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45th International Film Festival of India, Goa

OFFICIAL CATALOGUE

INTERNATIONAL

CINEMA
IFFI 2014

INTERNATIONAL CINEMA IFFI 2014

OFFICIAL CATALOGUE

INTERNATIONAL

CINEMA
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45th International Film Festival of India, Goa

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Organized by the Directorate of Film Festivals
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India

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Festival Director: Shankar Mohan


Assisted By: Mukesh Chand
Programming Team: Tanvi Sharma, Milind Joshi, Pankul Gupta, Ajra Sharma

Editor: Saibal Chatterjee


Editorial Coordinator: Harsh Agarwal
Cover Design: Sushant Tari
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Creative Director: Mukesh Chandra
Creative Assistance: Upkar Singh, Moin Hasan
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All views expressed in this publication are not necessarily that of the Editor or of the IFFI Secretariat.
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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Government of India
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PRESIDENT REPUBLIC OF INDIA

MESSAGE
I am happy to learn that the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI 2014) is being organized
in Goa from November 20-30, 2014.
Cinema transcends regions and boundaries. Given its mass appeal, cinema has the potential to go
beyond all modes of creative representation in terms of being educational, entertaining and a means
for transforming people and society. It is the responsibility of everyone associated with the film
industry to use this powerful medium to portray and encourage our societal values and build a
tolerant and harmonious India.
I am sure the 45th edition of the International Film Festival of India will celebrate this lively and
powerful medium by showcasing the best of films from around the world and richness of India's
contemporary cinema.
On this occasion, I extend my greetings to the organizers and participants of the International Film
Festival of India and wish the Festival all success.

(Pranab Mukherjee)

New Delhi
October 7, 2014

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VICE-PRESIDENT OF INDIA

MESSAGE
I am happy to know that the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is being held in Goa from
November 20-30, 2014.
The IFFI is one of the most important film festivals in Asia and provides a vibrant platform for film
makers and cinema lovers from across the globe to come together to showcase excellence in the art
of film making and to better understand and appreciate films from different parts of the world.
I extend my greetings and good wishes to everyone associated with IFFI 2014 and wish the event all
success.

(M. Hamid Ansari)

New Delhi
October 13, 2014

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PRIME MINISTER

MESSAGE
I am delighted to know that the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting is organizing International Film Festival of India (IFFI 2014) in Goa from 20th to 30th
November, 2014.
Over the years, the International Film Festival of India has emerged as a major event on the calendar
of international cinema. Undoubtedly, this festival has proven to be a significant platform for the
Indian cinema enabling it to emerge as a distinct genre in world cinema.
By showcasing films in different languages and from diverse cultures, IFFI contributes to the
important task of breaking down boundaries between nations and cultures.
I have great pleasure in extending my greetings and good wishes to the organizers and participants of
the IFFI 2014 for the success of the festival.

(Narendra Modi)
New Delhi
October 15, 2014

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MINISTER OF STATE (I&B), INDEPENDENT CHARGE


GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MESSAGE
It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to the 45th International Film Festival of India
(IFFI) which will be organised in Goa between 20th and 30th November, 2014.
The Festival has grown over the years and has received engaging responses from film connoisseurs
and enthusiasts from all over the world. IFFI has developed into one of the most significant and
remarkable film festivals from Asia and is an annual celebration for film makers as well as cinema
enthusiasts.
The 45th edition of the Festival introduces new and exciting sections enhancing the cinematic
experience of the participants. This year, as part of the country focus, there is a specially curated
package of films from People's Republic of China representing the exciting new trends in Chinese
cinema that are making a mark internationally. In addition, the Festival has put together a
Retrospective of the works of Award winning South Korean Director Jeon Soo-il; the films of the
much acclaimed Iranian Film Director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and outstanding films from the
SAARC countries. The IFFI also salutes some of the greatest luminaries of the world cinema who
departed in the recent pass.
I am sure the Festival will offer a rich, delightful and memorable experience.
I wish the Festival and people associated with the Festival all success.

(Prakash Javadekar)

CHIEF MINISTER
GOA

MESSAGE
It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to the 45th edition of the prestigious International
Film Festival of India which will be organized in the beach state, Goa, from 20th to 30th Nov, 2014.
IFFI has come a long way since 1952 and has been organized in Goa for the last one decade. This is a
special year for us as from 2014 onwards Goa will be the permanent home for IFFI which is one of
the oldest film festivals of Asia. I am sure that this new beginning will bring glory to both IFFI and
Goa.
The State of Goa with a rich artistic and cultural history of its own has emerged as a great place for
independent artists and filmmakers to explore their stories. With IFFI coming to Goa permanently I
am sure that very soon Goa will have its own film industry and we will be able to produce great
independent cinema.
I wish the festival and the film enthusiasts all the very best and welcome the best in the world of
cinema to this annual event.

(Manohar Parrikar)

September 29, 2014

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SECRETARY,
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION & BROADCASTING
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MESSAGE
I take pride in extending a heartfelt welcome to the guests and delegates to the International Film
Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Goa between the 20th and 30th November, 2014.
IFFI, one of the most prominent festivals in Asia, has endeavoured to encourage and uphold an
exceptional cinematic culture, showcasing the best of World and Indian Cinema, lending a platform
where brilliant and outstanding film makers and eminent people from the world of art and films
exchange ideas through seminars, panel discussions and informal chat sessions.
Indian film makers are now able to connect with connoisseurs of film and cinema from all over the
world through IFFI. IFFI bridges the gap between the Indian and International film industry and
provides opportunities to explore cinema through meaningful interaction.
The IFFI bouquet this year includes a collection of ideas across nations, a special focus on China and
a section of films from SAARC nations amongst others.
We sincerely pay tribute to the icons of Indian and World cinema who have passed away in the recent
past in the section 'Homage' where we showcase their outstanding and brilliant masterpieces.
I extend my greetings to everyone associated with IFFI 2014 and wish the event all success.

(Bimal Julka)

New Delhi
September 26, 2014

From the
Festival Director's Desk

Since 1952, the vision and dream of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) has been to curate and
showcase the most thought provoking and exceptional films from the world over. It was a brave
initiative for a newly independent country to begin the culture of a film festival and celebrate the art
form of cinema.
The 45th edition of IFFI, one of Asia's oldest film festivals, has arrived, and I welcome you all to this
colossal festival where the vision and dream still remains the same.
More than 70 countries are participating in the festival this year. For 11 days, Goa will be the film
centre of the universe where we will witness directors, cinematographers, actors, scriptwriters and
other key technicians who work day in day out to create the magic of cinema getting their due
spotlight.
For the last 10 years, IFFI discovered the added charm of dazzling Goa. The breathtaking beaches,
the Arabian Sea, and the Portuguese touch have just made the movie watching experience for any
film lover very majestic. From this edition onwards, Goa will be the eternal home, eternal residence
and eternal land for IFFI. I am positive that both will add to each other's splendour.
IFFI is not only presenting a bouquet of acclaimed and award-winning films but it is also celebrating
the excellent cinemas from yesteryears by organizing retrospectives of three iconic filmmakers from
Iran, South Korea and Poland.
Asia and India's close neighbours are part of the country's greater vision. Therefore, IFFI has
initiated another section exclusively for the South Asian region, showcasing one outstanding film
from each of the eight SAARC nations.
With the aim of bringing cinema to film lovers, we have designed this edition such that we have
something in the kitty for everyone. With master classes at IFFI, the upcoming generation of
filmmakers can learn the fundamentals of making a film. Both the Documentary and Animation
Sections have something new, and present the most innovative films of the year.
This year we are putting the spotlight on China. The most ambitious Chinese Cinema is available for
this year's edition. Though China is our country focus, we have managed to pull in films from every
corner of the world, even countries where hardly any films are made.
Alongside the prominent International Cinema, IFFI is also showcasing the best of the best of Indian
Cinema, which completed a century two years ago. And in continuation of that, we are celebrating
Dance in Indian Cinema in this edition. The festival is also not missing this opportunity to do a
retrospective of the legendary Indian poet, lyricist and filmmaker, Gulzar.

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Times are flying ahead. Films are being made and distributed digitally. We witnessed the outraging
number of submissions this year. It almost seems like everyone wants to make a film. But the
fundamentals of the art of storytelling remain the same. It is one of the biggest achievements of our
festival to constantly present films which holds command over the narrative, over the art of
storytelling in new and innovative style.
The festival is not complete without thanking the masters of world cinema, filmmakers who devoted
their lifetime in carving out the greatest films of all time. IFFI this year is proud to do a retrospective
of restored films of Charlie Chaplin and Francois Truffaut. This is our way of saluting the masters.
We are five years away from our golden jubilee. We have come a long way in the last many decades.
Our constant endeavour will always be to present the biggest and the best eleven-day carnival of
cinema on this planet. That moment of the year when you drink, sleep, eat, talk, learn, live and enjoy
nothing but great cinema. We have devoted all our energies in putting up this great show. We leave it
to you now to take the most from it. We hope we can satisfy your great taste and love for films. Let the
curtains rise!!

(Shankar Mohan)
Director
Directorate of Film Festivals & IFFI Secretariat
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Government of India

CONTENTS

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IFFI CREATIVES

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Sushant Tari

IFFI SIGNATURE FILM

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Shaji N Karun

LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

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Wong Kar-Wai

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COMPETITION

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1000 Rupee Note


Behaviour
Corbo
Fish
Genuine Love
Hadji Sha
The Kindergarten Teacher
Leviathan
Mirage
Mr. Kaplan
Nabat
Nuoc 2030
The Owners
A Short Story
Timbuktu

CENTENARY AWARD

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Rajinikanth

OPENING FILM
The President

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CINEMA OF THE WORLD

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3 Hearts
Alice in Marialand
Cold in July
Consequences
Cracks in Concrete
The Director's Angst
Down the River
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere
The Fool
The Forgotten
Four Corners
Foxcatcher
The Gods of Water
The Gospel of the Flesh
The Guide
A Hard Day
Heartbeat
Hippocrates
Hope
I Am Not Lorena
I Am Yours
I Won't Come Back
Ida
The Imitation Game

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Journey to the Mother


The Lamb
Letter to the King
Life in a Fishbowl
Like Never Before
Little England
Los Hongos
Mardan
Melbourne
Miss Julie
Modris
Monument to Michael Jackson
Nagima
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Natural Sciences
The Postman's White Nights
Queen and Country
Red Amnesia
Roxanne
Run
Sand Dollars
Scouting for Zebras
A Second Chance
Sivas
The Teacher's Diary
The Theory of Everything
Today
Track 143
The Tribe
Turist
Two Step
Villa Touma
The Way He Looks
When you wake up
White Moss
White Shadow
The Wonders
Xenia

FESTIVAL KALEIDOSCOPE
40 Days of Silence
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Blind Massage
Charlie's Country
Coming Home
Corn Island
Fantasia
Field of Dogs
Geronimo
The Golden Era
Goodbye to Language
Jimmy's Hall
The Judgement
Mommy
Oblivion
Party Girl
Red Rose
The Search
Tales
Two Days, One Night

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CONTENTS

MASTERSTROKES

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Clouds of Sils Maria


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Dearest
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An Eye for Beauty
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The Face of an Angel
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Force of Destiny
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Foreign Body
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Mr. Turner
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Nymphomaniac
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One on One
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence143
Still the Water
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Winter Sleep
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CLOSING FILM
The Grandmaster

SPECIAL TRIBUTE
JAN TROELL
Everlasting Moments

DOCUMENTARIES
Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy
The Dark Side
The Look of Silence
Maidan
My Name is Salt
The Salt of the Earth

COUNTRY FOCUS - CHINA


American Dreams in China
Beijing Blues
Caught in the Web
Christmas Rose
Feng Shui
Finding Mr. Right
The Great Hypnotist
Out of Inferno
Silent Witness

FRAMES: A WINDOW ON
SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA

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Daughter
A Few Cubic Meters of Love
Finger
The Fort
Jalal's Story
Pattern of Love
Refusing Heaven
The Singing Pond

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POSTER EXHIBITION

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Double Life of Veronique


A Short Film about Killing
Three Colours: Blue

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Daddy's School
The Day I Became a Woman
Kandahar
A Moment of Innocence
Salaam Cinema
Sex & Philosophy
The Silence
Time of Love

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Jeon Soo-Il

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The Bird Who Stops in the Air


El Condor Pasa
Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells
I Came from Busan
My Right to Ravage Myself
Pink
Time Between Dog and Wolf
With the Girl of Black Soil

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RESTORED CLASSICS

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Charlie Chaplin
Francois Truffaut

SOUL OF ASIA

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Gabbeh
Silent Souls
What Time is it There?
Words with Gods
Ram Dass- Fierce Grace
Adventures of an American Yogi
Tropical Malady

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CHAI 'N CHAT

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SKETCHES ON SCREEN

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Beyond-Beyond
Boonies Bears To the Rescue!
The Hero of Colour City
Mighty Raju - Rio Calling
Rocks in My Pockets
The World of Goopi and Bagha

HOMAGE

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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn - Robin Williams


Gandhi - Richard Attenborough
The Godfather - Gordon Willis
Smoking/ No Smoking - Alain Resnais

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Krzysztof Kieslowski

RETROSPECTIVE
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Decalog 1- I am the Lord Thy God
Decalog 2- Dekalog, DWA
Decalog 3- Dekalog, TRZY
Decalog 4- Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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INDEX
Titles
Directors
Countries

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IFFI Creatives: Sushant Tari

Sushant Shivnath Tari is one of India's leading art directors. He has been designing and executing sets for some of the world's
biggest corporate events as well as other shows. He works out of Mumbai with a 300-strong workforce.
Born in Santo Estevam, Goa in 1965, Tari worked with art directors like Nitin Desai, Samir Chanda and Ajit Patnaik before
branching out on his own and setting up a set design and execution company, TPT Productions.
He was trained at the Goa College of Art and is from the 1990 batch of Mumbai University. Over the years, he has executed
projects in India and overseas for leading corporate brands such as Audi, Samsung, BMW, Burberry, Starbucks and TCS, to name
only a few.
TPT Productions works with all leading event management companies of the country, to name only a few are Fountainhead
Entertainment, Showtime Events, Vinsan World, Cab Experiences, Wizcraft, Showhouse etc.
Tari also executed a project for the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2011. He has also designed for the Goa Carnival four
years in succession since 2011.
The production designer has been erecting sets for the annual Aditya Birla Awards since 2011. He executed the sets in Mumbai
(2010 and 2012), Jaipur (2011) and Goa (2014).
He designed for the CPHI Worldwide Exhibition in Paris in 2014, Fi China Exhibition in Shanghai in 2014, the Fi Istanbul
Exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey in 2013 and the Fi Europe Exhibition in Frankfurt, also in 2013.

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IFFI Signature Film: Shaji N. Karun

Shaji N. Karun is one of themost highly regarded filmmakers of India. His distinctive cinematography paved his ways towards
direction with the film 'Genesis'. The poetic nurturing and intense handling has earned him numerable accolades across the globe,
including the Camera d'Or-Mention d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Silver Leopard at the Locarno International Film
Festival. His film Swapaanam is a part of the Indian Panorama this year. Piravi (1988), Swaham (1994) and Big Man & Small
World (2002) are some of his noted films.

DANCES OF PEACOCK
India | 2014 | 30 seconds | Colour

Director: Shaji N. Karun


Producer: Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India
Animation: Boston Media
Music: Deepankuran
The signature film of the 45th IFFI, 'Dances of Peacock', is a 30 second logo film that precedes all screenings at the festival. It sets
a mood, showcasing how cinema has evolved around the world, especially India. The abstract and subjective rendition was done
using 3D technology, making it a first of its kind in the history of film festivals. The festival logo is the main focus here, whereas
the film revolves around the peacock, rain and nature. 'Dances of Peacock' has three elements the peacock, India's national bird,
the festival logo, and the first letter of the alphabet (A/a) from the country's 22 official languages. It also highlights the importance
of the monsoon that holds the key to the economy of the country. The most significant visual is the synchronized falling of 22
different versions of 'A/a' depicting the notion of India's 'unity in diversity'.

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Lifetime Achievement Award

Wong Kar-Wai
Director, China

Wong Kar-Wai, one of Hong Kong's most celebrated filmmakers, has a worldwide fan following. A director
with a cinematic signature uniquely his own, he has an unfailing eye for detail that he combines with visual
flair, technical mastery and an active imagination to craft strikingly original films. While In the Mood for
Love is by far his most universally loved film, his reputation also rests no less on such masterworks as Fallen
Angels, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, Happy Together and 2046. My Blueberry Nights is Wong KarWai's only English-language film.
Born in Shanghai in 1958, Wong Kar-Wai moved to Hong Kong in 1963. He studied graphic design in Hong
Kong Polytechnic until 1980 and subsequently worked as a production assistant and assistant director for
TV. Between 1982 and 1987, he wrote screenplays for director Patrick Tam. In 1988, he debuted as a
director with As Tears Go By. In 1997 he won the Best Director Award for Happy Together at the Cannes
Film Festival.

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45th IFFI Awards


15 shortlisted films will contend for the following awards at the 45th IFFI:
BEST FILM
The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 40,00,000/- to be shared equally
between the Director and the Producer.
Director to be given the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash component.
Producer to be given a certificate in addition to the cash component.

BEST DIRECTOR
The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 15,00,000/-

BEST ACTOR (MALE)


The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 10,00,000/-

BEST ACTOR (FEMALE)


The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 10,00,000/-

SPECIAL JURY AWARD


The award carries a Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of
Rs. 15,00,000/- given to a film (for any aspect of the film which the jury wishes to
award/acknowledge) or an individual
(for his/her artistic contribution to a film). The award, if given to a film,
will be given to he Director of the film.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD


This prestigious award consisting of a cash prize of Rs 10,00,000 /-,
Certificate, shawl and a scroll is conferred upon a master filmmaker for his/her
outstanding contribution to cinema.

CENTENARY AWARD FOR


INDIAN FILM PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
This prestigious award consisting of a cash prize of Rs 10,00,000 /-,
Certificate, shawl and Medal(Silver Peacock) is conferred upon an Indian film
personality for his/her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.

CENTENARY AWARD
Silver Peacock, a Certificate and a cash prize of Rs 10,00,000 /-,
(To be given to a feature film that reflects a new paradigm in motion pictures in
terms of aesthetic, technique or technological innovation).
Features film falling in the categories of International Competition, Cinema
of the World and Indian Panorama will qualify for this award.

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Photo: Piotr Uznanski

Slawomir Idziak (Jury Chairman)


Cinematographer-Screenwriter-Director, Poland

Slawomir Idziak, 69, is a noted cinematographer, screenwriter, director and lecturer. As a director of
photography, he has shot over 70 films in 19 countries. Idziak has worked with Polish cinema legends such
as Krzysztof Kieslowski (Double Life of Veronique, Three Colours: Blue, A Short Film About Killing),
Andrzej Wajda (The Conductor), and Krzysztof Zanussi (The Constant Factor, The Year of the Quiet Sun).
Among his other notable cinematography credits are Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, Taylor Hackford's
Proof of Life, Michael Winterbottom's I Want You, John Sayles' Men with Guns and David Yeats' Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Idziak, born in Katowice, Poland, graduated from the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School
in Lodz. For his work as a cinematographer and director, he has received a number of awards and
distinctions at festivals in Berlin, Venice, Prague, Auckland and Gdynia. He was nominated for BAFTA,
Cesar, and Oscar awards.
He successfully combines an outstanding career as both a filmmaker and lecturer. For eight years he has
lectured at Kunsthochschule fur Medien in Cologne (Department of Film and TV) as resident professor.
He has been a visiting professor at many European film schools such as University of Industrial Arts in
Helsinki, Filmhaus in Cologne, Hamburger Film Werkstatt in Hamburg, Filmakademie BadenWrttemberg, FOCAL in Geneve, The National Film and Television School in London, Film School in
Sydney, Film School (DFFB) in Berlin, Film Centre in Galway, Ireland, National Film School of Denmark
in Copenhagen, Berlinale Talent Campus 2007, the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in
?d? and University of Applied Sciences, Faculty Design Dortmund.

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1000 RUPEE NOTE

Ek Hazarachi Note

India | Marathi | 2014 | 91 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Budhi, a poor old widow lives in a small village in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Her only son, a young farmer,
has committed suicide. Though poor and left alone in the world, she leads a cheerful life. She is particularly fond of her neighbour,
young Sudama. They make quite a picture of happiness engrossed in small pleasures of life. A local politician gives her a few
1000 rupee notes at an election rally. She goes shopping to the nearby market with Sudama but fate has other plans for them.

Director: Shrihari Sathe


Producer: Shrihari Sathe
Production Company: Infinitum Productions
Executive Producers: Ranjit Gugle, Shekhar Sathe
Writer: Shrikant Bojewar
DOP: Ming Kai Leung
Editor: Shrihari Sathe
Sound Design: Thorsten Minning
Production Design: Prashant Bidkar
Principal Cast: Usha Naik, Sandeep Pathak,
Shrikant Yadav, Ganesh Yadav, Pooja Nayak
Festival: Mill Valley Film Festival

Director-producer-editor Shrihari Sathe


received his BA from University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor in Film and Video Studies (High
Honours), and Global Media and Culture. He
has received fellowships from the HFPA, PGA,
IFP, Film Independent, Sundance Institute to
name a few. Sathe produced "It Felt Like Love"
which world premiered at 2013 Sundance Film
Festival and 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam to great
reviews. Prior to that, he produced Pervertigo, an American-Indie
which was selected for the 2011 IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs. He
has produced/ co-produced numerous award winning short films
including "First Day of Peace", "Breaking the Chain" and "Off
Season", a BAFTA (2010) nominee. "1000 Rupee Note" is his fiction
feature debut.

Contact: Infinitum Productions Pvt. Ltd. C-10 Dattaguru, Deonar Village Road, Deonar, Mumbai - 400088, 09819825657/09821281254, ssathe@gmail.com
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BEHAVIOUR

Conducta

Cuba | Spanish | 2014 | 109 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Chala is eleven years old and has been forced to grow up too soon, being the breadwinner in his family. At school he is
guided with a firm but affectionate hand by his teacher, Carmela. She gives Chala the support and love lacking at home. He
responds with mutual love and respect. But things begin to fall apart once he is sent off to a school for children with behavioural
problems.

Director: Ernesto Daranas


Production Company: RTV Commercial, ICAIC
Executive Producers: Isabel Prendes, Danilo Leon,
Joel Ortega and Adriana Moya
Screenplay: Ernesto Daranas
DOP: Alejandro Perez
Editor: Pedro Suarez
Sound Design: Juan Carlos Herrera
Production Design: Erick Grass
Costume Design: Vladimir Cuenca

Ernesto Daranas (b. 1961) is a leading Cuban


filmmaker. His filmography as a writer and
director includes Los ltimos gaiteiros de La
Habana (2004), winner of the International
Journalism Award King of Spain; Los dioses
rotos (Fallen Gods, 2008), his debut feature
which won awards at the film festivals
of Providence, Tampa, Havana, Cear and
Gibara; Bluechacha (2012), Latin Grammy nominee for Best Long
Form Music Video. Conducta is Daranas second feature film.

Principal Cast: Alina Cruz, Miriel Cejas, Yuliet


Cruz, Armando Valds Freire
Festivals: 39th Toronto International Film Festival;
30th Chicago Latino Film Festival; 9th Sydney
Latin American Film Festival; 18th Festival de Cine
de Lima
Contact: Latido Films Oscar Alonso (Festivals Manager) Veneras 9, 3 28013 Madrid - SPAIN, Phone: +34 915488877, Fax +34 915488878 www.latidofilms.com
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CORBO
Canada | French, Italian | 2014 | 119 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Montreal, 1966, Jean Corbo (16), born to a Canadian mother and an Italian father, is torn between two loyalties. His life
changes abruptly when he befriends two far-left political activists and joins the FLQ (Liberation Front of Qubec), a subversive
movement determined to spark a socialist revolution. Young Corbo thus begins an inextricable march towards his destiny, a
journey that will lead him to the Dominion Textile factory and a place in Canadian history.

Director: Mathieu Denis


Producers: Felize Frappier and Roger Frappier
Production Company: Max Films Media
Executive Producer: Roger Frappier
Screenplay: Matieu Denis
DOP: Steve Asselin
Editor: Nicolas Roy
Music: Olivier Alary
Production Design: Eric Barbeau
Costume Design: Judy Jonker

Mathieu Denis studied at L'Universit


du Qubec Montral (UQAM). He went onto
direct Silent Remains (06) and Code 13 (09),
both acclaimed short films, before writing and
co-directing the feature film Laurentie in the
year 2011.

Principal Cast: Marie Brassard, LaurentChristophe De Ruelle, Francis Ducharme, Antoine


L'cuyer, Maxime Mailloux, Tony Nardi
Festivals: 39thToronto International Film Festival,
Vancouver International Film Festival
Contact: Be For Films 88/9 Rue Gachard 1050 Brussels, Belgium (Pamela Leu) Telephone: +3361 4343 755 Email: pamela@beforfilms.com Website: www.beforfilms.com
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FISH

Balik

Turkey | Turkish | 2014 | 86 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Fish (Balik) focuses on the human-nature relationship. In the movie, the life of a fishermans family that lives in a small
and lovely village near a lake undergoes a sea change when its livelihood comes into conflict with nature.

Director: Dervis Zaim


Producers: Ceren Ulgen, Dervis Zaim, Emre Oskay
Production Company: Mars Production, Marathan
Film, Istanbul Film Productions
Screenplay: Dervis Zaim
DOP: Taner Tokgoz
Editor: Aylin Zoi Tinel
Sound Design: Burak Topalakci
Music: Marios Takoushis
Production Design: Natali Yeres
Principal Cast: Bulent Inal, Sanem Celik,
Myroslava Kostyeva, Gizem Akman, Melih Sezgin,
Coskun Tamer
Festival: 21st Golden Boll Film Festival

Dervis Zaim was born in 1964 in the southern


Cypriot coastal town of Limasol. He graduated
from Bogazici University (Istanbul) with an
economics degree and then from Warwick
University (UK) with an MA in cultural studies.
His debut feature, Somersault in a Coffin
(1997), won him international recognition and
numerous awards at leading festivals
worldwide. This was followed by Elephants and Grass (2000), which
achieved similar success at national and international festivals. His
third feature, Mud, considers the ethnic problem in Cyprus and won the
UNESCO Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2003. He followed it up
with Waiting for Heaven (2006), Dot (2008) and Shadows and Faces
(2011), a trilogy based on reflection of three traditional Turkish art
forms. He is also author of the 1992 award-winning novel, Ares in
Wonderland.

Contact: Mars Films Ceren Ulgen Email: ceren@marsfilms.net


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GENUINE LOVE
China | Chinese | 2014 | 105 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In a small county surrounded by mountains. Caixia Wang, a little girl in rags and with an abscess on her head, is looking
for her lost elder brother, Yunhui Wang. The homeless girl is adopted by Anipha. Anipha spends her familys meagre earnings on
curing the abscess on Caixias head. Abibo, Aniphas husband, is unhappy but the woman does not give up until hair grows on
Caixias head. A few days later, Caixia finds her brother. Meanwhile, Abibo accepts the adopted girl. As the family size increases,
Anipha and her husband clean the sheep viscera in the frozen river in winter to increase their income. Anipha adopts two more
orphans after an avalanche hits the area. A family with 19 children struggles to survive but does not give up hope.
Director: Silzati Jakov and Xin Zhang
Producer: Huanggang Gao
Production Company: Tian Shan Film Studio
Screenplay: Jian Yin, Huanggang Gao
DOP: Geritu, Bahati Yaerfu
Editor: Yang Wei
Music: Shuhua Song
Principal Cast: Kunduzai Tasi, Baithetiyaer Eziz

Silzati Jakov majored in art design from the Fine


Arts Department of the Beijing Film College. He is
the director of Tianshan Film Studio. As an art
director, he has won many accolades and awards
over the years. The Sky of Urumqi is among is most
acclaimed films.
Zhang Xin is the deputy planning director of the
Tianshan Film Studio. His credits as executive
director include The Smile of a Crab, Uncle Kurban
in Beijing, Beautiful Homes, Love Song of Turpan
Snow Wold Road, The River, Maimaitis 2008, The
Flower and The Sky of Urumqi.

Contact: TianShan Film Studio, Telephone: 0991 2574 247, Fax: 0991 2574 427, Email: 49316846@qq.com
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HADJI SHA

Shiftegi

Iran | Persian | 2014 | 82 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Hadji Sha is a fifty-year-old woman who, for more than 30 years, has disguised herself as a man to protect her sister's
family. She has a new tenant, a singer who wishes to release her own album despite a ban on recordings by women. They become
friends as both of them have to somehow deny their identity as women. A problem comes up when Hadji Sha finds out that her
sister's mentally challenged granddaughter has been raped.

Director: Zamani Esmati


Producer: Zamani Esmati
Production Company: Nama Honar
Executive Producer: Amir Zamani
Screenplay: Zamani Esmati
DOP: Zamani Esmati
Editor: Zamani Esmati
Sound Design: Saeid Bahrami
Production Design: Abolfazl Salimi
Principal Cast: Roya Teimoorian, Leila Zare,
Afsaneh Chehreh Azad, Sahar Abdollahi, Behdad
Royan, Hooman Ashkboos.

Zamani Esmati was born in Yazd in 1974. He


is a civil engineer, and also has a diploma in
directing from Young Cinema Society. In 1996,
he made his first short film, The Passengers,
which got a lot of attention in Iran. He made
more than 20 shorts and documentaries which
received many national and International
prizes. In 2005, he made his first feature
Narrow Alleys. His second feature, Orion, made in 2010, was invited to
many festivals and won the Karlovy Vary NETPAC Prize, the best
award of the Russian Film Critics' Guild in the International Debut
Film Festival, the best feature film of Med Film Festival and the best
award of the Human Rights Film Festival in Spain. Hadji Sha is
Esmatis third feature.

Contact: Noori Pictures 84, Avenue de la Rpublique 75011 Paris France Fax: +98 21 22 85 89 62Email: ktysh.01@gmail.com Website: www.nooripictures.com
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THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

Haganenet

Israel | Hebrew | 2014 | 116 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Hagar is beautiful enough/Enough for me/Enough for me/Gold rain falls over her house/It is truly the sun of god.
In a world that does not appreciate artists, where sensitive souls don't stand a chance, a poetry-loving kindergarten teacher
discovers a child poet. She takes him under her wings, to nurture him, to save his greatness from the world, to salvage him from
the banal, the mediocre and the crude - to save him from life itself. It is the story of a female Don Quixote, who strives to save the
world through the poetry of a child, and of a pensive child who has no desire to be saved.

Director: Nadav Lapid


Producers: Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat
Handelsman-Keren
Production Company: Pie Films
Executive Producer: Carole Scotta
Screenplay: Madav Lapid
DOP: Shai Goldman
Editor: Era Lapid
Sound Design: Aviv Aldema
Production Design: Miguel Merkin
Principal Cast: Sarit Larry, Lior Raz, Avi
Shnaidman

Nadav Lapid, born in Tel Aviv, studied


philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv and
literature in Paris. He went on to graduate from
the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School,
Jerusalem in 2006. His 50-minute graduation
film, Emile's Girlfriend, was screened in
Cannes 2006 Cinefondation Competition. The
film was commercially distributed in theatres
throughout France and was bought by ARTE. Road, his school's first
short, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival, Locarno and many
other international film festivals. His first feature, Policeman, won the
jury award at the Locarno Film Festival 2011. Policeman won fifteen
awards in international film festivals, was bought for theatrical release
in more than twenty territories, and screened in numerous festivals.
The Kindergarten Teacher, his second feature, premiered at the 2014
Cannes Critics' Week.

Contact: Le Pacte 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France 01 44 69 59 45 E-mail : a.aubelle@le-pacte.com Website : www.le-pacte.com
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LEVIATHAN
Russia | Russian | 2014 | 140 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Kolia lives in a small town near the Barents Sea, in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His shop stands
right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son from a previous marriage. Vadim Shelevyat, the mayor
of the town, wants to take away his business, his house and his land. First he tries buying off Kolia, but Kolia cannot stand losing
everything he has, not only the land, but also all the beauty that has surrounded him from the day of his birth. So Shelevyat starts
being more aggressive.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev


Producers: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey
Melkumov
Production Company: Non-Stop Production
Executive Producer: Ekaterina Marakulina
Screenplay: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvygintsev
DOP: Mikhail Krichman
Editor: Anna Mass
Production Design: Andrey Ponkratav

Andrey Zvyagintsev was born in Novisibirsk,


Russia. The actor-turned-directors debut
feature was The Return (2003). His subsequent
features were The Banishment (2007) and
Elena (2011). The latter won the Un Certain
Regard Jury Prize at Cannes. Leviathan (2014),
his latest film, won Best Screenplay at Cannes.

Principal Cast: Alexey Serebryakov, Elena


Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Anna Ukolova
Festival: 67th Cannes Film Festival, Munich Film
Festival, 39th Toronto International FF
Awards: Best Screenplay-67th Cannes FF; Best
International Film - Munich FF
Contact: PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL PARIS: +33 1 42 96 02 20 Lucero Garzon : lgarzon@pyramidefilms.com Agathe Mauruc : amauruc@pyramidefilms.com
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MIRAGE

Delibab

Hungary, Slovakia | Hungarian, French, Romanian, English | 2014 | 91 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Mirage tells the story of an African football player in a small Hungarian town who commits a crime and has to flee. He
finds refuge on a farm deep in the Hungarian flatland. Soon he realizes that the farm is a modern slave camp where he is forced to
fight for his freedom and ultimately his life.

Director: Szabolcs Hajdu


Producers: Andrea Taschler and Gabor Kovacs
Production Company: Mirage Film Studio,
Filmpartners, M Philms
Executive Producer: Isaach de Bankole
Screenplay: Jim Starc, Szabolcs Hajdu and Nandor
Lovas
DOP: Andras Nagy
Editor: Peter Politzer
Sound Design: Gabor Balazs
Production Design: Laszlo Rajk

Sczabolcs Hajdu was born in Debrecen,


Hungary. After breaking into film as an actor,
he directed his debut short film, Necropolis
(1997), which he followed up with the features
Maceras ugyek (2001), Tamara (2004), White
Palms (2006), Bibliotheque Pascal (2010).

Principal Cast: Isaach De Bankole, Razvan


Vasilescu, Orsolya Torok-Illyes, Dragos Bucur,
Tamas Polgar
Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival
Contact: Film Unio E mail: kati.vajda@filmunio.hu, mirage@miragefilm.hu
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MR. KAPLAN
Uruguay | Spanish | 2014 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South
America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to
achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr. Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to
capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr. Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

Director: Alvaro Brechner


Producers: Alvaro Brechner, Mariana Secco
Production Company: Baobab Films, Salado,
Razor Film Produktion
Screenplay: Alvaro Brechner
DOP: Alvaro Gutierrez
Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Casting: Ines Errandonea
Music: Mikel Salas
Production Design: Gustavo Ramirez
Principal Cast: Hector Noguera, Nestor Guzzini,
Rolf Becker, Nidia Telles, Nuria Flo

Alvaro Brechner was born in Montevideo,


Uruguay, in 1976 and now lives in Spain. He
has directed several documentaries for
broadcasters like TVE and the History Channel
and the 35mm short films The Nine Mile Walk
(2003), Sofia (2005), and Segundo Aniversario
(2007). These short films have participated in
more than 140 international film festivals,
including Clermont-Ferrand, London, Los Angeles, Chicago and
Gijon (Spain), capturing several awards. Bad Day to Go Fishing,
Brechner's feature film debut, premiered in Cannes Semaine de la
Critique in 2009.

Festivals: BFI London Film Festival, UK Jewish


Film Festival, AICE Israeli Film Festival

Contact: Memento Films International 9, cite Paradis-75010 Paris-France Telephone: +33153349033 Email: sales@memento-films.com
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NABAT
Azerbaijan | Azeri | 2014 | 103 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Nabat and her husband Iskender, an old and sick ex-forestry worker, live in a small isolated house far from the village.
War has been raging for some time and their son has been killed at the front. Their sole means of survival is the sale of milk from
their only cow that Nabat takes to the village every couple of days. As the shadow of war envelopes the region the village is slowly
deserted by its inhabitants. Following Iskenders death Nabat has to survive in a now abandoned village under the regard of a shewolf.

Director: Elchin Musaoglu


Production Company: Azerbaijan Film
Producer: Mushfiq Hatamov
Screenplay: Elchin Musaoglu Guliyev and Elakham
Nabiyev
DOP: Rahim Besharat
Editor: Babak Shirinsefat
Sound Design: Bahman Ardalan
Production Design: Shahin Hasanli
Costume Design: Safura Manafova
Principal Cast: Vidadi Aliyev, Fatemeh Motamed
Arya, Farhad Israfilov and Sabir Mamadov

Elchin Musaoglu was born in Baku,


Azerbaijan in 1966. He has written and directed
over 50 documentary films and a member of
both The Union of Azerbaijan
Cinematographers and The Union of Turkish
Documentary Cinematographers. He is also
one of the founders of The Society for the
Support of Documentary Films and
Filmmakers. His films have received critical acclaim and numerous
international awards. Musaoglu made his first narrative film, The 40th
Door, in 2009. Nabat is his second feature.

Festival: 71st Venice International Film Festival


(Orizzonti Competition)

Contact: DreamLab Films, 14 chemin des Chichourliers, 06110 Le Cannet, France +33(0)493387561 nasrine@dreamlabfilms.com www.dreamlabfilms.com
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NUOC 2030
Vietnam, USA | Vietnamese | 2014 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Southern Vietnam is one of the regions most affected by climate change, which causes as much as half the farmland to
be swallowed by water. To subsist, people have to live on houseboats and rely solely on fishing with a depleting supply. Huge
multinational conglomerates compete to build floating farms equipped with desalination and solar power plants floating along
the coastline to produce the needed vegetables that have become highly priced commodities. The story follows a young woman in
her journey to find out the truth about the murder of her husband whom she suspects has been killed by the people of a floating
farm. In the process, she discovers the secret of that floating farm.
Director: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo
Producers: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen Vo, Bao nguyen
Production Company: Saigon Media
Executive Producers: Dang Tam Chanh, Nguyen
The Thanh
Writer: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen Vo
DOP: Bao Nguyen
Editor: Julie Beziau
Music: Inouk Desmers
Production Design: Truong Trung Dao
Principal Cast: Quynh Hoa, Quy Binh, Thach Kim
Long, Hoang Tran Minh Duc, Hoang Phi
Festivals: 64th Berlin Film Festival, Vancouver
International Film Festival, 19th Busan International
Film Festival.

Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo was born in 1956 in


Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in a small town
during the war. To escape the atrocities all
around, he escaped into the only one-room
movie theater in town. He immigrated to France
as a young man studying in Poitiers (B.S. in
Aeronautical Engineering, Universit de
Poitiers) and then continued in the US and
became a physicist (Ph.D., UCLA). He was fascinated with the
interaction between sound and light that became his main research
subject for many years. His passion to follow his ideas from many
different perspectives brought him back to cinema and UCLA where he
completed the certificate program in screenwriting and directing in
1998. His directorial debut, Buffalo Boy, was Vietnams entry to the
2006 Academy Awards and was an official selection in over 50
festivals.

Contact: Kasia Karwan PREMIUM FILMS Telephone: +33 6 68 98 69 73 Email: kasia.karwan@premium-films.com


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THE OWNERS
Kazakhstan | Kazakh, Russian | 2014 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: 25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12-year-old sister Aliya are forced to leave their house in
the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback.
But the District Officer's alcoholic brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years, has no intention of letting the house go
without a fight.

Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov


Producers: Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Olga Klasheva,
Serik Abishev
Production Company: A Short Brothers production
Screenplay: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
DOP: Yerinbek Ptyraliyev
Editor: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Sound Design: Sukharev
Production Design: Yermek Utegenov

Adilkhan Yerzhanov was born in Jezkazgan,


Kazakhstan. He directed the short film
Bakhytzhamal (2007) and the features Rieltor
(2011) and Constructors (2013). The Owners
(2014) is his latest film.

Principal Cast: Yerbolat Yerzhan, Aidyn


Sakhaman, Aliya Zainalova, Bauyrzhan Kaptagai,
Nurbek Mukushev, Murat Makhan, Arslan
Akubayev, Ashim Akhmetov, Akerke Kaltai.
Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival, 39th Toronto
International Film Festival, Edinburgh Film
Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival
Contact: Urban Distribution Intl. (UNI) 14 rue du 18 aaut 93100 Montreuil France +33148704656 contact@urbandistrib.com www. urbandistrib.com
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Chotoder Chobi
India | Bengali | 2014 | 108 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Soma's father Shibu is bed-ridden after a fatal accident he faced while doing an act of trapeze in the circus. The circus
company doesn't give the deserved amount of compensation to Shibu's family when Khoka, one of Shibu's juniors in the circus,
lends out a hand of help. Soma starts selling cheap anti-insect poisons in the local trains to help her mother during this crisis.
Eventually, Khoka's kindness brings him close to Shibu's family when he finally realizes that there's a strong bond growing
between Soma and him.

Director: Kaushik Ganguly


Production Company: Shree Venkatesh Films
Screenplay: Kaushik Ganguly
DOP: Soumik Halder
Editor: Bodhaditya Banerjee
Music: Indraadip Dasgupta
Production Design: Tanmoy Chakraborty
Principal Cast: Dulal Sarkar, Debalina Roy

Kaushik Ganguly spent eight years as a


teacher and freelance scriptwriter before
turning director in 1995 with the teleserial
"Rahaat". Making his feature film debut with
"Waarish"(2004), Kaushik went on to garner
much acclaim for his second film "Shunyo e
bukey"(2005). He is known for his works like
"Ushnotar Jonnye"(2003) and Arekti Premer
Golpo (2010). He became significant in Indian Cinema for his
consecutive four film nominations in Indian Panoroma and his national
award for "Shobdo".

Contact: Shree Venkatesh Films, Suite - 508, 5th Floor, 6, Waterloo Street, Kolkata - 700069, 091 30927600/09051063888, ravi@venkateshfilms.com
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TIMBUKTU
France, Mauritania, Mali | French, Arabic, Tamasheq | 2014 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife
Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of
terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The
women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.
Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally
kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered "GPS", his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
Director: Abderrahhmane Sissako
Producer: Sylvie Pialat
Production Company: Les Films du Worso
Screenplay: Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall
DOP: Sofiane El Fani
Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
Sound Design: Philippe Welsh, Roamn Dymny and
Thierry Delor
Production Design: Sebastien Birchler
Costume Design: Ami Sow

Abderrahhmane Sissako is a filmmaker of


rpute from the Sub-Saharan African region.
His Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) was
awarded a place in the Un Certain Regard
(Cannes Film Festival, 2002), "for its exquisite
poetic depiction of the emotional and
humorous complications that can arise in the
midst of a simple life. Timbuktu earned him a
nomination for the Palme dOr at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.

Principal Cast: Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Abel


Jafri, Fatoumata Diawara, Hichem Yacoubi
Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival, 39th Toronto
International Film Festival, Busan International
Film Festival
Contact: LE PACTE 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France 01 44 69 59 45 E-mail: a.aubelle@le-pacte.com Website: www.le-pacte.com
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CENTENARY AWARD

Centenary Award - Indian Film Personality of the Year

Rajinikanth
Actor, India

The story of Rajinikanth, carpenter-turned-porter-turned-bus conductor-turned-superstar, is no less dramatic than a


movie script.
Rajinikanth was born on December 12, 1950 in a Marathi-speaking family of Karnataka. His original name was
Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. Before he got a start in films, he did odd jobs to make a living. He worked as a bus conductor for
the Karnataka State Transport Corporation in Bangalore. It was during this period that he nurtured his love for acting
by performing in plays.
The phenomenally popular Rajinikanth got his first break in the movies when he played a small role in the Kannada
film Katha Sangama, directed by Puttanna Kanagal. He then played a cancer patient in the Tamil film Apoorva
Raagangal (1975), directed by K. Balachander. The lead actor of the film was Kamalahasan, who became one of his
closest friends. He was noticed by the industry and the public alike, and he never looked back.
As an actor, Rajnikant's greatest asset, apart from his unique set of onscreen mannerisms, is his comic timing. Like his
Mumbai contemporary, Amitabh Bachchan, he is popular for his drunken soliloquies and flashy punch lines.
In a long and eventful career, Rajinikanth has acted in over 170 films in many languages, including Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali. He also had a starring role in the Hollywood production, Blood Stone
(1988).
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THE PRESIDENT
Georgia, France, UK, Germany | Georgian | 2014 | 115 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The President tells the story of a dictator who comes face to face with the people he
previously subjugated. The President and his family rule their land with an iron fist, enjoying lives
of luxury and leisure at the expense of their population's misery. When a coup d'tat overthrows his
brutal rule and the rest of his family flees the country by plane, The President is suddenly left to care
for his young grandson and forced to escape. Now the country's most wanted fugitive with a bounty
on his head, The President begins a perilous journey with the boy, criss-crossing the country to
reach the sea where a ship waits to bring them to safety. Posing as street musicians and travelling
together with the people who suffered for years under the dictatorship, the fallen President and the
innocent child will be exposed firsthand to the hardships that inspired unanimous hatred for the
regime.

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Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producers: Maysam Makhmalbaf, Mike Downey,
Sam Taylor, Vladimer Katharava
Production Company: Makhmalbaf Film House,
Film and Music Entertainment, 20 Steps
Executive Producers: Patrick Fisher, Richard
Kondal
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Marziyeh
Meshkiny
DOP: Konstantin Mindia Esadze
Editors: Hana Makhmalbaf, Marziyeh Meshkiny
Sound Design: Maysam Makhmalbaf
Production Design: Mamuka Esadze
Principal Cast: Misha Gomiashvili, Dachi
Orvelashvili, Ia Sukhitashvili, Guja Burduli, Zura
Begalishvili, Lasha Ramishvili
Festivals: Venice, Beirut, Busan
Mohsen Makhmalbaf was born in 1957 in
southern Tehran. While still an adolescent, he
dropped out of school and joined the clandestine
fight against the Shah's regime. He was arrested
when only 17, and was serving a five-year sentence
when the 1979 Revolution brought an Islamic
regime to power.
The revolution that freed him from prison also
unleashed his creative energies. He turned to
writing novels and stage plays, and in 1982 made
his first film, Nasouh Repentance. This was the
first in a trilogy that provided Makhmalbaf with his
basic film training.
The Peddler (1987) brought Makhmalbaf
international attention. The Cyclist (1989) and
Marriage of the Blessed (1990) consolidated his
reputation. Makhmalbaf became a controversial
figure when the two films he made in 1991, A Time
of Love and The Nights of the Zayandeh-Rood,
were banned for dealing with physical love and
raising doubts about the revolution.
His penetrating explorations of social realities were
also seen in the disturbingly self-reflexive Salam
Cinema (1994) - the cinema verite-style account of
an audition that turns into a meditation on the
corruption of power.
In 1998, he went to Tajikistan to make The Silence,
about a 10-year-old blind boy supporting himself
and his mother by tuning stringed instruments.
In 2001, he released Kandahar, which captured the
attention of the world after September 11 terrorist
attack on World Trade Center in New York.

Contact: Tanweer Films, John Vertsetis, Email: johnv@tanweer.info


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3 HEARTS

3 Coeurs

France | French | 2014 | 106 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In a French provincial town, Marc encounters Sylvie one night, when he misses his train back to Paris. They wander
through the streets until morning, immediately at ease, on the same wavelength, speaking about everything except themselves.
When Marc gets the first train to Paris the following day, he asks Sylvie to come and meet him there a few days later. They know
nothing about each other. Sylvie turns up for their rendezvous, but Marc unfortunately doesn't make it. He tries to find Sylvie, and
in the process, encounters another woman, Sophie, unaware that she is Slyvie's sister.

Director: Benoit Jacquot


Producers: Edouard Weil, Alice Girard
Production Company: Rectangle Production,
Scope Pictures
Screenplay: Julien Boivent, Benoit Jacquot
DOP: Julien Hirsch
Editor: Julia Gregory
Sound Design: Peirre Mertens, Andreas
Hildebrandt, Olivier Goinard
Music: Bruno Coulais
Production Design: Sylvain Chauvelot

Benoit Jacquot was born in Paris. He got his


start in films as an Assistant Director to
Marguerite Duras, after which he began
directing his own features. Some of his films
are Seventh Heaven (1997), The School of
Flesh (1998), Pas de scandale (1999), Sade
(2000) and Deep in the Woods (2010). 3 Hearts
is his latest feature.

Principal Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Charlotte


Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival;
Venice Film Festival; BFI London Film Festival
Contact: Elle Driver, Telephone: +33 156 434 879, Email: lucie@elledriver.eu
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ALICE IN MARIALAND
Alicia en el Pais de Maria

Mexico | Spanish | 2014 | 81 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Tonatiuh and Maria experience a passionate and turbulent relationship. One night, in the heat of an argument, they
suffer a dramatic automobile accident. Tonatiuh is left in a coma, and during his long dream he remembers his relationship with
Maria. He wakes up for a moment and all he can see is Alicia, his nurse, whom he includes in his dreams. When he finally wakes
up from the coma, Alicia is run over. A year later, they meet again. Tonatiuh feels like he knows her but can't pinpoint from where,
and Alicia doesn't recall a thing, because now she has amnesia. They initiate a peculiar romance, but the memory of Maria comes
back to haunt them. This is the story of unforgettable love, identity theft and a fate marked by three automobile accidents.

Director: Jesus Magana Vazquez


Producer: Jorge Antonio Aragon
Production Company: Sobrevivientes Films
Screenplay: Fernando Del Razo, Jesus Magana
Vazquez, Rafael Gaytan
DOP: Alejandro Cantu
Editors: Gabriel Marino, Jorge Aragon, Jesus
Magana Vazquez
Sound Design: Pablo Fernandez
Costume Design: Gabriela Diaque
Production Design: Lizette Ponce
Principal Cast: Barbara Mori, Claudio Lafarga,
Stephanie Sigman, Angelica Aragon, Marina
Victoria, Osvaldo De Leon, Lila Aviles, Mario
Zaragoza

Jesus Magana Vazquezs debut feature


Sobreviviente (2003) was premiered at the
Havana Film Festival and selected for over 40
festivals, including Guadalajara and Santa
Cruz, Bolivia, where it received Best Film
award. Later, Jesus wrote, directed and
produced the feature films Eros una vez Maria
(2007), selected for Guadalajara, Las Vegas
and New York Latin Film Festival; Abolicion de la propiedad (2011),
adapted from the novel of the same name by Jose Agustn, which was
awarded the Mayahuel for Best Screenplay at the Guadalajara Festival,
and Alicia en el pas de Mara. Simultaneously, Jesus produced El cielo
en tu mirada/Pitipol Ybarra; Un mundo secreto/Marino (2012), and
Visitantes a horror thriller starring Kate del Castillo.

Festival: Warsaw International Film Festival


Contact: Meikincine Entertainment G Matorras de San Martin 158901609 Buenos Aires Argentina Telephone: 5491154946149
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COLD IN JULY
USA | English | 2014 | 109 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Cold in July tells the story of Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who is forced to kill a man in
self-defence. He then meets Ben Russell, a rough ex-con and the father of the man Dane shot, who is now hell-bent on avenging
his sons death. But small town corruption and paranoia turn these bitter enemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt-stricken
fathers begin a search for truth, aided by Danes tough minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston.
Before its all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Director: Jim Mickle


Producers: Linda Moran, Rene Bastian, Adam
Folk, Marie Savare
Production Company: Belladonna Productions,
Backup Media Group
Executive Producers: Jean Baptiste Babin, David
Atlan-Jackson, Joel Thibout
Screenplay: Jim Mickle, Nick Damici
DOP: Ryan Samul
Editors: John Paul Horstmann, Jim Mickle
Music: Jeff Grace

Jim Mickle (b. 1979) graduated from New


York University in 2002. He has directed such
films as Mulberry Street and Stake Land. His
third film, We are What We Are (2013) was
selected for the Sundance Film Festival and the
Directors Fortnight in Cannes. Cold in July is
Mickles fourth feature.

Principal Cast: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard,


Vinessa Shaw, Nick Damici, Wyatt Russell, Don
Johnson, Brogan Hall, Lanny Flaherty
Festivals: Sundance Film Festival, Edinburgh
International Film Festival
Contact: Memento Films International 9, cite Paradis-75010 Paris-France Telephone: +33153349033 Email: sales@memento-films.com
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CONSEQUENCES
Silsile

Turkey | Turkish | 2014 | 105 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: On a hot summer night; Ece goes to Cenks place. It feels like they have missed each other for so long. Suddenly a thief
appears at the house Kili a 14- year-old boy, somehow escapes from the apartment. A moment later another thief appears from
the darkness. Ece defends herself and hits him. Tayfun collapses on the floor, full of blood. Cenk sends Ece away and calls his best
friend Faruk. Faruk and his lawyer Merve arrive. Apparently Faruk and Ece are engaged to be married. Faruk and Cenk are
partners in a big consortium. Cenk graduated very recently and came back from the US the same day to work on this project. Kili
chases Ece and forces her in the car as he doesn't have any news from his brother Tayfun. A chain of events reveals complex urban
relations, deep wounds and the fragile lives of the characters; and its consequences that will change Cenk, Faruk and Ece forever.
Director: Ozan Aciktan
Producers: Tunay Vural, Necati Akpinar
Production Company: Ptot Film
Screenplay: Cem Akas, Ozan Aciktan, Faruk
Ozerten
DOP: Ahmet Sesigurgil
Editor: Erkan Erdem
Sound Design: Levent Intepe
Production Design: Yasar Kartoglu
Principal Cast: Tardu Flordun, Nehir Erdogan,
Ilker Kaleli, serkan Keskin, Esra Bezen Bilgin
Festivals: 33rd Istanbul Film Festival, 38th Festival
Des Films Du Monde, 30th Warsaw Film Festival,
21st Golden Boll Film Festival
Award: Best Cinamatography- 33rd Istanbul Film
Festival

Born in Eskisehir in 1978, Ozan Aciktan


received his undergraduate degree from Ankara
University, Faculty of Communication, Radio
TV and Cinema, in 2000. During his studies he
started shooting short films that were later
screened and awarded internationally. Between
2003-2005, Aciktan continued his studies in the
department of director of photography in Lodz,
Polish National Film School. In 2006 he received a grant to study in
Baden-Wrttemberg Film Academy, in Ludwigsburg, Germany,
focusing on scriptwriting and dramaturgy. The same year he attended
Berlinale Talent campus. He became a TV commercial director. In
2007 the script that he wrote with Cem Akas, Silsile, won a script
development grant in Antalya Film Festival with the project name, 50
Reasons in your Eyes.

Contact: BKM Ebulula Mardin Cad, Maya Meridyen Plaza No: 16 d:13 34335 Akatlar-Istanbul, Turkey +902123521818 info@bkmonline.net www.bkmonline.net
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CRACKS IN CONCRETE

Rise im Beton

Austria | German | 2014 | 105 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Gangs, drugs, dirty rap, dirty fights and dirty sex pervade the Viennese district to which Ertan returns after a ten-year
spell in prison. Hes 35 and has lost all contact with his wife and children; even his own brother doesn't want anything to do with
him, regardless of the fact that he has matured and wants to steer clear of trouble. Teenager Mikail is about to make the same
mistakes that put his hitherto unknown father Ertan behind bars. He thinks drug dealing will help fund his future as a famous
rapper and spends a lot of time at the youth centre where he plans to record his first demo. To get closer to Mikail, Ertan takes on a
job at the centre, and smiles to himself proudly as he secretly listens to rehearsals. Ertans friends just cant understand where the
old tough guy act has gone, but all he wants is to help Mikael get on the right track.
Director: Umut Dag
Producers: Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz
Production Company: Wega Filmproduktion
Screenplay: Petra Ladinigg and Umut Dag
DOP: Georg Geutebruck
Editor: Claudia Linzer
Sound Engineer: Sergey Martynyuk
Costume Design: Cinzi Cioffi
Production Design: Katrin Huber and Gerhard
Dohr
Principal Cast: Murathan Muslu, Alechan Tagaev,
Ivan Kriznjak, Shamil Iliskhanov, Daniel Mijatovic,
Magdalena Pawlus, Mehmet Ali Salman, Erdem
Turkoglu, Martina Spitzer, Elif Dag.

Umut Dag had an impressive start as a feature


film director with both a great worldwide
festival presence and a number of awards. His
feature film Kuma opened the 2012 Berlinale
'Panorama' section and has been released in
France, Spain, UK, Turkey, Czech Republic,
Slowakia, The Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxemburg, Romania, Hungary, Taiwan,
Switzerland, Brasil and Germany. For his short length feature Papa,
Umut received the German 'First Steps Award' and the award for 'Best
Austrian Short' at the 'Diagonale 2011'.

Festival: Berlin International Film Festival 2014


Contact: Films Boutique, 34 rue de Louvre 75001 Paris, Telephone: +49 306953 7850, Email: info@filmsboutique.com
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THE DIRECTOR'S ANGST

Herdat Habamai

Israel | Hebrew | 2014 | 83 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The film follows Gadi, a young filmmaker, during the premiere of his debut film 'The Surgery', which is a satire about
a country caught in endless wars with its neighbours. As conditions worsen, the musicians leave the country with the exception of
the cellists. An underground resistance group rises to change the fate of the nation.

Director: Dan Wolman


Producer: Dan Wolman
Production Company: Wolman Film Productions
Screenplay: Dan Wolman
DOP: Itamar Hadar, Ran Aviad
Editor: Shoshi Wolman
Sound Design: Eli Yarkoni, Yoav Damti
Production Design: Barul Uzrad

Dan Wolman is a veteran Israeli film director.


Among his films are "The Dreamer" (Cannes
Film Festival), "Floch" (Venice Film Festival),
"Hide and Seek" (Berlin Film Festival) and
many others. Dan is considered Israel's most
consummate and independent filmmaker. His
films are "personal", probing the psyche and
exploring the individual's conflict with society.

Principal Cast: Lior Soroka Tamar Alkan, Miki


Leon, Tomash, Rona Frumchenko,

Contact: Dan Wolam 15 Ido Street Ramat Chen 52233 Israel Telephone: 972+35742683 Email: danwol@zahav.net.il
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DOWN THE RIVER


Axinla ashagi

Azerbaijan | Azerbaijani | 2014 | 90 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Ali coaches a rowing team in a provincial town. The young squad also includes his son Ruslan, who finds it difficult to
meet the demands Ali makes on him. His fathers continual dissatisfaction is getting him down. Ali is experiencing a crisis of
middle age, and only Ruslan is preventing him from leaving his wife Leyla, whom he criticizes for spoiling their son. He finds
solace in his Polish lover Sasha, whod rather have Ali for herself and dreams of starting a new life with him. Just before an
important race, in the interests of the teams performance, Ali decides to replace Ruslan, who was originally chosen for the event.
But when tragedy strikes that same day, Ali is overcome with emotions that he doesnt know how to deal with.

Director: Asif Rustamov


Producer: Mushfig Hatamov
Production Company: Azerbaijan Film 2014
Executive Producer: Nadir Aliev
Screenplay: Asif Rustamov and Otar Pertakhia
DOP: Ayhan Salar
Editor: Asif Rustamov
Sound Director: Tariel Gasanzade
Production Design: Rafis Ismailov
Principal Cast: Namig Aghayev, Mehriban Zeki,
Alexandra Andrzejewska, Teymur Mammadov,
Elmin Imaamverdiyev, Ulvi Pashabeyli
Festival: 49th Karlovy Vary international Film
Festival

Asif Rustamov was born in 1975 in Baku


(Azerbaijan) and studied at the private
Economic University (1992-1995) and
Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art
(2000-2004). His filmography includes shorts
like Sunset (2002), Labyrinth (2003), With the
back to Kybla (2009) and documentaries like
The Crossroad (2004), Time of Mercy (2006)
and Sun City (2007). The House (2007) was awarded in Asiatica Film
Mediale (Italy), Cine Pobre (Cuba) and Houston (USA) and Invited to
Eurasia (Kazakhstan), Kinoforum (Russia), Rotterdam (Netherlands),
Clermont-Ferrand (France), Fribourg (Switzerland), and Cottbus
Germany). Co-founder of the AGFIA (Association of Young
Filmmakers of Azerbaijan), he is also one of the editors of the Azeri
film magazine Fokus. Down the River his debut feature film.

Contact: Azerbaijanfilm, Moscow Avenue 1 AZ 0012 Baku Azerbaijan Tel: +994 124 301 791 Fax: +994 124 310 010 E-mail: m.hatamov@mail.ru
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FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE


Dap Canh Giua Khong Trung

Vietnam | Vietnamese | 2014 | 99 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Huyen is a teenage girl who gets pregnant from her young boyfriend and finds herself forced to fall into prostitution in
order to save money for an abortion. Ironically, the only customer who is willing to pay is a man who is obsessed with pregnant
women. The situation becomes even more complicated because this man makes Huyen so happy that she almost forgets that there
is a baby growing inside her.

Director: Diep Hoang Nguyen


Producer: Diep Hoang Nguyen
Production Company: Vblock Media, Cine-Sud
Promotion, Film Farms, Filmallee
Screenplay: Diep Hoang Nguyen
DOP: Quang Minh Pham
Editors: Gustavo Vasco, Jacques Comets
Sound Design: Thu Thuy Hoang, Nicolas
Dhalluin, Jean-Guy Veran
Principal Cast: Thuy Anh Nguyen, Bao Son Tran,
Ha Hoang, Thanh Duy Pham Tran

Diep Hoang Nguyen, born in 1982, is one of


the prominent faces among new independent
filmmakers in Vietnam. In 2008, Diep founded
VBLOCK Media, an independent studio
focused on art films and experimental projects.
In 2009, as producer, Diep and VBLOCK
Media successfully produced Bi, don't be
afraid. The film won a record number of
awards at various international film festivals. Her first feature film
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere has been selected and sponsored by
various international film festivals and prestigious cultural funds.

Festivals: 39th Toronto International Film Festival;


Venice International Film Festival (Critics' Week)
Award: Fedora Film Critics Award for Best FilmVenice International Film Critics Week.
Contact: Premium Films 130rue de Turenne 75003 Paris Telephone: +33142770639 Email: kasia.karwan@premium-films.com Website: www.premium-films.com
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THE FOOL

Durak

Russia | Russian | 2014 | 116 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A plumber's assistant, honest and idealistic Dima, devotes his free time studying to fulfill his dream of becoming an
engineer. Leaving his family at home one evening, he goes to a seemingly derelict building housing the city's poor to investigate a
leak. What he finds is much worse, however, and he realizes that the 800 tenants need to be evacuated immediately. Requiring
municipal authorization, he goes to see the mayor, and realizes that things aren't as clean as they should be. Dima spends the night
chasing the corrupt in order to save those whom everyone has forgotten.

Director: Yury Bykov


Producers: Alexey Uchitel, Kira Saksaganskaya
Production Company: Rock Films & New Projects
Executive Producers: Elena Bystrova, Philipp
Pastukhov
Screenplay: Yury Bykov
DOP: Kirill Klepalov
Editor: Yury Bykov
Sound Design: Arkady Noskov
Principal Cast: Artem Bystrov, Nataliya Surkova,
Boris Nevzorov, Kirill Polukhin, Darya Moroz, Yury
Tsurilo, Irina Nizina, Alexander Korshunov

Yury Bykov was born in 1981 to a working


class family in the town of
Novomichurinsk. In 2005 he graduated from
the All Russian State Institute of
Cinematography, where he studied acting. Yury
began his career by directing and producing
Principal, his first short film, and received the
main prize at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film
Festival. His film, The Major, premiered during the Critics Week at the
Cannes Film Festival and received the Grand Prix at the Shanghai
International Film Festival.

Festival: Locarno International Film Festival 2014


Awards: Best Actor (Artem Bystrov), Ecumenical
Jury Prize for Humanism, First Prize; Special
Mention of the Junior Jury at Locarno
Contact: m-appeal Prinzessinnenstr.16, D-10969 Berlin. +49 (0)30 61507505 Fax: +49 (0)30 27582872. films@m-appeal.com www.m-appeal.com
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THE FORGOTTEN
Le Olvidados

Bolivia | Spanish | 2014 | 112 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: During the 1970s, the military dictatorships in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay - under the
supervision of the US government in its quest to control the spread of communism - took away all hope for freedom and peace in
one of the bloodiest and most painful eras in the modern history of these countries. Joseph, a Bolivian general, after suffering a
heart attack, haunted by memories of that time and overrun by deep remorse, decides to tell his only son the dark secrets of his past
in search of redemption. This story takes us to scenes sordid and evil. It is a story of struggle, ideals, frustrations and pain. It
reveals that love, friendship and dreams are stolen by repressive governments who claim to fight for a safe country.

Director: Carlos Bolado


Producer: Carla Ortiz
Production Company: Flor De Loto Pictures S.R.L
Executive Producer: Frank Giustra
Screenplay: Elia Petridis, Carla Ortiz, Mauricio
Davis
DOP: Ernesto Fernandez
Editors: Juan Palacio, Camilo Abadia, Carlos
Bolado
Sound Design: Ramiro Firerro, Mattias Barberis,
Diego Gat
Production Design: Marta Mendez, Serapio Tola
Principal Cast: Damian Alcazar, Rafael Ferro,
Carla Ortiz, Tomas Fonzi, Carloto Cotta, Eduardo
Paxeco

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, Carlos Bolado


studied sociology and film. He has edited more
than 11 films and and served as advisor for
numerous films. He made his directorial debut
in 1999 with Under California: The Limit of
Time, which received numerous national and
international awards and considerable
acceptance by the public and critics. His
documentary, Promises, co-directed by Justine Shapiro and BZ
Goldberg, was nominated for an Academy Award and won two
Emmys. He directed the film, Only God Knows, which premiered at
the Festival Sundance 2006 and was distributed by Buenavista
Pictures. His film Tlatelolco (Summer of '68) and a Time series of 12
chapters with the same title was released in 2013. He has directed
television shows for Discovery Channel, PBS, Channel 4 and TV
ONCE.

Contact: FLOR DE LOTO PICTURES S.R.L. -Carla Ortiz Telephone: +13108807768 +59179796965 Email: info@olvidadosfilm.com, carlaortiz2002@yahoo.com
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FOUR CORNERS
South Africa | English, Afrikaans, Sabela|2013 | 115 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Four Corners is a coming of age thriller set in the Cape Flats, a marginal South African community dominated by the
unique and volatile sub culture of the centuries old Numbers Gangs. Teenage chess prodigy Ricardo Galam, fatherless and raised
by his grandmother, finds himself at a crossroads, lured in equal measure by the thrill of warfare on the chessboard and the
seductive prestige of joining a powerful street gang. Over the course of a week, four lives unexpectedly converge around Ricardo
as he navigates the streets of the Flats. A prison general, Farakhan, seeks to reform and change his life, and Leila, a South African
exile returns to the Cape Flats to bury her estranged father and put her past to rest. Tito, a cop, is struggling to protect children from
the brutality of life on the Flats as Gasant, a charismatic young gang leader seeks revenge for his brother's murder.
Director: Ian Gabriel
Producers: Cindy Gabriel and Genevieve Hofmeyr
Production Company: Giant Films
Executive Producers: Basil Ford, Ian Gabriel,
Marvin Saven
Screenplay: Terence Hammond and Hofmeyr
Scholtz
DOP: Vicci Turpin
Editor: Ronnelle Loots
Principal Cast: Brendon Daniels, Irshaad Ally,
Lindiwe Matshikiza, Jezzriel Skei
Festivals: Cambridge, Rio, Seattle, Sydney
Awards: Giffoni Film Festival 2014 - Winner 2ND Place, Youth Jury Award, Niagara Integrated
Film Festival - Winner (Best Film)

Ian Gabriel is a top performance director with


exceptional visual flair. As a commercials,
music video, and feature film director Gabriel
has been hailed for his innovative storytelling
and cinematic execution. His film, Four
Corners, South Africa's official submission for
the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th
Academy Awards, released to critical acclaim
in South Africa. Ian is a recipient of the Human Rights Award at the
57th Locarno International Film Festival for his debut feature film
Forgiveness, and he is a Golden Leopard Nominee and winner of the
Locarno Youth Jury Best Film Award. The film also won the 2004 Best
South African Film and Best African Film Awards in the same year.
While working from his own production company Giant Films in
South Africa, Ian is a member of the Directors Guild of America. Ian
Gabriel is a mixed race South African of Indian descent.

Contact: The Little Film Company, 3940 Laurel Canyon Boulevard #807, Studio City CA 91604, 818.762.6999
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FOXCATCHER
USA | English | 2014 | 134 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: When Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz is invited by wealthy heir John du Pont to move on to the
du Pont estate and help form a team to train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics at his new state-of-the-art training facility, Schultz jumps
at the opportunity, hoping to focus on his training and finally step out of the shadow of his revered brother, Dave. Driven by
hidden needs, du Pont sees backing Schultz's bid for Gold and the chance to "coach" a world-class wrestling team as an
opportunity to gain the elusive respect of his peers and, more importantly, his disapproving mother. Soon du Pont's erratic
behaviour and cruel psychological game-play begin to erode the athlete's already shaky self-esteem. Fuelled by du Pont's
increasing paranoia and alienation from the brothers, the trio is propelled towards a tragedy no one could have foreseen.
Director: Bennett Miller
Producers: Megan Ellison, Bennett Miller, Jon
Kilik, Anthony Bregman
Production Company: Annapurna Pictures
Executive Producers: Chelsea Barnard, Ron
Schmidt, Mark Bakshi, Michael Coleman, Tom
Heller, John P. Giura
Screenplay: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
DOP: Greig Fraser
Editors: Stuart Levy, Conor O'Nell, Jay Cassidy
Music: Rob Simonsen

Bennett Miller was born in New York City. He


showed immense patience in terms of waiting
for the perfect script with which to make his
feature film debut. He directed the
documentary The Cruise (1998) and the
features Capote (2005) and Moneyball (2011).
Foxcatcher is his latest venture.

Principal Cast: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum,


Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Millerll
Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival; 39 Toronto
International Film Festival; London film Festival
Award: Best Director - Cannes Film Festival
Contact: PVR Pictures, Telephone: +91 22 42758888, Email: shiladitya.bora@pvrcinemas.com
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THE GODS OF THE WATER

Los Dioses de Agua

Argentina, Angola, Ethiopia | Spanish | 2014 | 110 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Inspired by the French ethnologist Marcel Griaulese's investigation, Hermes, an Argentinean anthropologist prepares
his first stage play. He is fascinated by the ancient knowledge of the Dogon and Tchokwe. Hermes dreams of recovering the
information about the possible origin of mankind, created by amphibious beings from other places of the universe. He enlists the
help of Oko, a young Angolan man who is in Buenos Aires to study what happened to African descendants in the post-colonial
times, Ayelen, his play's actress who belongs to the Qm, and Esteban, an Egyptologist who studies the knowledge of the African
tribes. Hermes travels to Angola going through the Kwanza River in search of the last wise men, with the goal of obtaining an
answer from them.
Director: Pablo Cesar
Producer: Pablo Cesar
Production Company: Cesar Productions, Angolan
Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual (Angola), Blue
Nile Film and Television Academy (Ethiopia)
Executive Producer: Pablo Ballester
Screenplay: Pablo Cesar, Liliana Nadal
DOP: Carlos Ferro
Editor: Liliana Nadal
Music: Hyperborei
Sound Design: Rodrigo Sanchez Maririo
Costume Design: Walter Jaro
Special Appearance: Boy Olmi

Pablo Cesar is an Argentinian, born in Buenos


Aires. He began filmmaking at the age of 13
when his older brother Jos Mara, who was a
maker of short films, gave him a Super 8mm
camera and taught him the first filmmaking
techniques. He obtained international awards
and also participated as jury in the festivals of
Amiens (France), Montreal (Canada, Youth
Cinema Festival), Kelibia (Tunisia), Huy (Belgium), Hyderabad
(India), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Villa Carlos Paz and Buenos
Aires (Argentina). He's a professor at the Universidad del Cine of
Buenos Aires since 1992, specialized in the subjects of Direction,
Production and Author's Cinema Seminar.

Principal Cast: Juan Palomino, Charo Bogarin,


Onesimo De Carvalho, Jovania Da Costa, Horacio
Jose Kilulo, Sidney Profeta.
Contact: Csar Productions Viamonte 682 piso 3 C Buenos Aires 1053 Tel: +541143937972 Mobile: +5491154999237, www.pablocesarfilms.com.ar
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THE GOSPEL OF THE FLESH

El Evangelio de la Carne

Peru | Spanish | 2013 | 110 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: An undercover cop seeks desperately to save his wife from a critical disease. At the same time, a bus-driver, guilty of
killing several passengers in a brutal car accident, prays to be accepted into the Brotherhood of the Lord of Miracles to vindicate
his sins. And, the leader of a football supporters club struggles to get his young brother out of prison before he turns 18 and is sent
to a larger criminal prison. Three men who intertwine their lives filled with guilt, seeking for redemption and a 'miracle' to
become, the day of the Football Cup game and the procession of the Lord of Miracles.

Director: Eduardo Mendoza De Echave


Producer: Gustavo Sanchez
Production Company: Los Dados Eternos
Screenplay: Eduardo Mendoza De Echave, Ursula
Vilca
DOP: Mario Bassino
Editor: Eric Williams
Sound Design: Edgar Lostaunau
Music: Jorge Sabogal
Principal Cast: Giovanni Ciccia, Jimena Lindo,
Lucho Caceres, Cindy Diaz, Norman Martinez,
Sandro Calderon, Ismael Contreras

Eduardo Mendoza De Echave has written and


directed five feature films, three short films and
a medium length film, which have been
awarded and acknowledged in Peru as well as
internationally. He was selected for the talent
campus of the Buenos Aires Independent Film
Festival in collaboration with the Berlin Film
Festival, as one of the 35 most important young
directors of Latin America. Manana te Cuento, Manana te Cuento II,
Snuff Dogs, El Acuarelista and Bolero de Noche are some of his films.

Festivals: 17th Latino American Festival de Lima


2013; 30th Chicago International Film Festival 2014
Awards: People's Choice Award and TITRA Award17th Latino American Festival de Lima-2013
Contact: Eduardo Mendoza De Echave Telephone: 954795564 Email: emendozadeechave@hotmail.com
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THE GUIDE

Povodyr

Ukraine | Ukrainian, English, Russian | 2014 | 122 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The film is set in the early 1930s Soviet Ukraine, at the times of industrialization, collectivization, Big Hunger and
liquidation of the intellectuals. The untroubled life of Peter Shamrock, American specialist's son, changes in a moment. His father
is killed. Peter is saved from persecutors by a miracle. This "miracle" is kobzar (blind minstrel) Ivan Kocherga. The boy becomes
his guide. Their journey, full of dramatic events, is cut short in the winter of 1934. Ivan with other kobzars is executed in the
environs of Kharkiv. Peter remains the only alive witness to that tragic event.

Director: Oles Sanin


Producers: Maxim Asadchiy, Igor Savichenko and
Oles Sanin
Production Company: Pronto Film
Screenplay: Oles Sanin, Oleksandr Irvaets, Iren
Rozdobudko and Paul Wolansky
DOP: Sergiy Mykhalchuk
Editor: Denis Zakharov
Sound Design: Eugene Petrus
Principal Cast: Anton Sviatoslav Greene, Ira
Sanina, Oleksandr Kobzar, Jamala, Jeff Burrell
Festivals: 2014 Odessa International Film Festival;
2014 Warsaw International Film Festival; Tofifest

Oles Sanin was born in 1972 in KamynKashurskiy. He graduated from the Kyiv
National Karpenko-Karyi University of
Dramatic Art in 1993 as an actor, and again in
1998 with a degree in feature film directing. He
is currently the head of the Young
Cinematographers Association, a part of the
National Association of Ukrainian
Cinematographers. He has produced dozens of documentary films. His
feature films include Mamay (2003), which he also scripted and acted
in. It was Ukraine's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award.

Awards: 2014 Odessa International Film Festival Best Actor, Jury Diploma for Cinematography
Contact: Sashko Chubko sashko@pronto.kiev.ua +380444902231 (work) +380955767743 (cell)
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A HARD DAY

Kkeutkkaji Ganda
South Korea | Korean | 2014 | 111 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Detective Gun-Soo skips out on his mother-in-law's funeral to attend to a crisis at the police station. While driving to
the station a man appears out of nowhere and Detective Gun-Soo crashes into him with his car. The man is dead and Detective
Gun-Soo panics. He drags the dead man to his car and throws him into his car trunk. Detective Gun-Soo's hard day is just
beginning.

Director: Kim Seong-hun


Producers: Cha Ji-hyun, Billy Acumen
Production Company: AD406, Dasepo Club
Executive Producer: You Jeong-hun
Screenplay: Kim Seong-hun
DOP: Kim Tae-sung
Editor: Kim Chang-ju
Sound Design: Lee In-gyu
Production Design: Lee Mi-kyoung

Kim Seong-hun was born in South Korea. He


cut his teeth as an assistant director on Oh!
Happy Day (2003), and was the writer and first
AD on He was Cool (2004). He made his debut
as a writer-director with How the Lack of Love
Affects Two Men (2006). A Hard Day is his
latest film.

Principal Cast: Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Jin-woong,


Jeong Man-sik, Shin Jung-keun
Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival (Director's
Fortnight); 39th Toronto International film Festival;
19th Busan International Film Festival; 58th BFI
London Film Festival
Contact: Showbox/Mediaplex, Inc. 3F, Mediaplex, 174-15, Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-504, Korea Telephone: +82 2 3218 5649, sales@showbox.co.kr
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HEARTBEAT
Canada | English | 2014 | 96 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Justine hasn't played her guitar since stage fright forced her to give up her dream of becoming a musician. She tucked
her heart deep inside her chest and ignored what it was trying to tell her: that in order to be strong, it needs to beat. Now,
accustomed to avoiding challenge and excitement, Justine is stuck. She lives in the unchanged house of her late grandmother,
works at an unfulfilling job and continues to sleep with her ex boyfriend, Ben--a painter who refuses to leave his studio. When
Ben puts an end to their late night trysts, she is forced to reclaim her guitar. Nursing a broken heart, Justine starts to play and write
music again. She steps into the world of the unexpected and rediscovers her strong and vital heartbeat.

Director: Andrea Dorfman


Producers: Bill Niven, Jay Dahl
Production Company: Northeast Films Inc.
Screenplay: Andrea Dorfman
DOP: Stephanie Weber-Biron
Editor: Thorben Bieger
Sound Design: Brian Power
Music: Tanya Davis, Charles Austin
Costume Designer: Sarah Haydon Roy
Production Design: Kevin Lewis
Principal Cast: Tanya Davis, Stewart Legere,
Stephanie Clattenburg, Kristin Langille, Jackie
Torrens

Andrea Dorfman is a filmmaker, animator,


cinematographer and artist as well as graduate
of McGill University and the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design. Since 1995, she has
made numerous experimental and dramatic
short films as well as two feature films, Parsley
Days (2000) and Love That Boy (2003), and the
documentary Sluts (2005). How to Be Alone
(2009) - a video poem she made in collaboration with singer songwriter
Tanya Davis - became a viral hit on YouTube garnering over seven
million views. More recently, she has worked in animation at the
National Film Board of Canada making the Emmy nominated Flawed
(2010) and Big Mouth (2012).

Festivals: 39th Toronto International Film Festival;


Atlantic Film Festival 2014
Contact: Bill Niven, Telephone: 902 454 7866, Email: niven@ns.sympatico.ca
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HIPPOCRATES

Hippocrate

France | French | 2014 | 99 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Benjamin is going to become a great doctor, he's sure of it. But his first experience as junior doctor in his father's
service, the Professor Barois, doesn't turn out the way he hoped it would. Benjamin will be brutally confronted with his own
limits, his fears, those of his patients, families, doctors, and the staff. The practice turns out to be far harder than the theory, the
responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is a far more experimented
than himself. Benjamin is no longer sure of anything anymore and hereafter, begins his route to adulthood.

Director: Thomas Litli


Producers: Agns Valle and Emmanuel Barraux
Production Company: 31 juin Films
Screenplay: Thomas Lilti, BayaKasmi, Pierre
Chosson, Julien Lilti
DOP: Nicolas Gaurin
Editor: Christel Dewynter
Sound Design: Franois Guillaume, Raphal
Sohier, Jean-Paul Hurier
Music: Jrme Bensoussan
Production Design: Philippe Van Herwijnen
Costume Design: Cyril Fontaine

Thomas Litli is a 38-year-old French


filmmaker. The Blindfolds, his first feature
film, was released in the year 2007. He studied
medicine and started off with directing short
films.

Principal Cast: Vincent Lacoste, Reda Kateb, Flix


Moati, Marianne Denicourt and Jacques Gamblin
Festivals: Cannes Critics' Week 2014, Canberra
Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival
Contact: Le Pacte 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, FRANCE Telephone: 01 44 69 59 45 E-mail: a.aubelle@le-pacte.com Website: www.le-pacte.com
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HOPE
France | French | 2013 | 91 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Deep in the Sahara desert, as they try to get to Europe, Leonard, a young man from Cameroon, rescues Hope, a
Nigerian woman. In a fiercely hostile world where safety requires staying with one's own people, these two try to find their way
together, and to love each other.

Director: Boris Lojkine


Producer: Bruno Nahon
Production Compnay: Zadig films
Executive Producer: Jean-David Lefevre
Writer: Boris Lojkine
DOP: Elin Kirschfink
Editor: Gilles Volta
Sound Design: Marc-Olivier Brulle
Production Manager: Said Hamich
Principal Cast: Justin Wang, Endurance Newton,
Dieudonne Bertrand Balo'o, bobby Igiebor,
Richmond Ndiri Kouassi, Nabyl Fally Koivogui

Boris Lojkine was a philosophy professor and


an author of a thesis on Crisis and History who
decided to leave the university and travel to
Vietnam where he had lived previously and
learnt the language as well. There he made two
documentary films, Those Who Remain (2001)
and Wandering Souls (2005), two films that tell
the Vietnamese side of the story, not highlight
just the mourning of men and women whose lives have been marked by
war. With Hope, his first fiction film, he switches continents to plunge
into the lives of African migrants.

Festivals: 53rd Critics Week Cannes; Montreal


International Black Film Festival
Award: SACD award at the Critics Week Cannes
Contact: Pyramide International Paris; +33 1 42 96 02 20 Lucero Garzon : lgarzon@pyramidefilms.com Agathe Mauruc : amauruc@pyramidefilms.com
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I AM NOT LORENA
No Soy Lorena

Argentina, Chile | Spanish | 2014 | 82 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Fraudulent charges aimed at a certain 'Lorena Ruiz' begin to plague Olivia, who descends into the dark labyrinth of the
Chilean payment collection system to confront the unknown woman. However, each step deeper into the underworld
progressively blurs the line between Olivia and Lorena's real identities.

Director: Isidora Marras


Producers: Gregorio Gonzalez, Josefina Undurraga
Production Company: Forastero, Carrousel Films,
Don Quijote Films
Executive Producers: Gabriel Pastore, Florencia
Lareea
Screenplay: Catalina Calcagni, Isidora Marras
DOP: Eduardo Bunster
Editor: Catalina Marin
Sound Design: Fernando Soldevila
Principal Cast: Loreto Aravena, Paulina Garcia,
Maureen Junott, Lautaro Delgado, Gabriela
Aguilera, Matias Oviedo

Isidora Marras was born in Santiago, Chile


(1986). She graduated from the Audiovisual
Direction in Universidad Catolica de Chile.
She has written, directed and produced
documentary short-films. In 2008 'Mirada a
Vapor', was selected for the Valdivia
International Film Festival and for the 2008
Santiago International Film Festival. She also
developed the short-film 'La Carbonada del Cuervo' while working and
studying in a scholarship programme thanks to an award from the
Embassy of France at the National School of Image and Sound in Paris
(La Femis). I am Not Lorena is her first feature film as writer and
director.

Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival2013; Santiago International Film Festival-2013;


39th Toronto International Film Festival
Contact: Shoreline Entertainment, Brian Delgado Email: brandon@slefilms.com Melody Djavadi Email: melody@slefilms.com
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I AM YOURS

Jer Er Din

Norway | Norwegian, Swedish, Urdu | 2013 | 96 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: I Am Yours is a portrait of Mina, a young single mother living in Oslo with her six-year-old son Felix. She is Norwegian
-Pakistani and has a troublesome relationship with her family. Mina is constantly looking for love and has relations with different
men, however none of the relationships bearing any hope of lasting very long. Then Mina meets Jesper, a Swedish film director
and they fall head over heels in love. Mina takes Felix with her to Stockholm to live with Jesper, but Jesper is not ready for a family
life. Mina fights hard for their love, but finally she has to find out what love is on her own.

Director: Iram Haq


Producer: Maria Ekerhovd
Production Company: Mer Film
Executive Producer: Axel Helgeland
Screenplay: Iram Haq
DOP: Marek Septimus Wieser, Cecilie Semec
Editors: Anne Osterud, Janus Billeskov Jensen
Sound Design: Tormod Ringnes, Fanny Wadman,
Tor Havard Strand
Principal Cast: Amrita Acharia, Ola Rapace,
Tobias Santelmann, Trond Fausa Aurvag

Iram Haq is a Norwegian actress, writer and


director. She has worked for many years as an
actor, on stage and in feature and TV films. She
also wrote and starred in the short film 'Old
Faithful' (2004) that was selected for the short
film competition at the Venice Film Festival in
2004. She made her directorial debut with the
short film 'Little Miss Eyeflap' in 2009, which
premiered in Sundance and later won The Ellen Award at Aspen Shorts
fest in 2010.

Festivals: 38th Toronto International Film Festival;


Les Arcs European Film Festival 2013
Award: Les Arcs European Film Festival 2013Special Jury Mention
Contact: Premium Films, 130 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris Telephone: +33142770639 Email: kasia.karwan@premium-films.com Website: www.premium-films.com
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I WON'T COME BACK

Ya ne Vernus

Russia, Estonia, Finland, Belarus, Kazakhstan | Russian | 2014 | 109 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Anya, a young academic raised in an orphanage, is on the cusp of success when she's accused of drug possession.
While in limbo hiding from the police, she hits the road with Kristina, another orphan several years Anya's junior, in search of her
possibly mythical grandmother.

Director: Ilmar Raag


Producers: Natalia Drozd, Sergey Selyanov
Production Company: CTB Film Company,
Amrion, Helsinki Filmi, Belarusfilm, Kazakhfilm
Executive Producer: Natalia Smirnova
Writer: Jaroslava Pulinovich
DOP: Tuomo Hutri F.S.C
Editor: Tambet Tasuja
Sound Design: Lev Ezhov
Production Design: Anastasia Karimulina
Principal Cast: Polina Pushkaruk, Victoria
Lobacheva, Andrey Astrahantsev, Sergej Jacenjuk,
Olga Belinskaja, Alla Eminceva
Festival: Tribeca Film Festival

Ilmar Raag is the writer and director of The


Class (Amrion, 2007), which sold to 91
countries, was shortlisted for the national Oscar
nomination, won 25 awards from 70 festivals,
and was adapted into a successful, awardwinning TV-series. Ilmar's latest features are
Kertu, Love is Blind (Amrio, 2013) and Une
Estonienne a Paris. Ilmar has an MA in
screenwriting from Ohio University and works as an expert for
EURIMAGES and MEDIA Plus. He is a member of the Audiovisual
Council of Cultural Endowment of Estonia, and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Estonian Film Foundation. Ilmar is also an
acclaimed columnist in newspapers, a lecturer, and a much in demand
media consultant.

Contact: Visit Films 173 Richardson Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, USA Tel: +1.718.312.8210 Fax: +1.718.362.4865, info@visitfilms.com
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IDA
Poland, Denmark | Polish | 2013 | 80 minutes | Black & White

Synopsis: Poland 1962. Anna is a beautiful 18-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived
since being orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother's sister
Wanda. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery. Her aunt, she learns, is not only a former hard-line
Communist state prosecutor notorious for sentencing priests and others to death, but also a Jew. Anna learns that she too is Jewish
- and that her real name is Ida. This revelation sets Anna, now Ida, on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about
her family. IDA has to choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the Nazi occupation
of Poland. And Wanda must confront decisions she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before family.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Producers: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa
Puszczynska
Production Company: Phoenix Film, Onus Film
Screenplay: Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca
Lenkiewicz
DOP: Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski (P.S.M)
Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
Principal Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata
Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela
Festivals: Toronto, Sundance, Busan, London
Awards: FIPRESCI Prize - 39th Toronto
International Film Festival; Best Film- BFI London
Film Festival; Grand Prix - Warsaw Film Festival

Pawel Pawlikowski is a Polish-born, UKbased, BAFTA award-winning filmmaker. He


studied literature and philosophy at London
and Oxford and started making films in the mid
1980s. Pawel's early work was in
documentaries for the BBC. His best known
documentaries from that period include From
Moscow to Pietushki, Dostoevsky's Travels,
Serbian Epics and Tripping with Zhirinovsky, which between them
won an Emmy International, Prix Italia, the Grierson and two Royal
Television Society Awards alongside many other prizes around the
festival circuit. His two full length features, Last Resort and My
Summer of Love, both of which he wrote and directed, won BAFTAs,
as well as other awards at festivals around the world.

Contact: Portobello Film Sales Krystalgade 7,1. Sal, DK-1172 Copenhagen, Denmark Tel: +4553570280 Email: sl@portobellofilmsales.com
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THE IMITATION GAME


USA, UK | English | 2014 | 113 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: At Cambridge University, the young mathematician Alan Turing quickly establishes himself as a groundbreaking
thinker with his theories about the potential of computing machines. When war between Britain and Germany is declared, these
theories are put into active practice. Turing easily passes a test to become a member of a top-secret group assigned to decode
critical German naval communications. Much to the surprise of the commanding officers, so does a woman, Joan Clarke. Turing
and Clarke become fast friends, and are soon engaged to be married. But Turing is gay, struggling with his identity at a time when
it is illegal and subject to terrible punishment.

Director: Morten Tyldum


Producers: Teddy Schwarzman, Nora Grossman,
Ido Ostrowsky
Production Company: Black Bear Pictures, Bristol
Automotive
Executive Producer: Graham Moore
Screenplay: Graham Moore
DOP: Oscar Faura
Editor: William Goldenberg
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Principal Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira
Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear

Morten Tyldum was educated at the School of


Visual Arts in New York. He worked in
television, music videos, commercials and
short films. He had his feature film debut with
film 'Buddy' in 2003, a film that won great
popular and critical acclaim. Later he made the
movie Varg Veum - Falne engler (Fallen
Angels) in 2008 and Headhunters
(Hodejegerne) in 2011. Headhunters is based on the 2008 novel of
same name written by Jo Nesb. It became the highest-grossing
Norwegian film of all time. The Imitation Game is his Englishlanguage debut with the historical drama about the life of
mathematician Alan Turing.

Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival, BFI


London Film Festival
Award: People's Choice Award in Toronto
Contact: PVR Pictures, Telephone: +91 22 42758888, Email: shiladitya.bora@pvrcinemas.com
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JOURNEY TO THE MOTHER

Poezdka K Materi

Russia, France | Russian, French | 2014 | 94 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Maxim has arrived from Moscow for a three-day visit to his mother in Provence. But he and his French step-sister
Maria-Louise have to face the unfair game of death.

Director: Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov


Producers: Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov, Anastasiya
Kovtyn
Production Company: Film-M Studio
Screenplay: Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov
DOP: Oleg Lukichev
Editor: Sergei Ivanov
Sound Design: Oliver Dandre, Ivan Dumas
Costume Design: Edwige Morel D'Arleux
Production Design: Francois Salisch

Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov was born in


Moscow in 1963. In 1991 he graduated from
the Russian Film Academy as a film director.
He went on to work as a producer on various
film projects, including The Path (1995),
Namaskaar (2001), and Five Days of
Vyacheslav Samodurov (2005). Ocean (2008)
was his directorial debut.

Principal Cast: Artem Alexeiev, Adele


Exarchopoulos

Contact: Film-M Studio FL.69, 14-V, 2 street Maryinoi Roschy, 129594, Moscow, Russia, +79857277423, m-film@yandex.ru, www.m-film.ru
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THE LAMB

Kuzu

Turkey, Germany | Turkish | 2014 | 85 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A singer-prostitute arrives in town. The village leader finds Ismail a job in the slaughterhouse. Friends there lead Ismail
astray, and his weakness makes it even harder to buy the sheep. Medine persists. Mert has his own motivation to search for an
animal, with determination that rivals his mother's. Refusing even the grandmother's support Medine receives help and solidarity
from an unlikely source.

Director: Kutlug Ataman


Producers: Kutlug Ataman, Fabian Gasmia,
Henning Kamm
Production Company: The Institute for the
Readjustment of Clocks
Executive Producers: Martin Fryer, Catharina
Schreckenberg
Screenplay: Kutlug Ataman
DOP: Feza Caldiran
Editor: Ali Aga
Sound Technician: Sonat Hancer
Production Design: Esra Cetinkanat
Principal Cast: Mert Tastan, Sila Lara Canturk,
Nesrin Cavadzade, Cahit Gok, Emel Goksu

Born in Istanbul in 1961, Kutlug Ataman is an


artist and filmmaker known for his strong
characterization and humanity. He graduated
from UCLA with an MFA in 1988 and
established himself as a film-maker with his
first feature film Serpent's Tale (Karanl?k
Sular) in 1994. Ataman's second feature
Lola+Bilidikid (1998) was selected to open the
Panorama section of the 49th Berlin Film Festival. For his third feature,
2 Girls (2005), Ataman was awarded the Best Director and Best Film
prizes at both the Ankara and Antalya Film Festivals, and Best Film at
the Osian's Film Festival in India. Kutlug Ataman was Chair of the Jury
at the Istanbul International Film Festival in April 2009. The Lamb is
his fifth major film.

Festivals: Berlin Film Festival; BFI London Film


Festival
Contact: Kutlug Ataman/Tacim Acik Email: tacim2@me.com
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LETTER TO THE KING

Brev til kongen

Norway, UAE | Norwegian, Kurdish | 2014 | 75 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A group of five refugees make a daytrip to Oslo, a welcome respite from their monotonous life in the outskirts of
society. It is also a day to rectify the past and justify a new future. Each with their own history, and their own agenda, they arrive in
the capital city of a country that would seem to offer everything they could hope for. Their stories are woven into a whole by a
letter, written by 83-year-old Mirza, who intends to deliver it to the king.

Director: Hisham Zaman


Producers: Alan R. Milligan, Hisham Zaman
Production Company: Zaman Films, Film Farms
Executive Producers: Tom Erik Kjeseth, Hardi
Askari
Screenplay: Hisham Zaman, Mehmet Aktas
DOP: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen
Editors: Sverrir Kristjansson, Inger Lise Langfeldt,
Arild Tryggestad

Hisham Zaman (b. 1975) is a graduate from


the Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer.
His short film Bawke (2005) has received more
than 20 national and international awards. He
has directed the medium-length comedy drama
Winterland (2007) and the feature Before
Snowfall (2013). Both films won numerous
accolades on the international festival circuit.

Principal Cast: Ali Bag Salimi, Ivan Anderson,


Nazmi Kirik, Raouf Saraj, Hasaan Dimirci
Festivals: Dubai, Edinburgh, Goteborg
Award: Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at
Goteborg Film Festival

Contact: Film-M Studio, FL.69, 14-V, 2 Street Maryinoi Roschy, 129594, Moscow, Russia, +79857277423, m-film@yandex.ru, www.m-film.ru
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LIFE IN A FISHBOWL

Vonarstraeti

Iceland | Icelandic | 2014 | 130 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Life in a Fishbowl is about three people whose lives are intertwined: After a horrible tragedy a writer drinks himself
into oblivion on a twenty-year binge. A young single mom moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. A former soccer star is
recruited into the snake pit of international banking and loses touch with his family.

Director: Baldvin Z
Producers: Julius Kemp, Ingvar Thordarson
Production Company: The Icelandic Film
Company, Kisis Production
Screenplay: Baldvin Z, Birgir Steinarsson
DOP: Johann Mani Johannsson
Editor: Sigusbjorg Jonsdottir
Sound Design: Olafur Arnalds
Production Design: Gunnar Palsson
Principal Cast: Thorsteinn Bachmann, Hera
Hilmarsdottir, Thor Kristjansson, Valur Freyr
Gunnarsson, Kristin Lea Sigridardottir, Markus
Revmann
Festivals: 39th Toronto International Film Festival;
Zurich Film Festival; Filmfest Hamburg, Germany

Born in Iceland in 1978, Baldvin


Zophoniasson (also known as Baldvin Z)
began his film career working as freelance
editor, cameraman and producer for Icelandic
TV companies. He studied documentary
filmmaking in Norway in addition to directing
music videos. From 2004 till 2008 he studied
filmmaking in Denmark. His first feature film,
Jitters (Oroi), a coming of age drama, was a box-office hit in Iceland in
2010. Celebrating its international premiere at Sprockets Toronto
International Film Festival for Children and Youth in 2011 it became a
success on the international festival circuit. From 2010 to 2012 he
wrote and produced the three-season sitcom hit "Hae Gosi" before
writing and directing his second feature film, Life in a Fishbowl.

Contact: Films Boutique Kopenicker Strasse 184, 10997 Berlin, Germany Telephone: +49 30 69537850 Email: info@filmsboutique.com
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LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Jako Nikdy

Czech Republic | Czech | 2013 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The end of summer in Like Never Before also means the end of a life. Vladimir Holas (Jiri Schmitzer), a painter, is
dying. His country home in the middle of a beautiful landscape is his last resort, the death is unavoidable and he doesn't want to die
in a hospital. The film has three key characters, the main hero and two women: Karla (Petra Spalkova), around thirty five, is
somewhat similar to her partner in life: a painter, bohemian, doesn't flinch at using bad language. Jaruna (Tatjana Medvecka), on
the other hand, is very different from the other two, a married nurse of approximately fifty five and the maestro's former lover. The
three of them fight useless battles against death, against themselves and among themselves - which brings a form of relief to each
of them.
Director: Zdenek Tyc
Producer: Ondrej Trojan
Production Company: Total HelpArt T.H.A.
Executive Producer: Michaela Syslova
Kuchynkova
Screenplay: Marketa Bidlasov and Zdenek Tyc
DOP: Patrik Hoznauer
Editor: Vladimir Barak
Music: Leos Janacek, Zdenek Kral and Kazety band

Zdenek Tyc (b. 1956) is a Czech film and


television director and screen-writer. In the
years 1983-1990 he studied direction at FAMU.
After his graduation, he worked with Czech
Television. He made his debut with the 1990
film Vojtech, which won the main prize at the
festival of Czech and Slovak films in
Bratislava.

Principal Cast: Petra Spalkova, Jiri Schmitzer,


Tatjana Medvecka, Marek Nemec, Jana
Pidrmanova, Zdenek Palusga
Festival: Warsaw International Film Festival

Contact: Lubica Orechovska/PubRes Email: pubres@pubres.sk


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LITTLE ENGLAND

Mikra Aggila

Greece | Greek | 2013 | 160 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Orsa, who is 20 years old, is madly in love with navy lieutenant Spiros Maltambe. She is reticent and does not reveal
her secret to anyone. Her younger sister, Mosha, is full of dreams. She wants to leave and escape the fate of the women of the
island who marry sailors and then spend their lives alone. For their mother Mina, the wife of a sea captain who prefers the deck of
the ship to his home, love means trouble and pain. He ignores the feelings of his daughters, plotting and taking advantage of his
acquaintances at the same time, and makes them marry, following his interests. Orsa becomes the wife of shipping owner and
captain Nikos Vatakouzis and Mosha of Spiros, who is now captain. The two young families occupy the two floors of the house
that the mother has built with the money sent by her husband. Unconsciously, she puts a "bomb" in her own home.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
Producer: Katerina Helioti
Production Company: Mikra Agglia Sa
Screenplay: Ioanna Karystiani
DOP: Simos Sarketzis
Editor: Takis Giannopoulos
Principal Cast: Penelope Tsilika, Sofia Kokkali,
Andreas Konstantinou, Anneza Papadopoulou
Festivals: Shanghai, Montreal, Los Angeles
Awards: Golden Goblet Awards (Shanghai): Best
Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress; Hellenic
Film Academy Awards: Best Picture,
Cinematography, Production Design, Costume
Design, Make-up, Sound Mixing.

Pantelis Voulgaris is Greek film director and


screenwriter. He is one of the most prominent
representatives of contemporary Greek
cinema. He is the author of the first feature film
about the Greek Civil War, Deep Soul, and the
film Bride, which received international
awards. The heartbreaking story of young
women who cross the ocean to become wives of
strangers again bears the signature of the director's wife Ioanna
Karystiani.

Contact: Mikra Aggila Sa Telephone: +302104580311 Fax: +302104290220 Email: katerina@polembros.gr Website: http://mikraaggliafilm.gr/
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LOS HONGOS
Colombia, France | Spanish | 2014 | 104 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Every night after work, Roberto makes graffiti on different walls of his neighbourhood in the east of Cali. During the
day he is a construction worker and also the son of Maria, a sweet mulatto woman who migrated to the city from the Pacific jungle.
Roberto has not come back home to sleep and he is starting to daydream. Maria suffers because of this; she thinks someone has
bewitched him and he will end up mad. One day Roberto loses his job because he steals several cans of paint, using them to do a
huge mural on the lot next to his house. His neighbours are tired of his images; they think he is promoting bad manners and
disorder. Without a dime to help his mother, he crosses the city looking for Eduardo, another young graffiti creator, who studies
fine arts and is having a difficult time since his parents divorced and his grandmother was diagnosed with cancer.
Director: Oscar Ruiz Navia
Producers: Diana Bustamente, Gerylee Polance
Uribe, Oscar Ruiz Navia
Production Company: Contravia Films and
Burning Blue
Screenplay: Oscar Ruiz Navia and Cesar Augusto
Acevedo
DOP: Sofia Oggioni Hatty
Editor: Felipe Guerrero
Principal Cast: Jovan Alexis Marquinez Angulo,
Calvin Buenaventura Tascn, Atala Estrada,
Gustavo Ruiz Montoya
Festivals: Locarno Film Festival, Toronto
International Film Festival
Award: Jury Prize, Locarno

Oscar Ruiz Navia graduated in Social


Communications and Journalism from
Universidad del Valle (2005). He worked as a
co-coordinator (2005 -2008) of the MovieClub Cinema d'Autor and eventually founded
the Contravia Films, Art-House Film
Production Platform in 2006, producing
several short-films, his long feature projects
and projects of emerging talents. His debut film, El Vuelco del
Cangrejo (Crab Trap), got the Fipresci Prize at the Berlin Film Festival
2010 (Forum), world premiered at Toronto Film Festival (2009) and
was invited to more than 60 festivals around the world. He is also the
main producer of the long feature La Sirga (The Towrope) by William
Vega. Los Hongos, his second feature film as writer and director, was a
part of La Residence Cinefondation, Cannes Film Festival 2011.

Contact: FiGa Films, LLC 1249, Hyperion Avenue 323-309-4856 E-mail: alex@figafilms.com Website: figafilms.com
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MARDAN
Iraqi Kurdistan | Kurdish | 2014 | 114 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A Peshmerga (Kurdish fighter), Mardan finds himself haunted by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a
missing man, Morad, in the rugged mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Leila, a young north-eastern Kurdish woman with her fouryear-old son comes to Iraq, looking for Morad. Leila asks Mardan to help her find Morad. Meanwhile, Mardan finds that he has a
feeling for Leila.

Director: Batin Ghobadi


Producer: Bahman Ghobadi
Production Company: Mijfilm Production
Screenplay: Batin Ghobadi
DOP: Saba Mazloum
Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari
Sound Design: Mohammad Reza Delpak
Costume Design: Aidin Zarif
Production Design: Aidin Zarif

Batin Ghobadi was born in Baneh, Iran. He


wrote and directed the short films, The Painter
(2000), Surely Today (2004), Ready for Death
(2008) and Ask the Wind (2010), which won a
Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Mardan is his debut feature.

Principal Cast: Hossein Hassan, Helan Abdulla,


Ismail Zagros, Feyyaz Duman
Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival

Contact: Mijfilm Production, Golriz Ehtiati Email: golriz@mijfilm.com Iraq; +964 7506029076 Turkey: +90 535 065 16 59 Website: www.mijfilm.com
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MELBOURNE
Iran | Persian | 2014 | 91 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Amir and Sara, a young couple, are going to Melbourne to continue their higher education. However, just a few hours
before their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event!

Director: Nima Javidi


Producer: Javad Norouzeigi
Writer: Nima Javidi
DOP: Hooman Behmanesh
Editor: Sepideh Adolvahab
Music: Hamed Sabet
Production Design: Keyvan Moghadam
Visual Effects: Kamran Saharkhiz and Amir
Saharkhiz

Nima Javidi is a graduate of Mechanical


Engineering. He started making short films in
1999. He's already made six short films, two
documentaries and more than 30 TV ads.
Melbourne is his debut feature film.

Principal Cast: Payman Maadi, Negar Javaherian,


Mani Haghighi, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Elham
Korda, Roshanak Gerami, Alireza Ostadi
Festivals: 71st Venice International Film Festival;
10th Zurich International Film Festival

Contact: Contact: Maida LLC, 2053 Chadds Ford DR. Reston 20191, USA, Telephone: 703-476-4567
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MISS JULIE
Norway, UK, Ireland, France | English | 2014 | 129 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A country estate in Ireland in the 1880s. Over the course of one midsummer night, Miss Julie explores the brutal,
charged power struggle between a young aristocratic woman and her father's valet. In an atmosphere of wild revelry and loosened
social constraints, Julie and John dance and drink, charm and manipulate each other. She, all hauteur longing for abasement; he,
polished but coarse - both united in mutual loathing and attraction. By turns seductive and bullying, savage and tender, their
intimacy leads to desperate plans and a vision of a life together... Unsure if the morning brings hope or hopelessness, Julie and
John find their escape in a final act as sublime and horrific as anything in Greek tragedy.

Director: Liv Ullmann


Producers: Synnove Horsdal, Oliver Dungrey, Teun
Hilte
Production Company: Maipo Film AS, Maipo
Film AS, The Apocalypse Films Company,
Subotica, Senorita Films
Executive Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Aoife
O'Sullivan, Rita Dagher, Julia Balaeskoul
Nusseibeh, Aaron L. Gilbert
Screenplay: Liv Ullman
DOP: Mikhail Krichman
Editor: Michal Leszczylowski

Liv Ullmann was born in Tokyo and raised in


Toronto, the United States, and Norway. Her
long filmography as an actor includes Persona
(1966), The Emigrants (1971), Cries and
Whispers (1973), Saraband (2003) etc. Her
films as director include Sofia (1992), Faithless
(2000), and the most recent Miss Julie.

Principal Cast: Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton,


Jessica Chastain
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival;
Chicago International Film Festival
Contact: Wild Bunch, Esther Devos, Telephone: +33 153 015 032, Email: edevos@wildbunch.eu, Website: www.wildbunch.biz
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MODRIS
Latvia | Latvian, Russian | 2014 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Modris, 17, is no better or worse than his peers. He goes to school, has a girlfriend, some good friends. His gambling
addiction makes his relationship with his mother difficult. They live alone and she doesn't miss a chance to remind him his father
is in prison and Modris has a bad gene. Their boiling relationship goes over the lid, when Modris pawns his mother's electric
heater, trying to squeeze a win from a slot machine. She betrays him to the police and Modris is sentenced to two years probation.
This is when his adventures with the Latvian justice system start, along with the change of his relationship to the outside world
and his new goal: to find the father he has never met.

Director: Juris Kursietis


Producers: Juris Kursietis, Vicky Miha,
Ingmar Trost
Production Company: Red Dot Media, Sutor
Kolonko, Boo Productions
Screenplay: Juris Kursietis
DOP: Bogumil Godfrejow
Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Sound Design: Leandros Ntounis
Costume Design: Katrina Liepa
Production Design: Aivars Zukoushs

Juris Kursietis was born in Latvia. He studied


film directing and screenwriting at the
Sheffield Hallam Northern Media School in
England. He has directed the documentaries
The Escape from Cuba (2009), January 13th
(2009), and Hackers (2010). Modris is his fulllength fiction debut.

Principal Cast: Kristers Piksa, Rezija Kalnina


Festivals: 39th Toronto International Film Festival;
San Sebastian Film Festival

Contact: Vicky Micha, Email: vicky@booproductions.gr


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MONUMENT
TO
MICHAEL
JACKSON
Spomenik Majklu Dzeksonu
Serbia, Germany, Macedonia, Croatia | Serbian | 2014 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In a dying town in Serbia, an old communist-era monument is removed from the Square. Marko, daydreamer, is on the
verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. She is disappointed in him and the life in Serbian small-town. Out of despair,
he comes up with the idea to replace the communist-era statue with a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his dying
town and seduce his wife again. Marko convinces his close friends to help him. But the town's mayor has his own plans and uses
the right-wing group 'Clean Serbia' to crash Marko's dream.

Director: Darko Lungulov


Producers: Snezana Penev, Darko Lungolov
Production Company: Papa Films, This & That
Executive Producer: Mike Downey
Screenplay: Darko Lungulov
DOP: Mathias Schoeningh
Editor: Dejan Urosevic
Sound Design: Hrvoje Stefotic
Production Design: Kiril Spaseki
Principal Cast: Boris Milivojevic, Natasa
Tapuskovic, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Ljubomir Bandovic,
Toni Mihajlovski, Branislav Trifunovic

Darko Lungulov (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)


moved from his Serbian birthplace to New York
in 1991 after the outbreak of civil war; there he
graduated in film studies from the City College
of New York. His medium-length documentary
Escape (2004) was presented at a number of
documentary festivals (e.g. IDFA and Leipzig).
He debuted in features with Here and There
(2009), which earned 20 awards at more than 50 international film
festivals following its Tribeca premiere. At KVIFF it was presented in
the Variety Critics' Choice section. Monument to Michael Jackson is
his second feature.

Festival: 49th Karlovy Vary International Film


Festival

Contact: Films Boutique, Kopenicker Strasse 184 10997 Berlin, Germany; Telephone: +4930 6953 7850 Fax: +4930 6953 7851
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NAGIMA
Kazakhstan | Russian | 2013 | 78 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Nagima is an ugly, illiterate and uncommunicative graduate of an orphan home. She rents a tiny room on the outskirts
of the city of Almaty with her "orphanage" girlfriend, pregnant sister Anya. Anya once met a guy and wanted to get married, but it
did not work out. As a result she is nine months pregnant now. Nagima works as a dishwasher at an elite restaurant and besides her
salary brings home restaurant leftovers. Nagima and Anya are two lonely souls who met at an early age at the orphanage and
became to each other relatives, family and closest friends. Anya dies during childbirth. The newborn girl ends up at the
orphanage. A vicious cycle

Director: Zhanna Issabayeva


Producer: Zhanna Issabayeva
Production Company: Sun Production
Screenplay: Zhanna Issabayeva
DOP: Sayat Zhangazinov
Editor: Azamat Altybasov
Sound Design: Adyl Merekenov
Principal Cast: Dina Tukubayeva, Galina Pyanova,
Mariya Nezhentseva
Festivals: Busan Film Festival (Gala Presentation),
Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival,
Deauville International Film Festival, Moscow
International Film Festival
Awards: Grand Prix at the Deauville International
Film Festival, NETPAC Award at the Moscow
International Film Festival

Zhanna Issabayeva was born in 1968 in


Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from the
journalism faculty of Kazakh State University
in 1991. She has successfully worked as a
producer and director since 1993. She was the
executive producer of full-length feature films:
Last Holidays (1996) and Zhylama (2001). In
2007 Issabayeva debuted with the full-length
feature film Karoy as a scriptwriter, production director, producer and
investor. Karoy took part in the Venice Film Festival "Critics Week". It
was also nominated for the "Best Asian Director 2007" at the Asia
Pacific Screen Awards. In 2009 she finished the lyrical comedy My
Dear Children... as scriptwriter and director and it clinched the Special
Jury Prize and the Press Award at the Kinoshok International Film
Festival, Russia. In 2012, she finished the feature length film Talgat.

Contact: Zhanna Issabayeva Email: ssabayeva@mail.ru


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THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT


Itar el-Layl

Morocco, UK, France, Qatar | Arabic, French | 2014 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. The
respective quests of these characters intersect, giving them both opportunities to rescue one another before continuing on to their
unpredictable fates. One finds freedom, the other death.

Director: Tala Hadid


Producers: Khadija Alami, Joslyn Barnes,
Cat Villiers
Production Company: K Films, Autonomous,
Louverture Films, ASAP Films
Executive Producers: Diloy Gulun, Soren Kloch
Screenplay: Tala Hadid
DOP: Alexander Burov
Editor: Joelle Hache
Sound Design: Simou Si Mohamed
Production Design: Dominique Lacloche

Tala Hadid was born in London, graduated


from Columbia University in New York City,
and participated in the Sundance Institute
Directors Lab. Her films include the
documentary feature Sacred Poet (2001), and
the short film Your Dark Hair Ihsan (2005),
which won the Panorama Short Film Award at
the Berlin International Film Festival. The
Narrow Frame of Midnight is her first feature.

Principal Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josee Croze,


Fadwa Boujouane, Hocine Choutri, Majdouline
Idrisse, Zahra Hindi
Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival
Contact: Wide Management, 9 Rue bleue Telephone: +33153952444 Website: www.widemanagement.com
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NATURAL SCIENCES
Ciencias Naturales

Argentina, France | Spanish | 2014 | 71 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In the mountains of Argentina, in the freezing cold of winter, Lila tries to escape from a boarding school on horseback.
At 12 years old, she has just hit puberty, and she's determined to track down the father she's never known. Her teacher stops her,
concerned for her well-being, but Lila's force of will eventually wins her over. Against the wishes of the school principal, the
teacher drives Lila to the place where her father used to work, setting in motion a twisting, turning journey through buried
memories and interconnected lives.

Director: Matias Lucchesi


Producers: Matias Lucchesi, Juan Pablo Miller
Production Company: Salta la Liebre, Tarea Fina
Screenplay: Matias Lucchesi, Gonzalo Salaya
DOP: Sebastian Ferrero
Editor: Delfina Castagnino
Sound Design: Martin Litmanivich, Lucas Fancin
Costume Design: Sol Munoz
Production Design: Adrian Suarez
Principal Cast: Paula Hertzog, Paola Barrientos,
Alvin Astorga
Festivals: Miami International Film Festival; Berlin
International Film Festival; Busan International film
Festival

Matias Lucchesi was born in Cordoba,


Argentina in 1980. He took several courses in
theatre, dramaturgy and cinema studies, mainly
with Jose Martinez Suarez. In 2007 he shot the
short film 'Savana' and in 2009 'Distancias',
awarded Best Short Film at Biarritz Film
Festival. He also wrote scripts for feature films,
including Raiz, fifth Opera Prima script 2010
INCAA, selected by Typa and Rotterdam Lab. He partnered with
Gonzalo Salaya to write his last two scripts: El Pampero, to be filmed in
November 2014, featuring Julio Chavez, and Ciencias Naturales,
completed in 2013 and awarded 'Primer Corte' in Ventana Sur.

Award: Best Film Generation K Plus - Berlin


International Film Festival
Contact: UDI 14 rue du 18 aout 93100, Montreuil, France Telephone: +33148704656 Fax: +33149720421 Email: contact@urbandistrib.com
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THE POSTMAN'S WHITE NIGHTS

Belye Nochi Pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna


Russia | Russian | 2014 | 101 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In a remote Russian village the only way the habitants can reach the mainland is by crossing the lake by boat. Although
a space port using the most advanced technologies is located nearby, the villagers live just the way their ancestors did for
centuries. They only produce those things they need for their survival. A postman, a man loosely representing the local authorities
and social services, is their only link to the outside world. A woman in the village, whom the postman is in love with, decides to
run away from this life and move to the city. At the same time, the postman's outboard engine gets stolen. He can no longer deliver
the mail, and his life and those of all the villagers are turned upside down.

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky


Producer: Andrei Konchalovsky
Production Company: Andrei Konchalovsky
Studios, LLS
Writers: Andrei Konchalovsky, Elena
Kiseleva
DOP: Aleksandr Simonov
Editor: Sergei Taraskin
Sound Design: Polina Volynkina
Music: Eduard Artemev
Principal Cast: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina
Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko

Andrei Konchalovsky is a theatre and film


director and scriptwriter. His films are known
and loved in Russia and other countries and
have received numerous awards from various
international film festivals. In the early 1990s
he directed several theatre productions, most
notably The Seagull by Chekhov and Miss Julie
by August Strindberg. Pleasing critics and
cinema-goers worldwide, he made artful English-language films
Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Duet for One (1986)
(praised for Max von Sydow's brilliant performance), and Homer and
Eddie (1989), starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Festivals: Venice Film Festival; Tokyo International


Film Festival; Venice Film Festival
Award: Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival
Contact: Natalia Arshavskaya, Email: festivals@antipode-sales.biz
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QUEEN AND COUNTRY


UK, Ireland, France, Romania | English | 2014 | 115 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: 1943. Bill Rohan is 9, overjoyed that his school has been ruined by a stray Luftwaffe bomb, but saddened by the
departure of his older sister, pregnant by a Canadian soldier and about to emigrate to the new world.
1952. Bill Rohan is 18, dreaming his life away at the family's home, waiting to be called up for two years' conscription in the
Army. He yearns for a pretty girl who cycles past on the towpath across the river at the same time every day. This idyll is shattered
by the harsh realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster, and together they plot the downfall of Sergeant Major
Bradley, their rigid tormentor. Percy and Bill are rivals and antagonists, but the bonds of military training help them to forge a
deep trust and friendship...
Director: John Boorman
Producers: Kieran Corrigan, John Boorman
Production Company: Merlin Films
Screenplay: John Boorman
DOP: Seamus Deasy
Editor: Ron Davis
Music: Stephen Mckeon
Principal Cast: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry
Jones, Pat Shortt, Davis Thewlis, Tamsin Egerton

John Boorman, 81-year-old British


filmmaker, started his career as a journalist in
the 50s. Over the years he delivered great work
like Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur.
Queen and Country is his sequel to the much
acclaimed 1987 film Hope and Glory, which
earned him an Academy Award nomination for
the Best Director.

Festivals: Cannes Film Festival (Director's


Fortnight), Melbourne International Film Festival,
BFI London Film Festival, Vancouver International
Film Festival, New York International Film Festival,
Beirut Film Festival, London Film Festival, Busan
International Film Festival
Contact: Le Pacte 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France Telephone: 01 44 69 59 45 E-mail: a.aubelle@le-pacte.com Website: www.le-pacte.com
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RED AMNESIA

Chuangru Zhe

China | Mandarin | 2014 | 115 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown-up sons and her elderly mother,
despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls. What's
happening to her? Who could have anything against her? Even her husband's ghost doesn't seem to know.

Director: Wang Xiaoshuai


Producer: Liu Xuan
Production Company: Dongchun Films
Executive Producers: Wang Xiaoshuai, Chen
Xiangrong, Wang Qian, bill Kong, Li Ruigang,
Huang Xiang, Shen Hao.
Screenplay: Wang Xiaoshuai, Fang Lei, Li Fei
DOP: Wu Di
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Sound Design: Fu Kang
Production Design: Lou Pan
Principal Cast: Lu Zhong, Shi Lui, Feng
Yuanzheng, Qin Hao, Amanda Qin
Festivals: 39th Toronto International Film Festival;
Busan International Film Festival; Venice Film
Festival

Wang Xiaoshuai, graduate from the Beijing


Film Academy, wrote and directed his first
feature The Days (1993) when he was 27.
Acclaimed at first, the film was soon after
blacklisted and its distribution banned in
China. The film depicted the last days of a
deteriorating relationship between two artists
in Beijing. Two years later, he directed Frozen
(1995) under the pseudonym Wu Ming (Without a name); the film got
selected by many international festivals and was awarded with Special
Mention of the jury in Rotterdam in 1995. The same year, he directed A
Vietnamese Girl. Shanghai Dreams was selected for competition in the
2005 Cannes Film Festival where he won the Jury Price. Red Amnesia
is Wang Xiaoshuai's tenth feature.

Contact: Chinese Shadows, Email: anne@chineseshadows.com


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ROXANNE
Romania, Hungary | Romanian | 2013 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Twenty years after the Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but immature man in his late 30s, finds out from the
Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he might be the father of a son he didn't know about. Starting his own secret
investigation, Tavi gets caught up in a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the
lives of the ones close to him. For the first time in his live, Tavi is forced to make really mature decisions.

Director: Vali Hotea


Producers: Ada Solomon, Ioana Draghici
Production Company: Hi Film
Executive Producer: Smaranda Sterian
Screenplay: Ileana Muntean, Vali Hotea
DOP: Alex Sterian RSC
Editor: Eugen Kelemen
Sound Design: Tamas Zanyi
Production Design: Malina Ionescu
Principal Cast: Serban Pavlu, Diana Dumbrava,
Mihai Calin, Anghel Damian, Corina Maoise,
Adrian Vancica, Valeria Seciu
Festival: Locarno International Film Festival

Vali Hotea graduated from the Film and


Theatre Academy in Bucharest in 1995. He
directed some short films that were presented in
various festivals around the world. Among
these films were The Big Adventure (ARTE TV
Prize - Poitiers Film Festival 1994) and The
Lesson (Best Short Film - UCIN, 1997). As a
young director, he worked on music videos, TV
commercials and TV shows. He soon joined the National Television
team as director and scriptwriter of various documentaries as well as
fiction series: Roberta (2000), Dream Trip (2004 - Prix Europa
selection), Homicide (2007) and Sailor's Daughters (2009). Vali is also
the co-writer of Roxanne, his feature debut.

Contact: Films Boutique, Kopenicker Strasse 184 10997 Berlin, Germany Telephone: +4930 6953 7850 Fax: +4930 6953 7851
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RUN
France, Ivory Coast | French | 2014 | 100 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Run is running away. He has just killed his country's Prime Minister. Therefore, he takes up the face and clothes of a
madman wandering throughout the town for months. His life returns to him in flashes: his childhood with master Tourou, when he
dreamt of becoming a rainmaker, his incredible adventures with Greedy Gladys and his militia past as a Young Patriot in Ivory
Coast's political and military conflict. Run has not chosen all of these lives. He stumbled into them, escaping from one life to
another.

Director: Philippe Lacote


Producers: Claire Gadea, Ernest Kouame Konan
Production Company: Banshee Films
Executive Producer: Michel K.Zongo
Writer: Philippe Lacote
DOP: Daniel Miller
Editor: Barbara Bossuet
Sound Design: Alioune Mbow, Michel Tsagli
Costume Design: Hanna Sjodin
Production Design: Delphine Jaquet

Philippe Lacote was born in Abidjan, Ivory


Coast. His shorts include Somnambule (1993),
The Messenger (1995), To Repel Ghosts (2013)
and Affaire Libinski (2001), which he codirected. His documentary features are Cairo
Hours (2001), which he co-directed, and
Chronicles of War in the Ivory Coast 20(08).
Run is his first fiction feature.

Principal Cast: Abdoul Karim Konate, Isaach De


Bankole, Reine Sali Coulibaly, Abdoul Bah
Festivals: 67th Cannes film Festival; 39th Toronto
International Film Festival

Contact: BAC Films Franka Schwabe Telephone: +33153535252 Email: f.schwabe@bacfilms.fr


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SAND DOLLARS

Dolares De Arena

Dominican Republic | Spanish | 2014 | 80 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In an idyllic seaside city in the Dominican Republic, the long-time relationship between a beautiful and impoverished
young local girl and her wealthy European lover (Geraldine Chaplin) is put to the test as issues of class, inequality and
exploitation rise to the surface.

Directors: Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas


Producers: Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas
Production Company: Aurora Dominicana,
Canana, Rei Cine
Executive Producers: Pablo Cruz, Benjamin
Domemech, Santiago Galleli, Matias Roveda
Screenplay: Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas
DOP: Israel Cardenas, Jamie Guerra
Editor: Andrea Kleinman
Sound Design: Alejandro Deicaza,
Diego Gat, Raul Locatelli
Production Design: Sylvia Conde

Israel Cardenas was born in Monterrey,


Mexico. His features, co-directed with his wife
Laura Amelia Guzman, who was born in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, include
Cochochi (2007), Jean Gentil (2010), and
Carmita (2013). Sand Dollars is their latest
venture.

Principal Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica,


Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival
Contact: FiGa Films, LLC Telephone: 323-309-4856 Email: alex@figafilms.com Website: www.figafilms.com
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SCOUTING FOR ZEBRAS

Les Rayures du Zebras

Belgium, France | French | 2014 | 80 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Jos is a soccer player agent. His specializes in scouting promising African players. When he discovers Yaya, he's
convinced that he's hit the jackpot. So he takes him to Belgium to make him a champion. But nothing happens as planned.

Director: Benoit Mariage


Producers: Boris van Gils and Michael Goldberg
Production Company: MG Productions, Formosa,
CAB Productions
Screenplay and Dialogue: Benoit Mariage
DOP: Benoit Dervaux
Editor: Philippe Bourgueil
Sound Design: Francois Musy and Gabriel Hafner
Production Design: Catherine Cosme
Principal Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Marc Zinga,
Tatiana Rojo and Tom Audenaert

After a law degree from UCL, Benoit Mariage


entered the world of cinema through INSAS
(National Film School), from where he
graduated in 1987. While writing fiction
scenarios in his spare time, he was a reporter
photographer to the 'Future' for ten years. He
then produced several reports for the magazine
Strip Tease, before setting up his own
production company, TRAM 33, under which he produced numerous
documentaries abroad. With The Signalman , a 20-minute black and
white short made in 1997, Mariage attracted the attention of the
international press and the public. His film received numerous awards,
including the Grand Prize of the International Critics' Week at Cannes
in 1997 and the International Jury Prize in Clermont-Ferrand in 1998.
This success allowed him to write and direct his first feature film, The
Carriers are Waiting,with Benoit Poelvoorde (1999).

Contact: Films Distribution 34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris France Telephone: +33 1 53 10 33 99 Email: info@filmsdistribution.com
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A SECOND CHANCE

En Chance Til

Denmark, Sweden | Danish, Swedish | 2014 | 105 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives. Andreas has settled down with his beautiful
wife and son while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that
changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence
and drugs. It all looks very routine until Andreas finds the couple's neglected infant son, crying and hungry. The usually collected
policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on
justice, it is suddenly up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Director: Susanne Bier


Producer: Sisse Graum Jorgensen
Production Company: Zentropa Entertainments34,
Zentropa International Sweden, FilmFyn, Film i
Vast
Screenplay: Andres Thomas Jensen
DOP: Michael Snyman
Editor: Pernille Bech Christensen, Morten Hojbjerg
Sound Design: Eddie Simonesen, Anne Jensen
Production Design: Jacob Sti, Louise Lonborg,
Gilles Balabaud
Principal Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich
Thomsen, Maria Bonnevie, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lykke
May Andersen
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival; San
Sebastian Film Festival; London Film Festival

Susanne Bier (b. 1960) is a graduate of the


National Film School of Denmark, 1987. Bier's
international reputation soared as her drama In
a Better World received a Golden Globe and an
Oscar in 2011, a year that also saw her being
honoured as the Best Director at the European
Film Awards. Bier is widely acclaimed for such
films as the Oscar-nominated After the
Wedding (2006); Brothers (2004), which was awarded in Sundance
and San Sebastian and remade in the US by Jim Sheridan in 2009; the
Dogme film 'Open Hearts' (2002); and her romantic comedy 'The One
and Only' (1999) which made nearly a million Danes flock to the
cinemas, turning Bier into a household name in Denmark almost
overnight. The romance Love Is All You Need (2013) stars Pierce
Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm, premiered at the Venice International
Film Festival.

Contact: TrustNordisk Filmbyen 28 2650 Hvidovre Telephone: +45 3686 8788 E-mail: info@trustnordisk.com Website: www.trustnordisk.com
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SIVAS
Turkey, Germany | Turkish | 2014 | 97 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Set in a bleak Anatolian village in Eastern Turkey, Sivas is the story of an 11-year-old boy Aslan and a weathered
fighting dog (Sivas), who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die. Meanwhile, a
school play of the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs dominates the background as Aslan is disappointed in losing the role of the
prince to Osman, his rival-in-love and son of the village head. While Osman gets ahead in the two boys' race to win the hand of
Ay?e, the "princess" of the village, Aslan tries to impress her with his new-found friend. And Sivas, having found a new lease on
life, wins one fight after another, strengthening Aslan's hand against Osman. However, the roles subtly change and Aslan finds
himself in an unexpected crash-course into adulthood, leaving the princess behind.
Director: Kaan Mujdeci
Producers: Yasin Mujdeci and Kaan Mujdeci
Production Company: Kaan Film
Writer: Kaan Mujdeci
DOP: Armin Dierolf and Martin Hogsnes Solvang
Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Sound Design: Leandros Ntounis
Costume Design: Ayse Yildiz
Principal Cast: Docan Izci, Okan Avci, Hasan
Ozdemir, Ezgi Ergin, furkan Uyar, Ozan Celik,
Muttalip Mujdeci, Banu Fotocan, Hasan Yazilitilas,
Cakir
Festival: 71st Venice International film Festival Main Competition
Award: Special Jury Prize, Venice

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Kaan Mujdeci moved


to Berlin, Germany in 2003 in order to study
film directing. Instead, he first opened an
illegal open-air cinema, then a bar, and finally, a
fashion store. In parallel to all these ventures,
Mjdeci has continued film making. Among
his short films, Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day
of German Unity) (2010) was bought by
several TV channels; and Jerry, his thesis film at the New York Film
Academy, was screened within the scope of Berlinale's Talent Campus,
which he attended in 2011. Mjdeci's documentary Fathers and Sons,
about dog fights in central Anatolia, served as a platform to write and
direct his first feature film entitled Sivas. Shot in 2012 with production
support from the Turkish Ministry of Culture, Sivas also received a
post-production grant from the Istanbul Film Festival's Meetings on
the Bridge in 2013.

Contact: Films Distribution 34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris, France Telephone: +33 1 53 10 33 99 Email: info@filmsdistribution.com
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THE TEACHER'S DIARY

Khid Thueng Withaya

Thailand | Thai | 2014 | 110 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The film follows the story of two lonely teachers, a male and a female. They are assigned at the same rural school but a
year apart. The girl being assigned first, attempts to write her thoughts on a diary, being stuck out in the boonies. One day she has
to be transferred to another school and leaves the diary behind. The male teacher comes by as a substitute and sees the diary and
falls in love with the unacquainted writer. He also writes his thoughts on it. He leaves and the lady returns. She sees that there are
added articles on the diary. She also falls in love with him. She has a hard time looking for the boy. Will the two ever meet?

Director: Nithiwat Tharathorn


Producers: Jira Maligool, Chenchonnee
Soonthornsaratul, Vanridee Pongsittisak, Suvimon
Techasupinum
Production Company: GMM Tai Hub co. Ltd
Screenplay: Nithiwat Tharathorn, Thodsapon
Thiptinnakorn, Supalerk Ningsanond, and Sopana
Chowwiwatkul
DOP: Naruphol Chokanapitak
Editors: Thammarat Sumethsupachok, Ponsakorn
Chanchalermchai
Sound Design: Vlchaya Vatanasapt
Production Design: Akadech Keawkot

Nithiwat Tharathorn is a Thai film director


who made his directorial debut alongside five
others on the childhood romantic comedy 'My
Girl' (Best Director Awards, 2003 Thailand
National Film Association Awards) which was
the top domestic film at the Thailand box office
of 2003. He then made his solo debut with
Seasons Change in 2006 - a romantic film that
will get you thinking of love, music, relationships and much more. His
second solo film was Dear Galileo (2009), the story about two best
friends journeying through the crowded cities of London, Paris, and
Venice. His films have been well received and have a following among
Thai adolescents.

Principal Cast: Chermarn Boonyasak, Sukrit


Wisetkaew

Contact: GMM Tai Hub Co. Ltd. Representative: Ms. Ruedee Pholthaweechai Email: Ruedee@gth.to.th
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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING


USA | English | 2014 | 123 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: However bad life may seem, where there is life there is hope. - Stephen Hawking
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary and uplifting story of one of the world's greatest living minds, the renowned
astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
Together, he and Jane defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could
ever have dreamed - well into the 21st century. The film is based on the memoir 'Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen', by
Jane Hawking.
Director: James Marsh
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Executive Producers: Amelia Granger, Liza
Chasin, David Kosse
Screenplay: Anthony McCarten
DOP: Benoit Delhomme (A.F.C)
Editor: Jinx Godfrey
Sound Design: Glenn Freemantle
Production Design: John Paul Kelly
Principal Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones,
Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens,
Harry Lloyd, Alice Orr-Ewing

James Marsh, a director of both documentary


and narrative feature films, won an Academy
Award as the director of Man on Wire, which
was voted the Best Documentary Feature. The
movie, about how Philippe Petit came to walk
between the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center in 1974, won awards around the world;
Marsh also received BAFTA and Independent
Spirit Awards, among other honours. The Team, documentary
Blondes: Jayne Mansfield and the BBC2 documentary John Cale, are
some of his renowned works.

Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival

Contact: Universal Studios


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TODAY

Emrouz

Iran | Persian | 2014 | 87 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Youness, an ageing taxi driver, takes a young woman to the hospital at the end of his working day, not knowing what
awaits him there. As personal secrets are unveiled throughout the night, his silent compassion tangles and entangles.

Director: Reza Mirkarimi


Producer: Reza Mirkarimi
Production Company: iFILM Productions
Executive Producers: Mazid Karimi
Screenplay: Reza Mirkarimi and Shadmehr Rastin
DOP: Houman Behmanesh
Editor: Reza Mirkarimi
Sound Design: Alireza Alavian
Music: Amin Honarmand
Production Design: Marjan Golzar
Principal Cast: Soheila Golestani, Shabnam
Moghadami, Parviz Parastui
Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival

Reza Mirkarimi was born in 1967 in Tehran


and graduated from the Fine Arts University in
Graphic Arts. His cinema activities began in
1987 with a short film named For Him (16mm).
He then made other shorts before beginning his
TV series, The Adventures of Mrs Aziz and
Hemmat School Kids, aimed at young people.
He also made two TV sports documentaries,
From Football To Football and The Champions Of Wrestling. His first
feature, The Child and The Soldier, won several national and
international awards. including the "Montgolfiere d'Argent" at the
Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes and the "Golden Shoe" at the
Children and Teenagers Film Festival in Zelin, Croatia (2001). In 2000
he directed Under the Moonlight, dealing with social and religious
issues, attracting the attention of international reviewers and winning
the "Critics' Week Grand Prize" at the Cannes Film Festival 2001.

Contact: DreamLab Films 14 chemin des Chichourliers, 06110 Le Cannet - France +33(0)493387561 E-mail : nasrine@dreamlabfilms.com
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TRACK 143

Shiyar 143

Iran | Persian | 2014 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Olfat is a rural woman whose son has disappeared during the war. Remaining hopeful to see her son again, she starts a
long waiting phase for his return.

Director: Narges Abyar


Producers: Abouzar Pour Mohammadi,
Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi
Writer: Narges Abyar
DOP: Peyman Shademanfar
Editor: Peyman Khaksar
Sound Design: Arash Ghasemi
Principal Cast: Gelareh Abasi, Mehran Ahmadi,
Merila Zareie, Javad Ezzati, Yadollah Shademani

Narges Abyar, born in Tehran (1971), studied


Persian Literature and received her B.A. in this
field. So far she has devoted most of her time to
writing, which has led to the publication of 30
story and fiction books for children, young
adults and also adults. She has made several
shorts and documentaries. She made her fiction
feature debut in 2013 with Objects in Mirror are
Closer than They Appear.

Award: Special Jury Prize, Venice

Contact: IRIB Media Trade 45, Hedayat St. Yakhchal Ave. Tehran 19497 Iran +98 21 22548032 Fax: +98 21 22551914, shahrokhi@iribmediatrade.ir, iribmediatrade.ir
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THE TRIBE

Plemya

Ukraine, Netherlands | Sign language | 2014 | 130 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A deaf mute teenager enters a specialized boarding school where, to survive, he becomes part of a wild organization the tribe. His love for one of the concubines will unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the Tribe's hierarchy.

Director: Miroslav Slaboshpytskiy


Producer: Miroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Production Company: Garmata Film Production
Screenplay: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
DOP: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Editor: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Sound Design: Sergey Stepanskiy
Production Design: Vlad Odudenko

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy was born in Kiev


and studied film-making at the Kiev Institute of
Theatre and Arts. His short films include
Diagnosis (2009), Deafness (2010) and
Nuclear Waste (2012). His first feature, The
Tribe, won the Grand Prix, the Revelation Prize
and the Gan Foundation Support for
Distribution grant at the Cannes Critics' Week.

Principal Cast: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova,


Roza Babiy
Festivals: Cannes Critics Week; 39th Toronto
International Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival;
San Sebastian Film Festival
Awards: Grand Prix, the Revelation Prize and the
GAN Foundation Support - Cannes Critics Week
Contact: Alpha Violet 14rus Soleillet, BL 64, 75020 Paris, France Telephone: +33147973984 Email: info@alphaviolet.com Website: alphaviolet.com
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TURIST

Force Majeure

Sweden | Swedish | 2014 | 118 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are
spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all
directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his
life The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over
their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role
as family patriarch. Turist is an observational comedy about the role of the male in modern family life.

Director: Ruben Ostlund


Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson,
Philippe Bober
Production Company: Plattform Production
Executive Producer: Jessica Ask
Writer: Ruben Ostlund
DOP: Fredrik Wenzel
Editors: Ruben Ostlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger
Sound Design: Kjetil Mork, Rune Van Deurs,
Jesper Miller
Principal Cast: Brady Corbet, Jakob Granqvist,
Kristofer Hivju
Festivals: Cannes, Tokyo, Dublin

Ruben Ostlund was born in 1974 in Styrso, a


small island off the West Coast of Sweden. He
is well known for his humorous and accurate
portrayal of human social behavior. His feature
debut The Guitar Mongoloid, won the Fipresci
Award at Moscow in 2005. Involuntary
premiered at Un Certain Regard 2008. Two
years later, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin
for Incident In A Bank, a short film in which every camera movement
was computer generated in post-production. The premiere of his third
feature film, Play (2011), was held in Cannes at The Director's
Fortnight, where he was awarded the 'Coup de Coeur' Prize. Force
Majeure is his fourth feature film.

Awards: Jury Prize (Un Certain Regard), Cannes


Film Festival; Critics' Jury Prize, Dublin Film
Festival; Best Director, Tokyo Film Festival
Contact: Coproduction Office, Email: sales@coproductionoffice.eu, Website: www.coproductionoffice.eu
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TWO STEP
USA | English | 2014 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Austin, Texas. After the death of his grandmother, college student James finds consolation in the company of Dot, a
country music dancer. While settling Grams' affairs, James discovers she has been a victim of the "grandparent scam" in which
someone posing as James has been stealing from her thousands of dollars. But before James can go looking for the culprit, he
shows up at the front door, desperate for money.

Director: Alex R. Johnson


Producers: Paul Biedrzycki, Pat Cassidy, Charles
Mulford
Production Company: La Chima Films
Screenplay: Alex R. Johnson
DOP: Andy Lilien
Editor: Benjamin Moses Smith
Music: Andrew Kenny
Costume Design: Rachel Marie Jones
Production Designer: Claire M. White
Art Director: Katherine Morter

Alex R. Johnson is an Austin-based


filmmaker. He produced Henry Corra's feature
documentary Same Sex America as well as Pete
Sillen's I am Secretly an Important Man. He's
had screenplays in both The Hamptons
International Film Festival Screenwriter's Lab
as well as IFP's Emerging Narrative Program.
He has directed narrative shorts (Pickup and
Return, Thanksgiving) and music videos (The Wooden Birds and
Goldmund). Two Step is his feature length directorial debut.

Principal Cast: Beth Broderick, James Landry


Hebert, Skyy Moore
Festivals: South by South West; Reykjavik
International Film Festival
Contact: Films Boutique, Kopenicker Strasse 184, 10997 Berlin, Germany, +49 30 695 37850 Fax: +49 30 695 37851, Valeska@filmsboutique.com, www.filmsboutique.com
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VILLA TOUMA
Arabic | 2014 | 87 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Three unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have been unable to come to terms with the new reality of
occupation and the mass migration of Palestine's aristocracy. In order to survive, they lock themselves away in their villa,
clinging desperately to the nostalgia of their former glory. One day, their orphan niece Badia walks into their lives and turns their
world upside down. To preserve the family's name, the three sisters try to marry her off to an eligible aristocratic Christian man.
Will dragging Badia to every funeral, wedding, and church mass result in finding a good husband for her?

Director: Suha Arraf


Producer: Suha Arraf
Production Company: Bailasan
Screenplay: Suha Arraf
DOP: Yaron Scharf
Editor: Arik Lahav-Leibovich
Sound Design: Gil Toren
Production Design: Eytan Levi
Principal Cast: Nisreen Faour, Ula Tabari, Cherien
Dabis, Maria Zreik

Suha Arraf was born in the Palestinian village


of Melia, near the Lebanese border. She began
her filmmaking career as a documentary
producer. She directed and produced the
documentary Women of Hamas (2010), which
was awarded in several international film
festivals. She wrote the screenplays of The
Syrian Bride (2004) and Lemon Tree (2008),
both directed by Eran Riklis. Villa Touma is her narrative feature debut
as director.

Festivals: Venice Film Festival (Critic's Week);


39th Toronto International Film Festival

Contact: Bailasan Email: arrf.suha@gmail.com Phone: +972 522784209


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THE WAY HE LOOKS

Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho

Brazil | Portuguese | 2014 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Leonardo is a blind teenager feeling overprotected. Struggling towards a more independent life, he has to overcome
the vulnerability orbiting his condition. Besides, he's never been kissed and feels no one would consider dating the blind kid.
Seeing no way out, Leonardo considers going on an exchange programme. Things take an unexpected turn when Gabriel, a new
student in town, arrives at school, becoming friends with him and Giovana. Leonardo gravitates towards Gabriel, excited to be
friends with someone who acts differently from everyone else. Meanwhile, Giovana has to balance her infatuation with the new
kid and the jealousy she feels for sharing her old pal. Glimpsing a possible way to independence in this unfamiliar and yet
comforting new friendship, Leonardo changes the way he looks at himself...
Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Producer: Diana Almeida
Production Company: Lacuna Filmes, Peccadillo
Pictures
Writer: Daniel Ribeiro
DOP: Pierre de Kerchove
Editor: Cristian Chinen
Sound Design: Daniel Turini, Fernando Henna
Production Design: Olivia Helena Sanches
Principal Cast: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess
Amorim, Isabela Guasco, Lucia Romano, Eucir de
Souza, Selma Egrei
Festival: BFI London Film Festival

Daniel Ribeiro was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil


(1982). He graduated from University of Sao
Paulo's Film School and is one of the creators of
the music website Musica de Bolso
(Pocketmusic-musicadebolso.com.br). In
2007, he directed Cafe com Leite (You, Me and
Him), his first 35mm short movie. It was
selected for over 80 film festivals worldwide
and won 27 awards, including the Crystal Bear at the 58th Berlinale
and the award for Best Fiction Short Film from the Brazilian Film
Academy. In 2010, directed his second short film, Eu No Quero Voltar
Sozinho (I Don't Want to Go Back Alone), which was screened at over
100 festivals and received 82 awards. In 2011, he produced and
directed Projeto #EuSouGay (#IAmGay Project), a popular web
project which created a video against homophobia. In 2012, he directed
the television series Viva Voz, for the Brazilian channel GNT.

Contact: Films Boutique Kopenicker Strasse 184, 10997 Berlin, Germany, +49 30 695 37850 Fax: +49 30 695 37851, Valeska@filmsboutique.com, www.filmsboutique.com
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WHEN YOU WAKE UP

Pakeliui

Lithuania | Lithuanian | 2014 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The singer called Punk is no longer of much interest to anyone. After his brush with fame, it only took a few years of
drugs and alcohol to reach rock bottom. After yet another small town concert, Punk ends up spending the night backstage, drunk
and alone. When he opens his eyes in the morning, he sees a little girl, who introduces herself as his daughter. Two lost souls set
out on a trip together - a trip which will not only change their lives, but will also bring them together to appreciate the joy it brings.

Director: Ricardas Marcinkus


Producer: Zilvinas Naujokas
Production Company: Litl Baz Pictures
DOP: Julius Siciunas
Editor: Darius Silenas
Sound Design: Arturas Pugaciauskas
Music: Vytautas Bikus
Production Design: Dalia Dudenaite
Principal Cast: Mantas Jankavicius, Dzesika
Vienazindyte, Leonardas Pobedonscevas, Janina
Matekonyte, Jurgita Jurkute

Ricardas Marcinkus is a young and talented


award-winning Lithuanian film director. He
was born in 1979. He graduated in Film
Directing from the Lithuanian Academy of
Music and Theatre. Since 2005, he is a director
in the video production company Full Screen.
He has made several short fiction films,
recognized music videos and documentaries.
When You Wake Up is his first fiction feature.

Contact: Litl Baz Pictures Telephone: +370 600 93517 Website: www.litlbaz.com
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WHITE MOSS

Salekhard

Russia | Nenetz, Russian | 2014 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The film takes place far north in the tundra, where people live under the severe laws of nature. These are Nenets ancient people with a strong character and centuries old traditions. The film's protagonist Alyosha experiences feelings that make
him choose between youthful love and the memory of his ancestors, which he cannot betray. White Moss is a film about love,
loyalty, and the choice of torment.

Director: Vladimir Tumaev


Producer: Svetlana Dalskaya
Production Company: DC Film
Screenplay: Valery Bakirov
DOP: Dmitry Kuvshinov
Editor: Katerina Garkusha
Sound Design: Dmitry Chernov
Costume Design: Irina Milakova
Production Design: Sergey Fevralev
Principal Cast: Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Galina
Tihonova, Irina Mihailova, Dolzhin Tangatova,
Efim Stepanov

Vladimir Tumaev (b. 1953, Sevastopol)


graduated from VGIK. In 1981 he made his
directional debut with Idiot (co-director
L.Tumaeva). His feature debut "Lunnye psy"
(1995, co-directed L.Tumaeva) was screened at
Berlinale's Forum competition and received
best film award at the national film festival in
Vyb o rg . A m o n g h i s w o r k s a r e t h e
documentaries Marlen (2003, co-director L.Tumaeva), Razjalovanniy
(2009) and Kitayskaya babushka (2010). Tumaev is currently a
professor in the directing department at VGIK and the Higher Courses
for Scriptwriters and Directors.

Festival: 36th Moscow International Film Festival


Award: Audience Award at the Moscow
International Film Festival
Contact: Email: anastasiya.galkina@gmail.com
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WHITE SHADOW
Italy, Germany, Tanzania | Swahili | 2013 | 115 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts
to be used in magic potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch doctor-inspired murders occurred. As a local saying goes:
"Albinos do not die, they just disappear." This is the story of Alias, an albino boy on the run. After his father's murder, his mother
sends him to the city. His uncle Kosmos, a truck driver, takes care of him. Alias learns fast in the city, selling sunglasses, DVDs
and cell phones, it will not take long before the boy experiences at first hand the difficulties of life and of being different.

Director: Noaz Deshe


Producers: Noaz Deshe, Ginevra Elkann,
Francesco Melzi d'Eril
Executive Producers: Stefano Gallini-Durante,
Ryan Gosling
Screenplay: Noaz Deshe, James Masson
DOP: Armin Dierolf, Noaz Deshe
Editors: Xavier Box, Noaz Deshe, Robin Hill, Nico
Leunen
Music: James Masson, Noaz Deshe

Noaz Deshe is a Berlin and Los Angeles-based


artist and filmmaker. He composed the
soundtrack of Frontier Blues (2009), debut
feature by Iranian director Babak Jalali. His
debut graphic novel, In Case We Never Meet, is
awaiting publication. White Shadow is his
debut feature film.

Principal Cast: Hamisi Bazili, James Gayo, Glory


Mbayuwayu, Salum Abdallah, Tito D. Ntanga
Festivals: Venice, Sundance, Durban
Award: Best International Director - Durban
International Film Festival 2014
Contact: Premium Films, 130rue de Turenne 75003 Paris Telephone: +33142770639 Email: kasia.karwan@premium-films.com Website: www.premium-films.com
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THE WONDERS

Le Meraviglie

Italy, Switzerland, Germany | Italian | 2014 | 110 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters. She is the designated
heir of the strange, secluded kingdom that her father constructed around them to protect his family from "the end of the world". An
extraordinary summer, when the strict rules that hold the family together, are beginning to break: in part due to the arrival of
Martin, a German boy on a youth rehabilitation programme, and in part the local community's participation in a TV competition
for big prizes "Village Wonders", presented by the mysterious Milly Catena.

Director: Alice Rohrwacher


Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina
Production Company: Tempesta SRL
Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher
DOP: Helena Louvart
Editor: Marco Spoletini
Sound Design: Christophe Giovannoni
Production Design: Emita Frigato
Principal Cast: Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louvyck,
Alba Rohrwacher, Sabina Timoteo, Luis Huilca,
Monica Bellucci

Alice Rohrwacher was born in 1981 in


Fiesole, Tuscany and studied in Turin and
Lisbon. She has worked in music as a
performing musician for theatre and in
documentary filmmaking as editor and
director. Her first feature, Corpo Celeste,
premiered in Cannes (Quinzaine des
realisateurs) in 2011, was then selected in
Sundance, New York, London, Rio and Tokyo film festivals and
released in the US, UK, France. The Wonders is her second film.

Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival; New Zealand


International Film Festival
Award: Grand Prix - 67th Cannes Film Festival

Contact: The Match Factory GmbH Balthasarstr. 79-81 50670 Cologne / Germany Tel +49 221 539 709-0 Fax +49 221 539 709-10 Email: info@matchfactory.de
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XENIA
Greece, France, Belgium | Greek, Albanian | 2014 | 128 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: After the death of their mother, Dany, 16, leaves Crete to join his older brother, Odysseas, who lives in Athens. Born
from an Albanian mother and a Greek father they never met, the two brothers, strangers in their own country, decide to go to
Thessaloniki to look for their father and force him to officially recognize them. At the same time in Thessaloniki, is held the
selection for the cult show, "Greek Star". Dany dreams that his brother Odysseas, a gifted singer, could become the new star of the
contest, in a country that refuses to accept them.

Director: Panos H. Koutras


Producers: Eleni Kossyfidou, Panos H. Koutras,
Alexandre Boussiou
Production Company: 100% Synthetic Films,
Wrong Men
Screenplay: Panos H. Koutras, Panagiotis
Evangelidis
DOP: Helene Louvart (AFC), Simos Sarketzis
(GSC),
Editor: Yorgos Lamprinos
Sound Design: Fabrice Osinski
Principal Cast: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia,
Aggelos Papadimitriou, Romanna Lobach
Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival; 39th Toronto
International Film Festival

Born in Athens, Panos H. Koutras studied


filmmaking at the London Film School and at
the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1985 to 1995, he
kept going back and forth between both cities
and made several short films screened in
festivals throughout the world. In 1995, he
founded in Athens his own production
company, 100% Synthetic Films, and started
writing his first feature film, The Attack of the Giant Moussaka, an
"unidentified filmic object" released four years later, quickly achieving
cult status. He made a complete turnaround with his second film, Real
Life, a drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival and won the National Critics Award in Greece in 2004. His
third film, Strella, was selected in the Panorama section of the 2009
Berlin Film Festival and in many other international festivals. Xenia is
his fourth feature film.

Contact: Pyramide International Paris: +33 1 42 96 02 20 Lucero Garzon : lgarzon@pyramidefilms.com Agathe Mauruc : amauruc@pyramidefilms.com
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40 DAYS OF SILENCE

Chilla

Uzbekistan, Tajiskistan, Netherlands, Germany, France | Uzbek | 2014 | 84 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In an isolated village of Central Asia, a young woman, Bibicha, takes a vow of silence. The Persian title of 40 Days of
Silence is Chilla, which translates to "quarantine," and is also a spiritual practice of penance and solitude known mostly in Indian
and Persian traditions. In this ritual, a person remains silent and practices meditation techniques for 40 days. Bibicha tries to do
this despite many family distractions. In her home, four women from four generations live under one roof: a grandmother who
married and became a widow when she was just a kid, her oldest daughter who lived in the city and had a child, the granddaughter,
out of wedlock, and Bibicha, the aunt and youngest daughter. Ismailova's first feature film, shot in Rangoon Valley in Tajikistan,
makes silence its foundation and features an ample and keen sense of shadow, light, and colour.
Director: Saodat Ismailova
Producers: Denis Vaslin, Jean des Forts, Benny
Drechsel, Saodat Ismailova
Production Company: Volya Films
Screenplay: Saodat Ismailova, Ulughbek Sadikov
Cinematographer: Benito Strangio
Editors: Benjamin Mirguet, Nathalie Alonso-Casale
Music: Jacob Kirkegaard
Sound Design: Ranko Paukovic
Production Design: Azamat Turajev

Saodat Ismailova was born in Tashkent,


Uzbekistan in 1981. She studied filmmaking at
the Tashkent State Institute of Arts before
working at the Fabrica research centre in
Treviso, Italy, where she directed Aral, Fishing
in an Invisible Sea (2004). Following a series of
video installations, Chilla is her first featurelength film.

Costume Designer: Ulughbek Sadikov


Principal Cast: Rukhshona Sattarova, Barohat
Shukurova, Saodat Rahimova, Farida Olimova
Festivals: Berlin Film Festival, Seattle International
Film Festival
Contact: Pascale Ramoda Telephone: +33 662 013 241 Email: pascale@pascaleramoda.com
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BLACK COAL, THIN ICE

Bai Rui Yan Huo

China | Mandarin | 2014 | 106 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: After a botched arrest in a grisly serial murder case, small-town detective Zhang Zili is suspended from the force. He
takes a job as a security guard at a coal factory. Five years later, another series of mysteriously similar murders takes place, and
Zhang recruits his former partner to finish their investigation. His sleuthing soon leads to a local laundromat proprietor named Wu
Zhizhen, whose soft-spoken demeanour and enigmatic aura are compelling to Zhang despite her mysterious connection to the
deaths.

Director: Diao Yinan


Producer: Vivian Qu
Production Company: Omnijoi Media, Boneyard
Entertainment China, China Film Co.
Screenplay: Diao Yinan
DOP: Dong Jinsong
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Sound Design: Zhang Yang
Production Design: Liu Qiang

Diao Yinan was born in 1969 in Xi'an, Shaanxi,


China. His notable films are Shower (1999) and
Night Train (2007). He has always been a fan of
detective stories, particularly those that depict
the lives of ordinary people. His aim in Black
Coal, Thin Ice is not only to investigate a
mystery and find out the truth about the people
involved, but also to create an honest
representation of the 'new reality' of life in contemporary China.

Principal Cast: Liao Fan, Gwei Lun Mei, Wang


Xuebing, Wang Jingchun, Yu Ailei, Ni Jingyang
Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival;
Tribeca International Film Festival

Contact: Winnie Lau, Fortissimo Films, Amsterdam, 1013 CN Telephone: 31 206 273 215
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BLIND MASSAGE

Tui Na

China, France | Mandarin | 2014 | 114 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Ma lost his sight in a childhood accident and now relies on his hearing. His co-workers in a Nanjing massage parlour
share his fate. With a camera that follows closely as they tentatively feel their way about and a soundtrack that takes note of even
the tiniest of noises, this film enters a world of darkness. Lou Ye, who worked with a mixed cast of blind and sighted actors,
follows his protagonists through their lives for a while, exploring their desires and dreams, but also sketching the reality of life in
modern day China. The sensitive performances and experimental editing of this film opens our senses to the emotional world of
the blind; the work also finds unconventional images to portray in particular their perception of beauty and desire.
Director: Lou Ye
Producers: Wang Yong, Nai An, Li Ling
Production Company: Dream Factory/Shaanxi
Culture Industry/Les Films du Lendemain
Screenplay: Ma Yingli
Cinematographer: Zeng Jian
Editors: Kong Jinlei, Zhu Lin
Production Designer: Du Ailin
Music: Jhann Jhannsson
Principal Cast: Guo Xiaodong, Qin Hao,
Zhang Lei
Festival: Berlin Film Festival
Award: Silver Bear for Best Artistic Contribution

Lou Ye (b. 1965) grew up in Shanghai, a city he


would film beautifully in his Suzhou River
(2000). After studying cinema at Beijing Film
Academy, he debuted as an assistant director, a
producer and short subjects director. His
second feature Weekend Lover (1995) was a
public and critical success, crowned by the
Fassbinder Prize. In 1997, he accepted to
produce Super City, a TV series for which he hired ten of the most
promising names of the sixth generation directors. Three years later, he
came to global prominence with Suzhou River, an ambitious artistic
meditation on love and the status of women in Chinese society as well
as a moving ode to his home town. During his 2004/2005 stay in Berlin,
Lou Ye worked mainly on the screenplay for Summer Palace, a love
story that extends over ten years, six cities and two continents. It was
screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2006.

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CHARLIE'S COUNTRY
Australia | English | 2014 | 107 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote
community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken
seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so
doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

Director: Rolf de Heer


Producers: Nils Erik Nielsen, Peter Djigirr, Rolf de
Heer
Production Company: Vertigo Productions
Screenplay: Rolf de Heer
DOP: Ian Jones
Editor: Tania Nehme
Music: Graham Tardif
Production Designer: Beverley Freeman
Principal Cast: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr,
Jennifer Daykamanu, Luke Ford
Film Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Toronto
International Film Festival
Award: Best Actor Award at Cannes Film Festival
in Un Certain Regard

Rolf de Heer has been making feature films for


30 years now, and in that time he's managed to
complete 14 of them (there are numbers of
others that haven't been completed, one way or
the other). The films are usually low of budget
but high in impact; they generally have
something to say about the human condition,
despite conventional wisdom that it's wiser to
the contrary; and, more often than not, each succeeding film is quite,
quite different from the previous. With those 14 films, however, Rolf
has had some measure of success...four different films in Official
Selection in Cannes (including the Jury Prize for Ten Canoes in Un
Certain Regard); two films in Competition in Venice (including Bad
Boy Bubby, which won both the Jury Prize and the Critics' Prize); films
selected for Berlin, Toronto, Telluride, London...the list goes on.

Contact: VISIT FILMS, 173 Richardson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 Telephone: +1 718 312 8210 Email: info@visitfilms.com
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COMING HOME

Gui Lai

China | Mandarin | 2014 | 109 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labour camp as a
political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally
returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently
waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past
together and reawaken his wife's memory.

Director: Zhang Yimou


Producer: Zhang Zhao
Production Company: Le Vision Pictures
Company Limited
Writer: Jingzhi Zou
Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Editors: Zhang Mo, Meng Peicong
Sound: Tao Jing
Costume Designer: Wang Quiping
Composer: Chen Qigang
Principal Cast: Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang
Huiwen

Zhang Yimou, born in 1951, is one of the


leading directors of China's Fifth Generation.
He made his debut in 1987 with the critically
acclaimed Red Sorghum. He consolidated his
worldwide reputation with the awards that he
collected with his subsequent masterpieces, Ju
Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992). He has won the
Golden Lion in Venice, the Golden Bear in Berlin and the Grand Jury
Prize in Cannes. The last named accolade came his way for the 1994
film To Live. He has also helmed such box office hits as Hero (2002)
and The House of Flying Daggers (2004).

Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Toronto


International Film Festival

Contact: Esther Devos, Wild Bunch, Telephone: +33 153 015 032, Email: edevos@wildbunch.eu, Website: www.wildbunch.biz
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CORN ISLAND

Simindis Kundzuli

Georgia, Germany, France, Kazakhstan, Hungary|Abkhazian, Georgian, Russian|2014|100 minutes|Colour

Synopsis: The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the
two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile oil from the Caucasus down to the
plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating a tiny island: a small clusters of no man's land. The islands are havens for
wildlife but occasionally also for man. Our story begins when an old Abkhaz farmer sets foot on one of the islands. The old man
builds a hut for him and his teenage granddaughter, he ploughs the earth and together they sow corn. As his granddaughter
blossoms into womanhood and the corn ripens, the old man is confronted by the inescapable cycle of life.
Director: George Ovashvili
Producers: Nino Devdariani, Eike Goreczka,
Guillaume de Seille, Karla Stojkov, Sain
Gabdullin
Production Company: Alamdary Film, 42 films,
Arizona Productions, Axman Production,
Kazakhfilm, Focusfox
Screenplay: Nugzar Shataidze, George Ovashvili,
Roelof Jan Minneboo
Cinematographer: Elemr Raglyi
Music: Josef Bardanashvili
Editor: Sun-Min Kim

George Ovashvili graduated from the film


department of the Georgian State Institute of
Cinema and Theatre in 1996 and studied at The
New York Film Academy at Universal Studios
in Hollywood in 2006. His feature debut
Gagma Napiri/The Other Bank (2009) was
screened in eighty international film festivals in
more than 50 countries and won over fifty
international awards. Corn Island is his second feature film.

Principal Cast: Ilyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili,


Irakli Samushia, Tamer Levent
Festival: Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Contact: Pascale Ramoda Telephone: +33 662 013 241 Email: pascale@pascaleramoda.com
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FANTASIA

Huanxiangqu

China | Mandarin | 2014 | 86 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A reconstructed family in an industrial Chinese city. When the father's hospitalization becomes increasingly frequent
and expensive, the entire family is turned upside down. The mother piles on odd jobs and struggles to make ends meet, the older
sister decides to work in a bar in secret and Lin, the little brother, stigmatized by his father's illness and rejected by his classmates
escapes into a dream world, a world of fantasy.

Director: Wang Chao


Producers: Lv Jian Min, Wang Chao
Screenplay: Wang Chao
Cinematographer: Zhao Yuoing
Editors: Huang Shang, Wang Chao
Sound: Wang Ran
Music: Chen Mingzheng
Cast: Hu Ruiji, Su Su, Zhang Xu, Jian Renzi, Li Ou
Festival: Cannes Film Festival

From a working-class family, Wang Chao


worked for a number of years at an important
steel mill. He wrote poems and read every film
magazine he could lay his hands on. When he
was laid off, he enrolled at the Beijing Film
School and became a film critic. Following an
article on Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth, Wang
Chao was approached by Kaige to become his
assistant. He went on to work on the great Chinese director's Farewell
My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin. Also a novelist,
Chao wrote and directed his first feature The Orphan of Anyang in
2001 It was shot without a permit. Portraying China's dropouts with
poignancy, the film screened in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight. In
2006, his film Luxury Car addressed the profound transformations
affecting contemporary China and garnered the Un Certain Regard
Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

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FIELD OF DOGS

Onirica - Psie Pole

Poland | Polish, Italian | 2014 | 104 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The film recounts the visions of Adam, a poet who has lost his beloved one in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on
a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane
being torn apart in mysterious circumstances along with the nation's elite 96 people on board.

Director: Lech Majewski


Producers: Lech Majewski and Angelus Silesius
Production Company:
Screenplay: Lech Majewski
DOP: Lech Majewski and Pawel Tybore
Editor: Eloit Ems and Norbert and Rudzik
Music: Lech Majewski and Jozef Skrzek
Costume Design: Dorota Lis
Sound Director: Zbigniew Maleeki
Production Design: Lech Majewski
Principal Cast: Michal Tatarek, Elzbieta Okupska,
Jacenty Jedrusik and Karolina Korta.
Festivals: Moscow Film Festival; Taipei Film
Festival; Odessa International Film Festival; Hong
Kong International Film Festival; 12th Polish Film
Festival

Lech Majewski, born in Katowice (1953), is a


film director, screenwriter, producer, poet,
novelist, painter, and theatre and opera director.
Majewski made his debut as a film director in
1978 with Zwiastowanie/Annunciation, the
first part of the two-part feature film
Zapowiedz ciszy/Harbinger of Silence. The
first film that Majewski directed on his own
was Rycerz/The Knight (1979). Majewski has received numerous
awards, such as the Wielki FeFe Prize awarded at the 9th Fefe Film
Festival in Warsaw in recognition of his independent spirit. He won
main awards at several film festivals, including the Polish Film
Festival Award (Gdynia, 1999) for direction of Wojaczek. The director
was also nominated to the Polish Film Award for two films: Wojaczek
and Angelus.

Contact: Wide 9 Rue Bleue Telephone: +33153952444 Website: widemanagement.com


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GERONIMO
France | French | 2014 | 105 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the
youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood. The mood changes when Nil Terzi, a teenage girl of Turkish origin, flees an arranged
marriage, running to the arms of her gypsy lover, Lucky Molina. Their escape sparks hostilities between the two clans. When the
jousting and the musical battles begin, Geronimo struggles to quell the ensuing unrest around her.

Director: Tony Gatlif


Producer: Tony Gatlif
Production Company: Princes Production
Screenplay: Tony Gatlif
Cinematographer: Patrick Ghinringhelli
Music: Tony Gatlif
Sound: Philippe Welsh
Editor: Monique Dartonne
Principal Cast: Cline Sallette, Rachid Yous, David
Murgia, Nailia Harzoune
Festivals: Locarno Film Festival 2014, Cannes Film
Festival
Award: Piazza Grande Award at Locarno Film
Festival

Tony Gatlif (born as Michel Dahmani in 1948


in Algiers) is a French film director of Romani
ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter,
composer, actor, and producer. Gatlif was born
to a Kabyle father and a Romani mother. After
his childhood in Algiers, he arrived in France in
1960 following the Algerian War of
Independence. He struggled for years to break
into the film industry, playing in several theatrical productions until
directing his first film, La Tte en ruine, in 1975. He followed it with
the 1979 La Terre au ventre, a story of the Algerian War of
Independence. Since the 1981 Corre, gitano, Gatlif's work has been
focused on the Romani people of Europe.

Contact: Les Films Du Losange Tele: + 33 6 89 85 96 95 Email: a.valentin@filmsdulosange.fr


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THE GOLDEN ERA

Huang Jin Shi Dai

China, Hong Kong | Mandarin | 2014 | 178 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In early 1930s Manchuria, 20-year-old Xiao Hong flees home to escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage.
Independent-minded, she sets out to forge a new life in the city of Harbin. Soon after, she is abandoned by her lover, left with an
unwanted pregnancy and a crushing hotel room debt. When the hotel owner threatens to sell her to a brothel, she writes a lastditch, near-random plea for help to the editors of the International Gazette. Xiao Jun the handsome, hard-drinking young writer
sent by the journal to respond to her request, is enthralled by the fascinating young lady. The two writers become partners in bold,
progressive thinking. And so begins not just a one-of-a-kind relationship, but also Xiao Hong's life in letters. The following
decade of personal and social upheaval will see her evolve into a brilliant, politically engaged author.
Director: Ann Hui
Producers: Qin Hong, Zhao Hai Cheng, Wang Yan
Ning, Yang Grace
Production Company: Stellar Mega Films Ltd
Screenplay: Li Qiang
Cinematographer: Wang Yu
Editor: Wai Manda
Sound: Tu Duu Chih
Music: Eli Marshall
Production Designers: Zhao Hai, Man Lim Chung

Ann Hui was born in Anshan, Manchuria (now


part of China). She broke into film as an
assistant to director King Hu and has since
directed numerous films, including God of
Killers (1981), The Postmodern Life of my
Aunt (2006), and A Simple Life (2011). She
was awarded the Berlinale Camera in 1997.
The Golden Era is her latest film.

Principal Cast: Tang Wei, Feng Shao Feng


Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival,
Venice Film Festival

Contact: Edko Films Ltd, Email: chiujulian@edkofilm.com.hk


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GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE

Adieu au Langage

France | French | 2014 | Colour | 70 minutes

Synopsis: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town
and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is
in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins: the same as the first, and yet not.
From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries. In the meantime, we will have seen people
talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard


Producers: Vincent Maraval, Alain Sarde, Brahim
Chioua
Production Company: Wild Bunch
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard
Cinematographer: Fabrice Aragno
Editor: Jean-Luc Godard
Sound: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Heloise Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard
Chevalier
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Toronto Film
Festival

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris and made


some of the most iconic films of the sixties,
including bout de souffl (Breathless; 1960),
Vivre sa vie (1962), Le mpris (1963), Bande
part (1964), Alphaville (1965),Pierrot le fou
(1965), Masculin feminine (1966), Week-end
(1967), and 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle
(1967). Since 1980, he has made Sauve qui peut
(la vie) (1980), Passion (1982), Je vous salue, Marie (1985),Dtective
19(85), Nouvelle Vague (1990), Allemagne anne neuf Zero (91),
JLG/JLG (1994), For Ever Mozart(1996), Eloge de l'amour (2001),
Film Socialisme (2010), and Adieu au Langage (2014).

Award: Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

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JIMMY'S HALL
UK, France | English | 2014 | Colour | 109 min

Synopsis: In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The
Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream but above all to dance and have
fun. As the hall grew in popularity, its socialist reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced
Jimmy to flee and the hall to close. A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns to County Leitrim from the US to
look after his mother and vows to live the quiet life. The hall stands abandoned, and despite the pleas of the local youngsters,
remains shut. However as Jimmy reintegrates into the community and sees the poverty, and growing cultural oppression, the
leader and activist within him is stirred. He makes the decision to reopen the hall in the face of what they may bring
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Screenplay: Paul Laverty
Casting Director: Kahleen Crawford
Production Designer: Fergus Clegg
Costume Designer: Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
DOP: Robbie Ryan
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Composer: George Fenton
Principal Cast: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim
Norton, Andrew Scott, Francis Magee, Mikel
Murfi, Sorcha Fox, Martin Lucey
Festival: Cannes Film Festival

Ken Loach, born in 1936, is an undisputed


master of British social-realist cinema, the
cause of which he has relentlessly pursued
since making his directorial debut in 1967
(Poor Cow). It was followed by Kes (1969),
which ranks among the finest films ever made
in Britain. Although he has often suffered on
account of an unreliable distribution system,
Loach has stuck to his guns, resisting the lure of Hollywood. His 2006
film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, won the Palme d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival. Land and Freedom, Carla's Song, My Name is
Joe, Sweet Sixteen, Looking for Eric and The Angels' Share are among
his notable films. Jimmy's Hall is his latest feature.

Contact: Wild Bunch, Esther Devos, Telephone: +33 153 015 032, Email: edevos@wildbunch.eu, Website: www.wildbunch.biz
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THE JUDGEMENT

Sadilishteto

Bulgaria | Bulgarian | 2014 | 107 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In a small and poor village in Bulgaria, located close to the border with Turkey and Greece, Mityo loses his job and is
forced to accept to work for his former commander in order to keep his house and pay his loans. His job is to smuggle illegal
immigrants from Syria through the Bulgarian-Turkish border into the EU. Since the death of his wife, the relations between Mityo
and his son are strained. The revelation of a terrible secret will force Mityo to face the past, in order to regain his internal peace and
find forgiveness from his son.

Director: Stephan Komandarev


Producers: Stephan Komandarev, Vladimir
Anastasov
Production Company: Argo Films
Cinematographer: Krasimir Andonov
Screenplay: Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiyski,
Stephan Komandarev
Editor: Nina Altaparmakova
Music: Stefan Valdobrev
Costume Design: Elena Stoyanova
Principal Cast: Predrag Monojlovic, Meto
Jovanovski, Assen Blatechki, Luran Ahmeti, Ovanes
Torosian
Festivals: Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Sofia
International Film Festival

Stephan Komandarev was born in 1966. He


graduated from Medical University in Sofia
and in film and TV direction in New Bulgarian
University. His feature debut, Dog's House,
was presented in Berlinale's Forum. His
documentaries Bread over the Fence and
Alphabet of Hope have received numerous
national and international awards. His second
feature film, The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around the Corner,
is the most widely distributed Bulgarian film internationally - 92
countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. It has received over
30 international awards, ten of them being Audience Awards. It was
among the shortlisted Best Foreign Language Films for the 2010
Oscars.

Contact: Premium Films, France 130 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France Tel.: +33 1- 42 77 06 31 Fax: +33 1- 44 54 05 02 e-mail: jcm@premium-films.com
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MOMMY
Canada | French | 2014 | 144 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive 15-year-old ADHD
son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable mnage, the peculiar, new girl across the street, Kyla,
benevolently offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.

Director: Xavier Dolan


Producers: Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan
Production Company: Metafilms
Screenplay: Xavier Dolan
DOP: Andre Turpin
Editor: Xavier Dolan
Sound Design: Sylvain Brassard
Production Design: Colombe Raby
Principal Cast: Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clement,
Antoine Olivier Pilon
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival; Toronto Film
Festival; Busan International Film Festival; San
Sebastian Film Fetival; BFI London FF

Xavier Dolan was born in Montreal and began


acting at the age of four. His directorial debut,
J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed My Mother, 2009),
won the Art Cinema Award and the Prix
Regards Jeunes and SACD prizes at Cannes.
His subsequent films, Les amours imaginaires
(Heartbeats, 2010) and Laurence Anyways
(2012), earned the Cannes Prix Regards Jeunes
and Queer Palm, respectively. Tom a la ferme (Tom at the Farm, 2013),
which he also wrote and directed, won the FIRPRESCI Prize at Venice.
Mommy, the jury prize winner at Cannes, is his latest film.

Awards: Winner - Jury Prize at the 67th Cannes


Film Festival; Winner- FIPRESCI Prize at the
Miskolc International Film Festival
Contact: Seville International Suite 601, 175 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3R8 Phone: 416-646-2400 sevilleinternational@filmsseville.com
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OBLIVION

Difret

Ethiopia | Amharic | 2014 | 99 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses
swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her
village, the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia's oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an
empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self-defence. Meaza
boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the ongoing work
of her women's legal-aid practice to save Hirut's life. Beneath the layer of polite social customs, an aggressively rooted patriarchy
perpetuates inhospitable conditions for women in this engrossing and significant film, based on a real-life story.
Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Producers: Mehret Mandefro, Leelai Demoz,
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Screenplay: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
DOP: Monika Lenczewska
Editor: Agnieszka Glinska
Production Designer: Dawit Shawel
Composers: David Schommer, David Eggar

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari is a writer/


director with more than a decade of experience
making films. Born and raised in Ethiopia,
Mehari moved to the US to attend film school.
He founded Haile Addis Pictures to produce his
first narrative feature film, Difret. He has a
Bachelor of Arts degree from USC's School of
Cinematic Arts.

Principal Cast: Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere


Film Festivals: Berlin Film Festival, Sundance
Film Festival
Awards: Panorama Audience Award at Berlin Film
Festival, Audience Award (World Cinema-Dramatic)
at Sundance Film Festival

Contact: Haile Addis Pictures Telephone: (646) 845-9302 Email: info@haileaddis.com


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PARTY GIRL
France | French | 2014 | 96 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Angelique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a
cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love with her.
One day, he asks Angelique to marry him.

Directors: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger,


Samuel Theis
Producers: Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil
Screenplay: Marie Amachoukeli-Claire BurgerSamuel Theis
DOP: Julien Poupard
Editor: Frederic Baillehaiche

Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq was


born on July 16, 1979 in Paris, France.
She is a writer and director, known for
Party Girl (2014), It's Free for Girls
(2009) and Forbach (2008). She
graduated from La Fmis (18th
promotion, scriptwriting department).

Principal Cast: Angelique Litzenburger, Joseph


Bour, Mario Theis, Samuel Theis, Severine
Litzenburger, Cynthia Litzenburger

Claire Burger is an editor and


director, known for Party Girl (2014), Forbach (2008) and It's Free for
Girls (2009). She graduated from La Fmis (18th promotion,
scriptwriting department).

Festivals: Cannes Film Festival; Odessa


International Film Festival
Awards: Un Certain Regard Fil D'Ouverture,
Ensemble Prize, Camera d'Or - 67th Cannes Film
Festival; Guanajauato International Film Festival Best First Film

Samuel Theis is an actor and writer, known for Party Girl (2014), The
Princess of Montpensier (2010) and Versailles: The Dream of a King
(2008).

Contact: Pyramide International Paris: +33 1 42 96 02 20 Lucero Garzon : lgarzon@pyramidefilms.com Agathe Mauruc : amauruc@pyramidefilms.com
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RED ROSE

Gole Sorkh

Iran, France, Greece | Persian | 2014 | 97 minutes | Colour, Black & White

Synopsis: Tehran, June 2009. The uproar of a city swinging with the "Green Wave" of protest against the rigged presidential
election. An apartment as a shelter, a man and a woman who belong to two different generations. A mobile phone and a computer
to communicate with the free world. A love story that will change two lives.

Director: Sepideh Farsi


Producer: Thierry Lenouvel
Production Company: Cine Sud Promotion
Executive Producer: Panos Karabinis
Screenplay: Javad Djavahery, Sepideh Farsi
DOP: Pantelis Manzanas
Editor: Bonita Papastathi
Production Design: Mayou Trlkerloti
Sound Design: Vangelis Zelkas, Aris Louziotis,
Alexander Sideropoulos, JeanGuy Veran

Born in Tehran, Sepideh Farsi moved to Paris


to study mathematics. After several years of
photography, she started making shorts and
documentaries, among which both Harat and
Tehran Without Permission premiered in
Locarno. Her first two features, Dreams of Dust
and The Gaze, premiered in Rotterdam. She
then directed The House Under the Water,
followed by Cloudy Greece, Red Rose is her latest film.

Principal Cast: Vassilis Koukalani, Mina Kavani,


Shabnam Tolouei, Javad Djavahery, Rezvan
Zandieh, Babak Farahani
Festival: 39th Toronto International Film Festival
Contact: Urban Distribution Intl. (UDI) 14 rue du 18 aaut 93100 Montreuil France Telephone: +33148704656 Email: contact@urbandistrib.com
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THE SEARCH
France, Georgia | French, English, Russian, Chechen | 2014 | 149 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The Second Chechen War. 1999. The Search recounts, on a human scale, a powerful story of conflict told through four
lives that will be brought together by a shocking twist of fate. After his parents are killed in their village, a small boy flees, joining
the flood of refugees. He meets Carole, a European Union delegation head and little by little, with her help, he will return to life.
At the same time, his elder sister Rassa searches tirelessly for him amongst the civilian exodus. Then there's 20-year-old Kolia...
A recent Russian Army recruit, he will gradually be overwhelmed by the daily life of wartime.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius


Producers: Thomas Langmann , Michel
Hazanavicius
Screenplay: Michel Hazanavicius
Cinematographer: Guillaume Schi_man
Sound: Jean Minondo
Costume Designer: Les Rincali
Production Designer: Emile Ghigo
Editors: Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
Make-up: Lucia Bretones Mendez
Sound Editors: Nadine Muse, Selim Azzazi

Michel Hazanavicius was born in Paris. He


has worked in television and film as an actor,
writer, and director. His feature films as
director are Mes amis (99), OSS 117: Cairo,
Nest of Spies (06), OSS 117: Lost in Rio (09),
The Artist (2011), which won five Academy
Awards including Best Director and Best
Picture, and The Search (2014).

Principal Cast: Brnice Bejo, Annette Bening,


Maxim Emelianov, Abdul-Khalim Mamatsuiev,
Zukhra Duishvili
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Toronto
International Film Festival
Contact: Wild Bunch, Esther Devos, Telephone: +33 153 015 032, Email: edevos@wildbunch.eu, Website: www.wildbunch.biz
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TALES

Ghesseha

Iran | Persian | 2014 | Colour | 88 minutes

Synopsis: Several stories of present-day Iran: Abbas, a cabbie working the night shift as a means to support his family after
bungling a drug deal; to the elderly Mrs. Touba, fighting to have her son released from jail after a politically motivated arrest; to
Reza, a middle-aged factory worker whose illiteracy becomes a source of impetuous jealousy when his wife receives a letter from
her ex-husband; to Nargess, a social worker and former drug addict whose violent, estranged addict husband comes after her with
malice in mind.

Director: Rakhshan Banietemad


Producer: Rakhshan Banietemad
Production Company: Kanoon Iran Novin
Screenplay: Rakhshan Banietemad, Farid
Mostafavi
Cinematographer: Koohyar Kalari
Editor: Sepideh Abdolvahab
Sound: Yadollah Najafi
Music: Siamak Kalantari

Rakhshan Banietemad was born in Tehran.


After directing documentaries for television
she moved into fiction features, including The
Blue-Veiled (1995), which won a Bronze
Leopard at Locarno, and Under the Skin of the
City (2001). Three of her features, Nargess
(1992), Gilane (2005), and Mainline (2006),
have screened at major festivals around the
world. Tales is her latest film.

Principal Cast: Fatemeh Motamedaria, Peiman


Moadi, Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani,
Mohammadreza Forootan
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival,
Venice Film Festival, Fajr Film Festival
Award: Best Screenplay Award at Venice Film
Festival
Contact: Noori Pictures; Email: katysh.01@gmail.com
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TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT


Deux jours, une nuit

Belgium, France | French | 2014 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Almost immediately after returning to her factory job following a mental health leave, Sandra is laid off because her
fellow line workers voted to receive a bonus rather than to keep her as the seventeenth person on the team. When she learns that
their team leader persuaded them to vote against her under false pretenses, Sandra convinces the plant manager to hold a second,
secret vote. It's now Friday afternoon, leaving Sandra only two days and one night to save her job and, quite possibly, the life her
family knows. Swallowing her pride, Sandra sets out with her loving husband (Fabrizio Rongione) to convince her sixteen coworkers, one by one, to vote in her favour.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Producers: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne,
Denis Freyd
Production Company: Les Films du Fleuve
Screenplay: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Cinematographer: Alain Marcoen
Editor: Marie-Hlne Dozo
Sound: Jean-Pierre Duret, Benoit De Clerck,
Thomas Gauder
Production Designer: Igor Gabriel
Principal Cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio
Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Toronto Film
Festival

Luc Dardenne was born in Liege, Belgium.


With his brother Jean-Pierre, he has co-directed
many features, including Rosetta (1999) and
L'enfant (2005), which were both awarded the
Palme d'or at Cannes, in addition to the Festival
selections La promesse (1996), Le fils (2002),
The Kid with a Bike (2011), and Two Days,
One Night (2014).
Jean-Pierre Dardenne was born in Liege, Belgium. With his brother
Luc, he has co-directed many features, including Rosetta (1999) and
L'enfant (2005), which were both awarded the Palme d'or at Cannes, in
addition to La promesse (1996), Le fils (2002), The Kid with a Bike
(2011), and Two Days, One Night (2014).

Contact: Wild Bunch, Esther Devos, Telephone: +33 153 015 032, Email: edevos@wildbunch.eu, Website: www.wildbunch.biz
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Peter Ho-sun Chan


Denys Arcand
Michael Winterbottom
Paul Cox
Krzysztof Zanussi
Mike Leigh
Lars von Trier

MASTERSTROKES

Olivier Assayas

Kim Ki-duk
Roy Andersson
Naomi Kawase
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA


Sils Maria

France | English | 2014 | 123 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous
twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss
Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to
rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of
Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in
essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Producer: Charles Gillibert
Production Company: Pallas Films
Executive Producer: Sylvie Barthet
Writer: Olivier Assayas
DOP: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Marion Monnier
Sound Design: Daniel Sobrino
Production Design: Francois Renaud Labarthe
Principal Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart,
Chloe Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger, Johnny Flynn,
Angela Winkler
Festivals: 67th Cannes International Film Festival;
39th Toronto International Film Festival; Busan
International Film Festival

Olivier Assayas directed several short films


between 1979 and 1984, among which Laisse
inacheve a Tokyo, won the "Prix Perspectives"
in Cannes in 1983. He was the member of the
editorial board of Les Cahiers du Cinema
(1980-1985). He also wrote scripts between
1984 and 1986, especially for Andre Techine notably Rendez-vous (1985) and Le lieu du
Crime (1986) - before directing his own features, including the most
recent Clouds of Sils Maria, which was in competition at the 2014
Cannes International Film Festival. He also co-wrote and directed a TV
miniseries, Carlos, which was a critical and public success in 2010.
Among his most acclaimed films are Disorder, Winter's Child, Cold
Water, Irma Vep and Clean.

Contact: MK2 55, rue Travesiere 75012, Paris Telephone: +33144673256 Email: intlfest@mk2.com Website: www.mk2pro.com
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DEAREST

Qin Ai De

China, Hong Kong | Mandarin | 2014 | 130 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Wen Jun and his wife Xiaojuan are busy parents in the bustling South China city of Shenzen. One day, as their young
son Tian Peng plays in the streets with his friends, he's snatched by kidnappers, leaving his parents distraught - but not despairing.
With extraordinary commitment and resourcefulness, they set out to find their lost son.

Director: Peter Ho-sun Chan


Producers: Jojo Yuet-chun Hui, Peter Ho-sun Chan
Production Company: We Pictures Ltd
Screenplay: Zhang Ji
Cinematographer: Shu Chou, Yang Zhenyu
Editor: Derek Hui
Sound: Huang Zheng
Music: Leon Ko
Production Designer: Sun Li
Principal Cast: Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei,
Hao Lei, Zhang Yi, Zhang Yuqi

Peter Ho-sun Chan is a Hong Kong-born


producer and director. He studied film at UCLA
and has directed several hugely successful
films, including He's a Woman, She's a Man
(1994), Comrades: Almost a Love Story
(1996), The Love Letter (1999), The Warlords
(2007), Wu Xia (2011), and American Dreams
in China (2013). Dearest (2014) is his latest
film. He is a leading name among Chinese directors who enjoy a global
following.

Festival: Toronto International Film Festival

Contact: WE Pictures Ltd, Unit F, 17/F MG Tower 133 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon Hong Kong Phone: (85-22) 3661622 Email: sales@wedistribution.com
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AN EYE FOR BEAUTY

La Regne De la Beaute

Canada | French, English | 2014 | 102 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Luc, a talented architect, leads a peaceful life with his wife Stephanie in stunning area of Charlevoix. Beautiful house,
pretty wife, dinner with friends, golf, tennis hunting. A perfect life one might say! One day, he accepts to be a member of an
architectural jury in Toronto. There he meets Lindsey, a mysterious woman who will turn his life upside down.

Director: Denys Arcand


Producers: Denise Robert, Daniel Louis
Production Company: Cinemaginaire International
Screenplay: Denys Arcand
DOP: Nahalie Moliavko-Visotzky
Editor: Isabelle Dediu
Sound Design: Amir Hossein Ghasemi, Mehdi
Saleh-Kermani
Production Design: Patrice Bengle
Composer: Pierre Philippe Cote
Principal Cast: Eric Bruneau, Melanie Thierry,
Melanie Merkosky, Marie-Josee Crozel
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival,
Chicago International Film Festival, Hamburg Film
Festival

Denys Arcand is an Academy Award winning


director. His films have won over 100
prestigious awards around the world. In 2003,
he wrote and directed The Barbarian Invasions
which was nominated for Best Original
Screenplay and won the Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film. At the Cannes Film Festival, it
won the Best Actress and Best Screenplay
awards. In 1989, Denys Arcand directed the powerful Jesus of
Montreal (Jesus de Montral) which won The Jury's Grand Prize and
the Ecumenical Prize in Cannes. In 2007, Days of Darkness (L'ge
Destnbres) was in the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival
for Closing Night. The Decline of the American Empire (Le dclin de
l'empire amricain) won the International Critic's Prize (FIPRESCI) in
Cannes as well as an Oscar nomination in Best Foreign Language Film
category.

Contact: Seville International Suite 601, 175 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Canada M4W 3R8 Tel: 416-646-2400 Email: sevilleinternational@filmsseville.com
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THE FACE OF AN ANGEL


United Kingdom | English | 2014 | 100 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Why are we fascinated by murder? Inspired by the killing of a British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, The Face of an
Angel looks beyond the salacious headlines to explore both the media and the public obsession with violent stories, whether
fictional or real.

Director: Michael Winterbottom


Producer: Melissa Parmenter
Production Companies: Revolution Films, BBC
Films Multitrade, Vedette Finance
Screenplay: Paul Viragh
DOP: Hubert Escott
Editor: Marc Richardson
Sound Design: Matteo Olivari, Giacomo Avanza,
William Whale, Joakim Sundstrom, Rob Farr
Production Design: Carly Reddin

Michael Winterbottom was born in


Blackburn, Lancashire. Many of his films have
screened at numerous international festivals.
His four-part BBC series Family (2004), and
the features Butterfly Kiss (1995), Go Now
(1995), and In This World (2003) are some of
his regarded works. The Face of an Angel is the
prolific director's latest film.

Principal Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Kate Beckinsale,


Valerio Mastandrea, Cara Delevingne
Festivals: 39th Toronto International film Festival;
Busan International Film Festival, Vancouver
International Film Festival, London Film Festival
Contact: WestEnd Films 5-7 Hillgate street, London W8 7SP Telephone: +4402074948300 Email: info@westendfilms.com Website: www.westendfilms.com
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FORCE OF DESTINY
Australia | English | 2014 | 109 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Established artist Robert is told that he has liver cancer. This unexpected message leaves him feeling confused, scared
and utterly alone. In the process of physical decline and mental turmoil, he meets Maya, a marine biologist who comes from a
different world. Most of Maya's education happened in the West, but she never lost touch with her deeply rooted Indian soul.
Intuitively she always connects more with the metaphysical and organic relationship between all forms and living things. She
introduces Robert to her world of 'organic' awareness. Past tensions resurface as Maya becomes involved with Robert, more in
tune with his art, and his fight for survival. Robert falls deeply in love with Maya. His life blossoms but his sense of loss
intensifies The film is about a journey of love and hope, of courage and sacrifice, and Robert's miraculous salvation...
Director: Paul Cox
Producers: Mark Patterson and Maggie Miles
Screenplay: Paul Cox
DOP: Ian Jones
Editor: Aden Young
Sound Design: James Currie
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Principal Cast: David Wenham, Jacqueline
Mckenzie, Terry Norris, Julia Blake, Shahana
Goswami, Seema Biswas

Paul Cox, born in Holland and settled in


Australia, is an auteur of international acclaim
and is one of Australia's most prolific
filmmakers with 46 features, shorts and
documentaries to his name. Paul has been the
recipient of numerous special tributes and
retrospectives at film festivals across the world
including a major retrospective at the Lincoln
Centre in New York.

Contact: Arrow Entertainment, 7 Givins Street, Toronto, Ontario M6J2X5, Canada, +4 16 516 0815, Steve-Arroyave@Arrow-Entertainment.com
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FOREIGN BODY
Obce Cialo

Poland, Italy, Russia | Polish, Italian | 2014 | Colour | 117 minutes

Synopsis: Angelo, a dashing young Italian, he is deeply in love with Kasia, a Polish woman who, despite the entreaties of both
Angelo and her father, has decided to become a nun. Neither man can conceive of why she has chosen this path, but she remains
determined. Holding out hope that he can sway her, Angelo moves to a city near the convent where Kasia is preparing to take her
vows. He gets hired by a successful new company where he attracts the attentions of his ambitious and extremely attractive boss,
Kris, a woman who will stop at nothing to reach the top.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi


Producers: Krzysztof Zanussi, Janusz Wachala,
Irena Strzalkowska
Production Company: Tor Film Production,
Revolver SRL
Screenplay: Krzysztof Zanussi
Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
Editor: Milenia Fiedler
Sound: Maria Chilarecka
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Production Designer: Joanna Macha

Krzysztof Zanussi was born in Warsaw. His


prolific career as a writer-director includes the
features Illumination (1972), Camouflage
(1976), and The Constant Factor (1980). The
Constant Factor won both the Jury and
Ecumenical Jury prizes at Cannes. He has been
the director of Poland's TOR Studio since 1979.

Principal Cast: Riccardo Leonelli, Agnieszka


Grochowska, Agata Buzek, Weronika Rosati
Festival: Toronto International Film Festival

Contact: Tor Film Production Pulawska 61 Warsaw, Mazowieckie 02-595 Poland Phone: (48-22) 8455303 Email: tor@tor.com.pl
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MR. TURNER
UK | English | 2014 | 149 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: 'Mr. Turner' explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner. Profoundly
affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close
relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he
travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts,
has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by
royalty.
Director: Mike Leigh
Producer: Georgia Lowe
Production Company: Film4, Thin Man Films
Executive Producers: Norman Merry, Tessa Ross
and Gail Egan
Screenplay: Mike Leigh
DOP: Dick Pope
Editor: Jon Gregory
Music: Gary Yershon
Production Design: Suzie Davies

Mike Leigh was born on February 20, 1943 in


Salford, Greater Manchester, England. He is a
director and writer, known for Secrets &
Lies (1996), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Vera
Drake (2004). Most of his work in theatre and
films is done without any initial script. He and
the actors improvise their characters and the
scenes under his overall control. He also won
the Cannes Best Director Award for Naked in 1993 also has seven
Oscar nominations to his name.

Principal Cast: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson,


Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville
Festivals: Cannes, Toronto, BFI, Vancouver
Awards: Best Actor and Vulcaine Prize for
Technical Artist- Cannes Film Festival; Best
Director- BAFTA
Contact: PVR Pictures, Telephone: +91 22 42758888 Email: shiladitya.bora@pvrcinemas.com
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NYMPHOMANIAC (DIRECTOR'S CUT)


Denmark | English | 2014 | 326 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Nymphomaniac is a two-part drama. A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who
saved her after a beating. The rescuer brings the battered woman home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her
about her life. He listens intently as Joe, over the next eight chapters, recounts the lustful story of her highly erotic life from
infancy to the age of 50. Seligman, a widely read man, connects and analyzes Joe's stories with what he has read about.

Director: Lars von Trier


Producers: Marie Cecilie Gade, Louise Vesth
Production Company: Zentropa Entertainments,
Heimatfilm, Film i Vast, Artificial Eye, Les Films du
Losagne
Executive Producer: Peter Garde
Screenplay: Lars von Trier
Cinematography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Editors: Morten Hojbjerg (Volume 1), Molly
Marlene Stensgaard (Both Volumes)
Principal Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan
Skarsgard, Stacy Martin, Shia LeBeouf, Christian
Slater, Uma Thurman, Connie Nielsen
Festivals: Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film
Festival, Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Lars von Trier, restlessly creative,


unapologetically provocative and justly
notorious, burst onto the international film
scene in the 1990s with a brand of cinema that
was as defiantly individualistic as it was
unabashedly confrontational. Nothing that he
does is ever short of drama and his films,
increasingly of late, reflect his personality in all
its dazzling non-conformism. No director working today divides
critics as sharply as he does.. Although a Scandinavian director who
has revived his region's cinematic profile, von Trier makes most of his
films in English in order to reach out to a wider audience. He debuted in
the mid 1980s with the highly stylized noir thriller, The Element of
Crime. His notable films include Zentropa (1991), The Kingdom
(1994), Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000),
Dogville (2003), Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011).

Contact: Det Danske Filminstitut / Danish Film Institute, Gothersgade 55, DK-1123 Kobenhavn K, Website: www.dfi.dk
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ONE ON ONE
Il-dae-il

South Korea | Korean | 2014 | 122 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: After a girl named Min-ju is killed on May 9, seven suspects are called out by seven mysterious shadows and forced to
confess the truth about the girl's death.

Director: Kim Ki-duk


Producer: Kim Soon-mo
Production Company: Kim Ki-duk Film
Screenplay: Kim Ki-duk
Cinematographer: Kim Ki-duk
Editor: Kim Ki-duk
Principal Cast: Ma Dong-seok, Lee In-kyung, Yi
Yi-kyung, Dong-in Jo, Young-min Kim
Festival: Venice Film Festival - Venice Days
Award: Venice Film Festival - Venice Days Best
Film Award

Kim Ki-duk is one of the leading directors of


South Korean film d'essai. Born in 1960 in
Bonghwa, a small village in South Korea, as a
child he moved to Seoul, where he attended a
school for professional training in the field of
agriculture. His early work experiences
included a job as a steelworker and enlistment
in the Navy. He approached art and cinema in
1990: in the course of a long journey through Europe, he lived in Paris
for two years, where worked as a painter. Upon his return to Korea, he
took his first steps as a self-taught screenwriter and film director. His
1996 debut (Crocodile) was followed by the feature-length films Wild
Animals (1997) and Birdcage Inn (1998). He achieved international
fame in 2000 with The Isle. His notable films are Spring, Summer, Fall,
Winter and Spring (2003), Samaritan Girl (2004), 3-Iron (2004),
The Bow (2005), Time (2006) and Breath (2007).

Contact: FINECUT cineinfo@finecut.co.kr


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A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH


REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE
En duva satt pa en gren och funderade pa tillvaron
Sweden, Norway, France, Germany | Swedish | 2014 | 100 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Like modern times' Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sa and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items,
take us on a kaleidoscope wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of
others, the humour and tragedy that is in us, life's grandeur as well as the frailty of humanity. It is a mixture of absurdist,
hilariously deadpan humour, shock, and utter horror. 'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence' completes a trilogy, the
first two films of which are 'Songs from the Second Floor' and 'You the Living'.

Director: Roy Andersson


Producer: Pernilla Sandstrom
Production Company: Roy Andersson
Filmproduction AB
Executive Producers: Sarah Nagel, Isabell
Wiegand
Screenplay: Roy Andersson
DOP: Istvan Borbas, Gergely Palos
Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Sound Design: Robert Hefter, Owe Svensson
Principal Cast: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom,
Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg

Roy Andersson was born in Gothenburg,


Sweden. His debut feature, A Swedish Love
Story (1970), won four awards at the Berlin
Film Festival. He took a 25-year break from
feature film-making after the release of his
second film, Giliap (1975), directing
commercials and shorts. His recent features are
Songs from the Second Floor (2000), which
won the Jury Prize at Cannes, and You the Living (2007).

Festivals: 71st Venice Film Festival; 39th Toronto


International Film Festival
Award: Golden Lion - 71st Venice Film Festival
Contact: Coproduction Office, Email: sales@coproductionoffice.eu, Website: www.coproductionoffice.eu
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STILL THE WATER

Futatsume No Mado

Japan, France, Spain | Japanese | 2014 | 119 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: On the sub-tropical Japanese island of Amani, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of
traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko will attempt to
help him understand this mysterious discovery. Together, Kaito and Kyoko will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

Director: Naomi Kawase


Producers: Masa Sawada, Takehiko Aoki, Naomi
Kawase
Production Company: Comme des Cinemas,
Wowow
Executive Producer: Reiji Yamamoto (Japan)
Screenplay: Naomi Kawase
DOP: Yutaka Yamazaki
Editor: Tina Baz
Principal Cast: Nijiro Murakami, Jun Yoshinaga,
Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimotoi
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival; Toronto
International Film Festival; Busan Film Festival

Born and raised in Nara, Japan, Naomi


Kawase became the youngest winner of the
Camera d'Or at Festival de Cannes with her first
feature Suzaku (1997). Ten years later, she
made her fourth feature, Mogari (The
Mourning Forest) and received the Grand Prix.
She also received the Carrosse d'Or from the
Directors' Fortnight in 2009. One of her many
documentary works, Genpin (2010), received the FIPRESCI Prize at
the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2010. In 2012, her
films Hanezu and Genpin were internationally released and a
retrospective was held at the Cinematheque Franaise.

Award: Best Feature at Vladivostok International


Film Festival
Contact: MK2 55, rue Travesiere 75012 PARIS Telephone: +33144673030 Email: intlsales@mk2.com Website: www.mk2pro.com
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WINTER SLEEP
Il-dae-il

Turkey, France, Germany | Turkish | 2014 | 194 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy
relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a
shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan


Producer: Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan
Production Company: Zeyno Film
Screenplay: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cinematographer: Gkhan Tiryaki
Editors: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bora Goksingol
Set Decorator: Gamze Kus
Sound: Thomas Robert
Principal Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sozen,
Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Kilij
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival 2014, Toronto
International Film Festival
Awards: Palme d'Or and FRIPSCI Prize at Cannes
Film Festival

Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul in


1959. After graduating from Engineering
Department of Bosphorus University, he
studied Film Making for two years at Mimar
Sinan University, Istambul. Ceylan's short film
Koza (Cocoon) was screened in the Cannes
Film Festival in 1995. He received many
awards with his debut feature Kasaba (Small
Town) and his second feature Mayis Sikintisi (Clouds of May). His
third feature Uzak (Distant) received the Grand Prix and award for Best
Actor at Cannes 2003, and was praised internationally. His 2006 film
Iklimler (Climates) was widely acclaimed. He won the Best Director
award in Cannes in 2008 for U Maymun (Three Monkeys). In 2009,
the director returned to Cannes, this time as a member of the main
competition jury. In 2011, his film Once Upon A Time in Anatolia won
A pigeon
sat on a branch reflecting on existence
the Grand Prix again at Cannes
Film Festival.

Contact Sales: Memento Films International T: +33 1 53 34 90 33 www.memento-films.com


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THE GRANDMASTER

Yi dai zong shi

China | Chinese | 2013 | 130 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The Grandmaster is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary
kung fu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of
China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war that was also the golden age of Chinese
martial arts. Kung Fu is divided into northern and southern schools, but should a country be divided
alike? Only the most talented and noble person should become the leader of all the kung fu
practitioners.

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CLOSING FILM

Director: Wong Kar-Wai


Producers: Wong Kar-Wai, Jacky Pang Yee Wah
Production Company: Hong Kong Jet Tone Film
Production Sil-Metropole
Executive Producers: Song Dai, Chan Ye Cheung,
Megan Ellison
Screenplay: Zou Jingzi, Xu Haofeng, Wong
Kar-Wai
DOP: Phileppe Le Sourd
Editors: Wiliam Chang Suk Ping, Benjamin
Courtines, Poon Hung Yui
Sound Design: Robert Mackinzie
Production Design: William Chang Suk Ping,
Alfred Yau Wai Ming
Principal Cast: Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Tony
Leung Chiu Wai, Song Hye-Kyo, Wong HingCheung, Julian Cheung Chilam
Festivals: 63rd Berlin International Film Festival;
Melbourne International Film Festival

Born in Shanghai in 1958, Wong Kar-Wai moved


to Hong Kong in 1963. He studied graphic design
in Hong Kong Polytechnic until 1980 and
subsequently worked as a production assistant and
assistant director for TV. Between 1982 and 1987,
he wrote screenplays for director Patrick Tam. In
1988, he debuted as a director with As Tears Go
By. In 1997 he won the Best Director Award for
Happy Together at the Cannes Film Festival.
Fallen Angels, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time,
In the Mood for Love and 2046 are among his most
notable films.

Contact: Wild Bunch, Paris; Telephone: +33153015020, Email: adevos@wildbunch.eu


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JAN TROELL

Jan Troell is one of the most important Scandinavian filmmakers. The Swedish director is famous
for his understated rhythms and for writing, directing, editing, and shooting his own films. A former
schoolteacher, Troell made short films, then worked as a cameraman for Bo Widerberg before
making his feature debut with Here's Your Life (1966). After Who Saw Him Die? (1968), he made
The Emigrants (1971), which earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay,
and its sequel, The New Land (1972), which together presented a sweeping account of Swedish
immigrants coming to America in the 1840s. The films were hailed collectively as the Swedish
equivalent of Gone With the Wind and were notable for Troell's direct and humane treatment of his
characters' plight. After a couple of American film assignments, Troell returned to Scandinavia
with The Flight of the Eagle (1982), also a return to Swedish history with A Frozen Dream. Since
then, Troell has made Sagolandet (1986), Il Capitano (1991), which won the Silver Bear in Berlin in
1992), As White as in Snow (2001), and the best example of a true Scandinavian co-production
becoming a hit in all its local territories, the acclaimed Hamsun (1996).

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EVERLASTING
MOMENTS
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Swedish, Finnish | 2008 | 131 minutes |
Colour
Synopsis: In Sweden in the early 1900s - in a time
of social change and unrest, of war and poverty the young working class woman Maria wins a
camera in a lottery, and decides to keep it - a
decision which alters her whole life. The camera
enables Maria to see the world through new eyes,
but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat
alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the
charming photographer "Piff Paff Puff" into her
life.
Director: Jan Troell
Producer: Thomas Stenderup
Production Company: Final Cut Productions Aps
Screenplay: Jan Troell, Niklas Radstrom, Agneta
Ulfsater Troel
DOP: Jan Troell, Mischa Gavrjusjov
Editor: Niels Pagh Anderson
Music: Matti Bye
Production Design: Peter Bavman
Principal Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael
PErsbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival,
Chicago International Film Festival, Valladolid
International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival
Awards: Golden Globes 2009, Bodil Awards 2009,
Chicago International Film Festival 2008,
Guldbagge Awards 2009, Valladolid International
Film Festival 2008, National Society of Film
Critics Awards, USA 2010

Selected Filmography:
1965
1971
1972
1979
1982
1991
1996
1997
2001
2003

4x4/Upphll i myrlandet
The Emigrants/Utvandrarna
The New Land/Nybyggarna
Hurricane (aka Forbidden Paradise)
The Flight of the Eagle
Il Capitano
Hamsun
A Frozen Dream/En frusen drm
As White as in Snow/S vit som en sn
Presence/Nrvarande
Contact: Swedish Film Institute, P.O. Box 27126, SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden, Telephone: +46 8 665 11 00, Fax: +46 8 661 18 20
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CARTOONISTS:

FOOT SOLDIERS OF DEMOCRACY

Caricaturistes: fantassins de la democratie


France | French | 2014 | 106 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: "A government without a sense of humour isn't democratic." Taken from a Venezuelan cartoon, this statement speaks
volumes about satire and its power to test the establishment. The documentary delivers a funny, stirring look at a dissident
profession. We see the world's leading political cartoonists at work, we see what they do for us as citizens and we hear why they do
it, as Valloatto spans the globe. And in every political hot spot, there are talented contrarians with pens and brushes, ready to
skewer the big shots. Basically, it pays tribute to 12 crazy, amazing, funny and tragic cartoonists from all around the worlds who
defend democracy at the risk of their lives and have fun with a pencil as the only weapon. They are French, Tunisian, Russian,
Mexican, American, Chinese, Algerian, Burkinabese, Ivorian, Venezuelan, Israeli and Palestinian.
Director: Stephanie Valloatto
Producer: Radu Mihaileanu
Production Company: Oi Oi Oi Productions,
Cinextra Productions
Screenplay: Radu Miahaileanu, Stephanie Valloatto
DOP: Cyril Blanc
Editor: Marie-Josee Audiard
Music: Armand Amar

Stephanie Valloatto is a director and writer,


known for Caricaturistes, fantassins de la
democratie (2014), La femme seule la robe
bleue (2001) and Empreintes (2007).

Featuring: Nadia Khiari, Michel Kichka, Baha


Boukhari, Rayma Suprani, Jeff Danziger, Menouar
Merabtene
Festival: 67th Cannes Film Festival

Contact: Kinology 30 rue Moret 75011 Paris France Telephone: +33 9 51 47 43 44 Fax + 33 9 56 47 43 44 Email: inter@kinology.eu
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THE DARK SIDE


Australia | English | 2013 | 94 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd true ghost tales from across Australia. Honest, matter-of-fact firsthand
accounts illuminate a black perspective on the other side.

Director: Warwick Thornton


Producer: Kath Shelper
DOP: Warwick Thornton
Editor: Roland Gallois
Sound Design: Liam Egan
Costume Design: Annie Beauchamp
Production Design: Bethany Ryan
Featuring: Lynette Narkle, Merwez Whaleboat,
Sacha Horler, Jack Charles, Deborah Mailman,
Bryan Brown

Wa r w i c k T h o r n t o n g r a d u a t e d i n
cinematography from the Australian Film,
Television and Radio School. He started out as
a maker of critically acclaimed short films such
Payback, Green Bush and Nana. In 2009, he
made his fiction feature debut with Samson and
Delilah, which fetched him the Camera d'Or at
the Cannes Film Festival.

Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival 2013;


Adelaide Film Festival 2013

Contact: Lee Shira, MoviePlus Productions. +972542804049 leelu@movieplus.info


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THE LOOK OF SILENCE


Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, Finland | Indonesian, Javanese | 2014 | 99 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Through Joshua Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers
how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of
silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother's murder - something
unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer


Producer: Signe Byrge Sorensen
Production Company: Final Cut for Real
Executive Producers: Werner Herzog, Errol
Morris, Andre Singer
DOP: Lars Skree
Editor: Niels Pagh Andersen
Sound Design: Henrik Garnov
Special Effects: Nordisk Film shortcut

Born in 1974, in the US, Joshua Oppenheimer


is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he is
a partner at the production company Final Cut
for Real. Oppenheimer has worked for over a
decade with militias, death squads and their
victims to explore the relationship between
political violence and the public imagination.
Educated at Harvard and Central Saint Martins,
his debut feature-length film is The Act of Killing (2012). His earlier
works include The Globalisation Tapes (2003, produced with Christine
Cynn), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998), These
Places We've Learned to Call Home (1996), and other shorts.
Oppenheimer is artistic director of the International Centre for
Documentary and Experimental Film, University of Westminster.

Contact: Philippa Kowarsky Telephone: +972544961114 Email: philippa@cinephil.co.il


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MAIDAN
Ukraine, Netherlands | Ukrainian | 2014 | 130 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of president Yanukovych that took place in Kiev (Ukraine) in the
winter of 2013-14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong, in the Maidan
square, to the bloody street battles between protesters and riot police.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa


Producers: Maria Baker, Sergei Loznitsa
Production Company: Atoms & Void
Script and Dialogue: Sergie Loznitsa
DOP: Sergey Loznitsa, Serhiy Stetsenko
Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis, Sergey Loznitsa
Sound Design: Vladimir Golovnitski
Visual Effects: Peter Hjorth
Festivals: 67th Cannes Film Festival; 39th Toronto
International Film Festival; Rio de Janeiro
International Film Festival

Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964. He grew up


in Kiev (Ukraine), and in 1987, graduated from
the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied
Mathematics. Loznitsa worked as a scientist at
the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing
in artificial intelligence research. He also
worked as a translator from Japanese. In 1997
Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State
Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has made 16
documentary films since 1996. Loznitsa's feature debut, My Joy
(2010) premiered in the main competition at the Festival de Cannes,
and was followed by In the Fog, which was awarded FIPRESCI Prize
in Cannes.

Contact: ATOMS & VOID BV Telephone: +31 6 11 00 60 99 Email: atomypustota.info@gmail.com


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MY NAME IS SALT
Farida Pacha

Switzerland | Gujarati | 2013 | 92 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The desert extends endlessly - flat, grey, relentless. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in
abundance: salt. Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the little Rann of Kutch,
5000 sq km of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water,
electricity or provisions - tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Under the blinding glare of the sun, they work on
the salt fields until large crystals have formed. Their labour is rhythmic, a dance that mirrors the dance of the mirages on the
burning horizon. After months of hard work, the salt is ready to be harvested - just before the heavy monsoon rains will come to
once again wash their salt fields away.
Director: Farida Pacha
Producers: Lutz Konermann, Farida Pacha
Production Company: Leafbird Films
Writer: Farida Pacha
DOP: Lutz Konermann
Editor: Katharina Fiedler
Music: Marcel Vaid
Sound Editing and Mix: Florian Eidenbenz
Festivals: Los Angeles, Melbourne, Edinburgh,
Hong Kong, Vancouver
Awards: Winner - Hong Kong IFF Documentary
Competition 2014; Winner - German Camera Award
2014; Winner - Edinburgh IFF Documentary
Competition 2014

Farida Pacha was born in 1972 in Bombay.


After obtaining a MFA in filmmaking at
Southern Illinois University, USA she has made
several experimental, educational and
documentary films. Her documentary The
Seedkeepers won the 2006 Indian National
Film Award. My Name is Salt is her first feature
length documentary, which won her among
many others the First Appearance Award at IDFA 2013, Amsterdam as
well as the main prizes at Hong Kong, Madrid, Edinburgh and the
German Camera Award 2014 for Best Cinematography in a
documentary film. Farida lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

Contact: Leafbird Films GmbH Bergellerstrasse 26 8049 Zurich, Switzerland, +41 44 554 8667 Mobile: +41 76 348 4076, leafbirdfilms dot com
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THE SALT OF THE EARTH

Le sel de la terre

France | Portuguese, French, Italian | 2014 | 105 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastiao Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of
an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation
and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as
part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Sebastiao Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by
his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.

Directors: Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro


Salgado
Producer: David Rosier
Production Company: Decia Films
Executive Producer: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
and David Rosier
DOP: Hugo Barbier and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Editors: Maxine Goedicke and Rob Myers
Sound Design: Regis Muller
Narrator: Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro
Salgado
Production Design: Meredith Boswell
Festivals: Cannes - Un Certain Regard, Sydney,
Moscow, Munich, Busan, Abu Dhabi
Award: UCR Special Prize, Cannes Film Festival

German filmmaker Wim Wenders is one the most


highly regarded creative minds in the world of
cinema. His 1984 film Paris Texas won the Palme
d'Or as the well as Fipresci Prize at the Cannes Film
Festival. In 1987, Wenders made the unforgettable
Wings of Desire, which he followed up with a
sequel in 1993 - Faraway, So Close! He has to his
credit some outstanding documentaries, including Buena Vista Social
Club, The Soul of a Man and Pina.
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado is a French-Brazilian
director. He has an interest in social issues. His
2009 documentary, Nauru Island Adrift, was
selected for many festivals.

Contact: Le Pacte 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France 01 44 69 59 45 E-mail : a.aubelle@le-pacte.com Website: www.le-pacte.com
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American Dreams in China
Beijing Blues
Caught In The Web
Christmas Rose
Feng Shui
Finding Mr. Right
The Great Hypnotist
Out Of Inferno
Silent Witness

CHINA

COUNTRY FOCUS

The films in this section have been


categorized as follows:

Genuine Love (INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION)


The Grandmaster (CLOSING FILM)

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AMERICAN DREAMS IN CHINA


China | Chinese | 2013 | 112 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In 1985, three ambitious college students meet in Beijing. Meng Xiaojun, Wang Yang and Cheng Dongqing come from
different backgrounds. After graduation, Meng has an opportunity to study at Columbia University, Cheng and Wang keep
working in Beijing. Several years later, Meng comes back to Beijing, and the three friends launch a successful English instruction
school for Chinese students, and then face lawsuits over copyright infringement.

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan


Producers: Jojo Hui Yuet-Chun,
Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Production Company: We Pictures Limited
Screenplay: Zhou Zhi Yong, Zhang Ji
DOP: Christopher Doyle
Editor: Xiao Yang
Music: Peter Kam
Costume Design: Dore Ng
Production Design: Sun Li

Peter Ho-Sun Chan, a leading figure in the


Asian film industry, has been able to merge art
and entertainment, and commercial and critical
success, winning an impressive 162 film
awards out of 262 nominations. He co-founded
United Filmmakers Organization (UFO) and
produced a string of commercial hits such as
Tom, Dick & Hairy (1993), He's a Woman,
She's a Man (1994) and Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1997).

Principal Cast: Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao,


Tong Dawei, Du Juan
Festivals: Hong Kong Film Awards; Asia Pacific
Film Festival; Golden Horse Awards

Contact: We Distribution Limited Unit F, 17/F, MG Tower, 133 Hoi Bun Road Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Telephone: +85223661622 email: kat@wedistribution.com
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BEIJING BLUES
Makom Be Gan Eden

China | Chinese | 2012 | 118 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Zhang Huiling is a veteran plainclothes detective, leading a team from the local police station specialising in catching
pickpockets and fraudsters. In seven years, Zhang has arrested over 1,600 criminals on the streets. One of his techniques is to use a
minicam to record evidence as he follows suspects. One day, after arresting a thief stealing money from a car, he becomes
suspicious of the car's owner, Li Wuyi, and follows him, exposing a scam in which children are used to extract money in fake car
accidents. While doing so, Zhang hears that a famous thief, Golddigger Zhang, has arrived in town

Director: Gao Qunshu


Producer: Gao Qunshu
Production Company: Beijing Yuan Xin
International Media Co. Ltd
Screenplay: Dai Yan, Gao Qunshu
DOP: Wu Di
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Sound Design: Long Xiaozhu
Principal Cast: Zhang Lixian, Xu Wen, Wu
Runguo, Ren Yaoan
Festivals: Shanghai International Film Festival;
Beijing Student Film Festival; Taiwan's Golden
Horse Awards 2012
Awards: 3 Golden Horse Awards 2012; Best
Director - Shanghai IFF 2012; Special Jury Award Beijing Student Film Festival 2013

Gao Qunshu, born in 1966, is an actor and


director. His directorial credits include films
such as The Tokyo Trial (2006) and The
Message (2009). Since making Beijing Blues,
he completed yet another title - Crimes of
Passion.

Contact: Enlight Media Telephone: 010-64516328 Email: tiantian@ewang.com Website: www.ewang.com


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CAUGHT IN THE WEB

Suo Suo
China | Chinese | 2012 | 121 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Set in modern-day China, a young woman becomes embroiled in controversy after a cell phone video of her being
disrespectful on a public bus to an elderly person goes viral. The aftermath affects her personal and professional life and brings
her face to face with the girl who posted the video poster, an ambitious journalist. Caught in the Web is a masterly take on the
perils of living in the age of social media.

Director: Chen Kaige


Producer: Chen Hong
Production Company: 21 Century Shengkai Film
Executive Producers: Cao Huayi, Chen Hong,
Wang Ziwen
Screenplay: Chen Kaige, Tang Danian
DOP: Yang Shu
Editor: Li Dianshi
Music: Meng Ke, Ma Shangyou
Principal Cast: Gao Yuanyuan, Yao Chen, Mark
Chao, Wang Xueqi, Chen Hong

Chen Kaige, born in 1952, is one of the most


influential figures in contemporary Chinese
cinema. A "fifth generation" Chinese
filmmaker, he won the Palme d'Or in Cannes
for Farewell My Concubine (1993). He trained
at the Beijing F ilm Academy, where Zhang
Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang were his
batchmates and together they were
instrumental in giving the cinema of their country an international
profile. Kaige's most notable films are Temptress Moon, The Emperor
and the Assassin, Together and The Promise.

Festival: Toronto International Film Festival

Contact: We Distribution Limited Unit F, 17/F, MG Tower, 133 Hoi Bun Road Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Telephone: +85223661622 email: kat@wedistribution.com
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CHRISTMAS ROSE
Sheng Dan Mei Gui

China | Chinese | 2013 | 87 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Tim is a defence attorney with a heart of gold who quits his well-paid job to become a prosecutor at the Justice
Department. One day Tim meets one of the most challenging cases he has ever handled when a handicapped piano teacher Jing
urges him to desperately help her with a sexual harassment case against her doctor, the renowned surgeon Zhou.

Director: Charlie Yeung


Producer: Yu Dong
Production Company: Bona Film Group Limited
Screenplay: Guannan Lv, Yao Peilong, Wai-on
Leung
DOP: Henry Chung
Editor: Wai Chiu Chung
Music: Peter Kam
Costume Design: Wing Shya
Sound Design: Lek Chee Leung

Charlie Yeung is an actress turned director.


Christmas Rose is her directorial debut. She
broke into the entertainment scene as a singer at
the age of 18 in 1993. As an actress, Charlie
Yeung has starred in New Police Story with
Jackie Chan, and Bangkok Dangerous with
Nicolas Cage.

Principal Cast: Aaron Kwok, Xia Yu, Kwai LunMei, Chen Chang
Festival: Golden Horse Film Festival 2013

Contact: Distribution Workshop (HK) Limited Telephone: 010-56310700 Email: tougao@bonafilm.cn Website: www.weibo.com/bonafilm
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FENG SHUI
China | Chinese | 2013 | 118 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: 1990s, Wuhan city. A middle-aged shopkeeper Li Baoli moves into her new house. It brings her ill luck. Li Baoli
exposes her husband's love affair to the police. It leads him to bankruptcy and suicide. Hatred grows in her son's heart. In order to
support the whole family and afford her son's tuition, the stubborn Li Baoli chooses to work as a market porter. Ten years later, she
is still doing the same job and her son, now a top student at high school, is about to take his final exams to enter university. But he
has still not forgiven his mother for his father's death.

Director: Jing Wang


Producers: Xiaoming Yan, Baoquan Zhang,
Xiaojing Xie
Production Company: China Movie Channel
Screenplay: Wu Nan
DOP: Liu Younian
Editor: Feng Wen
Music: Yang Sili
Sound Design: Wang Changrui
Production Design: Bai Hao

Born in 1966 in the province of Jiangsu, Jing


Wang graduated from Beijing Film Academy,
receiving a degree in cinematography. After
graduation he taught courses in documentary
making and film analysis. He has been an
associate producer, screenwriter, director,
cinematographer, producer, and commercial
director, utilizing his experiences and
incorporating them into his courses. He has taught at the Beijing Film
Academy since 1990.

Principal Cast: Bingyan Yan, Gang Jiao


Festivals: Beijing International Film Festival; 13th
Gwangju International Film Festival
Award: Best Actress- Beijing International Film
Festival 2013
Contact: Beijing Antaeus Film Email: antaeusfilm@gmail.com
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FINDING MR. RIGHT


Bei Jing yu shang Xi Ya Tu

China | Chinese | 2013 | 123 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: City girl Jiajia is traveling to Seattle to give birth to the son who's going to help her win over her rich, married
boyfriend. Armed with his unlimited credit card and the singular goal of bringing a little US citizen back to Beijing, Jiajia knows
how to play this game of modern love. But when Jiajia arrives in Seattle, the city which inspired her favourite movie Sleepless in
Seattle, nothing goes right: she's stuck sharing a small house with two other pregnant ladies, she has trouble reaching her
boyfriend on the phone, and eventually, even the credit card stops working. To top that off, the only person willing to spend time
with her is her driver Frank. Frank is the opposite of everything she ever wanted in a man or could he be exactly the kind of guy she
really needs?
Director: Xue Xiaolu
Producer: Matthew Tang
Production Company: EDKO Films Ltd.
Writer: Xuw Xiaolu
DOP: Chan Chi-ying
Editor: Cheung Ka-Fai
Music: Peter Kam
Production Design: Yee Chung-Man
Principal Cast: Wei Tang, Xiubo Wu, Hai-Qing,
Hongmei Mai, Elaine Jin, Yiwei Liu

Xue Xiaolu is a Chinese director and


screenwriter as well as an associate professor
and master instructor in the Department of
Literature at the Beijing Film Academy. Her
directorial film debut Ocean Heaven was
chosen as the opening movie for the 13th
Shanghai International Film Festival. The
critically acclaimed movie, which she wrote as
well as directed, stared Jet Li and told the touching story of a devoted
father who spends his entire life and fortune caring for his autistic son.

Festival: 16th Shanghai International Film Festival


Award: Best Actress - 16th Shanghai Film Critics
Award

Contact: EDKO Films Ltd. Email: info@edkofilm.co.hk Website: www.cinema.com.hk


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THE GREAT HYPNOTIST

Cui Mian Da Shi

China | Chinese | 2014 | 102 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Xu Ruining, a nationally renowned therapist, is highly skilled in hypnosis. Then he meets a patient who brings him a
problem that hypnosis can't seem to solve.

Director: Leste Chen


Producers: Tina Shi, James Li
Production Company: Wanda Media
Executive Producers: Gillian Zhao, Abe Kwong,
Cary Cheng, Xu Zheng
Screenplay: Ren Peng
DOP: Charlie Lam
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Sound Design: Zhao Nan, Yang Jing
Production Design: Lo Shun-Fu

Born in 1981, Taiwan filmmaker Leste Chen


quickly established his reputation as a young
master of horror films with a spine-tingling
haunted-mansion debut, The Heirloom. He
followed that with Eternal Summer (2006) and
two more romantic films, Love on Credit
(2011) and Say Yes (2012). He returns to his
horror roots with The Great Hypnotist.

Principal Cast: Xu Zheng, Karen Mok, Hu Jing, Lv


Zhong, David Wang
Festival: Beijing International Film Festival

Contact: Wanda Media Telephone: +861059605035 Email: celine.lin.wanda@gmail.com


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OUT OF INFERNO

Tou Ceot Saang Tin

Hong Kong | Cantonese | 2013 | 107 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire accident takes place in a busy commercial tower. A gaggle of fire-fighters
with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives, including captain Dai Kwan, whose wife Si Lok is trapped in the tower.
He arrives at the scene and starts the rescue with assistance of his brother Keung.

Directors: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang


Producers: Daniel Lam, Alvin Lam, Oxide Pang,
Danny Pang
Production Company: Universe Entertainment
Limited
Screenplay: Szeto Kam Yuen, Tang Nicholl, Oxide
Pang, Danny Pang
DOP: Anthony Pun (H.K.S.C)
Editor: Curran Pang
Sound Design: Ken Wong, Phyllis Cheng
Production Design: Attis Lee

The twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang


started their career in Hong Kong, where Oxide
worked as colorist and Danny as editor. After
moving to Bangkok, Oxide made the
experimental film Who's Running. Bangkok
Dangerous (2000) was the first film in which
the brothers combined their talents.

Principal Cast: Sean Lau, Louis Koo, Sinje Lee,


Chen Si Cheng
Festivals: Festival International de Films de
Fribourg-2013; 32nd Brussels International
Fantastic Film Festival
Contact: Universe Films Distribution Co. Ltd. 18/F, Wyler Centre Phase II, 192-200 Tai Lin Pai Road, Kwai Chung, N.T, Hong Kong
Telephone: +85224372601 Fax: +85224147207 Email: mia_sin@uih.com.hk Website: www.u333.com
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SILENT WITNESS
China | Chinese | 2013 | 120 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Rich Lin Tai's wedding day is approaching, but the bride has died. Lin Tai's father somehow becomes one of the prime
suspects and like any doting son he hires a famous defence lawyer. As the investigation and trial continues, the truth takes a bitter
turn, a whirling turn.

Director: Fei Xing


Producer: Xiao Pingkai
Production Company: 21st Century Company,
Inlook Media
Executive Producers: Zhang Youlin, Long Qiuyun,
Chen Xiangrong
Screenplay: Fei Xing
DOP: Zhao Xiaoding
Editor: Su Lifeng, Kwong Chi-Leung
Music: Yang Chuoxin
Production Design: Chen Shikun
Principal Cast: Aaron Kwok, Sun Honglei, Yu
Nan, Deng Jiajia, Zhao Lixin

Fei Xing is a representative of the new


generation of Chinese commercial film
directors and screenwriters. A one-time folkmusic graduate, guitarist and successful TV
drama writer-director, he wrote and directed his
first movie in 2010, the highly original The
Man behind the Courtyard House, a
contemporary crime drama that is a fascinating
genre-bender. His second film Silent Witness (2012) is a superbly
crafted crime/courtroom procedural that's a game-changer in
Mainland genre cinema, raising the bar on an existing genre to a new
level.

Contact: Inlook Media Telephone: 010-59008750 Email: 1318708443@qq.com Website: www.inlookchina.com


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Caught In The Web

The Great Hypnotist

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DAUGHTER

Dukhtar

Pakistan, USA, Norway | Urdu, Pashto | 2014 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Dukhtar is a drama/thriller set in Pakistan. A mother flees with her ten-year-old daughter to save her from the fate of a
child bride. Their daring escape triggers a relentless hunt. As their pursuers close in on them, mother and daughter meet a cynical
truck driver who offers unlikely hope. Their destinies entwined, the trio embark on an epic journey through the stunning
landscape of Pakistan where the quest for love and freedom comes with a price.

Director: Afia Nathaniel


Producer: Afia Nathaniel
Production Company: Zambeel Films Pvt. Ltd
Screenplay: Afia Nathaniel
DOP: Armughan Hassan
Editor: Armughan Hassan
Music: Sahir Ali Bagga, Peter Nashel

Afia Nathaniel was born in Quetta, Pakistan,


grew up in Lahore, and is now based in
Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Columbia
University's Film Directing program. She
directed the short films Nadah (2003), Toba Tek
Singh (2005) and Long After (2006). Dukhtar is
her debut feature.

Principal Cast: Mohib Mirza, Samiya Mumtaz,


Saleha Aref
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival, 19th
Busan International Film Festival, Sao Paolo
International Film festival

Contact: Dukhtar Productions LLC 77 3rd Place #2, Brooklyn, New York, USA Email: dukhtarthefilm@gmail.com
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A FEW CUBIC METERS OF LOVE


Chand Metre Moka'ab Eshgh

Afghanistan, Iran | Persian | 2014 | 90 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Somewhere in the outskirts of Tehran a small factory illegally employs Afghan asylum seekers, who live with their
families in old containers or modest shacks in nearby shanty towns. Saber, a young Iranian worker, secretly meets Marona,
daughter of Abdolsalam, an Afghan worker. A love story unfolds, the conclusion of which no one can foretell.

Director: Jamshid Mahmoudi


Producer: Navid Mahmoudi
Production Company: Aseman-Parvaz Film
Executive Producers: Isabel Prendes, Danilo Leon,
Joel Ortega and Adriana Moya
Screenplay: Jamshid Mahmoudi
DOP: Morteza Ghafouri
Editor: Sepideh Abdolvahab
Production Design: Abtin Barghi
Costume Design: Abtin Barghi
Principal Cast: Hasiba Ebrahimi, Nader Fallah,
Masoud Mirtaheri, Alireza Ostadi, Saed Soheili
Festival: 19th Busan International Film Festival

Jamshid Mahmoudi was born in 1983 in


Parvan, Afghanistan. When he was hardly oneyear-old his family sought refuge in Pakistan
and then in Iran. He developed his passion for
cinema from a very early age. Having obtained
his high-school diploma he passed the entrance
exam for Tehrans University of Art but
preferred working on projects with his film
producer brother, Navid Mahmoudi. He was assistant director before
directing his first TV film in 2008. In 2012, thanks to Navids support,
he directed his first feature, A Few Cubic Metres of Love, inspired by a
true story that took place in Kabul.

Awards: Won Crystal Simorgh Fajr Film Festival;


First Film Competition - Best Directing
Contact: DreamLab Films 14, chemin des Chichourliers 06110 Le Cannet France Phone/fax: +33(0)4 93 38 75 61 info@dreamlabfilms.com
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FINGER

Ingili

Maldives | Dhivehi | 2013 | 72 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Ingili (Finger) is an experimental psychological-suspense thriller that shows only two characters in one location for
almost the entire duration. On a stormy rainy night a risky bet is made. It is too tantalizing not to accept. It is based on the 2007
National Award winning short story from the under 16 category, Olhaasheege Ekuveriyaa (Friend from the Hut) , written by a
student who was just 14 years then.

Director: Ravee Farooq


Producer: Mahdi Ahmed
Production Company: T for Z.
Scriptwriter: Mahdi Ahmed
DOP: Hussain Munawwaru
Editor: Ravee Farooq
Sound Design: Mahamed Ikram
Production Design: Mahdi Ahmed, Ravee Farooq,
Hussain Munawwaru
Costume Design: Mahdi Ahmed, Ravee Farooq
Music: Mahamed Ikram

Ravee Farooq is a director and editor, known


for movies like Mikoe Bappa Baey Baey
and Indhiraas.

Principal Cast: Ismail Rasheed, Abdulla Muaz


Festival: SAARC Film Festival
Awards: Best Feature Film Bronze Medal; Best
Actor Award SAARC Film Festival
Contact: T for Z, Haiwakaruge 10, Dhanburummagu, Male 20164 Telephone: +9607930794 Email: lotpis@hotmail.com
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THE FORT

Killa

India | Marathi | 2014 | 107 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Coping with the recent death of his father, Chinu, an 11-year- old boy, moves to a small Konkan town from a big city
because of his mother's job transfer. He finds it difficult to adjust to the new place and finds himself alienated and reluctant to open
up to its people. Both Chinu and his mother grapple with their own individual struggles and anxieties in the new town. In the
process, they emerge with newer experiences and as newer people, both healed and enriched.

Director: Avinash Arun


Producers: Madukar R Musle, Ajay G Rai, Alan
McAlex
Production Company: M R Filmworks, JAR
Pictures
Executive Producer: Ranjit Gugle
Screenplay: Tushar Paranjape
DOP: Avinash Arun
Editor: Charu Shree Roy
Music: Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor
Production Design: Prashant Bidkar
Principal Cast: Amruta Subhash, Archit Deodhar,
Parth Bhalerao, Gaurish Gawade, Atharva Upasni

Avinash Arun is a director-cinematographer


from Maharashtra, India. Born in the textile
town of Solapur in 1985 in a middle class
family, he started assisting in FTII Diploma
films at the age of 16. He eventually graduated
in Cinematography from FTII in 2011. In 2010,
his school project "The Light and Her
Shadows" won him the cinematography award
in the Kodak Film School Competition. His diploma film "Allah Is
Great" was the official entry from India for the Student Oscars. It also
won several awards, including the National award in 2012. Avinash has
worked on "Kai Po Che!" (Berlin-Panorama section 2012), Deool
(National Award winner 2011). Killa is his first feature film.

Festival: Berlin Film Festival


Awards: Crystal Bear and Special Mention
(International)- Berlin Film Festival
Contact: Jar Pictures, Telephone: +91 09930119627, Email: info@jarpictures.com
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JALALS STORY
Jalaler Golpo

Bangladesh | Bengali |2014 | 121 minutes | 2014

Synopsis: There is a saying nobody but God can control death, birth and marriage. In Jalals Story, we see three different
landscapes and three different stories but all connected with the same central character named Jalal who floats through the
riverside landscape of Bangladesh. The film explores the question: can humans control the fate of others?

Director: Abu Shahed Emon


Producers: Faridur Reza, Ibne Hasan Khan
Production Company: Impress Telefilm Limited
Screenplay: Abu Shahed Emon
DOP: Md. Barkat Hossain
Editor: Abu Shahed Emon
Sound Design: Ripon Nath
Production Design: Kazi Rakib
Principal Cast: Mosharraf Karim, Moushumi
Hamid, Toukir Ahmed, Shormi Mala, Nur A Alam
Nayon, Mitali Das, Mohammod Emon, Arafat
Rahman, Fazlul Haque, Akter Ahmed
Festival: 19th Busan International Film Festival
Award: Asian Cinema Fund for Post-Production19th Busan International Film Festival

Abu Shahed Emon graduated in Psychology


from the University of Dhaka, he developed
interest in filmmaking due to his active
involvement in the film society movement. He
studied filmmaking in the US and Australia.
He currently studies at the Korean National
University of Arts in South Korea. He is an
alumnus of 2010 AFA and his feature project
the Tale of a Policeman, received Script Development funding from
the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) and participated in the Asian Project
Market (APM) 2011. His short film The Container was also selected
for the Wide-Angle section of BIFF 2012 in the Asian Short Film
Competition. Jalals Story is his debut feature made with the support of
Boutique Cinema Project, an initiative of the Bangladeshi production
house Impress Telefilm.

Contact: Impress Telefilm Limited 40, Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka 1208 Tel: 880 2-8891160 Fax: 880 2-8891166 Email: hasan@channeli.com.bd
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PATTERN OF LOVE
Kushuthara

Bhutan | Dzongkha, English | 2014 | 92 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Kushuthara explores the Buddhist concept of Karma and the possibility of rebirth of two persons in one lifetime to
accomplish what was left unrealized in a previous life. One single thread weaves the story of the past and present lives of two
people. Two people born on the opposite sides of the world, destined to meet, and realize karmic conditions and their
consequences. On the surface, it is a typical boy-meets-girl theme, but only on the surface.

Director: Karma Deki


Producers: Barbara Adler, Karma Deki, Richard M.
Lutz
Production Company: Dream It Productions
Writer: Karma Deki
DOP: Rinzang
Editor: Edda Urup
Music: Tandin Dorji
Principal Cast: Emrhys Cooper, Jamyang Jamtsho
Wangchuk, Gyem Dorji, Karma Chedon, Am
Lhamo

Karma Deki is one of the leading directors in


the Kingdom of Bhutan. She has previously
directed three feature films, including Dangphu
(2006). She has also made Four Friends (2010),
a short film on the consequences of domestic
violence, Birds in Cages (2011) and a television
series for the Bhutan Broadcasting Service on
youth. She worked as producer, editor and
scriptwriter for film and television. In addition, Karma Deki is a wellknown actress, as well as performing member of a traditional dance
group that participates in cultural events in Bhutan and other parts of
Asia.

Contact: Karma Deki Telephone: +97517121314 Email: kushuthara@gmail.com


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REFUSING HEAVEN

Jhola

Nepal | Nepali | 2014 | 78 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Jhola tells the tale of a little boy called Ghanashyam from a village in Nepal. Ghanashyams mother, Kanchhi, is the
second wife to a sick old man who is more than 40 years her senior, and is on the verge of death. When the inevitable happens, and
the old man dies, Kanchhi is directed to sacrifice herself on his pyre, an effort to wash away her own and her husbands sins.
Jhola is a social drama that comments on the changes sweeping through Nepali society, especially among women.

Director: Yadav Kumar Bhattarai


Producers: Raj Kumar Timilsina, Ram Gopal
Thapa, Sushil Shah
Production Company: Media for Culture Pvt. Ltd.
Executive Producer: Malati Shah
Screenplay: Deepak Alok
DOP: Deepak Bajracharya
Editor: Nimesh Shrestha
Music: Jason Kunwar

Yadav Kumar Bhattarai (b. 1973) has been


active in Nepali cinema and television for
nearly two decades. He did his Masters in
Mass Communication from Polygon College,
Purbanchal University of Nepal. Jhola, his first
feature, stems from a concept that he has been
working on for nearly six years.

Principal Cast: Garima Pant, Deepak Chhetri, Sujal


Nepal, Desh Bhakta Khanal Laxmi Gir, Pralhad
Kumar Khatiwada
Festival: SAARC Film Festival
Award: Best Actress - SAARC Film Festival

Contact: Yadav Kumar Bhattarai, Telephone: +977 98510 60033, Email: jholanepalifilm@gmail.com
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THE SINGING POND

Ho Gaanaa Pokuna

Sri Lanka | Sinhalese | 2014 | 119 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: One day, a new teacher, Uma, arrives at a primary school in a remote village in Sri Lanka. There are 18 students in the
school with only the principal and Uma herself as teachers. With Umas help, her little pupils gradually learn not to be afraid of
dreaming big. One beautiful morning, little Upuli, who is blind by birth, shares her unseen dream with her friends Ukkun, Sukiri
and others. It gradually becomes the unseen dream, not only in the eyes of the little ones, but also in the eyes of the entire village.
The perils that the children and Uma encounter in their venture to realize this dream as well as their determination to triumph, is
poignantly portrayed through the innocence of childhood and the harsh reality of village life. Little ripples can become a big
wave; so similarly, can a little dream change your life?
Director: Indika Ferdinando
Production Company: Next Frame Studio
Executive Producer: Ananda Liyanaarachchi
Screenplay: Indika Ferdinando
DOP: Channa Deshapriya
Editor: Thissa Surendra
Sound Design: Sasika Ruwan Marasinghe
Production Design: Manjula Ayagama
Principal Cast: Lucien Bulathsinhala, Jayalath
Manoratne, Anasuya Subasinghe, Dayadewa
Edirisinghe, Jayani Senanayake, Hyacinth Wijeratne
Festivals: Shanghai International Film Festival;
Chicago International Film Festival

Indika Ferdinando has been actively engaged


in theatre from a very young age. In 2002, he
graduated with a first class honours degree in
drama and theatre from the University of
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, where several years later,
he read his M.Phil research in socioanthropological and dramaturgical studies on
methods of exorcism in Sinhalese rituals. He is
currently engaged in PhD research at Monash University, Australia,
focusing on adapting the holistic sensoriality produced by Sinhalese
ritual practice to transcend the conventional audio-visual theatre
experience. The Singing Pond is his debut feature film.

Contact: Next Frame Studio223/1/C Nathuduwa, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Email: contact@singingpond-movie.com
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THREE COLOURS: WHITE (BLANC)1993, France

-Archives of Film Museum in Lodz

IN WORLD POSTERS

KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI'S FILMS

Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski in world film posters exhibition is a


poster tribute highlighting the rich trajectory of films of the
acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Curated by the
Film Museum in Lodz (Muzeum Kinematografii w odzi), the
exhibition consists of 45 film posters featuring some of
Kieslowski's most critically lauded films, made in the years
between 1976 and 1994.
Posters designed by such renowned artists as Andrzej Pagowski,
Jakub Erol, and Andrzej Krauze are a major highlight of the
selection, which are a combination of both graphic and
photographic poster styles, and also include Andrzej Pagowski's
poster for the 1979 drama Camera Buff which was awarded by
the magazine, The Hollywood Reporter.
The exhibition presents posters designed in various languages
apart from English, including those in Polish, Spanish, Italian,
Korean, Dutch, Czech, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian.
The exhibition was previously presented in Dsseldorf, Leipzig,
Trondheim, Bari, Budapest, Singapore, Jerusalem, Haifa, Cceres,
Corinth, Paris, and Stuttgart.
The exhibition is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute in
Warsaw and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of
Poland.
The exhibition has been brought to India by the Polish Institute,
New Delhi, which is the cultural branch of the Polish diplomatic
mission to India. It coincides with a Krzysztof Kieslowski
retrospective taking place at the International Film Festival of
India, Goa to mark the 25th anniversary of the premiere of
Kieslowski's cult-classic series The Decalogue. Episodes of the
series will also be screened at the annual Polish Kinoteka Film
Festival held by the Polish Institute in New Delhi and Mumbai.
Kieslowski's Retrospective and Exhibition have been organized in
partnership with the Polish Institute, New Delhi.

POLISH INSTITUTE
www.facebook.com/polishinstitutenewdelhi

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DECALOGUE (1988) (MESTERVAERKET DEKALOG 10 FILM), 1988, Denmark


001 | SOUL OF ASIA

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KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI'S FILMS IN WORLD POSTERS

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE, design: Andrzej Pagowski, 1991, Poland

-Archives of Film Museum in Lodz


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THREE COLOURS, 1994, Japan


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-Archives of Film Museum in Lodz

KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI'S FILMS IN WORLD POSTERS

Camera Buff- An Amateur (AZ AMATOR), design: Andrzej Pagowski, 1979, Hungary

-Archives of Film Museum in Lodz


002

Retrospective
Krzysztof Kieslowski

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RETROSPECTIVE

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland

Archives of Film Museum in Lodz

Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-1996) indisputably ranks among the world's most influential film directors. He passed
away 18 years ago at the age of 54, leaving behind a small but impressive body of work that has never ceased to
generate excitement since.
It took Kieslowski three attempts to make it to the prestigious Lodz Film School, which also produced two other
Polish greats Andrzej Wajda and Roman Polanski.
He graduated from the school in 1968 after a four-year stint and quickly established himself in the forefront of his
country's cinema.
He started out with documentary films that brought him into conflict with political authorities of the day. He switched
to fictional features in 1975 with Personel, made for television. The film fetched him a prize at the Mannheim Film
Festival.
Kieslowski's cinema of moral anxiety, a movement that included the works of Wajda and Agnieszka Holland,
among others, marked him out as a director endowed with deep humanism and a piercing insight into and empathy for
the travails of common people negotiating systemic oppression.
Camera Buff (1979), Blind Chance (1981), No End (1984) and The Double Life of Veronique (1990) were among the
feature films he made in a career that he himself rung the curtains down on when he was only in his early 50s.
Kieslowski's worldwide fame rests on Decalog, a series of ten made-for-television films loosely inspired by the Ten
Commandments, and the Three Colours series, a trilogy that explore the three founding principles of France liberty,
equality and fraternity.

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DECALOGUE 1- I Am the Lord Thy God

Dekalog, Jeden

Poland | Polish | 1989 | 55 minutes | Colour

Telewizja Polska S.A

Synopsis: "I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have no other God but me."Ten-year-old Pawel and his father Krzysztof run their
lives on their beloved home computer, while Pawel's aunt worries that his spiritual education is being neglected. But Pawel is too
busy enjoying life, not the least thanks to his father's Christmas present of a pair of ice skates, because the computer has calculated
that the frozen lake is safe to skate across...

Production Company: Sender Freies Berlin (SFB),


Telewizja Polska (TVP), Zespol Filmowy "Tor"
Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Wieslaw Zdort
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Ewa Smal
Production Designer: Halina Dobrowolska
Costume Design: Hanna Cwiklo, Malgorzata
Obloza
Principal Cast: Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech
Klata, Maja Komorowska, Artur Barcis, Ewa Kania,
Ewa Jezierska

Contact: Telewizja Polska S.A, ul J.P Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw, Poland, Telephone: +48 22 547 6763
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DECALOGUE 2 - DWA

Dekalog, DWA

Poland | Polish | 1989 | 55 minutes | Colour

Telewizja Polska S.A

Synopsis: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain". An elderly doctor is approached by a woman with a
complicated request. Her husband is gravely ill and may die, and she is pregnant by someone else. If her husband dies, she wants
to keep the child, but not otherwise, and she wants the doctor to give him an honest verdict on his chances. But the doctor is
disturbed by her request, because his answer will directly affect the life or death of another human being. Is he entitled to play
God?

Production Company: Polish TV, Sender Freies


Berlin (SFB), Zespol Filmowy "Tor"
Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Wieslaw Zdort, Edward
Klosinski
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Ewa Smal
Production Designer: Halina Dobrowolska
Costume Design: Hanna Cwiklo, Malgorzata
Obloza
Principal Cast: Krystyna Janda, Aleksander
Bardini, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Artur Barcis,
Krystyna Bigelmajer

Contact: Telewizja Polska S.A, ul J.P Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw, Poland, Telephone: +48 22 547 6763
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DECALOGUE 3 - TRZY
Dekalog, Trzy

Poland | Polish | 1990 | 56 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." Janusz is a taxi driver. It's Christmas eve, and he honours the (Polish)
traditions for this (holy) day: he gives presents to the members of his family and attends Midnight Mass. Later, Ewa, a woman
who he had betrayed his wife with three years earlier, asks him to help her. Her husband is missing, and she asks him to help her
search for him. Should Janusz stay home to keep the day holy? This episode seems to be both about the third commandment and
about some of the other commandments, for example "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Thou shalt not lie".

Production Company: Polish TV, Sender Freies


Berlin (SFB), Zespol Filmowy "Tor"
Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Piotr Sobocinski
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Ewa Smal
Production Designer: Halina Dobrowolska
Principal Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis,
Joanna Szczepkowska, Artur Barcis, Krystyna
Drochocka

Telewizja Polska S.A

Contact: Telewizja Polska S.A, ul J.P Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw, Poland, Telephone: +48 22 547 6763
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DECALOGUE 4 - Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother


Poland | Polish | 1990 | 55 minutes | Colour

Telewizja Polska S.A

Synopsis: "Honour thy father and thy mother". Young Anka and her father have lived together since her mother's death, and have
always been more like close friends than father and daughter. One day, Anka discovers a letter from her mother whose contents
make her question her whole relationship with her father... if that's indeed who he is.

Production Company: Poltel (CWPiFTV), Sender


Freies Berlin (SFB), Telewizja Polska (TVP)
Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Piotr Sobocinski
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Ewa Smal
Production Designer: Halina Dobrowolska
Principal Cast: Adrianna Biedrzynska, Janusz
Gajos, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Artur Barcis, Jan
Tesarz

Contact: Telewizja Polska S.A, ul J.P Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw, Poland, Telephone: +48 22 547 6763
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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE


La double vie de Vronique

France, Poland, Norway | French, Polish, Italian | 1991 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Weronika lives in Poland. Vronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Weronika gets a place in a music
school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Vronique's life seems to take a turn and she
decides not to be a singer...

Production Company: Sidral Productions, Zespol


Filmowy "Tor"
Producer: Leonardo De La Fuente
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Jacques Witta
Production Designer: Patrice Mercier
Principal Cast: Irne Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska,
Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini, Wladyslaw
Kowalski
Festivals: Cannes, Warsaw
Awards: Ecumenical Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize,
Best Actress in Cannes, Audience Award at Warsaw
Film Festival
Contact: MK2 Sales, 55 rue Traversiere, 75012 Paris, France. Telephone: +33 1 4467 3256
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A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

Krtki film o zabijaniu

Poland | Polish | 1988 | 84 minutes | Colour

MK2

Synopsis: The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a
senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, calculated, flawlessly performed execution (both killings shown
in the most graphic detail imaginable), while the murderer's idealistic young defence lawyer ends up as an unwilling accessory to
the judicial murder of his client.

Production Company: Zespol Filmowy "Tor"


Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Ewa Smal
Production Designer: Halina Dobrowolska
Costume Design: Hanna Cwiklo, Malgorzata
Obloza
Principal Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz,
Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Barbara Dziekan
Festival: Cannes Film Festival
Awards: Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes
Film Festival
Contact: MK2 Sales, 55 rue Traversiere, 75012 Paris, France. Telephone: +33 1 4467 3256
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THREE COLOURS: BLUE

Trois couleurs: Bleu

France, Poland, Switzerland | French | 1993 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. 'Blue' is the story of
Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is
manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, free of personal commitments, belongings, grief or love. She intends to numb
herself by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian
metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality
created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie
and draws her back to the land of the living.
Production Company: MK2 Productions, CED
Productions
Producer: Marin Karmitz
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Piesiewicz
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: Jacques Witta
Production Designer: Claude Lenoir
Principal Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benot Rgent,
Florence Pernel, ACharlotte Vry, Hlne Vincent
Festivals: Venice Film Festival, Warsaw Film
Festival
Awards: Golden Ciak Award, Golden Lion Award,
Golden Osella Award, Little Golden Lion Award,
OCIC Award Pasinetti Award at Venice Film Festival
Contact: MK2 Sales, 55 rue Traversiere, 75012 Paris, France. Telephone: +33 1 4467 3256
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THREE COLOURS: BLUE (NIEBIESKI), 1993, design Andrzej Pagowski, Poland

-Archives of Film Museum in Lodz


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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran

Mohsen Makhmalbaf was born in 1957 in southern Tehran. While still an adolescent, he dropped out of school
and joined the clandestine fight against the Shah's regime. He was arrested when only 17, and was serving a fiveyear sentence when the 1979 Revolution brought an Islamic regime to power.
The revolution that freed him from prison also unleashed his creative energies. He turned to writing novels and
stage plays, and in 1982 made his first film, Nasouh Repentance. This was the first in a trilogy that provided
Makhmalbaf with his basic film training.
The Peddler (1987) brought Makhmalbaf international attention. The Cyclist (1989) and Marriage of the Blessed
(1990) consolidated his reputation. Makhmalbaf became a controversial figure when the two films he made in
1991, A Time of Love and The Nights of the Zayandeh-Rood, were banned for dealing with physical love and
raising doubts about the revolution.
His penetrating explorations of social realities were also seen in the disturbingly self-reflexive Salam Cinema
(1994) - the cinema verite-style account of an audition that turns into a meditation on the corruption of power.
In 1998, he went to Tajikistan to make The Silence, about a 10-year-old blind boy supporting himself and his
mother by tuning stringed instruments.
In 2001, he released Kandahar, which captured the attention of the world after September 11 terrorist attack on
World Trade Center in New York.

Contact: www.makhmalbaf.com
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DADDY'S SCHOOL

Baba Film Darad

Documentary | UK | English | 2014 | 72 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: It is a story of a unique family in the world. A documentary on how a former political imprisoned revolutionary in a
closed religious society like Iran, turned his house into an open Film School and paved the way for members of his family to
become world class filmmakers and top international award winners at major festivals, including Cannes, Venice , Berlin, San
Sebastian and Locarno.

Director: Hassan Solhjoo


Producer: Hassan Solhjoo
Production Company: Makhmalbaf Film House
Executive Producers: Lara Petrossians, Jane Taylor
DOP: Carlos Homer, David Murphy, David
Wilkins, James Anderson
Editor: Ali Farahani, Kasra Karimi
Production Design: Bahram Farhadtooski
Featuring: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Marziyeh
Meshkiny, Samira Makhmalbaf, Maysam
Makhmalbaf, Hana Makhmalbaf

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Hassan Solhjoo, is a senior producer in BBC


world Service. He is the editor and presenter of
a film showcase in BBC Persian TV. He studied
cinema in Iran and UK and so far he has made
more than 10 films, mainly documentaries in
and out of Iran. Some of these films have
brought him awards from national and
international film festivals.

RETROSPECTIVE

THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN

Rouzi Ke Zan Shodam

Iran | Farsi | 2000 | 78 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Scripted and produced by Makhmalbaf and directed by his wife, the film is set on the island of Kish . It tells three
unrelated stories that eventually coalesce thematically if not in strictly narrative terms. Screenwriter Makhmalbaf reworks ideas
from some of his early films like The Peddler and The Cyclist. The film depicts women in three different stages of life in Iran: little
nine-year-old girl, married woman, old infirm lady.

Director: Marziyeh Meshkini


Production Company: Makhmalbaf Film House
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Mohammad Ahmadi
Editors: Shahrzad Poya, Maysam Makhmalbaf
Sound Design: Behrouz Shahamat
Production Design: Akbar Meshkini
Principal Cast: Fatemeh Cheragh Akhar, Shabnam
Toloui, Azizeh Sedighi
Festivals: Cannes Critics Week; Toronto
International Film Festival

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KANDAHAR

Safar-e-Ghandehar

Iran | Farsi, English | 2001 | 85 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: An Afghan-born Canadian journalist crosses into Afghanistan from Iran in order to reach Kandahar and prevent her
sister from committing suicide. This offering from Mohsen Makhmalbaf was made to bring attention to the living conditions and
the plight of women in Taliban-era Afghanistan, at a time when the world was not paying much attention to this oppressive
regime.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Production Company: BAC films, Makhmalbaf
Productions
Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Ebrahim Ghafori
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Production Design: Akbar Meshkini
Principal Cast: Ike Ogut, Nelofer Pazira, Hasan
Tantai, Sadou Teymouri, Hoyatala Hakimi

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A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE

Nun-O-Goldoon

Iran | Farsi | 1996 | 78 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience in the 1970s, the last days of the Shah
regime. As a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and was jailed for the act. Two decades later, he decides to track
down the policeman and seek to make amends. Instead of making a documentary about the incident, he chose to script a story
revolving around his planning a film about it and hiring actors for the different roles.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producer: Abolfazl Alagheband
Production Company: MK2 Productions,
Pakhshiran
Executive Producer: Mohamed Azin
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Mahmoud Kalari
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Principal Cast: Mirhadi Tayyebi, Ali Bakshi,
Ammar Tafti, Maryam Mohammad-Amini
Moharram Zeinalzadeh
Festivals: Locarno; Montreal; Toronto International
Film Festival; IFFI
Awards: Special Jury Award - Youth Golden Award
at Locarno Film Festival

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SALAAM CINEMA
Iran | Farsi | 1995 | 85 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: This film, made to mark the centenary of cinema, follows Makhmalbaf planning to make the film. He places an
advertisement in a newspaper in order to hire 100 actors. He has prepared 1000 application forms, but 5000 people show up. The
result is a riot in which the applicants are trampled on and wounded. Makhmalbaf auditions dozens of men and women in front of
the camera; their statements, which are by turns funny and touching, reveal the reality of life in Iran. More than anything else,
Salam Cinema highlights the significance of cinema in a country like Iran.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producer: Abbas Randjbar
Production Company: Amoon, Green Film House
Executive Producer: A. Lavasani
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Mahmoud Kalari
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Sound Design: Nezameddin Kiaee
Principal Cast: Azadeh Zangeneh, Maryam
Kaihan, Feizollah Gheshlaghi, Hamid Gheshlaghi,
Shaghayegh Jowdat, Nader Fazli
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival; Locarno Film
Festival; Montreal International Film Festival;
Toronto International Film Festival

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SEX & PHILOSOPHY

Sex-O-Falsafe

Iran,Tajikistan | Farsi | 2005 | 102 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A 40-year-old man who has celebrated his birthday alone invites his four lovers to a dance class that he teaches in order
to search for the roots of his own loneliness and by reminiscing about how each of his love affairs evolved and were diminished.
He realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented the farther it has moved away from love.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Production Company: Makhmalbaf Film House,
Wild Bunch
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Ebrahim Ghafouri
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Sound Design: Farrokh Fadaei
Production Design: Akbar Meshkini
Principal Cast: Daler Nazarov, Mariam Gaibova,
Farzona Beknazarova, Tahmineh Ebrahimova,
Malohat Abdulloeva
Festival: Montreal International Film Festival

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THE SILENCE
Sokhout

Iran | Farsi |1998 |77 minutes |Colour

Synopsis: Khorshid, a blind 10-year-old boy, lives alone with his mother in a little town of Tajikistan. Thanks to his very sharp
hearing, he works as a tuner of traditional music instruments. His father has gone to Russia, his mother lives off fishing. He takes
the bus everyday to go to work, but sometimes, on the way, a conversation or a melody attracts his attention and he gets lost
searching for the sounds. Meanwhile his boss and his young colleague, Nadereh, become impatient. Despite being warned by his
boss, Khorshid continues to listen to the sounds of the city.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producer: Marin Karmitz
Production Company: Makhbalbaf Film House
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhbalbaf
DOP: Ebrahim Ghafouri
Editor: Mohsen Makhbalbaf
Sound Design: Poehrouz Shahamat
Production Design: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Principal Cast: Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh
Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva, Araz M.
Shirmohamadi
Festival: Venice Film Festival

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TIME OF LOVE

Noubate Ashegi

Iran | Turkish, Farsi | 1991 | 70 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Shot in Istanbul, the film has three narratives of a largely similar nature. The first one is about a young woman, Gozal,
who is married to a black-haired taxi driver but has an affair with a blond shoeshine boy. In the second story, the woman is married
to a blond man and has an affair with a black-haired man. In the third, Gozal and the black-haired man are husband and wife again.
Common to the three stories is an old man.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf


Producer: Abbas Randjbar
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Mahmoud Kalari
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Sound Design: Jahangir Mirshekari
Production Design: Mohammad Nasrollahi
Principal Cast: Shiva Gerede, Abdolrahman Palay,
Manderes Samanjilar, Aken Tunj, Jalal
Khosrowshahi
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival; Toronto
International Film Festival; Montreal International
Film Festival;

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Jeon Soo-il

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Jeon Soo-il, South Korea

JEON Soo-il, director, screenwriter and editor, was born in 1959. Educated in his hometown Busan and trained as a
filmmaker in Paris, he devotes himself to independent filmmaking, primarily in the city of Busan, while the
mainstream of Korea's movie industry operates out of Seoul. Celebrated for his high-minded approach to his themes
and fluid visuals, Jeon has a worldwide following.
His style is marked by a highly personal vision that explores the connection between identity and geography, art and
individuality. He is frequently invited to major international film festivals. Starting with his feature debut film, Wind
Echoing in My Being (1997), which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, all of Jeon's films have toured major
international film festivals. Several of his films were received with enthusiasm abroad even before they were released
in Korea. Perhaps due to his experience of studying filmmaking in Paris, he is one of Korea's most popular directors in
France.
Among the films in this IFFI retrospective are two of Jeon's best-travelled cinematic works, I Came from Busan
(2010), which depicts the wandering of a young girl with an unwanted pregnancy, and Pink (2011), the story of two
women guarding a tavern at a declining port. Also in this package is 2012's El Condor Pasa, an intricately crafted tale
of a priest and a young woman's coming to terms with the brutal murder of a young girl.

Contact: Dongnyuk Film, jeonsooil@gmail.com


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THE BIRD WHO STOPS IN THE AIR

Saenen Pyegoksunel Kelinda

South Korea | Korean | 2000 | 106 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Kim serves as a professor of media studies at a rural college, away from his family. Having kept the memories of birds
from his childhood, he intends to make a film based on the images of birds that appear in his dreams. In his position as educator,
Kim finds himself torn between the artistic ideals of films and the realities of life which his students must encounter daily. It is in
this setting that he struggles to discover the nature of his identity.

Production Company: Dongnyuk Film


Producer: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim dae-sun
Editor: Park Gok-ji
Sound Design: Park hyuk-gon
Production Design: Lee Jeong-ae
Principal Cast: Seol Kyung-gu , Kim So-hee
Festivals: Venice International Film Festival,
Moscow International Film Festival
Award: NETPAC Award, Busan International Film
Festival

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EL CONDOR PASA

Condoren Nalaganda

South Korea | Korean | 2013 | 100 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A middle school girl is murdered on the way back home from church. Catholic priest Park feels guilty for the incident
and visits her sister Soo-hyun to give his condolence. Sharing the same sadness and grief, both slowly feel for each other until they
enter into an unavoidable relationship. After spending several nights together, priest Park falls into the deepest agony. Having
realized the nothingness of love, he leaves for Peru to find his best friend, also a priest, and confess his sin.

Production Company: Dongnyuk Film


Producer: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Editor: Jeon Soo-il
Sound Design: Lee Sung-chul
Production Design: Hwong Kyung-ho
Principal Cast: Cho Jae-hyun, Bae Jeong-hwa
Festivals: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,
Busan International Film Festival

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HIMALAYA,
WHERE THE WIND DWELLS
Himalayaeui sonyowa
South Korea | Korean | 2008 | 95 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Kim, 45, is a vice-chief manager of Gori atomic station. He lives with his wife in the US for the sake of their children's
education. He gets to know of the death of Dorgy, a Nepali worker. He leaves for Nepal to take Dorgy's ashes to his family. Kim
arrives in Kathmandu and he begins a trip to Jharkort, Dorgy's hometown...

Production Company: Dongnyuk Film


Producer: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Editor: Jeon Soo-il
Sound Design: Kim Sin-yong
Production Design: Cho Youn-ah
Principal Cast: Choi Min-sik, Tsering Kipale
Gurung
Festivals: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,
Warsaw International Film Festival

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I CAME FROM BUSAN

Yongdodari

South Korea | Korean | 2009 | 83 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: 18-year-old In-hwa is pregnant. She goes into labour and passes out on the Yeong-do bridge. She painfully gives birth
and signs a form that will put her baby on adoption. When she is discharged from the hospital, she tries to get back to her ordinary
life as if nothing has happened. Over time she notices the changes in her body and the scars left from the surgery remind her of the
baby. When she hears news about a diver who discovered a baby shoe while out fishing in the ocean, she compares it to the shoe of
her own child in the photograph that her friend Sang-mi took with her cell phone. She senses something wrong and seeks her baby
out

Production Company: Dongnyuk Film


Producer: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Editor: Jeon Soo-il
Sound Design: Lee Sung-chul
Production Design: Lee Young-hun
Principal Cast: Park Ha-sun, Kim Jung-tae
Festival: San Sebastian Film Festival

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MY RIGHT TO RAVAGE MYSELF

Nanunnarul Pakoehal Kwonliga Yikda

South Korea | Korean | 2005 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: There are but two ways to get close to God: to write or to help people die. S has combined these two activities into the
pillars of his life. He is a "suicide designer writer" helping people who request his service to stage their disappearance, on the
condition that he deems them ready. For example, the video artist Mara, who cuts her wrists during a public performance, or Seyyeon, a desperate barmaid. This is a magnificent screen adaptation of Young-ha Kim's novel.

Director: Jeon Soo-il


Production Company: Dongnyuk Film
Producer: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Editor: Seo Yong-duk
Sound Design: Lee Sung-chul
Production Design: Choi Na-ni
Principal Cast: Jung Bo-suk, Soo-ah,
Choo Sang-mi
Festival: Busan International Film Festival

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PINK
South Korea | Korean | 2012 | 97 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: This intense psychological drama opens at a rainy dawn. Su-jin, a young woman tormented by memories of the past,
gets off a train and heads towards a bar named 'Pink' near a pier and starts working there. 'Pink' has been Ok-ryeon and her son
Sang-guk's home for over ten years. The fates of the two women are intertwined

Production Company: Dongnyuk Film


Producer: Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Editor: Jeon Soo-il
Sound Design: Lee Sung-chul
Production Design: Kim Yeong-woo
Principal Cast: Ceo Gap-sook, Lee Seong-yeon
Festivals: Busan International Film Festival,
International Film Festival of India

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TIME BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF

Gae oi neckdae sa yiyi chigan

South Korea | Korean | 2005 | 110 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: There is a moment after sunset when it is so dark that one cannot tell whether the animal in front of one's eyes is a dog or
a wolf. In French, this moment is called the "time between dog and wolf" (entre chien et loup). It is an anxious time when the
distinction between reality and illusion becomes vague, a time that arouses questions about life. A filmmaker returns to his
hometown after a 25-year absence. There he meets a woman who has been looking for her lost sibling for a long time. As they
explore the town together, the filmmaker faces his losses and comes to understand what he was in the process of losing in the
future.

Director: Jeon Soo-il


Screenplay: Jeon Soo-il
Cinematographer: Seong-wook Jeong
Editor: Dong-wook Lee
Music: Soo-jung Kae
Production Design: Seung-ryeol Seon
Principal Cast: Kim Sung-Jai, Ahn Kil-Kang, Kim
Kwi-Seon

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WITH A GIRL OF BLACK SOIL

Geomeun Ttangui Sonyeowa

South Korea | Korean | 2007 | 89 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: In the village of Kanwon where a few mines remain, a nine-year-old girl Young-lim lives with her brother (age 11) and
her father (age 45) who lost his job at the mine because of black lung disease. Her father tries to search for another job, but it is
very difficult for him. He is disappointed and he won't stop drinking. He wants to enter the hospital. For entering the hospital, he
has to have another disease beside black lung disease. Young-lim thinks that her father can enter the hospital if he will drink a little
rat poison. She tries to put in a little rat poison in her father's soup

Director: Jeon Soo-il


Producer: Jo In-sook
Cinematographer: Kim Sung-tai
Principal Cast: Yoo Yeon-mi, Jo Young-jin, Park
Hyun-woo, Kang Soo-yeon
Festivals: Venice; Karlovy Vary; Pusan
International Film Festival
Awards: Netpac Award at Pusan; C.I.C.A.E, Lina
Mangia Kapre Award at Venice Film Festival

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RESTORED CLASSICS

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)


Charlie Chaplin is indisputably the greatest
cinema legend the world has ever known. As
an actor who combined comedy and
poignancy like no one else before or since,
his work has defined the potential of filmed
entertainment for all times, and for the whole
world.
A Woman of Paris (1923)
Limelight (1952)

Francois Truffaut (1932-1984)


Francois Truffaut, a timeless cinema icon,
spearheaded one of the world's most
influential film movements, the French
nouvelle vague, first as a critic, and then as a
director. His vision continues to illuminate
the way for many filmmakers around the
world to this day, 30 years after his death.
The Last Metro (1980)
The Wild Child (1969)

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A WOMAN OF PARIS
USA | English (Silent Film) | 1923 | 81 minutes | Black & White

Synopsis: Chaplins final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedians effort to help a despondent ballet
dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplins only real
artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.

Director: Charlie Chaplin


Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Production Company: Charlie Chaplin
Productions, Regent
Writer: Charlie Chaplin
DOP: Roland Totheroh
Music: Charlie Chaplin
Production Design: Arthur Stibolt
Principal Cast: Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart,
Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French

Contact: MK2 55, rue Traversiere 75012 Paris Telephone: +33144673030 Email: intlsales@mk2.com Website: www.mk2pro.com/en/international-sales/
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LIMELIGHT
USA | English | 1952 | 138 minutes | Black & White

Synopsis: Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fianc Jean when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She
goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bounces
back and forth between apparent security and true love. Also misinterpreting, Jean commits suicide.

Director: Charlie Chaplin


Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Production Company: Celebrated Productions
Writer: Charlie Chaplin
DOP: Karl Struss
Editor: Joe Inge
Music: Charlie Chaplin
Production Design: Eugene Lourie
Principal Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom,
Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin,
Norman Llyod

Contact: MK2 55, rue Traversiere 75012 Paris Telephone: +33144673030 Email: intlsales@mk2.com Website: www.mk2pro.com/en/international-sales/
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THE LAST METRO

Le Dernier Metro

France | French | 1980 | 131 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A story of love and adventure, set in 1942 in Paris, in the theatre world during the German Occupation just as the
French zone is about to be invaded. Lucas Steiner, a German Jew who took refuge in Paris at the start of Nazism, has had to go into
exile once more, leaving his wife Marion to run the prestigious Theatre Montmartre. Marion struggles to keep the theatre afloat.

Director: Francois Truffaut


Producer: Francois Truffaut
Production Company: Les Films du Carrosse
Screenplay: Francois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman,
Jean Claude Grumberg
DOP: Nestor Almendros
Editors: Martine Barraque, Marie-Aimee Debril,
Jean-Francois Gire
Sound Design: Michael Laurent
Production Design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
Principal Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Poiret,
Gerard Depardieu, Andrea Ferreol, Sabine
Haudepin, Maurice Risch, Paulette Dubost
Awards: Cesar Awards 1981 Best Film, Best
Director, Best Actor, Best Actress
Contact: MK2 55, rue Travesiere 75012 PARIS Telephone: +33144673030 Email: intlsales@mk2.com Website: www.mk2pro.com
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THE WILD CHILD

Lenfant Sauvage

France | French | 1969 | 90 minutes | Black & White

Synopsis: The film begins in 1798 with the capture of the young savage. We then observe his revolts, his attempts to escape, his
unhappy stay at the Institute of Deaf Mutes in Paris, and in particular, his encounter with Dr. Jean Itard who takes charge of him,
brings him home, gives him the name Victor, and tries to transform this extraordinary little boy into a young man with great
expectations.

Director: Francois Truffaut


Producer: Francois Truffaut
Production Company: Les Films du Carrosse
Screenplay: Francois Truffaut, Yean Gruault
DOP: Nestor Almendros
Editor: Agnes Guillemot
Music: Antonio Vivaloi
Sound Design: Rene Levert
Production Design: Jean Mandaroux
Principal Cast: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois
Truffaut, Francoise Seigner, Paul Ville, Jean Daste
Festival: Valladolid International Film Festival
1980
Award: Golden Spike at Valladolid International
Film Festival 1980
Contact: MK2 55, rue Travesiere 75012 PARIS Telephone: +33144673030 Email: intlsales@mk2.com Website: www.mk2pro.com
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On these screens, you will view films that explore


new possibilities and share insights into the world
around us; films that are constant, universal
reminders of the beauty and fragility of being human.
SOUL OF ASIA is a platform that gives a voice to
filmmakers whose works celebrate inner action,
rather than outer action. Their consciousness touches
the soul of mankind, contributing to the creation of a
new humanism on the global horizon.

SOUL OF ASIA

IFFI is pleased to present SOUL OF ASIA: Cinema &


Mysticism, in its third avatar. In this popular section,
we bring you films that touch the soul of mankind. At
this, the 45th edition of IFFI, we once again handpick
from among the most enriching, uplifting and
inspiring films made on themes of Asian philosophies
and philosophers.

We welcome you to enjoy these films which awaken


the human spirit and connect us to the one Source,
and so to each other.
Meera Dewan

True Gods: Words with Gods, Warwick Thornton

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GABBEH
Iran | Farsi | 1996 | 75 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: A Gabbeh is a Persian carpet traditionally knotted from hand spun yarn by the nomadic Ghashghai tribe of southern
Iran, comparable to the folk art of quilt making. The film opens with an elderly husband and wife who travel to a nearby stream to
wash their gabbeh, while interpreting the meaning behind the figures sewn upon it. The rug depicts a beautiful young woman in
blue and a man in red, together on a white horse. Suddenly, magically, this very woman appears before them, coming to life from
the tapestry. She has woven the carpet and is the spirit of the carpet. Her story comes threadbare before their eyes. Her name too is
Gabbeh, and the blue dress she wears is identical to the one worn by the real life elderly wife. The film reveals her story - her
family, her uncle who is hoping to find a bride, and most importantly her longing for a young man she hopes to marry.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Producer: Khalil Daroudchi
Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DOP: Mahmoud Kalari
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Music: Hossein Alizadeh
Principal Cast: Abbas Sayah, Shaghayeh Djodat,
Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival; Catalonian
International Film Festival

Writer-Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an


inventive fabulist, using colour, fantasy, reality,
and spirituality to convey the mysteries of love,
family, ritual, and creativity. He is one of Iran's
foremost filmmakers and his global reputation
hinges on such acclaimed masterworks as The
Peddler, The Cyclist, Salam Cinema and
Kandahar. The visual flair on show in Gabbeh
bears testimony to Makhmalbaf's unique
narrative and cinematic style.

Award: Best Director- Catalonian International


Film Festival
"The film show us the sweep of a life and the long, slow seasons of a heart.
Movies such as this work like meditation or music, to nudge us toward the
important."
Roger Ebert
Contact: www.makhmalbaf.com
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SILENT SOULS

The Buntings
Russia | Russian | 2010 | 75 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: "Silent Souls" is the road movie as metaphysical memory and meditation. This profound and immensely touching film
is narrated by a mill worker, Aist (Igor Sergeev). When his friend and co-worker Miron's(Yuriy Tsurilo) beloved wife Tanya
passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture, an ancient
Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero. The two men set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless land, with them,
two small birds in a cage. Along the way, as is custom for the Merjans, Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life. But as
they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realizes he wasn't the only one in love with
Tanya...
Director: Aleksei Fedorchenko
Producers: Igor Mishin, Mary Nazari
Production Company: April Mig Pictures Films
Company
Screenplay: Denis Osokin
DOP: Mikhail Krichman
Editor: Sergei Ivanov
Sound Design: Kirill Vasilenko
Production Design: Aleskei Potapov
Principal Cast: Igor Sergeyev, Yuri Tsurilo, Yuliya
Aug, Ivan Tushin
Festival: Toronto International film Festival

Aleksei Fedorchenko was born in 1966 in SolIletsk, in the Orenburg region of Siberia. After
engineering studies, he worked on space
defence projects in a factory in Sverdlovsk
(Ekaterinburg). In 1990, he became official
economist, then deputy director of the
Sverdlovsk Studio. Since 2000, he has
managed the studio's production department.
He studied dramaturgy at the Russian National Film Institute and wrote
screenplays for documentaries. Fedorchenko's first feature, First on the
Moon, a mockumentary about a 1930s Soviet landing on the Moon,
won many awards. Silent Souls is his third feature film.
"I was reminded of W.G. Sebald, who undertakes journeys through the halfabandoned remainders of the past, through signs that men had once been here
and are now forgotten."
Roger Ebert

Contact: Memento Films International, 9, cite Paradis- 75010 Paris, France, Tel: +33 1 53 34 90 20, sales@memento-films.com, festival@memento-films.com
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WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?

Ni Nei Pien Chi Tien

Taiwan, France | Mandarin, Taiwanese, French, English | 2001 | 116 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: For two decades the Malaysian-Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang has explored spatial, temporal, and psychological
displacement in the global city. After Tsai's perennial leading man Hsiao-Kang sells his dual time wristwatch to a young woman
about to leave Taipei for Paris, he feels compelled by a desire to set every clock he sees to Paris time. Despite the earthly time
zones that separate them, they find a connection via memory, ghosts, and-thanks to Truffaut alter ego Jean-Pierre Laud-the
cinema itself. This film is haunting, unforgettable. When Hsiao re-sets all of the clocks to Paris time, is that a grand gesture of
romance, or a pathetic fixation? What is more poignant - his mother's belief that her husband's soul lives on in a fish, or that the
fish is her son's only confidante?
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Producer: Bruno Persey
Production Company: Arena Films
Screenplay: Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang Pi-Ying
DOP: Benoit Delhomme
Editor: Chen Sheng-Chang
Sound Design: Du Tuu-Chih, Hsiang-Chu Tang
Production Design: Yip Kam Tim
Principal Cast: Lee Kang-Sheng , Chen ShiangChyi, Lu Yi-Ching, Miao Tien, Cicilia Yip

Tsai Ming-liang was born in 1957 in Kuching,


Malaysia. He moved to Taiwan to study film
and lived there after graduating from the Drama
and Cinema Department of the Chinese
Cultural University of Taiwan. He established
his reputation in theatre and went on to direct
fiction for television and film. Face (2009), I
Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2006), The
Wayward Cloud (2005), Good Bye, Dragon Inn (2003) and Vive
L'amour (1994) are some of his notable films.

"A Gem! A wonderful, one of a kind movie. Haunting. Hypnotic."


Newsweek
Contact: Fortissimo Films, Laura Talsma, Email: laura@fortissimo.nt
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WORDS WITH GODS


Mexico, USA | English | 2014 | 134 minutes | Colour

God Room, Mira Nair

Synopsis: 'Words with Gods' is an exploration of the relationship between different cultures and religions. Based on a concept by
Guillermo Arriaga, the film's nine episodes present various scenarios and different perspectives. It tackles faith in places ranging
from the Australian outback to the post-tsunami coast of Japan and from a mosque in Kurdistan to a high-rise in Mumbai. Each
director narrates a tale about human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which
each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism,
and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each segment. Peter Gabriel
composed the music for the animated interstitial sequences and also provided the end-credits song, Show yourself.
Producers: Alex Garcia, Lucas Akoskin, Guillermo
Arriage
Screenplay: Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco,
Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Hideo Nakata, Amos
Gitai, Alex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarria,
Emir Kusturica, Dunja Kusturica, Bahman
Ghobadi, Guillermo Arriaga
DOP: Warwick Thornton, Adrian Teijido (ABC),
Shanker Raman, Tetsuro Sano, Giora Bejach, Kiko
de la Rica, Martin Sec, Igor Martinovic, Sergio
Yazbek
Music: 'Show yourself'- written and performed by
Peter Gabriel
Festivals: Venice Film Festival; Festival Do Rio,
Brazil; Chicago International Film Festival; Haifa
International Film Festival

DIRECTORS
Guillermo Arriaga, 56, is a Mexican director
Hector Babenco, 68, is an Argentinian director
Alex de la Iglesia, 49, is a Spanish director
Bahman Ghobadi, 45, is a Kurdish-Iranian director
Amos Gitai, 64, is an Israeli director
Emir Kusturica, 60, is a Serbian director
Mira Nair, 57, is an Indian director based in New York
Hideo Nakata, 53, is a Japanese director
Warwick Thornton, 44, is an Australian director

Contact: Paula Vaccaro, Pinball London, Email: paula@pinballonline.co.uk


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RAM DASS - FIERCE GRACE


USA | English | 2002 | 93 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert, an American contemporary spiritual teacher and author. In the 1960s he travelled
to India and found his guru Neem Karoli Baba or Maharajji, who renamed him Ram Dass (Servant of God). On returning to the
US as a "Servant of God", Ram Dass continues to teach, inspire and serve, having been at the forefront of studies in consciousness
for over 55 years. Against the vivid backdrop of half a century of social, cultural, pharmaceutical and spiritual history, RAM
DASS-FIERCE GRACE is a lively chronicle of a life well lived and a portrait of a spiritual teacher who has reshaped his physical
limitations into an act of fierce grace.
Director: Mickey Lemle
Producers: Mickey Lemle, Jessica Brackman,
Buddy Squires
Production Company: MMI Lemle Pictures
DOP: Buddy Squires
Editors: Aaron Vega, Mickey Lemle, Jacob
Craycroft
Sound Editor: Jacob Ribicoff, Planet 10 Post
Festivals: Hamptons International Film Festival;
Nashville Independent Film Festival
Awards: Audience Choice Award- Hamptons
International Film Festival; Special Jury PrizeNashville Independent Film Festival

Mickey Lemle has been making multi-award


winning feature films, television series and
documentaries since 1971. His works have
shown theatrically, on television and at film
festivals around the world. His best known
films are the award winning documentaries:
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, OUR
PLANET EARTH, COMPASSION IN EXILE:
The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama, HASTEN SLOWLY: The Journey
of Sir Laurens Van Der Post, and RAM DASS FIERCE GRACE. In
2013 Lemle began production on THE DALAI LAMA FILM, a new
feature length film on the life of the Dalai Lama as he approaches 80.
"Equals any transcendent moment you are likely to find in a fiction film or a
novel for conscious being."
The New York Times

Contact: Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013, USA, Email: emily@zeitgeistfilms.com, nancy@zeitgeistfilms.com
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ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN YOGI


USA | English | 2014 | 87 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: When a successful American businessman hears of a miracle making saint, he goes to India to find him though the saint
has left his body. He feels that a life without spirituality is meaningless. He wants to find a path that will guide him. After many
adventures, he discovers Sanatan Dharma and his Guru. One of the motivations for making this documentary was to dissolve
some of the prejudicial myths Americans have about India. Unfortunately, the value of the incredible wealth of India's wisdom is
not completely understood. The filmmaker attempts to share the Sanatan Dharma in a manner that will make it accessible to a
wider audience. The film includes a world music soundtrack by Grammy nominee Jai Uttal, exclusive interviews with Ram Dass
and Krishna Das, meetings with holy men and a new perspective on Indian philosophy.
Director: Steven Newmark
Producers: Steven Newmark, Zoe Harber
Production Company: Monkey Tales Production
Executive Producer: Anurag Gupta
Screenplay: Zoe Harber, Steven Newmark
DOP: Steven Newmark
Editor: Jaime Byrd
Sound Design: Jai Uttal
Music: Jai Uttal
Featuring: Steven Newmark, Zoe Harber, Ram
Dass, Krishna Das, Jai Uttal

Steven Newmark is a producer of educational


videos that have been widely viewed in the
United States, Australia and New Zealand. Dr.
Newmark was President of the Personal
Success Institute and has produced TV
programmes featuring best-selling authors and
motivational speakers, including Mark Victor
Hansen ("Chicken Soup for the Soul") Denis
Waitely ("The Psychology of Winning"), Ram Dass ("Be Here Now").
He co-authored a book about Hinduism entitled "Before Becoming
This", with Shree Maa and Swami Satyananda.

Contact: Social Construct Films, Telephone: 1-310-614-1643, Email: zkilberg@gmail.com, Website: www.socialcontructfilms.com
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TROPICAL MALADY
Sud Pralad

Thailand | Thai | 2004 | 118 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: The first part of the film involves the tentative blossoming of romance between the story's two principal characters, the
shy country boy Tong and a beautiful soldier named Keng. Then the storytelling shifts from realism to allegory. Set in the deepest,
darkest heart of the jungle, the second half of the film is derived from a shamanic folk tale. It finds Keng tracking a ghostly figure
who periodically assumes the shape of a tiger, enticing encounters with a talking baboon, a ghostly cow and a man - Keng's
would-be lover - who shape-shifts into a tiger. Perched between two worlds, two streams of consciousness and two radically
different storytelling traditions, 'Tropical Malady' pushes the limits of cinematic narrative with grace. The shift from naturalism
to fabulism fundamentally uses different cues to express exterior and interior states - life as we live it and as we dream it.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer: Charles de Meaux
Screenplay: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
DOP: Jarin Pengpantikool
Editor: Lee Chatametikool
Sound Design: Thitipant Chongcharoen-choke-skul
Production Design: Akekarat Homlaor
Principal Cast: Banlop Lomnoi, Sadka
Kaewbuadee
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival-2004; Sao Paulo
International Film Festival; Chicago International
Film Festival
Awards: Jury Prize- Cannes Film Festival; Critics
Award - Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Apichatpong Weerasethakul began making


films in 1994 and completed his first feature in
2000. He works outside the commercial Thai
film industry, devoting himself to promoting
experimental and independent filmmaking
through his production company Kick the
Machine Films. His 2010 film Uncle Boonmee
Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the Palme
d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, he created the online film
Cactus River for the Walker Art Center, USA. Apichatpong received
the Sharjah Biennial Prize at the 2013 Sharjah Biennial 11, UAE. He is
a recipient of the Fukuoka Prize, Japan, 2013.
"A daring film that deserves to be thronged with open-minded cinema-lovers
on the lookout for something that doesn't just shuffle the same old dog-eared
pack of cliches."
The Guardian

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SOUL OF ASIA

The Man That Stole a Duck: Words with Gods, Hector Babenco

Gabbeh, Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Receptivity. Artist: Pratiksha Apurv

CHAI 'n CHAT

Discuss.
Debate.
Digest.
Deconstruct.
November 23, November 25
1.15-2.00 PM
Old GMC Building, first floor.
Inox Complex, Goa.

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BEYOND BEYOND

Johan und der Federkonig

Sweden, Denmark | Swedish | 2014 | 78 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Beyond Beyond is a children's film that both children and parents will enjoy. The story about the cute little rabbit Johan
with a curious and adventurous mind will capture young and old alike. What Johan doesn't know when he first sets out on his
journey is that he is testing the rules of life? When Johan first meets Bill, then the Captain and eventually the Feather King, he is in
fact meeting different opinions of law and order, and it is by interacting with these characters that Johan learns how to maintain
and build on what we already have.

Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen


Producer: Petter Lindblad
Production Company: Copenhagen Bombay
Executive Producer: Sarita Christensen
Screenplay: Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft
Jacobsen
Editor: Elin Projts
Sound Design: Christian Holm
Music: Nicklas Schmidt
Production Design: Jonas Springborg
Voices: Edvin Ryding, Tuva Novotny, Gustaf
Hammarsten, Lennart Jahkel, Sissela Kyle, Leif
Andree
Festival: 64th Berlin International Film Festival

Born 1977, Denmark, Esben Toft Jacobsen is


a former student of visual communication at the
Danish Design School, he graduated in
animation direction from the National Film
School of Denmark in 2006. He has worked as a
freelance artist and animator on numerous
computer games. Since graduating from film
school, Jacobsen has developed and directed
productions for Copenhagen Bombay, including the short film Kiwi &
Strit, which formed part of the feature film Carsten & Gitte's Movie
Madness (Anders Morgenthaler et al, 2008). His first animated feature,
The Great Bear, was warmly received at the Berlin Film Festival in
2011, having its world premiere in the Generation K-Plus children's
section. Beyond Beyond is a Swedish-Danish co-production and is
Jacobsen's second feature.

Contact: Copenhagen Bombay Sales APS Morten Lund Jacobsen Telephone: +45041140586 Email: morten.jacobsen@copenhagenbombay.com
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BOONIE BEARS TO THE RESCUE!

Leon Ding

China | English | 2014 | 90 minutes | Colour | 3D

Synopsis: The story starts when two boxes are switched mistakenly during a car accident in the middle of a stormy night. Logger
Vick retrieves a suitcase from the scene of the accident and reveals what's inside. After he brings back this mysterious box, the
forest is no longer peaceful and the Bear Brothers' lives change dramatically. Vick and the Bear Brothers become super dads to
take care of a mysterious little girl who suddenly appears. They will have to fight with the bad guys in order to bring the girl back
home safe and sound. At the same time, this unexpected adventure reveals big secrets, they will discover who the mastermind is
and what deeper secret it holds
Chief Director: Leon Ding
Producer: Leon Ding
Production Company: Fantawild Animation Ltd.
Executive Producers: Daisy Shang, Yingjie Chen,
Ziyan Huang, Baoshan Jiang
Director: Fuyuan Liu
Writers: Fuyuan Liu, Yun Xu, Tianlong Ye, Huida
Lin, Yan Huang
Storyboard Editor: Xuxia Fu
Production Design: Heqi Shao, Kai Lu
Animator: Lei Li, Xialing Yang, Maojing Chen,
Yang Zhou, Lan Zheng
Voices: Rick Jay Glen, Siobhan Lumsden, Paul
'Maxx' Rinehart, Toni Thompson,
Justin J. Wheeler
Festival: Annecy Animation Film Festival

Born in 1968, Leon Ding is the senior vice


president of Huaqiang Holdings Inc. and the
chairman of Fantawild Animation Inc. With a
unique insight into the economy of cultural
industries, he has been involved in the research
of film, television, and animation for many
years, offering much guidance in this
specialized field.
As chief director, Leon Ding has produced a vast array of famous
cartoon brands, among which are: 3D action comedy and
environmentally educative series Boonie Bears, 3D animated kung-fu
series Kung Fu Masters of the Zodiac, 3D edutainment series Brainy
Bubbly Bug Buddies and Pondemonium, 2D comedy series Chicken
Stew, 3D comedy series Hick City, 2D animated series Conch Bay,
inspiring 2D animated series Ashley, and more.

Contact: All Rights Entertainment 5A Hang Lok building, 130 Wing Lok street, Sheung Wan, HK Telephone: +85223886007 Email: allrightshk@gmail.com
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THE HERO OF COLOR CITY


USA | English | 2014 | 77 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Each night, when Ben falls asleep, his Crayons jump into their magical Crayon Box which transports them to their
home in Color City. When Yellow, our timid heroine, is accidentally left behind in Ben's room, she inadvertently awakens two
Unfinished Drawings: King Crawl, a huge, powerful, mute monster and Gnat, Scrawl's motor-mouthed, overactive sidekick. In
search of color for themselves, they follow Yellow to Color City, causing panic and concern. If Scrawl and Gnat can claim the
waterfall for themselves, Color City will fade, and along with it, our lovable crayon characters will disappear.

Director: Frank Gladstone


Producer: John D. Eraklis, Max Howard
Production Company: Exodus Film Group
Writers: Jess Kedward, J.P. McCormick, Kirsty
Peart, Rich Raczelowski
Editor: Josh Gladstone
Music: Zoe Poledouris,
Costume Design: Anna HIll Johnstone
Sound Design: Trevor Gates
Production Design: Philip A. Cruden
Voices: Christina Ricci, Sean Astin, Owen Wilson,
Elizabeth Daily

Frank Gladstone has been working as a


professional animator, producer, director,
writer and teacher for nearly 35 years. From
1973 to 1989, he managed his own Emmy
award-winning studio, Persistence of Vision,
producing commercials and educational films,
and has since held management positions for
Disney, Warner Brothers and DreamWorks,
among others. Some of his feature film credits include the
DreamWorks productions of The Road To Eldorado, Spirit: Stallion
Of The Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas, And Shark Tale.
As a producer at Warner Bros. Feature Animation and manager of
training at Walt Disney Feature Animation, he worked with the
production teams on Rescuers Down Under, Aladdin, The Lion King,
Pocahontas And Mulan.

Contact: Moviehouse Entertainment, Telephone: 020 7836 5536, Email: info@moviehouseent.com


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MIGHTY RAJU - RIO CALLING


India | Hindi | 2014 | 98 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Mighty Raju is a story of a small boy Raju, who lives with his parents and his dog Moby in the city on small island.
Raju's father, is a very famous scientist. He along with his friend turned villain Karaati, has created a very powerful compound
called Neutrino. Raju's mother when pregnant, accidentally drank the potion mistaking it for a beverage. Neutrino is active after 5
years, and so is Raju with his super powers! Watch him having fun with his newly discovered powers and beat the daylights out of
Karaati. You will love this story of lovable Raju which is ?lled with fun and adventure!

Director: Rajiv Chilaka


Producer: Rajiv Chilaka
Production Company: Greengold Animation Pvt.
Ltd.
Screenplay: Darsana Radhakrishnan
DOP: Anirban Majumdar
Editor: Kushal . G
Music: Sunil Kaushik
Sound Design: Amarkanth Dubey
Special Effects: Ethiraj
Voices: Julie Tejwani, Vatsal Dubey, Sanchit
Wartak, Neha Gargava, Parigna Pandya Shah,
Mausam, Rohit Tiwari

Rajiv Chilaka studied animation at the


Academy of Art, San Francisco. After
completing his studies, he moved back to India
and pursued his passion and profound interest
in animation and started Greengold. He is the
creator of various animated TV shows such as
Bongo, Vikram Betal, Krishna, Chhota Bheem,
Krishna Balram, Chorr Police, Mighty Raju,
Luv Kushh and Arjun. He has directed 3 theatrical movies - Chhota
Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan, Chhota Bheem and the Throne of
Bali and Mighty Raju - Rio Calling. His creation, Chhota Bheem has
gone on to become the most successful Indian animated TV series.

Contact: Greengold Pictures Telephone: 040- 44361990 Email: bharath@greengold.tv Website: www.greengold.tv
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ROCKS IN MY POCKETS
USA, Latvia | English | 2014 | 88 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Anna, a young woman, pretty and educated, falls in love with an adventurous entrepreneur, 30 years her senior. But
with marriage comes great jealousy, and the entrepreneur hides Anna away in the forest, far from other men, where she bears him
eight children. The Great Depression hits them hard. Then Latvia is overrun with invasions by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the
Soviets once again. Years later, Signe, a young artist, asks her father, "How did my grandmother die?" Her father is evasive. His
seven siblings are evasive, as well. Signe strongly suspects that Anna committed suicide. Signe takes us on a journey deep into her
own depression where she looks to confront the family demons.

Director: Signe Baumane


Producer: Signe Baumane
Production Company: Signe Baumane Studio
Screenplay: Signe Baumane
Animator: Signe Baumane
Editor: Wendy Cong Zhao
Music: Cristian Sensini
Sound Design: Weston Fonger
Festivals: San Sebastian Film Festival; Busan
International Film Festival; London International
Animation Festival; Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival
Awards: FIPRESCI; Special Mention of the
Ecumenical Jury- Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival

Signe Baumane, an independent animator


known for her controversial films on the
subjects of sex, pregnancy, dentists and
madness, was born in Latvia, which was part of
the Soviet Union at that time. In 1991, Signe
wrote her first unpublished novel when she was
eight, a tragic love story set in historic 15th
century Latvia, a land dominated by German
landlords. Between 1999 and 2009 Signe wrote and directed 11 more
award winning shorts. "The Threatened One", "Natasha", "Five
Fucking Fables", "Woman", "Dentist", "Five Infomercials for
Dentists", "Veterinarian", "Teat Beat of Sex: Episodes 1 - 3" are some
of them.

Contact: New Europe Film Sales Czerniakowska 73/79, 00-718 Warsaw, Poland, +48698903038, festivals@neweuropefilmsales.com, www.neweuropefilmsales.com
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SKETCHES ON SCREEN

THE WORLD OF GOOPI AND BAGHA

Goopi Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa

India | Hindi | 2013 | 78 minutes | Colour

Synopsis: Goopi & Bagha are two wise fools, one lives to sing and the other to play the drum. Despite their acute ineptness, their
passion for music knows no bounds. When the villagers cannot bear to listen to them anymore, both are banished to the same
forest. Here, Goopi and Bagha encounter each other and their fates become entwined for life. A strong and immediate bond is
forged by the two hapless souls, both in search of connoisseurs of their musical craft. They sing and play together to celebrate their
newfound friendship only to be surrounded by melancholic ghosts who they manage to enchant with their peculiar musical talent.
And thus begins the extraordinary adventure.

Director: Shilpa Ranade


Producer: Children's Film Society, India
Screenplay: Soumitra Ranade
Story: Upendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury
Animator: Paperboat Animation Studios, Mayank
Patel, Aashish Mall
Editor: Avinash Walzde
Sound Design: Narayan Parasuram
Music: 3 Brothers and Violin

Shilpa Ranade is an associate professor at the


Industrial Design Centre at IIT Mumbai. She
did her M.Phil at the Royal College of Art in
London. She has been a lecturer in the Audio
Visual Unit at the Tata Institute of Social
Sciences.

Voices: Rajeev Rai, Manish Bhawan, Shailendra


Pande, Shahanawaz Pradhan
Festivals: Toronto International Film Festival;
Busan International Film Festival
Award: Best Animation Feature Film at FICCI
BAF, India
Contact: Children's Film Society, India Telephone: + 91 22 - 2352 2870 Email: festival@cfsindia.org Website: www.cfsindia.org
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ROBIN WILLIAMS (1951-2014)

Robin Williams was born on July 21, 1951, the only child of a Ford auto executive and a former
model from Mississippi. He completed drama training from Juilliard School in New York City
under tutelage of under famed actor John Houseman. Williams first became a star on the TV series
Mork and Mindy (1978-82), playing Mork from Ork, a sweetly nutty space alien learning about life
on Earth.
Williams moved quickly into films, often playing wise comic oddballs in heartfelt dramas. He was
Oscar-nominated for Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Fisher
King (1991) before finally winning an Academy Award as the sympathetic psychologist in Good
Will Hunting (1997).
He played a wacky genie in the Disney animated feature Aladdin, the strong-armed title sailor in
1980s Popeye , a cross-dressing dad in Mrs. Doubtfire , a grown-up Peter Pan in Hook, and
President Teddy Roosevelt in the comedy adventure Night at the Museum (2006). His other notable
films include Insomnia, One Hour Photo, Robots and House of D (2004).

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THE
ANGRIEST
MAN IN
BROOKLYN
USA | English | 2014 | 84 minutes | Colour
Synopsis: Some people have bad days. Henry
Altmann has one every day. Always unhappy and
angry at the world, Henry sits impatiently at the
doctor's office when he is finally seen by Dr.
Sharon Gill. Sharon, who is enduring her own bad
day, reveals that he has a brain aneurysm. This
makes Henry even angrier, yelling at Sharon he
demands to know how much time he has left.
Faced with Henry's anger and insults, Sharon
abruptly tells him he has only 90 minutes. Shocked
and reeling by this news, Henry storms out of the
office leaving Sharon stunned by what she has just
done in a lapse of judgment. As Sharon goes on a
city-wide search, Henry struggles with his
diagnosis, determined to make amends with
everyone he has hurt in his life. It is based on the
film 'The 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum', written and
directed by Assi Dayan.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Producers: Bob Cooper, Tyler Mitchell,
Daniel J. Walker
Production Company: Landscape Entertainment,
Force Majeure, Prominent Media
Screenplay: Daniel Taplitz
DOP: John Bailey
Editor: Mark Yoshikawa
Music: Mateo Messina
Production Design: Inbal Weinberg
Principal Cast: Robin Williams, Mila Kunis,
Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo, Jerry Adler,
Bob Dishy, Sutton Foster, Chris Gethard

Contact: Tanweer Films, John Vertsetis, Email: johnv@tanweer.info


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RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH (1923-2014)

Richard Attenborough was a legend in his lifetime. He enriched and redefined British theatre and
cinema to an extent that few others have done. Through a life lived to the lees, Lord Attenborough
left a lasting imprint on everything and everyone that he touched. Rarely has British cinema
produced an icon like Lord Attenborough, whose appeal has transcended geographical boundaries
and generations. He was in the cast of the original 1952 production of The Mousetrap, one of the
world's longest running plays. Alongside him in the play was his wife, Sheila Sim, who he married
in 1945 and who was by his side when he breathed his last.
Lord Attenborough's fame as an actor both on the stage and the screen was huge, but he was
celebrated more particularly for the remarkable bunch of films that he directed. He will be
remembered primarily for being the man behind three of the finest cinematic biographies ever made
- Gandhi, Cry Freedom and Chaplin. Lord Attenborough made the three epics in the span of a
decade (1982-1992) that catapulted him to a league of producer-directors endowed with the ability
to bring extraordinary public figures alive on the big screen in an accessible and entertaining way.

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GANDHI
UK, India | English | 1982 | 191 minutes
Black & White, Colour
Synopsis: The film begins in the early part of the
20th century, when Mohandas K. Gandhi (Ben
Kingsley), a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all
worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian
independence. Faced with armed resistance from
the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of
"passive resistance," endeavouring to win freedom
for his people without resorting to bloodshed. In
the horrendous "slaughter" sequence, more extras
appear on screen than in any previous historical
epic. The supporting cast includes Candice Bergen
as photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Athol
Fugard as General Smuts, John Gielgud as Lord
Irwin, John Mills as the viceroy, Martin Sheen as
Walker, Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield, and,
in a tiny part as a street bully, star-to-be Daniel
Day-Lewis.
Director: Richard Attenborough
Producer: Richard Attenborough
Production Company: International Film
Investors, NFDC, Goldcrest Films International
Executive Producer: Michael Stanley-Evans
Screenplay: John Briley
DOP: Ronnie Taylor, Billy Williams
Editor: John Bloom
Music: Ravi Shankar
Costume Design: Bhanu Athaiya, John Mollo
Production Design: Stuart Craig
Principal Cast: Ben Kingsley, Edward Fox,
Rohini Hattangady, Trevor Howard, Candice
Bergen, John Gielgud, John Millis, Geraldine
James, Roshan Seth
Awards: 8 Academy Awards (Best Actor, Best
Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best
Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Art
Direction-Set Direction, Best Editing)
Selected Filmography (As Director):
1969 Oh! What a Lovely War
1972 Young Winston
1977 A Bridge Too Far
1987 Cry Freedom
1992 Chaplin
1993 Shadowlands

Contact: National Film Development Corporation, Mumbai


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GORDON WILLIS (1931-2014)

Gordon Willis was born into a show business family on May 28, 1931, in the Astoria
neighbourhood of the New York borough of Queens. Both his parents were dancers on Broadway;
his father went on to a career as a make-up artist at Warner Bros. Willis got into filmmaking while in
military service during the Korean War. After a decade in the commercial and documentary
business, he became a director of photography in 1969. During the 1970s, he shot some of the
decade's best known films, from The Godfather and Klute, to All The President's Men and Annie
Hall. Willis is credited with creating a "painterly" look on screen, an artful balance between light
and shadow (he's been nicknamed "the prince of darkness" for his use of underexposed film). He's
also credited with helping Woody Allen emerge from gag comedies to more serious filmmaking;
Willis shot eight films with Allen between 1976 and 1985, including Manhattan, Stardust
Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Zelig. He also tried his hand at direction with film
Windows (1981), which was a psychosexual thriller. Willis was nominated for Oscars twice, for
the third movie in The Godfather trilogy (1990) and for his wizardry in Zelig (1983). He retired after
1997's The Devil's Own.

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THE GODFATHER

Francis Ford Coppola

USA | English, Italian, Latin | 1972 | Colour


175 minutes
Synopsis: The story begins as "Don" Vito
Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family",
oversees his daughter's wedding with his wife
Carmela. His beloved son Michael has just come
home from the war, but does not intend to become
part of his father's business. Through Michael's life
the nature of the family business becomes clear.
The business of the family is just like the head of
the family, kind and benevolent to those who give
respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever
anything stands against the good of the family. Don
Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but
times are changing and some don't want to follow
the old ways and look out for community and
"family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone
family wants to start selling drugs in New York,
and needs the Don's influence to further his plan.
The clash of the Don's fading old world values and
the new ways will demand a terrible price,
especially from Michael, all for the sake of the
family.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Writers: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Editor: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis
Costume Design: Anna HIll Johnstone
Make Up: Dick Smith
Principal Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert
Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Caan
Awards: 3 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best
Actor in leading role, Best writing-screenplay
based on material from another medium)
Selected Filmography:
1970 End of the Road
1970 The Landlord
1971 Klute
1972 The Godfather
1974 The Godfather Part II
1973 The Paper Chase
1974 The Parallax View
1976 All the President's Men
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Interiors
1979 Manhattan
1980 Stardust Memories
Contact: Viacom18 Motion Pictures, India Viacom18 Media Pvt.Ltd. CST No.461/462, Subhash Road, Vile Parle east, Tel: 91 9819540332, Email: khushboo.saha@viacom18.com
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ALAIN RESNAIS (1922-2014)

Alain Resnais, who passed away on March 1, aged 91, achieved prominence and became a crucial
part of the French nouvelle vague with his very first feature film, Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959),
which was adapted from a screenplay by Marguerite Duras.
Resnais had begun his career as a maker of documentaries, notable among which was the 30-minute
Night and Fog (1955), one of the first films about the Nazi concentration camps. Francois Truffaut
was enthused to describe the short documentary as "the greatest film ever made" and with good
reason.
Resnais' second feature, Last Year at Marienbad (1961), strengthened his reputation as a filmmaker
with a distinct, elegant and avant-garde style that challenged prevailing narrative patterns.
Resnais' career lasted for over six decades. He continued making films right until the end of his life,
delivering a prolific crop of titles adapted from other forms of storytelling, especially plays written
by British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn.
Resnais' final film, which he wrapped up days before his death, is also an Ayckbourn adaptation.

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SMOKING/
NO SMOKING
France, Italy, Switzerland | French | 1993
298 minutes | Colour
Synopsis: An adaptation of eight pieces of Alan
Ayckbourn (never shown in the theatre) met in two
films 2:20 hours each. The story presents a series
of characters in a small village in Yorkshire played
by two actors that will offer several versions of
their lives. A reflection on time, these two films
complement each other but can be seen in the order
chosen by each viewer.
Director: Alain Resnais
Production Company: Arena Films, One Camera,
France 2 Cinema
Executive Producer: Bruno Pesery
Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jaoui
DOP: Renato Berta
Editor: Albert Jurgenson
Music: John Pattison
Costume Design: Jackie Budin
Production Design: Jacques Saulnier
Principal Cast: Sabine Azema, Peirre Arditi,
Audrey Fleurot
Festival: Berlin International Film Festival-1994
Awards: Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival1994; 5 Cesar awards; Best Film at the French
Syndicate of Cinema Critics-1994
Selected Filmography:
1980 Uncle of America
1984 Love to Death
1986 Melo
1997 Same Old Song
2007 Last Year at Marienbad
2008 Year No.1
2013 Providence

Contact: NFAI, Pune, Telephone: 91 9766107438, Email: nfaipune@gmail.com


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Steering Committee
Bimal Julka

Chairman
Secretary, Ministry of I&B
Chief Secretary, Goa, Co-Chairman

MEMBERS
Smt. Dipali Khanna

Sh Jawahar Wattal
Sh Ramesh Sharma
Ms. Ratnottama Sengupta
Dr. Nitish Bhardwaj
Ms. Sumitra Bhave
Sh. Dibakar Banerjee
Sh. Jahnu Barua
Sh. Sudhir Mishra
Sh. L. Suresh
Sh. Ravi Kottakara
Sh A. K. Bir
Sh Shaji N Karun
Sh Vikramaditya Motwane
Sh Prahlad Kakkar
Sh Bharat Bala
Ms. Vani Tripathi

AS & FA, Min of I&B


Director, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts
Pr. DG:PIB
AS (Films)
MD, NFDC
Director, DFF/ Director, IFFI
Director, Films
Secretary (I&P), Govt of Goa
CEO, ESG, Goa
Consultant, MIB
Filmmaker (Hindi)
Film Critic - East
Actor, Director - Hindi, Marathi Cinema, TV and Stage
Filmmaker -West
Filmmaker - Hindi
Filmmaker - North East
Filmmaker -Hindi
Filmmaker - South
President, FFI
Chairman, Technical Sub-Committee
Member, Technical Sub-Committee

Technical Sub-committee
Sh A.K. Bir

Eminent Film Maker -Chairman

Sh Shaji N. Karun
Sh B. Diwakar
Sh Ram Sahay

Member, Eminent Film Maker


Film Academician
FD, Mumbai
Commissioner, Panaji Municipality, Govt. of Goa
Chief Engineer (Elect.), Govt. of Goa
Health Officer, Panaji
Chief Fire Officer, Panaji, Goa
Traffic Commissioner, Panjim, Goa
Incharge, INOX Theatre, Goa
Chairman, Member , Kala Academy, Goa
Director. IFFI & DFF
CEO, ESG, Goa
Representative, Real Image
Representative, SMPTE
Representative, Pulz/Dolby
Deputy Director, IFFI/DFF - Member Secretary

MEMBERS

Sh Ketan Mehta
Sh Ujwal Nirgudkar
Sh Anirvan Ghosh
Sh Rizwan Ahamd
Preview Committee
Sh Mike Pandey
Sh Aziz Quraishi
Ms. Rashmi Doraiswamy
Sh Gautam Kaul
Ms. Ira Bhaskar
Sh B. Diwakar
Saibal Chatterjee
Sh Ajit Rai
Arun Chaddha
Dr. Ifthekar Ahmed
Sh B.B. Nagpal
Sh Satinder Mohan
Ms. Malti Sahai
Ms. Sadhana Srivastava
Smt. Nirupama Kotru
Sh Bansi Kaul
Sh Suresh Bhardwaj

256 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Film Maker
Actor
Professor, Academy of third world studies,
Jamia Milia Islamia, Film Academician
Film Critic
Film Academician
Cinematographer, Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia
Film Critic
Editor
Film Maker
Director, EMPC, IGNOU, Delhi
Journalist
Film Critic
Film Critic
Documentary Maker
Director (Films), Min. of I&B
Former Director, National School of Drama
Professor of Acting, National School of Drama

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Core Committee

Media and Publicity Sub-Committee

AS (Films): Chairman
Chief Controller of Accounts, Ministry of I&B
Director, DFF/ Director, IFFI
Director, Films
DG, Films Division
Secretary, I&P, Govt. of Goa
Director, NFAI
MD, NFDC or Rep. of MD, NFDC
CEO, ESG
Principal DG (M&C): PIB
Chairperson

MEMBERS

B.M Bakshi

Secretary (Information and PR), Govt. of Goa


DG: DAVP
DG (M&C): PIB
DG:AIR
DG: Doordarshan
Director, DFF
Director (Films)
Non- Official Member
Dy. Director (IFFI/DFF)
Representative of PR Agency/ EMA

Curators
Martine Armand
Lekha Shankar
Srinivasa Santhanam
Meera Dewan
Jay Bajaj
Print Unit Coordination
Rizwan Ahamd (Dy. Director)
Ramesh Chandra
Rajendra Kumar
Tek Chand
Aamir Fahim
Administration Control and Coordination
K. Prashant Kumar (Dy. Director)
Roshan Kumar Vats
Pravin Kumar Chawla
Anshuman Shekhar
Surender Kumar
Accounts Unit Coordination
Abhe Singh (Dy. Director)
Chiranji Lal Meena
Mahesh Chand
Print Sources:

Coproduction Office, Films Boutique, Le Pacte, Memento Films International, MK2, Noori Pictures
Pascale Ramonda, Premium Films, PVR Pictures, Swedish Film Institute, Universal, Wide Management
Latido Films, Seville International, Fortissimo Films, Pyramide International, Wild Bunch, Elle Driver.

We are grateful to the following organisations for their assistance and logistical support:

We are grateful to Qube Cinema India, Pulz and SMPTE for providing digital screening
solutions at the 45th International Film Festival of India.

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INDEX OF FILM TITLES


1000 Rupee Note
3 Hearts
40 Days of Silence

26
48
112

A
Adventures of an
American Yogi
Alice in Marialand
American Dreams in China
Angriest Man in Brooklyn, The

233
49
164
248

B
Behaviour
Beijing Blues
Beyond-Beyond
Bird Who Stops in the Air, The
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Blind Massage
Boonies Bears-To The Rescue

27
165
240
212
113
114
241

C
Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of
Democracy
Caught in the Web
Charlie's Country
Christmas Rose
Clouds in Sils Maria
Cold in July
Coming Home
Consequences
Corbo
Corn Island
Cracks in Concrete

156
166
115
167
134
50
116
51
28
117
52

H
Hadji Sha
Hard Day, A
Heartbeat
Hero of Colour City, The
Himalaya, Where
the Wind Dwells
Hippocrates
Hope

202
157
175
203
135
192
193
194
195
53
196
54
213
152
136

I am Not Lorena
I am Yours
I Came from Busan
I Won't Come Back
Ida
Imitation Game, The
Jalal's Story
Jimmy's Hall
Journey to the Mother
Judgement, The
Kandahar
Kindergarten Teacher, The

67
68
215
69
70
71
180
123
72
124

Lamb, The
Last Metro, The
Letter to the King
Leviathan
Life in a Fishbowl
Like Never Before
Limelight
Little England
Look of Silence, The
Los Hongos

73
224
74
33
75
76
222
77
158
78

M
Maidan
Mardan
Melbourne
Mighty Raju- Rio Calling
Mirage
Miss Julie
Modris
Moment of Innocence, A
Mommy
Monument to Michael Jackson
Mr. Kaplan
Mr. Turner
My Name is Salt
My Right to Ravage Myself

O
228
250
30

204
32

Nabat
Nagima
Narrow Frame of Midnight, The
Natural Sciences
Nymphomaniac
Nuoc 2030

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65
66

Face of an Angel, The


137
Fantasia
118
Feng Shui
168
Few Cubic Meters of Love, A
177
Field of Dogs
119
Finding Mr. Right
169
Finger
178
Fish
29
Flapping in the Middle in Nowhere 55
Fool, The
56
Force of Destiny
138
Foreign Body
139
Forgotten, The
57
Fort, The
179
Four Corners
58
Foxcatcher
59
Gabbeh
Gandhi
Genuine Love

31
63
64
242
214

E
El Condor Pasa
Everlasting Moments
Eye for Beauty, An

120
252
60
121
122
61
148
170
62

D
Daddy's School
Dark Side, The
Daughter
Day I Became a Woman, The
Dearest
Decalogue 1I am the Lord thy God
Decalogue 2- DWA
Decalogue 3- TRZY
Decalogue 4- Honour Thy
Father and Thy Mother
Director's Angst, The
Double Life of Veronique
Down the River

Geronimo
Godfather, The
Gods of Water, The
Golden Era, The
Goodbye to Language
Gospel of the Flesh, The
Grandmaster, The
Great Hypnotist, The
Guide, The

159
79
80
243
34
81
82
205
125
83
35
140
160
216

Oblivion
One on One
Out of Inferno

36
84
85
86
141
37
126
142
171

Owners, The

38

P
Party Girl
Pattern of Love
Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence, A
Pink
Postman's White Nights, The
President, The

127
181
143
217
87
44

Q
Queen and Country

88

R
Ram Dass- Fierce Grace
Red Amnesia
Red Rose
Refusing Heaven
Rocks in My Pockets
Roxanne
Run

232
89
128
182
244
90
91

S
Salaam Cinema
Salt of the Earth, The
Sand Dollars
Scouting for Zebras
Search, The
Second Chance, A
Sex & Philosophy
Short Film About Killing, A
Short Story, A
Silence, The
Silent Souls
Silent Witness
Singing Pond, The
Sivas
Smoking/ No Smoking
Still the Water

206
161
92
93
129
94
207
197
39
208
229
172
183
95
254
144

T
Tales
Teacher's Diary, The
Theory of Everything, The
Three Colours: Blue
Timbuktu
Time between Dog and Wolf
Time of Love
Today
Track 143
Tribe, The
Tropical Malady
Turist
Two Days, One Night
Two Step

130
96
97
198
40
218
209
98
99
100
234
101
131
102

V
Villa Touma

103

W
Way He Looks, The
What Time is it There?
When You Wake Up
White Moss
White Shadow
Wild Child, The
Winter Sleep
With the Girl of Black Soil
Woman of Paris, A
Wonders, The
Words with Gods
World of Goopi and
Bagha, The

X
Xenia

109

104
230
105
106
107
225
145
219
223
108
231
245

INDEX

INDEX OF DIRECTORS
A
Alain Resnais
Abderrahhmane Sissako
Abu Shahed Emon
AdilkhanYerzhanov
Afia Nathaniel
Alesksei Fedorchenko
Alex de la Iglesia
Alex R Johnson
Alice Rohrwacher
Alvaro Brechner
Amos Gitai
Andrea Dorfman
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Ann Hui
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Asif Rustamov
Avinash Arun

254
40
180
38
176
229
231
102
108
35
231
63
87
33
121
234
54
179

B
Bahman Ghobadi
Baldvin Zophonasson
Batin Ghobadi
Bennett Miller
Benoit Jacquot
Benoit Mariage
Boris Lojkine

231
75
79
59
48
93
66

C
Carlos Bolado
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Yeung
Claire Burger
Danny Pang
Dan Wolman
Daniel Ribeiro
Darko Lungolov
Denys Arcand
Dervis Zaim
Diao Yinan
Diep Hoang Nguyen

57
222, 223
167
127
171
53
104
83
136
29
113
55

E
Eduardo Mendoza de Echave
ElchinMusaoglu
Emir Kusturica
Ernesto Daranas
EsbenToft Jacobsen

61
36
231
27
240

F
Farida Pacha
Fei Xing
Francis Ford Coppola
Francois Truffaut
Frank Gladstone

160
172
252
224, 225
242

G
George Ovashvili
Guillermo Arriaga

117
231

H
Hassan Solhjoo
Hector Babenco
Hideo Nakata
Hisham Zaman

202
231
231
74

I
Ian Gabriel
Ilmar Raag
Indika Ferdinando
Iram Haq
Isidora Marras
Israel Cardenas

58
69
183
68
67
92

J
James Marsh

97

Jamshid Mahmoudi
177
Jan Troell
152
Jean-Luc Godard
122
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
131
JeonSoo-Il
212, 213, 214, 215
216, 217, 218, 219
Jess Magaa Vzquez
49
Jim Mickle
50
Jing Wang
168
John Boorman
88
Joshua Oppenheimer
158
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
161
Juris Kursietis
82

K
Kaan Mujdeci
95
Kaige Chen
166
Karma Deki
181
Kaushik Ganguly
39
Ken Loach
123
Kim Ki Duk
142
Kim Seong-hun
63
Krzysztof Kieslowski
192, 193, 194
195, 196, 197, 198
Krzysztof Zanussi
139
Kutlug Ataman
73

L
Lars von Trier
Laura Amelia Guzman
Lech Majewski
Leon Ding
Leste Chen
Liv Ullmann
Lou Ye
Luc Dardenne

141
92
119
241
170
81
114
131

M
Marie Amachoukeli
127
Marziyeh Makhmalbaf
203
Mathieu Denis
28
MatiasLucchesi
86
Michael Winterbottom
137
Michel Hazanavicius
129
Mickey Lemle
232
Mike Leigh
140
Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov
72
Mira Nair
231
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
44, 204, 205
206, 207, 208, 209, 228
Morten Tyldum
71
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
100

N
NadavLapid
Naomi Kawase
NargesAbyar
Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo
Nima Javidi
Nithiwat Tharathorn
Noaz Deshe
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

32
144
99
37
80
96
107
145

O
Oles Sanin
Olivier Assayas
Oscar Ruiz Navia
Oxide Pang
Ozan Aciktan

62
134
78
171
51

Peter Chan
Phil Alden Robinson
Philippe Lacote

164, 135
248
91

Q
Qunshu Gao

165

R
Rajiv Chilaka
Rakhshan Banietemad
Ravee Farooq
Reza Mirkarimi
Ricardas Marcinkus
Richard Attenborough
Rolf De Heer
Roy Andersson
Ruben Ostlund

243
130
178
98
105
250
115
143
101

S
Samuel Theis
Saodat Ismailova
Sepideh Farsi
Sergei Loznitsa
Shilpa Ranade
Signe Baumane
Silzati Jakov
Shrihari Sathe
Stephan Komandarev
Stephanie Valloatto
Steven Newmark
Suha Arraf
Susanne Bier
SzabolcsHajdu

127
112
128
159
245
244
30
26
124
156
233
103
94
34

T
Tala Hadid
Thomas Lilti
Tony Gatlif
Tsai Ming-Liang

85
65
120
230

U
Umut Dag

52

V
Vali Hotea
Vladimir Tumaev

90
106

W
Wang Chao
Wang Xiaoshuai
Wong Kar-Wai
Warwick Thornton
Wim Wenders

118
89
148
157, 231
161

X
Xavier Dolan
Xin Zhang
Xue Xiaolu

125
30
169

Y
Yadav Kumar
Yury Bykov

182
56

Z
Zamani Esmati
Zdenek Tyc
Zeresenay Derhane Mehari
Zhang Yimou
Zhanna Issabayeva

31
76
126
116
84

P
Pablo Cesar
Panos H. Koutras
Pantelis Voulgaris
Paul Cox
Pawel Pawlikowski

60
109
77
138
70

259

INTERNATIONAL CINEMA IFFI 2014

I N D E X O F PA RT I C I PAT I N G C O U N T R I E S
AFGHANISTAN
A Few Cubic Meters of Love
ANGOLA
The Gods of Water
ARGENTINA
The Gods of Water
I am Not Lorena
Natural Sciences
AUSTRALIA
Charlie's Country
The Dark Side
Force of Destiny
AUSTRIA
Cracks in Concrete
AZERBAIJAN
Down the River
Nabat
BANGLADESH
Jalal's Story
BELGIUM
Two Days, One Night
Scouting for Zebras
Xenia
BELARUS
I Won't Come Back
BHUTAN
Pattern of Love
BOLIVIA
The Forgotten
BRAZIL
The Way He Looks
BULGARIA
The Judgement
CANADA
Corbo
An Eye for Beauty
Heartbeat
Mommy
CHILE
I am Not Lorena
CHINA
American Dreams in China
Beijing Blues
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Blind Massage
Boonies Bears to the Rescue!
Caught in the Web
Christmas Rose
Coming Home
Dearest
Fantasia
Feng Shui
Finding Mr. Right
Genuine Love
The Golden Era
The Grandmaster
The Great Hypnotist
Red Amnesia
Silent Witness
COLOMBIA
Los Hongos
CROATIA
Monument to Michael Jackson
CUBA
Behaviour
CZECH REPUBLIC
Like Never Before
260 | INDEX

177
60
60
67
86
115
157
138
52
54
36
180
131
93
109
69
181
57
104
124
28
136
64
125
67
164
165
113
114
241
166
167
116
135
118
168
169
30
121
148
170
89
172
78
83
27
76

DENMARK
Beyond - Beyond
Everlasting Moments
Ida
The Look of Silence
Nymphomaniac
A Second Chance
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Sand Dollars
ESTONIA
I Won't Come Back
ETHIOPIA
The Gods of Water
Oblivion
FINLAND
Everlasting Moments
I Won't Come Back
The Look of Silence
FRANCE
3 Hearts
40 Days of Silence
Blind Massage
Cartoonist: Foot
Soldiers of Democracy
Clouds of Sils Maria
Corn Island
The Double Life of Veronique
Geronimo
Goodbye to Language
Hippocrates
Hope
Jimmy's Hall
Journey to the Mother
The Last Metro
Los Hongos
Miss Julie
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Natural Sciences
Party Girl
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence
The President
Queen and Country
Red Rose
Run
The Salt of the Earth
Scouting for Zebras
The Search
Smoking/ No Smoking
Still The Water
Three Colours: Blue
Timbuktu
Two Days, One Night
What Time is it Over There?
The Wild Child
Winter Sleep
Xenia
GEORGIA
Corn Island
The President
The Search
GERMANY
40 Days of Silence
Corn Island
Everlasting Moments
The Lamb
Monument to Michael Jackson
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence
The President

240
152
70
158
141
94
92
69
60
126
152
69
158
48
112
114
156
134
117
196
120
122
65
66
123
72
224
78
81
85
86
127
143
44
88
128
91
161
93
129
254
144
198
40
131
230
225
145
109
117
44
129
112
117
152
73
83
143
44

Sivas
White Shadow
Winter Sleep
The Wonders
GREECE
Little England
Red Rose
Xenia
HONG KONG
Dearest
The Golden Era
Out of Inferno
HUNGARY
Corn Island
Mirage
Roxanne
ICELAND
Life in a Fishbowl
INDIA
1000 Rupee Note
The Fort
Gandhi
Mighty Raju- Rio Calling
A Short Story
The World of Goopi and Bagha
INDONESIA
The Look of Silence
IRAN
The Day I Became a Woman
A Few Cubic Meters of Love
Gabbeh
Hadji Sha
Kandahar
Melbourne
A Moment of Innocence
Red Rose
Salaam Cinema
Sex & Philosophy
The Silence
Tales
Time Of Love
Today
Track 143
IRAQI KURDISTAN
Mardan
IRELAND
Queen and Country
Miss Julie
ISRAEL
The Director's Angst
The Kindergarten Teacher
ITALY
Foreign Body
Smoking/ No Smoking
White Shadow
The Wonders
IVORY COAST
Run
JAPAN
Still the Water
KAZAKHSTAN
I Won't Come Back
Nagima
The Owners
LATVIA
Modris
Rocks in My Pockets

95
107
145
108
77
128
109
135
121
171
117
34
90
75
26
179
250
243
39
245
158
203
177
228
31
204
80
205
128
206
207
208
130
209
98
99
79
88
81
53
32
139
254
107
108
91
144
69
84
38
82
244

INDEX

LITHUANIA
When You Wake Up
MACEDONIA
Monument to Michael Jackson
MALDIVES
Finger
MALI
Timbuktu
MAURITANIA
Timbuktu
MEXICO
Alice in Marialand
Words with Gods
MOROCCO
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
NEPAL
Refusing Heaven
NETHERLANDS
40 Days of Silence
Maidan
The Tribe
NORWAY
Daughter
The Double Life of Veronique
Everlasting Moments
I Am Yours
Letter to the King
The Look of Silence
Miss Julie
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence
PAKISTAN
Daughter
Peru
The Gospel of the Flesh
POLAND
Decalogue 1I Am the Lord Thy God
Decalogue 2- DWA
Decalogue 3- TRZY
Decalogue 4- Honour Thy
Father and Thy Mother
Double Life of Veronique
Field of Dogs
Foreign Body
Ida
A Short Film about Killing
Three Colours: Blue
QATAR
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
ROMANIA
Queen and Country
Roxanne
RUSSIA
The Fool
Foreign Body
I Won't Come Back
Journey to the Mother
Leviathan
The Postman's White Nights
Silent Souls
White Moss
SERBIA
Monument to Michael Jackson
SOUTH AFRICA
Four Corners

105
83
178
40
40
49
231
85
182
112
159
100
176
196
152
68
74
158
81
143

176
61
192
193
194
195
196
119
139
70
197
198
85
88
90
56
139
69
72
33
87
229
106
83
58

SOUTH KOREA
The Bird who Stops in the Air
El Condor Pasa
A Hard Day
Himalaya, Where the
Wind Dwells
I Came from Busan
My Right to Ravage Myself
One on One
Pink
Time Between Dog and Wolf
With the Girl of Black Soil
SLOVAKIA
Mirage
SPAIN
Still the Water
SRI LANKA
The Singing Pond
SWEDEN
Beyond-Beyond
Everlasting Moments
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence
A Second Chance
Turist
SWITZERLAND
My Name is Salt
Smoking/ No Smoking
The Wonders
Three Colours: Blue
TAJIKISTAN
40 Days of Silence
Sex & Philosophy
TAIWAN
What Time is it There?
TANZANIA
White Shadow
THAILAND
The Teacher's Diary
Tropical Malady
TURKEY
Consequences
Fish
The Lamb
Sivas
Winter Sleep
UAE
Letter to the King
UK
Daddy's School
The Face of an Angel
Gandhi
The Imitation Game
Jimmy's Hall
Miss Julie
Mr. Turner
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
The President
Queen and Country
UKRAINE
The Guide
Maidan
The Tribe
URUGUAY
Mr. Kaplan
USA
Adventures of American Yogi
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

212
213
63
214
215
216
142
217
218
219
34
144
183
240
152
143

Cold in July
50
Daughter
176
Foxcatcher
59
The Godfather
252
The Hero of Colour City
242
The Imitation Game
71
Limelight
222
Mr. Kaplan
35
Nuoc 2030
37
Ram Dass - Fierce Grace
232
Rocks in My Pockets
244
The Theory of Everything
97
Two Step
102
A Woman of Paris
223
Words with Gods
231
UZBEKISTAN
40 Days of Silence
112
VIETNAM
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere 55
Nuoc 2030
37

94
101
160
254
108
198
112
207
230
107
96
234
51
29
73
95
145
74
202
137
250
71
123
81
140
85
44
88
62
159
100
35
233
248
261

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