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Holiday in the Sun
Holiday in the Sun
2001 - 87’- English - Colour - USA
Global Cinema
Director: Steve Purcell
Producer: Neil Steilberg, Natan Zahavi
Cast: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Austin Nichols, Ben
Easter, Ashley Hughes, Markus Flanagan
Screenplay: Brent Goldberg, David Wagner
Cinematographer: David Lewis
Editor: Sherwood Jones
Sound Designer: Tracy Hurley, Michael Pagnotta
Music Composer: Steve Porcaro
Costume Designer: Karla Stevens, Judy B. Swartz
Production Designer: Batia Grafka
Production Company: Dualstar Entertainment
World Sales Address: WIDE, 9 9, rue Bleue 75009 Paris
World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 95 04 64
Madison and Alex Stewart are twin sisters from Illinois who are whisked away to Atlantis
Resort in the Bahamas by their parents for winter break. Initially, the sisters are
disappointed that they didn't get to go to Hawaii with their friends, but overcome it by
enjoying their newly earned freedom in the form of their own suite, as well as the pristine
beaches of the Caribbean. Together, they overcome everything and understand the true
meaning of sisterhood, along with having a great vacation.
Director’s Biography
Steve Purcell is a director known for his work on Brave (2012), Toy Story
That Time Forgot (2014) and Cars (2006). Well known as the creator of
Sam & Max Freelance Police, he has also created several different comic
book characters.
World Sales Email: inquiries
Director’s Filmography
One Day in Auschwitz (Documentary) (2015)
Married in a Year (2011)
Strike The Tent (2005)
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)
When in Rome (2002)
Getting There (2002)
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Of Horses and Men
Hross í oss
2013 - 81’- Icelandic - Colour - Iceland, Germany, Norway
Global Cinema
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Producer: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Johann
Pall Oddson
Screenplay: Benedikt Erlingsson
Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editor: David Alexander Corno
Sound Designer: Sveinn Páll Guðmundsson, Fridrik
Sturluson
Music Composer: Davíð Þór Jónsson
Production Designer: Sigurður Óli Pálmarsson
Production Company: Leiknar Myndir
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love
and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortune of the
people in the country through the horses' perception is captured in the film.
Director’s Biography
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Benedikt Erlingsson is one of the most successful stage directors of the
last decade in Iceland. His first short film, Thanks (2007), carried off the
Jury and Audience Award at New York's Be Film Festival in 2008. In that
same year, The Nail received a Special Mention at the Clermont-Ferrand
ISFF. In 2013 he directed his first feature film, ‘Of Horses And Men’, New
Directors Award at the San Sebastián IFF. His latest film is The Show Of
Shows: 100 Years Of Vaudevilles, Circuses and Carnivals (2015), which
was presented at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sarajevo Film Festival and San
Sebastián International Film Festival.
Director’s Filmography
The Show of Shows (Documentary) (2015)
Naglinn (Short) (2008)
Thanks (Short) (2007)
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Rams
Hrútar
2015 - 93’- Icelandic - Colour - Iceland, Denmark
Global Cinema
Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Producer: Grímar Jónsson
Cast: Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Charlotte
Bøving
Screenplay: Grímur Hákonarson
Cinematographer: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editor: Kristján Loðmfjörð
Sound Designer: Huldar Freyr Arnarson, Björn Viktorsson
Music Composer: Atli Örvarsson
CostumeDesigner: Ólöf Benediktsdóttir, Margrét
Einarsdóttir
Production Designer: Bjarni Massi
Production Company: Netop Films, Aeroplan Film
World Sales: New Europe Films Sales
World Sales Phone: +48 698 903 038
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side. Their ancestral sheepstock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are frequently awarded
for their prized rams. Although they share the land, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to
each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi's sheep, the
entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area
to contain the outbreak. This is a near death sentence for the farmers, whose sheep are
their main source of income, and many abandon their land. Buteach brother tries to stave
off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits. As
the authorities close in, the brothers need to come together to save the special breed
passed down for generations, and themselves, from extinction.
Director’s Biography
Grímur Hákonarson (1977) is an Icelandic director, who graduated from
FAMU - Film Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 2004. His graduate
film 'Slavek The Shit' got international attention. It was selected to the
Cinefoundation section of Cannes Film Festival 2005 and won 12 festival
prizes, including the 'Silver Hugo' in Chicago International Film Festival.
His next short film, 'Wrestling', premiered in Locarno Film Festival 2007.
It is one of the most successful short films from Iceland. It won 25 festival
prizes around the world.
World Sales Email: ewa@neweuropefilmsales.com
Festival/Awards:
Camerimage (2015)
Cannes Film Festival (2015)
Denver International Film Festival (2015)
Director’s Filmography
A Pure Heart (Documentary) (2012)
Summerland (2010)
Wrestling (Short) (2007)
Slavek the Shit (Short) (2004)
Varði Goes Europe (Documentary) (2002)
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I'm not angry!
Asabani nistam!
2014 - 110’ - Persian - Colour - Iran
Global Cinema
Director: Reza Dormishian
Producer: Reza Dormishian
Cast: Baran Kosari, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Milad Rahimi
Screenplay: Reza Dormishian
Cinematographer: Ali Azhari
Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari
Sound Designer: Mohammad Reza Delpak
Costume Designer: Baran Kosari
Production Designer: Baran Kosari
World Sales: Mohammad Atebbai
World Sales Email: Info@iranianindependent.com
Festival/Awards:
Asia Pacific Screen Awards (2014)
Fajr Film Festival (2014)
‘I'm not Angry!’ Is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while
trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life - tries not to get angry when he is
faced with the immoralities prevelant in the society, and does all he can, not to lose his
love, Setareh.
Director’s Biography
Reza Dormishian (1981), was drawn to the world of cinema at a young
age. In 1997 he started writing as a film critic for several newspapers and
later as executive editor for cinema books and magazines. He also
worked as a screen writer. Dormishian has had several collaborations
with prominent directors such as Dariush Mehrjui, Fereydoun Jeyrani,
and Alireza Davoudnejad.
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Granada Film Festival Cines Del Sur (2014)
Director’s Filmography
Asabani Nistam (2014)
Boghz (2012)
Jadoughar (Documentary) (2008)
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Deliever us!
Iadya Mo Kami
2015 - Filipino - Colour - Philippines
Global Cinema
Director: Mel Chionglo
Producer: BG Productions International
Cast: Allen Dizon, Eddie Garcia, Aiko Melendez, Ricky
Davao, Diana Zubiri
Screenplay: Ricky Lee
Production Company: BG Productions International
World Sales : Dennis Evangelista
World Sales Email: dennisevangelista888@gmail.com
Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks
on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own
personal salvation.
Director’s Biography
Mel Chionglo is a Philippine director, popular for his daring and titillating
movies.He graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
from the Ateneo de Manila University. He pursued his studies in acting
and directing for 10 years (1966-1976) at the NY Academy of Theatrical
Arts under Stella Adler and Lee Strsberg. He worked as a production
designer in Itim under director Mike de Leon upon his return to Manila in
1976. Chionglo's first directorial stint was in 1981 under Regal Films; the
movie was entitled Playgirl.
Director’s Filmography
Twilight Dancers (2006)
Xerex (2003)
Two-timer (2002)
Kapalit? (2002)
Lagarista (2000)
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Island City
Island City
2015 - 108’- Hindi - Colour - India
Global Cinema
Director: Ruchika Oberoi
Producer: Nina Lath Gupta
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Amruta Subhash, Tannishtha
Chatterjee, Ashwin Mushran
Screenplay: Ruchika Oberoi
Cinematographer: Sylvester Fonseca
Editor: Hemanti Sarkar
Sound Designer: Niraj Gera
Music Composer: Sagar Desai
Production Company: National Film Development
Corporation
World Sales Address: 6th floor, Discovery of India Building,
Nehru Centre, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worali, Mumbai 400 018, Maharashtra.
World Sales Phone: +91 22662 88288
The film follows three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai. The first one is about a
middle-aged man who wins the office 'Fun Committee Award', which entitles him to a
whole day full of fun. He is most reluctant to leave the safety of his cubicle but he has to.
Prescribed fun modules have to be completed and non-compliance is not an option. The
second story is of a domineering pater familias Anil, who is on life support. Seeking some
relief, his family decides to buy a TV, which Anil had banned; now every night the family
plugs into a popular soap whose hero is an 'ideal' man. The third one centres on Aarti
whose repetitive existence is slowly making her feel mechanical and numb. Deep inside
ferments a disconnect and unease that she can't articulate to anyone. Then one day there
arrives a most intimate letter and everything changes.
Director’s Biography
Ruchika Oberoi is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India.
Island City is her debut feature film. The script of Island City participated
in the NFDC Screenwriters' Lab 2012, which was held in Venice alongside
the Venice Film Festival, and Goa, alongside the Film Bazaar.
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World Sales Email: nfda@nfdcindia.com
Festival/Awards:
Venice Film Festival 2015 – Venice Days Section, FEDEORA
Director’s Filmography
Island City (2015)
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Jia Zhang-ke by Walter Salles
Jia Zhang-ke by Walter Salles
2014 - 105’- Mandarin - Colour - Brazil
Global Cinema
Director: Walter Salles
Producer: Fernandes Bruno, Maria Carlota
Cast: Zhangke Jia
Screenplay: Walter Salles, Jean-Michel Fordon
Cinematographer: Inti Briones
Editor: Joana Collier
Sound Designer: Li Dan Feng
Production Company: Videofilmes Producoes Artisticas
Ltda.
World Sales Address: M2K Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
E-13/29, Ist Floor, Harsha Bhawan
Connaught Circus New Delhi - 110 001. India.
World Sales Phone: +91 11 4848 6000
World Sales Email: info@m2kcinemas.com
The documentary was the result of the days Salles spent in the north of China, filming
where Jia (in Chinese surnames are given first) was born and made his first features. It
portrays the life and the creative process of the film-maker, while at the same time
examining the close relationship between memory and cinema. In the film, Jia invites
Salles and his crew to discover aspects of his personal history and the sources of his
inspiration, as well as some of the individuals who appear in his films. To do so, he returns
to places where he lived and filmed Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket), Platform, The World, 24
City, Still Life and A Touch of Sin.
Director’s Biography
Director/writer Walter Salles Jr. spearheaded the return of Brazilian
cinema to international prominence in the latter half of the 1990s,
particularly with his 'Central Station' (1998). Salles was raised in France
and United States before permanently returning to Brazil. Too young to
have been part of Brazil's Cinema Novo in 1960s and 1970s, Salles
entered Brazilian film industry as an award-winning documentary filmmaker during the industry's 1980s/early-'90s decline. After he moved to
fiction with the thriller 'Exposure' (1991). Salles' feature career was
stalled by Brazil's disastrous economic freeze in the first half of the
1990s.
Festival/Awards:
London Film Festival
Director’s Filmography
On the Road (2012)
Linha De Passe (2008)
Dark Water (2005)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Behind The Sun (2001)
Central Station (1998)
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Diary Of A Chambermaid
Journal D'une Femme De Chambre
2015 - 95’- French - Colour - France, Belgium
Global Cinema
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Producer: Jean-Pierre Guérin, Kristina Larsen
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé
Pierre, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick d'Assumçao, Vincent
Lacoste, Joséphine Derenne, Dominique Reymond
Screenplay: Benoît Jacquot (adaptation), Octave Mirbeau
(novel), Hélène Zimmer (adaptation)
Cinematographer: Romain Winding
Editor: Julia Gregory
Sound Designer: Pierre Mertens
Music Composer: Bruno Coulais
Costume Designer: Anaïs Romand
Production Designer: Katia Wyszkop
The film is set in the early 20th century, in the French provinces. Much courted for her
beauty, Célestine is a young chambermaid who has just arrived from Paris in the service of
the Lanlaire household. Fending off her master's advances, Célestine must also deal with
the very strict Madame Lanlaire who lords over the house with an iron fist. Among the
servants is Joseph, the enigmatic gardener, who exerts total fascination over her.
Production Company: Les Films du Lendemain,JPG
Productions, Les Films du Fleuve, France 3 Cinéma Mars
Films, VOO
World Sales Address: Elle Driver/Paris, 66 rue de
Miromesnil 75008 Paris
World Sales Phone: +33 1 56 43 48 70
World Sales Email: sales@elledriver.eu
Festival/Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival (2015)
Director’s Biography
Benoit Jacquot (1947) started out as an assistant director before making
his feature debut in 1975 with 'The Musician Killer'. He has worked with
stars of French cinema such as Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain and
Léa Seydoux. He has also made his name directing television programs,
documentaries and opera. 'A Single Girl' (1996) garnered a great deal of
international attention, and was screened in the Berlinale Panorama. His
costume drama 'Farewell My Queen' participated in the Berlinale
Competition in 2012.
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Director’s Filmography
3 Hearts (2014)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (Documentary) (2013)
Farewell, My Queen (2012)
Deep in the Woods (2010)
Villa Amalia (2009)
The Untouchable (2006)
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Global Cinema
Justice & Co
Justi & Cia
2014 - 80’- Spanish - Colour - Spain
Director: Ignacio Estaregui
Cast: Hovik Keuchkerian, Álex Angulo, Marta Larralde
Screenplay: Ignacio Estaregui, Enrique León, Borja
Monclús
Cinematographer: Beltrán García
Editor: Iván Castell
Sound Designer: Antonio Ruiz, Lola Sánchez, Iván
Vázquez
Music Composer: Luis Giménez
Costume Designer: Luis Sorando
Production Designer: Inés Laporta
Production Company: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de
las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
Festival/Awards:
Feroz Awards ES 2015
Justino, a miner who is sick of the social and economic situation, decides to become a
vigilante, providing a deserved punishment to the corrupt persons in his way. On the way,
he meets Ramón, a retiree who has nothing to lose and ready to share adventures, joys
and sorrows with him.
Director’s Biography
Ignacio Estaregui is a director and writer, known for Justi & Cia (2014),
Reveal (2012) and Spiderboy (2010). He has received a filmmaking
certification from London Film Academy. He has worked as an editor and
director.
Director’s Filmography
Reveal (Short) (2012)
Spiderboy (Short) (2010)
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Kanzaburo
Kanzaburo
2013 - 95' - Japanese - colour - Japan
Global Cinema
Director: Matsuki Tsukuru
Producer: Kazunoshin Sakaguchi, Hiroshi Goto
Cast: Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII
Production Company: Fuji Television Network, Inc
This rare documentary features Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, a popular Kabuki actor who
died of cancer at the age of 57 in 2012. With nearly 7,000 hours of footage that captured
his life journey, the film takes us through his enthusiastic life as one of the greatest Kabuki
Actors of our time.It also show-cases his personal side,as a father of two sons succeeding
his path as descendants of the family with a long history in Kabuki tradition
Director’s Biography
Matsuki Tsukuru is writer and director from Tokyo, Japan.
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Director’s Filmography
2016
Cowboys
Global Cinema
Kauboji
Director: Tomislav Mrsic
Producer: Suzana Pandek, Dani Kosic
Screenplay: Sasa Anocic, Tomislav Mrsic
Cast: Sasa Anocic, Zivko Anocic, Matija Antolic, Hrvoje
Barisic, Ana Begic, Niksa Butijer, Nina Erak-Svrtan,
Kruno Klabucar, Ivana Rushaidat, Rakan Rushaidat,
Radovan Ruzdjak
Cinematographer: Predrag Dubravcic
Editor: Hrvoje Mrsic
Sound Designer: Zoran Maksimovic
Music Composer: Damir Martinovic, Ivanka
Mazurkijevic
Costume Designer: Zeljka Franulovic
Production Designer: Jelena Danko, Tanja Lacko
Festival/Awards:
Maverick Movie Awards- Best cinemetography
Pula Film Festival- Golden Gate Pula award
2013 - 107 ' - coratian - colour - Croatia
'Cowboys' is a comedy based on a Croatian hit theatre play. It is a story of eight outsiders
who are trying to create a theatre play while breaking every rule of theatre craft. Genrewise 'Cowboys' is between social drama and comedy. It emphasizes clear stories and
functionally profiled characters. The story takes place in a little industrial town, small and
claustrophobic enough to make life in it impossible, and yet big and diverse enough to
make the story and the characters convincing.
Director’s Biography
Tomislav Mrsic is a director and writer, known for Cowboys (2013), 25. sat
(2012) and Jura Hura (2009).
Director’s Filmography
25. sat (Documentary short) (2012)
Postar s naslovnestrane (Documentary short) (2010)
Slucajni sin (Documentary) (2007)
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Global Cinema
Klezmer
Klezmer
2015 - 93’- Polish - Colour - Poland
Director: Piotr Chrzan
Producer: Aleksandra Zakrzewska
Cast: Lesław Zurek, Dorota Kuduk, Szymon Nowak
Screenplay: Piotr Chrzan
Cinematographer: Sylwester Kaźmierczak
Editor: Cezary Kowalczuk
Sound Designer: Franciszek Kozłowski
Music Composer: Aleksandra Zakrzewska
Costume Designer: Marta Wyszyńska, Elzbieta Palczewska
Production Designer: Piotr Chrzan, Aleksandra Zakrzewska
Production Company: Human Power
World Sales Address: Alexandre Moureau Versatile, 65 rue
de Dunkerque 75009 Paris France
World Sales Phone: +33 1 76 21 61 68
It is a sunny summer day in 1943. Poland is under German occupation. A group of young
people, inhabitants of a nearby village, goes to the forest to gather fir cones and
brushwood to use as firewood. They talk, flirt and make plans for the future. However this
outing has an unexpected outcome – as a consequence of a certain event they have to
deal with a situation that is new to them and which has an impact on their lives and the
lives of other people who appear as the story develops.
World Sales Email: amoeau@versatile-films.com
Festival/Awards:
Venice Film Festival
Warsaw Film Festival
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
Grand Prix award for script, main actress, sound and music
International Film Festival of India (Goa)
Director’s Biography
Piotr Chrzan graduated with a degree in philosophy. He has written over
a dozen plays, which have often won awards in competitions held in
Poland; two of them he directed for Polish television. In 2010 he got his
start as a film director. He wrote and directed two short films, Night Visit
and Toreador's Last Song. He also wrote screenplays for two Polish
feature films: Odd One Out and Gabriel. Klezmer marks Chrzan's feature
directorial debut.
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Director’s Filmography
Klezmer (2015 )