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Catalogue
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18th International Documentary
Market Amsterdam
idfa.nl
22 – 29 NOV
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18th International Documentary Market Amsterdam
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Contents
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Becoming Traviata
52
Belleville Baby
53
A Better Life
54
Bettie Page Reveals All!
55
Beyond Wriezen
8
1 Map for 2
56
Big Men
9
10% - What makes a Hero?
57
Birsen
10
13 Factors That Saved Apollo 13
58
Blood
11
15 Attempts
59
Blood Ties
12
1711 Videos - Trespassing Bergman
60
Bloody Sands of Libya
13
20 Farmers Hit Fame - No Business Like Show Business
61
Borders
14
69: Love Sex Senior
62
Boundary
15
Abu Haraz
63
Boys Don’t Cry
16
Ai Weiwei The Fake Case
64
Boys Will Be Boys
17
Albert Cinema
65
Brasslands
18
Album 61
66
Brave Miss World
19
Alcan Highway
67
Bring the Sun Home
20
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
68
Broadcasting the End - A Tale About a Magic Mountain
21
The Alien’s Dream: Story of a Political Prank
69
Broken Silence
22
All Out War
70
Broken Song
23
Almost 18
71
Bureau 06 - The Architects of the Trial
24
Alphabet
72
Butterfly Stories
25
Alphée of the Stars
73
Captive Hearts
26
America’s Longest War
74
Carbon Crooks
27
American Commune
75
Casting By
28
American Vagabond
76
Celebration
29
Ana Ana
77
Cesar´s Grill
30
And That’s Why I’m Working, 14 Years Later
78
Chasing Fortune
31
Argentina, the 500 Stolen Babies of the Dictatorship
79
Checkpoint Molenhoeve
32
Ariel
80
#chicagoGirl – The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
33
Art / Violence
81
The Circle
34
The Art of Becoming
82
Circus Is My Home
35
As the Palaces Burn
83
Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
36
As Time Goes By in Shanghai
84
Come Hell or High Water: Corollary of the BP Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
37
Ashes
38
Asier and I
85
Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor
39
Authenticized
86
The Condemned
40
Awake in a Bad Dream
87
Coney Island Dreams for Sale
41
Away From All Suns
88
Contact - Magnum Photos
42
Back to Freedom
89
The Contemplator
43
Backlight: Greece is the Answer
90
The Crash Reel
44
Backlight: Tech Man
91
Crossing Bridges
45
Backlight: The Value of Your Personal Data
92
Cutie and the Boxer
46
Bad Coyote
93
Dance My Heart Out
47
Baisikeli - The Story of an African Cycling Team
94
Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus
48
Barre’s Silence
95
The Dark Side of a Pill
49
Bastards
96
Days at the Lennon Park
50
The Battle of the Sexes
97
The Death of Jaime Roldós
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Debra Milke
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99
Defiant Requiem
146 First to Fall
100 Dementia and Then
147
101
148 Footprints of War
Deported eps.1: Children of War
Flowers of the Frontier
102 Desert Runners
149 Forest of the Dancing Spirits
103 La Deutsche Vita
150 Forget Me Not
104 The Devil’s Lair
151
A Fragile Trust
105 A Diary of a Journey
152
Free China: The Courage to Believe
106 Dirty Wars
153
Frogs in Boiling Water
107 DK
154 From Iran, A Separation
108 Do the Math
155
109 DOC25: Daddy Doll
156 Gangster of Love
110
DOC25: Florentijn Hofman, Larger than Life
157
The Garden of Eden
111
DOC25: Wild Boar
158
Genetic Roulette
112
Dollars for a Saint
159 Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way
113
Dream Islands of Europe: Capri, Ischia, Procida
160 The Ghosts in Our Machine
114
Eagle Boy
161
115
Earth’s Children
162 Go Grandriders
116
East Punk Memories
163 The Good Son
117
Ecopolis China
164 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
118
Emptying the Skies
165 Grey City
119
Endless Escape, Eternal Return
166 Gut Renovation
Fulmaya, The Girl with Skinny Legs
A Girl and a Gun
120 Erebus: Operation Overdue
167 Handa Handa 4
121
Escaramuza: Riding from the Heart
168 Happiness
122
Eugenic Minds
169 The Happy Sad Route (and a Comedian)
123
Europe in 8 Bits
170 Harvest of Empire
124 Everybody Street
171
A Helping Hand
125
172
HERB & DOROTHY 50X50
126 Everything Is Possible
173
Here Comes Uncle Joe
127
Exile - A Myth Unearthed
174
The Hidden Adze: NZ in Afghanistan
128
Expedition to the End of the World
175
Hidden Wounds
Everyday Rebellion
129 Facing Fear
176 Hill of Pleasures
130 Farewell to Hollywood
177
131
Fata Morgana
178 Homegoings
132
Father and Son
179 Hometown | Mutonia
133
Father and Son on a Journey
180 The Horses of Fukushima
134
Father Figures
181
135
Father’s Garden – The Love of my Parents
182 Houses for All
Hilton! - Here for Life
House of Fun
136 Fatherland
183
137
FC Rwanda
184 How to Become a Sexual Giant
138
Feeding Frenzy: Global Food Marketing & the Rise 185
of a Health Epidemic
186 The Human Experiment
How I Came to Hate Maths
How to Lose Your Virginity
139 FEMEN, Women Warriors
187 The Human Horses
140 The Fifth Sun
188 The Hunting of The Snark
141
189 I Am a Girl
Final Destination
142 Finding Hillywood
190 I Am Innocent
143
191
Finding Vivian Maier
144 The Fine Art of Mirroring
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First Comes Love
I Love Venice
192 I Used to Dance
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193 I Will Be Murdered
241 Linar
194 I Will Not Lose
242 Linsanity
195 I, Afrikaner
243 The Lithium Revolution
196 Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
244 Little Hanoi
197 Ignasi M.
245 Little Land
198 In God We Trust
246 Little Miss Piggy
199 In No Great Hurry
247 Lost and Sound
200 In the Dark Room
248 Love
201 An Inconsolable Memory
249 The Love Police
202 Informant
250 Lucky Devils
203 InRealLife
251
204 Internal Combustion
252 Magic Camp
205 The Irresistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi
253 Majesty
206 Jackie without Jack
254 Maksimovic. The Story of Bruno Pontecorvo
207 Janapar: Love on a Bike
255 The Man Who Made Angels Fly
208 Jens Jensen The Living Green
256 The Man Whose Mind Exploded
209 Jingle Bell Rocks!
257 Manja, a Life Behind Invisible Bars
210 Joanna
258 The Manor
211
Johnny Cash: Song By Song
259 Master of the Universe
212
Journey to Jah
260 Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
213
Journey to Oblivion: The Empress of Ireland Story
261 Mattanja Joy
Madame Tyson
214 Journey to the Safest Place on Earth
262 Mboko, The Street Child
215
263 Medals & Spikes
Joystick Warriors: The Truth about Violent Video Games
216 Karl Ove Knausgård – after My Struggle
264 Medulla
217
265 Men with Balls
Karma Shadub
218 Killer Drones and Secret Wars
266 Menstrual Man
219 Killing Time
267 Mercedes Sosa, the Voice of Latin America
220 Kismet
268 Messages By Music - Senegal in Transition
221
269 Microtopia
Kiss the Water
222 Koch
270 Midnight Butterfly - The Last Days of Priscilla
223 The Lab
271
224 Land of Absence - meeting Adonis
272 Miles & War
225 The Last Black Sea Pirates
273 Mirage Men
226 The Last Catch
274 Misha and So On
227 The Last Ocean
275 Mission Congo
228 The Last Song Before the War
276 Mo Yan – The Nobel Laureate 2012
229 The Last Standing
277 Mona Lisa is Missing - The Man Who Stole The Masterpiece
230 Laurel and Hardy - Their Lives and Magic
278 Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
231
279 Monk with a Camera
Layla’s Melody
Midsummer Night’s Tango
232 The Lesson
280 More Than Honey
233 Let the Fire Burn
281 Mothers
234 A Letter to Nelson Mandela
282 Mothers Don’t Jump from Buildings
235 Letters to Zohra
283 The Mothers of Munch
236 The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
284 Moving Stills - Kadir van Lohuizen
237 A Life Exposed: Robyn Beeche
285 Mr. Angel
238 Life Sentences
286 The Mulberry House
239 Light Fly, Fly High
287 My Arab Friend
240 Like an Open Sky
288 My German Children
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289 My Kith and Kin
337 Powder
290 My Name is Salt
338 Powerless
291 My Stolen Revolution
339 Profilers - Gaze Into The Abyss
292 My Stuff
340 Project Wild Thing
293 My Way
341
294 My Way to Olympia
342 Pushing Back the Clock: Israel’s Secret War against Iran
295 Mythmaking
343 Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
296 Naked Opera
344 Pussy Versus Putin
297 Narco Cultura
345 Putin’s Games
298 Ne Me Quitte Pas
346 Putin’s Olympic Dream
299 Neighborhood
347 The Queen
300 The Network
348 Rasmus, Cormonauts and...
301 New Boobs
349 Raw Herring
302 Night of the Predators
350 Ready to Fly
303 The Night We Suppose
351
304 No Fire Zone
352 Regina
305 No Land No Food No Life
353 Return to Homs
306 Nora Noh
354 Rêve Kakudji
307 The Nose
355 Rings of Life
308 Not Criminally Responsible
356 The River
309 Nowhere to Call Home - A Tibetan in Beijing
357 The Road A Story of Life and Death
310 NURSERY and the world
358 The Road to Fame
311
Occupy: The Movie
359 Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
312
The Old House
360 Roque Dalton, Lets Shoot the Night!
313
Olga - To My Friends
361 Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s
The Punk Singer
Red Ant Dream
314 One Minute for Conductors
362 Science at the Top of the World
315
363 Sea of Ice
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
316 Only the Young
364 A Self-Made Man
317
365 A Separation
Opening Act
318 Our Curse
366 Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars
319 Our Nixon
367 Shado’man
320 Out in East-Berlin
368 The Shark’s Eye
321
369 She is My Husband
Overdose - Run for a Dream
322 Oxyana
370 The Shebabs of Yarmouk
323 Pandora’s Promise
371
324 Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
372 The Silence of the Flies
325 Parts of a Family
373 A Silent Killer
326 Photo-Eddy
374 Silicon Wadi - A Hightech Soap Opera
327 Pink Elephants
375 Silvio Rodríguez, Ojalá
328 Pipeline
376 Sing Me the Songs that Say I Love You
329 A Place at the Table
377 Sir Ivan: I Am Peaceman
330 A Place to Live
378 Sister, Soldier
331
379 SIX DAYS: Three Women. Three Wars. One Dream.
Playing with Fire
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332 Playing with Shadows
380 Sleeping Souls
333 Plot for Peace
381 Slow Food Story
334 La Politica
382 Slut Phobia?
335 Ponevezh Time
383 Smash & Grab - The Story of the Pink Panthers
336 Population Boom
384 Somm
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385 Song from the Forest
433 Viva Cuba Libre - Rap Is War
386 Soul Food Stories
434 The Voice of the Master
387 The Soul of the Lion - Healing Zimbabwe
435 Voices of El Alto
388 Sound of Torture
436 The Wagner Files
389 Space Metropoliz
437 Waiting Area
390 Speed: In Search of Lost Time
438 The Waiting
391 State 194
439 Walls - a Photographer Between the Lines
392 State Builders
440 The War Campaign
393 State of Play
441 Warwick Davis & The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz
394 A Story of Children and Film
442 Wastrel: Cast Out in Kisumu
395 The Story of Mr. Love
443 We Are Northern Lights
396 Stream of Love
444 The Weather War
397 A Street for the Arts
445 What Nourishes Me Destroyes Me
398 Striplife: a Day in Gaza
446 Whatever Forever: Douwe Bob
399 Suburban God
447 When Elephants Dance, the Grass Gets Beaten
400 Sunflower Seeds
448 When I Am a Bird
401 Super Women
449 When I Walk
402 Surfing the Web of Hate
450 Where is My Son?
403 Surviving the Tsunami - My Atomic Aunt
451
404 Syria Inside
Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
405 Tatanka
452 The White Mare
406 Temptation
453 A Whole Lott More
407 They Killed My Brother
454 Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
408 Thinking Existenz
455 The Wild Years
409 This Ain’t No Mouse Music
456 Wolf on the Drum: A Musical Journey into Kazakhstan
410 Tigers and Men
457 Wolfman
411
Timoteo´s Fabulous Ragged Circus
458 The Women of Courage
412
La Tola Box
459 Women’s Revolution in Yemen
413
Tonight We’ll Become Women
460 Wonder World of Ice
414 Torre David
461 Woodstock in Timbuktu - the art of resistance
415
462 A World Not Ours
Touba
416 Tour Du Faso
463 Wunderkind - Wolfgang Joop
417
464 You’re Gonna Be a Legend, Man
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
418 Trespassing Bergman
465 Zero Waste
419 The Trials of Muhammad Ali
420 Truth Has Fallen
421 Twin Sisters
422 Two at the Border
423 The Ukes in America
424 Ukraine is Not a Brothel; The FEMEN Story
425 Under the Hood
426 The Undertaker
427 The Unknown Known
428 The Unknown Runner
429 Uprising
430 Velvet Terrorists
431
The Violinist of Auschwitz
432 The Visit
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Catalogue No. 58
History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
1 Map for 2
1 Mappa per 2
Danilo Caracciolo, Roberto Montanari
Italy, 2013 color / black and
white, HDcam, 71’
Original Language: Italian
Subtitles: English/Spanish
www.1mapx2.com
1 Map for 2 is a trip through five
continents, 35 countries and 4
revolutions in 1957. An extraordinary
story of the past through the eyes of
two Italian guys on their motorcycles,
a 16mm camera and one pocket map.
They are almost 80 years old now, but
they still dream to ride again the 2
legendary Ducati 175.
Sales / Contact:
Giusi Santoro
POPCult
Production
POPCult
Giusi Santoro
via Pietralata, 3
40121 Bologna
Italy
tel: +39 51 0391746
www.popcultdocs.com
popcult@libero.it
The incredible story of two
Italian motorbiker that made
the world tour in 1957.
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Catalogue No. 18th International Documentary Market Amsterdam
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
10% - What makes a Hero?
Yoav Shamir
Israel, 2013 color / black and
white, HDcam, 90’
Original Language: Hebrew/English
Subtitles: English
What is a true hero? What compels
one to maintain their integrity and go
against the grain to fight for what is
just? The film is an insightful journey
into understanding what makes a
person choose “good” over “evil”.
Against all odds, some people will
always fight for what is just. Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Production
Yoav Shamir Inc.
Yoav Shamir
65112 TEL AVIV
Involved TV Channels:
Yes Docu – Israel,
Israel
BR / ARTE – Germany
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
An insightful journey into understanding what makes a person choose “good”
over “evil”.
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Catalogue No. 465
Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Science / Technology
13 Factors That Saved Apollo 13
Elliot Weaver
England, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: English
If NASA cannot find a way to bring
Apollo 13 home, the Astronauts will
be stranded 200,000 Miles from
earth in their dying ship. With limited
power and supplies on the spacecraft,
NASA teams work around the clock
engineering creative solutions to
overcome carbon dioxide poisoning,
dehydration and the freezing
temperatures of space, to ensure the
crew’s survival.
Using spectacular NASA footage,
interviews with Apollo Space scientists
and stunning visual effects, this film
explores thirteen remarkable factors
that brought the crew safely home and
the story of the courage and ingenuity
that cemented Apollo 13 as NASA’s
finest hour. Sales / Contact:
David Hooper
Espresso TV
Production
Chris Weaver
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: +44 12 73730929
david@espressotv.co.uk
April 13th, 1970, 180.000 Miles from Earth, a devastating malfunction leaves
Apollo 13 leaking precious oxygen and it’s crew of three astronauts facing a
life or death crisis.
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Art / Music / Culture | Experimental | Human Interest / Social Issues
15 Attempts
15 pogingen
Aliona van der Horst
The Netherlands, 2013 color /
black and white, HDcam, 50’
Original Language: Dutch/French
Subtitles: English
Suchan Kinoshita is a Dutch artist with
a German/Japanese background. She
is fascinated by not-understanding
something, letting go of expectations,
loving misunderstanding. Japan
has the concept that the essence of
something reveals itself through an
action. Filmmaker and artist make this
film, or rather, make ’15 attempts’, with
this attitude. During these humorous
ventures, the filmmaker becomes
part of the exploration of her main
character, because ‘concrete poetry
is that which is close to you. ’ Each
attempt gets closer to the core of
Kinoshita’s work: that the confusion
these attempts lead to allows room for
a surprising view on existence.
Sales / Contact:
Monique Busman
De Familie
Production
De Familie
Monique Busman
Schollenbrugstraat 4hs
1091 EX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6633303
www.defamilie.net
info@defamilie.net
15 Attempts is a documentary by Aliona van der Horst about
and with artist Suchan Kinoshita, who is fascinated by notunderstanding something, letting go of expectations and loving
misunderstanding.
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Catalogue No. 62
Art / Music / Culture
1711 Videos - Trespassing Bergman
Bergman’s Video
Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas
Sweden, 2013 color / black
and white, HDcam, 45’
Original Language: English/
Swedish/French/Danish/
German/Japanese/Chinese
Subtitles: English
A light and entertaining look at the
big stories and their makers: having
exclusive access to Bergman’s private
archive with more than 1500 films, an
eclectic collection of films was found,
spanning from the more predictable
ones by Tarkovsky, Bunuel, Truffaut,
to such as ”Blues Brothers”, ”FoulPlay”,
”Jurassic Park” and ”Ghostbusters”.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
Production
Gädda Five AB
Fatima Varhos
8050 Zürich
Co-production:
Pretty Pictures – France,
Switzerland
Gotlands Filmfond – Sweden,
tel: +41 44 3122060
SVT - Sveriges Television
www.firsthandfilms.com
ABInternational Programmes –
stories@firsthandfilms.com
Sweden
Sweden
A new insight into the genius of Bergman and most of all, a portrait of the
greatest filmmakers of today. How they work, why they choose the themes
they keep coming back to and why film is an artform like no other.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
20 Farmers Hit Fame - No Business Like Show Business
Die Wiesenberger
Martin Schilt, Bernard Weber
Switzerland, 2012 color,
video/HDcam, 51’/90’
Original Language: German
Subtitles: English
They’re exactly the kind of Swiss
farmers you’d expect around every
corner in this country. And now, fame
is calling them to travel to China. Will
they vote on it, Swiss style of direct
democracy? Or simply discuss until
all agree? The group might split up
otherwise. . .
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Zeitraumfilm
Robert Müller
Lucky Film GmbH
8050 Zürich
Martin Schilt
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
Co-production:
SRF Schweizer Radio und
Fernsehen – Switzerland,
3sat – Germany
A film about mountain
dwellers who try to remain
authentic, caught between
their traditions and the
glamour of show business.
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Catalogue No. 64
Human Interest / Social Issues
69: Love Sex Senior
69: Liefde Seks Senior
Menna Laura Meijer
The Netherlands, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’
Original Language: Dutch
Subtitles: English
www.zuidenwind.nl/Sexy-Senior
In this documentary several seniors
share their experiences in a disarmingly
moving way, on a subject many of us
can hardly imagine: a sex life at an
older age. Young people primarily shape
the perception society has on sex.
In this documentary the couple Atie
(81) and Kees (83) tell us about losing
their virginity sixty years ago, while
homosexual Hans (85) experiences how
love and sex can go together, Wietske
(72) has just embarked on a new
relationship with Fred (66) and Jeanne
(84) visits a sex shop in search for the
latest vibrator. Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
Zuidenwind Filmproductions
Joost Seelen
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
VPRO Television –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
kaisa.kriek@omroep.nl
The elderly don’t have sex or
fall in love anymore. At least,
that is what we all think. But
is that really the case?
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Abu Haraz
Maciej Drygas
Poland, 2013 color, HDcam, 73’
Original Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Abu Haraz is a small village in the
middle of the desert in North Sudan.
The construction of a huge dam on
the Nile has interfered with the ageold, natural rhythm of the lives of its
residents. The filmmakers have spent
several years with them, observing their
vain attempts to turn back fate.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Krakow Film Foundation
Production
Drygas Production
Maciej Drygas
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
Abu Haraz is a small villagein Sudan. The construction of a huge dam on
the Nile has interfered with the age-old, natural rhythm of the lives of its
residents.
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Catalogue No. 66
Ai Weiwei The Fake Case
Andreas Johnsen
Denmark, 2013 color, 16mm, 85’
Original Language: Chinese
Subtitles: English
Ai Weiwei, the world’s most famous
Chinese artist, has always chosen the
struggle for human rights over a life of
privilege. This film follows Ai Weiwei
after his release from three months
in isolated detention. He is grounded
in his house, on probation and under
tight surveillance and restrictions by
the Chinese authorities. He is met with
a lawsuit, which he soon names ‘The
Fake Case’” referring to the name of
his company “Fake”, but more so to the
false reasons behind the accusations.
During this period of his life, he finds
new ways to express himself in his art.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
DR International Sales
Production
Danish Documentary
Katrine Sahlstrøm
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
An intimate and powerful
film about one of the most
politically influential artists
of today – and the system he
challenges
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Albert Cinema
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Original Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
It all started 5 years ago, when a group
of homeless men living in the Brother
Albert’s shelter began to shoot films, in
which they are the actors, scriptwriters,
directors and cameramen. Their films
have official premieres in cinemas. For
homeless filmmakers these meetings
with their audience are more important
than Oscar ceremonies. Very often
they invite their long gone families and
sometimes… miracles happen.
Sales / Contact:
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Chilli Productions
Production
Chilli Productions
Agnieszka Zwiefka
ul. Stawowa 15/9
50-018 Wroclaw
Poland
tel: +48 60 6136399
www.chilliproductions.com
zwiefka@chilliproductions.com
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Catalogue No. 68
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Album 61
Halil Efrat
Israel, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’
Original Language: Hebrew/Russian/English
Subtitles: English
www.go2films.com/New-Releases/Album-61
The World Chess Championship is a
juicy battle, rife with passion, power
and money. Boris Gelfand has spent
his entire life getting ready for this
moment; he was raised to become
a champion since the age of six. His
father devoted all his life to cultivating
Boris’ chess skills and imposing a
demanding schedule on him. The photo
albums documenting the process tell
the father’s story as much as that of
the son, revealing a simple truth about
a man living his own dreams under
the Soviet regime through his son. Is
becoming a genius worth the price?
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Go2Films Distribution and
Production
Mytv
Aviram Buhris
Marketing
Lee Yardeni
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Yes Docu – Israel
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 2 5831371
www.go2films.com
hedva@go2films.com
Boris Gelfand’s father has
decided to make his son the
world chess champion, while
obsessively documenting the
process. Can any child given
the Soviet education become
a genius?
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Alcan Highway
Aleksi Salmenperä
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam/video, 86’
Original Language: Finnish/English
Subtitles: English
www.deckert-distribution.com/
film-catalogue/alcan-highway/
Most of us probably think that wealth
or love is the key to freedom. Hese,
a Finn in his forties, has something
different in mind. Something much
more practical and at the same time
much more absurd. With the help of
his friends he wants to fix a Cannonball
truck wreck, to build a home on top of
it and to drive it from Wasilla, Alaska
to Vancouver Island in Canada. Alcan
Highway is a film diary of a man making
his dream come true.
A road movie about freedom and
friendship.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
Production
MADE
Ulla Simonen
Co-production:
Mjölk – Finland
YLE – Finland
www.deckert-distribution.com
info@deckert-distribution.com
Alcan Highway is a road movie about dreams, freedom and friendship.
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Catalogue No. 70
Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
Pratibha Parmar
England / USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 84’
www.alicewalkerfilm.com
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth tells the
story of an extraordinary woman’s
journey from her birth in a paper-thin
shack in the cotton fields of Georgia,
to her recognition as a key writer
of the 20th Century. Alice Walker is
a name synonymous with tales of
political activism and groundbreaking
writing. In 1983, Alice became the first
black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
for fiction for her novel, The Color
Purple This documentary chronicles her
life, offering the audience a universal
story of triumph against the odds.
Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Mercury Media
Production
Kali Films
Shaheen Haq
Mercury Media International Ltd, 7
Baseline Studios, Whitchurch Road
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 20 72217221
www.mercurymedia.org
harri@mercurymedia.org
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth,
a definitive biographical
portrait that charts the
legendary icon’s inspiring
journey to international
visibility as one of the most
exceptional writers’ of our
times.
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
The Alien’s Dream: Story of a Political Prank
Il Sogno dell’Alieno
Alberto D’Onofrio
Italy, 2013 color, HDcam, 80’
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/ilsognodellalieno
Alberto D’Onofrio filmed for a year
and turned a group of unknown street
artists into political activists. The
Alien’s Dream, the political movement
d’Onofrio created together with
them, toured the country for months,
staging provocative stunts with the
sole aim of attracting media coverage.
As their policies and stunts became
more outlandish, public support
from rival politicians flooded forward
simply because they were young and
attracting media attention. Many of
the leading politicians welcomed the
group on stage during their political
campaign.
Sales / Contact:
Francesco Tocci
GA&A Productions Srl.
Sky Italia – Italy
Via Cicerone 64
00193 Rome
Italy
tel: +39 63 613480
francescot@gaea.it
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Catalogue No. 72
All Out War
Robert Pilichowski
Canada / Finland / USA, 2013 color
/ black and white, HDcam, 82’
www.alloutwarmovie.com
Somewhere in the world right now,
two people are using every ounce of
their strength, passion and creativity
to destroy each other in combat. This
ritual is called battling, and it’s the
main pillar of one of modern history’s
most explosive subcultures: B boying.
All Out War follows the lives of four
b boys from different positions on
the breaking spectrum. The stories of
Machine, Alien Ness, Dyzee and Casper
intersect at one of bboying’s most
prestigious competitions: The King of
the Ring. Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Cargo Film & Releasing
Production
Jared Lorenz
611 Broadway Suite 630
10012 New York
Canada
tel: +1 240 8883906
www.cargoreleasing.com
dpiperni@cargofilm-releasing.com
All Out War is a feature
length documentary that
follows four bboys. The
stories of Machine, Alien
Ness, Dyzee and Casper
intersect at the renowned
King of the Ring battle.
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Almost 18
Ingeborg Jansen
Original Language: Turkish/
Papiamento/Dutch
Subtitles: English
Who are the boys locked up as ‘young
criminals’, how do they think and how
does youth detention affect them?
This film follows three streetwise
16 and 17 year olds during their time
in detention and the first half year
after their release. From the boys’
perspective the film looks at the efforts
of the juvenile detention center and
of other institutions to change them.
Very different ways of thinking and
living collide. No conlusions are being
drawn. Not yet being 18, the boys are
still children, on the threshold of an
adulthood that can be either ‘normal’
or criminal.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PO Box 26444
Production
Human
Bert Janssens
1202 JJ Hilversum
Co-production:
Industrious Empire Films –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
Human – The Netherlands
www.nposales.com
Rigel, Batanay and Giovanni are streetwise 16 and 17 year olds convicted for
violent robberies. Through their eyes we witness how the systeem tries to
change them.
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Catalogue No. 73
Alphabet
Erwin Wagenhofer
Austria / Germany, 2013 color, HDcam, 107’
Original Language: German/English/
French/Spanish/Chinese
Subtitles: English
This tribute to the human imagination
takes the form of an indictment of
hierarchical education systems aimed
at competition and quantifiable
results. This documentary essay
quotes education expert Sir Ken
Robinson at the start: “I believe that
we systematically destroy this capacity
[for imagination] in our children and in
ourselves. ” The film identifies similar
complaints from China to France.
Sales / Contact:
Michael Weber
The Match Factory
Fernsehproduktion
Balthasarstr. 79-81
Mathias Forberg
50670 Köln
Rommel Film
Germany
Peter Rommel
tel: +49 22 15397090
www.the-match-factory.com
info@matchfactory.de
Ninety-eight percent of all children are born highly gifted.
After schooling, only two percent remain so.
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Prisma Film- und
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Alphée of the Stars
Alphée des étoiles
Hugo Latulippe
Canada, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: French
Subtitles: English
www.nfb.ca
Alphée has a rare genetic disorder that
hampers her development. Yet she
continues to defy medical expectations.
When her parents intuitively reject
the idea of placing her in a specialized
classroom, they move their family to
Europe for a year. Here, her father –
filmmaker Hugo Latulippe – focuses
on his fairy-like daughter’s learning, in
hopes of eventually integrating her into
a regular classroom.
Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
National Film Board of Canada
Production
Esperamos Films
Hugo Latulippe
3155 Cote-de-liesse Road
H4N2N4 Montreal
Colette Loumède
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
www.nfb.ca
c.routhier@nfb.ca
An intimate and revealing
portrait, Alphée of the Stars
puts the spotlight on a most
unusual girl.
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Catalogue No. 77
History | Politics / Society | Investigative
America’s Longest War
Paul Feine
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 65’/52’
www.americaslongestwar.com
Drug prohibition has failed. Usage rates
have not declined and drugs are more
available - and cheaper - than ever
before. At the same time, the costs of
prohibition are staggering. More than
one trillion dollars have been spent.
More than 50,000 SWAT raids occur
each year. Hundreds of thousands
of non-violent drug offenders are
wasting their lives away in prison. And
more than 60,000 people have been
murdered in Mexico over the past six
years. We chronicle how, over the past
40 years, the drug war escalated from
a small domestic program into the
multi-billion dollar international war it
is today. Sales / Contact:
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
Production
Reason TV
Paul Feine
38 Quai du Point du Jour
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
France
tel: +34 63 4869646
www.javafilms.fr
kathryn@javafilms.fr
A brief history of drug prohibition chronicling how, over the past 40 years, the
drugs war escalated from a small domestic program into a multi-billion dollar
international war.
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75
History | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
American Commune
Nadine Mundo, Rena Mundo Croshere
USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’
www.americancommunemovie.com
In 1970, 1,500 hippies and their guru
Stephen Gaskin founded a commune
in rural Tennessee. Members gave up
their savings, grew their own food,
delivered their babies at home and built
a self-sufficient society. Growing up in
this alternative community by a Jewish
mother from Beverly Hills and a Puerto
Rican father from the Bronx, filmmakers
and sisters Rena and Nadine today
return for the first time since leaving
in 1985. Finally ready to face the past
after years of hiding their upbringing,
they chart the rise and fall of America’s
largest utopian socialist experiment
and their own family tree.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Films Transit International Inc.
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Production
Mundo Films
Nadine Mundo
Rena Mundo Croshere
H3L 1A8 Montréal, Québec
Canada
tel: +1 514 8443358
www.filmstransit.com
jan@filmstransit.com
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Catalogue No. 76
American Vagabond
Susanna Helke
Finland / Denmark, 2013
color, video/HDcam, 85’
Subtitles: English
film-catalogue/american-vagabond/
James ran away from his parents’
home because they didn’t accept
that he is gay. He tries to find refuge
in San Francisco with his boyfriend,
Tyler. They thought they would find a
community in the world’s gay Mecca.
Instead, they end up sleeping in a
park and panhandling in the city’s gay
neighborhood. They find themselves
stranded in a world of homeless people
and the community of other kicked-out
queer youth. Eventually, James has to
face his past and the place he has left
behind.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Production
For Real Productions Oy
Cilla Werning
Co-production:
Radiator Film ApS – Denmark
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
American Vagabond is a coming of age story of a gay boy growing up in
small town America.
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture | Experimental
Ana Ana
Corinne van Egeraat, Petr Lom
The Netherlands, 2013
color, HDcam, 75’/52’
Subtitles: Dutch/English
In collaboration with the filmdirectors,
the four main characters film
themselves for two years, after the
revolution in 2011.
They find creative ways to express
what is in their hearts: using metaphors
and cinematic storytelling to transform
their dreams and desires, and the
every-day struggles of their lives into
the sublime. Ana Ana is a story about
the universal yearning for creativity
and freedom of any young person. And
because of the vulnerability of women’s
rights in Egypt today, their story has a
particular urgency.
Music is by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Production
ZINdoc
Corinne van Egeraat
1217 GP Hilversum
Co-production:
Lom Films – USA,
The Netherlands
Daydream Productions –
tel: +31 35 677 3760
The Netherlands
www.nposales.com
NRK – Norway,
YLE – Finland
Ana Ana (I am Me - in Arabic) is a poetic documentary in which four creative
young Egyptian women show their inner worlds.
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Catalogue No. 79
And That’s Why I’m Working, 14 Years Later
Thomas Doebele, Maarten Schmidt
Subtitles: English
www.filmcompagnie.
nl/?p=film&id=36&back=1
Fourteen years after the documentary
That’s Why I’m Working filmmakers
Maarten Schmidt & Thomas Doebele
went back to the children of the slums
of Dhaka, Bangladesh. At the time
the children were able to go to school
in addition to their work. The stories
of the children from the first film are
interwoven with today’s reality: the
hard labor in the textile industry, the
problems involving arranged marriages
and the heavy financial responsibility
for the family. Parents keep to the
traditional norms and values, while
their children are beginning to have
other ideas.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
Production
Filmcompagnie Schmidt en
Doebele
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Angela Dekker
1217 GP Hilversum
IKONTelevisie – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
Fourteen years after the
documentary That’s Why I’m
Working filmmakers Maarten
Schmidt & Thomas Doebele
went back to the children
of the slums of Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
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446
Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Argentina, the 500 Stolen Babies of the Dictatorship
Argentine, les 500 Bebes Voles de la Dictature
Alexandre Valenti
France, 2012 color, HDcam, 93’/54’
Subtitles: Spanish/English
During the bloody dictatorship
in Argentina, the military regime
sequestered pregnant women, made
them give birth, murdered them and
took the babies. 35 years later, a unique
trial starts in Buenos Aires for ‘Stealing
of babies, State Crime and Crime
against Humanity’, the result of 30
years,of fighting by the grandmothers
of the Paza de Mayo to find the 500
stolen babies, their grandchildren. For
the Young people who have found their
real identities a new life began. How
do they deal with these state lies and
find a place in their real families? 107 of
them have been found.
France, The Netherlands, Belgium,
Finland, Switzerland, Greece,
Ireland, Argentina, French
speaking Canada not available.
Sales / Contact:
Christine Klaver
SHK
Production
Bo Travail!
Georges Bonopéra
105, Rue de l’Abbé Groult
Intuition Films & Docs
75015 Paris
Michel Welterlin
France
tel: +33 14 5547979
www.shkdistribution.fr
shk@wanadoo.fr
A unique trial took place in
Buenos Aires, result of the
fighting for 30 years, led
by the grandmothers, to
find back 500 babies, stolen
during the dictatorship.
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Catalogue No. 81
Ariel
Laura Bari
Original Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
www.nfb.ca
When Ariel was just 33, his legs were
shredded by an industrial dough mixer
in Mendoza, Argentina. He became
a living embodiment of the ongoing
duel between man and machine. From
that point on, he began to rediscover
the meaning of freedom: to rebuild
his broken identity, keep his family
together and design his own artificial
legs.
Director Laura Bari (Antoine) has
created an intimate and metaphorical
portrait of Ariel’s newfound
transhumanity, juxtaposing his daily
life with dreamlike inner worlds—and
pushing the boundary between the real
and the imaginary.
Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
Production
Beso Films
Laura Bari
H4N2N4 Montreal
Nathalie Cloutier
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
www.nfb.ca
c.routhier@nfb.ca
An industrial dough mixer shreds Ariel’s legs. He rebuilds his identity
by inventing prosthetic limbs that will carry him toward a new life of
transhumanity.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Art / Violence
Mariam Abu Khaled, Udi Aloni, Batoul Taleb
USA / Palestine / Israel,
2013 color, HDcam, 75’
Original Language: Arabic/English
Subtitles: English
www.artviolence.com
On April 4, 2011, militant artist Juliano
Mer-Khamis was assassinated in front
of the Freedom Theatre which he
founded in the Jenin Refugee Camp.
Art/Violence follows two of his students
from Jenin as they redefine their
identity as artists and women after
his death. Facing military occupation
and societal oppression, they surround
themselves with a group of young and
radical Palestinian artists armed with
fidelity to art, sisterhood and Palestine. Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Production
Mariam Abu Khaled, Udi Aloni,
Batoul Taleb, Aviva Zimmerman
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Co-production:
Dig the Movie LLC – USA
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
Those willing to take risks for
the sake of art will be those
who create the beginnings of
a new art.
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Catalogue No. 82
Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
The Art of Becoming
Hanne Phlypo, Catherine Vuylsteke
Belgium, 2013 color, HDcam, 60’
Original Language: French/
Kurdish/Dari/Dutch
Subtitles: Spanish/English/French/Dutch
www.theartofbecoming.be
The Art of Becoming is a poetical
documentary on three unaccompanied
minors from Afghanistan, Syria and
Guinea, who hope for a stable future in
Europe. Their stories are intertwined:
Fattah toils in Istanbul, hoping to earn
enough for the journey to Greece and
then Italy; Saleh has been living in
Europe for three years but yearns for
his parents; and Mamadou tries to
hang on to his job and his education in
Belgium in spite of having become an
undocumented migrant. Through their
stories the entire cycle of migration is
portrayed.
Sales / Contact:
Hanne Phlypo
Clin d’oeil films
Production
Clin d’oeil films
Hanne Phlypo
Groenejagersveld 65
1320 Beauvechain
Belgium
tel: +32 484 974 442
Co-production:
Caviar films – Belgium
VRT - CANVAS – Belgium
www.clindoeilfilms.be
hanne@clindoeilfilms.be
Three kids on the movie, a
messy past and the hope for
a better tomorrow.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
As the Palaces Burn
Don Argott
Lamb of God has achieved the kind
of success that most bands dream
about — over two million albums sold,
nominated for four Grammy’s and a
strong worldwide following. The film
originally sought to follow the band
and their fans throughout the world.
However, during filming, the story
abruptly took a dramatic turn, dragging
the band into a Kafkaesque nightmare,
when lead singer Randy Blythe was
arrested on charges of manslaughter
for the death of one of their fans.
What followed was a heart-wrenching
courtroom drama that left fans, friends,
and onlookers around the world on the
edge of their seats.
Sales / Contact:
Ben Bassauer
Monoduo Films
Wildenbruchplatz 5
12045 Berlin
Production
9.14 Pictures
Sheena Joyce
Co-production:
Epic Records – The Netherlands
Germany
tel: +49 17 81876787
www.monoduofilms.com
ben@monoduo.net
On a world tour lead singer of Lamb of God, Randy Blythe, is arrested on
charges of manslaughter for the death of a fan. What follows is a heartwrenching courtroom drama.
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Catalogue No. 84
As Time Goes By in Shanghai
Uli Gaulke
Germany / The Netherlands,
Original Language: Mandarin/Dutch
Subtitles: German/English
The oldest band of the world has been
playing every evening at the Peace
Hotel in Shanghai for more than thirty
years. Most members of the band, all
Jazz musicians of the first rank, are
older than 80 years. As Time Goes By
in Shanghai will accompany the oldest
band in the world on their greatest
adventure yet: their appearance at the
North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam,
the most important festival of its
kind. Against the backdrop of great
jazz hymns, the film will chart the
fascinating life stories of these seven
exceptional musicians.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Flying Moon Filmproduktion
Helge Albers
Trappelgasse 4/17
1040 Vienna
Co-production:
CTM LEV Pictures –
Austria
The Netherlands
tel: +43 72 0346934
www.autlookfilms.com
andrea@autlookfilms.com
“The oldest jazz band in the
world” states the Guinness
Book of Records, and they
still play at a Shanghai hotel
every week.
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History | Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture
Ashes
Cendres
Idrissa Guiro, Mélanie Pavy
France / Senegal, 2013 color, HDcam, 75’
Original Language: Japanese
Subtitles: French/Chinese/Spanish/English
As Kyoko Kosaka lies dying in Paris, her
daughter Akiko travels from Japan to
care for her and, after her death, to
arrange the cremation and inheritance.
The film follows Akiko during her lonely
journey, from collecting the urn in Paris
to scattering the ashes in Japan. Part of
Akiko’s mother’s estate is a diary. In this
diary, Kyoko talks – a voice from beyond
the grave – about her motivations for
moving to Paris. Kyoko’s diary excerpts
form a powerful diptych with the
actions of her daughter upon her return
to Japan. A personal story of family ties
and passing through grief and memory
is transformed into an examination of
post-war Japan, the French New Wave
and the desire for freedom.
Sales / Contact:
Idrissa Guiro
Simbad Films
Production
Simbad Films
Idrissa Guiro
Carcicaoli
20251 piedicorti di gaggio
France
tel: + 33 66 0119445
idrissaguiro@hotmail.com
Following the death of her
mother Kyoko in Paris, Akiko
returns her ashes to the land
of her birth, in line with
Japanese tradition.
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Catalogue No. 86
Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society
Asier and I
Aitor Merino, Amaia Merino
Spain / Ecuador, 2013 color,
video/HDcam, 94’
Original Language: Basque/Spanish
www.agenciafreak.com/largometraje/
Asier-ETA-biok-Asier-Y-yo/452
Asier and I grew up in the Basque
Country. One day he disappeared and I
found out he had joined ETA. How could
I explain the reasons that led Asier
to make a decision, which even I had
trouble grasping?
Sales / Contact:
María Esteban
Freak Independent
Hiedra 2C
28036 Madrid
Production
DOXA Producciones
Ainhoa Andraka
Co-production:
Cineatica Films – Ecuador
Spain
tel: +34 91 4111290
www.agenciafreak.com/en/
maria@agenciafreak.com
How could I explain the reasons that led my friend Asier to join a terrorist
group?
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Authenticized
Marijn Kraak
The Netherlands, 2013 color, video, 100’
Original Language: OtjiHerero/English
Subtitles: English
www.authenticized.nl
An increasing number of tourists,
photographers, filmmakers and
television crews travel to the Himba
people in Namibia in search of genuine
experiences and spectacular images.
With their exotic appearance and
traditional way of life, the Himba satisfy
that need - on request and at the right
price. As they become economically
dependent on their own representation,
the Himba now have to live up to their
image, while simultaneously trying
to preserve a culture in transition. In
the midst of this industry of images,
Authenticized observes the groups on
every side of the lens - framing, posing,
paying, preserving.
Sales / Contact:
Karel Poortman
Zuis Film
Tweede Jan Steenstraat 55
Production
Zuis Film
Karel Poortman
Reimer van Tuinen
1074 CK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 45424636
www.zuis.nl
productie@zuis.nl
With their exotic appearance and unique way of life, the indigenous Himba
people of Namibia are a huge attraction for tourists, photographers and
filmmakers. But authenticity comes at a price.
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Catalogue No. 88
Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Awake in a Bad Dream
Wakker in een Boze Droom
Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
The Netherlands, 2013 color,
HDcam/DCP, 56’/114’
Subtitles: English
One in eight Dutch women gets breast
cancer, which means that most people
know someone who struggles with this
life-threatening disease. The area in
which a woman is probably at her most
vulnerable, her most beautiful, proud
and sexy, becomes a source of despair
and rage. For Ingrid, Vicky and Sabrina,
breast cancer takes on various forms.
They are working towards recovery
through often tough and painful
treatments, but are acutely aware that
the disease can rear its ugly head again
without warning. But their sense of
self-esteem is at stake, as well. It has
eroded their sense of femininity. They
feel damaged and insecure. Awake in
a Bad Dream shows, in a very personal
and intimate way, how the women and
their partners try to regain a hold on life
after the diagnosis.
There is a feature length version
of Awake in a Bad Dream
showing in IDFA’s Competition
for Dutch Documentary. This
version is also available on the
Docs for Sale Online website.
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Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Production
Lataster & Films
Marty de Jong
1217 GP Hilversum
Humanistische Omroep –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
If breast cancer threatens your life
your world falls to pieces. Who
helps you with gluing the shards?
Who can you rely on?
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History | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Away From All Suns
Fort von allen Sonnen
Isabella Willinger
Germany / Russia, 2013 color /
black and white, HDcam, 79’/55’
Original Language: German/
English/Russian
Subtitles: English/German
www.awayfromallsuns.de/
Fantastic buildings of the Russian
constructivist era, and three Moscow
citizens who use these buidlings to
pursue their big dreams. Vsevolod
renovates an architectural heritage
building, Elena demonstrates to keep
her apartment block alive, and Donatas
wants to be an avantgarde-artist. The
buildings they live in or live for are more
than a backdrop. They are the trigger for
these fights. A film about how to deal
with historic and personal utopia.
Germany not available.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Schlesische Strasse 29/30
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
Production
Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH
Stefan Kloos
Co-production:
Art-N – Russia
BR / ARTE – Germany
www.riseandshine-berlin.de
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
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Catalogue No. 90
Nature / Environment
Back to Freedom
Lone og Orangutangerne
Anna Katrin Nørgaard
Original Language: Danish
Subtitles: Danish
www.dr.dk/tv/se/lone-orangutangerne/
lone-orangutangerne-tilbage-til-friheden
Lone is about to release her oldest and
most skilled rehabilitated “kids” for
the first time. They will be released in a
piece of primordial rain forest hundreds
of miles away from the secure islands
where they have spent the last 10 years.
Lone is worried. Has she taught the
orangutans the skills they need well
enough for them to survive, or will they
struggle and perhaps die of starvation?
It is time for Lone’s hard work to be put
to the test. After falling ill in 2010, Lone
returned to civilization after many years
in the rainforest.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
Production
DR TV
Bjarke Ahlstrand
0999 Copenhagen C
DR Danish Broadcasting
Denmark
Corporation – Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
Fighting for the survival of
the orangutans for the past
18 years at a rescue center,
Lone Dröscher Nielsen is the
caretaker of more than 600
orangutan in Indonesia.
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Backlight: Greece is the Answer
Alexander Oey
Subtitles: English
Is ailing Greece the start of a new
Europe? New economic models arising
from the ruins of the bankrupt growth
economy and now citizens take their
own control over supply and demand.
Many Greeks are gradually coming to
terms with the collapse of a failing
social and political system. They are
taking matters into their own hands
and addressing crucial issues through
grassroots activism and local collective
action. There are signs of a lifestyle
transformation, incorporating values
and social patterns of the past.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
VPRO
Jenny Borger
Sumatralaan 45
Helen Goossens
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
VPRO Television –
tel: +31 35 6773561
The Netherlands
www.nposales.com
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Catalogue No. 92
Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Backlight: Tech Man
Bregtje van der Haak
Subtitles: English
www.tegenlicht.vpro.nl/
afleveringen/2013-2014/TechMens.html
People are changing along with
advancing technology. Ever present
cameras, from Google Glass to satellite
cameras, are entering into our lives.
How does this affect our personal
experiences? And how will the real and
the virtual merge?
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Marie Schutgens
1217 GP Hilversum
VPRO Television –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
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Production
VPRO Television
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Backlight: The Value of Your Personal Data
Martijn Kieft
Subtitles: English
The personal data that is being
collected by internet companies large
and small has turned into a goldmine.
The applications for this enormous
mountain of data are endless, from
health care uses to marketeers who
can accurately predict your behavior.
But who is making money from it? And
who is the owner of your personal data?
You?!
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Production
VPRO
Helen Goossens
1217 GP Hilversum
VPRO Television –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
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Catalogue No. 94
Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
Bad Coyote
Jason Young
www.nfb.ca
It’s new, it’s fearless, and it’s very real.
A hybrid type of coyote, thought to
be part wolf, has migrated to Eastern
Canada. After a deadly mauling in Cape
Breton, said to be the first such fatal
attack against an adult human, alarm
spreads across Nova Scotia. Trappers,
scientists, sheep farmers and the
mother of the 19-year-old victim, Taylor
Mitchell, weigh in. Increasing media
coverage and reports of coyote attacks
and sightings prompts the provincial
government to issue a controversial
bounty for dead coyotes.
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Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
H4N2N4 Montreal
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
www.nfb.ca
c.routhier@nfb.ca
Production
Paul McNeill
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Baisikeli - The Story of an African Cycling Team
James Walsh
South Africa, 2013 color, video, 27’
www.sinamatella.com/makingfilm/baisikeli/
From the small town of Iten, 2 300m
above the Rift Valley in Kenya, to the
raw energy of Kigali, Rwanda, this is
a story about the potential of African
cycling and it’s ability to restore faith
to this most beautiful, difficult and
enigmatic of sports. Can Africa be
the next cycling powerhouse? What
challenges stand in the way? Who are
the characters? Baisikeli follows the
Kenyan National Cycling team as they
hope to emulate the success of their
running brothers and make a career in
the sport.
USA and Australia have
limited rights available.
Sales / Contact:
James Walsh
Sinamatella Productions
Production
Sinamatella Productions
James Walsh
PO Box 12804, Mill Street
8010 Cape Town
South Africa
tel: +27 82 4112720
www.sinamatella.com
james@sinamatella.com
From the Rift Valley in Kenya,
this is a story about the
potential of African cycling
and it’s ability to restore
faith to this most beautiful,
difficult and enigmatic of
sports.
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Catalogue No. 96
Barre’s Silence
Sokoote Barre
Mehrdad Ahmadpour, Morvarid Peyda
Iran, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’
Original Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English
A documentary fiction which occurs
in an unknown area in north of Iran. In
this area; love, entertains, professions,
concerns and relations among men
are all depend on “Varza”, which is a
specific Bull.
Sales / Contact:
Mahdi Ahmadpour
Unit 5, no 24, Baharan Street
1435814411 Tehran
Iran
tel: +98 912 7628737
mahmadpour@gmail.com
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Production
Mehrdad Ahmadpour,
Morvarid Peyda
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Bastards
Deborah Perkin Media Ltd
Subtitles: English
www.deborahperkin.com/bastards
In Morocco, as in all Muslim countries,
sex outside marriage is illegal. But
what is the fate of the children of those
single mothers? They are outcasts,
condemned to a life of discrimination.
Bastards is the first film to tell this
story from a mother’s point of view as
we follow Rabha through the courts
to legalize her forced marriage, to
register her daughter and to force the
father to accept his child. We witness
extraordinary scenes; the courtroom
lies of her child’s father, Rabha’s
confrontation with her mother, and
finally her triumph in the courts.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
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Catalogue No. 455
The Battle of the Sexes
James Erskine, Zara Hayes
England, 2013 color / black
and white, video, 87’/52’
It was a match made in heaven: she
was the darling of American tennis,
an outspoken activist against sexism
in sport and society; he was the
charismatic, fast talking, hustling
chauvinist showman. Yet their unlikely
‘courtship’, in the midst of a social
revolution, captured the imaginations
of people around the world,
empowered a generation, and changed
sport forever.
Sales / Contact:
Pascal Degove
Goldcrest Films International
65 - 66 Dean St
W1D 4PL London
England
tel: +44 207 4378696
www.goldcrestfilms.com
sales@goldcrestfilms.com
An unlikely ‘courtship’, in the midst of a
social revolution, captured
the imaginations of people around the
world, empowered
a generation, and changed sport forever.
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James Erskine, Victoria Gregory
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Becoming Traviata
Philippe Bériat
French Polynesia, 2012 color,
HDcam/video, 113’
Subtitles: English
How can emotion come to light on the
opera set? Does it come from singing,
acting or music? How can someone
become the incarnation of Verdi’s
masterpiece? Following world famous
French soprano Natalie Dessay from
the first repetitions until the premiere
under the direction of Jean-François
Sivadier, we meet a very special woman,
a piece of art, a myth: ‘La Traviata’.
Sales / Contact:
Films Boutique
Köpenicker Str 184
Production
Les Films Pelléas
Philippe Martin
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 69537850
www.filmsboutique.com
info@filmsboutique.com
How cane motion come to light on the opera set ? Does it come from singing,
action or music?
How can someone become the incarnation of Verdi’s masterpiece?
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Author’s Point of View
Belleville Baby
Mia Engberg
and white, 16mm, 75’
Original Language: French/Swedish
Subtitles: English
www.bellevillebaby.com
Belleville Baby begins with a phone call
from a long lost lover. He tells her he
has spent a long time in jail and that
he is trying to put the pieces of his life
together. He asks her kindly if she could
tell some of her memories from their
common past. She remembers the
spring when they met in Paris, the riots,
the Vespa and the cat named Baby. Mia
Engberg’s latest feature length film
Belleville Baby tells the true story about
love, time and things that got lost along
the way.
Sales / Contact:
Story AB
Production
Story AB
Kocksgatan 31
Tobias Janson
120 65 Stockholm
SVT – Sweden
Sweden
tel: +46 81 56280
www.story.se
tobias@story.se
A long distance call from
a long lost lover makes
her reminisce about their
common past. A film about
love, time and things that got
lost along the way.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
A Better Life
Ali Fegan, Lars-Göran Svensson
Sweden, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’
Original Language: English/Swedish
Subtitles: English
www.svtsales.com/programme-sales/
mission-investigate-a-better-life/
Guest workers from Cameroon have
been systematically exploited in the
reforestation industry in Sweden.
SVT’s current affairs program “Mission:
Investigate” reveals the conditions
the Cameroonians worked under, with
extremely low salaries, illegal fees and
threats from the employer.
Sales / Contact:
Maria Bergenman
SVT - Sveriges Television ABLuleå
Production
ABLuleå
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Ali Fegan
S-10510 Stockholm
Lars-Göran Svensson
Sweden
tel: +46 76 8688252
www.svtsales.com
– Sweden
maria.bergenman@svt.se
Workers from Cameroon
have been systematically
exploited in the reforestation
industry in Sweden. SVT
reveals the conditions the
Cameroonians worked
under, with extremely low
salaries and threats from the
employer.
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Catalogue No. 98
Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Bettie Page Reveals All!
Mark Mori
www.bettiepagerevealsall.com
Bettie Page’s unabashed sexual
expression and provocative fetish poses
set the stage for the 1960s sexual
revolution and ushered in a modern
era in fashion and pop culture. With
her razor sharp wit and Tennessee
twang, Page narrates this documentary
through a rare audio interview revealing
her secret past. Bettie Page Reveals
All! is an intimate look at the rise, fall,
and rise again of one of the world’s
most recognized and controversial sex
symbols
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Single Spark Pictures
Mark Mori
Co-production:
Clifford Schultz – USA
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Bettie Page Reveals All! is an
intimate look at the rise, fall,
and rise again of one of the
world’s most recognized and
controversial sex symbols
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Beyond Wriezen
Nach Wriezen
Daniel Abma
Germany, 2012 color, HDcam, 87’
Subtitles: English
www.nachwriezen.de
Beautifully crafted with intimate
access, Beyond Wriezen is a
mesmerizing look into the patterns
that binds us as a society. The film
follows three young offenders from
the day they are released from Wreizen
prison in Eastern Germany, for a period
of three years. The young men’s new
life begins at the Wriezen station
where they all set out hoping for the
same things: a job, somewhere to
live, a girlfriend, yearning for security,
emotional safety, respect and love. Will
they make it?
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
65112 TEL AVIV
Production
HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam
Marie Ernst
University of Film and Television
‘’Konrad Wolf’’ Potsdam-
Israel
Babelsberg
tel: +972 3 5664129
Catarina Jentzsch
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
Beautifully crafted with intimate access, the film follows three young
offenders from the day they are released from Wreizen prison in Eastern
Germany, for a period of three years.
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Catalogue No. 100
Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Big Men
Rachel Boynton
www.bigmenthemovie.com
Six years in the making, Big Men is
about the struggle for money, acclaim
and oil in Africa. It’s an epic adventure
of high-stakes capitalism, with
shockingly intimate access to company
executives, government officials and
gun-toting militants. The film tracks
two stories: Kosmos Energy, a Dallasbased oil company, discovers Ghana’s
first oil. Can they develop the field and
maximize profits as everyone involved
tries to gain as much as possible?
Meanwhile, chaos unfolds in Nigeria as
militants destroy pipelines, demanding
more money for their people and
causing world crude prices to soar.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Boynton Films
Rachel Boynton
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Six years in the making, Big
Men is about the struggle
for money, acclaim and oil in
Africa.
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Birsen
Karen Kuiper, Pauline van Tuyll
Original Language: Dutch/Turkish
Subtitles: English
www.fairbeeldproducties.nl/birsen
Birsen Basar, a young Dutch-Turkish
woman, is diagnosed with autism
when she is 21. She is relieved to finally
know why she is different. But soon
she realizes that people’s expectations
don’t change. In the Turkish society
little is known about autism, so
she tries to raise awareness for the
problem, publishes two books and gives
presentations. The filmmakers take
us along in Birsen’s life at home, at her
work and with friends. With her mother
she recalls the lonely times in her youth.
Birsen is a vivid portrait of a woman
searching for her way and fighting for
acceptance.
Sales / Contact:
Pauline van Tuyll
FAIRbeeld Producties
Graspieperweide 15
6708 LR Wageningen
Production
FAIRbeeld Producties
Pauline van Tuyll
Co-production:
Birsen Basar – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 51859934
www.fairbeeldproducties.nl
info@fairbeeldproducties.nl
The documentary is already
available in Dutch and Turkish.
A documentary about Birsen Basar, a young Dutch-Turkish woman with
autism struggling to find her way in the Dutch and Turkish society.
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Catalogue No. 102
Blood
Alina Rudnitskaya
Russia, 2013 black and white,
video/HDcam, 59’
Original Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
An old, beat-up minivan with a red
cross on the window is driving around
the Leningrad Oblast. The minivan is
manned by a team of seven people: a
driver, a cashier, a doctor, three nurses,
and a nurses’ aid. This group drives all
over the region buying blood from local
people. Blood donations are worth 850
Russian rubles, which is equivalent to
approximately 20 EUR. For some people
in Russia today going to give blood is
the only way to make money. Blood
is its own bizarre metaphorical litmus
test. The merry-go-round of life shown
through people and their blood.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Production
317 Film
Alina Rudnitskaya
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
For some people in Russia
today going to give blood is
the only way to make money.
The film shows the merry-goround of life through people
and their blood.
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Blood Ties
Blodets Bånd
Pernille Bervald Jørgensen, Christian Sønderby Jespen
Original Language: Danish
Subtitles: English
Blood Ties is about a dysfunctional
family who, despite massive social
problems, share a sense of unity and
love for each other. It is a story about
children, who are forcibly, removed
from home when they are young, and
who return as teenagers to parents
who are still exactly the same as they
always were. It is a film about the
consequences of growing up at the
very bottom of society, exploring the
complex structures of the concept of
family, where neglect and violence goes
hand in hand with a sense of unity and
love.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Production
made in copenhagen
Helle Faber
Co-production:
Vega Pictures – Denmark
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
A strong film about how difficult it can be to break social heritage.
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Catalogue No. 104
Politics / Society
Bloody Sands of Libya
Krvave písky Libye
Ladislav Kabo
Slovakia / Czech Republic,
Original Language: English/Arabic/Slovak
Subtitles: English
She sends her son and daughter back to
Slovakia and then lives through hell on
earth. After two months she decides to
escape on a fishing boat and manages
to organize transport for a seriously
wounded British war photographer.
Her son-in-law Nasri transports him
under heavy fire to the Misurata port.
Nasri and Donka decide to return to
Misurata where there is no food, no
medicaments, water or electricity. Luba
follows them as well. In the middle of
the conflict she faces horrors of the
war, as well as her own conscience and
dramas in her own family.
Sales / Contact:
Svatava Maria Kabo ová
Production
Michael Kabo
Media Film
Media Film
Námestie Hraniciarov 37
Svatava Maria Kabo ová
85103 Bratislava
Slovakia
tel: +420 271 911 621
kabosova@seznam.cz
lovak nurse Luba El Malaheg
came to Libya 20 years ago.
She fell in love and married
a Libyan surgeon and
converted to Islam.
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Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Borders
Grenzen
Jacqueline van Vugt
Original Language: French/Dutch/English
Subtitles: English
www.pvhfilm.nl/borders
Power is not in your own hands at
the border. The guards, will check
your papers, your luggage, your body
and maybe even the inside of your
body. Life is out of your own hands.
Border by border, the film follows the
route from South to North, a route
taken by so many African immigrants.
The subsequent borders are the
protagonists: Nigeria-Niger-Burkina
Faso-Mali-Senegal-MauretaniaMorocco-Spain-France-Belgium-The
Netherlands. The borders change;
the people, the light, the colours, the
temperature, but the influence of
power is always there. The anguish, the
scary thrill, will posses you - being there
– at the borders.
Sales / Contact:
Curien Kroon
Pieter van Huystee Film
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
Production
Pieter van Huystee
IKON – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 4210606
www.pvhfilm.nl
curien@pvhfilm.nl
Filmmaker and cinematographer Jacqueline van Vugt is fascinated by borders.
She follows the route that is taken by many immigrants from West-Africa to
Europe, focussing on each subsequent border.
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Catalogue No. 106
Politics / Society | Experimental | History
Boundary
Fah Tum Pandin Soong
Nontawat Numbenchapol
Thailand / France / Cambodia,
2013 color, video, 96’
Original Language: Khmer/Thai
Subtitles: English/Khmer/Thai
www.mobilelabproject.com
In 2010, filmmaker Nontawat met a
24-year-old workman from Sisaket, a
Thai province bordering Cambodia.
Inspired by the young man’s past
experiences as a soldier serving in the
southern area that includes Bangkok,
this film uniquely sketches images of
the domestic political conflicts between
the pro-Thaksin “Red Shirts” group and
the anti-Thaksin “Yellow Shirts” group,
the on-going border conflict between
Thailand and Cambodia, and people’s
lives along the border.
Sales / Contact:
Mobile Lab
55/211 Prueklada Klong4 Village
Savaipracharatch Rd.
Production
Mobile Lab
Co-production:
Vycky Films – France
12150 Patumthani
Thailand
tel: +66 81 8688153
www.mobilelabproject.com
filmmee@gmail.com
In the past decade, political conflict has shaken its social and cultural
structure. Recently created history.
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Boys Don’t Cry
Teboho Pietersen, Jessica Villerius
The Netherlands / South Africa,
www.underdog.co.za/our_work/television.html
When filmmaker Teboho Pietersen
tries to uncover the lack of emotion
and support shown by his father to his
siblings and himself, he traces this back
to his grandfather, an anti-apartheid
struggle hero who was exiled to
Sweden.
Teboho seeks to understand the deep
impact of his grandfather’s absence on
the family. Teboho travels to Sweden
to get to know his grandfather and his
new family, a man who sacrificed so
much for the freedom of a country he
never returned home to.
Sales / Contact:
Marc Schwinges
Production
Teboho Pietersen
92 3rd Avenue, Melville
Posh Productions
2109 Johannesburg
Jessica Villerius
South Africa
tel: +27 11 4838800
marc@hybriddocs.com
Teboho searches for his grandfather an anti apartheid hero who continues
to live in Sweden. Teboho’s journey chronicles the recurring cycle of loss and
absence that connects his family.
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Catalogue No. 109
Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society | Youth
Boys Will Be Boys
De Echte Jongens Film
Katinka de Maar
Norway / The Netherlands,
Subtitles: English
With a personal analysis of the
upbringing of her son Melle as a cause,
director Katinka de Maar investigates
the needs of boys and the room they
receive for this in our contemporary
society: are boys difficult or are they
burdened by boys’ behavior?
Dutch children attend special
education in larger numbers, and
more boys than girls, than in any other
European country. To what extent does
the Dutch educational system take into
account the needs of boys and their
behavior? Is it useful to test and label
children at such an early stage early in
their development?
Sales / Contact:
Monique Busman
De Familie
Production
De Familie
Monique Busman
Schollenbrugstraat4
1091EX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Co-production:
VPRO – The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6633303
www.defamilie.net
monique@defamilie.net
Are boys difficult or are they
burdened by boys’ behavior?
How do we think as society
about boys and what do they
think themselves?
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Brasslands
Meerkat Media Collective
USA, 2013 color, video, 84’
Original Language: Serbian/English
Subtitles: English
www.brasslands.com
Once a year, a tiny Serbian village
explodes with brass cacophony and
riotous celebration as half a million
music fans descend upon Guca, the
world’s largest trumpet competition.
Amidst a cast of defending Serbian
champions and struggling Roma
Gypsies, an unlikely brass band from
New York City voyages to represent
the United States a decade after NATO
bombs rocked Belgrade. They will be
the first Americans ever to compete at
Guca.
Brasslands offers an intimate and
visceral portrait of how the hopes and
fears of this diverse group of characters
collide in their search for common
ground and musical ecstasy.
Sales / Contact:
Stefan Kloos
Production
Meerkat Media Collective
Rise and Shine
Brasslands, LLC
Schlesische Straße 29/30
Adam Pogoff
10997 Berlin
USA
tel: +49 30 47 37 29 8 0
www.kloosundco.de
stefan.kloos@riseandshine-berlin.de
An eccentric New York brass band, a virtuosic group of Gypsies, and reigning
Serbian champions converge with half a million fans at the world’s largest
trumpet festival in Guca, Serbia.
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Catalogue No. 111
Brave Miss World
Cecilia Peck
USA / Israel, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’
Miss World 1998 was brutally raped
only weeks before she was crowned.
When the news broke she had to face
a difficult and public trial putting her
rapist behind bars. Today, a student of
law, she is going on a tour around the
world to speak about her experience
and motivate women to break the
silence, aware that the impending
parole of her rapist from prison is
coming soon. She begins to turn toward
her faith for solace, and the film finds
her becoming increasingly orthodox.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Production
Inbal Lessner, Cecilia Peck,
Motty Reif
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Reshet TV – Israel
65112 Tel Aviv
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
Israeli beauty queen Linor
Abargil was abducted and
raped in Milan, two months
before being crowned Miss
World in 1998. Now she’s
talking about it, encouraging
others to speak out.
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Bring the Sun Home
Chiara Andrich, Giovanni Pellegrini
Italy, 2013 color, video, 68’/55’
Original Language: Hindi/Spanish/English
Subtitles: Spanish/English/Italian
barefootdocumentary.wordpress.com
Maura and Rosa, two illiterate
women from a village with no light
in El Salvador have just arrived at the
Barefoot College in India to learn how
to make solar panels. They never left
their families and they don’t speak
English. It seems impossible they will
learn.
At the same time in South Peru Jeny and
Paula, just returned from India, show
that the Barefoot College is a place
where the impossible become possible.
They were just wives and mothers, now
they have become solar engineers and
they are traveling from village to village
to bring the sun home. Sales / Contact:
Carol Spycher
Accent Films International Ltd.
Production
Associazione Sole Luna
Lucia Venturato
Rue de la Gare 46
1820 Montreux
Switzerland
tel: +41 79 6318414
www.accent-films.com
cpsycher@accent-films.com
From South America to India
to become solar engeneers.
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Catalogue No. 113
Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Science / Technology
Broadcasting the End - A Tale About a Magic Mountain
Verslag van het einde - een verhaal over een magische berg
Martijn Payens
black and white, DCP, 47’
Original Language: French/English
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/broadcastingtheend
We are counting down to The End
of the World. Next to a tiny village
in the French Pyrenees lies a magic
mountain. After an interview with the
Mayor, a local newspaper prints a story
about the mountain linked with the
upcoming Apocalypse; anyone present
on the mountain, on this predicted
doomsday will be saved from the
downfall. The story soon get’s copied
by other, international media and as
we count down the amount of news
crews increases rapidly. The small
community, faced with an enormous
amount of attention, is forced to take
the necessary precautions.
Sales / Contact:
Martijn Payens
Mp Media
Production
Mp Media
Sarah Haaij
Zocherstraat 23
1054 LR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 20793231
www.martijnpayens.com
info@martijnpayens.com
An apocalyptic tale about a tiny village, it’s boss, men with their cameras and
a magic mountain.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Politics / Society
Broken Silence
De Oogst van de Stilte
Bob Entrop
Subtitles: English/Dutch
www.solfilmprodukties.nl
Roma radio reporter Orhan Galjus, born
in Kosovo, travels through Germany,
Poland and Kosovo. He wants to
know why the Sinti and Roma kept
silent about the “Gypsy Holocaust”.
Orhan speaks with German Sinti
that survived Auschwitz and travels
to unknown Polish commemoration
sites. As the story evolves, the inner
drama of the protagonist develops. He
fears that future generations become
alienated from their roots. What do
they have to do to be taken seriously?
Why do they deny their origin? What
about the current generation? Do
they see the parallels between the
persecution in history and exclusion
and discrimination now?
Sales / Contact:
Raoul de Zwart
ENTROP&DEZWARTFILMS
Production
Scarabeefilms
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
PO Box 1032
ENTROP&DEZWARTFILMS
4810 BA Breda
Raoul de Zwart
The Netherlands
tel: +31 76 5220080
www.solfilmprodukties.nl
video@inbetween.nl
A Roma (Gipsy) reporter
travels through Europe to
find out why his people kept
silent so long about their
‘Forgotten Holocaust’.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Art / Music / Culture
Broken Song
Claire Dix
Ireland, 2013 color / black
Subtitles: English
www.zuccafilms.ie/films/broken-song
GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street
poets, hip-hop artists and songwriters
from north Dublin. For these young
men self-expression in the form of
poetry, rap and song has become a
spiritual experience. Their aim is to
articulate the chaos that surrounds
them and to fight it with their words
alone.
In the end, the place where they live
and their words are one and the same,
constantly in flux, full of darkness
and light. It is proof that suburbs that
have bred murder and hate, have also
inspired poetry and these unlikely
artists are using words alone to fight
back.
Sales / Contact:
Nodlag Houlihan
Zucca Films
Production
Zucca Films
Nodlag Houlihan
2 Kent St, Clonakilty, Co.Cork
NA Cork
Ireland
tel: +353 86 1755678
www.zuccafilms.ie
nodlag@zuccafilms.ie
Broken Song is a
documentary film about
hip-hop music, redemption
and the struggle to find and
articulate meaning in an
often chaotic world.
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116
Bureau 06 - The Architects of the Trial
LISHKA 06
Yoav Halevy
white, HDcam, 58’
Original Language: German/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
www.opendoorsfilms.com/bureau06.php
The dramatic story of “Bureau 06”, the
team of police investigators formed for
the intent purpose of investigating the
grave charges brought up by the Jewish
people against Adolf Eichmann, for the
trial that presented, in 1961, the story
of the Jewish Holocaust in a way that
it had not been told before. This film
tells the unique personal and shared
stories of this team of investigators,
their hardships and the emotional
turmoil they experienced. Among
them is the story of Avner Less, Adolf
Eichmann’s personal interrogator, who
left Israel after the trial and took back
his Germany Identity card.
Sales / Contact:
Michael Treves
JMT Films Distribution
20 Bialik st
Production
OPEN DOORS FILMS, Israel
Yoav Halevy
63324 Tel Aviv
Second Authority for TV & Radio
Israel
– Israel
tel: +972 3 5254782
jmtfilms.com
michael@jmtfilms.com
TV rights Australia not available.
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Experimental | Nature / Environment
Butterfly Stories
Christoph Schuch
English/Thai/Spanish
Subtitles: English
www.butterflystories.eu
Butterfly Stories is a magical trip to the
world of butterfly people all over the
world. The main story is a witty road
trip with the songwriter Wandering
Star on the butterfly trail from Chicago
to Mexico. In his search for inspiration
he follows the spectacular monarch
migration. Other butterfly stories are
about an artist from Ecuador who has
fallen in love with the unseen beauty
of moths, a moth hunter in the Thai
jungle, a Swiss hippie girl living in her
own cocoon or a German guy who just
hates butterflies.
Sales / Contact:
Christoph Schuch
Avanti-Film
Production
Avanti-Film
Christoph Schuch
Nonnenwaldweg 5
65388 Schlangenbad
Germany
tel: +49 61 298272
www.avanti-film.com
chris@avanti-film.com
Butterfly Stories is a magical
trip to the world of butterfly
people all over the world. The
main story is a witty road
trip from Chicago to Mexico.
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118
Captive Hearts
Cativas - Presas pelo Coração
Joana Nin
Brazil, 2013 color, HDcam/DCP, 77’
Original Language: Portugese
Subtitles: English
www.sambaquicultural.com.br/
english/project/captive-hearts/
The story of seven free women who
remain captives in the name of love.
In love with inmates, they live the
limitations of the relationship and
the hope of one day starting a family
outside. The film investigates how
these marriages work, what they are
able to build or destroy in their lives.
The universe of these women is seen by
means of emotional confidences, letters
lovingly decorated and a privileged
access to the intimacy of the couples.
Sales / Contact:
Joana Nin
Sambaqui Cultural
Rua Noel Rosa, 12 / 303
20541-080 Rio de Janeiro
Production
Sambaqui Cultural
Joana Nin
GNT Globosat Channel – Brazil
Brazil
tel: +55 21 35663696
www.sambaquicultural.com.br/
english
joananin.doc@gmail.com
Seven women in love with jail inmates: a story of dedication, restrictions and
hopes. Privileged access to the intimacy of the couples and their love letters.
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Carbon Crooks
Varm Luft for Milliarder
Tom Heinemann
Subtitles: English
At the end of 2012, the Kyoto Protocol
expired. All the countries that ratifed
the protocol have guaranteed that they
will cut down on their carbon emissions
and curb the greenhouse gasses. The
question is: How did they do that? One
solution has been to buy carbon credits.
If a rich country in the developed world
has problems reaching their goals, they
just buy Carbon Credits in the poor
countries.
The international carbon trading
industry has been exposed to massive
theft and fraud in a much larger
scale. According to Europol, fraud that
exceeds more than 5 billion euro.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
Production
Larm Film
Soren Steen Jespersen
0999 Copenhagen C
Co-production:
Heinemann Media A/S –
Denmark
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
An investigative documentary on Climate, Credits and Crooks.
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Casting By
Tom Donahue
USA, 2012 color / black and
white, HDcam, 89’
The film combines personal narratives
from actors and directors – including
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Glenn
Close, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
and John Travolta – with archival
material, to reconstruct the untold
tale of Hollywood’s most invisible and
unheralded profession.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Creative Chaos VMG
Ilan Arboleda
Trappelgasse 4/17
Joanna Colbert
1040 Vienna
Tom Donahue
Austria
Kate Lacey
tel: +43 72 0346934
It puts the spotlight on filmmaking’s unsung heroes – the casting director –
and takes us on a journey through the last half century of Hollywood history
from a new perspective.
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Nature / Environment | Experimental | Author’s Point of View
Celebration
Praznovanje
Dajan Javorac
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2013 color, video, 10’
Original Language: Serbian
Subtitles: English
It’s a cold, snowy day on a mountain.
Milenko, local farmer, is fighting his
way through snow to return to his small
home. Milenko and his mother are
working hard to prepare everything for
Christmas celebration.
Sales / Contact:
Dajan Javorac
GoatRoad
Krfska 126
78000 Banja Luka
Bosnia-Herzegovina
tel: +38 76 5448885
dajan.javorac@gmail.com
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GoatRoad
Dajan Javorac
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122
Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Cesar´s Grill
Darío Aguirre
Germany / Switzerland, 2013
color, video, 88’/52’
Original Language: German/Spanish
www.cesarsgrill.de/
In order to rescue his father’s
ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Darío Aguirre is
traveling back to his homeland Ecuador.
What starts out as a strange debate
about opening times, chips and Excel
spread sheets, develops into a moving
family drama.
Germany, France, German-speaking
Switzerland not available.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Filmtank GmbH
Thomas Tielsch
10997 Berlin
Co-production:
Reck-Filmproduktion –
Germany
Switzerland
tel: +49 30 47372980
NDR/ARTE – Germany,
Schweizer Fernsehen –
Switzerland
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Chasing Fortune
Andrew Nisker
Canada, 2013 color, video, 82’
Chasing Fortune follows the exploits of
former INXS lead singer J. D. Fortune,
examining the roller coaster ride that
was his past rock star life, and the
trials and tribulations of his present.
Following J. D. across North America as
he attempts to gain his lost stardom
back, the film uncovers many hidden
- and surprising - facets of a man
who is most certainly anything but a
stereotype. At times funny, at others
tragic, Chasing Fortune is a beautiful
character study wrapped in a rock and
roll doc.
Sales / Contact:
Phil Prieur
Take Action Films
Production
Take Action Films
Andrew Nisker
867 Dovercourt Rd
M6H2X4 Toronto
Canada
tel: +1 647 8829458
pj.prieur@gmail.com
Chasing Fortune follows
the trials and tribulations of
former INXS frontman J.D.
Fortune as he tries to climb
back up to the level of success
at which he once stood.
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Checkpoint Molenhoeve
Dorothee Forma
Subtitles: English
www.human.nl/programma-45432-
human-doc:-checkpoint-molenhoeve
Military from many nationalities take
part in peace-keeping missions. About
five percent suffers from Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder PTSD afterwards.
In the Dutch village of Veendam UNIFIL
veteran Bert (Lebanon, 1979) wants to
create a meeting place for veterans.
Helped by other vets and using the
motto “five minutes on, fifteen minutes
off” a house is restored.
The lads each have their own war
experiences. Deep down they all miss
the time when they were deployed. We
follow them while they work toward
the grand opening of their safe haven
“De Molenhoeve”.
Sales / Contact:
Elise Beukelman
Human
Production
Human
Elise Beukelman
Hasse van Nunen
p.o. box 135
1200 AC Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6722033
www.human.nl
elise.beukelman@human.nl
In a Dutch village, UNIFIL
veteran Bert (Lebanon, 1979)
creates a meeting place for
veterans, who, although
marked by their experiences,
deep down miss the time
when they were deployed.
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#chicagoGirl – The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
Joe Piscatella
USA / Syria, 2013 color, HDcam, 74’
Subtitles: English
From the Chicago suburbs, Ala’a, an
American teenage girl, helps run the
revolution in Syria. Through social
media she coordinates for Aous, a
student in Damascus who braves
snipers to organize protests, and Bassel,
a film student who left his scholarship
to show the world what Syrian State
TV won’t broadcast. Through camera
phones and social media, Ala’a helps
turn the world’s eye to the crisis in Syria.
But just because the world can see the
atrocities doesn’t mean that the world
can help. Ultimately, Ala’a and her
network must choose between social
media and AK-47s.
Sales / Contact:
Kevin Iwashina
Preferred Content
Production
Mark Rinehart
6363 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 350
90048 Los Angeles
USA
tel: +1 323 7829193
www.preferredcontent.net
info@preferredcontent.net
From Chicago, an American
teenager uses social media
to help run the Syrian
Revolution. Ultimately, she
and her network must choose
between Facebook and AK47s.
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124
Science / Technology | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Circle
L’anneau
Bram Conjaerts
Subtitles: English
In the region of Geneva, a group
of scientists has built the LHC, the
most powerful collider of particles in
the world. This underground circle,
measuring 27 km in length, should
reveal the mysteries of the origin of
everything. In The Circle we follow the
ring above the ground in an existential
search for local people with an opinion
about what’s happening below.
Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Production
A Team Productions BVBA
Hendrik Verthé
Le village
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 475 943467
www.andanafilms.com
sriguet@andanafilms.com
Close to Geneva, scientists
have built the most powerful
collider of particles in the
world. This underground
circle, 27 km length, should
reveal the mysteries of the
origin of everything.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
Circus Is My Home
Tanja Katinka Karttunnen
Danish-Finnish clown couple Bonbon
and Tina started their career in Circus
Finlandia, and are now a celebrated star
attraction. The young and struggling
troupe travel all over the world with
their two circus-crazy teenage children.
Their son Joakim has a rare genetic
disorder and faces different kind of
daily struggles.
Life in circus is often gruelling and
uncertain. But in what other career
does the whole family join in, and the
traditions are passed on from one
generation to another?
Sales / Contact:
David Hooper
Espresso TV
Production
Kimmo Kuusniemi
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: +44(0)1273 730929
This documentary follows the everyday life of family owned Circus Finlandia,
which is ranked amongst ten of the best European circuses. Filming started in
1989 and continued for 20 years.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Coach Zoran and His African Tigers
Sam Benstead
England, 2013 color, HDcam, 75’/60’
Original Language: Serbian/Arabic/English
Subtitles: English
South Sudan became an independent
state in 2011, following almost 50 years
of civil war. Now the new country is
seeking to form a national football
team. They call in Serbian Zoran
Djordjevic, a hugely ambitious veteran
coach. The film follows Zoran’s team
over its first year, from scouting for
players in the wilderness to signing up
a sheep called Champion as the mascot.
Zoran’s aggressive and even dictatorial
style soon leads to conflict with the
officials. Death, malaria and financial
meltdown follow and amidst the chaos
a fascinating portrait emerges of the
birth of a nation.
Sales / Contact:
Sam Benstead
Century Films
Production
Century Films
Sam Benstead
32 Clink Str
Sue Collins
SE1 9DG London
Jane Nicholson
England
tel: +44 79 90534239
www.centuryfilmsltd.com
sam.benstead@centuryfilmsltd.com
Part tragedy, part hilarious comedy, this film follows the struggle to establish
a national football team in South Sudan, the world’s newest nation.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Come Hell or High Water: Corollary of the BP
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Edward Trent Robinson
www.facebook.com/
ComeHellorHighWaterMovie
At approximately 9:45 pm CDT, on
April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, a
deep-sea drilling platform, exploded.
Following the explosion, a sea-floor
oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it
was capped on July 15, 2010. Through
water closures, contaminated product,
bureaucratic red tape, leadership
incompetence, lost income and
lawsuits, Campo Marina, Louisiana’s
oldest family-owned business endures.
Despite a direct hit by Hurricane
Isaac, the assumed death knell to their
struggle to maintain some semblance
of their way of life, the lower St. Bernard
Parish community endures. Come
Hell or High Water, Shell Beach and its
culture shall endure.
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Sales / Contact:
Production
1302 Eighth Street
70115 New Orleans
USA
tel: +1 310 3091682
edwardtrent@mac.com
Chronicles the struggles of
Campo’s Marina, the oldest
family-owned business in
Louisiana, in their efforts
to be made whole after the
devastation of the Deepwater
Horizon oil spill.
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Comedy Warriors: Healing
Through Humor
John Wager
white, HDcam/video, 74’
www.comedywarriors.com
In the documentary Comedy Warriors:
Healing Through Humor, five severelywounded Iraq/Afghanistan veterans
were given the opportunity to explore
their experiences through the healing
power of humor. This film follows their
journey as they work with professional
comedy writers, and A-List comedians:
Zach Galifianakis, Lewis Black, Bob
Saget, and B. J. Novak, who help
them write and perform their own
personal stand-up comedy routines.
This exciting venture gives them new
comedic perspectives from which to
view their injuries and their lives, and
culminates in one big night performing
at Hollywood’s top comedy clubs.
Sales / Contact:
Steven Beer
Production
Galileo Media Arts
488 Madison Avenue
Ray Reo
10022 New York
John Wager
USA
tel: +1 212 935 5500
sbeer@fwrv.com
Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor features five wounded Iraq/
Afghanistan veterans, with injuries ranging from burns to amputations, now
chosen to embark on an exciting new mission - stand-up comedy.
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The Condemned
Nick Read
Russia / England, 2013 color, HDcam, 80’
Subtitles: English
www.thecondemneddoc.com
With unprecedented access, The
Condemned plunges into the hidden
world of one of Russia’s most
impenetrable and remote institutions:
Penal Colony 56, a maximum security
prison exclusively for murderers. In a
forest as big as Germany, this is the
end of the line for some of Russia’s
most dangerous criminals – 260 men
who have collectively killed nearly
800 people. In brutally frank and
uncensored interviews the inmates
speak of their crimes, life and death,
redemption and remorselessness,
freedom and families, insanity and
hope.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Red Zed Films
Mark Franchetti
H3L 1A8 Montreal / Quebec
Canada
tel: +1 514 8443358
The Condemned plunges into the hidden world of one of Russia’s most
impenetrable and remote institutions: Penal Colony 56, a maximum security
prison exclusively for murderers.
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History | Politics / Society
Coney Island Dreams for Sale
Alessandra Giordano
white, 16mm, 80’
www.dreamsforsalethemovie.com
Coney Island, the once magnificent
“Playground of the World” has
survived many battles, but now faces
its greatest enemy: corporate greed.
Center stage in the passionate struggle
to protect the amusement park from
an unscrupulous developer and a
group of misguided politicians is newly
turned political activist Dianna Carlin
owner of the celebrated “Lola Star
boutique”. This modern day David and
Goliath tale chronicles the courage
and determination of a community to
preserve the spirit and authenticity of a
legendary American Icon and an entire
way of life in the face of “Big Money”
and ruthless real estate development.
Sales / Contact:
Alessandra Giordano
Production
Alessandra Giordano
940 Ne 143rd st
33161 Miami
USA
tel: +1 305 9789491
alexfirst48@gmail.com
An outraged community of business owners and activists set on a 3 year
roller coaster journey to protect the future of legendary Coney Island from an
unscrupulous real estate developer.
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History | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Contact - Magnum Photos
Gianluigi Attore, Mario Paloschi
Italy, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 26’
Original Language: Italian/English
Subtitles: English
What is the story behind the most
famous iconic photos from around
the world? A unique and fascinating
journey of 10 episodes into the
forbidden city of the contact sheets of
the world renowned photographers
from Magnum, the legendary agency
founded in 1947.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Ballandi Arts
Gianluigi Attore
Mario Paloschi
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
SKY Arte – Italy,
tel: +41 44 3122060
SBS – Australia
Contact sheets are the first overview for the photographer of what he has
captured on film and give a unique and intimate view of the style and
thoughts of the artist.
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The Contemplator
Betraktaren
Mattias Klum
Subtitles: English
The Contemplator is a tribute to one of
the world’s most beautiful areas, The
Baltic Sea. It celebrates the diversity
and the richness of the region, but it
also shows how fragile the ecosystem
of the sea has become. The ocean is a
beautiful place, but the Baltic Sea is also
a resource that we are continuously
overusing to breaking point in order to
satisfy our human needs.
The Contemplator is delicate a
description of birth, life and death in,
on and around the Baltic Sea as we
encounter destinies of both humans
and animals living in the area.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Production
Tierra Grande Films
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
A unique film about the life around the Baltic Sea.
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The Crash Reel
Lucy Walker
www.thecrashreel.com
At 21, there was no stopping Kevin
Pearce, a US champion snowboarder
and main rival to Shaun White. While
preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics,
Kevin suffered massive head trauma.
His tight-knit Vermont family rushed to
his side, and together they began the
intensive painstaking process of mental
and physical rehabilitation. When he
insisted he wanted to return to the
sport he loved, his family objected,
fearing for his safety and his life.
Directed by Academy Award nominee
Lucy Walker, this action-filled, eyepopping and incredibly emotional film
exposes the potentially high price of
competing in action sports.
Sales / Contact:
Jason Ishikawa
The Film Sales Company
Production
Good N’ Proper
Julian Cautherley
165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601
10016 New York
USA
tel: + 1 212 4815020
www.filmsalescorp.com
jason@filmsalescorp.com
This compassionate account of the thrills and risks of extreme sports makes it
required viewing for both aspirants and enthusiasts
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Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Crossing Bridges
Wolfgang Achtner
Italy, 2013 color, video, 52’
Subtitles: English
This film is about a journey: literally,
across the Atlantic Ocean and,
spiritually, of personal and artistic
growth. It tells the story of Chiara
Civello, a young Roman musician, who
won a scholarship to study music at
the Berklee School in Boston and then
moved to New York where, in February
2005 she recorded her first album, Last
Quarter Moon, for Verve, one of the
most important American Jazz labels.
Italian singer/songwriter Chiara Civello
is an eclectic, far-reaching artist whose
songs could be described as an original
mix of jazz, pop and Latin influences.
Sales / Contact:
Wolfgang Achtner
Wolfgang Achtner Productions
Production
Wolfgang Achtner Productions
Wolfgang Achtner
Via Varsavia snc
01029 Orte (VT)
Italy
tel: +39 33 35922915
wachtner@yahoo.com
This film tells the story of
Chiara Civello, a young
Roman musician, and it is
about a journey: literally,
across the Atlantic Ocean
and, spiritually, of personal
and artistic growth.
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Experimental | Art / Music / Culture
Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling
A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the
creative spirit, this candid New York
story explores the 40-year marriage
of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio
Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko. As
a rowdy, confrontational young artist in
Tokyo, Ushio seemed destined for fame,
but met with little commercial success
after he moved to New York City in
1969, seeking international recognition.
When Noriko moved to New York to
study art, she fell in love with Ushio.
This is a moving portrait of a couple
wrestling with the eternal themes of
sacrifice, disappointment and aging,
against a background of lives dedicated
to art.
Sales / Contact:
Sara Boss
K5 Media Group GmbH
Production
Ex Lion Tamer Inc.
Patrick Burns
Konradinstrasse 5
Cine Mosaic
81543 Munich
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Germany
tel: +49 89 375055910
www.k5mediagroup.com
sara@k5mediagroup.com
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of
renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.
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Dance My Heart Out
Susanna Edwards
Original Language: Spanish/
Swedish/English
Subtitles: English
www.svtsales.com/programmesales/dance-my-heart-out/
World famous Swedish choreographer
Mats Ek decides to produce his own
ballet “Apartment” with a young dance
company in Cuba. He does not want
to charge for his work, as he thinks it’s
time to pay back for everything that
the dance world has given him. But
language confusions, injuries and a very
small budget put obstacles in the way.
Dance My Heart Out is a film about
striving for perfection and to express
something universal with your body as
instrument. A film by Susanna Edwards.
Sales / Contact:
Maria Bergenman
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Production
Eden Film & Trapio
Susanna Edwards
S-10510 Stockholm
Co-production:
Sweden
– Sweden
tel: +46 76 8688252
www.svtsales.com
– Sweden
Swedish choreographer
Mats Ek produces his ballet
“Apartment” with a young
dance company in Cuba.
A film about striving for
perfection and to express
something universal with
your body.
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Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable
Elements of Belarus
Madeleine Sackler
Original Language: Russian/
Belarusian/English
Subtitles: English
www.dangerousactsfilm.com
Comprised of smuggled footage and
uncensored interviews, Dangerous
Acts gives audiences a front row seat
to a resistance movement as it unfolds
both on the stage and in the streets.
As a dubious new presidential election
looms, the KGB targets the Free
Theatre’s founders Nikolai Khalezin and
Natalia Koliada who find themselves
torn between fighting for their art and
for their and their families’ safety. The
members of the Free Theater confront
the choice of either repression at
home or exile abroad. Dangerous Acts
reconfirms our belief that the power
of art and hope can indeed change the
world.
USA not available.
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Sales / Contact:
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
Unit 102, 16- 16a Baldwin Gardens
EC1N 7RJ London
England
tel: +44 20 78317252
www.dogwoof.com
global@dogwoof.com
Production
Great Curve Films
Madeleine Sackler
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The Dark Side of a Pill
Pillens Mørke Side
Helene Aurø
Norway / Denmark, 2013 color, 16mm, 58’
Original Language: German/English
Subtitles: English
An exclusive, case driven investigation
into the one of the medical success
stories of our time. Every 10th
grown up in the Western world is on
antidepressants. With global sales of
app. 20 billion dollars, the prescription
drug is one of the most lucrative
products of the medical industry. But
the wonder drug has a dark side.
Antidepressants are sold as a strong
tool to create peace and tranquility in
the mind of a troubled brain. But is it
possible that the same pill can send
someone to the darkest regions of the
soul?
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
Production
Corporation
Helene Aurø
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
A journey into the dark side of a pill that conquered the world: the
antidepressant
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Days at the Lennon Park
Los Habitantes del Parque Lennon
Annelies Kruk
The Netherlands, 2013 color, DCP, 45’
www.anniefilm.nl
Juan (95) works as a custodian at the
Lennon Park on Cuba. His job is to
put glasses on the statue of Lennon,
photographed by tourists. Every day
Juan is accompanied by other park
‘residents’. To each of them, the statue
has its own meaning. To Ondina it
represents the ideals of the revolution,
to Rodopho, a veteran, it symbolizes
Lennon’s heroism as ‘peace activist’
and to Juan it’s an opportunity to earn
money and meet women. The statue
evokes revelations about the dreams
of these genuine people. It shows how
creative they are in dealing with the
limitations of life. Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
Anniefilm
Annelies Kruk
PO Box 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 677 3760
www.nposales.com
The ‘ recidents’ of the Lennonpark have a special relationship with Lennon. His
statue evokes revelations about their dreams and shows how creative they
are in dealing with limitations of life.
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Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View | History
The Death of Jaime Roldós
La Muerte de Jaime Roldós
Lisandra I. Rivera, Manolo Sarmiento
Ecuador / Argentina, 2013 color
/ black and white, video, 125’
Subtitles: English/French
www.lamuertedejaimeroldos.com
The brief government of Jaime
Roldós ended abruptly in 1981 with a
mysterious air crash. The tragic fate of
the first democratic transition in Latin
America leads the filmmakers to engage
in an intense exercise of storytelling
that combines investigative journalism,
film essay, and personal drama. To
challenge the burden of silence that
weights over an entire country, this
documentary film sheds light on the
largely unknown yet quite unexpected
history of Ecuador, the Shakespearean
drama of three orphans shattered by
the struggle for political power, and the
implacable weight of official truth.
Sales / Contact:
Lisandra I. Rivera
LaMaquinita
Production
LaMaquinita
Lisandra I. Rivera
Cristobal Gangotena E11-223 e Isabel Co-production:
M&S Producciones – Argentina
la Católica
EC170109 Quito
Distribution Benelux:
IDFA Bertha Fund
Ecuador
tel: +593 2 23227824
lisandra.rivera.ramirez@gmail.com
The Benelux is not available.
The yet unexplained death
of Ecuadorian president
Jaime Roldós in 1981 leads to
a reflection on how official
truth is built and determines
our present.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Debra Milke
Jean-François Amiguet, Gesenn Rosset
Switzerland, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: English/German/French
Subtitles: French/German
Debra Milke was on death row for 22
years when finally she got released
on bail in summer 2013. In 1989, Milke
was arrested for having ordered the
murder of her 4 year old son. Since the
beginning, doubts ruled over evidence,
but a police inspector claimed that
Milke had testified to him. With a
unique access this film tells the drama
of Debra Milke and a tale of American
justice.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Le Flair Production Sàrl
Caroline Velan
10997 Berlin
RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse –
Germany
Switzerland
tel: +49 30 47372980
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History | Art / Music / Culture
Defiant Requiem
Doug Shultz
USA / Czech Republic / England,
www.defiantrequiem.org/
Defiant Requiem tells the little-known
story of the Nazi concentration camp,
Terezin. Led by imprisoned conductor
Rafael Schächter, the inmates of
Terezin fought back with art and
music. This creative rebellion reaches
its peak when Schächter teaches a
choir of 150 inmates one of the world’s
most difficult and powerful choral
works, Verdi’s Requiem, re-imagined
as a condemnation of the Nazis.
Eventually confronting them face to
face and singing to them what they
dare not say. Now, through soaring
concert footage, powerful survivor
recollections, cinematic dramatizations
and evocative animation, Defiant
Requiem brings the incredible story of
this artistic uprising to life. Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Mercury Media
Production
The Defiant Requiem Foundation
Jason Davis
Partisan Pictures
Doug Shultz
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 20 72217221
The story of an uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a
chorus of 150 inmates confronts the Nazis and sings to them what they dare
not say.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology | Politics / Society
Dementia and Then
DementieEnDan
Ireen van Ditshuyzen
Subtitles: English
www.dementieendan.nl/
For two years, Ireen van Ditshuyzen
filmed the lives of five people with
dementia of different ages, different
backgrounds, and with different
forms of this disease. We see how the
diagnosis of a 58-year-old man is made
on the basis of various examinations
and tests conducted at the VUmc
Alzheimercentrum: a tragic moment
followed some time later by the
triumph of running a half-marathon
in 90 minutes. A pianist, age 71, is
admitted to a nursing home where she
rediscovers happiness by playing the
piano. For an elderly couple, questions
surrounding the end of life have
become urgent. They and their children,
doctor and case manager search for
the right words and choices. Dementia
and Then is an attempt to have us look
at life with dementia in a different
way: not just at the disease but, more
importantly, at the possibilities of
maintaining quality of life by means
of music, light and movement. We see
innovations in scientific research and
care. 100
Sales / Contact:
Inge Schapendonk
IDTV Docs
Production
IDTV Docs
Carolijn Borgdorff
Kraanspoor 50
De Toedracht
1033SE Amsterdam
Ireen van Ditshuyzen
The Netherlands
Co-production:
AVRO – The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 3143100
www.idtvdocs.nl
docs@idtv.nl
What’s still possible in life after the
diagnosis Dementia?
Five protagonists and their families
struggle with the consequences of the
disease, searching for ways to maintain
a meaningful life.
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Deported eps.1: Children of War
Floris-Jan van Luyn
Original Language: Dutch/English
Subtitles: English
www.uitgezet.vara.nl/
Over the past ten years many hundreds
of children have been deported to
countries they have little or no memory
of. Their parents having sought
political asylum in the Netherlands
but ultimately been rejected, leaving
them the choice of leaving voluntarily
in exchange for money or being forcibly
deported by the Dutch government.
Politically responsible administrators
gave assurances that these children
would be fine in the country of their
parents. But virtually nothing is known
about what actually happened to them
after their deportation. This issue is the
starting point for this series in which
we follow children in five countries. Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
VARA
Anja Oostrom
Sumatralaan 45
VARATelevisie – The Netherlands
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
In this four-part documentary
series we follow children who
has been deported from the
Netherlands to the country of
their parents.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Art / Music / Culture
Desert Runners
Jennifer Steinman
www.desertrunnersmovie.com
Desert Runners follows four ordinary
individuals from Australia, England,
Ireland and the United States who
try to complete the world’s toughest
ultra-marathon series. Their dramatic
journey takes them across the World’s
most picturesque yet brutal landscapes,
pushing their bodies, hearts and spirits
through extraordinary obstacles. Available for World Excluding
USA and Israel
Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
611 Broadway Suite 630
Production
Diana Iles Parker ,
Dean Karnazes , Yael Melamede,
Jennifer Steinman
10012 New York
USA
tel: +1 240 8883906
www.cargofilm-releasing.com
Desert Runners follows four non-professional runners as they attempt to run
the most difficult ultra-marathon races on Earth.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
La Deutsche Vita
Alessandro Cassigoli
Original Language: German/English/Italian
www.kloosundco.de/en/worldsales/
deutschevita.html
Alessandro left Italy for Berlin 6 years
ago and still lives there today. An old
saying professes that after 6 years in
a foreign country, you finally realize
what you really are: an immigrant. You
suddenly feel disoriented and homesick,
with a general sense of malaise and the
desire to escape. That’s exactly where
Alessandro is now. Struggling to know
how he got there himself, Alessandro
decides to hit the streets of Berlin, to
find other Italians and see how they are
coping.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Alessandro Cassigoli, Tania Masi
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
After 6 years in Berlin, Alessandro suddenly feels homesick. Struggling to know
how he got there himself, he decides to find other Italians and see how they
are coping.
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The Devil’s Lair
Riaan Hendricks
South Africa, 2013 color, HDcam, 82’/52’
Original Language: South African/English
Subtitles: English
www.fireworxmedia.co.za/
Braaim, a murder convict, gang leader
and drug merchant lies in bed, his
young daughter on his knee and a bullet
in his side. Desperate to protect his
wife and family but beholden to his
gang, Braaim has discovered it isn’t easy
to walk away from a life of crime. Can
one last hit job release them all from
this seedy world, or will it be the end
of the road? A dangerous and terrible
insight into the criminal underworld of
South Africa’s Cape Flats.
Africa, Canada not available.
Sales / Contact:
Edward Caffrey
Journeyman Pictures
4-6 High Street
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
Production
Fireworx Media
Neil Brandt
IDFA Bertha Fund
England
tel: +44 20 87866058
www.journeyman.tv
films@journeyman.tv
The fastest live the longest...
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Art / Music / Culture | Author’s Point of View
A Diary of a Journey
Dziennik z Podrózy
Piotr Stasik
Subtitles: English
Tadeusz Rolke, an aged master of Polish
photography, has more than just a
typical teacher-student relationship
with 15-year-old Michal. Together, they
travel across Poland to take portrait
photographs of the residents of small
towns and villages while the dark room
placed in their camper enables them
to develop pictures on the spot and
give them to the models whom they
accidentally met. For the boy, this is an
excellent opportunity to find out about
the arcana of traditional photography.
For both – an opportunity to experience
a beautiful friendship.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Kijora
Anna Gawlita
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
A master of photography with a with his 15-year-old student travel across
Poland to take portrait photographs of the residents of small towns and
villages.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Dirty Wars
Richard Rowley
A deadly U. S. night raid in a remote
corner of Afghanistan turns into a 3 year
global investigation of the secretive
and powerful Joint Special Operations
Command (JSOC); the mastermind
behind the assassination of Bin Laden,
and the orchestrator of a more sinister,
borderless modern warfare.
Both detective story and action film
and shot in thrilling ‘70s espionage
style, Dirty Wars delves into the world
of America’s clandestine military
Black Operations. In the light of
Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty,
Scahill reveals those wars fought,
documenting the human cost and
challenging our notions of freedom and
democracy, war and justice. USA, German speaking Europe,
Italy, Spain not available
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Sales / Contact:
Kate Hide
Hanway Films Limited
24 Hanway Street
W1T 1UH London
England
tel: +44 72 900750
www.hanwayfilms.com
kh@hanwayfilms.com
Production
Civic Bakery
Brenda Coughlin
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Art / Music / Culture | Experimental | Author’s Point of View
DK
Bára Kopecká
Czech Republic, 2013 color /
black and white, video, 75’
Original Language: Czech
Subtitles: English
If David came across tasteless pictures
or the outer casings of heaters, he
would throw them out of a window.
„I’m disinfecting the place,“ he
would declare. He would never stop
dismantling and demolishing until he
got what he wanted. Walls and objects
would cease to exist, a captured light
would be all that was left. A life of a
man who never gave in to anybody, or
anything, and was admired as well as
beaten for it. Is it possible to explore
freely and at the same time survive in
the world of financiers and smalltown
ideas of living?
Sales / Contact:
Hana Trestíková
Production Trestikova
Production
Produkce Trestikova
Hana Trestíková
Kostelní 14
Production Trestikova
17000 Praha 7
Hana Trestíková
Czech Republic
tel: +42 06 03581674
hanka@produkcetrestikova.cz
A feature documentary film
about the life and death
of a radical architect David
Kopecký.
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Do the Math
Kelly Nyks
Best-selling author and renowned
environmental activist Bill McKibben
and 350. org - the organization he
co-founded - hit the road to raise
awareness of this terrifying math
and build a movement to challenge
the fossil fuel industry. Do The Math
takes us inside the sold-out tour,
following McKibben as he delivers an
astonishingly clear breakdown of the
facts - and the stakes - that has sparked
an unprecedented global movement
that is rising up to keep CO2 emissions
down. The film serves as a muchneeded correction to industry spin
on the most important challenge the
human family has ever faced.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
PF Pictures
Jared Scott
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
The math is simple: the fossil
fuel industry has five times
the amount of coal, gas
and oil that even the most
conservative governments
know is isafe to burn.
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DOC25: Daddy Doll
Kasper Verkaik
www.vpro.nl/pers/titels/doc-25.html
This is a documentary about familiylife inside the United States military.
Through cinematographic observation
a portrait of a military family, living on
a US army base in Louisiana has been
made. In this documentary we see
how a mother, father and their young
children go about their daily life on the
base. As is common for many military
families, the father in this family will
deploy as a soldier in Afghanistan. The
young children of this family receive so
called “deployment-dolls” to prepare
them for the upcoming deployment of
their father.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Production
Zeppers Film & TV
Judith Vreriks
1217 GP Hilversum
VPRO Television –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
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DOC25: Florentijn Hofman, Larger than Life
Ellen Vloet
Subtitles: English
www.defamilie.net/Documentaires/
zienengezienworden
Artist Florentijn Hofman is conquering
the world with his huge, iconic and
witty sculptures. Critically acclaimed
by the general public, Florentijn lacks
this recognition by the art scene. In
a portrait about big thinking and
larger than life scaling, the film shows
Hofman during the process of his
biggest work so far.
His sculptures are mostly commissioned
by major cities and his popular imagery
is successful with a large audience
worldwide. Hofman as an artist
however is somewhat of a maverick
within the art scene. What is more
important to Hofman? His commercial
success or the acknowledgement of art
critics?
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Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
Production
De Familie
Monique Busman
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DOC25: Wild Boar
Willem Baptist
Subtitles: English
www.wildzwijn-film.nl/
In nature only one rule counts; eat or
be eaten. Wild Boar is a poetic, and
visually arresting documentary about
the curious relationship between man
and the rise of the wild boar. The film
tells a story about confusion, despair
and opportunity amidst the invasion
of unruly creatures that won’t abide
by manmade rules and laws. From
the dark woods where it originates,
this almost uncontrollably dangerous
creature goes deeper and deeper
into our villages and cities but at the
same time tickles our imagination and
inspires us.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
Zuidenwind Filmproductions
Joost Seelen
Sumatralaan 45
NTR – The Netherlands
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
Wild Boar is a poetic,
and visually arresting
documentary about the
curious relationship between
man and the rise of the wild
boar.
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Dollars for a Saint
Avra Georgiou
Greece, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’
Original Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Messolonghi is a small coastal town
in western Greece, stigmatized by
its historical past. Two diverse social
groups live there, local Greeks and
Gypsies. In the past Gypsy drummers
accompanied the Greek soldiers in their
fight against the Turks. Today they
still live side by side in harmony with a
strong mutual respect. What binds the
locals and the Gypsies together today
is a, once a year, unique communal
celebration, the feast of Saint Simeon,
the city’s patron saint. They engage in
a five-day exhausting festival of dance,
parades and food and. . . where the
Gypsies provide the music.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Avra Georgiou Film Productions
Avra Georgiou
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Unique portrait of a small
city in Greece where a yearly
5 day feast causes Gypsies
and locals to live in harmony
since centuries..
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Nature / Environment | Art / Music / Culture
Dream Islands of Europe: Capri, Ischia, Procida
Bell´Italia - Capri, Ischia, Procida
Sven Rech
Germany, 2013 color, HDcam/video, 43’
Subtitles: English
An eight-part series featuring the most
beautiful islands of Italy and Spain.
Crystal-clear water, white beaches,
picturesque fishing villages and idyllic
hinterland make these vacation
paradises places of longing and
desire. The Balearic and Canary Islands,
the Tuscan and Pontine Islands, Capri
and Ischia – each episode takes a close
look at the different islands, showing
the myths and traditions as well as flair
and authenticity found on the far side
of mass tourism. Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Filmquadrat.dok GmbH
Thomas Wartmann
8050 Zürich
Co-production:
SWR – Germany,
Switzerland
ARTE – Germany
tel: +41 44 3122060
Captivating shots taken with a helicopter camera offer unique views of truly
impressive island landscapes.
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Eagle Boy
Gry Elisabeth Mortensen
Norway, 2013 color, HDcam, 27’
Original Language: English/Norwegian
Subtitles: English
www.originalfilm.no/en/
It´s summer at the Flathead Reservation
in Montana. Eight year old Sage spend
sunny days playing with friends,
swimming and fishing in the river. But
one day his parents surprise him with
some breaking news; they´re moving
to Northern Norway – some place on
the other side of the planet! Starting
school in Norway, Sage is different. Very
different. He´s the only boy with long
hair and braids and he doesn´t speak
one word of Norwegian. But most
important to the others; he´s a REAL
indian – just like in the movies!
Sales / Contact:
Eric Kama Steinberg
Original Film AS
Production
Original Film AS
Mona Steffensen
Strandveien 95
NRK – Norway
9006 Tromsø
Norway
tel: +47 95 050603
eric.kama@originalfilm.no
Sage is eight years old. He
is a Salish Indian boy, and
has lived in the Flathead
reservation in America all his
life.Suddenly he must move
to Tromsø, Northern Norway.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Nature / Environment
Earth’s Children
Hijos de la Tierra
Diego Sarmiento
Peru, 2013 color, HDcam, 14’
Original Language: Spanish/Quechua
Subtitles: English
www.hdperu.com/HDPERU/
EarthsChildren.html
Jorge Tapullima is a kechwa-lamista
community child. He lives in Chiriqyako,
in the Peruvian Amazon. In the morning,
Jorge has a habit of going to pick
bananas for breakfast, cooked by his
mother. Moreover, with his friends walk
to his farm as they sing and play with
the ‘pukuna’, instrument for hunting.
Work on the land and return to play, as
children they are. Jorge shows us his
everyday in Chiriqyako.
Brazil not available.
Sales / Contact:
Alvaro Sarmiento
HD PERU
Production
HD PERU
Alvaro Sarmiento
Jr. San Martin 658 Lamas
220501 Lamas
Peru
tel: +51 98 8362267
www.hdperu.com
cinemaexpandido@gmail.com
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View
East Punk Memories
Lucile Chaufour
France, 2013 color / black
Original Language: Hungarian
www.eastpunkmemories.blogspot.com
In the late 80’s, the filmmaker shot with
a group of punks who were struggling
with the communist regime. 20 years
later, she comes back and asks them
how do they see life in Hungary before
and after the fall of the Berlin wall?
Their testimonies help us understand
how the market economy has put the
Hungarian population in an ambivalent
situation. With a liberal left-wing
dismantling the socialist heritage
and a social right-wing reverting
to nationalism, the traditional line
between the Right and the Left has
been blurred. What remains is an
ideological confusion that we all have
to face.
Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Production
Supersonicglide
Lucile Chaufour
Le village
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 47 5943467
www.andanafilms.com
In 1984 the filmmaker filmed some punks in Hungary under the communist
regime. 20 Years later, she asks them about life before and after the fall of the
Berlin wall.
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society
Ecopolis China
Ekopolis
Anna-Karin Grönroos
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 59’/56’
Original Language: Finnish/English/Chinese
Subtitles: Finnish/English
When billion Chinese move to cities, our
planet will change irreversibly. Finnish
professor Eero Paloheimo and Chinese
business magnate Zhang Yue are going
to save the world by reinventing the
city. Their utopias are very different:
Zhang plans to build the tallest and
most ecological building on Earth, an
Eco-city in the shape of a skyscraper,
built at world record speed. Paloheimo
has designed a unique clean-tech test
laboratory city, and struggles to get
it built in a flourishing valley outside
Beijing. Is the future of urban mankind
in the cherry valleys of China or high up
in the sky?
Sales / Contact:
Pertti Veijalainen
Illume Oy
Production
Illume Oy
Venla Hellstedt
Palkkatilankatu 7 B
Pertti Veijalainen
00240 Helsinki
YLE – Finland
Finland
tel: +358 9 1481489
www.illume.fi
pertti.veijalainen@illume.fi
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Author’s Point of View | Nature / Environment | Investigative
Emptying the Skies
Douglas Kass
Original Language: English/Italian/French
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/pages/Emptyingthe-Skies/587378221280170
Based on a magazine essay written
in “The New Yorker” by best-selling
novelist Jonathan Franzen and
republished around the world,
Emptying the Skies explores the
wonder of migratory songbirds in the
Mediterranean, millions of which are
unlawfully slaughtered each year for
large sums on the black market, and
follows an intrepid squad of panEuropean bird-lovers who risk their lives
waging a secret war against poachers,
disrupting illegal trapping and freeing
as many birds as possible.
Jonathan Franzen executive produces
the film, which is his first foray into
feature motion picture production.
Sales / Contact:
Roger Kass
Ring The Jing Entertainment Ltd.
Production
Ring The Jing Entertainment Ltd.
Roger Kass
198 Sixth Avenue
10013 New York
USA
tel: +1 646 2905988
ringthejing@gmail.com
Canada not available.
Based on Jonathan Franzen’s “The New Yorker” essay, the powerful new
documentary about the secret war against rampant migratory songbird
poaching in the Mediterranean.
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Investigative | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
Endless Escape, Eternal Return
Anverj Pakhust, Haverzh Veradardz
Harutyun Khachatryan
Armenia, 2013 color, video, 82’
Original Language: Armenian/Russian
Subtitles: English
In 1988-1989 filmmaker Harutyun
Khachatryan started his painful
exploration of alienation and
rootlessness among Armenian exiles.
Since then he has shot a huge archive
depicting the developments of those
days and concentrated on the personal
life stories of several Armenian artists
to be discovered in 5 documentaries.
This is the first part. The documentary
video footage starts with l988. The
first documentary exposes Hayk, a
theater director settled in Moscow and
having wandered all his life seeking
himself and freedom.
Sales / Contact:
Tatevik Manoukyan
Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema
Production
Harutyun Khachatryan
Development
Moskovyan 3
0001 Yerevan
Armenia
tel: +374 1 0521042
t.manoukyan@gaiff.am
People, nation, escape,
return. Why do people escape
from their roots? A national
portrait, or an illusion of
time?
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Erebus: Operation Overdue
Paul Burger, Charlotte Purdy
New Zealand, 2013 color, HDcam, 75’/52’
www.operationoverdue.co.nz/
In November 1979, a jet carrying 257
passengers crashed into Mount Erebus,
Antarctica. Within hours, 11 ordinary
police officers were called to duty.
Travelling to the most inhospitable
place on earth to deal with one of
the world’s worst air disasters, they
were pushed to their limits. As they
started recovering the victims, an
investigation team tried to discover
what happened. Did the airline have a
secret it wanted to bury? Mixing high
quality reconstructions with original
archive and interviews and filmed in the
beautiful environment of Antarctica,
this is the compelling true story of an
extraordinary police operation. Sales / Contact:
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
Production
Rogue Productions
Carmen J Leonard
Charlotte Purdy
TVNZ (TV1&2) – New Zealand
France
tel: +34 63 4869646
www.javafilms.fr
Mixing high quality
reconstructions with original
archive and interviews and
filmed in the beautiful
environment of Antarctica,
this is the compelling true
story of an extraordinary
police operation.
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Escaramuza: Riding from the Heart
Bill Yahraus
Original Language: Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
www.ponyhighway.com/emz.html
Las Azaleas are a gutsy team of women
rodeo riders vying to represent the U. S.
at the National Charro Championships
in Mexico, where “to be Charro is to
be Mexican”. Escaramuza describes
both their daredevil horseback ballets,
ridden sidesaddle at top speed, and the
intensity of their competition season.
Neither life-altering challenges at home
nor cartel violence across the border
can keep Las Azaleas from their goal.
The documentary explores the ways
their identities as first-generation
Mexican Americans are shaped by the
values of their traditional equestrian
culture.
Sales / Contact:
Robin Rosenthal
Pony Highway Productions
Production
Pony Highway Productions
Robin Rosenthal
11300 Manzanita Mesa Rd
93543 Littlerock
USA
tel: +1 661 9443741
www.ponyhighway.com/index.html
r.rosenthal@att.net
A team of first-generation
Mexican American girls
constructs their identities
through a romanticized
equestrian tradition from the
past, while facing challenges
at home, and violence in
Mexico.
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Science / Technology
Eugenic Minds
Eugéniové
Pavel Stingl
Czech Republic / Slovakia,
Subtitles: English
The unique archive material produced
by the ideology of better tomorrows
will be used together with various
animation techniques to create a
fantastic vision of the future which
had turned into mass murder. The film
aspires to become a timeless reflection
on the boundaries between science and
pseudoscience in the present day, in the
past and in the future. Sales / Contact:
Jiri Konecny
Endorfilm
tichova 653/52
149 00 Praha 4
Production
Endorfilm
Jiri Konecny
Co-production:
Punkchart Films – Slovakia
Czech Republic
tel: +420 241 730780
www.endorfilm.cz
jirikonecny4@quick.cz
The film aspires to become a timeless reflection on the boundaries between
science and pseudoscience in the present day, in the past and in the future.
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Europe in 8 Bits
Javier Polo
Spain, 2013 color, DCP, 75’
Original Language: Italian/
German/Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
www.europein8bits.com
Europe in 8 Bits is a documentary that
explores the world of chipmusic, a
new musical trend that is growing
exponentially throughout Europe. The
stars of this musical movement reveal
to us how to reuse old videogames
hardware like Nintendo’s GameBoy
and Commodore64 to turn them
into a tool capable of creating a
new sound, a modern tempo and an
innovative musical style. It’s a new
way of interpreting music performed
by a great artists who show their skills
in turning these“limited” machines
designed for leisure in the 80’s into
surprising musical instruments, as
useful as a guitar or a trompet.
Sales / Contact:
Lina Badenes
Turanga Films S.L.
Production
Turanga Films S.L.
Lina Badenes
c/ El Escorial 14, 3ªD
28004 Madrid
Spain
tel: +34 69 1719414
www.turangafilms.com
lina@turangafilms.com
A documentary about
reusing outdated technology
in creative ways to revamp
the music scene
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Everybody Street
Cheryl Dunn
www.everybodystreet.com
Celebrated filmmaker and
photographer Cheryl Dunn turns her
lens on the pioneers and masters of
New York street photography. Dunn
profiles artists spanning six decades,
including Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen,
Jill Freedman, Jeff Mermelstein and
Martha Cooper, revealing that these
shooters are as colourful and unique
as the subjects they’ve relentlessly
documented. Everybody Street is a
definitive look at the iconic visionaries
of this often imitated art form and
pays tribute to the spirit of street
photography through a cinematic
exploration of New York City.
Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Mercury Media
Production
ALLDAYEVERYDAY
Lucy Cooper
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 20 72217221
Everybody Street illuminates
the lives and work of
New York’s iconic street
photographers. The
documentary pays tribute
to the spirit of street
photography through a
cinematic exploration of New
York City.
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Everyday Rebellion
The Riahi Brothers
Austria / Switzerland / Germany,
Original Language: Russian/Farsi/
Spanish/English/Arabic
Subtitles: English
www.everydayrebellion.com
Everyday Rebellion is a cinema
documentary and cross-media project
about the power of creative nonviolent
activism and civil disobedience, seen
through modern movements such as
Femen, Occupy Wall Street or the 15M/
Indignados movement of Spain and the
Arabian and Iranian uprisings.
Following several activists, the film
reveals surprising nonviolent tactics
that help change unjust and oppressive
systems around the world, celebrating
the positive and life-affirming power of
a new generation of global activists.
Sales / Contact:
Arash T. Riahi
Golden Girls Filmproduktion
Production
Golden Girls Filmproduktion
Sabine Gruber
Seidengasse 15/3/20
Arash T. Riahi
1070 Vienna
Michael Seeber
Austria
Co-production:
Mira Film – Switzerland
tel: +43 18 105636
www.goldengirls.at
office@goldengirls.at
ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
Austrian Broadcasting
Corporation (ORF) – Austria
Everyday Rebellion is a
cinema documentary and
cross-media project about
the power of creative
nonviolent activism and civil
disobedience, seen through
modern movements .
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Everything Is Possible
Wszystko jest Mozliwe
Lidia Duda
Subtitles: English
The title suggests that this time (after
difficult Entangled) Lidia Duda has an
optimistic story to tell. The protagonist
is Teresa Bancewicz, a woman of an
amazing biography, who is an almost
80-year-old traveller and hitch-hiker.
What made Teresa travel all of a
sudden? Was it the need to fulfil her
long- hidden desires or the will to
overcome linguistic, financial and
health-related barriers? Or did she have
other, more dramatic reasons?
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Eureka Media
Krzysztof Kopczynski
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
The protagonist is Teresa Bancewicz, a woman of an amazing biography, who
is an almost 80-year-old traveller and hitch-hiker.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History
Exile - A Myth Unearthed
Ilan Ziv
Subtitles: English
www.nfb.ca
The exile of the Jewish people
from their homeland following the
destruction of the Second Temple has
long played a central role in Christian
and Jewish theology, and it has been a
critical issue in the struggle over land
in the Middle East. This provocative
documentary asks what it would mean
if that exile never happened.
France, Germany, Israel, Canada,
Poland, UK not available.
Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
Production
Colette Loumède
Tamouz Media
H4N2N4 Montreal
Ilan Ziv
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
www.nfb.ca
c.routhier@nfb.ca
A new look at history that
re-shapes the Middle East
conflict.
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Science / Technology | Nature / Environment | Experimental
Expedition to the End of the World
Daniel Dencik
Denmark / Sweden, 2013 color /
black and white, HDcam, 90’/59’
Original Language: English/Danish
Subtitles: English
www.expeditionthemovie.dk
A real adventure film – for the 21st
century. On a three-mast schooner
packed with artists, scientists, we
set off for the end of the world: the
rapidly melting massifs of North-East
Greenland. An epic journey where
the brave sailors on board encounter
polar bear nightmares, Stone Age
playgrounds and entirely new species.
Curiosity, grand pathos and a liberating
dose of humour come together in a
superbly orchestrated film where one
iconic image after the other seduces us
far beyond the historical footnote that
is humanity. A film conceived like a long
forgotten childhood dream lived out by
adults.
Sales / Contact:
Michael Haslund-Christensen
Haslund Film
Nørrebrogade 12, 1.th
Production
Haslund Film
Michael Haslund-Christensen
2200 Copenhagen
Co-production:
BeoFilm – Denmark,
Denmark
Garagefilm International AB –
tel: +45 20 231388
Sweden
www.expeditionthemovie.dk
DR TV – Denmark,
haslundfilm@gmail.com
SVT – Sweden,
YLE – Finland,
NRK – Norway
An arctic schooner heavily armed with art and science bound for the most
spectacular nature at the end of the world. Manmade speed and efficiency
meet the force of ice
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Youth | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Facing Fear
Jason Cohen
white, video, 23’
Subtitles: English
facingfearmovie.com
Worlds collide when a former neo-Nazi
skinhead and the gay victim of his hate
crime attack meet by chance 25 years
after the incident that dramatically
shaped both of their lives. Together,
they embark on a journey of forgiveness
that challenges both to grapple with
their beliefs and fears, eventually
leading to an improbable collaboration.
. . and friendship.
Sales / Contact:
Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen Productions, LLC
1860 Capistrano Ave.
Production
Jason Cohen Productions, LLC
Jason Cohen
94707 Berkeley
Co-production:
Fetzer Institute –
USA
The Netherlands
tel: +1 415 3852101
jasoncohenproductions.com
jason@jasoncohenproductions.com
An ex-neo Nazi and the gay man he victimized decades prior, fall back into
each other’s lives and go on a journey of forgiveness and redemption.
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Experimental | Youth | Author’s Point of View
Farewell to Hollywood
Henry Corra, Regina Nicholson
USA, 2013 color, HDcam/video, 123’
www.farewelltohollywood.com
A non-fiction fairytale about love,
art, death, and the letting go. It’s
the controversial story of seventeenyear-old Regina Diane Nicholson as
she struggles to realize her dreams
as a filmmaker while her family
disintegrates around her and her time
on earth is running out.
Laced with jaw-dropping gallows
humor, the film oscillates between
the brutal realities of Reggie’s daily
existence and the magical Hollywood
movies swirling inside her head.
Farewell to Hollywood is a unique,
intense, yet delicate coming-of-age
story - like no other - a deeply personal
film wrapped up with the tragedy of a
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Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
USA
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Production
Corra Films Inc.
Jeremy Amar
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Fata Morgana
Zaradasht Ahmed
Original Language: English/Arabic
Subtitles: English
Fata Morgana is a film about dreams,
friendship and survival, with the
walls around Europe as its backdrop.
Filmmaker Zaradasht Ahmed came
to Norway as a refugee in 1995. On a
trip to Morocco in 2007, in the port of
Tangier, he meets the harraga, young
men, who have developed extreme
methods to fulfil their dream: reaching
the coast of Spain.
Sales / Contact:
Eric Kama Steinberg
Original Film AS
Production
Original Film AS
Eric Kama Steinberg
Strandveien 95
9006 Tromsø
Norway
tel: +47 95 050603
eric.kama@originalfilm.no
Fata Morgana is a
collection of personal
accounts that highlight the
issues surrounding illegal
immigration.
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Father and Son
Ojciec i Syn
Pawel Lozinski, He Yuan
China / Poland, 2013 color, HDcam, 54’
Subtitles: English
A bold family experiment. Two
film directors, two cameras, one
journey. They share a name, a
profession which is their passion
and a strong and complicated bond,
full of resentments and implicit
meanings. Two acclaimed documentary
filmmakers, Marcel and Pawel Lozinski,
go on a car journey across Europe.
For the father, it is a return to his
birthplace, for the son, an attempt at
a critical review of their past together.
After years of making documentaries
about others, they turned the cameras
toward themselves. Both are trying to
capture this difficult dialogue using the
camera. This version is signed by Pawel
Lozinski. Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Lozinski Production
Pawel Lozinski
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
Two acclaimed documentary filmmakers, Marcel and Pawel Lozinski, go on a
car journey across Europe.
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Father and Son on a Journey
Ojciec i Syn w Podrózy
Marcel Lozinski
Subtitles: English
Simultaneously a road movie and a
making-of. A son and a father spend
two weeks travelling in a camper van
from Warsaw to Paris. An opportunity
to raise painful but also amusing
subjects families don’t normally talk
about. And for the two documentary
filmmakers to discuss the essence of the
film as it’s being shot. An interesting
family and film driven experiment. Two
reports from one journey. The film is
a polemic editing version of Marcel
Lozinski to Father and Son – a film made
by and upon the idea of Pawel Lozinski.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Lozinski Production
Pawel Lozinski
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
An interesting film experiment. The film is a polemic editing version of Marcel
Lozinski to Father and son – a film made by and upon the idea of Pawel
Lozinski.
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Father Figures
April Butler, Gillian Hrankowski
www.fatherfiguresdocumentary.com
Father Figures follows a Canadian
woman who, while making the effort
to reconnect with her father, discovers
a man she’s horrified by when a dark
secret is revealed about his new
international relationship. Filmmaker
April Butler’s father is 73 and proudly
introduces her to his fiancée in the
Philippines -- who is 50 years his junior.
What begins as an awkward, quirky love
story about family quickly spirals into a
world of poverty, western entitlement
and moral dilemmas. Father Figures
intimacy is unparalleled as a daughter
openly struggles with truths about the
man who raised her.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Stokes
Canamedia
Production
True Story Productions
April Butler
2 Pardee Avenue, Suite 102
Gillian Hrankowski
M6K 3H5 Toronto, Ontario
Canada
tel: +1 416 3638683
www.canamedia.com
andrea.stokes@canamedia.com
Father Figures follows a
Canadian woman who,
while trying reconnect with
her father, discovers a man
she’s horrified by when
a dark secret is revealed
about his new international
relationship.
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Father’s Garden – The Love of my Parents
Vaters Garten – Die Liebe meiner Eltern
Peter Liechti
Switzerland, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 93’
Original Language: English/German
Subtitles: German/Spanish/French/English
www.deckert-distribution.com/film-catalogue/
fathers-garden-the-love-of-my-parents/
“For heaven’s sake – what a question!”
exclaims the mother as her son begins
the conversation; they had avoided one
another for decades. The film traces
a reencounter between the director
and his aged parents. It is an attempt
at a personal revision of the past. In
the process, a new view of his parents
emerged, which also provides again
and again insight into a bygone era.
The story of their marriage, however,
borders on a classic drama, leaving
us feeling forlorn and miserable even
today.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Production
Liechti Filmproduktion
Peter Liechti
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
Using puppets, the director
Peter Liechti consolidates the
portrait of his parents into a
fictional family tribunal.
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Fatherland
Tarryn Lee Crossman
South Africa, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’
Original Language: Afrikaans
Subtitles: English
www.fatherlanddocumentary.com
Fatherland is a coming-of-age story
about three white, Afrikaans boys who
decide to spend their summer holidays
doing basic military training, like their
fathers before them. But when they
find themselves at a tented camp deep
in the bush, hungry, tired and being
taught how to be “real Afrikaaners”,
they are forced to decide where they
fit into the “New South Africa”. What
does being true to their Volk really
mean? And is that even something that
they, as good “boer seuns” should be
questioning. Sales / Contact:
Tarryn Lee Crossman
TIA Productions
Production
TIA Productions
Tarryn Lee Crossman
639, Witkoppen
2068 Johannesburg
South Africa
tel: +27 82 5366493
tiaproductions.com
tarryn@tiaproductions.com
3 white Afrikaans boys spend
9 life-changing days on a
right-wing military summer
camp in South Africa.
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FC Rwanda
Joris Postema
Original Language: English/Kinyarwanda
Subtitles: English
www.bonanza.nl/project.php?item=48
“We are Rwandans now, no longer Hutu
or Tutsi” Migi, Hubert and Ndoli say,
twenty years after the genocide. The
APR FC football players are preparing for
the match of the year. All three struggle
with their past. Rwanda seems like a
success story, but fear of the regime
and mutual distrust simmer beneath
the surface. How real is reconciliation?
The stadium nearly explodes when
APR, team of the army, faces Rayon
sports, team of the people. Clearly there
is more at stake. How strong is the
regime’s reach or is there hope for more
freedom and an open dialogue?
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
Bonanza Films
JB Macrander
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
Evangelische Omroep –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
Sport brings people together,
but did the people of Rwanda
really find peace with each
other 20 years after the
genocide?
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Feeding Frenzy: Global Food Marketing
& the Rise of a Health Epidemic
Kate Geis
Over the past few decades, Americans
and Europeans have been drowning
in a surplus of cheap, processed food.
The result has been a widening global
epidemic of obesity-related health
problems. Feeding Frenzy is the first
documentary of its kind to focus
squarely on the pivotal role marketing
has played in the spread of this
epidemic. Picking up where a number of
recent high-profile films about the food
industry have left off, Feeding Frenzy
zeroes in on the sophisticated tactics
the industry now employs to keep
unhealthy processed food flowing into
the global marketplace despite growing
awareness about its dangers.
Sales / Contact:
George Matta
MundoVision
Production
Media Education Foundation
Kate Geis
4148A Ste-Catherine West, Suite 201
H3Z 0A2 Westmount, QC
Canada
tel: +1 514 9852004
www.mundovision.ca
george@mundovision.ca
Feeding Frenzy is the first
documentary of its kind to
focus squarely on the pivotal
role food industry marketing
has played in the global
epidemic of obesity-related
health problems.
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FEMEN, Women Warriors
Nos Seins, Nos Armes
Nadia El Fani, Caroline Fourest
France, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: English/French
Subtitles: English
www.zed.fr/tv/distribution/videos/171/
femen-women-warriors/?userlocale=fr_FR
This documentary tells their story
and their combat, from Ukraine, to
Bielorussia, rest of Europe and then
Egypt and Tunisia. Their message and
methods are shocking to most, but the
film sheds light on their real intentions,
the ideology behind and how they
recrute what they call «women
warriors». Their movement has waken
up women from the Middle East and
today has many followers. They are
young (under 25) and are not ready to
give up their combat against women’s
oppression, even if it means prison,
exile, or putting their lives in danger.
Sales / Contact:
Julie Rouyer
ZED
Production
Nilaya Production
Patricia Boutinard Rouelle
39 Rue des Prairies
75020 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 53099824
www.zed.fr
jrouyer@zed.fr
This documentary tells the
story and the combat of the
«women warriors» , from
Ukraine, to Bielorussia, rest of
Europe and then Egypt and
Tunisia.
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The Fifth Sun
Cristiana Pecci
Italy / Finland, 2013 color / black
and white/color, HDcam, 26’/85’
Original Language: Finnish/
Chinese/English/Kazakh/
Russian/Khirghiz/Indonesian
Subtitles: English
Panu is a 30 years old fireman and
paramedic from Finland. At the age
of questioning someone’s self Panu
decides to depart for an adventurous
two months trip across three cotinents
to reach a sun eclipse in Australia. A
challenge against time that places
himself to a contradiction with western
values and questioning his inner
identity.
Sales / Contact:
Giovanni Pompili
Kino Produzioni
Production
Coldfocus
Brando Giannoni
Via Boezio 92
Matteo Maggi
00193 Roma
Cristiana Pecci
Italy
Co-production:
Kino Produzioni – Italy
tel: +39 06 97626706
www.kinoproduzioni.it
giovanni@kinoproduzioni.it
An incredible journey run of time to reach a sun eclipse. And explore youself.
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Final Destination
Galutinis Tikslas
Ricardas Marcinkus
Lithuania, 2013 color, HDcam, 65’
Original Language: Russian/Lithuanian
Subtitles: English
One-legged and former drug addict,
Povilas Marcinkus arrives to a nursing
home after 28 years spent in jail where
he becomes the unofficial “boss”. But
the comfortable life of Povilas is not
meant to last very long. He is thrown
out from the nursing home and moves
to Vilnius where he meets the love of
his life – the drug addicted homeless
Snezhana who encourages Povilas to
get back to drugs. Powerless, Povilas
has no more control over his life and
the only hope is to be treated in a
rehabilitation center. Unfortunately,
Povilas is still hesitating to take a
decision.
Sales / Contact:
Rimante Daugelaite
Production
Full Screen
A.Smetonos str.7a-24
Rimante Daugelaite
LT01115 Vilnius
Lithuania
tel: +37 06 7316548
info@filmshorts.lt
After spending half of his life
in jail Povilas is finally back to
freedom – but nothing goes
as easily as expected.
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Finding Hillywood
Chris Towey, Leah Warshawski
Original Language: English/Kinyarwanda
Subtitles: English
www.findinghillywood.com
Set amongst the hills of Rwanda,
Finding Hillywood is a real life example
of the power of film to heal a man and
a nation. The documentary explores
the very beginning of Rwanda’s film
industry, which brings local films to
rural communities on a giant inflatable
movie screen. For most Rwandans, this
is the first time they have seen a film,
let alone one in their local language.
Thousands of people show up to watch
films in stadiums next to mass graves,
and in locations where awful crimes
took place during the genocide.
Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Mercury Media
Production
Inflatable Film LLC
Leah Warshawski
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 (0)20 7221 7221
Harri@mercurymedia.org
A feature documentary
about the beginning of
Rwanda’s film industry, and
a real life example of how art
heals.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | History
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
white, HDcam, 83’
Vivian Maier, a nanny living in Chicago,
was a mystery even to those who knew
her. Dying in 2009, near forgotten,
John Maloof, an amateur historian,
uncovered thousands of her negatives
at an auction. Hailed as one of the
greatest 20th Century photographers
along with Diane Arbus and Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Finding Vivian Maier
is the Artist’s story, through her
negatives, Super 8 film footage and
recordings. As the filmmakers track
down an odd collection of parents who
hired her, children she cared for and
curious neighbours who remember her,
the story offers a portrait that is both
bewildering and troubling.
USA, Canada, Holland TV, Scandinavia,
Australia, New Zealand not available.
Sales / Contact:
Kate Hide
24 Hanway Street
Production
John Maloof
Charlie Siskel
W1T 1UH London
England
tel: +44 72 900776
www.hanwayfilms.com
kh@hanwayfilms.com
Vivian Maier, a secretive
nanny living in Chicago, was
very nearly forgotten until
thousands of her negatives
were uncovered, now hailed
as one of the greatest 20th
Century photographers.
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The Fine Art of Mirroring
Toma Bacic
Croatia, 2012 color / black
Original Language: Slovenian/Croatian
Subtitles: English
In 1987, seven years after the death of
Tito, President of Yugoslavia, a group
of young artists won the competition
for the celebration of the Youth Day,
Tito’s birth anniversary. Part of their
proposal was a poster announcing
the celebration that was chosen by
the generals of the Yugoslav People’s
Army and top-ranking politicians. Soon
afterwards it was discovered that the
Youth Day poster was a Nazi poster
remake. Most of the participants in
the affair went on becoming leading
politicians and artists, thus shaping the
cultural and political stance in this part
of the Western Balkans.
Sales / Contact:
Corinne Enquist
D’Art
Production
Corinne Enquist
Kukuljeviceva 21
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
tel: +385 1 4822614
d.art.documentaries@gmail.com
In 1987, a group of young punk-influenced artists used a Nazi remake and
caused a scandal in the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia.
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First Comes Love
Nina Davenport
firstcomeslovemovie.com
First comes love, then comes marriage,
then comes baby in the baby carriage.
For filmmaker Nina Davenport, that old
playground song didn’t go as planned.
Single at age forty-one, she decides to
have a baby on her own, never minding
the odds stacked against her or the
extra hurdles of living in a big city like
New York. In her quest for motherhood,
Nina enlists her best friend Amy as a
birth partner and her friend Eric as a
sperm donor. The process of babymaking affects all their lives profoundly.
USA not available.
Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
611 Broadway #630 Ne...
Production
Nina Davenport
HBO Enterprises – USA
10012 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 9958139
CargoFilm-Releasing.com
Filmmaker Nina Davenport
is single at age 41 decides
to have a baby on her own,
never minding the odds
stacked against her or living
in a big city.
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Catalogue No. 179
First to Fall
Rachel Beth Anderson
Subtitles: Arabic
www.firsttofall.com
First to Fall follows two friends who
abandon their peaceful lives in Canada
to return to their home country
of Libya to fight in the revolution.
Hamid (26) and Tarek (21) have never
fired a gun. Untrained fighters
in an unconventional war, these
boys risk everything to reach the
front lines of battle. Our unblinking
cameras document raw moments
of personal and breathtakingly
dangerous acts of war, rebellion, and
sacrifice as Hamid and Tarek take on
Muammar Gaddafi’s army. This is Libya.
This is revolution. Sales / Contact:
Tony Gerber
Market Road Films
Production
Market Road Films
Tony Gerber
232 3rd street, Studio B401
11215 Brooklyn
USA
tel: +1 718 8555565
www.firsttofall.com
tony@marketroadfilms.com
In a story of rebellion, sacrifice, and transformation two young
Libyans throw aside their peaceful lives and return to their homeland
to join the revolution to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
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Flowers of the Frontier
Flores de la Frontera
Alfredo Torrescalles
Spain, 2012 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: Malinke/Wolof/English
Subtitles: English
Flowers of the Frontier tells the story,
daily life and dreams of a group of
“children of the frontier” through
their own eyes and their words. This
documentary deals with universal
issues based on specific experiences
of the protagonists on aspects such
as violence, happiness, child labor, the
witchcraft present in the people or
poverty, but above all we talk about
their dreams, their hopes and the most
important goal for all of them: going
to school and improve their future and
that of his family.
Sales / Contact:
Enrique Rodríguez
Production
Fascina Producciones
Plaza Mayor 13, 4º der.
Alfredo Torrescalles
40001 Segovia
Spain
tel: +34 92 1047359
camaraexcentrica@gmail.com
Amadou is 10 years old, lives
in Gambia and wants to be
prime minister to improve
living conditions of people in
his village.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | History
Footprints of War
Maximilian M. Mönch
Germany, 2013 color / black and
white, video/HDcam, 44’/50’
Vietnamese/French/German
Subtitles: English
What does a war mean to our
ecosystem and how is the global ecobalance affected? Can a modern war be
eco-friendly? What does it mean when
a military machinery is put into motion,
what resources are needed and how
much are used?
A search around the globe and through
history: The battlefields of World
War I are the birthplaces of modern
Ecocide. Footprints of War is a film
about two antagonist logics: the logic
of strength and fight versus the logic of
life and balance.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
werwiewas medienproduktion
Gregor Streiber
8050 Zürich
ZDF – Germany,
Switzerland
3sat – Germany
tel: +41 44 3122060
Military attacks have
alarming consequences on
our ecosystem. Radioactive
contaminated landscapes,
many millions of tons of
ammunition in our oceans,
toxic landscapes, ten percent
of global carbon emissions.
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Forest of the Dancing Spirits
Linda Västrik
Sweden / Canada, 2013
color, 16mm, 104’/90’
Original Language: Lingala/Akha
Subtitles: English
www.forestofthedancingspirits.com
“In the beginning, women lived apart,
not knowing of men. Until one day,
when the first woman Toli, travelled
deep into the forest. Toli discovered
creatures with big muscles who climbed
trees. When Toli tasted their honey,
she decided they should live together.
. . “. So goes one of the creation stories
of the Akka in the Congo Basin. Akaya,
Kengole, Dibota and their friends are
hunter-gathers who guide us through
life. We follow life as it unfolds over
many years, and experience the practice
of spirituality in the most difficult
situations.
Sales / Contact:
Linda Västrik
Linda Västrik Filmproduction
Production
EyeSteelFilm
Mila Aung-Thwin
Nordhemsgatan 70A
Bob Moore
41309 Göteborg
Co-production:
Film I Väst – Sweden
Sweden
tel: +46 76 2095454
www.forestofthedancingspirits.com
linda.vastrik@gmail.com
SVT – Sweden,
YLE – Finland,
NRK – Norway
The Akka invite us into their Rainforest home, telling us about their mythical
origins as we experience their unique lives in the unlogged tropical rain forest
of the Congo Basin.
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Forget Me Not
David Sieveking
Subtitles: English
www.autlookfilms.com/film/158/
Made with humor and astonishing
candor, Forget Me Not centers on
Sieveking`s Alzheimer stricken mother.
The film dissects his parents liberal
marriage and lifestyle. Alike Amour a
remarkably unsentimental film which
bravely tackles the fundamental
question: will we grow old together?
Austria, Finland, France,
Germany, Poland, Sweden,
Sales / Contact:
Autlook Filmsales
Trappelgasse 4/17
Production
Lichtblick Media
Martin Heisler
1040 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 72 0346934
Alike Amour a remarkably unsentimental film which bravely tackles the
fundamental question: will we grow old together?
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A Fragile Trust
Samantha Grant
Subtitles: English
www.afragiletrust.com
A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story
of Jayson Blair, the most infamous
serial plagiarist of our time, and how
he unleashed the massive scandal that
rocked the New York Times and the
entire world of journalism. The story of
“The Blair Affair” is both a compelling,
character-driven narrative about an
important chapter in the history of
journalism, and a complex story about
power, ethics, representation, race,
and accountability in the mainstream
media. Featuring exclusive interviews,
including Blair himself, A Fragile Trust
is the first film to tell the whole sordid
story of the scandal while exploring
these deeper themes.
Sales / Contact:
Victor Fenes
Taskovski Films
Production
Samantha Grant
7 Granard Business Centre, Bunns
Co-production:
ITVS – USA,
Lane
Brittney Shepherd – USA
NW7 2DQ London
England
tel: +44 78 57467381
www.taskovskifilms.com
acquisitions1@taskovskifilms.com
The story about the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time-Jayson Blair
and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the NYTimes and the
entire world of journalism.
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Politics / Society
Free China: The Courage to Believe
Michael Perlman
Original Language: English/Chinese
Subtitles: Chinese/English
This award winning film examines
widespread human rights violations
in China through the remarkable story
of Jennifer Zeng, a mother and former
Communist Party member who was
arrested by the Internet police because
of her thoughts. She was jailed, tortured
and forced to make products sold
throughout the world. Jennifer must
decide whether to languish in prison for
her beliefs or denounce her faith and
be reunited with her family. The story
is intertwined with Dr. Charles Lee, a
Chinese American businessman who is
imprisoned for his efforts to bypass the
Chinese firewall and bring uncensored
information into China.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
World2Be Productions
Michael Perlman
18, rue Quincampoix
New Tang Dynasty TV
75004 Paris
Kean Wong
France
New Tang Dynasty TV – USA
tel: +33 1 44617748
www.catndocs.com/index.html
cat@catndocs.com
This award winning film
examines human rights
in China through the
remarkable story of two
people persecuted for their
beliefs and forced to make
products sold worldwide.
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Nature / Environment | Experimental | History
Frogs in Boiling Water
Wilhelm Moser
Frogs In Boiling Water examines the
strange power that volcanoes seem to
hold over the Human imagination. The
film travels the world, from ancient
Pompeii to Modern Montserrat and
employs the timeless letters of Pliny
the Younger from 79 AD and other,
more recent eye-witness accounts in
an attempt to uncover the roots of our
obsession.
Sales / Contact:
Wilhelm Moser
Production
Wilhelm Moser
Wevelinghoverstr. 9
40547 Düsseldorf
Germany
tel: +49 172 7554384
strabe44@aol.com
A volcanic eruption is not a disaster, it’s just Mother Nature doing a spot of
gardening. Trespassers like us should beware, but we seem compelled to push
our luck.
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From Iran, A Separation
Kourosh Ataei, Azadeh Mousavi
Original Language: Iranian
Subtitles: English
www.nooripictures.com
In March 2012, Iranian movie “A
Separation” by Asghar Farhadi, won
the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign
Language Film. For the Iranian people
this was more than a cinematic award.
When sanctions and threats of war
with Iran covered the world headlines,
Farhadi talked about Iran’s love for
peace and the rich culture of the
Iranians on the stage when receiving his
award. This time the Iranians voice was
heard through someone other than the
government officials. This documentary
shows the reaction of the Iranians to
this Oscar award and has a general view
on Iran’s society of today.
Sales / Contact:
Katayoon Shahabi
Noori Pictures
Production
Kourosh Ataei, Azadeh Mousavi,
Katayoon Shahabi
84, Avenue de la République
75011 Paris
France
tel: +33 67 6418967
katysh.01@gmail.com
The film shows the reaction of the Iranians to the Oscard granted to “A
Separation” of Asghar Farhadi. It gives a general view on Iran’s society of
today.
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Fulmaya, The Girl with Skinny Legs
Fulmaya, Devcátko s Tenk ma Nohama
Vendula Bradácová
Czech Republic, 2013 color, HDcam, 76’
Slovak/Nepalese
Subtitles: English
www.fulmayafilm.com
Slovak musician and actress Dorota
Nvotova and her Nepalese alter ego
Fulmaya are the main characters in the
story. Even if she enjoyed a comfortable
standard of living in Europe she set off
on a long pilgrimage in order to find
herself finding peace and quiet in an
impoverished part of the world in the
Himalayan foothills. Fulmaya runs a
successful travel agency in Nepal and
also introduces us to the world of street
children and the life of the orphanage.
Life itself usually writes the most
surprising screenplays; Dorota’s destiny
likewise takes what can be perceived as
an unexpected direction.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Bradac
Hangar Films
Bo anovská 2535/32b
19300 Praha 9
Czech Republic
tel: +420 6 04227700
Production
Hangar Films
Jan Bradac
Co-production:
Czech Television – Czech Republic
bradac@falcon.cz
The exceptional tale of real-life situations, the otherness of a far-away land,
human sincerity, and infinite desire for freedom.
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Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Gangster of Love
Nebojsa Slijepcevic
Croatia / Germany / Romania,
2013 color, video, 80’/58’
Original Language: Croatian
25 years ago, Nedjeljko Babic left his
job as a carpenter to start his Godgiven career: matching lonely men
and women. When Maya, a young and
pretty Bulgarian woman, comes to
Gangster looking for a new husband,
it seems that it will be an easy case for
him. But the fact that she is a single
mother and a foreigner makes it a
mission for Gangster. Her case discloses
all the tragic absurdity of traditional
men in modern society: although
they are lonely and desperate to find a
partner, their stubborn conservatism
keeps them from behaving differently.
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Sales / Contact:
Rise and Shine
Production
Restart
Vanja Jambrovic
10997 Berlin
Germany
Co-production:
Kloos & Co Medien GmbH –
tel: +49 30 47372980
Germany,
Fade In – Croatia,
Subcultura Films – Romania
ZDF/ARTE – Germany
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Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Garden of Eden
Gan Eden
Ran Tal
Israel, 2012 color, HDcam/video, 75’
Original Language: Russian/Yiddish/
Portugese/Arabic/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
www.deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/the-garden-of-eden/
The Garden of Eden is the story of
Gan HaShlosha, better known as the
“Sakhne”, one of the largest, most
famous and most visited parks in
Israel. Director Ran Tal expresses with
exceptional cinematic measures the
abundance of conflicted elements
of the Israeli soul. With vast humor,
beauty and pain, the film provides its
viewers an original and piercing look
at Israeli society, in a least expected
location.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Production
Lama Films
Amir Harel
Marienplatz 1
Ayelet Kait
04103 Leipzig
YES – Israel
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
The history of Israel as
told through the beautiful
images and stories of the
different kind of visitors to an
extraordinary warm water
pool.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology
Genetic Roulette
Jeffrey Smith
www.cargofilm-releasing.com/
geneticroulette.html
Never-Before-Seen-Evidence points
to genetically engineered foods as a
major contributor to rising disease
rates in the US population, especially
among children. Gastrointestinal
disorders, allergies, inflammatory
diseases, and infertility are just some
of the problems implicated in humans,
pets, livestock, and lab animals that
eat genetically modified soybeans
and corn. Monsanto’s strong arm
tactics, the FDA’s fraudulent policies,
and how the USDA ignores a growing
health emergency are also laid bare.
Genetic Roulette may change your
diet, help you protect your family, and
accelerate the consumer tipping point
against genetically modified organisms
(GMOs).
USA, Germany not available.
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Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Production
Jeffrey Smith
611 Broadway #630
10012 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 9958139
When the US government
ignored repeated warnings
by its own scientists and
allowed untested genetically
modified (GM) crops into
our environment and food
supply, it was a gamble of
unprecedented proportions.
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Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way
Donna Zaccaro
white, video, 85’
Featuring interviews with Bill and
Hillary Clinton, George and Barbara
Bush, Walter Mondale, and Geraldine
Ferraro herself, among others, this is a
heartwarming and engrossing portrait
of the first woman who was nominated
for vice president, whose legacy still
reverberates today.
Sales / Contact:
Jason Ishikawa
Production
Donna Zaccaro
10016 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 4815020
A heartwarming and engrossing portrait of the first woman who was
nominated for vice president, whose legacy still reverberates today.
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Catalogue No. 192
Politics / Society | History | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Liz Marshall
www.theghostsinourmachine.com
With the exception of our companion
animals and a few species within our
urban environments, we experience
animals as the food, clothing, animal
tested goods and entertainment we
make of them.
Through the heart and photographic
lens of protagonist Jo-Anne McArthur
the film shines a light on the complex
social issue of animal rights within the
context of our voracious consumer
driven world. Are animals property
to be owned and used, or are animals
sentient beings deserving of rights?
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Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Canada
tel: +1 514 8443358
Production
Ghosts Media Inc.
Nina Beveridge
Liz Marshall
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A Girl and a Gun
Cathryne Czubek
www.agirlandagunfilm.com
A Girl and a Gun shows the female
perspective on an object whose history
is deeply bound to men and masculinity.
Breaking through Hollywood
caricatures, A Girl and a Gun reveals
America’s diverse and far-ranging
female gun community and how this
community is portrayed by the media
and targeted by the gun industry; and
shows, through personal stories, how
guns change women’s lives.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Salted Productions
Cathryne Czubek
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
A Girl and a Gun reveals America’s diverse and far-ranging female gun
community .
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Go Grandriders
Bu Lao Ji Shi
Tien-hau HUA
Taiwan, 2012 color / black
and white, video, 90’
Original Language: Chinese/Taiwanese
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/gograndriders
Every one of 17 “Grandriders” has
symptoms of joint degeneration. At
the age of 80 plus, they dare to ride on
scooters and to feel the land they have
lived for life-long again. The challenges
officially begin when they decide to
straddle on their scooters: Objections
from family members, taking driver’s
license at old age, aging bodies and
bodily functions and every possible
weather and road conditions along
that 1178-kilometer long journey. One
day, the crew leader suffers from ulcer
and dropping red blood cell count, how
will he lead these Grandriders to the
destination they have aspired?
Sales / Contact:
Erica C.C. LIN
CNEX Foundation Limited
11F., No. 63, Sec. 1, Hangzhou S. Road
Production
Merry Go Round Media Inc.
Xenia CHANG
Hondao Senior Citizen’s Welfare
10054 Taipei
Foundation
Taiwan
Yi-ying LIN
tel: +886 2 23222928
www.cnex.org.tw
erica.cclin@cnex.org.tw
On average, they are 81 years old, but with dreams only 18-year-old and they
dare to dream. Through life-long experience, “Miracles do happen as long as
you continue to dream!”
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The Good Son
Shirly Berkovitz
Israel, 2013 color, video, 52’
Original Language: Hebrew
Subtitles: English
The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or,
who secretly finances his sex change
operation in Thailand by lying to his
conservative parents – and then returns
home as a woman to face her new life,
her family and the cost of living her
dream.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
Production
Berkovitz Films
Shirly Berkovitz
Yes Docu – Israel
France
tel: +33 1 44617748
www.catndocs.com
cat@catndocs.com
Or secretly finances his sex change operation by lying to his (now her)
parents.
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Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Nicholas Wrathall
USA / Australia, 2013 color / black
Subtitles: English
www.gorevidaldocumentary.com
No twentieth-century figure has had
a more profound effect on the worlds
of literature, film, politics, historical
debate, and the culture wars than Gore
Vidal.
Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary
is a fascinating and wholly entertaining
portrait of the last lion of the age of
American Liberalism. Commentary by
those who knew him best - including
filmmaker nephew Burr Steers and the
late Christopher Hitchens - blends with
footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air
career to remind us why he will forever
stand as one of the most fearless critics
of our time. Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Mercury Media
Production
Amnesia LLC
Nicholas Wrathall
Co-production:
Creative Differences – USA
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 20 72217221
Nicholas Wrathall’s new
documentary is a fascinating
and wholly entertaining
portrait of the last lion of the
age of American Liberalism.
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Grey City
Cidade Cinza
Marcelo Mesquita, Guilherme Valiengo
Brazil, 2013 color, video, 80’
Original Language: English/Portugese
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/cidadecinzasp
A new way of painting graffiti was born
in São Paulo. Hip Hop was replaced
by Brazilian regional culture and
OsGemeos’ crew works were spread to
galleries around the world. However, a
new visual pollution combat act made
the City Hall cover their paintings in
grey in their own hometown.
Sales / Contact:
Raphael Bottino
Sala12 Filmes & Motion
Rua Aecri, 27 - Casa 3
Production
Sala12 Filmes & Motion
Raphael Bottino
05453020 São Paulo
Co-production:
Dcine Cinematografia Digital –
Brazil
Brazil,
tel: +55 11 23726448
Quanta Post – Brazil
www.sala12.com
raphael@sala12.com
Internationally acclaimed
Brazilian graffiti artists are
having their work erased by
the City Hall of São Paulo,
their homeland.
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Gut Renovation
Su Friedrich
www.outcast-films.com
In 1989, Su Friedrich rented and
renovated an old loft in Williamsburg,
an unassuming working-class district
of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former
industrial zone was designated a
residential area and the factories,
manufacturers and artists’ lofts were
priced out by property speculators
lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five
years documenting with her camera
the changes showing the demolition
of industrial buildings and the
construction of trendy new apartments
for wealthy clients, watching old
tenants leave and new inhabitants
arrive. Her own tenancy agreement
expires too and so her documentary
images and trenchant commentary
become the tools of her growing anger.
Sales / Contact:
Vanessa Domico
Outcast Films
Production
Su Friedrich
511 Ave Americas, #398
10011 New York
USA
tel: +1 917 5207392
www.outcast-films.com
info@outcast-films.com
Small changes evolve into an historical record of New York. The resulting
film is a essayistic requiem for an entire way of life. Great case study of
gentrification of our cities.
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Handa Handa 4
David Ofek, Neta Shoshani
Original Language: Hebrew/English/Uzbek
Subtitles: English
www.go2films.com/NewReleases/Handa-Handa-4
Ronen and Orit have been together
for almost three years. They both
come from highly respected families
originally from Uzbekistan. Ronen is the
star of Handa Handa theater troupe, a
hit among the Bukhari community in
Israel and around the world. According
to the colorful but strict Bukhari
tradition, couples must marry after a
brief acquaintance. But Ronen and Orit
rebel and refuse to get married. They
do make the effort to protect Orit’s
“honor”, but that’s not enough for
her parents, who demand they either
marry or break up. Their love is trapped
between tradition and modernity.
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Production
Mytv
Aviram Buhris
Marketing
Lee Yardeni
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Keshet TV (Channel 2) – Israel
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 2 5831371
www.go2films.com
hedva@go2films.com
Israel is not available.
According to the Bukhari
tradition, couples must marry
after a brief acquaintance.
But Ronen and Orit rebel
against their families and
their love becomes trapped
between tradition and
modernity.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Happiness
Thomas Balmès
France / Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 75’
Original Language: Tibetan
Subtitles: English
Peyangki is a young, dreamy and
solitary eight year-old monk. He lives
with his mother in a remote village
in Bhutan, 4,000 meters above sea
level. The village has neither running
water, electricity, nor roads. Roads
and electricity will arrive in 2013. And
with them will come television and
the shows of the Murdoch network’s
46 channels. In anticipation of this big
event, Peyangki’s uncle decides to buy
a television. It will take a three day
journey to Thimpu, the capital, to buy
the much desired set. Having never
before seen a city, Peyangki will be
along for the trip. Sales / Contact:
Thomas Balmès
TBC Productions
Production
Making Movies Oy
Kaarle Aho
57, rue de Charonne
Quark Productions
75011 Paris
Juliette Guigon
France
Co-production:
TBC Productions – France
tel: +33 68 6479986
www.thomasbalmes.com
thomasbalmes@me.com
ARTE – France,
BBC – England,
PBS – USA,
NHK – Japan
Peyangki is a young monk. He lives in a remote village in Bhutan where there
is no electricity nor roads. Electricity will arrive in 2013. And with it will come
television.
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The Happy Sad Route (and a Comedian)
Linda Hakeboom
Original Language: Dutch/
English/Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles: English
www.hetstation.nl
A small group of comedians in former
Yugoslavia is now trying to build up
a comedy scene. It has proven to be
quite a challenge. Audiences are hard
to find, there is little money and, most
importantly: they all share a pretty
tough history of wars to make fun
about. However, to Jan Jaap van der
Wal, a Dutch comedian, that seems
like an advantage. Van der Wal tavels
to Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina to meet with his Balkancolleagues and to perform there. His
attempt to joke about the war turns out
to be an edgy experiment.
Sales / Contact:
Linda Hakeboom
Het Station
Weissenbruchstraat 8
Production
Het Station
Linda Hakeboom
1058 KM Amsterdam
Human – The Netherlands,
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 50410820
www.hetstation.nl
linda@hetstation.nl
Dutch comedian Jan Jaap van der Wal travels to former Yugoslavia to meet
with his Balkan-colleagues. His attempt to joke about the war turns out to be
an edgy experiment...
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Harvest of Empire
Peter Getzels, Eduardo Lopez
Original Language: Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
www.harvestofempiremovie.com
Harvest of Empire examines the direct
connection between the long history of
U. S. intervention in Latin America and
the immigration crisis the USA faces
today, taking an unflinching look at the
role that U. S. economic and military
interests have played for almost a
century that is now transforming
the nation’s cultural and economic
landscape.
As Juan González says at the beginning
of the film “They never teach us in
school that the huge Latino presence
here is a direct result of the US
government’s actions in Mexico, the
Caribbean and Central America over
many decades. Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
EVS Communications
Wendy Thompson-Marquez
Harvest of Empire LLC /
OnyxMedia
Canada
Wendy Thompson-Marquez
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Harvest of Empire examines
the direct connection
between the long history
of U.S. intervention in Latin
America and the immigration
crisis the USA faces today.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | History
A Helping Hand
Molatelo Mainetje, Matome Senyolo
South Africa, 2012 color / black
When South Africa attained its
liberation in the early 90s, not only the
country jubilated but the whole world
joined. But it was those who actively
participated in the struggle against
apartheid who celebrated the most.
Leaders put their countries’ agenda
aside; ordinary people opened doors
to their homes, while religious leaders
stopped preaching the gospel, and
started preaching revolution. One of
those leaders is Bishop John Osmers.
He was almost killed when the South
African government sent him a parcel
bomb while in Lesotho. Bishop Osmers
still stays in Zambia taking care of
refugees in that country.
Sales / Contact:
Molatelo Mainetje
Bolobathaba Multimedia
Unit 15 Quartz Close, 1 Chamfuti
Crescent, Ormonde
Production
Bolobathaba Multimedia
Molatelo Mainetje
SABC 2 – South Africa
2091 Johannesburg
South Africa
tel: +27 11 4963286
www.bolobathaba.co.za
bolobathaba@gmail.com
A tribute to New Zealandborn Bishop John Osmers
for his contribution to the
liberation of South Africa,
and currently helping other
Africans in distress.
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HERB & DOROTHY 50X50
Megumi Sasaki
www.herbanddorothy.com
This is the story of an extraordinary
gift by an ordinary couple, Herb and
Dorothy Vogel. Herb was a postal clerk
and Dorothy a librarian, and together
they built a world-class collection of
contemporary art on their humble
salaries, filling their NYC one-bedroom
apartment to the brim. Though their
collection grew to be nearly 5,000
pieces and worth millions of dollars,
the Vogels never sold a single piece,
deciding instead to give everything
away to museums throughout US.
Having worked their whole lives as civil
servants, their wish was to give back to
the people of the United States. Sales / Contact:
Megumi Sasaki
Fine Line Media Inc
Production
Fine Line Media Inc
Megumi Sasaki
18 west 27th Street, 2nd Floow
10001 Brooklyn
USA
tel: +1 718 3130510
www.herbanddorothy.com
megumi@finelinemedia.net
Japan and US not available.
50 artworks to 50 states.
2500 extraordinary gifts
from one ordinary couple
whose shared passion defies
stereotypes and redefines
what it means to be a patron
of the arts.
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Here Comes Uncle Joe
Wooyoung Choi, Sinae Ha
South Korea, 2013 color,
HDcam/video, 52’/72’
Original Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
Uncle Joe’s delivery service is
extraordinary. He reaches 15 isolated
villages that have neither markets nor
public transport and he delivers to
the clients’ door – or even into their
refrigerator – whatever they order. The
film follows Uncle Joe’s delivery road
from spring to winter, with smiles,
sweat and tears between one delivery
man and 800 elderly.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Production
BODA Media Group
Sinae Ha
Co-production:
ITVS – USA
tel: +41 44 3122060
NHK – Japan,
SBS – South Korea,
ITVS International – USA
He is not their uncle, and his name is not Joe. But to the old ladies of An-dong,
Uncle Joe is almost the only contact to the modern world.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
The Hidden Adze: NZ in Afghanistan
He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan
Kay Ellmers, Annie Goldson
New Zealand, 2013 color, HDcam, 78’/52’
Original Language: Dari/English
Subtitles: English
www.nzinafghanistan.com
Explores New Zealand’s 12 year
involvement in Afghanistan. Given
our status as a tiny Pacific nation,
the film asks why we got involved in
a far-off war. Were we being “good
global citizens” or were we realigning
ourselves with the US given rifts due to
our anti-nuclear policy? It also explores
the limitations of our “embedded”
media coverage, which followed
our Government’s emphasis on our
military’s “humanitarian” role. Finally,
the film reflects on indigenous issues
and some conflict Maori soldiers felt
in being involved in a conflict that
increasingly felt like an occupation.
Sales / Contact:
Annie Goldson
Occasional Productions
11B Richard St Westmere
Production
Occasional Productions
Annie Goldson
1022 Auckland
Maori Television Service – New
New Zealand
Zealand
tel: +64 21 2445708
www.op.co.nz
a.goldson@auckland.ac.nz
New Zealand only.
Explores New Zealand’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan, raising
questions about media representation oand whether we have been
adequately informed about an issue critical to our small Pacific nation.
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Hidden Wounds
Arnold van Bruggen, Tomas Kaan
black and white, 35mm, 7’
www.hiddenwounds.be
Hidden Wounds is a short documentary
inspired by a dEUS song.
The Western world has been at peace
for more than 60 years. On its own
soil at least. But while the civilian
population remains safely out of
harm’s way, young soldiers leave for
new fronts. After their tour of duty
they return to a society to which they
often struggle to adapt. Many veterans
suffer from post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD). A sudden noise, sharp
smell, bright light, busy street, even the
presence of other people can trigger
flashbacks to a traumatic event.
Sales / Contact:
Arnold van Bruggen
Prospektor
Production
Prospektor
Arnold van Bruggen
Witte de Withstraat 32-hs
1057XZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 14656351
www.prospektor.nl
arnold@prospektor.nl
Hidden Wounds is a
documentary inspired by a
dEUS song, about the posttraumatic stress disorder
many war veterans cope with
after their tour of duty.
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Hill of Pleasures
Maria Ramos
The Netherlands / Brazil,
Subtitles: English
After decades of lawlessness, order
seems to have returned to the Hill of
Pleasures, a favela close to Rio’s centre,
a Police Pacifying Unit has taken over
control from organized crime. There
is intensive patrolling, law has been
restored and for the first time, residents
get to voice their complaints. But years
of police aggression and the absence of
the State aren’t that easily forgotten.
In the film Hill of Pleasures, director
Maria Ramos shows the daily tensions
between residents and the new police
force. In her observational style, the
film looks at the obstacles on the road
to reconciliation.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
KeyDocs
Janneke Doolaard
PO Box 26444
Co-production:
Nofoco Filmes – Brazil
1202 JJ Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
In 2011, law and order was
restored by military operation
in the Hill of Pleasures slum
in Rio de Janeiro. How do
residents and policemen deal
with this new situation?
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View | Youth
Hilton! - Here for Life
Virpi Suutari
Finland, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 75’
Original Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English
film-catalogue/hilton/
A roughly beautiful Hilton! gives the
viewer a glimpse of life in a modern
society, a life that young persons
lead. Janne, Toni, Mira, Pete and Make
live in a tenement owned by a youth
foundation. Their attempts to take
control over their own lives have been
in vain. Toni says that it is gruesome
to see oneself as socially excluded, but
apparently he is just that. Despite of
these facts, the group sticks together.
Make, the father figure, has his freezer
full of food: nobody has to leave his
place hungry.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Production
Filmimaa Ltd
Markku Tuurna
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
The film showcases five youths from east Helsinki who for some reason or
other live on the outskirts of society.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues
Homegoings
Christine Turner
www.homegoings.com
Through the eyes of funeral director
Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of
African-American funerals are brought
to life. Filmed at Owens Funeral Home
in New York City’s historic Harlem
neighborhood, Homegoings takes an
up-close look at the rarely seen world
of undertaking in the black community,
where funeral rites draw on a rich
palette of tradition, history and
celebration. Combining cinéma vérité
with intimate interviews and archival
photographs, the film paints a portrait
of the dearly departed, their grieving
families and a man who sends loved
ones “home”.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Production
Peralta Pictures Inc.
Christine Turner
65112 TEL AVIV
Co-production:
P.O.V. American Documentary
Israel
– USA
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
P.O.V. American Documentary
info@cinephil.co.il
– USA
USA, Finland, French speaking
Switzerland, French-speaking
Canada not available.
Homegoings takes an upclose look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in
the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition,
history and celebration.
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Hometown | Mutonia
Zimmer Frei
Original Language: English/Italian
Subtitles: Italian/English
The Mutoid Waste Company arrived
in Santarcangelo in 1990. Since then
the Mutoid’s camp became a fixed
destination for all European travellers.
Mutonia is a temporary city, a village
inside a village, from which original
proposals of sustainability and
creativity emerge, a place with an
intense and at the same time fragile
way of inhabiting and living.
Sales / Contact:
Serena Gramizzi
Bo Film
Production
Anna De Manincor
Via Marconi 51
40122 Bologna
Italy
tel: +39 34 92658471
serenagramizzi@gmail.com
Mutonia is a temporary
city from which original
proposals of sustainability
and creativity emerge, a place
with an intense and at the
same time fragile way of
inhabiting and living.
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Horses of Fukushima
Yoju Matsubayashi
Japan, 2013 color, video, 74’
Original Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
matsurinouma.com
No one would have imagined the
absurd fate awaiting Mirror’s Quest
and his fellow horses of Fukushima.
Almost dying in the tsunami; exposed
to radiation inside 20-km of the nuclear
meltdown; shut away in stables for
months because of governmental red
tape. The horses are kept alive because
of the role they must play in the grand
traditional horse festival, but they’ve
become a headache for the authorities.
A horse meat industry flourishes
nearby. Ironically, thanks to the nuclear
disaster, our protagonists will now
be allowed to live long lives without
danger of being slaughtered.
Sales / Contact:
Asako Fujioka
Morning Pictures
Production
Documentary Japan Inc.
Yoshiko Hashimoto
1-18-10 Kamisaginomiya, Nakanoku
1650031 Tokyo
Japan
tel: +81 70 50899203
fukushimahorse@gmail.com
What a fate for Mirror’s
Quest and his fellow horses
of Fukushima! After the
tsunami, nuclear meltdown,
and government inaction,
the absurdity of civilization is
reflected in their eyes.
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House of Fun
Nifla Po
Vitali Krivich
Original Language: Hebrew/Russian
Subtitles: English
About a hundred adolescents
immigrate to Israel all alone from the
former USSR. Within 9 months, in a
reckless atmosphere, they are supposed
to transform from “Russians” to
“Israelis”. They live a happy-go-lucky life,
despite the rigid structure all around
them, surrounded by a wall, protected
by surveillance cameras and a locked
gate. Filmmaker Vitali Krivich followed a
group of these young immigrants aged
17-21, over the course of a year. This film
follows their changing lives, and sees
them in moments of joy and sorrow,
camaraderie and loneliness, hope and
disillusion.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
2Team Productions
Haim Mecklberg
18 Levontin St.
Estee Yacov-Mecklberg
65112 Tel Aviv
Yes Docu – Israel
Israel
tel: +972 35 664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
Deferred adolescence, instant “Israelis,” love, disillusion, alcohol, drugs, and
xenophobia. This film spends a year with a group of immigrants aged 17 to 21
at the absorption center in Israel.
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Houses for All
Casas para todos
Gereon Wetzel
Germany, 2013 color, video, 54’
Subtitles: English
www.ifproductions.de/Projekte/CASAS
Shortly after the real estate bubble
had burst in the United States Spain
was struck by the same fate. In total
3,6 million housing units - ranging
from completed houses to ruins or half
developed lots - are facing an uncertain
future. How will man and nature
reclaim those spaces?
A bus driving school on the empty
streets of a ghost town, a guardsman, a
shepherd herding his flock between the
ruins, English tourists that play golf on
a totally abandoned course and illegal
immigrants that settle in the naked
skeleton of an high rising apartment
building.
Germany not available.
Topography of a crisis.
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Sales / Contact:
Ingo Fliess
if... Productions
Lindwurmstr. 108A
80337 München
Germany
tel: +49 89 124722380
www.ifproductions.de
fliess@ifproductions.de
Production
if... Productions
Ingo Fliess
3sat – Germany
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Science / Technology
How I Came to Hate Maths
Comment j’ai Détesté les Maths
Olivier Peyon
France, 2013 color, video, 100’
Subtitles: English
Maths has always bored you, you’ve
always thought that being bad at
maths was inevitable, in short you’ve
always hated it ! It could simply be
laughable if it had not taken so much
space in society: Apple, Google,
Goldman Sachs are only algorithms and
mathematical formulas. How did maths
come to suffer such a loss of interest
while it now runs the world?
Sales / Contact:
Gorka Gallier
Doc & Film International
13 Rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
Production
Haut et Court
Laurence Petit
Co-production:
Zadig Productions – France
France
tel: +33 1 42775687
www.docandfilm.com
g.gallier@docandfilm.com
How I Came to Hate Maths tells us how mathematics has changed our world
for the best ... and sometimes for the worse.
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How to Become a Sexual Giant
Manual del Macho Alfa
Guillermo Kloetzer
Uruguay, 2013 color, HDcam, 80’/52’
Original Language: English/Spanish
Subtitles: English
www.lavoraginefilms.com/peliculas/
manual-para-ser-un-macho-alfa/
The life of a sea lion is pretty unfair.
During mating season, the strong ones
take ten females each, nine males
have to cope without a partner. How
to Become a Sexual Giant is a wildlife
comedy. In a fresh and funny way, the
film draws comparisons and switches
from the sex life of sea lions to our
own manners of courtship and mating.
What does us humans divide from
mammals when it comes to love, sex
and reproduction? Aren’t we all sea
lions after all…?
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Lavorágine Films
Natacha López
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
Nine females for one male
and nine males without any.
The life of a sea lion is unfair.
What does us humans divide
from mammals when it
comes to reproduction?
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How to Lose Your Virginity
Therese Shechter
white, video, 66’
How to Lose Your Virginity is an
eye-opening journey to uncover why
virginity still holds such importance
in our otherwise hypersexualized
American society. Engages a cast
of abstinence ideologues, hymen
repair specialists, sex educators, porn
producers and teenage girls, the
film uncovers the unexplored—and
damaging—impact idealized, fetishized
and commoditized virginity has on
young women.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Trixie Films
Therese Shechter
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44617748
cat@catndocs.com
A journey through religion, history and pop culture on a quest to subvert the
meaning and power of the elusive, mysterious and not-always-precious gift
that is female virginity.
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The Human Experiment
Don Hardy, Dana Nachman
white, HDcam, 85’/55’
www.thehumanexperimentmovie.com
The Human Experiment lifts the veil on
the shocking reality that thousands of
untested chemicals are in our everyday
products, our homes and inside of us.
Simultaneously, the prevalence of many
diseases continues to rise. The Human
Experiment tells the personal stories
of people who believe thair lives have
been effected by chemicals and takes
viewers to the front lines as activists
go head-to-head with the powerful
and well-funded chemical industry,
attempting to uncover a corrupt system
that’s being hidden from consumers…
until now.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
KTF Films
Don Hardy
18 rue Quincampoix
Chelsea Matter
75004 Paris
Dana Nachman
France
tel: +33 144617748
www.catndocs.com
cat@catndocs.com
The Human Experiment
lifts the veil on the shocking
reality that thousands of
untested chemicals are in
our everyday products, our
homes and inside of us.
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The Human Horses
Marco Landini, Rosario Simanella
Original Language: Hindi/Bengali
Subtitles: English
Ibrahim, Ram and Raju are three
rickshaw pullers in Kolkata - a city held
together by its agony, which has the
spasmodic vitality of something that is
nearing its end. These men are called
“Human Horses” because of the work
they do. Actually, they are the last of
the lasts, a stubborn proof of the true
essence of human dignity.
Sales / Contact:
Serena Gramizzi
Bo Film
Via Marconi 51
40122 Bologna
Production
Fu Film
Cristina Donno
Co-production:
Bo Film – Italy
Italy
tel: +39 34 92658471
serenagramizzi@gmail.com
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The Hunting of The Snark
La Chasse au Snark
François-Xavier Drouet
Subtitles: English
Filmed over a period of one year of life
inside SNARK, a boarding school for
troubled youths, La Louvière is a selfmanaging project for non-repressive
education. It is an inside view on the
youths’ antisocial behavior and the
staff’s difficult balancing act. Students/
staff relationships wear to a frazzle.
The need for repair is constant. All
counseling is fraught with tension
which can explode anytime. As
seasons pass, academic failure, violence
and provocations reveal themselves for
what they are: symptoms of scarred
childhoods and family conflicts.
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Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Le village
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 47 5943467
www.andanafilms.com
Production
The Kingdom
Marie-Odile Gazin
Co-production:
À VIF cinémas – France
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I Am a Girl
Rebecca Barry
Australia / England, 2013
Subtitles: English
www.iamagirl.com.au/
Being born a girl means you are more
likely to be subjected to violence,
disease, poverty and disadvantage than
any other group on the planet. As a day
on earth transpires from dawn to dusk
and into the night, we meet Breani,
Aziza, Manu, Habiba, Kimsey and Katie
– each on the brink of womanhood and
dealing with the realities of what it
means to grow up female in their world
today.
As they come of age in the way their
culture dictates – graduating from
school, motherhood, or marriage – we
see remarkable, heart-warming stories
of resilience, bravery and humour.
Journeying through a pastiche of
diverse cultures and societies including
the USA, Afghanistan, Papua New
Guinea, Cameroon, Cambodia and
Australia, I Am a Girl reveals what it
means to grow up female in the 21st
century. Sales / Contact:
Harriet Armston-Clarke
TVF International
Production
Testify Media Pty Ltd
Rebecca Barry
375 City Road
EC1V 1NB London
England
tel: +44 20 78373000
www.tvfinternational.com
harriet.armstonclarke@tvf.co.uk
Feminism may have promised equality but the reality is that girls face the
greatest discrimination of any group in the world. I Am a Girl is a patchwork
of girls’ stories of strength, hope, courage - and a refusal to be second best.
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I Am Innocent
Mark Limburg, Jeroen Wolf
www.iaminnocent.org
As a boy growing up in a small village
in Nigeria, Innocent Anyanwu realized
that the cycle of poverty and illiteracy
had to be broken. He took the fate of
his village on his shoulders and sett
of on a journey that forced him to
overcome great challenges. Many years
and three continents later he is faced
by the greatest challenge of them all:
becoming a world boxing champion
to fulfill his dream, providing his home
village with the most precious resource
on earth - drinkable water.
Sales / Contact:
Mark Limburg
Stone Film
Gouwstraat 27
2033 JP Haarlem
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 47873153
Production
Stone Film
Mark Limburg
Co-production:
Imagine Video – The Netherlands
KRO – The Netherlands
mark@stonefilm.nl
Innocent took the fate of his village on his shoulders and sett of on a journey
to fulfill his dream, providing them with the most precious resource:
Water
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I Love Venice
Helena Muskens, Quirine Racké
Subtitles: English
www.filmstransit.com/index.php?option=com_
jmovies&Itemid=70&task=detail&id=267
Venice attracts 30 million tourists each
year and this number is even expected
to rise as massive tourism is predicted
in the next years from China and India.
Everybody wants to see this city of
dreams, a fairytale place built on water.
Meanwhile inhabitants are fleeing the
town. Is Venice the first city turning
into a theme park? I Love Venice tells
the story of the people still living in the
most beautiful city in the world and of
its citizens taking protest to the streets
to save the city as a real community. Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
De Familie
Monique Busman
Canada
tel: +1 514 8443358
Venice is transforming into a theme park, it attracts 30 million visitors each
year. What is it like to live in a city that is not yours anymore?
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I Used to Dance
Femke Kramer
The Netherlands / Belgium,
Original Language: English/Dutch
Subtitles: English
www.iusedtodance.nl
Femke is done with being sick. She lives
with the autoimmune disease Lupus.
Her immune system doesn’t know what
good or bad cells are, thát she already
explained a thousand times!
Through her imagination she’s able to
cope. In the film we experience how.
It draws us into her inner world. We
see what she doesn’t show and hear
what she normally doesn’t say. On the
cutting edge, because she assumes she
can do everything. In her head, at least.
Sales / Contact:
Nathalie Nijkamp
Motion Works
Production
Motion Works
Nathalie Nijkamp
Loeff Berchmakerstraat 48b
3512 TE Utrecht
Human – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 30 2990442
www.motionworks.nl
nathalie@motionworks.nl
Wonderful illogic insight into
the life of a young woman
who is suddenly forced to live
in a different way.
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History | Politics / Society | Investigative
I Will Be Murdered
Justin Webster
Spain / England / Denmark,
2013 color, HDcam, 90’/52’
Subtitles: English
www.iwillbemurdered.com
In May 2009, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a
wealthy, charismatic lawyer went
cycling near his home in Guatemala City
and was murdered. Nothing unusual
there - Guatemala has a murder rate
four times higher than Mexico’s. What
was extraordinary is that Rosenberg
knew, for certain, he was about to
be killed. A video he recorded days
before he died accused the president
of his murder. Uploaded to Youtube, it
nearly brought down the government.
There began a brilliant investigation,
a journey into Rosenberg’s soul and
Guatemala’s hell, that after multiple
twists and turns, reached a stunning
conclusion. . . UK, Spain, Sweden, Israel
and Korea not available.
Sales / Contact:
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
Production
Justin Webster Productions, SL
Sumpta Ayuso
France
Co-production:
Danish Film Institute – Denmark
tel: +34 63 4869646
BBC - Storyville – England,
www.javafilms.fr
RTS – Switzerland,
TV3 – Spain,
TVE – Spain,
DR TV – Denmark
A murder story, a love story
and a thriller.
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History | Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society
I Will Not Lose
Einzelkämpfer
Sandra Kaudelka
Subtitles: English
www.einzelkaempfer-film.de
Sandra Kaudelka, a talented athlete
herself in her youth, portrays four
former top athletes of the GDR, who
used to go to their mental and physical
limits for their careers - and even
beyond. Kaudelka made her very own
experiences with the sports system of
the GDR, in which she was trained in
her childhood. Still coping with these
experiences today, she examines how
her life would have been, if the Fall of
the Wall hadn’t liberated her from the
daily drill and pressure to succeed. She
visits four former top athletes with four
totally different biographies.
Sales / Contact:
Martin Heisler
Lichtblick Media
Production
Lichtblick Media
Martin Heisler
Allerstr. 18
12049 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 762397370
www.lichtblick-film.de
heisler@lichtblick-media.com
A very personal portrait of
four former top athletes of
the GDR, who used to go to
their mental and physical
limits for their careers - and
even beyond.
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Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
I, Afrikaner
Ek, Afrikaner
Annalet Steenkamp
South Africa, 2013 color, video, 90’
Original Language: Afrikaans
Subtitles: English
Filmed over 9 years, I, Afrikaner is a
challenging and intimate portrait of
a filmmaker’s family trapped in an
unsolvable conflict.
Set in rural South Africa where land is
a highly contentious issue and violence
against white farmers is endemic, the
film journeys into how four generations
deal with change in a post Apartheid
era. Her grandmother, who leaves
the farm after an attack; her brother
and sister-in-law as they push forward
with the traditional Afrikaner dream
of farming commercial land; and her
young niece, whose post-Apartheid
upbringing and views are tested when
tragedy comes to the farm. Sales / Contact:
Joanna Higgs
Go Trolley Films
Production
Go Trolley Films
Joanna Higgs
18 Dunkley Square, Gardens
Filmshebeen
8001 Cape Town
Annalet Steenkamp
South Africa
IDFA Bertha Fund
tel: +27 21 4623213
www.gotrolley.com
jo@gotrolley.com
Nearly 20 years after South Africa’s democracy, I, Afrikaner is an intimate
family saga filmed over a near decade. It’s the story of how four generations
respond to an ever-changing landscape.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Art / Music / Culture
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
Jorge Hinojosa
www.cargofilm-releasing.com/icebergslim.html
Iceberg Slim was the first black author
to write about the dynamics of innercity street life, specifically his 35+ year
involvement in pimping and crime. Born
into abject poverty, Iceberg’s early life
was fraught with physical and mental
abuse and a temptation and fascination
with crime. At the early age of 6, Slim
first became enamored with street life,
“My mother had a beauty shop and she
catered to a colony of black hookers and
pimps. I wanted to become a pimp so I
could have all those beautiful clothes,
diamonds and women, that’s how i got
street poisoned”.
Sales / Contact:
Production
Ice-T, Jorge Hinojosa
611 Broadway, Suite 630
Co-production:
Final Level Entertainment – USA
10012 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 9958139
cargofilm-releasing.com
USA, Israel not available.
Examines the tumultuous life of Iceberg Slim (1918-1992) and how he
reinvented himself from notorious pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books.
These books explored ghetto life in poetic detail.
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Ignasi M.
Ventura Pons
Original Language: Catalan
Subtitles: English
www.venturapons.cat
Even though Ignasi M. , a renowned
museum expert, HIV positive and gay,
is going through tough times, he has
a very amusing way of talking about
it. This is an acerbic and critical look
at the misfortunes that our society is
currently experiencing. But with an
abundance of courage, sincerity and
humour Ignasi M. shows his ability to
see the positive and face these and
many other adversities, however cruel
they may be, with hope.
Sales / Contact:
Miren Zamora
Latido Films
Production
Els Films de la Rambla
Ventura Pons
Veneras 9, 3º
28013 Madrid
Spain
tel: +34 91 5488877
www.latidofilms.com
miren@latidofilms.com
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In God We Trust
Derek Anderson, Victor Kubicek
www.ingodwetrustthemovie.com
Eleanor Squillari couldn’t believe it
when her boss, entrepreneur Bernie
Madoff, was arrested on charges of
large-scale fraud in 2008. She had been
his secretary for 25 years, and he was
like family to her. But like many other
Madoff employees, she had no idea of
what had been going on the infamous
17th floor of the New York Lipstick
Building. Together with the rest of the
world, Squillari learned that Madoff and
some of his cohorts had swindled their
clients out of 65 billion dollars through
a so-called Ponzi scheme.
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Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
The Halcyon Company
Derek Anderson
18 rue Quincampoix
BMES LLC
75004 Paris
Derek Anderson
France
tel: +33 14 4617748
www.catndocs.com
cat@catndocs.com
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In No Great Hurry
Tomas Leach
Subtitles: English
www.innogreathurry.com/
innogreathurry/home.html
“I believe there is such a thing as a
search for beauty” Saul Leiter could
have been lauded as the great pioneer
of colour photography, but was never
driven by the lure of success. Instead
he preferred to drink coffee and
photograph in his own way, amassing
an archive of beautiful work that is now
piled high in his NewYork apartment.
In a funny, intimate and moving film, In
No Great Hurry follows Saul as he deals
with the triple burden of cleaning an
apartment full of memories, becoming
world famous in his 80’s and fending
off a pesky film maker. Sales / Contact:
Victor Fenes
Taskovski Films
Production
Little Scraps of Paper
Tomas Leach
Lane
Co-production:
Margit Erb – USA
NW7 2DQ London
England
tel: +44 78 57467381
acquisitions1@taskovskifilms.com
An intimate portrait of
photographer Saul Leiter
dealing with the triple burden
of clearing an apartment
full of memories, becoming
world famous in his80’s
and fending off a pesky
filmmaker.
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Politics / Society
In the Dark Room
Nadav Schirman
Germany / Israel / Finland / Romania
/ Italy, 2012 color, 35mm, 88’
Original Language: Hungarian/
Spanish/English/German/French
Subtitles: English
Magdalena Kopp was married to the
most wanted terrorist in the world:
Carlos “the Jackal”. She followed him
through the birth of international
terrorism, of which he became the star. Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Israel, Finland, Scandinavia,
Romania, Poland, Serbia, Bosnia
& Herzegovina, Macedonia, Czech
Republic, Italy not available.
Sales / Contact:
The Match Factory
Production
Pandora Filmproduktions GmbH
Balthasarstrasse 79-81
Karl Baumgartner
50670 Cologne
FSL Filmproduktion
Germany
Frank Stephan Limbach
tel: +49 221 5397090
Co-production:
July August Productions – Israel,
www.the-match-factory.com
info@matchfactory.de
First Floor Productions – Finland,
Hi Films – The Netherlands,
Palomar – Italy
Demystifying terrorism and the media: a real life story, a tale of tragic love
that is bigger than fiction.
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An Inconsolable Memory
Aryan Kaganof
South Africa, 2013 black
www.kaganof.com/kagablog/category/
films/eoan-group-inconsolable-memory/
Combining rare archival film footage
of District Six and Eoan’s opera
performances, An Inconsolable
Memory forges documentary narrative
and poetic meditation on memory
into a single compelling form. What
was Eoan? What did it mean to the
people who took part in its many
productions?These questions propel
Kaganof’s documentary, but form only
the surface of a richer and deeply tragic
story. An Inconsolable Memory dwells
on what it meant to be “coloured” in
apartheid South Africa, how legislated
“coloureds” could perform Italian
opera and the painful compromises
ordinary people had to make to survive
apartheid.
Sales / Contact:
Stephanus Muller
DOMUS - Stellenbosch
UniversityDepartment of Music
Production
DOMUS - Stellenbosch
UniversityDepartment of Music
Stephanus Muller
University of Stellenbosch
Matieland Stellenbosch
South Africa
tel: +27 82 4475640
www.sun.ac.za
smuller@sun.ac.za
A cathartic elegiac lament for the tragedy of apartheid through telling the
story of South Africa’s first opera company, Eoan.
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Investigative | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Informant
Jamie Meltzer
www.informantdoc.com
Informant takes a spell-binding look at
Brandon Darby, a radical activist who
switched allegiances radically. In 2005,
Brandon Darby became an overnight
activist hero when he traveled to
Katrina-devastated New Orleans and
braved toxic floodwaters to rescue a
stranded friend. Soon after, he became
a founding member of a hugely
successful anarchist grassroots relief
organization. After two young activists
were arrested at the 2008 Republican
National Convention, Darby shocked
close friends and activists nationwide
by revealing he’d been instrumental
in the indictment - he was an FBI
informant.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
Lucky Hat Entertainment
Stephen Bannatyne
18 Levontin St.
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
A spell-binding look at Brandon Darby, a radical activist who switched
allegiances radically to become an FBI informant.
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
InRealLife
Beeban Kidron
www.inreallifefilm.com
InRealLife takes us on a journey from
the bedrooms of British teenagers to
the world of Silicon Valley, to find out
what exactly the internet is doing to
our children? Filmmaker Beeban Kidron
suggests that rather than the promise
of free and open connectivity, young
people are increasingly ensnared in
a commercial world. Beguiling and
glittering on the outside, it can be
alienating and addictive. InRealLife
asks if we can afford to stand by while
our children, trapped in their 24/7
connectivity, are being outsourced to
the net?
UK, Canada not available.
Sales / Contact:
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
Production
Cross Street Films
Beeban Kidron
Studio Lambert
EC1N 7RJ London
Freya Sampson
England
tel: +44 20 78317252
Co-production:
Cross Street Films – England,
www.dogwoof.com
BFI – England
global@dogwoof.com
Sky Atlantic – England
From the bedrooms of
teenagers to the world of
Silicon Valley, InRealLife sets
out to discover what 24/7 life
on the internet is doing to
our children.
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Internal Combustion
Steve Feigenbaum
France / USA, 2013 color, video, 90’
The sirens of hope brought my family to
Detroit one hundred years ago from the
shtetls of Europe. Today that city lies in
ruin and my family is scattered across
the globe. Composed of contemporary
footage, seldom-seen archives and
irresistible music, Internal Combustion
sets personal history against the
drama of social conflict of mid-century
America.
Sales / Contact:
Gorka Gallier
Production
TS Productions
Gilles Sacuto
13 Rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 42775687
www.docandfilm.com
The result is the passionate and unexpected chronicle of America and the
American Dream told in the most personal of terms.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | Politics / Society
The Irresistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi
L’irrésistible ascension de Moïse Katumbi
Thierry Michel
Belgium, 2012 color, video, 80’
Subtitles: English
www.moise-lefilm.com
The wealthy Congolese businessman,
Moïse Katumbi, is not only governor of
the African province of Katanga, rich in
precious minerals, but is also president
of the famous football team «Le Tout
puissant Mazembe». The media,
football, politics and business are the
ingredients of the cocktail concocted
by this new African messiah named
Moïse. He is the symbol of this new
leadership that gains power through
ballot boxes and elections, as well as
being a symbol of a democracy based
on business and populism. A rival
of the president of the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, will
Moïse one day be elected president?
Sales / Contact:
Céline Rauw
Les Films de la Passerelle
62 rue de Renory
Production
Les Films de la Passerelle
Christine Pireaux
4031 Liège
RTBF – Belgium,
Belgium
RTS – Switzerland
tel: +32 43 423602
www.passerelle.be
celine@passerelle.be
Media, football, politics and business are the ingredients of the cocktail
concocted by this new African messiah.
He is a symbol of a democracy based on business and populism.
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Jackie without Jack
Patrick Jeudy
www.zed.fr/tv/distribution/videos/176/
jackie-without-jack/?userlocale=fr_FR
“Never, ever, publish them!” What
was it Jackie Kennedy wanted to keep
secret?
Acclaimed director Patrick Jeudy has
access to a series of conversations
recorded a few months after her
husband’s assassination in Dallas
on November 22, 1963. The Lady in
Pink was continually driven by a dual
purpose: that of molding her own
image, whilst managing that of the
president. She cannot change the past,
so she may as well rewrite it and start
to build the legend of JFK.
Sales / Contact:
Céline Payot Lehmann
ZED
Production
WHAT’S UP Films
Matthieu Belghiti
39 rue des Prairies
75020 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 53099876
www.zed.fr
cplehmann@zed.fr
The Lady in Pink cannot change the past, so she may as well rewrite it and
start to build the legend of JFK.
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Janapar: Love on a Bike
James Newton
England, 2012 color, HDcam, 79’/52’
www.janapar.com
23-year-old Tom Allen is all set for a
9–5 career in IT. Trouble is, he can’t
help wondering whether there’s
more to life. So Tom sets off on the
ultimate adventure: cycling around the
world. Despite his lack of experience,
Tom cycles and camps his way across
three continents, encountering a vivid
cast of friends and foes. But the journey
takes an unlikely detour when he falls
in love with Tenny, a feisty IranianArmenian. When her parents forbid her
from taking to the open road, Tom is
faced with the ultimate dilemma: stay
with Tenny or continue his adventure
alone?
Janapar – named after the Armenian
word for journey – is an honest and lifeaffirming tale of finding what you’re
looking for when you least expect it. Sales / Contact:
Richard Propper
Solid Entertainment
Production
Newton Films
James Newton
15840 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 306,
CA
91436 Encino
USA
tel: +1 818 9904300
www.solidentertainment.com
richard@solidpgms.com
A true love-story, filmed
over four years in thirty-two
countries by one man on a
bicycle.
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Art / Music / Culture | History | Nature / Environment
Jens Jensen The Living Green
Carey Lundin
white, HDcam, 54’
Subtitles: English
www.jensjensenthelivinggreen.org
Danish-born Jensen (1860 – 1951) rose
from immigrant street sweeper, to
“dean of landscape architecture”, to
pioneering conservationist. He battled
corruption and unbridled industrial
expansion to make the modern city
livable by bringing “the living green”
into the wretched lives of Chicago’s
workers. Striking cinematography and
an evocative soundtrack illuminate
colorful witness from Prairie School
architect Alfred Caldwell and an
intensely reflective interview
with Jensen. Jensen leveraged his
relationships with Frank Lloyd Wright,
Henrey Ford and Julius Rosenwald to
stop the steel mills from industrializing
the Indiana shoreline and to preserve
native Midwestern landscapes.
Denmark, handled by Jette
Bonavie, Elektra Films (jette.
bonnevie@gmail.com).
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Sales / Contact:
Carey Lundin
Viva Lundin
Production
Viva Lundin
Mark Frazel
1930 W. George
Co-production:
Viva Lundin – USA
60657 Chicago
USA
tel: +1 773 9915655
careylundin@gmail.com
Jensen rose from street
sweeper to dean of landscape
architecture bringing “the
living green” into the ghettos,
then became a pioneering
conservationist who saved
the Indiana dunes.
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Jingle Bell Rocks!
Mitchell Kezin
Canada, 2013 color / black
An exclusive backstage pass into a
fascinating underground world of
alternative Christmas music.
Starring an eclectic cast of characters
– musicians, DJs composers, collectors
& critics – plus two dozen amazing
& original songs, Jingle Bell Rocks! is
a trippy, cinematic sleigh ride into
the strange & sublime universe of
alternative Christmas music.
Sales / Contact:
Mila Aung-Thwin
EyeSteelFilm
7095, rue Marconi, Suite 201
Production
EyeSteelFilm
Mila Aung-Thwin
Bob Moore
H2S 3K4 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
tel: +1 514 9374893
www.eyesteelfilm.com
mila@eyesteelfilm.com
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Joanna
Aneta Kopacz
Subtitles: English
Thanks to her blog, for many people
Joanna has become an icon of a
thoughtful and joyful life. The blog
describes her daily life honestly and
accurately: her goals are as simple as a
family trip to the Polish lake district; her
planning as short-term as witnessing
her son’s first successful bike ride
without training wheels. She starts
the blog when she finds out she has
cancer and is given three months to live.
Then she promises her 5-year-old son,
Jas, that she will do her best to survive
for as long as possible. And she starts
writing for him.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o.
Katarzyna Slesicka
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
Joanna starts the blog when she finds out she has cancer and she promises
her 5-year-old son, that she will do her best to survive for as long as possible.
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Johnny Cash: Song By Song
Barbara Hall
www.cargofilm-releasing.
com/songbysong.html
Each song/story will provide a
calibrated insight into the unparalleled
drama of a life fully lived and a career
fully exploited; resilience, fortitude,
love, compassion, rebellion and
soul-searching? resilience, fortitude,
love, compassion, rebellion and
soul-searching. Cash spoke for the
condemned man and his redeemer, the
downtrodden coal miner, the hopeless
romantic, the junkie and the righteous
man. He bucked the system and created
his signature persona ? the Man in
Black. The statement was loud and
strong: Johnny Cash plays by his own
rules.
Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Production
Hallway Productions
Barbara Hall
10012 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 9958139
Each episode will set the
cultural landscape scene
and unravel and reveal
the contradictions of this
complicated man through
the lens of a song.
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Journey to Jah
Noël Dernesch, Moritz Springer
Germany / Switzerland, 2013
Original Language: English/German/Patois
Subtitles: English
www.journeytojah-film.com
The two directors Noël Dernesch
and Moritz Springer spent seven
years shadowing two of Europe’s
biggest reggae artists – German
GENTLEMAN and Italian ALBOROSIE
– on their search for authenticity
away from western consumerist
societies in the land of Rastafari and
reggae: Jamaica. Together with the
protagonists we delve into a world
where music is used as an outlet to
confront poverty, criminality and a
lack of prospects, but also one that is
characterized by a deep and uplifting
spiritual bond. A world about which
Alborosie says, “God lives here. But
Satan too. “ Welcome aboard the
JOURNEY TO JAH!
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Port au Prince Film &
Kulturproduktion GmbH
Jan Krüger
10997 Berlin
René Römert
Germany
Co-production:
PiXiU Films GmbH – Switzerland
tel: +49 163 4727639
www.kloosundco.de
karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
for North America: Thought
Engine, Karol Martesko-Fenster
The film Journey to Jah is a tale of the seeking and finding of a spiritual home
in a foreign culture. It follows people who are connected by one thing: music.
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Journey to Oblivion: The Empress of Ireland Story
Alain Vézina
Subtitles: English
www.nfb.ca
In May 1914, 1,477 passengers and
crewmembers boarded one of Canadian
Pacific’s most luxurious ocean liners:
the Empress of Ireland. The ship left
Quebec City for Liverpool on its first
crossing of the season. A few hours
after departure, the Empress was hit by
a Norwegian collier. A mere 14 minutes
after the collision, the great liner was
swallowed by the frigid waters of the
St. Lawrence River. Over a thousand
people perished. Using astonishing
underwater footage of the wreck and
expert interviews, Journey to Oblivion:
The Empress of Ireland Story revisits the
tragedy on the occasion of its 100th
anniversary.
Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
Production
Merlin Films
Michel Prevost
H4N2N4 Montreal
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
www.nfb.ca
c.routhier@nfb.ca
Using astonishing
underwater footage of the
wreck and expert interviews,
Journey to Oblivion: The
Empress of Ireland Story
revisits the tragedy on
the occasion of its 100th
anniversary.
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Nature / Environment | Politics / Society
Journey to the Safest Place on Earth
Die Reise zum sichersten Ort der Erde
Edgar Hagen
Switzerland, 2013 color, HDcam, 53’/90’
Japanese/English/Chinese
Subtitles: German/English/French
Charles McCombie has been leading the
search for a safe nuclear waste disposal
for 35 years. His quest takes him from
the deserts of Nevada to the Swiss
mountains, Australia, the Gobi desert
& a small community in Sweden where
people are voting about living on a
nuclear disposal.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Spittelberggasse 3/14
1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 720 346934
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Production
Mira Film
Hercli Bundi
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Joystick Warriors: The Truth about Violent Video Games
Roger Sorkin
In the wake of mass shootings in the
U. S. and around the world, there’s
been growing speculation about the
relationship between video game
violence and violence in the real world.
Joystick Warriors provides the clearest
account yet of the latest research on
this issue. Drawing on the insights of
media scholars, military analysts, and
gamers themselves, the film explores
how the immersive experience of firstperson shooter games links up with the
larger stories cultures tell themselves
about violence, militarism, guns, and
manhood. The result is an astonishing
look at the wide-ranging effects of
one of America’s most profitable
international exports.
Sales / Contact:
George Matta
MundoVision
Production
Media Education Foundation
Roger Sorkin
4148A Ste-Catherine West, Suite 201
H3Z 0A2 Westmount, QC
Canada
tel: +1 514 9852004
www.mundovision.ca
george@mundovision.ca
Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the personal and
societal effects of violent video games, and their relationship to larger cultural
narratives about guns, militarism, and manhood.
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Karl Ove Knausgård – after My Struggle
Lena Jordebo
Original Language: Swedish/Norwegian
Subtitles: English
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In the autumn of 2011 Norwegian
author Karl Ove Knausgård completed
his mammoth project “My Struggle”
(original title “Min kamp”). The six piece
book series is a great success and has
sold over a million copies in sixteen
countries. In this film we meet an
author who wanted to create the most
true and honest autobiography ever
written. But now that it’s done Karl Ove
Knausgård must face the consequences
of his disclosures. We get to follow
Knausgård during the year after he
finished writing “My Struggle”, an
enormous enterprise that has left him
exhausted and depressed.
Sales / Contact:
Maria Bergenman
Production
ABLuleå
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Lena Jordebo
S-10510 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46 76 8688252
– Sweden
www.svtsales.com
In 2011 Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård completed his project “My
Struggle”. The six piece book series is a great success and has sold a million
copies in sixteen countries.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
Karma Shadub
Ramòn Giger
Switzerland, 2013 color, HDcam, 94’
www.karmashadub.com
Paul Giger, violinist of world renown,
is arranging his opus Karma Shadub
for performance in the cathedral of St.
Gallen; it is the opus he composed on
the occasion of his son’s birth 30 years
earlier. Ramòn films, searching for the
person behind the musician, the father
by whom he feels abandoned. The
reasons for their estrangement have
never been talked about. A portrait of a
father-son relationship, a personal film
about separation and self-discovery quite simply, about becoming an adult.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
2:1 Film GmbH
Jan Gassmann
Julia Tal
10997 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
A portrait of a father-son
relationship, a personal
film about separation and
self-discovery - quite simply,
about becoming an adult.
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Politics / Society
Killer Drones and Secret Wars
Jean-Martial Lefranc
Ten years ago, the Iraq war was the
first conflict introducing robots on the
battlefield.
This electronic warbot business is
now the fastest growing segment of
Defensebudgets around the world.
From the Nevada Drone base to
the Pentagon, from the Digitalized
battlefield to Afghanistan, this
investigation gives new insights into
the inner workings of this secret
war led by the US administration
against Terrorism and questions its
global consequences. How will this
technological revolution impact
military affairs domestically and
internationally? How will it redefine the
laws of war and how does it affect our
democracies and civil liberties?
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Sales / Contact:
Terranoa
France
tel: +33 1 55 255939
www.terranoa.com
contact@terranoa.com
Production
Audrey Ferrarese
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Killing Time
Jaap van Hoewijk
Subtitles: English
www.kvfilms.nl
6 February 1998.
A masked man suddenly appears in
Erin’s living room. Erin thinks it’s a
friend joking around. 12 June 2013. In
Huntsville Texas, preparations are
underway for execution #499 around
6 p. m. Elroy Chester will be killed by
lethal injection for the rape of Erin and
Claire DeLeon and the murder of their
uncle, fireman Billy Ryman. The family
of the victims and the prisoner, the
guards, the ministers, the journalists,
the handful of demonstrators; everyone
has their own way of killing the last few
hours of Elroy Chester’s life. Killing Time
is about passing time.
Films Transit is handling the
North-American rights.
Sales / Contact:
Production
kvfilms
Eric Velthuis
H3L 1A8 Montreal
Co-production:
Canada
tel: +1 514 8443358
office@filmstransit.com,
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
PO Box 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773760
www.nposales.com
Killing Time reconstructs a criminal act and works towards the
implementation of the capital punishment. How does it effect the feelings of
the victims and the family of the condemned?
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Kismet
Nina Maria Paschalidou
Greece / Cyprus, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: Turkish/Greek/
Arabic/Bulgarian/English
Subtitles: English
Turkish soap operas have taken the
world by storm, conquering the hearts
of millions of viewers in the Middle
East, North Africa, the Balkans, South
America and Asia. With unprecedented
access to the industry’s most glamorous
actors and creative talent, Kismet
searches for the secrets of success of
Turkish Soap operas. From the lavish
production sets of the most popular
Turkish soap operas, the film travels
to streets and homes in Athens, Sofia,
Mostar, Istanbul, Cairo and Abu Dhabi,
to discover how these taboo-breaking
soaps are helping women across the
region to transform their lives.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Anemon Productions
Rea Apostolides
Yuri Averof
Canada
Co-production:
Agitprop – Bulgaria,
tel: +1 514 8443358
Nukleus Film – Croatia,
Veritas Films – The Netherlands,
Bulgarian National Film Centre
– Bulgaria,
Croatian Audiovisual Center –
Croatia
ARTE – France,
Al Jazeera International –
England,
SVT – Sweden,
YLE – Finland
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Experimental | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Kiss the Water
Eric Steel
USA / Scotland, 2013 black
www.kiss-the-water.tumblr.com
In a cottage in northern Scotland,
Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur,
silver and gold into elaborate fishing
flies -- at once miniature works of art
and absolutely lethal. Wherever men
and women cast their lines for the
mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is
whispered in mythic reverence, and
stories about her surface and swirl
like fairy tales. With breath-taking
cinematography and expressive, hand
painted animation, Kiss the Water
adheres to and escapes from traditional
documentary form, spinning the facts
and fictions of one woman life into a
stunning film about craft, devotion,
love, and its illusions.
Sales / Contact:
Nelleke Driessen
Fortissimo Films
Production
Easy There Tiger Productions
Eric Steel
Van Diemenstraat 100
1013 CN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6273215
www.fortissimofilms.com
info@fortissimo.nl
For decades, on the edge of the Scottish coast, the enigmatic Megan Boyd
learned and perfected the obscure craft of fly-making for fishermen.
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Art / Music / Culture | History | Politics / Society
Koch
Neil Barsky
white, HDcam, 95’
www.kochthemovie.com
Former NYC’s Mayor Ed Koch is the
quintessential New Yorker; ferocious,
charismatic, and hilariously blunt,
Koch ruled New York from 1978 to
1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit,
graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant
crime. Through candid interviews and
rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly
chronicles the personal and political
toll of running the world’s most
wondrous city in a time of upheaval and
reinvention.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Production
Jenny Carchman
Co-production:
How Am I Doing, LLC – USA
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
Koch chronicles the personal and political toll of former NYC’s mayor Ed
Koch, who ran the world’s most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and
reinvention.
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Investigative | Politics / Society
The Lab
Yotam Feldman
Israel / Belgium / France,
Original Language: English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Israel is a world leader in the
international arms trade. Countries
everywhere turn to Israel to learn how
its army has adapted its weapons for
use in its war against terrorism and
guerilla tactics. This film follows two
private Israeli arms dealers as they go
about their business with their clients.
The result is a vicious circle in which
new wars need new weapons and new
enemies, thereby reinforcing the ageold bond between the profitable and
the lethal.
Israel, France, Belgium, Denmark,
Sweden, French Canada not available.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
Gum Films
Yoav Roeh
18 Levontin St.
Aurit Zamir
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
Co-production:
Luna Blue Film – Belgium,
tel: +972 3 5664129
The Factory – France
www.cinephil.co.il
France TV – France,
info@cinephil.co.il
RTBF – Belgium,
Radio Canada – Canada,
Channel 8 – Israel,
DR TV – Denmark
An investigative documentary revealing how the Israeli military occupation in
Palestine has become a business rather than a burden.
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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
Land of Absence - meeting Adonis
Het Afwezige Land - Een Ontmoeting met Adonis
John Albert Jansen
Subtitles: Dutch/French/English
www.oogland.com
A film about the Syrian-Lebanese poet
Adonis who is considered to be the
most important living poet in the Arab
world and a critic of Arab regimes.
The documentary will focus on his
development as a boy from a humble
village in the north of Syria, who
became the most eminent poet of his
generation. We will go from his early
poems, describing his childhood in a
Syrian mountain village, to the verses of
the poet as an old man, who, tenderly
but devoid of sentimentality, gives
voice to his awareness of how transitory
life and love is. 224
Sales / Contact:
John Albert Jansen
Oogland Filmproducties
Oostelijke Handelskade 941
1019BW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: + 31 20 6838728
www.oogland.com
johnalbertja@hetnet.nl
Production
Oogland Filmproducties
John Albert Jansen
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Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture
The Last Black Sea Pirates
Svetoslav Stoyanov
Bulgaria / England, 2013
Original Language: Bulgarian
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/
TheLastBlackSeaPirates/info
The Last Black Sea Pirates swim in
testosterone and rugged tenderness
in a land of wilderness and legends, far
from civilization. For 20 years, Captain
Jack The Whale and his crew have
been drinking, dreaming and hunting
for a treasure buried in the gully of
Karadere, the pristine beach they call
home. But someone else has got wind
of Karadere’s treasures. When news of
imminent change begin to find its way
to this remote oasis, the pirates’ world
begins to unravel.
In this crisis, emerges a contemporary
fairy tale about the treasures we hunt
and those that we find. Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Agitprop
Martichka Bozhilova
10997 Berlin
Knowledge Network – Canada,
Germany
BNT – Bulgaria,
tel: +49 30 47372980
TVP – Poland,
Knowledge – Canada,
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de Duna TV – Hungary
The treasures we hunt and those that we find.
This is a modern pirate story complete with a captain, a mutinous crew of
outlaws, a princess, her wedding dress and untold riches.
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Nature / Environment | Investigative
The Last Catch
Der letzte Fang
Markus C. M. Schmidt
Original Language: Japanese/
English/French
Subtitles: English/French/German
Once a year schools of European
bluefin tuna migrate from the
Atlantic to spawning grounds in the
Mediterranean. It is a well-established
fact that tuna stocks now face
imminent collapse. Yet they are still
being fished during spawning season,
interrupting the natural cycle of
replenishment. With unique access to
these fishermen and their hunters, a
desperate fight for survival is coming to
a close. Who will survive?
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Lichtblick Filmproduktion
Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 72 0346934
Both tuna and their
fishermen are facing
extinction. The fishermen use
all means necessary to hunt
this fish worth his weight in
gold.
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The Last Ocean
Peter Young
New Zealand, 2012 color, video, 87’
www.levelk.dk/index.php/2011-1122-14-27-48/the-last-ocean
The Ross Sea Antarctica is the most
pristine stretch of ocean on Earth.
Scientists describe it as our last ‘living
laboratory’, a place that can teach
us about the workings of all marine
ecosystems. But the fishing industry
recently found its way to the Ross
Sea, targeting Antarctic Toothfish and
unless stopped, the natural balance
of this unique ecosystem will be lost
forever. The Last Ocean follows the
race to protect the Ross Sea from our
insatiable appetite for fish, and raises
the simple ethical question: do we fish
Earth’s last untouched ocean or do we
protect it?
Sales / Contact:
Tine Klint
LevelK
Production
Fisheye Films Ltd
Peter Young
Gl. Kongevej 137B, 3rd floor
1850 Frederiksberg C
Denmark
tel: +45 48 443072
www.levelk.dk
tine.klint@levelk.dk
The Last Ocean lifts the lid
on commercial fishing in
the most pristine marine
ecosystem on Earth, the Ross
Sea, Antarctica.
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The Last Song Before the War
Kiley Kraskouskas
Tamasheq/English
Subtitles: English
www.thelastsongbeforethewar.com
The Last Song Before the War captures
the inspiring rise and uncertain future
of Mali’s Festival in the Desert told by
the festival director, musicians, and
intrepid travelers. Against the backdrop
of stunning music, the film subtly
reveals the challenges and triumphs of
creating an artistic event in challenging
political and economic times. After
12 years of unforgettable music, the
Festival came to a halt in 2012 when
extremists overtook Northern Mali.
The film chronicles the 2011 Festival—
arguably the last edition that captured
its original goals—a global display of
peace, reconciliation, and the healing
power of music.
Sales / Contact:
Kiley Kraskouskas
Thinking Forward Media
Production
Thinking Forward Media
Leola Calzolai-Stewart
11926 Fieldthorn Court
Kiley Kraskouskas
20194 Reston
Andrea Papitto
USA
tel: +1 571 4214901
www.thelastsongbeforethewar.com
kiley@essakanefilm.com
This is the story of the world’s
most remote music festival –
the Festival in the Desert in
Timbuktu – and the battle to
make it happen.
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History | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Last Standing
La Memoria Degli Ultimi
Samuele Rossi
white, video, 75’
Subtitles: English
www.echivisivi.it
The Last Standing deeply sinks back
into the memory of both War and
Resistance, through eyes of seven
former partisans. The characters are
considered to be the last ones because
of the unresponsive present we live in;
they take a sort of journey to get back
to their past and to the war scenaries,
which are so meaningful to their soul.
The outcoming portrait clearly and
bitterly contrasts with our society. Did
we lose the meaning of values that we
should keep as a fundamental teaching?
Sales / Contact:
Stefano Mutolo
Berta Film
Via Orazio Vecchi, 3
Production
Echivisivi Produzione
Cinematografica SRL
Samuele Rossi
50127 Firenze
Italy
tel: +39 055 2347393
www.bertafilm.it
info@bertafilm.it
The Last Standing deeply sinks back into the memory of both War and
Resistance, through eyes of seven former partisans.
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Laurel and Hardy - Their Lives and Magic
Andreas Baum
Germany, 2012 color / black
and white, HDcam, 92’/60’
Subtitles: English/German/French
This enthralling documentary
follows the life and work of the two
comedy geniuses, Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy - the world’s most beloved
comedy duo. Laurel & Hardy started
way back in the days of the silent film,
but their humour and talent still bring
joy and laughter to peoples’ hearts even
today. This film sheds new light on the
exciting and turbulent private lives of
these “grandmasters of comedy” and
the genuine friendship between them.
It presents a rare look behind the scenes
and includes previously unreleased
footage.
France, Germany, Croatia not available.
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Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
EXIT Film- und
Fernsehproduktion Kassel
18 Levontin St.
Andreas Baum
65112 Tel Aviv
ZDF/ARTE – Germany
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
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Layla’s Melody
Taj Mohammad Bakhtari, Jens Pedersen
Original Language: Pashtu/Dari
Subtitles: English
Layla was put into an orphanage when
the Taliban killed her father. She has
not seen her mother for five years.
Now Layla’s mother is coming to visit!
But Layla is 11, the usual age for girls to
marry in her village. Is that what brings
her mother to Kabul?
Layla’s Melody is number three in a
serie out of five stories.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
Production
Pedersen & Co.
Express TV-Production
Jakob Gottschau
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
Tough times; Tough kids.
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The Lesson
HaShiur
Anat Zuria
Original Language: Hebrew/Arabic
Subtitles: English
www.go2films.com/New-Releases/The-Lesson
After 200 driving lessons and numerous
failed tests later, Layla, an Egyptian
born Arab, is about to give up her dream
to drive. An encounter with Nimar,
the number-one Palestinian driving
expert in Al Quds, rekindles her hopes.
Nimar and Layla, two strangers in one
town, embark upon a mutual journey
to learn how to drive. Gradually, the car
turns into a “confessional,” and Layla
shares her secret life story with Nimar.
But the bloody revolution in Egypt,
Layla’s broken home, and her musician
daughter’s doomed love story may
thwart Layla’s chance to drive when the
journey hits a rocky road.
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Production
Sigal Landesberg
Marketing
37/8 Issar Natanzon
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 25 831371
www.go2films.com
hedva@go2films.com
The story of an Arab woman
fighting for her independence
in a city where the drive for
independence has become,
for many, an unachieved
dream.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | History
Let the Fire Burn
Jason Osder
white, video, 95’
On May 13, 1985, a decade-long conflict
between the Philadelphia police and
MOVE, a radical African American
back-to-nature group, comes to a head.
After an extensive gunfight, the Police
commissioner authorized a bomb to
be dropped on the MOVE compound,
a row house in lower-middle class
West Philadelphia, which ignited a
fire that killed all the residents except
one little boy and destroyed an entire
community. First time filmmaker
Jason Osder’s sobering and powerful
archival documentary pulls you into
this moment where suspicion and
intractability build into a deadly
conclusion.
Sales / Contact:
Jason Ishikawa
Production
Jason Osder
10016 New York
USA
tel: + 1 212 4815020
A graphic illustration of how
prejudice, intolerance and
fear can lead to unthinkable
acts of violence.
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A Letter to Nelson Mandela
Khalo Matabane
South Africa / Germany,
Original Language: English/French/German
Subtitles: English
www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/format/format-
dokumentarfilm/a-letter-to-nelson-mandela-2
Khalo Matabane asks global thinkers,
Apartheid-victims and Mandela’s
entourage to classify Nelson Mandela’s
achievements, thereby providing a
multi-facetted approach to his myth.
Aged 94, the looming high possibility of
Mandela’s death offers the opportunity
to reflect upon his legacy beyond
sainthood. Amongst others, Matabane
interviews the Dalai Lama, Henry
Kissinger, Colin Powell, Peter Hain, Albie
Sachs and Ariel Dorfman. Critique may
just as well be pronounced as approval
and veneration. How do they interpret
his message of freedom, forgiveness
and reconciliation in the world of today?
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Sales / Contact:
Christian Beetz
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
GmbH
Production
Born Free Media
Carolyn Carew
Heinrich Roller Strasse 15
Co-production:
10405 Berlin
GmbH – Germany
Germany
tel: +49 30 69566913
www.gebrueder-beetz.de
c.beetz@gebrueder-beetz.de
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Politics / Society
Letters to Zohra
Brieven aan Zohra
Henna Renfurm, Saskia Vredeveld
Subtitles: English
Letters to Zohra tells the story of an
unlikely revolutionary. Born into a
middle class Indian family in South
Africa, young Ahmed Kathrada sides
with the oppressed black majority in
the 1950’s. Arrested and convicted
for high treason, he is sentenced to
life imprisonment on Robben Island,
together with Nelson Mandela. On the
island, ‘Kathy’ and ‘Madiba’ become
more than just friends: They become
family. But where does that leave his
blood relatives?
Ahmed Kathrada spent 26 years in
prison. Following his release in 1990,
he was elected to serve as a member
of parliament, and became Mandela’s
political advisor.
Sales / Contact:
Saskia Vredeveld
Peacefield Film
Marnixstraat 143D
1015 VM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: ± 31 20 6225880
Production
Armadillo Film
André Bos
Co-production:
Peacefield Film – The Netherlands
OHM – The Netherlands
www.peacefieldfilms.com
saskia@peacefieldfilms.com
The untold story of an Indian freedom fighter in South Africa, Ahmed
Kathrada, Nelson Mandela’s friend and political advisor.
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The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
Kirk Marcolina, Matthew Pond
www.dorispaynefilm.com
Here is the story of a poor, AfricanAmerican mother, who winds up as one
of the world’s most notorious jewel
thieves. Today glamorous 81-year-old,
Doris Payne is unapologetic about the
$2 million in jewels she’s stolen over
a 60-year career. With Doris, now on
trial for the theft of a diamond ring, we
uncover her secrets and what drove her
to a life of crime. The story reveals how
Payne managed to jet-set her way into
any Cartier or Tiffany’s from all across
the US, and from Monte Carlo to Japan
and walk out with small fortunes.
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Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Production
Treehouse Moving Images, LLC
Kirk Marcolina
Matthew Pond
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A Life Exposed: Robyn Beeche
Lesley Branagan
Australia, 2013 color, HDcam, 55’
Subtitles: English
www.alifeexposed.com
Photographer Robyn Beeche captured
the energetic era of identity exploration
in 1980s London. Renowned for her
iconic images, she was celebrated for
her ground-breaking photographs of
painted bodies, and collaborations with
counter-culture personalities Zandra
Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood, Leigh
Bowery and Divine.
At the peak of her career, Beeche’s life
was transformed when she experienced
the Indian colour-throwing festival
of Holi. In India, she found the living
embodiment of the highly stylised and
constructed photographs she had been
making. She gave up her high-flyer
London career for the life-changing
move to India, and a new spiritual focus
to her photography. Australia not available.
Sales / Contact:
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
Production
Lesley Branagan
ABC – Australia
Leidsestraat 106-lll
1017PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6248395
www.illuminafilms.nl
robin@illuminafilms.nl
Photographer Robyn Beeche,
renowned in London for
her iconic 80s images
of painted bodies and
collaborations with counterculture personalities, was
transformed when she
experienced the Indian
colour-throwing festival of
Holi.
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Life Sentences
Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani
white, HDcam, 85’
Original Language: Arabic/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
An Arab man marries a Jewish woman.
They give birth to a girl and a boy and
live in quiet harmony among the ArabJewish community. Nobody realizes
that behind dozens of mysterious
terror attacks which trembles Israel
in the late 60’s stands no other than
the Arab father. When he is caught,
the mother decides to flee the country
with her kids and settle in the heart of
the Jewish Ultraorthodox community
in Montreal, Canada. No-one suspects
the real identity of the children. When
they grow up, the two will take opposite
roads.
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Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44617748
cat@catndocs.com
Production
Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani
Channel 8 – Israel
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Light Fly, Fly High
Beathe Hofseth, Susann Østigaard
Norway, 2013 color, HDcam/video, 80’
Original Language: Tamil
Subtitles: English
”I´m a boxer. It´s in my blood!” Thulasi
is a young, Indian girl who is literally
willing to fight for the right to be
herself. Born outside caste, she´s
expected to stay at the bottom, get
married and follow a certain path,
but Thulasi is different. She wants to
be free, and enters the boxing ring to
fight for a better life. Because boxing
is not only Thulasi’s passion, it can also
give her a ticket to an independent life.
And she is willing to go far to gain her
freedom. Norway, Denmark, Iceland
not available.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Fri Film
Beathe Hofseth
18 rue Quincampoix
Susann Østigaard
75004 Paris
Co-production:
made in copenhagen – Denmark
Norway
tel: +33 144617748
www.catndocs.com
cat@catndocs.com
NRK – Norway,
DR TV – Denmark,
RUV – Iceland
Thulasi is a young, Indian girl
who is literally willing to fight
for the right to be herself.
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Like an Open Sky
A Ciel Ouvert
Mariana Otero
Subtitles: English
Alysson observes her body with
wariness. Evanne spins until dizziness
makes him fall. Amina cannot manage
to utter words clearly.
On the Franco-Belgian border, there’s
a unique place that takes in children
with mental and social problems. Day
after day, the adults try to understand
the enigma that each one of them
represents and, without ever imposing
anything on them, invent the solutions
that will help them to live in peace, case
by case. Through their stories, Like an
Open Sky reveals their singular vision of
the world to us.
Sales / Contact:
Gorka Gallier
Production
Archipel 33
Denis Freyd
13 rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 42775687
www.docandfilm.com
A journey into a unique place
that allows us to understand
the way in which children
with mental and social
problems view the world.
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Linar
Nastya Tarasova
Russia / Italy, 2013 color, HDcam, 82’
Original Language: Italian/English/Russian
Subtitles: English
The story of a little Russian boy who
got a heart transplant in Italy. A lot
of people were by his side on his long
journey full of hardships, except for his
mother.
Sales / Contact:
Irina Shatalova
Production
Albatross Studio
Eizenshteina 8, 409
Irina Shatalova
129226 Moscow
Russia
tel: +7 926 565 94 07
www.linarmovie.com
albatrossdoc@gmail.com
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Linsanity
Evan Jackson Leong
USA, 2013 black and white, HDcam, 88’
www.linsanitythemovie.com
Jeremy Lin came from a humble
background to make an unbelievable
run in the NBA. State high school
champion, all-Ivy League at Harvard,
undrafted by the NBA and unwanted
there: his story started long before he
landed on Broadway.
Sales / Contact:
Nelleke Driessen
Fortissimo Films
Production
Arowana Films
Christopher Chen
1013 CN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6273215
info@fortissimo.nl
The life story of basketball
sensation, Jeremy Lin.
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Science / Technology | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Lithium Revolution
Die Lithium Revolution
Andreas Pichler, Julio Weiss
Spain / Germany, 2012
German/Chinese/Spanish
In a time of global resource shortage
and increasing energy prices, it is
lithium that is on the way to becoming
„the“ natural resource. Lithium-ion
batteries are rechargeable batteries for
portable electronics or electric vehicle.
Thus a prerequisite for the spreading
of electronic mobility. Over 50% of
lithium resources worldwide are found
in Bolivia. Evo Morales has thrown
multinational companies out of the
country, in order to industrialize Lithium
himself. In China, the government is
pumping millions into the e-technology
sector. The aim is to make China a
leading provider of electric mobility
within a few years.
Germany, Finland, Slovakia,
Thailand, Switzerland (German
speaking) not available.
Sales / Contact:
Elina Kewitz
NEW DOCS
Production
Christian Beetz
Raderberger Str. 145
50968 Koeln
Berlin GmbH
Germany
Georg Tschurtschenthaler
tel: +49 221 16819743
Co-production:
Polar Star Films S.L. – Spain
www.newdocs.de
elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
WDR – Germany,
ARTE – France
A variety of perspectives
while contemplating
whether lithium could be
the answer to global energy
and environmental crisis
of the 21st century. A highstakes power play with global
repercussions.
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History | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Little Hanoi
Malá Hanoj
Martina Sakova
Germany / Slovakia / Czech
Republic, 2012 color, HDcam, 78’
Original Language: Vietnamese/
German/Czech
Subtitles: Slovak/Czech/
Vietnamese/English
www.malahanoj.com
Chung and her friend Nguyet came
from Vietnam to Czech Republic
without their parents when they were
12. Their social life revolved around a
big trading place at the German-Czech
border where they had everything:
work, friends and karaoke. Economic
crisis and the opening of a new
superhighway destroyed this fragile
microcosm. Their live become a roller
coaster of chancing it with a casino,
massage lounge, original Czech tavern
and getting adult and mothers. By
accompanying the protagonists over 7
years we win an insight on the culture
of the Vietnamese migrants in postcommunist countries and its different
facets.
TV rights for following countries
not available anymore: Hungary,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland,
Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova,
Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo,
Montenegro, Macedonia and
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Sales / Contact:
Martin Kleinmichel
PROJECTOR23 KG
Production
PROJECTOR23 KG
Martina Sakova
Reichenbergerstr.125
10999 Berlin
Co-production:
Filmframe – Slovakia,
Germany
HBO Europe – Czech Republic
tel: +49 30 64839650
HBO Europe – Czech Republic
www.projector23.de
martin@projector23.de
Little Hanoi is an intimate
long term documentary
about 2 young Vietnamese
girls who struggle for a
perspective for themselves in
exotic Czech Republic.
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Little Land
Nikos Dayandas
Greece, 2013 color, HDcam, 51’
Original Language: French/English/Greek
Subtitles: English
www.anemon.gr/films/film-detail/little-land
Since the advent of the financial crisis
in Greece, a steady and growing flow
of young unemployed Athenians have
been moving to the island of Ikaria,
hoping to change their fortunes and
way of life. On this remote island, we
discover a people with extraordinary
skills of cooperation and survival. Their
story tells us how to live better with
less and why this is important for us
today.
Greece, France, Germany,
Denmark not available.
Sales / Contact:
Rea Apostolides
Anemon Productions
5 Stisihorou St.
Production
Anemon Productions
Rea Apostolides
10674 Athens
ARTE – France,
Greece
ERT – Greece
tel: +30 210 7211073
www.anemon.gr
info@anemon.gr
A land rediscovering its own
powers in order to survive the
crisis.
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Little Miss Piggy
Of Je Worst Lust
Ellen Vloet
Subtitles: English
www.ceruttifilm.nl
Little Miss Piggy is the story of Brechtje
Jans (11) who is raised on a pig farm.
Compared to her classmates in the next
village she is a tough cookie, used to
living the great outdoors and plowing
through the fields in her rubber boots.
The girl is growing up and realizes she
is developing her own opinions. Where
she used to love the pigs, she now
finds working in the stables boring and
smelly. She is starting to turn away
from the agrarian lifestyle and likes to
fantasize about a life outside the farm,
in the big city.
Sales / Contact:
Willemijn Cerutti
Cerutti Film
Production
Cerutti Film
Willemijn Cerutti
Wikkelaan 10
2116TB Bentveld
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 50208648
www.ceruttifilm.nl
willemijn@ceruttifilm.nl
Brechtje Jans is raised on
a pig farm. She is bored.
Brechtje likes to fantasize
about life outside the farm, a
life in the big city.
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Lost and Sound
Lindsey Dryden
England / USA, 2012 color, 16mm, 77’
Subtitles: English
Imagine waking up in the morning
to find that the world sounds utterly
different and music is suddenly
unrecognisable. All the songs you loved
and all the songs you’ve yet to discover
are suddenly out of reach. Could you
find a way to get music back again and
could music find you?
Made by a partially deaf filmmaker
after the future of her own hearing
was called into doubt, this fascinating
award-winning documentary follows
music critic Nick Coleman, dancer Emily
Thornton and pianist Holly Loach over 2
years, as they journey deep into sound
and silence.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Production
Animal Monday
Kat Mansoor
Co-production:
Little by Little Films Ltd – USA
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
What if you became deaf, and lost the ability to hear music?
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Love
Milosc
Filip Dzierzawski
Subtitles: English
The film presents the history of “Milosc”
(Love), one of the most important
Polish jazz bands of 1990s, and tells the
story about its reactivation. 10 years
after the band broke up, the musicians
of “Milosc”: Tymon Tymanski, Mikolaj
Trzaska, Leszek Mozdzer and Maciej
Sikala, meet again. Recalling the old
days and the band’s dramatic story,
they try to create some new music and
start a new chapter in the history of
“Milosc”. Is a comeback possible after all
those years?
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Piotr Kielar
Lifetime Productions
Pychowicka 7
Piotr Kielar
30-364 Krakow
Co-production:
TVP Kultura – Poland
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
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The Love Police
Harold Lucian Baer, Charles Veitch
Germany, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’/52’
Charles Veitch worked as a financial
adviser in London City. In 2009 he was
fired. Instead of finding a new job, he
bought a megaphone. And with the
help of a friend called Danny Shine he
set up a group called The Love Police.
They would go to public places and
annoy people – officious police officers
and security guards mostly. They would
hug passers-by and hold up signs saying
‘Everything is Okay and ask people to
question their attitudes to work, money
and authority. They filmed these events
and put them up on Youtube and they
became popular.
Sales / Contact:
Elina Kewitz
NEW DOCS
Production
Wiesefilm Medien AG
Frank O. Terjung
50968 Koeln
Co-production:
Gemini Film & Library – Germany
Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743
www.newdocs.de
We all wonder about
politician’s statements,
manager salaries, social
injustice. But there are people
amongst us, who can no
longer wonder in silence. Like
Charlie Veitch and his Love
Police.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth | Politics / Society
Lucky Devils
Glückspilze
Verena Endtner
Switzerland, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/96’
Original Language: German/Russian
Subtitles: English/French/
German/Russian/Portugese
www.glueckspilze-film.ch
In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg,
8,500 children live on the streets
but innovative circus Upsala with its
charismatic director Larissa gives some
of those children a chance to fly away
from it all.
Lucky Devils takes us on a journey
from the Russian slums to the lights
of the big top and the joys of a tour
to Switzerland, following half-orphan
Danja, street kid Nastja, and restless
Igor, who tries to grow up with a single
mother unable to cope with her four
children. It conjures up that anything
is possible, thanks to human initiatives
marked by perseverance.
Sales / Contact:
Michael Treves
J.M.T. Films Distribution &
Worldwide Sales
Production
ALOCO GmbH
Dan Riesen
20 Bialik st.
63324 Tel Aviv
Fernsehen – Switzerland
Israel
tel: +972 3 5254782
www.JMTFilms.com
michael@JMTFilms.com
From the streets to the circus
– a magical spectacle.
Lucky Devils takes us on a
journey from the Russian
slums to the lights of the big
top, following Upsala Circus.
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Madame Tyson
Edward Porembny
Poland / France, 2013 color, HDcam, 83’
Subtitles: English
A film about the first women in the
world of Senegalese wrestling, the
promoter of the fights and politician
Ndeye Ndiaye Tyson and two young
Senegalese men: Modou and Thiam.
Despite being illiterate,Tyson has
become famous and is now a role
model for lots of her compatriots.
Currently Tyson travels a lot treaten
with a great recognition and respect.
Modou and Thiam want to change
their lives through to the wresting.
They compete because each of them
hopes to get noticed by the famous
promoter one day, become a master of
Senegalese wrestling and win the fight
for better life.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Pychowicka 7
Production
AMP Polska
Edward Porembny
30-364 Krakow
Co-production:
Les Films du Tambour de Soie –
Poland
France
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
The main characters are: the
first women in the world of
Senegalese wrestling, the
promoter of the fights and
politician Ndeye Ndiaye
Tyson and two young
Senegalese wrestlers: Modou
and Thiam.
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Magic Camp
Judd Ehrlich
www.magiccampmovie.com
Every summer, magic-obsessed kids
coping with the pressures of growing
up gather at the one place where they
can be themselves: Tannen’s Magic
Camp, the world’s oldest and most
prestigious training ground for young
magicians. Magic Camp follows several
campers united by their aspirations
to make it big while navigating
adolescence. One uses magic to escape
the symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome;
another deals with dyslexia. We meet a
high school dropout pinning his hopes
on magic as a career;and a girl seeking
to prove that women are more than
magician’s assistants.
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Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Production
Brooklyn Film Networks
Judd Ehrlich
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Majesty
Reinas
Ana Endara Mislov
Panama, 2013 color, video, 65’
Subtitles: English
www.documentalreinas.com
A playful yet critical exploration of a
singularly Panamanian phenomenon,
Reinas (Majesty) ushers us into the
spectacular, strange and stressful world
of queen ceremonies. An integral part
of Panamanian folklore, our queens
symbolize the festive aspect of our
national spirit. But they also promote
a very particular, potentially troubling
idea of womanhood.
Sales / Contact:
Ana Endara Mislov
Mansa Productora
Production
Mansa Productora
Ana Endara Mislov
Quarry Heights 34D, Ancon
084302343 Panama
Panama
tel: + 507 314 0251
anaendara@gmail.com
Reinas (Majesty) is a portrait of the queens phenomenon in Panama, a
country with no official monarchy, where there is a crown for anyone who
dreams about it.
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Science / Technology | History
Maksimovic. The Story of Bruno Pontecorvo
Maksimovic. La storia di Bruno Pontecorvo
Diego Cenetiempo
white, HDcam, 59’
Subtitles: English/Italian
www.pilgrimfilm.it/pontecorvo.htm
On September 1, 1950, at the
dawn of the Cold War, the nuclear
physicist Bruno Pontecorvo suddenly
disappeared. His escape created a real
political earthquake in Europe and in
the USA. On the story remain many
questions unanswered, and if for some
he was a spy who revealed important
atomic secrets to the Russians, for
others he was a loyal socialist, who
decided to join the USSR for the purpose
of serving science with peaceful
research on the secrets of Nature.
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Sales / Contact:
Andrea Magnani
Via dei Fabbri 8
34124 Trieste
Italy
tel: +39 328 4214242
info@pilgrimfilm.it
Production
Maura Andreuzzi,
Andrea Magnani
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The Man Who Made Angels Fly
Wiktoria Szymanska
England / France / Poland,
2013 color, HDcam, 52’/64’
Original Language: French/English
Subtitles: English
Michael Meschke is one of the world’s
top puppeteers. As a child, he and his
family escaped from Nazi Germany to
Sweden. From there, he set off around
the world, traveling with his puppet
ensemble for over six decades. Over
time he amassed a collection of 3,000
marionettes that must now vacate
unsuitable basement storage in a
Stockholm museum. Each has its own
story and unmistakable personality.
Wiktoria Szymaska eschews standard
biopic methods, focusing instead on
Michael Meschke’s uncanny ability to
imbue his puppets for a few minutes
with living emotion and inimitable
expression.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
Production
LUNA W
Wiktoria Szymanska
Co-production:
Les Films du Balibari – France
France
tel: +33 14 4617748
cat@catndocs.com
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The Man Whose Mind Exploded
Toby Amies
England / USA, 2012 color, 16mm, 58’/74’
Subtitles: English
As a young and extraordinarily
beautiful man, Drako Zahazar danced
at the Folies Bergeres and through a
life as exotic as his name. His fantastic
voyage ended in a horrific car accident
that robbed him of his looks, part of
his brain and most of his ability to
remember.
It weaves a unique story full of art,
love, passion and it has to be said, an
eye-watering amount of pornography Drako’s gloriously dirty mind and total
lack of shame in sharing it, is one of his
most life-affirming characteristics. Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Production
Perfectmotion ltd
Rob Alexander
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
“Two attempted suicides. Two
nervous breakdowns and two
comas. I’m in my seventh
life now and I love it. I love it
all” Drako Oho Zahazar, last
interview, August 2011.
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Manja, a Life Behind Invisible Bars
Willy Lindwer
The Netherlands / Israel,
Subtitles: English
www.willylindwer.com
The documentary tells the moving
story of the ruined live of Manja Croiset
(1946) and her lifelong walk through
psychiatry. Manja is a 2nd generation
survivor and is from her 16th in therapy.
Her Jewish mother lost all her family in
the Holocaust. Manja’s problem is not
understood. She became a chronically
ill psychiatric patient, spent many years
in psychiatric hospitals, was ‘drugged’,
got electroschocks, LSD. A lifelong
with medication, and constantly living
with fears and nightmares. What went
wrong at such a young age? Was she
ever asked for a cause, did she ever had
an adequate treatment?
Sales / Contact:
Willy Lindwer
AVA Productions
P.O.Box 2917
91028 Jerusalem
Production
AVA Productions
Willy Lindwer
Co-production:
AVA Productions – Israel
Israel
tel: +972 54 232 2214
www.willylindwer.com
willy@willylindwer.com
The gripping story of 2nd generation victem Manja, lifelong walk
through psychiatry. Spent since 16 in psychiatric hospitals, was ‘drugged’,
electroschocks, LSD. Life with fears and nightmares, no adequate treatment.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | History
The Manor
Shawney Cohen
Canada, 2013 color, HDcam, 78’/52’
Subtitles: English
Shawney calls himself a filmmaker,
but he’s been a strip-club manager
for longer. When he was six his father
bought “The Manor”, a small-town
strip club. Thirty years later, the family’s
lifestyle has got the better of them.
While his 400-pound father prepares
for stomach-reduction surgery,
his 85-pound mother has her own
complicated relationship with food.
Shawney’s role as struggling filmmaker
and outcast son provides a rare glimpse
into a family facing the consequences
of their livelihood and dependence.
Told with humor and frankness, The
Manor is an intimate portrait of people
struggling to call themselves a family.
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Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Production
Six Island Productions
Paul Scherzer
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Politics / Society
Master of the Universe
Marc Bauder
Germany / Austria, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’
Subtitles: English
Investment bankers are the real
Masters of the Universe, not politicians,
armies or even countries. In economic
powerhouse Germany, a top banker
gives a disturbing insider’s account
of his emotions, motivations and
predictions. Revealing a parallel
universe of extreme income and
merciless pressure.
A system disconnecting bankers from
the outside world, unable to reflect
about their work.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Bauderfilm
Marc Bauder
NGF Geyrhalterfilm
1070 Vienna
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Austria
tel: +43720346934
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Catalogue No. 278
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
Michele Josue
white, HDcam, 89’
www.mattshepardisafriendofmine.com
Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine
explores the life of Matthew Shepard,
the gay student brutally murdered in
Laramie, Wyoming, in one of the most
notorious hate crimes in U. S. history,
and examines the wreckage left behind
after his death. Framed through the
personal lens of friends and family, it’s
a story of loss, love, and courage in the
face of unspeakable tragedy. Sales / Contact:
Liam McNiff
Run Rabbit Run Media
Production
Run Rabbit Run Media
Liam McNiff
1720 Winmar Drive
90065 Los Angeles
USA
tel: +001 323-332-2315
www.mattshepardisafriendofmine.com
liam.mcniff@mac.com
Matt Shepard is a Friend of
Mine explores the life and
tragic death of Matthew
Shepard, the gay student
murdered in Laramie,
Wyoming through a truly
personal lens.
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Mattanja Joy
Ellen van Kempen
Mattanja Joy is a singer/songwriter on
the verge of international breakthrough
in a world of music and commerce. At
the age of 17 she lived in London on the
streets during a violent relation. This
almost was her fatal. Mattanja is very
talented and has a great perseverance.
As a sign of her inner power she has
a big tattoo on her arm. A self made
promise to live the life she is dreaming
about. In 2012 her first solo single was
released. Mattanja’s inner thoughts are
part of her songs.
Sales / Contact:
Peter van den Dungen
Movedmedia
Production
Movedmedia
Theo Andriessen
Reduitlaan 27-2.10
Peter van den Dungen
4814DC Breda
The Netherlands
Omroep Brabant –
tel: +31762100102
The Netherlands
www.movedmedia.nl
peter@movedmedia.nl
A girls arm tattoo with the text ‘NIL VOLENTIBUS ARDUUM’ marks the ending
of the teen ages of singersongwriter Mattanja Joy. Drugs and violence lie
behind. Music is her future.
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Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
Mboko, The Street Child
Mboko, l’Enfant de la Rue
Blaise Pascal Tanguy
France, 2012 color, HDcam/video, 52’
www.2pgpictures.com/production/
Ahmadou, a thirteen year old
Cameroonian boy from the North,
finds himself on a train to Yaounde, the
capital. He meets other youths like him,
on a quest for a hypothetical happiness,
like most children their age dream of.
These “homeless kids” have to face bad
weather, disease, pollution, drugs and
many kinds of assaults. They have to
turn to begging on the street and doing
small jobs to survive, under some gang
leaders’ protection, who really exploit
them. Faced with all these problems,
they do find a helping hand in private
and public rehabilitation centers and
support associations. Ironically though,
neither the rehab centers’ cosy beds, or
their kitchens’ hot meals, or even the
prospect of a professional training are
what our young adventurers preoccupy
themselves with; they actually have a
taste for this dangerous ephemeral life,
accustomed to the daily risks that haunt
every “MBOKO’s” mind.
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Sales / Contact:
2PG Pictures
21 Rue Marcel Cachin
Production
2PG Pictures
92230 Gennevilliers
Co-production:
Patou Films International –
France
France
tel: +33 1 83916242
bptanguy@gmail.com
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Medals & Spikes
Arjanne Laan
Subtitles: English
Laan follows five young athletes. All
five are inspired by their hero Churandy
Martina, the short-distance runner from
the Dutch Antilles, and by their dream:
competing in the Olympic Games. For a
whole year, Ajanne Laan filmed a circle
of five friends. Their friendship means a
lot to them, acting as a safety net when
they have to cope with disappointment
or bad results. By training hard they
hope to reach the top and follow in the
footsteps of their role model Churandy,
who became very popular with the
Dutch after his performance at the
London Olympics. Sales / Contact:
Koert Davidse
seriousFilm
Production
seriousFilm
Koert Davidse
Andrej Sacharovstraat 27
Marc Thelosen
3065 EC Rotterdam
RTV Rijnmond – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 641515974
www.seriousfilm.nl
koert@seriousfilm.nl
Five adoleescent youngsters from Rotterdam who want to become athletes.
We follow them on their path to success. Will they reach the top in athletics
and will they accomplish their ambitions?
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Medulla
Médula
Melisa Miranda
Chile, 2013 color, HDcam, 25’
Subtitles: English
Three years ago my mother suffered a
serious apoplexi fit. In two hours her
self vanished in front of me facing me
suddenly with a body in which se was
not anymore. Medulla is the journey
in which I try to recover the lost image
of a woman that I was never able to
understand nor get to know and who,
today, feels more undecipherable than
ever.
Sales / Contact:
Diego Pino
Production
Ursus Films
Los Estanques 1916
Vicente Barros
7500731 Santiago
Chile
tel: +56 97 9464437
diego.pino.a@gmail.com
Medulla is an autobiographical documentary in which the director tries
to recover de lost image of her mother after an apoplexi fit buried her
memories.
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Men with Balls
Besence Open
Kristóf Kovács
Hungary, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/68’
Subtitles: English
The Hungarian village of Besence has a
population of only 126, and there is 98%
unemployment. But energetic Mayor
Ignácz has decided to put his village
on the map. He applies everywhere
for funds, and he succeeds in getting
money for two projects: a horticultural
project and a tennis court. Tennis in
Besence? Well, why not? But it´s not
long before tensions emerge around
the court. Will the mayor be able to
maintain the level of enthusiasm if the
melon harvest fails? And will he and
Kari the coach at last succeed in getting
their Besence Open off the ground?
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
10997 Berlin
Production
Laokoon Film
Judit Stalter
MTVA – Hungary
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
A mayor in a tiny Roma village dreams of a normal life of his citizens.
Will the EU funded tennis court and bio-gardening program do the trick?
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Menstrual Man
Amit Virmani
India / Singapore, 2012 color, HDcam, 63’
Original Language: Hindi/English/Tamil
Subtitles: English
www.menstrualman.com
There are men who squirm at the
mention of a woman’s period. And
then there’s Muruganantham, a
school dropout in India who went
to great extremes to produce lowcost sanitary pads for his wife. Once
mocked by his own community, he
is now acknowledged as a visionary
for empowering rural Indian women
with access to both feminine hygiene
and a livelihood. In telling the story
of this unlikeliest of heroes, Menstrual
Man underscores the importance
of empowering women to combat
poverty, and the power in every
individual to make a difference.
Sales / Contact:
Edward Caffrey
Journeyman Pictures
Production
Kui Luan Seah
4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton
KT7 0RY Surrey
England
tel: +44 20 83984616
www.journeyman.tv
films@journeyman.tv
Only one in ten menstruating women in India have access to menstrual
hygiene. Muruganantham is changing that.
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Mercedes Sosa, the Voice of Latin America
Mercedes Sosa, la voz de Latinoamérica
Rodrigo H. Vila
Argentina, 2013 color / black
Portugese/French/English
Subtitles: English
Almost fifty years ago, Mercedes Sosa
drafted together with other young
artists, the so-called “Manifesto del
Nuevo Cancionero” (The New songbook
Manifesto). This film is a deep intimate
journey into Mercedes Sosa´s world, not
only as an artist but as a human being.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Cinema 7 Films
Guillermo Rossi
Trappelgasse 4/17
Sabina Sigler
1040 Vienna
Rodrigo H. Vila
Austria
IDFA Bertha Fund
tel: +43720346934
It’s the definite doc about
legendary singer Mercedes
Sosa - the voice of Latin
America and far beyond.
This final portrait covers her
political engagement, family
life and career.
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Messages By Music - Senegal in Transition
Messages Musicaux - Le Sénégal en transformation
Cornelia Strasser
Switzerland / Senegal,
Original Language: Wolof/French
In West-African Senegal there is a
tradition of transmitting messages
through music. Renowned rapper
and Pan-Africanist, Awadi, who
has a distinct political philosophy,
is juxtaposed with three griots –
traditional Senegalese singers – who
play an important role in society.
The griots reflect a static society
whereas Awadi embodies the modern,
or progressive, aspects of Senegal.
The diversity between their music,
ethnic backgrounds, languages, and
religious beliefs provides an insight
into contemporary Senegalese
culture – a culture that oscillates
between tradition and modernity. This
documentary strives to understand
one growing African nation, but has
relevance to any shifting African
society. 268
Sales / Contact:
Cornelia Strasser
Production
Cornelia Strasser
Alderstrasse 46
Co-production:
Fama Film AG – Switzerland
8008 Zürich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 202 04 61
cstrasser@sunrise.ch
Rapper/Pan-Africanist
Awadi is juxtaposed with
three traditional singers.
The diversity between their
music, ethnic and religious
backgrounds provides an
insight into contemporary
Senegalese culture oscillating
between tradition and
modernity.
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Microtopia
Jesper Wachtmeister
Subtitles: Swedish
Micro houses simplify life in an ever
more complicated society. Architects
and pioneers push the limits of
traditional houses to more portable and
flexible living solutions. But are they a
valid option for the future? Or just an
experiment for those who can afford it
or those who have no other option. Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
1070 Vienna
Production
Eight Millimetres AB
Jonas Kellagher
Co-production:
Solaris Filmproduction – Sweden
Austria
tel: +43720346934
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Midnight Butterfly - The Last Days of Priscilla
Peter Bosch
Subtitles: English
www.facebook.com/nachtvlinderpriscilla
Ever since she was sixteen, Priscilla
knew she inherited her mother’s
terrible illness. Priscilla witnessed, up
close, how her mother suffered as her
physical condition got worse by the
day. From an early age, Priscilla read
up on the possibilities of euthanasia
to save herself from a similar fate. In
the meantime, Priscilla lives life to the
fullest, celebrating each day and night.
On her 26th birthday she gives herself a
special ‘present’: euthanasia. The night
before she throws a big farewell party.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
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Production
Bosch Film Amsterdam B.V.
Peter Bosch
NCRV – The Netherlands
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Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Midsummer Night’s Tango
Midsommernachtstango
Viviane Blumenschein
Argentina / Finland / Germany,
2013 color, HDcam, 90’/52’
Original Language: Finnish/Spanish
Subtitles: English
Tango was born in Buenos Aires and no
one dances tango as passionately as the
Argentineans do - that at least what the
Argentineans themselves believe. Tango
is as Finnish as sauna and skiing - that
is what Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki
and many of his fellow countrymen
are convinced of. Two countries, two
opinions, two musical traditions. This
documentary is a humorous, lighthearted road movie, accompanying
three Argentinean tango musicians
as they leave Buenos Aires behind to
discover tango in faraway Finland. They
are noisy, passionate and one hundred
percent convinced that their music is
the only true tango.
Germany, Nordic Countries, Baltic
States and Argentina not available.
Sales / Contact:
Elina Kewitz
NEW DOCS
Production
Berlin GmbH
Christian Beetz
50968 Koeln
Germany
Co-production:
Gema Films – Argentina,
tel: 0049-221-16819743
Illume Oy – Finland
www.newdocs.de
ZDF/3sat – Germany,
YLE – Finland,
SVT – Sweden,
SRF – Switzerland
A music-laden, humorous cinema documentary, capturing the
many comic and charming moments when musicians from two
worlds come together.
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Miles & War
Anne Thoma
Germany / Switzerland,
Subtitles: English
Peace mediators are sent to conflict
zones in order to try and bridge
between disputed parties. Whenever
traditional diplomacy is found limited
these professional trained people
try to assist the involved parties to
reach mutual understandings. Miles
& War takes an up close look at three
international private peace mediators:
in Darfur, the Philippines and Lybia.
The film follows these men on their
missions to put end to armed conflicts
in various parts of the world.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
T&C Film
Susa Katz
18 Levontin St.
Zero One Film GmbH
65112 Tel Aviv
Ann Carolin Renninger
Israel
Co-production:
Zero One Film GmbH – Germany
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
ARTE – Germany
Miles & War takes an
up close look at three
international private peace
mediators, following them
on their missions to put end
to armed conflicts in various
parts of the world.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative | History
Mirage Men
John Lundberg
England, 2013 color, video, 85’/55’
www.cargofilm-releasing.com/miragemen
For over 60 years teams within the
US Air Force and Intelligence services
exploited and manipulated beliefs
about UFOs and ET visitations as part of
their counterintelligence programmes.
In doing so they spawned a mythology
so powerful that it captivated and
warped many brilliant minds, including
several of their own. Now, for the first
time, some of those behind these
operations, and their victims, speak
out, revealing a true story that is part
Manchurian Candidate and part Close
Encounters of the Third Kind.
Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Production
Perception Management
Productions
John Lundberg
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
UFOs: weapons of mass
deception...
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Catalogue No. 290
Misha and So On
Misha enzovoort
Cherry Duyns
Subtitles: English
Misha Mengelberg, monarch of
European jazz, icon of dada and
improvisation. Pianist, composer,
bandleader, he has been battling
with his brain, his memory is slowly
ebbing away. He still performs within
the confines of the ICP Orchestra, the
renowned ensemble which he founded
in 1967. As long as it is possible for him
to do so. Misha and So On was largely
filmed in February 2013 during the
band’s weeklong sojourn at the Vortex
Jazz Club in London, and is a journey
of reminiscence and reality, music,
dementia and love.
Sales / Contact:
Susanna von Canon
Stichting Enveloppe
Production
Stichting Enveloppe
Susanna von Canon
Prinseneiland 97hs
1013 LN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6386611
www.icporchestra.com
canon@xs4all.nl
Netherlands not available.
Bandleader, composer, pianist and icon of free jazz Misha Mengelberg is
losing his memory to dementia, but how is it affecting his performance and
his ensemble (the world famous ICP)
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Investigative
Mission Congo
David Turner, Lara Zizic
Subtitles: English
During an escalating refugee crisis in
the Democratic Republic of Congo,
televangelist, multi-millionaire
and leader of the religious right,
Pat Robertson ran a media blitz on
his television station, the Christian
Broadcasting Network, to raise money
for his charity Operation Blessing
International. However, Robertson was
simultaneously involved with a very
different sort of mission in the area:
diamond mining. With an extraordinary
cast of eye-witnesses Mission Congo
takes us on a mesmerizing journey,
raising larger questions over the billions
of dollars raised by American religious
institutions that go untaxed and
unregulated.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
C-Colony Productions
Erin Heidenreich
18 Levontin St.
David Turner
65112 Tel Aviv
Lara Zizic
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
Death, diamonds and greed. A charismatic US businessman pursues an
irresistible opportunity during one of the worst humanitarian crises of
modern times.
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Mo Yan – The Nobel Laureate 2012
Ann Victorin
Original Language: Swedish/Chinese
Subtitles: English
mo-yan-the-nobel-laureate-2012/
An exclusive interview with Chinese
author Mo Yan, the Nobel Literature
Prize laureate of 2012. SVT’s reporter
Ann Victorin meets Mo Yan in his
childhood village Gaomi, in the province
of Shandong. This is his literary
kingdom where all his books are set. Mo
Yan shows the house where he grew
up, a simple hut with earth floors. He
talks about the tremendous poverty of
his childhood and how it has influenced
everything he has ever written. Mo Yan
also explains how he can be a member
of the Communist Party and still be a
critical writer.
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Sales / Contact:
Paulette Olofson
Production
ABLuleå
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Ann Victorin
S-10510 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46733651151
– Sweden
www.svtsales.com
paulette.olofson@svt.se
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468
Investigative | History | Art / Music / Culture
Mona Lisa is Missing - The Man
Who Stole The Masterpiece
Joe Medeiros
white, HDcam/video, 55’/86’
www.monalisamissing.com
Who was the man who stole the Mona
Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, hid it in his
flat for two years and brought it back to
Italy - and what were his motivations?
An unsolved mystery. Until now. An
investigative trip into the history of the
most famous painting of all times.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Midair Rose Productions
Justine Medeiros
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
The man who stole the Mona
Lisa from the Louvre in 1911,
hid it in his flat and brought
it back to Italy - an unsolved
mystery. Until now.
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Investigative | Politics / Society | History
Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
Jim Bruce
www.moneyfornothingthemovie.org/
Nearly 100 years after its creation,
the power of the U. S. Federal Reserve
has never been greater. Markets and
governments around the world hold
their breath in anticipation of the Fed
Chairman’s every word. Yet the average
person knows very little about the
most powerful - and least understood financial institution on earth. Narrated
by Liev Schreiber, this is the first film
to take viewers inside the Fed. We
reveal how they helped lead the global
financial system to the brink of collapse
in 2008. And why we might be headed
there again. Sales / Contact:
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
Production
Liberty Street Films, LLC
Jim Bruce
France
tel: +34 634 869 646
www.javafilms.fr
North America not available.
Narrated by Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first film to take viewers
inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies on our lives.
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Monk with a Camera
Tina Mascara, Guido Santi
Original Language: English/Tibetan
www.monkwithacamera.com
Nicholas “Nicky” Vreeland is the
grandson of legendary Vogue editor
Diana Vreeland, grew up jetsetting
around the world as the son of
diplomat parents, and had photography
apprenticeships under icons like Irving
Penn and Richard Avedon. But Nicky
walked away from it all to become
a Tibetan Buddhist monk. From
acclaimed directors Guido Santi and
Tina Mascara (Chris and Don: A Love
Story), witness this fascinating and
moving journey of one man’s odyssey
towards enlightenment.
Sales / Contact:
Jason Ishikawa
Production
Asphalt Stars Productions
Tina Mascara
Guido Santi
10016 New York
USA
tel: 2124815020
The fascinating and moving
journey of Nicholas “Nicky”
Vreeland’s odyssey towards
enlightenment.
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More Than Honey
Markus Imhoof
Switzerland / Austria / Germany,
Subtitles: English
In the past five years, billions of
honeybees simply vanished for reasons
still obscure. If the bees keep dying, it
will have drastic effects for humans as
well: more than one third of our food
production depends on pollination by
honeybees. Seeking answers, the film
embarks on a world journey to discover
bees and men. More Than Honey is the
provocative yet touching tale of what
may happen to mankind all over the
world. A 2M euro budget documentary
by Oscar nominated director Markus
Imhoof and by the creators of Let’s
Make Money & We Feed The World.
Sales / Contact:
Films Boutique
Production
Zero One Film GmbH
Köpenicker Str. 184
Thomas Kufus
10997 Berlin
Co-production:
Allegro Films – Austria
Germany
tel: +493069537850
www.filmsboutique.com
simon@filmsboutique.com
In the past years, billions of honeybees vanished. If the bees keep dying, it will
have drastic effects for humans as well. Seeking answers, the film embarks on
a world journey.
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Mothers
Huijing Xu
China, 2013 color, HDcam, 68’
Subtitles: English
In the Chinese village Ma, almost all
of the women of child-bearing age are
either sterilised or made to wear a birth
control ring after having their first child.
The one-child policy put into place 30
years ago has meant a series of legal
repercussions, including penalties for
extra children and what can only be
described as «birth control policing». Xu
Huijing returns to his village to tailgate
the government officials whose current
job is playing cat-and-mouse with a
woman who refuses to go through the
sterilisation surgery.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
CNEX Limited
Ben Tsiang
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44617748
cat@catndocs.com
Chinese mothers want to keep their babies, but the State does not.
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Mothers Don’t Jump from Buildings
Moeders Springen Niet van Flats
Elena Lindemans
Subtitles: English
In 2002, Elena Lindemans’s mother
took her own life by jumping off a tall
building. She had asked for euthanasia
as a way out of her unbearable mental
suffering. As a mental health patient,
her request was rejected on principle,
leaving suicide her only way out. The
family knew what she was planning to
do that Monday afternoon, but they
didn’t stop her. In this documentary
director Elena Lindemans goes looking
for the residents of the apartment
building who witnessed her mother’s
jump and the doctors who dealt with
her request for assisted suicide. Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
Production
VARA
Geert Oostveen
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
In 2002, Elena Lindeman’s mother took her own life by jumping off a tall
building. She had asked for euthanasia but her request was rejected.
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Art / Music / Culture | History
The Mothers of Munch
Lars Rasmussen
Subtitles: English
www.munchsmødre.no
In almost every biography of painter
Edvard Munch, it is his father’s side
of the family that gets the most
prominence. And indeed, the Munch
side of the family is a colourful gallery
of priests, deans, painters and writers,
distinguished and obscure. In The
Mothers of Munch, it becomes apparent
that it was from his mother’s side of the
family that Munch acquired his great
talent. Munch himself even attributed
his drawing and painting skills to have
come from his mother.
Norway not available.
Sales / Contact:
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
Production
Karivold Film
Gunnar Bjerketvedt
1017PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6248395
Norwegian painter Edvard
Munch’s life and career
told through the powerful
influence his mother and
aunt, both gifted artists, had
on him.
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Catalogue No. 297
Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Moving Stills - Kadir van Lohuizen
Tinus Kramer
Subtitles: English
ww.viewpointdocs.com
Award winning photo journalist, Kadir
van Lohuizen wants to affect the news.
With his photos he brings the world
the human stories after the big news
corporations have left, stories of people
and populations forced to flee their
homes and make new beginnings. His
photo’s travel all over the world. But,
times are changing for photojournalists.
Governments and businesses
increasingly influence the media,
and newspapers deal with shrinking
budgets and commercialize their choice.
Moving Stills follows Kadir as he realizes
two of his large projects against the
backdrop of the new trends in media.
Sales / Contact:
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
Leidsestraat 106-IV
1017PG Amsterdam
Production
Viewpoint Productions
Valérie Schuit
The Netherlands
tel: +31206248395
info@illuminafilms.nl
Award-winning photo journalist Kadir van Lohuizen wants to affect the
news by bringing attention to forgotten conflicts. Moving Stills follows Kadir
against the backdrop of the new trends in media.
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Mr. Angel
Dan Hunt
www.mrangelmovie.com
Mr. Angel chronicles the extraordinary
life of transgender activist, educator
and porn pioneer, Buck Angel. His
in-your-face style of activism has
audiences outraged by his insistence
that he is simply ‘a man who happens to
have a vagina. ‘ He survived addiction,
prostitution, and suicide, this is a
moving story of a man’s search for
acceptance from his family & the world.
Mr. Angel is an inspirational story of rare
perseverance and an unlikely hero.
Sales / Contact:
Dan Hunt
PW Productions LLC
Production
PW Productions LLC
Dan Hunt
33 N. Cedar Street,
12508 Beacon, NY
USA
tel: +1 413 3484809
www.mrangelmovie.com
danhunt13@gmail.com
Mr Angel chronicles the extraordinary life of transgender activist and porn
pioneer, It’s a moving story of a man’s search for acceptance from his family
and the world.
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Catalogue No. 299
The Mulberry House
Bayt al toot
Sara Ishaq
Yemen / Syria / Egypt / Scotland / United
Arab Emirates, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’
Subtitles: English
Like most Yemeni girls, when Sara
became 12 she started receiving
marriage proposals. She obviously
didn’t like it. So when she became 17
she decided to go to the UK where
her Scottish mother lives. Her Yemeni
father had conditions. Sara promised
her father that she would keep sincere
to her Yemeni upbringing. 2011, Sara
returns to Yemen as a completely
different person, but to her surprise the
family and the country are at the tip of
starting a revolution.
Sales / Contact:
Diana El Jeiroudi
Proaction Film
4 / 1340 M. S. Ghnayem Street -
Production
Proaction Film
Diana El Jeiroudi
Dummar East
Co-production:
Seen films – Egypt,
11118 Damascus
Setara Films – Scotland,
Syria
Dubai Film Market / Enjaaz Film
tel: +20 10 97431217
Fund – United Arab Emirates
www.proactionfilm.com
IDFA Bertha Fund
diana@proactionfilm.com
Sara, a Scottish Yemeni filmmaker, arrives in Yemen days before the revolution
erupts.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
My Arab Friend
Hahaver Haaravi Sheli
Noga Nezer
Subtitles: English
Noga returns home to Tel Aviv and finds
out that her good Palestinian friend
Fahres, an illegal resident from the
West Bank, had gone missing.
Anxious for him, Noga ventures on
a surreal and surprising journey to
Qibiyeh, his remote home village in the
heart of the occupied territories.
This is a story of an exceptional
friendship, revealed in a journey that
begins in Tel Aviv, continues with
hitchhiking with Jewish settlers and
Palestinians in the occupied territories,
entangles in shooting clashes with the
IDF and ends up in a remote chop shop
in Qibiyeh.
Sales / Contact:
Noga Nezer
Production
Noga Nezer
Sheshet Hayamim 34
Yes Docu – Israel
47247 Ramat Hasharon
Israel
tel: +972545987927
noganz@gmail.com
The journey of a young Israeli girl into the life of her Palestinian friend who
had one day gone missing.
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My German Children
Yeladim Germanim Sheli
Tom Tamar Pauer
English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
www.go2films.com/New-Releases/
My-German-Children
Tom grew up in Israel, daughter of a
Holocaust survivor father and a German
mother who volunteered on a Kibbutz
as penance for the sins of her fathers.
Her mother insisted on preserving her
identity; at home they spoke German
and celebrated Christmas. Like every
Israeli child, Tom absorbed JewishIsraeli traditions through the education
system. Her childhood was colored
with stories of heroism, memorial
ceremonies, and holidays, but was
clouded by a sense of not belonging.
Tom eventually moved to Germany,
but after 17 years of raising her children
in Munich, she once again begins to
wonder about her identity.
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Production
Tom Tamar Pauer
Marketing
37/8 Issar Natanzon
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 25 831371
www.go2films.com
hedva@go2films.com
Born and raised in Israel to a holocaust survivor father and a German mother
and after raising her children in Germany, Tom wonders about her roots and
her identity.
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Politics / Society
My Kith and Kin
Moia rodnia
Rodion Ismailov
Russia / Azerbaijan, 2013 color, HDcam, 63’
Original Language: Russian/Azerbaijani
Subtitles: English
Lolita is the one who bears two
cultures, as her mother is Russian and
her father is Azerbaijanian. This is a lyric
and breathe taking story about a girl,
who goes to Azerbaijan for the very
first time to meet her father’s parents.
She wants to know as much as she can
about traditions, culture and mores of
her Azerbaijanian relatives. Her first
acquaintance with Azerbaijan is the
main plot of this documental movie.
Sales / Contact:
Rodion Ismailov
DC FILM
Production
DC FILM
Rodion Ismailov
Fridrikha Engelsa s., 31/35, off. 76
105005 Moscow
Russia
tel: +7 499 143 95 27
irodion@rambler.ru
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My Name is Salt
Farida Pacha
Switzerland / India, 2013 color, HDcam, 92’
Original Language: Gujarati
Subtitles: English/French/German
www.mynameissalt.com
Year after year, for an endless eight
months, thousands of families move
to a desert in India to extract salt from
the burning earth. Every monsoon
their salt fields are washed away, as
the desert turns into sea. And still they
return, taking pride in producing the
whitest salt in the world.
Switzerland, Germany, Austria
for theatrical and DVD and VOD
rights (TV available) and all
Benelux rights not available.
Sales / Contact:
Lutz Konermann
Leafbird Films GmbH
Bergellerstrasse 26
8049 Zurich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 554 8667
www.leafbirdfilms.com
mail@leafbirdfilms.com
290
Production
Leafbird Films GmbH
Lutz Konermann
IDFA Bertha Fund
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My Stolen Revolution
Nahid Persson Sarvestani
Sweden / The Netherlands,
Original Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English
www.mystolenrevolution
Filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani
was an active left-wing student when
the Iranian revolution broke out in 1979.
The winners are well known and are in
power to this day. Many of her fellow
students and comrades vanished into
prison and were never seen again,
among them her brother Rostam. Thirty
years later, Nahid decides to look for
her old comrades, but she finds many
were executed. She does find Parvaneh,
Sudabeh, Monir, Azar and Nazali. All had
been imprisoned. On the outside the
women are beautiful and witty belying
the pain in their stories. Sales / Contact:
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
Production
Real Reel Production
Nahid Persson Sarvestani
1017PG Amsterdam
SVT – Sweden,
The Netherlands
NRK – Norway
tel: +31 20 6248395
Thirty years afer the
revolutijon, Nahid Persson
Sarvestani searches for the
truth about Iran’s political
prisons and her brother’s
death.
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Author’s Point of View
My Stuff
Tavarataivas
Petri Luukkainen
Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 80’/52’
Subtitles: English
www.tavarataivaselokuva.fi/
When twentysomething Petri gets
dumped by his girlfriend, he tries to
get over it by pushing his credit card
limit. He buys stuff - lots of stuff. But
it doesn´t make him happy. Petri is in
the middle of an existential crisis when
he decides to start an experiment on
himself: He puts all his belongings in
a storage container. For one year, Petri
allows himself to retrieve only one item
per day and he is not allowed to buy
anything new. New life begins naked
next to a radiator.
Finland, Sweden not available.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Unifilm Ltd
Anssi Perttala
10997 Berlin
YLE – Finland,
Germany
UR – Sweden
tel: +49 30 47372980
When Petri gets dumped by his girlfriend, he decides to put all his belongings
into a storage container. New life begins naked next to a radiator.
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My Way
Dominique Mollee, Vinny Sisson
www.mywaythefim.com
My Way begins with the conventional
“small-town girl livin’ in a lonely
(corporate) world. ” Yet instead of
taking the midnight train, Rebekah
Starr trades her pants-suit for a
Les Paul, grabs her sassy Estonian
tambourine-banging sidekick and hits
the highway—destination: Sunset Strip.
When Rebekah’s marriage falls apart in
real time, we realize her dream is not a
whim. Her burning passion for music
comes with its share of real world
sacrifices. Thanks to support from
newfound rock’n’roll legend friends,
Steven Adler (Guns N’Roses) and Rikki
Rockett (Poison), Starr re-commits to
her mission and accomplishes what she
set out after.
Sales / Contact:
Rebekah Rahnavardi
RSB Project LLC
Production
Nine22Ideas
1716 Royal Saint George Drive
RSB Project LLC
91362 Westlake Village
Rebekah Rahnavardi
USA
tel: +1 805 870 4352
www.mywaythemovie.com
rebekahrocks@yahoo.com
Front woman Rebekah
and wild-at-heart Estonian
tambourine player Annika
of Rebekah Starr Band,
take off from small town
Pennsylvania for Hollywood’s
Sunset Strip facing hardships
to film a music video.
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My Way to Olympia
Mein Weg nach Olympia
Niko Glasow
Original Language: German/English/Greek
Subtitles: English
Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey
to athletes, who compete at the
Paralympic Games in London 2012. He
himself is a short-armed avowed hater
of sport who cannot understand how
anyone could take on such an odeal
voluntarily. Even more since everyday
life for people with a disability is most
often challenging enough.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Trappelgasse 4/17
1040 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43720346934
294
Production
if... Productions
Ingo Fliess
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Mythmaking
Katerina edá: Jak se delá m tus
Jan Gogola ml.
Original Language: Czech/English/German
Subtitles: English
Social/art events created by Czech
artist Katerina edá’s burst into the
life of her home town and a nearby
village as they are gradually reshaped
and transformed from within. The film
revolves around edá’s project From
Morning Till Night, a one-day event
that took place September 3, 2011, as a
commission for Tate Modern. The film
captures a follow-up and other current
projects by edá.
Sales / Contact:
Jiri Konecny
Endorfilm
Production
Endorfilm
Jiri Konecny
Tichova 653/52
Co-production:
Ceská Televize – Czech Republic
149 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic
tel: +420 241 730 780
www.endorfilm.cz
jirikonecny4@quick.cz
The film revolves around
Šedá’s project From Morning
Till Night, a one-day event
that took place September 3,
2011, as a commission for Tate
Modern.
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Naked Opera
Angela Christlieb
Luxembourg / Germany,
Original Language: Luxembourgish
Subtitles: English
Mark is brilliant, funny and an incredibly
rich businessman in Luxembourg.
Knowing his life will end soon, he
escapes his work routine by traveling
the world watching all Don Giovanni
Opera’s. He passionately introduces
young lovers into this aristocratic world,
until he falls in love with a young porn
star. Naked Opera is visually stunning
while not only entering a brilliant mind
but also a hedonistic universe.
Austria, Germany, Luxembourg
not available.
Sales / Contact:
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Amour Fou Filmproduktion
Trappelgasse 4/17
GmbH
1040 Vienna
Bady Minck
Austria
Co-production:
Heimat Film – Germany
tel: +43720346934
Naked Opera is visually stunning while not only entering a brilliant mind but
also a hedonistic universe.
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Narco Cultura
Shaul Schwarz
USA / Israel, 2013 color, DCP, 103’
Original Language: English/Spanish
Subtitles: English
To a growing number of Mexicans
and Latinos in the Americas, the narco
traffickers represent the only models
of fame and success, the only way out
of the ghetto. This is the untold story
behind the drug war, an unstoppable
cycle that has created a culture of
addiction on both sides of the border
addiction to the vanity of money,
drugs and violence. Visually stunning,
this insightful documentary tells the
personal stories of those entangled in
this war, from the musician who profits
by glorifying violence, to the man who
collects the bodies the morning after.
Sales / Contact:
Sara Boss
K5 Media Group GmbH
Production
Ocean Size Pictures
Todd Hagopian
Konradinstrasse 5
Parts & Labor Films
81543 Munich
Lars Knudsen
Germany
tel: +49 89 37 50 559 10
www.k5mediagroup.com
sara@k5mediagroup.com
Narco Cultura is a
documentary feature
by award winning
photojournalist Shaul
Schwarz on the explosive
narco culture, a phenomenon
blurring the lines between
war and entertainment.
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Ne Me Quitte Pas
Niels van Koevorden, Sabine Lubbe Bakker
The Netherlands / Belgium,
Original Language: French/Dutch
Subtitles: English
www.pvhfilm.nl/nemequittepas
In the woods of Wallonia, somewhere
at the end of Belgium, two men try
to laugh away their sorrows. The
Fleming Bob and the Walloon Marcel
are keeping their sense of humor while
slowly disappearing from life. They help
each other out everywhere they can.
While their friends and family continue
their lives, the two friends plan a
joint-suicide under the most beautiful
tree they found in the forest. Ne Me
Quitte Pas is a character driven film in
direct cinema style. The honesty and
authenticity of the main characters are
exceptionally charming but at the same
time painful and harsh.
Sales / Contact:
Curien Kroon
Noordermarkt 37-39
Production
Pieter van Huystee
1015 NA Amsterdam
Co-production:
Storyhouse – Belgium,
The Netherlands
Studio Godot – The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 4210606
www.pvhfilm.nl
curien@pvhfilm.nl
Ne Me Quitte Pas tells the story of two friends who want to disappear from
life. Two lost souls cling to each other in this tragic but wonderful ode to
failure.
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Neighborhood
Shechuna
Ilan Yagoda
Subtitles: English
A small bench in a modest, traditional
neighborhood is the daily meeting place
of four women who immigrated from
Yemen 60 years ago. They conduct their
lives based on old-world codes and
values, observing a world changing in
front of their eyes, a world which they
are not part of.
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Production
Ilan Yagoda Productions
Ilan Yagoda
Marketing
37/8 Issar Natanzon
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 25 831371
hedva@go2films.com
A bench in a modest neighborhood is the daily meeting place of four women,
observing a world changing in front of their eyes, a world which they are not
part of.
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The Network
Eva Orner
USA / Australia / England,
Original Language: Dari/English
Subtitles: English
The Network is the story of
Afghanistan’s first independent
television network – TOLO TV – and
the family behind it. Launched in 2004,
TOLO TV has grown to be Afghanistan’s
largest and most successful television
network employing over 800 Afghans,
producing news, current affairs, drama,
comedy, music, and lifestyle programs.
But as the country faces the impending
withdrawal of foreign troops, and with
security rapidly deteriorating, the film
questions what does the future hold for
TOLO TV and their employees, many of
whom are women.
Sales / Contact:
Ana Vicente
Dogwoof
Production
Mechanix Films AS
SBS – Australia
EC1N 7RJ London
England
tel: +44 20 78317252
www.dogwoof.com
global@dogwoof.com
USA, Australia not available.
The Network is the story
of Afghanistan’s first
independent television
network – TOLO TV – and the
family behind it.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology
New Boobs
Sacha Polak
Subtitles: English
www.vikingfilm.nl/en/portfolio/nieuwe-tieten/
For years, successful filmmaker Sacha
Polak has known that she carries
the BRCA1 gene, responsible for the
hereditary breast cancer that killed her
mother at the age of 29. As Sasha turns
29 this year, she turns the camera to
film her intimate journey in deciding
to remove her breasts as a preventive
measure. An emotional roller coaster
ride for both her and her partner that
also affects their family planning.
Sacha’s experiences are moving and
emotional but also enlightening and
sometimes even hilarious. The Netherlands, Belgium,
Sweden not available.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Viking Film
Marleen Slot
1070 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 720 346934
Filmmaker Sacha Polak
carries a hereditary breast
cancer gene. She opts for
a mastectomy as cancer
prevention. A farewell to
one’s breasts and an embrace
of life.
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Night of the Predators
Magnus Arvidson, Mikaela Krestesen
www.svtsales.com/programmesales/night-of-the-predators/
In 1996 President Bill Clinton instituted
a new law that forced all US States
to inform citizens where previously
convicted pedophiles live. The National
Sex Offender Registry was instituted to
give security to parents, but has instead
led to an increased fear of pedophiles.
This is a film about the collective
fear that destroyed the traditional
celebration of Halloween. It follows a
different kind of Halloween, in the small
town of Anderson, South Carolina. Here
the authorities have a radical solution
to try to save the trick or treat-tradition
– the sex offenders are to be locked
away during Halloween.
Sales / Contact:
Paulette Olofson
Oxenstiernsgatan 26
Production
Filt AB
Lena Victorin
S-10510 Stockholm
Co-production:
Sweden
– Sweden
tel: +46733651151
www.svtsales.com
paulette.olofson@svt.se
– Sweden
The U.S. Sex Offender
Registry was instituted to
give security to parents,
but has instead led to an
increased fear of pedophiles.
The trick-or-treat tradition of
Halloween is under threat.
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The Night We Suppose
La Nuit qu’on suppose
Benjamin D’Aoust
Subtitles: English
What does the world look like to people
who can no longer see? What is there
in this endless night, in this profound
darkness, that we all imagine? Brigitte,
Danielle, Hedwige, Bertrand and Saïd
have all lost their sight. They talk about
this world where images are other,
where images exceed their limits and
where other ways of “seeing” are born.
Their life trajectories pose the question
of how we look at things and of the
bond that ties us to our senses,the
world and others. Sales / Contact:
Anthony Rey
Hélicotronc sprl
Production
Hélicotronc sprl
Anthony Rey
23 avenue Jef Lambeaux
1060 Brussels
Belgium
tel: +32 2 5392357
production@helicotronc.com
Life trajectories of people who have lost their sight.
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No Fire Zone
Callum Macrae
England, 2013 color, video, 93’/60’
Original Language: English/Sinhala/Tamil
Subtitles: English
www.nofirezone.org/
Without truth there can be no justice in
Sri Lanka. No Fire Zone is an explicit and
horrifying exposé of the final months
of the 26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war
told by the people who lived through
it. Using unseen footage recorded by
both the victims and perpetrators on
mobile phones and small cameras, the
film meticulously exposes some of the
worst war crimes and crimes against
humanity in recent times, becoming
direct evidence of a war that was
supposed to be conducted in secret.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Production
Joanna Natasegara
Cinephil
Outsider Films
18 Levontin St.
Zoe Sale
65112 TEL AVIV
Channel 4 – England
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
No Fire Zone is an explicit and horrifying exposé of the final months of the
26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it.
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Politics / Society | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
No Land No Food No Life
Sans Terre, C’est la Faim
Amy Miller
Canada, 2013 color, DCP/HDcam, 75’/52’
Bambara/English
Subtitles: English
www.nolandnofoodnolife.com
No Land No Food No Life is a hardhitting film which explores sustainable
peasant and community agriculture
and the urgent calls for an end to
corporate global land grabs. This
feature length documentary gives voice
to those directly affected by combining
personal stories, and vérité footage
of communities fighting against land
grabs. No Land No Food No Life is a deep
examination into the challenges and
struggles farmers face in their fight to
retain control of their land. French version Sans Terre, C’est
la Faim also available, in two
different versions (52 & 75 min).
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Drolet
Films de l’Oeil Inc.
Production
Films de l’Oeil Inc.
Catherine Drolet
5323 de Brebeuf, Suite 200
H2J 3L8 Montreal
Super Channel – Canada,
Canada
Télé-Québec – Canada
tel: +1 514 5077505
www.filmsdeloeil.com
info@filmsdeloeil.com
No Land No Food No Life is
a hard-hitting film which
explores sustainable peasant
and community agriculture
and the urgent calls for an
end to corporate global land
grabs.
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Nora Noh
Sung-hee Kim
South Korea, 2013 color, video, 93’
Subtitles: English
Nora Noh, the best fashion designer,
who dominated the scene of Korean
women’s fashion and culture of the
time. She was the first person ever to
hold a fashion show in Korea and to
make designer readymade clothes.
She boldly dressed the Korean singer
Yoon Bok-hee in a miniskirt and styled
the duo vocal group Pearl Sisters in
pantalon (flare-style pants). One day,
when Noh was preparing for her show,
a young stylist named Suh Eun-young
comes to see her out of the blue. What
kind of show will the two of them
create amidst their differences and
conflicts?
Sales / Contact:
Hyemi Kim
Production
Collective for Sexual Minority
Cultures Pinks
CinemaDAL
3/F 134-2 Myeongnyun 3ga, Il-rhan Kim
Jongno-gu
110523 Seoul
South Korea
tel: +82 2 3372135
www.cinemadal.com
sales@cinemadal.com
Women Designing Lives of
Their Own
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Experimental | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Nose
Paul Rigter
Original Language: English/Italian/Dutch
Subtitles: English
www.thenosefilm.com
Alessandro Gualtieri is an Italian
perfumer calling himself ‘The Nose’,
based in Amsterdam. An independent
spirit in the perfume industry, he
decided to launch his own perfume line
in 2007: Nasomatto (‘crazy nose’). Now
his brand represents nine perfumes (e.
g. Black Afgano and Narcotic Venus),
sold worldwide in high end stores. He
wants to design his final perfume for
Nasomatto, titled Blamage, by making
mistakes and using coincidence,
inspired by some famous perfumes
created by mistakes. The quest for
Blamage takes him all over the world,
but also confronts him with his own
restlessness and drive for perfection.
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
IDTV Docs
Jorinde Sorée
Sumatralaan 45
Suzanne van Voorst
1217 GP Hilversum
Co-production:
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
Perfumer Alessandro
Gualtieri wants to design
his new perfume Blamage
by abandoning all rules for
designing perfumes. This
proves a disruptive process,
especially for himself. Will
Blamage be a blamage?
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Not Criminally Responsible
John Kastner
www.nfb.ca
While gripped by psychosis, a troubled
young man stabs a complete stranger
six times in a crowded shopping mall.
Declared not criminally responsible
on account of mental disorder, the
young man is confined to a forensic
mental health institution. His victim
miraculously survives, haunted by
nightmares, but relieved that her
attacker has been locked safely away.
Directed by four-time Emmy® award
winner John Kastner, NCR: Not
Criminally Responsible offers a timely
and provocative examination of
violence and mental illness, and the
rights of victims.
Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
Production
JS Kastner Productions Ltd
H4N2N4 Montreal
Silva Basmajian
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
Co-production:
www.nfb.ca
– Canada
c.routhier@nfb.ca
Directed by four-time Emmy® award winner John Kastner, Not Criminally
Responsible offers a timely and provocative examination of violence and
mental illness, and the rights of victims.
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Nowhere to Call Home - A Tibetan in Beijing
Jocelyn Ford
China / USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 76’/52’
Original Language: Mandarin/
Tibetan/English
Subtitles: English
Nowhere to Call Home gives an
unprecedented intimate look at the life
of a rural Tibetan woman, as well as the
gritty reality of ethnic prejudice in the
rising global power China. Widowed
farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical
father-in-law and refuses to marry
his other son, imprisoned for robbery.
When Zanta’s in-laws deny her sevenyear-old schooling, she flees to Beijing.
Destitute and feeling embattled by
discrimination, she tries to give her son
to a customer—an American journalist.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Stories That Matter
Jocelyn Ford
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
Co-production:
Tripod Media – USA
RAI – Italy
cat@catndocs.com
Following a chance encounter
on the streets of Beijing, a
destitute Tibetan widow
tries to give her child to an
American journalist, drawing
the foreigner into a violent
family feud.
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NURSERY and the world
KITA und die Welt
Siewe Appolain
Germany, 2013 color, HDcam, 67’/52’/45’
www.kitaunddiewelt.de
Scarcely a so many nationalities to be
found together in the same day-care
center: fifty percents with and the other
fifty without immigration background.
Also scarcely are parent so involves and
present in the life of a day-care center
as that of the Karl-Schraderstrasse in
the neighborhood of Schöneberg-Berlin,
Germany.
Already in the 80s the center ‘steam
developed the initiative “Project
week” within which children learn
to know other cultures and nations
better; A model that not only support
the educational system but also
jeopardize the cultural development
of the children, encourage early infant
multiculturalism, and therefore prevent
xenophobia.
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Sales / Contact:
Siewe Appolain
Einheit Filmproduktion
Production
Einheit Filmproduktion
Siewe Appolain
Rosenheimerstrasse 39
10781 Berlin
Germany
tel: 491734836224
www.einheitfilm.com
info@einheitfilm.de
In a Berlin kindergarden
from the very beginning
the children are given an
understanding of different
cultures and countries.
A praxis supporting an
educational system that
fights and against racism.
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Occupy: The Movie
Corey Ogilvie
Canada / USA, 2013 color, HDcam, 90’
www.occupythemovie.com
The Occupy movement took America
by storm in the autumn of 2011, and has
since faced police violence, eviction,
and failure. What began as a few dozen
New York activists quickly grew into
a worldwide social movement. Now
without a park to occupy and the banks
still causing damage, it is gut check
time for the most daring American
social force since the Civil Rights
movement. Featuring the stories of
key Occupy organisers and intellectuals,
the film asks why they protest and what
poses the greatest threat to their hope
for change.
Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Mercury Media
Production
Strangeways Media
Andrew Halliwell
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 20 72217221
On September 17 2011, a worldwide social movement was born in New York
City. This film documents who they are and what they protest.
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The Old House
Het Oude Huis
Subtitles: English
www.olafkoelewijn.nl
Henk Claasen has the incurable disease
ALS. As a final life project he decides,
together with his wife, on writing a
book about his monumental house.
All former inhabitants of the previous
70 years he asks to come back to write
down their stories of that house. The
Old House is a documentary in which
present and past are intertwined and
the former inhabitants have much
ground in common. Sales / Contact:
Olaf Koelewijn
Production
Olaf Koelewijn
Jan Steenhof 38
3862 MD Nijkerk
The Netherlands
tel: +31650808363
www.olafkoelewijn.nl
info@olafkoelewijn.nl
Each house is a silent witness
of the people who live(d)
in it. If walls could talk how
would they have pictured the
history of on a few square
meters.
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Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues | Youth
Olga - To My Friends
Olga - Till mine venner
Paul Anders Simma
Finland / Sweden / Norway,
2013 color, HDcam/DCP, 58’
Subtitles: English/Chinese/French/
Spanish/German/Norwegian/Finnish
www.dropbox.com/s/1zkgi2jktvxziie/
Olga%20-%20EPG.pdf
Olga is an assumed mentally disabled,
parentless girl, following rough
herdsmen along the migration routes.
In reality she is a very bright teenager
and an excellent story teller. The
society branded her as retarded, since
her parents where drug abusers. She
was compulsorily sent to a postsoviet orphanage. Olga was ethnically
“cleansed” and lost her ability to
speak. When she became 18 years old
she was relished from the orphanage
and sent home. Her tribe rejected her
since they no longer could recognize her
or speak to her. Sales / Contact:
Irena Taskovski
Taskovski Films
Production
SAFI
Paul Anders Simma
7 Granard Business Centre Bunns
Lane
NW7 2DQ London
Co-production:
Tundra film – Norway
Finland
Yleisradio – Finland,
tel: +42 387 66 155 194
SVT – Sweden
acquisitions@taskovskifilms.com
Lost friends newer return, but
sometimes miracles happen.
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One Minute for Conductors
Angel Esteban, Elena Goatelli
Spain / Italy, 2013 color, HDcam, 87’
Original Language: Spanish/German/
Japanese/English/Italian
Subtitles: English
More than 100 young conductors from
all over the world come to the Italian
city of Trento to compete in the Antonio
Pedrotti International Conducting
Competition. During one week a strict
jury leaded by the Maestro Gustav
Kuhn will judge their technique, cultural
background, musicality, and ability
looking for the best conductor, the new
great talent for the future.
One Minute for Conductors discovers
the world of conducting through a
beautiful repertoire and the living of
these young men and women who are
strongly motivated to do what they love
most: to make music.
Sales / Contact:
Elena Goatelli
Kottom Films
Production
Kottom Films
Elena Goatelli
LUIS CABRERA 41
28002 MADRID
Spain
tel: +34 914 110323
www.kottomfilms.com
kottomfilms@gmail.com
More than 100 young conductors are competing to become the new great
talent for the future. They share their joy, deception, nerves and above all,
their love for music.
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History | Politics / Society
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
Jeremy Frindel, Andrew Jones
www.onetrackheartmovie.com
In 1970, Jeffrey Kagel walked away
from the American dream of rock
‘n’ roll stardom, turning down the
chance to record as lead singer for the
band soon-to-be the Blue Oyster Cult.
Instead, he sold all his possessions
and moved from the suburbs of Long
Island to the foothills of the Himalayas
in search of happiness and a littleknown saint named Neem Karoli Baba.
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna
Das follows his journey to India and
back, witnessing his struggles with
depression and drug abuse, to his
eventual emergence as Krishna Das,
today a world-renowned spiritual
teacher.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Jeremy Frindel, Andrew Jones
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das follows Jeffrey Kagel ‘s journey to
India, witnessing his struggles with depression and drug abuse, to his eventual
emergence as Krishna Das.
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Only the Young
Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
www.cargofilm-releasing.com/
onlytheyoung.html
SIGHT & SOUND: “The Cutting Edge
of Non-Fiction Cinema. “ In deserted
underpasses these three typical teens
create their own fun and avoid the
realities of being an adult while sharing
a love of each other. Skye is strongwilled, beautiful and wise beyond her
years. The boys hold each other in
loving tension throughout the film,
displaying vulnerability, admirable
self-consciousness, relatable naiveté
and an almost embarrassing integrity.
Over one last summer of first loves and
heartbreaks, friendship and self-made
adventure, these three teenagers find
everything they knew beginning to
transform before their eyes.
US, Latin America, Canada
not available.
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Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Production
Derek Waters
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
Three teenagers find things
to do in a place that offers
nothing. They discover first
love, friendship and avoid
the realities of becoming an
adult.
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Opening Act
Fuori Scena
Massimo Donati
Subtitles: English
www.gaea.it
Everybody is waiting to find out if
their talents will develop and improve
at a stone’s throw from the world’s
most famous theatre. Everybody is
wondering if they will be able to keep
up with the training at Accademia
Teatro alla Scala. The only institution
in the whole world which can boast
training courses for all the professionals
of Art Theatre under one roof: young
ballet dancers, opera singers, concert
performers, stage designers. . . Being
selected is just the first step.
Everything converges on that moment
when truth and emotions blend, when
you can show your real talent, or fail.
Sales / Contact:
Francesco Tocci
Co-production:
GA&A Productions Srl. – Italy
Via Cicerone 64
00193 Rome
Italy
tel: +39 63 613480
francescot@gaea.it
The moment the curtain rises is worth a lifetime.
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Our Curse
Nasza klatwa
Tomasz Sliwinski
Subtitles: English
The film is a personal statement of the
director and his wife, who have to deal
with a very rare and incurable disease
of their newborn child – the Ondine’s
Curse (also known as CCHS - Congenital
Central Hypoventilation Syndrome).
People affected with this disease stop
breathing during sleep and require
lifetime mechanical ventilation on a
ventilator. The film shows the process
of taming fear associated with the
disease.
Sales / Contact:
Maciej Slesicki
Warsaw Film School
ul. Generala Zajaczka 7
01-518 Warsaw
Poland
tel: +48 793018305
www.szkolafilmowa.pl
promocja@szkolafilmowa.pl
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Production
Warsaw Film School
Maciej Slesicki
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Our Nixon
Brian Frye, Penny Lane
During Richard Nixon’s presidency,
three top White House advisors
obsessively filmed all events with Super
8 cameras, not knowing they would all
be in prison for Watergate a few years
later. Our Nixon creates an intimate
portrait of the presidency through
Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin as
never seen before.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Dipper Films LLC
Penny Lane
1070 Vienna
Co-production:
Pilot – USA
Austria
tel: +43 720346934
Filed away and forgotten
until now, Super-8 movies
made by Nixon’s inner
circle tell the story they
thought they were a part of
- before Watergate changed
everything.
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Out in East-Berlin
Jochen Hick, Andreas Strohfeldt
Original Language: English/German
Subtitles: English
www.out-in-east-berlin.de
In 1968, paragraph 175, which made
homosexual behavior punishable
by law, was abolished in the
German Democratic Republic. But
homosexuality was considered a
negligible issue in ‘real existing
socialism. Out in East Berlin tells various
personal histories of gay men and
lesbians during socialistic GDR until the
fall of the Berlin Wall. Their experiences
on the path to a self-conscious, outed
sexual identity share one specific
perspective: They are accompanied
by the watchful eye of the Ministry of
State Security (Stasi). A vivid portrait of
society is created, including historical
material never shown before. A
film, that especially today possesses
actuality and explosiveness.
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Sales / Contact:
Jochen Hick
Galeria Alaska Productions
Production
Galeria Alaska Productions
Jochen Hick
Falkenried 56
20251 Hamburg
Germany
tel: +49-40-4208199
www.galeria-alaska.de
mail@galeria-alaska.de
Homosexuality in the former
GDR. A vivid portrait of
society is created, including
historical material never
shown before. A film, that
especially today possesses
actuality and explosiveness.
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Overdose - Run for a Dream
Overdose - Vágta egy álomért
Gábor Ferenczi
Hungary, 2013 color, HDcam, 72’
Subtitles: English
The miracle appears in the form of a
galloping horse in a country weakened
in its economy and identity. Overdose
- Run for a Dream is the symbol of
chance, you can have only once in
your life. The film observed 4 years the
maincharacters, the dramatic changes
of their relationships. It’s a story about
passion and hope, about the mental
state of a nation.
Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova,
Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia,
Ukraine, the Netherlands, Russia,
Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia,
Kosovo not available for TV.
Sales / Contact:
Gul Togay
Filmteam Csodaló Kft
Riadó utca 6/b
Production
Filmteam Csodaló Kft
Gul Togay
1026 Budapest
Co-production:
HBO Europe – Hungary,
Hungary
Hungarian National Film Fund –
tel: +36 20 9253545
Hungary
gultogay@gmail.com
HBO Europe – Hungary
Miracle appears in the form of an unbeatable galloping horse in a country
weakened in its economy and identity. Unexpected national emotions rise
and mingle with dramatic changes of human relationships.
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Oxyana
Sean Dunne
www.oxyana.com
Oceana, West Virginia, is set amidst
unbelievable natural beauty, yet
in recent years this beauty has been
marred by the Appalachian scourge of
Oxycontin. The prevalence of the
pain relief drug has earned Oceana
the nickname ‘Oxyana’ and, while life
persists, it is a living that few Americans
could explain or even believe - closer
in kind to the world of a medieval
plague. Oxyana is an unflinchingly
close focus on the anguish and horrors
of a community that the rest of
the country would rather forget - a
nearly Biblical narrative of American
forsakenness
Sales / Contact:
Harri Glazier
Production
Nadine Brown
Mercury Media
Cadillac Hash LLC
Colby Glenn
Co-production:
Cadillac Hash LLC – USA
W11 4AT London
England
tel: +44 20 72217221
A portrait of Oceana, WV, an
old coal mining town that
has become the epicentre
of the Oxycotin epidemic
earning the Nickname
Oxyana.
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Nature / Environment | Science / Technology
Pandora’s Promise
Robert Stone
www.pandoraspromise.com
All environmentalists and left-leaning
political activists oppose nuclear
energy, right? Wrong. We all know the
nuclear meltdowns in Chernobyl, Three
Mile Island and now Fukushima all of
which all of which signal the potential
of a global nuclear holocaust, right?
Wrong. What if nuclear power is the
only energy source that has the ability
to stop climate change? Former nuclear
energy critic and documentarian
Robert Stone examines some of the
widespread beliefs about the dangers
of nuclear energy. Whatever your
stance, Stone’s compelling film opens
Pandora’s box and promises to change
the conversation for years to come.
Sales / Contact:
Jason Ishikawa
Production
Robert Stone Productions
Robert Stone
10016 New York
Co-production:
Impact Partners – USA,
USA
Vulcan Productions – USA
tel: + 1 212 4815020
CNN – USA
US, Canada, Japan, UK not available.
Former nuclear energy critic and documentarian Robert Stone dispels some
of the widespread critiques about the dangers of nuclear energy in an
illuminating, myth-shattering and riveting film.
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Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
James Erskine
Subtitles: English
In 1998 Marco Pantani took the cycling
world by storm when he won both the
Giro D’Italia and the Tour De France – a
feat that has not since been matched.
Just six years later, Pantani was found
dead in a cheap hotel room. This film
charts his meteoric ascent to the top
of his sport on the mountains he loved
and explores the darker side of the
sport that led to his tragic downfall.
Sales / Contact:
Pascal Degove
65 - 66 Dean St
W1D 4PL London
England
tel: +44 207 4378696
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Production
Victoria Gregory
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Parts of a Family
Partes de una Familia
Diego Gutierrez
The Netherlands / Mexico, 2012
color, HDcam/video, 55’/83’
Subtitles: English
www.deckert-distribution.com/filmcatalogue/parts-of-a-family/
Gonzalo and Gina live in a world of
their own; a magnificent villa on a 4.
000 m2 estate, near Mexico City. Walls
with barbed wire keep the outside
world far away. It’s their son, filmmaker
Diego Gutiérrez who tells their story.
Parts of a Family is a portrait of how
a relation between two people after
many years can change from great love
into a strangling imprisonment. It’s a
bittersweet and universal love story.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Production
Bonanza Films
Marienplatz 1
Co-production:
Fondo para la producción
04103 Leipzig
cinematográfica de Calidad
Germany
(Foprocine) – Mexico,
tel: +49 341 2156638
Foprocine – Germany
What stays behind when the great passion of being in love has slowly faded
away, and the years have been passing by? A bittersweet and universal
lovestory.
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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Photo-Eddy
Foto-Eddy
David de Jongh
Subtitles: English
www.pvhfilm.nl/fotoeddy
Photographer Eddy de Jongh gained
fame in the 70s and 80s courtesy of
his unadorned portraits of prominent
public figures. As a young boy, director
David de Jongh would often travel
along with his father. When Eddy
passes away, David sets out to look for
the stories that his father had carefully
concealed throughout his life. In his
photographs and life Eddy created a
world full of humour, adventure and
beauty. At the same time however, his
biography is defined by bankruptcies,
broken relationships and addictions events that not only he, but everybody
around him suffered the consequences
of. Sales / Contact:
Curien Kroon
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
Production
Pieter van Huystee
The Netherlands
tel: 020 421 0606
www.pvhfilm.nl
curien@pvhfilm.nl
Photo-Eddy shows how
famous Dutch photographer
and ‘survivor’ Eddy de
Jongh managed to hold
his own after his traumatic
experiences, thanks to his
photography.
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Experimental | Art / Music / Culture | Human Interest / Social Issues
Pink Elephants
Susanne Bohlmann
Original Language: German/French/
English/Norwegian/Polish
Subtitles: English
www.pinkelephants-movie.com
“Pink elephants“ are the ones who
dedicate themselves to their passion,
open-up, try to fulfil their dreams and
realise their potential in a herd of gray
elephants. The Masterclasses take place
all over Europe and the USA. Actors
dance, crawl, regress, cry, and grow.
Some leave full of euphoria, some
are dragged into dependency; unable
to heal the wounds reopened. The
search for a happy life makes many
ignore the manipulation of needs and
thought. Pink Elephants follows very
different participants making their way
through the workshops, documents
their highs and lows and questions
Hiller’s unconventional coaching
methods. Sales / Contact:
Christopher Hawkins
Production
kreatiFILM
Rolandstrasse 86
Menno Döring
50677 Köln
Germany
tel: +49 221 169 32 555
www.kreatifilm.de
info@kreatifilm.de
The dynamics of a cult? Fragile actors are deconstructed by their mentor.
Forbidden from discussing it with the outside, instructed to rid their lives of
anyone who questions the method.
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Pipeline
Truba
Vitaly Mansky
Russia / Germany / Czech Republic,
2013 color, HDcam/video, 116’
Original Language: Polish/Ukranian/
Czech/Russian/German
Subtitles: English/Czech/Russian/German
film-catalogue/pipeline/
Pipeline is a film about modern Europe,
about two of its edges, or to put it more
precisely – two of its extremes. This is
a film about Europe, which spans from
the barren land of eternal winters of
Siberia to the complaisant Bay of Biscay,
where even the laws of nature form
fundamentally different paradigms of
human existence. What can possibly
connect such ostensibly different lives?
Tangibly, it does so through the pipeline
“Western Siberia – Western Europe”.
The pipeline has, however, not only
connected but also inextricably verged
“this” Russia with “that” Europe.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
Production
Vertov. Real cinema
Natalia Manskaya
04103 Leipzig
Co-production:
Hypermarket Film – Czech
Germany
Republic,
tel: +49 341 2156638
Saxonia Entertainment GmbH –
Germany
Life along the pipeline,
through which flows half of
the budget of Russia.
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Politics / Society | Nature / Environment | Human Interest / Social Issues
A Place at the Table
Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush
Around 49 million Americans struggle
with the problem of not knowing
where their next meal is going to
come from. The stories of three people
from Colorado, Pennsylvania and
Mississippi shed light on the underlying
causes of this huge problem. Rosie is
so hungry that she can’t concentrate
on schoolwork. Young Tremonica is
severely overweight and suffering
from asthma because of the cheap
high-calorie food she gets at home,
and Barbie, a single mother of two,
struggles to get nourishing food for her
young ones. The film highlights various
social, economic and cultural causes. Sales / Contact:
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Production
Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington,
Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
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A Place to Live
Jaee Baraye Zendegi
Mohsen Ostad Ali
Original Language: Persian
Subtitles: English
Five men have had to leave their
families because of different problems
(addiction, poverty…) and to rent a
bed in a men’s dormitory. Their only
common point is the dormitory they
can take refuge to and escape from
their loneliness. The documentary
follows the story of their private life and
their struggle to survive in the big city
of Tehran.
Sales / Contact:
Katayoon Shahabi
Noori Pictures
84,Avenue de la République 75011
Paris France
75011 Paris
France
tel: +33 (0) 6 76 41 89 67
www.nooripictures
Katysh.01@gmail.com
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Production
Noori Pictures
Katayoon Shahabi
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Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
Playing with Fire
Anneta Papathanassiou
Greece, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’/80’
Original Language: Afghan/English
Subtitles: English
Playing with Fire tells the story of
creating theatre in an Islamic country
like Afghanistan focusing on a group of
young women who have the courage
to be involved with the theatre arts.
The film shows that theatre one day
was thriving in Kabul. But today,
being an actress is dangerous and has
even recently caused a girl’s death.
Anneta Papathanassiou, actress and
director from Greece, visits Kabul on
an invitation to teach ancient Greek
drama and looks at the lives of young
Afghan artists, who try to combine
art and culture under very difficult
circumstances in this troubled country.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
MODIANO SA
Fotini Economopoulou
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Playing with Fire tells the
story of creating theatre in
an Islamic country, focusing
on young women who have
the courage to be involved
with the theatre arts.
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Catalogue No. 448
Playing with Shadows
Xiaoyu Niu
China, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Subtitles: English
Playing with Shadows is a feature
documentary about China’s young
generation fighting for their dreams
under the economic booming. The story
follows a young shadow puppet player
for one year. This optimistic young man
wants to try his best to protect this
vanishing old art. But he got beaten
times after another by the society,
family and peers. Finally he gave up his
dream. Like one character says, “There is
hope. But the reality is so cruel. ”
Sales / Contact:
Peng Liang
Cloud Thinker
Production
QI Films
Qi Zhao
Room 2601, Building B, Co-production:
Sunshine 100, No.2 Guanghua Road, China International TV
Corporation – China
Chaoyang District
100026 Beijing
China
tel: +86 13 910406900
lp300@yahoo.com
Playing with Shadows is a
feature documentary about
China’s young generation
fighting for their dreams
under the economic
booming.
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Politics / Society
Plot for Peace
Carlos Agullo, Mandy Jacobson
South Africa, 2013 color, HDcam, 57’
Original Language: Portugese/French/
Afrikaans/Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
This is the untold story behind History, a
well-kept secret behind the world-wide
icon: Nelson Mandela’s release was a
Plot for Peace. For the first time, heads
of state, generals, diplomats, master
spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal
how Africa’s front line states helped
end apartheid. Their improbable key to
Mandela’s prison cell was a mysterious
French businessman, dubbed “Monsieur
Jacques” in classified correspondence.
His trade secret was trust.
Sales / Contact:
Anaïs Clanet
Wide House
Production
INDELIBLE MEDIA PTY LTD
Mandy Jacobson
9 rue Bleue
75009 Paris
France
tel: +33 68 3221806
www.widehouse.org
ac@widehouse.org
A documentary thriller
revealing the end of the
Apartheid.
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La Politica
Stefano Strocchi
Italy, 2013 color, HDcam, 58’/52’
Subtitles: English
On the backdrop of the Italian Elections
La Politica reflects on the role of politics
through the eyes of idealist candidate
Nichi Vendola. He still believes in
politics as a tool to improve society, is
it so in Italy? As he tours the country,
during strategic meetings, drafting the
program as Italy faces the Crisis, the
candidate fights a battle to translate
ideals into political practice in a country
where politics is pure TV show. As Nichi
stumbles, repositions, looses, faces
enemies and keeps fighting, we keep
asking: politics, a path to power or a
tool for social improvement?
Sales / Contact:
Stefano Strocchi
Move Productions
Viale del Castello 28
Production
Move Productions
Stefano Strocchi
10024 MONCALIERI ( Torino)
ZDF/ARTE – Germany,
Italy
DR TV – Denmark,
tel: 00393382284107
NRK – Norway,
www.moveproductions.it
VRT – Belgium,
stefano@moveproductions.it
ERT – Greece
France, Germany, Denmark, Norway,
Belgium, Greece, Israel not available.
An intense and bitter journey into Italian Politics at the side of charismatic
left wing leader Nichi Vendola as he runs in the 2013 Italian Elections aganist
Berlusconi and Grillo.
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Ponevezh Time
Zman Ponevezh
Yehonatan Indursky
Subtitles: English
www.go2films.com/NewReleases/Ponevezh-Time
For the first time, the world’s largest
ultra-Orthodox yeshiva (Jewish
religious seminary) opens its doors
to a camera crew. The filmmaker, the
Yeshiva’s former student, follows the
lives of its six students for one year,
among them a young boy at the start
of his studies, an older man looking
for a match in order to marry and
leave the Yeshiva, and a boy focused
on overcoming his desires. The film
captures them in their moments of
happiness as well as sadness and
loneliness, offering an authentic and
very rare look at the world that hasn’t
been exposed yet.
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Production
Pie Films LTD.
Osnat Handelsman-Keren
Marketing
Talia Kleinhendler
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Reshet - NCP - Channel 2 – Israel
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 25 831371
www.go2films.com
hedva@go2films.com
Sweden, Israel not available
In the world’s largest ultra-Orthodox yeshiva, among the constant prayer and
scholarly study an individual can be swept away by the massive crowd.
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Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
Population Boom
Werner Boote
Austria, 2013 color, HDcam, 94’
Original Language: German/Hindi/
Spanish/Chinese/English/Japanese
A well-known nightmarish vision of the
future: The Earth’s population reaches
seven billion. Dwindling resources,
mountains of toxic waste, hunger
and climate change—the results of
overpopulation? Who says that the
world’s overpopulated? And who’s one
too many? After the box-office success
of “Plastic Planet,” in Population Boom
curious documentary filmmaker Werner
Boote takes on the overpopulation
myth and takes us on a light-hearted
global investigation. A cinematic
journey with the masses between
myth, facts and politics.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Production
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Filmproduktion GmbH
Autlook Filmsales
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
1070 Vienna
Markus Glaser
Austria
Michael Kitzberger
tel: +43 720 346934
Wolfgang Widerhofer
There are currently about 7
billion people in the world
and that number continues
to rise. Are there too many
people living on planet
Earth?
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Powder
Pudra
Ayal Goldberg
Israel, 2013 color, video, 56’/76’
Subtitles: English
In a tragic-comic clash between the
filmmaker’s belief and the habit of
obedience, Ayal is repeatedly called
for reserve duty as an Israeli Tank
Commander. The son of a good family
has to prove he’s on the right way by
doing everything different than his
forefathers.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Trabelsi Productions
Osnat Trabelsi
8050 Zürich
Co-production:
Noga Communications/Channel
Switzerland
8 – Israel
tel: +41 44 3122060
Doing everything different than his forefathers, Ayal, the son of a good
family, has to prove he’s on the right way.
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Politics / Society
Powerless
Deepti Kakkar, Fahad Mustafa
India, 2013 color, 35mm, 80’
Original Language: Hindi/English
Subtitles: English
www.powerless-film.com
A 28-year-old electrician living in
Kanpur is renowned for his prowess in
stealing electricity. He is a robin-hood
figure who provides free connections
in impoverished neighborhoods so
that homes, factories and businesses
could function normally in the face of
lengthy powercuts. On the other hand,
the city administration is renewing
efforts to clamp down on power-theft,
which costs them millions of rupees in
losses each year. The story traces lines
of crisis and conflict in the course of one
Indian summer. A picture emerges of a
modern dystopia encompassing urban
decay and desperation in the lack of
electricity.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Globalistan Films
Deepti Kakkar
18 rue Quincampoix #133
Fahad Mustafa
75004 Paris
Co-production:
ITVS – USA
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
www.catndocs.com
IDFA Bertha Fund
cat@catndocs.com
Kanpur, India is a city crumbling apart in the lack of electricity. A robin hood
like electricity thief and a bureaucrat grapple with the problem during a
summer of crisis.
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Science / Technology | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Profilers - Gaze Into The Abyss
Barbara Eder
Germany / Austria, 2013
Subtitles: English
Their job is to investigate the dark
minds of serial killers, terrorists and
rapists. While fictional stories of
criminal profilers fascinate mass
audiences, their professional reality
entails an enormous psychological
burden. The film portraits top profilers
from the USA, Finland, South Africa,
Germany at their daily routine and
when it comes to the challenge of living
a “normal” life. How can you enjoy life,
when you deal with the worst excesses
of human beings day after day?
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Prisma Film- und
Fernsehproduktion
Mathias Forberg
1070 Vienna
Viktoria Salcher
Austria
tel: +43 720 346934
Co-production:
Belle Epoque Films GmbH –
Germany
ORF – Austria,
SWR – Germany
Portraits of top profilers from the US, South Africa and Germany at their daily
routine and when it comes to the challenge of living a “normal” life.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Science / Technology | Nature / Environment
Project Wild Thing
David Bond
England, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 80’
www.projectwildthing.com
Filmmaker David Bond (director of
‘Erasing David’) becomes the Marketing
Director for Nature. Can he market the
outdoors – a free wonder-product – to
apathetic consumers, and to his own
family? Maybe it is already too late to
sell Nature. . .
David’s humorous journey unearths
some painful truths about modern
family life.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Green Lions Films
Ashley Jones
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
Too much time indoors
makes children fat, depressed
and out of control, yet
children go out less and less.
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The Punk Singer
Sini Anderson
www.thepunksinger.com
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the
punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk
trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention
as the reluctant but never shy voice of
riot girl movement. She became one of
the most famously outspoken feminist
icons. Her critics wished she would
just shut-up, and her fans hoped she
never would. So in 2005, when Hanna
stopped shouting, many wondered why.
Through 20 years of archival footage
and intimate interviews with Hanna,
The Punk Singer takes viewers on a
fascinating tour of contemporary music
and offers a never-before-seen view
into the life of this fearless leader.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Opening Band Films LLC
Tamra Davis
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
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Investigative | Politics / Society
Pushing Back the Clock: Israel’s Secret War against Iran
Ilana Dayan, Gilad Tokatly
Subtitles: English
The clock is ticking. We are on the verge
of an attack against Iran. “Uvda”, Israel’s
top-rated documentary program,
presents an exclusive investigative
report on the ‘secret war’ against Iran’s
nuclear program, and reveals how the
debate over bombing Iran has caused
an unprecedented rift within Israel’s
highest ranks.
Israel is not available for TV sales.
Sales / Contact:
Hedva Goldschmidt
Marketing
37/8 Issar Natanzon
Production
Uvda I.D Ltd
Ruthy Steinberg
Keshet TV (Channel 2) – Israel
97787 Jerusalem
Israel
tel: +972 25 831371
hedva@go2films.com
An investigative documentary on the Israel’s ‘secret war’ against Iran’s
nuclear program reveals how the debate over bombing Iran has caused an
unprecedented rift within Israel’s highest ranks.
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Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Russia / England, 2012 color, 35mm, 93’/52’
Subtitles: English
Filmed over six months, this
is the incredible story of three
young women who performed
a “punk prayer” inside Russia’s
main cathedral. This performance
led to their arrest on charges of
religious hatred and culminated in
a trial that has reverberated around
the world and transformed Russian
society forever. With unparalleled,
exclusive access, this fi lm looks at
the real people behind their famous
colourful balaclavas. Following the
intricate twists of the trial, we learn
what transformed these women
from political activists to modern icons.
Are you a ready for a Pussy Riot?
Sales / Contact:
Pascal Degove
Production
Roast Beef Productions
Mike Lerner
65 - 66 Dean St
W1D 4PL London
England
tel: +44 207 4378696
The incredible story of three young women who performed a “punk prayer”
inside Russia’s main cathedral.
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Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society | Youth
Pussy Versus Putin
Gogol’s Wives Productions, Anonymous Anonymous
Russia, 2013 color, HDcam, 62’
Subtitles: English
www.journeyman.tv/65741/documentaries/
pussy-versus-putin-hd.html
Welcome to the world of the wild,
anarchist girl band that is tackling the
Russian government head on. Shot on
the streets and in and out of jail cells
this is a rare insider’s look, following the
group’s every step as they take the fight
to Putin. Singing, protesting and getting
arrested, it’s a bizarre odyssey. Through
the band’s struggle and the reaction of
Russian society towards them, this doc
skilfully captures the essence of modern
Russia. Sales / Contact:
Edward Caffrey
Production
Anonymous Anonymous
Journeyman Pictures
Gogol’s Wives Productions
4-6 High Street
Taisiya Krugovikh
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton
England
tel: +44 20 83984616
www.journeyman.tv/
films@journeyman.tv
Shocking and visceral profile
of Pussy Riot and their
protests.
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Putin’s Games
Putins Spiele
Alexander Gentelev
Germany / Israel / Austria,
Subtitles: English
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are
the first to be held in a subtropical
resort. These most expensive games
to date break world records of
corruption and megalomania. Putin’s
administration makes oligarchs and
ordinary Russians alike dance to – and
pay for – the Olympic tune. Big players
and vulnerable victims speak out in
this highly exclusive investigative
documentary, exposing the true story
of Putin’s Olympics.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
Production
Satel Film
Heinrich Ambrosch
18 Levontin St.
Saxonia Entertainment GmbH
65112 TEL AVIV
Simone Baumann
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
ARTE MDR – Germany,
www.cinephil.co.il
ORF – Austria
info@cinephil.co.il
Big players and vulnerable victims speak out in this highly exclusive
investigative documentary, exposing the true story of the 2014 Sochi Winter
Olympics.
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Putin’s Olympic Dream
De Droom van Poetin
Hans Pool
The Netherlands, 2013 color / black and
white, HDcam/DCP/Digibeta PAL, 55’/80’
www.zeppers.nl/nl/filmnl/
de-droom-van-poetin
Putin’s Olympic Dream is about the
rapid transformation of the city of
Sochi. In just a couple of years it has to
be refashioned from a nostalgic Soviet
holiday resort, filled with gorgeous
sanatoriums, into a modern Russian
city. The Olympic Winter Games
are held here in February 2014, and
literally everything and everyone has
to yield in order to turn this status
project of President Putin into a
success. The transformation of Sochi,
‘the Cannes of the Soviet Union’, is
central to this documentary. Sochi is
Russia’s bid for returning to the world
stage. Vladimir Putin is hard at work
to turn these Olympics into the most
expensive Olympics ever. Essentially,
it’s Putin’s business card of the new
Russia. Financial, economic, political
and ecological limits are breached to
make that happen. We follow crucial
moments in the life of our main
characters, who are all involved in
the Olympic Games in their own way.
Entrepreneurs, oligarchs, immigrants,
athletes and activists; everyone has
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Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Production
Zeppers Film & TV
Frank van den Engel
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
VPRO Television –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
This documentary is about the
transformation of the city of
Sochi. In a couple of years it
has to be refashioned from a
nostalgic holiday resort into a
modern city.
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Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
The Queen
Manuel Abramovich
Argentina, 2013
Subtitles: English
www.cargocollective.com/
mabramovich/La-reina
“Her crown is so heavy, they had to
remove weight from it. She couldn’t
carry it and it would fall off her head.
But now she doesn’t want anything else
to be done with it because she looks so
pretty. ” Lost in a world of grown-ups
and trapped in her routine, Memi is torn
between the glamour of the beauty
pageant and her family’s pressure to
become the queen of the carnival.
Sales / Contact:
Manuel Abramovich
Salomón Cine
Production
Salomón Cine
Daniela Raschcovsky
Humboldt 2433, planta alta 6.
1425 Buenos Aires
Argentina
tel: +54 911 58795665
www.cargocollective.com/
mabramovich
abramanuel@gmail.com
Lost in a world of grown-ups and trapped in her routine, Memi prepares to
become the queen of the carnival.
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Nature / Environment | Youth
Rasmus, Cormonauts and...
Rasmus, Kormonaudid ning...
Mark Soosaar
Estonia, 2013 color, HDcam, 30’
Original Language: Estonian
Subtitles: English
A portrayal of Rasmus, the 9-year-old
islander of Kihnu. With grandpa Juku,
he helps richness of the insular nature
to survive. They build traditional homes
for goosanders who are like halfdomesticated hens.
The biggest problem for Kihnu
archipelago is the invasion of
cormorants who have got the nickname
as “cormonauts”. They have conquered
all small islets and pushed away
other birds. This is the first film from
a serial documentaries on everyday
life of Kihnu culture, recognized as a
masterpiece of humanity by UNESCO.
Sales / Contact:
Mark Soosaar
Weiko Saawa Film
Production
Weiko Saawa Film
Mark Soosaar
Nikolai St 15 - 4
80010 Pärnu
Estonian Public Broadcasting –
Estonia
Estonia
tel: +372 5024947
marksoosaar@hotmail.com
Rasmus is a 9-year-boy
from Kihnu Island. He
loves goosanders who are
domesticated by islanders
and hates cormonauts
who try to conquer all islets
around Kihnu.
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Raw Herring
Hollandse Nieuwe
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich, Leonard Retel Helmrich
The Netherlands, 2013 color,
Subtitles: English
Fished for over a thousand years, the
Hollandse Nieuwe (Dutch New Herring)
is a phenomenon that has become a
national cultural icon. More recently,
the Dutch herring fleet has lost a great
deal of its importance as only two
vessels are now fishing for herring
under the Dutch flag.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
Production
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
In-Soo Productions
In-Soo Radstake
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
A touching story told from the point of view and daily routine of Dutch
herring fishers.
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Ready to Fly
William A Kerig
www.readytoflyfilm.com
Since she started ski jumping at the
age of seven, Van dreamed of winning
an Olympic medal. By the time the
Olympics came to Vancouver in 2010,
she was setting records that beat
even the men’s. But the IOC refused
to recognise women’s ski jumping
as an Olympic sport. So Van and
her teammates decided to sue the
organizers of the Vancouver Olympics
to force them to include female ski
jumping on the basis of gender equality.
Thanks largely to their efforts, female
ski jumpers will be able to compete in
the Olympics for the first time at Sochi
2014.
Sales / Contact:
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
Production
Scott Zeller
France
tel: 0034 634 869 646
www.javafilms.fr
North America not available.
The story of ski jumping champion, Lindsey Van, and her teammates, who
took on the IOC in an epic battle to get women’s ski jumping recognized as an
Olympic sport.
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Red Ant Dream
Sanjay Kak
India, 2013 color, video, 120’
Subtitles: English
www.redantdream.com
‘Let us declare that the state of
war does exist and shall exist’,
the revolutionary patriot had said
almost a hundred years ago, and that
forewarning travels into India’s present,
as armed insurrection simmers in
Bastar, in the troubled heart of central
India. To the east, beleaguered adivasis
from the mineral-rich hills come forth
bearing their axes, and their songs. And
in the north the swelling protests by
peasants sees hope coagulate– once
more–around that iconic figure of
Bhagat Singh, revolutionary martyr
of the anti-colonial struggle. But are
revolutions even possible anymore?
Sales / Contact:
Sanjay Kak
Octave Communications
Production
Octave Communications
Sanjay Kak
U 18 Green Park Main, 2nd floor
110016 New Delhi
India
tel: +91 11 26533516
www.redantdream.com
kaksanjay@gmail.com
Of those who live the revolutionary ideal in India, a rare encounter with the
invisible domain of those whose everyday is a fight for another ideal of the
world.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Experimental
Regina
Diana Groó
England / Germany / Hungary, 2012
Original Language: Hungarian/English
www.facebook.com/
ReginaTheStoryOfTheWorldsFirstWomanRabbi
Diana Groós’s poetic documentary tells
the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944), a
woman who made history by becoming
the first properly ordained woman
rabbi in the world. The daughter of
an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas
was ordained in 1935. During the Nazi
era and the war, her sermons and
her unparalleled dedication brought
encouragement to the persecuted
German Jews. Regina Jonas was
murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The
only surviving photo of Jonas serves
as a leitmotif for the film, showing a
determined young woman gazing at
the camera with self-confidence.
Sales / Contact:
Alan Reich
Malcah Ltd.
Production
Katapult Film Kft.
Iván Angelusz
SIMONS MUIRHEAD & BURTON 8-9 Malcah Ltd.
FRITH STREET
Alan Reich
W1D 3JB London
Co-production:
Katapult Film Kft. – Hungary
England
tel: +447973803365
alandreich@gmail.com
USA not available.
A poetic documentary by
Diana Groó about struggle,
devotion, faith, and love of
an extraordinary woman
Regina Jonas.
A life story reconstructed
from one single photograph....
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Author’s Point of View | Politics / Society | Youth
Return to Homs
Talal Derki
Syria / Germany, 2013 color,
HDcam, 87’/53’/58’
Filmed over 3 years in Homs,
accompanying 2 outstanding young
men from the time they were only
dreaming of freedom to the time when
they are forced to change course.
Basset, the 19 year old national football
team goalkeeper, who became a
demonstration leader, then an icon
revolution singer, till he becomes a
militia leader. Ossama, his 24 year
old friend, a citizen journalist, cynical
pacifist, whose views are forced
to change, until he is detained by
thesecret service. It is the story of a
city, of which the world heard a lot of,
but never really got close to. Return to
Homs is a modern times epic of youth
in war, forced to make choices.
Sales / Contact:
Orwa Nyrabia
Proaction Film
Production
Ventana-Film GmbH
Hans Robert Eisenhauer
1340 M.S. Ghnayem Street, East
Proaction Film
Dummar
Orwa Nyrabia
11118 Damascus
Syria
SWR/Arte – Germany,
tel: 00201017415867
NHK – Japan,
www.proactionfilm.com
SVT – Sweden,
orwa@proactionfilm.com
TSR – Switzerland,
Radio Canada – Canada
IDFA Bertha Fund
A first person account of the life of two outstanding young men, in the
revolting city of Homs, as harsh circumstances change their lives and control
their choices.
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Rêve Kakudji
Ibbe Daniëls, Koen Vidal
Belgium, 2013 color, HDcam, 60’/52’
Original Language: English/Swahili/French
Subtitles: French/English/Dutch
www.offworld.be/
The moment Serge Kakudji saw an
opera singer for the very first time as
a young boy on Congolese television,
he immediately fell in love with
opera music. He decided to become a
celebrated countertenor. Despite the
many doubts of his family, he travels to
Europe, determined to make it to the
top of the classical opera world.
Belgium not available.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Off World
Eric Goossens
Frederik Nicolai
10997 Berlin
Co-production:
Casa Kafka Pictures – Belgium
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
VRT-CANVAS – Belgium,
diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de SF – Switzerland
The moment Serge Kakudji
heard the sounds of opera
for the very first time on
Congolese television, he
immediately fell in love
and decided to become a
celebrated countertenor.
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Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment
Rings of Life
Ida Lindgren
Original Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Hanna was seven years old when she
watched her little sister fall ill and die
in a few hours. Although she is not
afraid of death. In Rings of Life she
remembers her sister Emma and tells us
about the change in her life. Her story is
accompanied by a tale told in pictures
that together with sound and music
makes a poetic film.
Sales / Contact:
Ida Lindgren
Production
VisionProduktion
Sjöbjörnsvägen 28
Ida Lindgren
11767 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46 73 7600609
www.idalindgren.se
ida.lindgren@gmail.com
A poetic film in 16 pictures
about loss, grief and hope
from a child’s perspective.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Nature / Environment | Author’s Point of View
The River
Abdenour Zahzah
Algeria, 2013 color, HDcam, 86’
Subtitles: English
The oued, oued, in Algerian language, it
means along the river. From its sources
in the peaks of the Atlas of Blida to the
mouth in the Mediterranean a few
kilometres from the capital Algiers, the
film travels on foot and tries to cross
the roads to meet a different Algeria.
Sales / Contact:
Abdenour Zahzah
Thala Films
12, rue frères Djennadi
Production
Thala Films
Abdenour Zahzah
09000 Blida
Co-production:
Enjazz Fund/Dubaï Film Festival –
Algeria
United Arab Emirates
tel: +213 558 986 204
IDFA Bertha Fund
abdenourzahzah@yahoo.fr
All along the 60 kilometres of the resourceful Oued El Kebir River up to its
mouth, the film tries to explore a micro territory of human landscapes.
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The Road A Story of Life and Death
Marc Isaacs
Ireland / England, 2012 color, HDcam, 75’
www.facebook.com/TheRoadByMarcIsaacs
Critically-acclaimed filmmaker
Marc Isaacs paints a rich portrait of
multicultural life in the UK by looking at
the lives of immigrants living along the
A5, one of Britain’s longest and oldest
roads. Stretching from London to the
Welsh coast, the road has always been
an important lifeline for new émigrés.
Today, it is a microcosm of the wider
world, and the film meets people from
across the globe whose lives now orbit
around the road. Their poignant stories
of loss and the search for belonging are
woven together into a rich tapestry of
human experience.
Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Production
Crow Hill Fillms
Aisling Ahmed
Le village
Bungalow Town Productions
07170 Lussas
Rachel Wexler
France
Co-production:
Irish Film Board – Ireland
tel: +33 475 94 34 67
www.andanafilms.com
BBC – England
UK not available.
A film about the search for
home and belonging on
one road in the cruel and
fantastic city.
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The Road to Fame
Hao Wu
USA / China, 2013 color/
Unknown, HDcam, 80’/56’
Subtitles: English
China’s top drama academy stages the
American musical “Fame”—China’s first
official collaboration with Broadway—
as the graduation showcase for its
senior class. During the eight-month
rehearsal, five students compete for
roles, struggle with pressure from
family and authority, and prepare
to graduate into China’s corrupt
entertainment industry. Part of China’s
single-child generation, they were
spoiled growing up but are now obliged
to carry on the failed dreams of their
parents. They must confront complex
social realities and their own anxieties,
and, in the process of staging “Fame,”
negotiate their own definitions of and
paths to success in today’s China.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Tripod Media LLC
Hao Wu
18, rue Quincampoix
Tripod Media
75004 Paris
Hao Wu
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
cat@catndocs.com
Students at China’s top drama academy struggle with the complexities of
modern China to stage the American musical Fame.
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Sandra Prechtel
Subtitles: English
www.filmgalerie451.de/en/filme/klick/
Roland Klick, the director of films such
as Deadlock (with Mario Adorf) and
White Star (with Dennis Hopper) has
an exceptional position in German
cinema. Maladjusted to the forms
of New German Film of the 70’s, too
imaginative and unconventional for the
commercial cinema, marginalized by
the critical establishment – although his
films won six state film awards – he has
celebrated international success and
has gained cult status. Klick’s dystopian
punk rock odysseys, aciddrenched
westerns and youth-oriented crime
dramas are ripe for rediscovery. A
documentary about the exceptional
director of modern German film history.
Sales / Contact:
Patra Spanou Film Marketing &
Production
Frieder Schlaich
Yorck Strasse 22
ZDF/3sat – Germany
Consulting
40476 Düsseldorf
Germany
tel: +49 1520 1987294
spanoupa@yahoo.de
TV rights in Germany not available.
A portrait of the gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick, the cult
German director of the 70’s. The story of an uncompromising filmmaniac,
whos films are ripe for rediscovery.
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Roque Dalton, Lets Shoot the Night!
Tina Leisch
Cuba / El Salvador / Austria,
His poetry an exciting shower of sparks
in the realm between political utopia
and sensuality, between revolutionary
beliefs and lust for heresy. Sentenced to
death by the Salvadorian dictatorships
for subversive activities, he managed
to escape execution twice. He was the
illegitimate son of a Salvadorian nurse
and a North American millionaire, a
descendant of the legendary Dalton
brothers of the American west.
Sales / Contact:
Ursula Wolschlager
Witcraft Szenario OG
Production
Ruth Beckermann
Filmproduktion
Lindengasse 25/10
Ursula Wolschlager
A-1070 Wien
Co-production:
Kinoki S.C – Austria
Austria
tel: +43 699 17788177
u.wolschlager@witcaft.at
Roque Dalton (1935-1975) is
the most important poet
of El Salvador. His life is an
adventure story
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Art / Music / Culture | History
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s
Matthew Miele
USA, 2012 black and white, video, 89’
www.bergdorf-movie.com
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s is the
compelling story of the legendary Fifth
Avenue store and landmark which has
launched the careers of many of the top
designers working in fashion today, and
which continues to be the aspiration
of every designer around the world.
The story is told through interviews
with designers Karl Lagerfeld, Vera
Wang, Marc Jacobs, Georgina Chapman,
Christian Louboutin and Michael Kors
to name a few, as well as celebrity
and socialite clientele, longstanding
employees, and the history and
members of the Goodman family.
Sales / Contact:
Nelleke Driessen
Fortissimo Films
Production
Quixotic Endeavors
Mallory Andrews
1013 CN Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6273215
info@fortissimo.nl
If fashion had a home, this
would be its address.
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Science at the Top of the World
Patrick McGowan
Subtitles: French
www.nfb.ca
The Canadian Arctic is ground zero for
understanding our rapidly changing
environment. Working in remote
regions, to a backdrop of some of the
world’s most breathtaking landscapes,
scientists in the Arctic are combining
space-age technology, on-the-ground
fieldwork and traditional Inuit
knowledge to create the most detailed
picture of the Arctic to date.
Sales / Contact:
Chanelle Routhier
Production
Cinematography Inc.
Patrick McGowan
H4N2N4 Montreal
Canada
tel: +1 514 4960693
www.nfb.ca
c.routhier@nfb.ca
Scientists combine space-age technology, on-the-ground fieldwork and
traditional Inuit knowledge to create a detailed picture of the Arctic, in an
effort to understand the effects of global climate change.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | History | Nature / Environment
Sea of Ice
Zee van ijs
Mark Limburg
The Netherlands, 2012 color / black
and white, HDcam/video, 52’
Subtitles: English
www.nl-nl.facebook.com/pages/Zeevan-IJs-Sea-of-Ice/412603822138950
?id=412603822138950&sk=info
Holland, Winter 1849. For two weeks
three fishermen float on a broken off
ice shelf on the frozen South Sea. A
closer look into the human soul under
immense pressure. A documentary
based on the true story.
Sales / Contact:
Mark Limburg
Stone Film
Surinameweg 2
2035VA Haarlem
Production
Stone Film
Mark Limburg
RTV Oost – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31647873153
www.stonefilm.nl
mark@stonefilm.nl
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A Self-Made Man
Lori Petchers
www.aselfmademanfilm.com
A Self-Made Man is a documentary
that examines the dynamics of being
transgender through an intimate
portrait of trans youth advocate Tony
Ferraiolo. Tony guides kids as young
as 8 through the confusing journey
of self-definition, when their physical
appearance conflicts with how they
view themselves. Even as he struggles
to come to terms with the complexities
of his own life as transgender person,
he offers safety and assurance
to families immersed in an often
frightening transition. A Self-Made
Man navigates the issues Tony and his
charges face with a tone both candid
and compassionate—much like its
protagonist himself.
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Sales / Contact:
Lori Petchers
5E Films
Production
5E Films
Lori Petchers
1973 Fairfield Beach Road
06824 Fairfield
USA
tel: 1 203 2577292
www.5Efilms.com
loripetchers@yahoo.com
A Self-Made Man is a
documentary examining
the complexities of gender
identity through an intimate
portrait of a transgender
man and his work with trans
youth.
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A Separation
Att Skiljas
Karin Ekberg
Sweden, 2013 color, video, 58’/72’
Subtitles: English
film-catalogue/a-separation
They have been married for 38 years.
Over the past 15 years they have been
sleeping in separate bedrooms. Now,
one of them wants a divorce. The villa
is already on sale. Is it ok to throw away
the old wedding dress? What do you
do with the crystal glasses that nobody
wants? A Seperation by Karin Ekberg is a
tragicomic documentary that portrays
the very last acts of a long marriage.
A film about the tentative search for
a beginning of what – finally, and
unfortunately – is over.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
Production
Momento Film
David Herdies
04103 Leipzig
SVT – Sweden,
Germany
NRK – Norway
tel: +49 341 2156638
The documentary portrays the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about
the tentative search for a beginning of what – finally, and unfortunately - is
over.
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Politics / Society
Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars
Berit Madsen
Denmark, 2013 color, DCP, 88’
Original Language: Iranian
Subtitles: English
www.levelk.dk/index.php/201111-22-14-27-48/sepideh
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut.
She spends her nights exploring the
secrets of the universe, while her family
will do anything to keep her on the
ground. The expectations to a young
Iranian woman are very different from
Sepideh’s ambitions, and her plans
to go to university are in danger. But
Sepideh holds on to her dream! She
takes up the fight and teams up with
the world’s first female space tourist,
Anousheh Ansari.
Sales / Contact:
Tine Klint
LevelK
Production
Radiator Film ApS
Stefan Frost
Gl. Kongevej 137B, 3rd floor
Henrik Underbjerg
1850 Frederiksberg C
Denmark
Co-production:
Flimmer Film AS – Norway,
tel: +45 48 443072
Eight Millimetres AB – Sweden,
www.levelk.dk
Docdays Productions – Germany,
tine.klint@levelk.dk
Sheherazad Media International
– Iran
She’s aiming for the stars.
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Shado’man
Boris Gerrets
The Netherlands / France,
Original Language: Creole
Subtitles: Dutch/English/French
www.shadoman-film.com
A bitter logic lies in the fact that those
whom society does not care to see are
living by night. In downtown Freetown,
Sierra Leone the streets of the city are
covered in darkness. This is where a
group of friends live. They each face
enormous physical and psychological
challenges. With no place to go but
the bleak and sleepless streets of
the capital city, they are condemned
to a life of begging. Shado’man is a
cinematic journey undertaken by
the filmmaker together with the
‘Streetboys’ and the camera becomes a
nucleus around which their life unfolds.
Sales / Contact:
Pieter van Huystee
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Production
Pieter van Huystee
Co-production:
Les Films d’Ici – France
tel: +31 20 4210606
IKON – The Netherlands,
www.pvhfilm.nl
ARTE – France
pieter@pvhfilm.nl
Community of friends,
facing severe physical and
psychological challenges,
survives on the nocturnal
streets of Freetown, Sierra
Leone.A story of humanity
and dignity in a world
that otherwise offers little
consolation.
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Youth | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Shark’s Eye
El Ojo del Tiburon
Alejo Hoijman
Spain / Argentina / Costa Rica,
Subtitles: English
film-catalogue/the-sharks-eye/
This is a film about Maicol and Bryan,
two friends in an isolated village on
the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. This
summer will mark the end of their
childhood and an abrupt journey into
adulthood as they start to work in the
shark hunting trade. But the trade is
disappearing along with the species and
the town is short in options, so many
of the shark hunters are becoming drug
smugglers. Which way will the boys
choose?
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
04103 Leipzig
Production
Astronauta Films
Luis Angel Ramirez
Co-production:
Gema Films – Argentina
Germany
tel: +49 341 2156638
The last summer of childhood for Maicol and Bryan in the remote village of
Greytown, in the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
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She is My Husband
Lei e Mio Marito
Annamaria Gallone
Subtitles: English
“The courage at 50 years old to turn
one’s own life around and to reinvent
it from scratch” One day Alessandro
Gracis, an established lawyer in the
Veneto region, appears in court wearing
women’s clothes and a long blond wig.
That day is the coming out day of a
52 year old man, who has eventually
found the courage to make his lifetime
wish come true: being a woman. His
passionate and profound testimony
alternates with that of his life
companion Roberta, lovingly standing
by his side besides her many inner
doubts.
Sales / Contact:
Katayoon Shahabi
Noori Pictures
Production
Kenzi S.r.l.
Annamaria Gallone
84,Avenue de la République 75011
Paris France
75011 Paris
France
tel: +33 (0) 6 76 41 89 67
www.nooripictures
Katysh.01@gmail.com
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The Shebabs of Yarmouk
Les Chebabs de Yarmouk
Axel Salvatori-Sinz
Subtitles: French/English
“In this spirited, staunchly humanistic
film we follow five youths, thirdgeneration Palestinian refugees living
in the 50-year-old camp of Yarmouk in
Syria, where rooms are left to leak and
living quarters stack shoddily one upon
the other.
Filming over three years, Axel SalvatoriSinz intimately lensed the lives and
unshakable bonds of friendship formed
in the camp, the dashed aspirations, the
ceaseless frustrations born of sanctions.
Dotted with quieter, ruminative
moments of youthful listlessness,
convivial card games and afternoon
tea on balmy rooftops, The Shebabs
of Yarmouk finds vibrancy and grace
among hardship. ” Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Le village
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 475 94 34 67
Production
Adalios
Magali Chirouze
Co-production:
Taswir Films – France
Maritima TV – France
www.andanafilms.com
Ala’a Hassan, Samer, Tasneem and Waed are third-generation Palestinian
refugees living in the Syrian camp of Yarmouk. They are part of “Les Chebabs”,
a group formed in their teenage years.
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sickfuckpeople
Juri Rechinsky
Ukraine / Russia / Austria,
Subtitles: English
A documentary triptych about a group
of homeless kids, who have survived
their drug-addicted childhood, grew
up and start to live an adult life. It’s a
story about a boy facing the surreal,
degenerated society of his native village
full of hate and sadistic anger while
searching for his mother. It’s a story
about a pregnant girl who wants to
give birth to her child whose childhood
probably will be even worse then hers.
But her own sisters are forcing her to
make an abortion.
Sales / Contact:
Franz Novotny
Novotny & Novotny
Weimarerstr. 22
Production
Novotny & Novotny
Filmproduktion
Franz Novotny
A-1180 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43 147 871 70
www.novotnyfilm.at/
kino@novotnyfilm.at
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The Silence of the Flies
El silencio de las moscas
Eliezer Arias
Venezuela, 2013 color, HDcam, 92’
Subtitles: English
Marcelina and Mercedes live in
different villages at Venezuelan
Andes. They share a tragic story: their
daughters committed suicide, like many
did the last years in these surroundings.
Through their memories of loss and
grief, the film takes us into a world of
tangible pain where silence became
a significant feature of this idyllic but
violent natural setting.
Life stories, psychological autopsies,
evocative objects and art intermingle in
The Silence of the Flies, a documentary
that follows the everyday life of people
that dwell in a world of guilt and pain
where silence in vain aspires to make
them forget. Venezuela not available.
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Sales / Contact:
Raúl Bravo
Production
Eliezer Arias
Nortesur Producciones
Nortesur Producciones
Av. El Rosario, Ed. La Estancia Norte,
Raúl Bravo
apto. 83, Urb. Los Chorros
Co-production:
Musical Lab – Venezuela
1071 Caracas
Venezuela
tel: +58 212 2399109
IDFA Bertha Fund
raulbravo63@gmail.com
Observational documentary
that challenges and questions
our prejudices about rural life
in Latin America, revealing
a phenomenon that has
become important part of
the emotional landscape of
rural communities: suicide.
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A Silent Killer
Le tueur silencieux
Cameroon, 2012 color, video, 52’
Subtitles: English
www.2pgpictures.com/production/
Bernadette, young Cameroonian, is
one of those whom willy-nilly chose to
survive by the parallel trade of drugs.
Through several suspicious networks,
she stocks up as many others to satisfy
an always increasing customers which
come from all social layers, very often
at street corners. A report made a
successful skillful infiltration in this
extremely well organized mafia, to
reveal unsuspected bottoms: thefts in
pharmacies, blow of medical samples,
springs and complex origins, but
also ramifications and complicities
in the highest spheres of state … And
if the real plague of the century was
somewhere else?
Sales / Contact:
2PG Pictures
Production
2PG Pictures
YAOUNDE
1245 YAOUNDE
Cameroon
tel: +23776464646
www.2pgpictures.com
bptanguy@gmail.com
All specialists agree to
describe the illegal business
of drugs as the most terrible
threat pressing on public
health, in particular that
of emerging countries or in
weak power of controls
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Youth | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
Silicon Wadi - A Hightech Soap Opera
Yossi Bloch, Daniel Sivan
USA / Israel, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 48’
Original Language: English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
There are actually more startups in
Tel-Aviv than in the whole of Europe
and more Venture Capital is invested
per person then anywhere else in the
world. The 4 x 48’ series follows those
who give it everything to pursue their
startup dreams. They sacrifice their
families, their friends and their bank
account, and keep on fighting until
they’re bankrupt or millionaires. But
they do have passion, and they are not
afraid to fail again and again – until
they achieve their goal.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Plan B Productions
Ronen Ben-Tal
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Co-production:
kNow Productions – USA
YES – Israel
tel: +41 44 3122060
Israel is known in the world
as a start-up nation. The
characters are accompanied
from having an idea on a
napkin until they hit the jack
pot or go bust.
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Silvio Rodríguez, Ojalá
Nicolás Garcia
Spain, 2012 color, video/HDcam, 72’/56’
Subtitles: English
www.catorce.es/portfolio/
silvio-rodriguez-ojala/
Silvio Rodriguez, drawer, musician,
poet. He learned to play guitar secretly
during his military service. In 1968 he
met Pablo Milanes and both become
the icon of the Cuban Nueva Trova, a
cultural movement spreaded across
America first and Europe later. After
45 years of career, Silvio is still in full
musical activity and maintains his
commitment to culture through their
studio, Ojalá, and initiatives such as
La gira por los barrios, a tour across
problematic neighborhoods of Havana
where, almost secretly, Silvio bursts
and gets his songs to those who do not
usually have access to such events.
Sales / Contact:
Valentín Romero
3boxmedia
Hirschbergstr.16
50939 Cologne
Germany
tel: +49 (0) 221 16924890
Production
Catorce Producciones
Nicolás Garcia
Co-production:
TVE – Spain
TVE – Spain
www.3boxmedia.com
valentin@3boxmedia.com
Cuba not available.
Silvio Rodriguez, musician, poet, UNESCO Artist for Peace. He learned to play
guitar secretly during his military service. After 45 years of career, Silvio is still
in full musical activity.
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Sing Me the Songs that Say I Love You
Lian Lunson
USA / Canada, 2012 color / black
This rousing tribute to Canadian
singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle was
recorded at New York City’s Town Hall
in May 2011 and features her famously
musical family - children Rufus and
Martha Wainwright, older sisters Anna
and Jane - and equally gifted friends
including Emmylou Harris and Norah
Jones. Kate died in January 2010, leaving
a legacy of captivating harmonies and
bittersweet lyrics. Australian filmmaker
Lian Lunson (Leonard Cohen: I’m Your
Man) interweaves concert footage with
family memories in this immensely
enjoyable and moving homage.
Sales / Contact:
Cinephil
Production
Lian Lunson, Teddy Wainwright
18 Levontin St.
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
A tribute to Canadian
singer-songwriter Kate
McGarrigle, recorded at New
York City’s Town Hall and
features her famously gifted
children Rufus and Martha
Wainwright and friends
including Norah Jones.
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Sir Ivan: I Am Peaceman
Jim Brown
Multi-Emmy winner Jim Brown
created this incredible musical
documentary about house artist and
philanthropist, Sir Ivan. His conservative
father, a Holocaust survivor, was a
successful banker. His mother was less
conservative: she founded the The
World Erotic Art Museum in Miami.
Ivan had been pressured into the staid
family business, but broke loose to
become an electoronic music artist and
philanthropist himself. His worldwide
success, including many singles on the
major club charts, is testament to his
spirit and talent. His extreme lifestyle
with and message of love has made him
a quirky celebrity throughout Europe
and the world.
Sales / Contact:
Doug Zwick
Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc.
Production
Jim Brown
8162 Manitoba Street, Suite 115
90293 Playa del Rey
USA
tel: +1 310 734 6655
www.poptwist.com
dzwick@poptwist.com
A surprising musical portrait of Sir Ivan, the house recording star and
extravagant personality. This film explores his exceptional life story, his music
and his world famous lifestyle.
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Sister, Soldier
Dikla Zeidler
Original Language: Dutch/English/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
In this documentary the viewer meets
eighteen-year-old Chamoetal Zeidler,
who starts her two years of mandatory
military service in the Spokesperson’s
Unit of the Israeli Army (IDF). With
an Israeli father and a Dutch mother,
growing up in Israel and in the
Netherlands, going to the army wasn’t
the obvious choice for Chamoetal. In
the course of the film we learn how
Chamoetal experiences her time in the
army and how she transforms from a
teenager into a grown-up soldier, who
must justify all IDF actions.
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Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
Production
Blazhoffski Productions B.V.
Nelsje Musch
1217 GP Hilversum
Evangelische Omroep –
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
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SIX DAYS: Three Women.
Three Wars. One Dream.
Nikolina Gillgren
Original Language: Georgian/
English/Kurdish
Subtitles: English
www.thelmalouise.se/tv-uppdrag/six-days/
A universal story of women’s courage
and survival in the aftermath of war.
Lanja is a journalist in Iraq, fearlessly
giving refuge and voice to women
beaten, burnt and threatened to death
by their own families. Maia fights for
women’s sexual rights in the breakaway
region Abkhazia, Georgia, battling
archaic customs like “bride kidnapping”.
Nelly runs a women’s cooperative in the
slums of Monrovia, Liberia, empowering
women by teaching hands-on ways to
make money for their families. Though
thousands of miles apart, the women
are united by their shared dream of a
better life.
Sales / Contact:
Carol Spycher
Accent Films International Ltd.
Production
THELMA/LOUISE TV
Johan Sandstrom
Rue de la Gare 46
1820 Montreux
Switzerland
tel: +41 796318414
www.accent-films.com
cspycher@accent-films.com
Croatia, Sweden not available.
Three extraordinary women in Iraq, Abkhazia and Liberia. A universal story of
women’s courage and survival in the aftermath of war.
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Sleeping Souls
Les âmes Dormantes
Alexander Abaturov
Atchinsk, 2500 miles away from
Moscow, a Siberian town to which
Soviet dissidents and, before them,
the Tsar’s opponents were deported.
Campaign for presidential elections.
Cold winter. The people are not really
keen on talking politics. Iouri, political
hireling working for Putin’s party
explains the inner mechanic of the
system. Somehow, democratic life
appears to be a theatre. . .
Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Le village
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 475 94 34 67
www.andanafilms.com
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Production
Petit à Petit production
Rebecca Houzel
Co-production:
À VIF cinémas – France
Lyon Capitale TV – France
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Politics / Society
Slow Food Story
Stefano Sardo
Subtitles: English
www.slowfoodstory.com
This is the story of a snail paced
revolution. It started 25 years ago
when Carlo Petrini invented Slow Food
and Terra Madre together with his
closest friends. Without ever leaving
his native Bra, a small town of 27,000
inhabitants, Carlin and his friends have
created a movement that now spans
150 countries and has transformed
gastronomy forever.
Italy, Ireland not available.
Sales / Contact:
Autlook Filmsales
Trappelgasse 4/17
Production
Indigo film
Nicola Giuliano
1040 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43720346934
A 25 year gastronomic revolution
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Slut Phobia?
Sletvrees?
Sunny Bergman
www.theimportanceofbeingsexy.com
Femininity and sex are allies in a
woman’s struggle for approval. In
today’s world women strive to imitate
the sexiest images presented by
the media. But, at the same time,
expressing sexuality is not always
perceived as something positive and
being labeled a “slut” lies around the
corner. For women and especially young
girls, the line is all too fine and easily
crossed. Where does this ambiguity
come from? Is it our Christian double
morality and the whore/virgin duality?
And how does it affect our personal
sexual experiences?
Sales / Contact:
Robin Brinster
Illumina Films
Production
Viewpoint Productions
Valérie Schuit
Leidsestraat 106-IV
1017PG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6248395
Netherlands not available.
Today, women strive to
imitate the sexiest images
presented by the media.
But at the same time overt
sexuality is not necessarily
positive and being called a
‘slut’ soon follows.
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Investigative | Politics / Society | Art / Music / Culture
Smash & Grab - The Story
of the Pink Panthers
Havana Marking
England, 2012 color, 35mm, 89’/52’
Original Language: Serbo-Croatian/English
Subtitles: English
In their own words and with
unprecedented access, the most
successful jewel thieves of all time
take you into their world: the postMilosovic Balkans, the modern
diamond trade and a 21st Century
crime gang. But as the thieves brazenly
commit their crimes across the world
- Europe, Asia and UEA – Interpol and
global police forces are tightening
their grip. As many of the criminals
responsible are caught and extradited,
this film asks: Is this the end of the Pink
Panthers?
Sales / Contact:
Pascal Degove
65 - 66 Dean St
Production
Mike Lerner
Havana Marking
W1D 4PL London
England
tel: +44 207 4378696
The story of the world’s most wanted diamond robbers, told from the point
of view of the culprits themselves, the police, and the press. We’ve seen this
classic cat-and-mouse game in many movies, but this time it’s real.
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Somm
Katie Dellamaggiore, Jason Wise
USA, 2012 color, video, 55’/85’
www.cargofilm-releasing.com/somm
This is a test that covers literally
anything having to do with the entire
world of wine and that is only the
beginning of why it is so difficult.
In over fifty years, fewer than two
hundred people have ever earned
the title of Master and the ones who
have risked their personal lives, their
wellbeing, and often their sanity to pull
it off. Known for it?s secrecy, access
to the Court Of Master Sommeliers
has always been strictly regulated
and cameras have never been allowed
anywhere near the exam until now.
Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Production
Jackson Myers
Forgotten Man Films
611 Broadway #630
Jason Wise
10012 New York
USA
tel: +1 212 9958139
Somm is a funny, sad and
exhilarating story of four
friends attempting to
conquer an exam with one of
the lowest pass rates in the
world - the Master Sommelier
Exam.
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Song from the Forest
Michael Obert
Original Language: Akha/English
Subtitles: English
www.songfromtheforest.com
As a young man, American Louis Sarno
heard a song on the radio that gripped
his imagination. He followed the sound
all the way to the Central African
rainforest, where he found the music’s
origin with a tribe of hunters and
gatherers, the BaAka Pygmies. Today, 25
years later, he still lives as one of them
and raises his Pygmy son, Samedi.
Today the time has come to fulfill an
old promise, and Louis takes 13-year-old
Samedi on a journey to the world he
left behind: to America.
Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Production
Tondowski Films
Alexandre Tondowski
Marienplatz 1
Ira Tondowski
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Co-production:
ma.ja.de Filmproduktion GmbH
tel: +49 30 843 06166
– Germany
WDR – Germany
info@deckert-distribution.de
A father and son story from rainforest to skyscrapers.
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Soul Food Stories
Istoria Za Hranata i Dushata
Tonislav Hristov
Bulgaria / Finland, 2013 color, HDcam, 69’
Original Language: Bulgarian
Subtitles: English
Satovcha is a small Bulgarian village
with 2021 residents of different
religious and ethnical groups (Orthodox
Bulgarians, Muslim Turks, Pomacs
and Evangelist Gypsies). People were
divided by their past full of conflicts,
but now they have find a way to each
other through a simple medium – The
Food.
Now the plates on the table are loaded
with pride, identity, common past and
friendship, but all this comes with a
price
Sales / Contact:
Aleksandra Derewienko
Taskovski Films
Glowna 35
20-829 Lublin
Poland
tel: +48 69 3866348
aleksandra.derewienko@interia.eu
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Production
Arthouse Blockbusters Ltd.
Boris Despodov
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The Soul of the Lion - Healing Zimbabwe
Manu Gerosa
Shona/English/Italian
Subtitles: English
www.lionsouls.com
Carlo is an Italian surgeon who
has devoted his life to helping the
population of Zimbabwe. He works
in hospitals and runs humanitarian
projects, in a country reduced to ruins
by Mugabe’s military. Thomas is a
young patient in a wheelchair after a
beating by soldiers damaged his spine.
With Carlo’s help, Thomas is sent to
Italy to get the extremely delicate
operation that might allow him to walk
again. Two men united by bravery,
facing their own great challenge:
not giving up even in extreme
circumstances and let human dignity
prevail on any form of oppression.
Sales / Contact:
Francesco Tocci
Production
One World Dokumakers
Emanuele Gerosa
Via Cicerone 64
00193 Rome
Italy
tel: +39 63 613480
francescot@gaea.it
The story of two men united by courage, bravery and a strong will, facing
their own everyday’s personal, great challenge in a country reduced to ruins
by Mugabe’s military dictatorship.
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Sound of Torture
Keren Shayo
Tigrigna/Hebrew
Subtitles: English
Live calls from the torture camps in
Sinai: since Europe closed its borders in
2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees
flee their military dictator-ruled country
north to Israel, their gate to the west,
crossing the Sinai desert. There, many
are kidnapped by Bedouins and taken to
one of the hidden camps.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Trabelsi Productions
Galit Cahlon
Osnat Trabelsi
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Yes Docu – Israel,
tel: +41 44 3122060
SVT – Sweden,
SRC – Canada
The film intimately follows Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist
who runs a popular online radio program, publishing the stories of these
camps while recording their pleas for help.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
Space Metropoliz
Fabrizio Boni, Giorgio de Finis
Subtitles: English
www.spacemetropoliz.com
Metropoliz is a squat located in a
roman suburb where homeless and
immigrants livies carrying out cohousing project. The documentary
follows one year of artistic provocation
by the locals and international artists
on the theme of traveling to the
Moon: the construction of a rocket
representing for everyone a faint
possibility of finding a Brave New
World. Metropoliz has become an openair-museum and conference venue
of astrophysicists and philosophers.
Along the lines of “voyage dans la Lune
“ by Méliès, the Metropoliz reach its
purpose: the collaboration between
international artists and astrophysicists
and the inhabitants.
Sales / Contact:
Luca Argentero
Inside Productions
Piazza della Libertà 13
00192 Roma
Production
Irida Produzioni
Fabrizio Boni
Co-production:
Inside Productions – Italy
Italy
tel: +39 06 89361877
antonella@insideproductions.it
Space Metropoliz is an
artistic provocation on
the theme of traveling to
the Moon: a squat turned
in a metaphorical “space
program” representing the
possibility of finding a New
World.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Investigative
Speed: In Search of Lost Time
Florian Opitz
Subtitles: English
It’s a paradox. Never before have
we worked more efficiently. Never
before have we saved time with more
sophisticated technologies. But nearly
everyone feels they don’t have enough
time.
Florian Opitz tries to track down the
reasons for our lack of time and the
constant acceleration of our lives.
He reveals a disturbing picture of a
civilisation that has disposed of all
brake systems and goes blindly for
unlimited and eternal growth - no
matter what the consequences. But
Opitz also tries to find the good life. In
the niches of the global capitalism he
discovers alternatives to the rat race. France, Germany not available.
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Sales / Contact:
Kathryn Bonnici
Java Films
France
tel: +34 634 869 646
www.javafilms.fr
Production
Dreamer Joint Venture
Oliver Stolz
ARTE – Germany
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State 194
Dan Setton
Israel / USA / Palestine, 2012
color, HDcam, 98’
Subtitles: English
Filmmaker Dan Setton gained
unprecedented access to the highest
circles of the Palestinian leadership
as he chronicles Prime Minister Salam
Fayaad’s quest to have Palestine
recognized by the United Nations as an
independent state. Sales / Contact:
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
Production
Participant Media
Diane Weyermann
65112 TEL AVIV
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
The film follows the quest of
Palestinian Prime Minister
Salam Fayaad to have
Palestine recognized by
the United Nations as an
independent state.
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Politics / Society
State Builders
Florence Martin-Kessler, Anne Poiret
France, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’/75’
In 2011, the Republic of South Sudan
became the world’s newest nation.
After a 50-year civil war, which killed
over 2-million people, the stakes and
hopes are high. But how does one build
a country from scratch? State Builders
follows a determined UN official
and the country’s newly appointed
Vice-President as they attempt to put
theory into practice to shape the young
democracy.
Sales / Contact:
Stephan Riguet
Andana Films
Production
Quark Productions
Patrick Winocour
Le village
Co-production:
Rita Productions – Switzerland
07170 Lussas
France
tel: +33 475 94 34 67
ARTE – France,
www.andanafilms.com
UR – Sweden,
TV Catalunya – Spain
2011: the Republic of South
Sudan becomes the world’s
newest country. After a 50year civil war, everything is to
be invented. How does one
build a country from scratch ?
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State of Play
Steven Dhoedt
Belgium / The Netherlands / South
Korea, 2013 color, HDcam, 85’/52’
Subtitles: English
In Seoul, hundreds of young boys
compete to be the best at one single
video game: Starcraft. As top players
earn hundreds of thousands of euros,
being a professional gamer isn’t only
a wise career move, it is also the path
to respect and credibility in the highly
competitive society of South Korea.
The stars of the Starcraft league are
national celebrities, participating on
all levels of popular culture. But what
happens when play becomes work? For
some it will be a struggle to stay on top
of their game, for others it might be the
turning point of their lives.
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Visualantics
Gert Van Berckelaer
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
Co-production:
Minch & Films – South Korea
tel: +33 1 44617748
NRK – Norway,
VRT – Belgium,
cat@catndocs.com
RTBF – Belgium,
SVT – Sweden,
CHOSUN – South Korea
We don’t really play for fun.
Mostly, we play for work. This
work just happens to be a
game.
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A Story of Children and Film
Mark Cousins
A Story of Children and Film is the
world’s first movie about kids
in global cinema. A passionate,
poetic portrait of the adventures of
childhood - its surrealism, loneliness,
fun, destructiveness and vitality - as
seen through 53 great films from
25 countries. From the critical and
commercial hits such as E. T. the ExtraTerrestrial and Moonrise Kingdom to
well-known classics The Red Balloon
and 400 Blows, it also features dozens
of rarely seen masterpieces. A Story
of Children and Film is an eye-opener, a
landmark film and a celebration of both
childhood and the movies. UK, Argentina TV, Benelux,
Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic,
Portugal not available.
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Sales / Contact:
Kate Hide
Production
Bofa Productions
Adam Dawtrey
24 Hanway Street
W1T 1UH London
England
tel: +44 72 900750
www.hanwayfilms.com
kh@hanwayfilms.com
A Story of Children and Film
is the world’s first movie
about kids in global cinema
as seen through 53 films from
25 countries.
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The Story of Mr. Love
Otázky pana Lásky
Dagmar Smrzova
Subtitles: English
www.hbo.cz/movie/otazky-pana-lasky_-76268
Director Dagmar Smr ová’s new
documentary, produced by endorfilm
and HBO Europe, looks into the
every-day life of an ordinary man who
suffers from schizophrenia. Thirtyyear-old Jirí Láska (his last name means
‘love’), who lives in a village under the
mountains, Batnovice near Trutnov,
is not your usual apathetic patient in
the psychiatry ward. Using modern
technology, he communicates with his
surroundings and runs his own website,
for which he films unusual journalistic
videos. Jirí also has an extraordinary
gift for self-reflection and his life is
characterized by helpfulness and his
desire to be useful and productive.
Sales / Contact:
Jiri Konecny
Endorfilm
Production
HBO Europe
Hanka Kastelicova
Prímetická 4
Endorfilm
14000 Praha 4
Jiri Konecny
Czech Republic
tel: +420 241 730 780
HBO Europe s.r.o. – Czech
www.endorfilm.cz
Republic
jiri@endorfilm.cz
‘There’s a big difference between Love and love. Some people mistake one for
the other, but I have nothing to do with love.’
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Stream of Love
Szerelem patak
Agnes Sós
Hungary, 2013 color, HDcam, 70’
Original Language: Hungarian/Romanian
Subtitles: English
Stream of Love is a documentary-tale of
an elderly peasant widower who wants
to try his luck at getting married again.
As he visits many women in the village,
the deep and dramatic secrets of bodyand-soul, love and joie de vivre come
to life.
And all this with such humor, such
charm, that we don’t even know what
is bringing the tears to our eyes, the
fact that it’s so touching or that it’s so
shocking, because behind the comical
there are often dramatic life situations
hiding the beauties and struggles of a
bygone culture. Sales / Contact:
Taskovski Films
Production
Szerelem Patak Produkciós Kft.
Agnes Sós
Poland
Julianna Ugrin
tel: +48 69 3866348
HBO Europe – Hungary
info@taskovskifilms.com
Stream of Love is a
documentary-tale of an
elderly peasant widower
who wants to try his luck at
getting married again.
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A Street for the Arts
Calle del Arte
Viviane Blumenschein
Germany / Venezuela, 2012
color, HDcam, 52’
English/German
Subtitles: German/English/Spanish
www.calledelarte.com
The film documents one of Venezuela’s
biggest festivals of contemporary
art, which the Hamburg based artist
Clemencia Labín launched twelve years
ago in her native town Maracaibo. With
lots of charm, bite and endurance she
managed to convince all the neighbours
around the Santa Lucia church to open
up their houses to hundreds of artists
and tens of thousands of visitors. And
since then this arts festival bursts all
social boundaries and transforms over
forty households into showrooms
and into art themselves. A successful
experiment which Clemencia Labín
presented 2011 in the Venezuelan
Pavilion at the Biennale in Venice.
Sales / Contact:
Victor Fenes
Taskovski Films
Lane
Production
Tony Petersen Film GmbH
Anke Petersen
ARTE – Germany
NW7 2DQ London
England
tel: +33 0387 65 652 046
sales@taskovskifilms.com
The Velada gathers international artists in Maracaibo, Venezuela, to bring
their art into ordinary private houses. It transforms the whole housing area
into a colorful art festival for thousands of people.
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Catalogue No. 387
Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society
Striplife: a Day in Gaza
Nicola Grignani, Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, Valeria Testagrossa, Andrea Zambelli
Palestine / Italy, 2013 color,
video/HDcam, 56’
Subtitles: English
movinegtogaza.indivia.net
The Gaza Strip. An inexplicable event
has occurred during the night: dozens
of manta rays stranded on the beach
in Gaza City. Fishermen hasten from
the whole Strip to grab some fresh
meat. Meanwhile the city is awakening.
Antar spurs his brother to get up, today
is the great day, in the afternoon he
will record his first disk. Noor puts her
make up on, she must appear in front
of the television cameras. Jabber is
already in the field. The shots of the
rifles remind him that he lives in the
buffer zone that separates Gaza from
Israel. A manifestation is going on in
the streets. Moemen is there, doing his
job as photographer. At the port a boat
returns with the hull riddled by shots.
The chant of the muezzin invades the
space, multiplied by the minarets. As in
a dream, the boys of the Parkour Team
pirouette in a cemetery. Life in the strip
winds up until night. 398
Sales / Contact:
Raffaele Aspide
Production
Teleimmagini
via capo di lucca,27/b
Raffaele Aspide
40126 bologna
Italy
tel: 00393381973000
raffaeleaspide@gmail.com
Gaza. A strip of earth
destroyed by continuous
wars, an open air jail of
which all newspapers speak
but that hides complexities
and differences that have not
been told.
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Suburban God
God op IJtje
Elsbeth Fraanje
Subtitles: English
www.baldrfilm.nl
In an era when every week sees
two churches closing down, a vicar
goes door-to-door in the newly built
Amsterdam suburb of IJburg, and has
encounters with the residents, as he
tries to probe what faith means to
them. Suburban God paints a manycoloured portrait of the IJburg borough,
but shows too the full depth of ideas
about faith and the meaning of life,
that are encompassed in modern
society.
Sales / Contact:
Frank Hoeve
BALDR Film
Production
BALDR Film
Katja Draaijer
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77
Frank Hoeve
1012 DC Amsterdam
IKON – The Netherlands
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 3032670
www.baldrfilm.nl
frank@baldrfilm.nl
Suburban God paints a many-coloured portrait of the IJburg borough, but
shows too the full depth of ideas about faith and the meaning of life, that are
encompassed in modern society.
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Catalogue No. 388
Politics / Society | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
Sunflower Seeds
Antonis Tolakis
Greece, 2013 color, video, 26’
Original Language: Farsi/Greek
Subtitles: English
A group of children surviving on the
streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid,
a twelve-year old boy, who works all
day selling sunflower seeds in the city’s
suburban parks. His existence borders
on absolute poverty, as he prowls for
food in philanthropic organizations.
Sayid is trapped in Greece, a country
plagued by a financial crisis, increasing
unemployment, rampant xenophobia,
and racist violence. Sayid states clearly,
“I’ve been here about two years, and it
feels like twenty have passed. ”
Sales / Contact:
Julia Despina Speropoulos
Antonis Tolakis Production
Production
Antonis Tolakis Production
Antonis Tolakis
147 Hasias AVE
13122 Ilion Athens
Greece
tel: +30 21 02625840
antonis.tolakis@gmail.com
A touching, delicate film
highlighting the abrupt
coming of age of small
Afghan children who live in
Greece, a country plagued
by economic crisis and the
neofascist ideology.
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Super Women
Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
Original Language: Hebrew/Russian
Subtitles: English
www.jmtfilms.com/201353/SocietyEthnology#superwomen
The story of five cashiers who work
the same shift in a supermarket, in
Tel Aviv. Most are immigrants from
Russia, others are native Israelis. The
film follows their relationships, the
mutual support and solidarity, dealing
with the management and customers,
their difficulties making a living and
their working conditions, as they try to
change their fate. Super Women is a
beautiful example of cinéma verité and
a special peek into a hidden world. Israel not available.
Sales / Contact:
Michael Treves
JMT Films Distribution
20 Bialik st.
63324 Tel Aviv
Israel
Production
Turtles Films
Yael Kipper
Co-production:
Turtles Films – Israel
tel: 972- 52- 36 333 98
Hot - Israeli Cable Television,
www.JMTFilms.com
Channel 8 – Israel
Michael@JMTFilms.com
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Catalogue No. 390
Surfing the Web of Hate
Uppdrag granskning: Män som näthatar kvinnor
Hasse Johansson, Nicke Nordmark
Subtitles: English
www.svtsales.com/programmesales/surfing-the-web-of-hate/
The Internet is flooded with sexual
harassment and death threats, mostly
aimed at women. In this film we meet
women who are used to receiving
severe threats. They are well known
Swedish journalists, bloggers and
debaters and on camera they quote
some of the horrid comments they
have received in emails and comment
fields. We also meet 21-year-old Julia, an
ordinary Swedish girl who wrote a post
on clothing giant H&M’s Facebook page
and received thousands of threatening
and humiliating comments. This film
stirred a huge debate in Sweden when
aired in February 2013.
Sales / Contact:
Niklas Ahlgren
Oxenstiernsgatan 26-34
10510 Stockholm
Production
SVT
Martin Sundborn
SVT – Sweden
Sweden
tel: +46 8 7840000
www.svt.se
info@svt.se
This film takes a closer look
at the phenomenon of
misogyny and hate speech
on the web and we meet
women who are used to
receiving severe threats.
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Nature / Environment | Science / Technology | Human Interest / Social Issues
Surviving the Tsunami - My Atomic Aunt
Kyoko Miyake
Germany / Japan, 2013 color,
Original Language: Japanese/English
Subtitles: English
Director Kyoko Miyake, having lived
outside of Japan for more than a
decade, revisits Fukushima. She wants
to find out the fate of her family’s
hometown Namie that used to be her
childhood idyll with friendly beaches
and laughing neighbours. Today, Namie
is completely destroyed and, because
of the radiation threat, might never be
rebuilt.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Inselfilm Produktion
Gregor Streiber
8050 Zürich
WDR – Germany,
Switzerland
NHK – Japan,
tel: +41 44 3122060
BBC – England,
SVT – Sweden
Once amongst avid admirers
of nuclear plants and their
managers, Aunt Kuniko and
her community are on the
verge of disintegration in the
aftermath of the nuclear
catastrophe.
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Catalogue No. 392
Syria Inside
Tamer Al Awam, Jan Heilig
Germany / Syria, 2013 color, video, 120’
Subtitles: English
www.syria-inside.com
Fight dictatorship with humor! In
120 minutes two Syrian presenters
introduce to us their country, their
revolution and all the basic tenets of
freedom - all in a new technology:
Syrian 3D. While the western media
focused only on blood, sweat and
tears, the Syrian freedom activists got
busy producing creative web shows
and fantastic media artworks. Humor
became a weapon against the almighty
brainwashing of the countries state-TV.
Now the essential and best of these
creative works have been put together
into this full length cinema film
addressing an English speaking public
outside of Syria. Sales / Contact:
Jan Heilig
Production
Filmbit filmproduktion
Filmbit filmproduktion GmbH &Co Jan Heilig
Markgrafendamm 24, Geb. 18
10245 Berlin
Co-production:
WithYouSyria, SAMER BASHAS
Germany
– Syria
tel: +49 15772076094
www.filmbit.de
jan.heilig@filmbit.de
Fight dictatorship with humor! The Syrian freedom activists produced creative
web shows and fantastic media artworks, now put together into this full
length cinema film.
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Tatanka
Jacob Bricca
white, HDcam, 87’
www.tatankamovie.com
Behind every person that fought for
civil rights or occupied Wall Street,
there was a loved one who sacrificed.
In this moving, psychologically
complex documentary, filmmaker
Jacob Bricca follows the extraordinary
journey of his father Kit, a man
whose uncompromising idealism
changed the world but nearly tore his
family apart. Reverent of his father’s
accomplishments but haunted by
questions about his father’s true
identity, Jacob begins to dig deeper
into his father’s archive, seeking new
meanings in the old images. As Kit’s
second marriage fails and his finances
fall into disarray, he changes his name
to Tatanka, leaves town, and Jacob’s
inquiry become more urgent. Tatanka
follows the heartrending journey of one
man whose unchecked idealism helped
change the world but nearly tore his
family apart. Featuring Joan Baez, Cesar
Chavez and Daniel Ellsberg. Sales / Contact:
Jonathan Crosby
Production
Jacob Bricca, Jonathan Crosby
1221 14th Ave.
94122 San Francisco
USA
tel: 415-759-8458
yyohan@yahoo.com
Behind every activist that
fought for civil rights or
occupied Wall Street, there
was a loved one who
sacrificed.
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Politics / Society | Author’s Point of View
Temptation
Viktar Dashuk
Belarus, 2013 color / black
Original Language: Belarusian
Subtitles: English
When the elderly documentarian Viktar
Dashuk becomes ill and asks his doctor
how long he has, his doctor thinks this
is a stupid question. After all, he is no
longer able to get his wife pregnant, so
evolutionarily speaking he’s long past
his due date. The filmmaker decides to
make a film about himself, to ensure his
own immortality through art. Dashuk’s
antagonist also appears, and he’s
also trying to make himself immortal.
President Alexander Lukashenko has
been ruling his country with an iron
fist for decades, and many journalists,
human rights activists and presidential
candidates have paid the price.
Sales / Contact:
Viktar Dashuk
Production
Viktar Dashuk
Nezavisimosty ave 98
IDFA Bertha Fund
220114 Minsk
Belarus
tel: +375 29 6641570
spadard@gmail.com
The Belorussian Victar
Dashuk attempts to make
himself immortal with a film
about his life, and President
Alexander Lukashenko
shows up as the story’s main
antagonist.
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They Killed My Brother
Mataram meu irmão
Cristiano Burlan
Brazil, 2013 color, video, 77’
www.belafilmes.com
Reconstituting the details of the death
of his brother, Rafael da Silva Burlan,
which occurred 12 years ago, the
filmmaker Cristiano Burlan throws up
a personal journey that leads to the
heart of a circle of violence around the
suburbs of São Paulo, where the family
lived and her brother, 22, was killed
with seven shots in 2001. The director
exposes parts of her own family history,
listening to relatives and friends, whose
statements bring to light the fates of
several characters, charting the history
of painful emotional wounds. Sales / Contact:
Natália Reis
Bela Filmes
Production
Bela Filmes
Natália Reis
Rua Francisco Cruz, 142, apto 23
04117091 Sao Paulo
Brazil
tel: +55 11 976298015
www.belafilmes.com
contato@belafilmes.com
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Catalogue No. 396
Art / Music / Culture | Science / Technology | Politics / Society
Thinking Existenz
O Tempo e o Modo
Graça Castanheira
Portugal, 2012 color, HDcam, 30’
Original Language: Portugese/
Spanish/English
Subtitles: English
A highbrow series (10x30’) on
philosophy, politics and society. Ten
personalities from diverse social and
geographical backgrounds reflect on
the world and its future. A portrait
in multiple voices of contemporary
reality, revealing the deep connections
that exist between our mental models
and the consequences thereof in our
present day - for the individual, for life
and for the planet.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Pop Filmes
Graça Castanheira
8050 Zürich
RTP2 – Portugal
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
A series of lessons about our
time and the way we live in
it!
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This Ain’t No Mouse Music
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon
www.nomousemusic.com
Chris Strachwitz is a detective of
sounds, an archaeologist of the deep
American music, music with roots
that strike straight into the country’s
heartland. Since 1960, Strachwitz has
been recording the authentic pulses of
the great American music, throbbing
away in the backwoods of the nation.
His label offers an unparalleled
catalogue of blues, Cajun, wild Hillbilly
country, Tex-Mex and New Orleans
R&B. These diverse musical strands
seem to have grown right out of the
ground they are played on. With taperecorder in hand, Strachwitz traveled
to plantations and prisons, roadhouses
and whorehouses, churches and bayou
juke joints. Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
Sage Blossom Productions
Maureen Gosling
Chris Simon
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
Chris Strachwitz is the
guiding force behind the
legendary Arhoolie Records,
producing albums that the
Rolling Stones and many
others played the grooves
right off of.
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Tigers and Men
Des Tigres et des Hommes
Jean-Baptiste Martin
Subtitles: English
Paradoxically, there are more tigers in
captivity than in the wild, where the
life of an estimated population of 3200
wild individuals is threatened. This
documentary is a portrayal of Rémy
Demantes, who is one of the very few
licence holders of captivity tigers in
France. He lives with his tigers on a
daily basis and participates in their
preservation. The goal of the film is
to understand tigers better in order to
contribute to the preservation of one
of the planet’s most fascinating animal
species, otherwise known as the lord of
the jungle.
Sales / Contact:
Christine Klaver
SHK
Production
CASADEI PRODUCTIONS
Marie Mitterrand
105, Rue de l’Abbé Groult
75015 Paris
France 3 – France
France
tel: +33 1 45547979
www.shkdistribution.fr
shk@wanadoo.fr
The film is to better
understand tigers in order to
contribute to the preservation
of one of the planet’s most
fascinating animal species,
otherwise known as the lord
of the jungle.
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Timoteo´s Fabulous Ragged Circus
El Gran Circo Pobre de Timoteo
Lorena Giachino
Chile / Argentina, 2013
Subtitles: English
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of
a cross-dresser circus that has toured
through Chile for forty years. Today his
advanced age and health are reason for
concern regarding the continuity of the
show. Small episodes and daily conflicts
shape the comedian’s life while he
debates between denial of a possible
ending and the concrete need to project
his circus. Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44 61 77 48
Production
Errante Producciones
Paola Castillo
Co-production:
Trivial Media – Argentina
Señal Colombia – Colombia
cat@catndocs.com
Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile
for 40 years. Today there are concerns regarding the continuity of the show.
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Catalogue No. 399
Youth | Author’s Point of View | Human Interest / Social Issues
La Tola Box
Pável Quevedo Ullauri
Ecuador, 2013 color, video, 84’
Subtitles: English
www.latolaboxpelicula.com
La Tola boxing gym is located on top of
a hill in the historic center of the city of
Quito, where the best boxers of Ecuador
train. They show that boxing is more
than strength and courage. Cesar, a
boy aspiring boxer, and Carlos, a young
amateur boxer train daily with passion
and discipline, with a clear objective: to
fight in the ring and in life.
Sales / Contact:
PULSOfilms
Italia N31-152
Production
PULSOfilms
Natalia Luzuriaga
EC170135 Quito
Ecuador
tel: 593 23237362
pavelqu@yahoo.com
This film explores the human side of boxing, the difficulties that these
athletes have to overcome to pursue their passion for this sport.
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Tonight We’ll Become Women
Vannacht worden we vrouwen
Josefien Hendriks
Subtitles: English
www.jvdwfilm.com/project/
vannacht-worden-we-vrouwen
Neighbors Ismini (13) and Komal
(12) often organize sleepovers. Their
friendship lasted a girls lifetime. In
the year that these friends change
more than ever, we see them during
their sleepovers. They themselves are
convinced that they will stay together
no matter what and that everything
always remains the same between
them. But does it?
Sales / Contact:
Iris Lammerstma
JvdWfilm
Production
JvdWfilm
Boudewijn Koole
De Kempenaerstraat 11B
1051 CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 6885049
www.jvdwfilm.com
info@jvdwfilm.nl
One year changes in one
night
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Catalogue No. 401
Human Interest / Social Issues | Experimental | Politics / Society
Torre David
Markus Kneer, Daniel Schwartz
Venezuela / Switzerland,
Subtitles: English
www.torredavid.com
Torre David, a 45-story office tower in
Caracas, was almost complete when
it was abandoned following the death
of its developer, David Brillembourg, in
1993 and the collapse of the Venezuelan
economy in 1994. Today, it is the
improvised home of a community of
more than 750 families, living in an
extra-legal and tenuous occupation
that some have called a vertical slum.
Sales / Contact:
Daniel Schwartz
Urban Think Tank
Production
Urban Think Tank
Alfredo Brillembourg
Hubert Klumpner
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
tel: +41 78 6424414
www.u-tt.com
daniel.schwartz@arch.ethz.ch
Torre David, a 45-story tower in Caracas was almost complete, when it was
abandoned twenty years ago. Today, it is home to the world’s tallest squat of
750 families.
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Touba
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Original Language: French/Wolof
Subtitles: English
Touba reveals a face of Islam essential
to these divisive times. It chronicles the
Grand Magaal pilgrimage of 1 million
Sufi Muslims to the holy city of Touba,
Senegal. This observational film takes
us inside the Mouride Brotherhood: one
of Africa’s most elusive organizations.
Pilgrims travel from all over the world
to pay homage to the life and teachings
of Cheikh Amadou Bamba. His nonviolent resistance to French colonial
persecution in the late 19th century
inspired a national movement: freedom
of religious expression through
pacifism. These are lessons the world
can learn. Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Little Monster, LLC
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
18, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 44617748
cat@catndocs.com
Touba reveals a different face
of Islam by chronicling Sufi
Muslims’ annual pilgrimage
to the Senegalese city of
Touba.
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Catalogue No. 403
Tour Du Faso
Wilm Huygen
Germany / France, 2013
Moré/German/French
“Tour du Faso” is Africa’s biggest cycling
race – running directly across the
savannah in Burkina Faso. It’s legendary
among fans and racing cyclists all
around the world. While the race is an
adaptation of the Tour de France, it
has still retained its original and very
African character as a flawed – but
much more sympathetic – copy of its
European model. Amid the clash of
European perfectionism and African
realities, we follow German hobby
adventurers, French ex-pros and African
local heroes in their passionate fight for
making their dreams come true.
Sweden, Denmark not available.
Africa’s biggest cycling race.
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Sales / Contact:
Elina Kewitz
NEW DOCS
Production
Augenschein Filmproduktion
Jonas Katzenstein
Maximilian Leo
50968 Koeln
Co-production:
La Huit Production – France
Germany
tel: +49 221 16819743
www.newdocs.de
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Politics / Society | Investigative
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay
Away From Keyboard
Simon Klose
Subtitles: English
www.tpbafk.tv/the-film/
It’s the day before the trial starts.
Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty
old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay cofounders, he faces $13 million in damage
claims to Hollywood in a copyright
infringement case. Fredrik is on his way
to install a new computer in the secret
server hall. This is where the world’s
largest file sharing site is hidden.
When the hacker prodigy Gottfrid, the
internet activist Peter and the network
nerd Fredrik are found guilty, they
are confronted with the reality of life
offline – away from keyboard.
TV-sales: andrea@autlookfilms.com,
General sales: martin@anagram.se
Sales / Contact:
Autlook Filmsales
Production
Anagram Produktion AB
Trappelgasse 4/17
Final Cut for Real
1040 Vienna
Signe Byrge Sørensen
Austria
Co-production:
Piraya Film – Norway
tel: +43 720 346934
SVT – Sweden,
DR TV – Denmark,
NRK – Norway,
BBC – England,
A documentary on the
world’s largest filesharing
network, The Pirate Bay.
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Catalogue No. 469
Trespassing Bergman
Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas
Original Language: Japanese/
French/Danish/Chinese/
German/English/Swedish
Subtitles: English
Candid, funny and explicit interviews
with the likes of Lars Von Trier, Martin
Scorsese, Woody Allen, Isabella
Rossellini and Michael Haneke - some
shoot at Bergmans last home on the
island of Fårö - interwoven with never
before seen footage from behind-thescenes at many of the Swedish masters
films.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
Production
Gädda Five AB
Fatima Varhos
8050 Zürich
Co-production:
Pretty Pictures – France,
Switzerland
Gotlands Filmfond – Sweden
tel: +41 44 312 2060
Sweden
Ingmar Bergmans life and
his key films as seen and told
by the greatest actors and
directors of our time.
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Bill Siegel
white, HDcam, 92’
The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a
biography about an emerging
sports superhero choosing faith and
conscience over fame and fortune. At
each stage, the challenges Ali faces
go far beyond the boxing ring and
ultimately encompass issues of power,
race, faith and identity that confront
us all.
Sales / Contact:
Andrea Hock
Autlook Filmsales
Trappelgasse 4/17
1040 Vienna
Production
Kartemquin Films
Rachel Pikelny
Co-production:
Kartemquin Films – USA
Austria
tel: +43 720346934
The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a biography about an emerging sports
superhero choosing faith and conscience over fame and fortune.
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Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues | Experimental
Truth Has Fallen
Sheila M. Sofian
USA, 2013 color, video/HDcam, 60’
www.truthhasfallenmovie.com
Truth Has Fallen is a one-hour live
action/animated documentary that
examines the work of James McCloskey.
Mr. McCloskey founded Centurion
Ministries, an organization whose
mission is to free prisoners who have
been wrongfully convicted of murder.
Employing a combination of abstract,
surreal animation and live action
images, Truth Has Fallen asks how
innocent people could be convicted of
murder- what could be done to prevent
such injustices in the future- and what
happens to these innocent people when
they are released from prison after
years of incarceration?
Sales / Contact:
Sheila M. Sofian
Production
David Fain, Sheila M. Sofian
3806 E. Green St.
Co-production:
Davi Rutenburg – USA
91107 Pasadena
USA
tel: +1 626 7929351
www.sheilasofian.com
sofafilms@sbcglobal.net
“Truth Has Fallen” is a live action/animated documentary about three
innocent people who were convicted for murders they did not commit.
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Twin Sisters
Tvillingsøstrene
Mona Friis Bertheussen
Norway, 2013 color, HDcam/video, 58’
www.twinsisters.no
In 2004, two baby twin sisters were
found in a cardboard box in a Chinese
village, and adopted into two different
corners of the world. One of them to a
little village in Norway, surrounded by
high mountains and deep fjords. The
other one to a big city in the USA. The
adoptive parents had no idea that there
was a twin sister. Their sisterhood was
meant to be kept a secret. But a strange
coincidence changes everything. . .
The film tells the remarkable story
of the twin sisters through a parallel
journey, until they meet again when
they are 8-years old.
Sales / Contact:
Moment Film
Ullevalsveien 49
Production
Moment Film
0171 Oslo
TV 2 – Norway,
Norway
SVT – Sweden,
tel: +47 93007545
DR TV – Denmark
www.momentfilm.no
mona@moment-tv.no
The twin sisters were separated as babies and adopted to different corners of
the world. Their sisterhood was meant to be kept a secret. However, destiny
had other plans...
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Catalogue No. 406
Two at the Border
Nacht Grenze Morgen
Tuna Kaptan, Felicitas Sonvilla
Original Language: Turkish/Farsi/Arabic
Subtitles: English
thoseattheborder.com
Two young men, one Syrian the other
Palestinian, smuggle refugees to
European ground. While the Turkish
border is still porous, Greece barricades
its borders with European support.
Thermographic cameras, fences,
coastguard ships. The guys pack,
they move, sometimes they make it,
sometimes they don’t. The rent was
due last week.
Sales / Contact:
Ferdinand Freising
University for Television and Film
Munich
Production
University of Television and Film
Munich
Ferdinand Freising
Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
80333 Munich
Germany
tel: +49 89 689574030
www.hff-muenchen.de
f.freising@hff-muc.de
Two young men smuggle
refugees to European ground.
While Greece barricades
its borders to Turkey with
european support, their work
gets increasingly tough.
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The Ukes in America
Robert Stern
What started ‘as a laugh’ in 1985 has
now become one of the most talkedabout new groups in music. The eight
members of the Ukulele Orchestra of
Great Britain are proud to entertain
thousands with what used to be a
mere hobby, taking their innovative
music around the globe as their fulltime occupation. Selling out arenas
across the States, from promotion and
interest generated purely online, this
humourous and moving documentary
reveals The Ukes’ discovery of the
country whose music inspired them.
Find out what the Americans make
of their unique act, British sense of
humour and ukulele musicianship. Sales / Contact:
David Hooper
Espresso TV
Production
Litmus Films
Robert Stern
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: +44 127 3730929
Backstage, on the road and
at play, Litmus Films’ unique
access reveals an intimate,
humourous and compelling
portrait of this conventionbusting band.
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Catalogue No. 407
Ukraine is Not a Brothel; The FEMEN Story
Kitty Green
Australia, 2013 color, HDcam, 78’
Original Language: Ukranian/Russian
Subtitles: English
Ukraine’s topless feminist sensation,
FEMEN, has stirred up a press frenzy
across Europe. Outraged by the world’s
image of Ukrainian women as either
brides for sale or commodities of sex
tourism, FEMEN bare their breasts in
protest to disrupt this perception and
agitate against these brutal patriarchal
forces. Now, for the first time, Ukraine Is
Not a Brothel offers an intimate glimpse
into the world’s most provocative
feminist organisation.
Sales / Contact:
Philippa Kowarsky
Cinephil
18 Levontin St.
65112 TEL AVIV
Production
Noise and Light
Jonathan auf der Heide
Co-production:
Noise and Light – Australia
Israel
tel: +972 3 5664129
www.cinephil.co.il
info@cinephil.co.il
For the first time, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel offers an intimate glimpse into the
world’s most provocative feminist organization, FEMEN.
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Under the Hood
Mark Byrne, Rob Dennis
Ireland / Lithuania, 2013 color, 16mm, 75’
Subtitles: English
Under the Hood brings us on a journey
through a country where the secret
police are still known as the KGB and
assembling in public to do nothing is
considered a crime. It takes us from
the protests and secret opposition
meetings of the capital, Minsk, to the
horse-drawn carts and fields.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Production
Planet Korda Pictures Ltd.
Jeremiah Cullinane
Co-production:
Era Film – Lithuania
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
In Belarus, some battle for democracy, social justice and civil rights, while
others struggle just to survive
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Catalogue No. 409
The Undertaker
Dragan Nikolic
Serbia / Germany, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Original Language: Serbian/German/
Croatian/Swedish/Hungarian/English
Subtitles: English
www.prababa.rs
Bata, young man, who is getting
involved in interantional funeral
business, trying to balance it with his
own private life. The documentary
enters “Bata’s world” in which this
funeral business in a unique way
connects the story about values, the
futility of waiting and the absurd of
modern age in which workers are
travelling across Europe, but post
mortem. The characters run after
material symbols while their lives are
slipping away - all that as a metaphor
for situation in contemporary society.
Germany, Norway, Finland
not available.
Sales / Contact:
Jovana Nikolic
Prababa Production
153 Boul. Zoran Djindjic, app.25
Production
Prababa Production
Jovana Nikolic
11070 Belgrade
NRK – Norway,
Serbia
YLE – Finland
tel: +381 60 0250009
www.prababa.rs
jovana@prababa.rs
The Undertaker is creative doc about how we live and work for an uncertain
future, while our lives are slipping away.
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The Unknown Known
Errol Morris
USA, 2013 color, DCP, 104’
Rumsfeld wrote over 100,000 internal
memos, so called “snowflakes”, over
50 years, covering four different
administrations from Richard Nixon to
GW Bush. How did this man manage to
stay in power for over 5 decades?
Academy Award-winning director
Errol Morris draws a portrait of
Rumsfeld through his contradictory
and confusing “snowflakes”, taking
us where few have been into the
unfamiliar terrain of state power and
Rumsfeld’s mind. The Unknown Known
presents history from the inside out
showing how the ideas, fears and the
certainties of one man transformed
America, changed the course of modern
geopolitics - and led to war. USA, Canada, UK television
not available.
Sales / Contact:
Kate Hide
24 Hanway Street
Production
Moxie Pictures
Amanda Branson Gill
Robert Fernandez
W1T 1UH London
England
tel: +44 72 900750
kh@hanwayfilms.com
Donald Rumsfeld, a politician
and architect of the Iraq war
wrote over 100,000 internal
memos, called “snowflakes”.
How did this man manage
to stay in power for over 5
decades?
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Catalogue No. 412
The Unknown Runner
Boudewijn de Kemp
Subtitles: English
www.theunknownrunner.com
A story of struggle, sacrifice and
dedication about the world behind the
Kenyan top athletes. Discover how they
train, live and work hard to realize their
dreams.
Follow Geoffrey Kipsang as he trains,
paces for Haile Gebrselassie, and makes
his debut at the 2012 Berlin Marathon.
Sales / Contact:
Miriam Steinberg
A Cow Says Moo
Production
A Cow Says Moo
Miriam Steinberg
Duivendrechtsekade 83
1096 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 3080188
www.acowsaysmoo.nl
miriam@acowsaysmoo.nl
Follow Kenyan top athlete Geoffrey Kipsang as he trains, paces for Haile
Gebrselassie, and makes his debut at the 2012 Berlin Marathon.
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Politics / Society | Investigative | History
Uprising
Fredrik Stanton
www.cargofilm-releasing.com/uprising.html
Uprising tells the story of the Egyptian
revolution from the perspective of
its leadership and key organizers,
their struggle for freedom against
tremendous odds, their sacrifice,
and the courage and ingenuity that
allowed them to succeed. Featuring
major figures including four Nobel
Peace Prize nominees, several Egyptian
presidential candidates, the former
foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan,
and former US Ambassadors and White
House officials, along with never before
seen footage, Uprising provides the
authoritative behind-the scenes view of
one of the most dramatic events of our
generation.
USA not available.
Sales / Contact:
David Piperni
Production
John Galt Films
Alexander Davidis
10012 New York
USA
tel: 2129958139
Uprising provides the
authoritative behind-the
scenes view of one of the
most dramatic events of our
generation.
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Catalogue No. 413
Author’s Point of View | History | Politics / Society
Velvet Terrorists
Zamatoví teroristi
Peter Kerekes, Ivan Ostrochovsky, Pavol Pekarcík
Slovakia / Croatia / Czech Republic,
Original Language: Slovak/Czech
Subtitles: English
film-catalogue/velvet-terrorists/
Three romantic heroes, who had a
go at armed resistance against the
communistic power in Czechoslovakia.
All of them were sentenced according
to the paragraph 93 - terror, neither of
them, however, had killed nor injured
anybody. But even terrorists have
their private lives, their loves, their
families. And that is what this film is
about. Sales / Contact:
Heino Deckert
Marienplatz 1
Production
Hypermarket Film
Partizanfilm
04103 Leipzig
Czech Television – Czech Republic,
Germany
Radio and Televison Slovakia –
tel: +49 341 2156638
Slovakia
A documentary about three
romantic heroes, who had
a go at armed resistance
against the communistic
regime in Czechoslovakia.
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The Violinist of Auschwitz
El violinista de Auschwitz
Carlos Hernando
Spain, 2012 color / black and
white, HDcam, 13’
Subtitles: English
Jacques Stroumsa, a Sephardic Jew,
born in the Greek city of Thessaloniki,
tells about the harrowing experience of
having been imprisoned for two years
in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, and
how his life was saved thanks to being
able to play the violin.
Sales / Contact:
Carlos Hernando
CHS Producciones
Production
CHS Producciones
Carlos Hernando
c/ peñas del arcipreste nª 13
28035 Madrid
CHS Producciones – Spain
Spain
tel: 0034630555231
chesjr@gmail.com
A Jew tells about the
harrowing experience of
having been imprisoned for
two years in the Nazi death
camp of Auschwitz.
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Catalogue No. 415
The Visit
Odwiedziny
Matej Bobrik
In a care home surrounded by magical
forest deep in the middle of nowhere,
the residents lead quiet, unruffled lives.
Only Sundays seem to bring any variety.
For Sunday is visiting day. On Sunday,
the residents’ preparations for their
families’ arrival start with the early
morning. Yet with every passing hour
their hope of seeing their loved ones
dwindles. They have no choice but to
believe that their visitors have lost their
way in the forest. But they are sure to
come next week.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
432
Production
Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers
Association
Ewa Jastrzebska
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Viva Cuba Libre - Rap Is War
Jesse Acevedo
Cuba / USA, 2012 color / black
Subtitles: English
Extraordinary rap duo Los Aldeanos is
sweeping the Cuban underground, with
their urgent and politically stirring lyrics
about the dire economic and political
state of their beloved Cuba.
In a small town outside of Havana, two
kids—the Cruz brothers—are beaten up
in their own home by the police. They
had been celebrating with friends and
family while listening to the music of
Los Aldeanos. Viva Cuba Libre follows
the intermingled stories of the Cruz
brothers and the music that they love. Sales / Contact:
Jesse Acevedo
La Pasión Films
8710 Wonderland park Ave
90046 Los Angeles
Production
La Pasión Films
Jesse Acevedo
Co-production:
First Look Media
USA
tel: +1 310 4350945
cargocollective.com/acevedo
lapasion@sbcglobal.net
In a town outside of Havana, two kids -the Cruz brothers- are beaten up in
their own home by the police. for listening to the music of Los Aldeanos.
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Catalogue No. 417
Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Youth
The Voice of the Master
Hester Overmars
Subtitles: English
The remarkable singing talent of
the twelve year old choirboy Oscar
Verhaar was discovered by the choir
master Geert van den Dungen. In the
year’s that followed Geert became
Oscar’s primary singing tutor and
mentor. Having won his place at the
Royal Conservatory, Oscar learns more
and more to stand on his own feet as
he works more closely with different
teachers. But what effect does this have
on his coach-from-young-age Van den
Dungen? Will his former protege –in
the end- become the master of his own
voice?
Sales / Contact:
Koert Davidse
seriousFilm
Production
seriousFilm
Koert Davidse
Andrej Sacharovstraat 27
Marc Thelosen
3065 EC Rotterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 6 41515974
www.seriousfilm.nl
koert@seriousfilm.nl
The Voice of the Master elaborates on the relationship between conductor
Geert and his counter-tenor protégé Oscar.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Art / Music / Culture | Politics / Society
Voices of El Alto
Benjamin Oroza
Finland / South Africa, 2013
color, HDcam, 49’
Subtitles: English
www.voicesofelalto.com
The backbone of the Voices of El Alto
is composed by individual stories
presented by Bolivians. The strongest
stories offer a very intensive viewing
experience. On the whole, the tone
of the film transforms from deep
emotional compassion to relieving
laughter, from calm feelings of love
to real anger. Additionally, intimate
fragments of the storytellers’ lives
and still portraits by celebrated
photographer Meeri Koutaniemi offers
a truly fresh insight. The emphasis
of this film is not in how the director
perceives the storytellers – it’s about
how people perceive themselves.
Sales / Contact:
Don Edkins
STEPS International
7 Glynnville Terrace Gardens
8001 Cape Town
Production
Videokuu Oy
Jussi Oroza
YLE – Finland
South Africa
tel: +27 21 4655805
www.steps.co.za
don@steps.co.za
In a Bolivian City, El
Alto, a tent is set up in a
marketplace to collect stories
from random by-passers. Film
raises a story within a story
told by Bolivians.
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Catalogue No. 419
Youth | History | Art / Music / Culture
The Wagner Files
Ralf Pleger
Subtitles: English
www.albatrossworldsales.com/
catalog/produced/produced-detail/
article/the-wagner-file/
The Wagner Files is an innovative and
dynamic fusion of music documentary,
fictional film and animated cartoon. It
critically introduces the life and musical
creativity of one of the most famous
– and arguably most controversial –
German composers in a way that has
never been done before. High quality,
thought-provoking fictional scenes
trace the complex and scandalous
relationship between Richard Wagner
(Samuel Finzi) and his second wife
Cosima (Pegah Ferydoni). The
scenes are shot in a modern setting,
orchestrated with, and impassioned
by, Wagner’s music, referring to
classical Hollywood melodramas
as direct successors of Wagner’s
“Gesamtkunstwerk”.
Sales / Contact:
Anne Olzmann
Albatross World Sales GmbH
Straße des 18. Oktober 15
Production
Georg Tschurtschenthaler
04103 Leipzig
SWR – Germany,
Germany
ARTE – Germany
tel: +49 341 9628 3100
www.albatrossworldsales.com
anne@albatrossworldsales.com
The Wagner Files is an innovative and dynamic fusion of music documentary,
fictional film and animated cartoon about the most famous – and arguably
most controversial – German composers.
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Waiting Area
Natalie Beer, Nora Tschirner
Germany, 2012 color, video, 70’/52’
Original Language: Amharic/
Oromiffa/German/English
www.kloosundco.de/en/
worldsales/waitingarea.html
Waiting Area is an uplifting film
following four young women through
the ups and downs of childbirth in
Ethiopia. Casting its shadow over
their stories is the disease of obstetric
Fistula, a widespread but preventable
childbirth injury that leaves women in
agonising pain and shunned by their
communities.
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
Beer Films
Natalie Beer
10997 Berlin
Co-production:
chirrín chirrán productions GmbH
Germany
– Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
Waiting Area is an uplifting
film following four young
women through the ups
and downs of childbirth in
Ethiopia.
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Catalogue No. 25
Author’s Point of View | Art / Music / Culture
The Waiting
Patricia Venti
Spain, 2012 color / black
Original Language: Spanish/Hungarian
Subtitles: English
www.ventiproducciones.com/home.html
The invisibility of immigrant women
artists within the art circuit is almost
a truism, however it is an issue that
has had very little attention from the
“official culture”. They put into question
the dichotomies that constrain
them: we/the others, reality/truth,
simulation/real, material/ immaterial,
local/international, western/nonwestern.
Sales / Contact:
Patricia Venti
Venti Producciones
Production
Patricia Venti
urb. los arroyos
28280 el escorial
Spain
tel: +34918534695
info@ventiproducciones.com
The Waiting portrays, as a game of mirrors, the lives of immigrant women
artists that have been living in Madrid.
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Walls - a Photographer Between the Lines
Fred Kowasch
Subtitles: English
The photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer
works at life’s extremes. With his
panoramic camera, he is going to
places, where rubber bullets, teargas,
street battles belong to the daily life
of the people. As a young man, Kai
Wiedenhöfer witnessed the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Since then, he has
been fascinated by borders, walls and
fences. His mission is to find out what
concrete barriers do to the people they
separate. In 2013, he tried overcoming
every resistance and bringing his
panorama pictures on the famous “East
Side Gallery” in Berlin.
The documentary accompanied Kai
Wiedenhöfer for nine whole years.
Sales / Contact:
Fred Kowasch
interpool.tv
Production
interpool.tv
Fred Kowasch
Erzgebirgestrasse 6
42699 Solingen
Germany
tel: +49 157 85080812
www.interpool.tv/
fredkowasch@interpool.tv
Since the fall of the Berlin
Wall the photographer
Kai Wiedenhöfer has been
fascinated by borders. His
mission: to find out what
concrete barriers do to the
people they separate.
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Catalogue No. 422
Politics / Society
The War Campaign
Boris Bertram
Subtitles: English
A genuine political thriller that
investigates the campaign carried out
by USA, UK, and Denmark in order to
sell the war on Iraq to the international
community.
The War Campaign features the
individuals, who were given the
complicated task of accruing political
support for the invasion from the
international community. Centrallyplaced witnesses, policy-makers, their
close advisors and speech-writers, take
us into the very offices where plans
were drawn up and followed through.
Some of these individuals at some point
felt that the governments they worked
for, crossed a questionable line, and
they decided to inform the public of the
process 440
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
An in-depth account of how
the Iraq war campaign was
organized, and a case study
of ‘how to sell a war of
choice’ to the public
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Warwick Davis & The Seven
Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Ursula Macfarlane
Warwick explores the history of the
Ovitz family of seven Jewish dwarfs,
who performed throughout Eastern
Europe durin WW2. They managed
to escape capture until 1944. In
the Auschwitz concentration camp
queues, the Ovitz family were spotted
by the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele,
who wanted to decipher the secrets
of human growth. The family were
deemed crucial to his research and
placed in isolation. Warwick discovers
their conditions as they quickly became
human guinea pigs, enduring endless
bizarre and agonising experiments.
They were paraded naked for the
officers, and a film was sent to Hitler for
his amusement. Sales / Contact:
David Hooper
Espresso TV
Production
Allen Jewhurst
25 York Villas
BN1 3TS Brighton
England
tel: +44 1273 730929
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Youth
Wastrel: Cast Out in Kisumu
Erik Dettle
Subtitles: English
www.misnomerproductions.com/Wastrel
In spring of 2012, filmmaker, Erik Dettle
spent ten weeks exploring the slums
and clandestine lives of runaways and
outcasts known as street youths in
Kisumu, Kenya. He survived alongside
veteran street youth, Mark Martin
and was brought inside a world that is
rarely seen by outsiders. The result is an
intimate portrayal of Mark’s personal
journey toward redemption as he
emerges from the streets after twenty
years. Sales / Contact:
Erik Dettle
Misnomer Productions
Production
Misnomer Productions
Erik Dettle
97 Arden Street 1E
10040 New York, New York
USA
tel: +1 201 5632002
www.misnomerproductions.com/Wastrel
edettle@gmail.com
Wastrel: Cast Out in Kisumu is a rare glimpse at Kenya’s hidden wastelands
and one street youth’s journey toward redemption.
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Experimental | Politics / Society | Human Interest / Social Issues
We Are Northern Lights
Nick Higgins
Scotland, 2013 color, video, 95’
Original Language: English/Gaelic
Subtitles: English
www.wearenorthernlights.com
How do you capture the essence of
Scotland in just one film? You invite
people from all across the country to
submit their unique visions in a mass
participation project and combine
them into an impressionistic self
portrait of contemporary Scotland that
is poignant, thrilling, moving, often
very funny and strays far from the
stereotypes often encountered. Created
on the eve of the most momentous
decision in the country’s history - the
vote for independence, this is a unique
chance to re-discover Scotland through
the eyes and thoughts of the people
who live there.
Sales / Contact:
Nick Higgins
Northern Lights Film Ltd
Production
Northern Lights Film Ltd
Nick Higgins
301 Wilton St
G20 6DB Glasgow
Scotland
tel: +44 7876498853
www.wearenorthernlights.com
Nick@wearenorthernlights.com
With less than a year until
Scotland decides whether to
leave the United Kingdom,
this unique documentary
portrait creates a rare insight
into what it means to be
Scottish today.
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The Weather War
Lars Bergström, Mats Bigert
Sweden, 2012 color, 16mm, 58’
Subtitles: English
Land art and road movie fuse as artist
duo Bigert & Bergström travel to the US
tornado belt with the Tornado Diverter,
their special machine sculpture.
Their goal: to stop a tornado! We see
historical examples of how the science
of meteorology developed hand-inglove with military goals.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Emil Holms Kanal
Production
Antonio Russo Merenda,
Ginestra Film in association with
SVT, DR & YLE
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
The Weather War is about
man’s attempts to control
the weather and harness it
for his own purposes.
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What Nourishes Me Destroyes Me
Ciò Che Mi Nutre Mi Distrugge
Raffaele Brunetti, Ilaria de Laurentiis
www.ciocheminutremidistrugge.com
The film develops over the course
of a year recounting treatment of
four patients: the evolution of their
disorders, the setbacks suffered and the
milestones achieved in an illness that
is hard to combat. The stories emerge
during psychotherapy sessions, forming
the principal axis of the narrative
structure. Access to these sessions
provides a unique opportunity to shed
light on a subject whose true nature
is otherwise difficult to explore in
depth. The camera records the stories,
the memories, the feelings and the
emotions at the very moment they
reveal themselves, the moment at
which they rise to the surface.
Sales / Contact:
Alison Ercolani
B&B Film Srl
Production
B&B Film
Raffaele Brunetti
Via Stazione di San Pietro 40
Alison Ercolani
00165 Rome
RAI 3 – Italy
Italy
tel: +39 32 89062409
www.bbfilm.tv
alison@bbfilm.tv
For the first time a centre for the treatment of eating disorders in Rome opens
its doors to allow observation of psychotherapy sessions.
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Whatever Forever: Douwe Bob
Linda Hakeboom, Rolf Hartogensis
Subtitles: English
www.douwebob.vara.nl/
In 2012, 19-year-old Douwe Bob
Posthuma won the Best Dutch SingerSongwriter talent show. It got his
musical career off to a flying start,
but this young native of Amsterdam
had always known that success has a
dark side. His father Simon Posthuma
worked with The Beatles and whose
many years of sex, drugs, booze and
rock ‘n’ roll have taken their toll. Now
that Douwe Bob is himself experiencing
success,he often reflects on the
intensity of life as an artist. Does he
really want to follow in the footsteps of
his greatest hero?
Sales / Contact:
Kaisa Kriek
NPO Sales
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
Production
VARA
Geert Oostveen
The Netherlands
tel: +31 35 6773561
www.nposales.com
In 2012,Douwe Bob Posthuma (19) won the Best Dutch Singer-Songwriter
talent show. This portrait of a talented musician shines an intimate light on
the close bond between father and son.
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Human Interest / Social Issues | Politics / Society | Nature / Environment
When Elephants Dance, the
Grass Gets Beaten
Jan van den Berg
Original Language: Khmer
Subtitles: English
www.silentland.org
At the wedding of Moon, near the
Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia, we
get to know the dramatic situation
of people in her village who face land
grabbing and forced migration.
The film has been made during
the research for the feature length
documentary Silent Land. That film
will tell the stories of farmers around
the world, who are threatened by
multinationals investing in agriculture
in a neo-colonial way. The famers
fight for their land, which plays an
essential role for the food security in
their region. Silent Land, a sequel to the
award winning film Silent Snow (2011). Sales / Contact:
Jan van den Berg
DRSfilm
Production
DRSfilm
Jan van den Berg
PRINS HENDRIKLAAN 63
3583 EE UTRECHT
The Netherlands
tel: 31302514154
www.drsfilm.tv
info@drsfilm.tv
During her marriage the village of Moon is falling apart because of land
grabbing and forced migration. In Cambodia 73% of the arable land has been
sold to private companies.
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Catalogue No. 430
When I Am a Bird
Kiedy Bede Ptakiem
Monika Pawluczuk
Original Language: Thai
Subtitles: English
MuLa lives in a Thai village by the
Burmese border. She is from the Kajan
people and her neck is adorned with
characteristic gold neck rings. Her life
has not been easy as she had to leave
her native Burma and seek refuge in
Thailand while her only daughter stayed
home. MuLa makes her living selling
souvenirs to tourists but the family’s
financial situation is very difficult.
Monika Pawluczuk’s documentary
captures the woman’s struggle with her
depressing fate and her unquenchable
longing for a better life.
Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Production
Wajda Studio Sp. z o.o.
Katarzyna Slesicka
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Katarzyna Wilk
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
MuLa is from the Kajan people and her neck is adorned with characteristic
gold neck rings. She had to leave her native Burma and seek refuge in
Thailand.
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When I Walk
Jason DaSilva
www.wheniwalk.com
It all started on a family vacation. In
2006, the 25-year-old, vital, handsome,
talented Jason DaSilva was on a beach
with his family when, suddenly, he fell
down and couldn’t get back up. Doctors
told him he had multiple sclerosis.
Jason decided to exercise more, but
the problem just got worse. His mom
reminded him that he was a North
American kid who had the opportunity
to pursue the things he loved most—art
and filmmaking. So Jason picked up the
camera and began filming the slow,
difficult decline of his body and the
miracles he encountered along the way.
Sales / Contact:
Jan Röfekamp
Production
AXS Lab Jason DaSilva’s Network
Alice Cook
Canada
tel: +1 514 844 3358
In 2006, the 25-year-old, vital, handsome, talented Jason DaSilva was on a
beach with his family when, suddenly, he fell down and couldn’t get back up.
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Catalogue No. 432
Where is My Son?
Chai-Min Ahn
South Korea, 2013 color, HDcam, 52’
Subtitles: English
Family values and their bond have
considerably weakened in modern
society. However, there is one thing
which has never changed; a mother’s
unconditional love.
When was the last time you had dinner
with your mother at a table, facing her?
She wants that. Mothers want that.
Even in your most careless of times, you
believe mom would understand your
situation. You intuitively comprehend
your mother will always devotedly love
you. However, there is something that
you rarely think about; mom won’t be
around forever. In this documentary, the
mother Giseon Kwon (95) and her son
Junkyo Lee (70) are not different from
the norm.
450
Sales / Contact:
Catherine Le Clef
CAT&Docs
Production
Min Production
Mina Kim
18, rue Quincampoix
Kyuhag Song
75004 Paris
France
Co-production:
Creative Group 917 –
tel: +33 1 44 617748
The Netherlands
EBS – South Korea
cat@catndocs.com
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Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The
Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Sebastian Junger
USA, 2012 color, 35mm, 78’
Subtitles: English
Award winning photojournalist
Tim Hetherington searched for the
humanity in conflict. When he and
Junger spent a year in Afghanistan
filming their Academy nominated film
Restrepo, they focused on the small
moments that make war real. From
Liberia to Libya, where he was killed in
a mortar blast in 2011, Hetherington’s
footage conveys a rare sense of
intimacy in contrast to the violence
surrounding him. That is Hetherington’s
enduring gift. Director Sebastian Junger
weaves footage of Hetherington at
work and moving interviews with his
family and colleagues to capture his
friend’s unique perspective and intense
curiosity about the human spirit.
Sales / Contact:
Pascal Degove
Production
Nick Quested
65 - 66 Dean St
W1D 4PL London
England
tel: +44 207 4378696
A film about award winning
photojournalist Tim
Hetherington who was killed
in a mortar blast in Libya in
2011.
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Catalogue No. 433
Author’s Point of View | Investigative
The White Mare
Guy Bordin, Renaud De Putter
Subtitles: English
A poetic inquiry following the paths
of Stéphan and Henri, two men who
died in their forties a few years ago,
one in Brussels and one in Brest. Their
moving destinies, apparently ordinary
and unconnected, are brought to a
mythic dimension when, at the scale of
the individual, and in a world wrought
by Faustian temptation, the drama
of all existence is played out, with its
limits, desires, search for meaning, and
renunciation.
Sales / Contact:
Anthony Rey
Hélicotronc sprl
23 avenue Jef Lambeaux
1060 Brussels
Belgium
tel: +32 2 5392357
production@helicotronc.com
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Production
Hélicotronc sprl
Anthony Rey
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460
A Whole Lott More
Victor Buhler
England / USA, 2013 color, 35mm, 90’/52’
Subtitles: English
Lott Industries in Toledo, Ohio, employs
more than 1,200 workers, all with
developmental disabilities. For decades
the company excelled in assembling
car parts. However, with the decline
of the auto industry in neighboring
Detroit, Lott is threatened with closure.
The company has twelve months
to reinvent itself and to save the
livelihoods of its employees. A Whole
Lott More follows Lott’s critical year
from the perspectives of five unique
and unforgettable characters.
Sales / Contact:
Pascal Degove
Production
Mike Lerner
65 - 66 Dean St
W1D 4PL London
England
tel: +44 207 4378696
Disability. Employability. Everyone has a right to work.
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Catalogue No. 434
Whoopi Goldberg Presents
Moms Mabley
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi guides us through work and
life of the original queen of comedy,
revealing the historical significance
and profound influence Moms had as a
performer.
With recently discovered photography,
extensive performance materials
and numerous interviews by some of
today’s top comedians such as Kathy
Griffin, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Jerry
Stiller, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier,
Joan Rivers a. m. o.
Sales / Contact:
Esther van Messel
First Hand Films
HBO Enterprises – USA
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
tel: +41 44 3122060
Whoopi Goldberg’s directorial debut dives into the legacy of Moms Mabley,
the first female stand-up comedienne.
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435
Politics / Society | Youth | Human Interest / Social Issues
The Wild Years
Els anys salvatges
Ventura Durall
Original Language: Amharic
Subtitles: English
In Addis Abeba, the Ethiopian capital,
over 270. 000 street kids live without
their parents and almost forgotten by
law and society. Daniel, a boy from
the countryside, is 9 years old when he
arrives in the city. He meets Habtom
and Yohannes, both aged 12, who live in
an abandoned car. They first don’t want
to accept him in their group but after
they overcome some initial conflicts
they eventually become friends.
Together, they share the hard life in the
city. They lead adult lives – although
they are still children. Sales / Contact:
Taskovski Films
Poland
Production
Nanouk Films
Marie Capek
Ventura Durall
tel: +48 69 3866348
info@taskovskifilms.com
Three kids. In the streets of a city in Africa. A mafia-like gang.
Fights. The smallest kid kills his stepmother.
The kids flee: the journey begins.
Maybe the wild years will not come back.
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Catalogue No. 436
Wolf on the Drum: A Musical Journey into Kazakhstan
Nello Correale
Italy, 2012 color, video, 63’
Original Language: English/Kazakh
Subtitles: English
World class movie composer Carlo
Siliotto takes an astounding journey
through Kazakhstan’s music and
life. He jams with local musicians,
creating a movie score with local
instruments. Commissioned to score a
new movie, the Italian musician leaves
his Hollywood home to travel across
Kazakhstan, assembling the traditional
and modern sounds that will drive his
project. We discover an incredible
blend of unique Kazakh folk culture
and contemporary riffs – an amazing
musical landscape featuring littleknown local instruments – as Siliotto
meets, listens to, and plays with Kazakh
musicians. Festival edit screened here;
fully narrated TV edit in progress. Input
welcome. 456
Sales / Contact:
Doug Zwick
Pop Twist Entertainment, Inc.
Production
Paneikon Productions
Ugo Adilardi
8162 Manitoba Street, Suite 115
Kazakhfilm
90293 Playa del Rey
Amanshaev Ermek Amirkhanovic
USA
tel: +1 310 734 6655
Co-production:
Kazakhfilm – Kazakstan,
www.poptwist.com
Paneikon Productions – Italy
dzwick@poptwist.com
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Wolfman
Hukkamies
Juha Suonpää
Finland, 2013 color, 16mm, 75’
Subtitles: English
Seppo Ronkainen monitors wildlife for
a living and has dedicated his life to the
study of wolves in the wild. This film
is based on Ronkainen’s video diaries,
collected over the course of 13 years. Its
unique material tells the intertwining
stories of man, wolves and dogs.
Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Production
Oktober Oy
Timo Vierimaa
Emil Holms Kanal
0999 Copenhagen C
Denmark
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
The story of a man who has
taught himself the language
and ways of wolves, faced
them in the wilderness and
witnessed their fates
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Catalogue No. 438
The Women of Courage
Les Insoumises
Eric Gueret
Subtitles: English
All over the world and for their whole
lives, millions of women are enduring
pains and violence only because
they are women. In reaction to these
extremes and yet nowadays violence,
some have the strength to stand in
order to defend their rights, to stop
violence and to change the place they
had been put in. They are rebellious.
By following their fights in India, Mali,
Turkey, Kurdistan, Thailand and France,
the film will enlighten these women
strength against the patriarchal system
and his main alibi: tradition. 458
Sales / Contact:
Gorka Gallier
13 Rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 42775687
www.docandfilm.com
Production
Elzevir Films
Sandrine Brauer
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439
Women’s Revolution in Yemen
Yemen, le Cri des Femmes
Manon Loizeau
Subtitles: English
Women of all generations and social
classes, invisible up till now, relentlessly
defy the government. They raise their
fists in the air, demanding freedom and
have even burnt their headscarves on
the public square, requesting better
equality. As months go by, encouraged
by the wave of revolutions in the Arab
world, the women of Yemen have
become the protagonists of a major
revolt.
Sales / Contact:
Gorka Gallier
Production
AMIP
Christophe Barreyre
13 Rue Portefoin
75003 Paris
France
tel: +33 1 42775687
www.docandfilm.com
Thousands of black niqabs march every week in Sanaa. A double revolution is
in place: the people’s revolution, and the women’s revolution.
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Catalogue No. 440
Wonder World of Ice
Keinolu-mikylä
Helene Aurø, Ilkka Rautio
Finland, 2013 color, 16mm, 52’
Subtitles: English
Wonder World of Ice tells the story
of modern Lapland. The change it is
going through from national scenery
to a global entertainment centre. A
group of Chinese ice sculptors arrive
to build an exotic experience park,
Wonder World of Ice. Among them is
Huang Shen, a young Chinese student,
bringing with him his dreams. Every
day he dresses up as panda to attract
tourists and as he wanders around in
his panda outfit, Huang is led to reflect
on the differences between the Finnish
and the Chinese society – and about the
status of the Chinese in this modern
world. Sales / Contact:
Helene Aurø
Production
Corporation
Emil Holms Kanal
Helene Aurø
0999 Copenhagen C
Illume Oy
Denmark
Pertti Veijalainen
tel: +45 32 503957
www.drsales.dk
heau@dr.dk
A film about Chinese dreams seeking fulfilment in the middle of the biggest
ski resort in Finnish Lapland
460
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Woodstock in Timbuktu - the art of
resistance / INT. CINEMA VERSION
Desiree von Trotha
Original Language: Tamasheq/French
Subtitles: English/German/French
www.woodstockintimbuktu.com
Last and desperate efforts of a Music
Festival in the Sahara of North-Mali
to ask the world for help in resisting
against the invasion of Islamic radicals.
But how do you save a culture in times
of rapid change and ever growing
ruthlessness? And how can the power
of Music help? It can!
International cinema and festival
version (subtitles and narration for
english, french and german markets)
Sales / Contact:
Nicole Joens
CindigoFilm GmbH
Römerstrasse 26
Production
CindigoFilm GmbH
Nicole Joens
Philip Joens
80803 München
Germany
tel: +49 89 330 8815
www.cindigofilm.de
nicole.joens@cindigofilm.de
461
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A World Not Ours
Mahdi Fleifel
Palestine / Lebanon / England / United
Arab Emirates, 2012 color, video, 93’
Subtitles: English
A World Not Ours is an intimate,
humourous, portrait of three
generations in exile in the refugee
camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern
Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal
recordings, family archives, and
historical footage, the film is a sensitive
and illuminating study of belonging,
friendship, and family. Filmed over more
than 20 years by multiple generations
of the same family, A World Not Ours
is more than just a family portrait ; it
is an attempt to record what is being
forgotten, and mark what should not be
erased from collective memory.
Sales / Contact:
MPM Film
17 rue Julien Lacroix
Production
Nakba Filmworks Ltd.
Patrick Campbell
75020 Paris
France
tel: 0158535712
pmenahem@mpmfilm.com
A World Not Ours is a
portrait of three generations
in exile in the refugee camp
of Ain el-Helweh. It is a
sensitive and illuminating
study of belonging,
friendship, and family.
462
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Wunderkind - Wolfgang Joop
Cordula Kablitz-Post
Subtitles: English
Wunderkind Wolfgang Joop is a lively
and entertaining portrait of Germany’s
legendary fashion designer Wolfgang
Joop, who at age 68 shows no signs of
slowing down. The film follows Joop
from his international breakthrough
in 1978 through the creation of his
international fashion empire JOOP!
during the 1980s to his bold re-launch
in 1999 with his Haute-Couture label
WUNDERKIND. After nearly four
decades in the fashion industry, Joop
continues to have a seismographic
sense for fashion moods and trends,
and is still good for surprises.
Sales / Contact:
Avanti Media
Production
Avanti Media
Gneisenaustrasse 44/45
10961 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 (0)302646134
www.avantimedia.de/
avanti@avantimedia.com
Wunderkind Wolfgang Joop
is a lively and entertaining
portrait of Germany’s
legendary fashion designer
Wolfgang Joop, who at age
68 shows no signs of slowing
down.
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Catalogue No. 441
You’re Gonna Be a Legend, Man
Bedziesz Legenda, Czlowieku
Marcin Koszalka
Poland, 2013 color, 35mm, 77’
Original Language: Polish/French
Subtitles: English
In EURO 2012 Polish national team,
which occupies very low position in
rankings, has to face a very difficult
task. Damien Perquise, a French of
Polish origin decides to play as a
Polish player. Not only has he to fight
against his elbow fracture but also an
opinion of a Polis h former goalkeeper,
who called him a French football
trash. Marcin Wasilewski the second
protagonist, the oldest player in the
team, has already experienced many
disappointments. Now he hopes
that this time the team is going to be
successful. He decides to fight until the
end.
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Sales / Contact:
Katarzyna Wilk
Pychowicka 7
30-364 Krakow
Poland
tel: +48 12 2946945
www.kff.pl
Production
DARKLIGHT FILM STUDIO
Natalia Bartkowicz-Koszalka
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Politics / Society | Investigative | Human Interest / Social Issues
Zero Waste
Raffaele Brunetti
Italy / The Netherlands,
Myopic official policies, coupled with
huge economic interests in waste
management, have already caused
irreversible damage. The film follows
the case of the city of Naples, which,
after decades of waste crisis, seems to
have a new hope thanks to a Utopian
madman and his fellow citizens. The
new mayor, whose campaign focused
on dealing with the garbage and Mafia
issues, signed the Zero Waste protocol.
Will Naples be able to turn from the
worst into the best example of waste
management?
Sales / Contact:
Diana Karklin
Rise and Shine
Production
B&B Film
Raffaele Brunetti
Alison Ercolani
10997 Berlin
Co-production:
Bonanza Films – The Netherlands
Germany
tel: +49 30 47372980
ZDF/Arte – Germany,
Buddhist Broadcasting
Foundation – The Netherlands
After decades of waste crisis,
Naples seems to have a new
hope thanks to a Utopian
madman. Will Naples be able
to turn into the best example
of waste management?
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