Doc Market - Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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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 transnational circulation of films and to foster audiovisual industry competitiveness. The MEDIA Programme acknowledged the cultural, educational, social and economic role of festivals by co-financing 95 of them
across Europe in 2009. These festivals stand out with their rich and diverse European programming, networking and meeting opportunities for professionals and the public alike, their activities in support of young professionals, their educational initiatives and the importance they give to strengthening inter-cultural dialogue.
In 2009, the festivals supported by the MEDIA Programme have screened more than 20 300 European works
to more than 2.9 million cinema-lovers.
MEDIA is pleased to support the 13th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images
of the 21st Century and we extend our best wishes to all of the festival goers for an enjoyable and
stimulating event.
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’émotion 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 a reconnu l’importance culturelle, éducative, sociale et économique des festivals en co-finançant 95 d’entre eux dans toute l’Europe en 2009. Ces manifestations se démarquent par une programmation
européenne riche et diverse, par les opportunités de rencontres qu’elles offrent au public et aux cinéastes, par
leurs actions de soutien aux jeunes auteurs, par leurs initiatives pédagogiques ou encore par l’importance donnée au dialogue inter-culturel. En 2009, l’ensemble de ces festivals soutenus par le programme MEDIA a programmé plus de 20.300 œuvres européennes pour le grand plaisir de près de 2,9 millions cinéphiles.
MEDIA a le plaisir de soutenir la 13ère édition du Festival du Film Documantaire de Thessalonique
– Images du XXleme siècle et souhaite aux festivaliers de grands moments de plaisir.
Union Européenne – MEDIA PROGRAMME
http://www.ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_fr.htm
13th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOC MARKET 2011
European Union – MEDIA PROGRAMME
http://www.ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm
13th Thessaloniki
DocumenTary FesTival
IMages of The 21st CenTury
11-20 MarCh 2011
13th Thessaloniki
International
Doc Market
14-19 March 2011
Organized by
YΠOYPΓEIO
ΠOΛITIΣMOY KAI TOYPIΣMOY
HELLENIC MINISTRY
OF CULTURE AND TOURISM
With the support of
OFFICIAL SPONSOR
COMMUNICATION SPONSOR
Υ.Π.Α.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
AirtrAvElling sponsor
Communication Sponsors
EvEnts supportEr
General information
Venue:
Electra Palace Hotel, Byzantium Hall
Opening hours:
10:00 - 20:00
Happy hour:
17:30 - 18:30, at Excelsior Lounge, Electra Palace Hotel
Reservations:
Screening booths can be booked for a maximum
of four consecutive hours.
Please show up on time otherwise your reservation
will be cancelled.
Reservations should be made one day in advance.
Please note
• You are kindly requested to register your evaluation for each film you have
watched.
• You are kindly requested to leave the screening booth the way you found it.
• Smoking is not allowed at the DocMarket’s facilities.
• Priority to screenings booths is given to Doc Market Accreditations.
Documentaries Participating
Indexes
Index of Directors 563
Index of Sales Companies 571
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C
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D
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E
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F
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G
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H
209
I
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J
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K
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L
289
M
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N
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O
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P
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Q
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U
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Thessaloniki
International
Doc Market
[email protected]
Head of Doc Market: Yianna Sarri
Coordinator: Fotis Zampetakis, Angeliki Vergou
Assistant: Katerina Chatzidiki
Digitization Coordinator: Yorgos Nounesis
Sales Manager, ERT: Yannis Kollias
Sales Assistant Manager, ERT: Zefi Tsoukala, Nikoleta Karra
Doc Market Catalogue Editor-in-Chief: Mary Kitroeff
Coordination: Ioanna Loukopoulou
Design-Art Direction: Andreas Remountis
Images of the 21st centur y
13th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Director: Dimitri Eipides
Thessaloniki:
10 Aristotelous Sq., Thessaloniki 546 23, Greece
Τ. +30 2310 378 400 F. +30 2310 285 759
Athens:
9 Alexandras Ave., Athens 114 73, Greece
Τ. +30 210 870 6000 F. +30 210 644 8143
[email protected]
www.filmfestival.gr
We are happy to welcome you to the 13th edition
of the Thessaloniki International Doc Market
The Thessaloniki International Doc Market is evolving into an important international market and a major meeting place for film professionals. In the last twelve years it has managed to quadruple its size and put itself on the map of the international documentary
film industry.
We are very proud that from last year the Doc Market is fully digitalized. We have made
a great effort the last years to achieve that. Our purpose is always to improve the facilities we offer to the participant buyers, but also to the directors and producers who entrust
their work to us. The viewing results will be easily distributed and the buyers will have the
opportunity to watch more documentaries than in past years.
The last years the Doc Market took place in Electra Palace and after its success we decided
to organize it in the same place. We would like also to note that we are very pleased that
the collaboration with the Media Program of the European Union continuous.
The 2011 Doc Market welcomes more than 60 TV buyers, distributors, commissioning
editors and international festival representatives. While attending the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival they will have the opportunity to watch documentaries in
our theatres and Doc Market facilities and meet with producers, directors and sales agents.
The Doc Market catalogue includes more than 520 titles, 160 of which have been selected
for the 13th TDF program. In our selection we have included productions from various
countries, representing different topics, views and approaches of the world. We believe we
have achieved a fine balance between independent as well as larger scale productions in
order to highlight all aspects of contemporary documentary filmmaking.
We are confident that the 13th Thessaloniki International Doc Market will give many of its
films the opportunity to find their place on television and movie screens all over the world.
Happy viewing!
Dimitri Eipides
Director
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ITALY
Current Affairs
+ OR - CONFUSED SEX. TALES OF
WORLDS IN THE AIDS AGE
Andrea Adriatico & Giulio Maria Corbelli
Stories and faces of people, very different the one from another: doctors, lawyers, social
health workers, showmen, politicians and common people. Everyone introduces themselves by answering basic questions about AIDS, happiness, life and sex. Among a mix of
thoughts, stories and descriptions, everyone will show us + or – / more or less/ positive
or negative, the truth...
Running time: 92΄
Year of production: 2010
Production Company:
Production Contact Person:
Sales Company:
Sales Contact Person:
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Cinemare
Saverio Peschechera
Vitagraph
Filippo D’Angelo
Via Schiavonia 1
Bologna 40121 Italy
T.-F. +39 051 267 150
[email protected]
1 3 t h Th e s s a l o n i k i D o c u m e n t a r y Fe s t i va l
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ITALY
Science & Technology
0.9 AMPERE
Giotto Barbieri
Electroshock, cure or torture?
- The history of a medical treatment
- A quick sharp shock inside the complex labyrinth of depression.
ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy), also known as “electroshock”, is still used today and is
probably one of the most controversial therapies.
Electroshock was invented by an Italian neuropsychiatrist, Ugo Cerletti, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rome, in the late 30s and was based on inducing convulsions
on a patient through an electric current of 0.9 Ampere to the brain using electrodes attached
to the head. For some people the practice should have been banned, for others it was the
last resort for severe pathologies.
What do we really know about Electroshock?
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Filmcome 14
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
28, rue de l’Equerre
75019 Paris, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
2011 Thessaloniki Doc Market Guide
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118
LEBANON
Current Affairs
12 ANGRY LEBANESE –
THE DOCUMENTARY
Zeina Daccache
A theater director specializing in working with disadvantaged and traumatized people,
Zeina Daccache struggled to set up Lebanon’s first prison-based drama project in the country’s notorious Roumieh Prison. For fifteen months, forty-five inmates, some completely
illiterate, found themselves working together to present an adaptation of the famous stage
play 12 Angry Men, here re-named 12 Angry Lebanese. In the film, the drama therapy sessions, the interviews with the inmates, and the interaction with both director and audience, convey a message of hope, forgiveness and change. Through their artistic journey,
these “murderers, drug dealers and rapists” reveal kindness and faith in life. Inspiring and
honest, this account of the prisoners’ journey demonstrates the positive effect of drama
therapy and the positive effect on some of the most ostracized individuals in society.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Catharsis-LCDT
Zeina Daccache
Zeina Daccache
Rue v6; maison 7 Zone verte
Kfarhbab-Ghazir, Lebanon
T. +961 333 69 32
F. +961 9 926 932
[email protected]
www.zeinadaccache.com
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FRANCE
Sports
2 GIRLS IN THE BOXING RING
Alexandra Riguet
Lucie and Sarah are both European boxing champions in their category. They also have been
admitted at one of the top schools in France: Sciences Po Paris. Sarah Ourahmoune is the
reserved brunette while Lucie Bertaud is the spirited blonde.
Both of them have set two goals for the year 2009: the Boxing world’s championship in
China and success in their first year of college.
They’re always doing their best, whether in school, in the boxing ring or at work. Indeed
they both have to keep a job to support themselves.
As far as university is concerned, everything went well and they both have passed the first
year. In regard to boxing, things were more complicated... Their journey has been full of hazards and even accidents. Lucie broke her elbow a month before the competition but she
hid it and went to the championships anyway.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Actual Prod
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
75019 Paris France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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463
GERMANY
20,000 CABLES UNDER THE SEA
Gerhard Widmer & Michael Wolff
How do the incredible volumes of data that are coursing through our air manage to cross
the world’s oceans? The answer lies on the seabed in several million kilometres of very delicate glass fibre bundles. How does the Internet work so reliably, and what is done when
faults have to be repaired at sea? This film poses questions about the future of broadband
communication and looks over the shoulders of the people who dedicate their every-day
lives to this globe-spanning cable network.
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
18
fact+film Medienproduktion (for NDR/ARTE/RB)
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
Breite Strasse 48-50
Cologne 50667, Germany
T. +49 221 92069 0
F. +49 221 92069 69
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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GREECE
Lifestyles
26.2 THE ROAD TO HERE
Lefteris Fylaktos
At some point in every marathon route, almost every runner has to face the following
dilemma: to listen to the body that screams it’s had enough, or to the inner voice urging
the runner to stay the course to the finish line. Life has a lot in common with a marathon
race with one significant difference: there is no finish line – just running. Dr. Becky Clark,
50, athlete and writer, is a licensed clinical social worker and sport psychologist in New York
City. Deaf since her early teens, she successfully reconnected to the world of sound in 2008
with the aid of cochlear implants. In 2009, she ran the Athens Classic Marathon as a celebration of her healing journey from child physical/sexual trauma.
Running time: 55΄
Production Contact Person: Lefteris Fylaktos
Lefteris Fylaktos
61 Archagelou Iatrou St
Thessaloniki 56728, Greece
T. +49 176 7028 4806
[email protected]
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702
USA
Lifestyles
45365
Bill and Turner Ross
45365 takes us on an unforgettable journey into America’s heartland. Through beautiful
imagery and intimate access into the participants’ lives, filmmakers Turner and Bill Ross
present the intricate connections, close relationships, small moments and life-changing
events of a small town in Ohio, giving us a cinema verité mosaic, reminiscent of the great
Frederick Wiseman. From the man who calls a local policeman because his cable is out, to
an ex-con who is just trying to get by, to a judge running for re-election, 45365 captures
what it means to live in small town America.
Running time: 93΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Ross Bros.
Seventh Art Releasing
Shane Griffin
6579 Pickwick Street
Los Angeles CA 90042 USA
T. +1 323 259 8259
F. +1 323 474 6371
[email protected]
www.7thart.com
599
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BULGARIA
History & Politics
60 METERS UNDER THE SEA
Kuzov Milan
The documentary takes the viewers on a journey to the bottom of the Black Sea, where
the Soviet L-24 submarine, dating back to WWII, and its 57-member crew lie on the sea
bottom. Bulgarian and Russian divers carry out a series of complex and dangerous dives
in search of answers. How did the submarine sink? Was there any chance for the crew to
be saved? What was its mission along the Bulgarian coast-line in the winter of 1942, since
at that time there was no formal war declared between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Historians and military experts comment on the facts. The film was shot in the summer of
2009 near the Bulgarian town of Shabla. Original video footage was also used of several
cameras filming the joint Bulgarian-Russian expedition.
Running time: 26΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Bulgarian National TV
Daniela Kuzmanova
29 San Stefano Street
Sofia 1504, Bulgaria
T. +359 2 814 2390
F. +359 2 943 6045
[email protected]
www.bnt.bg
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GREECE
Art, Music & Culture
7.1.2011
Dimitris Theodoropoulos
It’s January the 7th 2011 and master drummer Dimitri Varzabetian, is setting up for one
last time his Gretsch drum-set in the yard, next to one of the few remaining active water
wells in Athens. He has practiced there for twenty years. The new owners have decided that
it’s time for a new apartment-building...
Running time: 7΄
Production Company:
Theodoropoulos / Nikolakakis
Production Contact Person: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Dimitris Theodoropoulos
24 Manoliassas St Athens 16121, Greece
T.-F. +30 210 723 0054
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.theodoropoulos.info
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A
GREECE
ABOUT THE KIOSK
Yorgos Paliatsios & Dimitris Ameladiotis
This film is a short document of the “Peri Peripterou”(About the Kiosk) action which took
place at 8 Aristotelous Street in Thessaloniki from 13th to 22nd November 2009. This film
shows the process of this action from the beginning until the end, marking some events
which transform the real kiosk into an open public platform of artistic creation.
The Independent Peri Peripterou action is kindly supported by the State Museum Centre
of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
Running time: 25΄
Yorgos Paliatsos
20 Stromnitsis St
Thessaloniki 54248, Greece
T. +30 6976 744 804
[email protected]
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A
700
FRANCE - SERBIA
ADRIANA
Goran Music
Adriana is about a Paris-born sculptor of Serbian origin, Adriana Popovic. The film searches
for the origins of her vocation, her efforts, initially interior, to fight, as a young child, for her
own identity and desire to create.
Then, the film continues with the author’s own visual interpretation of her own world, expressed through her sculptures, being less concerned with the work process itself (even
if it is visible) but more with the roots of her inspiration and at the same time accentuating her impressive artistic achievements.
This film is a romantic, poetic vision of creativity in general.
Running time: 17΄
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Goran Music
2 rue Gustave Rouanet
Paris 75018, France
T. +33 6 8089 9081
[email protected]
368
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FRANCE
Environment & Wildlife
AGAINST THE FLOW
Vassili Silovic
It’s official: we’re facing a problem over water! But what exactly is the nature of the problem? The film points to concrete examples: the inhabitants of a village in Mali live on 6 litres
of water per day and person, while at the same time in Barcelona the authorities fear a water shortage: each citizen uses on average 120 litres per day! This clearly demonstrates that
the definition of need and shortage is a question of proportion. We investigate in Spain,
Mali and Mexico and discover that water shortage is rarely only a question of resource. What
if it were, above all, a question of democracy?
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Point du Jour – Intuitive Pictures
Doris Weitzel
Point du Jour International
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
www.pointdujour-international.fr
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MEXICO - FRANCE
Current Affairs
AGNUS DEI: LAMB OF GOD
Alejandra Sanchez
Jesús was sexually abused by a priest when he was an 11-year-old boy. As an adult, he
decides not only to denounce his aggressor but also to find him and confront him. This is
a story that reveals the impunity of the Catholic Church towards acts of pederasty committed by some of its members, while Jesús Romero tells his life story.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
26
La Femme Endormie
Carole Solive
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
18 rue Quincampoix #133
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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ISRAEL
AISHA
Oshri Hayun & Hila Cohen
Born in the Atlas mountains of Morocco, Aisha was married at 11 when she fell in love with
Joseph. They immigrated to Israel in 1955 and had 14 children, of which 11 are still alive.
At 96, with her husband deceased and her children rarely visiting, she only has her animals to keep her company, and among them Booba, the goat with whom she has the kind
of relationship normally seen between a mother and adolescent daughter.
Aisha may live among the spectacular landscapes of Yavniel, but in her heart she is still at
the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, refusing to let go of the traditions of her childhood,
traditions that have alienated her children.
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sapir College
Sigal Golan
JMT Films Distribution
Michael Treves
20 Bialik Str.
Tel Aviv 63324 Israel
T. +97 25 2363 3398
[email protected]
www.jmtfilms.com/index.htm
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
AISHEEN, STILL ALIVE IN GAZA
Nicolas Wadimoff
Director Nicolas Wadimoff arrived in Gaza one month after the end of the Israeli military
attack, in Febuary 2009. Among the rubble and ruins, he met people who “tried to put their
life back together with little pieces of furniture or trinkets they found here and there…”
Aisheen does not indulge in self-pity. There is no political or humanitarian analysis. Instead,
it offers poignant scenes of every day life that speak louder than any commentary. “We don’t
need aid, we need freedom!” sing the DARG Team rappers. Aisheen is a tribute to life –
against all odds!
2010 Award-winner: Berlin and Nyon
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
28
JCCTV – Akka Films
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
589
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
ALGERIA. IMAGES OF A FIGHT.
A PORTRAIT OF RENÉ VAUTIER
Jérôme Laffont
Like all modern conflicts, the war in Algeria has challenged the value of reported images.
Confronted with the abundance of films produced by the French army, a few filmmakers
like René Vautier, in reaction to propaganda, pledged allegiance to the Algerian fighters,
depicting their struggle. Camera in hand, they brought crucial images back, although most
of them were then censored.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sourat Film
Michel Khleifi
Ventes-CBA/WIP Sales
Thierry Detaille
Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles,
19 F, avenue des Arts
Brussels 1000, Belgium
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 2 227 2239
[email protected]
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FRANCE
ALGIERS, EL BADJA
Nasser-Eddine Benalia
In 1992, the Kasbah of Algiers was listed by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage to Humanity. The Kasbah is made of 1,700 houses and around 80,000 inhabitants. Slowly the
term was given to the rest of the city. But what is really the state of the Kasbah today?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Peloche Prod.
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019 France
T. +33 14 8744 377
F. +33 14 8748 265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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GERMANY
AL-HALQA – IN THE
STORYTELLER’S CIRCLE
Thomas Landerburger
For centuries, the most talented storytellers have been performing their craft in the unique
market square Jemâa El Fna in Marrakesh. Recently, their oral transmissions have been declared as “Intangible World Heritage” by UNESCO.
Abderahim is one of the most well known storytellers on the square. He takes his son Zoheir on a journey through Morocco. Zoheir experiences that there is much more to storytelling than just voice, rhythm and intonation. He has to learn that the first story to know
is your own.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Thomas Ladenburger
Taskovski Films
Manuela Buono
463 Russell Court, Woburn Place
London WC1H0NL UK
T. +38 76 5906 583
[email protected]
www.taskovskifilms.com
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GREECE
Current Affairs
ALI PROJEKT
Team “Rough Cats”
Ali is an economic immigrant from Afghanistan. Trying to reach to Greece, he trekked
through the mountains of Iraq and Pakistan and almost drowned in the Aegean Sea. Why
did he finally stay in Greece? Is his life in Thessaloniki as he had imagined it would be?
Running time: 10΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
32
Iris
Anna Podara
Iris
Anna Podara
239, Lagada St., Stavroupoli
Thessaloniki, Greece
T. +30 6997 025 859
F. +30 2310 662 944
[email protected]
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GERMANY
Lifestyles
ALIAS
Jens Junker
A fascinating account of a man who grew up in apparently idyllic circumstances as part
of a strictly religious German family. Never really registering that his appearance seems different to that of his brothers. He is in his twenties before his father reveals the truth of his
son’s real identity during an argument. The family emerges as a structure of hypocrisy, its
members as silent guardians of secret knowledge. Years later, the protagonist finds the
courage to return to his childhood village, to speak with members of his family, and to subsequently travel to Lebanon, where he encounters a familiar-looking stranger.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sales Company:
Walker+Worm Film GmbH&Co. KG
Tobias Walker
Rise and Shine World Sales
Diana Karklin
Schlesische Str. 29/30
Berlin 10997, Germany
T. +49 30 4737 298 0
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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336
CZECH REPUBLIC
Current Affairs
ALL FOR THE GOOD
OF THE WORLD AND NOSOVICE
Vit Klusak
An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea’s
Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had
no intention of selling their plots of land. At least not until many of them faced pressure
from their neighbors who had accepted approximately 4,000 euros in compensation and
not until they received death threats. Using nine protagonists, the film paints a portrait of
a village changed beyond recognition. A humorous yet compelling film about a field that
yields cars.
Running time: 82΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Hypermarket Film
Tereza Horska
Taskovski Films
Vesna Cudic
463 RUSSELL COURT, WOBURN PLACE
London WC1H 0NL, UK
T. +44 207 278 4284
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
ALL MY TOMORROWS
Sonia Herman Dolz
In medical science, progress is made by virtue of man’s incessant curiosity and percipience.
Because of this, together with patience and a bit of luck, humankind is moving step by step
toward an understanding of mysterious diseases like cancer.
Guided by, among others, a cancer surgeon, a cell biologist and a night nurse, we witness
their fascination with the daunting phenomenon of cancer. Although they are well aware
that they themselves will not live to see the day that the disease is fully understood, and
that the available treatments are as yet inadequate, they give it their heart and soul.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Hasten Slowly Films
Sonia Herman Dolz
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217 GP, The Netherlands
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Current Affairs
ALL THAT GLITTERS
Tomas Kudrna
Situated at the crossroads of global interests, Kyrgyzstan reflects the political rivalry between
Russian and American influence, reveals the religious rivalry between Christianity and Islam, and lies between the economic predominance of China and Russia. All That Glitters
examines how strange capitalism and democracy can be when introduced to a former Soviet country, where people who were never given autonomy are suddenly expected to
make their own financial and political decisions.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
36
Armada Films
Tomas Kudrna
CAT&Docs
Maëlle Guenegues
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 6 8177 6505
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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AUSTRIA
History & Politics
ALLENTSTEIG
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
This portrait of Allentsteig, a military training area and nature reserve, presents various aspects of life. Without comment but with a keen eye for humorous details.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Autlook Filmsales GmbH
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
Vienna 1040, Austria
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
www.autlookfilms.com
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GREECE
Lifestyles
ALMA BONITA (BEAUTIFUL SOUL)
Alexis Ponce & Vivi Zografou
This documentary film discusses the way in which our children are born nowadays in
Greece. The film puts forward the aspect that labor and pregnancy are experiences of selfknowledge and that Greek women are deprived of that experience, because labor in
Greece is dealt with as a mere medical procedure. The central narrative axis is formed by
mothers’ narrations who describe their labors. These narrations provoke discussions with
doctors, midwives, psychiatrists, etc., on disputable medical practices and matters, and pose
questions about our global civilization and Greek culture and mentality. Among others, we
interview famous researcher Dr. Michel Odent, whom we meet in London. More than a
medical documentary film, this film is a human conversation about labor, full of wisdom,
humor, revelations and emotions.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Euroirida
Production Contact Person: Vivi Zografou
10, Tsotyliou St
Athens, Greece
T.-F.+30 210 682 6955
[email protected]
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ITALY, TURKEY
ALMOST MARRIED
Fatma Bucak & Sergio Fargnachino
Fatma is Turkish.
She loves an Italian man.
Her family has always arranged marriages for the women.
She wants to marry him.
Huseyin is Turkish. He ran away to marry his love.
Now he has four daughters, Turkey is awakening to modernity but he wants to decide for
them.
His younger daughter ran away to Italy to live a free life… but this summer she’s back…
and she has something to tell him.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Move Productions, Zenit Arti Audiovisive
Taskovski Films
Manuela Buono
463, Russell Court, Woburn Place
London WC1H 0NL, UK
T. +38 76 5906 583
[email protected]
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FRANCE
AN AMERICAN JOURNEY
IN ROBERT FRANK’S FOOTSTEPS
Philippe Séclier
In contemporary photography, everybody agrees there is a “before” and an “after” The Americans, Robert Frank’s 1958 photographic manifesto.
Half a century later, French director Philippe Séclier decided to follow (shot in France, USA,
China, Switzerland, Germany) in Robert Frank’s footsteps to explore the spirit of the Beat
Generation and the impact of his book, The Americans, not only on the art of photography, but also on American culture.
From Texas to Montana, from Nebraska to Louisiana, from New York to San Francisco, An
American Journey is a 15,000-mile odyssey through contemporary America, moving between past and present, photography and cinema, and two Americas, separated by time.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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AD Vitam Production
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019 France
T. +33 14 8744 377
F. +33 14 8748 265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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CYPRUS
History & Politics
AMMOCHOSTOS
Costas Orthodoxou
The documentary is essentially a profile of the city of Ammochostos (Famagusta), starting from ancient times until today. To Cyprus, Famagusta has always been a major city, a
port, a gateway for foreign cultures and civilizations. At the same time it is a gateway that
has provided entry to many conquerors.
Over the past 36 years, Famagusta has become a symbol of the struggle for liberation of
Cypriots; in particular the closed city, the tourist part of Famagusta, has become a point
of reference. Footage from a walk we took through the city – as far as we were allowed
to by the occupying forces – is intercut with narratives by Famagustans; shocking testimony and accounts from people who were living in Famagusta during the tragic and heroic
events of 1974.
Running time: 74΄
Production Company:
Cybc
Production Contact Person: Costas Orthodoxou
Ayias Theodoras 22, Strovolos
Nicosia 2046, Cyprus
T. +357 99 65 7833
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
AMONG HORSES AND MEN
Marjolein Boonstra
In the desert of Nevada, two raw and unpolished worlds come together in a unique program where men and horses meet.
“We’re not out here to babysit. We want to develop these guys, let them learn something,
let them do something.” Hank Curry Chris, Dean, Gilbert, Charles, Steven, Bo and Mike are
all young inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. The men are in the last phase
of lengthy prison sentences and are given the chance to enter a new world; they have three
months to tame a wild mustang and transform it into a reliable, trustworthy riding horse.
Marjoleine Boonstra follows the detainees over the course of this intensive training during which the men see themselves reflected in the eyes of their horses. The men learn to
win the trust of another living being once again, a skill that has slipped away during their
time on the inside.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Viewpoint Productions
Valerie Schuit
Illumina Films
Robin Brinster
Leidsestraat 106-IV
Amsterdam 1017PG, The Netherlands
T. +31 20 6248 3985
F. +31 20 3308 155
[email protected]
www.illuminafilms.nl
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GREECE
History & Politics
ANDREAS CALVOS
Tasos Psarras
Andreas Calvos, a major Greek poet, was born in 1792 on the island of Zakynthos. He traveled to Livorno, Pisa, Florence, Zurich and London, and then he returned to Florence. He
was arrested by the police for political reasons and was deported to Geneva. There, in 1824,
he wrote his ten first odes. He then went to Paris, where he wrote another ten odes. He
moved to Corfu where he taught at the Ionian Academy. He died in 1869 in London.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA
Sales Company:
Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA
Sales Contact Person: Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
Agia Paraskevi 153 42, Greece
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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JAPAN - USA
ANPO: ART X WAR
Linda Hoaglund
The United States has operated military bases in Japan for six decades. Their presence has
rubbed salt into unhealed wounds from the war – a complex trauma.
But ANPO is not a straightforward political documentary. Instead, the film depicts resistance to US military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings, photographs
and animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan’s foremost contemporary artists.
Running time: 60’
Production Contact Person: Linda Hoaglund
Sales Company:
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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AUSTRIA
Current Affairs
ARAB ATTRACTION
Andreas Horvath
Arab Attraction explores the unusual paradigm shift of a woman known for her pronounced feminist views.
She falls in love with a 20 years younger man from Yemen, to become his second wife and
a devoted Muslim.
Running time: 119΄
Production Contact Person: Andreas Horvath
Sales Company:
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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UK
Lifestyles
THE ARBOR
Clio Barnard
British playwright Andrea Dunbar was 19 when her play The Arbor was staged at London’s
Royal Court Theater in 1980. Its raw, incisive portrayal of the cycles of violence and addiction
on a tough Bradford housing estate was drawn directly from her own experience, brutalized and pregnant at 15. Two plays and one film (the raucous, funny Rita, Sue & Bob Too)
later, the young playwright once acclaimed as a “genius from the slums”, was dead, aged
just 29. Clio Barnard’s film also entitled The Arbor looks both at Dunbar’s life and the experiences of the young family she left behind and in particular her eldest daughter whose
life followed a remarkably similar downward spiral to her mother. This is a documentary
uniquely told, whereby audio interviews given by family members are lip-synced on-screen
by actors to very powerful effect.
Running time: 90’
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Artangel Trust
Tracy O’Riordan
Wavelenght Pictures
John Flahive
24 Alexandra Grove, Apt. 4
London N42LF UK
T. +44 79 6877 2792
[email protected]
www.wavelengthpictures.co.uk
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GREECE
ART UBER ALLES
Yorgos Dimitsanos
Art Uber Alles is a musical/cultural TV show and its main purpose is to make known and
promote artists from all the spectrum of music and arts. The show mostly supports the
kinds of music that aren’t represented adequately by the media, despite the fact that they
have a special musical and cultural interest. The themes of the show are:
1) Profiles of Greek and international music artists
2) Concerts, events and exhibitions
3) Do It Yourself column of musical engineering
4) Cofix Wiggler informative and educational inset. This is an inset in the Art Uber Alles show
about comics and animation.
5) Blow Up is an inset about cinema, theater, plastic arts, directors, actors, painters, video
artists, street artists, etc.
Our purpose is to promote musical culture abroad as well as in Greece, to support and present new, noteworthy artists and to satisfy the TV public’s need for something different and
not to create another show in order to support the established mainstream status.
This particular show serves the artistic/creative concerns of thousands of young people.
Running time: 45΄
Year of production: 2008-2011
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Mysterious Art
Kika Yannou
Mysterious Art
Kika Yannou
27 Aristotelous St, Nea Ionia
Athens 142 33, Greece
T. +30 6976 994 175, +30 211 7057 121
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
AS LILITH
Eytan Harris
An absurd, brilliant and surreal film about an orthodox Jewish organization and an eccentric
mother who lock horns over the remains of her teenage daughter’s body.
Lilith, a charismatic single mother with an unusual life story, has clashed with one of the
largest religious organizations in Israel, only because she’s determined to cremate, not to
bury in the Jewish way, the body of her 14-year-daughter, who unexpectedly committed
suicide. A real witch hunt, with no limits, is taking place in the tiny suburban town.
Eytan Harris’s darkly funny film is filled with situations so bizarre and carried out by a cast
of characters so crazy, that you would swear it was all made up. But it’s not, and Harris, a
skilled cinematographer and ace storyteller, is there to capture everything as it unfolds. As
Lilith is an impeccably well-crafted film that uses fly-on-the-wall filmmaking to capture
a completely off-the-wall story.
Running time: 77΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Eytan Harris Productions
Eytan Harris
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
Tel Aviv 63324, Israel
T. +972 5 2363 3398
[email protected]
http://www.jmtfilms.com/index.htm
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BULGARIA
ASSEN PEIKOV – THE BULGARIAN
FROM ROME
Maria Trayanova
Who is Assen Peikov? For over thirty years he lived and worked in Rome, until his death
in 1973. Today the atelier of the great Bulgarian sculptor in Via Margutta in Rome is part
of the cultural history of The Eternal City. The people working in the artists’ street, also
known as the Roma Montmartre, still cherish the memory of the “Bulgarian from Rome”.
His works are an original gallery, reminiscent of a certain historical age, marked by great
names from the early 20th century.
Running time: 54΄
Sales Company:
Daniela Kuzmanova
Sofia 1504 Bulgaria
T. +35 92 8142 390
F. +35 92 9436 045
[email protected]
www.bnt.bg
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GERMANY
AT HOME WITH NEFERTITI
Hubert Schäfer & Christoph Martin Grosser
This documentary takes you behind the scenes of Berlin’s Egyptian Museum, one of the
most renowned collections in the world, and of the dazzling Neues Museum. It explains
about the origins, background and details of this unique collection. Explore how so many
magnificent artefacts from ancient Egypt ended up in Berlin. The history of the museum
is a tale of triumph and tragedy, passion and politics, failure and, ultimately, success. In the
summer of 2005, the Egyptian Museum was moved from its post-war home in West Berlin
to Museum Island. More than 1,800 priceless pieces, from massive statues to fragile papyrus, had to be packed up. We’ll take you into the heart of this enormous logistical undertaking and you’ll see exclusive footage of the final piece, the bust of Nefertiti, being
moved in a spectacularly planned overnight operation.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Oculus Film
Hubert Schäfer
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 298 0
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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POLAND
Lifestyles
AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA
Michal Marczak
Alexei is a nineteen-year-old recruit being flown in to perform his military service on the
frontier of northern Russia. The base is one of few such remaining outposts on the Arctic
Ocean. There are five other seasoned and long serving soldiers stationed here, each with
their own personal story or secret that has caused them to retreat from the real world. Their
training and breaking in of the new arrival is sometimes humorous, at times harsh. Gradually, they each reveal something of themselves in their daily interactions and private moments as they continue their absurd duty in this snow covered no man’s land, hundreds
of miles from the nearest human settlement.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Contact Person:
Ozumi Films
Michal Marczak
Mokotowska 46a, Suite 28
Warsaw 00-543, Poland
T. +48 602 737 079
[email protected]
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DENMARK
Current Affairs
AUNG SAN SUU KYI –
LADY OF NO FEAR
Anne Gyrithe Bonne
We know Aung San Suu Kyi as “a golden bird in a cage”; she is a valuable icon representing freedom and democracy of which the oppressed population of Burma much hopes for.
In the West she stands out as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, she has been awarded
countless prizes for her effort, among them the Nobel Peace Prize. But who is the person
and woman behind it all? In this film, her close family, friends and close colleagues tell
about a daughter, a wife, a friend, a mother, and a rebel, that early in life knew deep grief
and deprivation.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Kamoli Films
Production Contact Person: Helle Ulsteen
Sales Company:
First Hand Films
Gitte Hansen
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
Zurich 8050, Switzerland
T. +41 44 3122 060
F. +41 44 3122 080
[email protected]
www.firsthandfilms.com
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UK
“How I Αm: Challenging Perceptions”
THE AUTISM PUZZLE
Saskia Baron
Fifty years ago autism was a highly obscure disorder which affected four people in 10,000.
Today some scientists believe the rate is1 in 100. What’s happened? Is there an epidemic
of autism, and if so, what’s causing it? Or is it that awareness has grown and the definition of autism changed? Film-maker Saskia Baron’s older brother Timothy was one of the
first children diagnosed with autism in Britain in the 1960s. This film mixes personal history and interviews with some of the world’s leading experts on autism and was acclaimed
for being ‘a moving and important investigation’ by The Times of London.
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
BBC
BBC Active
Richard Donnelly
80 Strand
London WC2R ORL, UK
T. +44 20 70202 2751
[email protected]
www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com
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GERMANY
“How I Am: Challenging Perceptions”
AUTISTICS
Wolfram Seeger
“Haus Bucken” is a hostel for adult autistic individuals, founded by stricken parents twenty
years ago. For one year, director Wolfram Seeger visited the hostel and watched the daily
life of the inhabitants. The documentary affords an insight into the peculiarities and rituals of the autistic individuals, but also into the experiences of the parents and the nursing
staff.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Exit Filmproduktion
Wolfram Seeger
Exit Filmproduktion
Wolfram Seeger
Stoecken 34
Roesrath D-515-3 Germany
T. +49 22 0589 6610
F. +49 22 9589 7459
[email protected]
www.exit-seeger.de
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ROMANIA
History & Politics
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU
Andrei Ujică
“After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It
is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be Baudelaire or Bolintineanu,
Louis XVI or Nicolae Ceauşescu.”
Andrei Ujică
During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceauşescu reviews his long reign in power: 1965-1989. The film uses unknown official footage from the
Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
Running time: 180΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Icon Production
Velvet Moraru
Mandragora International
Ronald Chammah
29 Rue Des Pyramides
Paris 75001, France
T. +33 1 40 20 91 70
F. +33 1 42 86 02 24
[email protected]
www.mandragorasales.com
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GERMANY
Sports
AUTUMN GOLD
Jan Tenhaven
Autumn Gold tells the life-affirming story of five athletes as they prepare for the Track and
Field World Championships. Their toughest challenge is their age: these potential world
champions are between 80 and 100 years old. With ambition and plenty of humor, they
accept the task. At the finishing line of their lives, and true to the motto “We can rest after we’re dead”, they seek one more ultimate challenge and give their best on the way to
a gold medal in Finland. They want to stand on the podium one last time. It is a competition against age and the other hurdles of life. A story of winning and losing, of setbacks
and triumphs. Autumn Gold is an homage to life as it can be: not smooth and wrinkle-free,
but full of humor and determination.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Berlin Gmbh
Christian Beetz
Films Transit International
Jan Röfekamp
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Montreal/Quebec H3L 1A8, Canada
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
www.filmstransit.com
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ISRAEL
History & Politics
BACK AND FORTH
Uri Rosenwaks
Made up of four short films, all of which are directed by Bedouin directors in their debut
as filmmakers, this unique film is an unprecedented, authentic self-portrait of current life
in Bedouin society, portraying the struggle for progress that in many ways is held back by
the traditions of the nomadic past. Back and Forth is the second documentary feature produced as part of the independent cinematic project in Rahat, by Uri Rosenwaks; the first
one was The Film Class.
Running time: 55΄
Sales Company:
Ruth Diskin Films
Cara Saposnik
5 Issachar Street
Jerusalem 93629, Israel
T. +972 2 672 4256
F. +972 2 672 4210
[email protected]
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MEXICO
History & Politics
BACK TO LIFE
Carlos Haggerman
How did a poor Mexican scuba diver get to marry an American top model? What was she
looking for when she drove from New York to Acapulco with her 3-year-old son? What happened to that white freckly boy who grew up in a world that reminded him everyday that
he was a gringo? Using a legendary shark hunt in the late seventies as our story’s core, we
will meet the Martinez-Sidney family and discover the secrets of their peculiar past. They
will also show us a bigger picture of a new view of the Mexican-American relationship.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica
de Calidad (Foprocine)
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine)
Pablo Briseño
Insurgentes Sur #674 del Valle
Mexico DF 03100, Mexico
T. +525 55 448 5345
F. +525 55 448 5345
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
BACKLIGHT: A GREEK TRAGEDY
Shuchen Tan
In the spring of 2010, two ancient Kouroi statues were found in the zucchini field of a poor
Greek farmer. Costas, the farmer, was accused of wanting to smuggle the statues out of the
country. Greece was one of the first European countries that was seriously affected when
the credit crunch hit in 2008. What does it do to the psyche of a society when a country
is on the verge of bankruptcy? Backlight: Greek Tragedy focuses on the story of a small farming community in crisis, featuring Costas, the farmer, who would sell anything, including
his own cultural heritage, in order to survive.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
VPRO
NPO Sales
Kaisa Kriek
PO Box 26444
Hilversum 1202JJ, The Netherlands
T. +31 35 6773 760
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
BACKLIGHT: CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Bregtje van der Haak
California is bankrupt. Many people have lost their jobs, their health insurance and homes
too. At the same time optimism and confidence in the American way are unbreakable. Traditionally, California is an experimental garden that people visit to reinvent themselves and
their lives. So who are the new dreamers and doers and how do they see the future? Will
America turn into a 3rd world country, or will Los Angeles continue to develop as an experimental garden of the post-consumer society with new, post-gold rush, forms of life,
in which freedom gets new meaning as a core value?
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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VPRO
Jos de Putter
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217GP, The Netherlands
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
BACKLIGHT: LETTER FROM POLAND
Mariusz Pills
A documentary on the crash of the Polish government aircraft on April 10, 2010 near the
Russian airport of Smolensk. The plane was on its way to attend ceremonies commemorating one of the greatest traumas in Polish history: the killings at Katyn. There, in 1940,
over 20,000 Poles were killed by the Russian secret service. A more dramatic concurrence
of circumstances is hardly imaginable. Poland was overcome with grief, but also with fear
and suspicion towards the still threatening and dangerous bear: Russia. The tragedy of
Smolensk demonstrates the paper-thin sense of security of the Poles, despite being embedded in “greater Europe”.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
VPRO Television
Jos de Putter
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
BACKLIGHT: OUR PERSIAN RUG
Massoud Bakhshi
The world’s best rugs are Iranian and Iran is the country of beautiful handmade rugs. This
is the story of a rug which represents Iran and Iranians today. With a poetic and metaphorical approach, the film takes us on a journey and we fly on this rug to different periods of
the troubled history of an ancient country in the Middle East. It is also through the story
of this rug that we get to know different generations of women in a traditional family.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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VPRO
NPO Sales
Kaisa Kriek
PO Box 26444
Hilversum 1202JJ, The Netherlands
T. +31 35 6773 760
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
BACKLIGHT: THE STRANGER
Hans Otten
The Stranger deals with Islam in the western world, especially in Europe. It portrays 62year-old Sheikh Khalid Yasin, a radical and controversial teacher and lecturer of Islam, who
is also known as the most popular sheikh among young Muslims throughout the world,
especially on YouTube. In The Stranger, questions are raised about how Islam will get along
with the liberal democracy, and vice versa.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
VPRO Television
Hanneke Hagen
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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GREECE
History & Politics
BACKSTAGE: THE BITTER STORY
OF ANDREI GORENKO
Lefteris Xanthopoulos
The Russian scholar Andrei Gorenko, brother of the great poet Anna Achmatova (18891966), who came to Greece as a refugee following the Bolshevik revolution and the civil
war, attempted to commit suicide with his wife Maria in a cheap hotel room hotel in the
center of Athens, in February 1920. A few hours later, Andrei died while Maria survived.
As soon as she recovered in the hospital, she was told by the doctors that she was pregnant. Some months later, she gave birth to a healthy boy, Andrei junior. We follow the story
of the family from the October revolution in St Petersburg to the present day.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA & Cinetic
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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GREECE
Current Affairs
BAD TIMING
Tessa Doulkeri
The documentary deals with the social phenomenon of violence in modern societies. Five
examples from the real world, a fight in a neighborhood, a domestic argument, an act of
violence in a football match, an attack on a university campus or in the workplace can have
unpleasant results. We are used to solving our differences in a violent manner and almost
never retreat. We tend to push things to the limit and when our behaviour has hurtful consequences we tend to call it “bad timing”! Could it possibly be that not only the person using the violence was to blame, but also the one who suffered it? Could the conflict stop
with dialogue, with retreat? The documentary unravels real incidents, which may happen
to any of us at any time!
Running time: 28΄
Production Company:
Dept. of Journalism and Mass Media,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Production Contact Person: Yorgos Kalliris
Sales Company:
Lab of Electronic Media –
Dept. of Journalism and Mass Media,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Tessa Doulkeri
T. +30 2310 992 052
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
BAGHDAD FILM SCHOOL
Shuchen Tan
In 2003, shortly after the liberation of Baghdad, Iraqi born filmmakers Maysoon Pachachi
and Kasim Abid developed the challenging idea to open up the first independent film
school in Iraq. Their mission was to give a voice to a new generation of filmmakers and to
let them tell their personal stories. This is a story about film making in a (post) war environment and what it takes to be an independent filmmaker in a country tormented by violence. What kind of problems do you have to face when you walk the streets of Baghdad
with your film camera?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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VPRO Television
Swaze Hertog
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217 GP,The Netherlands
T. +31 356773561
F. +31 356775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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USA
Current Affairs
BATTLE OF BROOKLYN
Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley
Battle of Brooklyn follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to
save his home and community from being demolished to make way for the densest real
estate development in US history. Along the way, he falls in love, gets married and starts
a family while living in an abandoned building located at the heart of the project site. Over
the course of seven years, Daniel and his community fight tenaciously in the courts, the
streets, and the media to stop the abuse of eminent domain and reveal the corruption at
the heart of the plan.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
rumur
Michael Galinsky
rumur
Michael Galinsky
164 Hall St
New York NY 11205 USA
T. +1 718 636 0949
[email protected]
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ITALY
THE BAY OF WOLVES
Bruno & Fabrizio Urso
The ruination continues thanks to the production facilities of both chemical industries and
refineries established on the bay of Priolo-Siracusa, an ancient site and coastal ecosystem
on the Mediterranean Sea. Over the past several years, pollution particles have been detected in the air, toxic compounds in the soil, mercury has been found in the water. Public pressure to protect the environment is strong and growing but ignored by the Italian
government as well as by company managers in the drive to increase the profits of the
largest petrochemical pole in Europe. The Brothers Urso investigate a devastating past that
weighs on the present and announces a not so comfortable future in an area prone to earthquakes.
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Nois snc, C4 Production
Jean-Marie Antonini
Vitagraph
Filippo D’Angelo
Via Schiavonia 2
Bologna 40121, Italy
T. +39 05 126 7150
[email protected]
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Current Issues
BEATING TIME
Odette Orr
The minute Avi Kremer, 29, finds out that he has only four years to live, he decides to do
the impossible and find a cure for ALS, the incurable Lou Gehrig’s disease he has contracted.
Avi, an MBA student at Harvard University believes that he is not going to die of ALS and
there’s a reason why he of all people contracted the disease. He masters all of his business
knowledge, builds a plan of action, and sets out on a search for funds, investors and researchers who will join him in his race for the cure. He’s accompanied in his struggle by
two other patients, Nir and Dov. As their muscles get weaker and weaker, they manage
to raise millions of dollars and bring about a revolution in research of the disease throughout the world. The documentary film Beating Time follows Avi and his friends’ extraordinary struggle and achievements over five years as they search for the cure, as well as their
personal battle against time. Only one question hovers over the entire film: Will they manage to beat time and survive until the first treatment becomes available?
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Unicorn Content & Media
Youval Orr
Unicorn Content & Media
Youval Orr
PO Box 8475
Jaffa 61084, Israel
T. +972 523 939 343
[email protected]
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COLOMBIA
History & Politics
BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ, WHY ARE YOU
CRYING? MONOLOGUE IN THREE VOICES
Diego García-Moreno
What happened to the painter Beatriz González, whose ironic works so often made us
laugh, to lead her to paint a self-portrait of herself, naked and in tears?
I spent the past three years following her as she worked on her “Auras Anonymous” project, a monumental work involving 9,000 mausoleum plaques in Bogotá’s abandoned Central Cemetery, in hopes of answering that question. The resulting documentary reveals the
trajectory of a body of work that developed alongside a nation steadily sinking into tragedy.
The work of painter Beatriz Gonzalez follows the history of Colombia, step by step, during
half a century. Initially full of humor and irony, her work has in time adopted the tragic tone
that currently characterizes her country. This documentary in the form of a monologue
weaves together the life of a great thinker, a witty and critical body of work, and the somber
future of a nation grown accustomed to violence and death.
Running time: 77΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
70
Lamaraca Producciones
Lamaraca Producciones
Cra. 5 No. 26-57 Ap. 1802
Bogotá 11001000, Colombia
T. +57 1 340 00 96
F. +57 1 702 11 97
[email protected]
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USA
Lifestyles
BEAUTIFUL SON
Julianne & Don King
Beautiful Son is a personal story of a family’s effort to help their son with autism. When
the medical establishment has little to offer, a family turns to a community of doctors and
parents who are experimenting with treatments to help children recover. Through one family’s struggle to save their child, Beautiful Son explores the complex and sometimes controversial world of autism.
Running time: 63΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Bright Child Films
Don King
Bright Child Films
Don King
320 Poopoo Place Kailua
Hawaii 96734, USA
T. +1 808 286 4383
[email protected]
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USA
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
Jessica Oreck
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo delves into the ineffable mystery of Japan’s age-old love affair with insects. A labyrinthine meditation on nature, beauty, philosophy and Japanese
culture that might just make you question if your “instinctive” repulsion to bugs is merely
a trick of Western conditioning.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
72
Myriapod Production
Jessica Oreck
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 2980
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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UK
History & Politics
BERLIN
Sam Hobkinson
In 2009, Berliners will celebrate twenty years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and once again
all eyes will be on a city that has changed from a 13th century swamp to the center of
Prussian excellence; from Bauhaus to Nazi Imperialism; from Europe’s spy capital to the spiritual home of dance music.
This is the city that invented the döner kebab, traffic lights, commercial cinema and Turkish hip hop, and it’s the first city ever to elect a gay mayor: Klaus Wowerweit. Berlin has
been home to some of history’s biggest thinkers and talents – from Bertholt Brecht to Fritz
Lang, from Marlene Dietrich to David Bowie, from Albert Speer to Albert Einstein.
Running time: 3 x 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
BBC
Open University Worldwide
Marie Roche
The Open University, Open University
Worldwide, Walton Hall, Michael Young Building.
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
T. +44 1908 332 470
F. +44 1908 858 787
[email protected]
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GERMANY
BERLIN BEASTS
Reinhard Schädler
Wild animals are returning to this major metropolis.
A true clash between urbanization and nature – will humans and beasts be able to share the same home?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
74
Büsch/Schädler
Hans Bouma, Reinhard Schädler
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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EGYPT
Lifestyles
BEYOND LIFE
Salma Hassaballa
The film questions the concept of a continued existence of the soul, the spirit or the mind
after our physical death. This is done through interviews with scholars intercut with the
dramatized journey of a protagonist to an unknown destination, and exploring all the questions and worries that arise among the passengers who are stuck in a train with firmly
closed curtains, completely unaware of what might be outside. The film attempts to answer some contemporary questions that arise from the evolution of quantum science as
well as other questions that have been lingering in the mind of humans since the dawn
of history to the present.
The film encourages the audience to take a deeper look into their own lives in an eye opening journey – igniting their every sense of imagination and curiosity with depth and the
setting of great expectations, perhaps not experienced before.
Running time: 87΄
Production Contact Person: Salma Hassaballa
Salma Hassaballa
50 Kournish El Nile Street,
Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
T. +20 10 194 0561
[email protected]
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FRANCE - COLOMBIA - BELGIUM
Current Affairs
BIBLIOBURRO, THE DONKEY LIBRARY
Rendon Zipagauta
Each weekend, Luis Humberto Soriano, a teacher living in the remote hamlet of La Gloria
in the north of Colombia, brings, with the help of his two donkeys “ALPHA” and “BET”, the
written word and knowledge to communes as secluded as Nueva Granada. With the kids
– whose parents are peasants or members of FARC, paramilitaries, drug cartels – Luis gives
lectures and private tutoring, organizes puppet shows and board game sessions.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
76
Granade Production
Anais Clanet
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Sainte Anne
Paris 75002 France
T. +33 15 3950 464
F. +33 15 3950 465
[email protected]
www.widemanagement.com
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SPAIN
BICYCLE SPOON APPLE
Carles Bausch
Alzheimer’s disease has no cure and affects over 24 million people worldwide, a number
that will quadruple within 10 years.
This unique documentary blends human drama with science following Pasqual Maragall’s
life, a born fighter and beloved politician who brought the Olympics to Barcelona, as he
works with the leading doctors in the field to eradicate the disease, knowing that he will
never reap the benefits because he is a victim as well.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Cromosoma
Toni Marin
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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USA
BILLY THE KID
Jennifer Venditti
Jennifer Venditti’s debut film is a provocative coming-of-age story, an odyssey into the soul
of an American teenager. Following Billy as he bicycles through the quiet streets of smalltown Maine, we watch him traverse the frustrating gap between imagination and reality, grappling with isolation and first-time young love. By turns exhilarating and disturbing, we see the world from the intimate view of an expressive and seemingly fearless
outsider.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
78
Eight Films, Isotope Films
Chiemi Karasawa
Roco Films
Annie Rooney
80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5
Sausalito 94965 USA
T. +1 415 332 6471
F. +1 415 332 6798
[email protected]
www.rocofilms.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
BLACK DIAMONDS
Saskia Vredeveld
They hang out in glitzy bars, drive luxury cars, compete for the best homes and shop in
supermarket stores. South Africa’s black middle class has arrived. How do they live as nouveau riche in South Africa?
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
VPRO Television
Nellie Kamer
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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GREECE
BLACK SANDS
Anastasis Agathos
Black Sands focuses on the significant archaeological discoveries of Professor Victor Sarianidis in the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan. According to Professor Sarianidis, it is an important centre of a hitherto unknown Bronze Age civilization, identified as the early Iranian kingdom of Margiani/Margus. The documentary focuses on the physical surroundings
and natural beauty of the desert itself, as well as on the people working there and their
everyday life in the simplicity and harshness of their surroundings. As such, Black Sands
is not solely an archaeological documentary, but broadens its scope to encompass a fuller
expression of the Gonur Tepe expedition and reveals the eerie and enchanting beauty and
sheer energy of the desert and its surroundings, as well as the living conditions and traditional setting of the excavation team.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Urgh Productions
Production Contact Person: Tatiana Karapanagioti
Ioanna Asmeniadou Phocas
1a Stesichorou St
T.-F. +30 210 729 5605
[email protected]
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MEXICO
Lifestyles
BLATTANGELUS
Araceli Santana
As a member of a traditional Catholic family, Jorge Sosa was immersed since childhood
in schools, activities and unions in which his homosexuality created an unbearable ideological conflict. This ended when he decided to move completely away from the precepts
and practices of his religion. However, years later, he received the counsel of a priest who
reconciled him with his faith. He went on to lead a church whose mission is to reconcile
individuals with a god outside the precepts laid down by the Catholic Church; but above
all, a god who promotes in his believers responsibility and full awareness of their freedom.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Fondo para la Producción
Cinematográfica de Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
Mexico DF 03100, Mexico
T. +525 55 448 5345
F. +525 55 448 5345
[email protected]
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DENMARK
Current Affairs
BLOOD IN THE MOBILE
Frank Piasecki Poulsen
We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side. The main part of minerals used
to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo. During the last fifteen years, the conflict has cost the lives of more than five million people and 300,000 women have been raped. Director Frank Poulsen travels to Congo
to see the illegal mine industry for himself. He is given access to Congo’s largest tin-mine,
which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in
narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones. After visiting the
mine, Frank Poulsen talks to Nokia, the world’s largest phone company. He wants them
to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby financing the war in
D.R. Congo. Nokia cannot give him that guarantee.
Running time: 82΄
Production Company:
Koncern TV-og Filmproduction A/S
Production Contact Person: Ole Tornbjerg
Sales Company:
DR TV, International Sales
DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20
Kobenhavn C 0999 Denmark
T. +45 3520 3040
F. +45 3520 3969 [email protected]
www.dr.dk
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ISRAEL
History & Politics
BLOOD RELATION
Noa Ben Hagai
At 14, my grandmother’s sister disappeared from her home in Israel.
Years later, she started sending her family letters from a refugee camp in the West Bank,
where she lived as an Arab, with a desperate plea for contact.
When I discovered her letters, after my grandmother died, I decided to search for my lost
Palestinian family on the other side of the border. Little did I know that I was opening a
Pandora’s Box; what started out as an exciting family reunion turned sour when reality
knocked on the door.
Running time: 75΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Eden Productions
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin Street
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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RUSSIA
BLUE SKY. DARK BREAD
Ilya Tomashevich
It is summer, the harvest season. A festival of dust and light. The village is effervescent. Life
flows by, peaceful and joyous. The image plays with time, the sound plays with space. A
poetic gathering set to an up-tempo rhythm; lively, swirling shots framing human beings
and nature.
Running time: 21΄
Production Contact Person: Ilya Tomashevich
Ilya Tomashevich
9-10 Kiseleva Str.
Saratov 410600, Russia
T. +7 985 255 6517
[email protected]
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SWITZERLAND
BODALA – DANCE THE RHYTHM
Gitta Gsell
A fast-paced film about people whose feet are their primitive and powerful instrument of
artistic expression.
Beginning with “Bödälä” in Central Switzerland, this film journeys from tap dance and flamenco to Irish dance. The rhythmic stamping of the feet is reminiscent of ethnic ritualistic folk dances. Evolving from the “dances of the folk” are shows and competition dance.
The film provides insight into passionate dancers and people who express joy, desire and
sadness through rhythm with their feet.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Reck Filmproduktion
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019 France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 487 48265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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CANADA
THE BOY INSIDE
Marianne Kaplan
An award-winning Canadian filmmaker turns the camera on her 12-year-old son Adam
in this powerful and ground-breaking documentary about growing up with autism.
Adam has Asperger Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism characterized by socially
and emotionally inappropriate behavior. Unable to socialize normally with his classmates,
school is a nightmare for Adam. He is regularly excluded or bullied, and left his last school
after a boy pulled a knife on him.
A rare and intimate portrait of an increasingly common form of autism, The Boy Inside follows Adam’s dramatic family life as he struggles against the odds to graduate elementary
school and make sense of bullies, girls and life in the real world.
Winner of the NHK Japan Prize, Golden Eagle Award and a Freddie award (the “Oscar” of
the health and medical media awards).
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
86
MSK Productions
Marianne Kaplan
DR International Sales
Sanne Arlo
DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20
Copenhagen 0999, Denmark
T. +45 3520 3040
F. +45 3520 3969
[email protected]
www.dr.dk
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UK - AFGHANISTAN
History & Politics
THE BOY MIR – TEN YEARS
IN AFGHANISTAN
Phil Grabsky
Award-winning British filmmaker Phil Grabsky found 8-year-old Mir shortly after the fall
of the Taliban in 2001. This cheeky, smart young boy was living with his family in a cave
next to the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan. Over the course of a year, Grabsky filmed and
then released the international hit The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan. He then
decided to carry on filming until Mir reached adulthood. The result is an extraordinary, indeed unique, portrayal of an Afghan childhood at a time of terrible danger. Grabsky captures the day-to-day life of a poor Afghan family in a way that even Afghan experts are
saying is remarkable. If you watch only one film to understand better this vitally important country, then this is the one. Above all, however, the film is full of humor and fun –
a testimony to Mir and the resilience of the human spirit.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Seventh Art Productions
Leigh Gibson
Seventh Art Productions
Sam Gunningham
63 Ship Street
Brighton BN11AE , UK
T. +44 1273 777 678
F. +44 1273 323 777
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
BOYAMBA/BELGIQUE, OR WHY A KING
SHOULD NOT LOSE HIS SWORD
Dries Engel & Bart Van Peel
The day before the Congo gained independence, the sabre of the Belgian king Baudouin
was stolen by a young Congolese. Half a century later, we embark on a quest for the thief
and discover the deeper meaning of his act.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
88
Serendipity Films
Ellen De Waele
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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UK
BREADMAKERS
Yasmin Fedda
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes
a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The workers interact using individual expressions and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships with each other and their support workers .The Garvald Bakery is part of a centre inspired by the ideas of Rudolph Steiner where the workers realise their potential for
self-discovery and creativity in a social environment.
Running time: 11΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Cadies Productions Ltd.
Robin Mitchell
Network Ireland Television
Derry O’Brien
23 South Frederick Str.
Dublin 2 Ireland
T. +353 1 679 7309
F. +353 1 670 8493
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USA
Sports
BREAKING AND ENTERING
Benjamin Fingerhut
Some say that to embrace one’s greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others see a grown man spinning a seventeen-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions. Breaking world records is a mysteriously seductive tradition, alternately inspiring, reckless, and bizarre. Follow a joggler, a grape catcher, and a man who cycles nowhere
as they battle the odds – and their respective nemeses – in pursuit of global dominance.
Since when is it trivial to dream?
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
90
Chump Change Productions
Benjamin Fingerhut
John Iltis
John Iltis
5413 North Lakewood Ave
Chicago IL 60640 USA
T. +1 312 953 5411
F. +1 773 769 5370
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
THE BROKEN STRING
Saskia van Schaik
A library in Cape Town contains 150 small notebooks. The marbled covers mention a date
and initials. The books’ pages show two columns. One column contains strange symbols
and the other an English translation. This is all that remains of the language of the IXam,
the aboriginal people in northern South Africa.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
VPRO Television
Swaze Hartog
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217GP,The Netherlands
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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GERMANY
EL BULLI – COOKING IN PROGRESS
Gereon Wetzel
The starred chef Ferran Adrià is known as the best, most innovative and craziest cook in
the world. Every year, the restaurant closes for six months. During this time, Adrià and his
creative team retire to their cooking laboratory in Barcelona, to create a new menu for the
following season. Everything is allowed – except copying each other.
One year with Ferran Adrià, the development of a new menu, searching for the essence
of creativity and obsession in a place where they already call the “frozen parmesan air with
cereals” from 2004 a classic dish.
Running time: 108΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
92
If Production
Ingo Fliess
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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IRELAND - USA
History & Politics
BURMA SOLDIER
Nic Dunlop, Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern
“Only when there is discipline will there be progress” reads the billboard on the side of a
Burmese road. Indeed, “discipline”, by the standards of the ruling Burmese army, means
keeping civilians living in terror and violently crushing any sign of dissent. Myo Mint knows
this first-hand – he entered the army as a teenager, attracted by the promise of security
and power. But his harrowing stint came to an equally harrowing end when an arm and
leg were blown away while clearing mines. Discharged and disillusioned, he began to try
to educate himself – illicitly through banned books – on just why Burma was at war with
itself. He soon became an outspoken activist, campaigning against the very regime he used
to represent – a dangerous undertaking which soon led to brutal repercussions. Using
smuggled footage, Burma Soldier tells us Mint’s story, and in so doing sheds light on the
ever present fear that drives both civilians and soldiers in this tragic land.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
LeBrocquyFraser
Julie LeBrocquy
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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UK
Arts & Culture - Environment
BURNING ICE
Peter Gilbert
In September 2009, Peter Gilbert (Hoop Dreams, At the Death House Door) joined more than
40 observers – including musicians Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock,
Ryuichi Sakamoto and writers Suzan-Lori Parks and Andrew Revkin – on an ice-breaking
ship for a nine-day voyage off the coast of Greenland with artist-led climate change project Cape Farewell. Their goal was to see, experience and contemplate the effects of climate
change first-hand, and to begin a creative conversation with the rest of the world about
one of the most important and pressing issues facing the future of humanity.
Running time: 79΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
94
Cape Farewell
Peter Gilbert
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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UK
BYE BYE BLUE SKY
Patrick Pasin
For more than twenty years, people all over the world, but first in the USA and Canada, have
noticed strange persistent trails in the sky created by airplanes. In the meantime, people
are becoming increasingly ill (with multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, cancer, autism, etc., as
well as with new diseases like Morgellons). The situation is the same with the trees and
the plants, and also animals. Is there a link? Have there been illegal sprayings of metallic
particles (barium, aluminum, and lithium) and virological agents which are responsible
for these illnesses? For what purpose(s)? By whom? The military, the scientists, the governments keep replying that everything is normal and that they don’t do such things. How
can we be sure? This documentary proves the contrary. Some of the information it reveals
has since been deleted by a foreign army. To answer these questions, many people have
been interviewed: scientists, politicians, activists, pilots...
A journey from North America to Europe, from Africa to Asia. One thing is certain: after having watched this film, you will look – differently – at the sky!
Running time: 92΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Telma Studios
Patrick Pasin
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 1 5395 0464
F. +33 1 5395 0465
[email protected]
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GREECE
History & Politics
BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM
Erato Paris
This production aims at revealing the major contribution of a specific elite, the Greek “Phanariotes” or byzantine and post-byzantine families, in shaping and reconstructing European and multinational identity in the East and West from the 15th to the 21st century,
on a cultural, economic, historical, linguistic, political, financial, religious and social level.
The original scenario is based on a new and thorough research of the past and presentday of the Phanariote families in Paris, Athens, Marseilles, Constantinople, Bombay,
Odessa, Alexandria, Calcutta, Chios, Bucharest, Iaşi, and Syros. Never before has a film been
made about the major influence of the Phanariotes on the shaping of an international culture and the defining of the best of what Hellenism can provide: its culture and its civilization.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
96
Paris Films and TV Productions
Erato Paris
F Productions
Pascale Bensoussan
14 rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques
Paris 75005, France
T. +33 1 42 60 6632
[email protected]
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GREECE
BYZANTIUM: THE ARTS AND CULTURE
Ioannis Alexiou & Charalambos Barkanikas
Eleven centuries have passed full of arts and culture. In this documentary we analyze the
most important arts (Hagiography, Sculpture, Architecture, Byzantine music, etc.), as
well as the way of life of society of those times and how they regarded the arts and the
artist. Information on the Byzantine Empire is provided by art historian Georgios Fousteris,
Professor at the higher church academy of Thessaloniki, the hagiographer Nikolaos Kalafatis
and the Priest Iakovos. All this is enriched not only with narration, pictures and videos from
the Byzantine culture museum of Thessaloniki, but also with the music accompaniment
of the talented Omid Tahmasebpour on the dulcimer.
Running time: 31΄
Production Contact Person: Ioannis Alexiou & Charalambos Barkanikas
Ioannis Alexiou & Charalambos Barkanikas
18th Oktovriou & Lazou Streets
Lamia 351 00, Greece
T. +30 6981 208 479
[email protected]
[email protected]
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FRANCE
THE CAMBODIAN ROOM –
SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA
Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento & Giuseppe Schillaci
Antoine d’Agata, a Magnum Agency photographer, is in Phnom Pen (Cambodia) where his
artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting his art to capture desolate landscapes and borderline realities, Antoine d’Agata focuses on his intimate human relations.
His latest work concentrates on body and flesh, in a narrow room.
This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice to live constantly on the edge,
and considering sex as extreme vitalism.
An apocalyptic and sublime course, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Kerouac to Artaud, from Bacon to Pasolini.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kolam Productions
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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USA
History & Politics
CAMP VICTORY, AFGHANISTAN
Carol Dysinger
This tells the story of a battle-tested Afghan Brigadier General Fazel Ahmad Sayar, a veteran who has been fighting since the age of 13, and the friendship he develops with an
American Colonel enlisted with helping him turn ragtag groups of uncertain, impoverished
men into a trained, standing Afghan National Army. The film is an intimate, realistic account of constant cultural and professional conflicts between the Afghans and the visiting Americans. While lack of trust runs strong, stronger are the tight emotional bonds
sometimes formed by leaders in the rebuilding of a nation.
Running time: 84΄
Sales Company:
100
Cargo Film & Releasing
David Pipemi
611 Broadway, #360
T. +1 212 995 8139
[email protected]
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FRANCE
History & Politics
CANNIBAL ISLAND
Cédric Condom
In 1933, Stalin organized a great pogrom in Moscow and Leningrad of all citizens deemed
a social nuisance. This film recounts the untold story of these 6,000 undesirables, who were
sent to a forgotten island in the middle of the Siberian River Ob. Deported with no food,
clothes or tools, these poor men, women and children suffered the torture of hunger until they had no choice but to devour each other... An unbelievable and terrible story that
plays like a thriller, suspenseful to the end.
Running time: 75΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kilaohm Productions
Emmanuel Migeot
Zed
Céline Payot
42 rue Eugene Carriere,
Paris 75018, France
T. +33 1 5309 9876
F. +33 1 4262 6460
[email protected]
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CAR PARK GLAMOUR
Michael Trabitzsch
Multi-storey car parks, car dealerships, car museums and underground garages are not
places one normally associates with art and design. The fact is, however, that over the last
15 years, the most famous names on the international architectural scene have thrown
themselves into this area. Bright halls were created underneath the ground; spaces reminiscent of banqueting halls or even cathedrals. Car showrooms were created which were
singularly bold and breathtakingly courageous.
Running time: 52΄
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Prounen Film
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
T. +49 22 1920 690
F. +49 22 1920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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Current Affairs
CATCHING MLADIC
Oliver Pighetti
He was the Butcher of Bosnia’s right hand man. Along with Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic spearheaded the ethnic cleansing campaigns against Muslims and Croats. Milosevic died in prison. Karadzic was arrested in 2008. Only Mladic remains at large. How has such a notorious criminal evaded arrest? Who is protecting him
and why? Will he ever be caught? In a bid to find out, we speak to the International Criminal Tribunal, the Serbian army and police force and Eufor, the EU rapid response unit.
Running time: 52΄
Sales Company:
Java Films
Kathryn Bonnici
4-6 Villa Thoreton,
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 4060 2624
[email protected]
www.javafilms.fr
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History & Politics
CATENACCIO A LA DRNOVICE OR
JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME
OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
Radim Prochazka
The small Czech village of Drnovice that is the home of two thousand residents boasts a
football stadium for eight thousand fans. It is a pyramid of a long-lost football civilization.
The rise and fall of the local football club is typical of Czech football, politics and business
of the 1990s, revealing not only beautiful goals but also mysterious sponsors, corruption
or doping. This ironically investigative film takes us back to a time when top ministry officials had no clue about huge financial scams and when Czech footballers played for the
European cup.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
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Produkce Radim Prochazka
Radim Prochazka
OutCome
Jarmila Outratova
Jizni namesti 23
Prague 14100, Czech Republic
T. +42 07 7606 6165
[email protected]
www.outcome.cz
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Current Affairs
CAVE
Júlia Szederkényi
A musical and poetic look at a group of Hungarian Roma living in a camp according to their
own rules, forgotten, outside the surrounding civilization. A look at a content and uncomplicated existence.
Running time: 82΄
Production Company:
Új Budapest Filmstúdió Ltd..
Production Contact Person: László Kántor
Donáti utca 59
1015 Budapest, Hungary
T. +36 30 919 6687
F. +36 1 336 1009
[email protected]
www.ujbudapestfilmstudio.hu
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USA
CECIL TAYLOR – ALL THE NOTES
Christopher Felver
Cecil Taylor is the grand master of free jazz piano. All the Notes captures in a breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one
of the true giants of post-war music. Taylor is first seen musing over Santiago Calatrava’s
fleecy architecture – a typical sign of the pianist’s famed eclectic interests, which extend
from soloing, combo and small orchestra work to spoken word performance.
Seated at his beloved and battered piano in his Brooklyn brownstone, the maestro holds
court with frequent stentorian pronouncements on life, art and music, while demonstrating
his technique and views infusing his super clustered playing. Students at Mills College,
where Taylor has a regular teaching gig, devise an avant-garde “free composition” under
his generous tutelage. Taylor plays with his band at Yoshi’s in Oakland, NYC’s Lincoln Center, and the Iridium with his large ensemble Orchestra Humane.
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
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Photography Felver
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019 France
T. +33 14 8744 377
F. +33 14 8748 265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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CHAMPIONS: A COMIC TALE
Gabriel Tzafka
The fact of film education in Greece has been a “taboo” for many years because of the lack
of a national film school. Theo Angelopoulos, Werner Hertzog, Michael Cacoyannis, Emir
Kusturica and others participate in this discussion about Film Education today.
Running time: 90΄
Sales Company:
Vox Documentaries
Gina Petropoulou
Athens, Greece
T. +30 6937 419 383
[email protected]
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CHANT DES SOLEILS
Panayiotis Kyriakopoulos & Yorgos Matsikas
June 21st is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere (summer solstice).Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied from culture
to culture but most have held recognition of a sign of fertility, involving holidays, festivals,
gatherings, rituals or other celebrations around that time. On June 21st 1982, on an initiative by the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, la Fête Européenne de la Musique (World
Music Day) was celebrated for the very first time. Its goal was to offer free music concerts
in public places. On June 21st 1983, Iannis Xenakis composed Chant des Soleils for that
year’s Fête de la Musique. Τhe lyrics were inspired by the 16th century French poet Jacques
Peletier du Mans. June 21st 2009 was the 10th anniversary of European Music Day in
Athens.
Running time: 26΄
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Panayiotis Kyriakopoulos & Yorgos Matsikas
5 Sarantaporou St
T. +30 6972 074 176
[email protected]
[email protected]
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History & Politics
THE CHECHEN DOCTOR FROM GOD
Hristo Chilingirov
This documentary tells about the legacy of the two Chechen wars (1994-96, 1999-2000)
through the story of the famous Chechen surgeon Dr. Khasan Baiev. During the wars, he
happened to be the only doctor for several big villages near Grozny. Working in primitive
and life-threatening conditions, he saved the lives of more than 10,000 people – civilians,
Chechen fighters and Russian soldiers. “The only weapon I had in those days was my
scalpel,” Dr. Baiev said.
Running time: 31΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Daniela Kuzmanova
Sofia 1504 Bulgaria
T. +35 92 8142 390
F. +35 92 9436 045
[email protected]
www.bnt.bg
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CHILDHOOD UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Marie-Pierre Jaury
In today’s post-modern society, behavioral disorders in children and teenagers have become a matter of serious concern. Encouraged by recent research, the issue has even entered the political arena, since several scientific studies claim that particular behavioral patterns point to possible future delinquency. In Europe and North America, scientific research
is orientated towards possible medical causes for violent behavior in youngsters and recommends screenings at an ever earlier stage.
Does this mean that delinquency is an illness? We filmed in France, Canada, the USA, Belgium, the UK and Germany, to understand how behavioral science might influence our society in the future.
Running time: 52΄
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Point du Jour – Intuitive Pictures
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt,
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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History & Politics
CHILDREN IN HIDING
Vassilis Loules
Rosa, Iossif, Eftyhia, Shelly and Marios, five Greek Jewish children are saved from certain
death by Christian families during the German Occupation. These children remain hidden
for a long time, using fake names, often separated from their parents. Days in total silence,
days that forced them to mature suddenly. This experience marked their lives and sense
of identity forever. Five survivors, who were once “children in hiding”, tell their stories, trying to recall memories and fragments from their childhood. Stories of terror and persecution, anguish and bewilderment. Stories of salvation and carefree childhood. Five small
nests of peace amidst the turmoil of war, five secret gardens of Eden away from the horror of the Holocaust.
Running time: 95΄ (also available: 124΄ & 3x52΄)
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Massive Productions
Vangelis Fabas
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
7 Dion.Areopagitou St
Athens , 1742, Greece
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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History & Politics
THE CHILDREN OF MIMAS
Tahsin Isbilen
The Prefecture of Ilia, the Municipality of Vartholomio and the “Agia Marina” Educational
and Beautification Society of Glyfa created the documentary film The Children of Mimas.
Mimas a mountain of Asia Minor, at the foothills of which lived for centuries the ancestors of many people from Glyfa, Gastouni, Korinthos and other places in Greece. Ninety years
later, The Children of Mimas searched for their roots and traveled to the land of Ionia. Their
efforts were captured in a documentary film of 50 minutes. It presents the placement of
the refugees in Greece and the civilization that they created after the first years of the struggle to survive in the new place.
Running time: 51΄
Production Company:
The “Agia Marina” Educational
and Beautification Society of Glyfa, Ilia
Production Contact Person: Andreas Baltas
Glyfa Vartholomio Ilias
Ilia 270 50, Greece
T. +30 26230 96460
[email protected]
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History & Politics
THE CHILDREN OF TEHRAN
Yehuda Kaveh, David Tour & Dalia Guttman
‘The Children of Teheran is the story of the rescue of 700 children from occupied Poland and
their grueling journey to Palestine/Israel in the winter of 1943. This unprecedented operation took the children, many without their parents, on a tortuous path that led them to
distant lands, including Tehran, before they arrived safely in Palestine. The Children of Tehran
was the first large group of Holocaust survivors to reach Palestine/Israel from occupied Europe.
Running time: 59΄
Production Contact Person: Dalia Guttman
Sales Company:
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
T. +972 5 2363 3398
[email protected]
www.jmtfilms.com/index.htm
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History & Politics
THE CHILEAN BUILDING
Macarena Aguiló
At the end of the 1970s, many militant Chileans returned home from exile in Europe to help
their comrades in the struggle against the Pinochet dictatorship. In her first full-length documentary, Macarena Aguiló relates a personal story played out against the backdrop of
this period in history. She uses photographs, diaries and interviews to reconstruct an important time from her youth, when she lived in a commune in Cuba. Project “Homes” was
set up by freedom fighters who could not take their children with them for reasons of personal safety. Together with 60 others, Aguiló was brought up by “social parents”. Aguiló
paints a picture of a tight community where ideals of freedom and solidarity initially prevailed. But a few years later, the news from Chile that the struggle was not having the desired result and that increasing numbers of arrests and murders were taking place there also
caused a loss of morale in Cuba. A sense of tragedy filters through in the stories from their
childhoods (despite all good intentions, they felt abandoned) and the sacrifices their parents made in the name of freedom.
Running time: 95΄
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Aplaplac Producciones
Juan Manuel Egaña
Aplaplac Producciones
Juan Manuel Egaña
Av. Bustamente 30, dpt. 31
Santiago 9999, Chile
T. +56 2 494 4009
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
CHINA: THE REBIRTH OF AN EMPIRE
Jesse Veverka & Jeremy Veverka
China’s unprecedented growth has placed it on the verge of overtaking the United States
as the world’s preeminent power. But what type of power will China become? In today’s
interconnected and globalized world, the answer effects each and every one of us. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, China’s humanitarian activities and investment in infrastructure have
won it the hearts and minds of the people. Yet in Tibet and Xinjiang, China is reviled as an
imperialistic abuser of human rights. Will China use its strength to dominate its neighbors
and become a 21st century empire, or will China’s youth lead the country towards democracy? Whether it’s a peaceful rise or potential threat, China’s 21st century emergence as a
great world power will change the lives of everyone.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Veverka Bros
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
178 Stoke Newington High Street
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
www.sidewaysfilm.com
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GREECE
CHRISTINI, A PRINCESS
Iris Zachmanidi
Christini’s life is being turned into a movie. Christini is a 31-year-old, Down syndrome girl,
leading an ordinary life at an educational and occupational center for individuals with mental disabilities. She cares about clothes, about make-up, she flirts, she needs to charm; love
occupies a central place in her life. Still, her engaging in theater activities, and, most importantly, her acting in the performance of Yorgos Dialegmenos’ play Bella Venezia, as
staged by Lefteris Voyagis, take her to the epicenter of the debate which addresses the incorporation of people with mental disabilities in mainstream life. Can people with mental disabilities co-operate with so-called normal individuals? What are the latter to gain
from such a collaboration? Can people with mental disabilities benefit from mixed education? Can people with mental disabilities start their own families? These are some of the
questions this movie addresses to those officially involved, as well as to people with
mental disabilities themselves, whom we get to know as the movie evolves and they make
their personal statement about the case.
Running time: 66΄
Production Company:
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Studio Alfa SA & Iris Zachmanidi
Dimitris Evangelopoulos & Iris Zachmanidi
Studio Alfa SA
Dimitris Evangelopoulos
10-12 Stoudiou St
Maroussi 15126, Athens, Greece
T. + 30 210 613 2900
F. + 30 210 613 2906
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Lifestyles
CINEMATHERAPY
Ivan Vojnar
Living in the age of reality TV, in a society hungry for sensation, it is easy to feed on the
highly emotional stories of people whose futures are being shaped by dozens of professionals. Cinematherapy takes a slightly different approach. A commercial aired on Czech
Television invited viewers to attend a casting session and tell their stories. Later on, eleven
of them underwent “cinematherapy”– provided by the camera as an intermediary between
them and the outside world. Blurring the lines between feature film, documentary and reality show, the film does not offer the participants plastic surgery or a reunion with a long
lost friend but lets them witness their often bizarre lives and thus move forward in dealing with their issues.
Running time: 108΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Ivan Vojnar Film & i/o post & Czech Television
Jitka Prochazkova
Czech Television
Jitka Prochazkova
Kavci hory
Prague 4, 140 70
Czech Republic
T. +420 736 531 568
F. +420 261 216 628
[email protected]
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Lifestyles
CLOSE TO HEAVEN
Titus Faschina
Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for
thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches
of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, close to the edge of heaven...Vivid stories and
fantastic myths, far from the world of today, cinematically narrated over the course of a year.
The last refuge in Europe for a forgotten profession in an unhurried world.
Running time: 93΄
Production Company:
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ma.ja.de. filmproduktion
Heino Deckert
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
Leipzig 04103 Germany
T. +49 34 1215 6638
F. +49 34 1215 6639
[email protected]
www.deckert-distribution.com
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CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU WILL SEE
Stavros Stratigakos
For many years, radio in Greece was the medium which, besides being a source of immediate information and news, also gave sound a magical dimension, offering quality musical programs and radio plays and inspiring listeners to for their own picture of people and
events. Using rare audiovisual material, Close Your Eyes and You Will See“recreates” the first
years of Greek radio.
Running time: 109΄
Sales Company:
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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Current Affairs
COAL IN THE SOUL
Ondrej Provaznik & Martin Dusek
A documentary portrait of two women who play a very personal game with the fate of
Horni Jiretin, a town endangered by the coalmining industry. With a sensitive approach
tinged with irony, the directors present the case and use the two women, the press agent
of the mining company and a chatelaine/eco-activist as their guides. Their personal stories mirror the current case of total liquidation of Horni Jiretin, a small town that stands in
the way of further coalmining.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Czech Television
Production Contact Person: Jitka Prochazkova
Kavci hory
Prague 4, 140 70
Czech Republic
T. +420 261 137 438
F. +420 261 216 628
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
CONCRETE PHARAOHS
Jordan Todorov
Welcome to the picturesque world of the Kalderash Roma – a closed community of no
more than one million people all over the world. Concrete Pharaohs take us on a journey
into the lifestyle and traditions of the most hidden and intriguing Roma communities. A
charismatic Gypsy baron will walk us through his stories and his new house. We will learn
the hot trends in Roma tombstone design. We will go down into the underground homes
of African granite, furnished with beds, wardrobes, stereos and a charged cell phone – a
direct line to the other world. A celebration of life and the afterlife in all of their manifestations.
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Agitprop Ltd
Production Contact Person: Martichka Bozhilova
Martichka Bozhilova
68, Budapest Str., Apt.1
1202 Sofia, Bulgaria
T. +359 888 579 959
F. +359 298 319 29
[email protected]
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Lifestyles
THE CONTRACT
Lina Mannheimer
In 2005, Beverly Carpentier declared an oath of allegiance to Catherine Robbe-Grillet. She
thereby gave up her freedon for the rest of her life.
The Contract is a film about the relationship between Beverly Charpentier, a married
mother of two and the writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet. The film portrays two strong
women’s unconventional love story, two women who have chosen to explore their love
in a unique way, without compromise.
Running time: 13΄
Production Company:
Fasad
Production Contact Person: Lina Mannheimer
Bogatan 3b
Gothenburg 41272 Sweden
T. +46 73 3120 218
[email protected]
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History & Politics
THE CRADOCK MURDERS
David Forbes & Michel Noll
This film tells the story of activist Matthew Goniwe and three of his comrades, schoolteachers in the town of Cradock in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, as they take on the
powerful security forces and racist generals with the view to bring Apartheid to an end.
Their assassination was the trigger that should ultimately lead to liberation and the election of Nelson Mandela, in a new, multi-colored democracy. These murders marked the
beginning of the end of South Africa’s fascist white-only government.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Solferino Images
Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisee
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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Current Affairs
CRISIS
Myrto Papadogeorgou
The most commonly used word of late is crisis. The Greek crisis. But what does that phrase
mean for someone living in it?
Crisis tells the story of the Greek crisis from the perspective of a young Athenian woman
as she struggles to deal with something very simple in very complicated times: her everyday life in the complicated Greek capital, Athens. She tells us about life in a city that made
international news when its youth took to the streets to express their frustration at a deadend situation. A youth stigmatized with the burden of a gloomy future.
Running time: 24΄
Production Company:
Phos Productions
Production Contact Person: Eleni Atsikbasis
75 El. Venizelou
Athens 155 61 Greece
T. +30 6974 328 808
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
CZECH PEACE
Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
The story of Star Wars, the Cold War and the War on Terror of a small Czech village. As part
of its National Missile Defense Program, the United States plan to build a military base in
the Czech Republic, a former hiding place for Soviet nuclear rockets during the Cold War.
Despite the fact that 73% of Czechs are against the project, the government has continued with negotiations. Supporters of the base claim that it will strengthen the country’s
defense against the global threats of the 21st century. Opponents point out that the plan
essentially shifts the Iron Curtain toward the east; they also insist that it represents an attempt by the United States to rule the world.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Hypermarket Film
Tereza Horska
Taskovski Films
Vesna Cudic
463 Russell Court, Woburn Place
London WC1H 0NL, UK
T. +44 207 278 4284
[email protected]
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DANCING ACROSS BORDERS
Anne Bass
On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass
came across a sixteen-year-old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing natural charm and grace as a dancer. A longtime devotee of the world of dance, Bass felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that
he could not yet have fully imagined. From the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the
halls of New York’s School of American Ballet to the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet
in Seattle, Dancing Across Borders peeks behind the scenes into the world of dance and
chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of a boy who was discovered, and who only
much later discovered all that he had in himself.
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
123 Productions, Inc.
Anne Bass
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 1 5395 0464
F. +33 1 5395 0465
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
THE DANCING BOYS OF AFGHANISTAN
Jamie Doran
As the West pours billions of dollars into the fight against the Taliban in southern
Afghanistan, an ancient tradition (banned when the Taliban were in power) has reemerged across the rest of the country. Many hundreds of boys, as young as 10, living in
extreme poverty, are lured off the streets on the promise of a new life away from destitution, unaware their real fate is to be used for entertainment and sex. They’re the “Bacha
Bereesh”, literally “beardless boys”, chosen for their height, size and beauty to sing and dance
before an audience prior to being traded for sexual favors among the warlords and powerful men of Afghanistan. Bought and sold by their rich masters, most will suffer
grotesquely. All efforts by the authorities to eradicate the practice have failed largely because, as we will show, the authorities themselves are involved. Running time: 52΄
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Clover Films
Tracey Doran-Carter
TVF International
Leila Monks
375 City Road
London EC1V 1NB, UK
T. +44 207 837 3000
F. +44 207 833 2185
[email protected]
www.tvfinternational.com
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DANCING WITH DOWNS
Elizabeth Wood
Madrid dance troop Danza Down enchants audiences with classical ballet, traditional Spanish dance and musical theater performances. What makes this dance troop special is that
all of the dancers in the troop have Down Syndrome.
Under the nurturing and patient tutelage of Director Elias Lafuente, children and adults with
Down Syndrome blossom, gain confidence and develop a love of music and dance.
Running time: 8΄
Production Contact Person: Elizabeth Wood
Elizabeth Wood
Calle Freixa 37, piso 3
Barcelona, Spain
T. +34 689 195 013
[email protected]
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DANIEL SCHMID – LE CHAT QUI PENSE
Pascal Hofmann & Benny Jaberg
Daniel Schmid, who grew up during the 1940s in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Swiss Alps,
succumbed to the powers of the imagination already as a child. Spurred on by his grandmother’s fantastic stories, he made the hotel foyer his stage and its international array of
guests his protagonists. Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his
life. Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the eventful life and
unusual work of an outstanding Swiss film artist.
Running time: 83΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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T&C Film AG, Zürich
Nicole Barras
T&C Edition
Susa Katz
Seestrasse 41a
Zürich, 8002
Switzerland
T. +41 44 208 99 55
F. +41 44 208 99 54
[email protected]
www.tcfilm.ch
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Lifestyles
THE DARKNESS OF DAY
Jay Rosenblatt
The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found
16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the isolation, and the desire to escape are recorded on film in various contexts. Voice-over readings from the journal kept
by a brother of the filmmaker’s friend who committed suicide in 1990 intermix with a range
of compelling stories, from the poignant double suicide of an elderly American couple to
a Japanese teenager who jumped into a volcano, spawning over a thousand imitations.
While this is a serious exploration of a cultural taboo, its lyrical qualities invite the viewer
to approach the subject with understanding and compassion.
Running time: 26΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Locomotion Film
Jay Rosenblatt
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1 Leipzig 04103
Germany
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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DAVID WANTS TO FLY
David Sieveking
In search of enlightenment, young David follows his idol David Lynch and uncovers the billion-dollar industry behind Transcendental Meditation.
“A sprightly docu about finding your own artistic inspiration, both tongue-in-cheek and
seriously questioning the TM financial empire.”Variety
Running time: 96΄
Production Company:
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lichtblick media
Martin Heisler & Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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DEAF JAM
Judy Lieff
In Deaf Jam, Aneta Brodski seizes the day. She is a deaf teen introduced to American Sign
Language (ASL) Poetry, who then boldly enters the spoken word slam scene. In a wondrous twist, Aneta, an Israeli immigrant living in Queens NY, eventually meets Tahani, a
hearing Palestinian slam poet. The two young women embark on a hearing/deaf collaboration, a performance duet that is a metaphor for the complex realities they share.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Made-By-Hand, LLC
Production Contact Person: Judy Lieff
Judy Lieff
227 West 11th Street, #52
New York ΝY 10014 USA
T. +1 212 929 6878
[email protected]
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Lifestyles
DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY
Marcin Koszalka
In his new film, Marcin Koszałka returns to a forgotten genre, namely a mountain film. The
protagonist of his story is Piotr “Mad” Korczak, and somewhere in the background there is
his rival Andrzej Marcisz. The director focuses on the decline of the career of the great master, provoking his reflection on his future life, when he will no longer be able to climb
mountains. It’s a moving story about inability to come to terms with old age and about
the desire for immortality.
Running time: 29΄
Production Company:
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TVP S.A., WRiTv US
Marcin Koszalka
Krakow Film Foundation
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
Krakow 31-143 Poland
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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AUSTRIA - SWITZERLAND - GERMANY
Sports
DEEP BLUE
Axel Ramonet & Aurore Asso
They are the “fish” men that make a living from apnea.
Twenty years after The Big Blue, these explorers of the world of the deep beat depth records
and snatch the headlines from each other.
Among them, 27-year-old Guillaume Nery has been champion and world record holder
of free diving several times. In the discipline of constant weight, he is the third man that
has gone the deepest, with a dive to 113 meters.
With a hundred men practicing this sport at the highest level, only 3 or 4 are qualified for
these depths (the height of the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower). They will all compete in the
World Championship which takes place in the Bahamas.
The Austrian phenomenon Herbert Nitsch will also participate in the competition.
The big race of the depths is on; each meter counts and William’s life is punctuated by trips
to the sea, physical, but also psychological preparation.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Actual Prod
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
75019 Paris, France
T. + 33 1 4874 4377
F. + 33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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USA
Current Affairs
THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART
Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule, artists who stay true
to their vision were executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspired young
Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000
forbidden fellow artist’s works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from
the watchful eyes of the KGB. This is his story.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Desert of Forbidden Art LLC
Tchavdar Georgiev
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
DESIGNER BABIES:
THE NEW EUGENICS
Camelle le Pomellec
The idea of choosing your baby’s hair and eye colour, IQ, height, weight and talents fills most
of us with a sense of horror, evoking memories of Nazi breeding programs from the
1930s. Yet some are overcoming the taboo in a bid to create “the perfect child”.
Filmed in the USA, India and Denmark, this documentary explores the new techniques that
make what was once science fiction a reality. We hear from key figures in the debate on
the ethics of this controversial practice.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Tac Presse
Java Films
Kathryn Bonnici
4-6 Villa Thoreton,
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 4060 2624
[email protected]
www.javafilms.fr
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History & Politics
DESPERATELY SEEKING EUROPE –
SOMETHING ABOUT GEORGIA
Nino Kirtadzé
This fable of power takes place in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia. From the nation’s first
truly free elections, when everything seemed possible, to a state of chaos and war and the
resulting aftermath, the film exposes this critical year and turning point that reveal an international power struggle much larger than Georgia’s borders.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
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Zadig Productions
Paul Rosenberg
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris F-75004, France
T. +33 1 44 59 63 53
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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Environment & Wild Life
DESTINATION: ANTARCTICA
Hervé Nicolas
The emergence of tourism in Antarctica is the subject of this film. The growth rate of tourism
towards Antarctica is 500 % these last five years and is expected to exceed in 2009 the
threshold of 40,000 tourists, with the more and more frequent use of large capacity ships,
able to carry more than 800 passengers.
What will be the impact of this tourism on such a fragile environment?
This documentary helps us to better understand the fragility of this continent, its role in
the balance of our planet and the fantasy which urges tens of thousands tourists to make
a trip to Antarctica in the same way that they would go on photo safari in Kenya.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
F Productions
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
75019 Paris France
T. + 33 1 4874 4377
F. + 33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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CANADA
THE DEVIL OPERATION
Stephanie Boyd
The charismatic Father Marco Arana, named a Hero of the Environment in 2009 by TIME
magazine, has been so effective in advocating against the US-owned Yanacocha mine that
he’s code-named “the Devil” and targeted in a campaign of harassment and terror.
When one colleague is threatened with rape and another is killed, the activists fight back,
capture a spy, and uncover a military-scale operation of surveillance and violence that
shocks even them.
When billions of dollars are at stake, just how far are corporations willing to go to protect
their bottom line?
A gripping David and Goliath tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture,
intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking
video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms
working for gold mines are uncovered by the filmmakers to reveal the truth in this reallife political thriller.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Oxyopia / Udris Productions
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
DIAMONDS OF RECONCILIATION
Laure Poinsot
For over 80 years, the Alexkor mine in South Africa’s Richtersveld region has been producing
diamonds of exceptional quality. But since the end of Apartheid, the black and coloured
people who have been deprived of their rights battle hard to have the land of their ancestors
returned to them. Mining exploitation is becoming more difficult and the diamond veins
are showing signs of depletion. The Richtersvelders hope to regain possession of the
mines before resources are depleted in order to secure a better future for their community
in this “new” South Africa.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Bonne Compagnie
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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ITALY
Adventure & Travel
DIOL KADD. LIFE, DIARIES
AND TAKES ON A VILLAGE IN SENEGAL
Gianni Celati
Diol Kadd is the result of three years spent filming in a small Senegalese village. The film
offers no facile exoticism or filters, just the daily lives of these polygamist families who have
17 children and a 104-year-old grandmother who still dances the seductive dance typical to the region. Where animist beliefs mix with the readings of the Koran. Where time
has a different meaning and where desertification is consuming the Savannah. The writerdirector Celati enters the community and, together with actor-director Mandiaye N’Diaye,
also captures the farmers’ comic desires for wealth, the kind of “disastrous wealth that blinds
people”.
Gianni Celati, one of the greatest living Italian writers and the author of this African diary,
recounts the continent as perhaps an Italian intellectual has not done since Pasolini and
Moravia.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Pierrot e la rosa srl
Luca Buelli
Vitagraph
Filippo D’Angelo
Via Schiavonia 1
T. +39 05 1267 150
F. +39 05 1267 150
[email protected]
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ESTONIA
DISCO & ATOMIC WAR
Jaak Kilmi
Disco and Atomic War tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture; and loses. Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children’s worldviews in those days
– in ways that now seem slightly odd. Finnish television was a window to a world of
dreams that the authorities could not block in any way. Though Finnish channels were
banned, many households found some way to access the forbidden fruit. Disco and Atomic War offers its own version of recent history, mixing
spy games into a human tragicomedy.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Eetriüksus
Kiur Aarma
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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CANADA
Lifestyles
DISH: WOMEN, WAITRESSING
AND THE ART OF SERVICE
Maya Gallus
Dish delves into North American classic diners, the “sexy restos of Montreal”, the “haute
eateries” in Paris, and Tokyo’s fantasy “maid bars” in an insider’s look at gender, power, and
the art of service. Experience life on the other side. You’ll never look at a waitress the same
way again.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Deep Dish Films Inc.
Maya Gallus
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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Lifestyles
DIVINE PIG
Hans Dortmans
In many parts of the world the pig is considered harmful and impure. But still, the pig is the
most-eaten animal in the world. Will Dorus be an exception? Dorus is a pig living in the back
yard of a Dutch butcher. During their walks together through the Netherlands Dorus becomes
a local celebrity. Some customers try to discourage the butcher from killing Dorus. Others look
forward to tasting its rich meat. As Dorus matures into his second year and reaches the point
of slaughter, the butcher faces a difficult choice. Does his love for the pig run deeper than his
love of pork? Divine Pig explores this controversial animal and challenges our cultural assumptions and tastes. A Palestinian woman married to a Dutchman discusses with her religious mother whether she should forbid her young son to eat pork. A Christian university
doctor strictly observes the Jewish food laws, but despite his efforts to prove differently, cannot find evidence that pork is unhealthy. A medical researcher is working on a revolutionary
cure for diabetes transplanting pig cells into humans. But for every patient he must kill five
pigs. From every angle, our feelings for the pig and for Dorus’s fate are challenged. Will Dorus
survive the film? By the time we learn of his fate, where do our sympathies lie?
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Pieter van Huijstee Film
Curien Kroon
Pieter van Huijstee Film
Curien Kroon
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T. +31 20 421 0606
[email protected]
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INDIA
DOBUY. THE FABRIC OF FAITH
Soniya Kirpalani
Reflections on a Cultural Revolution, lead by two Arab girls, who work along with a design community to develop national brands. Demanding equal opportunities in their
malls to stand alongside multinational brands, they use design as an element for change.
Representing modern Arab culture, they challenge the social and political dimension of
veils, using it as cultural armor against an increasingly globalized economy.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Sprocket Science
Soniya Kirpalani
Thierry Detaille Int’l imports
Thierry Detaille
Rue Stevin, 174
Brussels 1000 Belgium
T.-F +32 477 617 170
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
DOCVILLE – 99 LASKAREOS ST, ATHENS
Katerina Patroni
99 Laskareos St, Athens is the first episode of Docville, a cinéma-vérité documentary series about urban life in Greece today, in times of crisis.
Zoe and Athina, two women in their fifties, own two small shops in the same neighborhood. Everyone around knows them and shops from them. Their stores are a daily meeting point for the locals to exchange their news and discuss issues that relate to their common microcosm. Due to the crisis, most small businesses in this neighborhood are closing
down. However, Zoe and Athina are fighting hard to keep their businesses afloat, even
though they know that very soon their life is going to change, as is the local area.
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Minimal Films (Athens)
Production Contact Person: Marco Gastine
Sales Company:
Minimal Films (Athens)
Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA, Greece
Marco Gastine, Yannis Kollias
5 Fotiou Patriarchou St
T. +30 210 360 6730
F. +30 210 360 6730
[email protected]
[email protected]
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POLAND
Current Affairs
THE DOG HILL
Grzegorz Zariczny
A story about three men of different ages who spend six months each year working as
shepherds, away from their families and civilization. They have a lot of time to talk about
the most important aspects of life. The highlander’s philosophy in short.
Running time: 39΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Joanna Skalska
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
Krakow 31-143, Poland
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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DRAKE EQUATION –
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
Tim Usborne
The search for extraterrestrial life is officially 50 years old. In 1961, an astronomer called
Frank Drake took everything we knew about star formation, planetary systems, the evolution of biology and the lifecycle of civilizations; and from this jumble of science he formulated one of the most controversial formulae in science. It came to be known as the
Drake Equation.
It’s a complex set of factors which looks impenetrable to the unmathematical eye. But behind it lies an amazing theory: That the Universe is teeming with intelligent life.
Using the equation, Drake fed in values for each of the factors based on his astronomical
knowledge, and he came up with a number. He suggested that there could be 10 alien civilizations capable of contacting us, right now, in our own galaxy; the Milky Way. That would
be staggering enough, but our galaxy is just one of a mind-blowing 170 billion galaxies
in the Universe.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
BBC
Marie Roche
The Open University, Open University Worldwide,
Walton Hall, Michael Young Building.
T. +44 1908 332 470
F. +44 1908 858 787
[email protected]
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NIGERIA
DUNDUN
Ibisankale Kayode
Dundun, also called the Talking Drum, is considered by many to be the most eloquent of
all the African drums, and is believed to have originated within the divinity. In the southern Sahara in Africa, the Dundun is traditionally regarded as “the instrument of the Kings.”
Dundun – The Talking Drum takes the viewer to the city of Oyo in Nigeria where the drum
is believed to have originated. This comprehensive documentary shows the cultural and
historical context surrounding the drum and an in-depth examination of its construction,
from chopping down the correct tree to the finishing design touches. The film also presents many performances and demonstrates who may use the drum, when and for what
it is used, and what is communicated.
* GZ DOC Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival - China 2010
* The Toronto African Film & Music Festival - Canada 2010
* Eko International Film Festival - Nigeria 2009
* Ife International Film Festival - Nigeria 2009
* Nigerian Festival of Festival of Arts and Culture, Tel Aviv - Israel 2009
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Kadibis Entertainment
Ibisankale Kayode
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St.
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#dundun
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E. CH. GONATAS
Michalis Lykoudis
E.Ch. Gonatas (1924-2006) holds a particular place in Greek literature as both an original
author and a creative translator of, among others, Yvan Goll, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg,
and Samuel Coleridge. His short paradoxical texts, often oscillating between poetry and
fiction, together with his low public profile, have made him into an enigmatic figure and
have, to a certain extent, hindered the wider acclaim of his work. This short film, which was
prepared as part of a research program on teaching literature at a distance, aims to introduce Gonatas to a wider public and facilitate the understanding of his captivating work.
Running time: 57΄
Michalis Lykoudis
Athens 17561, Greece
T. +30 6979 981 284
F. +49 22 1952 2113
[email protected]
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GREECE
ECHO OF TIME
Panos Kekas
“Somewhere near the limits of our imagination there exists a Labyrinth. It twists and pulsates, and no one has reached its center so far.”
Echo of Time explores this labyrinth of legends and the transcendent spirituality of Ross
Daly’s music. Director Panos Kekas follows and records the compelling forays of the world
renowned Irish musician and composer Ross Daly into Tropical Music. Ross Daly has lived
in Crete for the past thirty years and always remains a tireless tracker of new musical paths.
He travels with the Labyrinth giving concerts and bringing different cultures together,
guided by integrity and his endless inspiration.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
PK Productions
Production Contact Person: Panos Kekas
Panos Kekas
13 Tassopoulou St.
T. +30 210 639 4933
F. +30 210 639 8616
[email protected]
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ECOLOGICAL DIARIES:
LITTLE BIG IDEAS
Marianna Economou
OK, so maybe Greece isn’t exactly a green produce export giant - and it probably never will
be. But that doesn’t mean it can’t offer a premium boutique portfolio, worth its weight in
gold, to be sold in every upscale department store in the world. Alexandros is one of the
few farmers in Thessaly that has latched on to the growth potential of this exclusive organic
market. In fact, he’s even expecting a food scout from a luxury store in London who’s interested in his tomato sauce. His bright example has gotten the entire local community to
thinking that maybe there’s a different approach to farming, where small-scale organic produce could equal big bucks. Just like limited edition art.
Running time: 42΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
DOC 3 & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT S.A
Marianna Economou
DOC 3
Marianna Economou
12 Athinas St, Athens 118 51, Greece
T. +30 210 322 3395 F. +30 210 322 3395
[email protected]
Sales Company:
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711 F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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GREECE
ECOLOGICAL DIARIES: ON THE ROAD
Alexis Alexiou
Featuring the largest trail network in the Cyclades Prefecture, the island of Tinos is aching
to be walked but visitors are still dragging their feet. Split down the middle by its dual
Catholic-Orthodox faith and strewn with intricate pigeon lofts that may appear quaint but
in fact attest to the island’s past idiosyncratic eating habits, Tinos largely remains a mystery. And the best way to explore it is still on foot. Karolos Merlin, a trekking guide and cartographer, has already unearthed 300km of well-carved footpaths and is struggling to create human traffic, the only remedy against the all-effacing forces of time. On a nearby trail,
a group of volunteers from the EU are engaged in a hands-on preservation program coordinated by local architect Ioanna Papastathopoulou. A cultural heritage management
specialist, Papastathopoulou sheds some light on the sloping landscape that turned pigeons into an animal farming asset, while dedicated plant pathologist Yiannis Aspromougos, a recent addition to the island, is doing his damnedest to help local farmers make
the best of what they’ve got.
Running time: 42΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
DOC 3 & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA
Valerie Kontakos
DOC 3
Valerie Kontakos
12 Athinas St
T. +30 210 322 3395 F. +30 210 322 3395
[email protected]
Sales Company:
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave, Agia Paraskevi 153 42, Greece
T. +30 210 607 5711 F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected] www.ert.gr
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THE NETHERLANDS
Lifestyles
EGG FOR LATER
Marieke Schellart
This personal documentary tells the story of 35-year-old filmmaker Marieke Schellart,
struggling with her ticking biological clock. The right guy hasn’t arrived yet and now she’s
starting to worry she might never have children. To give herself a bit more time, she wants
to extend her fertility by freezing her eggs, but in The Netherlands freezing eggs for social
reasons isn’t allowed. She openly discusses her plans and doubts with her friends and parents, finding support and resistance along the way. She also looks for Mr. Right by asking
dates for presents on her 36th birthday. For Marieke, a long journey started which even
takes her abroad, trying to find a solution to a very common problem for modern women.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Trueworks, NCRV Television
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217 The Netherlands
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6753 18
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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GERMANY
History & Politics
EHRE (HONOR)
Aysun Bademsoy
In her documentary film, Aysun Bademsoy tries to approach the term “honor” by searching for distinctions and similarities of the term in different sociocultural contexts.
Running time: 87΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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ma.ja.de. filmproduktion
Heino Deckert
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1, Leipzig 04103
Germany
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
Current Affairs
THE ELECTRIC MIND
Nadav Harel
The prospect of manipulating our minds with machines has for decades been considered
a cybernetic fantasy, but nowadays the accelerating advancements of brain science are materializing into a genuine cure for people. This film tells the story of four people ill with Depression, PTSD, Dystonia and Schizophrenia, as they go through various cutting edge neuroenhancement therapies.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
NoProcess Films
Nadav Harel
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004 , France
T. +33 1 44 59 63 53
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
THE EMBRACE OF THE RIVER
Nicolas Rincon
On one of the rocks of the Magdalena, first river of Colombia, the Mohan smokes and drinks,
waiting for women to drag them to his underwater palace. They come back pregnant or
disappear. He scares fish away and holds the nets; sometimes he drowns a fisherman. But
lately, he rarely appears. One is less afraid of spirits than of paramilitary terrorists. And the
Magdalena rolls corpses in its depths.
Running time: 76΄
Production Company:
VOA
Production Contact Person: Marie Betbeze
Sales Company:
Thierry Detaille
19F Avenue des Arts
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 2 227 22 39
[email protected]
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USA
EMBRACEABLE
Jon Kent
You think you know the meaning of kindness, charisma, musical passion and joy until you
meet Ben Monkaba and others like him with a rare genetic condition called Williams Syndrome. Despite medical hardships and intellectual challenges, people with Williams embrace life, and everyone around them, with unconditional love and acceptance. Embraceable celebrates this beautiful variation of life through candid interviews, unforgettable social
encounters, amazing musical performances and dramatic portrait photography. Running
commentaries by top scientific experts bring to light how a rare genetic abnormality can
teach us a great deal about ourselves.
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kent Creative/501Cinema
Dana Christina
Kent Creative/501Cinema
Dana Christina
123 South 11th Street
Nashville ΤΝ 37206 USA
T. +1 615 226 2202
[email protected]
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GREECE
ENCOUNTERS WITH KIKI DIMOULA
Katerina Patroni
A deeply personal and disarmingly frank encounter in which Kiki Dimoula lays chunks of
her life, feelings and thoughts on the line. The camera remains tightly focused on the poetess throughout, searching her face with its lens and capturing an unbroken stream of consciousness with all its doubts, silences and tensions.
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Periplus
Thanos Lambropoulos
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
7, Dionysiou Areopagitou St.
T. +30 210 367 8500
F. +30 210 364 8245
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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ITALY
Adventure & Travel
END OF THE WORLD
Davide Demichelis
Discovering Tierra del Fuego in the footsteps of the explorer Father Alberto Maria De
Agostini.
One hundred years after the first missionary landed in Tierra del Fuego, and fifty years since
returning to Italy, his nephew Giovanni De Agostini visits the places his uncle described with
such a wealth of detail during his short stays at home. Thanks to his uncle’s stories, Giovanni’s childhood was filled with dreams of uncontaminated peaks such as Mount
Sarmiento and Fitz Roy; animals like penguins and whales; glaciers, fjords, and above all
people dressed in guanaco skins, which he’ll never be able to see.
Since the death of Father Alberto, a long while back in 1960, Giovanni has longed to carry
out this journey. We’ll follow him, as he finally fulfils the dream of a lifetime.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Eurofilm
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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BELGIUM
THE ENDLESS HIGHWAY.
A PORTRAIT OF ALLAN TAYLOR
Patrick Ferryn
Allan Taylor is a stranger, a troubadour who has spent over 40 years observing the customers of shady bars, cafés in the early morning, of cheap hotels and places where people living on the margins of society open their hearts. A film as the story of a talented composer, inspired poet, accomplished musician, and folk singer who went on the road,
influenced by the Beat Generation. A biographical film which offers a better understanding of the process of composing a song, from a bar table to the mixing table of a studio.
Running time: 68΄
Production Company:
Kabooze
Production Contact Person: Patrick Ferryn
Sales Company:
Thierry Detaille
19F, avenue des Arts
Bruxelles 1000 Belgium
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 2 227 2239
[email protected]
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BELGIUM - NETHERLANDS
ENJOY YOUR MEAL – HOW FOOD
CHANGES THE WORLD
Walther Grotenhuis
Throughout the year, a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the world. Has our
food, from being both a temptation for our taste buds and a source of social gathering, degenerated to a matter of conscience?
Under what conditions is it being produced? Fish-breeding ponds polluting the environment, patches of bush being chopped down to have cattle grazing and beans also have
their dark side: a shortage of water in the region of origin. If we want to behave like conscientious consumers, we will have to clear a path through a minefield of moral choices
and dilemmas.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kleine Beer Films & Associate Directors
Wouter Snip
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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GREECE
History & Politics
ENRAGED DECEMBER
Chryssa Tzelepi & Akis Kersanidis
What was the uprising of December 2008? Who were the social subjects that participated?
What were the causes and how will it affect the future of socio-political demands in Greece?
All these questions try to find answers in the documentary Enraged December which was
filmed by a group of people who met in Thessaloniki during the first days following the
murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (6th December 2008) in Athens. The film attempts
to describe the chronicle of revolt through the eyes of those who participated in the mobilizations during the first three highly charged weeks.
Running time: 63΄
Production Company:
Anemicinema
Production Contact Person: Chryssa Tzelepi
7 Skra St
Thessaloniki 546 22, Greece
T. +30 2310 266 702
[email protected]
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CYPRUS
ENTELECHY
Stavros Papageorghiou
“The human soul is the entelechy of a natural body having life potentially within it.”
Aristotle’s concise reasoning, hovering in the vast universe, beams out to merge with the
main body of Cypriot director-producer, Stavros Papageorghiou’s documentary Entelechy;
a Ulyssean, twenty-year long journey in the labyrinths of archaeo-astronomy, geodesy and
philosophy.
His navigator and fellow traveller in this journey of initiation, is Cypriot researcher and
painter Goris Gregoriades. Since 1990, Stavros Papageorghiou’s camera has been following and recording Goris’s quest for the discovery of the geodetic and archaeo-astronomical dimension of Cyprus’s ancient sacred temples and sanctuaries. For the director, recording Goris’s research and findings turns into a parallel personal journey of investigation and
exploration of the secrets that lie hidden in the ancient stone books of Knowledge.
Running time: 110΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Tetraktys Films
Tetraktys Films
95 Kerynia Ave, Aglanjia
T. +357 99 694 407
F. +357 22 339 286
[email protected]
www.tetraktys.tv
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USA
History & Politics
ETHOS
Pete McGrain
Ethos, a powerful new documentary hosted by Woody Harrelson, is an investigation into
the flaws in our systems, and the mechanisms that work against democracy, our environment and the common good. With a stunning depth of research and breadth of analysis, this film delves deep into the inter-connected worlds of Politics, Multi-National Corporations and the Media. Most of us have wondered at some point how we have arrived
at a situation where democracy is touted as having created an equal society when all we
see is injustice and corruption. Politicians openly deceive the public with the support of major corporations and the mainstream media. Wars are waged, the environment is destroyed
and inequality is on the rise. But what is the source of these institutional mechanisms which
– when we scratch the surface – are so clearly anti-democratic, so contradictory to the
values we hold in common and yet so firmly embedded that they seem beyond discussion?
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Media for Change
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
ETHOS PROCESS PART II
Spyros Amiropoulos
An actress, a performance and a psychotherapy session. The vanishing point between a theatrical role and real life.
Running time: 17΄
Production Company:
One Touch
Production Contact Person: Spyros Amiropoulos
91 Vas. Olgas Ave
T. +30 6936 809 371
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
EUROPALIVE
Anaud Jullien
Getting to know today’s Europeans better through 140 interviews in 23 languages in 24
states of the European Union.
A young filmmaker travels around Europe in 75 days. Through ad-hoc interviews on
streets, in parks, but also at people’s homes, different categories of people share their opinions in front of the camera. The answers given to the same list of questions about politics,
culture, money, the EU and other personal concerns aim at providing a better understanding of who Europeans are today.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Europalive
Production Contact Person: Arnaud Jullien
Sales Company:
OutCome
Jarmila Outratova
Jizni namesti 23
Prague 14100 Czech Republic
T. +42 07 7606 6165
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
EVERLASTING SORROW
AFTER THE DEATH PENALTY
David André
In 1999, Sean Sellers, sentenced to death at sixteen, was executed in Oklahoma at the age
of twenty-nine. A few days earlier, the director filmed him on death row. He also met the
victims’ families who were present at the clemency hearing, demanding justice. Ten years
later, the director returns to Oklahoma in search of the protagonists he filmed, with one
question in mind: does the death penalty really provide healing or does it act as a poison?
The prosecutor admits his failure, the executioners are haunted by their memories, the victims’ families are torn between shame, hatred and their sorrow still intact.
Running time: 81΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
AMIP
Doc and Film World Sales
Daniela Elstner
13 rue Portefoin
Paris 75003, France
T. +33 1 4277 5687
F. +33 1 4277 3656
[email protected]
www.docandfilm.com
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USA
EVERYDAY SUNSHINE:
THE STORY OF FISHBONE
Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler
Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have
been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South
Central-Los Angeles and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980s, the band
rose to prominence, only to fall apart when on the verge of “making it”.
Laurence Fishburne narrates Everyday Sunshine, an entertaining cinematic journey into the
personal lives of this unique Black rock band, an untold story of fiercely individual artists
in their quest to reclaim their musical legacy while debunking the myths of young Black
men from urban America. Highlighting the parallel journeys of a band and their city, Everyday Sunshine explores the personal and cultural forces that gave rise to California’s legendary Black punk sons that continue to defy categories and expectations.
At the heart of Fishbone’s story is lead singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher
who show how they keep the band rolling, out of pride, desperation and love for their art.
To overcome money woes, family strife, and the strain of being aging Punk rockers on the
road, Norwood and Angelo are challenged to re-invent themselves in the face of dysfunction and ghosts from a painful past.
Running time: 107΄
Production Company:
Pale Griot Film
Production Contact Person: Chris Metzler
1588 Hayes Str., Ste. #2
San Francisco CA 94117 USA
T. +1 415 771 9987
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
EVRIDIKI’S CASE
Freddy Vianellis
A creative documentary about the triumph of will. After seven years of heroin addiction,
Evridiki sobers up by realizing that the root of her problems lies within her dysfunctional
family and past. The film is based on the theatrical play Evridiki’s Case and follows the story
of a girl who was bound to the world of drugs for 13 years. After hitting rock bottom, she
turned to therapy to start all over again.
The film weaves around four cinematic themes: Evridiki’s personal statement, the staging
and development of the theatrical play, the everyday reality of drugs in downtown Athens
and the normal upbringing of five girls between the ages of 3 and 16 which directly clashes
with Evridiki’s childhood years.
Running time: 56’
Production Company:
Modiano SA
Production Contact Person: Freddy Vianellis
73 K. Palaiologou St
Athens 152 32 Greece
T. +30 210 684 6398
F. +30 210 684 4078
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
Lifestyles
EX-MOTHER
Nadine Kuipers
In 2007, director Nadine Kuipers completed her final project for the Film Academy, Moeders Mooiste, about her reunion with her drug-addicted, estranged mother. Now, in a new
documentary, she explores her dilemma: should she keep fighting and caring for her
mother, or should she choose her own life instead? How unconditional is a daughter’s love
for her mother? Would she rather just have an “ex-mother”?
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
172
Submarine
Yaniv Wolf
Submarine
Yaniv Wolf
Rapenburgerstraat 109
1011 VL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T. +31 2033 01226
F. +31 2033 01227
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
EX-VOTO
Caroline D’Hondt
Alfredo Vilchis is one of the last mexican painters of ex-votos, these small paintings, naive
and touching, offered to thank a saint or the Virgin Mary for his/her miraculous intervention. Alfredo takes social facts out of anonymity and gives them a life. Chronicler of his time,
he also makes personal ex-votos dealing with symptomatic issues of contemporary Mexican society, on the eve of the centennary of its revolution.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Cobra Film
Vincent Tavier
Thierry Detaille
19F Αvenue des Arts
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 2 227 2239
[email protected]
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CZECH REPUBLIC
EYE OVER PRAGUE
Olga Spatova
The extraordinary tale of Jan Kaplicky, one of the most consummate visionaries of modern architecture. Shot over 3 years in the UK, the Czech Republic and Italy, the film portrays Kaplicky at the height of his profession and the petty political gamesmanship that
denied him his crowning achievement. His most audacious building would have been the
Czech National Library, a triumphant return to his home country and vindication of his uncompromising philosophy. The organic design was too forward-looking for the political
powers in Prague, however, and the architect tragically died, uncertain whether his
achievement would ever be realized.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Simply Cinema
Production Contact Person: Eliska Kaplicky-Fuchsova
Krizeneckeho nam. 322/5, Barrandov film studios
Prague 5, 15200, Czech Republic
T. +420 251 819 441
[email protected]
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UK
Current Affairs
EYEWITNESS
Kate Shiers-Ghelliere
Many of us will witness a violent crime at some point in our lives. The police will want us
to describe what happened in detail, but our memory can play tricks on us. Could you give
a reliable statement of exactly what happened?
Using actors, hidden cameras and interviews, we show the difference between what witnesses remember and what actually happened. Ten volunteers, who think they are taking
part in a series about memory, find themselves key witnesses to two dramatic and violent crimes, secretly staged and filmed. Our volunteers find it surprisingly hard to remember
the sequence of events, let alone who did what.
Running time: 3x60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
BBC
Marie Roche
The Open University, Open University Worldwide,
Walton Hall, Michael Young Building.
T. +44 1908 332 470
F. +44 1908 858 787
[email protected]
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SWEDEN
Current Affairs
FAMILIA
Alberto Herskovits & Mikael Wistroem
Familia is a poignant documentary spanning over 35 years about a poverty-stricken Peruvian family trying to stay together in the midst of great difficulty. The story begins in 2006.
Naty has lost her steady employment and can’t find a new job. With great anxiety she decides to leave her family to look for work in Spain. Two years later she returns to Peru, and
finds her family in turmoil. But Naty has also changed...
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Månharen Film & TV
in co-production with Ventana Film AB and SVT
Production Contact Person: Mikael Wistroem
Sales Company:
Heino Deckert
Germany
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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LATVIA
Current Affairs
FAMILY INSTINCT
Andris Gauja
Family Instinct is a film about incest – an illegal act, social taboo and a violation of religious norms. Zanda is a 28-year-old woman, worn out by hard work. Surrounded by
poverty and despair, she is trying to survive with her two children in a god-forsaken Latvian village. Her hardships can be traced back to living in a relationship with her brother
Valdis. When Valdis is put in jail, the local community forces her to make a difficult choice:
to stay with him or with her children. Despite her ill fortune, she manages to express her
love for the children, still hoping to save her family. The film offers a tragicomic but highly
authentic insight into the bleak reality of Latvian countryside today.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
178
Fa Filma
Madara Melberga
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
Vienna A-1040 Austria
T. +43 6764 3720
[email protected]
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BOLIVIA - VENEZUELA - ARGENTINA
Lifestyles
FAST FOOD OFF THE SHELF
Fernando Martínez
In December of 2002, McDonald’s had to shut down their restaurants in Bolivia. The company cited financial problems, but the real reasons were to be found elsewhere. Bolivia may
be a small, poor nation on the global market, but strong traditions and national tastes are
sometimes more powerful factors than economic clout. Filmmaker Fernando Martinez
shows us the characters behind the events and their life stories. The symbolism is obvious
when a multinational giant is brought to its knees by a country’s traditions and heritage.
Through six intimate stories with renowned cooks and a review of popular sayings about
Bolivian food, travel by the variety of its flavor, you’ll discover that love is in this home cooking, the market, the barter and the low cost of one of the cuisines that has not yet been
recognized.
* GIFF Göteborg IFF, Sweden 2011
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
Producen Bolivia &
Azpurua Productions & Lagarto Cine
Production Contact Person: Viviana Saavedra
Sales Company:
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#fastfood
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USA - AUSTRIA
History & Politics
FATAL PROMISES: BOUGHT, SOLD
AND DISCARDED A CLOSE LOOK
AT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Kat Rohrer
Fatal Promises is a controversial new documentary that takes an in-depth and refreshingly
honest look into the scourge of human trafficking. Through personal stories of victims of
trafficking, and interviews with politicians, non-governmental organizations and prominent spokespeople like Emma Thompson and Gloria Steinem, Fatal Promises cleverly juxtaposes the brutal realities of human trafficking suffered by victims and battled by activists,
with the hollow rhetoric of politicians and pundits who claim to be making significant
strides in combating this horrific crime against humanity.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
180
GreenKat Productions
Katharina Rohrer
Jan Röfekamp
T. +1 514 844 3358
F. +1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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ICELAND
Environment & Wild life
FEATHERED COCAINE: FOLLOW THE
FALCON, FIND THE TERRORIST
Orn Marino Arnarson & Thorkell Hardarson
Alan Howell Parrot is one of the worlds leading falcon trainers with powerful connections
in the Middle East, where he formerly trained hunting falcons for the Persian Gulf power
elite. After witnessing relentless falcon smuggling in the wake of the USSR’s collapse, he
left the Middle East and formed a global nature conservation group to protect the falcons.
Through his connections, Mr. Parrot learned of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, who
is an obsessed falconer….
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Markell Productions
Thorkell Hardarso
Jan Röfekamp
T. +1 514 844 3358
F. +1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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570
USA
FERLINGHETTI
Christopher Felver
The poet and writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an iconic presence in the world of arts and
letters. He is also the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco
as well as a painter and a liberal activist.
For well over half a century he has helped shape the currents of poetry and literature
through his forceful engagement with society. Armed with an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political dogma of his day, Ferlinghetti became the best
selling poet of the modern era in the USA (A Coney Island of the Mind, 1958, a collection
of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million
copies), a literary mercenary and a rebel at the forefront of a cultural revolution.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Photography Felver
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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UK
History & Politics
A FILM ABOUT RACES
Jonathan Baker
We follow Welshman Paul Duddridge as, with the help of some of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers and academics, he pushes aside society’s taboos to find out what “race” really is. Along the way he attempts to solve the Middle East peace crisis, buys hundreds of
Twinkies and desperately tries to find contestants to join him for a mini-Olympics staged
in Los Angeles where teams are split by race rather than nationality.
There is a serious point to the seemingly irreverent approach: if we can’t easily define race,
why can it sometimes seem so easy to define racism?
Filmed on location in Los Angeles, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and the UK,
A Film about Races is an entertaining exploration of the common myths and misconceptions about race.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Seagull Designed Films
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
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GREECE
FILMING, AN EVERYDAY STRUGGLE
Nicolas Ploumpidis
The voice here is that of those who still try to create cinema d’auteur in Greece. The film
follows Margarita Manda who is shooting her first feature film. The set operates as a window on the often hard reality of the country and attests to the resourcefulness that today’s
Greeks need to show in order to face reality: solidarity, smartness and a decent amount of
poetry. The images are those of a film shoot, yet the editing renders it a real-life experience.
Running time: 29΄
Production Contact Person: N. Ploumpidis
N. Ploumpidis
Paris 75010, France
T. +33 6 2783 9078
[email protected]
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CYPRUS - GREECE
THE FIRE WITHIN
Petros Charalambous
“The Power of Art is that it can carry the talent of artist through the centuries…”
Now, regretfully, I think that Ärt can be more ephemeral than the artist himself¨
The painter’s workshop, destroyed by a fire, was a really priceless cultural treasure, with
paintings of unique value, theatrical maquettes and hand-written scripts, rare collections
of books, precious stones and photographs. The loss for the painter, who lost the work of
a lifetime, but also for the culture of our country cannot be measured.
Andreas Charalambous has dedicated himself to the art of Cyprus and to the cultural happenings of our country. This film is a small token of our appreciation to the artist and what
he represents.
Running time: 46΄
Production Company:
Film Etc. Ltd.
Production Contact Person: Petros Charalambous
4 Kyprou Chrysanthi St
Engomi 2412, Cyprus
T. +357 9955 6086
F. +357 2235 5899
[email protected]
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GREECE
THE FIRST GREEK WOMAN ARTIST
Kleoni Flessa
Eleni Boukouli Altamura. Searching for a glimpse of the first avant-garde woman artist of
the 19th century against the backdrop of the Greek reality in which she lived, an alluring
and enigmatic woman who somehow managed to turn her era’s every convention on its
head.
Dressed as a man, Eleni studied Painting at the Nazarene School in Rome (1847-50) and
in Florence (1850-51). Her example became a demand for schools of art and universities
around the world to open their doors to women and grant them access to knowledge.
Eleni fell in love with an Italian artist, Saverio Altamura, and dared to live her life rebelliously
and poetically, whatever the cost. And it cost her very dearly indeed.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
186
Kleoni Flessa
Kleoni Flessa
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 341 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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FRANCE - CHINA
Lifestyles
FLAVOR AND BONDAGE
Feng Wang
It is 6:00 am, in Canton, in the South of China. The employees of the Jin Cheng restaurant
are getting ready: collective dancing and singing will contribute to make this new day a
successful one. The stakes are high: the restaurant has a reputation of excellence due to its
“Chao” specialties: to guarantee the authenticity of “Chao” flavors, the supplying of fish,
shellfish and tofu, among many others items, must come from the original source, where
the skills of this ethnic group are still applied in accordance with the ancestral rules and
where the quality and freshness of the products is indisputable. Nothing can be properly
done if the traditions are not respected. As we follow the workings of this enterprise, we
will understand how for the Chao Diaspora, cooking is an excellent cure for nostalgia.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Solferino Images, Grand Entertainment
Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisée
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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SWITZERLAND
Lifestyles
FLYING HOME
Tobias Wyss
After a tragic car accident, Walter Otto Wyss immigrated to the United States in 1939. There
he developed a revolutionary hybrid-car which will never be produced. Having interrupted
his relationship to an Afro-American dancer, Martinique Landois, in the late fifties, he learns
Japanese in Tokyo, living like a hermit.
The last thirty years of his live, he lived alone in Hawaii, where he passed away in 2001.
In spite of many opportunities to realize his dream of freedom, success and security, he
never managed to free himself of Switzerland, his mother, his guilt. Walter’s nephew, the
director Tobias Wyss, tells the story of his uncle in a personal way, using photos and videos
from the family’s archive.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Mira Film GmbH
Production Contact Person: Anna Martensen
Sales Company:
Mira Film GmbH
Badenerstr. 129,
T. +41 43 960 3684
[email protected]
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USA
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE
Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann
This is the story of an inspiring group of people and their dream to make music. This documentary film follows the members of the Spirit of Goodwill Band while they prepare for
the concert of a lifetime. As they navigate daily life, these 28 musicians and singers, all with
a wide range of severe mental and physical disabilities, display innate talent, humor and
tenacity. For Once in My Life shatters preconceived notions of what it means to be “disabled”
and reveals the humor, hope and the greatness within us all.
Running time: 89΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Visit Films
Visit Films
Aida LiPera
89 5th Ave., Suite 806,
T. +1 718 312 8210
F. +1 718 362 4865
[email protected]
www.visitfilms.com
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USA - FRANCE
Current Affairs
FOREIGN PARTS
Verena Paravel & J.P Sniadecki
A hidden enclave in the shadow of the New York Mets’ new stadium, the neighborhood
of Willets Point is an industrial zone fated for demolition. Filled with scrapyards and auto
salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign Parts discovers a strange community where wrecks, refuse and recycling
form a thriving commerce. Cars are stripped, sorted and catalogued by brand and part, then
resold to an endless parade of drive-thru customers. Joe, the last original resident, rages
and rallies through the street like a lost King Lear, trying to contest his imminent eviction.
Two lovers, Sara and Luis, struggle for food and safety through the winter while living in
an abandoned van. Julia, the homeless queen of the junkyard, exalts in her beatific visions
of daily life among the forgotten. The film observes and captures the struggle of a contested
“eminent domain” neighborhood before its disappearance under the capitalization of
New York’s urban ecology.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Verena Paravel and J.P Sniadecki
Production Contact Person: Verena Paravel
17 marie ave. #3
Cambridge ΜΑ 02139 USA
T. +1 617 223 7732
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
FRITKOT
Manu Poutte
Humorous, featuring colorful characters, the film portrays a traditional and endangered
chips snack, as the little theater of contemporary troubled Belgium. A cramped hut where
queuing brings dialogue and improbable encounters. A friendly place, which represents
a chance, in compartmented societies, of living together.
Running time: 76΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Lux Fugit Film
Manu Poutte
Thierry Detaille
Wallonie Image Production
Quai des Ardennes 16
Liège 4020, Belgium
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 4 340 1041
[email protected]
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GREECE
FROM CALLIKRATES TO CALATRAVA –
THE GREEK APARTMENT BUILDINGS
Yannis Skopeteas
Which was the first block of flats in Athens? Are lofts the luxurious apartment blocks of the
21st century? What does the condominium represent? What changes occurred after World
War II, when there was a building boom of blocks of flats in most major Greek cities? This
documentary traces the evolution of the apartment building from the first ones that appeared in Greece in the early 20th century to the luxurious apartments of wealthy Greeks
in the early 1930s, the mass-produced bourgeois blocks of flats of the 1960s, the condominiums of the two past two decades and the lofts of 2010. Special emphasis is given to
the apartment buildings which became landmarks of the evolution of that type of building, such as apartment blocks built by the architects Valsamakis, Dekavallas, Manetas, and
Biris, as well as Panagiotakos’s legendary “Blue Block of Flats” in the Exarcheia district of
Athens.
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
192
Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA & Studio Pixel
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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FRANCE
THE FURIOUS FORCE OF RHYMES
Joshua Atesh Litle
Whatever your preconceptions about hip hop may be, throw them out the window. The
Furious Force of Rhymes explodes the stereotypes of swagger and bravado to reveal an irresistible unifying force of global significance. Lushly photographed, bursting with music
and dance, this powerful documentary carries you away on a trans-national hip hop
Road Movie. Startling and provocative, with an uplifting message of hope and reconciliation, it reveals how a single genre of music connects people as diverse as American Blacks,
East German Skinheads, Israeli Jews, Palestinians, African Feminists and French Banlieusards. Alternately exuberant, moving and humorous, The Furious Force of Rhymes is a
stirring chronicle of the combustible intersection between politics and art.
Running time: 82΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Les Films d’Ici
Doc & Film International
Daniela Elstner
13 rue Portefoin
Paris 75003, France
T. +33 1 4277 5687
F. +33 1 4277 3656
[email protected]
www.docandfilm.com
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ICELAND - UK
FUTURE OF HOPE
Henry Bateman
Everything bubbles to the surface in its purest form: lava, spouting geysers and the untouched hilly landscape that stretches out as far as the eye can see. The banking crisis hit
Iceland hard, but not everyone here considers it to have been a disaster: of all people, it is
a bankrupted entrepreneur who says, “It’s the best thing that could happen to the soul of
Iceland. We had lost ourselves in greed.” So keep your spirits up: in the words of Vala Ragnarsdottir from the University of Iceland, her country is “the best place to be when the energy crisis hits.” The opportunities for sustainable development are boundless. All that is
required is a shift in mentality, a shift from importing nearly all the population’s food to
installing greenhouses on a volcano. Future of Hope presents Icelanders who are leading
their compatriots in a new way of thinking. Images of the spectacular Icelandic landscape
are intercut with interviews that strike a hopeful chord.
Running time: 75΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
194
Future of Hope
Heather Millard
Raven Films/Spier Films
Heather Millard
10 Old House Road, Balsham
Cambridge CB21 4EF, UK
T. +44 7793 030 475
[email protected]
www.spierfilms.com
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FRANCE
History & Politics
A FUTURE WITHOUT OIL
Laëtitia Moreau
When President of Ecuador Rafael Correa announced in 2007 that he will not exploit the
country’s Amazonian oil fields in exchange for financial compensation from industrialized
countries, he makes a very bold move. The challenge? To convince them that the safeguarding of nature is worth more than petroleum extraction. The film tells the three-yearstory of Correa’s team as they try to convince the international community that both
north and south would gain by supporting this post-petroleum-era model for sustainable
development.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
What’s Up Films
Matthieu Belghiti & Pierre Carrique
Zed
Céline Payot
42 rue Eugene Carriere
Paris 75018, France
T. +33 1 5309 9876
F. +33 1 4262 6460
[email protected]
www.zed.fr
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JAPAN
GENPIN
Naomi Kawase
Life born into this world, life that ends at the moment of birth, life that ends before birth.
Lives do not cease as a solitary life, but are carried on by the species, and continue.
Through the flux of the Japanese seasons, Kawase Naomi entered the circle of the women
giving birth at the Yoshimura Clinic and the world of Dr. Yoshimura, who has spent forty
years on the path of natural childbirth, and wove the footage she shot with her own 16mm
camera into this film.
The film takes place at the Yoshimura Clinic, in the city of Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture, near
central Japan. The clinic stands in a dense forest, as if protected by something in the midst
of a rapidly developing residential district. Expectant mothers come here from across the
country, seeking a natural childbirth that doesn’t depend on medical intervention.
The work of childbirth, essential and instinctive to humans, has continued without change
from the beginning of time. But in today’s world, with the flood of information about childbirth, pregnancy brings anxiety along with joy.
Running time: 92΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kumie Inc.
Kumie Inc.
Yuko Naito
2-14-2, Shitaya,Taito-Ku
Tokyo 110 0004, Japan
T. +81 3 5942 4610
F. +81 3 5942 4610
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
GIRLS AND GANGS: THE CHANGING
FACE OF MEXICO’S DRUG CARTELS
Stephanie Brillant & Manon Quérouil
In today’s Mexico, the role of women in drug cartels has evolved beyond that of the traditional girlfriend. As women, they arouse less suspicion transporting drugs and arms, enabling them to gain greater influence within the cartels. Some have risen up the ranks to
become involved in money laundering or even murder. A handful have even reached the
level of gang leaders, becoming icons.
How has this happened? Mexican drug cartels are notoriously macho, so what has
changed? An investigation into the changing face of Mexico’s drug cartels.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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She is the Boss
Java Films
Kathryn Bonnici
4-6 Villa Thoreton,
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 4060 2624
[email protected]
www.javafilms.fr
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ISRAEL
GITAI – IN SEARCH OF HIS CARMEL
Ran Tal
Following the renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai in the course of directing his latest and
most personal film to date, Carmel.
Running time: 55΄
Sales Company:
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin Street
Tel Aviv 65112
Israel
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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SWITZERLAND - SIERRA LEONE
Current Affairs
GOD NO SAY SO
Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
God No Say So finds the uplifting spirit in those who suffered horrible war in Sierra Leone.
From the hard working Bonka people, through the prostitute Julietta, and the wild, hilarious, organized antics of the school children, we are treated to a spirit of togetherness, optimism, and sheer joy.
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
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dit MagpieDreamPictures
T. +41 71 374 1809
[email protected]
www.kornetzky.ch
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
GOLDEN AGE?
THE DUPLICITOUS GOLD TRADE
Ralph Weihermann & Mirjam Leuze
Gold has never been as expensive as it is today. “Gold is safe”, they say. But is that really true?
And who wins and who loses in the gold trade? The Newmont Company likes to hold its
cards close to its chest, but in 2008 it “won” the Public Eye Award – a negative award for
companies who exploit their employees particularly badly. The Newmont mines in Peru
and Ghana are the particular focus of criticism. At the edge of the town of Cajamarca in
Peru lies the Yanacocha gold mine; it is the largest mine in Latin America. The very substance that represents so wealth in the industrial nations is making the people here poor,
because in the gold rush, only the companies and the speculators make money. The film
presents a boom’s winners and losers, about whom the people on the world’s gold markets know nothing.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kigali Films
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
48-50, Breite Str.
Cologne 50670 Germany
T. +49 22 1920 690
F. +49 22 1920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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DENMARK
Lifestyles
THE GOOD LIFE
Eva Mulvad
Two women, mother and daughter, live on the sunny Portuguese coast. They have been
exceptionally wealthy all their lives and have relished the “good life”. There has been ample pleasure and a total absence of work. Now, however, they have one big problem. Their
wealth has run out. How do they now cope with a life of poverty after having been born
into wealth? How do they manage to find a job and keep it, when nobody in the family
has ever worked? And who is to blame now that the sweet and dreamy life has turned into
a nightmare?
Running time: 87΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Danish Documentary Production
Sigrid Dyekjær
Sigrid Dyekjær
Kompagnistræde 20 B
1202 København K, Denmark
T. +45 6060 6810
[email protected]
www.danishdocumentary.com
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SWITZERLAND
Current Affairs
GOODNIGHT NOBODY
Jacqueline Zünd
Goodnight Nobody takes us on a journey through night, space and time. Four protagonists
from four different continents share the same handicap: they can’t sleep. With varying tactics, they resign themselves to the fact that they must live around the clock without interruption. Four ways of killing time. Their stories follow the rhythm of the night, like flickering dreams in calm REM sleep. Narrations become fragments, the transition between reality and fantasy begins to flow and
develop suction, making the feeling of sleeplessness palpable. A hypnotic journey through
the most beautiful of all film settings: the night.
Running time: 58΄ & 77΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
DOCMINE Productions
Patrick M. Mueller & Sebastian Zembol
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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CANADA
Current Affairs
GRACE, MILLY, LUCY…
CHILD SOLDIERS
Raymonde Provencher
Over the past twenty years, more than 30,000 Ugandan children have been abducted by
rebel troops and forced into armed conflict. Many of these child soldiers are girls. Grace,
Milly Lucy... Child Soldiers explores this little-known reality.
When they return from captivity, girls who were trained to kill and often forced to “marry”
their captors must readjust to life within their community. Clinging to their dreams, Grace,
Milly and Lucy are trying to restore meaning to their lives and break the silence surrounding
the fate of a sacrificed generation.
Combining personal accounts and scenes from daily life, this documentary conjures up the
stifled echoes of a painful past and dares to believe that a better future is within reach for
these women who are united in a common struggle.
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
204
Macumba Doc & National Film Board οf Canada
National Film Board of Canada
Christina Rogers
3155 Cote-De-Liesse Rd.
St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
T. +1 514 496 4134
[email protected]
www.nfb.ca
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Adventure & Travel
GRANDCHILDREN OF THE LOST LANDS
Berfi Dicle Ogut
The Lausanne Population Exchange subjected Greeks living in Anatolia and Turks living in
the Balkans to forced immigration on an unprecedented scale. These populations encountered life-threatening dangers on their journeys as they left their homelands never
to return again. Grandchildren of the Lost Lands brings together contemporary high school
students from Greece and Turkey on the occasion of a school trip. The two different societies have coexisted in the same lands for centuries. The children trace their ancestries and
travel to Thessaloniki and İzmir to find out together about their own social and cultural heritage that lives on by the grandparents left behind, as well as the cultural interaction between the two societies in the two lands. Despite the emotional pain these new experiences bring, the children are also very happy to get to know each other.
Running time: 71΄
Production Company:
Tane Film
Production Contact Person: Viron Cavaras
Ogul Sok. No:3 D:4 Arnavutkoy
Istanbul, Turkey
T. +90 21 2265 7692
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
GREECE: THE EMBERS OF REVOLT
Cyril Lafon
Giorgos joined the December 2008 riots that set fire to Greece after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 16-year-old boy. A few months after the events, he talks about his
dreams and disappointments.
Thanassis, Nikos, Zoe and Adriani are part of the “€700 generation”. After finishing high
school, they studied for five years or more and they graduated in economics, sociology and
law. They joined the protests because they feel their condition is unbearable. How can they
live, when at the age of 30 they earn a monthly wage of €700 which as much as their rent?
“We are the Iphigenia generation. Society has sacrificed us just as the ancient princess was
by her father.”
But will the fight go on? Have the December riots forged a new path and brought a glimmer of hope to a dying society?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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L’Oeil de la chouette
Danae Otatzi
L’Oeil de la chouette
Danae Otatzi
24 rue Francoeur
Paris 75018, France
T. +33 688 831 511
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
GREEK CRISIS EXPLAINED
ΝΟΜΙΝΤ
The Greek Crisis Explained trilogy is NOMINT’s interpretation of the Greek Financial Crisis.
And the story goes like this: Greece, a young spoiled girl gets devoured by Dept, a humongous monster. The EU cannot help Greece out of its own. And when all hope is lost,
the IMF is brought into play...
Running time: 3΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
NOMINT
Marianna Papachristodoulou
NOMINT
Marianna Papachristodoulou
45 Michalakopoulou St
T. +30 210 724 2994
F. +30 210 976 7208
[email protected]
www.nomint.gr
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ITALY
Adventure & Travel
GUAÑAPE SUR
Janos Richter
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of
birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. But in the
eleventh year, hundreds of workers arrive to harvest the birds’ excrement.
Running time: 24΄
Production Company:
ZeLIG School for Documentary,
Television and New Media
Production Contact Person: Georg Zeller
20d, via Brennero
Bolzano 39100, Italy
T. +39 04 7130 2028
F. +39 04 7197 7931
[email protected]
www.zeligfilm.it
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SPAIN
Lifestyles
HAMMADA
Anna Bofarull
Dadah, a Saharawi child who lives in the refugee camp of Dajla, does not know anything
but the life in the desert, the air full of sand, the dunes as horizon, the school, the games,
the world-weariness of adults’ long conversations while they prepare tea… Through the
cinema he will discover very different worlds.
Running time: 86΄
Production Company:
Kaboga
Production Contact Person: Anna M. Bofarull
4, Sant Eulogi
Tarragona 43002, Spain
T. +34 60 5610 889
F. +34 97 7225 219
[email protected]
www.kaboga.eu
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545
ISRAEL
History & Politics
THE HANGMAN
Netalie Braun
The administrator of the mass deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Adolf Eichmann, was hanged in Israel’s first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was the hangman.
Running time: 61΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Pardes
Avigail Sperber
First Hand Films
Esther van Messel
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
Zurich 8050 Switzerland
T. +41 131 220 60
F. +41 131 220 80
[email protected]
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USA
Current Affairs
THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA
U. Roberto Romano
The Harvest/La cosecha tells the story of three of the estimated 400,000 children in the
United States who leave behind their homes, schools, and friends to migrate across the
country from farm to farm and crop to crop. They work brutally long days, exposed to the
elements and pesticides and without the protection of child labor laws, to help their families survive. The Harvest/La cosecha boasts unparalleled access to their lives and gives us
the opportunity to connect with these children who live these unthinkable lives to feed
their fellow citizens, and more importantly to them, to feed their families and themselves.
The Harvest/La cosecha is the story of the children who feed America.
Running time: 84΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Shine Global, Inc.
Alexandra Blaney
The Film Sales Company
Andrew Herwitz
165 Madison Ave., Suite 601
New York NY 10016, USA
T. + 1 212 481 5020
F. + 1 212 481 5021
[email protected]
www.filmsalescorp.com
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NORWAY
HEALTH FACTORY
Håvard Bustnes
Health care institutions mimic industry production to become more efficient. The goal is
to get more health for the money spent, based on the presumption that private corporations are more efficient and less wasteful than public institutions. Do we have to be in a
competitive state in order to work efficiently, or does professional pride really exist? Are we
about to lose our humanity in our struggle to increase productivity?
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
212
Faction Films
Dag Hoel
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004 , France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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GERMANY
THE HEART OF FLORENCE
The exciting story of a unique church: its roots lie in Antiquity, its walls originate from the
Middle Ages, but its art treasures and the breathtaking cupola bear witness to an era that
changed Europe forever. How could a goldsmith with no experience as an architect create the largest masonry dome of all time? Detailed animations show how Filippo
Brunelleschi revolutionized architecture. Historic documents and fascinating images tell of
his life, his visionary genius and his bitter rivalry with colleague Lorenzo Ghiberti. With his
Gates of Paradise, Ghiberti created an unparalleled masterpiece. The film shows their
magnificence in details that only the camera can capture – together with an astonishing
wealth of art treasures: the baptistery with its mosaics and the masterful portals, Giotto’s
bell tower, the fantastic visual realm of the cupola frescoes and, last but not least, the
groundbreaking sculptures of Donatello and Michelangelo.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sales Company:
Oculus Film
Hubert Schäfer
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 298 0
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Lifestyles
HEAVEN HELL
David Calek
Heaven Hell is a full-length documentary film project dealing with human diversity that
doesn’t necessarily lead to hell even though it might seem like that from the outsider’s point
of view. It is an attempt to defend even very extreme notions of freedom if such notions
are well-founded and lead to new horizons of human understanding. The film portrays
people who have found pleasure in pain and decided not to hide this passion, or at least
not to suppress and deny it any more. These people either inflict pain or demand it from
others, but they do not force anyone to do anything. This closed society is often labeled by
its members as BDSM.
Running time: 84΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sales Company:
214
Jacket Bros., HBO Czech Rep.
Martina Santava
OutCome
Jarmila Outratova
Jizni namesti 946/23
Prague 4, 141 00
Czech Republic
T. +420 776 066 165
[email protected]
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FRANCE - CHINA
Lifestyles
HEAVY METAL
Huaging Jin
For more than twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from Japan,
the USA, Australia and Europe was transported to a Chinese town called Fengjiang, in the
south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers, avoiding the living conditions of the
western poor regions of China, formed a real army of dismantling of this metallic waste.
These “green soldiers” decompose and recycle with the most rudimentary means, almost
two million tons of garbage every year. The whole city seems to be given rhythm by this
relentless work and the noise seems to become blurred only in the dark night...
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Solferino Images, China Screen
Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17, rue du Colisee
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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FRANCE - SWITZERLAND
Current Affairs
HELL IN PARADISE
Frank Garbely
“Agro-energies” are developed very drastically in the Chocó Province, in Colombia. Some
kind of hidden war has been going on there for about ten years. Heavily armed paramilitary enter little accessible rain forests only to leave behind a trace of blood and fire. They
chase the inhabitants, burn their villages and steel their land to sell it to willing consortia of palm oil producers. As they do so, drug money is laundered and palm oil is exported
to Europe and the United States. It will be transformed into agro fuel, products of the foodprocessing and cosmetic industries...
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
216
R Film, SF, 3 Sat
Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17, rue du Colisee
Paris 75008 France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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FRANCE
HER NAME IS SABINE
Sandrine Bonnaire
This deeply personal documentary tells the saddest of stories—not just because we feel
sorry for actress Sandrine Bonnair’s mentally abnormal sister but because we can imagine how she might have turned out differently. That’s because for decades Sandrine has
been filming Sabine. However strange, unpredictable, and angry she may have been, she
had intelligence and talent, could read and write, taught herself English and Bach on the
piano, and had a capacity for joy. She loved America and as a young person Sandrine took
her there. She could travel! She was so happy!! And then, today, at 38, and institutionalized, she weeps. For joy, she says. But she is a devastated person, beaten down by five years
in a psychiatric hospital, heavily medicated but undiagnosed, insecure, repetitive, sluggish,
70 pounds heavier, drooling and with the shakes.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Mosaique Films
Production Contact Person: Thomas Schmitt
www.mosaique-films.com
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SYRIA
History & Politics
HERO OF ALL SEAS
Talal Derki
The documentary deals with humanitarian problems facing Kurdish communities in Iraq,
Iran, Turkey, and Syria. These problems have led to the exodus of three million Kurds, 2.5
million of which have gone to the EU as illegal immigrants. Abu Yashar, one of the main
characters, is someone worthy of media attention given that in his life journey lie the hardships and upheavals of the Kurds. In four main episodes, we re-visited his journey and emigration as a case study and template for other Kurds who went through the same path.
The four parts of his journey are: 1) Prison 2) Emigration 3) Exile 4) Nostalgia. “Champion
of the Seas” is what the Kurds of Greece nicknamed Abu Yashar. On June 21-22, 2001, Abu
Yashar managed to swim from the shores of Turkey to the island of Samos. The real reason behind his illegal immigration, he says, is to register his marriage and children. When he had originally asked to do that in Syria, his request had been turned down and he had been asked for
“security cooperation” after all his ID papers were confiscated by authorities. Along with his
wife and children he fled to Turkey, since his wife is a Turkish Kurd. After that, he immigrated
to Greece and was unable to unite with his family until 2010.
Running time: 28΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
218
Cinema Group Production
Talal Derki
Cinema Group Production
Talal Derki
Al Akhdar Alarabi Str 7
Damascus, Syria
T. +963 944 489 985
[email protected]
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GREECE
History & Politics
THE HIDDEN TOMB
Angeli Andrikopoulou & Argyris Tsepelikas
The Hidden Tomb is a documentary series for children aged 8-12 years about antiquities
and archaeology in Greece, Egypt and Cyprus.
The first episode tells the story of the treasure of Aidonia, through re-enactments, archive
material, three-dimensional graphics and stunning cinematography.
The second episode brings to life the discovery of the hidden treasure of the Deir El Bahri
Cache in Egypt and the third episode is about the looting of Cyprus by Cesnola in the 19th
Century and the Metropolitan Museum.
Running time: 10΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Anemon Productions
Rea Apostolides
Anemon Productions
Rea Apostolides
5 Stisihorou St
Athens, 106 74, Greece
T. +30 210 721 1073
F. +30 210 722 8023
[email protected]
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USA
Current Affairs
HOLY WARS – WAR IS HEAVEN
Stephen Marshall
Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative
Christian on a mission to evangelize the world’s Muslims. Which man will be left standing? The film follows danger-seeking Christian missionary Aaron Taylor and radical Muslim Irish convert Khalid Kelly, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which
their religion will ultimately rule the world. Tracking their lives from the onset of the “War
on Terror” to the election of Barack Obama, Holy Wars shows that even the most radical of
believers can be transformed by our changing world.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
220
Smuggler Films and Revolution Theory Pictures
Stephen Marshal
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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ROMANIA
Current Affairs
HOME ALONE –
A ROMANIAN TRAGEDY
Ionut Carpatorea
This is the story of over 350,000 Romanian children left “home alone”. One or both their
parents are working abroad, in Italy, Spain and other Western European countries. The kids
were left to be taken care of by relatives or even neighbors. Many of them committed or
attempted suicide. How can one explain what they did? What did these kids think? What
drove them to the point of losing everything?
The film tells three of these stories, three stories about children that ended their own lives.
The observational style is mixed with interviews, as the film weaves between the three stories and their characters, the parents that opened their hearts in front of the camera and
shared their profound grief but also their ideas about what caused the tragedies.
This is not only a Romanian tragedy; it’s a human tragedy that we all have to reflect upon.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Evolution Film Production
Production Contact Person: Carmen Manu
22, bl. 104/1, ap. 29
Bucharest 060382, Romania
T. +40 721 590 285
F. +40 318 170 998
[email protected]
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POLAND
Current Affairs
HONEYMOON
Grzegorz Krawiec
Tomek has just got out of jail after seven years. On the day he is released he gets married to
Agnieszka. She has to stay in prison longer because she’s waiting for her trial. And Tomek
needs to start his life all over again. He wants to visit his mother and above all tries to stay
in touch with his new wife who is still a prisoner.
Running time: 29΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
222
Polish National Film School in Lodz
Maria Gawinek
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
Krakow 31143, Poland
T. +48 12 2946 945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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USA
THE HORSE BOY
Michel Orion Scott
The Horse Boy is a film about one family’s struggle to find answers to their son’s autism.
Shot over the course of two years, this film follows the Isaacson family as they journey on
horseback across Mongolia from healer to healer, and the amazing healings they found for
their son, and for themselves. An inspiration to think outside the box, a travel adventure,
an insight into shamanic traditions, the autistic mind, and man’s relationship with animals;
at its heart, The Horse Boy is a film about a family that went to the edge of the earth to find
a way into their son’s life.
Running time: 94΄
Production Contact Person: Michel Scott
Film Sales Co.
Andrew Herwitz
165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601
New York NY 10018, USA
T. +1 212 481 5020
F. +1 212 481 5021
[email protected]
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SWITZERLAND
Current Affairs
THE HOUSE IN THE PARK
Hercli Bundi
Architects from Europe, America and China are invited to a Chinese provincial town.
Within several months, they are to construct a park in Jinhua, intended to form the center of a new district of that town. Where green fields now flourish and farmers plough the
land, investors will soon flock, followed by new inhabitants and political reforms.
But the project ends up being drawn out over years. The euphoria of the early stages runs
up against a reality in which torn-open earth and the ambitious hopes of politicians, workers and locals are the only manifest features.
The film documents the changes leading to the Jinhua Architecture Park – from the laying of the foundation stone to its final opening. In giving all participants in this process an
opportunity to comment, one central question proved to be a common concern: What is
there for individuals to contribute, when the world around them is changing at such a rapid
pace?
Running time: 86΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
224
Mira Film GmbH
Mira Film GmbH
Badenerstr. 129
T. + 41 43 960 3684
[email protected]
www.mirafilm.ch
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ITALY
HOW I AM
Ingrid Demetz & Caroline Leitner
“I’m like a hermit on an island.”This is what Patrick writes about his life as an autistic who
lives caught in his own body.
With the wisdom of a thinker and the dreams and fears of a teenager, Patrick takes us on
a trip into his world and allows us a glimpse of his inner feelings.
How I Am introduces us to Patrick, a teenage autistic boy. With indelible imagery, the film
follows him at school, with family and by himself, and transcribes his innermost thoughts
onto the screen to reveal his point of view, which is normally muffled by his condition. What
is revealed is a complex, philosophical soul. This shows one mission that movies can accomplish: giving us insight – not pity, but sympathy – into another’s life.
Running time: 49΄
Production Company:
ZeLIG School for Documentary
Production Contact Person: Georg Zeller
Icarus Films
Anthony Sweeney
32, Court St. 21st floor
T. +1 718 488 8900
F. +1 718 488 8642
[email protected]
icarusfilms.com
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GERMANY
HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL
Jörg Adolph & Gereon Wetzel
Who’s the man behind Robert Frank, Karl Lagerfeld and Günter Grass?
Their publisher, Gerhard Steidl.
Spend an exclusive year with the greatest publisher and printer of the 21st century and be
part of the fragile processes when creativity is captured in a book. The art of publishing at
its perfection.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
226
If Production
Ingo Fliess
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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UK
Current Affairs
HOWARD MARKS ON DRUGS
Jonathan Brooks
The use of illegal drugs is one of the most divisive issues today. With opinions ranging from
those who want outright prohibition to those who believe in legaliζing even the strongest
of narcotics, the battle lines are firmly drawn in this drug war. For now, the likes of amphetamines, heroin, LSD and cocaine are all controlled substances. However, as others like
meow meow – or mephedrone – are added to the list, we ask whether our drugs policy
is on the right track.
Writer, broadcaster and convicted drugs smuggler Howard Marks finds out which substances are illegal, explores the hidden human cost of an outright ban, and ponders what
might happen if the drug laws were ripped up and all substances either decriminalised or
legalized. Is it really high time for a change?
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Current TV
Java Films
Kathryn Bonnici
4-6 Villa Thoreton,
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 4060 2624
[email protected]
www.javafilms.fr
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USA
History & Politics
HUMAN TERRAIN
James der Derian, Michael Udris & David Udris
Human Terrain exposes the US effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies. Facing long wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the US military has adopted a controversial new program, “Human Terrain Systems”, to make cultural awareness a key element of its counterinsurgency strategy. Designed
to embed social scientists with combat troops, the program swiftly comes under attack by
academic critics who consider it misguided and unethical to gather intelligence and target potential enemies for the military.
Gaining rare access to war games in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico
and Fort Leavenworth, Human Terrain takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine
and the shadowy collaboration between American academics and the armed services.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
228
Oxyopia, Udris Productions
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
History & Politics
THE HUMAN TURBINE
Danny Verete
In this beautiful film, we follow the attempts to harness wind and solar energy for the benefit of the residents of the Palestinian village of Susia. And in the process we come to know
extraordinary individuals from both sides of the conflict. What was missing in Noam
Dotan’s otherwise perfect life? What made him, and others, leave symbols of success and
devote themselves to a renewable energy project in a Palestinian village? What is this
dream, shared with the residents of Susia, which is today coming to fruition? They work
through action, rather than through protest or demonstrations. Three years in the making,
in joint meetings with local residents, they have created a renewable energy project at Susia. They have succeeded in supplying electricity for residents living in tents and caves, figuratively and literally lighting up their lives.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Yehuda Bitton Productions
Yehuda Bitton
Ruth Diskin Films
Cara Saposnik
5 Issachar St
T. +972 2 672 4256
F. +972 2 672 4210
[email protected]
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SWITZERLAND
History & Politics
HUMANITARIAN CITADEL
Frederic Gonseth
The extraordinary human adventure of the first delegates of the International Committee
of the Red Cross, sent on a mission during civil war in Yemen in the sixties, to “humanize
the war” and ensure compliance with the Geneva Convention. The exciting stories of André Rochat, who, for thirty years, ran the ICRC, the testimonies of his contemporaries, as
well as rare archival documents give new perspective to recent international events, but
also to the limits of diplomacy. A destiny that leads us behind the scenes of humanitarian power, to the roots of the right to interfere and the source of the struggle for human
dignity.
Running time: 96΄ & 52΄ (TV version)
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Frederic Gonseth Production
Sophie Bonaudi
Thierry Detaille
174, rue Stevin
Brussels 1000 Belgium
T. +32 47 7617 170
[email protected]
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HUNGARY
History & Politics
HUNKY BLUES –
THE AMERICAN DREAM
Péter Forgács
The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter
Forgács, created a documentary exploring the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian men and women who arrived in the United States between 1890 and 1921. To tell their
sagas, Forgács weaved this grand epic from the early American cinema, found footage,
photographs and interviews. The film reveals the difficult moments of arrival, integration
and assimilation, which eventually fed the happiness of the later generations and their fulfilment of the American dream.
Running time: 100΄
Production Company:
Filmpartners Ltd.
Production Contact Person: Gabor Kovacs
Hüvösvölgyi út 62
Budapest 1021 Hungary
T. +36 1 391 4800
F. +36 1 391 4809
[email protected]
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AUSTRALIA
Current Affairs
I AM ELEVEN
Genevieve Bailey
I Am Eleven is a globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age – no longer children,
not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they
are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries, each
speaking in their own words and revealing the private obsessions and public concerns that
animate their lives. It is simultaneously an epic survey of the similarities and distinctions
between cultures and an intimate account of these young personalities finding their way
in the world today.
I Am Eleven is multi platform, please visit www.iameleven.com
Running time: 93΄
Production Company:
Proud Mother Pictures
Production Contact Person: Genevieve Bailey
447 Church St
Victoria 3121, Australia
T. +61 40 3983 934
[email protected]
proudmother.com.au
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USA
I FINALLY DID IT
Apostolos Paraskevas & Mathew Tucciarone
When Grammy® nominated composer Apostolos Paraskevas was given a commission to
write a piece, he took it even further by making the short film I Finally Did It, a peculiar film,
part musical-comedy but also a remarkable trip of friendship and artistic creativity. Directed
by Apostolos and filmmaker Mathew Tucciarone, I Finally Did It is a feature-length documentary that opens with a short film and explores the power of friendship, music, and
death. It features a soundtrack filled with Paraskevas’s original music as performed by legendary conductors and world renowned musicians. Death has a life. He lives in an apartment downtown, he has friends, he wakes up late, he enjoys a cup of coffee. Death is also
disgruntled. They don’t pay him enough. He wants to retire. Returning home one day from
his second job, he finds an assignment from “the Boss” in his mailbox: a picture of someone he has failed to find for the past 50 years. “Find him this time!” the note orders. And
thus starts the search... for Gerald. This musical comedy brings up the sensitive issue of mortality from a different point of view, featuring original music by Apostolos Paraskevas as
the only medium that brings our character in harmony with our environment.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Silver Sickle Productions
Apostolos Paraskevas
Silver Sickle Productions
Apostolos Paraskevas
735 Harrison Ave, W302
Boston MA 02118 USA
T. +1 617 680 2160
[email protected]
ifinallydiditmovie.com
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FRANCE
Lifestyles
I’M DEAF AND I DIDN’T KNOW
Igor Ochronowicz
The true story of Sandrine, deaf since birth but born to hearing parents. From early childhood to adult age, we discover the “hearing universe” as Sandrine did – looking at her surroundings with wonder and puzzlement. At first, no one fully realised she was deaf. She
even went to regular school and was left wondering how the others understood what the
teacher was trying to impart… We accompany Sandrine on her voyage of discovery into
the strange land of the hearing. Her innate sense of humor makes this a very touching and
surprisingly funny film.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Point du Jour
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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SWEDEN
Current Affairs
I WAS WORTH 50 SHEEP
Nima Sarvestani
The Afghani girl Sabere was ten years old when she was sold to an abusive 55-year-old
Taliban member. Now she is sixteen and is being helped by a Women’s Shelter to fight for
her freedom. But her eleven-year-old half-sister Farzaneh is now at risk, as the family has
decided to sell her to pay off their debts. Once the price of 50 sheep will be fully paid, the
buyer will come to claim Farzaneh.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Nima Film
Maryam Ebrahimi
Heino Deckert
Germany
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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SERBIA
I WILL MARRY THE WHOLE VILLAGE
Zeliko Mirkovic
A music documentary about an unmarried accordion player who has decided to find wives
for all the unmarried men in his village, himself included. In a world full of cynicism, he
may be the last romantic. With his motto – I’m going to marry the whole village, even if I
regret it – he is a modern day Don Quixote. This is a somewhat funny, somewhat sad documentary fairy tale about an ordinary man who endeavors to change the world around
him. A beautiful, life-affirming film, full of hope and the belief in the good of humankind.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Optimistic Films
Zeliko Mirkovic
Taskovski Films
Manuela Buono
463, Russell Court, Woburn Place
London WC1H 0NL, UK
T. +44 7977 051 577
[email protected]
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GREECE
I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU
MY HEART FOREVER ZITA-MI
Antonis Kioukas
Zita-Mi was established in 1955 by Pavlos Zannas and Alexandros Mavrokordatos. At first
it sold Olivetti typewriters, records of classical and jazz music, and objects of art. For the
generation of the 60s, the Zita-Mi is a symbol, a meeting point for poets, film lovers, and
intellectuals. The Thessaloniki Film Festival, the “Techni” Macedonian Art Association and
the “Democratic Defence” were all conceived on its premises. In the 1970s, Maro Layia and
Katerina Kamara transformed Zita-Mi into a gallery. 320 exhibitions of the work of pioneers,
rebels, perfectionists, and self-taught painters, find a warm welcome there. The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art was also born here. During its 55 years, Zita-Mi was
an open window to all new or different ideas in Thessaloniki, gathering the intellectual and
political elite of the city and contributing to its cultural development.
Running time: 83΄
Production Company:
Antonis Kioukas
Production Contact Person: Antonis Kioukas
60, Kolokotroni St
T. +30 210 331 3004
F. +30 210 331 3005
[email protected]
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USA
Current Affairs
IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY
OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT
Marshall Curry
In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep
of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI has
called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat”. For years, the ELF had launched
spectacular arsons against dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment: timber companies, SUV dealerships, wild horse slaughterhouses, and a $12 million
ski lodge at Vail, Colorado. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and
radicalization of one of its members. Drawing from striking archival footage – much of it
never before seen – and intimate interviews with ELF members, and with the prosecutor
and detective who were chasing them, the film explores the tumultuous period from 1995
until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law
enforcement, and the word “terrorism” had not yet been altered by 9/11.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Marshall Curry Productions
Marshall Curry
Jan Rofekamp
252 Gouin Blvd. East
T. +1 514 844 3358
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
IF NOT US, WHO?
Nikoletta Papathanassiou
The students are lead into a world full of colors, emotions, music, visions, dreams and
hopes. By occupying their school and according to the general situation in Greece in 2006,
the students are demanding the obvious: a better school infrastructure and more advanced
lessons and teachers within an educational framework that will quench their thirst for
learning and open horizons. As a team and individually, with seriousness, consistency and
humor, they contribute to a better educational system in the future, having lived a unique
experience that brings them closer to one another and which they will never forget.
Running time: 68΄
Production Company:
Noima & Periplous
Production Contact Person: Nikoletta Papathanassiou
Athens Greece
T. +30 69 4480 8428
[email protected]
Sales Company:
Noima
Alexis Komnakos
T. +30 210 513 1295
[email protected]
Sales Company:
Periplus
Thanos Lambropoulos
T. +30 210 867 0478
[email protected]
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SLOVAK REPUBLIC
ILJA
Ivan Ostrochovsky
A film manual on how not to get dragged down by communism or by one’s own death
or the last days of Ilja Zeljenka, the most famous music composer of the second half of the
20th Century, known for his forbidden cantata Auschwitz, for two speakers.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
sentimentalfilm s.r.o.
Production Contact Person: Marek Urban
Spitalska 20
Bratislava 81108, Slovak Republic
T. +421 903 229 446
F. +421 252 492 175
[email protected]
http://www.sentimentalfilm.com
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SWITZERLAND - COLOMBIA - FRANCE
Current Affairs
IMPUNITY
Juan José Lozano & Holloman Morris
Columbia today: the biggest trial against Paramilitary forces – accused of killing thousands
of Colombians – is designed to create “peace and justice”. Instead, the process comes to
an abrupt halt, when the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered.
Are the victims’ families doomed to stay victims forever, or will they be able to fight Impunity?
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Dolce Vita Films & Intermezzo Films
Isabelle Gattiker
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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GREECE
IN COMPANY WITH CALLIYANNIS
(CINEMATOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT)
Pedro Olalla
Fugitive, student, mercenary, aviator, shipbuilder and seafarer, Manolis Calliyannis left his
homeland Lesbos at the age of seventeen with a dream of becoming a painter and only a
painter. Turkey, Palestine, South Africa, England, France, Crete, Lesbos and the shimmering waters of the Aegean Sea are the backdrops against which his life – a never-ending
quest – unfolds. In 2008, the Spanish Hellenist, writer and photographer Pedro Olalla
meets Calliyannis and decides to devote a film portrait to him. A twist of fate turns this creative adventure into the painter’s last confession, and what begins as an attempt to make
a documentary becomes – by the force of circumstance – an evocative film about life itself and, what’s more, about our amazement and perplexity before life.
Running time: 87΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Massive Productions
E. Fabas
Massive Productions
E. Fabas
Perrikou 3
T. +30 210 699 5320
[email protected]
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ITALY
IN MOTU GRATIA
Andrea Zanoli
The first World Graziella Bicycle Olympics (Grazielliadi), the famous Italian 60s folding bike.
Mouad and Asghar, two young Afro-Italians, pimp their ride with a big stereo set and a
car steering-wheel and challenge hundreds of other weird cyclists in a “fully sustainable
sport event”.
Running time: 45’
Sales Company:
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Lab 80 Film
Alberto Valtellina
123 via Pignolo
Bergamo 24121, Italy
T. +39 33 3849 0808
F. +39 03 534 1255
[email protected]
www.lab80.it/index.php
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Current Affairs
IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE
ARE MANY MANSIONS
Hajo Schomerus
Brother Jay recently moved into the world’s most unusual flat share. Nestled in the center
of Jerusalem lies the heart of Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Under its roof,
six Christian denominations live door to door. The young Fransican’s gentleness is severely
challenged by the conflicts in this multi-cultural collective. As Father Samuel, Prior of the
Armenian community, defends his brother’s rank in the pecking order with ploy and passion. Partriarch Theophilos III, on the other hand, is content: his Greek-Orthodox monks rule
over the house as if they were in sole reign. Abdilkadr Joudeh and Wajeeh Nusseibeh lock
the door in the morning and at night. They keep out of all this – they are Muslim. Nevertheless, they endlessly argue over the question which job is more prestigious: to hold the
key or to actually turn it. Running time: 52΄ & 89΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
busse&halberschmidt
Marcelo Busse
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 2980
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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Adventure & Travel
IN SEARCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Wilma Pradetto & Eberhard Ruhle
Starting from Cape Town and traveling as far as Botswana and Namibia, we encounter all
kinds of people, marvel at breathtaking nature while listening to numerous individual stories from the big cities, the townships and the national parks, where entrepreneurs are
grasping new opportunities in a changing cultural and economic landscape, environmentalists are facing new challenges to protect this ecologically diverse region, and poor
parents are finding means to give their children a bright future.
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Looks Filmproduktionen, NDR/Arte
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
48-50, Breite Str.
T. +49 22 1920 690
F. +49 22 1920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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IN TALLINN
Dimitris Vrakas
Tallinn: the capital of the small country of Estonia, between Russia and Scandinavia. The
pace of the city is evoked through its streets, architecture and people. The film travels from
the old city center to the suburbs, often making stops at various neighborhoods to hear
the thoughts of Estonians. A journey to the accompaniment of electronic pop music by the
Estonian band Antonina. In modern-day Tallinn, the skyscrapers encircle the medieval town
and romance succeeds modernism in a country of socially sensitive people. The impassive
objectivity of the camera creates a pleasant visual impression with no tendency towards
drama.
Running time: 38΄
Production Contact Person: Dimitris Vrakas
4 Aristeos St
T. +30 6957 629 450
[email protected]
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AUSTRIA
Current Affairs
IN THE BAZAAR OF SEXES
Sudabeh Mortezai
A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah
are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran. Their stories revolve
around the institution of temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia practice that
allows a man and a woman to legally marry for a fixed period of time ranging from one
hour to 99 years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole for couples to have a relationship within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho, sentimentality
meets female realities. A relentlessly honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account of Islamic sexual and gender politics.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Freibeuterfilm
Production Contact Person: Oliver Neumann
Kellermanngasse 1-3/1-6
Vienna A-1070 Austria
T. +43 720 346 510
[email protected]
www.freibeuterfilm.com
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MEXICO
Current Affairs
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ABRAHAM
Daniel Goldberg
Three men from Veracruz who want to convert to Judaism embark on a spiritual quest that
leads them to face various situations, obstacles and sacrifices on their journey to the Holy
Land to achieve religious and personal fulfilment.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Fondo para la Producción
Cinematográfica de Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
Mexico City 03100, Mexico
T.-F +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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SWITZERLAND
IN THE GARDEN OF SOUNDS
Nicola Bellucci
In the Garden of Sounds is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind,
body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication.
Nicola Bellucci’s documentary tells the extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musician and soundscape artist, who works with severely handicapped children. On his own
way into the darkness, Fasser discovered the world of sounds, a parallel universe to our visual world. His far-reaching explorations of the effect of sound on mind and body led him
to the field of music therapy. Today, the Swiss native lives in a beautiful valley near Florence.
Most of his young patients have multiple disabilities; some are blind and can’t speak, others seem to be completely oblivious to the world around them. Step by step, through the
use of all kinds of sound, Fasser establishes a dialogue with the children and dramatically
improves their abilities of expression and perception.
Running time: 86΄
Production Company:
soap factory
Production Contact Person: Frank Matter
Juramento 1081
Basel 4057 Switzerland
T. +41 61 6320 050
[email protected]
www.soapfactory.ch/filme-giardino3-e.html
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Current Affairs
IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY
Shelley Saywell
On December 10, 2007, a 16-year-old Toronto schoolgirl, Aqsa, was strangled to death by
her father; Three weeks later, two teenage sisters were shot to death by their father in Dallas. Six months later a 19-year-old college student was stabbed by her brother. In the Name
of the Family is a chilling investigation into honor killings in the Western world, the heartbreaking tragedies committed against young girls caught between two cultures.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Bishari Films
Shelley Saywell & Deborah Parks
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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UK
History & Politics
IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
BRITISH NOVELISTS
David Berry
This is the story of the British novel in the 20th century, as told by those who know it best
– the authors themselves. Plundering the BBC archive, In Their Own Words: British Novelists, produced in partnership with The Open University, reveals Britain’s greatest novelists
talking candidly about their life and work. Some of these recordings have not been seen
again since their original broadcast.
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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BBC
Marie Roche
Worldwide, Walton Hall, Michael Young Building
T. +44 1908 332 470
F. +44 1908 858 787
[email protected]
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History & Politics
IN THIS WAITING
Anna Tsiarta
Some two thousand Greek and Turkish Cypriots went missing during the bi-communal conflicts of the 1960s and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Seven relatives of these missing recall their harrowing stories: from their last moments together until recent excavations
began to shed light on their possible fate. As these individuals struggle to come to terms
with both their past and their possible future, their stories reveal how these events have
shaped not only their lives but also their
divided country.
Running time: 68΄
Production Company:
Roads and Oranges / New Films
Production Contact Person: Anna Tsiarta
P.O. Box 28386
T. +357 9941 4683
F. +357 2232 3149
[email protected]
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
IN WHAT WE TRUST
Claus Strigel
Money: a magical substance that can mean anything and yet has no worth. Poverty
guarantees its value: If everyone had enough money, it would have no worth. Some are
convinced that the current challenges to humanity cannot be solved within our monopolistic monetary system. In a favela on the edge of Brazil’s Fortaleza, a second, homemade
currency, the palmas, has given this poor quarter a flourishing economy. Thousands of complementary currencies around the world are proving this now.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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DENKmal-film
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
48-50, Breite Str.
T. +49 22 1920 690
F. +49 22 1920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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INCLUDING SAMUEL
Dan Habib
Before his son Samuel was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, photojournalist Dan Habib rarely
thought about the inclusion of people with disabilities. Now he thinks about inclusion every
day. Shot and produced over four years, Habib’s award-winning documentary film, Including Samuel, honestly chronicles the Habib family’s efforts to include Samuel in every
facet of their lives. The film also features four other families with varied inclusion experiences, plus interviews with dozens of teachers, young people, parents and disability
rights experts. Including Samuel is a highly personal, passionately photographed film
that captures the cultural and systemic barriers to inclusion.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
DH Photography LLC
Production Contact Person: Dan Habib
40, Roger Ave.
Concord NH 03301 USA
T. +1 603 848 5301
F. +1 603 228 3270
[email protected]
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History & Politics
INGRID BETANCOURT:
6 YEARS IN THE JUNGLE
Angus Macqueen
For over six years, Ingrid Betancourt was one of the most famous hostages in the world.
Kidnapped in Colombia by Marxist guerrillas of the FARC (The Revolutionary Armed
Forces), she was released in 2008 in an audacious rescue operation, together with 15 other
hostages. In an exclusive documentary interview, she sheds light on her experience and
on the meaning of being denied your freedom; awaiting your rescue or death. The film takes
us along rivers and thick jungle to confront the past events through extensive interviews
and unique archives, including FARC footage from the jungle and material shot during the
rescue operation.
Running time: 60΄
Sales Company:
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Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin Street
Tel Aviv 65112
Israel
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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Lifestyles
INSIDE OUT
Vangelis Rigas
The testimony of Fanis Zografos, who served a life-sentence (twenty years) in prison. His
narration and those of his former cellmates – other notorious “lifers” – paint a picture of
the conditions that the inmates have to contend with in prison, and the scars the experience must leave behind. The film also provides insights both into the enormous difficulties prisoners face following their release when, burdened with a criminal record, they
struggle to reintegrate themselves into a prejudiced society, and into their hopes of succeeding using their skills and talents, and with the help – rather than the hindrance – of
others.
Running time: 74΄
Vangelis Rigas
9-11 K. Oreopoulou St
T. +30 6945 629 306
F. +30 210 271 2385
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
Lifestyles
INSIDE THE METAVERSE
Steven Dhoedt
Reality, as we know it, is not the same anymore but has split in two: a factual, physical reality and a synthetic, virtual reality. All across the network society, people have started to
flock to online worlds for very different reasons. We call this on-line universe “the Metaverse”. Inside the Metavesre introduces a patch-work of characters from all walks of life and
nationalities for whom virtual worlds have become an important part of their lives.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Visualantics
Steven Dhoedt
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
45, Sumatralaan Str.
Hilversum 1217, The Netherlands
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 675 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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GREECE - UK
INTO THE GARDEN
OF GLASS AND STEEL
Aristotelis Marangos
Imagine a future world. Imagine a world where technology has taken over society and
mankind now makes all the choices based on instincts. Imagine a derelict world of the future. Where would these people live? What would the cityscape look like?
J.G. Ballard suggests it wouldn’t be far away from what we can see now in contemporary
London.
Canary Wharf is an example of what J.G. Ballard was trying to say through his novels.
Through the observational analysis of the architectural structures of Canary Wharf, the
docuemntary attempts to discover how they affect our lives and how they are also affected
by our dystopian thoughts of the future. What is Dystopia and where is it located? Analyzing the people, their habits and the social structures, the film attempts to glimpse the
future. Because, in a way, we love to hate our dystopian realities.
Running time: 14΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
London Film School
Mark Rance
London Film School
Aristotelis Marangos
342 Kingsland Road
London E8 4DA, UK
T. +44 7542 635 223
[email protected]
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Sports
INTO THE WIND
Steve Nash & Ezra Holland
In 1980,Terry Fox continued his fight against cancer with the pursuit of a singular, motivating vision: to run across Canada. Three years after having his right leg amputated six
inches above the knee after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma, Fox set out to cover a
marathon’s distance each day until he reached the shores of Victoria, British Columbia.
Anonymous at the start of his journey, Fox steadily captured the heart of a nation. Twotime NBA MVP and proud Canadian Steve Nash shares Fox’s incredible story of perseverance and hope.
Running time: 51΄
Production Company:
ESPN Films in association with Meathawk
Production Contact Person: Connor Schell & Erin Leyden
1011 S Figueroa St
T. +213 405 4321 (work)
+646 245 5888 (cell)
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
Current Affairs
THE INVISIBLE
Gil Karni
The film documents a period of twelve years in the un-recognized Arab village of Al-Naim
in Galilee. The Bedouins, who have lived there for over a century, serve as scouts for the
IDF (Israel Defense Forces). One of them is Fahim, the protagonist of the film. They have
been living in tin huts since 1963, no electricity, rationed water and no asphalt road.
Despite the change in the status of the village that was officially recognized in 1999, the
red tape of government offices and political considerations have delayed the construction
permits. Fahim, wanting to right the wrongs and bring progress, fights his own personal
battle to receive authorization for a power connection in a place where the inhabitants get
by using generators and camp fires.
Running time: 52΄
Production Contact Person: Gil Karni
Sales Company:
Michael Treves
20, Bialik St
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.jmtfilms.com/document.htm
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GREECE
THE INVISIBLE DIRECTOR
Nikos Theodosiou
The profile of the film maker Robert Manthoulis, through 25 distinctive scenes from own
films.
Running time: 67΄
Production Company:
Neaniko Plano
Production Contact Person: Myrto Mavroidakou
18, Rodou St
T. +30 210 866 4470
F. +30 210 866 2344
[email protected]
www.olympiafestival.gr
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HUNGARY
INVISIBLE STRINGS.
THE TALENTED PUSKER SISTERS
Agnes Sos
Júlia and Ágnes Pusker are sisters from Kecskemét who play the violin wonderfully. For
those less versed in the world of classical music, perhaps their names are unknown. The
media has not discovered them yet, although they have performed at many prestigious
venues both at home and abroad. Basically, they are just two girls who are simply doing
what they love, what they have talent for, what they inherited from their family and what
is an eternal bond between them… they are playing music. For an average person, this
in itself would not be especially interesting. Many talents, many gifted musicians live
among us, why would they be any different? However, the interest of director Ágnes Sós
and HBO Hungary was aroused by the intimate relationship between the two girls, to which
their musical talent – to use a violinist term, the “soul” – is only an addition.
Running time: 72΄
Sales Company:
HBO Central Europe
Dita Krivska
1037/49, Jankovcova Str.
Prague 17000, Czech Republic
T. +42 02 6109 4444
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Adventure & Travel
IRAN, THE MESSENGER OF GORGAN
(BUS STOP COLLECTION)
Hervé Rébillon
We’ll be boarding a bus in Tehran for a 500km and 12-hour trip to Gorgan, the capital of
the province of Golestan in north-eastern Iran. It is a voyage through ancient legends and
harsh realities, at the crossroads of the steppes of the north-east and the wooded Alborz
mountain range. 700 years ago, Marco Polo travelled along the same routes as the modern-day passengers we meet on board our regular bus: Anaba, a Turkmen horse breeder,
Reza the fisherman, Hussein who is a calligraphist and, of course, Ali, our bus driver. The
bus route follows the traces of the Silk Road. Along just a few hundred kilometres, we are
offered a glimpse into a mysterious past as well as a voyage through majestic landscapes
– the Mount Damavand, the green plains along the Caspian Sea, the little-known Kordkuy valley...
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Point du Jour
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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PORTUGAL - MOZAMBIQUE
Adventure & Travel
THE ISLAND OF SPIRITS
Licinio Azevedo
A small island, a great history. Long before giving its name to the country, Mozambique
Island had a fundamental role in the Indian Ocean for centuries. An anchorage for caravels,
a meeting point for pirates, it is a melting pot of races. It raises its walls in the middle of
the sea. Its winding streets full of life reveal small places, churches and white houses. Its
inhabitants are eccentric characters, proud of the island’s past history. As we wander
through the streets, we meet an historian, a maritime archaeologist, a fisherman, the “doorman” of the island, a dancer, many spirits...
Running time: 63΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Ebeno Multimedia
Pedro Pimenta
Marfilmes
Renee Gagnon
Av. Duque de Loule 79 R/C Dto A
Lisbon 1050-088, Portugal
T. +35 12 1314 0339
F. +35 12 1353 3075
[email protected]
www.marfilmes.com
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ISRAEL - FRANCE - BELGIUM - GERMANY
History & Politics
JAFFA, THE ORANGE’S CLOCKWORK
Eyal Sivan
Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit originated
from Palestine and known worldwide for centuries as the “Jaffa orange”.
The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, paintings, workers in the citrus industry and historians, memory and present mythologies, Palestinians and Israelis cross and combine. The close reading of the Jaffa brand’s visual representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the “Holy
Land” and the “State of Israel” and a tool to reveal the untold story of what was once a commune industry and symbol to Arabs and Jews in Palestine.
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Trabelsi productions Ltd & Alma films & The Factory
Osnat Trabelsi
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004 France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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GERMANY
JANE’S JOURNEY
Lorenz Knauer
More than twenty years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall decided to give up her career as a primatologist in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then
she has traveled around the globe more than 300 days per year, spreading hope by giving lectures, writing books and through her youth organization “Roots & Shoots”, active in
more than 100 countries worldwide. Jane’s Journey is a portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon – an exceptional woman, possibly the most fascinating
woman of our time.
With its unhurried pace and unobtrusive camera, this documentary shows the charismatic
and eloquent Jane Goodall as she has never been seen before. Intimate conversations with
Goodall alternate with spectacular footage of her and her beloved chimpanzees as well as
revealing comments by her son, her colleagues and even Hollywood celebrities. The definitive film on the ardent advocate for the protection of the earth!
Running time: 107΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Neos Film GmbH & Co. KG
Philipp Schall
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
Breite Str. 48-50
T. +49 22 1920 690
F. +49 22 1920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
JANINE
Paul Cohen
Violinist Janine Jansen is the most frequently downloaded classical artist. This film shows
the hectic life of a musician of worldwide renown. And still she is just as uninhibited and
spontaneous as ever.
Colleagues from the music scene comment on her talent. For herself, she does not want
to know how she does it, afraid she will no longer be able to do it anymore. Meanwhile,
other people are preparing the launch of the once-only glossy Janine. Because Janine
Jansen is also a marketable product.
Running time: 89΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
IDTV Docs
Susanne van Voorst
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217 GP
The Netherlands
T. +31 35 6773 561
F. +31 35 6775 318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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ISRAEL
Lifestyles
JEREMIAH
Eran Paz
Yura (Jeremiah), his wife, and two children live in the Shapira neighborhood in the southern part of Tel Aviv. They live among junkies, prostitutes and alcoholics; a different image
than the one expected when hearing the words: Tel Aviv. In one of the rooms lives Valera,
an alcoholic. In the storage room lives Gora, Yura’s cousin and a drug addict. Misha, a former boxer, needs a place to stay and is willing to sleep in the yard. Yura accepts him without thinking.
* “Festival Award Winners”: Krakow Film Festival - Poland (23-29/5/2011)
* Documentary Competition: goEast, Festival of Central & Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden, Germany (6-12/4/2011)
* Best Director Award (Documentary): Jerusalem International Film Festival - Israel 2010
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Ilan Moskovitch Productions
Ilan Moskovitch
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#jeremiah
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GERMANY
History & Politics
JEWISH TRANSIT BERLIN –
FROM HELL TO HOPE
Gabriel Heim
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were homeless, sick and desperate to find lost family members. Jewish Transit Berlin will explore what
many European Jews experienced on the “day after”. Without papers and with unclear futures, thousands came to Berlin to seek refuge in the Allied occupied city. It was in Berlin’s
Displaced Persons Camp at Schlachtensee where as many as 200 people per day settled
in the weeks after the war. Refugees came from all over middle and Eastern Europe.
Schlachtensee soon became a magnet for the thousands who had nowhere else to go. Despite the still pervasive anti Semitism openly shown on the streets of Berlin, many Jews
began to enter the city’s public life again. Their stories reveal the despair, survival and ultimate hope of people who overcame human history’s worst atrocity.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
DOKfilm with RBB
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
Breite Str. 48-50
T. +49 22 1920 690
F. +49 22 1920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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UK
History & Politics
JIMMY DOHERTY
IN DARWIN’S GARDEN
Matt Barrett
Charles Darwin returned from his five year expedition aboard The Beagle with some revolutionary ideas about the diversity of the world’s flora and fauna. However, before he could
begin work on one of the most influential scientific publications of all time, On the Origin
of Species, Darwin needed to expand his early hunches into a fully formed theory of evolution through a series of ingenious and astonishing experiments.
Jimmy Doherty, farmer and entomologist, follows Darwin’s intellectual journey, recreating ground breaking experiments on in-breeding in plants, natural selection, and some
quirky tests involving earthworms and music. Filmed in the gardens and greenhouses of
Darwin’s home in Kent, this series rediscovers the science underpinning evolution.
Production Company:
Sales Company:
272
BBC
Marie Roche
Worldwide, Walton Hall, Michael Young Building
T. +44 1908 332470
F. +44 1908 858787
[email protected]
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MEXICO
JOSÉ CRUZ THIRTY FEET FROM HELL
Leobardo Jacob Lechuga
The life of musician José Cruz Camargo Zurita, leader, composer and singer of the Real de
Catorce blues band, told through a moving review of their songs, allows us to get to know
an essential part of Mexican Blues, while, at the same time, showing us how he tries to
overcome multiple sclerosis through music.
Running time: 79΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de
Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
JOY OF LEARNING
Stéphane Xhrouet
Teens arrive from the city at a village in the Belgian Ardennes to rehabilitate a half destroyed
farm: a school should soon open there. Its educational context will be radically new, based
on the pleasure and the appetite for knowledge, and learning freedom within a community. While teachers unlearn traditional methods and requirements, the students, however,
stimulated by the trust given to them suddenly, are soon overwhelmed by the adventure
of living their freedom.
Running time: 76΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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La Parti Production
Vincent Tavier
Thierry Detaille
Quai des Ardennes, 16.
Liège
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 43 401 041
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Lifestyles
JULIEN
Gael Leingle
Julien was eighteen. He was playing the knight in the village play. At the same time he
was preparing to leave his friends and family, and the landscapes of his childhood; to go
out into the world and earn his living. One could say... “Once upon a last time, between
the Beauce and the Loire valley, last summer...”
Running time: 80΄
Production Contact Person: Nicolas Anthome
Sales Company:
bathysphere productions
Nicolas Anthome
11, rue Manin
Paris 75019, France
T. + 33 1402 1370 2
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
KAFKA IN CONGO
Arnaud Zajtman & Marlène Rabaud
Gorette Mawazu has had her land stolen from her. Too poor to afford a lawyer, she defends
herself in the courts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, Bahati Lukwebo, deputate and quaestor in charge of the finances of the Congolese National Assembly, seeks to retain his position coveted by many candidates. But how to defend their rights
or be elected in a country where officials are not paid and voters too poor to make a free
choice?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Eklektik Production
Marie Besson
Thierry Detaille
Quai des Ardennes, 16
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 4 340 1041
[email protected]
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ITALY - SPAIN
History & Politics
KAMENGE NORTHERN QUARTERS
Manu Gerosa & Salva Muñoz
Kamenge, Northern Quarters is the picture of the soul of a whole country, Burundi, which
asks for freedom and justice, the ideals Alexis Sinduhije is fighting for.
His story is closely linked to the life of his quarter, the Northern Quarters of the capital city
Bujumbura, a symbol of one of the most cruel wars the world has ever known, the conflict between Hutu and Tutsi.
The background and the glances of the ones who have not left are interwoven with the
life of Alexis who gave up his job as a journalist in 2007 to found a political party, standing for President in 2010.
“It is possible to build a liveable Burundi, it is possible. You must only believe it and take
the risk,” Alexis says.
In Burundi, although the present government was elected democratically, the people who
profess freedom of speech put their life in danger.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
278
One World DocuMakers
Manu Gerosa
Journeyman Pictures
Edward Caffrey
4 High Street
Thames Ditton KT7 0RY (Surrey), UK
T. +44 2087 866 058
[email protected]
www.journeyman.tv
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SPAIN - BELGIUM - USA
Current Affairs
KARLA’S ARRIVAL
Koen Suidgeest
In Managua, Nicaragua, teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on
the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Based in a city park
and part of a larger group of youngsters, mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s
first birthday. Beautifully told and full of hope, Karla’s Arrival offers an intense personal story
about second generation street children.
Running time: 58’
Production Company:
Sales Company:
El Rayo Films
Koen Suidgeest
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris F-75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Lifestyles
KATKA
Helena Třeštíková
Helena Třeštíková’s film is a remarkable documentary tracing fourteen years in the life of
a young junkie and her futile battle with drug addiction. Why did she start taking drugs?
She claims she wanted to be different. The year is 1996 and 19-year-old Katka is living in
the Sananim therapy community in the town of Němčice with hope for a normal life – she
dreams of having a boyfriend and even a family, some day. But there’s no happy ending.
The director records Katka’s descent over the years into a spiral of theft, prostitution, physical and psychological deterioration – a spiral that is broken only by brief flashes of hope
and resolutions to stop taking drugs. Katka’s desire is sincere, but in the end drugs always
win. Will Katka finally find the strength when she becomes pregnant and motherhood offers her life-sustaining motivation?
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
280
Negativ
Zuzana Bielikova
Taskovski Films
Manuela Buono
463 Russel Court, Woburn Place
London WC1H 0NL, UK
T. +44 7977 051 577
[email protected]
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GERMANY - GREECE
Current Affairs
KHAIMA
Athanasios Karanikolas
For the past twelve years, a provisory camp was set up by Afghan refugees in the harbor
of Patras, in Greece. About 400 to 600 men, aged 12 to 60, lived in makeshift housing made
out of found building materials and cardboard boxes. Most of the refugees living in the
camp tried to get to their final destination, usually a country in Central Europe, by hiding
themselves inside or under trucks which would then board ferries to Italy. Others tried to
survive as long as possible in Patras, hoping to be granted asylum by the Greek state. On
the 12th of July 2009, following orders by the Greek government, two bulldozers and four
trucks demolished the camp, with the support of 150 riot police. No other living alternatives were planed for the refugees beforehand. Today, over 700 refugees spend the night
on the streets of Patras.
Running time: 86΄
Production Contact Person: Athanasios Karanikolas
Leipziger Str.46
T. +49 30 2529 8582
[email protected]
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FINLAND
KINBAKU – ART OF BONDAGE
Jouni Hokkanen
Kinbaku, “tight binding”, is a Japanese style of bondage which involves tying up the bottom using simple, yet visually intricate, patterns and several pieces of rope, usually made
of hemp or jute. In Shinto religion, in order to make something sacred, a man ties a rope
around it. This sacred quality of tying can also be applied to Kinbaku, which is an erotic, spiritual and artistic connection between the people who do it. It started with the samurais capturing enemies on the battlefield 500 years ago. “Rope is an extension of one’s arms and a
communication tool. Two people can really be close and have emotional exhange,”says rope
master Osada Steve from Tokyo. Osada Steve is a student of Haruki Yukimura, a rope master who has tied over 3,000 people in his life. “If you look at the Japanese samurai armor,
it’s tied on. If you’ve ever received a Japanese gift, it’s an exquisite thing,” says Asagi Ageha,
the most popular star of the new generation. Japan places a ritualistic weight on everyday
acts and talent our own culture lacks – and turns almost anything, including knots and
ropes, into art. Nowadays rope is used to create an artistic, meaningful scene between two
people. Kinbaku is about creating a beautiful climate and an exciting dramatic experience.
Running time: 29΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
282
Hakalax Productions Oy
John Hakalax
Hakalax Productions Oy
John Hakalax
Topeliuksenkatu 3b A9a
Helsinki 00260, Finland
T. +358 9 852 1448
[email protected]
www.hakalaxproductions.com
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SLOVENIA
Lifestyles
KING MATHIAS
Milan Urbajs
The story of a fallen son. Seppl has turned his back on his family and the conventions of
society. Inspired by the legend of Kralj Matjaž, who ruled in Carinthia (Austria) in the Middle Ages, he is now setting out to save the world – from Catholicism, Capitalism and the
strata of society who are destroying everything, academics. When Seppl sees his sister
again, his hard shell is softened for a short time. Their family history has left its wounds
on both sides.
Running time: 27΄
Production Company:
AGRFT
Production Contact Person: Milan Urbajs
Ulica Talcev 7
Lyubljana 1000, Slovenia
T. +38 631 893 534
[email protected]
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GERMANY
KINSHASA SYMPHONY
Claus Wischmann & Martin Baer
Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Orff’s Carmina Burana in total darkness. A
power cut has hit the Ngiri Ngiri district of Kinshasa, only a few bars before the last section of the work. Kinshasa’s power stations and main networks are insufficient to supply
electricity to all the 10 million inhabitants of what is Africa’s third-largest city. Once again
the lights have gone out in the “Salle des fêtes”, a kind of open garage where the orchestra practices. But for its members this is no reason to stop rehearsing. Most of them know
their parts by heart. Small lapses of memory are compensated for by a talent for improvisation and the grace of God.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Sounding Images
Claus Wischmann
C Major Entertainment GmbH
Elmar Kruse
Kaiserdamm 31
T. +49 30 3030 6464
F. +49 30 3030 6468
[email protected]
www.cmajor-entertainment.com
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USA
THE KLEZMATICS: ON HOLY GROUND
Erik Greenberg-Anjou
The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground, is a feature-length documentary about the Grammy
Award-winning, New York-based, klezmer band. The Klezmatics have made numerous television and radio appearances, including PBS’s Great Performances series with Itzhak Perlman as well as on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion on NPR. In 2006 the band
released Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie. It was their first English language LP and
won a Grammy Award for Best World Music. Anjou and crew followed the Klezmatics for
over three years, capturing the band’s highs, lows, and relentless march forward.
Running time: 106΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Roots First
Shane Griffin
6579 Pickwick Street
T. +1 323 259 8259
F. +1 323 474 6371
[email protected]
www.7thart.com
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POLAND
KOMEDA – A SOUNDTRACK FOR A LIFE
Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy
Almost all metal scrap was sold from Kyrgyzstan to China. This film shows the global phenomenon in micro scale: the hard work of a Russian truck driver, the slow pace of one Kyrgyz family, and a few events from a long journey across the Tien Shan Mountains.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
286
Film Studio Kalejdoskop & Benedikt Pictures
Wojciech Szczudlo
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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GREECE
Lifestyles
KOSTAKIS
Theodora Malliarou
We are a group of young filmmakers who love documentaries. We live in the very polluted
city of Thessaloniki. Most of the people around us keep mumbling about the long working hours and their misery of not having enough money to live “the good life”. So, what
is missing from our everyday lives? Could nature and the connection to our roots bring back
the smile on our faces? Kostakis is our young protagonist. When he was 16 years old, he
chose to become a maker of horse saddles, because of his vast love for animals and nature. To our eyes, he is a man who emanates happiness.
Running time: 26΄
Production Contact Person: Theodora Malliarou
13 Timandras St
T. +30 210 777 7181
F. +30 210 777 7181
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
KYPSELI
City of Athens Cultural Organization
Documentary Group 2009
Vassiliki is a young poet and writer, a bohemian type that lives on Tinos Street. Mr. Mimis
lives in his truck with his puppy. Lopez is a troubadour who sings a chorus at the corner
of Ithakis and Drossopoulou Streets. Mrs. Aristea feels connected to the area where she has
lived for more than thirty years. The old Neoclassical villas remind her of her lovely youth.
The people who walk through Kypseli, who come from here and elsewhere, make up one
of the most densely populated neighborhoods on earth.
Running time: 29΄
Production Company:
Poulidis Productions
Production Contact Person: Yorgos Poulidis
Sales Company:
Cultural Organization of the City of Athens –
Poulidis Productions
Yorgos Poulidis
50 Akadimias St
T. +30 6972 833 318
[email protected]
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CYPRUS
History & Politics
THE LADY FROM LAPITHOS
Costas Orthodoxou
This is a tribute to Euphrosyne Proestou, an old woman from the village of Lapithos, who,
in August 1974 in the midst of war, without taking into account the risk, hid and protected
for a whole month 12 soldiers. We traveled to occupied Lapithos and recorded the shocking testimonies of soldiers who were one step from death.
The subject of the documentary, in the consumer society we live in now, seems distant and
perhaps unfashionable, but the sight of the Turkish flag flying on Mount Pentadaktylos reminds us once again that some people gave their lives for us to be here.
Running time: 40΄
Production Company:
Cybc
Production Contact Person: Costas Orthodoxou
Costas Orthodoxou
Ayias Theodoras 22, Strovolos
T. +357 99 657 833
[email protected]
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GREECE
THE LAMENT OF THE FIRS
Nick Theodorakis
Documentaries such as this try to raise awareness and to stand against the barbarity and
harmfulness of such customs as are the cutting of Christmas trees and the slaughter of the
lambs at Easter, highlighting their absurdity. Every year millions of fir trees are being cut
throughout the world over the Christmas period and each of them has had to be alive for
25 years in order to be at the right height. By taking the life of a fir tree, what remains is
empty and thus phony. It no longer is authentic and alive. So the question arises: What do
we want with it? Do we want “real” essence but lifeless? This is a horrible notion. These
kinds of ideas we can fight against with our hearts and our souls.
Running time: 16΄
Production Company:
FineworldProductions &
Solon for Synthesis and Ecological Civilization
Production Contact Person: Nick Theodorakis
19 Kaningos St
T. +30 210 383 7840
F. +30 210 330 3441
[email protected]
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GREECE
History & Politics
THE LAND OF THE WEEPING GODS
Eleni Vlassi
A true scenario, with the island of Spinalonga being a blot on civilisation. A treatise expressed in words, narratives, tears, pain, hope for life, through the eyes and lips – or whatever was left of them – of the 330 lepers who became the protagonists. A tribute to those
whom the scythe of Fate, for 53 years, cut off from society and cast on Spinalonga to die.
Their lives, an everyday struggle to pull down the dark walls of prejudice, to change the
horror of Spinalonga, in hopes of a humane life, even though everything around them led
to death. Finally, there came the miracle, the cure, the great illusion of freedom; there came
the obstacle of the world of men, where no one was waiting for them.
Running time: 77΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Icons World
Eleni Vlassi
Icons World
Eleni Vlassi
100 Astrous St
T. +30 6948 541 393
F. +30 210 514 6963
[email protected]
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IRAN
Current Affairs
THE LAST DAYS OF WINTER
Mehrdad Oskouei
This film depicts the life of seven children under fifteen in the House of Correction before
New Year in Tehran. By allowing the camera to be one of them, we will get to know their
analyses of the situation and solutions for escaping their sad destiny.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
292
Oskouei Film Production
Sheherazad Media International (SMI)
Katayoon Shahabi
1, 3rd Sarvestan, Pasdaran St, Shariati Ave,
Tehran 16619, Iran
T. +98 21 2286 3260 / 61
F. +98 21 2285 8962
[email protected]
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GREECE - CYPRUS
THE LAST REMAINING SEATS
Marios Piperides
The local movie theater that once was the vibrant center of the village of Panayia has been
closed for more than 20 years. Two local men try to reopen it hoping to relive the memories of their youth and bring life back to the village.
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
AMP Film Works Ltd
Marios Piperides
AMP Film Works Ltd
Marios Piperides
4 Agias Elenis, Office 603
T. +357 993 376 85
F. +357 228 751 86
[email protected]
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USA
History & Politics
THE LAST SURVIVOR
Michael Pertnoy & Michael Kleiman
Have you ever wondered how survivors of genocide who lost everything manage to put
their lives together again? Hedi Fried survived the Holocaust, immigrated to Sweden
where she became a renowned psychologist who offers survivors of genocide support.
Jacqueline, the sole survivor in her family from the Rwanda genocide, studied political science in the United States where she now gives lectures on the subject. Justin, who found
asylum in the United States after his tribe was slaughtered during the civil war in the Congo,
established a center meant to document the heritage of his people. United by the will to
make a difference, these inspiring characters are testimonies to the power of life.
Running time: 52΄
Sales Company:
294
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin Street
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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POLAND
Lifestyles
LET’S RUN AWAY FROM HER
Marcin Koszałka
Another painfully intimate documentary by Marcin Koszałka is devoted to family matters
seen through his sister’s experience. With a running camera, adult siblings dissect their relations with parents and with each other. The protagonist of the film, an affluent businesswoman, who still hasn’t come to terms with the death of their mother and father, becomes the director’s conscience. He is trying to get closer to his dead parents in his own
way – filming the last moments of patients in a hospital.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
HBO Central Europe
Dita Křivská
HBO Central Europe
Dita Křivská
Jankovcova 1037/49
Prague 170 00, Czech Republic
T.-F. +420 261 094 444
[email protected]
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MEXICO
History & Politics
THE LETTER
Rafael Bonilla
She came from El Salto, Durango to Lomas de Poleo, in Ciudad Juárez, the most violent border zone in Mexico. Paula Flores writes letters and tells us about her life: The kidnapping
and murder of her daughter María Sagrario, the search for the killers, her fight against feminicide, the struggle for the land in Poleo, where there is a concentration camp, and the suicide of her husband, Chuy... In spite of everything, Paula is a human rights activist, fighting impunity and fear, always championing peace, planting this seed in the children of
Lomas de Poleo, and trying to spread it around the world.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
296
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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ITALY
Lifestyles
LETTERS FROM THE DESERT
(EULOGY TO SLOWNESS)
Michela Occhipinti
The world runs. Hari walks. His worn-out shoes cover long distances in the desert to deliver messages written in elegant handwriting for addressees who live in remote villages.
The letters talk about loves, weddings, successes and deceases. Those that bear news of
death have the right corner torn off. Hari reads them out in the doorway, and then tears
them to bits, because bad news must be destroyed, deleted forever. In a world in which
time is luxury, and speed is synonymous with efficiency and civilization, the story of Hari
is an island fossilized in time. When the only way to communicate was a sheet of paper,
a pen, and some ink; when people were still able to wait. A return to slowness, and to the
harsh nature of the Thar Desert. Until a strange metallic tower appears, an intruder on the
landscape, which will revolutionize the life of the small village…
Running time: 88΄
Production Contact Person: Michela Occhipinti
Michela Occhipinti
Borgo Vittorio 33
Rome 00193, Italy
T. +39 339 534 1007
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
THE LIFE & DEATH OF CELSO JUNIOR
Panagiotis Evangelidis
What is more important? The boots or the man wearing them?
In a storeroom in Brazil, a pair of leather boots catches the eye of little Celso. He is in awe,
like a bird in front of a snake.
Today he is an artist living in Switzerland, married to his beloved.
The life and musings, the art and the many deaths of a fetishist.
Running time: 50΄
Production Contact Person: Amanda Livanou
35, Dervenion St
T. + 30 210 330 2860
F. + 30 210 610 0109
[email protected]
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ITALIA
Current Affairs
LIKE A MAN ON EARTH
Andrea Segre & Dagmawi Yimer
Since 2003, Italy and Europe have asked Libya to stop the African migrants.
What are the Libyan police really doing?
From what thousands of African men and women suffer?
Why does everybody pretend they do not know about it?
Giving voice to the Ethiopian refugees living in Rome, the film (shot in Mini DV) provides
a direct insight into the brutal ways in which Libya, aided also by Italian and European
funds, is operating to control the immigration movements of people from Africa.
Dagmawi Yimer was studying Law in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Prompted by the severe political oppression he had to face in Ethiopia, he decided to leave the country...
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Zalab
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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POLAND
Current Affairs
LITTLE BRIDE
Leslaw Dobrucki
Our heroine stopped praying long ago. As a thirteen-year-old girl she was brought from
her native Turkey to Germany to marry one of her cousins. This is how her childhood ended
– she became the property of a husband who tortures and degrades her. She finally decides to flee, but must continuously be in hiding. Condemned by both families, she has no
chance at a normal life, neither as a wife nor as a divorcee. The film is not a typical intervention reportage, but a poetic collage comprising documentary material, family photographs and children’s drawings. This individual life story reflects the stories of many other
girls and women subjected to a patriarchal law still enforced by tacit consent in the multicultural societies of Western Europe.
Running time: 14΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
300
Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Joanna Skalska
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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GREECE
Current Affairs
THE LITTLE OTHERS
Nikos Drosakis
Children are the protagonists of a social phenomenon that first appeared in Greece three
decades ago. The children of immigrants and children immigrants, the so-called second
generation, are parts of a jigsaw puzzle that is trying to be put together. The children communicate their apprehension for the future, as well as their dream of a multicolored world
that respects diversity. The documentary is divided into three parts: education, social protection and integration. The Children’s Ombudsman and the non-profit organizations ARSIS, PRAKSIS, ΒABEL, i-RED, YRE, Hellenic Action for Human Rights, the Immigration Policy Department of the Ministry of the Interior, the immigration-related organizations and
the Church, describe the phenomenon from a legal, social and psychological point of view
and suggest solutions.
Running time: 96΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Artistic Organisation Tabula Rasa
Nikos Drosakis
Artistic Organisation Tabula Rasa
Nikos Drosakis
250 Sofokleous St
T. +30 6945 031 693
F. +30 210 942 9545
[email protected]
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MEXICO
Lifestyles
THE LITTLE SEED ON THE ASPHALT
Pedro Daniel López
Dolores Santiz, Pascuala Díaz, Floriano Enrique Ronyk and Flavio Jiménez belong to several indigenous groups in Chiapas. They leave their home communities to go to the big city
to follow their dream of a worthy and just life. In the city, they seek the recognition of a
new community that is growing stronger. They struggle daily to build their identities. They
do not want to remain stigmatized; they want to become symbols of power.
Running time: 77΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
302
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
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USA
LIVING WITH FRAGILE X
Kathy Elder & Greg Mishey
Living with Fragile X takes a rare and intimate look at the lives of several families who live
with a loved one affected by fragile X syndrome.
Fragile X is the leading known cause of inherited mental disability and autism. The disorder drastically and forever changes the lives of the children, parents and family members
it touches. But fragile X goes largely undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because it is virtually
unknown to the public and often to the medical community.
Living with Fragile X explains what fragile X is and how it is passed, exposes the day-today challenges faced by those who have it, and explores the deep frustration and fear that
families experience.
As the stories unfold, challenging issues emerge, including reproductive choice, acceptance of differences, the aging of a lifelong-dependent child, and the ethical implications
of a genetic “fix” for those with disabilities.
Running time: 64΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
ThinkMedia
Kathy Elder
ThinkMedia
Kathy Elder
1385 47th Ave.
Capitola CA 95010 USA
T. +1 831.239.1896
[email protected]
www.livingwithfragilex.com
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ESTONIA - GERMANY - BELARUS - POLAND
History & Politics
LOBOTOMY
Yury Khashchavatski
Lobotomy is Yuri Khashchavatski’s personal indictment of the Russian media’s brainwashing tactics. Taking the recent war between Russia and Georgia as a point of departure, he
illustrates how far removed actual events were from the conflict as it was reported on Russian state television. The director’s own voice drives the argument, but journalists, military
experts and politicians also have their say. The film intersperses interviews (live or via
Skype) with archive footage that is, in turn, contrasted with amateur clips found on the Internet. Khashchavatski contends that “Montage is a powerful and insidious weapon.” And
he would be the one to know, because in addition to directing the film, he also edited it
and its highly effective audio mix. He is a master of the art of irony as well. This personal
account by the director suggests that the Russian state is not being governed according to
democratic principles, but by a Mafia-style hierarchy.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
FreeProVideo & Baltic Film Production
& Bramafilm Belsat TV
Production Contact Person: Marianna Kaat
Sales Company:
Baltic Film Production
Marianna Kaat
Paldiski mnt. 183-38,
P.O. Box 4752
Tallinn 13517, Estonia
T. +372 502 7509
[email protected]
www.bfp.ee
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LOST BODIES
Yannis Misouridis
The founding members of a legendary underground band forge their way through life, one
revolution at a time. Besides, what is life but one big joke? An idiosyncratic duo takes the
lead in a music documentary where melody plays second fiddle. Still, they would be nothing without music. Thanos, 52, is a prospective pensioner, currently unemployed. Antonis,
51, is a part-time utility meter reader and a take-out delivery guy. Masquerading behind
their band, iconic undergrounders the Lost Bodies, they’ve made a life out of ignoring the
system, seeking refuge in an alternative universe of their own. Principal characters in an
as yet unwritten literary masterpiece, they oscillate wildly between existentialism and
oafishness, clinging to humor as their last stand against reality. Besides, what is life but
one big joke?
Running time: 33΄
Production Company:
Exile Room
Production Contact Person: Valerie Kontakos
12 Athinas St
T. +30 210 322 3395
F. +30 210 322 3396
[email protected]
[email protected]
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BELGIUM - THE NETHERLANDS
LOST DOWN MEMORY LANE
Klara Van Es
This is the first documentary about living with Alzheimer’s, as seen through the eyes of the
people who suffer from it. The characters live together in an apartment called Iduna, under constant supervision and care. Iduna is a somewhat unusual department of The Bijster,
a nursing home for people with dementia in Belgium. The eight residents of Iduna are in
– scientifically considered – the first phase of the disease: flurries of lucidity, forgetfulness
and falling into oblivion alternate constantly.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
306
Associate Directors
Bram Crols
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
LOST IN RELIGION
Marc Burth
After becoming a father, Marc Burth has a problem: Two children and no fitting religion for
them. His father is Protestant, his mother is Jewish, and his sister a shaman. His wife’s dad
is a Moslem; her mother, Catholic. Making the right choice for his children in this intersection of religions is a difficult job for the confused filmmaker! Searching for answers, Marc
Burth meets people that have a relationship with God and some that consciously don’t.
He talks to atheists, shamans, Jesuits, Jews, Moslems, heathens and many more. He
wants to know if God exists and why religion should be important to his children. The film
is a playful, crazy, slightly neurotic approach to the question many people find a hard nut
to crack and humanity will always search answers for: Does God exist? And if yes, how
many gods are there?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Nick Pastucha
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
Nick Pastucha
Heinrich-Roller-Straße 15
T. +49 30 695 669 10
F. +49 30 695 669 15
[email protected]
www.gebrueder-beetz.de
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THE NETHERLANDS
LOU BIOU, THE FEAST OF THE
FABULOUS BULL
Jascha de Wilde
Lou Biou is a documentary about a community with a deep-seated passion for the wild
bull in the French Camargue.
In the Camargue region of Southern France, a village festival without bulls is unthinkable.
The inhabitants of this region have a deep-seated passion for this quick, agile, and above
all deadly animal. Bull breeders, “manadiers”, identify with their bulls as much as with their
own family.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
308
Second Skin Film
Jascha de Wilde
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217 GP
The Netherlands
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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USA
Lifestyles
LOVE ETC.
Jill Andresevic
Love Etc. is a witty, poignant and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love,
depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. Young, old,
gay, straight – everyone has experienced love – and the joy and frustration that come with
it. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage,
newlyweds to a recent divorcee, and even a bachelor so frustrated in his search that he
chooses to have children without a partner, Love Etc. documents the intimate journeys of
engaging characters aged 18-89 who reflect the city’s diversity, and takes an honest look
at life’s most challenging pursuit.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Walnut Hill Media
Chiemi Karasawa
Roco Films
Annie Rooney
Sausalito CA 94965 USA
T. +1 415 332 6471
F. +1 415 332 4798
[email protected]
www.rocofilms.com
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USA
Current Affairs
LOVE HATE LOVE
Dana Nachman & Don Hardy
9/11, London, and a car bomb in Bali: a film chronicling the transformation of three families whose worlds are torn apart by terrorism. Can love triumph over pain and prove that
terrorists don’t win? Executive produced by Sean Penn and with music from U2, Bruce
Springsteen and Radiohead.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
310
KTF Films
Dana Nachman
First Hand Films
Gitte Hansen
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
T. +41 44 312 2060
F. +41 44 312 2080
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
Current Affairs
LOVING SOPHIA
Ohad Itach
The dark corners of growing up as a new immigrant are powerfully explored in this intense
documentary. Arriving in Israel from Moldova in the 1990s left Sophia unstable and
yearning for more. Her well educated parents are unable to control their only daughter as
she rapidly descends from singer in a rock-band to drug addict and to prostitute. Sophia
is strong and weak, vulnerable and impervious. Her wrenching journey into darkness is
strikingly documented by filmmaker Ohad Itach, whose chance meeting with Sophia leads
not only to a powerful film, but to the possibility of moving forward.
Running time: 54΄
Sales Company:
Ruth Diskin Films
Cara Saposnik
5 Issachar Street
T. +972 2 672 4256
F. +972 2 672 4210
[email protected]
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PORTUGAL - ANGOLA
LUANDA, THE MUSIC FACTORY
Kiluanje Libertade & Ines Gonsalves
In the middle of a Luanda slum, DJ Buda owns a recording studio, giving the opportunity
to young singers to express themselves. Rhyming to Buda’s beats, the kids shout out all their
worries and everyday experiences into his old micro with an incredible energy. In the end,
they dance joyfully, laugh and listen to their own work with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. It’s impossible not to dance with them.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
312
Walnut Hill Media
Ines Gonsalves
Marfilmes
Renee Gagnon
Ave. Duque de Loule 79 R/C Dto A
Lisbon 1050-088 Portugal
T. +35 12 1314 0339
F. +35 12 1353 3075
[email protected]
www.marfilmes.com
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FRANCE
LA MACHINA
Thierry Paladino
Simple but also poetic, this is the journey of an old puppet master and his eight-year-old
apprentice, entrusted by his mother over summer holidays. It is the first the boy will be traveling. Inexperienced but excited and eager to learn, he’s off on a journey of initiation. It’s
a sunny southern France summer, and they set off on a long tour in the old truck. They bring
a little stage, lights, and the sleeping puppets. They go from town to town to perform for
the country people, taking them into their storytelling world. Meanwhile, the boy discovers
the power of imagination and of freedom. A high quality “cinéma du réel”, feel good movie.
Running time: 102΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Centrala
acek Naglo
Thierry Detaille
Rue Stevin, 174,
T.-F. +32 477 617 170
[email protected]
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UK
MADE IN BIRMINGHAM:
REGGAE PUNK BHANGRA
Deborah Aston
Reggae, Punk and Bhangra musicians from the UK city of Birmingham discuss their distinctive musical styles and reflect on how music has played its own role in fostering a new
sense of collective identity in the city. Birmingham has a rich, but largely, ignored musical history. Made in Birmingham - Reggae Punk Bhangra explores the social, political and
cultural issues that gave rise to music emanating from the city, using rare archive footage
and interviews to shed new insight into the city and its music.
Including interviews and archives: Brian Travers (UB40) Dennis Seaton (Musical Youth) Amlak Tafari (Steel Pulse), Pete Hammond and Paul Foad (Au Pairs) Pete Hyde (Spizz Energi)
Janice Connolly and Conrad Swartz (The Ever Readies) Alan Apperley (The Prefects, The
Nightingales) S-Endz (Swami) Vix (Fuzzbox) and archives include Patti Bell, Ranking
Roger (The Beat) David Hines (Steel Pulse) Kevin Rowland ( Dexys Midnight Runners) and
Anachak.
Running time: 65΄
Production Company:
Swish Films
Production Contact Person: Roger Shannon
Roger Shannon
81 Blenheim Rd
Birmingham B139TZ, UK
T. +44 7887 5668 78
[email protected]
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PANAMA
Current Affairs
MAIDS & BOSSES
Abner Benaim
Through the very peculiar relations between several live-in housemaids and their employers, Maids and Bosses evaluates human relations between social classes in Latin
America. Rich and poor, under the same roof, share a big part of their life, and very complex emotional relations surge. Despite their physical proximity, maids and bosses are separated by an invisible socio-economic barrier.
In this creative documentary, the class divide and its implications is approached from an
intimate, personal point of view, focusing on those who choose to, or not, look each other
in the eyes and accept each other as equals.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Apertura Films
Abner Benaim
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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POLAND
Current Affairs
A MAN CAME AND TOOK HER
Jędrzej Niestroj & Rafał Przybył
June 14, 2002: eight-year-old Ola went missing. On this day, time stopped for the whole
family. Despite the lack of support, the girl’s mother Dorota trusts that her daughter is alive,
somewhere, waiting to be found. Unfortunately, some hard facts indicate that Ola has been
brutally murdered. Seers hired by Dorota follow misleading traces, the court is helpless in
the absence of evidence, the main suspect smiles at the camera. The search has been going on for seven years in an atmosphere of both hopefulness and suspicion. The film depicts a Polish province of the 19th century, not only through the attitude of its inhabitants
towards the unexplained tragedy, but also through a dramatic vision of nature.
Running time: 81΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
316
Kalejdoskop Film Studio
Wojciech Szczudło
Kalejdoskop Film Studio
Wojciech Szczudło
ul. Chełmska 21,
Warsaw 00724, Poland
T. + 48 22 851 1779
F. + 48 22 841 2135
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
Sports
MANU, HIGH ON WHEELS
Vincent Deveux
Manu and Erol, kings of Belgian wheelchair-football, had promised to lead their MEC team
up to the 1st Division. Erol died. The film captures the intimacy of the severely disabled although almost like others athletes. It portrays a challenging Manu, a captain fighting
against the wind, the tides and his myopathy to lead his ship to port.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Instants Production
Vincent Deveux
Thierry Detaille
Quai des Ardennes, 16
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 4 340 1041
[email protected]
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353
CZECH REPUBLIC
Current Affairs
MANUAL ON HOW
TO CREATE A TERRORIST
Tereza Reichova
In the Basque region of Navarra, the director – a stranger – stops passersby next to fragments of political graffiti, letting them explain what they mean and why they were
painted. A feature-length documentary about repression, the anti-terrorist act and the
events that happen within our common borders.
Running time: 92΄
Production Company:
Studio FAMU
Production Contact Person: Alice Tabery
Vitezne namesti 13
Prague 6, 160 00, Czech Republic
T. +420 732 883 260
[email protected]
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SPAIN
MARIA AND I
Félix Fernández De Castro
Maria lives with her mother May, in the Canary Islands, 3,000 km from Barcelona, where
Miguel Gallardo lives. Sometimes Miguel and Maria go on holiday together, spending a
week at a resort in Gran Canaria South; an unusual setting that doesn’t often have among
his guests a single father who used to be a well-known underground comic books author
and his fourteen-year-old autistic daughter.
This is the story of one of their journeys, but above all it’s an original tale, full of humor,
irony and sincerity, about how to live with a disability.
Running time: 76΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Bausan Films, S.L.
Loris Omedes
Bausan Films, S.L.
Loris Omedes
C/ Muntaner 244, 4º 2º
Barcelona 08021, Spain
T. +34 93 241 1511
F. +34 93 414 1797
[email protected]
[email protected]
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UK
Lifestyles
MARIA’S WAY
Anne Milne
A woman, María, sits by the side of the road behind a rickety, homemade stall, her expression a blend of forbearance and exasperation. She greets passers-by and invites them
to stop, to spend a few minutes with her as they continue on down the road. They are pilgrims and have a long, arduous journey ahead of them, on the ancient Camino De Santiago. María’s encounters with the passing strangers allow us to catch a glimpse of the modern pilgrim. Despite encountering some difficult pilgrims throughout her day, María nobly
continues her task.
Running time: 16΄
320
Anne Milne
52/2 Marchmont Crescent
Edinburgh EH9 1HE, Scotland
T. +44 7794 709 802
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
MARINA VALIERI,
CAVAFY’S GRAND NIECE
Simos Korexenidis
Marina Valieri, daughter of Jerome Valieri and Chariklia Cavafy, narrates her life journey, from
the bourgeoisie of interwar Europe to rural life on the island of Lesvos in the 50s and 60s,
to the present day.
A life like a fairy tale, where everything you’re afraid of happens to you, but you keep on
being optimistic.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Simos Korexenidis
Simos Korexenidis
23 Evripidou St
T. +30 210 213 9995
[email protected]
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CANADA
Current affairs
THE MARKET
Rama Rau
In India, the fishermen who witnessed the 2004 tsunami refuse to go back to the sea and
their wives are now selling their kidneys to feed their families. Hema wants to sell her kidney to pay off family debts but there’s no guarantee she’ll get paid, and losing a kidney will
undermine her ability to work. In Canada, Sandra’s kidneys are failing. She has been on a
new kidney waiting list for 5 years. To survive, she’s on dialysis four times each day. Two
different people. Two journeys. With one end. To find a kidney, someone has to lose one...
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
322
Storyline Entertainment
Ed Barreveld
Storyline Entertainment
Ed Barreveld
115 Palmerston Ave.
Toronto M6J 2J2, Canada
T. +1 416 603 8333
F. +1 416 603 6318
[email protected]
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ITALY
Lifestyles
MASERATI: HISTORY OF A LEGEND
Nicola Nannavecchia
Maserati has been one of the legends of motor racing for almost a century. Through numerous interviews with the protagonists and witnesses of the epic deeds of Maserati, a
unique fresco has been created with the use of rare and fascinating images from the era,
which originate from the company’s archives, as well as spectacular images from a more
contemporary era. Discover the history of a true standard bearer of Made in Italy products,
in a passionate and fascinating documentary that looks towards the future.
Running time: 58΄
Production Contact Person: Nicola Nannavecchia
Sales Company:
Vitagraph
Filippo D’Angelo
Via Schiavonia 1
T.-F. +39 05 126 7150
[email protected]
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354
CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Lifestyles
MATCHMAKING MAYOR
Erika Hnikova
A situational documentary film about a village mayor trying to match local people in their
thirties who are still single. Slowly but surely, the Slovak village Zemplínské Hámre is dying out. Its mayor, a retired general, doesn’t want to give up. Fighting the thirty-year-olds’
loneliness, he has used various means such as offering a financial reward for each newborn child or encouraging people on the local public address system to have children. None
of it has worked. However, the mayor has a new plan. He decides to organize a dating party
for singles from all the neighboring villages...
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
324
endorfilm s.r.o.
Jiri Konecny
Primeticka 4
T. +420 602 358 373
F. +420 241 730 780
[email protected]
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SERBIA
MBAMBU AND THE
MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON
Lucian & Natasa Muntean
Sixteen-year-old Mbambu lives in the village of Kilembe, Uganda. She is an activist and
wants to be the first in her family to get a secondary education. She decides to become a
mountain guide to pay for her schooling. Her story is interwoven with the lives of the people who live at the foot of the beautiful Mountains of the Moon. They share their culture,
customs and the problems facing their community and the humor they employ to cope.
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Lunam Docs
Natasa Muntean
Illumina Films
Robin Brinter
Leidsestraat 106-IV
Amsterdam 1017PG
The Netherlands
T. +31 20 624 8395
F. +31 20 330 8155
[email protected]
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GREECE
MEMORY
Eftychia Melanitou
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is
secret, the rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful and everything conceals something
else.” Italo Calvino, Invisibles Cities
Memory, a short film of nine minutes, interferes with the city, using street images, natural sounds and music. The cinematographic frame pinpoints, disconnects, segregates and
creates correlations.
The film’s narrative relates a passage, a wandering – real and imaginary – in the Athens
of today, the one of the past, or possibly of an Athens that is “invisible”.
Running time: 9΄
Production Company:
326
Eftychia Melanitou
Eftychia Melanitou
44 Platonos St
Alimos 174 55, Greece
T.-F. +210 988 6591
[email protected]
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Current Affairs
MIEKO
Yannis Misouridis
In wintry Athens, a mysterious Japanese girl goes somewhere on a public bus. We look at
her face and notice that it twitches, until a tear falls from her eye...
But why?
Running time: 12΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Portolanos Films
Maria Gentekou
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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ARGENTINA
MILONGUEROS
Andrea Zambelli & Andrea Zanoli
Each night, in the historical and important milongas of Buenos Aires, the most famous old
Milongueros explain, not only why the tango is a wonderful and sensual dance, but why
it is also a “way of life”.
Featuring: Alberto Dassieu, Flaco Dany, El Nene Masci, Hector “Cachirulo” Pellozo (“Cachirulo”), Julio Duplaa, Ricardo Suarez, Tito Roca, Tito Escarpe.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
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Pesca Production & Lab 80 film
Emanuele Persico
Pesca Production
Emanuele Persico
via Borgo S. Caterina 86
Bergamo, 24124 Italy
T. +39 33 3849 0808, +39 035 578 1021
F. +39 035 341 255
[email protected]
www.lab80.it
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ISRAEL
THE MIRACLE YEAR
Simha Lev
Four Jewish women are getting ready for a journey. They are about to travel to Ukraine to
visit a holy man’s grave. They believe that if they pray on his grave, all their wishes will come
true within a year.
These women go to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, who died 200 years ago and
is considered to be a “Miracle Man” and founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty. This
branch of Hasidic Judaism, which celebrates life and joy, has acquired tens of thousands
of followers in the last ten years. When the four return to their day to day life, they have
to find out if the miracles will happen.
* Religion Today – International Festival of Cinema and Religion, Trento, Italy 2010
* TRANZYT International Documentary Film Festival, Poland 2010
* TV Broadcast: Polish Television
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
The Communa
Ziv Lev
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St.
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#miracleyear
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USA
History & Politics
MISHA VS MOSCOW
John Philp
Having led his country into a disastrous war against Russia, Georgian president Mikheil
“Misha” Saakashvili now finds himself ostracized by his western allies and facing demands
at home to resign. With exclusive access to Saakashvili, his inner-circle and his most vocal critics, Misha Versus Moscow asks whether Saakashvili can regain his crown as the darling of international politics or whether the war has torpedoed for good any chance of peace
with Russia.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
330
Bad Dog Tales
Shane Griffin
6579 Pickwick St
T. +1 323 259 8259
F. +1 323 474 6371
[email protected]
www.7thart.com
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FRANCE
MODOU, THE HANG PLAYER
Mino Dutertre & Cyrille de Canson
Modou crosses borders with an instrument as a passport: the Hang.
This instrument is a UFO, a folly that came out of Felix’s imagination and with which it is
quite difficult to travel incognito.
In a workshop lost in the middle of Bern’s peaceful countryside, Modou and Felix explore
and develop the possibilities of this instrument.
In Paris at night, Modou experiment these new sounds during improvised concerts. Languages, instruments and styles try to associate their singularity.
This is how he prepares himself for the Ramadan Nights Festival in Cairo. There, famous oriental and international musicians invite him to join them on stage with his mysterious instrument. Then comes the time of retreat. Modou takes the path to Mount Sinaï. It is a story
between him and God. At dawn he plays him the music that has been nourished by a year
of exchanges and encounters.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
FTS Productons
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
MOTHER TERESA, ONLY GOD MATTERS
Carine Lefebvre
The story of Mother Teresa and the Order she established in 1950 – the Missionaries of
Charity – is known the world over: she is an icon, the very symbol of unshaken faith. It
came therefore as a shock to the world to discover the letters she’d written to her confessors and spiritual fathers which reveal the endless darkness of faith she experienced for the
greatest part of her life. Yes, her surrender to God’s will was complete – but also blind –
since it brought her fifty years of life in shadows and darkness. Has this self-confessed spiritual emptiness influenced her approach to charity?
Through the prism of her life and extracts from her letters, the film explores Mother
Teresa’s vision of Christian charity – which is perpetuated today by the Missionaries of Charity. The film looks at the charity work she incarnated – a “model” radically centered on God.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
332
Point du Jour
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 01 7544 8080
F. +33 01 4531 1305
[email protected]
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ICELAND - USA
A MOTHER’S COURAGE:
TALKING BACK TO AUTISM
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
A moving, compassionate portrayal of a mother’s desperate quest to understand the perplexing condition that controls her son. A journey through different countries and cultures,
where every stopover opens a new path into the depths of autism – and places her son
in a strikingly different perspective as it reaches the end. Autism has neither a known cause
nor cure but it affects one child in every 150. The film deals with autism in a deeply comprehensive way, as the growing global issue it has become.
Running time: 103΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Frontier Filmworks
Margaret Dagmar Ericsdottir
Andrew Herwitz
165 Madison Ave., Suite 601
T. +1 212 481 5020
F. +1 212 481 5021
[email protected]
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UK
Current Affairs
MUGABE & THE WHITE AFRICAN
Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson
A South African family fights to retain possession of their farm in the face of the “Land Reform” programme operated by Robert Mugabe. Shot undercover, when foreign press was
banned from the country, it offers an extraordinary glimpse into the dangerous reality of
life in Zimbabwe.
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
334
Arturi Films Limited
David Pearson
HanWay Films
Mark Lane
24 Hanway St
London W1T 1UH, UK
T. +44 207 290 0776
F. +44 207 290 0751
[email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
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BELGIUM - FRANCE
History & Politics
MURDER IN KINSHASA
David Forbes & Michel Noll
In the late morning of January 16th 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila is murdered in his presidential office by a child-soldier who had become his bodyguard. We are in the Congo (former Zaire), the very country where four years earlier Kabila had seized power thanks to his
army of child-soldiers, putting an end to Mobutu’s dictatorial reign of several decades. A
few minutes later, Kabila’s assassin is shot to death as he attempts to escape from the scene
of his crime. Later, on his dead body a letter is found signed by the Military Attaché of the
American Embassy: “Should there be a problem, call this number”.
Many other trails will weave a thick curtain of mystery around this murder, which, to this
day, has not yet been solved.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Entre chien et loup & Solferino Images
Sebastien Delloye & Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisée
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
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GREECE
A MUSEUM IS BORN
Anna Kesisoglou
I was looking up at the Hadjikyriakos-Gika building at number 3 Kriezotou Street which
had been beautifully renovated. The door was open and I entered. Boxes, paintings, sculptures, and workers were coming and going and among them stood the director of the Benaki Museum, Mr. Angelos Delivorrias. “Can I turn on my camera?” I asked. With a smile,
he answered “yes”. And that is how I began my journey into the interwar years, together
with the major Greek artists of that time whose works will be housed in this new museum.
Running time: 28΄
Production Contact Person: Anna Kesisoglou
T. +30 6973 668 884
[email protected]
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ITALY
THE MUSIC COURT
Sergio Visinoni
Gianluigi often talks about this, and he really looks amazed by a musical and social phenomenon that seems to defy passing time. This is the starting point of a journey into Gianluigi Trovesi’s music along the many years of his activity.
Featuring: Gianluigi Trovesi, Barre Philips, Manfred Schoof, Günter “Baby” Sommer, Paolo
Fresu, Giordano Montecchi, Gianni Coscia, Stefano Montanari.
Running time: 60΄
Sales Company:
Lab 80 Film
Alberto Valtellina
via Pignolo 123 Bergamo 24121, Italy
T. +39 333 849 0808, +39 035 578 1021
F. +39 035 341 255
[email protected]
www.lab80.it
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GREECE
THE MUSIC PATHWAYS OF SALONIKA
Ciners8
This documentary attempts to register the variety of the musical trends and new trends
that emerge in the musical scene of Thessaloniki, a city situated at the crossroads of the
East and the West which has always been in the vanguard of the Greek music scene. A map
of musical groups, a network of artistically creative bands seems to exist within the urban
area. Representatives of ten musical bands that work out of Thessaloniki speak about the
city and the times, the era of digital reality that has begun to prevail (Internet), allowing
musicians and performers to claim our attention and build their reputation “gratis”, thus
altering the rules of the game. Music producers, representatives of the radio and the municipal authorities also express their opinions.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Digital Video School & Ciners8
Production Contact Person: Dimitri Papadopoulos
18 Valaoritou St
T. 2310 62114, 6972 252 708, 6974 707 430
[email protected]
[email protected]
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USA
Lifestyles
MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH
Morgan Dews
Filmmaker Morgan Dews was very close to his grandmother Allis, but it wasn’t until after her death in 2001 that he became aware of an astounding archive she’d amassed
throughout the 1960s. Filled with startlingly intimate and candid audio recordings detailing
her family’s increasingly turbulent lives, the collection also contained hundreds of silent
home movies, photographs and written journals. Using only these found materials, Dews
has fashioned a searing family portrait that affords fly-on-the-wall access to one family’s
struggles amid an America on the verge of dramatic transformation.
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Gigantic Pictures
Morgan Dews
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisée
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
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102
SOUTH KOREA
Current Affairs
MY BAREFOOT FRIEND
Seong-gyou Lee
In Calcutta, 20 thousand feet are running tangled up, all barefoot. They are rickshaw
pullers, slowly disappearing out of the city’s landscape. Among them are Manoj, a feeble
young man; Mohamad, a lovely trickster; and Hussein, the street sage who knows all about
the city. And Shallim, an ordinary man: a husband of a wife, a father of a son. For Shallim, an old and tired rickshaw has been the only means of hope. He’s run endless miles with
it to save up money to buy an auto-rickshaw that will realize his dream: a house for his family. However, despair comes to the weakest first. Shallim’s wife is found to be seriously ill.
His son catches swine flu while working at a factory. Hospital expenses are mounting and
Shallim’s dream is on the verge of collapsing. Meanwhile, the trauma suffered by Manoj
by his father’s death is revealed. Is there any hope left for barefoot Calcutta?
Running time: 93΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
340
CreativEast
Min-Chul Kim
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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USA
MY CLASSIC LIFE AS AN ARTIST:
A PORTRAIT OF LARRY BISSONNETTE
Douglas Biklen & Zach Rossetti
Looking back on his years of living in a closed institution for people labelled mentally retarded, Vermont-based autistic artist Larry Bissonnette assesses this form of “apartheid” as
“better for growing vegetables rather than people.” This documentary is filled with Bissonnette’s humorous yet poignant assessments of his life – growing up, his family, and creating art. Moving back and forth between speech, typing, and painting. Bissonnette’s wit
and insight punctuate a day in the life of this Outsider artist, and artfully illustrate the complexities of expression.
(Produced by Douglas Biklen & Zach Rossetti.)
Running time: 21΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Syracuse University
Dani Weinstein
Syracuse University
Dani Weinstein
Institute on Communication and Inclusion,
370 Huntington Hall
Syracuse NY 13244 USA
T. +1 315 443 9379
F. +1 315 443 2274
[email protected]
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CANADA
Lifestyles
MY MESSY LIFE
Josh Freed
Successful and highly paid people are organized and work in neat offices… or do they?
Montreal journalist and author Josh Freed confesses to an “order disorder.” His office is an
extraordinary mess where he claims he gets his best ideas – although everyone else wants
him to clean it up. But should he?
He wonders if this obsession with order isn’t overrated. In an effort to bring clutterers out
of the closet for the first time, he has written and directed the entertaining and humorous documentary, My Messy Life. Does a disorderly desk really mean a disorderly mind?
Or does an empty desk mean an empty mind?
Starting out in his own office mess (“a fragile ecosystem”), Josh goes on an odyssey to meet
other successful slobs and see what they have to say in defence of mess!
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
342
Janet Torge Prod
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
MY OWN IKARIA
Spyros Teskos
Can an ideal society be based on love, solidarity and equity so that there will be no need
for it to impose its will? History says no. The reality is different. An island in the Aegean Sea,
Ikaria, has for centuries developed such social structures that would be the envy of most
virtual communities...
The film focuses on the “Mnemosyno” (memorial) custom observed by the villagers on
Ikaria which is very characteristic of their culture. “The mnemosyno is the culmination of
love, solidarity and equality,” says the main character of the film.
Running time: 79΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Massive Productions
V. Fabas
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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USA - UK -RUSSIA
History & Politics
MY PERESTROIKA
Robin Hessman
When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of
possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation,
Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of
glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first- person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman,
who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where
people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country. Engaging, funny,
and positively inspiring, in My Perestroika politics is personal, honesty overshadows ideology, and history progresses one day, one life at a time.
(A perfect film to consider for 2011 – the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR.)
Running time: 87΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Red Square Productions
Roco Films
Shane Griffin
Sausalito CA 94965 USA
T. +1 415 332 6471 x 200
F. +1 415 332 6798
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.rocofilms.com
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DENMARK
Sports
MY PLAYGROUND
Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Parkour is a sport on which you have to go from one point of the city to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, overcoming any obstacles in your way: walls, fences,
trees, etc. This has made Parkour the urban sport and one of the most dangerous in the
world.
Danish film maker Kaspar Astrup Schröder directed and produced My Playground, a documentary on movement, tricking, freerunning and parkour, and its relation with urban
spaces. This documentary features scenes with parkour masters Team Jiyo and interviews
with urban planners, local politicians, architects and philosophers.
We journey to China, the USA, Japan and Denmark with these athletes who risk their lives
for fun.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kaspar Works
Objective Cinema
Tara Farrell
171 Topanga,
Topanga CA 90290 USA
T. +1 310 933 5828
[email protected]
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ISRAEL - FRANCE - GREECE
MY SWEET CANARY
Roy Sher
Roza Eskenazi sang the way she lived: with passion, fire and love.
This is the story of three young musicians from Greece, Turkey, and Israel, who embark on
an exciting musical journey, to tell the story of Greece’s best-known and best-loved rebetiko
singer for the first time on film.
It’s a journey that will take them from Istanbul to Thessaloniki and to Athens, following the
musical trail she left behind. Most of all, it’s a journey into a world that has largely vanished, but whose sounds continue to echo throughout the Mediterranean Basin.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Sher Film and Music
Roy Sher
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St.
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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GREECE
MYKONOS BLUES
Omiros Evangelinos
An interesting example is Mykonos, which par excellence combines all of the contradictions
between the old and new way of life.
During the cosmopolitan summer, transitory entertainment and exorbitant consumption
reign supreme, while winter brings desolation, with no one working to restore the summer wounds.
In the four months of the tourist season, local and international entrepreneurs make millions next to a small population of farmers, stock breeders, fishermen, craftsmen and artists
who predominantly follow the traditional way of life.
This society was certainly ill-prepared to handle an experiment of this magnitude: criminal acts against public health and the environment are being committed on this beautiful and cosmopolitan island.
Running time: 19΄
Production Contact Person: Omiros Evangelinos
Mykonos 846 00, Greece
T. +30 6974 120 833, +30 22890 24767
[email protected]
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ITALY
Lifestyles
NAPOLI NAPOLI NAPOLI
Abel Ferrara
Napoli Napoli Napoli is not only a portrait of the city itself, but a deep sight into its humanity, vital and brutal, passionate and cruel at the same time. While interviewing a group
of female convicts in Pozzuoli State Prison, Abel Ferrara was deeply impressed by their
statements, so harsh and fatalistic.
He then decided to base on their life experiences three different screenplays, written by
Peppe Lanzetta, Maurizio Braucci and Gaetano Di Vaio.
Running time: 102΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Minerva Pictures & PFA Films & Figli del Bronx
Minerva Pictures Group
Via del circo Massimo 9
00153 Roma Italy
T. +39 06 842 42430
F. +39 06 855 8105
[email protected]
www.minervapictures.com
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HUNGARY
NEGATIVE HISTORY
OF HUNGARIAN CINEMA
Gyula Nemes
Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian
film directors.
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Absolut Film Studio Bt.
Production Contact Person: Gyula Nemes
Pusztaszeri út 11-13
Budapest 1025, Hungary
T. +36 209 856 277
F. +36 130 261 76
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
NEL’S LOVE WILL
André Dartevelle
Nel tells a writer, in the early 60s, about her companion who died in 1916 in the midst of
war, the painter-sculptor Rik Wouters. With these unpublished letters, the film gives voice
to the woman who was the only model of her husband. In their forest village, she lived
with Rik in a love fusion, blending art, creation, and life. World War I destroys their happiness: Rik is sent to the battlefield.
Running time: 55’
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Hallolalune Production
Michel Khleifi
Thierry Detaille
Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles
19 F avenue des Arts
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 2 227 2239
[email protected]
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USA
NEUROTYPICAL
Adam Larsen
What is the standard that identifies one person as whole and capable and another as
disabled and broken?
Neurotypical parallels the lives of three individuals on the autism spectrum, each facing a
pivotal stage of growth. Violet, 3 years old, is absorbing the sensory world and learning
ways to navigate through it; Nicholas, a teenager, is coming to terms with his diagnosis
and his identity; and Paula, newly diagnosed, balances her autism advocacy work with the
demands of homeschooling her son and sorting out a disintegrating marriage.
By exploring the behavioral and perceptual differences that autistics express, differences
that tend to separate them from a society that both sets the standard and attempts to have
them meet it, the definition of “normal” comes into question. Neurotypical ultimately broadens the concept of what it means to be human.
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Hum Bar
Production Contact Person: Adam Larsen
Adam Larsen
1719 Sherwood Ave. SW.
Roanoke VA 24015 USA
T. +1 828 280 0626
[email protected]
www.neuro-typical.com
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FRANCE
NEW MASTERS OF SPACE – 1ST PART
Camille Guichard, Laure Ducaroir & Christophe Touzalin
By questioning the new space owners, these two documentaries report on the state of contemporary architecture and design, enlightening the knowledge of ourselves throughout
our environment.
1st part: “Indoors: architects and designers” by C. Guichard shows 6 artists: Elliot Barnes,
Frédéric Sicard, Joseph Dirand, Leiko Oshima, Isabelle Stanislas and Charles Zana, who dedicated their work and a great part of their life to re-designing and enchanting our habitats.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Injam Production & Cap 24
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 1 5395 0464
F. +33 1 5395 0465
[email protected]
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USA
History & Politics
NEW MUSLIM COOL
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago,
and started down a new path as a young Muslim.
Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through his
uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team.
But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11
world, and challenge himself. He starts reaching for a deeper understanding of his faith,
discovering new connections with people from Christian and Jewish communities.
New Muslim Cool takes viewers on Hamza’s ride through the streets, projects and jail cells
of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places where we can
all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Specific Pictures
Shane Griffin
6579 Pickwick St
T. +1 323 259 8259
F. +1 323 474 6371
[email protected]
www.7thart.com
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
THE NEW SAINT
Allard Detiger
The church, army and people of Russia embrace a fallen soldier and his mother, when after his death the boy becomes a religious icon glorifying self-sacrifice in the battle against
Islam. Yevgeny Rodionov was an ordinary young Russian soldier who fell in Chechnya after being taken prisoner and refusing to convert to Islam. He was proclaimed a martyr and
became an unofficial saint for many Russians.
The life of Yevgeny’s mother Lyubov underwent a radical change when her child “became”
a saint. Unable to let go of her grief, she keeps his iconic memory alive with the support
of Orthodox priests, biker gangs and the Russian army, which uses his legend as an example
for young soldiers. While the saint’s mother appears on TV shows, young cadets are
preparing to sacrifice themselves and follow in their hero’s footsteps.
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Volya Films
Denis Vaslin
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
Hilversum 1217 GP
The Netherlands
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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FRANCE - INDIA
NEXT YEAR IN BOMBAY
Jonas Pariente & Mathias Mangin
Bene Israel is a Jewish community that settled in India over 2,000 years ago, and who only
counts 4,000 people still living in and around Mumbai (ex-Bombay) today, a community
that is now disappearing.
Sharon and Sharona Galsulrkar are its last educators. Concerned for their daughters’ future,
they are also committed to their community’s needs. Whose education will they sacrifice?
* Mumbai Film Festival, India 2010
* Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA 2011
* Worldfilm Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, Estonia 2011
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
356
Chai Chai Films
Jonas Pariente
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St.
T. +972 52 3633 398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#nextyearbombay
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ITALY
Current Affairs
NIGGERS
Antonio Martino
What happens to asylum-seekers once they’ve reached the Italian shores? The tensions between immigrants and locals in a little village in southern Italy, which hosts one of the
greatest transit camps in Europe, reflect the social problems growing everywhere in Italy:
fear of diversity and poverty, alarmed reactions against the uninterrupted arrivals of so
many people in need.
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Videoinflussi
Antonio Martino
Vitagraph
Filippo D’Angelo
Via Schiavonia 1
T. +39 05 126 7150
F. +39 05 126 7150
[email protected]
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
NIGHTMARE IN DREAMLAND
Edgar Wolf, Eva Grün & Adamu Adamni
Dubai is the Gulf’s very own fairytale city, yet tales of misery lurk behind its gleaming facades. Many emirate families retain a housemaid, mostly from the Philippines, Ethiopia and
elsewhere. What initially seemed to be a dream job often turns out to be the stuff of nightmares, with long working days, no breaks, very little food and no wages. Many of these
young women are beaten, and even sexually assaulted by the men of the house. The investigation relates a tale of modern slavery. It accompanies Trungu, a young Ethiopian
woman, as she prepares for her new job. The camera follows her as she flies to Dubai up
until the moment her passport is taken from her upon arrival. After that, the contact with
Trungu breaks up. Searching the city’s maze of houses and shopping malls for her, the authors soon find themselves being observed and hindered.
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
358
Berlin Producers film
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
Breite Str. 48-50
T. +49 221 920 690
F. +49 221 920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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USA
History & Politics
NO. 4 STREET OF OUR LADY
Barbara Bird, Judy Maltz & Richie Sherman
If your neighbors were being hunted down and came to your door begging for help, would
you risk your life to save theirs?
This film tells the remarkable, yet little-known, story of Francisca Halamajowa, a PolishCatholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust, while cleverly passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer.
The film draws on excerpts from a diary kept by one of the survivors, Moshe Maltz, whose
granddaughter is one of the filmmakers. It also incorporates testimonies from other Jews
saved by Halamajowa, her descendants and former neighbors, as they reconnect on a trip
back to Sokal. Powerful location shots add another rich dimension to the story, providing
the backdrop as the drama unfolds.
Running time: 71΄
Sales Company:
Shane Griffin
6579 Pickwick St
T. +1 323 259 8259
F. +1 323 474 6371
[email protected]
www.7thart.com
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MEXICO
History & Politics
NOBODY IS INNOCENT 20 YEARS LATER
Sarah Minter
2008, Ciudad Neza and the great metropolis. The movements of Pablo “El Podrido” Hernández intertwine the stories of “Cienfuegos”, “Rafa Punk”, Benjamín “El Costras”, “Moroco”,
“Búho”, and others who are no longer with us. They are all young adults between 38 and
45. They share three things: they grew up in Ciudad Neza, they belonged to the same gang
Los Mierdas Punk (The Punk Shits) and they all starred in the documentary Nadie es inocente (nobody is innocent), filmed in 1986 by Sarah Minter. Now, twenty years later, she
shows us their current lives and their memories of the past, reconstructing their footprints
and weaves a new visual map of the city and other geographies through these characters’
present as they confront their achievements, frustrations and the nostalgia for their past
and youthful dreams.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
360
Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
Mexico City 03100, México
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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CANADA
NORM
Kent Nason & Teresa MacInnes
Norm is a love story pure and simple. But there is nothing simple about it.
A loving sister decides to take her older brother with Down syndrome into her home to provide the care and the sense of family she feels he has been denied since childhood. Like
many aging adults living with Down syndrome, he begins to experience the symptoms of
Alzheimer’s disease. Her greatest fears have become a reality: “What if she can’t keep him
at home forever?”
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sea to Sea International Productions
TVF International
Leila Monks
375 City Road
London EC1V 1NB, UK
T. +44 207 837 3000
F. +44 207 833 2185
[email protected]
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POLAND
Current Affairs
NORTH OF CALABRIA
Marcin Sauter
North of Calabria is about a dream place to live, where living is easy and people know each
other, tolerate their faults, like to meet, to talk and just be together. For one summer, Sauter’s
film crew mingles with the inhabitants of a small town to enact an almost Italian comedy. It appears that all they needed was a few classes of Italian cuisine and the art of carpe
diem to turn this Polish province into Calabria alike. A documentary midsummer night’s
dream.
Running time: 67΄
Production Company:
Studio Munka - Polish Filmmakers Association
& Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Production Contact Person: Joanna Skalska
Sales Company:
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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IRAN
NOT AN ILLUSION
Torang Abedian
Sara is a young Iranian woman with a captivating voice who wants to be a singer. Yet according to the rules in the Islamic Republic of Iran, women should not sing solo in public.
According to the clerics, God does not want to hear a woman’s voice even at prayers. But
Sara, who used to be the champion gymnast of Iran and became disabled after a freak accident, is a highly motivated individual with great determination. She joins the Piccolo band
as a backing vocalist and a co-singer. Although everything still has to be approved by the
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, she hopes for a better time in an explosive society which is confused between modernity and tradition, as the band prepares for its first
public concert.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
nuts films
Production Contact Person: Torang Abedian
Tehran, Iran
T. +98 001 822 6162
[email protected]
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FRANCE
History & Politics
LA NUEVE, THE FORGOTTEN
MEN OF THE 9TH COMPANY
Alberto Marquardt
History does not always recognize true heroes. The Spanish Republican soldiers of the 9th
company in General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division had fled their country and fought
Nazism on the side of the Allies, yet their contribution and sacrifice had not been acknowledged. Yet, on August 24th 1944 they were among the first soldiers of liberated
France to enter occupied Paris.
Luis Royo and Manuel Fernandez are the last survivors of this epic tale. They speak of those
years with humor and great dignity: “We did not fight for a flag, we fought for our ideals.”
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
364
Point du Jour
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
THE NYMPHS OF HINDU KUSH
Anneta Papathanassiou
In the mountains of Hindu Kush, in Pakistan, amongst 165 million Muslims, unfolds the
unique story of 4,000 Kalasha, an ancient Pagan tribe that worships nymphs, gods and
fairies. Kalasha women are strong, lovable and, oddly enough, free. Shamim is the first
woman who has managed to go to university. She dreams of working with Athanassios
Lerounis, the president of the “Greek Volunteers” NGO, who organize developmental and
educational projects in the region that help her tribe. But, suddenly, Athanassios is kidnapped by the Taliban. His abduction fills the whole Kalasha tribe with insecurity and fear.
Everything changes. How will the Kalasha women of Hindu Kush cope with this? What will
happen to Shamim and her dreams?
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Modiano SA
Production Contact Person: Photini Economopoulou
Sales Company:
Modiano SA
Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT SA Intl’ co-production Department
Photini Economopoulou, Anneta Papathanassiou,
Ilia Papaspyrou
73, K. Palaiologou St, Halandri 152 32, Greece
T. +30 210 684 6398
F. +30 210 684 4078
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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USA
History & Politics
THE OATH
Laura Poitras
An extraordinary inside view of militant Islamism. A quietly disturbing, often complex portrait of an Al Qaeda insider and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, The Oath offers a chilling preview of emerging Middle East battleground Yemen and poignantly questions American
policies over the past decade in the Middle
East. The Oath tells the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim
Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the first man to face the controversial
military tribunals.
Running time: 96΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Praxis Films
Laura Poitras
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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FRANCE - CHINA
Lifestyles
OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Xiaolei Zheng
There are more than 2,500 pensioners living in a large private retirement home located in
a suburb of Canton (Guangzhou), China. As we discover the daily lives of these old people,
the film focuses on the lives of two elderly ladies: Ms. Kuang and Ms Xie. As they are both
counting the last days of their lives, one is worrying about her sick father and the other about
her distant son. Our camera will reveal how today’s urban China can be reflected by the story
of these two heroines who find themselves away from their families, in a retirement home.
Here, in the wake of serious health considerations, they have to build new relationships, define a new rhythm to their daily life and invent new ways to be with others.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
368
Solferino Images & Guangzhou TV
Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisée
75008 Paris France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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TURKEY
Current Affairs
OFFSIDE
Reyan Tuvi
Offside is the story of two young, illegal African immigrants who left their country to come
to Turkey, hoping to be successful football players. The paths of Taju and Rachid, who are
both Nigerian, cross in İstanbul.
While Taju (TJ) dreams of becoming a member of a 3rd league football team, he spends
his days working to make a living in a small barber shop in Kumkapı, a district where many
illegal immigrants from different countries live.
Rachid (Ade), who unlike Taju has come to the realization that he will not be able to realize his dream of becoming a football player in Turkey, tries to find ways to go to Europe,
to join his English girlfriend Diane whom he has met on the Internet.
Their plans are suddenly shattered when their teammate Okute (Festus Okey) is killed in
police custody. This event leaves them with many questions about the future.
As their shared passion for football brings them closer, it also forces them apart. Eventually each chooses his own way...
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company Person:
Ominira
Reyan Tuvi
Prof. Dr. Tarik Zafer Tunaya sok. No:7/4
Beyoglu
Istanbul 34427, Turkey
T. +90 532 332 2935
[email protected]
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400
ISRAEL
OHAD NAHARIN – OUT OF FOCUS
Tomer Heymann
A month before their New York premiere, groundbreaking choreographer Ohad Naharin is
working with the Cedar Lake Company on a selection of his world known works.
Running time: 55΄
Sales Company:
370
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
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UK
OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL
Julien Temple
The third film in Julien Temple’s trilogy (The Filth and the Fury, Joe Strummer: The Future
Is Unwritten) about the British music culture of the 70s features Dr Feelgood, four men in
cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island and sandpapered the face of rock ’n’ roll. Featuring contributions from members of The Clash, Blondie and the Sex Pistols.
Running time: 110΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Cadiz Music Limited
Stephan Malit
HanWay Films
Fabien Westerhoff & Mark Lane
24 Hanway Street
London W1T 1UH, UK
T. +44 207 290 0776
F. +44 207 290 0751
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
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356
LATVIA
Lifestyles
ON RUBIK’S ROAD
Laila Pakalnina
If the entire world can be reflected in a single drop of dew (and it can!), then why couldn’t it fit onto a single bicycle road in Latvia? A film about a world that walks, runs, crawls,
sits, rides, flies; and falls. A world alive.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
Hargla Company
Production Contact Person: Laila Pakalnina
Valtaiku 19
Riga 1029, Latvia
T. +371 292 356 180
[email protected]
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POLAND
Current Affairs
ON THE ROAD
Leszek Dawid
A road movie in which the director, driving across the country, picks up hitch-hikers. A
patchwork of their stories, fears and dreams combined with the changing landscapes outside the car creates a picture of mankind which is still on the road.
Running time: 43΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Anagram Film
Anna Pachnicka
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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MΕXICO
Lifestyles
ONE DAY LESS
Dariela Ludlow
Carmen (84) and Emeterio (97) are an elderly couple living out their last years in their home
in Acapulco, the house they built with their own hands. Time seems to stand still for them;
no day is more or less special than the one before. All they can do is wait. Carmen and Eme
survive together and, as every New Year’s eve, they expect their family’s visit.
Running time: 77΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
374
Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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MEXICO - ARGENTINA - BRAZIL
Current Affairs
ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS
David Pablos
Stories of encounters and separations in a dividing frontier wall that impedes families,
friends and lovers to touch and kiss each other. In some cases, the wall does not obstruct
human contact, while in some other cases it presents itself as a metaphor of division in human relationships.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
IMCINE
Angelica Ramirez
T. +52 55 5448 5337
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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USA
ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT:
A TEN THOUSAND POUND LOVE STORY
Lisa Leeman
Where does an elephant go after a life in the circus? Sixteen years have passed since David
Balding adopted Flora, the orphaned baby African elephant he lovingly raised as part of
his family and made the star of his circus. Now an adult animal, he realizes that she is not
happy performing. The road to Flora’s retirement, however, is a difficult and emotional journey which tests their bond in unexpected ways. Ten years in the making, One Lucky Elephant explores the consequences of keeping wild animals in captivity, while never losing
sight of the delicate love story at its heart.
Running time: 81΄
Production Contact Person: Cristina Colissimo & Jordana Glick-Franzheim
Sales Company:
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
ONE OF SEVEN
Goel Pinto
One of Seven is a fascinating journey along journalist and film critic Goel Pinto’s life stations.
Goel, born to an Oriental religious family, one of seven children, in the ultra-Orthodox city
of Bnei Brak. Going back to his childhood memories, the director, along with his mother
Monique, peel off the layers of his past, in order to get to the root of the lack of identity
that accompanies him. He tries to reconcile the different elements that shape his being:
religion, ethnicity, homosexuality and the memory of the Holocaust.
* Documentary Competition: Cape Winelands Film Festival 2011, South Africa
* Fipatel: FIPA International Film Festival 2011, Biarritz, France
* Haifa Film Festival 2010, Israel
TV Broadcast: Channel 8, Israel (Noga Communications)
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Goel Pinto
Goel Pinto
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
Tel Aviv, 63324 Israel
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#oneofseven
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GREECE
Current Affairs
ONLY THE WORDS CONTINUE
Kalliopi Legaki
It was in the winter of 2010, at the “Dasein” bar in the Exarcheia district of Athens, that the
Confession Session project began. It all started with an idea by Alkis Gounaris, who invited
52 of the bar’s regulars to confess personal stories. These stories went online and also became the material for this documentary. In front of the camera, words, phrases and people take on an added gravity. They reveal feelings, thoughts, pursuits and decisions that
have played a decisive role in each person’s life. By filming people’s confessions, we chart
their inner world – a world which has been forgotten in the din and alienation of modern-day cities.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Portolanos Films & Alkis Gounaris
Production Contact Person: Maria Gentekou
120, Agiou Eleftheriou St
Piraeus 185 41, Greece
T. +30 210 483 3515
F. +30 213 030 2506
[email protected]
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GREECE
Art, Culture & Music
OPERETTA, YOUR INNER WORLD
Yorgos Danopoulos
Operetta, Your Inner World portrays the magic world of the Greek operetta through the
words of leading figures of the theater and music, as well as people who simply love the
operetta. These interviews, intercut with images and musical excerpts from exceptional performances, take us back to a time of innocence and romance. Director George Danopoulos is a sound engineer for the Greek National Opera and has taken part in over 700 operetta performances during the last 10 years. Enchanted by this musical genre, he depicts
his own theatrical experience and through images, interviews and theatrical excerpts, he
creates a cinematic fresco of the 100-year-long history of the Greek operetta. The final target of the director remains the heart of the audience: to get closer to the operetta by a work
of simple technique, but full of artistic feeling and devoted passion.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
G.D.
Production Contact Person: Giorgos Danopoulos
5, Ko Str.
T. +30 6945 244 250
[email protected]
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AUSTRALIA
Lifestyles
ORCHIDS – MY INTERSEX ADVENTURE
Phoebe Hart
“Hermaphrodite” is a word used to describe Phoebe, a woman with a man’s chromosomes.
Wherever possible, Phoebe actively seeks to disrupt the cataloguing with as much honesty and humor as she can. In her film Orchids she comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition. Despite her mother’s refusal to be in the film, Phoebe hits the
road...
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
380
Hartflicker Moving Pictures
Phoebe Hart
First Hand Films
Gitte Hansen
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
Zürich 8050, Switzerland
T.-F. +41 44 312 2060
[email protected]
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FRANCE - CHINA
Lifestyles
ORGANIC, AGAINST ALL ODDS
Shi Wei
Mr. Liang has a passion for cooking. Aged around 60, he is today the owner of two restaurants and an organic farm in the rich Southern Province of Guangdong, China. A few years
ago, he converted his farm to an organic holding and it became a modest success. Encouraged by this experience, he bought a huge restaurant, seating 500 people, right in the
heart of the province’s capital, the city of Canton. He attempts to convert this one also into
an organic restaurant, but in Canton competition is fierce. Mr Liang’s ideals and his absolute
quest for a healthier way of life have not yet made his Canton business a profitable one.
Many still doubt the pertinence of the concept and keep resisting it…
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Solferino Images & CCIC & Guangzhou
Documentary Association & China Screen
Production Contact Person: Michel Noll
Sales Company:
ICTV (Rest of the World)
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisée
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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255
GREECE
Lifestyles
OUR LANGUAGE
Elisavet Laloudaki & Massimo Pizzocaro
In the Eastern Peloponnese, in a remote region in the shadow of Mt Parnon, live the Tsakonians, a stubborn group of native Greeks. For the past 3,000 years they have been speaking an ancient dialect, the only surviving example of a Doric language. They never abandoned it, not even when the Attic-based Koiné (from which Modern Greek derives)
became the first common dialect of all Greeks and the lingua franca of the entire Mediterranean. Having survived for a great many centuries, the Tsakonian dialect entered a period
of neglect in the 1960s, and may currently be approaching its end. The national language
was imposed through compulsory schooling, roads were opened for the first time, tourists
began to arrive, many locals emigrated or took to the sea. Now the time has come to face
a simple truth: when you lose your language, you lose your world. Tsakonian is not unique
in this respect. According to the UN, half of the languages spoken today face the same threat
of extinction and oblivion. This film is about the loss of identity: what it means to know
that your language will have vanished in a hundred years’ time.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
HappyAnt TV
Production Contact Person: Elisavet Laloudaki
T. +30 201 341 2687
[email protected]
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MEXICO
Lifestyles
THE OTHER CALIFORNIANS
César Talamantes
The life and viewpoint of the farmers of Southern Baja California, Mexico, told through people who are as interesting as they are unknown, living in remote and isolated parts of the
desert, facing the changes in their current reality.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
THE OTHER CHELSEA –
A STORY FROM DONETSK
Jakob Preuss
Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the
run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide you are on, coming from Donetsk you will almost certainly be an opponent of the Orange Revolution and a fan of the local football team, Shakhtar Donetsk. Billionaire Akhmetov invests heavily in the club, which is becoming a major European force during the season
followed by the film. Yet this sporting success funded by an Oligarch fortune only seems
to highlight the wider social and political stagnation of the region. Off the pitch, the outlook appears bleak...
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
384
Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH
Stefan Kloos
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 2980
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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TURKEY
History & Politics
THE OTHER TOWN
Nefin Dinç
Why do neighbors fight? Why do the world’s ethnic or religious groups experience mutual hatred and suspicion? The documentary film The Other Town, explores the negative
feelings of a Greek town, Dimitsana, and a Turkish town, Birgi, towards the Other. Bitter sentiments and prejudices are widespread in both societies. Locals of all ages are caught in a
web of stereotypes that impedes bilateral relationships between Turkey and Greece. Similar situations exist in many other societies around the world.
The Other Town examines the key issues of why peace is sometimes so difficult to achieve,
and why hate is constantly reproduced in public life. While visiting the two towns and talking with the inhabitants during the span of a year, the documentary’s makers come to understand that bad relations between the two nations exist not so much due to their turbulent past, but due to contemporary nationalistic mentalities and education.
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Atlantik Film
Nefin Dinç
Atlantik Film
Claudine Avetyan
Ust Zeren sokak, no:2 34330
Istanbul, Turkey
T. + 90 212 278 3611
F. + 90 212 278 1971
[email protected]
www.theothertown.com
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GREECE - ALBANIA - BELARUS
Current Affairs
OTHER WOMEN’S NARRATIVES
Maria Pesli
Other Women’s Narratives is a collaborative creative documentary, inspired by the tradition
of participatory video. On the theme of foreignness and migration, it employs the personal
narratives of Aferdita Çako and Manjola Milla (from Albania) and Svetlana Blakhina (from
Belarus), who have lived in Greece for the past 12-15 years. Drawing upon their names,
jobs and habits, the work recomposes thoughts and feelings of their daily living, in an effort to trace changes of their identity as it is being shaped miles away from their native
countries. What is remarkable in this documentary is the fact that all three women participated actively in almost all production phases. Working closely with the director Maria
Pesli, they took lessons on filmmaking literally on the road, and managed to shoot their
stories themselves.
Running time: 33΄
Production Contact Person: Maria Pesli
3, Aischylou St
Pireaus 185 33, Greece
T. +30 6973 042 133, +30 210 412 7295
[email protected]
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USA - SWITZERLAND
Current Affairs
OUR SCHOOL
Mona Nicoara & Miruna Coca-Cozma
Three Roma (Gypsy) children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to
desegregate the local school, struggling against indifference, tradition and bigotry with humor, optimism and sass. Shot over four years in an unflinching yet intimate visual style
characteristic of the new Romanian naturalistic cinematography, Our School is a bittersweet story about hope and race, and an elegy about generational prejudice and squandered opportunities.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sat Mic Film
Production Contact Person: Mona Nicoara
124 First Place
T. +1 917 574 2329
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
OUT OF CONCRETE
Vana Alexopoulou
For many people, camping is an “outdoor recreational activity during which the participants
(known as campers) leave urban areas, their home and civilization, and enjoy nature while
spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite” (Wikipedia). But what exactly is “free camping” and what are the real reasons behind it? Is it just an alternative way
of vacationing or is there also a political aspect to it? Do campers really leave behind civilization or do they just recreate another form of it?
Out of Concrete is a film that explores a different point of view of what camping can be,
walking with the campers along the cliff, drinking coffee with them and traveling through
beautiful scenery.
Running time: 25΄
Production Contact Person: Vana Alexopoulou
5, An. Romilias St
Athens Greece
T. +30 6973 786 289
[email protected]
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POLAND
Current Affairs
OUT OF REACH
Jakub Stozek
Karolina and Natalia seek refuge from their domineering father and reminisce about their
sad childhood without a mother in a basement of a block of flats. When the younger sister’s poor eyesight starts to deteriorate, the girls decide to find Bożena, their mother, who
left the family when they were young. The director, Jakub Stożek, accompanies Karolina
on her journey to Paris where the older sister is supposed to meet the mother, whom the
girls know only from the voice message left on the phone she never answers. Will the
daughter be able to establish a bond with the mother she has not seen for fourteen years?
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Darklight Film Studio
Anna Zajaczkowska
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Lifestyles
OUT OF ROUND: WHAT IS BEHIND?
Jaro Vojtek
After the festival success of his films Here We Are and The Border, documentary filmmaker
Jaro Vojtek returns with the short social documentary Out of Round. The main protagonist
is a Roma man called Jožo/Fero whose addiction has taken everything from him and
pushed him and his family to the edge of society. Marked by difficult fate, he is still an eternal child whose best friend is Nemo the dog. Despite his primary backwardness, he feels
mentally superior to other members of his family and is the only one who makes an effort to return to normal life.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
390
Ugly Agency & Production
Kresankova 13
Bratislava 840000, Slovakia
T. +421 905 648 024
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
OVRIOKASTRO KERATEAS
Christos Akridas
The documentary Ovriokastro is a 2010 production, funded by Local Government and the
Municipality of Keratea. It presents people who represent the community of Keratea and
reveals the identity of the residents in the area who for 15 years have been fighting for a
better and more civilized quality of life. In 1995, when the people of Keratea learnt that
the archaeological site of Ovriokastro was to become a landfill, they strongly objected and
produced for the state all the evidence prohibiting the location of a landfill in the area. The
documentary reveals the untrustworthy attitude towards the community adopted by
governments over the last 15 years and presents the people of Keratea’s methodical and
determined stand.
Running time: 57΄
Michalis Lykoudis
T. +30 6979 981 284
lykoudim@otenet
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FRANCE
Lifestyles
PACKAGING
Antoine Laguerre
Packaging was born during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Today it has become an instrument of communication. Now, to buy “good”, you have to buy “beautiful”.
From Paris to New York, this documentary shows designers who explain how packaging
now acts as a promise of quality of the product in our modern society.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Injam Production
Marc Andreani
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 1 5395 0464
F. +33 1 5395 0465
[email protected]
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575
USA
THE PAINTER SAM F RANCIS –
A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTISTE
Jeffrey Perkins
Forty years in the making, The Painter Sam Francis is artist Jeffrey Perkins’ lyrical and intimate portrait of a friend, mentor, and leading light of American abstract art. The film retraces Francis’ life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in
post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his return to the United States. Hinging on an
interview that Perkins conducted with Francis in 1973, as well as extended scenes of the
artist at work in the studio, the film provides deep insight into a man for whom creativity
was a powerful life-sustaining force. Interviews with friends, family, and fellow artists –
including Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Bruce Conner, Alfred Leslie, and others – illuminate a
mysterious and complex personality, and its reflection in a body of work that is simultaneously diverse and singular. For Francis, art was a path to transcendence; for Perkins, Francis was art. The Painter Sam Francis is a labor of love, a moving portrait of a man, and a
tribute to the power of art.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
394
Body & Soul Productions
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
75019 Paris, France
T. + 33 1 4874 4377
F. + 33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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GREECE - GERMANY
Current Affairs
THE PALACE
Ioannis Roumeliotis
Six men from Pakistan live and work cut off from society for the past seven years on a deserted, rocky island in Greece. They are working on a fish farm and are waiting for the moment when they will have collected the money they need, so that they and their families
can have a better life back home. The Palace is the metaphorical meaning of the dream,
the time spent realizing it. The poetical recording of time, of images, of sounds and objects,
behaviors and situations as they occurred.
Running time: 80΄
Production Contact Person: Ioannis Roumeliotis
Ioannis Roumeliotis
67, Kottbusser Damm
T. +49 30 5595 8780
[email protected]
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SPAIN
Current Affairs
PALINDROME
Roger Villarroya
When we depend on the others.
Running time: 4΄
Production Company:
Mailuki Films
Production Contact Person: Eduardo M. Escribano
Eduardo M. Escribano
4 Villarias St, 3A
Bilbao, Spain
T. +34 650 761 484
[email protected]
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
PANDA FARNANA.
AN UNSETTLING CONGOLESE
Françoise Levy
An atypical figure in Belgium and in the Congo. He was the first Congolese to have pursued advanced studies in Belgium in the 20th century. Appointed agricultural agent, he
returned to the Congo as the first black Belgian civil servant. He suffered from exclusion
and renounced his career. A volunteer in 1914, he was taken prisoner and spent his captivity in Germany. After the war, he devoted his energy to promoting equality between
whites and blacks.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Memento Production
Françoise Levy
Thierry Detaille
Quai des Ardennes
Liège 16 4020, Belgium
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 4 340 1041
[email protected]
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BULGARIA
Current Affairs
PARADISE HOTEL
Sophia Tzavella
The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block on the outskirts of a
provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. Twenty-five years ago it had all it took
to be considered a socialist heaven: from parquet floors to intercom, an exemplary central
hot water system, street lamps, benches where one could sit and listen to the rustling apple trees. Someone called the place Paradise Hotel – and the name stuck. But as time went
by, the building changed. The parquet disappeared. The water was cut off. The lights
went out. But each of its 1,500 residents has a plan of getting back the dream of Paradise
Lost. And if you cross the field behind the Paradise Hotel, where heaven and earth meet,
you will see Bozhidar “the God Given”, who protects everyone from evil and excessive happiness, in a documentary about social integration, love, poverty, countless dreams, some
song lyrics and one gypsy wedding.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Agitprop Ltd.
Production Contact Person: Martichka Bozhilova
Martichka Bozhilova
68, Budapest str., ap.1
T. +359 888 579 959
F. +359 298 319 29
[email protected]
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JAPAN - USA - SOUTH KOREA
Current Affairs
PEACE
Kazuhiro Soda
What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the bases for them?
Peace is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these
questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where
life and death, acceptance and rejection are intermingled.
Three people and stray cats are the main characters.
Toshio Kashiwagi runs an affordable taxi service for the disabled and the elderly, having
retired as a principal at a special school. Meanwhile, he feeds a group of stray cats everyday. However, there is a growing tension in the cats’ peaceful community because a male
“thief cat,” an outsider, is trying to invade it. Toshio’s wife, Hiroko Kashiwagi, runs a nonprofit organization, which sends home helpers to houses of the elderly and the disabled.
But her organization is facing financial difficulties because of budget cuts from the government. At home, she has been grumbling about the way Toshio feeds his cats...
Running time: 75΄
Prosuction Company:
Sales Company:
Laboratory X
Laboratory X, inc.
Kiyoko Kashiwagi
25-90, 35th Street #4H
Astoria NY 11103 USA
T. +1 917 586 8620
[email protected]
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ITALY - USA
History & Politics
THE PEASANT AND THE PRIEST
Esther Podemski
The Peasant and the Priest tells the story of two Italian men in their eighties whose ways
of life have survived from medieval Italy to the present. Sergio, a Tuscan sharecropper, uses
ancient farming methods that have become overshadowed by corporate agriculture. Father Oreste fights the tide of sexual slavery, which grows each day as more and more
women from Africa and Europe are forced into prostitution in Italy. Each man tries to make
his contribution to a globalized world that moves relentlessly and carelessly forward.
Podemski’s film offers a re-reading of this much-loved region, a landscape shaped and continually transformed by co-existing extremes of human labor, cultivation, and exploitation.
The point of departure for exploring these parallel lives is a 14th-century fresco, The Allegory of Good and Bad Government, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The mural tells a timeless, cautionary tale of the struggles necessary to establish and maintain social justice.
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
400
Always at Sea Productions
Esther Podemski
Always at Sea Productions
Esther Podemski
128 St Marks Avenue, #2
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA
T. +1 718 857 8375
F. +1 718 753 8789
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
PELICAN’S WATCH
Lea Binzer
A small community on the island of Santorini has a unique duty: that of preserving the tradition of vine growing. We follow two vine growers and one wine maker, during a year of
work in the vineyards and the winery. Nikos Pelekanos, Christos Dalmiras and Paris Sigalas
are facing issues, due not only to the current financial climate: the Santorini vineyard may
be the oldest in Europe, but it is threatened with extinction, compromised by the more profitable and ever-growing activity of construction and tourism. In the end, and despite all
obstacles, the community achieves a harmonious coexistence through a commonly shared
reality: that of vine growing and wine drinking.
Running time: 67΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
studioCrocus
Lea Binzer
studioCrocus
Lea Binzer & Nico Manessis
P.O. Box 163, Emporeio
Santorini 84 703, Greece
T. +30 22860 83194
[email protected]
401
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514
THE NETHERLANDS
PEOPLE I COULD
HAVE BEEN AND MAYBE AM
Boris Gerrets
What would it be like, to enter into the life of a complete stranger? People I Could Have Been
and Maybe Am evolved from two chance encounters in the streets of London. Its protagonists are Sandrine, an attractive young woman from Brazil on a mission to find a husband,
Steve, a seasoned beggar, whose life is a continuous struggle with drug addiction, and Precious, a poet who became Steve’s girlfriend. The stories of these three characters emerge from
the coarse anonymity of the city, and were shot entirely on a mobile phone camera. The filmmaker mostly remains off screen while he struggles to determine his own role between observer and participant. Originally begun as a documentary project, the film soon developed
its own distinct dynamic where the confines between fact and fiction became blurred.
Questions arise. Questions about the relationship between filmed and filmmaker and about
real and imagined realities. There is a paradoxical sense of failure: the closer he gets to his subjects, the more the obstruction of his camera seemed to distance him from them. Yet ultimately, and perhaps unexpectedly, People... reveals a personal, humane and fragile space that
only came into existence precisely because it had been filmed.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
402
Pieter van Huystee Film & Pippacine
Pieter van Huystee
Taskovski Films
Manuela Buono
463 Russell Court, Wobum Place
London WC1H 0NL, UK
T. +3934 7627 3390, +3876 5906 583
[email protected]
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TURKEY
PERA BEAUTY
Soner Sevgili
Pera Beauty is a documentary inspired from a story of two women, Laterna and Nilüfer
Saltık. Laterna is a coy lady bearing pictures of beautiful ladies on her chest. After hearing
Laterna’s voice once, Nilüfer bonded with her insolubly, and took her back to her homeland. This film documents the resurrection and reintroduction of the laterna, a mechanical barrel piano that was once a common sight in Istanbul. Even though the laterna was
born in Europe, it had its golden age in Istanbul between 1850 and 1950, becoming an
indispensable element at the celebrations of the city’s Greek community. With the advent
of the gramophone and the radio, the popularity of this fascinating instrument waned, and
as the last craftsmen died, it seemed destined to disappear forever. Ηalf a century later,
Nilüfer Saltık meets Greek piano maker Panos Ioannidis and he agrees to build the first new
laterna. Its name was to be “Pera Beauty”. Through a series of street performances and
recordings, the laterna has been given a new lease on life.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Z. Muzik
Production Contact Person: Nilufer Saltik
IMC 6, Block 6609, Unkapani
Istanbul, Turkey
T. +90 21 2512 6673
F. +90 21 2528 1134
[email protected]
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GREECE
PERFORMANCE
Nikos Alevras
The Small Experimental Theater Group of Penteli, Athens, and its Special Education Workshop Margarita, put on a theater play inspired by the Japanese fairy tale The Maiden with
the Wooden Bowl. While shooting the rehearsals, the efforts of the children and the performance itself, we came to realize once more that the independence, the autonomy and
finally the uniqueness that we all nurture, bears the authenticity that leads us to the Truth,
aiming at Harmony and Happiness...
Running time: 25΄
Production Company:
404
Panos Kekas
Panos Kekas
13 Tassopoulou St
T. 210 639 4933
[email protected]
522
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POLAND
Current Affairs
A PIECE OF SUMMER
Marta Minorowicz
It is the last days of the summer holidays. A grandfather, who works in the Bieszczady
Mountains, awaits the arrival of his grandson. Surrounded by wild nature they try to reach
an understanding of each other. The camera keenly observes, with a slow and subtle pace,
their developing relationship to one another and to the world that envelops them.
Running time: 24΄
Production Company:
Studio Munka – Polish Filmmakers Association,
Film Studio Krkonika, TVP S.A.
Production Contact Person: Liwia Madzik
Sales Company:
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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UK - INDIA
PINK SARIS
Kim Longinotto
At the heart of Pink Saris are the four young women who we meet when they come to
Sampat for help. They are all at a great crisis in their lives and see Sampat as their last hope.
We watch their stories unfold; we know they are stories which are being played out
countless times across India. Change is a subtle, shifting thing. It needs people like Sampat to stand out and defy superstition and tradition. But it happens in countless other, often hidden, ways: in families, in villages, in cities all over the world. Pink Saris is a reflection of that longing for change.
Running time: 96΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
406
Vixen Films
Kim Longinotto
Vixen Films
Kim Longinotto
26 Balfour Road,
London N5 2HE, UK
T. +44 207 359 7368
F. +44 207 226 7874
[email protected]
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IRELAND
THE PIPE
Risteard O Domhnaill
A village on the magnificent coast of Ireland is attacked by the Shell oil company. They want
to build a gas pipe through their community.
The village fights back. This is their story.
A compelling, challenging, provocative, first-rate film over 4 years in the making. (Reviews
in Screen, Variety, and TimeOut.)
Running time: 60΄ & 83΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Scannain Inbhear
Risteard O Domhnaill
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
407
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ESTONIA - UKRAINE
Current Affairs
PIT NO. 8
Marianna Kaat
In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs – retirees, unemployed miners and even the children. Years ago, the town’s desperate residents decided
to start mining illegally; they excavate everywhere. The story focuses on the Sikanov
family, which has three children. Fifteen-year-old Yura, the grandson of a powerful Soviet
plant director, is the head of the family working as a miner in the illegal pit. More than anything, Yura wants to run his own cafe somewhere far from home, but the responsibility for
his two sisters and the looming economic crisis pushes his dreams into the distant future.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
408
Baltic Film Production & Interfilm Production Studio
Marianna Kaat
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
Leipzig 04103, Germany
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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GERMANY
PLANET GALATA –
A BRIDGE IN ISTANBUL
Florian Thalhofer & Berke Baş
The Galata bridge in Istanbul is a cosmos of its own. Between shops, restaurants and tourists
we meet people for whom the bridge is home, hope and their purpose in life. There is
restaurant owner Kemal; Gaffur and Erkan, who work in the kitchen at the restaurant next
door; the paper collectors Bayram and Erdogan; Sadiye, who there to fish since her husband died; and Ömer, the director and secret king of the bridge. Florian Thalhofer has been
engaged with non-linear storytelling for more than a decade. For this cross-media project on the microcosm of Istanbul’s Galata bridge, he teamed up with Turkish filmmaker
Berke Baş.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH
Stefan Kloos
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 2980
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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527
POLAND
Current Affairs
PLANET KIRSAN
Magdalena Pieta
Thirteen-year-old Alehan and his brother Amir spend several hours everyday hunched over
a chessboard. It’s Alehan’s biggest dream to become the next World Chess Champion. The
first step on the way to becoming a grandmaster is a tournament in Chess-City. The
event. Full of young players, it allows us to see the actors and creators while also exposing the mechanisms behind the Kalmykian chess fairytale. For Alehan it’s a chance to examine his dreams more closely. Ilyumzhinov’s revolution was supposed to transform the
whole republic, but can it even change the life of just one small boy?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
410
Eureka Media
Krzysztof Kopczynski
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
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FRANCE
Adventure & Travel
POLYNESIAN ODYSSEY
Olivier Comte
In the middle of the Pacific, the Polynesian islands are scattered throughout a huge triangle, the 3 points of which are Hawaii, the Easter Islands and New Zealand. These islands
are inhabited by a single people, the Polynesians. Where did they come from? From South
America – or from Asia? How could people without maps or compass colonize this vast
ocean? This mystery has always fascinated travelers. In the 20th century, many sailors and
scientists of every nationality set off to solve the enigma: Eric de Bisschop, Francis Cowan,
David Lewis, James Siers...
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Point du Jour
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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FINLAND
Lifestyles
PORTRAIT OF A MAN
Visa Koiso-Kanttila
Portrait of a Man is a rough but beautiful documentary film about the crisis of a man in
his forties and his desire for a better life; its a story of parenthood, alcohol, a Finnish man
and his desire for love. Portrait of a Man is also an unusually intimate depiction of the relationship between the father and his son. Despite the seriousness of the topic, Portrait of
a Man includes black humor and situational comedy.
Portrait of a Man is the final film of Visa Koiso-Kanttila’s manhood trilogy (Father to Son
[2004] and A Winter’s Journey [2007]).
Running time: 81΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
412
Guerilla Films
Iiris Härmä
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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MEXICO
PORTRAIT OF A VAMPIRE
Ulises Guzmán
1992. Manolo and Lalo, obsessed with the terror cult-film Alucarda, which they say is a
representation of their lives, try in vain to get a copy. Dutring their search, they find the film’s
director, Juan Lopez Moctezuma, in a mental hospital suffering from amnesia. They kidnap him for three days. They show him his films and take him to the filming locations. Thus
he regains his memory. To repay them, he makes them the heirs of his work.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Calidad (Foprocine)
Pablo Briseño
T.-F +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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THE NETHERLANDS - INDONESIA
Current Affairs
POSITION AMONG THE STARS
Leonard Retel Helmrich
For tweleve years, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich has followed an Indonesian family
from the slums of Jakarta. Just as in his previous two multiple award-winning documentaries The Eye of the Day and The Shape of the Moon, in Position among the Stars, Retel continues to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. He presents this both literally and metaphorically with his revolutionary camera work. His intimate access to the
Indonesian Sjamsuddin family provides viewers with a microcosm depicting the most important issues of life in Indonesia today: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling
addiction, the generation gap, and the growing difference between poor and rich. One does
not have to have seen Retel’s previous films to fully enjoy Position among the Stars.
Running time: 109΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
414
Scarabee Films
Hetty Naaijkens & Retel Helmrich
Jan Röfekamp
T. +1 514 844 3358
F. +1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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USA
PRAYING WITH LIOR
Ilana Trachtman
Praying with Lior introduces Lior Liebling, also called “the little rebbe”. Lior has Down syndrome and has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. Is he a “spiritual genius”
as many around him say? Or simply the vessel that contains everyone’s unfulfilled wishes
and expectations? Lior – whose name means “my light” – lost his mother at age six, and
her words and spirit hover over the film. While everyone agrees Lior is closer to God, he’s
also a burden, a best friend, an inspiration, and an embarrassment, depending on which
family member is speaking. As Lior approaches Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age
ceremony, different characters provide a window into life spent “praying with Lior”. The
movie poses difficult questions such as what is “disability” and who really talks to God?
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Ruby Pictures, Inc.
Ilana Trachtman
Smiley Film Sales
Ewa Bigio, Go Eun Yoon
PO Box 90943 AMSC
Auckland 1011, New Zealand
T. +64 9 360 0325
F. +64 9 360 0163
[email protected]
[email protected]
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401
ISRAEL
History & Politics
PRECIOUS LIFE
Shlomi Eldar
A Palestinian woman, unable to treat her baby in Gaza, is struggling to save his life after
loosing two other children to the same genetic defect. As a last resort, she sets out to get
treatment in an Israeli hospital. There, she meets Dr Somech who immediately joins her
campaign; the boy could be saved. To raise the money required, he brings aboard a journalist who airs a piece on Israeli TV and raises the full amount within hours. The mother,
doctor and journalist are now bound together in what soon develops into a suspenseful
saga in the race to save one child’s life against the backdrop of the conflict in Gaza.
Running time: 86΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
416
Bleiberg Entertainment
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St.
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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THE NETHERLANDS
Current Affairs
PRISON ISLAND BASTØY
Michel Kapteijns
The island lies in Oslofjord, Norway. 115 men are imprisoned there: bank robbers, drug
dealers, sex criminals, Hell’s Angels, fraudsters, gang leaders and murderers. Mostly serving long terms. On the island there are no cells, no cameras, no fences. The guards don’t
carry weapons while the prisoners work with chainsaws and kitchen knives. It’s only a twohour swim to the mainland and yet no one goes for it.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
DNU Film
Rolf Orthel
First Hand Films
Gitte Hansen
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
T. +41 44 312 2060
F. +41 44 312 2080
[email protected]
417
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403
USA
Current Affairs
PROGRAMMING THE NATION
Jeff Warrick
Programming the Nation is a feature documentary about the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content
has been delivered through all forms of mass media. The modern military has even been
accused of these practices in the War on Terror. Director Jeff Warrick leads this journey
through the subconscious mind while examining the reported history, scientific research
and potential effects of such techniques on society. With eye-opening footage, revealing
interviews, humorous anecdotes, and an array of visual effects, this fast-paced film explores
the alleged use of subliminals in advertising, music, film, political propaganda and the military. It takes in the entire history of alleged subliminal messages, from hidden sexual imagery in Disney cartoons and satanic messages in rock music, to the James Vicary experiment where “drink coca-cola” was flashed between frames at a cinema, and the infamous
Republican “RATS” campaign that won Bush the presidency. Warrick makes it his mission
to determine if these manipulative tactics have succeeded in programming the nation, or
if subliminal programming belongs in the category of what many consider an urban legend. Now, you be the judge.
Running time: 2 X 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
418
Ignite Productions
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
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CANADA
Current Affairs
THE PROSECUTOR
Stevens Barry
A fascinating story with extraordinary access, Prosecutor follows the Chief Prosecutor
through the first trials of the newly formed International Criminal Court. Luis MorenoOcampo investigates and prosecutes some of the world’s worst criminals for some of the
world’s worst crimes.
He’s a hero to genocide survivors, but has bitter enemies on both the Right and the Left.
Prosecutor offers front-row seats to the historic events that will determine whether the ICC
is a groundbreaking new weapon for global justice
or just an idealistic dream.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
White Pine & National Film Board οf Canada
Christina Rogers
3155 Cote-de-Liesse Rd.
St-Laurent,
Quebec H4N 2N4, Canada
T. +1 514 496 4134
[email protected]
www.nfb.ca
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GREECE
History & Politics
PROVINCIAL CALENDAR
Stergios Mountsakis
The Provincial Calendar is made up of 12 images of the Greek provinces captured over one
year – one for each month. It is a commentary on all that is changing, on the environment
and on alternative proposals.
Running time: 25΄
Production Contact Person: Stergios Mountsakis
Stergios Mountsakis
Xilagani 694 00 Greece
T. +30 6979 289 316
[email protected]
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ROMANIA
Lifestyles
QUEST
Ionut Piturescu
Two characters, a carriage and a horse. Where are they going? Towards what? Joy, torment
and indefinable music. Vulnerable, yet not ready to surrender. They are the poets of time.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
Aristoteles Workshop
Production Contact Person: Ionut Piturescu
Sos. Stefan cel Mare, nr. 1
7000 Bucharest, Romania
T. +40 746 240 090
[email protected]
421
Q
379
FRANCE
A QUESTION OF CHOICE
Karim Miské
Each week at the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris (a renowned paediatric hospital), the medical staff has to grapple with fate: based on the results of a number of medical exams, they
will have to decide whether a foetal handicap represents a “substantial risk” (“une particulière gravité”) which justifies a voluntary termination of pregnancy. An article of French
law places them in a position to decide over life and death. The film follows three stories,
three cases, each of them presenting a different challenge and requiring the most difficult
of all decisions: to authorise or not an abortion. The film sheds light on a bio-ethical issue
that raises debates in every country, since scientific progress allows for early detection of
a variety of foetal handicaps. Because in the end, it is the parents who have to make the
most difficult choice of their lives...
Running time: 50΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
422
Point du Jour
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
23 rue de Cronstadt
75015 Paris, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
RAINING IN BILIN
Glafkos Economides
In the village of Bilin, in the West Bank Occupied Palestinian Territories every Friday it rains.
In the village of Bilin, every Friday after the morning mass a crowd of Palestinians, Israelis
and Internationals demonstrate against the building of the illegal Israeli wall. In the village of Bilin every Friday it rains toxic tear gas and rubber bullets.
Running time: 29΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Hellenic Visual Archives
Kitsos Tripos
Hellenic Visual Archives
Kitsos Tripos
[email protected]
423
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415
THE NETHERLANDS
RAINMAKERS: CHINA’S WARRIORS
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Floris-Jan Van Luyn
Rainmkers is a shocking investigative documentary about the decline of China’s environment, told from the perspective of four civil activists who refuse to accept the ongoing ecological destruction of their homeland. On the border of heroism and insanity, these four
diverse and remarkable Chinese explain why they have the courage to fight, against all
odds, the narrow-minded and sometimes even aggressive local authorities.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
424
Submarine BV
Yaniv Wolf
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
RAW MATERIAL
Christos Karakepelis
The dreams of large steelworks for dirt-cheap scrap, Greece’s environmental obligations to
the European Union, and the Western dream of an army of illegal immigrants come together
in a string of shanty towns in the shadow of the Acropolis. Which of the three is trodden underfoot? Three Roma from Albania, two Indians, a Turk, one Greek and a boy among them
are a mere sample of the endless army of desperados who recycle the metal of an entire nation. The heroes of Raw Material are raw material themselves, hunter-gatherers in the heart
of a modern European capital city. The film documents their toil in the city streets, through
the turning of the seasons and the frenetic cycles of global economy.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
CL Productions
Zoe Lisgara
CL Productions
Zoe Lisgara
65 Vrilissou St
T. +30 210 641 2700 F. +30 210 641 2709
[email protected] [email protected]
Sales Company:
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
7 Dion.Areopagitou str 11742, Athens, Greece
T. +30 210 3678525 F. +30 210 3614336
[email protected]
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416
CANADA
Current Affairs
RAW OPIUM
Peter Findlay
Opium is a commodity that has tremendous power – both to ease pain and to destroy lives.
For centuries, this flower has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role, not just in the
lives of people who grow, manufacture and use it, but also in the increasingly tense
sphere of international relations. Through the interconnected stories of Raw Opium, filmed
in East and West, our assumptions about drug addiction and the War on Drugs are profoundly challenged.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
426
Submarine BV
Yaniv Wolf
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
158
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CANADA
Current Affairs
RECESSIONIZE! FOR FUN AND PROFIT!
Jamie Kastner
Jamie Kastner (Kike Like Me) sets off on a black-comic road trip through California, Europe
and Dubai, meeting those who manage to turn the world economic crisis into opportunity.
The quirky cast, at times funny and absurd and at times heart-rending, ranges from kids
at “Camp Millionaire”, to Berlin prostitutes offering eco-discounts, to the owners of a
French hotel promising a “hamster-like” experience.
The present-day journey is interwoven with the ironic tales of various financial solutions
people resorted to during the 1930s Great Depression.
A bittersweet tale, the film touches on the universal ironies of modern market-guided existence.
Running time: 55΄
Sales Company:
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
427
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576
FRANCE
THE RED ARMY CHOIR –
PALAIS DES FESTIVALS DE CANNES
Thierry Wolf
Discover the very successful French tour of The Red Army Choir in 2008. For this birthday
tour, those amazing voices sang the most beautiful airs of the immortal Russia with – for
the first time – female choirs (from the Air Force) !
An unforgettable moment with more than 150,000 spectators applauding the famous
band of the Ballet Chorus under the direction of Colonel Alexandre Drouzhinine.
This exceptional film will let you discover or rediscover the show of The Red Army Choir,
recorded in the beautiful theater of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on March, 28th, 2008.
Nearly 2 hours of agrandiose show that celebrates the triumph of the Red Army Choir reunited with bands of musicians, dancers, male and female chorus.
Running time: 120΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
428
FGL Productions
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
298
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GREECE - GERMANY
RELFECT SOCIETY –
ROCKING IN GREECE
Yorgos Papatheodorou
A music journey from the 60s to the present day. A journey through the underground
haunts of Exarhia, underground stages of Thessaloniki, secret schools of the provinces where
for years Greek rock has been hiding. An appointment with today’s Mainstream Rock.
A documentary that records the most powerful, the most seditious sound of the town, filming the Rock Fathers, the seminal musicians as well as the younger generation.
Savopoulos, Mikroutsikos, Maheritsas, Thivaios and other vocalists talk about their career
and the contradictory world of the rock movement.
At the same time, children in youth hang-outs, in school bands, thinking up songs with
music and lyrics on the canvas of their asymmetrical dreams and their unconventional lives.
Rock sounds everywhere. In festivals, quarries, music stages. Ally for those kids, rock, by
its nature, network that swept over the walls of entertainment industry.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
The Art Factory & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
429
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263
GREECE
Current Affairs
RELATIONSHIPS & CRISIS
Prodromos Trochidis
A research on relationships today affected by the global economic and social crisis.
Real time shooting with a handycam as the protagonist is looking for answers by watching a couple breaking up and interviewing people looking for answers on what is different nowadays .
Running time: 29΄
Production Contact Person: Prodromos Trochidis
Prodromos Trochidis
21 Irodotou St
T. +30 6943 074 130
[email protected]
430
299
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GREECE
RELIGIOUS FEAST
Yorgos Antoniou
What has remained, nowadays, from the old, traditional, authentic, country feast of the
past? To what extend are the nouveu riche aesthetic choices of the Modern Greeks for the
“mass” feast, the electric sounds of popular folk songs, and the “famous names” of the entertainment hall, who tour the countryside every summer, related to genuine popular entertainment? Where do the populist, the spree, the exhibitionism, the kitsch, the motto “live
it up or we are lost”, start and where do they end. The film tries, thoughtfully, to approach
all these decadent phenomena of the alienated aesthetic look of the modern Greek,
through many feats that took place last summer.
Undoubtedly, they constitute the elements of the modern urban folklore.
Running time: 46΄
Production Contact Person: Yorgos Antoniou
Nafplio 211 00, Greece
T. +30 6936 704 131
[email protected]
431
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561
FRANCE
Current Affairs
RESEARCH TODAY:
ABOUT CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Laurence Scarbonchi
Over 2 billion children in the world live in poverty. 275 million children are exposed to domestic violence. 246 million children are working, including 2 million in rich countries. 170
million suffer from malnutrition. 130 million do not go to school. 40 million are born without being declared. 25 million orphans die in Africa because of AIDS. 2 million girls are circumcised. 1 million children are on the sex market. 300,000 children are soldiers.
Given this, there is the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It turned 20 in 2009 November
the 20th.
Why does it exist? How does it help kids to protect and enforce their rights?
Why is it important for the future of mankind?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
432
C Productions Chromatiques
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
568
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FRANCE
RESEARCH TODAY:
DISABILITIES – AUTONOMY
Anne Guicherd
Disability is not just a state of birth. Each of us can be a victim. It is not a personal attribute, it is situational.
In this film, specialists lead research to improve the autonomy of persons with disabilities.
Technological, sociological and political speeches are present in the film, between high tech
and human.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
433
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573
FRANCE
Sports
RESEARCH TODAY: SPORT AND HEALTH
François-Xavier Busnel
Disease prevention, preservation of youth, it allows quality for optimal life. Sport is
healthy. It now occupies an important place in schools and its practice attracts all generations.
In a society where race performance doesn’t stop, what about doping? Is doping dangerous for your health? What other techniques exist to improve performance?
Today, new coaching techniques are used by athletes. The highest technology takes place
in sports halls, to accurately assess the skills and abilities of muscular athletes.
But between high tech and personal challenge, sport remains primarily a pleasure for the
body and the mind.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
434
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
577
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FRANCE
RESEARCH TODAY:
THESE ITEMS THAT SURROUND US
Rafaël Gutiérrez
Human beings have an ever-growing need to produce and reproduce constantly objects,
which are supposed to make life easier. Can you imagine a human without any of these
objects in his everyday life? The ability to invent and create objects is characteristic of the
human species. From the flint of our prehistoric ancestors to the modern computer, all in
their scale have had, have and will affect our lives. Whether it is technological or symbolic
objects, items are a medium between man and nature.
Historians, anthropologists, philosophers and scientists are doing research on the consequences of technological progress, regarding the symbolic role of the object, its impact on
human behavior and on our environment.
But in the future do we have to focus on technologies?
And where will it lead us to?
Should we fear that the man is increasingly shaped by objects rather than the shape itself?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
Paris 75019, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
435
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701
USA
Current Affairs
RESTREPO
Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger
One platoon. One valley. One year. Restrepo chronicles the one-year deployment of a platoon of American soldiers to one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan.
Running time: 93΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
436
Outpost Films
Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger
Goldcrest Films International
Penny Wolf
65-66, Dean St
London W1D 4PL, UK
T. +44 207 437 8696
F. +44 207 437 4448
[email protected]
303
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ISRAEL
History & Politics
REVOLUTION 101
Doron Tsabari
A journey into the real world of Israeli society and politics, Revolution 101 is not only a guide
to the revolution but a film about film and its powerful essence. Combining both documentary and fictional material, this unique film outlines the path to change. The focus is
on a film director and his producer and their struggle to restore the public in “public broadcasting”. Following the two protagonists over a period of seven years, we see their experience with corruption, inflexibility and deterioration against which they strive in their quest
to guarantee a new law that will ensure well-managed public broadcasting. The two central characters share a strong and unshakable belief in the power of film – it is an almost
religious belief that the revolution will indeed be televised.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Guerilla Films
Ori Inbar
Ruth Diskin Films
Cara Saposnik
5 Issachar Street
T. +972 2 672 4256
F. +972 2 672 4210
[email protected]
437
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540
FRANCE
History & Politics
RIVKA’S TRIBE
Sabrina Van Tassel
The Zalcbergs, a joyful, close and solid family are gathering in order to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Six siblings, living life to the fullest, recall their childhood spent during World
War ΙΙ in France. Brought up in a Jewish family of Polish immigrants, the eldest brother is
fifteen when his father is arrested by the French police and sent to Auschwitz. From then
on, he has only one goal: save his entire family from death.
The film tells the amazing story of a family which was united by mutual love and faith, and
which today numbers over sixty people.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
438
Injam Production
Marc Andréani
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.jmtfilms.com/document.htm#rivkastribe
300
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GREECE
History & Politics
THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS TODAY
(A CONVERSATION BETWEEN COSTAS DOUZINAS
AND SLAVOJ ZIZEK)
Yorgos Keramidiotis
In Athens, below the Acropolis, London University Professor Costas Douzinas, and the
philosopher Slavoj Žižek discuss the role of intellectuals today, in a world marked by economic, moral and cultural crisis and corruption.
Running time: 60΄
Production Contact Person: Yorgos Keramidiotis
5, Stefanou Tatti St
Thessaloniki Greece
T. +30 2310 278 710
F. +30 2310 545 349
[email protected]
439
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402
ISRAEL
RONIT ELKABETZ –
“STRANGER IN PARIS”
Nir Bergman
An intimate portrait of Israel’s cinematic diva who made an international career, first as an
actress and then as an accomplished director.
Running time: 50΄
Sales Company:
440
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
551
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FINLAND - BULGARIA
Lifestyles
RULES OF SINGLE LIFE
Tonislav Hristov
A romantic documentary about love in a foreign city. Disillusioned by love, four Bulgarian
guys who emigrated to Helsinki decide to give themselves a task: they need to find new
girlfriends in Helsinki in 12 months. Otherwise – they figure – they won’t deal with Nordic
ladies ever again.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Making Movies Oy
Kaarle Aho
First Hand Films
Gitte Hansen
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
T. +41 44 312 2060
F. +41 44 312 2080
[email protected]
www.firsthandfilms.co
441
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BELGIUM
History & Politics
SALAAM ISFAHAN
Sanaz Azari
Isfahan, June 2009. In the street or in their home, Iranians have their picture taken by the
director, revealing themselves. One question emerges: the spatial and moral limits of the
regime's authority. The film portrays a society before, during and after elections, a short
period of hope when change was taking shape.
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Entre Chien et Loup
Sébastien Delloye
Thierry Detaille
Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles
19 F, avenue des Arts
T. +32 477 617 170
F. +32 2 227 2239
[email protected]
443
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177
BRAZIL
THE SAMBA WITHIN ME
Georgia Guerra-Peixe
The Samba within Me is a documentary set in the Mangueira Hill, Rio de Janeiro, during
the pre-carnival period. The starting point is the Estação Primeira de Mangueira samba
school, the place where the director Georgia Guerra-Peixe reencounters her own history.
In the beginning of the documentary, she tells us what the carnival has always meant to
her and to her family. From the school, she starts her way up the Hill, driven by her desire
to go beyond the samba “If I could silence a Samba school...”. Beyond the school lies the
samba of Georgia Guerra-Peixe, a samba that is a way of being, of living and, also, a way
of singing and dancing.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
444
BossaNovaFilms
Paula Cosenza
BossaNovaFilms
Paula Cosenza
Rua das Tabocas, 170
São Paulo 5445-020, Brazil
T. +55 11 3811 2000
F. +55 11 3811 2000
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
SAMPLE RETURNS
Sofia Touboura
A modular documentary, a fragmentary and subjective portrait of urban isolation, alienation and decline in Greece, at the beginning of the 21st century. Three stories/moments
are narrated visually through the personal view of the filmmaker, with detached sympathy towards the main subjects as well as with an ironic attitude towards the situation they
find themselves in.
(A sample return mission is a spacecraft mission with the goal of returning tangible samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis.)
Running time: 7΄
Production Company:
OpenShowstudio
Production Contact Person: Sofia Touboura
14 Ag. Eleousis St
T. +30 6977 977 126
[email protected]
445
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508
USA
History & Politics
THE SARI SOLDIERS
Julie Bridgham
Nepal, in the aftermath of the massacre of the royal family, the ensuing deadly battle between the Royal Army and Maoists is largely told through the story of one woman’s search
for her missing daughter. Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time
in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers tells the extraordinary story of six very different women’s bold efforts to shape Nepal’s future.
Running time: 68΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
446
Butter Lamp Productions
Julie Bridgham
Illumina Films
Robin Brinster
Leidseatraat 106-IV
T. +31 20 624 8395
F. +31 20 330 8155
[email protected]
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GREECE
Adventure & Travel
SATSANG – SITTING BY THE TRUTH
Marianna Astraka & George Fotiadis
Satsang, Sitting by the Truth is the everyday life of people devoted to the search of themselves – yogis, monks, hermits and ascetics who live in the Himalaya Mountains and the
jungle of India. They share their thoughts, their emotions, and their perception of the world.
They answer the basic questions of human existence and they suggest ways for our own
journey to our own truth.
Running time: 40΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Dangerous Productions
Andreas Siadimas
Dangerous Productions
Andreas Siadimas
29 Kirikis St
T. +30 6944 973 009
[email protected]
447
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362
CZECH REPUBLIC
Current Affairs
SAVING EDWARDS
Dagmar Smrzova
For the purposes of this film, Edwards is a child; a long-awaited child of a loving couple,
a child struck with a terrible and fatal mistake at conception. Edwards had an extra chromosome, one more than the exact number required for the development of a healthy baby.
This flaw causes severe developmental disorders that cannot support life. The condition was
first described by American medical scientist John Alexander Edwards, hence the name Edwards Syndrome. Considering modern prenatal diagnostics, it is very uncommon for such
children to be born. In the majority of cases, the pregnancy is terminated. The parents of
this child decided otherwise. The film follows the struggle of the parents to save a child
who was buried by many, long before being born.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
448
FEBIO
Fero Fenic
HBO Czech Republic
Martina Santava
Jankovcova 1037/49
T. +420 606 604 310
F. +420 261 094 455
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
SCARECROW
Vassilis Economou
“Mountainous Greece and its villages comprise one of the country’s landscapes still largely
unexplored...”
A journey in space and time in search of the few remaining scarecrows to be found scattered in the rural landscape of the region of Western Macedonia. A storyline that unfolds
along the words of locals, now coping with declining agricultural activities. A glimpse into
the Greek countryside and what is swiftly becoming recent memory. Scarecrows, agents
of a different era, represent the focal elements in the ongoing battle between people and
birds. Personal narratives give flesh and bones in those often elaborate assemblages that
have served not only as a means of imposition of fear, but also as an inexhaustible source
of metaphysical fables and superstitions.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
Vassilis Economou
Vassilis Economou
36 Ioustinianou St
T. +30 6934 175 678
[email protected]
449
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GREECE
Lifestyles
SCAVENGERS’ UNION
Marina Danezi
The Scavengers’ Union was founded in 1992. “Before we set up our union, we depended
on the goodness of each institution,” says Spyros, the chairman. Their need for a steady
livelihood led them to organize, in order to claim and finally procure a regular venue for
their weekly bazaar, every Sunday. People with different cultures, backgrounds and religious views coexist in harmony. The honorary chairman, the chairman, the secretary, the
treasurer, the members, the honorary members – they all form a human mosaic, our society in miniature.
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
NiMa / Marni Film SA
Production Contact Person: Nikos Triandafyllidis
Nikos Triandafyllidis
203 Liosion St
T. +30 210 822 6445
[email protected]
450
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THE NETHERLANDS
Current Affairs
SCENA DEL CRIMINE
Walter Stockman
“It’s better to hear the sound of the prison gate closing than to hear church bells ringing,”
says a Neapolitan adage. Better behind bars than dead. The teens that are locked up on the
prison island of Nisida, situated across from the shores of Naples, use it as a wry joke to put
their hopeless situation into perspective.
Scena del Crimine is a frame narrative in seven “scenes” that begins and ends on the prison
island of Nisida. In between, we see five views of the city that have been determined by
the underworld. We hear the sad story of a grandmother about her murdered grandson.
At the forensic department of the police, detective Baiano tells how his former classmates
fell prey to the mafia one by one. At the military academy, they aspire to counterbalance
the chaos of the city with forced efforts. We see how petty thief Mauro, confined to his
home under house arrest, is going out of his mind with boredom while looking down longingly at the lively streets of Naples.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Zeppers Film & TV
Frank van den Engel
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 15 395 0464
F. +33 15 395 0465
[email protected]
451
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277
GREECE
Adventure & Travel
SCHOINOUSA,
THE ISLAND OF THE RISING SUN
Isabella Mavraki
Schoinousa, this naturally beautiful island was not inhabited during the last century, as
some people think. At times, the island was abandoned by its inhabitants. In the mid-19th
century it began to be inhabited by families mainly from Amorgos. It is said that they were
undesirables, encouraged to leave by the monks. During the past ten years, things on the
island have changed dramatically. Rapid construction, improvement of transport conditions, a new port, a desalination plant, tourist development and therefore a lot of people
visiting in the summer. The island has passed into the hands of the younger generation and
is moving ahead irrepressibly. Where to? The film has no narrator. Whatever is said comes
from the lips of the islanders. Through their stories we learn the history of the island and
its current state. History and memories from the older inhabitants; problems, dreams and
aspirations from the younger ones.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Studio ALPHA
Production Contact Person: Dimitris Evangelopoulos
10-12 Studiou
Marousi, Greece
T. +30 210 613 2900
F. +30 210 613 2906
[email protected]
452
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FRANCE
Current affairs
SCIENTOLOGY. THE TRUTH ABOUT A LIE
Jean-Charles Deniau
Honest, objective and nuanced, this documentary aims to show why individuals are consciously or unconsciously drawn into the Church of Scientology. It asks why they stay, sometimes for long periods of time and sometimes despite doubts as to the Church’s true nature, which is often revealed as devouring, indoctrinating and even totalitarian.
Running time: 97΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Novaprod Owl
Andrew Orr
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
453
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528
POLAND
Current Affairs
SCRAP ODYSSEY
Pawel Ferdek
Almost all the metal scrap was sold from Kyrgyzstan to China. This film shows the global
phenomenon in micro scale: by the hard work of the Russian truck driver, the slow rhythm
of one Kyrgyz family, and events from a long journey across the Tien Shan Mountains.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
454
Film Studio Kalejdoskop
Wojciech Szczudlo
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
529
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POLAND
Current Affairs
SCREENING AT THE TATRY CINEMA
Igor Chojna
Darek Ambroszczyk is the only person working at a small declining cinema in Łódź. He
spends long hours in the ticket office of the empty Tatry cinema, indulging in grumbling
and manifesting his dislike for the world and chance customers. Is it possible that the every
day routine may have completely drained his passion? Professional burnout is exposed by
Darek’s hopelessness and apathy. Darek lives the life of a local freak, spending time in his
cluttered flat with two unruly dogs.
Running time: 27΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Polish National Film School in Lodz
Maria Gawinek
Katarzyna Wilk
Basztowa 15/8a
T. +48 12 294 6945
[email protected]
www.kff.com.pl
455
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258
GREECE
SCRIPTWRITERS’ SHADOWBOXING
Dimitris Yatzouzakis
What does a screenwriting workshop mean? This documentary follows 25 screenwriters
and their trainers in their effort to find the different tools required for each one of the writers’ stories in order for them to become film screenplays. It presents the privileges, joys and
torments of people who have made the obscure act of narration their profession; of writers and directors who insist, even in this day and age, on practicing the ancient art of the
storyteller. The filming of the documentary took place during the last summer that Professor Lewis Cole worked at the Mediterranean Film Institute’s Workshops. He was suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and used an electric wheelchair in order to
move. He knew he was running out of time. He could have opted not to spend it teaching at the Nisyros workshop, but travelling around the Mediterranean Sea, to some of the
cities of the ancient Greco-Roman world that he knew so well and loved. Instead, he chose
to spend his last summer teaching screenwriting in Nisyros.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
456
Mediterranean Film Institute
Apostolia Papaioannou
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
155
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POLAND
Lifestyles
THE SEA THROUGH YOUR EYES
Lech Mikulski
Alice, a blind person, sets off on an unusual voyage on the sailing ship Zawisza Czarny. Full
of doubts and anxiety about the wisdom of her decision, she slowly starts to see the value
of the experience. This isn’t just a trip. It’s hard work, it’s an adventure, but most of all it’s
a chance for her to perceive her life differently. Alice is one of the blind people who make
up half of the ship’s crew. Until the very last minute of the film we doubt whether she is
indeed blind, since she behaves as if she can see. She doesn’t even wear dark glasses. We
observe Alice changing, as the ship sails from Holland to Poland, across the North and the
Baltic Seas.
Running time: 25΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Studio Obrazu – Lech Mikulski
Lech Mikulski
Studio Obrazu – Lech Mikulski
Lech Mikulski
Plac Inwalidow 6/5
T. +48 696 440 215
[email protected]
457
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595
FINLAND
SELLING THE SILENCE
Markku Tuurna
Salla, a small town in Finland lies at the southernmost border of Lapland. For filmmaker
Markku Tuurna, it was where he and his boyhood friend, Jyrki, spent many joyous years
skiing, sledding, swimming, boating and fishing in the huge natural reserve.
Today, Salla, as well as Markku’s friend, has been devastated by depopulation, recession
and countless income generating schemes. From a failing ski resort to a year-round
Christmas village, the struggle between environmentalists, entrepreneurs and the local citizenry comes to blows, leaving Salla as the bigger casualty.
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
458
Filmimaa Ltd
Markku Tuurna
Illumina Films
Robin Brinster
Leidsestraat 106-IV
T. +31 20 624 8395
F. +31 20 330 8155
[email protected]
325
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FRANCE
SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN
Jean-Paul Jaud
“What you do makes me cry at night [...] Please make your actions reflect your words [...]
I am here to speak for all generations to come [...]”
1992, 1st Summit of the Earth, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: For the first time in human history,
a child calls out to the whole planet. Eighteenyears later, we still don’t practice what we
preach. The Earth is still in the same state and Severn is now expecting a baby. She speaks
again, showing that despite the emergency, it is still possible to change the course of things.
In this documentary full of hope and emotion, Severn embodies a reference for those people, from Canada to Japan, going through France, who act in concrete and positive terms
in order to respect biodiversity.
Who will answer Severn’s call?
Running time: 120΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
J+B Sequences
Jean-Paul & Béatrice Jaud
Wide House
Anais Clanet
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 15 395 0464
F. +33 15 395 0465
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
SHOOTING VS SHOOTING
Nikos Mengrelis
The documentary Shooting vs. Shooting presents a group of astonishing stories about journalists who suffered in the Iraq war, by following a journalist’s journey to Baghdad in 2009
and the story of a mother who seeks an answer to the question of why her son was killed
when his only weapon was his camera. Shooting vs. Shooting narrates incredible moments
and adventures; reveals unknown sides to the facts; and shows the dramatic stories of media workers who lost their lives, trying to freely broadcast the truth to the public. Through
the documentary, we witness the absurdity of war, the responsibility of governments and
armies, and the barbarity of blinded fanatics.
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
CL Productions
Costas Lambropoulos
CL Productions
Costas Lambropoulos,
65 Vrlilissou St, Athens 114 76, Greece
T. +30 210 641 2700
[email protected]
Sales Company:
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
7 Dionissiou Areopagitou St, Athens 117 42, Greece
T. +30 210 367 8525 F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
SHOUT
Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Ester Gould
Best friends Ezat and Bayan are about to make the journey they have planned since they
were children. Born on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, they’ve lived all of their lives
right next to the closed border with their homeland Syria. Now eighteen, they’re given the
opportunity to cross the UN-monitored no man’s land to study in the capital, Damascus.
Feeling young, invincible and a hundred percent Syrian, they say goodbye to their village
and families, knowing they won’t be able to return for the next year.
Like young people all over the world, Ezat and Bayan are pursuing their dreams and enjoying their new freedom. But Damascus also proves to be a city where it’s not easy to feel
at home and where you have to watch what you say.
What started out as an adventure to an unknown homeland leads to a dilemma that forces
them to choose sides.
Running time: 55΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Pieter van Huystee Film
Pieter van Huystee
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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614
ROMANIA
THE SHUKAR COLLECTIVE PROJECT
Matei-Alexandru Mocanu
The Shukar Collective is a Romanian music project that fuses electronic music with Gypsy
bear tamers’ music. At night, the enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Uranus Garden (a former factory transformed into an open air cinema and music concert venue) gives Shukar
Collective a standing ovation. The Shukar Collective play bear tamer music using spoons,
wooden barrels or daraboukas, while a pair of djs add layer after layer of urban sound over
this traditional music. It is this kind of eclectic environment that best describes what the
documentary deals with: “culture contact”.
Running time: 76΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
462
HBO Central Europe
Dita Křivská
HBO Central Europe
Dita Křivská
Jankovcova 1037/49
T.-F. +420 261 094 444
[email protected]
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FRANCE
Lifestyles
EL SICARIO, ROOM 164
Gianfranco Rosi
A Juarez hit man speaks: El Sicario, Room 164 is an eighty-minute documentary about a
hit man. He has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for
many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. He even received some
training from the FBI. He has lived in Ciudad Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico and the United States. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000 and
he lives as a fugitive, though he is still free and has never been charged with a crime in any
country.
The film takes place in a motel room on the US-Mexico border. The sicario is highly intelligent, very articulate and all too believable. The film stems from Charles Bowden’s essay
The Sicario, published in 2009 in Harper’s Magazine.
Running time: 84΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Les Films d’Ici
Serge Lalou
Doc & Film International
Daniela Elstner
13, rue Portefoin
Paris 75003, France
T. + 33 1 4277 5687
F. + 33 1 4277 3656
[email protected]
www.docandfilm.com
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510
USA
Current Affairs
THE SILENT TRUTH
Joan Brooker-Marks
On a US military base in Iraq, US Army private LaVena Lynn Johnson is found dead, shot
in the head. The Army rules it a suicide. Later, independent forensic evidence reveals she
was raped, mutilated and murdered.
The Silent Truth follows the search by the parents of LaVena for the truth behind their
daughter’s death. They confront the US Army and embark on an agonizing and obstacle
filled journey to bring justice to their daughter and expose a pattern of cover-ups and impunity.
Running time: 73΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
464
Midtown Films
Joan Brooker-Marks
Illumina Films
Robin Brinster
Leidsestraat 106 -IV
Amsterdam 1017PG, Τhe Netherlands
T. +31 20 624 8395
F. +31 20 330 8155
[email protected]
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INDIA
SILKEN SYNERGY. THE MORAL FABRIC
Soniya Kirpalani
Bibi Russell seeks to take the Asian textile tradition out of its curse, its economic servitude.
Former international top model and United Nations ambassador, she denounces the absence of a local textile brand in countries which supply the international brand retail stores.
Providing livelihood to millions of weavers and artisans, Bibi encourages a cultural identity conducive to responsible development. Nurturing national talent across the Silken
Route, she refuses to let eastern creativity be nameless providers servicing the interest of
global brands.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sprocket Science
Soniya Kirpalani
Thierry Detaille
Rue Stevin, 174
T.-F. +32 477 617 170
[email protected]
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USA - GERMANY
Lifestyles
SKYDANCER
Katja Esson
The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120
years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called “sky
walkers” because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the
city. Who are these Mohawk sky walkers? What is their secret for overcoming fear? Has “sky
walking” replaced an ancient rite of passage? Or is it the pure need to adapt in order to survive? And what is their life really like when, every Friday at quitting time, they jump in their
cars and make the eight-hour drive up north to their families on the reservation?
Skydancer is a feature length documentary that takes a provocative look at Indian life in
the 21st Century.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Penelope Pictures & ma.ja.de. filmproduktion &
WDR & ARTE & Schenk Production
Production Contact Person: Katja Esson
Sales Company:
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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USA - SWEDEN - KENYA
Lifestyles
A SMALL ACT
Jennifer Arnold
Can one small act dramatically change multiple lives? Chris Mburu was the top student
in his Kenyan village, but without money for school fees, he had little hope of a future –
until Hilde Back, a Swedish teacher, sponsored his early education. Unknowingly, her tiny
contribution paved the way for Mburu to go all the way to Harvard Law School. Today he
is a Human Rights officer for the United Nations. He’s dedicated his life to fighting genocide and has no idea that the woman who sponsored him is a Holocaust survivor. A Small
Act follows Mburu’s efforts to find his benefactor, give back to his community and continue
the cycle of sponsorship. This award-winning film uses a strong narrative thread to capture the ripple effect that one singular action can have.
*World Premiere: Sundance
* International Premiere: Hot Docs (Top Ten Audience Favorite)
* New York Times Critic’s Pick
* Roger Ebert top ten documentary of 2010
(Broadcasts include: HBO, ABC Australia, TV4 Fakta)
Running time: 88΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Harambee Media / HBO Documentary Films
Jennifer Arnold
Louise Rosen Ltd
Louise Rosen
16 High Street
Brunswick MA 04011 USA
T. +1 207 725 8215
F. +1 207 725 8057
[email protected]
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MEXICO
Lifestyles
THE SMALLEST PLACE
Tatiana Huezo Sánchez
A cow carer that guards storms. A peasant that writes the story of his town on the walls
of his house. A woman that wanders the streets avoiding her dead teenage daughter,
drawn on the town walls. A young man that turned in his rifle and lost his job.
This documentary tells the everyday life of some characters that live in a small town stuck
in the mountains of El Salvador, where you can see the scars of the past that this country
has inherited and where their capability of assuming this legacy to keep on growing is
shown.
The story takes place in El Salvador, Central America. In this country, the smallest in Latin
America, more than 80,000 people died during the civil war in the 80s.
Running time: 104΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
468
Centro de CapacitaciónCinematográfica (CCC)
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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GREECE
Lifestyles
SMASH
Andreas Morgan
The film follows a group of 16-year-old graffitists on their night walks in Athens. Drawings, paintings, references to master pieces, train carriages, obsessions with the art of the
street, colours against the grey cement, a barrage of images, in combination with hip hop
music – these are the film’s elements, with just one camera in hand and pictures. Worries,
questions, conclusions, a monologue that is their voice, experiments and mixed media
techniques. A first step. This is the first attempt of a group of 16-year-old boys of the city
who paint graffiti. Holding the camera, they filmed their adventures during the night in
hot spots. With no script, they used the image and their idea as well as their daily obsession with the art of graffiti. We have always liked street signs, graffiti on football stadiums.
We used to write everywhere. It was an expression of our feelings, which were being caged
inside this sterile city of concrete. Our group used to look outside the train window, eagerly
searching for a piece of wall where we would go to write during the night. Writing was
like breathing to us... Once a policeman let us continue, saying “you are artists, but please
don’t write on the 2004 bridge on Kifissias Avenue”. Our names are still there...
Running time: 10΄
Production Company:
Andreas Morgan
Production Contact Person: Andreas Morgan
Andreas Morgan
34 Andrea Syngrou
Marousi 151 26, Greece
T. +30 210 612 7867 +30 6977 775 244
[email protected]
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443
GERMANY
Adventure & Travel
SOLARTAXI – AROUND
THE WORLD WITH THE SUN
Erik Schmitt
What began as a childhood dream is now an epic 18-month adventure that spans the
globe. More than a few have embarked on an “around the world” adventure; some have
even completed it, but no one has ever done so powered exclusively by the sun. Meet Louis
Palmer and his home-made “Solartaxi”. Full of surprises and apparently insurmountable
obstacles, his journey begins in the summer of 2007. Solar energy is functional, efficient,
and most importantly, reliable. A car with zero emission is not a dream. This film is proof.
Along the way, Louis and his Solartaxi meet princes, movie stars, politicians and scientists,
but most importantly, they encounter ordinary people, showing them that mobility with
the mere power of the sun is possible.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
470
Daniel Thomaser
Daniel Thomaser
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 2980
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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USA
Current Affairs
SOMETIMES CITY
Tom Jarmusch
“Sometimes City is a gritty and personal documentary portrait of Cleveland Ohio. Sometimes City suggests the city’s people, landscape, and decline. It was conceived to include
documentary, home movie, personal, and possibly fictional elements and was originated
from two different video installations with the intention that it would evolve into a film.
As filmmaking progressed, it became important to let different people speak, people that
we do not usually hear from. I filmed a great deal and found what I would. The movie juxtaposes many scenes of residents and some performed music becoming kind of a ‘spareparts scavenging of stories’. The title comes from a poem by D. A. Levy and part of one of
his poems is read in the movie. Sometimes City was photographed during 2008 and 2009
using various consumer video formats, 16mm and Super 8 film.”
Tom Jarmusch
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Tom Jarmusch
Production Contact Person: Tom Jarmusch
Tom Jarmusch
17 Cleveland Place # 18
T. + 1 347 613 7821
[email protected]
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CANADA
SONG OF THE LODZ GHETTO
David Kaufman
Brave Old World’s haunting musical program of street songs from the Lodz Ghetto serves
as the backdrop for David Kaufman’s definitive new film about the “first and last ghetto”
in Poland. The film consists of a chilling narrative, stirring concert performances, unforgettable photographs and extensive interviews with survivors of the Holocaust from
Lodz.
The film focuses on the lives of two historical figures: the Ghetto’s beloved and popular
street-singer, Yankele Herszkowicz, and the Nazi-appointed Jewish leader of the ghetto,
Chaim Rumkowski. This documentary explores the uplifting role that music and culture
played for ghetto dwellers who faced the constant fear of death. This history of the Lodz
Ghetto is an extraordinary Holocaust narrative.
Running time: 121΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
472
Sun-Street Inc.
Shane Griffin
6579 Pickwick St
T. +1 323 259 8259
T. +1 323 474 6371
[email protected]
www.7thart.com
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
SONGS OF WAR: MUSIC AS A WEAPON
Tristan Chytroschek
Music elates, touches the soul, and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this
magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together.
In Songs of War, we explore this extraordinary harmony between music and violence.
The film’s main protagonist is Christopher Cerf, a composer who wrote more than 200 songs
for the children’s TV series Sesame Street. He always wanted his music to be fun, educational and entertaining. But then he learned that his songs had been used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. He is stunned by this abuse of his work and wants
to find out how this could happen.
Cerf embarks on a journey to learn how the military has been employing music as a powerful stimulant and mighty weapon for hundreds of years.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
A & O Bureau
Java Films
Kathryn Bonnici
4-6 Villa Thoreton
Paris 75015, France
T. +34 634 869 646
[email protected]
www.javafilms.fr
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BULGARIA
History & Politics
SONS OF THE SUN
Simeon Idakiev
A film about the little-known details of the daily life, traditions, customs and religious beliefs of the inhabitants of the Inca Empire.
The film explores Machu Picchu and Olyantayatambo, built by “the sons of the Sun”. These
two most popular buildings are still hiding many secrets and mysteries.
Sons of the Sun is part of a series of six films shot in South America by the journalist Simeon
Idakiev, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Bulgarian National Television.
Running time: 30΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
474
Daniela Kuzmanova
29 San Stefano Street
T. +359 2 814 2390
F. +359 2 943 6045
[email protected]
www.bnt.bg
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GERMANY
THE SOUL OF VENICE
This intriguing film tells the story of a fairytale church and a city without compare, in an
hour of gripping accounts and magical images: Venice, melting pot of the Occident and
Orient for a thousand years. To this day, the lustrous soul of Venice is the Basilica of St. Mark’s.
Inside St. Mark’s Basilica, the Venetians celebrate God – and themselves. In its overwhelming beauty, the Patriarch’s cathedral also relates to the history of the city: from a cluster of marshy islands to the world’s most magnificent trading centre, from the spectacular abduction of the remains of St. Mark from Alexandria, via the conquest of the imperial
city of Constantinople with its unimaginable treasures, to the eventual demise of the Republic, sealed by Napoleon’s troops. From the breathtaking exterior to the unique huge ceiling mosaics, you will experience the history and the drama of this church and its treasures
from fascinating perspectives.
Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Oculus Film
Hubert Schäfer
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 298 0
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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GREECE
SOUTH CENTRAL GOSPEL
Chronis Pechlivanidis & Jim Whitney
South Central Gospel is an intimate peek into the down-home gospel churches of South
Central, Los Angeles, an area plagued with poverty, racial oppression and gang warfare.
Gospel music, or “the Word of God in song,” heals the spirit, calms the soul and provides
solace and release amidst the troubles of life. Rooted in the spirituals and blues of the American slave south, gospel music continues today as α central part of lives of many African
Americans. South Central Gospel weaves lively, heartfelt performances together with
compelling interviews, including with 60s icon Willie Chambers, for a moving and entertaining look into the world of authentic gospel culture.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
476
Onos Productions
Chronis Pechlivanidis
Onos Productions
Chronis Pechlivanidis
18 Iraklidon St
T. +30 210 341 7228
F. +30 210 341 7256
[email protected]
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LATVIA - USA
History & Politics
SOUVENIRS: HEALING AFTER WAR
Mara Pelecis
Lyrical, intimate, and sometimes humorous, Souvenirs is a eulogy in film of a Veteran whose
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder case is actively under review by the Veterans’ Affairs office
8 years after his suicide. Ivars “Andy” Pelecis was a man who wanted to move on. Andy survived the Vietnam War physically, but lived without recognition of his war-related mental illness until the day he took his own life in 2002. After 30 years of struggling to “survive the peace” through alcohol and ten stays in the locked ward at hospital, Andy’s case
was reopened by his social workers. Mara Pelecis, Andy’s daughter, seeks to reveal her dad’s
real story that was hidden from her as a child. She continues to ask the question “Why he
was the way he was?”
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Documentary Media LLC & Whirlygig Productions
Production Contact Person: Mara Pelecis
4814 Colfax Ave. S.
Minneapolis MN 55419 USA
T. +1 612 227 8979
[email protected]
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214
GREECE
SPYROS PAPALOUKAS –
THE ADVENTURE OF PAINTING
Kalliopi Legaki
Throughout my childhood, my teacher used to criticize my drawings so severely that painting became an ordeal for me. As the years went by, I often felt the need to paint. But I never
dared draw a line, maybe because – having been so traumatized in the past – I always
thought I’d never succeed.
Thumbing through an album about the painter Spyros Papaloukas one day, I was deeply
touched by a remark he made in his notes, saying that anyone can learn to sketch as long
as they have a method to follow. From that moment on, painting was no longer something inaccessible to me. It became an art with codes and secrets I could decypher.
Through the dark paths of time, I tried with my camera to trace the painter’s course and
started to “sketch” his portrait. But at the same time, the painter himself paved the way for
me to explore the enigma of painting and let me wander inside strange and enchanting
landscapes, where painting comes together with the other arts and reveals the deepest
meaning of Art and Life.
Running time: 51΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
478
Portolanos Films
Maria Gentekou
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
7 Dionissiou Areopagitou St,
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
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GREECE
History & Politics
STAINED IMAGE
Eleni Choumou
In Greece between the Wars banditry flourished. In the region of Western Thessaly, in the
mountain villages of Elassona, Thomas Gadaras becomes an outlaw in 1917, creating a kind
of folk legend. Thefts, robberies, escapes, kidnapping well-off members of society, charities for the disadvantaged, murders, betrayals, escaping to Albania, all these contribute
to the creation of a feared but also admired popular idol. In 1923, Gadaras, just before his
enigmatic end, decides to be photographed by A. Manthos, thus capturing on photographic
paper his personal story, and representing the social role of bandits, who served as scapegoats for the socio-political situation at the time. The story of Gadaras comes to life
through the memories and aspects of his 3rd generation offspring, the grandson of A. Manthos and music composer Thanasis Papakonstantinou.
Running time: 27΄
Production Company:
Eleni Choumou
Eleni Choumou
4A Grigoriou Afxentiou St
Evangelistria
T. +30 6984 760 005
[email protected]
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GREECE
THE START
Marineta MAK Kritikou
The Start, a movie about the 1st Tinos Jazz Festival and the first ever visual live recording
of major musicians of the Greek Jazz Scene.
A musical surprise, the vision of a local Jazz musician come true.
Eight ensembles of musicians who for four days live on the same island
play together, jam and for the first time talk about Jazz in Greece.
The encounter of prominent Greeks and Finnish jazzmen in a really beautiful place,
where the music adds to the history, art and cultural tradition of Tinos.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
480
Cultural Foundation of Tinos
Cultural Foundation of Tinos
47, Kokkinara St
Kifissia 145 63, Greece
T. +30 210 801 0432
[email protected]
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FINLAND - SWEDEN
Lifestyles
STEAM OF LIFE
Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen
The film travels through Finland joining men of all walks of life in many different saunas
to let us hear their touching stories about love, death, birth and friendship; about life. In
all its simplicity, the camera records the raw and rare beauty of landscapes, saunas and men
in almost magical pictures. The presence of the characters and the depth of their emotion
reaches a limit where it is almost intolerable for the viewer to watch. Steam of Life reveals
the men’s naked souls in an exceptionally intimate and poetic way.
Running time: 81΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Oktober Oy
Joonas Berghall
Jan Röfekamp
Montreal/Quebec H3l 1A8, Canada
T. +1 514 844 3358
F. +1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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GREECE
STREET SPECTACLES
Sotiris Kappos
Street Spectacles is a documentary about street theater.
The film tries to show the education that a person needs for this polymorphic kind of art,
the communication between the artist and the audience, the response of the audience, the
reasons that make a person perform in the street and whether street theater can provide
the artist with enough money to make a living.
In this movie you can also watch street theater performances such as
pantomime, marionette shows and acrobatics, all taking place in the historical
center of Athens. Finally, there is a short reference to the history of street theater after the
first interviews.
Running time: 61΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
482
M.C.R. Production
Sotiris Kappos
M.C.R. Production
Sotiris Kappos
103-105 Momferatou St
T. +30 210 647 1064
[email protected]
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ISRAEL
STUDIO VAROUJ
Yakie Ayalon
Varouj Ishkinain, the third generation in an Armenian family of photographers, is nearly
80 years old. Many know the studio, a local establishment, located in an alley in the old
city of Jerusalem. Varouj has come to a point where he needs to close his studio, since his
sons are not interested in maintaining the trade, and Varouj himself can no longer deal with
a rapidly changing digital world. The documentary accompanies Varouj during the last
month before he closes the studio.
The documentary shows Varouj at a moment when he retires and has to leave behind
friends, habits and work which he has done for a lifetime. Photography for Varouj is not
just work – it is his entire life, a way to watch the history of a city and a way to communicate with the different nationalities that make up Jerusalem.
Running time: 18΄
Production Company:
Yakie Ayalon Broadcast Pro.
Production Contact Person: Yakie Ayalon
Yakie Ayalon
Haarazim 9, Mevaseret Zion
P.O Box 890
T. +972 54 566 5502
F. +972 25 333 664
[email protected]
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SWEDEN
SUBMISSION
Stefan Jarl
Submission is a documentary about “chemical society” – the society we have been building since World War II.
Back then, humans used 1 million tons of chemicals per year; the figure today is 500 million tons. The chemical industry is the fastest-growing industry in the world and this film
is about the 100,000 chemicals we use every day – what they’re used for and what they
do to us and our health. Not only food additives, but also the chemicals we are exposed
to in our daily environments: softeners, flame retardants, surfactants and so on.
Consulting a wide range of scientists from the United States, the UK, Canada, Germany,
Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, documentary film maker Stefan Jarl
seeks answers: What problems can these chemicals cause? What are we passing on to our
unborn children? And why do we submit?
Running time: 87΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
484
Stefan Jarl AB
Stefan Jarl
Svesnk Filmindustri
Josephine Julner
Greta Garbos väg 13
Solna 169 36, Sweden
T. +46 8680 3704
F. +46 8710 4460
[email protected]
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USA - SPAIN
Lifestyles
SURVIVING AMINA
Barbara Celis
Surviving Amina is a love story challenged by illness and death, an intimate diary of resilience and hope. It’s a compelling lesson on life that explores how we construct meaning from events that defy our emotional understanding: the illness and loss of a child.
Running time: 59΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Life is Great Productions
Barbara Celis
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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470
GERMANY
Current Affairs
SURVIVING IN KABUL –
A CITY AND ITS WOMEN
Elke Jonigkeit
Kabul is still a city of men, of abductions, of attacks. But how are the women of this unsettled metropolis faring? The author has been following the stories of three women in
Afghanistan for some 25 years, during the Soviet era and when the Taliban was overthrown.
Now ISAF troops patrol the country; their aim is to make it safe so that a democracy can
be established. But what is the reality on the ground? Parwin is the head mistress of a girls’
secondary school. Hafiza runs the seamstress shop in the women’s prison in Kabul. Now
her daughters want to be doctors or journalists. But don’t they have to worry about being forced into an arranged marriage? The documentary allows us to share directly in the
fates of Parwin, Hafiza and their daughters. It is a story of strength and beauty but also of
disappointment and uncertainty.
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
486
Circe Film with HR
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
Breite Str. 48-50
T. +49 221 920 690
F. +49 221 920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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GREECE
Adventure & Travel
TAKE TO THE HILLS – EVIA
Pinelopi Krontiropoulou
The documentary Take to the Hills portrays people who decided to leave the big city and
to completely change the kind of life they lead and work they do, alone or with their families. We follow the journey an “internal immigrant” makes in search of a more humane and
better life for himself and his family. How will life in Athens be in a relatively short time,
given that more than half of the country’s population is squeezed in the Attica basin? What
kind of people decide to move away from urban centers? How, why, when and what are
their motives? The human geography of “internal immigrants” under the microscope.
Running time: 47΄
Production Company:
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA &
Fine World Productions
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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BULGARIA
Lifestyles
TALES
Nikolay Vassilev
For the past 15 years, a former miner has been sheltering orphans from all over Bulgaria.
Their childhood ends, yet with it ends the chance for them to have a hot meal and a roof
over their heads. Kicked out in the street after they come of age, they have to learn how
to survive and how to be men of worth at the same time. Will their benefactor succeed in
making their dreams come true, and at what price?
Tales is a story about snails and dreams, desolate graveyards and fondness, fears and
hopes…
Running time: 28΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
488
Daniela Kuzmanova
29 San Stefano St
T. +359 2 814 2390
F. +359 2 943 6045
[email protected]
www.bnt.bg
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BULGARIA
TALES OF THE TRIGRAD GORGE
Dobrin Keresteliev
The film is about one of the most charming places in Bulgaria in the Rhodopi Mountains
– homeland to Dionysus, Orpheus and Spartacus. Here is where the mysterious and
enigmatic cave leading to the Underworld is. The gorge in its very throat, the so-called
Devil’s Throat (Dyavolskoto Garlo), formed by a mountain river, is home to many rare and
endangered species, where they live in natural harmony. And when autumn gives way to
winter, nature’s beauty overwhelms us.
Running time: 22΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Daniela Kuzmanova
29 San Stefano St
T. +359 2 814 2390
F. +359 2 943 6045
[email protected]
www.bnt.bg
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PORTUGAL - SAINT THOMAS ISLAND
TCHILOLI, MASKS AND MYTHS
Kiluanje Liberdade & Ines Gonsalves
The Tchiloli is performed only by prominent men from certain quarters of the island.
Originally from France, the Tchiloli was introduced in Sao Tome in the XVIth century. The
main roles are transmitted from generation to generation. Dressed in European clothes
(mainly women’s costumes) and wearing masks, the actors of Tchiloli narrate a Renaissance
text with music and dance, turning the spectacle into an extravagant cultural manifestation of African and European heritage.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
490
Noland Filmes
Ines Gonsalves
Marfilmes
Renee Gagnon
T. +35 12 1314 0339
F. +35 12 1353 3075
[email protected]
www.marfilmes.com
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ISRAEL
History & Politics
TEACHER IRENA
Itamar Chen
Summer vacation is over and 26 kids come back to school fearful of their notoriously strict
new teacher, Irena. Russian born Irena immigrated to Israel with her son and husband who
died shortly after. She faces the challenge of teaching the third grade in one of the most
difficult neighborhoods in Jerusalem, where poverty, violence and unemployment are
widespread. Using her unique approach, combining uncompromising discipline and love,
she brings about a real change in the lives of her students. Following the course of the
school year, the film offers a window onto the confines of a classroom.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Blacksheep
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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CANADA
Sports
THE TEAM
Patrick Reed
Kenya has long been Africa’s success story – relatively stable and ethnically harmonious.
But following the 2007 elections, everything changed. Voting controversies split the
country along ethnic lines, pushing Kenya toward civil war.
In an attempt to deal with the ethnic strife, a taboo-breaking TV soap, The Team, was created, following the struggles of a fictional multi-ethnic soccer squad to overcome their differences, both on and off the shoot. What can a soap opera achieve in a place desperate
for change but teetering on the brink of collapse? Watch and find out.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
492
White Pine Pictures Inc.
Peter Raymont
Jan Röfekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
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NORWAY
History & Politics
TEARS OF GAZA
Vibeke Lokkerberg
In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are
exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday
life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls
or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create
peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.
Running time: 82΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Nero Media AS
AB Svensk Filmindustri
Ann-Kristin Westerberg
Stockholm 169 86, Sweden
T. +46 8680 3500
F. +46 8680 3783
[email protected]
www.sfinternational.se
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498
THE NETHERLANDS
TED NOTEN: GOLD, SWEAT & PEARLS
Frank van den Engel & Simone de Vries
Jewelry designer Ted Noten (1956) is well-known for his cheeky pieces of jewelry. Are they
wearable? Not necessarily. Are they provocative? Absolutely. Noten: “I make jewelry that
takes some time getting used to. When you wear it, you make yourself vulnerable as it
makes such a striking statement. I speak out through my jewelry and objects. I comment
upon jewelry as a phenomenon, upon the industry or – like any artist – upon humanity.”
The documentary is an intimate portrait of an artist who throws his golden formula overboard abruptly and faces the future fearlessly and with an open mind.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
494
Zeppers Film & TV
Simone de Vries
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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UK - FRANCE - POLAND
Lifestyles
THEMERSON & THEMERSON
Wiktoria Szymanska
She was a dreamer, he was a thinker.
He had a question, she was the answer.
Two people once met and created the poetry of life and inspired generations of artists in
Europe.
Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost 60 years, first in
Poland, then in France, eventually settling in England. The only time when they were separated was the outbreak of World War II, but even then they remained connected.
The unusual love story of a unique, creative couple from Poland.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Luna W & 24 Images & ARTE &TVP
Wiktoria Szymanska
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
T. +49 341 215 6638
F. +49 341 215 6639
[email protected]
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286
GREECE
THEODORE TERZOPOULOS –
ENCOMIUM OF THE THEATER
Dimitris Trikas
The portrait of the Greek stage director Thodoros Terzopoulos. Through the confessions of
the director and interviews with his protagonists, intercut with excerpts from his work and
archival photographic material, the film traces the creative course of the theater group ATTIS from the early eighties to the present.
Running time: 86΄
Year of production: 2010-2011
Production Company:
Sales Company:
496
Lena Choida
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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NEW ZEALAND - USA - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND:
TE HENUA E NNOHO
Briar March
What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there
was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community
of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips
through their already damaged home, the Takuu community experiences the devastating
effects of climate change first hand. In this verite-style film, three intrepid characters – Telo,
Endar and Satty – allow us into their lives and their culture and show us first hand the human impact of an environmental crisis. Two scientists, oceanographer John Hunter and geomorphologist Scott Smithers, investigate the situation with our characters and consider
the impact of climate change on communities without access to resources or support. Intimate observational scenes allow Teloo, Endar and Satty to take us on their personal journeys as they consider whether to move to an uncertain future in Bougainville or to stay on
Takuu and fight for a different, but equally uncertain, outcome. This film gives a human face
to the direct impacts of climate change in the Pacific, challenging audiences everywhere
to consider their own relationship to the earth and the other people on it.
Running time: 80΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
On the Level Productions
Lyn Collie
Journeyman Pictures
Rose Hughes
4-6 High St, Thames Ditton
Surrey KT7 0RY, UK
T. +44 208 786 60 F. + 44 20 8972 9100
[email protected]
www.journeyman.tv
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504
ITALY
Lifestyles
(THERE’S ALWAYS) A BETTER PLACE
Sara Luraschi
The portrait of a family originally from India that has settled permanently in the deep north
of Italy, suspended between new roots and the impossible desire of leaving and finding
a new, better place to stay.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
498
Lab 80 film
Alberto Valtellina
Lab 80 Film
Alberto Valtellina
via Pignolo 123
T. +39 33 3849 0808 +39 03 5578 1021
F. +39 03 534 1255
[email protected]
www.lab80.it
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GREECE
Current Affairs
THESSALONIKI IN A DIFFERENT WAY
Christos Nikoleris
The idea emerged out of the need to organize a very different “party” for the 20th birthday of the oldest free-press in Greece, parallaxi. Having already contributed a great deal
to the city’s public affairs, the parallaxi team moved to a series of cultural, architectural and
environmental events, which transformed a large part of the city’s urban area. This urban
experiment was carried out in June 2010, inspired by World Environment Day. The Thessaloniki in a Different Way project is the largest cooperation of creative teams from different professional sectors, institutions, private initiatives and volunteers ever to take place
in Thessaloniki. In total, 1,000 people and 120 local authorities and groups worked together
towards this idea, while 60,000 people attended the events.
Running time: 74΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
N-ORASIS
Frida Spathaki
N-ORASIS
Frida Spathaki
3 Vafopoulou St
T. +30 2310 42 5880
F. +30 2310 42 5882
[email protected]
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405
ISRAEL - GERMANY
History & Politics
THIEVES BY LAW
Alexander Gentelev
For the first time ever, the vori v zakone, (thieves by law), former heads of Russia’s criminal underworld, share their story with the world.
The thugs who transformed themselves into reputable businessmen reveal in the most intimate detail how they came to influence Russia’s economy as it emerged from decades
of Soviet rule, and how they used their vast wealth to build up a political base in a land
that once treated them as common criminals.
Now with a strong base at home, they are eager to embark on a new crusade to spread
their influence over the rest of the world.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
500
SMS Productions & LE Vision
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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USA
THINK OF ME FIRST AS A PERSON
George Ingmire
A short documentary about a boy with Down Syndrome. The boy’s father, Dwight L. Core
Sr., an amateur filmmaker and Air Force veteran of World War II, originally produced the
film over the course of the 1960s, incorporating home movies he had shot of his son
throughout his childhood and teenage years.
In 2006, Dwight Core Sr.’s grandson, George Ingmire, discovered the film, along with a separate narration track, while doing research for a feature length documentary about his
grandfather’s work as an unknown filmmaker.
This film explores perceptions about Down Syndrome from multiple viewpoints: the boy,
his sister and the father. The sincere tone and heartwarming narration by the father lends
a remarkable poignancy to this film. The story that unfolds within this documentary is sure
to shed light on both the struggles and blessings of raising a child with special needs.
Running time: 8΄
Year of production: 1975/2006
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Mi Abuelo Productions
George Ingmire
Mi Abuelo Productions
George Ingmire
PO Box 50294
New Orleans LA 70150 USA
T. +1 504 975 6353
[email protected]
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393
THE NETHERLANDS
History & Politics
THIS IS MY PICTURE
WHEN I WAS DEAD
Mahmoud Al Massad
Athens, 1983. The world press reports that 4-year-old Palestinian Bashir is killed in the assassination of his father, Mamoun Meraish, a top PLO lieutenant. But what if death was not
the end of his journey? What if he was brought back to life and has to dig through his past
and discover his future? In finding out what his life would have been like, it turns out that,
like his father, he would have been political. But instead of expressing himself with
weapons, he uses what he loved doing as a child: drawing. He would become the finest
political cartoonist in Jordan. But while his drawings mirror the escalating misery and
poverty of his people, getting the cartoons published is proving increasingly harder.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
502
KeyDocs
Hanneke Niens
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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GREECE
A THOUSAND LOST GOLF BALLS
Vangelis Kalaitzis
What happens...
-When development – albeit with an ecologically friendly face – comes into conflict with
conservation over a huge stretch of “protected” land in Eastern Crete?
-When a loose alliance of environmentalists, green groups, archaeologists and concerned
citizens stand up against powerful business interests in alliance with church and government?
-When a few people set out to find out the facts for themselves in the face of widespread
cover-ups and misinformation?
A Thousand Lost Golf Balls tells the story.
Running time: 81΄
Production Company:
Real Life Documentaries
Production Contact Person: Cliff Cook
Cliff Cook
7 Kryoneridos St
Chania 73133
Crete, Greece
T. +30 28210 66274
[email protected]
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GERMANY
THREE STARS
Lutz Hachmeister
They are set in an alien and exclusive world, inaccessible to most of us: the highly stylized
gourmet restaurants and their often cramped and noisy kitchens. Focusing on nine Michelin starred chefs from three continents, skilled both in charming small talk with their guests
and a gruff commanding tone towards their kitchen brigades, the film depicts their everyday life behind the scenes and reveals the real business of cooking on the highest level.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
504
HMR (for WDR/ARTE)
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
T. +49 221 920 690
F. +49 221 92069 69
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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USA
THUNDER SOUL
Mark Landsman
The film is about the 70s. About James Brown, afros and how a school band made history.
An inspiring professor turns a mediocre inner-city high school band into a funk sensation
– the Kashmere Stage Band went on to tour the world and release several albums. Thirtyfive years later, his students reunite to pay tribute to the man who changed their lives. Some
haven’t played their horns in decades, but they dust off their instruments, determined to
retake the stage to show the ailing Prof that they’ve still got it.
Running time: 84΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Snoot Entertainment, USA
Keith Calder
HanWay Films
Fabien Westerhoff & Mark Lane
24 Hanway St
London W1T 1UH, UK
T. +44 207 290 0776
T. +44 207 290 0751
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
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USA
History & Politics
THE TILLMAN STORY
Amir Bar-Lev
When Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002,
he became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about
Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, then the caricature. And
when the government tried to turn his death into propaganda, they took on the wrong
family. From her home in Northern California, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death. The Tillman Story resounds with emotion and insight, and goes beyond an indictment of the government to touch on themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Running time: 95΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
506
A&E IndieFilms
Ryan Howard
AETN International
Jonathan South
6 Sloane Square
London SW1W 8EE, UK
T. +44 207 824 9233
F. +44 207 730 9569
[email protected]
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ESTONIA
Current Affairs
TIME IS HERE
Marje Jurtshenko & Kertu Köösel
Think about your first school day... Hope, fear, grand expectations and the attendant feelings of triumph.
We see Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred growing up in the course of their first school year –
an essential milestone in the lives of children and their parents.
Running time: 75΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Kopli Kinokompani
Anneli Ahven
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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UK
Current Affairs
THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Jocelyn Cammack
With a combined age of almost 300, Hetty, Rose and Alison live in a home for the “active
elderly” and regularly share their impassioned concerns on everything from terrorism to
global warming – not to mention the meaning of life, death and sex. Rose, 101, is the oldest newspaper columnist in the world; Hetty, 102, is still marching against war and Alison, 88, a one time Communist Party member is now a self-styled “establishment lady”.
But despite their unstoppable enthusiasm and disarming humour, all three women are not
simply ready for death – they actively want to die. Surprising, poignant and at times very
funny, this documentary reveals the everyday mystery of how very old people experience
life and the intense challenges that old age brings. Hetty, Rose and Alison tell us things
of which no one ever speaks.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Redbird Productions & Certain Pictures
for BBC Storyville
Production Contact Person: Hilary Durman
Sales Company:
Diana Karklin
T. +49 30 4737 298 0
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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GERMANY
TO RUSSIA WITH JAZZ
Konstanze Burkard
In the summer of 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the American government sent 19
young jazz musicians with the legendary “King of Swing” Benny Goodman on an adventurous tour of the Soviet Union. This was the first American big band on Soviet soil. With
their emotive and stirring music, the big band would open a Pandora’s Box from which the
“American way of life” would unfold in the darkness of the USSR, and awaken the American desire for freedom in the hearts and minds of the supposed archenemy. Under constant scrutiny by the KGB, they were witness to the repression of their Soviet fans. Benny
Goodman and his Orchestra played 30 concerts to almost 180,000 people in Moscow,
Sotschi, Tiflis, Taschkent, Leningrad and Kiev and with their music tore the first holes in the
Iron Curtain.
Running time: 45΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sarabandefilm with WDR
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
T. +49 221 920 690
F. +49 221 920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
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USA
TODAY’S MAN
Lizzie Gottlieb
Today’s Man tells the story of Nicky Gottlieb, a former child genius who, at age 21, is diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. People with Asperger’s, which is a form of autism, tend
to be highly intelligent – often geniuses in certain subjects – but are unable to pick up
on social cues. Their own behavior can be considered by others to be bizarre and inappropriate.
One in 160 children today are born with some form of autism. While there are an increasing
number of resources for Asperger’s children, there are surprisingly few organizations and
programs for adults with the syndrome, resulting in a “lost generation” of people like Nicky
who must find their own ways to navigate life with this perplexing disorder.
Today’s Man follows Nicky as he struggles to leave the safety of his family’s home and the
comfort of his favorite TV shows in order to find a job and an apartment. Made by Nicky’s
sister Lizzie Gottlieb, the film is a sister’s search to understand her brother’s mysterious inner life and a larger effort to comprehend Asperger Syndrome and the people who struggle with it.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
YoungLove Productions
Production Contact Person: Lizzie Gottlieb
Lizzie Gottlieb
285 Garfiled Place
Brooklyn NY 11215 USA
T. +1 917 650 1822
[email protected]
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SPAIN
TOM ZÉ LIBERATED ASTRONAUT
Ígor Iglesias González
Some know Tom Zé is the man behind tropicalism, that movement which, in the sixties,
revealed the potential and voracity of a young Brazil willing to incorporate the world to its
art, and vice versa. Some understand Tom Zé was not part of that because his art never fitted in any movement.
His life puts together all that makes a biography interesting: talent, opportunity, success,
oblivion, withdrawal, ostracism, rediscovery and return. His work is melody and spirit, cosmos and polyrhythm, a mix of moods and disciplines, kindness and life.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Xiquexique Films
Ígor Iglesias
c/Toledo 105-4ºB
Madrid 28005, Spain
T. +34 678 630 750
[email protected]
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431
BULGARIA
Current Affairs
THE TOWN OF BADANTE WOMEN
Stephan Komandarev
A town without women. The men look after the children, cook, do the washing and... wait
for money from their wives who work abroad. The Bulgarian town of Varshets is the site of a staggering social experiment. Many of its
women work as “badante” in Italy, taking care of the old and the sick. The social structure
of Varshets is changing and the transformations – some dramatic, others humorous – are
everywhere: in the pubs, in the families, in the local brass band... And at the bus station,
where once a year the women arrive on holiday.
The Town of Badante Women is a film about the new realities in today’s Europe. It tells the
story of a small town in northwestern Bulgaria transformed through the role its women
play on the growing market for care giving services across the continent.
Running time: 56΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
512
ArgoFilm
Stephan Komandarev
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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POLAND
Lifestyles
TRANS-ACTION
Sławomir Grünberg
Anna Grodzka was born in a male body and for many years tried to live as was expected
of her. The man she was until 2009 got married and became a father but could not fully
enjoy his life. As an adult and father of an adult son, he decided to undergo a long term
process of sex change. The crew accompanies Anna in crucial moments on the way to
womanhood – at the courtroom, in plastic surgery clinic in Bangkok, where she undergoes an operation, but as well in common, everyday life moments, when she talks to her
son, goes shopping, goes to the beauty parlor, works in her fund. Anna is surrounded by
people who support her through the tough process of change.
Running time: 72΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
HBO
Dita Křivská
HBO Central Europe
Dita Křivská
Jankovcova 1037/49
T.-F. +1 420 261 094 444
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
THE TRAP
Marina Danezi
When you are caught, unsuspectingly, in the Trap, it is almost certain that the end has come.
The Trap is a documentary film about the rehabilitation of disabled/handicapped people.
A glance at psychiatric institutions, operating as storehouses for human beings, and endangered hostels in Christmastime Athens. Our hero, Dionysis, is 34 years old and lives with
his mother. He is a quadriplegic and suffers from slight mental retardation. He loves Sunday “strolls”, singing, talking on the phone and secretly drinking coke. His future is uncertain. In his own words: “Today’s society is a very tough place to live. OK, our parents will
eventually pass, but what is there left to see for us children?”
Running time: 23΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
514
ΝIMA Productions
Marina Danezi
NIMA Productions
Marina Danezi
203 Liosion St
T. +30 210 822 6445
[email protected]
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GREECE
Current Affairs
TRIBES OF ATHENS:
NEW LIFE (AFGHANISTAN)
Anthi Daountaki
A portrait of the Afghan community in Athens, through the every day lives of its people:
Sadad the teacher, Abdul the former officer, Yonous the doctor of the community, Tahir the
sculptor. The effort of integration and the memories of refugees. The hope of a new life in
the “light” of the West and the struggle for survival. The rise in xenophobia, but also the
joy of different cultures living together. Our own “foreigners”, the people who left everything behind to start over. Faces, like mirrors, reminding us of our past, making us think
of our future, beyond our personal and national microcosm.
Running time: 49΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Dimitris Kodossis
Dimitris Kodossis
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 606 6650
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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710
GREECE
Current Affairs
TRIBES OF ATHENS: PHILIPPINES
Stavros Psyllakis
It is estimated that around 11 million Filipino people live in approximately 200 countries
abroad. Since the early eighties, thousands of Filipino immigrants have been living and
working in Athens. We follow our active, multi-tasking protagonists in their personal life,
in their work environment, in daily, routine moments or more special ones with family and
friends, in social gatherings and cultural events of their home country that are celebrated
in Greece, adapted to the life and habits of Greek reality. Filipino community members that
live among us today have dreams and hopes about their children leading a better life, while
the old generation still experiences the contradictory feelings of the immigrant. The history, the rights and ambitions of a community that is perhaps the “aristocracy” of immigrants in this country.
Running time: 49΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
516
Dimitris Kodossis
Dimitris Kodossis
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 606 6650
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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GREECE
TUBE PIPES
Andreas Andonopoulos
Tube pipes at the centre of Athens.
Running time: 1΄
Production Company:
4 Bouboulinas St
Athens, Greece
T. +30 6945 586 058
[email protected]
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555
DENMARK
TURF WAR IN NO MAN’S LAND
Suvi Andrea Helminen
Turf War in No Man’s Land is about man’s attempt to leave its fingerprints on the last spots
of unspoiled nature. Five countries are making competing claims to the Arctic Ocean’s underground and its natural resources while Russia, Canada and Denmark have interests in
overlapping areas around the North Pole.
Borders have to be drawn. The territorial war of today is scientific, it is about collecting the
most convincing data to prove that the underwater bedrock is an extension of the respective
countries. Should every spot on the planet be divided and conquered?
* CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark
Running time: 70΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
518
Nordlys Film
Suvi Andrea Helminen
Michael Treves
20 Bialik St
T. +972 52 363 3398
[email protected]
www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#turfwar
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GREECE
Current affairs
TWELVE NEIGHBOURS
Marianna Economou
What could connect a Pakistani immigrant, a poet, and two 80-year-old sisters dispensing funeral offerings? What is the association between Michael Cacoyannis directing Lysistrata, the woman who dances in the dry cleaners, the local drug addict and the old man
who watches life go by from his open window? Twelve socially, culturally and ethnically
different neighbors share a small inner city street in Athens. The film is a puzzle of everyday incidents and personal confessions, revealing the diversity of human experience and
touching upon deep existential concerns. Despite the major socioeconomic changes in this
underprivileged area, a sense of neighborhood still exists. The “different” doesn’t seem so
threatening and people find ways to accept each other. Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Marianna Economou
Marianna Economou
Greek Film Center
Lina Manolopoulou
7 Dionissiou Areopagitou St
T. +30 210 367 8525
F. +30 210 361 4336
[email protected]
www.gfc.gr
519
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SOUTH AFRICA
Current Affairs
UNHINGED: SURVIVING
JOHANNESBURG
Adrian Loveland
Unhinged: Surviving Johannesburg is an honest, quirky and sometimes frenzied documentary about Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city and the world’s gateway to
Southern Africa. With a rapid narrative, dry humor, insightful observations and a fantastic soundtrack, this film tells a slice-of-city-life story.
Johannesburg has often been portrayed in the world’s media as a death trap, or marketed
as the ultimate get-rich-quick destination. A hot-bed of hope, fear and opportunity, Johannesburg is a place where, with a little ingenuity, anyone can prosper, though just as
easily find themselves stripped at gun-point.
Using the city itself as the principle character, Adrian Loveland, an entrepreneur who was
born and raised in Jo’burg, is the eccentric tour guide, exploring the glorious highs and the
heart-stopping lows.
Featuring interviews with an engaging group of Jo’burgers from the worlds of politics, business, the media and the street, Unhinged is a part-documentary, part-travelogue film that,
like its subject, sparkles with energy, charisma and a touch of chaos.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Loveland Plant Hire
Sideways Film
Kazz Basma
London N16 7JL, UK
T. +44 788 147 3603
[email protected]
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PORTUGAL
Adventure & Travel
THE UNKNOWN ISLANDS
Jorge Silva Melo
The Azores Islands, set halfway between Europe and America, are still one of the best kept
natural paradises left on earth. In 1924, Portuguese writer Paul Brandao left for the Azores
on board a steam cruiser. During that journey, he wrote one of the best travel books of Portuguese literature. Portuguese filmmaker Vicente Jorge Silva leads us through the Islands,
following in the steps of Brandao, 85 years after his inaugural journey. What forces lie there,
in the middle of the Atlantic, in a land of eternal volcanoes, deep dark forests, blue lagoons
and fearless whalers?
Production Company:
Sales Company:
522
Contracosta Producaoes
Francisco Vilardebo
Marfilmes
Renee Gagnon
T. +35 12 1314 0339
F. +35 12 1353 3075
[email protected]
www.marfilmes.com
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GERMANY
History & Politics
THE USTICA CONSPIRACY
Hans Von Kalckreuth
On the evening of June 27th, 1980, off the Italian island of Ustica, a passenger plane
crashed into the sea with the loss of 81 lives. Was it an assassination attempt on Gaddafi,
an explosion or just a technical default? In the search for the truth, this film delves deep
into the Europe of the Cold War. Following long years of investigation, this film finally sheds
light on one of the most mysterious aviation disasters in European post-war history.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Bilderfest factual entertainment
united docs
Anne Hufnagel
T. +49 221 920 690
F. +49 221 920 6969
[email protected]
www.united-docs.com
523
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GREECE
THE VESTIGE OF WORRY BEADS
Alexander Pittidis
It is held daily by a million hands. The sound of its soul gives meaning to silent moments...
We keep it between our fingers and we dream... It’s not only the beauty that we feast our
eyes on; it’s more than that. It’s part of our self.
Its complaint is that few know its course through the centuries, but the time came for us
to travel together in Egypt and Greece, following the vestiges of the humble and beloved
object of our prosaic life: the worry beads.
A presentation of the worry beads through time: from his first worldwide presentation until today, giving emphasis to the shape of the Greek worry beads.
Running time: 49΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
OPA TV
Alexander Pittidis
OPA TV
Alexander Pittidis
10-12 Gripari St
Kallithea 176 71, Greece
T.-F. +30 210 956 8213
[email protected]
525
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FRANCE - SPAIN - MEXICO
Current Affairs
LA VIDA LOCA
Christian Poveda
In Central America they are called Maras – these groups of youngsters who have modeled
themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through photography and the
personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon that has been imported
from the USA.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
526
La Femme Endormie
Wide House
40, rue Saint Anne
Paris 75002, France
T. +33 1 5395 0464
F. +33 1 5395 0465
[email protected]
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GREECE
Lifestyles
LA VIE EN ROSE
George Papagaroufalis
Elias is a mentally disturbed and the camera follows his theory of life and his philosophy
upon theater. The story begins with three women acting parts of plays like Elektra and Macbeth. As the story proceeds, the relationship of Elias and Maria (his partner) is developed
and more secrets about Elias’s case as an actor and psychopath are reveled. The story ends
with Elias acting various plays and singing the song La vie en rose.
Running time: 29΄
Production Company:
George Papagaroufalis
Production Contact Person: George Papagaroufalis
1, Goura St
T. +30 210 322 4190
F. +30 210 923 4779
[email protected]
527
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FRANCE
History & Politics
VIETNAM, A CONTAGIOUS
REVOLUTION
Thuy-Tiên Ho
For centuries, the fertility of the land and its vast coastal geography had turned Vietnam
into coveted geopolitical prey. To achieve independence from their colonizers and shape
their own destiny, the Vietnamese had to first neutralize China, free themselves from Japanese domination, and win the “French war” at Diên Biên Phu. Finally, with the “American
War”, they had to overcome the most powerful army of the time, with under-equipped volunteers, supported by the majority of the population, North and South.
Their leader, Ho Chi Minh, painted as a devil by Western Cold-War propaganda, in fact
played a major role in bringing freedom and self-determination to his people, in a way like
Gandhi did for the Indians. The evolution of Viet Nam in the 20th century is indissolubly
connected to this man, to his political vision and to his revolutionary achievements.
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
528
Solferino Images
Michel Noll
ICTV
Lydia Castellano
17 rue du Colisée
Paris 75008, France
T. +33 1 6403 7098
F. +33 1 6403 7101
[email protected]
www.ictv.fr
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FRANCE - CROATIA
History & Politics
VILLAGE WITOUT WOMEN
Srdjan Sarenac
Three Serbian brothers from a deserted village are looking for wives from Albania, a once
bitter enemy of their country. Zoran, Dragan, Rodoljub and their neighbor Velimir are the
only remaining inhabitants of the small womanless village of Zabrdje, on the top of a
mountain. They are in the market for wives, but no woman has been seen there for the past
fifteen years. Most have either died or moved to the city. Soon, Zoran leaves on an organized trip to Albania, and is soon being seated at a long table with fifteen attractive women.
But which of these beauties would like to marry him?
Running time: 83΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Les Films du Balibari
Estelle Robin
Thierry Detaille
Rue Stevin, 174
T.-F. +32 477 617 170
[email protected]
529
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GERMANY
VINYL (TALES FROM
THE VIENNA UNDERGROUND)
Andrew Standen-Raz
Vinyl (Tales from the Vienna Underground) is the first feature-length documentary to reveal the interconnected world of experimental, trash and electronic musicians in Vienna,
and how the artists in this historically unique space interpret which sounds make music
in very different ways. Vinyl is also partly a love letter to a cultural icon – vinyl records –
which have been a part of so many people’s lives for decades, and which persist in the future of music creation and distribution, despite the pervasiveness of digital technology. In
this film, vinyl is a metaphor for something we love, even for its imperfections and
scratches, and so it is with these musicians’ love-hate relationship with their city. Some
things must change, but some things will be important forever.
Running time: 94΄
Production Company:
Lush Films
Production Contact Person: Andrew Standen-Raz
18B Vicarage Gate
London W8 4AA, UΚ
T. +43 650 411 0681
[email protected]
www.lushfilms.com
530
335
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UK
THE VIRTUAL REVOLUTION
Philip Smith
The World Wide Web is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote
and make friends. Twenty years on from the invention of the Web, how, for better and for
worse, is the digital revolution reshaping all our lives?
The series brings together everyone who’s anyone on the Web – from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to Amazon’s Jeff
Bezos, and online giants Al Gore and Bill Gates.
Through stories of how the Web is being used and abused today, this series explores the
revolutionary benefits and uncovers the hidden costs of the Web’s culture of global, instant
and free information.
Production Company:
Sales Company:
BBC
Marie Roche
The Open University
Walton Hall, Michael Young Building
T. +44 1908 332 470
F. +44 1908 858 787
[email protected]
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MEXICO
History & Politics
VISA TO PARADISE
Lillian Liberman Shkolnikoff
Gilberto Bosques, people who knew him and those he rescued describe the actions that
took place between 1939 and 1942 in Marseille, when he was the Mexican Consul General to France and saved tens of thousands of Spanish republicans, Jews, socialists, communists and other people persecuted by the Nazis.
Running time: 94΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
532
Pablo Briseño
T.-F. + 52 55 5448 5345
[email protected]
www.imcine.gob.mx
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GERMANY
Current Affairs
WADAN’S WORLD
Dieter Schumann
Wismar, 120km east of Hamburg, 45,000 citizens. The income of every third family here
depends on Wadan Yards, the only large company in the region. In August, 2008, a Russian investor took over the old German company and the future seemed safe. Shortly
thereafter, the world financial and economical crisis started somewhere in the United States
and hit the old Hanseatic city hard. 5,000 jobs were endangered.
A race against time began. We accompany a group of welders throughout the turbulent
months and learn that the loss of work means a lot more than just the loss of income. “If
you want to be a shipbuilder, you have to be born for it,” says one of the protagonists.
The film captures what the crisis leaves behind and how the loss affects social values. People are divided into winners and losers, people with work and people without work.
Running time: 100΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Geb. Beetz Filmpoduktion
Nick Pastucha
Realfiction Film
Joachim Kuhn & Dirk Steinkuhler
Hansaring 98
T. +49 22 1952 211
F. +49 22 1952 2113
[email protected]
www.realfictionfilme.de
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POLAND - SLOVAKIA
History & Politics
WAR GAMES AND
THE MAN WHO STOPPED THEM
Dariusz Jablonski
War Games is a story about a man whom historians consider to be the most important spy
of the cold war era. The main character of Dariusz Jabloński’s documentary is Ryszard Kukliński (pseudonym: Jack Strong), a colonel of the Polish Army (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie) in
the 70s. Between 1972 and 1981 he handed over to the West more than 40 thousand pages
of the top secret Warsaw Pact documents. Some people claim that if it weren’t for those
documents, maybe all of Europe would be licking their wounds after the worldwide nuclear cataclysm. Americans see him as a hero; Russians as a traitor. The Poles are divided...
Running time: 113’
Production Company:
Sales Company:
534
Apple Film Production & Trigon Production
Izabela Wojcik
First Hand Films
Esther van Messel
Fritz Heeb-Weg 5
T. +41 131 220 60
F. +41 131 220 80
[email protected]
519
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ITALY
Current Affairs
WAROLOGY – OPERATIONS
OTHER THAN WAR
Morgan Menegazzo
Members of the Military Intelligence, politicians, experts and researchers outline the new
culture of conflict and the types of warfare at the turn of the 21st century, more invisible
and enslaved to a Science without limits.
Running time: 85΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
HGMobile
Morgan Menegazzo
Vitagraph
Filippo D’Angelo
Via Schiavonia 1
T.-F. +39 05 126 7150
[email protected]
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GREECE
WATER ROUTES IN AMORGOS
Efi Latsoudi
Fresh water is decreasing. What’s more, we have forgotten the methods by which to conserve it. In just a few decades, easy access to water has led to over-consumption, leaving
traditional ways of water management behind. On the island of Amorgos, following the
words of those who remember, we discover cisterns, wells, springs and fountains, all made
with different techniques and materials but always with the same care. We listen to their
stories, flowing like water, about the relation of their daily life to this valuable resource, and
about the ancient tradition of dowsers and water-divination. This documentary was
made on the occasion of the restoration and enhancement works of the water monuments
on the island of Amorgos as co-ordinated by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the
Environment and the Cultural Heritage.
Running time: 21΄
Production Company:
Efi Latsoudi-Apostolos Makaratzis
Production Contact Person: Efi Latsoudi
8 Kenteri St
Mytilini 81100, Greece
T. + 30 6976 234 668
F. +30 22510 20994
[email protected]
536
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GREECE
WE, THE CYCLOPES
Maria Economou
A team of children from the Alexandroupoli Special Vocational Education and Training
School turn an idea into a short video. The children will discuss and examine the limits of
myth and truth in relation to the story of the Cyclops Polyfimos in Homer’s Odyssey. According to myth, the Cyclops lived in a cave, a few kilometers away from the school. The
team invites us to their school and we visit the workshops where the children’s creative
work unfolds as they talk about the myth. Who were the Cyclopes and what was their true
nature?
Running time: 8΄
Production Company:
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Production Contact Person: Betty Semakoula
T. +30 2310 378 631
www.filmfestival.gr
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GREECE
Current Affairs
WELCOME TO EUROPE
Stelios Kouloglou
Α refugee camp across the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders made of carton boxes and filled
with stories of people tortured by the police. A prison in Jordan with cells designed for five
people but in which more than a hundred people reside, reaching for fresh air through the
prison bars. A makeshift camp in a forest in Kenya, the only refuge of people who have
nowhere else to go. A mass grave in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an imam praying for their
souls. There is only one problem: these pictures, as we will find out towards the end of the
film, are not telling us the truth…
Running time: 10΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Sales contact person:
538
Lynx Productions
Spyros Mavrogennis
Lynx Productions
Spyros Mavrogennis
25 Chaimanta St
T. +30 210 685 5098
F. +30 210 680 1019
[email protected]
631
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GREECE
WHAT’S EATING DIMITRI?
Valerie Kontakos & Yannis Misouridis
The dire conditions of one of the few schools that exist in Greece for children with special
needs is seen through Yianna’s struggle to attain a decent education for her intellectually
challenged son Dimitri. There are very few choices for them. The school he is attending is
plagued with problems. Structurally and physically the school building is substandard and
a public hazard. It is over crowded, understaffed and undersupplied. All children, regardless of their needs are thrown together. We observe Dimitri and his parents as they attempt
to find a place for him in a vocational school that could provide him with a chance at becoming self-sufficient in society.
Running time: 57΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Doc3 & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA
Valerie Kontakos
Yannis Kollias
432 Messoghion Ave
T. +30 210 607 5711
F. +30 210 607 5715
[email protected]
www.ert.gr
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CANADA
WHERE DID I PUT MY MEMORY?
Josh Freed
We meet people we know, but can’t recall their names. We forget where we put our wallet or our keys. As we live to an older age, memory loss is becoming one of the great health
concerns. Are we all doomed to lose our minds? Or are there ways to keep our memories
– and even improve them? Like the competitors of “The World Memory Championship”:
an annual battle of the brains where the world’s best memories meet in a gruelling mental Olympics. If you can lose your memory, can you find it? Our film goes on a light-hearted
and enlightening journey into our memories – and how we can improve them.
Running time: 48΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
540
Morag Loves Company
Doris Weitzel
Doris Weitzel
Paris 75015, France
T. +33 1 7544 8080
F. +33 1 4531 1305
[email protected]
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THE NETHERLANDS
WHERE IS GARY?
Jean-Baptiste Dumont
Documentary maker Jean-Baptiste Dumont (JB), has been scammed by a certain Gary in
a train station in Brussels. Out of curiosity he launches an interactive online investigation
and soon realizes that Gary scammed many people all around Europe. Who is this guy?
JB gives himself ten weeks to find Gary with the help of the audience. Twice a week he publishes a website, and Where Ιs Gary? becomes an interactive documentary. But it also raises
many questions. How to avoid the search becoming a manhunt? What about privacy? What
role does Facebook play? And is Gary for real?
Running time: 52΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Potemkino
Peter de Maegd
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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ARGENTINA
Lifestyle
WHO LOOKS AFTER
Muriel Rebora
Narda, a 28-year-old Βolivian student, leaves her country when she can no longer hide her
pregnancy. In the face of family rejection and increasing difficulties with her career, she
moves to Argentina with motherhood and saving money as her only goals. No previous
arrangements, no warranties. In time, she’ll find herself building a life that both keeps and
scares her. During her long hesitation on whether to go back or not, she will learn how to
be a mother, look after, and be looked after, moving forward with the strength of her most
unique quality: tenderness.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Jugo
Production Contact Person: Muriel Rebora
Muriel Rebora
Juramento 1081
Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina
T. +54 11 4786 9271
[email protected]
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AUSTRIA
WHO’S AFRAID OF WILHELM REICH
Antonin Svoboda
“The Orgasm as life-energy”. For this radical discovery, Wilhelm Reich was the last censored
scientist of the 20th century. Arrested by the FBI, he died in prison. Now we discover that his findings are true... The
amazing biography of a visionary. Running time: 58΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Coop99
Antonin Svoboda
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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CANADA
Current Affairs
WIEBO’S WAR
David York
Wiebo Ludwig is the prime suspect in a series of pipeline bombings near his family’s farm.
The bombings echo a campaign of sabotage he waged against the gas industry 10 years
ago: barricading roads, blowing up wells, and culminating in the unsolved death of a 16year-old girl.
The Ludwig family lives according to strict religious values, and under the sway of Wiebo,
their patriarch. They are self-sufficient in food and energy, but isolated, with seven unmarried adult children, and 38 grandchildren, many entering their teenaged years.
And they believe that those who don’t share their beliefs, like filmmaker David York, are
living in terrible darkness.
Running time: 92΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
544
52 Media Inc. & National Film Board of Canada
Christina Rogers
3155 Cote-de-Liesse Rd., St-Laurent,
Quebec H4N 2N4, Canada
T. +1 514 496 4134
[email protected]
www.nfb.ca
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THE NETHERLANDS
Current Affairs
WILDERS, THE MOVIE
Joost van der Valk & Mags Gavan
Some people call him a racist, others adore him. Why has politician Geert Wilders turned
so popular?
The world is under the spell of Geert Wilders. The politician generates discussion, anger and
admiration everywhere. During the elections of June 9th 2010, his Party for Freedom (PVV)
was the major winner and became the third biggest party of the Netherlands. This journey takes us from the Netherlands to London, to the United States, and ends up in Israel.
Running time: 53΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Pieter van Huystee Film&TV and VPRO Television
Pieter van Huystee
NPO/RNW Sales
Ellie Beijaard
Sumatralaan 45
T. +31 35 677 3561
F. +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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USA
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS:
A MAN WITHIN
Yony Leyser
Burroughs was one of the first writers to cross the boundaries of queer and drug culture
in the 1950s. He has influenced generations of artists. However, his friends were left
wondering, did William ever find happiness? This intimate documentary breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time.
Running time: 90΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
546
Yonilizer Productions
Yony Leyser
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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US - GUATEMALA
Current Affairs
WITHOUT COUNTRY
Theo Rigby
Sin País (Without Country) attempts to get beyond the partisan politics and mainstream
media’s “talking point” approach to immigration issues by exploring one family’s complex
and emotional journey involving deportation.
After living in the United States for nearly twenty years, immigration agents stormed the
Mejias’s house in 2007. Sam and Elida Mejia were undocumented and became deeply entangled in the US immigration system. After a passionate fight to keep the family together,
Sam and Elida are deported back to Guatemala and leave their two teenage children in the
United States.
With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País explores the complexities of the
Mejias’s new reality of a separated family – parents without their children, and children
without their parents.
Running time: 20΄
Theo Rigby
318 Laidley St
San Francisco CA 94131 USA
T. +1 415 867 5977
[email protected]
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SWITZERLAND - GERMANY
THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS
Vadim Jendreyko
Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Recently she completed her life work – the translation of the five great novels by Dostoyevski,
also known as “the five elephants”. Swetlana was born in Ukraine, which she left during
the war in 1943. She never went back.
The film interweaves the story of Swetlana Geier’s life with her literary work and traces the
secret of this inexhaustible mediator of language. It tells of great suffering, silent helpers
and unhoped-for chances. And a love of language that outshines all else.
Running time: 94΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
548
Mira Film GmbH
Anna Martensen
Mira Film GmbH
Badenerstr.129
T. +41 439 603 684
[email protected]
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ISRAEL - GERMANY
History & Politics
WOMEN OF HAMAS
Suha Arraf
Hamas taking over Gaza turned it into one of the most controversial organizations in the
world. While the most prominent members of the group are men, most of its field work
is carried out by cadres of women supporters. Some serve as leaders of the movement
while others are recognized for their social welfare activities on behalf of women and children and for being the mothers of suicide bombers.
Director Suha Arraf obtained unprecedented access to three women who are active members of the organization in Gaza, and sheds light on the work of those who spend their life
in the shadows.
Running time: 60΄
Sales Company:
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin Street
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
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FRANCE
Current Affairs
WOMEN WITHOUT A PAUSE
Paula Palacios
Women without a Pause compares the most significant transition in all women’s life
throughout different cultures: the menopause.
Women from France, Brazil, Japan, Tanzania and USA share their experience and remind
us that the menopause is a universal reality.
Running time: 54΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
550
Palacios Films
Paula Palacios
Andrea Hock
Trappelgasse 4/17
T. +43 720 346 934
[email protected]
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USA
THE WOODMANS
C. Scott Willis
The Woodmans is an inspiring portrait of one family’s fall and redemption in the often brutal world of art. Family patriarch George is a professor and painter. Wife and mother Betty
is a ceramicist who earns her own show at The Met. Charlie, their son, is a video artist. Most
highly regarded is Francesca, their daughter, one of the late 20th century’s most recognized
photographers, whose fame came after a tragedy that would forever scar the family.
Through candid interviews with George, Betty, Charlie, and a host of friends, we come to
understand how significant the importance of art-making has been to this family.
Francesca’s work emerges in a highly developed way at a very early age. Through the creative use of her journal entries, experimental videos, and dynamic photographs, director
C. Scott Willis brings us into the life of this young artist in a very intimate, visceral, and tragic
way. His debut feature documentary is an original and extraordinary work that plumbs the
depths of what it truly means to be an artist.
Running time: 82΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
C. Scott Films
C. Scott Willis
CAT&Docs
Catherine Le Clef
Paris 75004, France
T. +33 1 4459 6353
[email protected]
www.catndocs.com
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GREECE
History & Politics
WORDS OF RESISTANCE
Timon Koulmasis
The taxi driver refused to be paid. Athens, late July 1974. The Greek military junta has collapsed the night before. Arriving from Cologne, Germany, my mother insists. The taxi driver
does not answer. “May my hand wither if I take money from you!”, he utters finally. He had
recognized her voice. She had been one of the three or four principal voices of the Greek
radio program of the International German Radio Broadcast Deutsche Welle, a daily program that nearly all Greeks were listening to in secret during the dark years of the dictatorship of the colonels.
Words of Resistance tells the story of the men and women who created this program and,
forced into exile by the fascist regime, continued to fight for seven years to keep up the dignity and the hope of a whole people.
This film tries to uncover for the first time the important part they played during and after the dictatorship and indicates their place in collective memory today. It questions the
power of the critical, politically engaged speech and redefines its necessity today.
Running time: 78΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
552
TK Films
Timon Koulmasis
AIA Films
Timon Koulmasis
223 bd Raspail
Paris 75013, France
T. +33 1 4565 4241
[email protected]
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LATVIA
Sports
WORKING CLASS BALLET
Roberts Vinovskis
The European championship football madness, drunken “experts” at the provincial stadium,
the backstage of the National team, raving fans in the streets of Paris and Lisbon. Football
is a sport and entertainment, though possibly there is more to the game. In the film Working Class Ballet, philosophers, linguists, a neuropsychologist and a football coach contemplate the parallels between football and the drama of life, forming an unusual tale on
what football is or could be.
Running time: 49΄
Production Company:
Locomotive Production
Production Contact Person: Roberts Vinovskis
Bruņinieku iela 28-57
Riga LV 1011, Latvia
T. +371 292 986 67
F. +371 672 985 38
[email protected]
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ROMANIA
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B.
Alexander Nanau
The film starts in 2008. Ion B. is a 62-year-old homeless man living in Bucharest. As a young
man, he had dreamed of becoming a film director. In the 70s he started creating collages
that he refers to as “my films”. In 2008, a young gallery owner heard by chance about Ion
and his work.
The homeless man showed him a collection of old suitcases filled with almost 1000 collages he had made between the 70s and the 90s. Only one year later, in 2009, Ion is living in his own home and has become one of the most important contemporary artists in
Romania.
This is the story of a genuine artist living on the edge of society, creating art in its purest
form: for himself.
Running time: 60΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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Alexander Nanau Production & HBO Romania
Alexander Nanau
HBO Romania
Andrei Cretulescu
62-64 Buzesti street, 3rd floor
Bucharest 011017, Romania
T. +40 21 307 7777
F. +40 21 307 7788
[email protected]
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GERMANY
WORLDS OF THE MASTERS
This fascinating 3-part documentary series is a journey into the past, spanning 500 years
of European history. Enjoy twelve gripping stories about the Old Masters, their secrets and
often adventurous lives. What is concealed within their pictures? How did they see the
world? And what high-tech methods do scientists employ today to uncover evidence of
times past? Dive into the world of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer,
Rubens, Lucas Cranach and many others. With great narration, the films explore connections that can’t easily be seen during a visit to the gallery. Crystal-clear close ups reveal
those fascinating details that turn a painting into a masterpiece. Experience the immortal works of the Old Masters in all their beauty and discover the many stories they tell us.
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Oculus Film
Hubert Schäfer
Diana Karklin
Berlin10997, Germany
T. +49 30 4737 2980
F. +49 30 4737 298 20
[email protected]
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USA - SRI LANKA - JAPAN - FINLAND
WRETCHES & JABBERERS
Gerardine Wurzburg
In Wretches & Jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence. With limited speech, Tracy Thresher, 42,
and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both faced lives of social isolation in mental institutions or adult
disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives
changed dramatically. Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others like themselves. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a
hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Along the way, they reunite
with old friends from the USA, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and
make new allies in their cause.
Running time: 94΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
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State of the Art, Inc
Dan Curl
Area 23A
Kirt Eftekhar
1223 Wilshire Blvd. #820
Santa Monica CA 90403 USA
T. + 1 310 399 7937
[email protected]
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CANADA
Current Affairs
YOU DON’T LIKE THE TRUTH –
4 DAYS INSIDE GUATANAMO
Luc Cote & Patricio Henriquez
Canadian citizen Omar Khadr has been in Guantánamo since 2002. He was 15 when he
was arrested in Afghanistan and according to international law he is a child-soldier. This
documentary shows the encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and
Omar Khadr, using the never before seen seven hours of video footage of his questioning
recently declassified by the Supreme Court of Canada. The film delves into the unfolding
high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four day period and
analyzes the political, legal and scientific aspects of a forced dialogue.
Running time: 99΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Les Films Adobe
Luc Cote
Jan Rofekamp
T. + 1 514 844 3358
F. + 1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
557
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FRANCE
ZOG AND THE FLOOD
Pierre Meynadier
The Pantanal is a wild region in Brazil where the arid season rotates with the rainy one. Οld
Zog, the dean of the howler monkeys, was serenely ruling his people in the haven of a generous forest. But for obscure reasons that no-one can explain, the winds haven’t blown this
time. And they haven’t brought the usual flood with them which is terrible as they usually give life back to the dried out forest. The lack of rain will turn upside down what Zog
always believed to be the natural order of things. His people will know hunger and thirst
for the very first time.
The buds have not blossomed, the water saved up in tree trunks has dried up and the king
of the swamp, the anaconda Olim, has infiltrated the forest with the intention of capturing Zog who is really weakened.
But the water brings forth all its efforts to save the inhabitants of the forest and it finally
rains. Zog and his clan are saved but the old king is worried: What ever happened to the
natural order of things?
Production Company:
Sales Company:
Image Images Productions
10 Francs
Guy Knafo
75019 Paris, France
T. +33 1 4874 4377
F. +33 1 4874 8265
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
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407
ISRAEL
ZUBIN MEHTA – “ZUBIN AND ME”
Ori Sivan
The director follows world famous Maestro Zubin Mehta from his home town in India to
his adopted city, Tel Aviv, to discuss his career and personal choices. Running time: 66΄
Sales Company:
560
Cinephil
Philippa Kowarsky
18 Levontin St
T. +972 3 566 4129
F. +972 3 560 1436
[email protected]
www.cinephil.co.il
503
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CANADA - IRAN - KOREA
ZURKHANEH:
THE HOUSE OF STRENGTH
Federico Spinetti
Voices, aspirations and contradictions of contemporary Iran in a journey across the undocumented world of Zurkhaneh, the traditional Iranian gymnasia where martial arts and
music come together.
Running time: 104΄
Production Company:
Sales Company:
University of Alberta (Canada) & Lab 80 film
Alberto Valtellina
Lab 80 Film
Alberto Valtellina
via Pignolo 123
T. +39 333 849 0808 +39 03 5578 1021
F. +39 03 534 1255
[email protected]
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Index of Directors
Abedian, Torang 363
Adamni, Adamu 358
Adolph, Jörg 226
Adriatico, Andrea 14
Agathos, Anastasis 80
Aguiló, Macarena 114
Akridas, Christos 391
Al Massad, Mahmoud 502
Alevras, Nikos 404
Alexiou, Alexis 154
Alexiou, Ioannis 97
Alexopoulou, Vana 388
Ameladiotis, Dimitris 23
Amiropoulos, Spyros 167
Anderson, Lev 170
Andonopoulos, Andreas 517
André, David 169
Andresevic, Jill 309
Andrikopoulou, Angeli 219
Antoniou, Yorgos 431
Arnarson, Orn Marino 181
Arnold, Jennifer 467
Arraf, Suha 549
Asso, Aurore 135
Aston, Deborah 314
Astraka, Marianna 447
Atesh Litle, Joshua 193
Ayalon, Yakie 483
Azevedo, Licinio 265
Bademsoy, Aysun 156
Baer, Martin 284
Bailey, Genevieve 233
Bailey, Lucy 334
Baker, Jonathan 183
Bakhshi, Massoud 62
Bar-Lev, Amir 506
Barbieri, Giotto 15
Barkanikas, Charalambos 97
Barnard, Clio 46
Baron, Saskia 53
Barrett, Matt 272
Barry, Stevens 419
Baş, Berke 409
Bass, Anne 127
Bateman, Henry 194
Bausch, Carles 77
Bellucci, Nicola 250
Ben Hagai, Noa 83
Benaim, Abner 315
Benalia, Nasser-Eddine 30
Berghäll, Joonas 481
Bergman, Nir 440
Berry, David 252
Bigham, Jim 189
Biklen, Douglas 341
Binzer, Lea 401
Bird, Barbara 359
Bofarull, Anna 209
Bonilla, Rafael 296
Bonnaire, Sandrine 217
Boonstra, Marjolein 42
Boyd, Stephanie 140
Braun, Netalie 210
Bridgham, Julie 446
Brillant, Stephanie 198
Brooker-Marks, Joan 464
Brooks, Jonathan 227
Bucak, Fatma 39
Bundi, Hercli 224
Burkard, Konstanze 509
563
Burth, Marc 307
Busnel, François-Xavier 434
Bustnes, Håvard 212
Buthenhoff-Duffy, Claudia 286
Calek, David 214
Cammack, Jocelyn 508
Carpatorea, Ionut 221
Castro, Félix Fernández De 319
Celati, Gianni 142
Celis, Barbara 485
Charalambous, Petros 185
Chen, Itamar 491
Chilingirov, Hristo 109
Chojna, Igor 455
Choumou, Eleni 479
Chytroschek, Tristan 473
Ciners8 338
City of Athens Cultural Organization
Documentary Group 2009, 288
Coca-Cozma, Miruna 387
Cohen, Hila 27
Cohen, Paul 269
Comte, Olivier 411
Condom, Cédric 101
Corbelli, Giulio Maria 14
Cote, Luc 557
Curry, Marshall 239
D’Hondt, Caroline 173
Daccache, Zeina 16
Danezi, Marina 450, 514
Danopoulos, Yorgos 379
Daountaki, Anthi 515
Dartevelle, André 351
Dawid, Leszek 373
De Canson, Cyrille 331
De Vries, Simone 494
De Wilde, Jascha 308
Demetz, Ingrid 225
Demichelis, Davide 161
Deniau, Jean-Charles 453
Der Derian, James 228
Derki, Talal 218
Detiger, Allard 355
Deveux, Vincent 317
Dews, Morgan 339
Dhoedt, Steven 258
Dimitsanos, Yorgos 47
564
Dinç, Nefin 385
Dobrucki, Leslaw 300
Doran, Jamie 128
Dortmans, Hans 145
Doulkeri, Tessa 65
Drosakis, Nikos 301
Ducaroir, Laure 353
Dumont, Jean-Baptiste 541
Dunlop, Nic 93
Dusek, Martin 120
Dutertre, Mino 331
Dysinger, Carol 100
Economides, Glafkos 423
Economou, Maria 537
Economou, Marianna 153, 519
Economou, Vassilis 449
Eldar, Shlomi 416
Elder, Kathy 303
Engel, Dries 88
Esson, Katja 466
Evangelidis, Panagiotis 298
Evangelinos, Omiros 347
Fargnachino, Sergio 39
Faschina, Titus 118
Fedda, Yasmin 89
Felver, Christopher 106, 182
Ferdek, Pawel 454
Ferrara, Abel 349
Ferryn, Patrick 162
Findlay, Peter 426
Fingerhut, Benjamin 90
Flessa, Kleoni 186
Forbes, David 123, 335
Forgács, Péter 231
Fotiadis, George 447
Freed, Josh 342, 540
Fridriksson, Fridrik Thor 333
Fylaktos, Lefteris 19
Galinsky, Michael 67
Gallus, Maya 144
Garbely, Frank 216
García-Moreno, Diego 70
Gauja, Andris 178
Gavan, Mags 545
Gentelev, Alexander 500
Georgiev, Tchavdar 136
Gerosa, Manu 278
Gerrets, Boris 402
Geyrhalter, Nikolaus 37
Gilbert, Peter 94
Goldberg, Daniel 249
Gonsalves, Ines 312, 490
Gonseth, Frederic 230
Gottlieb, Lizzie 510
Gould, Ester 461
Grabsky, Phil 87
Greenberg-Anjou, Erik 285
Grosser, Christoph Martin 50, 213, 475, 555
Grotenhuis, Walther 163
Grün, Eva 358
Grünberg, Sławomir 513
Gsell, Gitta 85
Guerra-Peixe, Georgia 444
Guichard, Camille 353
Guicherd, Anne 433
Gutiérrez, Rafaël 435
Guttman, Dalia 113
Guzmán, Ulises 413
Gyrithe Bonne, Anne 52
Habib, Dan 255
Hachmeister, Lutz 504
Haggerman, Carlos 58
Hardarson, Thorkell 181
Hardy, Don 310
Harel, Nadav 157
Harris, Eytan 48
Hart, Phoebe 380
Hassaballa, Salma 75
Hawley, Suki 67
Hayun, Oshri 27
Heim, Gabriel 271
Helminen, Suvi Andrea 518
Henriquez, Patricio 557
Herman Dolz, Sonia 35
Herskovits, Alberto 177
Hessman, Robin 344
Hetherington, Tim 436
Heymann, Tomer 370
Hnikova, Erika 324
Ho, Thuy-Tiên 528
Hoaglund, Linda 44
Hobkinson, Sam 73
Hofmann, Pascal 130
Hokkanen, Jouni 282
Holland, Ezra 260
Horvath, Andreas 45
Hotakainen, Mika 481
Hristov, Tonislav 441
Huezo Sánchez, Tatiana 468
Idakiev, Simeon 474
Iglesias González, Ígor 511
Ingmire, George 501
Isbilen, Tahsin 112
Itach, Ohad 311
Jaberg, Benny 130
Jablonski, Dariusz 534
Jarl, Stefan 484
Jarmusch, Tom 471
Jaud, Jean-Paul 459
Jaury, Marie-Pierre 110
Jendreyko, Vadim 548
Jin, Huaging 215
Jonigkeit, Elke 486
Jullien, Anaud 168
Junger, Sebastian 436
Junker, Jens 33
Jurtshenko, Marje 507
Kaat, Marianna 408
Kalaitzis, Vangelis 503
Kaplan, Marianne 86
Kappos, Sotiris 482
Kapteijns, Michel 417
Karakepelis, Christos 425
Karanikolas, Athanasios 281
Karni, Gil 261
Kastner, Jamie 427
Kaufman, David 472
Kaveh, Yehuda 113
Kawase, Naomi 197
Kayode, Ibisankale 150
Kekas, Panos 152
Kent, Jon 159
Keramidiotis, Yorgos 439
Keresteliev, Dobrin 489
Kersanidis, Akis 164
Kesisoglou, Anna 336
Khashchavatski, Yury 304
Kilmi, Jaak 143
King, Julianne & Don 71
Kioukas, Antonis 238
Kirpalani, Soniya 146, 465
565
Kirtadzé, Nino 138
Kleiman, Michael 294
Klusak, Vit 34, 125
Knauer, Lorenz 268
Koiso-Kanttila, Visa 412
Komandarev, Stephan 512
Kontakos, Valerie 539
Köösel, Kertu 507
Korexenidis, Simos 321
Koszalka, Marcin 134
Koszałka, Marcin 295
Koulmasis, Timon 552
Kouloglou, Stelios 538
Krawiec, Grzegorz 222
Krontiropoulou, Pinelopi 487
Kudrna, Tomas 36
Kuipers, Nadine 172
Kyriakopoulos, Panayiotis 108
Laffont, Jérôme 29
Lafon, Cyril 206
Laguerre, Antoine 393
Laloudaki, Elisavet 382
Landerburger, Thomas 31
Landsman, Mark 505
Larsen, Adam 352
Latsoudi, Efi 536
Le Pomellec, Camelle 137
Lechuga, Leobardo Jacob 273
Lee, Seong-gyou 340
Leeman, Lisa 376
Lefebvre, Carine 332
Legaki, Kalliopi 378, 478
Leingle, Gael 275
Leitner, Caroline 225
Leuze, Mirjam 201
Lev, Simha 329
Levy, Françoise 397
Leyser, Yony 546
Liberdade, Kiluanje 490
Liberman Shkolnikoff, Lillian 532
Libertade, Kiluanje 312
Lieff, Judy 133
Lokkerberg, Vibeke 493
Longinotto, Kim 406
López, Pedro Daniel 302
Loules, Vassilis 111
Loveland, Adrian 521
566
Lozano, Juan José 242
Lubbe Bakker, Sabine 461
Ludlow, Dariela 374
Luraschi, Sara 498
Lusena de Sarmiento, Tommaso 99
Lykoudis, Michalis 151
MacInnes, Teresa 361
Macqueen, Angus 256
MAK Kritikou, Marineta 480
Malliarou, Theodora 287
Maltz, Judy 359
Mangin, Mathias 356
Mannheimer, Lina 122
Marangos, Aristotelis 259
March, Briar 497
Marczak, Michal 51
Marquardt, Alberto 364
Marshall, Stephen 220
Martínez, Fernando 179
Martino, Antonio 357
Matsikas, Yorgos 108
Mavraki, Isabella 452
Maytorena Taylor, Jennifer 354
McGrain, Pete 166
Melanitou, Eftychia 326
Menegazzo, Morgan 535
Mengrelis, Nikos 460
Metzler, Chris 170
Meynadier, Pierre 559
Mikulski, Lech 457
Milan, Kuzov 21
Milne, Anne 320
Minorowicz, Marta 405
Minter, Sarah 360
Mirkovic, Zeliko 237
Mishey, Greg 303
Miské, Karim 422
Misouridis, Yannis 305, 327, 539
Mocanu, Matei-Alexandru 462
Moormann, Mark 189
Moreau, Laëtitia 195
Morgan, Andreas 469
Morris, Holloman 242
Mortezai, Sudabeh 248
Mountsakis, Stergios 420
Mulvad, Eva 202
Muñoz, Salva 278
Muntean, Lucian and Natasa 325
Music, Goran 24
Nachman, Dana 310
Nanau, Alexander 554
Nannavecchia, Nicola 323
Nash, Steve 260
Nason, Kent 361
Nemes, Gyula 350
Nicoara, Mona 387
Nicolas, Hervé 139
Niestroj, Jędrzej 316
Nikoleris, Christos 499
Noll, Michel 123, 335
ΝΟΜΙΝΤ 207
O Domhnaill, Risteard 407
Occhipinti, Michela 297
Ochronowicz, Igor 235
Ogut, Berfi Dicle 205
Olalla, Pedro 243
Oreck, Jessica 72
Orion Scott, Michel 223
Orr, Odette 69
Orthodoxou, Costas 41, 289
Oskouei, Mehrdad 292
Ostrochovsky, Ivan 241
Otten, Hans 63
Pablos, David 375
Pakalnina, Laila 372
Palacios, Paula 550
Paladino, Thierry 313
Paliatsios, Yorgos 23
Papadogeorgou, Myrto 124
Papagaroufalis, George 527
Papageorghiou, Stavros 165
Papathanassiou, Anneta 365
Papathanassiou, Nikoletta 240
Papatheodorou, Yorgos 429
Paraskevas, Apostolos 234
Paravel, Verena 190
Pariente, Jonas 356
Paris, Erato 96
Pasin, Patrick 95
Patroni, Katerina 147, 160
Paz, Eran 270
Pechlivanidis, Chronis 476
Pelecis, Mara 477
Perkins, Jeffrey 394
Pertnoy, Michael 294
Pesli, Maria 386
Philp, John 330
Piasecki Poulsen, Frank 82
Pieta, Magdalena 410
Pighetti, Oliver 103
Pills, Mariusz 61
Pinto, Goel 377
Piperides, Marios 293
Pittidis, Alexander 525
Piturescu, Ionut 421
Pizzocaro, Massimo 382
Ploumpidis, Nicolas 184
Podemski, Esther 400
Poinsot, Laure 141
Poitras, Laura 367
Ponce, Alexis 38
Pope, Amanda 136
Poutte, Manu 191
Poveda, Christian 526
Pradetto, Wilma 246
Preuss, Jakob 384
Prochazka, Radim 104
Provaznik, Ondrej 120
Provencher, Raymonde 204
Przybył, Rafał 316
Psarras, Tasos 43
Psyllakis, Stavros 516
Quérouil, Manon 198
Rabaud, Marlène 277
Ramonet, Axel 135
Rau, Rama 322
Rébillon, Hervé 264
Rebora, Muriel 542
Reed, Patrick 492
Reichova, Tereza 318
Remunda, Filip 125
Retel Helmrich, Leonard 414
Richter, Janos 208
Rigas, Vangelis 257
Rigby, Theo 547
Riguet, Alexandra 17
Rincon, Nicolas 158
Rohrer, Kat 180
Romano, U. Roberto 211
Rosenblatt, Jay 131
Rosenwaks, Uri 57
567
Rosi, Gianfranco 463
Ross, Bill and Turner 20
Rossetti, Zach 341
Rough Cats 32
Roumeliotis, Ioannis 395
Ruhle, Eberhard 246
Sanchez, Alejandra 26
Santana, Araceli 81
Sarenac, Srdjan 529
Sarvestani, Nima 236
Sauter, Marcin 362
Saywell, Shelley 251
Scarbonchi, Laurence 432
Schädler, Reinhard 74
Schäfer, Hubert 50, 213, 475, 555
Schellart, Marieke 155
Schillaci, Giuseppe 99
Schmitt, Erik 470
Schomerus, Hajo 245
Schröder, Kaspar Astrup 345
Schumann, Dieter 533
Séclier, Philippe 40
Seeger, Wolfram 54
Segre, Andrea 299
Sevgili, Soner 403
Sher, Roy 346
Sherman, Richie 359
Shiers-Ghelliere, Kate 175
Sieveking, David 132
Silovic, Vassili 25
Silva Melo, Jorge 522
Sivan, Eyal 267
Sivan, Ori 560
Skopeteas, Yannis 192
Smith, Philip 531
Smrzova, Dagmar 448
Sniadecki, J.P 190
Soda, Kazuhiro 399
Sos, Agnes 263
Spatova, Olga 174
Spinetti, Federico 561
Standen-Raz, Andrew 530
Stern, Ricki 93
Stockman, Walter 451
Stozek, Jakub 389
Stratigakos, Stavros 119
Strigel, Claus 254
568
Suidgeest, Koen 279
Sundberg, Annie 93
Svoboda, Antonin 543
Szederkényi, Júlia 105
Szymanska, Wiktoria 495
Tal, Ran 199
Talamantes, César 383
Tan, Shuchen 59, 66
Temple, Julien 371
Tenhaven, Jan 56
Teskos, Spyros 343
Thalhofer, Florian 409
Theodorakis, Nick 290
Theodoropoulos, Dimitris 22
Theodosiou, Nikos 262
Thompson, Andrew 334
Todorov, Jordan 121
Tomashevich, Ilya 84
Touboura, Sofia 445
Tour, David 113
Touzalin, Christophe 353
Trabitzsch, Michael 102
Trachtman, Ilana 415
Trayanova, Maria 49
Třeštíková, Helena 280
Trikas, Dimitris 496
Trochidis, Prodromos 430
Tsabari, Doron 437
Tsepelikas, Argyris 219
Tsiarta, Anna 253
Tucciarone, Mathew 234
Tuurna, Markku 458
Tuvi, Reyan 369
Tzafka, Gabriel 107
Tzavella, Sophia 398
Tzelepi, Chryssa 164
Udris, David 228
Udris, Michael 228
Ujică, Andrei 55
Urbajs, Milan 283
Urso, Bruno & Fabrizio 68
Usborne, Tim 149
Uttar Kornetzky, Brigitte 200
Van den Engel, Frank 494
Van der Haak, Bregtje 60
Van der Valk, Joost 545
Van Es, Klara 306
Van Luyn, Floris-Jan 424
Van Peel, Bart 88
Van Schaik, Saskia 91
Van Tassel, Sabrina 438
Vassilev, Nikolay 488
Venditti, Jennifer 78
Verete, Danny 229
Veverka, Jeremy 115
Veverka, Jesse 115
Vianellis, Freddy 171
Villarroya, Roger 396
Vinovskis, Roberts 553
Visinoni, Sergio 337
Vlassi, Eleni 291
Vojnar, Ivan 117
Vojtek, Jaro 390
Von Kalckreuth, Hans 523
Vrakas, Dimitris 247
Vredeveld, Saskia 79
Wadimoff, Nicolas 28
Wang, Feng 187
Warrick, Jeff 418
Wei, Shi 381
Weihermann, Ralph 201
Wetzel, Gereon 92, 226
Whitney, Jim 476
Widmer, Gerhard 18
Willis, C. Scott 551
Wischmann, Claus 284
Wistroem, Mikael 177
Wolf, Edgar 358
Wolf, Thierry 428
Wolff, Michael 18
Wood, Elizabeth 129
Wurzburg, Gerardine 556
Wyss, Tobias 188
Xanthopoulos, Lefteris 64
Xhrouet, Stéphane 274
Yatzouzakis, Dimitris 456
Yimer, Dagmawi 299
York, David 544
Zachmanidi, Iris 116
Zajtman, Arnaud 277
Zambelli, Andrea 328
Zanoli, Andrea 244, 328
Zariczny, Grzegorz 148
Zheng, Xiaolei 368
Zipagauta, Rendon 76
Zografou, Vivi 38
Zünd, Jacqueline 203
569
Index of sales Companies
10 Francs 15, 17, 30, 40, 85, 99, 106, 135, 139, 161,
182, 299, 331, 394, 428, 432, 433, 434, 435, 559
AB Svensk Filmindustri 493
AETN International 506
AIA Films 552
Always at Sea Productions 400
AMP Film Works Ltd 293
Anemon Productions 219
Aplaplac Producciones 114
Area 23A 556
Artistic Organisation Tabula Rasa 301
Atlantik Film 385
Autlook Filmsales GmbH 37, 44, 45, 74, 92, 132, 143, 163,
178, 203, 226, 242, 315, 407, 507, 512, 543, 550
Baltic Film Production 304
bathysphere productions 275
Bausan Films, S.L. 319
BBC Active 53
BossaNovaFilms 444
Bright Child Films 71
Bulgarian National TV 21, 49, 109, 474, 488, 489
C Major Entertainment GmbH 284
Cargo Film & Releasing 100
571
CAT&Docs 26, 36, 77, 88, 93, 94, 138, 157, 212,
267, 279, 306, 340, 367, 453, 485, 502, 546, 551
Cinema Group Production 218
Cinephil 83, 199, 256, 294, 346, 370, 416, 427, 440, 491, 500, 549, 560
CL Productions 425, 460
Cultural Foundation of Tinos 480
Cultural Organization of the City of Athens – Poulidis Productions 288
Czech Television 117
Dangerous Productions 447
Danish Documentary Production 202
Deckert Distribution GmbH 118, 131, 156, 177, 236, 408, 412, 466, 495
Doc & Film International 193, 463
DOC 3, 153, 154
Doc and Film World Sales 169
DR International Sales 86
DR TV, International Sales 82
Exit Filmproduktion 54
F Productions 96
Films Transit International 56, 136, 144, 180, 181, 220,
239, 251, 376, 414, 424, 426, 481, 492, 557
First Hand Films 52, 210, 310, 380, 417, 441, 534
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion 307
Goldcrest Films International 436
Greek Film Center 111, 160, 186, 327, 343, 425, 456, 460, 478, 519
Hakalax Productions Oy 282
HanWay Films 334, 371, 505
HBO Central Europe 263, 295, 462, 513
HBO Czech Republic 448
HBO Romania 554
Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 43, 64, 119, 153,
154, 192, 429, 487, 496, 515, 516, 539
572
Hellenic Visual Archives 423
Icons World 291
ICTV 123, 187, 215, 216, 335, 339, 368, 528
ICTV (Rest of the World) 381
Illumina Films 42, 325, 446, 458, 464
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine) 58, 81, 249, 273,
296, 302, 360, 374, 383, 413, 468, 532
Iris 32
Java Films 103, 137, 198, 227, 473
JMT Films Distribution 27, 48, 113, 150, 179, 261, 270, 329, 356, 377, 438, 518
Journeyman Pictures 278, 497
Kalejdoskop Film Studio 316
Kent Creative/501Cinema 159
Krakow Film Foundation 134, 148, 222, 286, 300, 362, 373, 389, 405, 410, 454, 455
Kumie Inc. 197
L’Oeil de la chouette 206
Lab 80 Film 244, 337, 498, 561
Lab of Electronic Media – Dept. of Journalism and
Mass Media, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 65
Laboratory X, inc. 399
Lamaraca Producciones 70
London Film School 259
Louise Rosen Ltd 467
Lynx Productions 538
M.C.R. Production 482
Mandragora International 55
Marfilmes 265, 312, 490, 522
Massive Productions 243
Mi Abuelo Productions 501
Minerva Pictures Group 349
Minimal Films 147
573
Mira Film GmbH 188, 224, 548
Modiano SA 365
Mysterious Art 47
N-ORASIS 499
National Film Board of Canada 204, 419, 544
Network Ireland Television 89
NIMA Productions 514
Noima 240
NOMINT 207
NPO Sales 59, 62
NPO/RNW Sales 35, 60, 61, 63, 66, 79, 91, 155, 258, 269, 308, 355, 461, 494, 541, 545
Objective Cinema 345
Onos Productions 476
OPA TV 525
Open University Worldwide 73, 149, 175, 252, 272, 531
OutCome 104, 168, 214
Periplus 240
Pesca Production 328
Pieter van Huijstee Film 145
Point du Jour International 25, 28, 110, 141, 235, 264, 332, 342, 364, 411, 422, 540
Raven Films/Spier Films 194
Realfiction Film 533
Rise and Shine World Sales 33, 50, 72, 213, 245, 384, 409, 470, 475, 508, 555
Roco Films 78, 309, 344
rumur 67
Ruth Diskin Films 57, 229, 311, 437
Seventh Art Productions 87
Seventh Art Releasing 20, 285, 330, 354, 359, 472
Sheherazad Media International (SMI) 292
Sideways Film 115, 140, 166, 183, 228, 418, 521
574
Silver Sickle Productions 234
Smiley Film Sales 415
Storyline Entertainment 322
Studio Alfa SA 116
Studio Obrazu – Lech Mikulski 457
studioCrocus 401
Submarine 172
Svesnk Filmindustri 484
Syracuse University 341
T&C Edition 130
Taskovski Films 31, 34, 39, 125, 237, 280, 402
Tetraktys Films 165
The Film Sales Company 211, 333
Thierry Detaille Int’l imports 146, 230, 313, 465, 529
ThinkMedia 303
TVF International 128, 361
Unicorn Content & Media 69
united docs 18, 102, 201, 246, 254, 268, 271, 358, 486, 504, 509, 523
Ventes-CBA/WIP Sales 29, 158, 162, 173, 191, 274, 277, 317, 351, 397, 443
Visit Films 189
Vitagraph 14, 68, 142, 323, 357, 535
Vixen Films 406
Vox Documentaries 107
Wavelenght Pictures 46
Wide House 76, 95, 127, 353, 393, 451, 459, 526
Zed 101, 195
575
ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ ΝΤΟΚΙΜΑΝΤΕΡ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
Thessaloniki DocumenTary FesTival
Πλατεία Αριστοτέλους 10, 546 23 Θεσσαλονίκη/10, Aristotelous Sq., 54623 Thessaloniki
T. +30 2310 378400 F. +30 2310 285759
Λεωφόρος Αλεξάνδρας 9, 11473 Αθήνα/9 Alexandras Ave., 11473 Athens
Τ. +30 210 8706000 F. +30 210 6448163
[email protected] www.filmfestival.gr

Doc Market - Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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