of one of
Colombia’s last muleteer
families and follows the lives
of two brothers meeting
for an epic mule driving
journey up the Andes.
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Mother of the Unborn
The Motherload
Egypt / United Arab Emirates,
Subtitles: English
Canada, 2014 color, 16mm, 60’
In a forgotten corner of Egypt lives a
woman who is yearning for a child.
Having no option but to live on the
fringe of her community because of
her infertility, Hanan lingers between
a dream that is slowly slipping away
and her struggle to find a place where
she belongs. While everything that
surrounds her bustles with fertility and
mortality, she wonders how to give
meaning to the time that she has in
between.
The Motherload takes an in-depth
look at the daily struggle of working
mothers – the current issues, challenges
and triumphs that they all face.
Women today are paying a heavy price
physically and emotionally while trying
to strike a healthy balance between
work, life and raising children. The
Motherload asks the question – why
are women still not able to have it all?
Produced for CBC’s DOC ZONE.
Um ghayeb
Nadine Salib
Cornelia Principe
www.bei-distribution.com/tmlindex.html
www.umghayeb.com
SALES / CONTACT
Maartje Alders
PRODUCTION
Hassala Films
Hassala Films
Maartje Alders
25 Shabrawy Street
PO Box 46 Rod-el-Far Cairo
CO-PRODUCTION
Albatrik Art Production and
Egypt
Cinema Services – Egypt
Breakthrough Entertainment
PRODUCTION
Border City Pictures
Cornelia Principe
35 Britain Street, 1st Floor
M5A 1R7 Toronto
Canada
tel: +20-1005162801
tel: +1 416 366 6588 x112
www.hassala.org
jmackie@
[email protected]
breakthroughentertainment.com
The absolute truth lies
in the notions of life and
death...fertility indeed is
the miracle of creation.
But does it answer the
question of happiness,
or is it just an illusion?
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SALES / CONTACT
Jodi Mackie
The Motherload takes an in-depth look at the daily struggle of working
mothers – the current issues, challenges and triumphs that they all face.
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Mugshot
Mulhapar
Switzerland, 2014 color, HDcam, 93’/52’
Original Language: English/Urdu/Punjabi
Subtitles: German/French/English
Originally a law enforcement tool,
the mugshot has deviated from its
fundamental purpose as a source of
criminal identification. It has been
sensationalized through the world of
the celebrity, exploited by the leniency
of freedom of infor-mation, but has
also captivated the attention of the
art world. American Mugshot explores
the personal stories of those whose
lives have been affected by this iconic
photograph. As one retired police
officer points out: “Mugshots are the
most important police innovation next
to the nightstick, flashlight and the
gun”
Mulhapar is a village on the great
Punjab plain in Pakistan. A country now
associated by many with the violence
and intolerance reported so often in
the media. Instead of focusing on
those dark aspects, this film goes to
the heart of humanity itself, in a mixed
community of rich and poor, Muslims
and Christians, young and old, male
and female. Mulhapar interweaves
their family destinies, individual stories
and anecdotes into a living mosaic.
With its richly diverse images and
philosophically pensive narrative,
Mulhapar is a poetic film committed to
showing up the essence and diversity of
human existence. Dennis Mohr
Paolo Poloni
www.facebook.com/AmericanMugshot
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Rock Yenta Productions Inc.
Charlotte Engel
Public Pictures
H3L1A8 Montreal
Dennis Mohr
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
PRODUCTION
RECK Filmproduction
Rise and Shine
Franziska Reck
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
[email protected]
Mulhapar shows a
multifaceted picture of
the life in a small village
somewhere in Pakistan.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Author’s Point of View
The Murga
My 89 Generation
Spain / Uruguay, 2014 color, HDcam, 72’
Subtitles: English
Poland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 64’
Subtitles: English
An extraordinary music trip to the roots
of the Carnival and one of its most
captivating, complex symbols: the
murgas, bands of strolling workingclass poets and musicians in clown-like
painted faces, whose lyrics conform
a tool of social criticism targeting
allegedly corrupt politicians in a festive
mix of artistic and political expression. The My 89 Generation project is a
crowdsourcing documentary film, that
consists of footage recorded by the
protagonists of the movie themselves:
young people born after 1989. The
director asked them to send him their
own films. Out of tens of hours of
footage seven main characters were
chosen. They are young people striving
for their dreams while living through
their first loves, betrayals and breakups.
In this movie the generation forms the
background, the movie itself is about
love and dreams of people on the
threshold of their adult lives.
La Murga. Ópera Popular
David Baute
Moje 89 Pokolenie
Pawel Jozwiak Rodan
SALES / CONTACT
Luis Renart
PRODUCTION
TINGLADO FILM
Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster David Baute
Camino Viejo 61. Portal A, 1º derecha CO-PRODUCTION
Guazu Media – Uruguay
38028 Tegueste
Spain
tel: +34 691 814 018
TVE – Spain
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
PRODUCTION
Projekcja Identyfikacja
Pawel Jozwiak Rodan
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
The Murga: a pop opera.
The My 89 Generation project is a crowdsourcing documentary
film, that consists of footage recorded by the protagonists of
the movie themselves: young people born after 1989.
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My Arab Friend
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Israel, 2013
Hahaver Haaravi Sheli
Noga Nezer
Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland
mybeautifulbrokenbrain.com
An Israeli girl goes on a surreal
journey to the heart of the Palestinian
Territories to find her lost Arab
friend. Noga isn’t really interested in
the Israeli-Palestine conflict. She just
wants to live her comfortable, liberal
life in Tel-Aviv. But when Fahres, her
Palestinian friend who stayed with her
in Tel-Aviv disappears, Noga is forced
to embark on a surreal, scary, and
surprising journey into Fahres’ home
village in the heart of the West Bank
to find him, and what he really means
to her. A portrait of the Israeli-Arab
Conflict, one you’ve never seen before.
SALES / CONTACT
Noga Nezer
Sheshet Hayamim 34
47247 Ramat Hasharon
Israel
tel: +97 2545987927
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Noga Nezer
My Beautiful Broken Brain is a
profoundly personal voyage into the
complexity, fragility and wonder of the
human brain, after Lotje Sodderland
miraculously survives a hemorrhagic
stroke and finds herself starting again
in an alien world, bereft of language
and logic.
From unpredictable first-time
neurological experiments, through
to the extraordinary revelations of
her altered mind, Lotje takes us on a
genre-twisting tale that is by turns
excruciating and exquisite. SALES / CONTACT
Sophie Robinson
PRODUCTION
Sophie Robinson
10 Vespan Road
W129QQ London
England
tel: +44 7976 365 361
sophie@mybeautifulbrokenbrain.
com
Her brain is broken. Her
mind is limitless. By
turns excruciating and
exquisite, this is a genretwisting voyage into a
young woman’s life after
a brain haemorrhage.
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My Dearest F#cking Phone
My Farm Is My Castle
Subtitles: English
Czech Republic, 2014 color, video, 83’
Original Language: Ukranian
Subtitles: English
Claudia (14) has, like many teenage
girls, an intense love-hate relationship
with her smartphone. She feels alone
and insecure, fueled by the pictures of
beautiful, successful and fun-loving
friends on Instagram. She herself has
made sure she is hard to find online. She
considers herself not pretty enough.
It’s no wonder that she is dreading
the vacation because that means no
Internet. Strinkingly enough, these days
without a Wi-Fi connection turn out to
be a breakthrough for Claudia.
Natasha Yurchenko used to live in
a small village before developers
decided to rebuild the area. Her family
resisted the developments and they
are now trapped between the highrise buildings. She wants to fight for
her home but conflicts surface in the
family. How far will she go defending
their home? A film portrait of 5 years of
life of one (extra)ordinary family in the
current Ukraine.
Lieve K#ttelefoon
Eef Hilgers
Jáma
Jirí Stejskal
eenvandejongens.nl/en/project/lieve-kttelefoon
SALES / CONTACT
Hasse van Nunen
PRODUCTION
Een van de jongens
De Kempenaerstraat 11B
Renko Douze
1051 CJ Amsterdam
Hasse van Nunen
The Netherlands
IKON – The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 8943628
SALES / CONTACT
Katerina Safarikova
PRODUCTION
nutprodukce
nutprodukce
Tomá Hrub
Bubenska 1
Pavla Kubecková
17000 Prague 7
CO-PRODUCTION
Czech Television – Czech Republic
Czech Republic
www.eenvandejongens.nl
tel: +420604821642
[email protected]
[email protected]
One woman, two husbands,
four children, seven pigs and
a herd of goats surviving
on the last farm in the
modern district of Kiev.
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My Friend the Enemy
My Life My Lesson
Original Language: Polish/Ukranian
Subtitles: English
Sweden / Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’
Subtitles: English
A story from Western Ukraine that
is both universal and grimly relevant
today. In the summer of 2013 we
follow a group of Poles whose families
survived massacre by Ukrainian
nationalists in 1943. They visit their
former homes, now empty fields, and
meet their old neighbors. Ukrainians
and Poles tell stories of horrific
slaughter, but also of complex and
moving relations between people who
had lived alongside each other for
centuries, and of how some Ukrainians
risked their lives to save their Polish
neighbours. Tales of memory and
reconciliation set in a timeless lyrical
landscape.
Felicia’s world feels to be constantly
on the verge of erupting as she is
attempting to live a normal teenage-life
having been brought up witnessing her
stepfather beating her mother. As he
no longer lives with the family she tries
to keep him on the straight and narrow
through phone conversations and text
messages, to her mother’s dismay. After
her stepfather again threatens to kill
her mother the family is being sent to
a women’s shelter. As things are put on
edge Felicia’s bravery is tested – will she
stand up for her family and herself, and
testify in court against her father? And
will she be able to make him change
once and for all?
Åsa Ekman, Oscar Hedin and Anders
Teigen brings us a powerful, poignant
and unsentimental coming-of-age
documentary about a girl trying to
change her father and heal her family
whilst facing an immensely difficult
inner struggle. “ Mój przyjaciel wróg
Wanda Koscia
Åsa Ekman
www.myfriendtheenemyfilm.com
mylifemylesson.org
SALES / CONTACT
Wanda Koscia
Grupa Filmowa
PRODUCTION
Grupa Filmowa
Miroslaw Chojecki
64 Philbeach Gardens
Wanda Koscia
SW5 9EE London
Piotr Weychert
England
tel: + 44 20 7373 3492
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
Film and Tell
Oscar Hedin
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Sweden
tel: +49 34 12156638
[email protected]
Sweden not available.
Survivors of a massacre return to find the enemies who saved them.
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Felicia wants to live a normal teenage-life but growing
up in violence as a child has scarred her.
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My Love Don’t Cross the River
My Mother, a War and Me
South Korea, 2014 color, HDcam, 86’
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Ukranian/
German/Russian
Moyoung Jin
Meine Mutter, ein Krieg und ich
Tamara Trampe
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my-mother-a-war-and-me
There is a couple known as the
‘100-year-old lovebirds’. Like characters
in a fairy tale, the husband is strong like
a woodman, and the wife full of charms
like a princess. They dearly love each
other, wear traditional Korean clothes
all the time, and still fall asleep hand
in hand. However, death, quietly sits
between them, like a thief. This film
starts from this moment, and follows
the couple until the last moments of
their 76-year marriage.
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Argus Film
CAT&Docs
Kyungsoo Han
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Johann Feindt Filmproduktion
Johann Feindt
04103 Leipzig
ZDF – Germany,
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
[email protected]
[email protected]
A couple who have lived
together for 76 years
faces the last moment
of their marriage.
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December 1942. WW II. A snowfield
behind the Russian lines. That is where
my mother gave birth to me. She was
a nurse in the Red Army back then. She
never talked about the war. ”Leave me
alone”, she used to say. Only two years
before she died, we began to talk in
front of the camera. This footage and
many questions were in my bag, when
I went back to Russia and to Ukraine.
What was it to be a young woman at
the front, what was the attitude to life?
Russia 1942, a spectacular
wartime birth: In her film
Tamara Trampe searches
for the pieces of a puzzle
– Tamara’s family history
and a chronicle of the
20th century emerge.
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Catalogue No. My Stolen Revolution
Naked
Sweden / The Netherlands,
Subtitles: English
Filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani
was an active left-wing student when
the Iranian revolution broke out in 1979.
The winners are well known and are in
power to this day. Many of her fellow
students and comrades vanished into
prison and were never seen again,
among them her brother Rostam. Thirty
years later, Nahid decides to look for
her old comrades, but she finds many
were executed. She does find Parvaneh,
Sudabeh, Monir, Azar and Nazali. All had
been imprisoned. On the outside the
women are beautiful and witty belying
the pain in their stories.
Denice is 25 years old and has starred
in hundreds of porn films. For the last
three years she has been working hard
to start her own company. But Denice
decides to make a comeback in Porn
Valley, LA, in order to make a quick buck.
Ten young porn models live together in
this house – some of them as young as
eighteen and about to make their debut
in the tough industry of porn.
Nahid Persson Sarvestani
Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
SALES / CONTACT
Robin Brinster
PRODUCTION
Real Reel Production
Illumina Films
Nahid Persson Sarvestani
Leidsestraat 106-lll
SVT – Sweden
1017PG Amsterdam
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Made in Copenhagen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
The Netherlands
Denmark
tel: +31206248395
tel: +45 35202299
www.illuminafilms.nl
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
[email protected]
Thirty years afer the
revolution, Nahid Persson
Sarvestani searches for
the truth about Iran’s
political prisons and
her brother’s death.
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Naked explores the sexualization of young people. It looks into how
a young generation represses their own personal boundaries – and
what happens to them, when they stop repressing them.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
Naked Island
Naked on the Net
Croatia, 2014 color / black
Original Language: Croatian
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Uppdrag granskning: Naken på nätet
Hasse Johansson, Nicke Nordmark
Tiha K. Gudac
svtsales.com/programmesales/naked-on-the-net
factum.com.hr/en/films_and_authors/
new_films/naked_island
Decades ago, a man disappeared for
four years. He returned a changed man
with a painful secret that became the
foundation of his family life. Naked
Island is his granddaughter’s quest
to understand the family legacy, an
investigation upon the ruins of the
past, a mosaic made of clues – family
photos and intimate testimonies of a
group of people brought together by a
former Gulag-like camp on the “Island
of Broken Souls”. At the same time, it
is a fascinating portrayal of a moment
in which the past can finally become
history and a brave documentary
defying silence and fear.
SALES / CONTACT
Nenad Puhovski
Factum
PRODUCTION
Factum
Nenad Puhovski
Nova Ves 18
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
tel: +385 1 5484 321
factum.com.hr/en
[email protected]
A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on ‘an
island of broken souls’ and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
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Young Swedish girls are lured into
sending nude photos of themselves, by
an unknown man with a fake identity.
And as soon as a girl has sent a daring
photo she is blackmailed into sending
more nude pictures, or otherwise the
man will publish them on the web.
Despite receiving several reports from
victims of the blackmailer the Swedish
police drop all investigations, seemingly
without doing anything at all. Now it is
up to SVT’s reporters Nicke Nordmark
and Hasse Johansson to find and
catch Sweden’s worst sextortionist. A
reportage produced by SVT’s current
affairs magazine Uppdrag granskning
(Mission: Investigate).
SALES / CONTACT
Niklas Ahlgren
PRODUCTION
SVT
SVT
Lina Makboul
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
S-10510 Stockholm
SVT – Sweden
Sweden
tel: +46 709 689832
www.svt.se
[email protected]
A man with a fake identity
lures young girls into sending
nude photos of themselves,
which he then uses for
blackmailing purposes.
SVT’s reporters set out to
catch the blackmailer.
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National Diploma
National Gallery
Congo / France, 2014 color, video, 92’
Original Language: Lingala/French
Subtitles: English
USA / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 174’
Subtitles: French
National Diploma follows a group of
young Congolese high school students
who are about to sit the exam for their
National Diploma, the “Final Exams”,
in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of
Congo. Dieudo Hamadi’s camera films
them as they prepare for the exam,
from the benches of the school that
they are regularly ejected from because
they haven’t paid the ‘teachers’ fees’
to the “maquis” (a communal house)
where they gather to revise and the
chaotic streets of the city where they
spend their time “looking for a living”.
National Gallery takes the audience
behind the scenes of a London
institution, on a journey to the heart of
a museum inhabited by masterpieces
of Western art from the Middle Ages to
the 19th century. National Gallery is the
portrait of a place, its way of working
and relations with the world, its staff
and public, and its paintings. In a
perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors,
film watches painting watches film. Frederick Wiseman
www.agatfilms.com/fiche-film_en.php?id=641
www.docandfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
Cinephil
PRODUCTION
Agat Films & Cie
Marie Balducchi
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
France, USA, Mexico not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
Doc & Film
PRODUCTION
Idéale Audience International
Pierre-Olivier Bardet
13 Rue Portefoin
Zipporah Films
75003 Paris
Hannah Horner
France
tel: + 33 1 42 77 56 87
PBS – USA,
[email protected]
Canal + – France
[email protected]
Congolese high school students, who are about to sit their Final Exams, in
Kisangani, DR Congo, are challenged by school fees, greed and corruption.
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Examen D’Etat
Dieudo Hamadi
National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and
relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings.
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Navy Mids
Naziha’s Spring
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Arabic/Dutch
Subtitles: English
Navy Mids follows a group of young
men and women who see a future
for themselves as an officer at the
Royal Netherlands Navy. The Navy a
long-traditional institute, in which
history, hierarchy and rituals still play an
important role; matters that are not so
present in modern society anymore.
The film will follow them during their
first military initiation and on their first
trip aboard a naval vessel as a lower
class seaman. They choose a life that
will not be easy; what does this tell us
about them, and about the time we are
living in?
Since she divorced her husband, Naziha,
a Morrocan-Dutch woman fights to
keep her ten children on the right
track. She has been struggling for years
against the pressure of her Morrocan
community in Amsterdam, the
government’s interferences and sons
who wish she would behave as other
Moroccan mothers do.
With willpower, courage and humour,
she is slowly starting to lead a free life
where she can make her own decisions
and offer the same to her youngest
child and only daughter.
But just as the tide seems to have
turned, disaster strikes.
Naziha’s lente
Gülsah Dogan
ijswater.nl/films/projects/info.php?project=161
SALES / CONTACT
Marc Bary
IJswater Films
Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4
1079LD Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
IJswater Films
Marc Bary
BNN – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 442 17 60
www.ijswater.nl
[email protected]
Navy Mids is about the first months of training of officers for
the Royal Netherlands Navy. The transformation to the military
group culture is placed next to their personal experiences.
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Adelborsten
Walter Stokman
SALES / CONTACT
Fleur Knopperts
PRODUCTION
Volya Films
Volya Films
Fleur Knopperts
Mauritsweg 56
Denis Vaslin
3012 JX Rotterdam
NTR – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31104155621
www.volyafilms.nl
[email protected]
Naziha’s Spring gives an
intimate and moving insight
in the life of a MoroccanDutch divorced mother of ten
and her struggle to regain
power over her own life.
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The Need to Dance
Nepal – Journey to the Crystal Mountain
Original Language: Spanish/English/Dutch
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
De Nood aan Dansen
Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Nepal – Auf dem Weg zum Kristallberg
Andrea Thek
nepal_ journey_to_the_crystal_mountain
The Need to Dance is the portrait of
the Flemish-Moroccan choreographer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most
versatile and successful dance artists
of our times. The documentary follows
him as he travels all over Europe. As
the film observes him creating and
performing widely different styles of
dance, he talks in an interior monologue
about what lies behind his irrepressible
urge to create. As the son of a Moroccan
father, a Muslim, and a Roman-Catholic
Flemish mother it was anything but
obvious that he would become an
artist.
While imitating, as a child, the
choreography in video clips by
Madonna and Michael Jackson, Sidi
Larbi Cherkaoui discovered that dance
gave him the opportunity to express
himself and to cope with his problems.
He made an unconditional choice for a
life in the arts. It gave him happiness,
but it did cause the definitive break
with his dominant father. Growing up
in two cultures is still the rich source of
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SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6775318
PRODUCTION
De Familie Film & TV
Monique Busman
CO-PRODUCTION
The Crystal Mountain in north-western
Nepal is the brother of Mount Kailash.
This is where the Shey Festival is held
every twelve years. In the company of
his old friend Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen,
Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Professor at the
University of Vienna, embarks on a
journey across a remote, breathtaking
landscape to a mountain that – to
Buddhists – is far more than just a huge
rock.
SALES / CONTACT
Berend Dreier
5071 Wals
PRODUCTION
Andrea Thek
Austria
tel: 00436622240-0
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
berend.dreier@
A portrait of the Flemish-Moroccan
choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,
one of the most versatile and
successful dance artists of our times.
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Neuland
Never a Dull Moment
Germany / Switzerland, 2013
Original Language: German/Farsi
The Netherlands, 2014 color / black
Subtitles: English
Afghanistan, Serbia, Venezuela – the
new students of Mr. Zingg in the
integration class Basel have a long
journey behind them. Sheltered and
protected from society, they learn the
language and culture of Switzerland in
just two years. Mr. Zingg, the teacher,
has only one goal in sight: to help
the young people who have been
traumatized by so many hard strokes
of fate to find a job in the new society.
But as the end of their schooling
approaches, these young migrants
have to ask themselves a harrowing
question: is there a place at all for me in
this country…?
Told in amazing archival footage only,
showing the turbulent life of the jewish
Sam Waagenaar, a bon-vivant, who
many times changed the course of his
life in the 20th century. Successfully
moving from being a publicity
manager for MGM in the thirties, actor
in Hollywood, to operetta singer in
France and war correspondent, finally
ending up as a photographer travelling
the world after the war. The film is
based on Waagenaar’s unpublished
autobiography. With a voice-over he
reflects on his life, and on a tendency
towards optimism that was severely
tested more than once. Daniel Kunle, Holger Lauinger, Anna Thommen
Pim Zwier
neuland-film.ch
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION
Fama Film AG
Stefan Eichenberger
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste –
Germany
Switzerland
tel: +49 30 47372980
SRF – Switzerland
[email protected]
Neuland accompanies young migrants during their two- years of schooling
in the integration class Basel on their uncertain path to a better future.
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SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
SND Films
P.O. Box 15703
PRODUCTION
seriousFilm
Marc Thelosen
1001 NE Amsterdam
Joodse Omroep –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 4040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
Told in archival footage only, showing the turbulent life of
the jewish Sam Waagenaar, a bon-vivant, who many times
changed the course of his life in the 20th century.
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Catalogue No. 364
The New Foodies
The New Rijksmuseum – The Film
France, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 52’
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Dutch/English/Spanish
Subtitles: English
This is the story of a generation
radically changing the notion we have
of gastronomy – lighter, more fun,
spicy and sometimes surprising. The
story of a change in attitudes, sudden
and radical, which made a practice still
considered as bourgeois and stuffy, a
glamorous and desirable movement,
the forefront of a broader awareness
of the importance of “healthy” food, in
every sense of the word.
The magnificent Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam, one of the world’s
preeminent museums, home to
Rembrandt – Vermeer, is renovated.
Battles between the museum’s director,
curators, politicians, designers are
filmed over 10 years. 4 part series and
feature with a glorious ending.
L’Amour Food
Olivier Joyard
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Oeke Hoogendijk
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
13 rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
PRODUCTION
Agat Films & Cie
Gorka Gallier
Canal + – France
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Column Film
Autlook Filmsales
Gijs van de Westelaken
CO-PRODUCTION
Discours Film – The Netherlands
A-1070 Vienna
France
Austria
tel: +330142775687
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Catalogue No. 1
The Newsroom – Off the Record
Next Goal Wins
Subtitles: English
We love to hate them. They are
limitless, amoral and sensationalistic.
They prey on the lives of politicians,
exaggerate every detail on the front
page, and they would do anything
to be the paper, everyone else talks
about. The movie follows the paper
throughout one of the most turbulent
years with catastrophic reader numbers
and numerous controversial cases. At
close range, we get insight into how the
newspaper’s staff handles the many
ethical dilemmas that they face every
single day.
After suffering a world record 31-0
defeat to Australia in 2001, American
Samoa, the world’s worst national
football team, are still searching for
their first win. When maverick Dutch
coach Thomas Rongen arrives on the
island to help the team achieve this
goal, he discovers that his ramshackle
team includes an emotionally scarred
goalkeeper and the first transgender
player to play international football.
With the team about to embark on
a gruelling World Cup qualification
campaign, Rongen has one month to
transform this band of losers into a
winning team – and perhaps learn a
little about himself along the way.
Ekstra Bladet – Uden for citat
Mikala Krogh
Mike Brett, Steve Jamison
www.danishdocumentary.com
SALES / CONTACT
Sigrid Dyekjær
Danish Documentary
Kvæsthusgade 5c, 1. floor
1251 København K
PRODUCTION
Danish Documentary
Sigrid Dyekjær
TV 2 – Denmark
Denmark
tel: +45 26162535
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Carl Clifton
K5 Media Group
PRODUCTION
Archer’s Mark
Mike Brett
Konradinstr. 5.
Agile Films
81543 Munich
Kristian Brodie
Germany
tel: +49 89 37 50 559 10
www.k5mediagroup.com/intro
[email protected]
USA, UK, France, Australia, Japan,
Middle East not available.
The danish tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet is hated and loved
among the Danish citizens. This film gives a unique behindthe-scenes portrait of Ekstra Bladet entering a new era.
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Following the fortunes of American Samoa, the world’s
worst football team, Next Goal Wins is a hilarious, moving
exploration of what it really means to be a winner in life.
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History
Nick and Chai
Night Will Fall
Philippines, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’
Original Language: Filipino
Subtitles: English
USA / England / Israel, 2014 color
Original Language: Russian/English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Charena Escala, Rowena Sanchez
Andre Singer
www.hirayapictures.com
cinephil.co.il/night-will-fall
On Nov 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan
claimed the lives of Nick and Chai
Quieta’s four children, leaving them
with nothing but each other and a
house torn to pieces. Now, four months
later, we step inside the Quieta home
and observe how they cope with their
loss. What is it really like to lose all your
kids all of a sudden?
PRODUCTION
Hiraya Pictures
SALES / CONTACT
Rowena Sanchez
Hiraya Pictures
Rowena Sanchez
37-B. P. Oliveros St. Purok Sinkalan,
dela Paz,
1870 Antipolo
Philippines
tel: 632 6619078
www.hirayapictures.com
[email protected]
A couple from Leyte
(Philippines) tries to recover
after the strongest typhoon
in history claimed what’s
most important to themtheir four children.
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Night Will Fall tells the story of the
liberation of the Nazi Concentration
camps. Using remarkable archive
footage and testimony from both
survivors and liberators, it tells of the
efforts made to document the almost
unbelievable scenes that the allies
encountered on Liberation. The film
explores how a team of top filmmakers,
including Sidney Bernstein, Richard
Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock came
together to make a film to provide
undeniable evidence of what the allies
found. Each new generation deserves
access to this evidence.
UK, Israel, Italy, USA, Canada,
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
Cinephil
PRODUCTION
Angel TV
Sally Angel
18 Levontin St.
RatPac
6511207 Tel Aviv
Brett Ratner
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
CO-PRODUCTION
Cinephil – Israel,
www.cinephil.co.il
Final Cut for Real – Denmark
[email protected]
MDR – Germany,
NDR – Germany,
ARTE G.E.I.E. – Germany,
Keshet Broadcasting Ltd. – Israel,
Channel 8 – Israel
Using remarkable archive footage and testimonies, the film tells the
story of the Nazi Concentration camps’ Liberation by the allies and
their efforts to document the unbelievable scenes they encountered.
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No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons under Threat
No Lullaby
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Olivier Malvoisin
Nirgendland
Helen Simon
authors-documentaries/no-lullaby
“Search a barometer for freedom of
expression and understand any taboos
in a particular country, then take a look
at its political cartoons”. Throughout
history the fight and defence of
freedom of expression is a fight that
continuously needs to be fought. No
Laughing Matter revisits a number of
incidents around cartoons that have
made world headlines in recent years
and talks to prominent cartoonists
in Israel, in Palestine, in Germany, in
Tunisia, in France, in Belgium and in the
United States and asks the following
question: where does freedom of
expression stand today?
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Plexus Productions
The film documents the lifelong
struggle for normality by a mother and
daughter who were sexually abused
over many years. The family was sworn
to secrecy about this horrific secret. The
mother and daughter pay the ultimate
price when they break their silence.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
Filmallee
David Lindner Leporda
Marienplatz 1
H3L1A8 Montreal
04103 Leipzig
BR – Germany
Canada
Germany
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +49 341 2156638
[email protected]
[email protected]
Olivier Malvoisin
Three generations silenced
by a gruesome family secret
and a society refusing to see
reality behind closed doors.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Politics / Society
No Word for Worry
Of Men and War
Norway / Canada / Sweden,
Original Language: Norwegian/English
Subtitles: English
France / Switzerland, 2014
color, HDcam, 142’
Subtitles: French
As one of the last indigenous sea
nomads, Hook must make a courageous
voyage deep into uncharted waters
outside Myanmar to salvage the
remains of his unique oceanic culture.
The film follows Hook from the bottom
of the modern social ladder on a voyage
into the heart of the Moken’s aquatic
territory. On his quest to salvage the
remains of his legacy, he faces the
universal questions of identity, love,
loss and belonging. A unique insight
into the words last ocean dwellers.
Anger consumes a dozen veterans long
after their return from the front. These
warriors come home to the United
States, but their minds are stuck out
on the battlefield. All have traumatic
memories that haunt them to this day.
Wives, children, and parents bear the
brunt of their fractured spirits. At a
first-of-its-kind PTSD therapy center,
the protagonists resolve to end
the ongoing destruction. The boys’
therapist helps them forge meaning
from their trauma. Over several years,
Of Men and War explores their grueling
paths to recovery, as they attempt to
make peace with themselves, their past,
and their families.
Runar Jarle Wiik
Laurent Bécue-Renard
www.projectmoken.com
www.ofmenandwar.com
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Hallum / Jensen
Christian Lien Jensen
Ten Thousand Images
H3L1A8 Montreal
Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
France, Switzerland not available.
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SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Alice Films
CAT&Docs
Laurent Bécue-Renard
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
CO-PRODUCTION
Louise Productions – Switzerland
tel: +33 144617748
RTS – Switzerland,
www.catndocs.com
Lichtpunt – Belgium
[email protected]
Years after coming home, a
dozen veterans continue to
wrestle demons from the war.
Will their therapist help them
find meaning in their trauma
and leave the war behind?
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Off Road
Olya’s Love
Subtitles: English
Austria / Russia, 2014 color,
video/HDcam, 68’/52’
Subtitles: English
Elisa Amoruso
Kirill Sakharnov
www.soleilfilm.at/blog/
olyas_riot_kirill_sakharnov
Pino is a mechanic and a rally car
champion who decides to become a
woman. As a transgender, he meets
Marianna. Beatrice and Marianna
fall in love. Fighting the prejudice of
established society, both dressed as
brides, the two of them manage to get
married in Rome.
In high heels, Pino/Beatrice continues
to work as a mechanic and to pursue
his passion for off-road racing. A love
story, a ride through the life of a a very
unconventional family living in a very
conventional country, Italy. PRODUCTION
Alfredo Covelli
SALES / CONTACT
Raffaella Di Giulio
Viale Gorizia, 19
00198 Rome
Italy
A lesbian couple living in Russia. Olya
is a fighter, active member of the LGBT
community, her partner Galiya doesn’t
want to let politics rule her life. Their
love is strong, and they want to have
a baby together. When Russian Duma
launches their discriminating laws
against homosexuals, Olya starts to
fight even stronger. But their love is put
to the test . . .
SALES / CONTACT
Ksenia Sakharnova
SugarDocs film production
PRODUCTION
SugarDocs film production
Ksenia Sakharnova
Pervomayskaya st. 66-111
105043 Moscow
tel: +39 06 85218155
Belgium
[email protected]
tel: +7 499 3677185
[email protected]
Italy not available.
Pino is a mechanic and a rally
driver who decides to become
a woman. A love story, a ride
through the life of a very
unconventional family.
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Olya’s love faces the
Duma homosexuality
ban, the street riots, and
finally, is put to the test.
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On the Bride’s Side
Once My Mother
Palestine / Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’
Subtitles: English
Poland / Australia, 2013 color /
Original Language: Polish/English/Ukranian
Subtitles: English
Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry
Sophia Turkiewicz
authors-documentaries/once-my-mother
A Palestinian poet and an Italian
journalist meet five Palestinians and
Syrians in Milan who entered Europe
after fleeing the war in Syria.
They decide to help them complete
their journey to Sweden by faking a
wedding.
With a Palestinian friend dressed up as
the bride and a dozen or so Italian and
Syrian friends as wedding guests, they
cross halfway over Europe on a four-day
journey of three thousand kilometres.
This emotionally charged journey not
only brings out the stories and hopes
and dreams of the five Palestinians and
Syrians but also reveals an unknown
side of Europe. SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Gina Film
Antonio Augugliaro
CO-PRODUCTION
DocLab srl – Italy
When Sophia Turkiewicz was seven
years old, her Polish mother, Helen,
abandoned her in an Adelaide
orphanage. Sophia never forgot this
maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle
age, as Sophia examines her troubled
relationship with Helen, she discovers
the story behind Helen’s miraculous
wartime escape from a Siberian gulag,
her subsequent survival against the
odds and the truth about an historic
betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.
With Helen sliding into dementia,
Sophia must confront her own demons.
Did she ever truly know this woman
who became her mother? Does she
have it in her heart to forgive her?
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
PRODUCTION
Change Focus Media
Rod Freedman
CO-PRODUCTION
Kalejdoskop Film Studio – Poland
ABC – Australia
[email protected]
Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned
her in an orphanage and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime
escape from a Siberian gulag.
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One Man Show
One Minute for Conductors
Subtitles: English
Spain / Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 59’/87’
Japanese/English/Italian
Subtitles: English
Marcin is a 33-year-old actor, who has
never played a significant role in a
significant movie. Marcin has bent his
life to his dream of becoming a great
actor. He tries to fulfil himself as a
cabaret actor and a stand-up comedian.
Despite his frustration and problems,
he keeps on fighting. Every year, for
the last seven years, Marcin spends six
weeks working on a farm in Norway.
The money he earns gives him relative
financial independence for the rest of
the year. The film shows one year in the
protagonist’s life.
A special look into a week-long, nervewracking competition in which about
130 young people from all over the
world, take part and of which one is to
be crowned best conductor.
We see the preparations of five finalists,
their love of music and the complex
art of conducting. The beady-eyed jury
follows every participant’s gesture
and movement, who panics about
blackouts, or a poorly rehearsed piece
of music. Interviews are intercut
with footage of the competition. The
calm, soothing sounds of the classical
compositions contrast more and more
starkly with the rising tensions in the
run-up to the final.
Jakub Piatek
Angel Esteban, Elena Goatelli
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
PRODUCTION
Telemark
Maciej Kubicki
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Sydney Neter
SND Films
PRODUCTION
Kottom Films
Elena Goatelli
P.O. Box 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 4040707
www.sndfilms.com
[email protected]
Marcin is a thirty-three-yearold actor, who has never
played a significant role in
a significant movie. Despite
his frustration and problems,
he keeps on fighting.
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Only the Best for our Son
The Optimists
Subtitles: English
Norway / Sweden, 2014
Subtitles: English
Optimistene
Gunhild Westhagen Magnor
Monique Nolte
www.selfmadefilms.nl/nl/onze-producties/
bekijken/het-beste-voor-kees-2014
An intimate and cinematographic
portrait about of Kees (49) who is
autistic and is still living with his
parents.
Mother, father and son are living
together in a symbiotically relationship.
Over the years the parents have
adapted themselves to Kees his
demands, in order to make him as
happy as possible. Being used to 24/7
care of primarily his mother, Kees fully
depends on her. Kees’ father tries to
create a future perspective for his son,
but finds himself being obstructed by
his wife.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PRODUCTION
Selfmade Films
Niek Koppen
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Jan de Ruiter
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
The Netherlands
Despite their weekly training
sessions the volleyball ladies on
the extraordinary team called ‘The
Optimists‘ (age 66-98) have not played
a match for 30 years. Now this is exactly
the plan. But against whom? Rumours
say there is a group of handsome
Swedish gentlemen across the border.
Goro (98) is the Queen of the team with
her will power and purple Converse
shoes. Laughter is their match strategy.
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Skofteland Film
CAT&Docs
Hilde Skofteland
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
CO-PRODUCTION
Mantaray Film – Sweden
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
NRK – Norway,
www.nposales.com
SVT – Sweden
[email protected]
[email protected]
The volleyball ladies The
Optimists (66-98) haven’t
played a proper match in 30
years. Until now. Fearing age?
Queen of the team Goro (98)
might change your ideas.
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Politics / Society | History | Investigative
The Orchestra. Claudio Abbado and the
Musicians of the Mozart Orchestra
The Other Man – F. W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid
Original Language: German/English/Italian
Subtitles: English
USA / South Africa, 2014
Original Language: Afrikaans/English
The Mozart Orchestra has been
founded in Bologna (Italy) ten years
ago by Master Claudio Abbado. The
Orchestra brings together the best
classical music performers in the
world by mixing young promises and
well established solo artists. Among
them: Johani Gonzales, a young
double bass player coming from one
of the worst slum in Caracas and the
famous German trumpeter Reinhold
Friedrich. The documentary, following
the Orchestra’s European tour in
2012-2013, offers a unic and favourite
glance on Master Abbado’s work
and on classical music player s’job in
contemporary times.
F. W. de Klerk was South Africa’s last
white apartheid-era President. In less
than four years he went from being
Mandela’s jailor to his deputy president.
Together Mandela and de Klerk changed
the face of South African history and
warded off a potential civil war. Yet
little is known about de Klerk. Through
his probing lens, award winning director
Rossier explores de Klerk’s fascinating
political journey and controversial
legacy. The film features in-depth
interviews with de Klerk himself, Thabo
Mbeki (former president of S. A. ), Albie
Sachs (anti-apartheid activist) and
many others who played a vital role in
pre- and post-apartheid South Africa. Nicolas Rossier
L’Orchestra. Claudio Abbado e i Musicisti della Mozart
Helmut Failoni, Francesco Merini
www.mammutfilm.it/index.php?id=1379517835
www.deklerkthefilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Rudi Gaudron
EuroArts
Bundesallee 39 – 40
10717 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 (0)30 863 90 35-25
[email protected]
Italy, Italian Switzerland not available.
The last tour of the great Maestro Abbado and
his Mozart Classical music Orchestra.
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PRODUCTION
Mammut Film Srl
Ilaria Malagutti
SALES / CONTACT
Carol Spycher
Accent Films International Ltd.
Rue de la Gare 46
1820 Montreux
PRODUCTION
Baraka Productions
Nicolas Rossier
CO-PRODUCTION
Naason Zalk Media – South Africa
Switzerland
tel: +41 21 9639300
accent-films.com
[email protected]
The Other Man is feature documentary about Nobel Peace Prize laureate
F.W.de Klerk, South Africa’s last white apartheid-era President.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Experimental
Othon
Our City
Portugal, 2014 color, HDcam, 37’/30’
Subtitles: English
Belgium / The Netherlands,
Subtitles: English
Guillaume Pazat, Martim Ramos
Maria Tarantino
www.pvhfilm.nl/ourcity
Once a mark of glitter and success in
the heart of Sao Paulo, OTHON Palace
Hotel met its days of decay until it
eventually closed in 2008. Four years
later, the abandoned rooms behind
closed doors were squattered by more
than 800 people claiming the right to
a house. They are families unable to
pay the overrated rents of São Paulo.
From the everyday struggle of carrying
water through the stairs to the sharing
of expectations and dreams regarding
the future, these inhabitants open
themselves and share their daily routine
as poor men in the richest city of Latin
America.
SALES / CONTACT
Fernando Centeio
PRODUCTION
Zul Filmes
Zul Filmes
Fernando Centeio
Rua Nova da Trindade, nº1, 2º Drt
1200-301 Lisboa
Portugal
tel: +351 21 346 6427
[email protected]
Brussels, the capital of European
abstraction is digging its contemporary
grave, a giant empty office, while the
Brussels that still breathes resists in
the narrow spaces forgotten by the
administrative grip. You can hear its
multicultural heart beating and make
out the traces of all those other cities
that everyone carries within oneself.
The film sails over these turbulent
waters in search of a distance that
could give back some meaning to what
has has lost it, in the form of a social
poem or a documentary musical based
on intimacy and reflection.
SALES / CONTACT
Pieter van Huystee
Big Pete
PRODUCTION
Wildundomesticated
Maarten Schmidt
Noordermarkt 37-39
Maria Tarantino
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
CO-PRODUCTION
Pieter van Huystee Film –
tel: +31 20 421 0606
The Netherlands
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
In the heart of Sao Paulo over
800 people occupy a former
luxury hotel. They struggle
for a decent life and fight for
a place they can call home.
The city of Brussels, portrayed through a hybrid narration
between documentary musical and social poem: the capital
of Europe we think we know but actually never see.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Our Colonial Hangover
Parador Húngaro
Colombia / Hungary, 2014 color
/ black and white, video, 79’
Hungarian/English
Subtitles: English
Zwart als Roet
Sunny Bergman
Patrick Alexander, Aseneth Suárez Ruiz
www.paradorhungaro.com
Sunny Bergman analyses the debate
in The Netherlands around the racist
component in the attitude towards
Black Peter. Is the black face assistant a
children’s friend, an insulting stereotype
with roots in a colonial past, or is he
part of an innocent tradition that
should not be tampered with? The Pro
and Against stood face to face last
year. The question arises how tolerant
Dutch society really is. In a personal
quest Bergman charts subconscious
prejudices, every-day racism and the
heritage of the colonial past. She has
conversations with friends and exposes
the phenomenon “white privilege” in
her own circles.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Schollenbrugstraat 4
1091 EX Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
De Familie Film & TV
Margreet Ploegmakers
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6633303
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
The film will be online after November
27 on Docs for Sale. Buyers who
would like to attend the premiere
on November 27 should contact the
producer: [email protected].
A personal quest of Sunny Bergman in response to the increasing
fierceness of the debate around “Black Peter”, the blackfaced
helper of Santa Claus. Are we more racist than we think?
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Parador Húngaro, named after
the decades-old fast food joint in
downtown Bogotá, sheds light on the
lives of two very different immigrants:
One is a Hungarian soldier, Gyuri Villás,
who escaped to the West in the 1950s.
The other is the son of a U. S. soldier,
Patrick Alexander, who ran to the East
in the 1990s. When their paths cross
in Bogotá, Colombia in 2006, this odd
couple form an unlikely friendship by
sharing memories of the same land but
of very different times, and old feelings
get stirred up, for better or for worse.
Part road trip, part buddy film and
part family album, Parador Húngaro
is a personal reflection on immigrant
identity: what we leave behind, what
we learn anew, and what it’s like to go
back ’home’ again. SALES / CONTACT
Aseneth Suárez Ruiz
Maquina Andante
PRODUCTION
Maquina Andante
Andrea Said
Gellerthegy utca 6
Aseneth Suárez Ruiz
1016 Budapest
CO-PRODUCTION
Umbrella – Hungary
Hungary
tel: + 36 70 353 75 74
www.paradorhungaro.com
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Endre Venczel
Ristretto Distribution Kft.
Felso Duna sor 17
1238 Budapest
Hungary
[email protected]
The story of what happens in
between where we are born and
who we decide to be. The only
place we can really call home.
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Paraguay: Chronicle of a Foretold Coup
Partner With the Enemy – Making it in the Middle East
Paraguay, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’/105’
Subtitles: English
Israel, 2014 color, HDcam/video, 56’
Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic
Subtitles: English
Paraguay: Chronicle of a Foretold Coup
is a Shakespearian drama about power.
In a political thriller crescendo, we
follow the adventures of Fernando
Lugo, former bishop of the Liberation
Theology elected President of Paraguay
in 2008 and his staff. Until the tragic
ending, the coup d’état of June 2012, we
benefit from a unique behind-the-scene
point of view. A unique period in history
is documented in an intimate, universal
film, providing an insight on the fragile
nature of politics.
Brought together by a shared business
acumen of the logistics industry,
the women combine forces to help
Palestinian businessmen navigate
the everyday absurdities of the Israeli
occupation. But while they help their
clients overcome the obstacles of
bureaucracy and security, will they
overcome their own differences?
Anna Recalde Miranda
SALES / CONTACT
PRODUCTION
50 rue piat
75020 paris
CO-PRODUCTION
La compagie de Phares et balises
France
– France
Duki Dror
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
8050 Zurich
tel: +33671932760
Switzerland
[email protected]
tel: +41 44 3122060
PRODUCTION
Zygote Films
Duki Dror
[email protected]
The dream for a change has finally come true: the Bishop of the poor
became President. The nightmare for him is about to begin...
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An Israeli and a Palestinian are trying to build a
business partnership against all odds.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Peep Show
Paths Through the Labyrinth – The
Composer Krzysztof Penderecki
Wege durchs Labyrinth – Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki
Anna Schmidt
Germany / Poland, 2013 color, HDcam, 104’
Original Language: Polish/German
Subtitles: German/Polish/English
Matthias Schmidt
www.eikon-film.de/produktionen/
details/wege-durchs-labyrinth-derkomponist-krzysztof-penderecki.html
Even at over 80 Krzysztof Penderecki
is still an unflinching and highly active
composer and conductor. Director Anna
Schmidt followed Penderecki´s paths
for a year – in the process interviewing
such worldfamous artists as AnneSophie Mutter, Julian Rachlin and Janine
Jansen as well as Jonny Greenwood
(Radiohead) and legendary film
director Anrzej Wajda. As a result, Paths
Through the Labyrinth has become
a comprehensive “work in progress“
documentary. Thoughts, dialogues,
encounters and extracts from several
famous Penderecki compositions
coalesce into a fascinating, multilayered
portrayal of one of today´s most
influential musicians.
Germany, Poland, Japan, Russia,
Ukraine not available.
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SALES / CONTACT
Elmar Kruse
C Major Entertainment
PRODUCTION
EIKON Media
Ulli Pfau
Holm Taddiken
Kaiserdamm 31
D14057 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 30306465
www.cmajor-entertainment.com
[email protected]
A portrait of Krzysztof
Penderecki because of
his 80th birthday which
gives away exceptional
insights to a man with
various passions: Music,
Botany and Philosophy.
Live Peep Shows were a magnet for
many men in the 1970/80s, but now
are a dying breed. The film takes a
look at the comings and goings of a
phenomenon that some regard the
last step in the fight for sexual liberty.
It visits peep shows around the globe,
looks back into their history and meets
the last of their kind and the people
involved who witness the end of a
disputable institution.
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
PRODUCTION
Little Kong Films
Rise and Shine
Ito Herrmann
Matthias Nerlich
10997 Berlin
ZDF/ARTE – Germany
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
[email protected]
Peep Show takes a look at
the comings and goings of
a phenomenon that some
regard the last step in the
fight for sexual liberty.
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Pekka
Penthouse North
Original Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English
Original Language: English/Swedish
Subtitles: English
On November 7th 2007, eighteen-yearold Finnish student (Pekka), shot eight
people at the high school in Jokela, a
small town north of Helsinki. Pekka
reconstructs the events that led to this
terrible act, committed by a boy who
seemed to be such an ordinary kid.
Spree shootings are a phenomenon
that only seem to occur in the Western
world.
Former Swedish cover-girl Agneta
Eckemyr’s days of living the high-life
are over. At one time, a sexy bombshell
with a promising movie career, today
at 62, she is alone and broke. The one
thing she does retain is a beautiful rentcontrolled New York City penthouse.
But, the landlord of the Central Park
apartment is evicting her. Her chaotic
lifestyle and delusional way of thinking
makes things worse. She can’t even find
a copy of her lease. If Agneta’s fortune
was her face was she truly fortunate?
Johanna St Michaels
SALES / CONTACT
Yaniv Wolf
Submarine
Arie Biemondstraat 111
1054 PD Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
Submarine
Femke Wolting
CO-PRODUCTION
Vaski Filmi – Finland
The Netherlands
tel: +31203301226
www.submarine.nl
[email protected]
Eighteen-year-old Finnish student Pekka, shot eight people at the high school
in Jokela, Finland. Pekka reconstructs the events that led to this terrible act.
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Alexander Oey
Sweden, Finland not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Robin Brinster
PRODUCTION
Saint Michaels production AB
Illumina Films
Johanna St Michaels
1017PG Amsterdam
SVT – Sweden,
The Netherlands
YLE – Finland
tel: +31 20 6248395
[email protected]
Former supermodel Agneta
Eckemyr days of living the
high-life have come to an
end. Her beauty faded,
she’s alone and broke
struggling to hang on to
her New York penthouse.
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Catalogue No. 390
Pepe Mujica – Lessons from the Flowerbed
Pervert Park
Sweden / Denmark, 2014
Pepe Mujica – Lektionen eines Erdklumpens
Heidi Specogna
Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors
current-affairs-politics/pepe-mujicalessons-from-the-flowerbed
Pepe Mujica has become famous for
being the „world’s poorest president“.
The former guerilla fighter and flower
grower is currently considered one of
the most charismatic politicians of
Latin America. Old and young believe
in him thanks to his humble lifestyle
and his unconventional manners,
where political protocol is concerned.
His political visions, among them his
sensational regulation of the marihuana
market, have created international
interest. In private meetings and
conversations with filmmakers on
his farm, which he still runs with his
partner Lucía Topolansky, he grants
them an insightful glimpse into his
unusual believes and visions. 324
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Heino Deckert
04103 Leipzig
WDR – Germany,
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
SRF – Switzerland
[email protected]
A portrait of the eventful life
of Pepe Mujica – a former
guerilla fighter and flower
grower, and the current
president of Uruguay.
Florida Justice Transitions is home to
120 convicted sex offenders. Like in
many other U. S. states, sex offenders
are not allowed to live within 1000
feet of places frequented by children.
Because of this, many sex offenders live
under bridges or in woods – or in the
trailer park Florida Justice Transitions
– known as Pervert Park The crimes
committed by the residents range from
simple misdemeanors to horrendous
acts unbearable to contemplate. The
characters in Pervert Park are all fighting
their own very different battles and
demons. They tell us their stories as
they have never told them before.
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
De Andra
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Frida Barkfors
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
Pervert Park follows
the everyday lives of
the sex offenders in the
park as they struggle to
reintegrate into society.
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Catalogue No. 392
Piel Marcada
Pixadores
Switzerland, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 52’
Subtitles: English
Finland / Denmark / Sweden, 2014
color / black and white, HDcam, 90’
Subtitles: English
Tuulensieppaajat
Amir Escandari
Franziska Engelhardt, Christian Wyss
www.yellowaffair.com/web/guest/pr
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There is no war – nevertheless, Central
America has the highest homicide
rate in the world. Gangs known as the
Maras terrorise the populace. The film
embarks on a road trip to explore the
phenomenon of violence in Guatemala,
Honduras and in El Salvador, portraying
the brutal realities on various levels:
the source of the violence, those who
orchestrate it and those who suffer
because of it. An informant working for
the police offers rare insight into the
phenomenon: he explains everyday life,
structures and the Maras’ actions with
dreadful ease.
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
PRODUCTION
Franziska Engelhardt
13 rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
France
tel: +330142775687
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
German Switzerland not available.
Central America has the
highest homicide rate in
the world. Gangs known
as the Maras terrorise the
populace in Guatemala,
Honduras and in El Salvador.
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Djan, William, Ricardo and Biscoito
are four young men with a drive and
inspired vision to make a difference.
They are street artists with a mission.
They climb the highest buildings,
at huge personal risk, to paint
their messages. Called anarchists
or criminals, they call themselves
soldiers. When invited to Berlin, in
recognition of their art, noone can
suspect what they will do. Their belief
in pushing the boundaries, of defying
laws or standards, can only end up
landing them in hot water. For all their
adventure, their recognition and good
intentions, there is, ultimately, a price
to pay.
SALES / CONTACT
Chris Howard
PRODUCTION
Helsinki Filmi
The Yellow Affair
Miia Haavisto
Götgatan 9
11646 Stockholm
CO-PRODUCTION
Fridthjof Film – Denmark,
Sweden
Story AB – Sweden
tel: 004686451212
www.yellowaffair.com
[email protected]
The adventurous story of
four young impoverished
Braziliians who push
boundaries, risking their
lives to get out their
anarchic message.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Placebo
Planet Asperger
India / Finland, 2014 color / black
and white, video, 96’/60’/52’
Subtitles: English
After witnessing an act of brutal
violence, a film maker starts following
the lives of four students at one of
the toughest med schools in the
world. However, as the camera starts
infiltrating this complex mindscape of
ambition and restless youth, a startling
new reality begins to emerge- one in
which lines between life and death blur
easily.
They have always known that they’re
different. They didn’t understand the
rules of this “normal planet”. Now
they know that they have Asperger
Syndrome and that the force that pulled
them towards their inner world was
autism.
This documentary explores the
behaviour of Michelle (16), Regina (31),
Marcos (12) and Victor (22) dealing with
their Asperger’s diagnosis with the
purpose of portraying their particular
way to see the world and their efforts
to fit in ours and to be understood.
Planeta Asperger
Maria Barroso, Ricardo De Gracia
Abhay Kumar
www.planetasperger.com
www.storytellerink.net
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Storyteller ink.
CAT&Docs
Abhay Kumar
18 rue Quincampoix #133
Archana Phadke
75004 paris
CO-PRODUCTION
Helsiniki Filmi Oy – Finland
France
tel: +33 1 44 617748
www.catndocs.com
YLE – Finland
[email protected]
In the dorms of the toughest
med school in the world, the
lives of four students start
unraveling in unexpected
ways as a camera infiltrates
their tight knit universe.
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Roberto Butragueño
Elamedia
PRODUCTION
Elamedia
Roberto Butragueño
c/ eros, 7
28045 madrid
Spain
tel: 0034687104929
www.elamedia.es
[email protected]
I have a will.
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Plaza Man
The Polgar Variant
Israel, 2014 color / black and
white, HDcam, 68’
Hebrew/Hungarian
Subtitles: English
Variant Polgar
Yossi Aviram
Kasper Verkaik
www.zeppers.nl/nl/filmnl/plaza-man
www.ruthfilms.com/the-polgar-variant.html
On the day John F. Kennedy was
assassinated, November 22 1963, it
was Robert Groden’s 18th birthday.
Kennedy’s death changed his life
profoundly. In 1975 Robert shocked
millions of Americans when he released
the classified Zapruder film on national
television. This amateur footage of
Kennedy’s brutal murder forced US
Congress to reopen the case, inviting
Robert to join the investigation. It was
the start of an obsessive crusade that
would make Robert Groden America’s
most famous JFK conspiracy theorist.
But privately, as a father and husband,
his obsession came at a high price.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Frank van den Engel
Bart de Graaffweg 2
IKON – The Netherlands
1217 ZL Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
For 50 years now Robert Groden has tried to find the
truth about who killed President John F. Kennedy.
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PRODUCTION
Zeppers Film & TV
The Polgar sisters did not choose to
become the heroines of this story. It
was their father, who, driven by his
educational vision, determined their
destiny before they were even born.
László Polgár believed that “Geniuses
are made, not born,” and he set out
to prove it. The canvas he chose was
his three daughters. The medium he
chose was chess. No kindergarten,
no school…. Three girls, isolated from
the normal world of kids, studied and
practiced chess – with surprising and
remarkable results.
SALES / CONTACT
Ruth Diskin
PRODUCTION
Amir Harel
Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.
Lama Films
P.O.Box 7153
Ayelet Kait
91071 Jerusalem
CO-PRODUCTION
Lama Films – Israel
Israel
tel: +972 2 6724256
www.ruthfilms.com
Second Authority for Televison
[email protected]
– Israel
The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were
raised in communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters.
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Polish for Beginners
The Possibilities Are Endless
The Netherlands, 2014 color,
video/HDcam, 26’
England, 2014 color, DCP, 83’
Stella Maris is home to 400 migrant
workers from Poland. The Dutch hotel
offers comfortable, renovated rooms,
Polish television, entertainment, and a
gym, so the residents do not want for
anything. But do they find what they
are looking for? Life in Stella Maris is
overshadowed by the hopes of another
life, raising the question: What are
your dreams worth? If we think only
of our future, does the presence lose
its meaning? Polish for Beginners is a
quiet portrait that sketches the reality
of waiting and of the hope for a better
future. The Possibilities Are Endless tells the
incredible story of Edwyn Collins, the
Scottish songwriter who suffered a
stroke, an explosion in the brain so
severe that it effectively deleted the
contents of his mind. After a career as
an internationally acclaimed lyricist, he
lost all language and was only able to
say two phrases: ‘The Possibilities are
Endless’ and ‘Grace Maxwell’. The film
is narrated by Edwyn, trapped inside his
devastated mind and his wife Grace,
the woman who pulled him back to life.
More than just a story of determination
against all odds; it is an intimate and
life-affirming journey of rediscovery
that celebrates how love, music and
language shape our lives. Pools voor Beginners
Josefien Kooten, Anna Witte
SALES / CONTACT
Jeroen Neus
James Hall, Edward Lovelace
PRODUCTION
Lumineus Filmproducties
Lumineus Filmproducties
Carine van Vugt
Reduitlaan 27-1.1
CO-PRODUCTION
Roos Breukel – The Netherlands
4814 DC Breda
The Netherlands
tel: +3176 8200194
Omroep Brabant –
lumineus.nl
The Netherlands
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Julia Nottingham
PRODUCTION
Pulse Films
17 Hanbury Street
Thomas Benski
E1 6QR London
Julia Nottingham
England
Lucas Ochoa
tel: +44 (0) 207 426 5700
[email protected]
Polish for Beginners is a quiet portrait of a Dutch hotel for migrant workers,
that sketches the reality of waiting and of the hope for a better future.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Pretty Ugly
Pretty Village
Subtitles: English
Wales / Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Original Language: Bosnian/English
Subtitles: English
Schön Kann Jeder
Jan Tenhaven
Lijepa Sela
Dave Evans
www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/
productions/prettyugly
In the age of photoshop, the
pressure on the ugly, wrinkled and
pigeonchested has never been so great.
But Del Keens, a selfconfessed gargoyle,
is here to turn the tables. After being
scouted by an advertising photographer
and fronting major campaigns by
Levi’s and Calvin Klein, he’s forming his
own modelling agency – good-lookers
need not apply. But is this a liberating
counter concept? Or simply coquetry to
reaffirm our ideal of beauty?
Journeyman Pictures holds
worldwide distribution rights, with
the exceptions of the Germanspeaking countries and France.
www.prettyvillagefilm.co.uk
SALES / CONTACT
Emma Simpson
PRODUCTION
Christian Beetz
Journeyman Pictures
Gebrueder Beetz
4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton,
Filmproduktion
Surrey, UK
Susanne Radelhof
KT7 0RY London
England
tel: +44 208 3984616
www.journeyman.tv
[email protected]
Twenty years after the end of The
Bosnian War, concentration camp
survivor Kemal Pervanic returns to his
village to find a community still at war
with itself..
The events of that war continue
to resonate as Kemal’s family and
neighbours search for their loved
ones while their former neighbours
remain silent. When Kemal tracks
down the school teacher who tortured
him in the camps he is forced to ask if
reconciliation can ever be possible while
the perpetrators of terrible crimes are
still free.
SALES / CONTACT
Dave Evans
Wing & A Prayer Films
PRODUCTION
Wing & A Prayer Films
Dave Evans
38 Marion Street
Pretty Village Films Ltd.
CF24 2DJ Cardiff
Kemal Pervanic
Wales
tel: +44 790 4524475
www.prettyvillagefilm.co.uk
[email protected]
Can a modelling agency
for ugly people change our
perception of beauty?
Kevljani, Bosnia, 2014: A small band of exiles return to their
ruined village. As they rebuild their lives they find that
their former neighbours still have secrets to guard.
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Catalogue No. 401
Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Price Of My Life
Priest of Burden
Original Language: Ukranian/
English/Romanian/German
Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 80’/58’
Subtitles: Spanish/Sami/
Norwegian/English
Human life is priceless, as they say, and
yet numbers of experts around the
world maintain that they can calculate
the monetary value of a human life.
They juggle numbers in the name
of their countries’ governments, for
insurance companies, health agencies,
the military, etc. . . “What am I worth?”
is the question that filmmaker Peter
Scharf asks himself as he reaches midlife and sets out to find these various
calculators of human life. The result is
an absurdly comical and enlighteningly
unsettling trip that takes him through
six different countries and examines
the most bizarre and bold calculation
methods.
The priest Boerre Knudsen is the
most famous anti-abortion activist in
Norway. His extensive demonstrations
made him a hated man. He was accused
of having a psychiatric diagnose and
stealing the famous Edward Munch
painting «The Scream» from The
National Gallery. Knudsen has now
developed Parkinson`s disease and his
wife is caring for him in everyday life.
It is an intimate loving life between an
elderly couple, but also a life in despair,
about lost ideals and the damaged
relationship with their five children. This
is a film about fighting for what you
believe in without thinking about the
consequences.
Was Bin ich Wert?
Peter Scharf
Germany, Flamish speaking
Belgium not available.
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En Prest og en Plage
Fridtjof Kjæreng
fx.no/eng
SALES / CONTACT
Elina Kewitz
PRODUCTION
Bildersturm Filmproduktion
NEW DOCS
Birgit Schulz
Dasselstraße 75-77
50674 Koeln
ZDF/3sat – Germany,
Germany
WDR – Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743
www.newdocs.de
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Benedikte Bredesen
f(x) produksjoner as
Bakkelokka 2
3490 Klokkarstua
PRODUCTION
f(x) produksjoner as
Benedikte Bredesen
NRK – Norway
Norway
tel: +4798048899
fx.no/eng
[email protected]
Questioning the value of
one’s own life. A journey
through the world of the
people who calculate
the monetary value of
other people’s lives.
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Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Youth | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Print the Legend
Probation Time
Subtitles: English
Tkufat Mivchan
Avigail Sperber
Luis Lopez, Clay Tweel
printthefilm.com
www.go2films.com/NewReleases/Probation-Time
3D printing is changing the world –
from printing guns and human organs,
to dismantling the world’s industrial
infrastructure by enabling home
manufacturing. It’s “the next Industrial
Revolution. ” For the first time in
history, the stories of the human beings
building an industry have been filmed.
The result: Print the Legend, which
follows the people racing to bring 3D
printing to your desktop and into your
life. For the winners, there are fortunes
– and history – to be made. Print the
Legend is the definitive 3D Printing
Documentary.
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
PRODUCTION
Audax Films
Seth Gordon
Dan O’Meara
EC1V 3QN London
Chad Troutwine
England
tel: +44 207 253 6244
www.dogwoof.com
[email protected]
USA, Canada, Lat America, Scadinavia,
Benelux, German speaking
Europe, France not available.
3D printing is changing the world. Print the Legend follows the people
racing to bring you this hot new technology to your home.
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Avigail, the director of this film, is
dealing with a break-up from her
girlfriend and with raising their child.
At the same time, her religious family
in Jerusalem is struggling with the
“demons” threatening to overwhelm
their daughter Ariella: alcoholism,
petty thefts, and prison. Ariella is
an Ethiopian girl, who was adopted
by Avigail’s parents when she was
four. Does the story of Ariella have
an inevitable ending? Can she accept
and absorb the love and concern that
surround her? Is her family able to love
her unconditionally? A portrayal of the
fragile bonds that make up a family.
SALES / CONTACT
Hedva Goldschmidt
Go2Films
37/8 Issar Natanzon
PRODUCTION
Ilanit Baumann, Enav Shenar
Yes Docu – Israel
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 25831371
www.go2films.com
[email protected]
A religious family struggles
with the “demons”
threatening to overwhelm
their adopted daughter:
alcoholism, petty thefts,
and prison. A depiction
of the fragile bonds that
make up a family.
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Catalogue No. 99
History | Politics / Society
Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Projections of America
:Puck and the Riddle of Codes
The Netherlands, 2014 color,
HDcam/video, 54’
Subtitles: English
In the 1940’s Academy Award-winning
screenwriter Robert Riskin headed
up an American secret film unit that
sought to redefine America in the eyes
of the world amidst World War II. They
produced films that showed America’s
strength not through images of tanks,
but instead in portraits of farmers and
window washers.
Projections of America tells the dramatic
story of Riskin and his team, and the
risks they took to project a profoundly
democratic vision of the nation that
would soon emerge as the most
powerful on earth.
Puck does not remember exactly, but
it was somewhere around the age of
seven when he taught himself the
English language. He had to do so
because he grew up with the Dutch
language, which was not suitable for
programming with languages such as
Java (JS), Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) and Hypertext Preprocessor
(PHP). According to Puck, this
programming lingo is his actual mother
tongue. At twelve, he mastered eight
languages.
Puck sees the world, the ubiquitous
digital technology, as one big
playground. A world of unlimited
possibilities, where rules can be unclear
and Puck often outsmarts the adults . . . :Puck en het Raadsel van de Codes
Tessa Boerman
Peter Miller
www.docdays.de
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Docdays Productions
Christian Popp
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Riskin’s unit created brilliant,
moving portraits of America
that were unlike any
films ever made before.
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Suzanne van Voorst
IDTV Docs
PRODUCTION
IDTV Docs
Carolijn Borgdorff
Kraanspoor 50
Suzanne van Voorst
1033SE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 314 3100
www.idtvdocs.nl
[email protected]
Thirteen-year-old whiz kid
Puck masters programming
codes like no other. He
calls for a great deal of
admiration, but also awe; he
leaves a trail of confusion.
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Nature / Environment | Art / Music / Culture
The Queen of Silence
The Queen’s New Garden
Germany / Poland, 2014
Original Language: Romany/Polish
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Dronningens Nye Have
Jacob Topsøe
Agnieszka Zwiefka
authors-documentaries/the-queen-of-silence
10 years old Denisa is an outcast in
many ways. She is an illegal citizen of
a gypsy camp in Poland, a woman in
a patriarchal gypsy community and
most of all – she doesn’t speak as
no one has ever diagnosed her with
severe hearing disabilities. She lives in
a world of her own, full of rhythm and
dance, imitating the glamorous women
from the Bollywood DVDs she found
in a nearby garbage. Dancing she can
be anyone she wants, even a queen,
and express what she can‘t say – joy,
sadness and fear.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
Iris Pakulla
04103 Leipzig
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION
Chilli Productions – Poland,
tel: +49 341 2156638
Stefilm International – Italy
HBO Polska – Poland,
[email protected]
ZDF – Germany,
YLE – Finland
For years the Danish monarch Queen
Margrethe II has been looking out on a
palace garden in sad decay.
But then a large-scale project begins,
involving hundreds of professionals.
The goal: To make the gardens at
Fredensborg shine again, as they did in
their prime two hundred and fifty years
ago.
The Queen herself joins the decisionmaking processes, as historic trees
are felled, tons of dirt moved around,
and unique sculptures given new life.
The job is in the hands of some of the
kingdom’s most skilled architects and
artisans. But nature puts up plenty of
resistance.
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Ulrik Skotte
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
A deaf girl from an illegal
Roma settling escapes the
brutal reality of everyday life
into the world of rhythm,
dance and imagination.
The documentary includes interviews with the Queen, describing her relation
with Fredensborg and commenting on the work going on in the garden
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History | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Race to the Bottom
Radical Evil
Subtitles: English
Austria / Germany, 2014 color,
Subtitles: English
Østarbejdernes Bagmænd
Poul-Erik Heilbuth, Georg Larsen
Das Radikal Böse
Stefan Ruzowitzky
www.radical-evil.com
We go behind the scenes of the
companies that make fortunes sending
workers from one part of Europe to
another: from East to West.
The enlargement of EU has embraced a
large population of poor workers from
Eastern Europe, who are more than
willing to travel for work and to work
for less under horrible conditions. The
huge labour migration is being run
by companies like Irish Atlanco and
Polish Budomex who value discretion
as exploitation, tax-evasion, illegal
working conditions etc. seem to be the
order of the day. SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Corporation
Emil Holms Kanal 20
Sidsel Marie Jacobsen
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 3520 2299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
Radical Evil is an extraordinary
film marked by Oscar®-winning
director Stefan Ruzowitzky’s scenic
transformations for which the film’s
DoP Benedict Neuenfels has developed
a unique visual language. The
perpetrators are members of the Nazi
death squads, who killed about 2 million
Jewish civilians in Eastern Europe. We
hear their thoughts as they wrote them
down in letters, we hear what they
said at court: Why they did not refuse
to execute the horrific orders, how
killing became a routine, how they were
manipulated by their leaders. A panel of
psychologists, historians and genocide
experts helps us to understand.
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
PRODUCTION
docMovie
Wolfgang Richter
8050 Zurich
CO-PRODUCTION
Aichholzer Filmproduktion –
Switzerland
Austria
tel: +41 44 3122060
ZDF – Germany,
[email protected]
ORF – Austria
A film about a world full
of fraud, false expectations
and loads of cash going
in the wrong pockets.
Why do normal people become mass murderers? Why do decent family
fathers end up killing women, children and babies on a daily basis?
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Catalogue No. Experimental | Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture
Raiders
Ready to Live!
Israel / Germany, 2014 color, HDcam, 60’
Subtitles: English
Georgian Republic, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Russian/Georgian
Subtitles: English
Approximately twenty thousand
Russian houses, businesses, factories
and private land have all been victims
of hostile seizures annually, not by
individuals, but by an organized
corporation. This “enterprise” comprises
criminal bosses, well-known politicians,
oligarchs, police officers, judges and
prosecutors – the “Raiders” – who will
commit any crime in order to take over
a lucrative business. The film offers
a fascinating close-examination, by
following raided victims, some of
whom are now London-based exiled
businessmen.
A celebration of the human spirit, this
film features old people united in their
passion for theatre and their need to
escape the perils of old age and the
everyday realities of life. In a ramshackle
apartment in Tbilisi they hold public
auditions and rehearse for their
amateur theatrical review.
The company comprises a former
theatre prompter, a life model, an
acclaimed scientist, a 99-year-old
clown, a revolutionary poet, an opera
singer and several aging prostitutes.
Then Sian Philips, Roger Lloyd-Pack
and Anne Firbank arrive unexpectedly.
The result is life affirming and funny,
even when their apartment building is
demolished. Alexander Gentelev
George Levashov-Tumanishvili
cinephil.co.il/raiders
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
PRODUCTION
Saxonia Entertainment
Cinephil
Simone Baumann
18 Levontin St.
Sasha Klein Productions LTD
6511207 Tel Aviv
Sasha Klein
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
ARTE France – Germany,
www.cinephil.co.il
ZDF – Germany,
[email protected]
IBA – Channel 1 – Israel
Germany, Israel, France,
Poland not available.
Approximately 20,000
Russian houses, businesses
and private land have
been victims of hostile
seizures annually by an
organized corporation of
criminal bosses, politicians,
oligarchs and men of
law – the “Raiders”.
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Marina Tsitsishvili
Moon Globe Productions
PRODUCTION
Moon Globe Productions
Marina Tsitsishvili
62 Titsian Tabidze St.,
0179 Tbilisi
Georgian Republic
tel: +995 32 222293959
[email protected]
A group of elderly
Georgians gather in a
shabby apartment to stage
a theatrical review as a
light-hearted antidote to
the world around them.
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Catalogue No. Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Rebellion
Relief
Poland / Qatar, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’
Subtitles: English
USA / Mexico, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’
Subtitles: English
The Round Table talks and the first,
partially free, parliamentary elections
in June 1989 brought hope for better
future for many, also prisoners, often
convicted because of minor criminal
and economic offences. Great hopes for
amnesty aroused at first soon billowed
into disappointment, discontent and
revolt. The documentary presents the
largest prison riots in Europe after
World War II that took place in the
penitentiaries in Nowogard, Czarne and
Goleniów.
Blanca, Angeles and Lupita grew up in
different regions of Mexico with an
abusive father figure and a submissive
mother who failed to protect them.
With their stories, each of them
represent a different form of abuse
towards women which still prevail in
low-income Latin America. After many
struggles, these single-mothers seek
to educate themselves and acquire a
profession they consider to be their true
calling: Becoming Nurses. It is through
their daily work with patients that they
discover a path for emotional healing,
learn to come to terms with their past,
and enable a better future for their
daughters.
Alivio
Carla González Vargas
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
PRODUCTION
Vision House
Krzysztof Dzieciolowski
31-143 Krakow
CO-PRODUCTION
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Poland
– Qatar
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
The documentary presents the largest prison riots in Europe after
World War II that took place in the penitentiaries in Poland in 1989.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Byl Bunt
Malgorzata Kozera-Topinska
SALES / CONTACT
Carla González Vargas
The Whistling Man
PRODUCTION
The Whistling Man
Liliana Pardo
12610 Promontory Road
90049 Los Angeles, California
USA
tel: +13105954990
[email protected]
Three low-income, single
mothers, from different
regions in Mexico, attempt
to heal painful memories
through implementing
a profession they’ve
fought very hard to
achieve: being nurses.
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Catalogue No. 412
History | Art / Music / Culture
Rich Hill
Rio 50 Degrees
Brazil / England / Germany,
Subtitles: English
The tragic and intimate Sundance
winning story of 3 young boys living in
desperate poverty in a poor Missouri
town. Stores closed, people moved
away, farms sold. The story of Rich Hill
could be told in hundreds of towns
across America. Amongst the squalor
and shattered dreams the camera
achieves a relationship with the boys
that is startling in its unabashed
honesty and crafted quality.
A journey through time that reflects on
the social, political, financial, musical
and cultural revolutions that have taken
place in Rio over the past 40 turbulent
years. It is also a journey through the
city’s evolving and eclectic music
scene, and an expression on the power
of music – as a form of protest and
comment – that can be a catalyst for
change.
Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Julien Temple
www.richhillfilm.com
Please contact Sales Agent
for available regions.
SALES / CONTACT
Alexandra Mercieca
PRODUCTION
Andrew Droz Palermo
Journeyman Pictures
Dinky Pictures
4-6 High Street
Tracy Droz Tragos
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
England
tel: +44 20 87866059
www.journeyman.tv
UK, France, Germany, Brazil
territories not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Andre leBrocquy
Metro Films
PRODUCTION
Film & Music Entertainment Ltd.
Mike Downey
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Samantha Taylor
WC2A 3ED London
England
BBC – England,
tel: +44 207 3965301
WDR/ARTE – Germany
[email protected]
[email protected]
Sundance winning doc on
young rural Americans
living in poverty.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
History | Author’s Point of View | Investigative
The Ritthem Bomber
The Rwandan Night
Subtitles: English
Rwanda / Switzerland / USA,
2013 color, video/HDcam, 115’
Kinyarwanda/French
Subtitles: Italian/French/English
De Bommenlegger van Ritthem
Patrick Bisschops
La Nuit Rwandaise
Gilbert Ndahayo
www.cobosfilms.nl
www.imdb.com/name/nm3107554
On the Friday evening of September
23, 2011, a bomb exploded on the
beach near Ritthem in Zeeland,
The Netherlands.
On October 6, 2011, two weeks after
the explosion, the police, with a big
display of power, handcuffed the Den
Heijer family and transported them
to a detention center in Middelburg.
When two other men confessed to
be responsible for the explosion, the
family’s name was officially cleared. But
for Ernst, Conny and Bob the harm was
already done: the consequences of the
miscarriage of justice turned out to be
for life. SALES / CONTACT
Carmen Cobos
Cobos Films
Carmen Cobos
Nic Witsenkade 18 D
Kees Rijninks
1017 ZS Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 3203368
www.cobosfilms.nl
[email protected]
The Ritthem Bomber reconstructs the personal drama of
the Den Heijer family who were wrongfully accused of
a bomb explosion in Zeeland, The Netherlands.
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PRODUCTION
Cobos Films
In The Rwandan Night, Ndahayo
initiates dialogue between survivors
and those attempting to place the
genocide into a broader context.
Handheld shots of remembrance
gatherings featuring chilling eyewitness
accounts by survivors alternate with
interviews with academic researchers.
At the heart of the film is a long and
mesmerizing monologue by Fidele
Sakindi, who describes how as a fouryear-old he survived the first genocide
of 1959 and how the repeated flare-ups
of ethnic violence have cast a dark
shadow throughout his life.
SALES / CONTACT
Gilbert Ndahayo
Rwanda The Movie
60 STEUBEN STREET, APT. # 1
02909 PROVIDENCE
PRODUCTION
Rwanda The Movie
Gilbert Ndahayo
CO-PRODUCTION
TRANSPOESIS – Switzerland
USA
tel: +1 917 2754648
www.ndahayo.com
[email protected]
Rwanda not available.
Ndahayo’s second documentary feature The Rwandan Night is a
gripping monologue chronicling the haunting memories of the
1994 genocide in Rwanda told from seven vantage points.
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Sacromonte. The Wise of the Tribe
Saken
Spain, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 52’/94’
Subtitles: English
Jordan / Palestine, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’
Subtitles: English
During the last 200 years Sacromonte, a
neighborhood of Granada, has been the
cradle of Flamenco and an international
reference of cultural tourism. It has
given birth to many of the best artists
and it is a must for the travellers that
visit their Cuevas (Caves) to enjoy
their Zambras, the quintessential
show of Flamenco at the Sacromonte
neighbourhood. Until 1963, 4. 000
gypsies lived in this neighborhood, all
of them had a direct connection with
Flamenco and were a permanent school
to new generations which learnt from
the elders to sing, dance and play music.
Flamenco was the soul of Sacromonte. In the 1970’s the Palestinian Revolution,
which was based in Lebanon, was
fighting for the freedom of Palestine.
Ibrahim a young 18-year-old Palestinian
left his family in Kuwait to join that
revolution. Two years after joining
them, Ibrahim was shot leading to his
paralysis, ending his dream of being a
fighter. Saken is a film about Ibrahim
and his caretaker Walid. Walid, an
Egyptian man who came to Jordan
to find work, unaware that his path
would cross with Ibrahim’s, and that
together they would experience one of
the strongest bonds two human beings
could share. Sacromonte: Los Sabios de la Tribu
Chus Gutierrez
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
PRODUCTION
Revolution Films
Gorka Gallier
13 rue Portefoin
PIZCA GUTIERREZ, S.L.
75003 Paris
Pizca Gutiérrez
France
tel: +330142775687
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
Sandra Madi
SALES / CONTACT
Majd Hijjawi
PRODUCTION
Red Carbon Productions
Jabal Amman
Majd Hijjawi
841292 Amman
Jordan
tel: +962 7 77385551
[email protected]
Saken is a film about
friendship and sacrifice, how
some people’s destinies are
linked and hard to be broken.
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Salam
Samba-Jazz Rio de Janeiro- New Orleans
Belgium / Chile, 2014 color, HDcam, 77’
Original Language: Urdu/Spanish
Subtitles: English
Brazil, 2014 color / black and
Original Language: Portugese/English
Subtitles: English
Constanza Erenchun, Tarek Raffoul, Yassin Velásquez
Jefferson Mello
www.terrabrasilisfilmes.com.br
Ibrahim, a converted Muslim, comes
back to his country with his family
after studying Islam for 7 years in
Pakistan. With quiet tenacity, and
supported by his faith, he must guide
his family to carry on with their beliefs
in a prejudiced environment, so
they can reach internal harmony. By
coincidence the family has chosen to
live at a stone’s throw from the most
important religious festival in Chile,
an unorthodox mix of Christianity and
indigenous beliefs. The juxtaposition
of this devout Muslim family with a
massive, colorful festival gives the
ideal framework to examine human
differences and human tolerance. SALES / CONTACT
Giancarlo Nasi Cañas
Don Quijote Films
PRODUCTION
Don Quijote Films
Giancarlo Nasi Cañas
Boonen Rivera 2427
7770049 Santiago
Chile
tel: +56 2 22043400
www.donquijotefilms.com
[email protected]
Ibrahim Hanif is a converted muslim, he gives a second thought about
the life style he has chosen, while we observe his complex daily life.
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Directed by Jefferson Mello, author
of the book “Os Caminhos do Jazz”,
the film portrays, through unusual
situations, the authentic artistic
expression of distant peoples, but with
a feeling in common: a passion for
music. The aim of the work is to expose
the similarity of musical and behavioral
aspects of people of these two cities: it
is samba and jazz, its myths, its agents,
its traditions, freedoms, adjustments
and mergers, their knowledge, inclusion
or marginalization, artists from stage
and from streets and the whole
atmosphere of the rhythms. It is history,
culture and entertainment condensing
into a single composition.
SALES / CONTACT
David Hooper
PRODUCTION
Terra Brasilis Filmes
Espresso TV
Lara Velho
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: 441273730929
[email protected]
This documentary intends to
draw a parallel between Jazz
and Samba, showing in the
cities, in which they are most
present: Rio de Janeiro and
New Orleans.
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Science / Technology | History
Sanda
The Saturn V Story
Subtitles: English
Here are a few middle-aged men who
have been working for KT, suffering a
great deal of hardship all along. They
refused the company’s demand for early
retirement. As a revenge, the company
transferred them to remote regions,
assigned them unusually hard tasks,
and even bullied them in an organized
way. The early retirement program was
implemented with such an intensity
especially towards the employees who
were active in the progressive trade
union.
In 1961, no one believed President
Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the
moon by the end of the decade. To
win the race to space, the USA needed
to create a multi-billion dollar space
program. Using stunning NASA footage,
this inspirational film tells the story
of the colossal challenges NASA faced
to fulfill Kennedy’s pledge. With the
accolade of flying 24 men safely to
the moon, Saturn V is considered one
of mankind’s greatest technological
achievements. This is the story of the
most powerful machine ever built, and
the men and women who believed it
could fly.
Mi-re Kim
Elliot Weaver
SALES / CONTACT
Mi-re Kim
orifilm
Taeyoung Apt. 1607, Hongje-dong
Sudaemun-gu
120-093 Seoul
South Korea
tel: +81 10 87464827
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
orifilm
Mi-re Kim
SALES / CONTACT
David Hooper
PRODUCTION
Free Spirit Film
Espresso TV
Chris Weaver
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: 441273730929
[email protected]
Poland, UK not available.
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A fascinating documentary
about mankind’s biggest
technological achievement,
the rocket that flew 24 men
to the moon and launched
the greatest adventure in
the history of exploration.
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Saving Mes Aynak
Sculpting the Spirits
Original Language: Afghan/English/French
Subtitles: English
Scotland / Portugal, 2014
color, HDcam, 54’
Original Language: Creole
Subtitles: Portugese/English
Os Escultores dos Espíritos
Luís Correia, Noe Mendelle
Brent Huffman
www.savingmesaynak.com
www.bijagosfilms.com
Saving Mes Ayank follows Afghan
archaeologist Qadir Temore as he
races against time to save Mes
Aynak, an ancient 5,000-year-old city
in Afghanistan, from its imminent
destruction by a Chinese state-owned
mining company. The Chinese company
is eager to mine $100 billion dollars
worth of copper buried directly beneath
the archaeological ruins. Local Afghans
witnessing the loss of their homes,
cultural heritage and environment see
no benefit from these corrupt deals.
Saving Mes Ayank focuses on the
Afghan archaeologists as they face an
impossible battle against the Chinese,
the Taliban and local politics to save
their culture from imminent erasure. SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
German Camera Productions
Brent Huffman
Kartemquin Films
A-1070 Vienna
Zak Piper
USA
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
Saving Mes Ayank follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temore
as he races against time to save an ancient 5,000-yearold archaeological site in Afghanistan threatened with
imminent demolition by a Chinese mining company.
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Sculpting the Spirits is about the magical
world of the Bijagós people whose close
and interdependent relationship with
spirits and nature informs their daily
life. It is through sculpture that the
Bijagós best express that relationship.
Banca, feeling old, tired and worried
for the future of a society in profound
transformation, does his last sculpture
instructing his son in the hope he will
take over.
Guided by a storyteller and our
characters’ voice in a journey exploring
how women embody spirits while men
sculpt or perform them.
SALES / CONTACT
Noe Mendelle
SDI Productions Ltd
PRODUCTION
Scottish Documentary Institute
Noe Mendelle
74 Lauriston place
SDI Productions Ltd
EH39DF Edinburgh
Noe Mendelle
Scotland
CO-PRODUCTION
LX Filmes – Portugal
tel: +44 131 6515866
www.scottishdocinstitute.com
[email protected]
RTP1 & 2 – Portugal
Sculpting the Spirits is about the magical world of the Bijagós people whose
close and interdependent relationship with spirits and nature informs their
daily life.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Investigative
The Search for General Tso
See No Evil
USA, 2014 color, video, 60’/75’
Subtitles: English
Ian Cheney
Jos de Putter
films/the-search-for-general-tso
Using this Westernized dish and its
mysterious mastermind as a lens onto a
larger story of immigration, adaptation,
and innovation, the film follows a
lighthearted journey, grounded in
cultural and culinary history, through
restaurants, Chinatowns, and the
American imagination. Visits to
present-day Chinese restaurants
spark forays into the past, guided by
chefs, scholars, and the occasional
opinionated customer. The film’s
lively soundtrack and shadow-puppet
animations contribute both whimsy
and momentum, as viewers find
they’re on a search to answer a deeper
question: how did Chinese food become
so… American?
SALES / CONTACT
David Piperni
PRODUCTION
Wicked Delicate Films
Ian Cheney
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
[email protected]
A glance at an ape seems always a
glance in the mirror. Consequently,
a film that takes place in retirement
homes for elderly apes is also a picture
of human civilization – old, sometimes
tired, sometimes happy, sometimes
amazed, sometimes violent, sometimes
playful. While we have trained them,
taught them tricks, music and language,
used them to obtain knowledge of
space, velocity, immune systems and
intelligence and admired them for all
those capacities, we forgot about the
essentials that they can still show us:
empathy and compassion.
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
DIEPTESCHERPTE
Wink de Putter
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
It is almost impossible to look
at an ape, a chimpanzee or
bonobo in particular, and
to see nothing but an ape.
The Search for General Tso is a documentary tracing the origins of
Chinese American food through what is arguably one of the Western
world’s most popular takeout meal––General Tso’s Chicken.
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Sentenced for Life
Shadow in Baghdad
Subtitles: English
France / Israel / USA, 2013
Original Language: Arabic/English/Hebrew
Levenslang
Carin Goeijers
Tsel be’Baghdad
Duki Dror
www.pvhfilm.nl/sentencedforlife
www.go2films.com/ImmigrationGlobalization/Shadow-in-Bagdad
Hardly anyone in The Netherlands is
aware that a life sentence in Holland
literally means life imprisonment.
Carin Goeijers portrays the married
life of Louis, serving a life sentence,
and his wife Jacqueline. Louis has been
convicted for a double murder in 2005.
In this film we slowly discover the
essence of their unconditional love.
In the routine of daily telephonecalls,
letters and visits we follow Louis and
Jacqueline in their struggle for justice.
Through the inner workings of their
relationship we come to understand
what it means to be serving a life
sentence in The Netherlands.
SALES / CONTACT
Pieter van Huystee
Big Pete
PRODUCTION
Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 421 0606
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
Portrait of Louis, serving a life sentence, and his wife. We come to understand
what it means to be serving a life sentence in The Netherlands.
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During the Baath Party reign in Iraq
tens of thousands Iraqis were abducted
by the regime never to be heard from
again. Forty years after she fled the
country, Linda, an Israeli journalist
revisits the dark pages of her native
Iraq’s history in an attempt to piece
together the story behind her own
father’s disappearance. As Linda delves
deeper into her family’s past, she comes
to rely on her unlikely bond with an Iraqi
journalist who helps her to uncover her
father’s fate.
Israel, The Netherlands not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Hedva Goldschmidt
Go2Films
PRODUCTION
Zygote Films
Duki Dror
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Seconde Vague productions
97787 Jerusalem
Paul Saadoun
Israel
CO-PRODUCTION
Zygote Films – Israel
tel: 97225831371
www.go2films.com
[email protected]
Yes Docu – Israel
A thrilling cinematic journey to Baghdad in search
of a missing father and a lost community.
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The Shadow Lawyers
The Shelter
Egypt, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Azeeza, Mostafa and Mohamed are
three human rights lawyers in Egypt.
They aren’t under spotlight; revolution
creates doubled momentum in their
work, personal life and political choices
throughout three years. Although, the
repeated challenges on different levels
and they are concerned about the
future but they continue. . . A winter spent in the heart of an
emergency shelter for homeless people
in Lausanne. At the entrance to this
hidden bunker there unfolds every
night the same dramatic ritual, leading
to occasionally violent confrontations.
The watchmen have the difficult task of
“sorting the poor”: women and children
first, men later if there is room. Even if
the shelter can hold 100 people, only
50 “chosen ones” will be allowed inside
to receive a hot meal and a bed. The
others know that the night will be a
long one.
Mo7amy El Zell
Samir Eshra
SALES / CONTACT
Samir Eshra
Misr Alarabia Film Production
5 El Petrol St. from El borg, Lebanon
Square, Mohandseen, Giza
12411 Cairo
Egypt
tel: +201224607691
[email protected]
L’Abri
Fernand Melgar
PRODUCTION
Misr Alarabia Film Production
Ahmed Afifi
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
PRODUCTION
Climage
Fernand Melgar
RTS – Switzerland
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
[email protected]
If your aim is to achieve justice, be ready to the challenges.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Youth
The Shepherd’s Son
The Shore Break
Poland / Armenia, 2014 color, HDcam, 30’
Original Language: Armenian
Subtitles: English
South Africa, 2014 color, HDcam, 90’/52’
Original Language: Xhosa/English
Subtitles: English
Somewhere in the high mountains of
Armenia, there lives a blind shepherd
Khachik. In spite of all the adversities,
he has set up a family and leads a quiet
life, single-handedly herding his goats
on the steep slopes. However, when it
turns out that his only son is losing his
sight too and has to move to Yerevan to
attend a school for the blind, Khachik
faces a dilemma: should he keep on
living the life of a humble shepherd, or
should he move to the capital city too
to be with his son?
Two cousins from a close-knit rural
community have opposing plans to
develop their homeland on South
Africa’s Wild Coast. Nonhle wants
to preserve their traditional Pondo
lifestyle and graves through ecotourism while her older cousin Madiba
intends to mine their land for titanium
and to support the South African
Government’s controversial plans to
build a highway through the Wild
Coast.
Meanwhile, their Pondo King and
Queen are dethroned by Government
after speaking out against the
developments. To fight for their
throne the Pondo Royals must take
Government to court who have
replaced the King with his pro-mining
nephew.
Piesn Pasterza
Vahram Mkhitaryan
Ryley Grunenwald
www.theshorebreakmovie.com
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
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PRODUCTION
Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o.
Katarzyna Slesicka
SALES / CONTACT
Ryley Grunenwald
Shore Break Movie (Pty) Ltd
PRODUCTION
Frank Films
Odette Geldenhuys
9 rue Paul Gauguin
Marie-Vérité Films
76240 Le Mesnil Esnard
Ryley Grunenwald
France
Knowledge Network – Canada
tel: +33 980520264
www.theshorebreakmovie.com
[email protected]
Two cousins have opposing
plans to develop their
homeland on South Africa’s
Wild Coast. Meanwhile,
their traditional King
and Queen resisting
unsustainable development,
are deposed by the South
African Government.
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History | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Politics / Society
A Shtetl in the Caribbean
Silenced
Israel / Belarus / Netherlands Antilles
/ USA / Ukraine, 2014 color, video, 99’
Original Language: Ukranian/Papiamento/
Hebrew/English/Dutch/Russian
Subtitles: Dutch/English
Mark and Tsale, children of Eastern
European Jews that fled to Curaçao,
travel back to the home countries
of their ancestors. We witness their
discoveries, courage and despair while
they are reminded of the sacrifices their
parents had to make to provide their
family with a better future.
The film originated from a strong
emotion: we are all part of the same
family, no matter how different we
are. The film is an homage to Curaçao,
a small island with a big heart, and a
place that has been a safe haven for
strangers.
Behind world-changing headlines are
those who risk everything to speak
truth: the whistleblowers. AcademyAward-nominee James Spione shows
what it means to challenge unethical
behavior in the corridors of power
in a post 9/11 US. Introducing three
highly prominent contemporary
whistleblowers, for the first time in
one film, we gain access to the courage
it takes to speak up, and the harsh
consequences whistleblowers face.
Following an alternative narrative
of the post 9/11 national security
establishment from within, the film
exposes an increasingly harsh response
by US governments to unauthorized
disclosures. Two of the whistleblowers
are now counsel to Edward Snowden.
Een Sjtetl in de Cariben
Sherman de Jesus
James Spione
silencedfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Cecile van Eijk
PRODUCTION
Memphis Film & Television
Maliebaan 24-26
Cecile van Eijk
3581 CP Utrecht
Sherman de Jesus
The Netherlands
tel: +31 30 2332023
CO-PRODUCTION
De Joodse Omroep –
[email protected]
The Netherlands
De Joodse Omroep –
The Netherlands
A Shtetl in the Caribbean
tells the compelling story
of two childhood friends
who grew up on Curaçao,
in search for their family
history in Eastern Europe.
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SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
Cinephil
PRODUCTION
Naked Edge Films
Daniel Chalfen
18 Levontin St.
Morninglight Films, Inc
6511207 Tel Aviv
James Spione
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
USA, Canada, Sweden, Germany,
France, Poland not available.
Three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest
corners of America’s war on terror, challenging a government
that is increasingly determined to maintain secrecy.
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History | Art / Music / Culture
Politics / Society | Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Silent Night – the Real Story
Silicon Wadi – A Hightech Soap Opera
Austria, 2013 color / black
Subtitles: English
USA / Israel, 2014 color, video, 82’
Original Language: English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Stille Nacht – die Geschichte eines Weina
Kurt Reindl
Yossi Bloch, Daniel Sivan
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In 1831, the Strasser family, from
Laimach in the Zillertal valley, made
their way to Leipzig in Germany, where
four of Strasser children performed
Stille Nacht outside Austria for the first
time. From there, the carol has made
a triumphal march all over the world.
One hundred and eighty years later,
it has been translated into more than
300 languages and acknowledged
as intangible cultural heritage by
UNESCO. Servus TV retraced the
Strassers’ arduous journey, shooting
in locations including Leipzig and the
small Strasser house in Laimach.
Part 2 in production.
SALES / CONTACT
Berend Dreier
5071 Wals
PRODUCTION
Andrea Thek
Austria
tel: 00436622240-0
berend.dreier@
SALES / CONTACT
Esther van Messel
PRODUCTION
Plan B Productions
First Hand Films
Ronen Ben-Tal
Ronen Ben-Tal
8050 Zurich
CO-PRODUCTION
kNow Productions – USA
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
YES – Israel
[email protected]
This documentary retraces the origins of the most renowned
Christmas Carol in the world – “Silent Night”, that started
its triumphal march from the Zillertal valley, Austria.
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Israel is known in the world as a startup nation. There are actually more
startups in Tel-Aviv than in the whole
of Europe and more Venture Capital
is invested per person then anywhere
else in the world. 4 startup teams are
accompanied for 2 years, from having
an idea on a napkin and until they hit
the jack pot or go bust. Throughout
their personal rollercoaster of voyage
we catch an intimate and exciting
glance on how the ‘High-Tech Nation’
really works.
“Silicon Wadi” follow those
who give everything to
pursue their startup dreams.
They sacrifice their families,
friends and bank account and
keep on fighting until they’re
bankrupt – or millionaires.
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Catalogue No. 434
Politics / Society | Experimental | Author’s Point of View
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
Simha
France / Syria, 2014 color, HDcam, 92’
Original Language: Georgian/
French/English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then
die, others kill then film. In Paris, driven
by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I
find that I can only film the sky and edit
the footage posted on YouTube. From
within the tension between my
estrangement in France and the
revolution, an encounter happened.
A young Kurdish from Homs began to
chat with me, asking: ‘If your camera
were here, in Homs, what would you be
filming?”. Silvered Water is the story of
that encounter.
Borh in 1930 in Düsseldorf, Simha
Arom’s family fled from Nazi Germany
just after the KristalNacht in 1938.
Simha miraculously escaped and
managed to pass the Pyrénées and
join Palestine in 1944. He then became
a French horn player in Jerusalem
Orchestra and had the opportunity to
travel to Centrafrican Republic to create
a brass-band there. This is how he got
in touch with Pygmy musicians and
spent the rest of his life to decipher and
analyze traditional music. Today, at 84,
his new challenge is to study Georgian
polyphonies.
Ma’al al-Fidda
Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan
www.docandfilm.com
Middle East, Israel not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
PRODUCTION
Proaction Film
Doc & Film
Diana El Jeiroudi
13 rue Portefoin
Les Films d’Ici
75003 Paris
Camille Laemle
France
tel: +330142775687
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
A young Kurdish from
Homs began to chat with
me, asking: ‘If your camera
were here, in Homs, what
would you be filming?”.
Silvered Water is the story
of that encounter.
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Jerome Blumberg
SALES / CONTACT
Gabriel Chabanier
Le Miroir
PRODUCTION
Le Miroir
Gabriel Chabanier
99 Boulevard de l’Hôpital
75013 Paris
France
tel: +3344240740
[email protected]
Simha is a Jewish musician who became a world-famous
ethnomusicologist by deciphering the polyphonies of the Pygmies of Central
Africa. The film travels along his fieldworks and personal eventful life.
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Catalogue No. Art / Music / Culture | History
Sleepless in New York
Sluizer Speaks
black and white, DCP, 89’
Subtitles: English
Often laughed off as nothing more
than an affliction of adolescence,
lovesickness becomes the topic of a
sensitive and compelling documentary
film. Christian Frei dives into the
frenzied nights of the newly rejected.
Nights full of pain and tears, yet
also wakefulness and creativity.
Anthropologist Helen Fisher researches
the astounding and profound processes
that are unfolding in the brain of the
lovesick. Has nature overdone it? The
film explores the difficult path out of
self-destructive obsessive behavior,
toward a new self. And it wonders
about the unwavering desire – despite
it all – for love.
Sluizer Speaks tells the story of
international filmmaker George Sluizer
(The Vanishing, Dark Blood). The
documentary follows the director from
the moment he decided to finish his
final film, Dark Blood, until his recent
death. During this period Sluizer looks
back on his life and his films.
Dennis Alink
www.sleepless-in-new-york.com
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Christian Frei Filmproductions
SALES / CONTACT
Dennis Alink
PRODUCTION
Dennis Alink
Dennis Alink Films
Molenwiek BV
Zuiderzeeweg
Joop van Wijk
H3L1A8 Montreal
1095KJ Amsterdam
Canada
The Netherlands
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +31 6 42957000
[email protected]
Christian Frei
[email protected]
Heartbreak, though underexamined, affects us all.
Oscar-nominated director
Christian Frei teams with
famed anthropologist
Helen Fisher to examine,
through intimate portraits,
the power and resilience
of love despite it all.
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Christian Frei
Sluizer Speaks follows international filmmaker George Sluizer from the
moment he started working on his final film until his recent death.
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SmoKings
The Solitude of Memory
Switzerland / Italy, 2014 color, HDcam, 96’
Original Language: German/English/Italian
Subtitles: English
Mexico / USA, 2014 color, video, 20’
Subtitles: English
¿Por qué el recuerdo?
Juan Pablo González
Michele Fornasero
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/economy/smokings
The Messina brothers are Yesmoke,
a little tobacco company based in
Turin, Italy. Originally Yesmoke was
an online store for cheap cigarettes,
selling mainly Philip Morris to millions
of customers around the world. When
“Big Tobacco” sued them for 550
Million dollars, they shut their website
down and decided to build their own
cigarette manufacturing company in
the outskirts of Turin, taking the fight to
Philip Morris. It’s like a gangster movie:
there are no good guys, just small bad
guys fighting big bad guys. Who’s
going to win this unfair battle? David or
Goliath?
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
SALES / CONTACT
Marcela Arenas
PRODUCTION
Sin Sitio Producciones
Simone Catania
5 de Mayo, # 37, Col. Axotla, Del.
Juan Pablo González
CO-PRODUCTION
Ventura Films – Switzerland
Álvaro Obregón
01030 México D.F.
CO-PRODUCTION
University of Texas at Austin –
RSI – Switzerland
Mexico
USA
PRODUCTION
Indyca
tel: +52 155 12351687
[email protected]
[email protected]
Two millionaire brothers declare war on Big Tabacco and against the
Italian State. A war without good or evil. Who’s going to win?
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José, Nando’s father, remembers
repeatedly the last words that he
spoke to his son before he decided
to take his own life. José then lives
his days without him in a remarkably
personal film, charged with poetry and
introspection.
A profound meditation on memory and grief achieved through
the dialogue between its formal elementos and its characters.
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Catalogue No. 439
Solo – Out of a Dream
Something Better to Come
Original Language: Portugese/Dutch
Subtitles: English
Denmark / Poland, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’
Subtitles: English
In 1994 Leonardo and Anselmo, 11 year
old kids from the slums of Rio de Janeiro
were portrayed in the Award-winning
documentary Solo – the Law of the
Favela. They dreamed of becoming
soccer players, to escape poverty
and violence. As a result of the film,
Leonardo was invited to join Feyenoord.
He made his dream come true: he
played for Feyenoord and Ajax, and
other teams in Europe.
20 years later, Solo – Out of a Dream
tells the story of a life that was was
miraculously destined by the camera.
Leonardo realizes that nothing can be
won without loss.
People struggle to live there, including
eleven-year-old Yula, our protagonist.
We follow Yula until she is twenty-five.
Yula’s dream seems to be quite ordinary,
she dreams of getting out of the dump
one day.
People still laugh, love, support and
help each other in the face of horrible
adversity. They still hope that one day
their life will change for the better. Yula
loses her father, she falls in love, gets
pregnant, and gives her child up for
adoption. Finally one day she breaks out
and leaves the garbage dump in search
of a new life. . a normal life. Jos de Putter
Hanna Polak
SALES / CONTACT
Jos de Putter
PRODUCTION
DIEPTESCHERPTE
DIEPTESCHERPTE
Jos de Putter
WG Plein 385
1054SG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31206766717
[email protected]
1994: Leonardo dreams of
becoming a soccer player to
escape the slums of Rio. A
film makes his dream come
true. The sequel reflects on
life & film, gains & losses.
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Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Danish Documentary Production
Sigrid Dyekjær
Hanna Polak Films
H3L1A8 Montreal
Hanna Polak
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
It is an extraordinary,
thirteen-year personal
journey set in one of the
bleakest urban places in
the world: a large “svalka”
( garbage dump) just 13
miles away from Moscow.
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Catalogue No. Catalogue No. 441
Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Song from the Forest
Songs for Alexis
Germany, 2013
Michael Obert
Elvira Nana Lind
www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/
en/86679.aspx?id=86679
As a young man, American Louis Sarno
heard a song on the radio that gripped
his imagination. He followed the sound
all the way to the Central African
rainforest, where he found the music’s
origin with a tribe of hunters and
gatherers, the BaAka Pygmies. Today, 25
years later, he still lives as one of them
and raises his Pygmy son, Samedi.
Today the time has come to fulfill an
old promise, and Louis takes 13-year-old
Samedi on a journey to the world he
left behind: to America.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
PRODUCTION
Tondowski Films
Alexandre Tondowski
18-year-old Ryan is a talented musician
and transgender, and began his
transition from girl to boy 4 years
earlier. He is wildly in love with the
beautiful and enigmatic 16-year-old
Alexis, but her parents’ disapproval of
Ryan forces her to choose between her
family and an unsafe future with the
man she loves.
SALES / CONTACT
Malene Iversen
PRODUCTION
Copenhagen Bombay
Copenhagen Bombay
Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes
Refshalevej 147 1st floor
Julie Leerskov
Marienplatz 1
Ira Tondowski
04103 Leipzig
1432 Copenhagen
Germany
CO-PRODUCTION
ma.ja.de Filmproduktion –
tel: +49 34 12156638
Germany
tel: +45 25419911
Denmark
www.copenhagenbombay.com
[email protected]
malene.iversen@
copenhagenbombay.com
A father and son story from
rainforest to skyscrapers.
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Songs for Alexis is a
classic coming of age
love story about two
passionate teenagers stuck
in American suburbia.
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South To North
Spartiates
Original Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
The Nan Shui Bei Diao – North South
Water Transfer – is the world’s largest
water transfer project, stretching
between southern and northern
China. Following the steps of this
national project, this film maps the
ever-changing state of a territory
redesigned by engineers, where cement
reaches beyond the grasslands, rivers
leave their beds, deserts become
forests, and where voices gradually
grow stronger, asking for justice and
the right to be heard. While matter is
decomposing and individual concern
is rising, an artificial, science fiction
landscape is taking over. Nicolas Wadimoff spent weeks filming
in Marseille’s “Quartier nord”, a district
of the city mainly known in the media
for its drug trafficking, gang shootings
and kalashnikovs. There, he met an
amazing person, named Yvan Sorel. He
runs a MMA (Mixed martial Arts) club
in the middle of this neighbourhood.
Day after day, all on his own, with no
support from the state which gave up
on this area a long time ago, he fights to
keep the children and teenagers on the
“right” path. Spartiates is a film about
violence, education, moral values, faith
and dignity.
Nicolas Wadimoff
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Les Films du Présent
CAT&Docs
Patrice Nezan
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
13 rue Portefoin
PRODUCTION
Akka Films
Gorka Gallier
TSR – Switzerland
75003 Paris
France
tel: +330142775687
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
Switzerland not available.
Following the Big Project
of Chinese Rivers Diversion,
Antoine Boutet makes
a film about a territory
transformation that is the
consequence of a political
choice. Is it the good choice?
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Sud Eau Nord Déplacer
Antoine Boutet
Yvan Sorel runs a Mixed
martial Arts club in
Marseille. Day after day
with no support from the
state he fights to keep the
children and teenagers
on the “right” path.
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Stand by Your President
Standard
Original Language: Georgian/Russian/Dutch
Subtitles: English
Belgium / France, 2014 color,
Original Language: Dutch/French
Subtitles: English
Feature documentary about Sandra
Roelofs, a Dutch girl who became
the First Lady of exotic but politically
instable Georgia. After ten turbulent
years in office her husband, the now
controversial Mikhael Saakashvili,
cannot be re-elected. The presidential
couple become citizens again. What
does a life in the political limelight
entail, and what is the price paid in your
private life?
ONE CLUB! ONE COUNTRY! Throughout
the last decades, Football has become
the lowest common denominator of
thousands of cultures. But this sport
remains underestimated from a social
point of view as a melting pot of
exchanges between people. Standard is
a comedy documentary which follows
the daily life of various characters and
their personal relations to their country
and their football club, the «Standard
Liège», the most popular & mythical
club of Belgium.
SALES / CONTACT
Suzanne van Voorst
Benjamin Marquet
PRODUCTION
IDTV Docs
IDTV Docs
Suzanne van Voorst
Kraanspoor 50
1033SE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 314 3100
www.idtvdocs.nl
[email protected]
Dutch girl Sandra Roelofs became First Lady of politically
instable Georgia. What does a life in the political limelight
entail, and what is the price paid in your private life?
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Ineke Smits
Belgium, France not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Gorka Gallier
PRODUCTION
Tertulia
Gorka Gallier
13 rue Portefoin
Tarantula Belgique
75003 Paris
Joseph Rouschop
France
tel: +330142775687
www.docandfilm.com
[email protected]
Standard is a comedy documentary which follows the daily
life of various characters and their personal relations to their
country and their football club, the «Standard Liège».
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Catalogue No. 446
The Starfish Throwers
Starting Point
Subtitles: English
Poignant, touching and stimulating, The
Starfish Throwers explores how three of
the world’s most fiercely compassionate
individuals fight hunger and struggle
to restore hope to the hopeless in
unexpected and sometimes dangerous
ways. Half a world apart, a five-star
chef in India, a retired school teacher
in the US Midwest and a sixth-grade
master gardener in South Carolina fight
for a seemingly lost cause—hungeruntil they discover their impact may
reach further than their actions. In
each of their unique journeys, these
unforgettable individuals are constantly
reminded that hunger is far too big for
one person to solve. But is it?
Aneta ‘rebelled to the max’ at the age
of nineteen and wound up in prison
for murder. Nine years later, her daily
routine takes her from behind the
walls of the prison to a care home
for the elderly. One of the residents,
Helena, has been ill ever since infancy.
In her opinion, the young woman has
everything she could want for. And
so Helena, whose knowledge of the
world has come “from the windows
of hospitals and coaches”, avidly asks
Aneta about her life. A test awaits
Aneta… and help will come from
Helena.
Punkt wyjscia
Michal Szczesniak
Jesse Roesler
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Melody Gilbert
Duende Cinema LLC
Jesse Roesler
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
PRODUCTION
Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers
Association
Ewa Jastrzebska
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
Aneta at the age of nineteen
and wound up in prison for
murder. Nine years later she’s
behind the walls of the prison
to a care home for the elderly.
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Catalogue No. 448
Stealing Socialism
Storm in the Andes
Estonia, 2014 color, HDcam, 53’
Original Language: Estonian
Subtitles: English
Sweden / Peru, 2014 color, video, 140’/56’
Subtitles: English
A jolly documentary that tells a story
of Soviet time life style when stealing
from the state was an act of honour
for common people. Stealing from
corrupted state helped to get by and
held moral high. The common man
felt that the state was stealing from
him all the time – so one had to get
something back from the real robber –
the state. When all bits and pieces of
rubble were stolen from the state – the
Soviet Union colossus fell apart.
Josefin grew up in Sweden with a
family myth about how her Peruvian
aunt Augusta died struggling for the
poor in Peru. Augusta La Torre created
the violent maoist guerilla Sendero
Luminoso – Shining Path – together
with her husband Abimael Guzman.
In 1980 they initiated an internal war
that lasted nearly twenty years and
still profoundly marks Peru. Josefin
defies her Peruvian/ Swedish family and
travels to Peru to find out the truth. It
changes her life forever.
Riigivargad
Manfred Vainokivi
Storm över Anderna
Mikael Wiström
www.facebook.com/Riigivargad?ref=hl
SALES / CONTACT
Marju Lepp
PRODUCTION
Filmivabrik oü
Filmivabrik oü
Marju Lepp
Kunderi 8a
10121 Tallinn
Estonia
tel: +3726426228
[email protected]
Sweden, Norway, Finland,
Peru not available.
Lively story of Soviet people
who found ways to live under
totalitarian pressure. The
state robbed from citizens,
but citizens also robbed the
state and thus all 50 years.
390
SALES / CONTACT
Mikael Wiström
Månharen Film & TV
Barnängsgatan 60
PRODUCTION
Månharen Film & TV
Mikael Wiström
11641 Stockholm
SVT – Sweden,
Sweden
NRK – Norway,
tel: +46708439509
YLE – Finland
www.familiafilm.se
www.compadre.se
[email protected]
Swedish Josefin travels
to Peru to find out the
truth about her aunt
Augusta who became a
myth after her death as a
terrorist leader in 1988.
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Catalogue No. 450
The Storm Makers
Storming Paradise
Cambodia / France, 2014 color, HDcam, 66’
Original Language: Khmer
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Dutch/English/Arabic
Subtitles: English
At the age of 16, Aya, a young
Cambodian peasant, was sold into
slavery by a “Storm Maker” – a human
trafficker – who promised her a job as
a maid in Malaysia. Now back in her
village, she is just as poor as when she
left. Dishonoured and traumatised,
what is left of her humanity? Aya’s fate,
intertwined with the testimonies of
human traffickers, offers an unsettling
view of contemporary Cambodian
society.
What drives young Western men to
leave everyone and everything behind
and travel to Syria to become a Jihad
fighter? The media portrays these boys
as vulnerable and derailed. Is there
another side to this picture? In order to
understand why they feel called upon
to pick up arms and leave everything
they know behind, filmmaker Floor
van der Meulen abandons her Western
perspective to be able to see things
through the eyes of the fighters. Guillaume Suon
Floor van der Meulen
keydocs.nl/nl/movie/paradijsbestormers
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Tipasa Production
CAT&Docs
Julien Roumy
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum
PRODUCTION
KeyDocs
Janneke Doolaard
BNN – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
At the age of 16, Aya was sold
into slavery. The unveiling
of her fate, intertwined
with the testimonies
of human traffickers,
offers an unsettling
view of contemporary
Cambodian society.
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451
Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Sugar Blues
Sumé – The Sound of a Revolution
Czech Republic, 2014 color, HDcam, 78’/52’
Original Language: English/Czech
Subtitles: Czech/English
Denmark / Finland, 2014 color /
black and white, video, 52’/73’
Original Language: Greenlandic/
English/Danish
Subtitles: English
Sugar can kill! The director, Andrea, is
diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
She must avoid any form of refined
sugar. That soon proves impossible
though, because she finds sugar
everywhere and in everything. Fear for
her unborn baby changes the eating
habits in Andrea’s family and motivates
her investigation of the sugar industry.
The quest begins at Andrea’s kitchen
table and continues worldwide over
nearly five years. A tragicomic, vibrant
and emotional story that is informative
and inspiring. . . A film that will set you
free from the Sugar Blues!
They took a nation’s heart and gave it
a beat
In the nineteen seventies the
Greenlandic rock band Sumé released
three albums that changed Greenland’s
history. Sumé’s political songs
were the first to be recorded in the
Greenlandic language – a language
that prior to Sumé didn’t have words
for “oppression” or “revolution”. They
influenced an era, boosting the political
process of establishing Greenland’s
Home Rule Government and the
country’s first uprising against the
Danish colonial powers. Mumisitsinerup Nipaa
Inuk Silis Høegh
Andrea Culkova
sugarbluesfilm.com/en
SALES / CONTACT
Daniel Tucek
Golden Dawn
ALDOVA 187/7
PRODUCTION
Golden Dawn
Daniel Tucek
18000 Prague
CO-PRODUCTION
Czech Television – Czech Republic,
Czech Republic
Karel Janecek – Czech Republic
tel: +420 224 826 725
goldendawn.cz
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Euroman
DR Danish Broadcasting Corporation Emile Peronard
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 35202299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
Sumé – The Sound of a
Revolution is the story of
an indigenous peoples’
fight for political freedom
and cultural identity.
One mother’s fight against the global sugar mafia.
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Author’s Point of View | Experimental
Super Unit
The Supreme Price
Subtitles: English
USA / Nigeria, 2014 color, HDcam, 75’
Subtitles: English
Superjednostka
Teresa Czepiec
Joanna Lipper
www.joannalipper.com/
filmmaker/supreme-price
Superjednostka (Super unit) is a huge
block of flats designed as a “housing
machine”. Up to three thousand people
can live on 15 floors of the building. The
main characters of the documentary
are people living in Superjednostka and
going through important moments
of their lives there. This is where their
emotions throb, their expectations
engender, and their desires come true. .
. or not. 762 flat doors and 762 stories.
We are opening only a few of them. SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
PRODUCTION
Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o.
Katarzyna Slesicka
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
Superjednostka (Polish for
Superunit) is a huge block of
flats designed as a “housing
machine”. 762 flat doors and
762 stories. We are opening
only a few of them.
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In 1993, Nigeria historically elected M.
K. O. Abiola as president, promising
to end years of military dictatorship.
The election was later annulled in a
military coup. Abiola was imprisoned
and his wife, who became leader of
the pro-democracy movement, was
then assassinated, having fought
against human rights violations by the
military dictatorship. Their daughter,
Hafsat, took over her parents’ fight for
democracy, and heads a progressive
women-empowering movement, trying
to dismantle the patriarchal structure
of Nigerian society. The film provides
an unprecedented look inside of
Africa’s most populous nation from the
perspective of women, exposing a deep
history of political corruption.
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
Cinephil
PRODUCTION
Vertumnus Productions
Joanna Lipper
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
USA not available.
Hafsat Abiola strives to transform Nigeria’s corrupt governance culture
into a democracy, capable of serving its most marginalized population:
women, and to increase their participation in leadership roles.
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Catalogue No. Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Tea Time
The Temple of Dreams
Chile, 2014 color, HDcam, 70’
Subtitles: English
Sweden, 2014 color, video, 59’
Original Language: Swedish/English
Subtitles: English
Five elderly women religiously gather
for tea, once a month, for the past
60 years. They argue and reconcile,
evoke their common past, and try hard
to show they are still current. Their
personal stories and present events
force them to question their education
and beliefs. Despite all of them having
attended the same religious school,
they lived through a period of radical
historic changes that few of them can
comprehend and adapt to. Time flies,
and it seems that nothing in their lives
changes, until the absence of one of
them makes them go through a period
of evident transformation.
Åsele is a depopulating community in
remote Sweden, struggling for survival.
When a Buddhist congregation plans to
build a huge temple there the municipal
councillor Bert-Rune Dahlberg puts
all his efforts into the project. In the
film we get to follow the home-loving
Bert-Rune on an unlikely journey, taking
him to the other side of the world.
Critics mock him and the whole temple
project, while Bert-Rune firmly believes
it is a unique possibility to revive
the whole community. A warm and
humorous film about fighting against
all odds and never giving up.
La once
Maite Alberdi
Jan Färingö, Ola Holmström
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
Micromundo Producciones
CAT&Docs
Clara Taricco
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
ITVS – USA
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
[email protected]
Six elderly women have
gathered for tea once a
month, for the past sixty
years. In this meetings
they share their last years
forgetting completely the
short time they have left.
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SALES / CONTACT
Niklas Ahlgren
SVT
PRODUCTION
SVT – Sveriges
Television ABLuleå
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Eva Sandelin
S-10510 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46 709 689832
– Sweden
www.svt.se
[email protected]
A depopulating Swedish community suddenly regains hope as
a Buddhist congregation plans to build a temple there. But will
the temple become reality, or is it just an idle dream?
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Catalogue No. 456
Experimental | Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
That Sugar Film
This is My Land
England / Australia, 2014 color, video, 101’
Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
In the vein of “Supersize Me”, Damon
Gameau becomes a human guineapig when he puts himself through
a gruelling 6 week diet consuming the
equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar
a day. . . the average daily amount
consumed by teenagers!
Following several Israeli and Palestinian
teachers and their pupils over one
academic year the film reveals the
different approach each of them uses
to teach the complex narrative of their
country’s history. The chosen schools
are set in locations that emphasize the
changing daily life within the conflict:
Jerusalem, The North of Israel, Nablus,
Ramallah and in a Jewish settlement.
Through observing their exchanges
and confrontations with students,the
viewers obtain an intimate glimpse into
the profound and long lasting effect
that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
transmits onto the next generation. Damon Gameau
Tamara Erde
SALES / CONTACT
Andre leBrocquy
Metro International
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
WC2A 3ED London
England
tel: +44 20 73965301
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Madman Entertainment
Nick Batzias
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
H3L1A8 Montreal
PRODUCTION
Iliade & Films
Tatiana Bouchain
CO-PRODUCTION
SAYA – France
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
How do the Palestinian and Israeli education systems
teach the history of their nations?
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This is Opera
This Lovely Horrible Life
German/English/Italian
Subtitles: English
This is Opera is a collection of the
history of opera set in a full HD 30 x 45’
format, from Monteverdi to Bernstein.
Innovative, imaginative edutainment.
A format that provides the keys to
understanding and enjoying the most
popular operas in history. This Is Opera’s
stunning visual approach takes the
viewer on a journey of discovery for the
secrets behind each opera and visits the
exact locations where the stories take
place: Vienna, London, Barcelona, Cairo,
Paris, Rome, Venice, Bayreuth,. . . Pure
emotion.
Mariachi is an essential part of
Mexican culture. It’s more than just
music; it’s a lifestyle that views the
world from a macho perspective. The
business is tough and women are
seldom appreciated in this strictly
male domain. Nevertheless, a handful
of female musicians choose to be
Mariachi. Against the backdrop of the
folky ‘Día de los Muertes’ celebrations,
we discover the female musicians who
perform on the streets of Mexico.
They lead two lives unlike their male
counterparts. When the Mariachi
women sing about death, love and
poverty, life’s heaviness lightens
Que Caramba es la Vida
Doris Dörrie
Ramon Gener
www.quecarambaeslavida.com
SALES / CONTACT
Arlette Peyret
PRODUCTION
Brutalmedia
Pujol, 22 ent D
Raimon Masllorens
08022 Barcelona
Spain
tel: +34 6 25494711
[email protected]
Germany, Spain not available.
SALES / CONTACT
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
1017PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6248395
PRODUCTION
Flying Moon Filmproduktion
Helge Albers
CO-PRODUCTION
Senator Film – Germany
WDR/ARTE – Germany
[email protected]
This is Opera provides the keys to understanding and
enjoying the most popular operas in history.
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Mexico City’s Plaza Garibaldi is the epicenter of mariachi music.
Que Caramba es la Vida follows the women of mariachi, an
underrepresented but bold presence on the Plaza Garibaldi.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Experimental
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
Those Who Go Those Who Stay
Original Language: Farsi/Greek/
Arabic/Bengali/Italian/Tigrigna
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Hebrew/French/
German/Arabic/Italian
As a group of refugees tries to enter
Europe illegally by boat, a storm
suddenly appears and all hell breaks
loose when an old man falls overboard.
His reality shifts into another
dimension, a dark, hallucinatory place
where his soul seems to be stuck.
Driven by a mysterious power and
desperately in search for his loved
ones, his soul passes by the everyday
reality of many castaway refugees
at the border of Europe. Wandering
through this purgatory, he questions
the meaning of his existence.
Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a
tomcat with innumerable offspring: it
is an intentionally unintentional gaze
that allows for chance encounters, for
stories and memories – leads that Ruth
Beckermann follows across Europe and
the Mediterranean. Nigerian asylum
seekers in Sicily, an Arab musician in
Galilee, nationalists drunk on beer in
Vienna, the Capitoline Wolf, and three
veiled young women trying for minutes
to cross a busy road in Alexandria.
Threads, cloth and textiles pop up like
book marks in a fabric of movement, of
travelling or seeking refuge.
Morgan Knibbe
Ruth Beckermann
ruthbeckermann.com/home.php?il=93&l=eng
SALES / CONTACT
Katja Draaijer
BALDR Film
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77
PRODUCTION
BALDR Film
Katja Draaijer
Frank Hoeve
1012 DC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 3032670
www.baldrfilm.nl
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Dietmar Schwärzler
Sixpackfilm
PRODUCTION
Ruth Beckermann
Filmproduktion
Neubaugasse 45/13
Ruth Beckermann
1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 1 52609900
www.sixpackfilm.com
[email protected]
Those Who Go Those Who
Stay is a story of being on
the move, in the world
and one’s own life.
Those Who Feel The Fire Burning offers a unique glimpse into the everyday
life of real refugees, but in an aesthetic way never seen before.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Those Who Said No
Time and Place
Sweden, 2014 color, HDcam, 58’/89’
Original Language: Persian/English
Subtitles: English/German/French
Subtitles: English
Tijd en Plaats
Martijn Veldhoen
Nima Sarvestani
deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/those-who-said-no
After decades of silence survivors
and relatives of the victims of a mass
atrocity establish a People’s Court. They
will testify against a crime carried out
by the Iranian regime, a crime that has
been kept secret from the public for
more than 25 years. Those responsible
for these crimes now hold high
government office in Iran.
In 2013 an international tribunal, the
Iran Tribunal, is convened in The Hague
Court of Justice. Now is their chance to
put Iran on trial for their crimes against
humanity.
SALES / CONTACT
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
PRODUCTION
Nima Film
Nima Sarvestani
04103 Leipzig
CO-PRODUCTION
Germany
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
SVT – Sweden,
[email protected]
DR – Denmark,
The mother of the filmmaker tells
about how her life has gone when she
first came to live in a neglected canal
house fifty years ago. The rapid career
of the father the dramatic separation;
her four children she raised alone; she
tries to remember the whole story.
But she doesn’t want her face in the
picture and there are only a few photo’s.
Her story is however told in a visually
attractive manner using unorthodox
reconstruction techniques. In the
end not everything will be as ‘real’ as
expected.
SALES / CONTACT
Pieter van Huystee
Big Pete
PRODUCTION
Dutch Mountain Film
René Huybrechtse
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
Pieter van Huystee
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 421 0606
CO-PRODUCTION
Pieter van Huystee Film –
www.pvhfilm.nl
The Netherlands
[email protected]
ZDF – Germany,
For the first time an
International People’s
Tribunal convenes in
The Hague court of
justice to investigate
the mass executions
of political prisoners in
Iran during the 1980s.
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The Time There-After
Tito’s Glasses
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Titos Brille
Regina Schilling
Willem Aerts, Erwin Kokkelkoren
www.detijddaarna.nl
www.ruthfilms.com
A film about life with HIV and AIDS.
We meet three men and two women;
together their five life stories give a
clear picture of how the impact of HIV
differs from person to person. A life
with HIV cannot be generalized. Being
infected in the 80’s means you have
to deal with more physical problems
than those more recently infected.
This documentary shows the drama
of the 80’s and the 90’s, the enormous
progress that has been made, life with
HIV nowadays and the dreams and
tasks for tomorrow.
SALES / CONTACT
Kaisa Kriek
PRODUCTION
IDTV Docs
NPO Sales
Anne Blom
Bart de Graaffweg 2
Les Enfants Terribles
1217 ZL Hilversum
Bert Oele
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
[email protected]
A film about five people
who talk about their
life with HIV and AIDS
nowadays and the dreams
and tasks for tomorrow.
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Adriana Altaras is a director, actress
and writer. And she is from a country
which no longer exists: Yugoslavia.
The daughter of Jewish partisans who
fought for Tito and later started a new
life in post-war Germany, in this lovely
film she tells the story of her “high
maintenance family”. what can be seen
as typical of the generation born after
the War, and despite a high standard
of living, the wounds from her parents’
past can be felt, even to this day, and
the search for her own roots are her
constant companion.
SALES / CONTACT
Ruth Diskin
P.O.Box 7153
PRODUCTION
Zero One Film
Thomas Kufus
SWR – Germany
91071 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 2 6724256
www.ruthfilms.com
[email protected]
Drector, actress and writer
Adriana Altaras is from
a country that does not
exist – and the search
for her own roots is her
constant companion.
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To Russia with Love
Tomorrow We Disappear
Original Language: Russian/English
Subtitles: English
USA / India, 2014 color, video, 84’
Original Language: English/Hindi
Subtitles: English
Leading up to the Olympics in Sochi,
a law banning “propaganda of
nontraditional sexual relations to
minors” was passed in Russia. Gay
Olympians were confronted with a
tough decision: whether to protest in
defense of their Russian comrades or
compete in silence. Featuring world
medalist Johnny Weir, Billie Jean King,
Greg Louganis, Martina Navratilova,
Simona Meiler and others.
Delhi´s most fascinating community
the Kathputli Colony gives home to
over 3. 000 artists, magicians, acrobats
and puppeteers and their families.
When their home is sold to real-estate
developers these street artists must
find a way to unite—or splinter apart
forever.
Noam Gonick
Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber
www.twdfilm.com
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
PRODUCTION
Public Studio
Cinephil
Elle Flanders
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Joshua Cogan
Autlook Filmsales
Old Friend
Jim Goldblum
18 Levontin St.
Little Punk Inc.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Howard Gertler
A-1070 Vienna
Israel
EPIX film production, Inc. – USA
Austria
tel: +972 3 5664129
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
[email protected]
Gay Olympians in Sochi 2014
confronted with a tough
decision: whether to protest
in defense of their Russian
comrades or compete in
silence.
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Experimental | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Top Doctors
Torsions
Subtitles: English
Australia / Bangladesh, 2014
color, HDcam, 108’
Original Language: Bengali
Subtitles: English
Top Doctors closely follows ten Belgian
specialists, in their extraordinary
profession. Each day, they decide on
the fates of people like you and me.
They’re ambitious, determined and go
to any length to solve the toughest
medical problems. They challenge
science and face the vulnerability of
life. Like no other, they know euphoria
and disappointment in their work. Ten
of Belgian finest top doctors grant us a
look into their heads and hearts.
Torsions gathers together the rhythms,
events, spiritual processes and
phenomena of two religious festivals
in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. The work
intimately explores the actions of
believers experiencing transcendent
moments in the midst of the large,
worshipping crowds to create a deeply
sensorial experience of spiritual form.
Annick Bongers
Omar Chowdhury
SALES / CONTACT
Sue Green
The New Flemish Primitives
Huart Hamoirlaan 107
1030 Brussel
PRODUCTION
Woestijnvis NV
Leen Lombaert
VIER – SBS BELGIUM – Belgium
SALES / CONTACT
Kate Vinen
Parallel Cinema
14 Winburn Avenue
2032 Sydney
Belgium
Australia
tel: +32 470 991 891
tel: +44 7539 661 599
www.tnfp.tv
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Parallel Cinema
Kate Vinen
CO-PRODUCTION
Studio OC – Bangladesh
[email protected]
Ten of Belgian finest top doctors grant us a look into their heads and hearts.
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Filmed in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, Torsions explores the actions of believers
experiencing transcendent moments in the midst of the large, worshipping
crowds to create a deeply sensorial experience of spiritual form.
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Toto and His Sisters
Tough Guise 2 (Abridged): Violence, Manhood & American Culture
Toto si Surorile Lui
Alexander Nanau
Jeremy Earp
Romania, 2014 color, video, 93’
Subtitles: English
white, video, 52’
Subtitles: English
Following his Emmy award-winning
observational documentary, Alexander
Nanau brings us the astonishing
family story of Toto (10), and his sisters,
Ana (17) and Andreea (15). During
their mother’s imprisonment, Toto
passionately learns dancing, reading
and writing, while his sisters try to keep
the family together in a world that has
long forgotten what the innocence of
childhood should be. What happens
when we discover that we can get more
from life than our parents have to offer?
In this highly anticipated, all-new
sequel to the acclaimed Tough Guise,
pioneering anti-violence educator
Jackson Katz examines the epidemic
of violence in America against the
backdrop of a media culture that
continues to normalize, and glamorize,
violent ideals of manhood. Katz’s main
concern is the teaching role of culture,
how social norms teach boys and young
men that being a “real man” is about
being in control, dominating others,
and doing whatever it takes – including
resorting to violence – to avoid the
shame of being perceived as “feminine.”
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
PRODUCTION
Strada Film
Marcian Lazar
HBO Europe
A-1070 Vienna
Alexander Nanau
Austria
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
George Matta
MundoVision
PRODUCTION
Media Education Foundation
Sut Jhally
4148A Ste-Catherine West, Suite 201
H3Z 0A2 Westmount, QC
Canada
tel: 514-985-2004
www.mundovision.ca
[email protected]
In this stunning new edition of the acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering
anti-violence educator Jackson Katz argues that outmoded ideals of
manhood are feeding an epidemic of men’s violence in America.
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Catalogue No. 472
Politics / Society | Youth | History
The Trail
Train Goes To Moscow
Switzerland, 2014 color, video, 75’
Original Language: French/Russian
Italy / England, 2013 color /
black and white, DCP, 70’/52’
Subtitles: English
Kolyma, some 10 000 km away from
Moscow. A single road circumscribes
the region: the Trail. Artist André
Sugnaux takes us down this 2000-km
long trail that was built by the gulag
inmates and still affords access to the
area’s rich goldmines.
It is 1957 and Alfonsine is just one of
the many small towns in Italy’s EmiliaRomagna region where communist
local governments have reigned
supreme in the wake of the destruction
wreaked by the war. Sauro and his
friends dream of a world of peace,
brotherhood, and equality: they dream
of the Soviet Union. A once in a lifetime
opportunity comes their way when they
have the chance of attending the World
Festival of Socialist Youth in Moscow.
Sauro and his friends arm themselves
with an 8mm camera to film their great
journey. What happens when they
come face to face with their utopian
dream?
La Trace
Enrico Pizzolato, Gabriel Tejedor
Il Treno va a Mosca
Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
SALES / CONTACT
Priscilla Frey
Earthling Productions
PRODUCTION
Earthling Productions
Priscilla Frey
Rue de la Coulouvrenière 8
1204 Genève
Switzerland
tel: +41787433734
[email protected]
Kolyma, 10’000km away
from Moscow.
A single road circumscribes
the region: the Trail. This
2000-km long trail built
by the gulag inmates and
still affords access to the
area’s rich goldmines.
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SALES / CONTACT
Manuela Buono
PRODUCTION
Kiné Produzioni Audiovisive
Slingshot Films International Sales Claudio Giapponesi
via Salita di Gretta 7/1
Vezfilm
34136 Trieste
Francesco Ragazzi
Italy
tel: +39 3476273390
[email protected]
The Train Goes to Moscow chronicles the end of an era and
the end of a dream through the eyes of Sauro Ravaglia,
an amateur film-maker, barber and communist.
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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Transfixed
Trees that Walk
Subtitles: English
Transfixed tells the story of a
very unconventional romance:
transsexual Martine and straightidentifying John are “underdogs”
with Asperger Syndrome, which
makes communication with others
extremely difficult. Despite their social
limitations, both dream of getting
married, but John refuses to tie the
knot until Martine gets “a real vagina. ’
The only problem: no doctor in Canada
will perform the surgery because
Martine’s obesity makes her too great
of a surgical risk. Will Martine and John
find the happiness together that they
deserve?
The tree is a figure that is the opposite
of movement: it dies where it’s born.
But there exists a second life that starts
as soon as its saps stop flowing inside
its vessels. Such is the life of wood.
Its magic is not just that it burns, that
it offers a campfire for warming the
human race; there is a second life of the
wood, it becomes boats for sailing or
musical instruments for playing. . .
Alberi che Camminano
Mattia Colombo
Alon Kol
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
PRODUCTION
Transfixed Films
Alon Kol
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
SALES / CONTACT
Mario Lanti
OH!PEN Italia srl
via attilio benigni 60
PRODUCTION
OH!PEN Italia srl
Mauro Calevi
Paola Porrini Bisson
00156 Roma
Italy
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
tel: +39 3927785345
[email protected]
[email protected]
Transsexual Martine and her fiancé John have Asperger’s. They are so
unique and different, that they break every possible convention.
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Trees that Walk recounts the life of the trees and their deep relationship
with people that every day work hard to give to the wood a second life.
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Catalogue No. Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Tristia – A Black Sea Odyssey
True Appaloosa
Original Language: Ukranian/Bulgarian/
Romanian/Russian/Turkish/Georgian
Subtitles: English
Stanislaw Mucha takes you on an
astonishing journey of 5,000 kilometres
along the coasts of seven countries.
Tristia captures the collision of mythic
images, which seem to have overcome
time, with the rapid, multi-cultural
changes, as determined by postcommunist ideas: the megalomaniac
highway and Olympic madness. The
Black Sea is a place of contradictions:
It is where Orient and Occident meet,
splendor and tranquillity, civilization
and barb. With his usual humorous
glance, the German-Polish filmmaker
Stanislaw Mucha discovers a region of
Europe, which previously was hidden
from our attention.
Scott Engstrom is a life long dedicated
breeder of Appaloosa horses – a hardy
North American breed known for its
colourful spotted pattern. Scott has
long believed that the true source of
the North American Appaloosa horse
was Asia and not Europe as the history
books would have you believe. Then
one night watching her TV, she saw a
horse that looked like an Appaloosa in
Kyrgyzstan. She contacted the producer
of the show, Conor Woodman, and
convinced him to return with her to
Kyrgyzstan to find that horse and prove
that Asia was the source of the True
Appaloosa.
Conor Woodman
www.trueappaloosamovie.com
SALES / CONTACT
Gerd Haag
TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion
PRODUCTION
TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion
Kerstin Krieg
Apostelnstr. 11
50667 Cologne
Germany
tel: +4922165025900
www.tagtraum.de
[email protected]
Once around the Black Sea: This odyssey leads through the fascinating
coastal areas of seven countries, where romantic cliffs and picturesque
harbors collide with colorful post-communist ghosts and Olympic-mania.
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Tristia – Eine Schwarzmeer Odyssee
Stanislaw Mucha
SALES / CONTACT
Conor Woodman
PRODUCTION
Hustler’s Trumpet
Hustler’s Trumpet
Conor Woodman
124 St Georges Avenue
N7 0AH London
England
tel: 447811123567
[email protected]
True Appaloosa is an
adventure story set in the
wilds of Central Asia. An
Appaloosa Horse breeder
goes in search of the
original horses that might
have started the breed.
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Catalogue No. 478
Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Nature / Environment
The Tundra Tale
Twilight of A Life
Germany / Norway, 2014 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: Russian/Sami
Subtitles: English
Belgium / Israel, 2014 color / black
Subtitles: English
At the outermost edge of Europe, 150
kilometers away from the nearest
road lies the picturesque Sami
village of Krasnoschchelye. It is the
ancestral home of Alexandra Artieva
and her family, traditional tundra
reindeer herders. But they have a
problem, their life sustaining tundra
is also rich in minerals and other
resources. Alexandra is a member
of the newly formed Russian Sami
parliament. She faces government and
big business to save her village and
culture from aggressively encroaching
mining and other business ventures
which are destroying her beloved
tundra. 13,000 Sami villages have
already perished.
How a son and a mother deals with
aging in an optimistic way full of
humor, sensitivity and hope.
When the doctor told me that my
mother, aged 94 had just a few weeks
to live, I left my home and came back to
Belgium to say goodbye. But my mother
decided that the time to pass away had
not yet come. We shared weeks and
months of uncertainty and mystery. I
found myself filming hours of incredible
conversations, humoristic situations,
poetic moments. Twilight of A Life is an
Ode to Life!
Die Hueter der Tundra
René Harder
Au Crépuscule d’une Vie
Sylvain Biegeleisen
SALES / CONTACT
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
1017PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6248395
PRODUCTION
Lichtblick Filmproduktion
Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
CO-PRODUCTION
Relation04 Media – Norway
[email protected]
84’ version also available.
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
PRODUCTION
ZEN PRODUCTIONS
CAT&Docs
Sylvain Biegeleisen
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
CO-PRODUCTION
Take Five – Belgium
[email protected]
Twilight of A Life is an Ode to
Life. How a son and a mother
aged 94 deals with Aging
in an optimistic way full of
humor, sensitivity and hope.
Alexandra, a member of the new Sami parliament in Russia, struggles
to save her village and culture from encroaching mining and other
business ventures which are destroying her beloved tundra.
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Two Raging Grannies
Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work
Norway, 2013 color, HDcam, 77’
Austria / Germany / Switzerland,
Subtitles: English
Håvard Bustnes
Constantin Wulff
www.tworaginggrannies.com
A combination of curiosity and
frustration with the status quo drives
Shirley and Hinda, two gutsy, nearly
90-year-old American women, to seek
answers to the burning question on
everyone’s mind: How do we get out of
this economic mess?
Armed with courage, humour, a long
friendship and a zest for life, Shirley
and Hinda take to cities and towns
across the US to engage everyone from
the recently homeless to economy
students, questioning the sustainability
of continued economic growth, and
demonstrating that it is never – ever
– too late to get out and make a
difference.
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
Håvard Bustnes
Faction Film AS
Christian Falch
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
Two Raging Grannies is a
road movie where two old
ladies embark on a quest
to seek answers to the
question: How do we get
out of this economic mess?
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The film portrait depicts the
controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich
Seidl at work for the first time, painting
a vivid picture of the much-debated
“Seidl method”: The camera patiently
looks over Seidl’s shoulder during the
shooting of ‘In the Basement’ and
accompanies him during rehearsals
for his latest highly provocative stage
production ‘Böse Buben/Fiese Männer’.
In a suggestive montage, combining
extensive interviews and clips from his
earlier movies, this film gives a glimpse
into the world of a fascinating and
exceptional artist.
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
Autlook Filmsales
A-1070 Vienna
PRODUCTION
Navigator Film
Johannes Rosenberger
CO-PRODUCTION
Dschoint Ventschr
Austria
Filmproduktion – Switzerland,
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
– Germany
[email protected]
This film portrait depicts the controversial Austrian
filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a
vivid picture of the much-debated “Seidl method”.
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481
Investigative | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
Under the Stars I Felt at Home
Unearthed
South Africa / USA / Canada,
Original Language: English/Afrikaans
Subtitles: English
Anneloor van Heemstra
mensjesrechten.nl
Jolynn Minnaar
www.un-earthed.com
Ilia is homesick, he longs for all the
happiness he used to know. Even
though he was born in the war, his life
was almost normal in Afghanistan.
Until the Taliban killed his brother
and grandfather. Then everything
changed forever. Now Ilia is living in
The Netherlands, along with his sick
mother, in a room as small as a closet.
The other family members are not
allowed to stay with them. Living in
a asylum seekers’ home is downright
rotten, Ilia feels. He wants to show this
to other children.
SALES / CONTACT
Anouk Donker
IKON
1213AC Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6474208
www.omroep.nl/ikon
[email protected]
Even though Ilia was born in the war, his life was
almost normal in Afghanistan. Now Ilia is living in
The Netherlands in a room as small as a closet.
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PRODUCTION
IKON
Anouk Donker
When Jolynn Minnaar first heard about
the fracking in the Karoo, her home
district, she was optimistic. Companies
seeking to drill in this semi-arid area of
South Africa promised the process of
gas extraction would bring widespread
prosperity for the poor communities.
But after stumbling across a case of
water contamination in Pennsylvania,
Jolynn is drawn into an investigation
which takes her across the United
States – the home of the fracking
technology. Her discoveries leave her
horrified. As her government lifts
the moratorium on fracking, the race
begins to share her findings with the
Karoo – before it’s too late. SALES / CONTACT
Dylan Voogt
Stage 5 Films
PRODUCTION
Zootee Studios
Stacey Keppler
2 Harlea Court, 38 Breda Street,
Stage 5 Films
Oranjezicht
Saskia Schiel
8001 Cape Town
South Africa
tel: +27 766391914
www.stage5films.com
[email protected]
The deeper the dig, the darker the secrets.
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The Unwelcoming
Uyghurs, Prisoners of the Absurd
Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
The challenges of immigration are
exposed in this touching film where
we follow a family who moves to
Israel in 2006 from the Tunisian Island
of Djerba. Though the community
to which they arrive seems like the
most natural place for them to set up
their new home, tensions soon arise
between the wider community and the
Uzan family – and within the family as
well. The younger generation want to
integrate into their new surroundings,
while their father feels that his honor
is lost. The realities of his new country
are at odds with his desire to earn an
honest living.
The incredible odyssey of a group of
men from China’s persecuted Uyghur
minority, detained in Guantánamo
as terrorists. Exposing the cold logic
of post–September 11 geopolitical
gamemasters who flout international
law as they shift their pawns, this
documentary is part human drama,
part political thriller, and both thoughtprovoking and moving.
Zeit Al Ma’a
Robby Elmaliah
Ouïghours, prisonniers de l’absurde
Patricio Henriquez
www.ruthfilms.com
SALES / CONTACT
Ruth Diskin
P.O.Box 7153
PRODUCTION
Yulari Films
Ruthie Shatz
91071 Jerusalem
SALES / CONTACT
Lorne Price
PRODUCTION
Macumba Media
Patricio Henriquez
H4N 2N4 Montrealq
Colette Loumède
Israel
Canada
tel: +972 2 6724256
tel: +1-514-951-6512
www.ruthfilms.com
www.nfb.ca
[email protected]
[email protected]
Tensions arise between
the wider community and
within the Uzan family, who
have recently immigrated
to Israel from Tunisa.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Nature / Environment
Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment | Experimental
Varvilla
Vast
Subtitles: English
Argentina, 2014 color, video, 60’
Subtitles: English
At the gates of the National Park of the
Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, in Succiso,
the inhabitants have managed to save
their small country from abandonment
by creating a cooperative community.
Valley of the Knights, cooperative’s
name, now runs a bar, a farm, a grocery
store and is active in the tourism,
farming of sheep, the maintenance of
the territory and in the management
of the national park’s visitor center.
Economics professor Naori Tsuda Osaka
University who is conducting a study
of cooperative communities spread
throughout the world, says that a
similar pattern exists only in Australia.
Vast is a documentary which, adapting
its duration to the geographical
location it portrays -Argentina’s
Pampas-, cannot ‘end’. The question
arising from the images is, perhaps, as
old as our country: How to conceive of
this area which is almost boundless,
immeasurable -not only in its physical
but also in its social dimension- as a
’shared ground’?
La extensión
Christian Delgado, Nicolás Testoni
Valerio Gnesini
SALES / CONTACT
Valerio Gnesini
Kaleidoscope Factory
Via Dello Sport 19
PRODUCTION
Gadoev
Valentina Damiani
CO-PRODUCTION
Kaleidoscope Factory – Italy
40124 Bologna
PRODUCTION
Nicolás Testoni
SALES / CONTACT
Nicolás Testoni
Tucumán 120
8000 Bahía Blanca
Argentina
Italy
tel: +54 0291 4523207
tel: +39 347 3759248
[email protected]
[email protected]
A unique example of cooperative community,
which is useful to prevent
the depopulation of the
smaller countries.
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lost in your own country.
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Politics / Society
Vessel
Voices from the Booth
Original Language: Portugese/Dutch/
Swahili/Spanish/Arabic/Polish/English
Subtitles: English
Original Language: Hebrew/Russian
Subtitles: English
vesselthefilm.com
Voices-from-the-Booth
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts sails a ship
around the world, providing abortions
at sea for women with no legal
alternative. With each roadblock she
faces comes a more refined mission,
until Rebecca realizes she can use new
technologies to bypass law – and train
women to give themselves abortions
using WHO-researched protocols
with pills. We witness her create an
underground network of emboldened,
informed activists who trust women
to handle abortion themselves. Vessel
is Rebecca’s story: one of a woman
who hears and answers a calling, and
transforms a wildly improbable idea
into a global movement.
We meet them at school gates, in
underground parking lots, at the
entrances of shopping malls, and
many other places. There are tens of
thousands of security guards in Israel,
most of them of Russian origin. They
immigrated to Israel at an advanced age
and found themselves doing security
work in order to survive. Many of them
used to be well-respected professionals
or artists in their pasts. The heroes of
our film, former musicians, a writer and
a surgeon, insist on remaining creative
in spite of it all – an optimistic note in
the quasi-tragic destiny of these people.
Kolot Mi-habudke
Lina Chaplin
Diana Whitten
www.go2films.com/Coming-Soon/
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
Cinephil
PRODUCTION
Mitchell Block, Diana Whitten
18 Levontin St.
6511207 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
www.cinephil.co.il
[email protected]
USA, Sweden not available.
Rebecca Gomperts sails a ship through international law loopholes,
providing abortions at sea, and leaving in her wake a network of
emboldened activists who trust women to self-handle abortion.
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Hedva Goldschmidt
Go2Films
PRODUCTION
Daniela Reiss Razon
37/8 Issar Natanzon
2nd Broadcasting Authority –
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
Israel
tel: 97225831371
www.go2films.com
[email protected]
We meet them everywhere
in Israel, tens of thousands
security guards, mostly
immigrants of Russian origin.
Some of them insist on
remaining creative in spite of
it all.
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Vulva 3.0 Between Tabu and Fine-Tuning
W. Sisters’ Beauty Salon
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
The world around us constantly puts
naked women and their genitalia on
display. But many women are still
deeply prudish when it comes to the
relationship with their own body. In
public we see airbrushed anatomies,
which conforms to the porn industry’s
ideal image of the smooth, perfectly
shaped vulva that has little to do
with the actual shape of most female
genitalia.
The insecurity of many women is
a goldmine for cosmetic surgery
promising the perfect vagina.
VULVA 3. 0 looks at sex education
and censorship, the airbrushing of
‘misshapen’ labia in pornographic
images, the cosmetic genital surgery.
In 2012, a peculiar beauty salon was
opened in Szczecin. It is the only beauty
parlour for women with cancer. It is
run by two sisters, Joanna Wiszniewska
and Jolanta Wiewióra, who know from
their own experience how troublesome
it may be for patients to visit to a
hairdresser or a beautician. Their
establishment is different. Clients have
an opportunity to talk freely about their
dreams and fears related to the illness.
Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann
www.mmmfilm.de
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
MMM filmproduktion
Ulrike Zimmermann
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
Salon Siostr W.
Jakub Stozek
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
PRODUCTION
AFILM
Anna Zajaczkowska
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: 1-514-844-3358
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
[email protected]
We live in hypersexualised times. The world around us constantly
puts naked women and their genitalia on display.
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Catalogue No. 490
Waiting for August
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
Belgium, 2014 color, HDcam, 92’/52’
Subtitles: English
Original Language: English/French/Spanish
Subtitles: English
Georgiana Halmac, eldest daughter of
her family, is turning fifteen this winter.
She lives with her six siblings in a social
housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau
(Romania). Their mother Liliana, an
economic migrant in Torino, will not be
back till the summer. During mother’s
absence, Georgiana is catapulted to
the role of new head of the family.
Her adolescence is brutally cut short,
when she becomes responsible for her
brothers and sisters. Caught between
puberty and responsibilities, she moves
ahead improvising. Phone conversations
with her mom are her only guidelines. Walking hundreds of miles with only
nature and their own thoughts for
company, our characters are forced to
step out of their comfort zones, look
inward and confront their fears and
doubts.
Whatever their motivation, no one can
anticipate the challenges and triumphs
the Camino has in store for them or
what transformations they will undergo
by the trail’s end. A surprising and
moving film which has sold out or won
awards at every festival it’s featured in.
Lydia Smith
Teodora Ana Mihai
waitingforaugust.be
www.caminodocumentary.org
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION
Clin d’Oeil Films
Hanne Phlypo
Antoine Vermeesch
10997 Berlin
CO-PRODUCTION
A Private View – Belgium
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
VRT Canvas – Belgium
[email protected]
Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau
(Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by.
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Kathryn Bonnici
PRODUCTION
Sally Bentley, Theresa Tollini-
Java Films
Coleman
France
tel: 0034 634 869 646
www.javafilms.fr
[email protected]
Every year, between 150,000
and 300,000 people walk
the Camino de Santiago.
This award-winning film,
which has grossed $500,000
to date in North America,
is the story of six of them.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
Walking Under Water
Walls
Poland / Germany, 2014 color,
HDcam, 77’/52’/43’
Spain, 2014 color, video/HDcam, 10’
Subtitles: Spanish/English
Eliza Kubarska
Miguel López Beraza
www.agenciafreak.com/en/film/WALLS-/497
www.riseandshine-berlin.de/portfolio_
page/walking-under-water
The Badjao are sea nomads living near
Borneo. For centuaries, they lived on the
sea and from the sea. But the fishing
industry and diving resorts make it
difficult for them to survive. With his
uncle Alexan, young Sari goes on his
first fishing trip, an initiation into the
adult world. A fantastic underwater
documentary with beautiful imagery
and a moving story.
Germany, France not available
SALES / CONTACT
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
PRODUCTION
Rise and Shine
Monika Braid
A day in the life of Mr. Istvan and Ms.
Magdi, neighbors for many years, is
narrated by the building of Budapest
where both live. The walls surrounding
them reveal their small passions, stories
and routines. SALES / CONTACT
Millan Luis Vazquez-Ortiz
Freak Independent Film Agency
Braidmade Films
10997 Berlin
Monika Braid
28036 Madrid
Germany
Spain
tel: +49 30 47372980
CO-PRODUCTION
Kloos & Co. Medien – Germany,
Kloos & Co. Medien – Germany
www.agenciafreak.com
[email protected] INVOLVED TV CHANNELS
PRODUCTION
Making DOC
Silvia Venegas
Hiedra, 2C
tel: +34 67 9134021
[email protected]
Walking Under Water will take us under the waves to walk with the
last compressor divers from the Badjao tribe in Mabul Island.
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Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View | History
The Waltz
The Wanted 18
Chile / Argentina, 2013
Subtitles: English
Palestine / Canada / France,
The tale of two parallel stories narrates
the student movement in Chile. A
teenager immersed in the political
climate in his school and a former
political prisoner of the Pinochet
dictatorship find in the social and
student’s movement the sense to their
own history. Darío (17) and Miguel Ángel
(58) both join the “1800 hours for free
education”- marathon, one of the most
important expressions of the Chilean
student movement in the past years.
Together with the viewer they share
their different experiences and points
of view, connecting history with the
current capital of Chile.
Soon after the dawn of the 1987
Palestinian uprising, residents of the
town of Beit Sahour secretly bought
18 cows from an Israeli kibbutz.
Documenting this seemingly small
act of resistance – one that allowed
Palestinians to provide milk for their
children – The Wanted 18 encompasses
comedy, drama and absurd tragedy.
El Vals de los Inútiles
Edison Cajas
Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali
www.elvalsdelosinutiles.com/sitio
SALES / CONTACT
Valentín Romero
PRODUCTION
Cusicanqui Films
3boxmedia
Catalina Donoso
SALES / CONTACT
Lorne Price
PRODUCTION
Ina Fichman
H4N 2N4 Montrealq
Lorne Price
Germany
Canada
tel: +49 22116924890
tel: +1-514-951-6512
CO-PRODUCTION
www.3boxmedia.com
www.nfb.ca
– Canada,
[email protected]
[email protected]
Intuitive Pictures inc. – Canada
Hirschbergstr. 16
CO-PRODUCTION
La pata de Juana – Argentina
50939 Köln
Chile and Argentina not available
A teenager immersed in
the political climate in his
school and a former political
prisoner of the Pinochet
dictatorship find in the
student’s movement the
sense to their own history.
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The Wanted 18 encompasses
comedy, drama and
absurd tragedy.
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History | Politics / Society
War and War Crime
War of Lies
Belgium, 2014 color / black
Original Language: Vietnamese
Subtitles: English/French/Dutch
Original Language: Arabic/English
Subtitles: English
The Vietnam war made allready 4 to 5
million victims, Orange Agent, sprayed
by U. S. aircraft to defoliate and weaken
the enemy, is continuing its chemical
destruction work. Thousands children
are born each year, severely disabled
by this persistant contamination. USA
refuse to acknowledge their strategy’s
consequences, and Monsanto was just
granted a Protection Act by President
Obama.
This is the story of an Iraqi refugee,
whose information about portable
weapons of mass destruction passed
through the hands of the BND, MI6
and CIA intelligence agencies, finally
to be used by the U. S. government as
the legitimation to invade Iraq in 2003.
Today we know the war was based on a
lie. The press portrayed Rafed Aljanabi
as the man who bears the blame of war.
However he proudly presents himself as
the man who helped remove Saddam
Hussein. How could one man walk all
over the world’s intelligence services
and how came a lie the pretended
truth?
Guerre et Crime de Guerre
Jean-Marc Turine
SALES / CONTACT
Thierry Detaille
Ventes – CBA/WIP Sales
PIL, Bat. T, c/o WIP, 36 rue de
Mulhouse
Krieg der Lügen
Matthias Bittner
PRODUCTION
Luna Blue Film
Serge Kestemont
RTBF – Belgium
4020 Liège
Belgium
tel: +3243401040
www.ventes-cbawip-sales.be
[email protected]
SALES / CONTACT
Ori Bader
PRODUCTION
Zischlermann Filmproduktion
Cinephil
Susanne Mann
18 Levontin St.
Paul Zischler
6511207 Tel Aviv
CO-PRODUCTION
Film- und Fernseh-Labor
Israel
tel: +972 3 566 4129
Ludwigsburg – Germany
www.cinephil.co.il
ARD/SWR – Germany
[email protected]
Who really is the man
behind „Curveball“ and
what decisive role did he
play for the War in Iraq?
The Vietnam war, soon on a 50 years commemoration, is still
on for many vietnamese families, as many babies are born
with severe handicaps, due to the use of orange agent.
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Warriors from the North
We Are 18
Denmark / Somalia, 2014 color, video, 59’
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
In a marquee in Mogadishu, the newly
graduated doctors are being celebrated.
In the front row, a young journalist
covers the happy event. No one knows
that this young “journalist” in just a few
seconds, will blow himself up and take
several young doctors with him in the
blast.
Warriors from the North is about young
Somali-European men who leave their
comfortable everyday lives in European
cities to become fighters, and perhaps
even suicide bombers, in Somalia
– one of the most dangerous and
impoverished places in the world.
A group of 18-year-old boys from very
diverse backgrounds is put together
disconnected from the outside world.
They talk about what it is like to be on
the border of adulthood: all the options
and opportunities and the freedom to
make their own decisions. And they all
have an entire lifetime ahead of them,
filled with choices to make. Kaan wants
to condense this moment and make us
relive it: that envious, confusing and
almost terrifying energy that comes
with being 18. The film is structured
like a boys novel and balances on the
thrilling edge of fiction and non-fiction.
Wij zijn 18
Tomas Kaan
www.hazazahpictures.com
SALES / CONTACT
Kim Christiansen
PRODUCTION
Made in Copenhagen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Denmark
tel: +45 3520 2299
www.dr.dk
[email protected]
How terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab recruits
fighters from the western world.
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Nasib Farah, Søren Steen Jespersen
SALES / CONTACT
Maarten Kuit
HazazaH Pictures
Plantage Parklaan 9
1018SR Amsterdam
PRODUCTION
HazazaH Pictures
Maarten Kuit
The Netherlands
tel: +31204226422
hazazahpictures.com
[email protected]
Confessions on the magical moment of transition into
adulthood. Who are they, those 18-year-old boys?
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We Are Twisted Fucking S*ster
We Were Rebels
Germany / USA, 2014 color /
Original Language: English/Dinka/Arabic
Subtitles: English
In their club days, Twisted Sister were
the Grand Funk of Glam and the NY
Dolls of Metal, channeling youthful fury
– and a wicked sense of humor – into
a sort of blue collar performance art,
both sustained by, and trapped in, the
“velvet noose” of suburban bar-band
superstardom. If you know them from
their hit songs, MTV videos and massive
stadium shows, this is the untold story
of how they became that band. A smart,
savvy, and savagely funny story of a 10
year odyssey to overnight success. Agel, a former child soldier, returns
to South Sudan to help build up his
country. As captain of the national
basketball team, Agel coaches the team
through their first international match.
The conflicts within the team bear a
striking resemblance to the political
problems festering across the country.
An injury ends up forcing Agel to leave
the team, and he goes on to form an
NGO. Today, the world’s youngest
nation is once again teetering on the
edge of a precipice: More than half a
million people are fleeing the country,
and Agel is fighting as a soldier once
again.
Andrew Horn
www.facebook.com/TwistedSisterTheMovie
Florian Schewe, Katharina von Schroeder
www.perfectshotfilms.com
SALES / CONTACT
Andrew Horn
PRODUCTION
Andrew Horn Filmproduktion
Marienburger Str. 28
Andrew Horn
10405 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 441 9233
[email protected]
Dress like women, talk like men, play like motherfuckers!
Twisted Sister were both the ruling band of the suburban megaclub scene and prisoners of their own success. And yet...
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SALES / CONTACT
Irena Taskovski
PRODUCTION
Perfect Shot Films
Taskovski Films
Michael Bogar
NW7 2DQ London
ZDF – Germany
England
tel: +44 79 57105672
[email protected]
We Were Rebels tells the
story of Agel, a former
child soldier who returns
home to help build South
Sudan – the youngest
country in the world.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Science / Technology
Web
Web Junkie
USA, 2013 color, video, 58’/83’
Subtitles: English
Israel / USA, 2014 color, HDcam, 74’/52’
Original Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English
For 10 months, award-winning director,
Michael Kleiman, lived with families
in small villages in Peru’s Andes
Mountains and Amazon Jungle as
children there experienced laptops
and the Internet for the first time via
the One Laptop per Child program.
The film captures both the villagers’
first interactions with connective
technologies – their discovery of
tools like Google and Wikipedia, their
hilarious search through videos on
YouTube, and poignant moments
in which they connect with family
members they haven’t seen in years.
China is the first country to label
internet addiction a clinical disorder.
Web Junkie exposes a Beijing rehab
centre where Chinese teenagers are
being “deprogrammed”.
Michael Kleiman
Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam
cargofilm-releasing.com/home/films/web
webjunkiemovie.com
SALES / CONTACT
David Piperni
PRODUCTION
Righteous Pictures
SALES / CONTACT
Ana Vicente
PRODUCTION
Shosh Shlam
Dogwoof
kNow Productions
102 Hatton Sq
Neta Zwebner-Zaibert
10012 New York
EC1N 7RJ London
USA
England
tel: +1 2129958139
tel: +44 2078317252
dogwoofglobal.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Michael Pertnoy
Available in 58’ & 83’
Web is a cutting-edge documentary film that mixes a deeply
personal story about people in the most remote parts of the
world using digital technologies for the first time.
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How do you de-programme a teenager?
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Werka
What’s Left? Adventures in Italian Politics
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
What are the limits of personal
sacrifice? The film tells the story of a
match factory worker who takes up
a remarkable challenge. We observe
several crucial months in her life, as
she attempts to turn her dreams into
reality. It’s the story of extraordinary
transformation. About love that gives
her life meaning.
Both filmmakers, frustrated in their
hope for a shift to a more equal and
progressive Italy, decide to find out why
theirs is such a persistently right-wing
country – and what it still means to
be on the Left today. As they set off
on their quest they also look back to
what Italy used to be, through their
own family history. Luca grew up in
a communist family when Italy had
the strongest communist party in
Europe, while Gustav grew up in the
conservative mountain area of South
Tyrol, far away from any leftish ideals,
until the Green Party was born.
Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Pawel Lozinski
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Lozinski Production
Pawel Lozinski
SALES / CONTACT
Jan Rofekamp
PRODUCTION
HiQ productions
Gustav Hofer
H3L1A8 Montreal
Canada
tel: 1-514-844-3358
[email protected]
What happens when a country loses its political identity? Is
the concept of “left” and “right” a thing of the past?
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Youth
What’s next Karolinka – Norwid and Nicole
When People Die They Sing Songs
Subtitles: English
Russia / USA, 2014 color / black
and white, HDcam, 48’/40’/30’
Subtitles: Russian
Co dalej z toba, Karolinko – Norwid i Nicole
Karolina Bendera
Olga Lvoff
whenpeoplediefilm.com
An extraordinary common day of a
single mother who brings up two kids.
In 2001 she took part in a feature film
by Robert Glinski „Hi, Tereska” where
she played one of the main characters.
She received Young Artist Awards for
Best Young Actress in USA. In 2003
the documentary was made about her
when, as a teenage mother, she was
trying to build a normal home for her
child. A decade later we can watch her
in another documentary where she
struggles with the hardships of being a
single mum.
SALES / CONTACT
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48122946945
www.polishdocs.pl
[email protected]
PRODUCTION
Filmpolis
Agata Szymanska
It is a story of mother and daughter
who resolve to uncover their wartime
past buried half a century ago.
After suffering a stroke, 93-year-old
Holocaust survivor Regina is getting
music therapy. Accompanied by music
therapist, Regina sings Yiddish and
French songs of her youth. Her daughter
Sonia is with her at every session.
This revitalizes their mother-daughter
relationship and emboldens them to
revisit their past. With Regina’s help,
Sonia tries to capture their family story.
The past they were so eager to forget
they are now anxious to remember. But
Regina’s memory is rapidly succumbing
to dementia. SALES / CONTACT
Olga Lvoff
DiploDocus
PRODUCTION
DiploDocus
Olga Lvoff
165 East 118 Street, 2L
10035 New York
USA
tel: +1 917-254-0279
[email protected]
Yiddish songs make a Holocaust survivor Regina uncover
her past after decades of silence. Her daughter races with
her mother’s dementia to capture the story.
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Author’s Point of View | History | Experimental
White Death
Who the Fuck Is Jett Rebel
Chile, 2014 black and white, 16mm, 17’
Subtitles: English
Original Language: English/Dutch
Subtitles: English
White Death is the impressionist
portrait of a landscape marked by
tragedy. A ghostly stroll among the
vestiges of a story where forty-four
young soldiers and one sergeant
were pushed to their deaths in the
mountainous Antuco.
Dutch musician Jelte Tuinstra (23) is
widely seen as the biggest rock star
promise The Netherlands have seen in
decades. He dreams of living a life of
rock ‘n’ roll and more so: fame. There
is only one problem: Tuinstra himself
is way too shy to hit the spotlight.
Therefore he creates a daring alter
ego he calls ‘Jett Rebel’. Shortly after
that Tuinstra gets confronted with the
downside of his decision: while his alter
ego Jett Rebel is gaining fame very fast,
Tuinstra himself is getting isolated and
more and more insecure.
Muerte Blanca
Roberto Collío
Linda Hakeboom
SALES / CONTACT
Isabel Orellana Guarello
PRODUCTION
Isabel Orellana Guarello
Los estanques 1916
7500731 Santiago
Chile
tel: +56 9 56395746
[email protected]
A ghostly stroll among the vestiges of a story where forty-four young soldiers
and one sergeant were pushed to their deaths in the mountainous Antuco.
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Linda Hakeboom
PRODUCTION
Linda Hakeboom
Weissenbruchstraat 8
VARA – The Netherlands
1058 KM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31650410820
www.lindahakeboom.nl
[email protected]
To be able to cope with the
pressure of fame, Dutch
musician Jelte Tuinstra (23)
creates a daring alter ego
but finds himself even more
isolated and insecure.
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Wind on the Moon
Winter, Love & Other Rules
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Charming the world’s documentary
fans with the love story of a deaf blind
poet in his previous work Planet of
Snail, the director switches the focus
to a mother whose daughter was born
with the same condition in his new film,
Wind on the Moon. Without having
seen or heard anything for the last
19 years, Yeji looks as if she’s floating
in the space like an astronaut. Still
the mother cannot give up, since she
encountered some magical moments
of being connected. The film invites us
to a mother and daughter’s journey into
finding the words of their own.
The Wood and Paper Industries in
north of Iran exploit forests so all the
animal farmers should leave the forest
as soon as possible. The advantage
of the farmers is to get either land,
money or job in return. But Sabz Ali,
a 71-year old animal farmer whose
job is not recognized by the Forestry
Administration, is struggling to prove
to the public that he’s right. The film
follows him in his actual life and his
past which is about the history of a
simple animal farmer in this century in
Iran.
Zemestan, Eshgh va Sayer-e Ghavanin
Yaser Khayer
Seung-Jun Yi
www.nooripictures.com
SALES / CONTACT
Min-Chul Kim
Documentary Airways
PRODUCTION
Minch & Films
Min-Chul Kim
#101, 3, Jahamun-ro 33ga-gil, Bluebird Pictures
Jongno-gu
Seung-Jun Yi
110-030 Seoul
South Korea
tel: +82 10 72190049
[email protected]
Having been blind and deaf
her entire life, Yeji’s world
seems inexplicable. The film
invites us to a mother and
daughter’s journey into
finding words of their own.
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507
Israel
SALES / CONTACT
Katayoon Shahabi
PRODUCTION
Yaser Khayer
Noori Pictures
84, Avenue de la République
75011 Paris
France
tel: +33 676 418 967
www.Nooripictures.com
[email protected]
The film follows Sabz Ali in
his actual life and his past
which is about the history
of a simple animal farmer
in this century in Iran.
457
Docs for Sale
Docs for Sale
Catalogue No. 508
With or Without You
Wolflady
South Korea / Germany, 2014
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Maggi and Chunhee lived for 45 years
under one roof as wives of one man.
Now they are old and approaching the
end of their extraordinary intertwined
lives. The film follows the two women
during their daily life in the Korean
countryside. It intensively captures their
intimate and very special relationship,
one in which they share night and day
side by side. It is not always an easy life,
but it is always marked by deep respect
and love and the extraordinary humor
of both of them.
Musician Oscar Holleman is astounded
upon hearing the voice of Sharon
Kovacs. Kovacs, nicknamed The Wolf
Lady, approaches Holleman, a music
producer thirty years her senior and
makes a pact with him. Their musical
exploration takes them to Cuba,
London, Hamburg, Berlin and New York.
We are witness to Sharon’s demons,
her urge to create and her craving
for recognition. Together the two
of them go through ups and downs,
pills and drugs, fighting and loving,
with cigarettes and mental setbacks,
yet always with an ever-lasting ‘all
or nothing’ mentality, laying the
foundation for Sharon’s musical selffulfilment. Hyuckjee Park
Daan Willekens
www.pvhfilm.nl/wolflady
SALES / CONTACT
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
PRODUCTION
HiHarbor Production
Kyungsoo Han
CO-PRODUCTION
Filmquadrat.dok – Germany
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
Danmarks Radio TV International
[email protected]
– Denmark,
BOS – The Netherlands
Two women lived for 45 years under one roof as wives of one man. Now they
are old and approaching the end of their extraordinary intertwined lives.
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509
SALES / CONTACT
Pieter van Huystee
Big Pete
PRODUCTION
Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 421 0606
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
The musical exploration of Sharon Kovacs and her producer takes
them through ups and downs, pills and drugs, fighting and loving,
yet always with an ever-lasting ‘all or nothing’ mentality.
459
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510
511
Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Science / Technology
Yalom’s Cure
Young, Fit & Dying: The Truth about Running
Sabine Gisiger
Michael Dorgan, Daniel Smith
Switzerland, 2014 color, video, 53’
Bestselling author, popular scholar and
existentialist Irvin D. Yalom is one of the
most influential living psychotherapists.
This cinematic feature is more than a
classic biography. Together with Dr.
Yalom we travel in a existential journey
through the many layers of the human
mind while he shares his fundamental
insights and wisdom. Dr. Yalom’s books
sold millions of copies worldwide and
critics describe him as: mind-bending,
stunning, inspiring, haunting, lifechanging… Young Fit and Dying: The Truth about
Running investigates a spate of
recent marathon running deaths
in young people and the effect of
modern running practices on our
bodies. Presenter Michael Dorgan
questions whether recent marathon
deaths were preventable, consults top
scientific experts and runs a gruelling
8 marathons in 8 days from London to
Brussels to test the true limits of the
body. Michael is concerned that the
average age in marathon deaths is just
33. He investigates these deaths, finding
out why runners are dying and if he is
putting his own life at risk by being fit.
www.goforth-films.com/production
SALES / CONTACT
Peter Jäger
PRODUCTION
Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle
Autlook Filmsales
Werke
Philip Delaquis
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 720 34 69 34
[email protected]
This cinematic feature is
more than a classic biography
about bestselling author
Irvin D. Yalom, one of the
most influential living
psychotherapists.
Dr. Yalom’s books sold
millions of copies worldwide.
460
SALES / CONTACT
Felicity Mungovan
Go Forth Films, a division of MX
Multiplier Limited
139 Park Road
PRODUCTION
Go Forth Films, a division of MX
Multiplier Limited
Michael Dorgan
Felicity Mungovan
TW11 0BS Teddington
England
tel: +44 7581 048808
www.goforth-films.com
[email protected]
Norway, Denmark, Finland,
Netherlands, Israel, and
Iran not available
Young Fit and Dying: The Truth about Running investigates a
spate of recent marathon running deaths in young people and
the effect of modern running practices on our bodies.
461

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