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JESUS
2016/France, Chile, Germany,
Greece, Colombia/
Spanish/83’
A film by Fernando Guzzoni
Santiago, Chile. Jesús, 18, lives alone with
his father Hector in a flat where the TV
covers up their inability to communicate.
The rest of the time, he dances in a K-pop
band, hangs out with friends and does
drugs, watches trashy clips and has sex
in public places, looking for a thrill. One
night, he finds it with his friends, being
involved in an irreversible misadventure.
If this event will make Jesús and Hector
closer than ever, it will also tear them apart
forever.
Cast: Nicolás Durán,
Alejandro Goic, Gastón Salgado, Sebastián Ayala, Esteban
González
2016: Toronto IFF | Discovery • Official Selection
2016: San Sebastian IFF | Official Selection
Developed in Torino Film Lab by the director of the multi-awarded
Dog Meat.
NEW
6.9 ON THE RICHTER
SCALE
2016/Romania, Hungary,
Bulgaria/Romanian/110’
A film by Nae Caranfil
A humble Romanian actor in his 40’s,
hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed
wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake,
becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
Cast: Teo Corban,
Laurentiu Banescu,
Maria Obretin,
Alexandru Papadopol, Adrian Vancica
2016: Transilvania IFF (Romania) | Opening Screening
NEW
MY FIRST HIGHWAY
2016/Belgium/Flemish/82’
A film by Kevin Meul
During family holidays in Spain, Benjamin falls in love with an intriguing
local girl.
Being both outsiders, they are strongly attracted to each other. After
one night wandering together, she
shares her darkest secret with him:
she needs to find the man who
raped her.
They leave for a trip Benjamin will
never forget.
Developed in Torino Film Lab.
Cast: Aäron Roggeman, Romy Louise
Lauwers, Charlie Vanhoof, Mathias Sercu,
Natali Broods.
UPCOMING
THICK LASHES OF
LAURI MÄNTYVAARA
2017/Finland, France/
Finnish/95’
A film by Hannaleena Hauru
Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara is
a story of two teenage girls, who are
fed up with capitalism and want to
sabotage posh summer weddings in
the Finnish archipelago. Their plans
change when one of them falls in
love with a hockey player.
Thick Lashes will take you into an
hormone storm.
Cast: Inka Haapamäki, Rosa Honkonen,
Tiitus Rantala, Santeri
Mäntylä, Peter Kanerva ja Samuli Vauramo
Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara is a debut feature written and directed by Hannaleena Hauru, whose short films have premiered in Berlinale
Generation and Cannes Critics’ week. The film was developed in Torino
Film Lab and Cinefondation Residence. The producer Jussi Rantamäki’s
previous feature film, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won the prix
un Certain Regard in Cannes 2016.
THANK YOU FOR
BOMBING
2015/Austria/English,
German/100’
A film by Barbara Eder
Three international TV correspondents cross paths while waiting
for a war that has already begun
long ago in their own lives.
Cast: Manon Kahle,
Erwin Steinhauer,
Raphael von Bargen,
Mohammad Jamil
Jalla, Tamer Abdel
Rahim, Saxton Stewart
Main festivals
2015: Toronto IFF | Contemporary World Cinema
2015: Zurich Filmfestival
2015: Thessaloniki IFF
2015: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2016: Göteborg IFF
2016: Hong Kong IFF
2016: Filmkunstfest | Main Prize «Flying Ox»
BANANA
2014/Italy/Italian/90’
A film by Andrea Jublin
The story of a naive young boy, not
that good at school, trying to win a
girl’s love. A football fan with a foot
with the shape of a banana, who
points out the more difficult, honest
and vital road to happiness.
Cast: Marco Todisco,
Beatrice Modica,
Anna Bonaiuto, Giorgio Colangeli, Camilla
Filippi, Gianfelice
Imparato, Giselda
Volodi
Main festivals
2015: Festival du Film italien d’Annecy
2016: Festival Ciné Junior | Art Cinema Award (CICAE)
2016: Cannes | Ecran Junior Selection
2016: Melbourne IFF
2016: Stockholm Junior IFF
2016: Sarajevo Film Festival
NECKTIE YOUTH
2015/South Africa,
Netherlands/Afrikaans, English/86’
A film by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer
Haunted by the memory of Emily,
a girl who live-streamed her suicide
one year ago, Jabz and his best
friend September go on a drugfueled joyride through the affluent
suburbs of Johannesburg.
Cast: Bonko Khoza,
Sibs Shongwe-La
Mer, Colleen Balchin,
Kamogelo Moloi,
Emma Tollman, Jonathan Young, Kelly
Bates
Main festivals
2015: Berlinale | Panorama
2015: Tribeca Film Festival | Narrative Competition
2015: Durban IFF | Main Competition • Best South African Feature
Film, Best Director
2015: BFI London Film Festival | Journey
2016: Göteborg IFF
THE GREATEST HOUSE
IN THE WORLD
2015/Guatemala,
Mexico/Spanish/74’
A film by Ana V. Bojorquez & Lucia Carreras
When her pregnant mother starts
having premature contractions,
Rocio finds herself on the adventure
of a lifetime: she is sent to drive their
herd of sheep across the mountainous pastures all on her own.
Cast: Marco Todisco,
Beatrice Modica,
Anna Bonaiuto, Giorgio Colangeli, Camilla
Filippi, Gianfelice
Imparato, Giselda
Volodi
Main festivals
2015: Berlinale | Generation
2015: Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival
2015: Festival de Biarritz Amérique Latine
2015: Stuttgarter Kinderfilmtage
2015: Chennai International Film Festival
2015: Festival International du Film de Fribourg
2016: Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse
FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE
2014/Vietnam,France,
Germany,Norway/Vietnamese/98’
OF NOWHERE
A film by Nguyen Hoang
A teenage girl gets knocked-up; she
has to work as a prostitute to have
money for the abortion since the
young father of the baby is useless.
Ironically, the only man willing to
give her money is crazy about her
pregnant belly. It gets more complicated when he makes her so happy
that sometimes she forgets that the
baby is growing bigger inside her.
Main festivals
2013: Toronto IFF | Discovery
2014: Venice | Critics Week
2015: Göteborg IFF
2015: Helsinki Cine Aasia
2015: Fribourg IFF
Cast: Nguyen Thuy
Anh, Tran Bao Son,
Hoang Ha,
Pham Tran Thanh Duy
THE JUDGMENT
2014/Bulgaria/Bulgarian/95’
A film by Stephan Komandarev
ACADEMY AWARDS 2016 BULGARIAN OFFICIAL ENTRY
Mityo and his son Vasko live in a poor
area, near to the Bulgarian-TurkishGreek Border. Mityo had lost everything that has mattered to him - his
wife, his work, the confidence of his
son. In order to get him back, he has
to find forgiveness and pay for his sin,
done 25 years ago.
Cast: Assen Blatechki,
Miki Manojlovic,
Ovanes Torosian
Main festivals
2014: Sofia IFF
2014: Warsaw Film Festival | International Competition
2014: Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival | Competition • Best Film and Best Actor
2014: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2015: 18th Annual European Union Film Festival of Chicago
NUOC 2030
2014/Vietnam/Vietnamese/98’
A film by Nghiem-Minh Nguyen Vo
In a near future Vietnam where
global warming and rising seawater
levels have forced cultivation to be
done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical
decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband’s murder.
Cast: Quynh Hoa,
Quy Binh, Thach Kim
Long, Hoang Tran
Minh Duc, Hoang Phi
Main festivals
2014: Berlinale | Panorama • Opening film
2014: Durban IFF
2014: Busan IFF | A Window on Asian Cinema
2014: Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo
2014: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
WHITE SHADOW
2013/Tanzania, Germany,
Italy/Kiswahili/115’
A film by Noaz Deshe
The story of Alias, a young Albino on
the run, hunted by local witch doctors who use Albinos body parts for
their potions.
Cast: Hamisi Bazili,
James Gayo, Glory
Mbayuwayu, Salum
Abdallah, Tito D.
Ntanga, Riziki Ally,
James P. Salala, John
S. Mwakipunda.
Main festivals
2013: Venice Film Festival | Critic’s Week • The Luigi De Laurentiis
Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Film
2014: Sundance Film Festival | World Competition
2014: Göteborg IFF
2014: Rotterdam IFF
2014: Transilvania IFF • Special Jury Mention
2014: Era New Horizons Wroclaw IFF | Competition • Best Film,
Audience Award
I AM YOURS
2013/Norway/Norwegian,
Swedish/96’
A film by Iram Haq
Mina is a young single mother living
in Oslo with her 6 year old son Felix.
She is of Norwegian Pakistani descent with a troubled family relationship. Constantly looking for love,
Mina seeks affection from the men
she hooks up with. However, none
of the relationships bear any hope
of lasting very long. So when Mina
meets Jesper, a Swedish film director,
she falls head over heels in love.
Cast: Amrita Acharia,
Ola Rapace, Tobias
Santelmann, Trond
Fausa Aurvåg, Rabia
Abid Ali
Main festivals
2013: Toronto IFF | Discovery
2013: Les Arcs European Film Festival • Special Jury Mention
2014: Palm Springs IFF | Competition • Special Jury Mention
2014: Göteborg IFF | Nordic Competition
2014: Belgrade Film Festival|Europe out of Europe • Best film
2014: Brasília IFF | Panorama Mundi • Best Film and Best Actress
THIS IS SANLITUM
2013/China, Iceland/
English/94’
A film by Robert I. Douglas
Gary is in Beijing to make it big, after
failing to impress his Chinese investors
he soon takes up English teaching
and life lessons from Frank, an incompetent mentor. Gary’s real reasons
for staying become apparent when
his son and Chinese ex-wife enter the
picture.
Cast: Carlos Ottery, Ai
Wan, Hu Gaoxiang,
Christopher Loton,
Cromwell Cheung
Main festivals
2013: Toronto IFF | Contemporary World Cinema
2013: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
DIE WELT
2012/Netherlands/Arabic, Dutch/95’
A film by Alex Pistra
Abdallah, a young DVD salesman
from Tunis, is dreaming of a better life
in Europe, or Die Welt, as his father
calls the other side of the Mediterranean.
Cast: Abdelhamid
Nawara, Mohsen
Ben Hassen, Ilse Heus,
Judith van der Meulen, Kamel Ben Khalfa,
Rahma Ben Hassen
Main festivals
2013: Rotterdam IFF | Bright Future
2013: New Directors / New Films | Official Selection
2013: Brussels Film Festival | Panorama
2013: Edinburgh IFF | World Perspectives
2013: East End Film Festival | Best Feature Competition
2013: Chicago IFF | World Cinema • Spotlight Africa
2014: Durban IFF
SOLDATE JEANNETTE
2013/Austria/German/79’
A film by Daniel Hoesl
Fanni has had enough of money and
leaves the city. Anna has had
enough of pigs and leaves the farm.
In the new game Fanni rolls the dice,
while Anna does not think twice. Differences appeal to them and they
move on cheerfully toward a newfound freedom.
Cast: Johanna OrsiniRosenberg, Christina
Reichsthaler, Josef
Kleindienst, Bettina
Köster, Julia Scranz
Main festivals
2013: Sundance Film Festival | World Cinema Dramatic Competition
2013: Rotterdam IFF| Hivos Tiger Awards Competition • Hivos Tiger
Award
2013: Göteborg IFF
2013: New Directors / New Films
2013: Sydney Film Festival
2013: East End Film Festival | Best Feature Competition
2013: Sevilla European Film Festival
LEONES
2012/Argentina, France,
Netherlands/Spanish/82’
A film by Jazmín López
Deep in the forest a group of five
friends wander around like a lion
pack.
Lost in their word games, they play
and seduce each other while going
back and forth into adulthood territory, in a desperate search to avoid
their already written story.
Cast: Julia Volpato,
Pablo Sigal, Macarena del Corro, Diego
Vegezzi, Tomás Mackinlay
Main festivals
2012: Venice Orrizzonti
2012: Festival de Cine de Sevilla
2013: Rotterdam IFF
2013: New Directors / New Films
2013: Indielisboa - International Independent Film Festival
2013: Thessaloniki IFF
BOY EATING THE BIRD’S
FOOD
2012/Greece/Greek/90’
A film by Ektoras Lygizos
Based on the novel «Hunger» by Nobel Prize Knut Hamsun
ACADEMY AWARDS 2014 GREEK OFFICIAL ENTRY
A 22-year-old boy in Athens has no
job, no money, no girlfriend and no
food to eat, but he’s got a canary
bird and a beautiful singing voice.
Cast: Yannis Papadopoulos, Lila Baklesi,
Kleopatra Perraki,
Vangelis Kommatas,
Kharalambos Goyos
Main festivals
2012: Karlovy Vary IFF | Official Selection • Competition • Special Mention to Yannis Papadopoulos
2012: Thessaloniki IFF | Main Program Competition • Best Actor Award & FIPRESCI International Critics award
2012: Tallin Balck Nights Film Festival | Official Competition EurAsia
2013: Rotterdam IFF | Bright Future
2013: Göteborg IFF
CRAWL
2012/France/French/95’
A film by Hervé Lasgouttes
Crawl tells the emerging romance
between Martin, a young man living
on casual jobs and small robberies,
and Gwen a dedicated swimmer
who trains every day in high-sea.
Their lives changed when she gets
pregnant and he is charged with
murder.
Main festivals
2012: Venice Days
2013: Palm Springs IFF
2013: Göteborg IFF
Cast: Swann Arlaud,
Anne Marivin, Nina
Meurisse, Gilles Cohen, Jean-Marie Frin
OXYGEN
2010/Belgium, Netherlands/Dutch/96’
A film by Hans Van Nuffel
Tom and his brother Lucas are young
men who suffer from cystic fybrosis, a
genetic disease that slowly destroys
their lungs. Tom is struggling to cope
with his short life expectancy and
hangs around with a gang of hoodlums. In the hospital, he meets
Xavier, a young man suffering from
the same illness but behaving like a
top athlete...
Cast: Stef Aerts, Wouter Hendrickx, Marie
Vinck, Anemone
Valcke
Main festivals
2010: Rome Film Festival | Alice nella città • Marco Aurelio Nella
Città Prize
2010: Sevilla European Film Festival | Official Selection
2010: Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs | Official Selection
2011: Palm Springs IFF | Official Selection
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