Agora Market Manual 2011

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Contents
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Festival Venues
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Useful Information for the Agora/Market
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Thessaloniki Agora Market Awards and Partners
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Agora Team [Who is Who]
AWARDS SPONSOR
10 Agora/Market Overview
12 Agora/Market Juries
AWARD SPONSOR
14 Crossroads Projects
52 Works in Progress
66 Film Market
Greek Films
International Competition
Open Horizons Special Screenings
Open Horizons
Balkan Survey
Tributes
Crossroads Participants Previous Films
112 Hellenic Audiovisual Directory Index
52nd Thessaloniki IFF-2011 - Agora/Market Manual
It was Groucho Marx that once said “It isn’t so much that hard times are coming,
the change observed is mostly soft times going”. This is so true regarding Greece.
But hard times have come and they have struck firmly on us and on Culture of
every form. We are struggling to keep up with what we have built and refuse to
give up.
Funny enough, history repeats itself and in times of crisis a group of Greek film directors have emerged to give hope and shed a light on modern Greece, so well
hidden behind its theatrical masks and exaggerated gestures.
Everybody knows the stories of film directors that in times of economic crisis they
managed to make their masterpieces just because they did not have money to
pressure them. Well, we are counting on it.
Agora/Market is a place that, you could say, in a traditional Balkan and Mediterranean way is a family business. Our family are the creators and the everlasting
searchers (i.e producers, sales agents, distributors, festival representatives) of important films and as a loving mother we want to make sure they succeed.
Since the first industry activity back in 2003 with the launch of the Balkan Fund
until this year’s total reform of the Agora/Market we strive to support and put our
efforts into the service of making and promoting important, entertaining and
meaningful films through our development activities such as the Crossroads Coproduction Forum, the Woks in Progress, and the Film Market.
Films that have a link to Greece, South-Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean are our focus due to our perfectly symmetric location.
In these times of crisis we had to cut down on every aspect but we trust that the
quality of our services remains the same and that our guests will benefit from
their vote of faith to Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
We wish you a pleasant stay and welcome to Thessaloniki!
Dimitri Eipides Festival Director
Marie-Pierre Macia Head of Agora / Market
and the Agora / Market team
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Useful Information for the Agora/Market
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The Agora/Market is located on the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel (9, Aristotelous Sq.)
Working hours: 10.00-20.00, from 4 to 12.11.2011
Access: All registered delegates with TIFF Industry/Press badge have free access to the Agora/Market
All Agora/Market badges are issued at the Agora/Market area (Electra Palace Hotel)
All Agora/Market delegates are requested to issue zero value tickets for all official festival screenings upon
the presentation of their badge (except from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies). Please return the tickets
you will not use to the Agora/Market Information Desk.
z All Agora/Market delegates have free access to the Press / Industry Screenings: Makedonia I @ Electra Palace Hotel
(1st floor) 10.00-20.00, Frida Liappa Theatre & Tonia Marketaki Theatre 09.00-13.00
Agora/Market Services
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Accreditation & Information Desk
Shared exhibition space for sellers
Wi-Fi
Special meeting area
Happy Hour at the Excelsior Bar of the Electra Palace Hotel 18.00-19.00 (5-11.11.2011)
Film Market
z The Film Market facilities are open from the 4th to the 12th of November, 10.00-20.00. On Saturday
the 12th of November the Film Market will close at 16.00
z 30 booths fully digital are located at the Byzantion Hall on the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel
z Booking should be made one day in advance at the Film Market reception
z Booths can be booked for a maximum of four consecutive hours
z You are kindly requested to register your evaluation of each film you have watched.
Works in Progress
The Works in Progress will be screened at Olympion Theater on the 11th of November at 10.00 to 13.30.
Access is strictly allowed to the Agora/Market delegates.
Crossroads Co-production Forum individual meetings
The individual meetings with the Crossroads Participants will be held in the Makedonia Hall II 10. 00-18.00
Agora / Market Offices
Our offices are located at the Olympiada Hall next to the stairwell. Office hours: 10.00-20.00
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Agora/Market Manual - 52nd Thessaloniki IFF-2011
THESSALONIKI AGORA MARKET
AWARDS AND PARTNERS
THESSALONIKI AGORA MARKET SUPPORTERS:
The NSRF (National Strategic Reference Framework) 2007-2013 constitutes the reference document for the programming of European
Union Funds at national level for the 2007-2013 period. It was elaborated within the framework of the new strategic approach to the
Cohesion Policy of the European Union, according to which NSRF “...ensures that the assistance from the Funds is consistent with the
Community strategic guidelines on cohesion and identifies the link between Community priorities, on the one hand, and the national
reform programme, on the other.”The three regions Central Macedonia, Western Macedonia and Eastern Macedonia - Thrace, covered by
the Regional Operational Programme of Macedonia - Thrace, represent an enlarged economic area, with plenty of geographical advantages
and a rich supply of endogenous growth. This action of the Regional Operational Programme of Macedonia - Thrace is co-financed from
national resources and from the EU - European Regional Development Fund.
Over the past 20 years, MEDIA, the EU’s support programme for the European audiovisual industry, has supported the development
and distribution of thousands of films as well as training activities, festivals and promotion projects throughout the continent. From
2001-2006, more than half a billion euros were injected into 8.000 projects from over 30 countries.
Thessaloniki: Cultural Crossroads - Middle East
A project of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism that hosts some of the world's greatest cultures. This year, the admirable cultures
of the Middle East will be honored all around Thessaloniki, with a series of music events, theatrical productions, film and documentary
festivals, museum exhibitions from antiquity to modern times, culinary events, conferences and symposia, proving that a mystified
east and an idealized west don't exist in isolation from one another, but have always existed in a state of mutual influence. The Agora
Film Market of the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, is supported within the framework of the project.
Graal is the only complete Digital Intermediate (DI) post house in Greece, performing high quality image processing, punctually and
in any medium or format. Graal’s vision, as the name suggest, is the never-ending effort for the optimum sesulta, with emphasis on
quality. The company’s focus is on building and maintaining its reputation for technical excellence, outstanding value and professionalism.
Graal is dedicated to the continuous integration of new technologies through national and international collaborations in the filmmaking industry. The in-house team consist of audiovisual post-production professionals with diverse expertise. Graal seeks to
enhance the Greek film industry and expand beyond the borders of the Greek market. Graal offers high quality image processing in
any medium or format, in competitive prices, by professionals with diverse expertise and in-depth knowledge.
Graal is offering the WORKS IN PROGRESS Award
Services at Kodak’s New Premises
The following services are provided by our new laboratory according to Kodak’s worldwide standards: Color Negative Processing
35mm & 16mm, B & W Negative Processing 35mm & 16mm, Film Cleaning, Color Correction, Color Printing & Processing, B & W
Printing & Processing, Film Recording in High Speed Recorder By Imagica, Sound recording.
Post Production Services
BTS SPIRIT & CINTEL DSX DATA CINE, 2K color Corrector της DA VINCI, PANDORA color corrector, NUCODA FUSE DI suite, DVS CLIPSTER
for data management.
Kodak is offering part of the WORKS IN PROGRESS Award
2|35 Inc. (two thirty five) is a privately held, film production and post production company, located in the centre of Athens, Greece. It
was established in July 2007 by experienced professionals with more than fifteen years each in the industry. The company serves the
local and international film post production industry and participates in selected productions as a co-producer, offering production
and post production services. We offer full Digital Intermediate (DI) 4K, 2K, and HD workflows and work to the highest technical
specifications across all acquisition and distribution formats, both analog and digital. Services include digital film scanning, editing,
digital visual effects, graphics, color grading, sound design,Dolby digital sound mixing, video encoding, film restoration, digital
picture and sound film recording, digital cinema mastering. Since its establishment, the company has completed work on 34 feature
films (7 co-productions), 52 short films, 6 documentaries and several other projects, including stereoscopic 3D films, Digital Cinema
masters, teasers, trailers and planetarium/dome projections.
2|35 is offering the CROSSROADS Co-production award
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Created by the law of 25 October 1946, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) is a public administrative
organization, set up as a separate and financially independent entity. The Directorate of European and international affairs prepares,
negotiates and monitors bilateral co-production agreements, assists and participates in the functioning of Eurimages (multilateral
support fund for co-production, under the Council of Europe). In addition, the Directorate of European and international affairs runs
bilateral cooperation schemes with countries having emerging film production sectors. Furthermore, it jointly runs and funds the
Fonds Sud Cinéma with the ministry of foreign affairs, and supports training schemes for foreign professionals and various festivals
or professional seminars.
CNC is offering the CROSSROADS development award
An exclusive program of meet-and-greets
Launched in 2004, the Producers Network hosts around 550 producers from all over the world in a series of meetings created to
stimulate international coproduction. Every day an individually tailored program reserved for producers will give you the opportunity
to find financial partners also interested in international distribution of their films:
Breakfast: various industry personalities are invited to share their experiences in the industry around a themed presentation which
will touch on all of the aspects of the production and distribution of film over breakfast. Speed-Dating: gives producers time to mingle and make deals for their Projects;
Master Class: an expert will share their advice and professional knowledge of a specific part of the world or of a recent development
in the industry;
Happy Hour: a lively atmosphere for professional encounters.
The winning producer will have the chance to participate in the next round of the Producer’s Network
Founded in 1993 Initiative film is the first European consulting company specialized in development process for professionals as
producers, screenwriters, directors, actors ... Attentive partner from the birth of the story to the start of production we accompany
creative process linked to artistic and economic feasibility of the projects. We are working as development advisor, helping to take
the necessary distance in relation to a work in progress in order to facilitate his viability in the market. After several-years of fruitful
collaboration with Crossroads Co-production Forum, Isabelle Fauvel submitted to its team an Initiative Film award. It allows one
selected Greek project to be followed from its current state, as presented in Crossroads to a full analysis of its evolution in a period of
6 months after the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Sofia Meetings, supported by the Media programme of the EU, is an event that aims to promote new projects from young European
filmmakers and new films from Bulgaria and the Balkan region to European film festivals, sales agents and distributors. Sofia
Meetings is oriented towards professional audience (producers, directors, world sales, distributors, representatives of financing organizations and film festivals). It has two separate modules:
8 Pitching – presentation of first, second and third feature film projects looking for financial support and cooperation.
8 Balkan Screenings – showcase of the latest Bulgarian and regional feature and short flms for directors and programmes from
different international festivals, world sales companies and journalists.
8 Additional events such as lectures, training programs, presentations happen simultaneously to the Sofia Meetings.
8 One project will be selected to participate in the next round of Sofia Meetings
MFI Script 2 Film Workshops is an advanced training initiative under the umbrella of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
Essentially a script & project development program, it is based on group work, Q&Α sessions, case studies & individual consultations, and
consists of 4 intensive workshops (2 on-location in the Greek islands of Nissyros and Samos, and 2 on-line hosted in MFI’s web site).Its
primary objective is to fully develop the participating screenplays, from first or subsequent draft to final draft, through a process of
workshops that emphasize on script analysis, revision & rewriting.Its second objective is to help participants to set up an effective project
development process (presentation, pitching, fundraising & production strategies) and help them reach the stage of production.
One project will be given scholarship to participate in the next round of Script 2 Film Workshops
Festival Scope is the benchmark B2B platform for film professionals only, allowing programming of selected festivals around the world
to be viewed online. Festival Scope already partners with a network of 60 festivals (including Thessaloniki, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
and Critics’ Week, Berlinale, Venice, Rotterdam, Locarno, Sarajevo) and 10 coproduction markets (including Thessaloniki Agora Market,
Cinemart, Cinelink). The aim is to create distribution and coproduction opportunities for independent films.
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Agora Team [Who is Who]
Marie-Pierre Macia
Head of Thessaloniki Agora / Market
Crossroads Co-production Forum Artistic Director
Yianna Sarri
Head of Film Market
Works in Progress Coordinator
Angeliki Vergou
Thessaloniki Agora / Market Coordinator
Crossroads Co-production Forum
Works in Progress
Denise Andreola
Film Market Coordinator
Denia Safari
Thessaloniki Agora / Market Assistant
Panagiotis Galios
Thessaloniki Agora / Market Production
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Thessaloniki Agora/Market Overview
Since the first industry event in 2003 with Balkan Fund until the full evolution of the Thessaloniki Agora / Market many film projects have
been presented in all kinds of development stages. These films have made their premiere in prestigious festivals, won awards and have also
been screened at Thessaloniki International Film Festival. We are committed in enlarging that list and put our efforts into continuing to
support films from the Central and South-eastern Europe and the Mediterranean countries.
Unfair World
Tale 52
by Filippos Tsitos (Greece/Germany)
San Sebastian Film Festival 2011
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2011
Works in Progress 2010
by Alexis Alexiou (Greece)
International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition
Amnesty
Black Field
by Bujar Alimani (Albania/Greece/France)
Berlin Film Festival – Forum 2011
Montreal World Cinema Film Festival 2011
Crossroads Co-production Forum 2008
by Vardis Marinakis (Greece)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010
Cinemed - Mediterranean International Film Festival Montpellier 2010
Greece Generation Next 2008
Man at Sea
Homeland
by Constantine Giannaris (Greece)
Berlin Film Festival - Panorama 2001
Balkan Fund 2006
By Syllas Tzoumerkas
International Film Critic’s Week – Venice Film Festival 2010
Greece: Generation Next 2008
J.A.C.E
by Menelaos Karamanghiolis (Greece/Portugal/FYROM/Turkey/Netherlands)
Tokyo International Film Festival 2011
Balkan Fund 2005
Wasted Youth
by Argyris Papadimitropoulos & Jan Vogel (Greece)
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011
Tiger Awards Competition
BAFICI 2011
Dogtooth
by Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
Un Certain Regard Award Cannes Film Festival 2009
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Akamas
by Panicos Chrysanthou (Cyprus / Turkey/ Hungary / Greece)
Venice Film Festival 2006
Punk’s Not Dead
by Vladimir Blazevski (FYROM/Serbia)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2011
Adalber’s Dream
by Gabriel Achim (Romania)
Reykjavik International Film Festival 2011
Aurora
Disengagement
by Cristi Puiu (Romania/France/Switzerland/Germany)
Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival 2010
by Amos Gitai (Israel/France/Italy/Germany)
Outbound
by Bogdan George Apetri (Romania)
Locarno Intl Film Festival 2010
Thessaloniki International Film Festival- Competition 2010
Ajami
by Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani (Israel/Germany)
Camera D’Or – Special Distinction Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival 2009
Golden Alexander Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2009
Tilva Rosh
By Nikola Lezaic (Serbia)
Locarno International Film Festival 2010
Autumn
by Özcan Alper (Turkey/Germany)
C.I.C.A.E Award Locarno Intl Film Festival 2008
Thessaloniki Intl Film Festival 2008
Metastases
by Branko Schmidt (Croatia/Bosnia & Herzegovina/Serbia)
Balkan Fund 2007
Kino Caravan
by Titus Muntean (Romania/Germany)
European Premiere, Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2009
Two Lines
Tales from Kars
by Özcan Alper, Zehra Derya Koç, Ülkü Oktay, Ahu Öztürk, Ömer Emre Akay
International Film Festival Rotterdam – Bright Future 2009
by Selim Evci (Turkey)
International Film Critic’s Week – Venice Film Festival 2008
Zion and his Brother
Pandora’s Box
by Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium)
Golden & Silver Shell San Sebastian 2008
Crossroads Co-production Forum Award 2006
Süt (Milk)
By Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey/France/Germany)
The Happiest Girl in the World
by Radu Jude (Romania/Netherlands)
C.I.C.A.E Award, Berlin Film Festival– Forum 2009
Balkan Fund 2007
by Eran Merev (Israel)
Sundance Film Festival – World Cinema 2009
Chaque Jour Est Une Fete
by Dima El-Horr (Lebanon/France)
Toronto Film Festival – Discovery 2009
California Dreamin’ (Endless)
by Cristian Nemescu (Romania)
Un Certain Regard Award – Cannes Film Festival 2007
Balkan Fund 2004
Loverboy
by Catalin Mitulescu (Romania)
Un Certain Regard Award – Cannes Film Festival 20011
Balkan Fund 2005
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Works in Progress Jury 2011
NIKOLAJ NIKITIN
Festival delegate for Berlin Film Festival / Palic European Film Festival
Nikitin, born in Moscow in 1974, studied film/television sciences, art history/drama in Bochum. In 1995 he founded the film magazine
Schnitt, which he headed until 2010. He published film books, translated texts, gives lectures on cinematic themes and hosts film
discussions. In 1999 he initiated the Schnitt Preis, which has been awarded since 2001 in the event Filmplus in Cologne. He has been
a member of the board of selection for GoEast (Wiesbaden) since 2001.
In May 2002 he was appointed Eastern-Europe delegate to the Berlin Film Festival and still holds this position today. He is a
member of FIPRESCI and European Film Academy and advised the board on the film section for the shortlist of the EFA Award. Since
2007 he is responsible for the competition program of Palic European Film Festival (Serbia). He is advising the Zurich Film Festival as
a programmer since 2007
OLIMPIA PONT CHÁFER
Head of Sales for Coproduction Office
Olimpia Pont Cháfer has a Master of Arts in Audio-Visual Communication at the University of Seville, Spain and in 2003 she obtained
a Master of Arts in Cinema Science at the University Paris 8. In 2004, she obtained a Master of Arts in Cultural value of cinematography
and audio-visual heritage at the same university.
She made her Higher Education Diploma in History and Analysis of Spanish Cinema in 2005, and took part in a Master class
organised jointly by the Femis in Paris and by the Filmakademie BW in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She did internships at distributors
like Dogwoof, London and sales companies like The Match Factory. In addition to this, she worked for some festivals like the Mexico
City International Contemporary Film Festival and the Seville European Film Festival.
In March 2008, she started working for Coproduction Office as Marketing and Press
coordinator, and at the same time as sales agent for Spanish speaking territories.
Since November 2009, she is Head of Sales of the company.
ZINOS PANAYOTIDIS
Distributor for Rosebud
His avocation with the film industry began during his university years when he took over the Cine Club of Athens University. He soon
quits his studies in mathematics in order to follow a professional career in film distribution. He first worked as a booker in a film distribution company and as a programmer in one of the first art movie theaters of Greece.
From 1978, he participates as a basic shareholder in Greek film distribution companies, specializing primarily in releasing art films
and launching new directors - most of who are now very famous.
Since 1993 he is the President of the distribution company Rosebud, with a back up
catalogue of 500 movies, that contains some of the most important art and commercial successes mainly from Europe and Asia,
along with Greek art movies, as well as a lot of rereleases of classic movies with new or re-mastered prints.
During the last decade became a member of the European Film Academy.
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Crossroads Co-Production Jury 2011
ROBERTO OLLA
Executive Director of Eurimages
Roberto Olla is the Executive Director of Eurimages, the European Film Fund based in Strasbourg. An Italian national, he has a law
degree in public law and a Ph.D. in European law (thesis in audiovisual and media law).
He joined Eurimages in January 2002 as a project manager dealing mainly with support for feature films. In 2008, he became the
Head of Eurimages. Before this, Roberto was a researcher in media law at the European University Institute of Florence, worked in the
distribution department of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and was a legal adviser on audiovisual matters to the
European Commission in Brussels.
Roberto participates as a legal expert in several European training initiatives in the film sector and has often been panellist on
industry seminars and conferences concerning cinema co-productions.
GUILLAUME DE SEILLE
Producer and Distributor
Guillaume de Seille, born in 1968, studied civil engineering. After two awarded short-films as writer/director, he worked ten years
for Canal+ in the cinema department (presales of French and European films), was commissioning editor for a couple of years within
the short film department of Canal+ and artistic producer for French public broadcaster France 2.
Independent producer since 2000, he produced or coproduced more than twelve non-French feature films with his company
Arizona Films, handling French theatrical distribution too.
EAVE graduate in 1998, he’s a member of EFA, Cesar Academy and Independent Producers Association (SPI) in France.
YORGOS TSOURGIANNIS
Producer
Following his graduation in 2002 of the 6-month producer training program EMAM (Masters in Audiovisual Management) supported
by MEDIA Training, in Rome, Yorgos Tsourgiannis has been producing films and numerous TV commercials at various capacities both
independently and with other production companies.
In May 2008 he joined Boo Productions, an Athens based Production Company as Producer and Head of Film Production and
produced with them Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos, winner among many other prizes of Grande Prix Un Certain Regard at its world
premiere in Cannes 2009 and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He currently develops a slate of feature film projects with his production label Horsefly Productions.
He has also graduated from University of Plymouth, UK and got an MBA from University of Southampton, specializing in entertainment. Yorgos Tsourgiannis has been selected by and joined the ACE network of producers in 2010. He has also been selected to
participate at EFA’s 2010 Producers On the Move, held at Cannes.
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CROSSROADS - CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
8-12 NOVEMBER 2011
Crossroads aims to support the producers
of feature-length film projects that are linked
to Central Europe, the Mediterranean
or the Balkan regions.
AWARD SPONSOR
BACK TO THE JUNGLE
France / Lebanon
page 16
BARBARIANS
Serbia
page 18
BEIRUT HOLD’EM
Lebanon
page 20
COLORED FEATHERS
Jordan
page 22
THE COUCH
Italy
page 24
HOLE IN THE WALL
Israel / France
page 26
the
crossroads
projects
THE HOUSE
Croatia
page 28
LOW LIVES
Turkey
page 30
THE MINER
Slovenia / Bosnia & Herzegovina
page 32
RADIOGRAM
Bulgaria
page 34
THE RIGHTEOUS PATH
Algeria
page 36
SEA BURNERS
Turkey
page 38
SEPTEMBER
Greece / Germany
page 40
SILENCE S’IL VOUS PLAIT
Greece
page 42
A SLIGHT CONCERN
France
page 44
STANDING ASIDE, WATCHING
Greece
page 46
VIRUS
Greece
page 48
CROSSROADS Up ‘N’ Coming
page 50
Crossroads Projects
Back to the Jungle
France / Lebanon
Produced by: AURORA FILMS
Director: Wissam Charaf
Scriptwriters:
Wissam Charaf & Katia Jarjoura
Producer: Charlotte Vincent
Co-Producers: ..Né.à Beyrouth (Lebanon)
Budget: 918.000 euro
Secured Financing: 10%
Location: Lebanon
Looking for: Co-producer,
Sales Agent, Distributor
SYNOPSIS
Samir and Omar are two brothers: Samir is an ex-militiaman who has fled to Brazil after having fought the
Lebanese civil war. Omar has stayed in Beirut and has become the bodyguard of Rayan, a young punk singer,
the only daughter of a prominent politician. Her father’s sudden death has brought her the inheritance of his
political empire.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
This film is about two stars that cross, two brothers who rediscover each other’s identity and brotherhood: Omar
and Samir.
My story combines a realistic, sometimes crude tone with another more poetical style, bordering on the burlesque. The drama and violence is often diffused by comical elements providing a looming sense of incongruity,
which means that things are never absolutely dry and serious but presented through the bias of deadpan humor.
AURORA FILMS
The company made its debut with the short Hizz ya Wizz (2003), directed by Wissam Charaf. Our first feature
film production was La Blessure (2004) by Nicolas Klotz, which was selected for the Director’s Fortnight - Cannes.
Pork and Milk (2004), a documentary directed by Valérie Mréjen, received the International Prize for Best
Documentary and RAI Sat Premium Prize in 2005. In 2008, Charlotte Vincent produced, among others, Valvert
a new documentary of Valérie Mréjen and Domaine, the first long-feature film of Patric Chiha, with Béatrice
Dalle, which was selected at the Venice Film Festival, Critic’s Week.
This year, Aurora Films has finished two first feature films, both selected on Director’s Fortnight – Cannes:
Iris in Bloom (En Ville) by Valérie Mréjen and Bertrand Schefer and Over the Edge (Sur la Planche) by Leila Kilani
(a French/Morocco co-production). Among others, we’ve also produced three shorts including Snow Canon, by
Mati Diop which was selected on Mostra of Venice.
PRODUCER’S CONTACT INFORMATION
AURORA FILMS
T: +33 1 47 70 43 01
E: [email protected]
W: www.aurorafilms.fr
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Crossroads Projects
DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR’S PROFILE
An Army of Ants, short, 2007
Locarno Film Festival
Festival Méditerranéen de Lunel - Public Prize
International Film festival Rotterdam
Born in 1973, Wissam Charaf is a Lebanese/French director,
cameraman and editor. In 1998, he moved to Paris where
he began to work with the French/German network ARTE,
as a news cameraman, editor and journalist. He has since
covered major conflict areas ranging from Lebanon and the
Near East to Darfour, Afghanistan, Haiti or North Korea and
worked with programs such as ARTE Info, ARTE Reportages,
Tracks, Metropolis. He has directed 3 short films: Hizz Ya
Wizz, A Hero Never Dies and An Army of Ants. This film competed in the Locarno Film Festival, and obtained the Jury
prize in the Lunel Film Festival in France.
Today, he is directing Entertaining Minds a 52-minute
documentary and writing his first full-length feature film,
Back to the Jungle.
A Hero Never Dies, short, 2006
Hizz Ya Wizz, short, 2004
Festival Entrevue de Belfort
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Corona Cork Film Festival
PRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHY
PRODUCER’S PROFILE
selected filmography
Charlotte Vincent, a graduate of HEC, founded Aurora Films
in 2002. Since then, she has produced shorts, documentaries
and feature films. She is a member of the ACE network.
Iris in Bloom (En Ville), feature film, 2011
by Valérie Mrejen and Bertrand Schefer
Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival
Festival International du Films de la Rochelle
On the Edge (Sur la Planche), feature film, 2011
by Leila Kilani
Paris Cinema
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Wissam Charaf
present at Crossroads
Previous Film of the director
available at the Film Market
Hizz Ya Wizz short, 2004 and An Army of Ants, short, 2007
are available at the Film Market and Festival Scope
Charlotte Vincent
Domain, feature film, 2009 by Patric Chiha
Critic’s Week Venice Film Festival
Viennale Film Festival
San Francisco Film Festival
La Blessure, feature film, 2004 by Nicolas Klotz
Festival Cinéssonne - Grand Prix
Festival des Films du Monde
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Crossroads Projects
Barbarians
Serbia
Produced by: SENSE PRODUCTION
Director: Ivan Ikic
Scriptwriter: Ivan Ikic
Producer: Milan Stojanovic
Co-Producers: Blank (Croatia),
Vision Team (Serbia)
Location: Serbia
Looking for: Co-producer
SYNOPSIS
February 17th 2008. Kosovo declares independence and the Serbian government decides to organize mass protests
in Belgrade, where people would declare their discontent. Mladenovac. A small town on the brink of Belgrade,
whose industry collapsed during the 90’s crises. Luka, seventeen years old, is a leader of a football hooligan group,
cheering for a local football club, runner-ups for the Premiere league. He is growing up without a real chance, in
a dysfunctional family of Kosovo refuges, getting social help because his mother has declared his father dead.
Luka is forced to do small jobs for Tihomir, a local shady businessman, who is also the owner of the football club.
Stefana is a girl Luka has feelings for and is trying to protect, but who is seeing one of the players from the club.
Tension caused by Kosovo independence is rising and the day of the organized mass protest in Belgrade is coming
close. When Luka finds out that Stefana is being blackmailed with a cell-phone-shot porno video by her boyfriend,
he deals with him with cruelty and breaks his leg. Forced to hide from Tihomir, who is furious for loosing his best
player, Luka realizes that his friends have turned against him. His rage and frustration culminates during protests
in Belgrade, where everything looses its sense and reason. Abandoned by everybody, Luka decides for one last,
desperate attempt to take things back into his own hands and fight the system.
Because it’s night now, and the barbarians haven’t shown up.
And there are others, just back from the borderlands,
who claim that the barbarians no longer exist.
What in the world will we do without barbarians?
Those people would have been a solution, of sorts.
(C.P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians)
One event left a significant mark in my memory. That night Belgrade burned. The streets were flooded with broken
glass. Young people were destroying and burning... Young people that may have visited Belgrade for the first time.
Rage and violence triumphed that night. Anarchy caused by a brewing dissatisfaction exploded… My wish was to
return to this night and make a film about yet another lost generation in the dust of Serbia’s transition.
This is a film about childhood in a small Serbian town, about the tragedy of growing up in a society of lost values,
where corruption, immorality, crime and abuse of power prosper. Through the tragic romance of Luka and Stefana,
the problems of growing up in a rural town filled with prejudice, envy and nationalism are reflected. The events
that occur during the time that passes between the two local football matches change everything forever…In an
attempt to take hold of their own destiny, the main character’s suppressed anger escalates and is manifested in the
absolute destruction on the streets of Belgrade. Will they become the same as the people they so despise?
This story was inspired by real people and events that happened in February 2008.
SENSE PRODUCTION
SENSE PRODUCTION
T: +381 11 3341603
M: +381 64 9067410
W: www.senseproduction.rs
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SENSE Production, founded in April 2010, is a company with a mission to produce modern films based on upto-date and socially important topics.
By forming a creative and productive environment and by gathering young authors from Serbia and the
Balkan region, we are trying to bring freshness and innovation to the Serbian film industry.
Projects: Barbarians, feature film (in development), writer/director: Ivan Ikic, Peach Leaf Remedy, TV series
(in development), writer: Beka Savic, based on the novel by Zorica Kuburovic.
Crossroads Projects
Tarot Serbia! (Tarot Srbija!), doc, 2010
Ivan Ikic was born in 1982 in Belgrade. He completed his
studies in Film and Television directing at the Faculty of
Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and was named best student of
his generation. He attended Berlinale Talent Campus 2008
and Berlinale Dox Clinic 2008. He directed several documentaries, short fiction and commercial films. He just finished his feature documentary road-movie Tarot Serbia! and
is now preparing his first feature fiction film Barbarians,
scheduled for shooting in 2011.
The Users (Korisnici), doc, 2008
Scream, short, 2005
Milan Stojanovic was born in 1983 in Belgrade. He completed
his studies in Film and TV Production at the Faculty of Drama
Arts in Belgrade in 2006. He completed the filmmaking
course at New York Film Academy in 2008. He won the Promotion Prize at Cottbus Film Festival in 2007. Since 2002
he works as an independent film professional (PM, UPM)
in various Serbian and international productions. He has
produced several short films and documentaries.
Circles, 2012 by Srdan Golubovic, production manager
Mothers, 2010 by Milcho Manchevski, line producer
61st Berlin Film Festival 2011 – Panorama
Toronto Film Festival 2010
Life and Death of Porno Gang, 2009
by Mladen Djordjevic, production manager
Destricted, art film, 2006 by Marina Abramovic
Scream, short, 2005 is available at the Film Market and
Festival Scope
Ivan Ikic
Milan Stojanovic
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Crossroads Projects
Beirut Hold’em
Lebanon
Produced by: ABBOUT PRODUCTIONS
Director: Michel Kammoun
Scriptwriter: Michel Kammoun
Producer: Georges Schoucair
Co-Producers:
Lucky Monkey Pictures (USA),
Sherezade Films (BVI),
Mille et Une Productions (France)
Budget: 1.876.000 euro
Location: Lebanon
Looking for: Financing,
Pre-sales and Distribution
SYNOPSIS
Ziko, a 40-year old ex-con, is released from prison and wants to restart his life. He’s determined to win back
Carole - the love of his life - and open up a gambling joint, locally known as an “Amusement Center”. He reunites
with his boyhood friends who share his passion for gambling and runs into his dead brother’s friend. Ziko learns
that his sibling perished on an illegal motorbike race, and decides to save his brother’s friend from the same
deadly fate. Driven by a relentless will to succeed, Ziko sets out on a journey through contemporary post-war
Lebanese society, a place made of a strange mixture of violence, tenderness, lightness of being and tension.
Magical realism. I will treat Beirut Hold’em with a sensory approach in order to catch intangible emotions that
the city generates, and embody its unique atmosphere.
Anthropological approach. The protagonists will often evolve in real sets and situations in order to seize the
country’s actual essence and heartbeat.
Greek Tragedy. Or film noir. The codes of the genre are manipulated and adapted to the Lebanese society.
Closed loop. The protagonists gamble, which mirrors the idea of the Lebanese population gambling on its
unknown destiny, which mirrors the notion of the state gambling on its own future. Like a Russian roulette.
ABBOUT PRODUCTIONS
ABBOUT PRODUCTIONS
T: +961 1 447 824
M: +961 3 676 707
W: www.abboutproductions.com
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Abbout Productions produces feature films and documentaries with a distinctly Arab voice, expressing the
identity of the region. Since 1998, the company has managed to bring together an important network of Arab
and Lebanese artists. Abbout Productions has a strong partnership with Pacha Pictures, a sales agency and MC
Distribution, a distribution company, both dedicated to promote new films from the Middle East along with
direct and priority access to the sole art house theater in Lebanon, Metropolis Cinema. Abbout Productions
maintains a sizeable pipeline of projects at various stages of development and production. In 2010, Abbout
Productions signed a landmark joint venture with Lucky Monkey Pictures - NY (City Island, Vamps) and Travesia
Productions - Argentina (Las Acacias, Despues Del Mar, El Ultimo Verano de la Boyita) which will create exciting
financing opportunities in new Middle Eastern film productions and secures the company’s position in world
cinema.
Crossroads Projects
Falafel, feature film, 2006
Goteborg Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
Munich International Film Festival
Born in 1969, Michel Kammoun studied filmmaking in Paris
after architecture studies in Beirut. His short films have participated in prestigious international film festivals and have
been widely broadcasted. His debut feature film, Falafel,
won top international awards, participated in major film
festivals worldwide such as the Tribeca Film Festival, the
Tokyo Film Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival
and earned international acclaim.
The Shower, short, 1999
Gerardmer Film Festival
Hamburg International Short Film Festival - Best Film Award
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
Michel Kammoun
Shadows, short, 1995
Cathodique, short, 1993
Lille Short Film Festival
Sarlat International Cinema Festival
Georges Schoucair is a Lebanese producer and the CEO of
Abbout Productions. He has produced a number of movies
that have been selected by prestigious cinema festivals: A
Perfect Day (2005) and I Want to See (2008) directed by
Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, The Last Man (2006),
1958 (2009) and The Mountain by Ghassan Salhab (2010),
Melodrama Habibi (2008) by Hany Tamba, Yanoosak (2010)
by Elie Khalifeh and Stray Bullet (2010) by Georges Hachem
and a number of projects in development which include
feature films, short films and documentaries. Moreover,
since 2008 he has served as the vice-president of Cinema
Metropolis, which is Beirut’s only art house theater, and
opened in 2006. In 2009, Georges Schoucair launched the
company MC Distribution for the distribution of Lebanese,
Arab and International independent films in Lebanon as
well as in the Middle East.
Stray Bullet, feature film 2010 by George Hachem
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur
BFI London Film Festival
Dubai International Film Festival
The Mountain, feature film 2010 by Ghassan Salhab
Toronto International Film Festival
Fid Marseille
Doha Tribeca Film Festival
Co-productions:
I Want to See, feature film 2008
by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Cannes Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
The Last Man, feature film, 2006 by Ghassan Salhab
Locarno International Film Festival
Paris Cinéma
Georges Schoucair
Falafel, feature film, 2006 is available at the Film Market
and Festival Scope
Perfect Day, feature film, 2005
by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Locarno International Film Festival
Namur International Film
Toronto International Film Festival
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Crossroads Projects
Colored Feathers
Jordan
Produced by: IMAGINARIUM FILMS
Director: Mohammad Hushki
Scriptwriter: Mohammad Hushki
Producer: Rula Nasser
Location: Jordan
Looking for: Investors, Co-producers,
Sales Agents and Creative Team
SYNOPSIS
Four strangers who share a past of pain and disappointment are destined to meet one night through violence,
greed, and bad judgment. Hassan a scared confused kid, Ahmad an angry rebel in love, Mais a runaway hooker
and Hunkush a former addict turned hero. Each has a different story and struggle and all go through one adventurous day where chance plays a great part for all of them as one meets the other at a certain distressed moment
ending up on a hollow roof, where truth unfolds and new hopes are born.
It is an adventure thriller with a fantasy drama cross line that has a universal theme, people looking for fresh
starts and hoping for something or someone to rescue them.
Living in this part of the world, the third world, always felt strange and unplanned.
I always felt out of place and time; if I can point out the dominant feeling I had over the past 30 years of my life,
I would say it is loneliness but at the same time, what really made me worried is the belief that I don’t belong
anywhere else but here!
The four characters are true, I might have crossed them at some point in my life. Hassan and Ahmad are based
on my childhood friends, Hunkush is a mixture of people and urban myths, Mais was created from women I
really met in my social work in Jordan.
I want to tell their stories as I feel that each character is representing every happy, strange or sick thought I had
for the longest time but also for the people who lost their souls at a certain stage in their life and are now
wandering and waiting for the chance to be whole again.
I am always saying that in the Middle East, if you look beyond wars, politics and TV screens, you will find us…
humans who are facing death and are suffering the pain of rebirth.
IMAGINARIUM FILMS
A newly established Jordanian production company by Rula Nasser who pioneered the newly wave of the independent cinema in Jordan.
Our goal is to deliver captivating regional and international films that tell authentic and entertaining stories.
The establishment of the Imaginarium came out from the need of incubators for the local talents and filmmakers
to make their dreams come true and support them to produce worth telling original stories. We focus on talent
development by working hand in hand with the filmmakers, nurture their talents and allow them to grow their
own voice. We produce films with original content, nationally and in cooperation with international production
companies in order to have unique media projects and by attracting writers to work together with us for
developing genuine content for the different mediums.
IMAGINARIUM FILMS
T: +962 795520056
W: www. theimaginariumfilms.com
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Crossroads Projects
Transit Cities, feature film, 2010
Dubai Film Festival – Special Jury Prize and FIPRESCI prize
Manheim Film Festival
Mohammad believes in the power of films in changing the
world. He has started many projects for teaching young
people how to use films to advocate for their social and political issues.
He joined the Royal Film Commission in implementing film
clubs outside the city of Amman to teach media literacy.
Through the years, he was always writing until his screenplay
Colored Feathers was selected by Rawi the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab in Jordan in 2006.
After the lab experience, Mohammad fell in love with the
process even more and continued writing shorts and working
on his feature film. In 2009 his script Colored Feathers was
selected among 5 scripts from the Arab world for the SUD
ECRUTE writing lab.
In 2010 Mohammad made Transit Cities, a very low budget
independent film, written by Ahmad Ameen, using a different way of making films in Jordan that challenged the
obstacle that exists in the country.
Butterfly, short, 2008
Franco Arab Festival
Beirut International Film Festival
The Colors of Haram, short, 2006
The Last Friday, feature film, 2011
by Yahya Alabdallah in post-production
San Sebastian - Cinema in Motion award
Dubai Film Festival 2011
A Jordanian producer and holding a degree in Linguistics,
Rula started working on cultural events after graduation,
where she gained her experience in fundraising, marketing
and operations.
In 2000 she started her involvement in film through projects
with BBC shot in Jordan, which opens to her an opportunity
to be part of the Survival TV show.
Rula joined The Royal Film Commission in 2006 and worked
on a different area in capacity building department till 2011.
Her passion for spreading and telling Jordanian stories
moved her to work on a special program and establishing
the educational film program where she produced the first
independent feature film Transit Cities by Mohammad Hushki
and created a new independent wave that started lately in
Jordan and she aims in making Jordanian films on the international film map .
Transit Cities, feature film, 2010 by Mohammad Hushki
Dubai Film Festival – Special Jury Prize and FIPRESCI prize
Manheim Film Festival
Mohammad Hushki
Rula Nasser
Transit Cities, feature film, 2010 is available at the Film
Market and Festival Scope
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Crossroads Projects
The Couch
Italy
Produced by: ACABA PRODUZIONI
Director: Duccio Chiarini
Scriptwriters: Duccio Chiarini,
Davide Lantieri, Roan Johnson
Producer: Fabrizio Mosca
Executive Producer: Alessandra Grilli
Secured Financing:
Location: Rome, Italy
Looking for: Co-producer,
Sales Agent, Distributor
SYNOPSIS
Guido is a thirty year old university researcher unable to take the important decisions adult life demands of us.
When his girlfriend Elisa leaves him because of his indecision, Guido moves out of their apartment and asks to
his friends to host him on their sofas. “Couch-surfing” through the lives of other thirty something people who
overcame their indecisions creating families in the countryside or leaving in an eternal Peter Pan limbo, Guido
starts to idealize their models and tries to win back his girlfriend by following their suggestions. But Elisa
doesn’t seem to reconsider her decision and as his journey goes on, Guido realizes that his friends styles of life
are not steady at all and that the time has come for him to follow his own instinct; at the end of his journey
Guido will learn that something good can emerge even from bad choices.
The Couch is a bitter-sweet comedy about the dilemma of choosing faced by Guido, an undecisive late bloomer.
University researcher and big expert of Italo Calvino, Guido ventures into an absurd journey on his friends
couches like in Cavino’s novel The Baron on the Trees. Thanks to this surreal journey trough the lives of other
people, Guido will be able to change his point of view on things and eventually overcome his uncertainties. The
film represents in a light way the contradictions of the contemporary thirty-something generation from a new
fleeting point of view: the couch. This feeling of lightness is a crucial part of the film and it will be conveyed and
transmitted also in the casting of the actors and in the visual construction of Guido’s journey trough his friends
couches. I will cast actors able to improvise and rehearse with them in order to keep all the performances as
light as possible. The photography and the production design will be a coloured and joyful background to Guido’s
journey and a lot of attention will be put in creating the looks of the houses that Guido will visit in order to
represent the different possibilities amongst which he could choose his own style of life. More generally the
tone of the film is inspired by the works of Woody Allen and Agnes Jaoui & Jean Pierre Bacri for their ironical
look on human contradictions and their capacity to make the audience smile and think at the same time.
ACABA FILMS
Founded in 2005 by Fabrizio Mosca, Acaba Produzioni is a film production company, with an international
vocation and outlook. Amongst its recent titles, A Quiet Life, in co-production with Eos Entertainment (Germany) and Babe Film (France), selected at Rome International Film Festival 2010, distributed worldwide by
Beta Film and Into Paradiso, selected at Venice Film Festival 2010, Controcampo Italiano. The company is organised around the figure of its general manager, who takes care of the company’s creative direction, with
the support of Alessandra Grilli. Fabrizio Mosca has been producing theatrical films since 1995, amongst
which, The Hundred Steps directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and The Golden Door, directed by Emanuele
Crialese. The Hundred Steps received many awards worldwide, 10 Donatello’s David awards in Italy and was
also selected as the Italian participant for the Academy Awards. In 2006 The Golden Door, won the Silver
Award as Best Film, Venice Film Festival.
ACABA PRODUZIONI
T: +39 068210118
W: www.acabaproduzioni.com
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Crossroads Projects
Hit the Road, Granny, doc, 2011
68th Venice Film Festival - Venice Days
62th Festival dei Popoli
Duccio was born in 1977 in Florence. He got his Law degree
from the University of Florence in 2003 and went on to get
his MA with distinction on directing and scriptwriting from
the London Film School in 2005. He participated at the 3rd
Berlin Talent Campus in 2005 and won a Fulbright Scholarship for film directing studies. He directed several short
films such as End of Season (2005), Alone Together (2005),
Waiting (2007) and The Uncle (2008) which all travelled to
numerous film festivals. In 2011 he completed his first documentary Hit the Road, Granny which was selected at Venice
Days during the 68th Venice Film Festival and in the
Panorama Section of 62th Festival dei Popoli, Florence. His
first feature film The Couch is in development and is participating at the Mediterranean Film Institute SCRIPT 2 FILM
Workshop.
The Uncle, short, 2008
Cittadella del Corto, Roma - Best Actor
Bucharest International Short Film Festival
Festival de cinema de Morelia, Mexico
Waiting, short, 2007
Riga Film Festival - Best Film
Bucharest International Short Film Festival
Alone Together, short, 2005
Cittadella del Corto, Roma - Best Film
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival
New York Film Festival
Duccio Chiarini
End of Season, short, 2005
Fano Film Festival - Best Actress
New York Next Reel Film Festival
Karachi Pakistan Film Festival, Pakistan
A Quiet Life (Una vita tranquilla), feature film, 2010
by Claudio Cupellini
Rome International Film Festival - Best Actor
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
At the beginning Alessandra worked as script analyst and
story editor. She was the head of development for the Film
Una Vita Tranquilla, and the executive producer for the film
Into Paradiso, selected at the Venice International Film Festival 2010, Controcampo Italiano.
Into Paradiso, feature film, 2010 by Paola Randi
Venice International Film Festival
Tallin International Film Festival
Annecy Film Festival
Hit the Road, Granny, documentary, 2011 is available at the
Film Market and Festival Scope
Alessandra Grilli
Galantuomini, feature film 2008 by Edoardo Winspeare
Rome International Film Festival- Best Actress
Miami International Film Festival
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Crossroads Projects
Hole in the Wall
Israel / France
Produced by: EZ FILMS
Director: Hadar Morag
Scriptwriter: Hadar Morag
Producer: Elie Meirovitz
Secured Financing: development fund
Rabinovitch Foundation – Cinema Project
Location: South of Tel-Aviv
Looking for: Co-Producers,
Financing, Distributors
SYNOPSIS
Nur, 14, is the son of a Palestinian former collaborator with the Israeli Security Services, whose family was
relocated for their own protection to the heart of a traditional Jewish slum in Tel-Aviv. Due to his violent father’s
recent imprisonment, the boy is now the head of his family and its main provider. Rejected and abused by both
Arabs and Jews, dealing with his maturing body and developing sexuality, Nur becomes obsessed with Gurevitch,
an eccentric knife sharpener who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the back alleys of
butcher shops and gourmet restaurants, sharpening the knives of both Jews and Arabs. The Gurevitch character
unfolds as a strange mix of a guardian angel and a demoniac pedophile, at least in Nur’s imagination. Within
this hypnotic, seductive, urban hell, the angel’s forceful grinding of knives transforms into an act of painful selfpunishment. What starts as unstable hesitant apprenticeship evolves into a mutual struggle for self-control in
which desires are repressed and restrained.
There is a Zen-like element in the grinding of knives: it requires detachment and focus, acuity and delicacy, yet
it is also dangerous and involves elements of violence. Nur, being just a boy, translates Gurevitch`s symbolic appearance into a physical act and in a cathartic moment he sharpens a knife in the dead of the night and carries
out the act that will release him once and for all “…for it is better for thee to lose one of thy members, than thy
whole body to be cast into hell” (Matthew, 5:29). Was the boy confused? Did he misunderstand the option the
knife grinder represented for him or did he understand too well?
The idea for the script was inspired by my Theology Master Studies and my voluntary work in the mixed Hatikva
neighborhood and Jaffa. Within the film’s fictional universe, real events and non-professional actors move freely:
Nur`s character is based on the son of an Arab family (former collaborators) living in Hatikva. The role of the
knife-grinder to be played by Yuval Gurevitch is based on his real-life self; Gurevitch is an eccentric Israeli rock
musician born in 1950 in a kibbutz, who currently makes a living as a knife grinder. The locations in the film are
all real ones, researched in order to create a universe where the borders between imagination and reality are
blurred. The cinematic expression will also be inspired by Christian, Jewish and Islamic motifs, as they are represented in art, for example: `the sacrifice of Isaac` and `Jesus after being taken down from the cross` as
depicted in the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, El Greco.
EZ FILMS
Over the past few years, EZ Films, based in Paris, France, has specialized in international coproductions, with 11
completed films, working with Israel, Hungary, Germany, Romania and Turkey, including: The Human Resources
Manager by Eran Riklis, Public Award at Locarno Piazza Grande 2010 and Toronto International Film Festival
2010, winner of 5 Ophir Awards and Israel’s entry for the 2011 Oscars, Naomi by Eitan Zur, Critics Week in Venice
2010, The Seven Days by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, Critics Week at Cannes 2008, Best Feature award at the
Jerusalem Intl’ Film Festival 2008, Noodle by Ayelet Menachemi, Grand Jury Prize at the World Films Festival,
Montreal 2007, My Father, My Lord by David Volach, Israel, 2007, Best Feature Award at Tribeca 2007. The
company invests heavily in developing new talent and promoting debut directors, with 3 such projects currently
in financing or production stages.
EZ FILMS
T: +33 9 5369 8094
M: +33 6 7179 2026
W: www.ez-films.com
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Crossroads Projects
Refrain Thy Voice Rachel, a 58’ documentary
(work in progress)
Hadar Morag, born in 1983, graduated the Film and Television Department in the Tel-Aviv University where she was
given the Dean Excellency Award. Her student`s film Silence
made a world premiere at the Cinefondation competition
in Cannes Film Festival 2008 and was screened in many festivals all over the world winning awards such as the most
promising director and best fiction film. In her past, she
was working as an art teacher in the Tel-Aviv Museum of
Art and in the Harlam UAHC Camp USA. Currently, Hadar is
doing her Master Studies in Theology and Philosophy at the
Tel-Aviv University. She is living in Jaffa and is socially active,
working with distressed Arab families - a role through which
she found the leading actress of Silence as well as young
Nur, the main inspiration of her current script Hole in the
Wall. Hole in the Wall has received a development fund from
The Rabinovich Foundation Cinema Project.
Silence, short, 2008
Cannes Film Festival, Cinefondation Competition
International women’s Film Festival Israel - Most
Promising Director award
Minsk Open Student Film & Video Festival Kinogram
Belarus - Best Fiction Film
The Human Resources Manager, feature film 2010
by Eran Riklis
Locarno Piazza Grande - Public Award
Toronto Film Festival
Elie Meirovitz founded EZ Films in 2001, when he decided,
after a successful career in international financial services,
to dedicate himself to his first passion and true vocation:
film-making. Since then, Elie and EZ Films have collaborated
in several feature films in France and abroad.
Naomi, feature film, 2010 by Eitan Zur
Venice Critics Week
The Seven Days, feature film, 2008
by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz
Cannes Critics Week
Jerusalem Intl’ Film Festival - Best Feature award
Silence, is available at the Film Market and Festival Scope
Hadar Morag
Elie Meirovitz
Noodle, feature film, 2007 by Ayelet Menachemi
World Films Festival, Montreal - Grand Jury Prize
My Father, My Lord, feature film, 2007 by David Volach
Tribeca Film Festival- Best Feature Award
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Crossroads Projects
The House
Croatia
Produced by: MP FILM PRODUCTION
Director: Zoran Sudar
Scriptwriter: Sanja Kovačević
Producer: Igor Nola
Secured Financing: 5% from own
development fund investment
Location: Croatia
Looking for: Co-producers, Financing
SYNOPSIS
Djuro is a refugee, living with his wife Bisera in a deserted Serbian house. One day, the real owner of the house,
Miki, comes back to reclaim it. As Djuro refuses to leave, Miki builds a tent in the house yard. Djuro is advised to
kill Miki in order to have the house, but he is a good man and cannot do that, as Miki helped Djuro with his
health issues, and Bisera, grateful for this, starts the communication. Djuro is desperate and unsuccessfully tries
to kill himself. In fear that Djuro would do it again, Bisera decides to give him a reason to live: a long awaited
child. She asks Miki to make her pregnant. And he does. After all, Djuro decides to stay by his wife and bring up
a baby as his own child.
Inspired by true events of the results of “human replacement of people” politics after the war in Croatia, this story
describes the chain of events that mercilessly whips good, honest men, forcing them to turn against one another
more viciously than during the war. But, there is a woman archetype also, grounded in nature, opposing the
man’s construct in an uninspected way.
Rather than construct or imagine, we are trying to establish strong, lifelike characters and sincerely observe
what happens to them. Like in a documentary, we are documenting human emotions and the actions they
produce. And, how characters desperately try to cope with a sudden strangeness of their lives, fighting with
themselves to remain human and yet to change, discovering that strength of love, just as hatred, has many
faces.
A river is the only objective witness to this human struggle – participating in the story, and, in the way, helping
to resolve it - showing us the irrelevance of material things and existence of dimension of constant possibilities,
represented by an omnipotent storyteller, an unborn child.
MP FILM PRODUCTION
MP FILM PRODUCTION
T: +385 1 382 11 55
W: www.mainframeproduction.com
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MP FilmProduction was established in 2010 as a sister company to Mainframe Productions, a company that
boasts a long and successful record in international film service production and co-production. Its managing
director, Igor A. Nola has over thirty years of international experience in a wide-ranging arena of international
film production. From 1994 to 1998 Igor was a Managing Director in Charge of Production at the FYROM film
production company Vardar Film, and during that period he worked on Michael Winterbottom’s Welcome to
Sarajevo, as well as on Mimi Leder’s Dreamworks’ produced The Peacemaker. In 2000, he brought the first international co-production to Croatia – a film Like a Bad Dream, directed by Antonio Mitriceski. Igor has also
produced the award-winning film The Living and the Dead by Kristijan Milic which in 2007 won eight Golden
Arenas at Pula Film Festival, Croatia’s annual national feature film festival. His most recent production, Just
Between Us, a film by Rajko Grlic, supported by Eurimages, also won seven Golden Arenas at the same festival,
as well as the Best Director Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2010.
Crossroads Projects
DIRECTOR’S CV
The Canal, short 2009
(part of a feature lenght omnibus Zagreb Stories)
Badalona Film Festival 2010
Zoran Sudar was born in 1959 in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.
He studied Film and TV directing on Zagreb Academy of
Arts, and literature and English language at the Zagreb Fhilospohic Faculty. Zoran worked as 1st AD on numerous American and English film productions in Europe and Asia ( The
Peacemaker, Death Train, Night Watch, White Lightnin’, The
Duel, etc.). and as a freelance director, making commercials,
TV movies and documentaries. His feature film Last Will recieved several awards (Breza, as the best debutant and Golden Gate of Pula at Pula Film Festival, Vecernjak Rose for
the best film). He directed and co-wrote 18 episodes of TV
series Ours and Yours and wrote and directed TV series
Golden Mug. His latest work is short film The Canal which
was a part of a feature lenght omnibus Zagreb Stories. The
Canal was shown on Badalona Film Festival in 2010. He
also wrote music for that film.
Last Will, feature film, 2001
Pula Film Festival - Audience Award Golden Gate Pula
Vecernjak Rose - Best Film
Just Between Us, feature 2010 by Rajko Grlic
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Best Director
Igor A. Nola has almost thirty years of a wide-ranging international production experience. He worked as AD, UPM
and producer on over fifty feature films and television series
in Croatia, Slovenia, FYROM, Austria, Italy, Great Britain,
and other European countries. From 1994 to 1998 Igor was
Managing Director in charge of Production of Vardar Film,
the FYROM state film production company, and during that
period, he worked on Welcome to Sarajevo and The Peacemaker. From 1991, his company Mainframe Production
worked out of United Kingdom whereas in 2000 Mainframe
Production brings the first co-production to Croatia – Like
a Bad Dream, directed by Antonio Mitrikevski. In 2003, Igor
sets up a Croatian arm of Mainframe Production offering
complete production and post-production facilities to foreign
producers. It specializes in fiction and documentary feature
films. Recent films produced through Mainframe Production
– Zagreb include: Emily Young’s Kiss of Life, The Fever directed
by Carlo Nero, Ultimate Force directed by Mark Bursson, The
Living and the Dead directed by Kristijan Milic, Upside Down
directed by Igor Ivanov, White Lightnin‘ directed by Dominic
Murphy and Just Between Us by Rajko Grlic.
White Lightnin’, feature 2009 by Dominic Murphy
The Living and the Dead, feature 2007 by Kristijan Milic
Upside Down, feature 2006 by Igor Ivanov
The Fever, feature 2004 by Carlo Nero
Kiss of Life, feature 2003 by Emily Young
Like a Bad Dream, feature 2002 by Antonio Mitrikeski
Zoran Sudar
Igor Nola
The Last Will, feature film, 2001, The Canal, short 2009
is available at the Film Market and Festival Scope
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Low Lives
Turkey
Produced by: Yeni Sinemacılık,
Mavi Film, Motiva Film
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
Scriptwriter: Önder Çakar
Producers: Sevil Demirci, Önder Çakar,
Zeki Demirkubuz, Gökçe Işıl Tuna
Co-Producer:
Milonga Productions (France)
Location: Istanbul
Looking for: Co-producers and financing
SYNOPSIS
This is the story
....of Besime, a woman whose village was burnt down and who had nobody left in this world but a 12-year-old son and
her story of struggle in life, her survival within all poverty and yet her failure to save her son…,
....of Duygu, who has changed gender for the sake of her passionate love for Yeşim, who has even degraded herself to
prostitution and still her failure to win the love of her beloved...,
...of Adil, the glazier, whose shop is the product of his long-term labor after being released from prison in 1974 and his
struggle not to lose it at the cost of his life...,
...of the vain attempts of Nuri, in his ruined life as old as the 100 year-history of Beyoğlu, for the sake of something good
and his failure...,
...of two young middle-class people, who have just arrived in Istanbul and started to corrupt so fast despite all the opportunities they have...,
...of young people digging into philosophy and politics and yet not even understanding each other and losing all their ties
with the world just when they believe in the delusion of figuring out the whole mystery of life...,
...of the suburban youth, aggressive as they have nothing to lose, and how they disappear just when the power pretends
to be in there, when they are doomed to be listed as “wanted” by the police or hit by a bus while on the run...,
...of a young and restless, beautiful girl, full of hopes, who falls into the deepest sex traps just because of mal-coincidence...
of those who become nothing as they have nothing...,
...of the struggle of those whom we identify as “not human”, to “become human”.
All the stories intersect, coincide with each other. The lives of all these people from different classes and cultures survive
on three parallel streets of Beyoğlu, demolishing and destroying the existence of the other with no mercy.
This story also tells how the old and run-down streets of the district called Beyoğlu reflect all the socio-economical
problems of our society and how human beings, when trapped, treat each other with hate. Unfortunately, with no
solution offered.
The film takes place in the beautiful city of the beautiful country Turkey, in the heart of İstanbul, Beyoğlu. Beyoğlu, İstiklal
Street full of clean, beautiful shop fronts, cinemas, cafes, pubs, music, dance, the old tramway... thousands of people
walking, shopping, selling, meeting, breaking up, laughing every day in that street... Human, life, price of beauty, human,
life, back streets of Beyoğlu. The workers, habitants, creators of Beyoğlu will be the characters of our movie.
A story that will last three to five days during fall... a cloudy, rainy İstanbul week.
We’ll see Beyoğlu and understand that the polished façade and true moral rules and law don’t exist in reality, love is
actually unhappiness, a fellowship is formed between life and suicide and one’s sake would be another’s darkness...
We’ll take a look to the problems of all Turkey from the heart of İstanbul, Beyoğlu...
We will study the anatomy of the contrast in humans, contrast of their lives and other lives born from the contrasts of
those contrasts, it seems very complicated but actually it is very clear...
This film will require hard work, it will be very hard because I don’t want to alienate or expose the others. My problem is to
make sure that the ones who think themselves as normal, are actually the others. And this can only be seen in the truth of
Beyoğlu. You shouldn’t shoot films in Beyoğlu, you should shoot reality. I think, you have to show the film in the reality...
YENİ SİNEMACILIK
MOTIVA FILM / Gökçe Işıl Tuna
T: +90 212 293 81 43
M: +90 555 522 37 37
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Yeni Sinemacilar/ aka New Filmmakers, was founded by Sevil Demirci, Önder Çakar and Serdar Akar in 1997
and they targeted to make “first” films. Their first films were Gemide (On board) and Laleli’de bir Azize (A Saint in
Laleli). Serdar Akar left Yeni Sinemacilik in 2002. Önder Cakar and Sevil Demirci are still running the company.
Crossroads Projects
Envy (Kiskanmak), feature film, 2009
Zeki Demirkubuz was born in Isparta, Turkey, in 1964. After
finishing secondary school at Gönen Teachers’ School in Isparta, he moved to Istanbul. He started high school in Istanbul, but dropped out after his first semester, going to
work in factories and workshops instead. During those working class years, he engaged in leftist politics. Following
the 1980 military coup he served a three-year sentence for
his membership in a political organization. In prison, Demirkubuz developed a passionate interest in literature. He
read the classics and started writing. Dostoyevsky and especially Crime and Punishment became a lasting inspiration
in those years. After his release, he worked as a hawker,
traveling from one city to another in Anatolia. In order to
postpone compulsory military service, Demirkubuz decided
to go back to school. He finished high school through distance learning, and entered the Department of Communications at Istanbul University. He began his film career as
assistant director to Zeki Ökten in 1986, and worked as assistant director for various directors until making Block-C
(C Blok, 1994), his first feature film. After this first film, Demirkubuz continued to work as an auteur and independent
filmmaker writing his own original screenplays. Film critics
and international audiences noticed Demirkubuz with his
second film, Innocence (Masumiyet, 1997)
Destiny (Kader), feature film, 2006
International Istanbul Film Festival - Best Director,
Best Actor, FIPRESCI Award
Ankara International Film Festival - Best Director,
Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress
Nürnberg Film Festival - Best Film
The Waiting Room (Bekleme Odasi), feature film, 2003
International Istanbul Film Festival - Best Director
Mostra de Valencia Film Festival - FIPRESCI Award
Copenhagen International Film Festival
Fate (Yazgı), feature film, 2001
Viennale International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard
International Istanbul Film Festival - Best Director;
FIPRESCI Award
(Best Film in National and International Competition)
Confessıon (İtiraf), feature film, 2001
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Viennale International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival -Un Certain Regard
MOTIVA FILM / Gökçe Işıl Tuna
Majority (Çoğunluk), feature film, 2010 by Seren Yüce
67th Venice Film Festival - Lion of the Future
12th Mumbai Film Festival - Best Film, Best Actor
47th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Best Film,
Best Director, Best Actor
In 2003, she graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Cinema-TV Department. After her graduation she went to New
York for a certificate programme in producing and filmmaking. Since 2005 she has been attending international coproduction seminars and co-production markets in Europe.
Started working as an associate producer on the award winning feature film Takva - A Man’s Fear of God in 2006 which
was a German-Turkish co-production with Yeni Sinemacilik
and Corazon International. She founded the company MOTIVA Film and started producing short films/creative documentaries and feature films. She produced a short film
Deng/Voices which is selected to International competition
to Cleremont Ferrand Film Festival 2010 and produced a
creative documentary project Ich Liebe Dich/I Love You which
is a co production with ZDF and Una Film. Now on a post
production of a feature film project Küf/Mold which won
the work in progress award at Sarajevo Film Festival.
Men on the Bridge (Köprüdekiler), feature film, 2009
by Asli Özge
28th International Istanbul Film Festival - Best Film
16th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival - Best Film
21st Ankara Film Festival - Best Film, Best Editing
A Man’s Fear Of God (Takva), feature film, 2006
by Özer Kiziltan
Toronto Film Festival - Swarovski
Cultural Innovation Award
57th Berlin Film Festival - Panorama
Section - FIPRESCI Award
43rd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Best Script,
Best Actor, Best Director of Photography
Maruf, feature film, 2002 by Serdar Akar
İstanbul Film Festival - Jury Special Award
Zeki Demirkubuz
Gökçe Işıl Tuna
Destiny, feature film 2006 is available at the Film Market
and Festival Scope
Offside (Dar Alanda Kisa Paslaşmalar),
feature film, 2001 by Serdar Akar
Writers Union of Turkey - Best Film, FIPRESCI prize
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The Miner
Slovenia
SYNOPSIS
Produced by: STUDIO MAJ
Director: Hanna Slak
Scriptwriter: Hanna Slak
Producer: Dunja Klemenc
Location: Slovenia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Looking for: Co-producers
A miner digs alone in the dangerous depths of an abandoned mine, stubbornly looking for the truth of a
dark part of Europe’s history. The deeper he descends, the more he is forced to face his own personal
history, making any retreat increasingly impossible. Moving deeper and deeper into the dark, he desperately
searches for catharsis, the only way back to the surface. But all the evil he finally finds is more than any
one person can bear.
Having heard the story of Mr. Mehmedalija Alić I’ve immediately felt an urge to transform it into a screenplay
for the big screen and bring it to a wider attention of a cinema audience. I’ve been further moved and inspired
by Mr. Alić’s account of his life, by research and my conversations and correspondence with him.
The courage and humanism found in this story is an exceptional and enlightening guide to the unwritten history
of our times: that of the indestructible, recurrent strength, courage and good within individuals, caught up in
the history of war and evil. This man stands at the breaking point of extreme ideological, nationalist, religious
and economic movements, which we have inherited as the great errors of the 20th century European history. He
is an immigrant, a secularized Bosnian Muslim, a genocide survivor, a simple working class man. He should be
one of the victims of our time. Still, relying on no god, and propelled by no other great idea but his personal
ethics and the deeply rooted belief in the equality of all men, he keeps finding the inner strength to make his
own decisions, to take the fate in his own hands – and thus he becomes one of the heroes of our time.
I hope that the intense cinematic journey of Alija, inspired by the life story of Mr. Alić, may serve as a reminder
of the responsibility we all share at all times for one another and for our world. May it give us courage to
understand the importance of fighting for, and insisting on, the truth, no matter what the circumstances; and
thus to take responsibility for our collective future.
STUDIO MAJ
Studio Maj is an independent production company from Slovenia, specialized in the production of feature films.
Its audiovisual production consists of feature films, features for children and TV, documentaries and documentary
series. All features until now have been co-productions involving independent producers from various European
countries.
STUDIO MAJ
T: +3861 422 4545
M: +38641 629826
W: www.studiomaj.si
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seleced filmography
Born 1975 in Warsaw, Poland. Graduate of Film Academy
of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since 2001 she is active as writer, director and editor. Among her films are two feature films as
well as several documentaries and short fiction films.
Hanna Slak’s interest in film making range from the classical
writer/director author cinema to short experimental and
formal researches. In her fictional work Hanna Slak constructs
intense characters based stories, where the narrative is propelled by the strong and clearly defined visual and audit
style.
SonoLog, doc, 2011 – in post-production
Some Other Stories, feature film omnibus (episode) 2010
Taormina Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival
Montreal Film Festival
Teah, feature film, 2007
Sarajevo International Film Festival
Cottbus Film Festival
Slovenian Film Festival- Best Film / Slovenian Film Critics,
Best Cinematograpy
Hanna Slak
Blind Spot, feature film 2002
12th Film Festival Cottbus - Don Quijote Prize,
Award of Ecumenical Jury,
43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival - Best Actress
7th Sofia International Film Festival Sofia - Best Director
Selected Filmography
Born in Ljubljana, graduated from the Philosophical Faculty
of the University in Ljubljana Department for Psychology
and from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of
Belgrade, Department of Production. Professionally she has
worked on films for decades, first as a screen writer later as
organizer and producer. During her stay in Belgrade she
worked on many feature films, numerous TV series for TV
Belgrade and as main producer for the Cultural and Art Programme of TV Novi Sad.
In Ljubljana she was the producer for the Film Department
of Univerzum, producer of Children’s Programmes for TV of
Slovenia and producer of films as a free lance film worker.
She is the owner of Studio Maj, independent film producing
company.
Circus Columbia, feature film, 2010 by Danis Tanovic
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Golden Orange
best foreign language film
Sarajevo Film Festival- Audience award
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Audience award
Some Other Stories, feature film omnibus, 2010
Taormina Film Festival
Sarajevo Film Festival
Montreal Film Festival
Just Between Us, feature film, 2010 by Rajko Grlic
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Best Director
Festoria - Troia International Film Festival - Jury Special Prize
57th Pula Film Festival- Fedora Award
Warchild, feature film, 2005 by Christian Wagner
World Film Festival Montréal- Screenplay Award
Festival Del Cinema Europeo Lecce- Jury and Audience Award
Bavarian Film Awards - Best Film
Dunja Klemenc
Teah, feature film, 2007 and Some Other Stories (episode)
2010 is available at the Film Market and Festival Scope
No Man’s Land, feature film 2001 by Danis Tanovic
Oscar for Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film
European Film Award
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Radiogram
Bulgaria
Produced by: PRO FILMS LTD
Director: Rouzie Hassanova
Scriptwriter: Rouzie Hassanova
Producers: Ralitsa Veleva, Emil Simeonov
Co-producers: Katsize Films (France),
Effective Film (Germany)
Location: Bulgaria
Looking for: Funding
SYNOPSIS
The Rodopi Mountains, 1971.
Based on a true story Radiogram follows Ali, who risks his life when he embarks on a three day journey, through
the army patrolled mountains, to the nearest city, so he can buy a new radio for his rock ‘n roll obsessed son. Set
against the backdrop of the communist regime ruling the country, this is not only a story of how far a father is
prepared to go for his son, but also about a desperate man in search for his sense of freedom.
Based on a true story, Radiogram celebrates the strength of the human spirit, family and friendship all in the
heart of freedom and music.
Growing up during communism as a Pomatzi (Muslim Bulgarian) was an experience that has not only enriched
me as a person, but also inspired me as a filmmaker to reveal this side of Bulgaria, that not many know of, to the
world. Radiogram is a mix of people’s unique survival of the regime with their incredible sense of humour and
always managing to find hope, which got them through and kept them united. The fascination with the banned
rock ‘n roll music in the 70’s is something that not only happened in Bulgaria, but in all of the East European
Block and this is why I believe that Radiogram has a universal resonance.
Based on a true story, this is not a political drama, but a touching family film about how far a father is prepared
to go for his son, but also about a desperate man in search for his sense of freedom.
Radiogram is the story of one man, but it is also the story of everyman who resists oppression wherever in the
world. A film that holds family, love, hope and freedom at its core and would generate a strong feeling worldwide
PRO FILMS
In the beginning of 2005 Emil Simeonov established the company PRO FILMS together with Mr. Vladimir Pertov.
In 2007 the company launched its own DVD label, in 2009 a publishing house for kid’s magazines. In 2010 PRO
FILMS broadened its activities in post-production by creating its own studio facility for film dubbing and mixing,
editing and folly effects under the label STUDIO PRO FILMS. The next step in the company business plan is producing feature films. In the moment the company is shooting its first feature film project in Sofia, Bulgaria.
M: +49 1788 040862
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The Portrait, short, 2008
Galway Films Festival
Sofia International Film Festival
Born 1980 in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Rouzie started writing and
directing sketches for the annual graduation shows in High
school. In 1998 she moved to London to follow a career in
film. There she entered the Media Foundation Course in LCC,
where her graduation project Glashedy was awarded with
Distinction.
Rouzie has been working in the film industry for almost a
decade: production freelance; post production manager;
film sales at Hanway Films where she worked for over six
years. Her most recent experience is on the production of
Welcome to the Punch, assisting the director Eran Creevy.
Rouzie has directed a number of shorts. Her short film, The
Portrait, was officially selected at seven international film
festivals, won an Accolade Award for Excellence in Film and
was nominated in the Best Visual category at the Lime Light
awards and Best Short at the Galway Film Festival.
Spanien, feature film, 2011 by Anja Salomonowitz
Born ‘82 in St. Zagora, Bulgaria. Bachelor in social work.
After her graduation Ralitsa worked as Expert Consultant
at Consult BG, where she managed the use of European
Pre-accession programmes, international grant schemes
and co-operation projects. While there, she gained broad
knowledge in financing different type of businesses and
managing international projects. Her hunger for being involved in more artistic position, led her to become a TVCs
producer (January 2007) for one of the biggest production
companies in Bulgaria- SIA/Camera. While there, she combined her passion for film and skills in development and
production management and soon became an integral part
of the company. In 2010 she was appointed as the Bulgarian
producer on the film Spanien by Anja Salomonowitz –a coproduction between DOR Film, Austria and Camera, Bulgaria.
This was her first feature, which inspired her to become an
independent producer and she took on Radiogram as her
first film.
Rouzie Hassanova
Ralitsa Veleva
Portrait, short, 2008 is available at the Film Market and Festival Scope
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The Righteous Path
Algeria
SYNOPSIS
Produced by: LAITH MEDIA
Director: Okacha Touita
Scriptwriter: Okacha Touita
Producer: Yacine Laloui
Location: Algiers
Looking for: Financing
“In Algiers today”. A public administration clerical worker becomes a pawn in a plot to protect high-stake interests.
Writing the first version of this scenario took me and my co-screenwriter two years. During the writing period
we were motivated by only one thing: to denounce the corruption that undermines Algerian society.
In early 2011, and on the eve of the Arab revolution that marked the spirits, Algeria was surprised by an uprising
of young people across the country which lasted one week and although the slogans didn’t mention it, corruption
rooted in all aspects of society.
Today, the failure of the Algerian society to progress is hidden in the unspoken corruption of the country. The
struggling youth was driven to their death by trying to avoid, for more than twenty years, falling into extremism
military and religious totalitarianism.
To make this movie is for me a glimmer of hope that sooner or later we will move towards a world where
freedom and democracy will be the engine that will give the people hope.
LAITH MEDIA
Laith Media is a company of Algerian right, created in 2004 by Yacine Laloui.
LAITH MEDIA
T: +213 21 37 57 07
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Morituri, feature film, 2006
Okasha Touitai was born in 1943 in Mostaganem (Algeria),
he lived and worked in France, after training at the Institute
for Film Education, he was assistant director and actor before
becoming director.
Le Cri des hommes, feature film, 1990
Le Rescape, feature film, 1986
Les Sacrifies, feature film, 1982
Georges Sadoul Award
Film Festival of Orleans - Special Mention of the Jury Award
Okacha Touita
Rue Tartarin, short, 1980
Festival of Lille 1981 - Award
Garagouz, short, 2010 by Abdenour Zahzah
Mediterranean Festival of Montpelier - Audience
Choice Award, Midi Libre
Festival tous courts d’Aix en Provence - Audience
Choice Award, Junior Juror Award
FESPACO - The Colt Gold of Yennega Award
Yacine Laloui was born in Algeria in 1968. He graduated
from La Femis (Paris High School of Cinema on 1993). For
ten years he worked as an assistant director in films (L’autre
côté de la mer, Ma cité va craquer, Paria, etc.) and as a documentary filmmaker (Geste de vie, Systême BD, etc.) in Europe.
He returned to Algeria and worked in executive production
with Philippe Faucon‘s La Trahison. He created Laith Media
in 2004.
L’afrique Vue Par..., 10 short-film collection, 2009
Mascarades, feature film, 2007 by Lyès Salem
represented Algeria at the Oscars
Angoulême Festival - Best Film Award
International Film Festival of Dubaï - Best Film Award
International Festival Francophone Film of
Namur - Audience Choice Award, Junior Juror Award
Morituri, feature film 2006 is available at the Film Market
and Festival Scope
Yacine Laloui
Delice Paloma, feature film, 2006 by Nadir Moknèche
Casbadjites, documentary, 2005 by Anne Cazales
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Sea Burners
Turkey
Produced by: Bulut Film
Director: Melisa Önel
Scriptwriters:
Feride Cicekoglu, Melisa Önel
Producer: Yamac Okur
Budget: 600.000 Euro
Location: Karacakoy close to Istanbul
Looking for: Co-Producer (especially from
Greece, Norway, France, Germany)
and World Sales Agents
SYNOPSIS
Denise, a botanist, who is studying and breeding a local plant (gol sogani), has moved to a village on the Black
Sea coast of Turkey after a traumatic loss and a failed marriage. Being a foreigner and much older, she has a
secretive relationship with her lover Hamit. Denis does not (yet) know that Hamit is a human trafficker. Both
keep secrets from one another, Denise about her past and Hamit about what he does. The tension builds as
Denise encounters traces of a group of immigrants and meets a young refugee girl; Sonya who are to be taken
on a dangerous journey by Hamit. The sense of approaching storm dominates the film.
The story is told in three chapters and stretches over a short period of three days, which are not chronologically
arranged. Rather, each chapter relates a different aspect of the events from the perspective of a certain character.
The starting point of this film was the sea. The fact that ships go down, people perish and that the sea has
nothing to say. So I gathered stories that the sea brought together, stories, people threatened by the sea.
Seaburners is a visually built story; colors, pace, rhythm, mood and nature; as an all encompassing character, are
very important. In this sense I admire Lucrecia Martel’s spatial atmosphere and Terrence Mallick’s way of turning
nature into a protagonist.
The film is split into three un-chronologically arranged chapters; Shore, Ashes and Water. Moments of overlap/repetitions in chapters, strengthens the narrative and the idea that the three characters are internally linked.
General shots alternating with POV shots in the film will determine whose story we are watching and strengthen
the three chapter form. The film is set in winter; the cloudy sky and approaching storm sets the mood of the
film. The locations that the film takes place are visually rich and open to metaphors. Microscopic images, the
dream sequences and the sequences at the beginning of each chapter merge the imaginary and real, at times
redirecting the attention of the viewer to form, trying to express the underlying themes visually.
BULUT FILM
Founded in 2006 Bulut Film is an Istanbul based production company that produces films loyal to the director’s
artistic vision. As such Bulut Film is interested in fresh styles, and experimental narratives. Bulut Film develops
its own projects, involves in co-productions, and also provides line production services. Bulut Film productions
include Our Grand Despair (Berlin Film Festival Competition 2011), Dark Cloud (Toronto Film Festival 2010), On
the Way to School (in co-production with Perisan Film, winner of Best Middle Eastern Documentary Film Abu
Dhabi 2009) and Summer Book (Berlin Film Festival and Nomination for European Film Awards Discovery
Section, 2008). Bulut Film’s latest production, Beyond the Hill (directed by Emin Alper) was shot in the summer
2011 and selected for Works in Progress at Thessaloniki Film Festival.
BULUT FILM
T: +90 212 287 70 76
M: +90 533 336 91 17
W: www.bulutfilm.com
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Me and Nuri Bala, short documentary, 2009
46th Antalya Film Festival - Best Short Documentary
Melisa Önel was born in Izmir in 1980. After studying International Relations at Tufts University, she completed her
Masters degree in Film Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. A
filmmaker and a photographer, Önel is a member of the
photographers’ initiative RecCollective. In the past two years,
her work has been exhibited in many international exhibitions
including Uncanny Encounters (Istanbul Modern Museum
2011), Photomed (Sanary, France, 2011), Not a Lens But a
Prism (Portugal, 2010), Women Who Run with the Wolves
(Stimultania Gallery, Turkish artists in Strasbourg, 2009).
Her first short film Omega Fox (2007) was selected to
the Hisar Short Film Selection, a collection of the ten best
short films of the year in Turkey. Her medium length documentary Me and Nuri Bala (2009) received Best First Documentary award at the 46th Antalya Film Festival. Currently
Önel is working on her first feature Seaburners.
Omega Fox, short, 2007
Our Grand Despair, feature film, 2011 by Seyfi Teoman
61st Berlin Film Festival - Competition
Born in 1975, Yamaç Okur studied International Relations
at Bogazici University in Istanbul. He is one of the founders
of acclaimed Altyazi Cinema Magazine. He has been the director of Bogazici University Mithat Alam Film Center since
2003. He founded Bulut Film in 2006 with Nadir Öperli and
together they produced Summer Book (Berlinale, 2008) directorial debut of Seyfi Teoman. His second feature film as
a producer Theron Patterson’s Dark Cloud had been awarded
Best Film at Bursa Silk Road Film Festival. In 2011 he produced the second feature of Seyfi Teoman, Our Grand Despair
(Berlinale, Competition, 2011). He is also one of the coproducers of On the Way to School which was competed in
the main competition of IDFA in 2008. He is also serving at
the advisory board for Meetings on the Bridge (Istanbul
Film Festival Co-Production Platform) and at the executive
committee of Mithat Alam Education Foundation.
Dark Cloud, feature film 2009 by Theron Patterson
35th Toronto Film Festival
10th Era New Horizons Film Festival
Summer Book, feature film 2008 by Seyfi Teoman
58th Berlin Film Festival - Forum
24th International Istanbul Film Festival - Best Film
& FIPRESCI Award
Co-producer:
In Flames, feature film 2011 by Murat Saracoglu
On the Way to School, documentary, 2009
46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Best First Feature
9th Abu Dhabi Film Festival - Black Pearl Award
Melisa Önel
Yamac Okur
Me and Nuri Bala, short documentary, 2009 and Omega Fox,
short, 2007 are available at the Film Market and Festival
Scope
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September
Greece / Germany
Produced by: P.P. PRODUCTIONS
THE CASSAVETI CONNECTION
Director: Penny Panayotopoulou
Scriptwriters: Kallia Papadaki,
Penny Panayotopoulou
Producers: Penny Panayotopoulou,
Thanassis Karathanos
Partner attached:
Twenty Twenty Vision (Germany)
Location: Athens, Greece
Current Status: Development
Looking for: Co-Producers, Sales
SYNOPSIS
This is the story of Anna, who works at IKEA and lives alone with her dog Manu in a small apartment. When
Manu dies, her life shutters in cold silence. She looks for warmth in the lit up windows just across the road. Anna
is drawn to what she perceives as a happy family life. She becomes obsessed; wants to be like them; she imitates
them. Only to find out that you can’t build a dream upon other peoples’ lives. This is a story about loneliness the
way it sneaks into the cracks of our lives in solitude and togetherness. This is the story of September.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I heard a story once about a woman who in her spare time and because of solitude was wandering in empty
houses trying to imagine her life differently, as if there were a million possibilities for her to choose from. And
then, I thought how it would be if those houses were not empty at all, what if they were full of life and warmth,
and she was falling in love with lit windows and voices coming from inside. What if she was falling for that little
something that was not hers? Families in her mind are pink and colourful, and make beautiful noises and have
a million things to do during the day, things that they don’t mean much but keep you going. And so, she picks
up one family and she tries, she really tries to be like them, to be one of them, and for a sweet, and bitter
moment happiness lingers on her, as if it was her own destiny. I want to speak about that moment, and then I
want to speak about a minute later that everything is gone, maybe forever and about the minute after, when
everything falls into place again, and it is like you have found your way home. There is much said and yet a loose
grasp with regards to loneliness, the way it sneaks into the corners of our beings, the way bedbugs do, somehow
they’re somewhere around lurking, ready to bite you and leave behind this subtle red mark, on a smooth neck
on a good night’s sleep. I want this film to be this teeny tiny bedbug that crawls underneath your bed and
reminds you that there is more to this world apart from me and you and the life we might lead.
P.P. PRODUCTIONS - THE CASSAVETI CONNECTION
P.P. PRODUCTIONS
T: +30 210 8048497
M: +30 6932438718
W: pennypanayotopoulou.wordpress.com
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Penny Panayotopoulou founder of ‘P.P Productions- The Cassaveti Connection’, started her business in 1992 as
an independent producer, script writer, director to self-develop and produce her films, and has accomplished
that over the years with great success. Her credit as producer includes the commercial success of the feature
film Hard Goodbyes: My Father written and directed by her. It was a very ambitious film production, which
involved a lot of co-producers, Eurimages to name one. It premiered at the 55th Locarno IFF (Golden Leopard,
Best Actor/ Ecumenical Jury’s Award) to continue with a long journey at the festivals circuit and was also
distributed all over the world. The company’s current projects include September (feature, 35mm), which is in
development and has participated in the MFI Script 2 Film Workshop – Athens 2010, received the NIPKOW Fellowship - Berlin 2010, won the Balkan Fund Award in Thessaloniki IFF, December 2010 and was selected by the
MEDIA Program for Single Project Development - June 2011.
Crossroads Projects
Penny Panayotopoulou was born in Athens, she studied law
at the University of Athens and film directing at Stavrakos
Film School. In 1985, she received her BA in Photography
and Film from the Polytechnic of Central London (University
of Westminster). Her short films have won many awards
and participated in international festivals. Her debut film
Hard Goodbyes: My Father premiered at 55th Locarno Film
Festival, won the Golden Leopard for Best Actor and set out
for an acclaimed international career. The film received several prizes in festivals and found distribution in the United
States among many other countries. In 2005, the original
script was adapted into a novel by Media Factory Inc., Japan.
Since 1994, she has been working as a freelancer producing
and directing documentaries and films for the National
Greek Television. In 2004, she took up a teaching position
at the Film Department of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
She is currently in the stage of development for her second
feature film September.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father, feature film 2002
55th Locarno International Film Festival- Golden Leopard
for Best Actor, Ecumenical Jury’s Award
Toronto International Film Festival - Discovery Section
43rd Thessaloniki Film Festival - Fipresci Jury Award,
Best 2nd Male Actor Award, Hellenic Association of
Film Critics Award, Best Debut Film Director Award
Like Rain Like Hail, medium length, 1996
Biarritz International Film Festival
Eldorado, short film, 1988
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival
30th Thessaloniki Film Festival - 1st Quality Award,
Best Film Award from French National Centre of
Cinematography - Honorary Mention
Festival de Film des Femmes de Creteil of Montpelier
Penny Panayotopoulou
P.P. PRODUCTIONS - The Cassaveti Connection is a collective
of young emerging directors aiming to develop, produce
and distribute their projects with a universal appeal. Apart
from feature and short films, the company produces television series of cultural interest, where new directors are given
the chance to debut their first directorial works.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father, feature film 2002 is available at
the Film Market and Festival Scope
Zoe Lisgara
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Crossroads Projects
Silence s’il vous plait
Greece
Produced by: INDIGO VIEW
Director: Thodoris Papadoulakis
Scriptwriter: Marinella Vlachaki
Producer: Ioanna Davis
Co-Producers: N-Orasis (Greece),
Gargantua Films (Serbia)
Location: Greece, France
Looking for: Co-producer, Financing, Distributor, Broadcaster, World Sales
SYNOPSIS
1955, in a mountain village, two outlawed communist guerillas emerge at night to find refuge. One of the
houses they visit is of our young heroine. At the age of four the girl loses her father and the guerillas begin to
bully her mother. They murder her in front of our protagonist; an experience that traumatizes her forever. The
girl is adopted by a middle-aged couple who have recently returned from Paris expelled by the French government
because of their active communist action. They use French to talk about things they want to keep secret. They
try to make their daughter forget her past. But the girl cannot forget: in her dreams she is haunted by nightmarish
“shadows” and one night, waking from a dream, she hears voices from the cellar realising that the two men
being looked after by her new parents are those who destroyed her family.
Silence s’il vous plait is based on a book that is a collage of essays of a young girl. A story that dives into a
traumatised child’s soul. A child unable to communicate with the external world receiving mixed signals from
the people around her and secrecy blocking her away from reality. She only confides her thoughts through her
letters, however she shows them to no one. The boundless fantasy of a child can present reality in a distorted
way but can reveal truths that no grown up dares to utter. It is a story of a girl growing up in a closed community
where the law of silence is difficult to break. The dark and mysterious setting of the village and the cultural differences of the “French” trying to bring the socialist ideals in a narrow-minded society of poor and uneducated
villagers are two very interesting elements. The story raises social questions which are still relevant today: the
position of women, maltreatment of children and animals, adoption, the educational system, violence and
political fanaticism, as well as the elevation to the roles of heroes of people who are totally unworthy of such
emulation. Silence s’il vous plait is based on a true story.
INDIGO VIEW
Indigo View was founded in 2005 by Ioanna Davi, Dimitris Xenakis and Thodoris Papadoulakis as an experiment
to break away from the pattern of doing business in the capital cities. The vision of the company is to create a
strong platform for cinema productions in Crete making use of its infinite stories which blend together a mixture
of civilisations and its unique landscapes. Since 2005, Indigo View has produced and co-produced many documentaries, short films, corporate videos and line produced 3 feature films. Its short film Samoure has been
awarded with 5 international awards bought by Eurochannel and its latest TV series production The Island,
completed in May 2011, reached ratings of 70% and enjoyed great reviews marking it as a cinematic quality
work presented for the first time in Greek TV. It is currently being sold to various countries among which Bosnia
Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel and others.
INDIGO VIEW
T: +30 28210 93338
M: +30 6972236714
W: www.indigoview.com
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Crossroads Projects
The Island, ΤV Series, 2009-2011
Thodoris was born in South Africa where he spent the first
10 years of his life before returning to his parents’ birthplace,
Crete. He studied Radio & TV Production and gained a Master’s degree in Film Directing & Producing at the Northern
Film School, UK. He worked as Head of the Film Promotion
Office at the Film School of Leeds University. In 2005, he
co-founded Indigo View. His short films Samoure and Pilala
received 27 international awards and participated in over
60 film festivals. Pilala was bought by Canal+, Multi TV
Afrique and RTL and Samoure by Eurochannel.
In 2008, he directed a comedy series for television, in
2009, he directed the documentary Spinaloga and in 2011
he completed the 26 episode drama TV series The Island for
MEGA Channel, which reached the highest rating in the history of Greek private television of 70%. The series is currently
being sold internationally.
The Island: The True Story, documentary, 2009
Dad, Don’t Speed, TV Series, 2007-2008
Samoure, short, 2005
28th International Short Film Festival in
Drama - Best Screenplay Award
27th Mediterranean Film Festival of
Montpellier - Best Short Film Award
Greek State Film Awards - Second Best
Greek Short Film Award
Pilala, short, 2004
45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Greek State Cinema Awards - Best Greek Short Film Award
26th Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier,
Special Prize Award by Canal
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film
Festival - Special Jury - Best Short Film Award
The Island, ΤV Series, 2009-2011 by Thodoris Papadoulakis
Ioanna Davi is co-founder of Indigo View, producer and financial manager to all of the company’s audiovisual work.
She studied Economics and Management in St Andrews
University in Scotland. In 2003, she worked as a researcher
in collaboration with the Edinburgh City Council on a Strategic Project regarding the Future of Transportation. On the
same year, she organized two of the greatest conferences
in the field of Management. One was for the British Academy
of Management in London and the other for the European
Academy of Management in Brussels. Since 2005, she has
made Crete her base and looks of ways to link it with the
rest of the world through audiovisual productions.
The Island: The True Story, documentary, 2009
by Thodoris Papadoulakis
There Was No Other Way, documentary, 2010
by Stavros Psillakis
Greek Cinema Academy - Best documentary Award
Rosmarinus Officinalis, short, 2008 by Andreas Siadimas
Samoure, short, 2005 by Thodoris Papadoulakis
Thodoris Papadoulakis
Ioanna Davis
The Island: The True Story, documentary, 2011 and Samoure,
short 2005 are available at the Film Market and Festival
Scope
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Crossroads Projects
A Slight Concern
France
Produced by: LES FILMS SAUVAGES
Director: Cyril de Gasperis
Scriptwriters:
Gilles Taurand et Cyril de Gasperis
Producer: Jean-Christophe Soulageon
Secured Financing: Rhône Alpes Cinema,
Procirep, CNC Development Funds
Location: Lyon (France) 2/3,
anywhere else (1/3)
Looking for: Co-production
SYNOPSIS
Pierre Wagner, a busy tax lawyer, needs a brand-new assistant to boost his business and impulsively hires
Ismaël, a strange and solitary young man, who reveals himself particularly painstaking, working day and night
until the day he mysteriously prefers not to…
Freely adapted from Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, A Slight Concern won’t be so much the story of a mysterious
law firm employee who suddenly prefers not to work, retreating into silence, as of Pierre Wagner, a middleaged tax lawyer obsessed by this odd Ismaël, his young protégé. It will be a comedy, overwhelmed by the
melancholia of its protagonists but a comedy nonetheless. A comic fantasy that takes on the blending of genres,
that disseminates unconventional or even grotesque characters over the tragedy of a man. Sharp in its changes
of rhythm, of tone, the mise-en-scene will support a contrasted form: dialogue-statured sequence shots where
the challenge will be to bring sensuality to the bouts of logic along with purely static shot/reverse shot sequences
like those opposing Ismaël and Pierre where symmetrical frontality will betray discomfort, each of them isolated
in their positions. As if, to put it in a few words, the frantic delivery in one of Hawks’ comedies met the insistent
contemplation of one of Bergman’s speechless faces, focused on the fascinating expressiveness of an unsettled
presence in its most cinematic form.
LES FILMS SAUVAGES
LES FILMS SAUVAGES
T: + 33 1 42 29 55 04
M: + 33 6 75 20 00 10
W: www.filmsauvages.com
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In 2002, Jean-Christophe Soulageon created LES FILMS SAUVAGES where he produced about 35 shorts, from
fiction to experimental projects, broadcasted on local and international TVs and selected in festivals all over the
world; A Woman Alone by Brahim Fritah (Jury prize in Clermont-Ferrand 2005), Deyrouth, (Best short documentary
award at the Arab Film Festival of San Francisco & LA 2010) and more. LES FILMS SAUVAGES also produces or
coproduces feature films, among them Paradise Now by Yolande Zauberman (Forum Berlinale 2004) or Blank
by Cyril de Gasperis (Pusan, 2010). Among the feature films we are developing now: A Slight Concern, the
second project from de Gasperis, is written with Gilles Taurand, (screenwriter of Téchiné, Ruiz, Honoré) and
already supported by development funds. This is a free adaptation from Herman Melville’s novel: Bartleby the
Scrivener which is famous all over the world and translated in 63 languages. The philosophy of the company is
to try and follow the author’s inspirations and get involved when they join ours.
Crossroads Projects
Blank (L’ Absence), 2010
14th Pusan Intl’ Film Festival - World Cinema
17th Hopes in 35mm Mulhouse Festival - Public Prize
Released in French theaters on March 2010
Cyril de Gasperis worked for production companies and television networks such as ARTE France until he set up
Saraghina films in 2006 and produced Une Epopee (An Epic),
a feature film directed by François Magal. In 2009, he made
his directorial debut with Blank (L’Absence) in official selection at the 14th Pusan International Film Festival (World
Cinema) and released in France last year.
A Slight Concern (Un Leger Souci) co-written with Gilles Taurand and produced by Les Films Sauvages will be his second
feature film.
Born in 1971, holder of a license of film studies, JeanChristophe Soulageon begins as director in 1996 with Only
to the World (15‘, 35mm). After some work in the animation
studio Toons Factory, he became assistant of Thierry Lenouvel
at Ciné-Sud Promotion, where he created a production department for short films. In 1999, he joined Sombrero Productions in charge of shorts.
In 2002, Jean Christophe Soulageon created Les Films
Sauvages where he produced about 35 shorts, from fiction
to experimental or documentary formats. He produced or
co-produced also 5 feature films and distributed full-length
films documentaries in theaters (such as Taboos, Zohre &
Manouchehr by Mitra Farahani, released in 2005).
Associated to Anne-Catherine Witt since 2009, they work
now on 3 feature films: Confession and Struggle by Eliane
Raheb (documentary coproduced with Itar Productions –
Lebanon, in post-production), Dakar by Massaer Dieng and
Marc Picavez (fiction, coproduced with Cinekap – Sénégal)
and A Slight Concern by Cyril de Gasperis (feature film, looking
for a coproducer).
Beiroot (Deyrouth), short, 2010 by Chloé Mazlo
14th Arab Film Festival de San Francisco &
Los Angeles - Best short doc award
6th Sole Luna of Palerme - Jury Mention
19th Festival dokART of Neubrandenburg - Student Prize
Paradise Now, doc, 2005 by Yolande Zauberman,
34th Forum de Berlin
10th International Meetings of Paris
Blank (L’ Absence) 2010 by Cyril de Gasperi 17th Hopes in 35mm Mulhouse Festival - Public Prize
14th World Cinema Pusan
A Woman Alone (La Femme Seule), short, 2005
by Brahim Fritah
22nd International Clermont Ferrand Short Film
Festival - Prize of the Jury
56th Montecatini Festival - Best Documentary
58th Locarno Film Festival
Carrier of Men (Porteur d’Hommes),medium, 2010
by Antares Bassis
13th Independent Film Festival of Washington DC Grand Jury Award
35th Cleveland Film Festival - Special Mention
Best Short Film
34th Ebensee Film Festival - Golden Bear
Cyril de Gasperis
Jean-Christophe Soulageon
Blank, feature film, 2010 is available at the Film Market and
Festival Scope
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Crossroads Projects
Standing Aside, Watching
Greece
Produced by:
BLONDE AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS
Director: Yorgos Servetas
Scriptwriter: Yorgos Servetas
Producers: Konstantinos Kontovrakis,
Fenia Cossovitsa
Budget: 310.000
Location: Greece
Looking for: Financing, Sales Agent,
Co-producer
SYNOPSIS
Grey skies. Farmland. Old depots. An empty station.
A train arrives on the platform. None exits, except for Antigone, a young woman in her 30s. This is Th. a small Greek
town, the place Antigone decides to move after many years of absence.
Antigone is determined to settle in. She goes to the local bar for a drink; she meets friends from the old times; she
takes a job as an English teacher; she even finds a boyfriend, Nikos, young, good-looking and naive – the simpler,
the better...
Antigone’s search for an unassuming life in Th. soon turns out to be slightly more complicated than she thought.
Life in the streets of Th. is quiet but underneath the tension rises and rises…. How long can she stand aside and
watch?
A film about the aesthetics of indifference, violence and involvement.
A meta-western.
It hasn’t been long since the first images of the script began to take shape. They came at the end of an era when we had
just started swallowing the feeling of a more or less collective guilt. A civilization was crumbling down without leaving
a sad aftertaste: the last shot of “Import/Export”, the rhythmic repetition of the word “tod” by a demented old lady in
the hall of an old people’s home. This was still enough for me when the premise of the script would not take more than
two lines in a blank page: dancing on ruins. Back then, there were no signs that anyone could ask for more.
During the writing process a lot has changed. The financial crisis has become part of our collective conscience, the new
raid recycles old materials and the old subjects cannot suffice to just dancing on ruins: they want to demolish.
At this point, I had to turn to new iconographies. I could not stay put any more to an indiscreet and cold look on the topography of supermarkets, ring roads around rural towns and semi-detached villas on burnt land. This imagery had
already been mapped by the gaze of the “new topographers” of the 1970’s and by the films of Ülrich Seidl. I needed a
new, almost epic iconography and I could not find anything more recent than that of the spaghetti western.
The imagery of the Greek provinces offers nothing elegiac any more: this is an environment altered by cars. Even more
so, the natural environment is so shattered that it won’t bring any prosperity through its exploitation, let alone through
waves of tourists. The only chance of exploitation it now offers is that of administering its own destruction. This is the
“topos” of our film: a land raided by its people and a time defined by the journeys of cars.
The action of our story takes place during winter. Cool colours and shades of beige prevail. The color range resembles
the paintings of Gustave Courbet in Boats on Beach, Étretat. The camera remains distant in wide angles and long shots.
BLONDE AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS
BLONDE AUDIOVIUAL PRODUCTIONS
T: +30 210 6080650
M: +30 6976887137
W: www.blonde.gr
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Blonde is an Athens based company that has produced numerous Greek and international feature films, covered
some of the biggest events in Greece and collaborated with distinguished TV channels. Producer Fenia Cossovitsa
counts already over 10 Greek and international feature films and documentaries in her resumé and has worked
as a producer with internationally acclaimed filmmakers like Peter Bogdanovic and Jonathan Nossiter. Partner
Elias Ledakis has acted as an art director for more than 70 productions for theatre, events and TV- shows. For
the last two years producer Konstantinos Kontovrakis joined the team with a number of projects in development.
Blonde has just finished producing the production and set design of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of
Athens Special Olympics 2011, the feature film J.A.C.E. by Menelaos Karamanghiolis (Comp. Tokyo IFF, Thessaloniki
IFF) and is currently coproducing Brigitte Roüan’s latest feature Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère with AGAT Films
(France) and BOO productions (Greece).
Crossroads Projects
The Way Things Are Determined, feature film, 2008
49th Thessaloniki Film Festival - DigitalWave Competition
Born in Athens in 1978, he grew up and went to school in
Thebes. From 1996 till 2003, Yorgos studied Computer Engineering and Informatics in the University of Patras. It was
during his studies that he started experimenting with photography, which would eventually lead him to filmmaking.
In 2006, Yorgos joined the Stavrakos Film School in Athens.
There he made three short films. In 2008, he completed his
first feature film, The Way Things are Determined, a genuine
piece of DIY filmmaking, which got officially selected to
Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s DigitalWave Competition, a section dedicated to the local avant-garde and
underground production. Yorgos makes his living as a schoolteacher. He has taught Information Technology to children
in various schools of Athens but mostly in small rural towns
of the Greek mainland, including Thebes, the mythical town
of Oedipus and the less mythical, anonymous town of his
second feature film Standing Aside, Watching.
Wasted Youth, feature film, 2011
by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel
Executive producer
40th International Film Festival Rotterdam - Opening Film,
Tiger Award Competition BAFICI 2011 - Competition
Sarajevo Film Festival 2011 - Competition
Born and raised in Athens, he studied Film in London, where
he also corresponded for the Greek film magazine CINEMA.
As a critic, Konstantinos published film reviews and articles
in various Greek media, edited publications and worked as
a freelance publicist. In the meantime, he collaborated with
the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, for which he
worked for ten years mainly as a programmer. Since 2009,
Konstantinos moved into production. His first film was
Wasted Youth by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel
(Opening Film / Tiger Award Competition). Konstantinos
attended Binger Film Lab as a Creative Producer and EAVE
(Producer Workshops) with the project Twice a Stranger. He
is currently developing Twice a Stranger by Dora Masklavanou
(Blonde Audiovisual Productions) and A Hungry Mouth (STEFI
productions) the new feature of Argyris Papadimitropoulos.
Konstantinos is a member of the IFFR – Cinemart selection
committee. This project has completed script development
and is now in the stage of financing. We wish to launch the
project to the international film world, establish contacts
with sales agents for the international market and find potential co-producers to access post-production funds abroad.
Yorgos Servetas
Konstantinos Kontovrakis
Fenia Cossovitsa
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Crossroads Projects
Virus
Greece
SYNOPSIS
Produced by:
ARGONAUTS PRODUCTIONS S.A.
Director: Angelos Frantzis
Scriptwriters: Angelos Frantzis,
Spyros Kribalis
Producers: Maria Tsigka,
Panos Papahadzis
Secured Financing 50.000 euro
(Argonauts Productions)
Location: Russia
Current Status: Development
Looking for: Co-producers,
Funds, Services
Norilsk, Siberia. Petros (40) and Anna (30) have moved there from Athens a few months ago. Petros, a distinguished environmental engineer, rational and cool-headed, has undertaken an innovative project for the city’s heavy industrial plant.
Their lives are unexpectedly disrupted when Anna gets pregnant. They both know Petros can’t be the father. Their
sexual life has been non-existent after their arrival in Norilsk. Petros, trying to rationalize, is slowly convinced this is all
a conspiracy against his proposal for the factory, which, if implemented, will bring significant changes to the city. He
further frantically wants to prevent Anna’s involvement with a religious sect that flourishes in the region and which
heralds the coming of a new Messiah from parthenogenesis. Anna, on the other hand, allowing herself to delve into
the mystical nature of the sect’s beliefs, sees him as a stubborn child, imprisoned in his need to interpret everything
logically. The inevitable crisis culminating within the couple will be transformed into a conflict between science and
faith; two forces that will violently confront each other when the futile struggle for meaning in a constantly changing
world becomes an obsession.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Virus is a political film about a couple, in the form of a thriller. The plot evolves around an inexplicable incident; the
woman’s pregnancy without sexual intercourse. The crisis brought about in the couple by this mysterious event
leads to the conflict of two worlds.
An ideal setting for this is Norilsk. A city in Siberia built under Stalin to serve the needs of heavy mining industry
that bears the trauma of the 20th century. Today Norilsk is one of the ten most polluted cities in the world. A place
covered with snow 270 days per year with temperatures ranging from -10 to -58 degrees.
In this volatile and precarious world, the two characters, Anna and Petros, faced with the inexplicable, need a
rescue plan; they need to find meaning. They choose different paths that hide the same risks. Petros’ quest for a
rational explanation leads him to the painful dilemma: trusting Anna or keeping his faith in reason. Anna, rejecting
the quest for truth and rationale as the only option for happiness and freedom, turns to faith in order to cover this
void created by the unfathomed mystery. Violence born in both cases seems unavoidable.
The almost detective-type script structure is undermined by the film’s form; a form that borrows the silent, disturbing
setting of Norilsk, copying the softness and slowness of the falling snow. The plot is never highlighted by film
features. The camera takes distance, moving at its own pace, without portraying the action. As if there is someone
watching, observing not from the point of view of the characters, but through an arbitrary subjectivity. The camera
weaves a geometric web of lines approaching the core of things that the two characters, trapped in their own subjectivities, can’t see. Virus is a film on the relentless crash of subjectivities.
T: +30 210 82 57177
W: www.argonautsproductions.gr
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Argonauts Productions S.A. is a production company founded by Panos Papahadzis, an experienced professional
of the Greek audiovisual industry. With passion for film and an eye for spotting and nurturing young and upcoming
talented directors, the company approaches filmmaking through a fresh and dynamic outlook towards contemporary
Greek cinema, aiming to develop, produce and promote unique, award winning and innovative feature films striving
for dynamic international co-productions. Over the years Argonauts has produced many films successful both in international festivals (2006: Soul Kicking by Yannis Economides, premiered at the 45th International Critics Week in
Cannes, 2010: In the Woods by Angelos Frantzis, premiered at the 2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2010
Knifer, by Yannis Economides, premiered in the 2010 Pusan Film Festival, won 7 awards from the Hellenic Film
Academy) as well as domestic box office hits (2006: Extended Play by Yannis Ksanthopoulos, 380.000 admissions,
2006: Straight Story, by Vladimiros Kyriakides and Efi Mouriki, 400.000 admissions, 2009: The Heiress, directed by
Panayiotis Fafoutis, 310.000 admission). In 2011 Argonauts co-produced with Unutma Beni Istanbul Film (Turkey)
the omnibus film Do Not Forget Me Istanbul directed by Hany Abu-Assad, Stefan Arsenijevic, Aida Begic, Josefina
Markarian, Eric Nazarian, Stergios Niziris, Omar Shargawi.
Crossroads Projects
In the Woods, feature film, 2010
International Film Festival Rotterdam - Spectrum
Hong Kong Film Festival
Angelos Frantzis was born in Athens in 1970. He studied
film direction at INSAS in Brussels. He has directed 3 feature
films. In 2000: Polaroid, in 2005: A Dog’s Dream and in 2010:
In the Woods. His latest film held its world premiere at the
2010 International Film Festival Rotterdam and continued
a long career in more than 12 internationally acclaimed
film festivals (Hong Kong International Film Festival, FilmFest
Muenchen, Era New Horizons, Torino Film Festival, Sitges
International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Istanbul
Film Festival, Festival do Rio etc). Besides film directing,
Angelos Frantzis has been involved in art projects with combined techniques (installation, performance) collaborating
with the Athens and Epidaurus Festival as well as Technopolis-City of Athens. He has further worked as a film critic,
publishing reviews in various books and magazines.
A Dog’s Dream, feature film, 2005
Polaroid, feature film, 2000
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul, feature film omnibus, 2011
Maria Tsigka studied History and Ethnology and holds a master in Cultural Studies & Communication from the National
and Kapodestrian University of Athens. She started working
on various productions from 2000, on both documentaries
and fiction. Since then she has attended seminars on film
production and development, among which the Media Businness School- Ronda, Robert McKee’s Story Seminar, European Films Crossing Borders workshop and the Multiplatform
Media Business Schoold in Ronda. In 2009 Maria attended
the Producers Network in Cannes and in 2010 she graduated
the EAVE Producers Development Workshop.
Maria is part of the Argonauts Productions team since 2006,
heading the development, and the last years as a producer.
She is now a partner at Argonauts and member of the Board
of Directors.
Other Half, feature film, 2011, by Vangelis Seitanides
In the Woods, feature film, 2010, by Angelos Frantzis,
Rotterdam International Film Festival - Spectrum.
Hong Kong International Film Festival
The Heiress, feature 2009, by Panayiotis Fafoutis
Angelos Frantzis
Maria Tsigka
In the Woods, feature film 2010 is available
at the Film Market
A Dog’s Dream, feature film 2005 is available
in Festival Scope
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Crossroads Projects
CROSSROADS Up ‘N’ Coming
Chess Games
Greece
Produced by: FEELGOOD ENTERTAINMENT & STUDIO ATA
Director: Olga Malea
Scriptwriter: Olga Malea & Apostolos Alexopoulos
Producer: Irini Souganidou & Nick Christoforou
Budget: approx. 700.000 euro
Current State of the project: in preproduction
Looking for: British actress and EU co-producer
FEELGOOD ENTERTAINMENT (MD: Irini Souganidou)
STUDIO ATA (GM: Nick Christoforou)
T: +30 211 9967000
[email protected]
W: www.feelgoodentertainment.gr
www.studioata.gr
Heatwave
Greece-France
Produced by: WRONG MEN
Director: Joyce A. Nashawatti
Scriptwriter: Joyce A. Nashawatti
Producer: Alexandra Boussiou
Budget: approx. 815.000 euro
Current State of the project: Script Development (1st draft)
Looking for: Co - producers in France
3 LINE SYNOPSIS
Anna, the 11-year-old protagonist, strives to be the perfect daughter and please her mother. However Anna also
often behaves in strange ways, putting herself in grave danger. Why is a child who seems happy on the surface,
behaving in this way?
DIRECTOR’S BIO
After a Ph.D. in Psychology at Yale, Olga Malea came back to Greece and became a film director. From 1997 till 2007,
she wrote and directed five feature films, all big box office hits in Greece and all included in VARIETY’s shortlists about
European cinema: The Cow’s Orgasm (1997), The Mating Game (1999), Risotto (2000), Honey & the Pig (2005), Little
Greek Godfather (2007). From 2008 till 2011, she directed three TV series, all hitting above 20% of the audience
share. She is now developing CHESS GAMES, to be shot in Spring 2012. At her website www.olgamalea.com there
are trailers of her work.
3 LINE SYNOPSIS
It’s the hottest summer ever. There are water and power cuts. Human contact is rare and hostile. Ashraf, a reserved
forty-year-old, watches over a French couple’s isolated villa near a seaside resort. In this desolate landscape crushed
by the sun, Ashraf starts feeling a menacing presence... a shadow getting closer and closer...
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Lebanese filmmaker, Joyce A. Nashawati was born in Beirut, grew up in Athens and lives in Paris. She studied film and
philosophy in the UK and France. A compulsive cinephile, she loves genre films and atypic cinema. She has held various
positions on film sets, as well as being a script reader for distribution companies, before writing, directing and
producing her two short films The Umbrella and The Bite. Both films travelled around festivals, from Dubai, to Edinburgh,
to Spain... The Bite won the best short film award at Gerardmer International Film Festival in France. She’s currently developing her first feature film Heatwave, after having created an art video for Hermès International stores.
Kalashnikov
Greece
Produced by: FILMINMIND PRODUCTIONS
Director: Constantine Giannaris
Scriptwriter: Constantine Giannaris
Producer: Dionyssis Samiotis
Current State of the project: Casting and financing
Looking for: Co-producers, Financiers, Distributors
FILMINMIND PRODUCTION
T: +30 210 9681942
M: + 30 6942467747
W: www.filminmind.gr
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3 LINE SYNOPSIS
Kalashnikov is a modern “Bonnie & Clyde” story. In a time of crisis as the old world falls apart, an armed gang of
teenagers wreaks havoc in the leisurely seaside suburbs of Athens.
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Constantine Giannaris was born in Australia. He has studied History and Economics, but abandoned Academia to
become a self-taught cinematographer. His short and feature films have been distinguished in many international
film festivals, including the Directors’ Fortnight/Camera D’or Cannes and Berlinale. At the moment he lives and works
in Athens.
WORKS IN PROGRESS 2011
11 NOVEMBER 2011
This industry activity gives the opportunity to
selected sales agents, distributors and festival
programmers, to be the first to discover
feature films from Central Europe, the
Mediterranean and Balkan region,
in the stage just before completion.
The Works in Progress are presented with the
collaboration of the Greek Films and the
Balkan Survey departments.
AWARDS SPONSOR
Beyond the Hill
Turkey 2011
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The Boy is Eating the Bird’s Food
Greece 2011
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Chinatown-The Three Shelters
Cyprus/Greece/Germany 2011
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Works
in
progress
Dogs, Cats & Rats
Greece / France 2011
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Out in the Dark
Israel 2011
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Private Universe
Czech Republic 2011
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Rabbit Woman
Argentina / Spain / Venezuela 2011
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Shanghai - Belleville
France 2011
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When I Saw You
Palestine / Jordan 2011
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Zincograph
Bulgaria 2011
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Works in Progress
Beyond the Hill
Turkey 2011
Production Company: BULUT FILM
Director: Emin Alper
Screenwriters: Emin Alper
Cast: Tamer Leven, Banu Fotocan, Reha Ozcan
Producers: Enis Kostepen, Seyfi Teoman
Production Stage: Off line editing
Duration: 100 min
Looking For: World Sales Agent,
International Distributors, TV Sales,
Co-Producers for Post-Production
Contact Person:
Enis Köstepen, producer
Bulut Films
T: +90 212 287 70 86
M: +90 532 690 5636
[email protected]
[email protected]
SYNOPSIS
After his retirement from the state forestry office, Faik moved back to his hometown and started to work the land he
inherited from his grandfather. His son, and his two grandsons arrive on a hot summer day for vacation. His older grandson
is a veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The younger one is an adolescent in pursuit of proving his
manhood. Faik’s son and grandsons arrive at a time when his conflict with the neighboring nomads is escalating. Angry
with the nomads trespassing to graze their flocks, Faik steals a one of their goats. He plans to slaughter it to prepare a feast
in honour of the family gathering. However as the family gathering in the cottage provokes unsettled family disputes, the
machismo of the grandfather transforms the internal family tensions into hostile attitude against the neighbouring nomads.
Although scapegoating unites the family, the hate it breeds starts setting up a tragedy waiting to unfold.
Beyond the Hill participated in the Crossroads Co-production Forum in 2010
Director’s filmography:
Rifat, short, 2006
Bucharest International Film Festival – Best Short Film
The Letter, short, 2005
Director’s Profile
Emin Alper is the writer and director of the critically acclaimed short films, Rıfat (2006) and The Letter (2005). Trained in
economics and history at Bogazici University, Alper holds a Ph.D. degree in Turkish Modern History. He teaches at Istanbul
Technical University and works as a scriptwriter. Beyond the Hill is Emin Alper’s debut feature.
Emin Alper
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Works in Progress
52st Thessaloniki IFF-2011 - Agora/Market Manual
The Boy Is Eating the Bird’s Food
Greece 2011
Production Company: STEFI PRODUCTIONS
Director: Ektoras Lygizos
Screenwriters: Ektoras Lygizos
Cast: Lila Baklesi, Giannis Papadopoulos,
Haralambos Goyos
Producers: Ektoras Lygizos, Yorgos Karnavas
Co-producers: Elina Psykou Guanaco Productions (Greece) &
Argyris Papadimitropoulos Oxymoron Films (Greece)
Production Stage: Shooting
Duration: 80 min aprox.
Looking For: Co -producers for Post Production,
Festivals, Sales Agents
SYNOPSIS
A 23 years old boy in Athens is struggling not to eat his bird’s food, not to steal his old neighbour’s eggs, not to sell his
friend’s computer and to stop following an unknown girl.
A 23 years old boy in Athens is struggling to stand on his own feet.
Contact Persons:
Yorgos Karnavas, producer
Stefi Productions
T: +302106386200
M: +30 6945676069
[email protected]
Ektoras Lygizos, producer - director
M : +30 6944686741
[email protected]
Pure Youth, short, 2004
Venice Film Festival - Competition/Corto Cortissimo
He was born in Athens in 1976. He has directed for the stage theatre plays by Samuel Beckett, Henrik Ibsen, Alfred Jarry,
Guiseppe Verdi, Enda Walsh, Gary Owen, Haendl Klaus. His short film Pure Youth was premiered at Venice Film Festival 2004
– Official Competition (Corto Cortissimo). The Boy Is Eating the Bird’s Food is his first feature film.
Ektoras Lygizos
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Works in Progress
Chinatown - The Three Shelters
Cyprus/Greece/Germany 2011
Production Company:
ROADS AND ORANGES FILM PRODUCTIONS LTD
Director: Aliki Danezi - Knutsen
Screenwriters: Aliki Danezi - Knutsen
Cast: Katerina Missichroni, Richard Ng,
Themis Bazaka, Jaquelin Chan
Producer: Anna Tsiarta
Co-producers: Highway Productions, (Greece),
A.B. Seahorse Film Productions Ltd (Cyprus),
Black Orange Productions SA (Greece),
Christoph HecKenbuecker (Germany)
Production Stage: Post Production
Duration: 90 min.
Looking For: Co -producers
for Post Production, Festivals, Sales Agents
Contact Person:
Anna Tsiarta, producer
Roads and Oranges Production
T: +35799414683
M: +35799414683
[email protected]
SYNOPSIS
When Cleo - born on a very auspicious day in the Chinese calendar - turns 18, she finds out that the Chinese mafia murdered
her father. Outraged, she goes to Athens’ Chinatown to confront the killers, but soon realizes that in order to take her revenge
she first has to face her own dark destiny.
Chinatown – The Three Shelters participated in the Balkan Script Development Fund in 2005 and the Crossroads Co-production
Forum in 2006
BAR, feature film, 2001
Thessaloniki International Film Festival – International Competition 2001
Montevideo International Film Festival – International Competition 2002
Rome International Film Festival
KaRavanSarai, music doc, 1998
Festival of the Arab World – San Francisco 1998
Aliki Danezi - Knutsen
Roads and Oranges, feature film, 1996
Montevideo International Film Festival – Special Mention
Director’s profile
Aliki studied film at the University of Southern California and New York University and later got an MA in Philosophy from
School For Social Research. She directed the feature films Roads and Oranges, BAR, and the music documentary Karavansarai.
Aliki directed several theatrical productions including Closer by Patric Marber, Festen by Thomas Vintenberg (nominated for
9 “Athinorama Awards”) and HurlyBurly by David Rabe.
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Works in Progress
Dogs, Cats & Rats
Greece / France 2011
Production Company: A&G FILMS
Director: Adrianos Georgantas
Screenwriters: Adrianos Georgantas
Cast: Konstantinos Lagos, Katerina Missihroni,
Zaharias Rohas, Dimitris Lalos
Producer: Adrianos Georgantas
Co-producers:
Yannis Exintaris - N-Orassis (Greece),
Stavros Kapelouzos (Noir Productions (Greece),
Guillaume De Seille – Arizona Films (France)
Duration: 100 min
Looking For: Co-Producer, World Sales Agents,
Distributors, Festival Programmers
SYNOPSIS
Based on true events.
Winter 2007. The city of Athens is in turmoil. Most Universities in Greece are taken over by students. There are protest
marches and violence everywhere. The government is adamant on its plans for the privatization of universities. Meanwhile,
a love story develops within this political and social unrest and chaos: A young hooligan falls in love with a charming young
student, who is a strong anti-establishment activist. To woo her, he decides to join her and the anarchists. Trapped between
the girl’s emotional implacability, and the ever-increasing intransigence and violence of the police, the young man goes
over the edge ignoring danger.
Contact Person:
Andrianos Georgantas, director - producer
A & G Films
M: + 30 6941 695 995
[email protected]
When We Dance Together, feature film, 2003
Adrianos Georgantas studied Design and Sculpture at the BEAUX-ARTS of Paris, cinema at I.D.H.E.C. in Paris and Scriptwriting
at the I.I.I.S. in Paris. He has worked as an editor, scriptwriter and director for the French television and has directed three
television series for the ERT National Channel, Greece. Dogs, Cats & Rats is his second feature film.
Adrianos Georgantas
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Works in Progress
Out in the Dark
Israel 2011
Production Company: CYNS RIOS LTD
Director: Michael Mayer
Screenwriters: Yael Shafrir & Michael Mayeyr
Cast: Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni,
Maysa Daw, Jameel Khouri
Producer: Lihu Roter
Production Stage: Post - production
Duration: 88 min
Looking For: Post-production Funding,
Sales Agent and Festival Premiere
SYNOPSIS
Contact Person:
Lihu Roter, producer
Cyns Rios Ltd
T: +972525720672
[email protected]
[email protected]
Nimr, a Palestinian student has to come to terms with his sexual identity in a landscape of turmoil and war. Unable to live as
a gay man in his hometown of Ramallah and never welcome in neighboring Tel Aviv, Nimr falls in love with Roy, an Israeli,
and is forced to navigate a world of passive secrecy. Soon, unforeseen events will send him hurling down a road or personal
sacrifice and mortal danger.
Director’s filmography
Fireworks, short, 2010
Manhattan Film Festival
Long Island Film Festival
River Bend Film Festival
Michael Mayer
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Michael Mayer moved to Los Angeles to study film at the University of Southern California. He’s been producing and editing
movie trailers since graduating. In 2008 he exec-produced the documentary Driving Men which played numerous festivals
and is currently in post production on his first feature, Out in the Dark.
Works in Progress
Private Universe
Czech Republic 2011
Production Company: NEGATIV
Director: Helena Třeštíková
Screenwriters: Helena Třeštíková
Producers: Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
Production Stage: Post production
Duration: 90 min
Budget: 190 000 euro
Looking For: International sales,
festivals, distributors
SYNOPSIS
Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in
one room in the apartment of Jana’s divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved
from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began
writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. The “family diary“ shows not only the life of one
ordinary family, but also how the Czech society has changed in the last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from
and where do we go?
Contact Persons:
Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad, producers
Negativ
T: +420 224 933 755
[email protected]
www.negativ.cz
Director’s filmography
Katka, feature documentary, 2010
IDFA Netherlands 2010
RIDM Montreal 2010
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2010
René, feature documentary, 2008
Liepzig DOK Festival, 2008 – Golden Dove
European Film Awards – Prix Arte Documentary
Marcela, feature documentary, 2006
Pilsen Film Festival 2007 – Best Documentary
Sevilla International Film Festival - Best European Documentary
Helena Třeštíková
Helena Třeštíková graduated from the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU, Prague. Since 1974 she has worked as a
professional documentary filmmaker, and has made around fifty documentary films of various lengths and formats, mostly
on the themes of human relationships and various social issues.
Later on she started to specialize on so called time-lapse documentaries – long term observation of people’s destinies.
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Rabbit Woman
Argentina / Spain / Venezuela 2011
Production Company: IMVAL PRODUCCIONES
Director: Verónica Chen
Screenwriters: Verónica Chen
Cast: Haien QIU, Luciano Caceres,
Gloria Carra, Hector Diaz
Producer: Luis Angel Ramirez Perez
Co-producer: Bambu Cine (Argentina)
Duration: 110 min
Contact Person:
Luis Angel Ramirez Perez, producer
IMVAL Producciones
T: +34 91 402 23 85
M: +34 685 30 44 93
[email protected]
www.imvalproducciones.com
SYNOPSIS
Ana, a beautiful girl of Chinese origins, is witness to an accident where a man is injured. And so comes across the owner of a
laundry in Chinatown, a Chinese Mobster boss. Ana looks Asian but neither understands nor speaks Chinese. Running away
from the Chinese mobsters Ana runs away to the countryside, where she finds there are a many, many rabbits.
Ana isn’t a strong woman, nor a heroine. She’s just a normal person thrown by pure chance into a nightmare. But Ana is
stubborn. What defines her character, for good and for bad is her determination. And it’s not because of her heroism but
because of her stubbornness that Ana will learn to fight back.
A Sentimental Journey, Essay, 2010
BAFICI 2010
Water (Agua), feature film, 2006
Locarno Film Festival 2006 – Ecumenical Prize, Youth Jury Award
New Voices New Visions Palm Springs Film Festival – Special Prize of the Jury
Verónica Chen
Smokers Only (Vagón Fumador), feature film, 2001
San Francisco Film Festival 2002– Audience Award
Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva 2002 – Best Director
Born in Buenos Aires, she directed in 2001 Smokers Only (Vagón Fumador) awarded Best New Director in Huelva 2002,
Audience Award in San Francisco Film Festival 2002 and Premiered in Venice Film Festival. The film was selected in over 40
international film festivals. She directed Water (Agua) co-produced with Archipel 35, Celluloid Dreams and Tadrart (FRA),
awarded Ecumenical Award at the Locarno Film Festival, Youth Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival, Special Prize of the
Jury New Voices New Visions Palm Springs Film among others.
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Works in Progress
Shanghai - Belleville
France 2011
Production Company: CLANDESTINE FILMS
Director: Show-Chun Lee
Screenwriters:
Show-Chun Lee & Pierre Chosson
Cast: Carole Lo, Anthony Pho, Alice Yin,
Martial Wang
Producer: Juliette Grandmont
Production Stage: Image editing
Duration: 90 min
Looking For: World sales, private equity,
post-production financing
SYNOPSIS
The lives and the destinies of Chinese clandestine play out on the crossroads of Belleville, the Parisian El Dorado, where they
hope to find a better life. Left behind by unfulfilled aspirations, they get caught up in a web of violence, players of mythic
and dark thriller interspersed with dreams.
Shanghai - Belleville participated in the Crossroads Co-production Forum in 2008 and at L’Atelier – Cinéfondation of Cannes
Film Festival in 2010.
Contact Person:
Juliette Grandmont, producer
Clandestine Films
T: +33 1 43 58 28 66
M: +33 6 60 77 49 08
[email protected]
www.clandestine-films.fr
Une jeune fille est arrivée, short, 2006
Le plateau –FRAC Ile de France
Ma vie est mon video-clip préféré, short, 2004
International Film Festival of Human Rights, Geneva 2006 - Young audience award
Clermont-Ferrand 2005 - Audience award
Rencontres du moyen-métrage – Brive 2005 - Special mention
Show-Chun Lee
Living in Paris since 1991, the Taiwanese director Show-Chun LEE studied firstly in Le Fresnoy, the national studio of contemporary arts, and then in EHESS as a PhD student in Paris.
Having worked as assistant of Tsai Ming-Liang and then alongside of Hou Hsiao- Hsien with Métro lumière, Show- Chun LEE
also gained fame in the world of modern art by her various practices of visual art (video installation and photography).
Show-Chun LEE is one of the first movie-makers to come out of the Chinese diaspora living in France and also one of the
first to have worked with and filmed, the Chinese Parisian community since 1997. In her first long feature film ShanghaiBelleville, Show-Chun LEE continues to explore the heart of Chinese illegal community through fiction.
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Works in Progress
When I Saw You
Palestine / Jordan 2011
Production Company: PHILISTINE FILMS
Director: Annemarie Jacir
Screenwriters: Annemarie Jacir
Cast: Ruba Blal, Mahmoud Asfa,
Ruba Shamshoum, Saleh Bakri
Producer: Ossama Bawardi
Co-producers: Danny Glover &
Joslyn Barnes - Louverture Films (USA)
Production Stage: Post production
Duration: 90 min
Looking For: Post production funds,
investments, distribution
SYNOPSIS
Contact Person:
Ossama Bawardi, producer
Philistine Films
T: +962 786172865
M: +962 786172865
[email protected]
www.whenisawyou.com
It’s the 1960s, the world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles and music, and an infectious
sense of hope. Tarek and his young mother are among the latest wave of Palestinian refugees to arrive in Jordan. With
difficulties adjusting to life in a refugee camp, Tarek searches for other ways out. Eventually his free spirit and curious nature
leads him to a group of people who will forever change his life.
When I Saw You is the story of two people in search of something more in their lives. A journey full of humour, love, and
adventure but most of all this is a story about that moment in a person’s life when he wakes up.
When I Saw You participated in the Crossroads Co-production Forum in 2008
Salt of this Sea, feature film, 2008
Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection
A Few Crumbs for the Birds, short, 2005
Venice Film Festival - Corto Cortissimo
Like Twenty Impossibles, short, 2003
Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection
Academy Awards
Annemarie Jacir
The Satellite Shooters, short, 2001
Chicago Film Festival
Annemarie Jacir is an internationally and critically acclaimed writer, director and producer living in Jordan. She has written
and directed 12 films including: Salt of this Sea (2008); An Explanation: (and then burn the ashes) (2005); A Few Crumbs for
the Birds (2005); Until When (2004); Like Twenty Impossibles (2003).
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Zincograph
Bulgaria 2011
Production Company: PERIPETEIA
Director: Emil Christov
Screenwriters: Vladislav Todorov
Cast: Irena Miliankova, Rushi Vidinliev, Svetlana
Yancheva, Rusi Chanev
Producers: Vladislav Todorov,
Bouriana Zakharieva
Co-producer: Nu Boyana Studios (Bulgaria)
Production Stage: Editing
Duration: 100 min
Budget: 950 000 euro
SYNOPSIS
Zincograph is a quirky political thriller. A self-styled secret agent engineers a fake political institution that replicates and
mocks the omnipotent system of the secret police. His mimicking of the untouchable system is diabolically comical. A bold
political con is launched by a seemingly ridiculous man. His creation becomes a Trojan horse in the apparatus of fear, causing
general chaos and making the system look like one stupendous lampoonery.
Zincograph was awarded at the Balkan Script Development Fund in 2009 and participated as a project in Cinelink Sarajevo
Film Festival, New Cinema Network Rome Film Festival. Cottbus Film Festival and L’Atelier Cannes Film Festival.
Contact Persons:
Vladislav Todorov, Bouriana Zakharieva,
producers
Peripeteia
T: +1 609 919 9165
M: +1 201 736 1991
[email protected]
www.peripeteiafilms.com
Director’s filmography as Director of Photography
The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, feature film, 2009 by Stefan Komandarev
Zurich Film Festival 2009 – Audience Award
Warsaw Film Festival 2009 – Special Jury Award
Sofia International Film Festival 2009 – Best Bulgarian Feature Film
Zift, feature film, 2008 by Javor Gardev
Moscow International Film Festival 2008 – Best Director
Mar de Plata International Film Festival 2008
Emil Christov
A leading Bulgarian cinematographer with more than 30 films to his credit, many of which with international recognition
Zift, The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, I, the Countess and others. Multiple times recipient of the
Bulgarian National Best Cinematography Award and Kodak Best Cinematography Award. The international press has defined
his cinematography in Zift as: “stylish”, “sleek”, “gorgeous”, “stunning”, and “unique”. Zincograph is his directorial debut.
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FILM MARKET
4-12 NOVEMBER 2011
The Film Market promotes the majority of the feature
films participating in the official sections of the 52nd
TIFF and the latest film productions from Central
Europe, the Mediterranean and the Balkans.
Also includes the previous films of Crossroads
participants, as well as a selection of Greek films
produced within the past two years.
Film
Market
Film Market
Martina and Peter, a married couple who are growing apart,
come to the Croatian coast to reconcile their differences and
recapture the closeness they once shared. However, they are
about to experience a vacation that is anything but quiet and
intimate. Instead, they are embroiled in tension, arguments
and emotional isolations, with Martina flirting with a handsome
tour guide, and Peter’s nerves increasingly on edge. All this turmoil ultimately draws them into a life-or-death situation.
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2 Sunny Days 80'
Ognjen SVILICIC, Croatia 2010
Insomnia World Sales
Luc Ntonga
+33 143 580 804
[email protected]
Market Films
In this artful blend of suspense and black comedy, a woman
who wants to find out the truth about the murder of her boyfriend
finds out more than she ever suspected. When Sean is found
dead after attending a particularly uninhibited party, his girlfriend
finds it hard to believe that his passing was entirely accidental,
and she begins doing some amateur detective work on the matter. In time, she discovers three minor-league public figures were
the last to see him alive. The deeper the woman digs into the
lives of these three, the more disturbed she becomes about the
strange and sordid society that they inhabit, and she’s drawn
into a dark netherworld of crime and corruption.
People of various backgrounds, with different life struggles,
come together to share one fate in the Third World. Love, death,
escape, and idealism, four stories creatively intertwined to bring
the mundane backdrops of Asia to life. Billy, a kleptomaniac,
finds himself falling for a security officer. Maria and her unwanted pregnancy, face a myriad choices. Rosa, a twelve year
old girl, finds a pen pal to fulfill her desire to experience a different part of the world. Two men sworn to protect each other,
instigate a plot, intending to serve the common good.
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3 Steps to Heaven 87’
Constantine GIANNARIS, UK 1995
Maya Vision Production, UK
Rebecca Dobbs
+44 20 7796 4842
[email protected]
Constantine Giannaris Tribute
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3rd World 88'
Vassilis BLIOUMIS, Philippines 2011
Vassilis Blioumis
+30 2310937617
[email protected]
Greek Films
Katherine and Andreas – ambitious and bourgeois, with a successful architectural firm of their own and two young kids. They
travel to a Greek island for the weekend where they plan to
close the biggest deal of their careers, the renovation of a luxury
resort. With the idyllic surroundings and the top suite awaiting
them, the scene is set for a perfect weekend.
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4Ever 73'
Giorgos PYRPASOPOULOS, Greece 2011
Peer Productions LTD
Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos
+30 210 760 0874
[email protected]
Greek Films
This is the second film adaptation of Orhan Kemal’s 72nd Ward,
which takes as its subject the lives of prison inmates in the
1940s, full of misery and pain. This new adaptation is produced
by actors Kerem Alışık and Yavuz Bingöl. The film describes the
world of people who have fallen down this deep hole, their
misery, pains, yearning for humanity, dreams, contradictions,
loves and fights over the struggle of resistance and life in the
darkness of a ward. 72nd Ward reflects the distress of people
confined within thick walls, contradicting with the outside
world.
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72nd Ward 104'
Mural SARACOGLU, Turkey 2011
Sasin Film
Asli Atasoy
+90 5332683798
[email protected]
Market Films
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The Acacia Trees 85’
Pablo GIORGELLI, Argentina-Spain 2011
Urban Distribution International, France
Frederic Corvez
+33 1 4870 4655
[email protected]
Open Horizons
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Adalbert’s Dream 101’
Gabriel ACHIM, Romania 2011
Green Film, Romania
Gabriel Achim
+40 31 712 3305
[email protected]
Film Market
Rubén is a lonely truck driver who, for years, has been covering the
same stretch of motorway between Asuncion and Buenos Aires,
carrying wood. Today’s journey, however, will be different. His boss
has arranged for him to have a passenger, Jacinta, who wants to
go to Buenos Aires, where, with the help of relatives, she hopes to
find work. Hacinta brings along her eight-month-old daughter,
Anahí. Chilly, introverted Rubén, might be able to ignore an adult,
but the little girl’s persistent gaze slowly eats away at his stoic
armor. With Anahí bridging the gap between driver and passenger,
Jacinta draws out information about Rubén’s past, gradually establishing a human connection they are both in need of.
Adalbert’s Dream is a black comedy based on a real story that
took place in a Romanian communist factory in the 80s. A work
accident is re-enacted, but the re-enacting becomes a new accident, as the worker playing the victim gets his hand cut as
well. The film is set in May 1986, the anniversary of the founding
of the Communist Party, and the day following a historic Champion’s League football win for Romania. The main character,
Iulica, is a technician whose life is turned upside down when
he has to show two propaganda films on worker safety at the
factory party.
Balkan Survey
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Alois Nebel 84’
Tomáš LUňáK, Czech Republic-Slovak Republic-Germany 2011
The Match Factory GmbH, Germany
Michael Weber
T. +49 221 539 7090
[email protected]
As the end of the summer of 1989 approaches, Alois Nebel, a train
dispatcher at a remote railway station on the Czech-Polish border,
starts to sink deeper and deeper into his memories. The shadows
and ghosts from his past start to become unbearable, and Alois is
admitted into a psychiatric ward, where he meets The Mute, a
man who clings onto an old photograph. Based on a graphic novel
trilogy, Alois Nebel uses the rotoscoping animation technique and
black and white photography to enhance the cloudy shades of
Alois’s psychological make-up.
271
Amnesty 83'
Bujar ALIMANI, Albania-France 2011
m-appeal
Aleksandra Abykova
+49 30 61 50 75 94
[email protected]
For the first time in Albania, a new law allows sexual intercourse
for married couples inside a prison in Tirana. Once a month,
Elsa takes a long bus trip to visit her husband behind bars.
Spetim shares this monthly event: his wife has been locked up
as well. Out of the prison walls, a secret love story between the
two visitors is born, until one day, the government votes for
amnesty.
Greek Films
388
Apartment in Athens 95'
Ruggero DIPAOLA, Italy 2011
L'Occhio e la Luna
Mariangela Colantoni
+39 06 85800842
[email protected]
Market Films
68
Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well off. With the
arrival of Captain Kalter, they become servants, with no identity
other than their acquiescence. Then, suddenly, absence. The
master leaves for Germany and the servants find out that freedom has no meaning and that the ordeal goes on. When Kalter
comes back, they feel relieved. He is a changed man: he’s kinder,
even indulgent. But it is a fragile balance. Underground currents
of hatred flow secretly and prepare a chilling revenge.
Film Market
In the South of Lebanon, you might find a strange object under
the ground, so strange that you lose your job and you lose yourself.
450
An Army of Ants 23'
Wissam CHARAF, France-Lebanon 2007
Aurora Films
Mylene Guichoux
+33 147 704 301
[email protected]
Crossroads Directors Previous Films
At the very moment, the precise instant, we fall in love, a particular music plays within us. For each of us it’s different and it
can occur when least expected…
436
The Art of Love 82'
Emmanuel MOURET, France 2011
Kinology
Gregoire Graesslin
+33 0951474344
[email protected]
Market Films
Scenes from everyday city life...
268
Athens Through the Mobile Eye 62'
Aggelos THEODOROPOULOS, Greece 2011
Aggelos Theodoropoulos
+30 210 382 8258
[email protected]
Greek Films
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents
new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen
deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this
adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with the fleeting Avé.
352
Avé 88’
Konstantin BOJANOV, Bulgaria 2011
Le Pacte, France
Arnaud Aubelle
+33 1 4469 5945
[email protected]
Balkan Survey
Three young sisters – Marina, Sofia and Violeta – try to get on
with their lives after the death of their grandmother, the woman
who raised them. Their home becomes the backdrop for the
emotions and conflicts caused by her absence. Their grief opens
new perspectives for them in life.
153
Back to Stay 98’
Milagros MUMENTHALER, Switzerland-Argentina 2011
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 7090
[email protected]
Open Horizons
69
142
Beast 83’
Christoffer BOE, Denmark 2011
Film Market
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly
undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir
inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because
when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power,
aggression and hatred, there is no turning back.
Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen ApS, Denmark
Caroline Schluter
+45 3391 9170
[email protected]
Open Horizons
106
Behold the Lamb 83’
John MCILDUFF, UK 2011
Media Luna, Germany
Alessandro Lombardo
+49 221 5109 1891
[email protected]
390
Beirut Hotel 99'
Danielle ARBID, France 2011
Films Distribution
Pamela Leu
+39 153 103 J11399
[email protected]
Liz lives in her car, along with her boyfriend Joe and his dog. When his
dad suddenly appears, Joe runs off. Liz is left alone with middle-aged
Eddie, whom she also has to drive to a village in Northern Ireland so
that he can pick up a... sheep. A junkie, Liz wants to visit her son, who
is being raised by foster parents, in order to give him his birthday
present. On his part, Eddie, a mild-mannered ex-accountant, has to
go against his nature in order to save his son. In this bittersweet road
movie, the two main characters make a temporary alliance on the
way to their redemption. Vulnerable, visibly flawed and traumatized,
they both reveal a deep humanism, whose dark roots John MacIlduff
carefully accentuates with strokes of humor and hope.
One evening in Beirut, Hind and Mathieu meet. She’s a young
Lebanese singer trying to free herself from her ex-husband’s
stranglehold. He’s a French lawyer there on business that will
be tracked down and suspected of spying. Over the course of
ten days, they will live a love story made of fear and desire, intrigue and violence. Chambres d’hotel is a love story on the
razor’s edge, a reflection of a country wavering between war
and peace, where everything at any moment can spin out of
control.
Market Films
425
Bellevile - Tokyo 75'
Elise GIRARD, France 2011
Luc Ntonga
+33 1435 80804
[email protected]
A couple is waiting in a station for a train to Venice. On the
platform, Julien tells Marie he’s leaving her to meet another
woman. He leaves her alone, pregnant with their child. Upset,
Marie refuses to be the victim. She finds comfort in her work
with her two “cowboy” bosses, Jean-Jacques and Jean-Loup,
who run an art house theater specializing in American classic
films. A few weeks later, Julien comes back and Marie agrees
to start over again.
Market Films
353
Best Intentions 105’
Adrian SITARU, Romania-Hungary 2011
Films Boutique, Germany
Gabor Greiner
+49 30 6953 7850
[email protected]
Balkan Survey
70
Alex, in his mid-thirties, is quite a neurotic character. When his
mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son’s life goes
off the rails. At the hospital, he finds himself in a burlesque
kind of human zoo, full of unexpected characters and surprising
events. Trying to manage the situation, he starts becoming a
hypochondriac. While his mother seems to have fully recovered,
Alex is making his own set of mistakes – albeit with the best
intentions.
Film Market
In a remote mountain village in the northwest of China, close
to a nuclear test zone, the poverty-stricken Xiaolin sells his
blood to pay his daughter’s school fees. Together with his wife
Xiaojuan, he tries to set up a business. At first that seems very
lucrative, but then fate strikes: it turns out that both Xiaolin
and Xiaojuan are infected with HIV, just like thousands of other
poor people, who illegally sell their blood to be able to buy
something as essential as water. Black Blood tells a small and
personal story against the background of an ecological disaster.
127
Black Blood 123’
Miaoyan ZHANG, China-France 2010
Arizona Films, France
Guillaume de Seille
+33 9 5452 5572
[email protected]
Open Horizons
A reconstruction of the tragic events that took place on Thursday
17 December 1970 in Gdynia. The film presents the true story
of a family of shipyard worker Brunon Drywa, who is shot by
the militia on his way to work. The film shows the street demonstrations of workers and the procession which was headed by
people who carried the body of the murdered Zbigniew
Godlewski on doors. The film also illustrates the brutal suppression of the demonstrators by the army divisions and militia,
as a result of which a total of 18 people were killed and hundreds
were injured.
415
Black Thursday 105’
Antoni KRAUZE, Poland 2011
Nordfilm
Kazimierz Beer
+48 695 221 999
[email protected]
Market Films
Felicia is a helper taking care of Anna who is confined to a
wheelchair after dementia. Enduring temperamental and unmanageable Anna, she seldom keeps contact with the outside
world other than through the nurse Michelle who visits occasionally. As the relationship with Anna changes, their time
changes, too.
456
Blank 71'
Cyril DE GASPERIS, France 2009
Les Films Sauvages
Jean-Christophe Soulageon
+33 1 4229 5504
[email protected]
The story is about the absurdity of life. Ion is a fisherman who
lives in one of the most drought-affected areas in Romania. His
wife, Maria, keeps pushing him to go out on the sea, although
she acknowledges just as much as her husband that they are
facing a dead end. Wishing to put an end to his bad luck, Ion
commits to work for a foreigner, unaware of the fact that he will
become involved in illegal activities.
354
Bora Bora 32'
Bogdan MIRICA, Romania 2011
Mediapro Distribution
Claudia Stavrositu
+4 0318 256 011
[email protected]
Balkan Survey (Short)
In this action comedy set in Greece, two German contractors
are hired to dig up a treasure for their employer. Things go
wrong when the treasure accidentally ends up in the hands of
three small-time crooks, Babis, Jimmy and Spooky, who ran
into them while committing a robbery to pay off a debt to
Munir, a local crime lord. The three friends use their connection
with an underground informer to trade the treasure for cash.
What they don’t know is that they’re being pursued by the Germans and Munir’s thugs.
264
Breakdown Reward 120'
Elias GEORGOPOULOS, Greece 2011
Elias Georgopoulos
+44 794 6263 036
[email protected]
Greek Films
71
138
Buddha Mountain 105’
Li YU, China 2010
Laurel Films, Japan
Shirley Huang
+86 10 6551 4366
[email protected]
Open Horizons
274
Burning Heads 100'
George SIOUGAS, Greece 2011
CL Productions
Costas Lambropoulos
+30 210 641 2700
[email protected]
Film Market
Three friends, Ding Bo, Nan Feng, and Fei Zao have finished school
but have gone against parental pressure, refusing to take their
university entrance exams. This results in parental disapproval and
family strife. Eager to start their own lives, they decide to leave
their parents’ homes, and look for work in another city. The friends
arrive in Chengdu and rent rooms in the home of the former Peking
Opera singer, Chang Yue Qin. Past secrets in Master Chang’s life are
uncovered by the three friends, and are a catalyst to unexpected
events and personal growth. These events lead to an increased
understanding between the four, ultimately offering the possibility
of acceptance and movement toward individual destinies.
The tragic story of three characters – Rina and her two sons,
Antonis and Lefteris. Having emigrated years ago to Greece
from Tbilisi, Antonis, ambitious and eager to climb the social
ladder and turn his back on his roots, is involved with a welloff Greek girl, whom he’s preparing to marry. Lefteris, on the
other hand, refuses to live for today, remains weak and naïve,
while his behavior grows stranger and stranger. One day, Antonis
visits his mother and brother in order to announce his upcoming
nuptials, but his visit stirs up family dynamics and deep-seated
problems haunting all three of them.
Greek Films
458
The Canal 15’
The Roma boy Vejsil wakes up in a poor Roma settlement, puts
on his best clothes and goes out to enroll in school. But the
road to the school is full of obstacles.
Zoran SUDAR, Croatia 2010
Propeler Films, Croatia
Zoran Sudar
+01 4829 477
[email protected]
287
Caught Looking 35’
Rebecca Dobbs
+44 20 7796 4842
[email protected]
A man attempts to wander through the labyrinth of desire
through a virtual reality program on his computer. From public
rest rooms and 50s sports fantasies to 80s clones and sailors in
dark alleys, the entire alphabet of gay erotic fantasies unfolds
on the screen. But what place does desire have in this brave
new virtual world?
258
The City of Children 96’
Yorgos GIKAPEPPAS, Greece 2011
Yorgos Gikapeppas
+30 6976 510 250
[email protected]
Greek Films
72
A film in multiple parts about the arrival of children, as seen
through the stories of four different couples, just when a pregnancy
comes along and conflicts with their lives. A marital crisis becomes
a family tragedy; a mad man’s gun forces a young couple to reconsider a premature pregnancy; a long struggle of in-vitro fertilizations brings together and forces apart two sterile women who
have shared the same man; and a young Iraqi immigrant, all alone
in her apartment, is forced to give birth to her child with the help
of her Greek stalker and next door neighbor. The stories unfold
within a day and collide in a violent and fatal incident. A film about
the children and the games of fate in Athens, a city in crisis.
Film Market
The story of the Vienna years in the life of Jakub Frank, who
came to Poland in the second half of the 18th century and proclaimed himself the messiah. Taking advantage of the apocalyptic sentiments of the Jewish community and some of the
Church hierarchy, he had several hundreds of his believers convert to Catholicism.
430
Daas 90'
Adrian SITARU, Poland 2011
Argomedia
Lambros Ziotas
+48 713 373 738
[email protected]
Market Films
A girl talks her boyfriend and her sister into traveling to the
Lika backwoods. Their father, who abandoned the family years
ago, lives there. Having found out that he is ill, this is the daughter’s last chance to have a talk with her father about everything
that happened in the past. In the isolated horizons of Lika, the,
once deeply hidden, dark family secrets start being revealed...
373
Daddy 70'
Dalibor MATANIC, Croatia 2011
Kinorama
Ankica Juric Tilic
+385 1 2316787
[email protected]
Market Films
The film poetically traces the solitary existence of three sisters
living in the traditional central western region of Iran, where
the occasional traveling salesman serves as a distraction from
the general monotony.
152
Daughter...Father...Daughter 70’
Panahbarkhoda REZAEE, Iran 2011
DreamLab Films, France
Nasrine Medard de Chardon
+33 4 9338 7561
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Scenes from Pasolini’s films are intercut with interviews of
people who worked with him and knew him, talking about the
man and his work. An homage to the cinema and life of a director who was a major influence on Giannaris.
283
A Desperate Vitality – The Films
by Pier Paolo Pasolini 20’
Constantine Giannaris
[email protected]
The film tells the story of the younger years of two characters
we met in Masumiyet (Innocence, 1997), the director’s second
film. Bekir falls in love with Ugur. Ugur is in love with Zagor,
who can’t seem to stay away from trouble. Zagor is arrested for
the murder of two police officers. This gives some hope to Bekir,
but it turns out to be the beginning of an incurable illness in
the pursuit of merciless love that will last for years. As Bekir
doggedly follows Ugur in run-down hotels, marijuana parties
and seedy nightclubs, love grows with pain, poverty, tears and
evil.
453
Destiny 103’
Zeki DEMIRKUBUZ, Turkey 2006
Mavi Film, Turkey
+90 212 252 8320
[email protected]
73
148
Dirty Diaries –
12 Shorts of Feminist Porn 96’
VARIUS, Sweden 2009
Coproduction Office
Olimpia Pont Chafer
[email protected]
+33 1 5602 6000
Open Horizons
285
Disco’s Revenge 24’
Fulcrum TV Productions, UK
+44 20 3326 6999
www.fulcrumtv.com
Film Market
Dirty Diaries is a collection of twelve short pornographic films,
produced by Mia Engberg and shot by a number of feminist directors. Each one tells a story or presents the act of sex through
different modalities (even animation) and different points of
view. Often shot on mobile phone cameras, these films explore
diverse ideas about the role of feminist sexual acts. All of them
are intended to contrast the assumption that pornography is
made by men, for men, and therefore has to satisfy male viewers.
Dirty Diaries is an assertion that women in pornography need
not be exploited and are just as capable as men of expressing
their own sexuality and their own pleasure.
Put on your dancing shoes! A documentary about the roots,
the tradition and the impact of disco music; about its “gay gene”
and the fever it brought onto the dance floor; and about the
way it got its revenge, by inspiring the music of the present
and winning the acclaim it deserved.
(segment of Out on Tuesday, a series shot for Channel Four)
399
The Ditch 109’
Bing WANG, Hong Kong-France-Belgium 2010
Wild Bunch
Esther Devos
+33 153015032
[email protected]
Market Films
105
Donkeys 93’
Odin SALAZAR FLORES, Mexico 2011
Burros Films, Mexico
Odin Salazar Flores
+52 55 5669 0537
[email protected]
198
Don’t Be Afraid 90’
Montxo ARMENDáRIZ, Spain 2011
Funny Balloons
Louis Balsan
[email protected]
+33 1 4013 0585
Open Horizons (Special Screening)
74
In the late 1950s, the Chinese government condemned thousands of citizens – considered “right wing dissidents” due their
past activities, their criticism of the Communist Party or simply
their middle-class backgrounds and families – to forced labor
camps. Deported for re-education to the northwest of the country, in the middle of the Gobi Desert, thousands of miles from
their families, they encountered conditions of absolute destitution. As a result of backbreaking physical labor, an unrelentingly extreme climate and the most meager of provisions, many
of them perished. The film recounts their fate – an unflinching
account of the very extremes of the human condition.
People tend to forget that donkeys, apart from being stubborn
and hard-working, are also characterized by their invaluable ability
to carry other people’s burdens. Lautaro is a young boy growing
up in the inner Guerero State of Mexico during the 40s. Upon his
father’s murder, his mother decides to send him away to live with
his aunt, lest the murderers decide to do the same to her son.
While Lautaro is sad about being away from his family, he makes
an exciting new discovery, as he is introduced for the first time to
the world of the spirits. Donkeys follow Lautaro in his abrupt coming-of-age journey, as he is forced to carry an inherited responsibility.
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is
hardly twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face people,
feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her
fight against adversity and against herself, she will learn to
control her fears and become an adult, responsible for her own
actions.
Film Market
Athens-Barcelona. Two cities... Two love stories... Two languages... Two realities... Two couples that will never cross paths...
...or is it all one ?
Two love stories upside down. Two seemingly unrelated tales,
with one entering into the other and becoming one. How did
everything start? Where did the love go? How will everything
end? What happens next? A time puzzle that doesn’t want to
be solved; that only wants to describe the emotional route of
four different persons and love them all at the end, regardless
of their actions. Because everyone loves and everyone makes
mistakes. Each one in his own way.
Three drama students, influenced by a charismatic professor
and French theorist Antonin Artaud’s acting technique, begin
to experiment with their own lives, searching for real emotions
and situations to bring onto the stage. Their obsession with
becoming better actors leads them to their darkest sides, surpassing boundaries that neither they nor their teachers could
ever imagine.
279
DOS: A Love Story in Reverse… 96'
Stathis ATHANASIOU, Greece 2011
Yvone Roman
+30 210 3615 955
[email protected]
Greek Films
123
Drama 75’
Matías LIRA, Chile 2011
BF Distribution, Chile
Matías Lira
+56 992 233 185
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Visibly –and effectively– taking its cue from the Romanian New
Wave in its aesthetic and philosophical approach to its subject,
the film follows teenage Vacek and his mother on a day’s bureaucratic journey. It is 1987 in communist Czechoslovakia and
they are trying to obtain permissions for relocation to the UK,
where his father lives. The day is spent in and out of offices, running errands, getting documents stamped; often, Vacek, whose
viewpoint informs the film, waits, doing nothing but observing
the various minutiae of daily life. The interminable monotony
of these procedures is interrupted by the letters his mother writes
to his father.
In the remote north of Iceland in the 1980s, Finnbogi and Alfred
spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads that
stretch out to the horizon. Soon the barren wilderness becomes
a place of adventure, disaster and discovery, as both men find
themselves at crossroads in their lives.
100
Eighty Letters 75’
Václav KADRNKA, Czech Republic 2011
Alice Tabery
+420 732 883 260
[email protected]
154
Either Way 80’
Hafsteinn Gunnar SIGURðSSON, Iceland 2011
Mystery Island
David Olafsson
+354 696 7642
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Elena and Vladimir are an older couple, each one from a different
social background. Vladimir is a wealthy and cold man; Elena comes
from a modest milieu and is a docile wife. They met late in life and
they both have children from previous marriages. Elena’s son is unemployed, unable to support his own family and constantly asking
Elena for money. Vladimir’s daughter is an indifferent young woman
who has a distant relationship with her father. A heart attack puts
Vladimir in the hospital, where he realizes that his remaining time is
limited. A brief but somewhat tender reunion with his daughter
leads him to make an important decision: she will be the only one to
inherit his money.
160
Elena 109’
Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV, Russia 2011
Pyramide International, France
+33 1 4296 0220
[email protected]
75
397
The End 78'
Hicham LASRI, Morocco 2011
Film Market
June 1999. This film is a fable about Mikha, a parking guard in
Casablanca, who falls in love with Rita, the psychologically
fragile sister in a family of car thieves and how it will all try to
make their love story succeed...
Luc Ntonga
+33 143 580 804
[email protected]
Market Films
360
The Enemy109’
Dejan ZEČEVIć, Serbia-Bosnia & Herzegovina-Croatia-Hungary 2011
Insomnia World Sales, France
Luc Ntonga
+33 1 4358 0804
[email protected]
Bosnia, 1995, the seventh day of peace: an engineering unit is
removing mines from the border between the two sides who,
until recently, were at war. Each of the soldiers is burdened
with experiences from the front line; each is facing his fears in
his own way. Some are prone to self-destruction, some are
happy to be alive, others take refuge in prayer... Suddenly, in
the ruins of a destroyed factory, they discover a walled-in basement – and in it a man, who quietly sits behind a desk, next to
an ashtray filled with cigarette butts, as if he were actually
waiting for them. Pandora’s Box is about to be opened...
Balkan Survey
253
F.L.S. 76’
Thanos TSAVLIS, Greece 2011
In the near future, a man with nothing to lose joins the F.L.S.
tournament, where killers from all over the world fight for
money and glory. Now, against all odds, he must win what
might prove to be the last fight of his life.
Thanos Tsavlis
+30 69 45 955 854
[email protected]
Greek Films
449
Falafel 83'
Michel KAMMOUN, Lebanon 2006
Roy Films SARL
Michel Kammoun
+96 134 77081
[email protected]
A night in the life of Toufic, a young Lebanese man, and his
nocturnal rides. Between his family, friends and love affairs,
he tries to seize every day of his existence. Each second is the
most important. Soon, he discovers that having a normal life
in this country is a luxury out of his reach. Fifteen years after
the war has ended, a volcano lies on every street corner, like a
ticking bomb that is ready to explode.
157
Faust 134’
Alexander SOKUROV, Russia 2011
Valeska Neu
+49 30 6953 7850
[email protected]
76
Sokurov’s Faust is not a film adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy in the
usual sense, but a reading of what remains between the lines.
What is the color of a world that gives rise to colossal ideas? What
does it smell like? It is stuffy in Faust’s world: earthshaking plans
are born in the cramped space where he scurries about. He is a
thinker, a mouthpiece for ideas, a transmitter of words, a schemer,
a daydreamer. An anonymous man driven by simple instincts:
hunger, greed, lust. An unhappy, hounded creature that issues a
challenge to Goethe’s Faust. Why stay in the moment if one can
go further? Further and further, pressing forward – not noticing
that time stands still. And we shall pass, too.
Film Market
Finisterrae tells the story of two ghosts who are tired of living
in the land of shadows and decide to walk the Way of Saint
James (Camino de Santiago) to the end of the world and, once
there, to begin a mortal life in the land of the living. It is an introspective journey through inhospitable landscapes, during
which they meet strange beings, wild animals and surreal characters. They must deal with unexpected situations, face their
own tensions and consider the doubts arising from the fact
that they are ghosts.
122
Finisterrae 80’
Sergio CABALLERO, Spain 2010
Film Sharks, Argentina
Guido Rud
+54 11 6380 3803
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Judith decides to go on her own to the salsa-dancing night, even
though her boyfriend, with whom she goes there every week, can’t
accompany her. A stranger, with whom she briefly dances, offers to
walk her home. Next morning, upon returning home, Judith refuses
at first to accept that she’s a rape victim, but in the end decides to go
to a doctor and press charges - which prove inadequate to have the
rapist convicted. Under the influence of sweeping bodily and mainly
psychological oscillations, Judith decides she has to follow an unorthodox path in order to prove the perpetrator’s guilt. Brigitte Maria
Bertele, steering away from clichés, methodically turns up the heat
that burns inside Judith, to fearlessly reveal her psyche.
Andy, a hard working Cypriot immigrant in London who deepfries his way into oblivion, decides to leave London for his native
Cyprus. Having slaved away for others his entire life, he finally
opens his very own chip shop. But his dream turns into a nightmare, as he seems to have overlooked one small detail: Cyprus
just isn‘t London!
110
The Fire 97’
Brigitte Maria BERTELE, Germany 2011
Filmsyndikat, Germany
Hartwig Konig
+49 172 762 3296
[email protected]
272
Fish & Chips 101'
Elias DEMETRIOU, Cyprus 2011
PAN Entertainment
Maria Drandaki
+30 210 698 5050
[email protected]
Greek Films
13-year-old Yoni lives in a small coastal town with his mother and
father. To all appearances, they are an ordinary family; in reality,
their secrets are causing them to split at the seams. Miri, a preschool
teacher, is having an affair; Gidi, her husband, a crop-dusting pilot,
was caught stoned and is not allowed to fly. Yoni, frazzled over his
upcoming Bar Mitzvah, is dealing with bullies and mockery over
his slight physique. When the couple’s autistic son returns home
after the institution he lived in closes, he unwittingly becomes the
catalytic force that causes the family to implode. The Flood is
marked by the exceptional, nuanced and remarkably mature performance of young Yoav Rotman.
Anahita, a young woman from Tehran’s high society, is sent to
Paris by her parents to protect her from the political violence in
Iran. In Paris, she falls in love with Gecko, the bellhop at her
hotel. Through the encounter of these two young people, the
film explores the power of social networks and the Internet
vis-à-vis political contestation and people’s private revolutions.
102
The Flood 101’
Guy NATTIV, Israel-Canada-Germany-France 2010
6 Sales
Marina Fuentes
+34 91 636 10 54
[email protected]
139
Flowers of Evil 98’
David DUSA, France 2010
Sciapode, France
Emilie Blezat
+33 6 8164 8590
[email protected]
Open Horizons
77
133
Flying Fish 124’
Sanjeewa PUSHPAKUMARA, Sri Lanka 2010
Asia Digital Entertainment, Sapushpa Expressions Ltd.
Pushpakumara Sanjeewa
+82 10 8050 4083
[email protected]
Open Horizons
361
The Forgiveness of Blood 108’
Joshua MARSTON, USA-Albania-Denmark-Italy 2010
Portobello Pictures
Kristin Irving
+44 20 7605 1396
[email protected]
Film Market
Shot against the backdrop of a seemingly idyllic village, the film
conveys the catastrophic consequences of Sri Lanka’s civil war, without
ever showing a military clash. The film follows three intertwined
stories of forbidden love and ethnic tension. Wasana, a young village
girl, falls in love with a 25-year-old soldier and becomes pregnant.
When the soldier abandons her, Wasana and her father are left to
deal with the disgrace. A widow raising eight children begins a love
affair with a fellow villager. When her teenage son sees them making
love, the consequences will be devastating. A 13-year-old girl is harassed at school by Tamil Tiger guerillas. One night, the Tamil forces
break into the girl’s house and demand a huge ransom for her.
The lives of a teenage boy, Nik, and his younger sister Rudina
are thrown into turmoil after a killing draws their Albanian
family into a blood feud. This ancient custom forces Nik into
house arrest along with the other male members of his family,
suddenly derailing his future. The family becomes dependent
on 15-year-old Rudina, who unexpectedly finds herself tasked
with helping them earn a living. Meanwhile, Nik’s frustration
and anger threaten to overwhelm him. In his desperation, he
concocts a plan to end his confinement – a plan that may cost
him his life.
Balkan Survey (Special Screening)
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Free All Around 88'
Spyros VRETTOS, Greece 2011
Spyros Vrettos
+30 210 6893 421
[email protected]
The film refers to the limits that exist in the meaning of the
word “freedom”. The plot develops as two separate stories that
unfold parallel to each other. At a certain point – at the climax
of the film – the two stories cross.
At that moment the protagonists of each story seem unable to
continue their story and find an acceptable ending. Just then,
some sort of an “osmosis” happens and the protagonists of each
story help the protagonists of the other story to find their
desired ending to their story.
Greek Films
417
Free Hands 100'
Brigitte SY, France 2010
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 306 953 7850
[email protected]
Barbara is a filmmaker who has been working within the prison
system for several years. She is making a film that is being both
written and performed by long-term inmates of a prison in a
Paris suburb. Barbara visits the prison twice a week, where she
is conducting a series of interviews with the inmates that will
form the basis of the screenplay. But when Barbara meets
Michel, one of the prisoners, their love affair leads her to break
the law.
Market Films
256
Girl with Big Eyes 85’
Alexis TSAFAS, Greece-Cape Verde 2010
Criola
Alexis Tsafas
+30 6974 115 187
[email protected]
Greek Films
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The film’s title, Girl with Big Eyes, is based on a free adaptation
of the popular fairy tale by the same name from Cape Verde. A
creole girl returns from Europe to her homeland due to the sudden death of her father. There, she will come up against the
harsh reality of an African country and the ghosts of her past:
the absence of her European mother, cohabiting with her stepmother, the onset of puberty.
Film Market
Meet six lunatic friends: Lali, a great fan of America, owns
a sandwich stand on the roadside, called The Glass Tiger. Gaben
steals cars; Fox is a petty swindler; Sanyi’s a halfwit homeless
person; Coco can’t shut up and Slimmy keeps playing the saxophone and getting on the others’ nerves. Now, new characters
appear: three great chicks and a lawyer. The story speeds up
and they (and you) are in for the ride of their lives.
393
Glasstiger 3 108'
Peter RUDOLF, Hungary 2010
+36 1 3914800
[email protected]
Market Films
In the desperate situation in today’s Iran, a young female lawyer,
whose professional license has been revoked, is several months
pregnant. She lives alone, for her journalist husband is obliged
to live in hiding. Pursued by the authorities, almost a stranger
in her own country, she decides to flee...
159
Goodbye 104’
Mohammad RASOULOF, Iran 2011
Fortissimo Films, The Netherlands
Nelleke Driessen
+31 20 627 3215
[email protected]
Paris, winter 1999. Camille is 15, Sullivan is 19. Although they love
each other, Sullivan wants to travel through South America for a year
– a plan that fills Camille with despair. At the end of the summer, Sullivan leaves and a few months later he stops writing to Camille. In the
spring, Camille attempts suicide. 2003. Camille is fully devoted to her
architectural studies. She meets a well-known architect, Lorenz, who
helps her believe in herself once again. She falls in love with him.
2007. Camille and Lorenz form a solid couple. Camille is his assistant,
but she will soon be ready to start her own agency. It is then that Sullivan once more crosses her path. Despite an awkward and cold first
encounter, they meet again, picking things up where they left off.
A non-Jewish girl (Sveta), who is converting Judaism, comes
to visit a traditional Jewish family in Jerusalem before the Sabbath – the holy day of the week. Will she make it and will she
stay alive?
146
Goodbye, First Love 110’
Mia HANSEN-LøVE, France-Germany 2011
Films Distribution, France
Francois Yon
+33 1 5310 3399
[email protected]
Open Horizons
375
Goya 70'
Nikita FELDMAN, Israel 2011
Doron Studio Effects
Nikita Feldman
+972 547896098
[email protected]
Market Films
In the Catholic tradition, alive in southern Italy, the faithful
who see their prayers answered thank the Saints with an act of
mortification. In Sardinia, behind the scents and colors of a
sunburned summer, Antoneddu, a 10-year-old boy, walks on
the roads and trails of this magical world to fulfill his act of
mortification: to reach, barefoot, the church of the saint who
“saved his life, embracing him in saving grace (Sa Grascia)”. A
miracle, a saint, a grandmother who prays, a funeral procession,
Antonio falling down the stairs, a ball, an apple, is it a dream
or reality?
407
The Grace 70'
Bonifacio ANGIUS, Italy 2010
Intramovies
Jef Nuyts
+39 0680 76157
[email protected]
Market Films
79
441
The Greatest Czechs 96'
Robert SEDLACEK, Czech Republic 2010
Produkce Radim Prochazka
Radim Prochazka
+42 022 221 2041
[email protected]
Film Market
A film crew on the road: a Director, his Producer, their Director
of Photography and their Sound Engineer. Starving artists who
already have a number of films to their names, Czech Lion
award-winning films, excellent reviews and success at numerous
festivals, but they don’t have audiences. Their next collaborative
effort is at risk because the Director has failed to win a grant.
And so they await their chance among record holders of curious
disciplines, such as crawling with a squash racquet or collecting
four-leaf clovers. How will the collision of these two worlds
end?
Market Films
128
Gromozeka 104’
Vladimir KOTT, Russia 2011
TVINDIE, Russia
Yevgeny Gindilis
+7 495 623 0432
[email protected]
In present day Moscow, three childhood friends in their forties
– formerly members of their school band – live their everyday
lives. They have lost track of each other. Three stories of betrayal,
love and coming to terms with aging are told in parallel. In
fact, unbeknownst to our heroes, their paths cross and their
lives become connected. But they are not aware of it, even
when they reunite for a performance on the anniversary of
their graduation.
Open Horizons
150
Guilty 101’
Vincent GARENQ, France 2011
Films Distribution, France
Francois Yon
+33 1 5310 3399
[email protected]
The true story of Alain Marécaux and his wife, heartlessly
crushed by one of the major miscarriages of justice of our time,
the Outreau case. They were arrested in 2001 along with 12
other people for horrible acts of paedophilia they never committed. They will face the descent into hell, victims of an incredibly unjust and inhuman judicial system.
Open Horizons
136
Gypsy 107’
Martin ŠULíK, Slovak Republic-Czech Republic 2011
MK2
Victoire Thevenin
+33 1 4467 3030
[email protected]
Open Horizons
277
Hannibal Ante Portes 104'
Elissavet CHRONOPOULOU, Greece 2011
CL Productions
Costas Lambropoulos
+30 6972 253 957
[email protected]
Greek Films
80
For 14-year-old Adam, the world of his poor Romany village has only
two joys: boxing and Julka, a friend his age. But after the violent death
of his father, the boy experiences life’s harsher side: his mother remarries
and his stepfather demands obedience without trying to win Adam’s
respect. Gradually, everything the boy was attached to begins to fall
apart around him, and if his dead father hadn’t visited him, Adam
wouldn’t know which path to follow. The inexperience of youth, loneliness and impulsiveness prevent him from using reason and cool consideration to face the obstacles in his way, and he sometimes ends up
provoking those who stand by him. As a result, he will find himself in
a situation from which there is only one way out.
Are talent, honesty and hard work, enough for a “happy end”
in real life? An eighteen-year-old girl, who has grown up around
horses but not on them, tries to chase a crazy dream that lies
far beyond, not her ability, but a forbidding social environment.
In filing her claim to become a show jumping champion, she
won’t hesitate to use all means, even morally questionable
ones. A success story that doesn’t come off…
Film Market
Happy End is a fairytale for adults, about five people who are
standing at a crossroad that will forever change their lives.
Jonna, Peter, Katrine, Asger and Mårten are all people with important connections to one another. Yet they avoid being truthful. They are all living in a world of shadows, made of lies and
falsities and are only waiting for the truth to emerge so that
they may be able to continue their lives in another direction.
147
Happy End 97’
Björn RUNGE, Sweden 2011
TrustNordisk, Denmark
Silje Glimsdal
+45 3686 8708
[email protected]
Open Horizons
In 1969 Athens, a 10-year-old boy struggles to come to terms
with the sudden death of his father.
448
Hard Goodbyes: My Father 108'
Penny PANAYOTOPOULOU, Greece-Germany 2002
Greek Film Center
Iliana Zakopoulou
+30 210 367 8506
[email protected]
The deadly hostility of the Sunni, one of the two largest sects
of Islam, against the Alewi sect, goes back thousands of years.
The Alewis mostly live hiding their identities, in regions where
they do not comprise the majority. In 1980, Anatolia witnessed
new Alewi massacres. The most important one of these massacres occurred in 1980 in the city of Çorum. Our story is the
tragedy of the family members who flee from this massacre,
introduce themselves as Sunnis and settle as tenants in an
apartment on a floor that is below the apartment of a Sunni
family.
414
Hidden Lives 98'
Hakul UNAL, Turkey 2010
Drama Istanbul Film
Ozlem Tatlican
+90 5333 155 985
[email protected]
Market Films
A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way
into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina
daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who
lives with his parents, doesn’t yet know the consequences that
this story will have on his existence...
438
His Mother's Eyes 115'
Thierry KLIFA, France 2011
Kinology
Gregoire Graesslin
+33 095 1474 344
[email protected]
Market Films
Delia is 88 years old; she has a husband twenty years her junior
and has spent her life traveling around the world, ever since
she emigrated from Italy to France when she was only six
months old. Having come back for love, in the 60s she starts
working in the textile industry. Soon, her products start filling
the shelves of European department stores, procuring her huge
profits and making her one of the first female entrepreneurs of
the prêt-à-porter world. But Delia wants more, and throws herself into high fashion, without understanding that perhaps the
time has come even for her to stop.
466
Hit The Road Granny 64’
Duccio CHIARINI, Italy 2011
Mood Film
Tommaso Arrighi
+39 062419073
[email protected]
81
451
Hizz Ya Wizz 26’
Film Market
Ali is assistant to a sport photographer. He’s in love with a young
girl he saw at a horse show. Not knowing how to seduce her,
he asks his sister for advice. Wissam CHARAF, France-Lebanon 2004
Aurora Films
Mylene Guichoux
+33 1477 04301
[email protected]
418
Holidays by the Sea 102’
Pascal RABATE, France 2011
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 3069 53 7850
[email protected]
No matter if you’re a punk, a pensioner, a family man, a nudist
or an umbrella salesman! No matter how you get there – thumb
a ride, rev up your convertible, or slam your foot on the gas in
a bubble car – it’s time to head for the Atlantic Ocean! Sample
the delights of life on the coast: enjoy golf, fly a kite, break out
the Scrabble, or learn to draw. How about some fruity wifeswapping or floral S&M? It’s time to meet new people! And if
all of this doesn’t make much sense, just remember one thing:
“Holidays by the sea are groovy!”
Market Films
101
The House 97’
Zuzana LIOVá, Slovak Republic-Czech Republic 2011
Fog'n'Desire, Czech Republic
John Riley
+420 606 659 725
[email protected]
134
If Not Us, Who? 124’
Andres VEIEL, Germany 2011
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 7090
[email protected]
Open Horizons
452
In the Woods 97’
Angelos FRANTZIS, Greece 2010
Argonauts Productions
Maria Tsigka
+30 2108257177
[email protected]
82
Beautiful and melancholy Eva lives in a rural part of the Czech Republic
from which she achingly longs to flee when she graduates high school.
Her authoritarian and conservative – not for lack of a good heart –
father, however, plans to keep her there by building her a house next
to the family residence; he sees it as a home and she as a prison. Eva
works odd jobs to save money for a ticket to London and gets involved
with a married man. Ηer rebellions, an archetypal part of growing up,
also constitute a reaction to the parent who denies her the world.
Centering on the father-daughter relationship and its traditional conundrums, Houseis a straightforward, naturalistic family drama, where
every element occupies its proper place flawlessly.
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun
Ensslin begin a passionate love affair in the stifling atmosphere of
provincial West Germany. The fiery couple lash out at the denial regarding their fathers’roles in Hitler’s Third Reich. Bernward and Gudrun
found a publishing house for controversial political works and become
part of the spreading global uprising “If not us, who; If not now,
when?” But discontentment with the world takes its toll on their tumultuous relationship. By the late 60s, Gudrun has joined rebellious
Andreas Baader’s pro-violence cause and Bernward risks his sanity by
using psychedelic drugs in his struggle to finally write the novel committed to changing the world...
Two boys and a girl, archetypes on a paganistic journey in
which nature guides the senses and emotions. Minimal dialogue, silence, sounds. Fear, freedom, instinct, desire, pansexuality and always the feeling that something’s looking down
from above. Filmed using the video function of a digital photographic camera, imbued with the uncanny and packed with
intense hues and violent forms, In the Woods is an existential
fairytale red in tooth and claw. A film as elemental as stone,
as water or the sky.
Film Market
Saturday, 26 April 1986. A reactor tower has exploded in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The Communist Party leadership remains
silent. But Valery Kabysh, a one-time percussionist and now a young,
loyal Party official, observes the panic of those in charge and realizes
that every second counts. This is the story of his failed escape. Valery
tries to leave the city with his girlfriend and his musician friends –
but life simply won’t let him. In this carefree weekend bustle, every
attempt to flee is doomed. A wedding calls for music till the very
end. Vera has to sing, the musicians have to play, and Valery has to
take over for the drunken drummer. Even when Valery’s band knows
what is really going on, they continue to celebrate.
Three years in the life of Aharon Kleinfeld, the boy who stopped
growing. Perhaps he is afraid of growing up and becoming like
his crude parents, or maybe he is just a late bloomer, in need of
a little more time. But nobody has the time to wait.
132
Innocent Saturday 99’
Alexander MINDADZE, Russia-Germany-Ukraine 2011
Bavaria Media GmbH, Germany
Gisela Wiltschek
+49 89 6499 2687
[email protected]
Open Horizons
419
Intimate Grammar 110
Nir BERGMAN, France 2010
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 3069537850
[email protected]
Market Films
Lily is an outspoken left-wing activist, Nira a reserved television editor.
Both are outwardly independent and strong women. Lily is married
with two grown children. Nira is a single mother who isn’t interested
in a man being a part of her life. Twenty years earlier they both experienced a trauma so severe, they had to suppress the ordeal to be able
to survive. A fleeting moment unites them and the two women join
forces to confront the past, realizing how this tragedy has deeply affected their lives and relationships. Now they must bridge the gap
between the women they once were and the women they have become. They must either continue to push the pain in or confront the
cracks in their lives. It’s time to heal and move on.
Sixteen-year-old Iris is living the last years of her adolescence
in a small provincial town when she accidentally meets Jean, a
forty-year-old Parisian photographer. As they get to know each
other, their relationship evolves into a love friendship that profoundly transforms their lives.
120
Invisible 90’
Michal AVIAD, Israel 2011
WestEnd Films, UK
Eve Schoukroun
+44 207 494 8300
[email protected]
Open Horizons
416
Iris in Bloom 75'
Valerie MREJEN, Bertrand SHEFER, France 2010
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 3069537850
[email protected]
Market Films
Sophie and Daneel, both in their early thirties, are a close and
passionate couple living in Paris. Sophie initiates a surprise journey
to Bulgaria. Daneel explicitly refuses to go, but Sophie insists and
finally convinces him to leave. When they arrive, Sophie discovers
that Daneel was actually born there. After a few hours spent on
the crowded beaches, Daneel leads Sophie to an almost abandoned island somewhere in the Black Sea. Once there, Daneel
discovers pregnancy tests in Sophie’s luggage. The heat and the
strange few inhabitants soon alter their own behaviors, and the
island slowly reveals hidden fears that question their love. To get
through it all, they have to take a leap into the unknown...
362
The Island 108’
Kamen KALEV, Bulgaria-Sweden 2011
Le Pacte, France
+33 1 4469 5959
[email protected]
Balkan Survey
83
459
The Island the True Story 52'
Thodoris PAPADOULAKIS, Greece 2011
Teletypos
Petros Boutos
+30 2106903200
[email protected]
108
J.A.C.E. 153’
Menelaos KARAMAGHIOLIS, Greece-Portugal-Turkey-FYROMThe Netherlands 2011
Pausilypon Films, Greece
Cossovitsa Fenia
+30 210 8846 101
[email protected]
278
Jerks 76'
Stelios KAMMITSIS, Greece-Cyprus 2011
ASTOR Films
Stelios Kammitsis
+30 6934 326 843
[email protected]
Film Market
Exile, death, social exclusion, rejection. Words associated with
the island of Spinalonga for decades. Doctors, sociologists, historians, people who came close to patients with Hansen’s disease, but also patients themselves who lived in Spinalonga talk
about this ancient disease. They speak of the deformity it caused,
about the way it is transmitted, about the stigma it created in
entire families, the social repercussions of encarceration, along
with the fight of the inmates for better living conditions. Today
that leprosy is a curable disease, the rocky island reminds us of
the human struggle for life and underlines the essence of human
existence.
Having experienced the height of human cruelty from the very
first day of his life, Jace is forced to begin an unfair struggle for
survival. In a world dominated by the exploitation of the weak, he
will go from begging at traffic lights, to the inferno of reform
school, and on to the tainted world of corruption, prostitution and
drugs. But even as every new hope of escape is thwarted, Jace
continues to fight, keeping the scars – both literal and figurative
– of his personal losses well-hidden. The film follows the wanderings of a savagely injured creature trying to rally his forces and
maintain his humanity, while at the same time fighting for justice,
friendship and freedom through his deafening silence.
The movie takes place during the space of twelve hours; from
6:00pm to 06:00am. It’s August in Athens. Three friends: Fivos,
Andreas and Savas are wandering around the streets of Eksarheia, in the neighborhood where they grew up. It’s their last
night before they leave Athens and move to Berlin to start a
new life there. During their very last night, unpredictable events
reveal aspects of their characters which they kept hidden from
each other all these years.
Greek Films
409
The Jewel 110'
Andrea MOLAIOLI, Italy 2011
Intramovies
Jef Nuyts
+39 0680 76157
[email protected]
The dramatic reconstruction of the meteoric rise and precipitous
fall involving a major food processing company (inspired by
the actual case of the dairy giant Parmalat) run by prominent
entrepreneur Rastelli and his trusted accountant Botta (Toni
Servillo). The great scandal of Parmalat SpA Italy was Europe’s
Enron and still holds the dubious record of being the largest
European bankruptcy with a debt of 14.3 billion dollars. Director
Andrea Molaioli (The Girl by the Lake) focuses on the human
side of this story and the subordination of individual interests
to the demands of the family.
Market Films
156
The Kid with a Bike 87’
Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Luc DARDENNE, Belgium-France-Italy 2011
Wild Bunch, France
Esther Devos
+33 1 5301 5026
[email protected]
84
Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left
him temporarily in a children’s home. By chance, he meets
Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him
stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn’t recognize the love
Samantha feels for him, a love he desperately needs to calm
his rage.
Film Market
Koko and the Ghosts is a story about a boy, Koko, who moves
from the countryside to a city and meets new friends, but after
getting into trouble he will need and ask for help from “the old
ones”. The apartment he moves into used to belong to Vincek,
an old stingy man, whose death is veiled in mystery. His lovely
sister Marica, loyal dog Car, wise inspector Krivic and his worried
parents will all be part of the story. Do ghosts exist and will
Koko, with the help of his friends, be able to solve the secret?
376
Koko and the Ghosts 90'
Daniel KUSAN, Croatia 2011
Kinorama
Ankica Juric Tilic
+385 1 231 6787
[email protected]
Market Films
Starting off with Anya’s wedding on April 26, 1986, the day the Chernobylnuclear disaster took place, Land of Oblivionmeets her ten years
later, along with other former residents of the town of Pripyat, which
was evacuated after the accident. Anya is now a widow and works as
a guide for tourists visiting the“Zone”around the power plant’s perimeter. She moves back and forth between two lovers who mirror her
conflicting desires: one suggests that she follow him to Paris, the other
urges her to return to Pripyat and set up their life there again. A
teenager still seeks his father, a physicist who remained back at the
power plant, while an elderly man refuses to abandon his hometown
and offers apples to the visitors that Anya brings to him.
Nour and Iyad, a Palestinian couple living in East Jerusalem,
are preparing to move to Paris. He is a surgeon at the top of his
game; she is a young actress from a Palestinian bourgeois intellectual background, attractive, independent and whimsical.
On the way to the airport, a news report of a terrible accident
forces Iyad to return to the hospital and delay their departure.
Abandoned by her husband once again, Nour starts to question
their future move as well as their marriage, while showing how
attached she is to all that she is about to leave behind.
111
The Land of Oblivion 115’
Michale BOGANIM, France-Germany-Poland-Ukraine 2011
Le Pacte, France
Camille Neel
+33 1 44 69 5959
[email protected]
433
Last Days in Jerusalem 81'
Tawfik Abu WAEL, Israel-France-Germany 2011
Wide Management
Clementine Hugot
+33 153950464
[email protected]
Market Films
A young man, Sylvain, devotes his life to a local theatre condemned to bankrupt.
He lives in the basement of the theatre for which he is the programmer, the operator, and the cashier. Every night, after the
film show, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
151
Last Screening 80'
Laurent ACHARD, France 2011
Les Films du Losagne
Agathe Valentin
+33 1 4443 8724
[email protected]
Market Films
Everyone wants to find Bepo Stambuk. An American lawyer
wants to give him his father’s inheritance, while two hit men
hired by Bepo’s stepmother are trying to take it away. In this
action-packed manhunt, no one is safe and no one can be
trusted.
467
The Last Will 90'
Zoran SUDAR, Croatia 2001
Global Film & JLP
Zoran Sudar
+38 516603668
[email protected]
85
145
Last Winter 103’
John SHANK, France-Belgium-Switzerland 2011
Le Pacte, France
Camille Neel
+33 1 44 69 5959
[email protected]
Film Market
Somewhere on isolated mountainous plains. Johann has taken
over his father’s farm, devoting all his time and energy to his
work. Surrounded by a struggling community and a natural
landscape that has taught him all he knows, his heritage is his
entire life. As autumn goes and winter comes, a barn burns to
the ground and jeopardizes the fragile balance of the farm’s
survival. The story of a man trying to love the world he belongs
to one last time, as hard as he can, before it sinks into darkness.
Open Horizons
421
Lea and Darija 101'
Branko IVANDA, Croatia 2011
Ars septima doo
Lidija Ivanda
+38 598476721
[email protected]
An inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who,
on the eve of World War II, were great dancing and acting stars
in Zagreb. Selling out theater venues, they were praised in the
most glowing headlines by the Croatian and European press.
They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA... During
the Nazi persecution of Jews and the subsequent flight of German nationals from the communists, a dramatic friendship was
born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led
towards an unexpected end.
Market Films
355
Like a Dog in a Vineyard 29’
Yll ÇITAKU, Driton HAJREDINI, UNMI Kosovo 2011
War in Kosovo, 1999. Three friends, visual artists, cannot stand
the tension of the war and decide to leave the city and head
for the countryside, seeking some peace and quiet. However,
on the way to a village, they find themselves in an unpredictable situation. One of them must die.
Koperativa Creative Communicanions, Kosovo
Arian Rexhepi
+381 38 228 429
[email protected]
125
A Little Closer 73’
Matthew PETOCK, USA 2011
Coach 14, France
Elena Gerhold
+34 93 249 04 89
[email protected]
Open Horizons
442
Long Live the Family 106'
Robert SEDLACEK, Czech Republic 2011
Produkce Radim Prochazka
Radim Prochazka
+42 022 221 2041
[email protected]
Market Films
86
In the forgotten corners of rural Virginia, Sheryl struggles to balance
her work as a housekeeper and raising her two sons, Marc and
Stephen. Hoping to meet the love of her life and bring home a
father for her boys, she frequents a depressing, weekly mixer for
the town’s aging singles set. Meanwhile, Marc is desperate to lose
his virginity, and spends his days working at a used car lot. Stephen,
in the throes of sexual awakening, becomes infatuated with his
school teacher. As it journeys with the family through their stagnant
summer days, A Little Closer examines the disparate and nuanced
states of sexuality, as well as the role familial influence can play
within the disconnected landscape of rural America.
A family drama about a couple managing to survive at a time
of predatory capitalism. Libor, a senior bank manager, has been
caught in a trap of financial skulduggery and is facing prison.
Just one day remains for him to make a choice: answer for his
decisions or run away? So, he sets on an escape with his wife
and children through the countryside. This flight from justice
becomes a path to seek out lost relationships, not just among
the “escapees” but also their old friends from college. An offbeat road movie, where the fate of one family shows a contemporary portrait of our society.
Film Market
The main protagonist Maťo lives a carefree life with no rules.
He and his childhood friend Tomáš steal cars for a car repair
shop. Maťo’s life changes radically when he meets and falls in
love with Veronika. Veronika lives the respectable life of a university student. She grew up in an orphanage and lives in a boarding house paid for by her school. She is constantly trying to
contact her mother, whom she has never seen. Maťo doesn’t
tell her the whole truth about himself, and would like to change
his life because of her. The first conflicts appear between Maťo
and Tomáš...
439
Love 90'
Jakub KRONER, Slovak Republic 2011
inout studio
Adriana Kronerova
+42 1910 900 916
[email protected]
Market Films
LOVE.NET follows the parallel stories of a number of characters
who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are
simply having fun online. This film is about love in all its forms
– about inevitable, mystic and inexplicable love, but also the
superficial love of fast liquidity. Love at first virtual sight!
413
Love.net 109'
Ilian DJEVELEKOV, Bulgaria 2011
+35 929 434 904
[email protected]
Market Films
Luca is 20 years old and lives in a small town on the Danube.
He seduces girls and sends them to a human trafficking network
in the Black Sea. His life seems to change when he meets Veli.
The sudden death of an ex-girlfriend and his new love for Veli
make him wonder whether he should continue living this way.
356
Loverboy 94’
Cătălin MITULESCU, Romania-Sweden-Serbia 2011
Celluloid Dreams, France
Johan De Faria
+33 1 4970 0370
[email protected]
Balkan Survey
The surrealist side of a personal crisis against the backdrop of
the economic crisis. The film also answers primordial questions
– such as: Is dying like taking off or like landing? When your
lover cheats on you should you laugh or cry? Is it better to owe
than to be owed to? If there is indeed money, as our prime
minister claimed before he was elected, why are we all broke?
And if there is no money, why are we still making films? – and
ends up observing that life is nothing more than a constant
struggle against the terrible force of gravity.
259
Magic Hour 95’
Costas KAPAKAS, Greece 2011
Kapa Films, Greece
Costas Kapakas
+30 210 671 5749
[email protected]
Greek Films
Blanca is raising her 10-year-old daughter Aran on her own,
and there’s nothing that she wouldn’t do for her. Together they
sing, laugh and dream, and face life with an endless appetite.
When Aran is diagnosed with leukaemia, her mother knows
that she’ll have to gather all possible energy and love to support
her daughter in this terrible fight. A fight that will bring the
two of them closer than ever, and will allow them to discover
the pain, but also the love and magic surrounding them.
377
Magic of Hope 85'
Paco TORRES, Spain-Ireland 2011
East West Filmdistrib.
Miriam Kienberger
+43 152 4931 034
[email protected]
Market Films
87
255
Man at Sea (Director’s Cut) 92’
Constantine GIANNARIS, Greece 2011
Greek Film Center, Iliana Zakopoulou
+30 210 3678 506 [email protected]
Highway Productions
+30 210 3314 088-9 [email protected]
Greek Films (Special Screening)
266
The Man Who Did Not Speak 76'
Vangelis RIKOUDIS, Greece 2011
Vangelis Rikoudis
+30 2310 322094
[email protected]
Film Market
After along separation following the death of their son, Alex and Kate
meet again on board the oil-tankerSea Voyager. That same day, Alex
rescues thirty adolescent immigrants adrift in the Mediterranean. No
country grants asylum, and the manager of the nearly bankrupt ship
owner insists that Alex deal with the situation promptly. But each
one of his efforts leads to a dead end. And while some members of
the crew grow fond of certain teenagers, including Kate who gives
motherhood a second chance, the majority feel that their “guests”
have overstayed their welcome. Unable to handle the tension and
wrapped up in his depression, Alex makes a series of wrong decisions,
until he finally finds the courage to rise above the situation.
Yorgos has financial problems. His wife is threatening to leave
him if they don’t pay the rent owed to the landlord. Yorgos
gives her some of the money that his boss gave him to buy
tools. Then he goes and gambles the rest. He loses. The next
day he goes to his friend Vangelis and lies to him, saying he
might have cancer and that he needs money to pay for a throat
operation. When he meets him again, Vangelis believes that
he has already had the operation and suggests a healing trip
to India. On the trip, Yorgos doesn’t speak, until...
Greek Films
252
Manouil Panselinos 50'
George VERDARIS, Greece 2011
George Verdaris
+30 210 6972 927 709
[email protected]
Greek Films
405
Maternity Blues 95'
Fabrizio CATTANI, Italy 2011
Intramovies
Jef Nuyts
+39 0680 76157
[email protected]
A young man, who has no talent in painting, visits an old bookstore. There he finds the book Interpretation by the monk
Dionysos. Heartbroken by the sudden loss of his brother who
was taking lessons in hagiography, he buys the book. The reading of the book captivates him. Soon after, the monk Dionysos
visits him in his dreams and teaches him the techniques and
methods of Byzantine art and encourages him to investigate
the work of Manouil Panselinos, a hagiographer, the question
of whose existence has divided the scientific community. Influenced by the dream, the young man visits Byzantine churches
in Thessaloniki.
Four different women, bound by a common guilt: infanticide.
Inside a judicial psychiatric hospital, they spend their time expiating a sentence which is mainly inner: the sense of guilt for
a gesture that has rendered their existence useless. From the
forced co-habitation, new friendships are born and they can
all read the guilt inside the other. From their confessions, they
derive a comfort that doesn’t completely succeed in alleviating
the suffering, but that makes these women appear less guilty.
Market Films
465
Me and Nuri Bala 42'
Melisa ONEL, Turkey 2009
Bulut Film
Yamac Okur
+90 212 287 7076
[email protected]
88
Me and Nuri Bala, is a film on Esmeray – a transvestite feminist
activist who shatters many categories on womanhood and
manhood in Turkey. The film is a personal quest to understand
her experience, what defines a certain gender – a body and a
place one belongs to. From the streets of Istanbul to the eastern
villages of Kars, the film takes us back and forth between the
longing for belonging and the realities that shape our identities.
Film Market
Erdem, Sevil and their children Edip and Sevgi live in a small town.
Their lives start to change when they have to move to Istanbul
because Sevil’s mother has had a stroke. Ten years pass and by that
time Edip is at a boarding school away from the family and Erdem is
still pursuing the dream he’s always had of becoming a good writer.
Sevil is aware that Sevgi’s behavior has suddenly changed, that she’s
become introverted and unhappy, so she sets about to find out what
the trouble is and discovers some dark secrets hidden behind closed
doors. Things that can’t be said, the scars left over from childhood,
the heavy silence – all break loose one day and leak through the
cracks, causing a maelstrom that tears the whole family apart.
A drama focused on five months in the life of a pedophile who
has abducted a boy and keeps him locked in his basement. The
film describes these months of 10-year-old Wolfgang’s involuntary life with 35-year-old Michael.
395
Merry-go-round 90'
Ilksen BASARIR, Turkey 2010
Kutu Film
Hazal Dut
+90 531 5682 183
[email protected]
Market Films
130
Michael 96’
Markus SCHLEINZER, Austria 2011
Les films du losange, France
Agathe Valentin
+33 1 4443 8728
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Civil war is tearing Algeria apart. Police captain Brahim Llob,
also a writer in his spare time, spends his days hunting down
Islamic fundamentalists. His investigation leads him on the trail
of a terrorist group given the task of wiping out Algerian intellectuals, and to people implicated in a scandal to do with the
national bank. He then discovers that he has been manipulated
by a politico-financial mafia. Now a nuisance for the powers
that be, and on the brink of publishing Morituri, an exposé,
Llob is forced to take early retirement –and to be fast about it.
457
Morituri 116'
Okacha TOUITA, France 2004
Cinexport
Anne Marie Rombourg-Caraco
+33 145 624 945
[email protected]
A story inspired by real events. Two brothers violently murder
their mother. As we go back in time to witness earlier events,
we observe the life of a regular family, asking questions about
the origins of this heinous crime.
429
Mother Teresa of Cats 94'
Pawel SALA, Poland 2010
Zespol Filmowy "Rozwoj"
Julia Domagala
+48 608 317 708
[email protected]
Market Films
The war in the eastern and southeastern parts of Turkey has
been going on for 30 years. Almost every family has lost a
member to terror. Grandmother Kadife has lost her daughterin-law and her granddaughter in a raid on their village. After
this loss Kadife’s son Celal decides to join the guerilla fighters
of the PKK in the mountains. Grandmother Kadife takes her
surviving 8-year-old grandson Gül Cemal with her and moves
to Ankara. Everything is peaceful, until one night Kadife receives
a phonecall telling her that her son has been killed in the mountains. Now it is Gül Cemal’s turn.
400
Mother the Velvet 90'
Erdogan KAR, Turkey 2011
Ana Film Production
Erdogan Kar
+90 533 3619 968
[email protected]
Market Films
89
434
Mourning 82'
Morteza FARSHBAF, Iran 2011
Film Market
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. As
they are staying at a relative’s house in the north of Iran, they
depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but do not take
their son with them. Then something terrible happens on the
way...
Wide Management
Clementine Hugot
+33 153 9504 64
[email protected]
Market Films
378
My Lovely Sister 91'
Marco CARMEL, Israel 2011
David Mandil
+972 35164373
[email protected]
The film is based on a Moroccan-Jewish legend which takes
place in modern-day Israel. It is a triple love story between
primitively superstitious Rama, Robert her rude husband, and
a ghost which haunts them in the image of Rama’s beautiful
sister Mary who died from the pain of banishment, because
she followed her heart and chose to live with an Arab man.
Rama and Robert will have to go on an emotional and passionate
journey with the Ghost of Mary so that they can fall in love and
accept each other .
Market Films
428
My Name is Ki 90'
Leszek DAWID, Poland 2011
Ki is a young woman who refuses to play the part of the tired
single mother; she wants to live a fast-paced and colorful life.
Will her difficult relationships with men help her become mature
enough to embrace love and responsibility for herself and for
her son?
Albany Films
Germain Labeille
+33 142 250 428
[email protected]
Market Films
424
Nicky's Family 96'
Matej MINAC, Czech Republic-Slovak Republic 2011
Luc Ntonga
+33 143 58 0804
[email protected]
Market Films
420
No More Fear 74'
Mourad Ben CHEIKH, France 2010
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 306 953 7850
[email protected]
Market Films
90
In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton received a
call from a friend who told him that he was leaving for Prague
and needed his help. In Prague, Winton learned about the
refugees fleeing Hitler’s army and about the many children
who were in danger of losing their lives. Winton decided to
take action and by September 1939, he managed to arrange
visas and admission to British families for nearly 700 Central
European – mostly Jewish – children. After the War, he returned
to his private life and never mentioned this incident. Fifty years
later, his wife found a scrapbook full of documents and transport
plans...
Suffering from Tunisia’s ills, a character in the film says: “This
revolution is not the result of destitution, but rather a cry of
despair rising from a generation of graduates. It is neither the
bread nor the jasmine revolution... Jasmine does not result in
death, does not give rise to martyrs. It’s the revolution of a
people’s devotion. We shall never again have any fear for this
new Tunisia!” This comment perfectly summarizes Tunisians’
frame of mind. That of the youth who made the first revolution
of the virtual era, as well as the older people who defied fear
in order to resist the yoke of dictatorship.
Film Market
Daniel is a French writer who returns to a small Spanish village
to look for Manuela, a woman from his past. He lays out a plan
to get to know her better, and finally discovers her troubled,
mysterious life. Daniel will test his own limits in order to uncover
her secrets, and the experience will leave him completely transformed.
389
Nobody's Rose 89'
Ignacio OLIVA, Spain 2011
Univers Provecto Media
Ignacio Oliva
+34 678 645 663
[email protected]
Market Films
A poet leaves New York and heads west in his convertible. On
the way, he’ll meet a sailor and a waitress. The three of them
will travel together, through the American landscape, amid the
symbols of a culture and along the convoluted paths of sexual
desire.
288
North of Vortex 58’
Rebecca Dobbs
+44 20 7796 4842
[email protected]
Disgusted to see the horses that she trained to the top levels of
jumping taken away from her, Gracieuse decides to start over
in the world of dressage when she meets the legendary trainer
Franz Mann. Franz, now exhausted and cynical, is managing
the domain of a rich landowner. But when Gracieuse finally realizes that Manifestant is the right horse for her, she discovers
that her talent is nothing when confronted with the personal
interests and the high financial stakes of the game…
379
Of Women and Horses 101'
Patricia MAZUY, France-Germany 2011
Le Pacte
Arnaud Aubelle
+33 144 695 959
[email protected]
Market Films
In Tripoli, Lebanon, where family bonds still run deep, a fortyyear-old man still living with his elderly mother has given up
on the idea of becoming independent. But when suddenly his
mother leaves him, he is left with nothing but the company of
the city and what it has to offer. It’s a coming-of-age story of
an adult man, who finds comfort for the first time, alone, in
the city he grew up in.
126
OK, Enough, Goodbye 93’
Rania ATTIEH, Daniel GARCIA, United Arab Emirates-Lebanon 2010
En Passant Film, USA
Rania Attieh
+1 917 582 0556
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Omega Fox is a film exploring the conclusive feeling that the
“ends” of films bring about. Featuring 3 different vignettes, the
film’s stories don’t build or explain each other. Through the
finale, each character finds himself/herself with a reality they
should confront and eventually surrender to. Fictionalized
through a non-linear structure, the film focuses on the feeling
of not being able to reach a conclusion, a flat ground. 464
Omega Fox 14'
Melisa ONEL, Turkey 2007
Bulut Film
Yamac Okur
90 2122877076
[email protected]
91
149
On the Edge 110’
Leïla KILANI, Morocco-France-Germany 2011
Fortissimo Films, Netherlands
Nelleke Driessen
+31 20 627 3215
[email protected]
Film Market
In the old town of Tangiers, two young Casablancan girls –
Badia and Imane – live their lives among the army of workers
who inhabit the city. Peeling shrimps by day in a spotless factory,
then turning tricks by night, the girls make extra money by
fencing meager goods stolen from their nighttime customers.
Beyond Tangiers lies the “Free Zone”, a symbol for global subcontracting, accessible only to those with a work permit. It is
Europe on Moroccan land, something that Badia sees as a springboard into a more material world.
Open Horizons
426
On the Shore 90'
Julien DONADA, France 2011
Facing violence and death on the streets every day, Michel’s
sleep is invaded by relentless nightmares that never allow him
to rest. His life is transformed when he discovers the body of a
young woman who has committed suicide.
Luc Ntonga
+33 143 580 804
[email protected]
Market Films
131
Our Life 98’
Daniele LUCHETTI, Italy-France 2010
Celluloid Dreams, France
Johan De Faria
+33 1 4970 0370
[email protected]
Claudio, a construction worker, works on a site in the suburbs
of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant
with their third child. However, when he finds the remains of
an illegal immigrant under the site and doesn’t report it, fearing
he’ll be out of a job if construction comes to a halt, it upsets his
simple and happy life. In a rage to reclaim his life, Claudio energetically fights against the injustice that has fallen upon him.
Love and support from his friends and family, as well as the
laughter of his children will help him triumph against the odds.
Open Horizons
162
Outside Satan 109’
Bruno DUMONT, France 2011
Pyramide International, France
Paul Richer
+33 1 4296 0220
[email protected]
At the edge of the English Channel, on the Côte d’Opale, near a
hamlet, with its dunes and marshes, there lives a strange fellow
who gets by somehow, poaches, prays and builds fires. A vagrant
who appears from nowhere and who, in a single breath, hounds
out the evil from a village haunted by the devil and places the
world outside of Satan.
112
Paradise 105’
Panayotis FAFOUTIS, Greece 2011
Greek Film Center – Iliana Zakopoulou
+30 210 3678 506 [email protected]
Pan Entertainment – Maria Drandaki
+30 210 698 5050 – [email protected]
92
One weekend, amid the chaos and colors of the Carnival, among
the blinding lights and gaudy floats, four couples try to find
their own paradise. Marina returns to Patras determined to live
with Michalis; Nikos tries to express his desire for Socrates while
dreading rejection; Evgenia is faced with her daughter’s criticism
of her new life as a divorcee; and Ilias attempts to reunite with
his ex-wife one last time. Love and questions about companionship form the basis upon which the director throws a party.
The music dominates the scene and guides emotions. Behind
their carnival masks, the protagonists are free to reach their
limits; free at last to be real.
Film Market
Alex finds himself lying on the floor of his apartment with no
memory of anything about him or anyone/anything else. He
will try to find out how this happened to him with help from
his girlfriend Mia. While two guys Jack and Max, are chasing
him for some reason. Alex doesn’t remember anything, but
sooner or later everything will be revealed. Do you remember
who you are?
396
Paramnesia 85'
Eleutherios KAKATHIMIS, Cyprus 2011
E.K. Discovering Dreams Production
Eleutherios Kakathimis
+35 7999 00048
[email protected]
Market Films
The mysterious arrival of a foreigner in a small, Spanish village
awakes the interest of a diverse group of quirky characters, many
believing he is going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the
real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid
photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers.
394
The Perfect Stranger 90'
Toni BESTARD, Spain 2011
High Point Media Group
Piers Nightingale
+44 20 7424 6870
[email protected]
Market Films
American Professor Robert Traum takes a sabbatical and turns
his back on an uneventful present to live an adventure from
the past. Back in the Old World, he researches the origins of his
father and uncle, the famous Traum brothers: Rudolf, a famous
novelist, and Samuel – once a notorious gangster in Chicago.
While traveling through Transylvania and Bucovina, Robert
meets Tanya, a Government archivist. Together they find Sami,
the last surviving family friend, a cinema projectionist who was
chased out of his old movie theatre by a greedy local politician.
While Robert helps Sami win back his theater, Sami gives Robert
his identity back.
Chen’s estranged wife suddenly reappears, asking for a divorce
and custody of their daughter. Knowing that his daughter is
desperate to have her own piano, Chen believes that if he can
secure one, then she will choose to live with him. Without any
other means, Chen decides to build the piano from scratch,
persuading a group of unaccomplished – but loyal – friends to
help him. He soon comes to realize that his efforts are in vain,
and lets his daughter live a better life with her mother. But his
friends decide to forge ahead with the project. Though crude
in design and out of tune, the factory piano is finally finished...
383
The Phantom Father 93'
Lucian GEORGESCU, Romania 2011
Kinosseur
Corduta Cretulescu
+40 21 757 075 310
[email protected]
Market Films
143
The Piano in a Factory 105’
Zhang MENG, China 2010
Golden Network IC Asia Ltd, China
Clarence Tang
T. +852 2751 1886
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Twenty years after a violent argument with his father forces
him to leave Ireland for America, Jack receives a phone call
telling him his father, Larry, is at death’s door. Jack returns to
Ireland to find his father apparently healthy, but their relationship remains rather tense. It is only when Jack decides to head
back to America that Larry confesses that he’s dying of cancer.
As Jack decides to stay to take care of him, they begin to deal
with the past and the cause of their original break – the death
of Jack’s mother.
141
The Pier 84’
Gerard HURLEY, Ireland-USA 2011
Black Equus Films
Gerard Hurley
+1 212 964 7521
[email protected]
Open Horizons
93
286
A Place in the Sun 44’
Constantine GIANNARIS, Greece-UK 1994
Rebecca Dobbs
T. +44 20 7796 4842
[email protected]
Film Market
Athens, gateway to the West and, in the wake of the collapse
of Eastern bloc communism, another train arrives carrying economic refugees. Amongst the flood of desperate poor is Panayotis, 18, Albanian and ambitious. Cruising the neon lit streets
is Ilias, 35, handsome and solitary, looking for someone to distract him from the emptiness of his life. Against the chaotic
backdrop of the modern city, these two characters are separated
by race and bound by love, murder and their desperation to
find their own place in the sun.
135
Play 118’
Ruben ÖSTLUND, Sweden-France-Denmark 2011
Coproduction Office, France
Celine Lin
+33 1 5602 6000
[email protected]
Play is an astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In
central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14,
robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006
and 2008.The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the
“little brother number” or “brother trick”, involving advanced
role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
Open Horizons
432
Policeman 108'
Nadav LAPIDV, Israel 2011
Wide Management
Clementine Hugot
+33 153 950 464
[email protected]
A psychological struggle of a policeman vs. young and passionate
revolutionary extremists. Policeman Yaron stands in the center
of a group of elite policemen, part of the Israeli anti-terrorist
unit. An encounter with a radical, violent group, will confront
him with the Israeli class war as well as with the war within his
own soul.
Market Films
461
Portrait 12'
A poignant family drama, which tells Mira’s story of living with
an abusive father in the late 50s.
Rouzie HASSANOVA, Ireland-UK 2008
Masquerade Films
Zoe Rocha
+44 7990 504 706
[email protected]
262
The Possessed 90'
George BAKOLLAS, Greece 2011
Kimatothrafstis
George Bakollas
+30 6977 732 771
[email protected]
Greek Films
94
Marianthi is crushed under the shadow of the “great father”. She
defects, wading through the wake of his past. Not only the image
of the father but all liberating –isms as well, are constantly renewed
- the questions of an immersive and sweeping violence remain,
like the only fog lights beaming through the agony of existence.
Murder emerges as a lubricant to buffer a downward spiral, Marianthi is copying herself, mimicking emotions, the unknown partisan
of an armed rupture, the all-knowing debater/psychoanalyst, the
constant present/absent glory of the father are being invented,
whilst they’re already there to be found, and act in a detrimental
way, serving the dogma of radical affiliation.
Film Market
In the early and mid-1990s, when intense skirmishes between
the Kurdish guerillas and the Turkish government took place, a
handful of young journalists were struggling to inform the
world of ongoing human rights violations. During those days
of increasing pressure, these journalists fought both to survive
and to reveal the facts. Journalism was no longer a profession
for them, but a matter of life or death.
357
Press 100’
Sedat YILMAZ, Turkey 2010
Karincalar Film, Turkey
Sedat Yilmaz
+90 21 2292 8630
[email protected]
Balkan Survey
290
Constantine Giannaris Shorts #1 90’
–no dialogue
America Homage: Contagion 3’ 1986
Black Derek Boy 8’ 1989
Blue Eyes 2 6’ 1987
The Blue Sea 2’ 1986
Eleni’s Funeral Day 6’ 1979
European Son: Queer Demonstration 12’ 1988
The Kiss 5’ 1985
London Garden 4’ 1989
291
Constantine Giannaris Shorts #2
Homeland 1993 – no dialogue
Rooms 1994 – no dialogue
Egypt 1996 – no dialogue
Jerusalem 1999 – no dialogue
America I 1990 – no dialogue
Albania 2004 – no dialogue
Andreu in Paris 1993 – no dialogue
Bombardment 1999 – no dialogue
Monemvasia 2004 – no dialogue
Punk’s not Dead is a remarkable black comedy about the reunion
of an old punk band. Mirsa is a punk who is trying to deal with
the struggles of everyday life in Skopje. One day, he gets an
offer to play at a multicultural event in Debar. The next step is
to find all his former band-mates and make them play again...
His ex-girlfriend comes back to him and helps him locate them
and convince them to reunite. Punk’s not Dead sends out a
heartening message – we should keep on trying to make our
dreams come true.
Maurizio Siciliano 7’ 1989
Me as a Soldier 7’ 1988
Mystras and Geraki 8’ 1991
New York Club 7’ 1981
Rock Globe, Rock Globe I, Rock Globe III 3’, 3’, 1’ 1986
Spin Me Round 3’ 1985
You Ripped It Out of Me: Eduardo I Love you 4’ 1986
[email protected]
London 1995 – no dialogue
Amorgos 2003 – no dialogue
America II 2008 – no dialogue
Barcelonetta 1990 – no dialogue
Thai Box 2006 – no dialogue
Grigoris 1998 – O.V. Greek/English sub.
Life and Death in the Athens Metro 2010 – no dialogue
Pireos Street 2010 – no dialogue
The Reading 1998 – O.V. Greek/English sub.
Tears of the Excavator 1990 – O.V. Greek/English sub.
Constantine Giannaris, [email protected]
358
Punk’s not Dead 104’
Vladimir BLAZEVSKI, FYROM-Serbia 2011
Pank Film
Darko Popov
+389 78 255 867
[email protected]
Balkan Survey
Audrey has left Eric. But there’s still Mathieu, their seven-yearold son: Audrey leaves him with her mum “just for the time
being.” But for how long? Until she finds somewhere to live, a
new job, a constant companion?
427
Pursuit 92'
Marina DEAK, France 2010
Luc Ntonga
+33 143 580 804
[email protected]
Market Films
95
161
Rebellion 136’
Mathieu Kassovitz, France 2011
Kinology
Gregoire Graesslin
+33 9 5147 4344
[email protected]
Film Market
April 1988, Ouvéa Island in the French colony of New Caledonia.
Thirty policemen are kidnapped by Kanak separatists. Three hundred French special-forces operatives are sent to restore order.
Two men face off: Philippe Legorjus, captain of the GIGN, an elite
counter-terrorism police unit, and Alphonse Dianou, the rebels’
leader. They attempt to find a peaceful solution based on common
values and dialogue. Against the backdrop of presidential elections
in France, however, the political stakes are high, and order is not
necessarily a moral question.
435
Red Heart 78’
Halkawt MUSTAFA, Norway-Iraq 2011
Wide Management
Clementine Hugot
+33 153 950 464
[email protected]
The movie is a stirring love drama about two teenagers’ battle
to be together, in a land where your own choice of spouse
cannot be taken for granted. Shirin and Soran are secretly sweethearts, waiting for the right occasion to ask for their parents’
permission to get married. When Shirin’s mother dies, her father
seeks a new wife. His chosen one has one demand for this marriage: Shirin has to marry her son. To be together, Soran and
Shirin have evidently no other choice but to escape.
Market Films
280
Red Sky 105'
Layia YIOURGOU, Greece 2011
Layia Yiourgou
+30 210 882 1422
[email protected]
Greek Films
384
The Return of the Son 84'
Ahmed BOULANE, Morocco 2011
Boulane O'byrne Production
Ahmed Boulane
[email protected]
Αris and Stelios, two firm friends, decide to make a new start
far from the city’s madding crowds. Having chosen a remote
spot somewhere in the South, they build a greenhouse on its
harsh and arid soil and with it, a new life. Αlthough very different, they complement each other and live without stress and
cares, making hard work seem like a game. But the arrival of
Cordova changes everything. The beautiful young German will
turn their lives upside down, arousing passions and emotions
they’ve never felt before. For her part, Cordova cannot choose
between the two friends because, together, they are her ideal
man.
Fifteen years after having been kidnapped by his French mother,
Mehdi, now in his early twenties, returns to Morocco to see
his father Aziz. The young man – half-French, half-Moroccan
– tries to get to know the country of his birth. He meets a
young Moroccan woman and begins to spend much less time
at home with his father. Aziz is increasingly concerned about
this relationship, and father and son argue more and more
frequently. After a particularly heated discussion, Mehdi walks
out and doesn’t come home in the evening. Aziz’s worst nightmare begins.
Market Films
444
Revolt 80'
Aleksandar RAJKOVIC, Serbia 2011
+Kanon
Aleksandar Rajkovic
+38 111 262 4329
[email protected]
Market Films
96
This is a serious comedy, a story about a group of young men
from Belgrade whose lack of prospects in their own society
causes them to start a revolution. They call on the Serbian youth
to rebel, to change their lives and to awaken from the slumber
they were in. Our group of heroes organizes a gathering in the
famous square in front of the Faculty of Philosophy. Soon, the
protesters begin rioting and they clash with the police. After
such an outcome of events our heroes are left with two possible
options – to return home humiliated and defeated or to continue
with their cause.
Film Market
Things aren’t easy for a dark-skinned young man living in the
French-speaking part of Canada. He was born into a family of
Arab Christian immigrants and he also had to undergo an operation on his legs in early childhood. For the young man, his
parents and everyone else, his conspicuous physical disability
is regarded as a stigma. So he creates an alternative identity
on the internet, where he passes himself off as an attractive
businessman with a flashy career ahead of him. Will he be able
to conquer his physical handicap and confront the inevitable
social exclusion associated with it?
144
Romeo Eleven 92’
Ivan GRBOVIC, Canada 2011
Reprise Films
Paul Barbaeu
+1 514 273 0007
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Same role models, same perceptions, politicians, past and present day misconceptions in a rotting social structure create by
chance a movie through other’s movies. In Erosfilms Laboratories,
the biggest living director Ioannis Bost has locked himself by
accident in the montage studio of the firm. In there he writes
his own “book of revelations” using other people’s films .... and
not only…
269
Rot, Humiliation and Tekila 85'
Yannis PARASKEVOPOULOS, Nikos ZERVOS, Greece 2011
Greenart
Zoe Zerva
+30 210 6451555
[email protected]
Greek Films
Mustapha is a barber in Casablanca. His clients are retired highranking government officials and Moroccan power brokers. On
the side, Mustapha has an underground business “facilitating”
paperwork, using his privileged access to these retired bigwigs
to grease the wheels of bureaucracy. Zakia, Mustapha’s next
door neighbor, is a schoolteacher whose fiancé, Driss, has immigrated to Spain. Zakia longs to join Driss, but a visa seems
impossible to secure. She learns that strawberry-picking season
in Spain is imminent and a company is hiring Moroccan women
to do the harvesting. The women have to be married with children and, most importantly, they must have rough hands.
When a child’s life is at stake, you do whatever it takes. The
lives of three ordinary people are torn apart by a series of shocking events and twisted together by a dark and terrible crime.
The nightmare begins when a boy goes missing. But the terror
doesn’t end when he’s found. Someone in the neighbourhood
is preying on the innocent and the horror won’t stop till he’s
run to ground.
406
Rough Hands 97'
Mohammed ASLI, Italy 2011
Intramovies
Jef Nuyts
+39 068 076 157
[email protected]
Market Films
380
Run to Ground 95'
Zsombor DYGA, Hungary-UK-Slovakia 2011
East West Filmdistrib.
Miriam Kienberger
+431524931034
[email protected]
Market Films
In a small and snowy Quebecoise town, 67-year-old widower
Marcel leads a tranquil, content life, revolving around his work as
a car salesman, and his daughter and grandson, with whom he
shares a loving, tender relationship. The closing down of the local
paper plant, leaving hundreds of the community’s residents without
work, serves as backdrop; to their plight, Marcel is only an external
observer. Gradually, however, the quotidian calm is shattered for
more and more souls, and when a personal tragedy affects Marcel,
his existence becomes emotionally and inextricably linked with
the laid-off employees. Pilote’s debut establishes an entrancing
rhythm and rouses genuine emotion.
103
The Salesman 107’
Sébastien PILOTE, Canada 2011
eOne Films International
Anick Poirier
+1 514 841 1910
[email protected]
97
460
Samouré 27'
Thodoris PAPADOULAKIS, Greece 2005
Film Market
A peculiar shepherd living in a village on the mountains of
Crete, hopes that one day he will become a true samurai.
Samoure is a story of being different in a small community and
the conflicts this causes.
Indigo View
Ioanna Davi
+30 282 109 3338
[email protected]
454
The Scream 7'
Ivan IKIC, Serbia 2004
A Young couple meets on a Belgrade square. She can’t decide
about having an abortion, while he doesn’t want to take any
responsibility.
FDU
Aleksandar Ivanjikov
+38 111 262 3378
[email protected]
423
Sevdah for Karim 95'
Jasmin DURAKOVIC, Bosnia 2010
Luc Ntonga
+33 143 580 804
[email protected]
Sarajevo, after September 11th, 2001. Karim works as a mine
defuser in the hills around the city while waiting to be sent to
Iraq with his group. His main motivation is the money. But a
love story with a sad ending will change his life. It’s a tale about
a love triangle between Karim, his best friend Juka, and Ivana,
a girl from Belgrade. At the same time, this is a story about the
clash between the West and Islam, and how one young Bosnian
copes with this issue.
Market Films
408
Seven Acts of Mercy 103'
Gianluca DE SERIO, Massimiliano DE SERIO, Italy-Romania 2011
Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a
shantytown, devises a way to escape her misery. While putting
her plan in action, she runs up against Antonio, a mysterious
and very sick old man. The clash between the two is inevitable
and violent, with unexpected consequences.
Intramovies
Jef Nuyts
+39 0680 76157
[email protected]
Market Films
381
Sex equo (Sex in the Foreground) 63'
Werther GERMONDARI, Maria Laura SPAGNOLI, Italy 2011
Germondari - Spagnoli
Maria Laura Spagnoli
+39 6 4817992
[email protected]
Market Films
98
“A series of short stories with a fetish, eccentric, porn, and funny
sexuality, in the same remixed and exasperated tone of Italian
picaresque comedies. There can’t be any possible linear storytelling in this lesson of sexual misbehaving, because Germondari
& Spagnoli’s four eyes see a lot more than a single pair and
have a lot less guilt than many. So, high impact voyeurism is
the base here for a whole festive imagery of sex, no matter
how strange, vulgar, or chic it may be, seem or look.” (Buenos
Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente 2011)
Film Market
She Monkeys is about the art of survival. We follow 15-yearold Emma, her seven-year-old little sister Sara, and Emma’s
newfound friend, Cassandra. When Emma joins a riding stable
where other teens train to perform acrobatics on horseback,
she meets Cassandra and they initiate a relationship filled with
physical and psychological challenges. Emma does whatever it
takes to master the rules of the game. Lines are soon crossed.
Despite this, Emma can’t resist the intoxicating feeling of total
control.
121
She Monkeys 84’
Lisa ASCHAN, Sweden 2011
The Yellow Affair
Miira Paasilinna
+46 8 645 1212
[email protected]
Open Horizons
Mashda, a 12-year-old girl, and 45-year-old Amnon find solace
in each other’s company. Their relationship – a bond shared in
silence, never truly coming to terms with the implications of
its very nature – pushes both character and spectator towards
a zone of ambivalence, where morals and desires intermingle
uneasily.
455
Silence 18'
Hadar MORAG, Israel 2008
Tel Aviv University
Hadar Morag
+97 254 435 4358
[email protected]
In the heart of the city, day breaks over a stranded river-barge.
But here is no promise of renewal or redemption. What unfolds
instead is a relentless cycle of isolation and uncertainty; an intensely moving drama of submerged passions and conflicting
desires. The city, of course, is in the throes of decay. Above the
city, shrouded in watery light, a solitary woman stands. And
then the voice begins: searching, accusing, full of fury and self
loathing, refusing to be silenced or consoled.
284
Silences 10’
[email protected]
A romantic comedy about Inge, a lovely 28 year-old woman,
who works at a radio station. One day, she gets a bunch of
flowers in the street from a handsome stranger, Peter. He kisses
her and walks on. She is so shocked that she can’t say a word.
In fact, she’s lost her voice entirely. Her friend Aga tells her that,
in order to get her voice back, she should find the stranger and
reconstruct what happened in that very place. Peter is working
on a new cartoon story about a super heroine to whom he has
given Inge’s features. Will the two meet again?
447
Silence is Golden 98'
Ewa PYTKA, Poland 2010
Media Luna New Films
Alessandro Lombardo
+49 221 5109 1892
[email protected]
Market Films
Blurring borders between documentary and fiction, this film
portrays a few moments from the lives of three men from Belo
Horizonte: a transsexual academic, who fulfils her need for love
from her work as a street prostitute, a Hare Krishna football
supporter and an indolent would-be writer, working on nine
books at once. Three “ordinary” men aged about 30, who play
themselves. The Sky Above is a beautifully shot portrait, filled
with subdued drama about complex, paradoxical identities in
the 21st-century city.
124
The Sky Above 72’
Sérgio BORGE, Brazil 2011
FiGa Films, USA
Alex Garcia
+1 323 309 4856
[email protected]
Open Horizons
99
437
Small World 93'
Bruno CHICHE, France 2011
Kinology
Gregoire Graesslin
+33 095 1474 344
[email protected]
Film Market
For years Conrad Lang (Gérard Depardieu) has been living off
the Senn family; at first a childhood playmate of Thomas, later
caretaker of the family’s summer home. The family used him
as they saw fit and Conrad didn’t seem to mind. A strange
friendship develops between him and Simone, the young wife
of the family heir, as she listens to Conrad’s memories and
notices that they don’t quite agree with the family version.
Conrad’s stories provoke great anguish in Elvira, the family matriarch. Their friendship will soon lead Simone to confront Elvira,
who could be far more dangerous than she appears.
Market Films
446
Sneakers 105'
Valery YORDANOV, Ivan VLADIMIROV, Bulgaria 2011
Alessandro Lombardo
+49 221 5109 1892
[email protected]
In early summer, six young people escape from their failures –
in their families, love, money, ambitions, meeting with those
that are different. They escape from the City, taken over by
those that are different. Each one of them escapes East of Hell...
to the point farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and pristine
beach. The clean beach brings them together and reopens the
prospect of hope to them all. But is such an escape at all possible?
Market Films
462
Some Other Stories 114'
VARIOUS, Slovenia-Bosnia & Herzegovina-Serbia-FYROM-Ireland 2010
Soul Food Distribution
Igor Stankovic
+38 111 2687 932
[email protected]
Five stories deal with the present-day problems of young people
in countries that once made up Yugoslavia, against the background of the consequences of war: the crisis of the society
and the crisis of morality which affect the formation and development of young people’s minds. The five intertwined stories
would reflect the sensibility of the new generation, its temperament, dilemmas, doubts, hopes and fears.
140
Somewhere Tonight 85’
Michael DI JIACOMO, USA-The Netherlands 2011
Cinemavault Releasing, Canada
Jennie Chu
+1 416 363 6060
[email protected]
Somewhere Tonight is an urban fable that tells the story of two
lonely New Yorkers trying to find companionship over an adult
chat phone line. John Turturro plays Wooly, a simple, odd bike
messenger, hoping to hear a bit of ‘spicy’ talk from Patti, an
agoraphobic shut-in. Although each is not what the other hopes
they will be, together they prove that wisps of enchantment
can be found in even the most overlooked of hearts. And that
hope takes on many unexpected shades. Inspired by Dutch
filmmaker Theo Van Gogh’s 1-900.
Open Horizons
257
Sotiria 91’
Iason TZAVELLAS, Greece-Cyprus 2011
Stavros Tzavellas
+30 210 963 5000
[email protected]
Greek Films
100
Inexplicable reasons drive an ordinary city couple to choose a
remote mountain village as their holiday destination. Through
a series of paranormal events, they come face to face with the
impasse of their relationship and of their very existence. The
search for a way out brings the protagonists on the verge of
borderline situations and extreme choices. As they approach
the edges of reason, reality fades into the subconscious in their
attempt to find Salvation.
Film Market
The reconstruction of a timely conversation that took place
2,400 years ago, the superb and intellectually intriguing dialogue
of Plato. We are impressed by the freshness of intellectual exchange among the participants in Agathon’s feast, their joyous
and clever teasing, the exquisite play of words that intermingles
with song and merriment. We are entertained by the spirited
and provocative speech of Aristophanes, then follow attentively
Socrates’ thought, set in his characteristic question and answer
style. We feel secretly jealous that we are not there ourselves
to contemplate, filled with enthusiasm and love, such ponderous
matters.
At first sight, this could be a tale of initiation: Roque, a young
man from the interior, comes to Buenos Aires to attend college
and, right when he seems interested only in meeting girls, he
starts to get involved with politics and becoming a successful
student representative. But, while focusing on the sole viewpoint of its lead character Roque, the film starts to unfold a vibrant story that opens up to different directions: utilitarian
relationships, the oscillation between ethics and betrayal, politics as a generational issue, the youthful urge for getting
quickly ahead, the perspective of a future that could either reproduce a rancid and corrupt past or imagine a different future.
Dominik, a high school student, humiliated by his classmates
one too many times and rather ignored by his career-oriented
parent, gets invited into the virtual world of the “suicide room”
by a beautiful and mysterious girl named Sylvia.
263
Speeches about Love- Plato's
Symposium 103'
Dimitris MAKRIS, Greece 2011
Pavlos Markou
+30 210 614 8500
[email protected]
Greek Films
165
The Student 110'
Santiago MITRE, Argentina 2011
La Unión de los Ríos, Argentina
Agustina Llambi Campbell
+54 11 4314 5442
[email protected]
Open Horizons
431
Suicide Room 110'
Jan KOMASA, Poland 2011
Level K
Tine Klint
+48 228 454 923
[email protected]
Market Films
In a surreal, parallel universe, Thessaloniki has its very own superhero: Super Demetrios. Posing as Dimitris Christoforidis,
journalist for Golden Jerusalem magazine, he fights for truth,
justice and the Greco-Christian ideal. In the dark of the night,
the city’s worst nightmare returns. Captain F.ROM is back, determined to accomplish his long-awaited goal: claiming his
true name; a name he’s entitled to; a name that becomes him.
The two protagonists are drawn into a conflict that toys with
the viewer’s patience until the very climax of the film, in an archetypal battle between good and evil.
260
Super Demetrios 109’
Georgios PAPAIOANNOU, Greece 2011
OtiNaNai Productions
Georgios Papaioannou
+30 6946 791 581
[email protected]
Greek Films
Christian is the owner of a wine store that is about to go bankrupt
and he is equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect
of life. His wife, Anna, has left him. Now, she works as a successful football agent in Buenos Aires and lives a life of luxury
with star football player Juan Diaz. One day, Christian and their
16-year-old son get on a plane to Buenos Aires. Christian arrives
under the pretense of wanting to sign the divorce papers together with Anna, but in truth, he wants to try to win her back
163
Superclásico 99’
Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark 2011
The Match Factory, Germany
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 7090
[email protected]
Ole Christian Madsen Tribute
101
359
Superman, Spiderman or Batman 11’
Tudor GIURGIU, Romania 2011
Film Market
Aron, a 5-year-old boy, sets out together with his worried father
on a journey, at the end of which he hopes, like the comic book
superheroes, to save his mother who suffers from a heart condition.
Libra Film Productions, Romania
Tudor Giurgiu
+40 21 326 6480
[email protected]
164
Tales of the Night 84’
Michel OCELOT, France 2011
Studio Canal
Pascale Hornus
+ 33 1 7135 1113
[email protected]
Open Horizons
463
Teah 87'
Hanna SLAK, Slovenia 2007
Gustav Film
Frenk Celarc
+38 659 031 995
[email protected]
Every night, a boy, a girl and an elderly technician meet in a closed,
rather abandoned old cinema: but the old picture palace harbors
a secret. If truth be known, the cinema is a magical place where
the three friends enjoy rummaging about, fantasizing, dressing
up and playing parts in make-believe stories which, at night, become all too real for the three friends. Here, there are cities of gold
and forests so deep that nobody ever finds their way out again.
This is a magical universe pervaded by waves of harmony, where
heavenly choirs compete with the dull thud of magical drums. On
nights such as these, malevolence can unleash great misfortune.
But, in the end, good always triumphs...
A family adventure and a fairy tale about friendship and the
human struggle to preserve innocence, hopes and dreams.
Teah, the little refugee meets a boy, Martin, who knows the
secret life of tress and feels at home in the forest. Martin, who
up to now lived in the peaceful home of his eccentric but loving
family, and under the protection of the magic forest, is suddenly
confronted with a cruel true story of refugees, war and the
deep wounds it leaves on people. A humorous story about
friendship.
443
Theater Svoboda 58'
Jakub HEJNA, Czech Republic 2011
OutCome
Jarmila Outratova
+42 077 606 6165
[email protected]
The life and work of the director’s grandfather, world-famous
stage designer Josef Svoboda, who tried to juggle creative freedom, family life and political allegiances during the times of
the communist regime. Svoboda was able to work for some of
the best theaters in the world, such as The Old Vic in London,
The Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala in Milan, and
designed more than 750 stages overall. The film literally takes
the viewer behind the scenes and reveals some of the secrets
of Svoboda’s fascinating lifework through archival materials
that have not yet been published.
Market Films
398
This is not an American Movie 87'
Sasho PAVLOVSKI, FYROM 2011
Forward Motion Entertainment
Paco Alvarez
+1 416 454 9077
[email protected]
Market Films
102
A dying crime boss makes his last and biggest heist look like a
Hollywood production.
Film Market
In a decaying city, three young women struggle to find their
way out. Irina is ready to leave for Canada, to escape from the
“family” that forces her to work as a prostitute. Anna is getting
married to banish the ghost of her dissolved family. Vera, at
the beginning of her new life, is confronted with the secret reality of her family. In three days their paths cross unexpectedly,
driving them to a violent adulthood.
372
Three Days of Happiness 80'
Dimitri ATHANITIS, Greece 2011
DNA Films
Dimitri Athanitis
+30 210 3624894
[email protected]
Greek Films
The film focuses on the events that occurred after the end of
WWII and the German Occupation in Greece and the circumstances that led to the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). In a mountain village of the Greek countryside, armed right wing supporters led by Michas, attack left wing supporters who don’t
submit to their authority using methods of fear, murder and
degradation. One of these left wing supporters is Lambros. Our
story takes us close to these individuals and their associates. A
savage tale of a time when human life was of little value.
273
Tied Red Thread 106'
Kostas HARALAMBOUS, Greece 2011
ODEON
Dionissis Samiotis
+30 210 678 6430
[email protected]
Greek Films
Kenan, a 35-year-old tollbooth clerk, has a remarkable ability to
accommodate passing drivers faster than any of his colleagues
and to never let his focus be distracted. He has thus earned the
nickname “Robot”. Kenan lives with his ill and oppressive father.
As the walls around Kenan start to close in on him, he regresses
into his memories, unintelligible monologues and fantasies about
a beautiful woman who drives by the toll station every day. Moving
from the personal to the universal, Tolga Karaçelik makes a comment
about the “prison-box”that stands as a metaphor for contemporary
man’s caged life. Carefully and attentively, he listens to and highlights the details of the protagonist’s repetitive daily life.
Three ragged, homeless boys escape Ukraine and hit the road to
Poland. Six-year-old Petya, 10-year-old Vasya, and 11-year-old
Lyapa are typical little boys, spending almost every moment of
their escape full of carefree fun in landscapes that change along
with their moods. Constantly surrounded by everyday threats, they
jump trains, hitch rides, or walk through forests living on what
they can steal or whatever strangers offer them. They are wise
enough to know about border fences but too young and inexperienced to know the word “asylum.” Arriving in Poland, they have
only some vague notion of turning themselves into the police.
104
Tollbooth 96’
Tolga KARAÇELIK, Turkey 2010
Mantar Film, Turkey
Engin Yenidunya
+90 212 252 0532
[email protected]
155
Tomorrow Will Be Better 118’
Dorota KęDZIERZAWSKA, Poland-Japan 2010
Kid Film, Poland
Arthur Reinhart
+48 22 615 7223
[email protected]
Transit Cities is about Laila, a thirty-omething woman who is
running away from a life of disconnection and emptiness abroad.
She simply wants her old world back in Amman, Jordan, but
14 years have changed everything. Unannounced and uninvited,
Laila attempts to construct a new life, but her simple old town
is now a complex entity, a city that is being torn apart by forces
of religion from the right and globalization from the left
Can she survive in this new city... or will she have to go back
where she came from...
Yet if home is not there nor here, where is it?
371
Transit Cities 73'
Mohammad HUSHKI, Jordan 2010
Rula Nasser
+962 795 520 056
[email protected]
Market Films
103
386
A Trip 85'
Nejc GAZVODA, Slovenia 2011
Film Market
Three best friends embark on a road trip like they did in high
school, but they are not kids anymore. Gregor is going on a
war mission in Afghanistan, Ziva is going to study abroad, while
Andrej still makes fun of everybody. But there are secrets left
unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Perfo Production
Ales Pavlin
+386 40 425 140
[email protected]
Market Films
289
Trojans 35’
Constantine Giannaris, Greece-UK 1990
A kaleidoscopic look at the life and work of the poet Constantine
Cavafy. A singular documentary, an honest biography and at
the same time an exciting “translation” of the world, the obsessions, and the pleasurable sensations of his poetry and his
life, in images and sounds.
Greek Film Center
Iliana Zakopoulou
+30 210 3678 506
[email protected]
363
Try not to Blink 9’
Radu DRAGOMIR, Romania 2011
Strada Film International, Romania
Simona Alinte
+40 214 118 099
[email protected]
While waiting for his doctor’s appointment, a young man tries
to pick up a girl in the hospital’s waiting room. He accidentaly
finds out that she has a serious illness. She does not suspect a
thing. Troubled, he follows her around the city until the evening,
when they meet again in a coffee shop. Life is made up of moments like this: the moment when you have an accident, the
moment when you wait in line to see the doctor, the moment
when you meet somebody, and each of these moments can
change the course of your life. Even when you stand still and try
not to blink.
137
Tyrannosaur 91’
Paddy CONSIDINE, UK 2011
Protagonist Pictures, UK
Nada Cirjavic
+44 207 734 9000
[email protected]
Tyrannosaur is the story of Joseph, a man plagued by violent
moods and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As
Joseph’s life spirals into turmoil, a chance of redemption appears
in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their
relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret
of her own, with devastating consequences for both of them.
Open Horizons
404
Underground 81'
Nur AKALIN, Turkey 2011
Nadafilm
Nur Akalin
+90 538 240 7751
[email protected]
Market Films
104
Merdiven Altı tells the story of Sinan who is being sought by
the police due to his witnessing the death of his boss, of an accident his close friend experienced, and is afraid if he’s caught
he might be sent to do military service. Sinan, who is a young
boy, is a deserter. Before he gets caught and sent to prison, he
sets off on a journey in the underground world of İstanbul,
where backers, boxers and barmen go through, to search for
his elder brother and sister without his ID card with him.
Film Market
Sotiris is a police interrogator in Athens. He has an obsession:
he needs to be fair. He judges suspects according to his personal
moral code rather than the law. In his attempt to save another
innocent soul, he accidentally kills a man. Dora is the only witness to the crime. She is a poor cleaning woman. In order to
survive, Dora has no problem treating others unfairly. The righteous Sotiris and the unrighteous Dora like each other. But love,
honesty and justice aren’t always easy to combine.
261
Unfair World 118’
Filippos TSITOS, Greece-Germany 2011
Gabor Greiner
+49 30 6953 7850
[email protected]
Greek Films (Special Screening)
Unseen is the story of a journey made by Recep and his fiancée
Ebru to the village where Recep was born to announce their
plans to marry. They come from different cultural backgrounds.
Ebru is the daughter of a wealthy Istanbul family, while Recep
is the son of a family from a mountain village. They love one
another, yet both are a little anxious that this journey will bring
to the surface all the “unseen” differences between them. But
history and fate have prepared a surprise far beyond anything
they anticipated.
387
Unseen 120'
Ali OZGENTURK, Turkey 2010
Asya Film Filmcilik
Ekin Eralp
[email protected]
Market Films
The calm and safe world of Michal Kunicki collapsed with the
disappearance of his wife and son.
Solving the mystery of their vanishing becomes an obsession
that completely ruins his life.
392
The Vanishing 71'
Adam URYNIAK, Poland 2011
Adam Uryniak
+48 697 550789
[email protected]
Market Films
During a mid-summer heatwave, Nikos and Alain, two male prostitutes and a female pimp, Monica, get tangled in a peculiar relationship after meeting in a dark street. They fall in love, play with
guns and talk about card games, money and theater castings. Is
this a game of role playing the three of them have invented to pass
their time in a remote, empty summer house? Have they been reading Jean Genet? Whether a mirror image of the characters’reality or
an elliptic depiction of their distorted, dream-like perception of it,
Venus in the Garden, juxtaposing disparate literary and art references,
leads its isolated characters towards dissolution. And yet, in its
strange language, it presents this dissolution as a triumph.
Oliver is a lonely forty-something working as an air traffic controller. He appears to be isolated and his personal life is empty.
He fills his time by watching TV and observing the family living
in the house across the street – he regards them as an ideal of
happiness. At first he just watches the family, but gradually he
wants to learn more about them. He finds that things often
look different from a distance; that the borders of one’s private
life are more fragile than one would expect. Evil is endemic
and discrete; we carry violence around inside us. You never
know who’s watching you...
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Venus in the Garden 61’
Telémachos ALEXIOU, Greece-Germany 2011
Arsenal Institut for Film and Video Art, Germany
Telemachos Alexiou
+49 1 76 9910 2286
[email protected]
Greek Films
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Visible World 104'
Peter KRISTUFEK, Slovak Republic 2011
JMB Film & TV
Ondrej Starinsk
+42 190 747 5986
[email protected]
Market Films
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402
Walking 90'
Shiar ABDI, Germany-Turkey 2011
Alessandro Lombardo
+49 221 5109 1891
[email protected]
Film Market
Xelilo, a disturbed man, lives in an abandoned store and walks
endlessly through the streets of a Kurdish village in the southeast
of Turkey. He is being observed by Cengo, a 12-year-old boy,
living more or less happily under poor conditions with his friends
and family, selling chewing gum for a living. Cautiously, they
become friends and Cengo leads him to the meeting point
under the German bridge, where the children play. When the
Turkish military stage a coup in 1980, a curfew is imposed on
the city. The life of Xelilo and the other Kurds is endangered.
Market Films
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Walking Too Fast 146'
Radim SPACEK, Czech Republic 2010
Nite Flix
Silvia Pinterova
+49 160 92149988
[email protected]
Czechoslovakia, 1982. Antonín, a member of the secret police,
is full of unfocused rage and everything around him – his work
and family life – wears him down and bores him. He becomes
fixated on Klára, a girl he has no hope of winning. There is no
love in it or any other kind of genuine passion – only a burning
desire to fulfill the fantasy of escaping from the cage of his
boring and meaningless life. Antonín’s senseless struggle to
have Klára for himself not only turns him against the enemies
of the regime but also against his own people and the system
itself.
Market Films
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Wasted Youth 95'
Argyris PAPADIMITROPOULOS, Jan VOGEL, Greece 2011
Elephant Eye Films
Demetri Makoulis
+1 212 488 8877
[email protected]
Summer in Athens. A heat wave blasts the city. A teenage skateboarder sets out for an ordinary day with his friends. A middleaged man struggles with raising his children, a job he dislikes
and an impending nervous breakdown.
This is a portrait of Athens.
A film about a city and a society in crisis.
Inspired by true events.
Greek Films
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Wellcome to All Saints 90'
Sotiris GORITSAS, Greece 2011
Pan Entertainment SA
Maria Drandaki
+30 210 698 5050
[email protected]
A young medical intern begins his career at the “All Saints” Hospital. It is here that he discovers that everyone who works in
the Greek public sector is part of an absurd tragicomedy. He
finds out how a system that is designed for the well-being of
everyone has become an insane instrument of torture that
grinds everyone down, whether they’re a saint or not.
Greek Films
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Without 88´
Mark JACKSON, USA 2011
M-appeal, Germany
Aleksandra Abykova
+49 30 6150 7594
[email protected]
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Without follows 19-year-old Joslyn as she moves to a remote Washington island to take the job of caretaker for an elderly man, confined
in a wheelchair and without the ability to speak or otherwise communicate. Having to cope without modern conveniences such as Ιnternet access and cell phone reception, Joslyn gets sucked in by the
monotonous routine of caring for the man and slowly starts to unravel
under the pressure of her painful past, heightened by the loneliness
of her daily life. The elliptical narration does provide some slight revelations about her towards the end of the film, but Without is an
eerie mood piece and character-study more than anything else, fortified by the brilliant and delicate performance of its lead.
Film Market
MARKET SCREENINGS
The Market Screenings present an overview of
the Greek Films produced in 2011 which are not
part of the official Greek Films 2011 program of
the 52nd TIFF. The Market Screenings will take
place from the 8th to the 12th of November
(10.00-20.00) in Makedonia I room at the Electra
Palace Hotel. Only Industry accredited guests and
press can attend the Market Screenings.
Thursday 10 November
10.00
Alps
12.00
Hannibal Ante Portes
14.00
Three Days of Happiness
16.00
Fish & Chips
18.00
Dos: A love story in reverse…
Tuesday 8 November
10.00
Friday 11 November
10.00
The Possessed
12.00
Rot, Humiliation & Tequila
12.00
3rd World
14.00
Free all around
14.00
Welcome to All Saints
16.00
Breakdown Reward
16.00
Red Sky
18.00
The man who did not speak
18.00
Wasted Youth
Wednesday 9 November
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Saturday 12 November
10.00
4ever
10.00
Speeches about love-Plato's symposium
12.00
Amnesty
12.00
Athens through the mobile eye
14.00
Tied Red Thread
14.00
16.00
Burning Heads
16.00
18.00
Jerks
18.00
Europe loves European Festivals
A privileged place for meetings, exchanges and discovery, festivals provide a vibrant and accessible environment for the widest variety of talent, stories and
emotions that constitute Europe’s cinematography.
The MEDIA Programme of the European Union aims to promote European audiovisual heritage, to encourage the circulation of films outside their own
borders and to foster audiovisual industry competitiveness.
The MEDIA Programme acknowledges the cultural, educational, social and economic role of festivals by co-financing more than 90 festivals each year,
programming more than 20 000 screenings of European works to nearly 3 million audience across Europe.
This year the MEDIA programme is celebrating its 20th Birthday so we are especially proud to look back on how much the European film industry has developed over this period, and to stress our continued commitment to supporting the EU film industry in the future.
MEDIA is pleased to support the 52nd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and we extend our best wishes to all of the
festival goers for an enjoyable and stimulating event.
MEDIA PROGRAMME
European Union
For more information on MEDIA please visit our website: http://ec.europa.eu/media
L’Europe aime les festivals européens
Lieux privilégiés de rencontres, d’échanges et de découverte, les festivals rendent vivante et accessible au plus grand nombre la formidable diversité de talents, d’histoires et d’émotions que constituent les cinématographies européennes.
Le programme MEDIA de l’Union européenne vise à promouvoir le patrimoine cinématographique européen, à encourager les films à traverser les frontières
et à renforcer la compétitivité du secteur audiovisuel.
Le programme MEDIA reconnait l’importance culturelle, éducative, sociale et économique des festivals et co-finance plus de 90 festivals chaque année, qui
programment plus que 20 000 séances avec des films européens pour un public de presque 3 millions de cinéphiles dans toute l’Europe.
Cette année le Programme MEDIA fête son 20èmeanniversaire. Nous sommes particulièrement fiers de constater à quel point l’industrie du cinéma européen s’est développée durant cette période et nous sommes enthousiastes à l’idée de poursuivre notre partenariat pour soutenir le cinéma européen dans le
futur.
MEDIA a le plaisir de soutenir la 52ème édition du Festival International du Film de Thessalonique et souhaite aux festivaliers de grands moments de plaisir.
MEDIA PROGRAMME
Union Européenne
Pour plus d’information sur les aides MEDIA consultez le site: http://ec.europa.eu/media
THESSALONIKI AGORA MARKET PRESENTATIONS
SHOOTING THROUGH THE PERIPHERY
Wednesday 9/11 (Cine Cassavetis, 11:00-13:00)
Romania, Israel, Greece. Three small, peripheral countries which, in recent years, have succeeded in leaving their mark on the
world map of cinema. Is it the result of an organized effort or just a happy coincidence? What can their example teach us?
Andrei Tanasescu (Programmer, Toronto IFF & Romanian FF), Katriel Schory (Executive Director, Israel Film Fund) and Fenia
Cossovitsa (producer, Blonde Audiovisual Productions) discuss and exchange views and experiences.
GLOBAL FILM INITIATIVE
Thursday 10/10 (Hall Makedonia II – Electra Palace Hotel, 17.00 p.m)
The Global Film Initiative promotes cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema. The Initiative has developed
four complementary programs to promote both the production of authentic and accessible stories created in developing
world and their distribution throughout the schools and leading cultural institutions of the United States.
ACE – ATELIERS DU CINÉMA EUROPÉEN
Thursday 10/ 10, (Hall Makedonia II – Electra Palace Hotel, 17.30 p.m)
Every year a dozen European producers are selected to participate in the ACE programme. Thanks to the workshops and the
close personal monitoring offered by ACE, the producers can dramatically increase the possibility of a film’s success. ACE helps
the producers contrast coherent projects by focusing on both the creative and financial dimensions of film making.
Exchange of ideas, script analysis, preparation of financing plans, identification of and search for partners…The entire
method for project development is designed with the ACE producers (who remain the decision makers of the projects.)
MFG FILM FUNDING / GABRIELE RÖTHEMEYER
Saturday 12/10, (Hall Makedonia II – Electra Palace Hotel, 11.00 a.m)
Since October 1995, the MFG programme supports culturally significant film projects to advance the local film industry in
south-west Germany. Its associates are the federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg and the Suedwestrundfunk SWR. In 1999, the
MFG concerted an additional cooperation with the TV channels ZDF/arte.
The annual budget of MFG Filmfoerderung is about 15 million euros. MFG’s funding programme ranges from screenplay to
production and distribution as well as to specific support for cinemas. It is further complemented by measures to enhance
the infrastructure of film culture and the film industry. MFG funds a broad range of feature films, documentaries and video
productions, animated and children’s films as well as European co-productions. A major focus is on the promotion of up-andcoming talents in Baden-Württemberg. The aim of MFG is to make south western Germany an attractive location for film and
media. This includes the development of a database for film locations as well as a unique network of regional consulting
agencies all over Baden-Württemberg.
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Film Market
Festival Director: Dimitri Eipides
General Coordinator: Eleni Rammou
AGORA / MARKET
Coordinator: Marie-Pierre Macia
Services Coordination: Angeliki Vergou
Head of Market: Yianna Sarri
Market Coordination: Denise Andreola
Market Assistant: Denia Safari
Agora Market Production: Panagiotis Galios
Agora Market Production Assistant: Nikos Bozanis
Crossroads: Marie-Pierre Macia, Angeliki Vergou
Films Digitization Coordination, Translation, and Film Market Technical Assistance:
Neaniko Plano Subtitles (Andreas Thomopoulos, Thalia Karafyllidou, Yannis Kontogeorgakis, Michalis Laftsidis, Yorgos
Nounessis, Maria Papadaki, Maria Sapountzoglou,
Betty Semakoula, Alexandra Soltatou, Sofia Tiblalexi)
Copy editing and translations: Denise Andreola, Yanna Sarri, Angeliki Vergou
Design-Production: Andreas Remountis
Acknowledgements
Bulgaria: Mira Staleva (Sofia Meetings)
France: Jerome Paillard, Julie Bergeron (Cannes Film Festival), Isabelle Fauvel (Initiative Films)
Greece: Yorgos Kalogeropoulos, Apostolia Papaioannou, Dimitris Emmanouilidis (MFI Scrip 2 Film Workshops),
Pola Boussiou, Yorgos Krassakopoulos, Maria Papadaki, Angeliki Petrou, Tina Sideris, Thanos Stavropoulos
10 Aristotelous Sq., 54623 Thessaloniki, Greece T: +30 2310 378400 F: +30 2310 285 759
9 Alexandras Av., 11473 Athens, Greece T: +30 210 8706000 F: +30 210 6448143
www.filmfestival.gr
[email protected]
© 2011, Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Agora Market Manual 2011

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