Agora Market Manual 2013

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Contents
AWARDS SPONSOR
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Festival Venues
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Useful Information for the Agora Industry
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Thessaloniki Agora Industry Awards and Partners
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Agora Team [Who is Who]
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AWARD SPONSOR
10 Agora Industry Overview
12 Agora Industry Juries
14 Crossroads Projects
50 Agora Works in Progress
66 Agora Film Market
Official Selection
Film Market
Crossroads Participants’ Previous Films
54th Thessaloniki IFF-2013 - Agora Industry Manual
Dear friends,
We are really happy to present once again the selections of the Agora Industry
and its parallel events: the Crossroads Co-production Forum, The Agora Works in
Progress and the films taking part in the Agora Film Market.
The Agora Industry is designed to promote foremost the Greek films and help the
Greek professionals as well as the Balkan, Mediterranean and Central European
movie professionals to implement their cinematic projects.
The joint involvement of these countries reinforces the relationship between them,
which, although separated geographically, are culturally united through the international language of cinema.
Agora Industry’s aim is to offer to all participating professionals a unique networking
atmosphere and offer them the right means in their search of new films and projects.
Agora Industry has been an important part of the Thessaloniki Film Festival since
2005 and we are grateful to all our friends, old and new, for their support and
interest in our efforts all these years.
We wish you a pleasant stay and we are ready to welcoming you to Thessaloniki!
Dimitri Eipides
Thessaloniki Internanational Film Festival Director
Marie-Pierre Macia
Coordinator Agora Industry
and the Agora Industry Team
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Useful Information for the Agora Industry
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The Agora Industry is located on the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel (9, Aristotelous Sq.)
Working hours: 10.00-20.00, from 2 to 9.11.2013
Access: All registered delegates with TIFF Industry / Press badge have free access to the Agora Industry
All Agora Industry badges are issued at the Agora Industry area (Electra Palace Hotel)
All Agora Industry delegates are requested to issue zero value tickets for all official festival screenings upon the presentation
of their badge (except from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies). Please return the tickets you will not use to the Agora
Industry Information Desk.
z All Agora Industry delegates have free access to the Press / Industry Screenings: Makedonia I @ Electra Palace Hotel
(1st floor) 10.00-20.00, Frida Liappa Theatre & Tonia Marketaki Theatre 09.00-13.00
Agora Industry Services
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Accreditation & Information Desk
Shared exhibition space for sellers
Wi-Fi
Special meeting area
Happy Hour at the Excelsior Bar of the Electra Palace Hotel 18.00-19.00 (3-7.11.2011)
Agora Film Market
z The Film Market facilities are open from the 2nd to the 9th of November, 10.00-20.00. On Saturday
the 9th of November the Film Market will close at 16.00
z 30 booths fully digital are located at the Byzantion Hall on the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel
z Booking should be made one day in advance at the Film Market reception
z Booths can be booked for a maximum of four consecutive hours
z You are kindly requested to register your evaluation of each film you have watched.
Agora Works in Progress
The Agora Works in Progress will be screened at Olympion Theater on the 7th of November at 10.30 to 13.30.
Access is strictly allowed to the Agora Industry delegates.
Crossroads Co-production Forum individual meetings
The individual meetings with the Crossroads Participants will be held in the Makedonia Hall II 10. 00-18.00
Agora Industry Offices
Our offices are located at the Olympiada Hall next to the stairwell. Office hours: 10.00-20.00
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THESSALONIKI AGORA MARKET
AWARDS AND PARTNERS
THESSALONIKI AGORA INDUSTRY SUPPORTERS:
The NSRF (National Strategic Reference Framework) 2007–2013 constitutes the reference document for the programming of European
Union Funds at national level for the 2007–2013 period. It was elaborated within the framework of the new strategic approach to
the Cohesion Policy of the European Union, according to which NSRF “…ensures that the assistance from the Funds is consistent
with the Community strategic guidelines on cohesion and identifies the link between Community priorities, on the one hand, and
the national reform programme, on the other.” The three regions Central Macedonia, Western Macedonia and Eastern Macedonia –
Thrace, covered by the Regional Operational Programme of Macedonia – Thrace, represent an enlarged economic area, with plenty
of geographical advantages and a rich supply of endogenous growth.
Over the past 20 years, MEDIA, the EU’s support programme for the European audiovisual industry, has supported the development
and distribution of thousands of films as well as training activities, festivals and promotion projects throughout the continent. From
2001-2006, more than half a billion euros were injected into 8.000 projects from over 30 countries.
Graal is the only complete Digital Intermediate (DI) post house in Greece, performing high quality image processing, punctually and
in any medium or format.
Graal’s vision, as the name suggest, is the never-ending effort for the optimum sesulta, with emphasis on quality. The company’s
focus is on building and maintaining its reputation for technical excellence, outstanding value and professionalism.
Graal is dedicated to the continuous integration of new technologies through national and international collaborations in the
film-making industry.
The in-house team consists of audiovisual post-production professionals with diverse expertise. Graal seeks to enhance the Greek
film industry and expand beyond the borders of the Greek market. Graal offers high quality image processing in any medium or
format, in competitive prices, by professionals with diverse expertise and in-depth knowledge.
Graal is sponsoring the AGORA WORKS IN PROGRESS Award
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2|35 Inc. (two thirty five) is a privately held, film production and post production company, located in the centre of Athens, Greece. It
was established in July 2007 by experienced professionals with more than fifteen years each in the industry.
The company serves the local and international film post production industry and participates in selected productions as a coproducer, offering production and post production services.
We offer full Digital Intermediate (DI) 4K, 2K, and HD workflows and work to the highest technical specifications across all
acquisition and distribution formats, both analog and digital.
Services include digital film scanning, editing, digital visual effects, graphics, color grading, sound design,Dolby digital sound
mixing, video encoding, film restoration, digital picture and sound film recording, digital cinema mastering.
Since its establishment, the company has completed work on 34 feature films (7 co-productions), 52 short films, 6 documentaries and
several other projects, including stereoscopic 3D films, Digital Cinema masters, teasers, trailers and planetarium/dome projections.
2|35 is offering the CROSSROADS Co-production Award
Created by the law of 25 October 1946, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) is a public administrative
organization, set up as a separate and financially independent entity.
The Directorate of European and international affairs prepares, negotiates and monitors bilateral co-production agreements,
assists and participates in the functioning of Eurimages (multilateral support fund for co-production, under the Council of Europe).
In addition, the Directorate of European and international affairs runs bilateral cooperation schemes with countries having
emerging film production sectors. Furthermore, it jointly runs and funds the Fonds Sud Cinéma with the ministry of foreign affairs, and supports training schemes
for foreign professionals and various festivals or professional seminars.
CNC is offering the CROSSROADS development award of 7.000 euro
Founded in 1993 Initiative film is the first European consulting company specialized in development process for professionals as
producers, screenwriters, directors, actors ... Attentive partner from the birth of the story to the start of production we accompany
creative process linked to artistic and economic feasibility of the projects. We are working as development advisor, helping to take the necessary distance in relation to a work in progress in order to
facilitate his viability in the market. After several-years of fruitful collaboration with Crossroads Co-production Forum, Isabelle Fauvel submitted to its team an
Initiative Film award. It allows one selected Greek project to be followed from its current state, as presented in Crossroads to a full
analysis of its evolution in a period of 6 months after the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
An exclusive program of meet-and-greets
Launched in 2004, the Producers Network hosts around 550 producers from all over the world in a series of meetings created to
stimulate international coproduction. Every day an individually tailored program reserved for producers will give you the opportunity to find financial partners also
interested in international distribution of their films:
Breakfast : various industry personalities are invited to share their experiences in the industry around a themed presentation which
will touch on all of the aspects of the production and distribution of film over breakfast. Speed-Dating: gives producers time to mingle and make deals for their Projects;
Master Class: an expert will share their advice and professional knowledge of a specific part of the world or of a recent development
in the industry;
Happy Hour: a lively atmosphere for professional encounters.
The winning producer will have the chance to participate in the next round of the Producer’s Network
Sofia Meetings, supported by the Media programme of the EU, is an event that aims to promote new projects from young European
filmmakers and new films from Bulgaria and the Balkan region to European film festivals, sales agents and distributors.
Sofia Meetings is oriented towards professional audience (producers, directors, world sales, distributors, representatives of financing
organizations and film festivals). It has two separate modules:
Pitching – presentation of first, second and third feature film projects looking for financial support and cooperation.
Balkan Screenings – showcase of the latest Bulgarian and regional feature and short flms for directors and programmes from
different international festivals, world sales companies and journalists.
Additional events such as lectures, training programs, presentations happen simultaneously to the Sofia Meetings.
One project will be selected to participate in the next round of Sofia Meetings
MFI Script 2 Film Workshops is an advanced training initiative under the umbrella of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
Essentially a script & project development program, it is based on group work, Q&Α sessions, case studies & individual consultations,
and consists of 4 intensive workshops (2 on-location in the Greek islands of Nissyros and Samos, and 2 on-line hosted in MFI’s web
site).Its primary objective is to fully develop the participating screenplays, from first or subsequent draft to final draft, through a
process of workshops that emphasize on script analysis, revision & rewriting.Its second objective is to help participants to set up an
effective project development process (presentation, pitching, fundraising & production strategies) and help them reach the stage
of production.
One project will be given scholarship to participate in the next round of Script 2 Film Workshops
CINEUROPA is the first European portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. With daily news, interviews, data bases,
in-depth investigations into the audiovisual industry, Cineuropa aims at promoting the European film industry throughout the
world. Welcome to a platform where professionals can meet and exchange information and ideas.
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Agora Team [Who is Who]
Marie-Pierre Macia
Coordinator Agora Industry
Crossroads Co-production Forum Artistic Director
Yianna Sarri
Head of Market
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Denise Andreola
Market Coordinator
Angeliki Vergou
Services Coordination
Panagiotis Galios
Agora Industry Production
Leonidas Konstantarakos
Market Assistant
Europe loves European Festivals
A privileged place for meetings, exchanges and discovery, festivals provide a vibrant and accessible environment for the widest
variety of talent, stories and emotions that constitute Europe’s cinematography.
The MEDIA Programme of the European Union aims to promote European audiovisual heritage, to encourage the transnational circulation of films and
to foster audiovisual industry competitiveness. The MEDIA Programme acknowledges the cultural, educational, social and economic role of festivals
by co-financing every year almost 100 of them across Europe.
These festivals stand out with their rich and diverse European programming, networking and meeting opportunities for professionals and the public alike,
their activities in support of young professionals, their educational initiatives and the importance they give to strengthening inter-cultural dialogue.
In 2012, the festivals supported by the MEDIA Programme have programmed more than 20.000 screenings of European works
to nearly 3 million cinema-lovers.
MEDIA is pleased to support the 54th edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and we extend our best wishes to
all of the festival goers for an enjoyable and stimulating event.
European Union
MEDIA PROGRAMME
http://www.ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm
L’Europe aime les festivals européens
Lieux privilégiés de rencontres, d’échanges et de découverte, les festivals rendent vivante et accessible au plus grand nombre la formidable diversité de talents, d’histoires et d’émotion que constituent les cinématographies européennes.
Le programme MEDIA de l’Union européenne vise à promouvoir le patrimoine cinématographique européen, à encourager les films à traverser les frontières et à
renforcer la compétitivité du secteur audiovisuel. Le programme MEDIA reconnait l’importance culturelle, éducative, sociale et économique des festivals en
co-finançant chaque année près d'une centaine d'entre eux dans toute l’Europe.
Ces manifestations se démarquent par une programmation européenne riche et diverse, par les opportunités de rencontres qu'elles offrent au public et aux
cinéastes, par leurs actions de soutien aux jeunes auteurs, par leurs initiatives pédagogiques ou encore par l'importance donnée au dialogue inter-culturel.
En 2012, l'ensemble de ces festivals soutenus par le programme MEDIA a programmé plus de 20.000 projections d'œuvres européennes pour le grand plaisir
de près de 3 millions de cinéphiles.
MEDIA a le plaisir de soutenir la 54ème édition du Festival International du Film de Thessalonique et souhaite
aux festivaliers de grands moments de plaisir.
Union Européenne
PROGRAMME MEDIA
Thessaloniki Agora Industry Overview
Since the first industry event in 2003 with Balkan Fund until the full evolution of the Agora Industry many film projects have been presented
in all kinds of development stages. These films have made their premiere in prestigious festivals, won awards and have also been screened at
Thessaloniki International Film Festival. We are committed in enlarging that list and put our efforts into continuing to support films from
Central Europe and the Balkan and Mediterranean countries.
When I Saw You
September
by Annemarie Jacir (Jordan/Palestine/Greece) 2012
Toronto Film Festival
Abu Dhabi Film Festival – Best Arab Film
Berlin Film Festival – NETPAC Best Asian Film Award
Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival – Open Horizons
Palestine’s 2013 Oscar Entry
Crossroads Co-production Forum 2008
Agora Works in Progress 2011 – Graal Award
by Penny Panayotopoulou (Greece/Germany) 2013
Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival – Competition
Toronto Film Festival – City to City section
Balkan Fund Award Winner 2010
Agora Works in Progress 2012
My Dog Killer
by Michalis Konstantatos (Greece/Germany) 2013
San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival
London Film Festival
by Mira Fornay (Slovak Republic/Czech Republic) 2013
Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam – Tiger Award
Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival
Munich Int’l Film Festival – Cinema Vision Award
Slovak Republic’s 2013 Oscar Entry
Agora Works in Progress 2012 – Honorary Mention
The Japanese Dog
by Tudor Cristan Jurgiu (Romania) 2013
San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival – New Directors
Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival – Balkan Survey
Wild Duck
by Yannis Sakaridis (Greece) 2013
Busan Int’l Film Festival – Flash Forward Competition
Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival – Competition
Standing Aside, Watching
by Yorgos Servetas (Greece) 2013
Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival
Hungry Man
by Philip Martin (France) 2013
Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival – Forum of Independents
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Luton
Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
by Ektoras Lygizos (Greece) 2012
Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival – Competition
Toronto Film Festival
Thessaloniki Intl’ Film Festival - Competition
Beyond the Hill
by Emin Alper (Turkey)
Berlin Film Festival – Forum 2012
Best Turkish Film - Istanbul International Film Festival 2012
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2012
Out in the Dark
by Michael Mayer (Israel/ USA)
Toronto Film Festival 2012
The Color of the Chameleon
by Emil Christov
Toronto Film Festival 2012
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Competition 2012
Balkan Fund Award 2009
Everybody in Our Family
Black Field
Tilva Rosh
by Radu Jude (Romania/Netherlands)
by Vardis Marinakis (Greece)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010
Cinemed - Mediterranean International Film Festival
Montpellier 2010
Greece Generation Next 2008
by Nikola Lezaic (Serbia)
Locarno International Film Festival 2010
Unfair World
by Filippos Tsitos (Greece/Germany)
San Sebastian Film Festival 2011
Tales from Kars
Homeland
by Syllas Tzoumerkas
International Film Critic’s Week –
Venice Film Festival 2010
Greece: Generation Next 2008
by Özcan Alper, Zehra Derya Koç, Ülkü Oktay,
Ahu Öztürk, Ömer Emre Akay
International Film Festival Rotterdam –
Bright Future 2009
Balkan Works in Progress 2008
Punk’s Not Dead
Pandora’s Box
by Vladimir Blazevski (FYROM/Serbia)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2011
by Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium)
San Sebastian - Golden & Silver Shell 2008
Thessaloniki Intl Film Festival 2008
Crossroads Co-production Forum Award 2006
Amnesty
by Bujar Alimani (Albania/Greece/France)
Montreal World Cinema Film Festival 2011
Man at Sea
by Constantine Giannaris (Greece)
Berlin Film Festival - Panorama 2011
Balkan Fund 2006
Crossroads Co-production Forum2007
J.A.C.E
by Menelaos Karamanghiolis
(Greece/Portugal/FYROM/Turkey/Netherlands)
Tokyo International Film Festival 2011
Balkan Fund 2005
Wasted Youth
by Argyris Papadimitropoulos & Jan Vogel (Greece)
International Film Festival Rotterdam2011
BAFICI 2011
Dogtooth
by Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
Un Certain Regard Award-Cannes Film Festival 2009
Greek Works in Progress 2008
Tale 52
by Alexis Alexiou (Greece)
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Tiger Awards Competition
Greek Works in Progress 2007
Adalber’s Dream
Süt (Milk)
by Gabriel Achim (Romania)
Reykjavik International Film Festival 2011
Crossroads 2009
by Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey/France/Germany)
Venice Film Festival 2008
Loverboy
The Happiest Girl in the World
by Catalin Mitulescu (Romania)
Un Certain Regard Award – Cannes Film Festival 2011
by Radu Jude (Romania/Netherlands)
C.I.C.A.E Award - Berlin Film Festival, Forum 2009
Balkan Fund 2007
Aurora
by Cristi Puiu (Romania/France/Switzerland/Germany)
Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival 2010
Outbound
by Bogdan George Apetri (Romania)
Locarno Intl Film Festival 2010
Golden Alexander - Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2010
Ajami
by Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani (Israel/Germany)
Camera D’Or – Special Distinction Director’s Fortnight
Cannes Film Festival 2009
Golden Alexander - Thessaloniki International
Film Festival 2009
Autumn
by Özcan Alper (Turkey/Germany)
C.I.C.A.E Award Locarno Intl Film Festival 2008
California Dreamin’ (Endless)
by Cristian Nemescu (Romania)
Un Certain Regard Award – Cannes Film Festival 2007
Balkan Fund 2004
Grbavica (Esma’s Secret)
by Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Berlin Film Festival –Golden Bear 2004
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Agora Works in Progress Jury 2013
KONSTANTINA VONORTA
She was born in New Zealand. After finishing her studies in Computer Graphics Animation she co founded Graal, in
1999. In 2006 she was trained in workflow management & digital archiving. From 2007 to 2010 she specialized in film,
working on a major restoration project comprising of 200 titles. She has been working in post- production as a post production producer & coordinator of domestic and international films for more than 10 years. She is in Graal’s Board of
Directors and in 2013 she was a co-producer of an award- winning short film.
MATTHIEU DARRAS
Founder of NISI MASA, the European network of young cinema, Matthieu Darras ideated and managed dozens of international workshops related to scriptwriting, short & documentary filmmaking, and film criticism from 2001 to 2012.
Critic for the film magazine Positif, Matthieu Darras was a regular member of Cannes Semaine de la Critique selection
committee from 2005 to 2011. He assumed the artistic direction of Alba Film Festival in Italy, and of the IFF Bratislava
in Slovakia. Matthieu Darras has been working for the Torino Film Lab since its inception in 2008, currently as Head of
Programmes. He is also delegate of the San Sebastian Film Festival, in charge of Central & Eastern Europe, and works as
scout for the Jerusalem Film Lab.
OLIVIER HEITz
Olivier Heitz (1983) has graduated from business school and made his first steps in cinema as responsible for the
selection at the Festival of European cinema in Lille, France. After several internships in the cinema industry on set and
in companies such as EuropaCorp, SND and the SOFICA Cinemage, he got his first job at EuropaCorp as responsible for
the international release of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s environmental documentary Home. He then spent four years at
Premium films handling acquisitions and sales of short and feature films before joining MK2 at the acquisitions in 2013.
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ALESIA WESTON
Sundance Institute alum Alesia Weston was most recently Executive Director of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Cinematheque
and Archives, where she oversaw the International Festivals of 2012 and 2013. During her nine previous years at Sundance, Weston oversaw the international work of the year-round Feature Film Program: the international Labs, the
Sundance/NHK And Mahindra International Filmmakers Awards and the international part of Screenwriters and Directors
Labs in Utah. She led Sundance’s Middle East Film Initiative, working closely with Royal Film Commission of Jordan to
establish RAWI Middle East Screenwriters Labs and spearheaded Sundance in Tel Aviv and Sundance in Istanbul Screenwriters
Labs. She was part of the core team of Sundance’s Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue program, in partnership
with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Films include: Red Road, Paradise Now, Wadjda,Fill the Void, Elena, House of Sand, Taxidermia, Whisky. Prior to Sundance
Institute, Weston worked at Trigger Street Productions, Imagine Entertainment and AFI. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Languages and Linguistics, she did her post-graduate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and
Masters Program in French Literature at University College London. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Torino
FilmLab, the Jerusalem International Film Lab. In 2012 was honored with the Industry Leadership Award by the Indian
Film Festival of Los Angeles.
AMANDA LIVANOU
Amanda Livanou has been working as an independent producer in commercials, film and television since 1997. She has
produced, co-produced or line produced more than 15 feature films and documentaries - including foreign productions
that were shot in Greece.
Recent titles include L by Babis Makridis (Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival 2012, Grand Prix, Molodist
Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine), and They Glow in the Dark, feature documentary by Panagiotis Evangelidis (FIPRESCI Prize,
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2013).
She is currently developing two feature projects, the new film by Babis Makrids co-written by Efthimis Filippou, and the
feature debut of Sofia Exarchou PARK (CNC development award, Crossroads Thessaloniki 2012, Eurimages Development
Award, Sarajevo Cinelink 2013). In development also the new documentary by acclaimed film maker Eva Stefani.
She is a graduate of the EAVE training programme. Since April 2012 she is an associate of greek distributors Feelgood
Entertainment, in Promotion and Production.
PETER CARLTON
Peter Carlton joined Warp Films in 2009 to head up development of more internationally-focussed productions. Recent
credits are as executive producer of Tyrannosaur, Four Lions, Submarine and L by Babis Makridis and as producer of the
hit TV series Southcliffe directed by Sean Durkin and written by Tony Grisoni. He was previously Senior Commissioning Executive at Film4, responsible for films such as Hunger, Me & You & Everyone
We Know and This Is England.
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CROSSROADS - CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
5-9 NOVEMBER 2013
Crossroads aims to support the producers
of feature-length film projects that are linked
to Central Europe, the Mediterranean
and the Balkan regions.
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AWARD SPONSOR
ANOTHER PARADISE
Georgia
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CHLORINE
Italy
page 18
DISORDER
France
page 20
ECHOES
Israel
page 22
FAIR PLAY
Greece
page 24
the
crossroads
projects
FRANKENSTEIN (A DEATH ODYSSEY)
Greece-Germany
page 26
FELLINI
Greece
page 28
THE GERMAN CAKEMAKER
Israel
page 30
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (working title)
Greece
page 32
GOD PROTECT MY DAUGHTER
Tunisia-France
page 34
A HISTORY OF WOMEN
Turkey
page 36
REVOLUTION
France-Egypt
page 38
THE SEA AND ITS WAVES
Lebanon-France
page 40
THE SATELLITES
France-Serbia
page 42
WATERLOO
Spain
page 44
THE VETERAN
Greece
page 46
Crossroads Projects
ANOTHER PARADISE
Georgia
Produced by: CINETECH, N&N STUDIO
Director: Nana Janelidze
Scriptwriter: Nana Janelidze
Producers: Rusudan Glurjidze,
Ekaterina Jojua
Budget: 860.530 Euros
Secured Financing: 19%
Location: Georgia
Looking for: Co-Producers, Co-Financing
SOFIA MEETINGS PROJECT
SYNOPSIS
As the Abkhazian war ends, Nutsa expects the return of Giorgi. Giorgi returned but he refuses to communicate
with anyone, even his daughter. He is unable to be of any help for the family’s financial survival. Nutsa tries to
reconnect with her husband. When she discovers the film footage he shot at war, she measures the distance
that now separates them. She confronts Giorgi. He decides to leave.
Soon enough the theatre closes down due to electricity cuts. Nutsa finds a job at the radio. She hosts a night
broadcast. Her voice becomes a ray of light during the Georgian nights. Hoping that Giorgi is also listening, she
addresses him love messages, praying him to return night after night.
As Leko, her war-wounded sound engineer, tells her his own experience of war, he accuses a former mafia
member, now a government official. Leko forgets to turn off the mike. Suddenly, a gang appears and destroys
the small radio station. Nutsa manages to connect torn wires and resumes her broadcast. Her voice floats again
across the dark city, overcoming cold, dark and desperation...
People walk towards the radio to demonstrate their solidarity. Among them, Giorgi with their daughter Natka.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
The events of this script take place in Georgia during the second half of the 1990s. Following the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the country sank into chaos. Anarchy, hunger, power cuts, war wounds – but also laughter,
humour, high ideals, existing side by side in the former Soviet republic. My generation is now the one that remembers this period very vividly, for at the time our children were too small and saw everything through the
eyes of youth and our parents are now too old to remember. To me, that period – with all its diversity – should
be shown in a feature film and that is my generation’s duty. Those days belong to history, and that’s why I have
to depict this era in my film.
The main character of the script is Nutsa, a young woman who works as a night radio presenter for a radio
station. During the programme Nutsa reassures, amuses and encourages the listeners. This is the only thing she
can do to fight cynicism, lawlessness and the power cuts. She believes that every human being has a duty to
save at least a small part of the world in which he or she inhabits.
This film is a film of HOPE.
CINETECH
Cinetech is one of the most dynamically developing independent film production companies in Georgia. The
company was founded in 2006 and its aim is to produce the works of independent filmmakers.
PRODUCER’S CONTACT INFORMATION
CINETECH, N&N
T: +995597704400
E: ycfgeo@yahoo.com
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DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR’S PROFILE
Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!, doc, 2011
Baltic and Georgia XV National Cinematographic Forum,
Best film
33rd Montpellier International Mediterranean Film
Festival, CINE4ME prize
XVII Moscow International Human Rights Film Festival
“Stalker” - Best film
Russian Film Academy, Best foreign film
International Film Festival “GoEast”, Special mention
Nana is the author of the script Repentance, which won in
Cannes the Jury Special Prize, FIPRESCI Prize and Ecumenical
Church’s prize in 1987.
Holder of two “Nika” (Russian Film Academy) awards for
the film Repentance (script) in 1987 and the film Will There
Be a Theater Up There? (Best foreign film) in 2011.
She is a member of the Russian Film Academy.
Laureate of the Georgian State with a prize for the film Lullaby in 1994. She also works as a drama director at the
theatre. In 2000 she founded with the actress Nanuka Khuskivadze the production studio N&N.
She has restored and made available a multimedia album
of the first Georgian documentary film Akaki Tsereteli’s Journey through Racha and Lechkhumi in 1912 and she is the
author and presenter of program Laterna Magika at the
Georgian Public broadcaster TV (2005-2007).
Film projects in development: Another Paradise, GeorgianAbkhazian Dairies (doc).
The Knights of Georgian Chant, doc, 2010
Christmas Gift, short, 2005
Montpellier Film Festival
Lullaby, 1994
Pezaro International Film Festival, Gran-prize
Moscow International Film Festival, Best director,
Ecumenical Church prize
Lagovo International Film Festival, Best film,
FIPRESCI prize
Film Festival of Orthodox Films Golden Knight,
“Silver knight” award
Nana Janelidze
Present at Crossroads
Will there Be a Theatre Up There?, the previous film
of Nana Janelidze, is available at the
Agora Film Market.
Family, short, 1985
Student International Film Festival “Amirani”, Best short film
Minsk International Youth Film Festival, Actress prize
Dortmund Film Festival
Florence Film Festival
A Big Boy and a Little Boy, short, 1978
Rotterdam Film Festival, Golden Prize at Georgian student
films program
PRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHY
PRODUCER’S PROFILE
Caucasian Fiction by Eldar Shengelaia ,Roman Balaian
,Rustam Ibragimbekov and Temur Butikashvili (in production)
Rusudan Glurjidze was born in Georgia, Tbilisi, on July 1972.
From 1989 to 1991 she has been studying French Language
& Literature at the Tbilisi State University. From 1990 to
1996 she has been studying Film Directing and Scriptwriting
in George Shengelaia’s class at the Georgian State Film &
Theatre Institute. Since 2007 she is an A.D. and Producer at
Cinetech Film Production.
House of Others by Rusudan Glurjidze (in pre-production)
Sarajevo IFF 2013 , CINELINK Award
Selected among 10 European projects selected by B’EST
(The Baltic Bridge East by West)
Open Doors Locarno IFF – 2013, Finalist
Another Paradise by Nana Janelidze (in development)
Sofia Meetings –Sofia IFF 2013, Best Project Award
Rusudan Glurjidze
Chaika, by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, 2011
San Sebastian International Film Festival 2012,
Official Selection
Rome NCN 2010, Eurimages Best European co-production
project in development; Cameraimage Poland, Best DOP,
Best Director
Farewell to Arms, consist of five shorts shot by young
Georgian film directors. Shorts were selected, mentioned
and awarded at more than 70 IFF
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CHLORINE
Italy
Produced by: ANG FILM / ASMARA FILMS
Director: Lamberto Sanfelice
Scriptwriters: Lamberto Sanfelice,
Elisa Amoruso
Producer: Damiano Ticconi
Co-Producer: Ginevra Elkann
Location: Italy
Looking for: Co-producers,
Sales Agent, Distributors
MFI PROJECT
SYNOPSIS
Jenny is a teenager grown up in a pool with the dream of becoming a sincro swimmer champion. When the
events disrupt the fate of her family, Jenny has to look after her younger brother and sick father. At that point
teenage dreams clash with the responsibility of an early adult life.
A winter of many years ago I saw a girl that looked too young to be a mother, dragging a child by the collar of
the jacket toward a bus stop. The child was squirming and kicking in the air while screaming out loud all his
anger. Only a few fragments of life, I never knew what happened before nor what happened to those two after
that moment. Through the need to understand the cruelty of that scene, Jenny was born.
The narration uses the location of the story to design a social geography which are closely related to the journey
of Jenny’s family. They come from Ostia, the beach near Rome, a place for vacation and pleasure to many. A life
made of simple things, a small sailing boat for family days out at sea, they swim, Jenny in the swimming pool,
towards her dream.
They will find themselves catapulted in the mountains, surrounded by snow. Not a fashionable ski resort, a
desolate peak of the Apennines, in the middle of Abruzzi. They have no money and yet travel in the opposite direction of the migration of the 19th century, when workers left Abruzzi in search of a better life.
The distance between Ostia and Passo San Leonardo, makes these places disconnected from each other, two different dimensions: the place of the present, where one is located, and the place where one’s want to be, are at
the basis of the dichotomy dream-reality of Jenny.
Within this framework, we borrow the eyes of Jenny, a girl of seventeen, to wander in her new life. The school
abandoned for a job as a maid. A sick father with a lost glance and no will to leave. A ten-year-old brother to
look after. A swimming pool she sneaks in illegally to nourish her dream. A man who understands her better
than she thinks.
In the midst of all this, at the end we realize that the reflection is somewhere else, that the film highlights the
relationship between Jenny and her brother. The brother from which Jenny first seems to want to escape from,
but which becomes the primary affection through which the girl completes her growth into a woman.
ANG FILM
ANG FILM
T: +39 06 3211960
E: damiano@angfilm.com
W: www.angfilm.com
W: www.asmarafilms.com
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ANG Film is an Italy-based company active in the media entertainment industry since 2004.
In recent years we moved our focus to feature films, initially supporting young directors in the production of
short films, documentaries and projects development.
ANG Film has produced over 100 commercials, viral, promos and institutional videos for various national and
international brands, like Campari, Valentino, Gucci, Amaro Motenegro, Bonomelli, Toyota, Nissan, Red Bull,
A.S. Roma and others.
In the last two years ANG film started to co-produce with Asmara Fims for the feature film Arianna, a first
feature by the director Carlo Lavagna. At the same time ANG produced The Whistle co-produced with Asmara
Film and supported by the Italian Public Fund of Mibac and directed by Lamberto Sanfelice.
ANG film is currently involved in the development of the first feature film of Lamberto Sanfelice, called Chlorine.
Crossroads Projects
The Whistle, short, 2012
Miami Short Film Festival
New York City International Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival
After having completed his first two short films Getting Fired
and Holy Sunday in the summer of 2009 at NYU, Lamberto
returns to Italy and starts a collaboration with Ang Film to
produce contents for the web TV Mugma.
In 2012 he directed The Whistle, a short movie financed by
the MiBac (Italy’s Culture Ministry) and supported by local
authorities.
The Whistle was selected at numerous Italian and international festivals, such as: New York City International Film
Festival 2013, Bif&st Bari International Film Festival 2013,
Miami Short Film Festival 2012, Roma Independent Film
Festival 2013, Athens International Film Festival 2013, Newport Beach Film Festival 2013.
Lamberto is currently working on the preparation of his
first feature movie with the title, Chlorine, produced by ASMARA Films in co-production with ANG Film.
Lamberto Sanfelice
The Whistle, the previous film of Lamberto Sanfelice,
is available at the Agora Film Market.
L’Unico, short, by Carlo Lavagna, in coproduction
with Asmara Films, 2012
Damiano Ticconi is a young film and TV producer born in
Rome in 1975. In 2001 he graduated in Economics and Business from the University “La Sapienza” in Rome.
In the following years he produced several commercials,
promos and tv contents for the most important national TV
channels (Rai International, Sky, Fox Int. Channel, Discovery
Channel, La7, Cult, National Geographic) and many institutional videos and short films for many fashion brands like
Valentino, Gucci, D&G, Stefanel. In the 2004 he founded
Ang Film a production company based in Rome. His current
projects include the productions of two italian feature films,
Chlorine and Arianna.
The Whistle, short, by Lamberto Sanfelice, 2012
Miami Short Film Festival
New York City International Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival
Ama, short, by Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, 2012
Damiano Ticconi
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DISORDER
France
Produced by: TCHIN TCHIN PRODUCTION
Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese
Scriptwriter: Giacomo Abbruzzese
Producer: André Logie & Gaëtan David
Budget: 2.285.000 Euros
Location: Romania - Italy
Looking for: Co-Production,
Sales agent, Distribution
SYNOPSIS
Bucharest. Ana abandons her studies and starts working as a waitress. She decides to make some extra money
dancing in a strip bar. When she is on stage, no one can stop watching her. She dances like nobody else.
Dreaming of Milan, she convinces a client to pay her a one-way ticket.
Italy turns out to be a disillusion. She ends up as a prostitute in a park, but an unexpected encounter makes her
enter a circle of high-class clients. In the corridors of a five-star hotel, Ana meets Saleh, a mysterious Palestinian
of dazzling beauty. They fall in love. A hotel room becomes their place to meet before they get lost in the night
dancing in Milan, like Ana has always dreamed, like Saleh has never done.
One night in a club, Saleh is arrested. Before the police arrives, Ana hurries to empty the hotel room of him,
finding a bag full of weapons and some photos of a man. Ana discovers that Saleh was part of an international
cell that planned a series of operations against the principal figures of world finance. Ana is invited to a secret
party in a villa lost in the countryside, organized by the man on Saleh’s photos. She brings a gun with her.
Doing the best dance of her life, she becomes the object of his attentions. What Saleh could not do, Ana will. The
power of life and death over Caesar.
«O gentleman, the time of life is short... If we live, we live to tread on kings».
Shakespeare, Henry IV
From a strip dancer to a black widow, Ana is a character in action and in continuous movement, passing a
universe of representation and repetition. A Rosetta of the Dardenne brothers who runs through The Night of
Antonioni. Her body is an instrument that turns from a seduction weapon into a deadly arm.
Saleh is the stranger. Like Terence Stamp in Teorema by Pasolini, he is a kind of angel of Apocalypse and – at the
same time – of love. A figure that appears and disappears suddenly and mysteriously.
At the end of the film, at the end of a long dressed table, there is il Presidente. In front of Ana who didn’t have
anything, he who has it all and therefore constantly needs to run the risk of loosing it. The Player of Dostoyevsky.
Between archetypes and realism, I will build an atmosphere of tension and uncertainty, run over by strong accelerations. The landscapes as well as the locations will compose the film as much as the characters.
TCHIN TCHIN PRODUCTION
TCHIN TCHIN PRODUCTION
T: +33 144614285
M: +33 669334949 (A. Logie)
M: +33 685371878 (G. David)
E: andrelogie@me.com
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TCHIN TCHIN PRODUCTION is a production company based in Paris, created in 1986 by Eric Van Beuren and
Roland Topor. More than 20 productions between 1986 and 2009 are to its credit of which Snow White (Blanche
Neige la suite) by Picha, Marquis by Henri Xhonneux, The Quarry by Marion Hänsel… In 2011 André Logie and
its partner Gaëtan David, originally based in Brussels, took back the control of the company and its artistic
direction. Tchin Tchin Production produced I’ll Bury You by Sylvestre Sbille in coproduction with Les Productions
du Trésor (Fr) and Panache Productions (Be), sold by Wild Bunch, co-produced The Passion Of Michelangelo
(Rome Festival 2012) by Esteban Larrain with Piranha Films (Chili) and ARTE in France, The Bag Of Flour by
Kadija Leclere in coproduction with La Cie Cinématographique (Be) and Sahara Productions (Ma). Tchin Tchin
Production is currently developing various projects among which La Fille’à Côté by Laetitia Colombani (3rd
feature); Disorder by Giacomo Abbruzzese (1st feature) and Today we Live by Sylvestre Sbille (2nd feature).
Crossroads Projects
Selected Filmography
Born in South of Italy, on 1983. He works as a director and
screenwriter between France and Italy. In 2012 he was in
residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and
participated at the 10th Berlinale Talent Campus. In 2011
he received a post-graduate diploma in France at Le Fresnoy
with a special jury mention. Between 2008 and 2009 he
worked as artistic director of the Palestinian public television
AQTV and as teacher of screenwriting and editing for the
Bethlehem cinema school Dar Al-Kalima.
His short films Archipel and Fireworks have been selected
in several international festivals including Oberhausen, Viennale, Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Nouveau Cinéma in
Montréal, Indielisboa, Leeds, Dubai, Winterthur, Molodist.
They were broadcasted on televisions of three different
countries.
Abbruzzese won various awards, among them the Prize for
Best Shortfilm at the Torino Film Festival, the Students
Award at Premiers Plans d’Angers, and a mention for best
short film director at Nastri d’Argento, prize of the Italian
film critic. The film magazines Cahiers du cinéma and Sentieri
Selvaggi dedicated him reviews and interviews. He has been
selected by the Cannes Film Festival for the next session of
the Cinefondation Residence.
Stella Maris, short, in post-production
Fireworks, short, 2011
Viennale - International Competition
Indielisboa - International Competition
Clermont-Ferrand - National Competition
Premiers Plans d’Angers - Student Award
Nastri d’Argento - Italian Film Critic Prize,
Jury Special Mention
Archipel, short, 2010
Oberhausen - International Competition
Nouveau cinéma de Montréal - International Competition
Dubai Film Festival - Arabian Nights
Torino Film Festival - Best Shortfilm Award, AVANTI Award
Passing, short, 2007
Visioni Italiane Cinemateca
Dams Film Festival Roma
Rencontres du cinéma italien
Droga party, short-experimental, 2006
Milano Film Festival
Lucania Film Festival
Giacomo Abbruzzese
Archipel and Fireworks, the previous films of Giacomo
Abbruzzese, are available at the Agora Film Market.
La Passion de Michelangelo by Esteban Larrain,
2012 (co-producer)
Rome Film Festival
André Logie, a former lawyer, studied at the Media Business
School and then completed an internship with Bac Films in
Paris. He worked as a consultant with Cinéart - the largest
film distributor in Belgium and Artémis Productions (working
on such films as Merry Christmas, La Femme de Gilles).
Since 2009, André Logie devotes himself entirely to film
production in Paris with his company (Tchin Tchin Production) and Brussels with his company (Panache Productions),
producing and coproducing such films as I’ll Bury You by
Sylvestre Sbille (2013), Casse-Tête Chinois by Cédric Klapisch
(2013), Populaire (2012) by Régis Roinsard, Le Concert & La
Source des Femmes by Radu Mihaileanu, Le Grand Soir by
Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine.
Populaire by Régis Roinsard, 2012 (co-producer)
Rome Film Festival
Le Grand Soir by Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine ,
2012 (co-producer)
Un Certain Regard Cannes
La Source des Femmes by Radu Mihaileanu,
2011 (co-producer)
Official Selection Cannes
André Logie
Robert Mitchum est mort by Olivier Babinet & Fred Kihn,
2010 (co-producer),
ACID
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Crossroads Projects
ECHOES
Israel
Produced by:
HANDSOME SERGE PRODUCTIONS
Directors: Amikam Kovner and Assaf Snir
Scriptwriters: Assaf Snir and
Amikam Kovner
Producer: Keren Michael
Budget: 660,000 Euros
Location: Israel
Looking for: Co-producer, Sales agent,
regional funds, Equity, Pre-sales
SYNOPSIS
Avner (43) suspects his wife Ella (40) is having an affair. He secretly records her telephone conversations, turning
into a spy in his own house. Following Ella’s sudden death in a car accident, Avner searches for her lover’s
identity, listening to the tapes again and again. He becomes more and more engrossed with the investigation
instead of being there for his daughters, Daphne (9) and Maya (8). But while searching for one thing, he discovers
another: The woman he listens to is a stranger to him, so very different from the one he thought he knew. He
tries to understand that woman, to decode their relationship, and most of all he needs to know: why?
He follows the footsteps she left behind her, in a journey that will finally lead him to her lover, Micah (45). But
the confrontation with Micah does not offer any sort of resolution for Avner. On the contrary – the more he
knows, the less he understands.
Avner returns to the tapes, hearing Ella’s voice for one last time. He is willing to forgive now, he can let her go.
He will have to accept the void she left inside him.
Echoes is a film about love, though it is disguised as a detective story. Behind the mystery plot and the suspence
atmosphere (listening, tracking, revenge), the real enigma that the film explores is that of Avner’s relationship
with his wife Ella.
The actual questions that the film arises are: Do we really know the people closest to us? Do they really love us?
If so - why is love not enough? Why do we really notice some things only when they’re gone?
And how is it that we always hurt those we love the most?
In a way, Echoes is also a film about voice. This mysterious quality that we all have, but none of us can see, or
touch. It comes from within ourselves and enables us to speak out, to express ourselves. But at the same time it
betrays us: it is only an echo of our internal world, our intimate self. It is the tool we use to mediate ourselves to
the world, and we always fail to do so. Avner’s journey is an attempt to listen, and not only to hear, to feel
without knowing, to grasp what is no longer there.
HANDSOME SERGE PRODUCTIONS established by Keren Michael in 2011, to be an Independent production
house specialized in projects with a social cultural orientation that captures the essence of Israeli existence, yet
can still break through to the international film market. The first feature film produced by Keren Michael, The
Wanderer, premiered at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes in May 2010, screened in many top international
Festivals and secured an international distribution. Michael is one of the founders of The Mouth Agape Productions
(2006) which created short films without financial governmental support, in order to achieve creative freedom.
The shorts where collected into a 7 episodes anthology titled Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker. The anthology
was shown in international film festivals and screened commercially in selected Israeli theatres. At 2010 Michael
was selected for the prestigious program “Film Independent producer’s lab” in L.A, and participated in Rotterdam’s
producers’ lab. At the same year, she began working (as co-producer with David Mandil from Movie Plus productions) on 2 feature films that were shot during 2013.
T: +972544811007
E: kerenmich@gmail.com
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DIRECTORS’ FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTORS’ PROFILES
Amikam Kovner:
Amikam Kovner is a director and screenwriter, graduate
with honors of Tel Aviv University’s Film Department. His
short film Scar was screened in dozens of film festivals, sold
to PBS, and won the Kodak award for excellence. His thesis
film The Home Leave was screened at numerous festivals
and won awards and honorable mention. His documentary
First Kiss was broadcast as part of “Docu - Children” - a joint
project of the Second Authority and Keshet Broadcasting.
His first feature film: CeaseFire was premiered at the Haifa
International Film Festival.
Ceasefire, 2013
Haifa International Film Festival 2013
The Home Leave, short, 2008
Corto in Bra – Best International Film
Belo Horizonte Film Festival - Honorable mention
Sehsuchte - Potsdam Int’l Student Film Festival
Scar, short, 2004
Tel Aviv Int’l Student Film Festival
Brno16 Film Festival
FreshFilm Film Festival, Karlovy Vary - “Kodak” award
First Kiss, TV - doc, 2005
Broadcast at channel 2, Israel.
Assaf Snir:
The 10th Man, short, 2012
Under the Skin, short, 2011
Open Cinema International Film Festival, St. Petersburg 2011
Cambridge Student Film Festival 2011
Pendentatillo International Film Festival 2012
Amikam Kovner
Assaf Snir is a director and screenwriter, graduate of the
Sam Spiegel Film and Television in Jerusalem. His short
films Caravan, Under the Skin (produced by the Goethe Institute as part of an international short film program) and
The 10th Man were screened at festivals worldwide. Assaf
was a participant of the 2013 Berlinale Talent Campus’s writing workshop: Script Station, working on the script of Echoes,
which will be his debut film.
The 10th Man and The Home Leave, the previous
films of Assaf Snir and Amikam Kovner, are available at
the Agora Film Market.
Assaf Snir
Caravan, short, 2009
Uppsala International Film Festival 2009
Cottbus International Film Festival 2009
The Wanderer, feature film, 2010
Cannes Film Festival 2010 Director’s Fortnight
Jerusalem International Film Festival 2010 - Best First Feature
Film, Best Cinematography
Rotterdam Film Festival 2011, Bright Future program
The first feature film produced by Keren Michael, The Wanderer (Ha’Meshotet), premiered at Cannes Director’s Fortnight
(2010), screened at various film festivals worldwide and
secured international distribution . Michael is one of the
founders of The Mouth Agape Productions (2006), which
created short films without financial governmental support,
in order to achieve creative freedom. The shorts where collected into a 7 episodes anthology titled Soap Opera of a
Frozen Filmmaker, shown in international film festivals and
screened commercially in selected Israeli theatres. At 2010
she was selected for the prestigious program “Film Independent producer’s lab”, in L.A. At 2011 she participated in
Rotterdam producers’ lab. At the same year, she founded
Handsome Serge productions to be an independent production house, specialised in projects with social and cultural
orientation that capture the essence of Israeli existence, yet
can still break through to the international market. Since
2013, alongside her production activity, she develops an
international feature films division at Dori Media Paran
group. Their first script to produced will be, And There Was
Morning, a cinematic adaptation to Sayed Kashua’s novel,
that will be directed by Eran Kolirin.
Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker (an anthology in 7
episodes),
Jerusalem International Film Festival 2007 - Best Experimental Film, 2007
Keren Michael
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FAIR PLAY
Greece
Produced by: MITOS PRODUCTIONS
Director: Constantina Voulgaris
Scriptwriter: Constantina Voulgaris
Producer: Eleni C. Afentaki
Location: Greece
Looking for: Co-producers, Financing
SYNOPSIS
Dionisis is one of the many people who fought for a better world back in the 70’s as a political activist, but crossed
to the other side, as he grew older. He has gained money, political influence, and he is one of the few lucky people
who’s prosperous life hasn’t been damaged by the Greek economical crisis. Dionisis is a man that looks really
confident, charming, smart, a winner, someone that before the crisis used to be a role model. He has a happy life,
a happy family, although his 17 year old son Petros is an anarchist and questions his father’s lifestyle and values.
His son reminds him of himself when he was younger and sometimes Dionisis is jealous of him. Their relationship
is vey intense; Petros has a few problems with the police as a juvenile delinquent, but nothing that can affect
Dionisis security. But a fire in the hideout of an old armed political group, and the discovery of the typewriter they
used to write their pamphlets are enough to shake his “solid” life. Dionisis has to confront his past, his present, his
son, but basically he has to confront himself, his fears and complexities, in order to find peace again. Fair Play is a
story that questions all these things, a story where what is good and what is bad, what is normal and what is
extreme, what is ethical and what isn’t are very subjective, and a story that wants to bring back to the foreground
all these ideals and principles that people once had, hoping that the game is not yet lost.
Fair Play is the story of a man who was politically involved in the 70’s revolutionary movement as an extreme
leftist, and has become a cynical powerful person in the 00’s. I believe that governments, newspapers, universities,
TV channels and multinational companies all over Europe are full of people who back then were libertarians,
communists, anarchists, and some of them had a very high activist profile. Through the previous decades of the
80’s, 90’s 00’s, because of some major changes in global politics, many of these people lost their faith in
everything idealistic, romantic, utopist. Some of them got scared and some felt betrayed because their revolution
did not succeed. They persuaded themselves that there was nothing more to do. Money, power, material goods
where the goals people had, and everything else was considered naive. Now with the political crisis that goes
around the world, everyone is forced to reestablish and reevaluate his/hers life. Younger generations are often
resentful of their parents’ life and values, and question themselves on the very same issues on life, love, equality,
tolerance, justice, revolution, change, hope. Fair Play, tries to raise questions about all these issues through the
relationship of a father and a son in Greece nowadays, in a family that may not suffer economically, but has a
major crisis of a different kind. I want to make a film that is accessible to everybody, that is artistic but not
formalistic. The story and the feelings of the characters come out in every little detail of everyday life. The truth
of each scene has great importance. I want to make a political, provoking, edgy but also human film where
what is good and bad, what is fair and not, what is ethical, what is normal and what is extreme are very
subjective.
MITOS PRODUCTIONS
MITOS PRODUCTIONS
T: +30 2106753783
M: +30 6982692121
E: info@mitosproductions.com
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MITOS was founded in 2007 by Eleni H. Afentaki. Since its foundation, MITOS’s business has included the
production of documentaries and feature film. The company believes that it is time for the Greek film production
to expand from the narrow limits of tradition, without at the same time denying it, and to open up its thematic
and aesthetics in the global society.
Crossroads Projects
Only Dead Fish Go with the Stream, doc (in post production), 2013
Born in Athens 1979. Studied Cinematography in Stavrakou
Athens Film School and then did an MA in screenwriting at
the National Film and Television School in London UK. Currently working as a director and a director’s assistant in feature films, TV commercials and documentaries.
ACAB - All Cats Are Brilliant, 2012
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Premiere Plans
Gotterburg Film Festival
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, European Film Market
Crossing Europe Filmfestival
A.C.A.B, the previous film of Constantina Voulgaris,
Constantina Voulgaris
Valse Sentimentale, 2007
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Leading Actress
State Award, First Time Director State Award
New Films New Directors MOMA NY Film Festival
San Fransisco International Film Festival
Calgary International Film Festival
Reportage Without Frontiers, Director of 3 one hour
documentaries of the TV program, 2006-2007.
Sleepy Lights, short, 2001
Drama Short Film Festival - Leading actress and
Editing award, State Award
Youpi!, short, 1999
Drama Short Film Festival - State Award as a first time
filmmaker, State Quality Award, Greek Film Center
Support Award
Vasso Patrouba - Associate producer
I’m Not Here on Vacation, doc, by Nikos Soulis,
16 epeisodes
Eleni Afentaki has studied Political Studies in the University
of Grenoble and German Language & Literature at University
of Athens. She has worked for the Greek Ministry of Foreign
Affairs as a delegate for Greece in the European Parliament
and for various production and communication companies
in Greece (Anosi, Polygram, Project, Altec,). She established
MITOS in 2007 to produce documentaries and feature films.
Noor – You Can Find Light Everywhere, doc,
by Nikos Soulis
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival –
Images of the 21st Century
Kavala 1913 - 2013, doc, by Periklis Choursoglou.
Only Dead Fish Go with the Stream, doc, by Constantina
Voulgaris (in post production)
Eleni C. Afentaki
A.C.A.B - All Cats Are Brilliant, by Constantina Voulgaris
Premiere Plans
Gotterburg Film Festival
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, European Film Market
Crossing Europe Filmfestival
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Crossroads Projects
FRANKENSTEIN: A Death Odyssey
Greece, Germany
Produced by: Minus Pictures
Director: Costas Zapas
Scriptwriter: Costas Zapas
Producer: Gregory Athanasiou
Location: Greece, Switzerland
Looking for: Co-producers, Pre-sales
SYNOPSIS
A theatre troupe arrives in a city, performing Frankenstein. A young female reporter, who is investigating the
legend, believes that the novel is not a fiction, but the true story of a group of intellectuals and alchemists,
founded by the young doctor Victor Frankenstein. They managed, in 1817, to defeat mortality and return from
the dead. Interviewing the theatre troupe members, the reporter is confronted with the dark heroes of the
novel, who appear in the city more alive than ever. Her investigations lead her to a universe of monsters and
finally to a revelation about the secret of an eternal love that succeeded to stay alive even after death. And this
is the true story of Frankenstein as it happened in 1817 and was recently discovered by a young reporter.
Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey is a surprising adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous novel that makes the heroes
of the novel appear more alive and modern than ever, aiming to renew and re-brand the famous saga for the
young audience and the fans of the Frankenstein novel internationally as a thriller love drama.
A young female reporter investigates the saga of Frankenstein when a theater troupe is coming to her town presenting the famous novel. The reporter is confronted with the heroes of the novel themselves, appearing in
front of her and claiming to be real, surrounding her, and laying siege to her, “suffocating” her. These heroes
themselves are also telling the story. They do so even when the reporter is alone, by leaving her a voicemail in
her answering machine, or when they secretly enter her flat. All these make us believe that the reporter is a
“normal” girl that mysterious or crazy people are trying to entangle in a conspiracy of death. But what until now
seems to be the reality, is fake.
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus is a theorem about life and death, with contemporary
sociological and philosophical beliefs. The human mankind, the “super-hero” and finally God himself are pierced
limits that can be violated. As long as the humans don’t accept mortality and death, they will violate the limits
and create Monsters. But is to blame the Monster or the humans who created the Monster? And if the Monster
is now fictional, how real would it be tomorrow? And what would be its shape? Frankenstein: A Death odyssey is
a modern cinematographic adaptation of Marry Shelley’s novel that transcribes with realism the existential
agony of the heroes of the novel as if they were living in our days, more alive than ever.
MINUS PICTURES
Minus Pictures is a Greek independent film production company producing arthouse films for theatrical release
and has already produced four full length feature films in the last eight years that have been premiered in
major international film festivals and have been released in Greece and abroad.
Minus Pictures is experienced in international co-productions, as it has already co-produced Minor Freedoms
with Lars von Trier production company Zentropa and has already worked on an international world sales level
with Trustnordisk Word Sales.
Minus Pictures has now in pre-production the thriller love drama Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey based on Marry
Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. The project has already been selected among the top 12 European projects in the
prestigious Toronto Producers Lab in Toronto IFF, and among the 21 top international projects at the Network of
Asian Fantastic Films in the Puchon IFF in South Korea.
MINUS PICTURES
T: +30 2103641652
E: minuspictures@yahoo.com
W: www.cinando.com/minuspictures
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The Rebellion of Red Maria, 2011
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
The Guardian characterized Costas Zapas as “one of the main
protagonists of the burgeoning Greek new cinema wave”,
Cineuropa as “one of the most outstanding directors of contemporary auteur cinema”, Latin America daily Pagina/12
as “the most explosive vein of the brilliant new wave of
Greek cinema”, L’Humanite refers to Costas Zapas as “the
Greek exception” and SoiledCinema refers to Costas Zapas
as “one of the last truly uncompromising auteur filmmakers
in the world”.
53th Thessaloniki International Film Festival focused on
Costas Zapas films, hosting a retrospective with all of his
four films in November 2012. His feature film Minor Freedoms
was financed and coproduced with Lars von Trier’s production
company Zentropa. Costas Zapas films have been presented
in major international film festivals with excellent critics
and have been released internationally.
Minor Freedoms, 2008
Montreal International Film Festival
The Last Porn Movie, 2006
Kiev International Film Festival
Uncut family, 2004
Chennai International Film Festival
Costas Zapas
The Rebellion of the Red Maria, the previous film of
Costas Zapas, is available at the Agora Film Market.
The Rebellion of Red Maria, 2011
Gregory Athanasiou has been selected twice as one the best
European producers: at Cannes Film Festival 2007 (European
Film Promotion) and at Toronto Film Festival 2011 (Toronto
Producers Lab).
Gregory had worked in film, theatre, opera and advertising
in Germany and Greece (with Daniel Barenboim, Christa
Wolf, Frank Castorf) before setting up his Athens-based
production company Minus Pictures in 2004 to focus on
cutting edge feature films by young filmmakers for theatrical
release. With degrees in Philosophy and Physics, and courses
in Linguistics, Ethnology and Psychoanalysis, he had also
studied acting based on the Lee Strasberg method and attended workshops for story editing, management and legal
issues, and film financing.
To date, Gregory has produced four feature films by Costas
Zapas. He co-produced Minor Freedoms with Denmark’s
Zentropa whose world sales arm TrustNordisk acquired
2008 the exclusive international distribution rights to Zapas’ family trilogy.
Minor freedoms, 2008
The Last Porn Movie, 2006
Kiev International Film Festival
Uncut family, 2004
Chennai International Film Festival
Gregory Athanasiou
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FELLINI
Greece
Produced by: ZONARAS PRODUCTIONS
Director: Karolos Zonaras
Scriptwriter: Karolos Zonaras &
Katerina Bei
Producer: Lefteris Danikas
Location: Athens and suburbs
Looking for: Co-Producers, Pre-Sales,
Post-Production Funds
SYNOPSIS
The film narrates the ordeal of a young Greek, who wakes up after a traffic accident not knowing who he is. An
Italian passport with his alleged name: Pedro Noula, a broken cell phone, a bank check and the photograph of a
woman are the only clues he has at his disposal. With these and with the help of a woman, a well-known singer
with whom he becomes romantically involved, he will attempt to search for his identity. His quest will turn to
be a nightmarish adventure, in which he will find himself confronted by his darkest side.
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before, says Ecclesiastes, and it is true. Nothing is new
under the sun. Everything in the universe is in a continuous and circular repetition. And the same applies to our
lives. The unchanging elements of our character lead us with almost mathematical precision to a perpetual repetition of invariable choices, acts, errors or omissions. It’s always the same story
With these thoughts, I tried to assemble the pieces of the dark and enigmatic past of the main character, Pedro
Noula: a man who has lost his memory and whose present life is the only field for the search of his identity. In
fact, my objective when I wrote the script was to construct the story in a way that the past and the present life
of the character acquired a certain symmetry. So when towards the end of the film, the spectator is finally able
to answer the question “Who is Pedro Noula?”, he is not bewildered, but considers his answer completely
justified. It may sound paradoxical, but it is exactly that: The end of the story should be a logical surprise.
ZONARAS PRODUCTIONS
ZONARAS PRODUCTIONS is a relatively new company that was founded in 2011 by the French actress and
producer Katia O’Wallis. It is an independent film and television production company based in Athens. In
addition to films the company undertakes theatrical projects as well as commercials. The company’s first independent feature Big Hit has held its world premiere at 53rd TIFF and was released in Greece in March 2013.
The company aims in forming and building solid European partnerships and is currently developing its second
feature Fellini.
ZONARAS PRODUCTIONS
T: +302103412711
M: +306973033033
E: danikas@hol.gr, katiaow@orange.fr
W: http://zonarasproductions.blogspot.gr
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Karolos Zonaras was born in Athens in 1956. He studied
economics at the University of Piraeus and cinema at the
NYU in New York. Then he attended the Centro Sperimentale
in Rome, Italy, where he lived for 13 consecutive years. He
made several short and medium length films, participating
in various film festivals, among which Venice in 1993. Since
1999 he lives in Athens, Greece, making commercials and
documentaries. His first feature film Charlie’s Son was released in 2009 and his second feature Big Hit in 2013.
Big Hit, 2012
International Film Festival
Kolkata International Film Festival
Charlie’s Son, 2008
Savoir Vivre , short, 2002
Greek Short Film Festival in Drama
Ade e Core, short, 1995
Film Festival
International Golden Film Festival
Big Hit, the previous film of Karolos Zonaras, is
available at the Agora Film Market.
Karolos Zonaras
Oreste a Tor Bella Monaca, short, 1993
Film Festival
Big Hit by Karolos Zonaras, 2012
Kolkata International Film Festival
Lefteris Danikas was born in Amaliada (Greece – W. Peloponnese) in 1958. He studied at the Aristotelian University
of Thessaloniki, School of Agronomy (1976-79) and then in
Paris (1979-83), at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Vth
Section – Religious Sciences: Ethnographical Cinema Workshop directed by Jean Rouch) as well as at the École Supérieure
libre d’ Études Cinématographiques.
Since 1983 he has been living in Athens, working as a director,
scriptwriter and producer.
The Last Tanner, short, by Lefteris Danikas, 2001
International Short Film Festival in Drama - Award,
Best Balkan Film Award
Festival International du Film d’ Amiens
International Short Film Festiva
Lefteris Danikas
A Greek-Albanian Legendary, docu-fiction,
by Lefteris Danikas, 1999
Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival
International Meeting of Archaeological Film,
“AGON” - Best Photography Award
Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Archeologico
Seven Days with the Youngsters from “Margarita”,
doc, by Lefteris Danikas, 1998
East of Eden, short, by Lefteris Danikas, 1985
Greek Ministry of Culture Award
International Film Festival - Best Short Film Award &
Greek Film Critics Award
Certamen Internacional de Cine Documental y de
Cortometraje de Bilbao
Competition of Istituto LUCE S.p.A. - Premio di Qualita
Lina Yannopoulou - Associate producer
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THE GERMAN CAKEMAKER
Israel
Produced by: LAILA FILMS
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Scriptwriter: Ofir Raul Graizer
Producer: Itai Tamir
Location: Jerusalem & Berlin
Looking for: German, French etc.
Co-producers
SYNOPSIS
David, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli architect who has frequent business visits
in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, David travels to Jerusalem in an attempt to discover more about
his death. He traces Anat, his lover’s newly widowed wife, who raises her son alone. She insists to continue
running her small Café in spite of the objection of her husband’s religious family. Hiding his real identity, David
starts working in Anat’s kitchen, creating fantastic breads and cakes which make her business strive and help
her son overcome his grief. While his presence raises objection in Anat’s surrounding, she will defend David and
develop an intimate relationship with him. The new reality will shake David’s world and bring him to stretch his
lie to a point of no return.
The story tells of an encounter between two people who share two things - a mutual fate of loss, and passion
for food and baking. Using some autobiographic elements, I wish to give the characters a chance to create a
new life through the act of baking - a sensual and erotic act interwoven with a comforting childhood memory
of the smell of a cake spreading in the house on Friday morning. Yet the road isn’t simple, and the main
character’s attempt to overcome grief will confront him with an inner-Israeli conflict of religion and secularism
in modern Jerusalem. His private suffering will gain a new meaning which will deny him and his lover’s wife
the chance for the new life that they seek. The ritual of mourning will lead them to commit actions that defy the
definitions of their identities - national, religious and even sexual. Through creating a new identity which is free
from these definitions, there is chance to overcome pain and anger and find the path to forgiveness and reconciliation.
LAILA FILMS
Laila Films was established as boutique Production Company for high quality independent cinema intended
for emerging Israeli and international filmmakers. As well as providing constant support from script to screen,
we believe in an intimate approach to achieve personal, innovative and distinct cinema.
LAILA FILMS
T: +972 722224660
M: +972 544564144
E: itai@laila-films.com
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Dor, short, 2009
Katowice Film Festival – First prize
Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival
Max Ophuls
Born in 1981 in Raanana in center Israel. In the last years
lived in Sderot, and recently graduated the Film and Television Shool of Sapir College. Directed several shorts film, all
of which were presented in international film festivals. Parallel to directing he worked on several productions as an
editor, mainly on full length documentaries, a work for
which he had won several awards. In 2011 participated in
the NIPKOW program in Berlin, and on 2012 was selected
to participate the Berlinale Talent Campus. Currently living
on the line of Berlin-Jerusalem and working on his first feature film, The German Cakemaker.
A Prayer In January, short, 2007
20 Film Festivals
Ofir Raul Graizer
Dor, the previous film of Ofir Raul Graizer, is available
at the Agora Film Market.
Born in 1958 in Kibutz Kfar Rupin, Israel. In the year 2010
established Laila-Films an independent productions company. produced over 30 feature films and international coproductions, among them award-winning films that have
received worldwide recognition. In addition to feature films,
produced documentaries movies, dramas and television
programs.
Arabani by Adi Aduan, 2013
Jerusalem FF – Best script prize
Alice by Dana Goldberg, 2013
Jerusalem FF – Editing Prize and Best Actress and
Special mention for the young director
Not in Tel-Aviv by Nony Geffen, 2012
Locarno Film Festival – Silver leopard Prize
Sharqiya by Ami Livne, 2012
Berlin Festival Panorama
Jerusalem FF – First Prize editing and photography
Itai Tamir
Policeman by Nadav Lapid, 2011
Locarno Film Festival – Silver leopard Prize
Jerusalem FF – Best script and photography prize
San-Francisco International Film Festival – First Proze
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GIRL NEXT DOOR (WORKING TITLE)
Greece, France
Produced by: BLONDE S.A.
Director: Rinio Dragassaki
Scriptwriter: Katerina Kaklamani
Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa,
Konstantinos Kontovrakis
Co-Production: AGAT FILMS
Location: Greece
Looking for: 3rd coproduction country,
Sales Agent, post-production fund
SYNOPSIS
30-year-old Anna lives alone in the big apartment where she grew up. She takes pills to avoid her panic attacks and sees
mysterious dreams featuring her parents, the old family car and 80s pop songs. She loves her solitude and her job at the supermarket where she has been working for 13 years. She is so dependent on her routine job, that, in order to keep it, she
betrays her only friend, Pantelis. 10-year old Persa lives next door with her dad. She doesn’t see any dreams but she
impatiently waits to go on stage at the school play for the national Independence Day. A drama queen in the making, she is
passionately absorbed by this dream. One night, Persa appears on Anna’s doorstep and announces that her father is missing.
She wants to stay with Anna. She installs herself in Anna’s childhood bedroom, while Anna makes no effort to conceal her
strong dislike for young girls –let alone 10-year-old divas. In the following days, Persa will try to claim a place in Anna’s life.
Anna will resist this outrageous invasion in every way she can. The two will face each other and themselves, as various
questions will eventually arise: Can Anna overcome her fears? Will Persa learn her lines? Can the two of them become a
family of sorts? And, why is there a supermarket in the middle of the forest?
Persa, a ten-year-old girl, recites bombastically a poem celebrating the 25th of March, the anniversary of the Greek
declaration of independence against the Ottoman Empire, in 1821. In the apartment next door, Anna dreams of a time
when she was still a child, not having to make decisions or suffer panic attacks; a time when a trip to the supermarket at her
mother’s side felt like an amusement ride. The childish voice reciting the poem penetrates the wall between the two
apartments: “A holy day is dawning! The nation, genuflecting, salutes your memory!” Anna is in for a rude awakening. Girl
Next Door is a coming-of-age film in reverse. Here, the protagonist transitioning to adulthood, through the help of a child,
who is already an adult. 35-year-old Anna, a loner on the brink of depression, will do anything to get rid of the 10-year-old
vivacious girl from the apartment next door who appeared at her doorstep, asking for help. She will do anything to avoid
admitting that having her around is not that bad after all. Girl Next Door belongs in a specific and salient visual universe,
charting its trajectory from Anna’s forgotten-in-time apartment and the colorful supermarket, to the shabby delivery van
and the kitsch galore of the Greek countryside, by way of the folk costumes in Persa’s school play, celebrating the liberation
of a rapidly collapsing nation in decay. All these pieces make up a puzzle that hails from a parallel reality, Anna’s reality,
where her own story is being played out. The absurdity, the off-beat humor, the girlish imagery, all set against a pop music
soundtrack, are the basic elements that accompany Anna throughout her journey along with her determined, and at the
end of the day rather entertaining, young sidekick. It is a journey that marks Anna’s coming-of-age and her acceptance of
who she really is.
BLONDE
BLONDE S.A.
T: +30 2106080650
E: fenia@blonde.gr
W: www.blonde.gr
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Fenia Cossovitsa is co-founder of BLONDE audiovisual productions, an Athens based independent film production
company. Producer Fenia Cossovitsa counts already over 15 Greek and/or international feature films and documentaries in her resumé and has worked as a producer with internationally acclaimed filmmakers like Peter
Bogdanovic and Jonathan Nossiter.
Film has always been one of Blonde’s main passions and with its extensive experience in the film industry
Blonde can produce any type of film covering all areas of the demanding production process. Blonde has also
produced the set and the production design of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of Athens Special Olympics
2011, she produced the second feature film by Menelaos Karamaghiolis J.A.C.E. (recently received 6 awards to
the Greek Film Academy Awards April 2013), has produced together with Konstantinos Kontovrakis a first
feature film by Yorgos Servetas Standing Aside, Watching the Opening Film of City to City section in Toronto Int’l
Film Festival 2013, and she co-produced Brigitte Roüan’s latest feature Tu honoreras ta mere et ta mere with
AGAT Films (France) which was released in France last February and will be released in Greece next autumn by
VILLAGE.
Crossroads Projects
Schoolyard, short, 2013
Rinio Dragasaki was born in 1980. She studied cinema in
Athens and continued with postgraduate studies in
Barcelona (ESCAC). She has worked in film and television
industry. She has directed three short films. Her short film
Dad, Lenin and Freddy (2011) participated in 35 international
film festivals, awarded, bought by television networks (Canal
+, SBS-TV) and won the award for best short film 2012 of
the Greek Film Academy. She is also a co-founder of the
production company GUANACO active in film industry and
advertising. Girl Next Door is her first feature film.
Dad, Lenin and Freddy, short, 2011
Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival
Drama Short Film Festival - 2nd Best Film Award,
Art Direction & Costumes Award
Angers Premiers Plans - Musical Creation Award
CFC Worldwilde Short Film Festival
Leaving, short, 2005
Drama Short Film Festival
Base Film Festival ESCAC
Rinio Dragassaki
Dad, Lenin and Freddy, the previous film of Rinio
Dragasaki, is available at the Agora Film Market.
Fenia Cossovitsa’s selected filmography
Fenia Cossovitsa following her cinema studies in Paris
(PARIS VII) started her carrier in 1998 with Signs and Wonders
by Jonathan Nossiter on behalf of the French production
company MK2 (8 weeks shooting in Greece). In 2004 she
founded BLONDE S.A. an Athens based production company
together with Elias Ledakis and George Drivas.
Producer of many feature films, among them, Backdoor by
Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, Athens Bluesby George Panousopoulos,
J.A.C.Eby Menelaos Karamaghiolis and Standing Aside, Watching
by Yorgos Servetas but also she coproduced and or line produced
many international films like Tu honoreras ta mere et ta mere
by Brigitte Rouan (AGAT FILMS – France), The Cat’s Meow by
Peter Bogdanovich (Lionsgate – USA) and others.
Standing Aside Watching by Yorgos Servetas, 2013
City to City section Toronto International Film
Festival - Opening Film
J.A.C.E. by Menelaos Karamaghiolis, 2011
Tokyo International Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Best leading actress
Empirical Data by George Drivas, 2009
London Greek Film Festival - Best Experimental Film
Thessaloniki International Film Festival Digital Wave competition
Hardcore by Dennis Iliadis, 2004
Oldenburg International Film Festival German Independence Award, Audience Award
Stockholm Film Festival
Konstantinos Kontovrakis is founder and partner of
Athens-based production company HERETIC with Yorgos
Karnavas. Together, they have produced two of the most
successful Greek films of the last years Wasted Youth by Argyris Papadimitropoulos & Jan Vogel and Boy Eating the
Bird’s Food by Ektoras Lygizos and developed a number of
new projects in Greece and abroad. Konstantinos recently
co-produced with Fenia Cossovitsa and BLONDE S.A. the
feature film Standing Aside, Watching by Yorgos Servetas,
that just received its international premiere at Toronto IFF.
He is a member of EAVE and Binger Film Lab and works as
an expert for Cinemart and the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Fenia Cossovitsa
Konstantinos Kontovrakis
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GOD PROTECT MY DAUGHTER
Tunisia, France
Produced by:
BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS (France)
PROPAGANDA PRODUCTION (Tunisia)
Director: Leyla Bouzid
Scriptwriters: Leyla Bouzid,
Marie-Sophie Chambon
Producer: Sandra da Fonseca
Location: Tunisia
Looking for: Financial partners of all kinds
SYNOPSIS
Tunis, summer of 2010, a few months before the revolution, Farah turns 18. She joins a politically-engaged
band of musicians, and discovers freedom and sexuality, against her mother Hayet’s will, who knows Tunisia
and its taboos. The two women are opposed in a conflict. When Farah finally sets free, it’s to end up in the hands
of the state police.
God Protect My Daughter was born from my profound conviction that we need to tell about the oppressing atmosphere in which Tunisians lived, the absence of freedom of expression, the stifling sensation and the denouncement that had become unbearable. To show, in the face of it all, the bustling youth they were stopping
from being fulfilled, and who could only end up by exploding.
The story of Hayet and her daughter Farah, is one of the personal stories that drove to the Tunisian Revolution.
Farah is a free spirit in her mind and body, and it can’t go down well in this society. She is impulsive and intuitive.
From the start, she sings songs about the dysfunctions of her country, but she’s not really conscious of what it
implicates. Throughout the film, Farah grows up, discovers love and treason, becomes more grounded. She
realizes what country she lives in, and decides to resist. For her, it’s a journey of initiation.
The film will attempt to capture the different levels of energy to be found in Tunisia, going from a family
chronicle, and opening up onto wider stakes.
I’d like to propose this portrait of women within a society which is about to implode.
BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS
Blue Monday Productions is an independent motion picture and television production company. It is committed
to the diversity of works that are on offer to the general public and aims to produce ambitious, quality films.
Blue Monday Productions is headed by Nathalie Mesuret and Bertrand Gore, who have more than 15 years of
experience in the field. Together, they have produced to date some 17 theatrical features and two films for television, which have been selected by the major international film festivals : Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, International Critics’ Week or Un certain Regard, Berlin, Venice.
BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS
T: + 33 1 42 77 56 31
E: bluemonday@bluemonday.fr
W: www.bluemonday.fr
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zakaria, short, by Leyla Bouzid, 2013
Cinemed Festival
Festival Films Femmes Méditerranée of Marseille
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Leyla Bouzid was born and raised in Tunis, where she was
an active member of the local cinema club. She studied
French literature in Paris, then worked as an assistant director
before co-directing her first film, Sbeh El Khir with Walid
Mattar (2006). She studied at the film school la Fémis in
Paris. Soubresauts is her graduate film. It was selected in
more than 30 international festivals, as Clermont-Ferrand,
Toronto, Abu Dhabi. She won prizes at Milan, Tetouan (Morocco) and Premiers Plans of Angers. She is currently preparing her first feature film God Protect my Daughter. The
shooting is planned for the next spring (2014), in Tunis.
Soubresauts, short, by Leyla Bouzid, 2011
Festival Premiers Plans of Angers, Jury Grand Prize
for School Films Competition
International Festival for Mediterranean Cinema
of Tetouan, Jury Grand Prize
African, Asian and South American Film Festival
in Milan, ISMU Prize
Un Ange Passe, short, by Leyla Bouzid, 2010
Women’s Film Festival of Créteil, Fresnes Women’s Prize
Henri Langlois Meetings - International School
Films Festival
Carthage Film Festival
Soubresauts, the previous film of Leyla Bouzid,
Dusts, short, 2013, by Daniel Metge
Born in 1981 in Paris suburbs, Sandra da Fonseca studied
philosophy and cinema in Paris and Strasbourg. She joins
Blue Monday Productions in 2006, as the assistant of the
producers Nathalie Mesuret and Bertrand Gore, then as an
executive producer on Daniel Metge’s fourth short film,
Dusts, and the first feature film by Leyla Bouzid, God Protect
my Daughter.
God Protect My Daughter, 2013, by Leyla Bouzid
(pre production)
Looking For Love: A Diary, doc, by Cécile Mille
(in development)
Leyla Bouzid
Sandra da Fonseca
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A HISTORY OF WOMEN
Turkey
SYNOPSIS
Produced by: EFLATUN FILM
Director: Ülkü Oktay
Scriptwriter: Ülkü Oktay
Producer: Onur Ünlü
Location: Turkey
Looking for: Co-Producer
A History of Women is the story of five days in an Eastern Anatolian village where the winters are harsh. Left in
the village are only two households; inhabitants being women, kids, an old crippled man and a mentally
challenged boy. During these five days, all roads are blocked, phone lines are down; and all manners of communication with the outside world have become impossible due to heavy snow. The main story deals with the
burial process of Gülbahar’s crippled husband Fesih, who dies on the night of the first day. The villagers are Hanefi-Muslims, and according to their creed, a dead male has to be washed, shrouded, prayed for and buried by
another male. A History of Women is the story of these devoutly Muslim women who tackle the problem of
burying Fesih properly where the imam had ran away, and all the other men are out of the village.
As is known, the majority of Turkey consists of Hanefi-Muslims. In the guidebook issued by Turkey’s Directorate
of Religious Affairs, when the funeral proceedings are described, it wasn’t even conceived that there would be
no men present in such a situation. This is the point of origin for our story. A History of Women views the totality
of rules imposed by the patriarchal society, and reproduced and guaranteed by the mainstream religion, while
criticizing these rules and their implementation through the eyes of women. The methods the women use in
order to bury Fesih and the social relationships they develop during the solution process involve a social criticism
of the patriarchal structure. Throughout the story, women do not adopt the patriarchal way and instead they recreate themselves as active subjects regardless of hierarchy.
EFLATUN FILM
Eflatun Film, established in 2006 by Onur Ünlü, Funda Alp and Orkun Ünlü. Eflatun Film is one of the leading
film and television production companies based in Istanbul, produced several awarded feature films, TV Series,
TV programmes, short films and music promos. Eflatun Film’s first feature film Police, which was written and
directed by Onur Ünlü in 2007, was screened at numerous national and international festivals, including the
Golden Boll Festival and the Moscow Film Festival. In 2008, produced two fantastic genre films, The Kid followed
by Son of the Sun. Five Cities won various awards from the Golden Boll and the Golden Orange Film Festivals in
2009. In 2011, The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family was awarded as the Best Film and the Best
Screenplay at the Golden Boll Film Festival. Cast members also received the Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast
Performance. And in 2013 Eflatun Film’s latest film Thou Gild’st the Even has won the Best Film, Best Script, Best
Editing and FIPRESCI prizes from Istanbul Film Festival in 2013.
EFLATUN FILM
T: +90 212 2749295
E: info@eflatunfilm.net
W: www.eflatunfilm.com
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zilo / Tales from Kars (zilo / Kars Öyküleri), short, 2010
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam
19th Sarajevo Film Festival
29th Istanbul International Film Festival
Ülkü Oktay was born in Ankara in 1980 and studied architecture at Middle East Technical University before going to
Istanbul Bilgi University’s Film School.
While she was studying filmmaking, she started to write
scripts and direct music videos. Some of her scripts won various awards in national and international script contests.
In 2007, the Ankara Cinema Association held a screenplay
contest entitled the Stories of Kars Script Competition. Her
script Zilo was one of the five scripts that were chosen by a
selection committee made up of prominent Turkish filmmakers. In 2010, this omnibus film Tales from Kars made its
world premiere in Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2008, NISI
MASA organized European Short Script Contest, and her
script Scamps was the first winner of both national and international contests. She has been working as first assistant
director of Onur Ünlü who is one of the well-known turkish
directors, for four years in several projects. Also, she keeps
writing scripts and directing short films at Eflatun Film.
Now, she is in preproduction of her feature film A History of
Women which is produced by Eflatun Film.
Ülkü Oktay
Zilo, the previous film of Ülkü Oktay, is available
Thou Gild’st the Even, 2013 by Onur Ünlü
32th Istanbul Film Festival, 2013 - Best Film,
Best Script, Best Editing, FIPRESCI Prize
38th Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection
49th Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Onur Ünlü was born in Izmit in 1973. After graduating from
Anadolu University School of Communication Sciences, he
went on to complete his masters degree at Marmara University School of Communication Sciences.
Since 1997, he has realized many projects as screenwriter,
copywriter, producer and director. His first feature film Police,
which he wrote and directed in 2007, was screened at numerous national and international festivals, including the
Golden Boll Festival and the Moscow Film Festival. In 2008,
he wrote and directed two fantastic genre films, The Kid
followed by Son of the Sun. He won various awards from
the Golden Boll and the Golden Orange Film Festivals for
his 2009 film Five Cities. In the same year, he wrote the
script and co-produced Love, Bitter. In 2011, his feature film
The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family was
awarded as the Best Film and the Best Screenplay at the
Golden Boll Film Festival. Cast members also received the
Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast Performance. His latest
film, Thou Gild’st the Even has won the Best Film, Best Script,
Best Editing and FIPRESCI prizes from Istanbul Film Festival
in 2013 and still continues to be screened in international
film festivals.
The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family,
2011 by Onur Ünlü
18th Adana International Golden Boll Film Festival,
2011 - Best Film, Best Screenplay, Acting Overall
Performance Award
Five Cities, 2009 by Onur Ünlü
46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Best Screenplay,
Special Performance Award
16th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival - Best Screenplay,
Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor
29th Istanbul International Film Festival - Best Actor
Love, Bitter, 2009 by A. Taner Elhan
(Co-Production)
Son Of The Sun, 2008 by Onur Ünlü
Onur Ünlü
Police, 2007 by Onur Ünlü
Ankara Film Festival - Best Actor
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REVOLUTION
France, Egypt
SYNOPSIS
Produced by: AURORA FILMS
Director: Wissam Charaf
Scriptwriter: Wissam Charaf
Producer: Charlotte Vincent
Location: Egypt
Looking for: Distributor,
International Seller, Co-producer
Cairo, 2011. Fadi, a journalist, is covering the Egyptian revolution. Arrested and imprisoned inside a tank that is
roaming the city in chaos, he must unite with his other inmates to escape and do live broadcast on time. But
Sophie, his lover and fellow journalist is attacked on Tahrir Square. Fadi must find her.
The events depicted in this story have really taken place in February 2011, in Cairo, during the Egyptian uprising.
As I was covering the news in Egypt, I got arrested and spent a day imprisoned in a tank with Michael, the Englishman, Hamdi, the Egyptian and Mourad and Ahmed, the two Libyans. I suffered physically and mentally, I
got very scared and the situation was as bad as it could get, but it was a hell of a unique situation. Subsequently,
If felt that a story had to be written about this: How do you witness a revolution, perhaps the most important
event in a country like Egypt since the time of the Pharaohs, when you’re stuck in a tank for no reason with total
strangers and cannot even witnesses what’s in your immediate vicinity? And how, as an individual, do you react
to your sudden loss of liberty, the disruption of your daily routine?
This film expresses no opinion on the political situation, in the present or at the time of the revolution. The
strength of this story is to stay outside the big story, but to carry its values through the small story. The story of
a journalist who has to get to his studio to tell the world what his has seen on this particular day. A day that
made him a better man.
AURORA FILMS
Over the past few years, Aurora Films, based in Paris, France, has specialized in French and international co productions, including: The Wound by Nicolas Klotz, selected at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2004, Domaine by
Patric Chiha, featuring Beatrice Dalle and selected at the Mostra of Venice in 2009, Iris in Bloom by Valérie
Mréjen and Bertrand Schefer, selected at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2011, and On the Edge by Leila Kilani,
also selected at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2011 and winner of more than 10 awards worldwide. Producing
also shorts and documentaries, Aurora Films invests heavily in developing new talent and promoting debut directors, with different projects currently in financing or production stages.
AURORA FILMS
T: +33 147704301
E: charlotte@aurorafilms.fr
W: www.aurorafilms.fr
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It’s All in Lebanon, doc, 2012
London International Documentary Festival
Bagdad International Film Festival
Carthage Festival - Bronze Tanit of best documentary
Born in 1973, Wissam Charaf is a Lebanese/French director,
cameraman and editor. In 1998, he moved to Paris, France,
where he began to work with the French/German network
ARTE, as a news cameraman, editor and journalist. He has
since covered major conflict areas ranging from Lebanon
and the Near East to Darfour, Afghanistan, Haiti or North
Korea and worked with programs such as ARTE Info, ARTE
Reportages, Tracks, Metropolis. He has directed 3 short films:
Hizz Ya Wizz, A Hero Never Dies, and An Army of Ants. This
film competed in the Locarno Film Festival, and obtained
the Jury prize in the Lunel Film Festival in France.
Wissam Charaf has also worked as an assistant director on
films with Danielle Arbid as well as on music videos with
French director Henri-Jean Debon for artists such as Noir
Desir, Sinead O Connor, Asian Dub Foundation. Today, he
has completed It’s All in Lebanon, a 52-minute documentary
and the script of his first full-length feature film.
An Army of Ants, short, 2007
Locarno International Film Festival
Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival
Lunel Festival - Jury Prize
A Hero Never Dies, short, 2006
Paris Cinema International Film Festival
Kort
Amsterdam Shorts
Hizz Ya Wizz, short, 2004
Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival
Angers International Film Festival
Carthage International Film Festival
Wissam Charaf
An Army of Ants, the previous film of Wissam Charaf,
On the Edge by Leïla Kilani, 2012
Cannes Film Festival - Director’s Fortnight
Roma FrancoFilm Festival - First Prize
Tanger Festival - Great Prize
Charlotte Vincent, a graduate of HEC, founded Aurora Films
in 2002. Since then, she has produced shorts, documentaries
and feature films. She is a member of the ACE network.
Iris in Bloom by Valérie Mréjen and Bertrand Schefer, 2011
La Rochelle International Film Festival
Bienne European Film Festival
Domain by Patric Chiha, 2009
Venice Film Festival - International Film Critics Week
Selected for Louis Delluc Prize
15th Cahiers du Cinéma Week, Tokyo
Charlotte Vincent
The Wound by Nicolas Klotz and Elizabeth Perceval, 2004
Buenos Aires International Film Festival
Cinéssonne International Festival - Grand Prize
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THE SEA AND ITS WAVES
Lebanon, France
Produced by:
GINGER BEIRUT PRODUCTION
KAFARD FILMS
Directors: Liana Kassir, Renaud Pachot
Scriptwriters: Liana Kassir, Renaud Pachot
Producers: Abla Khoury,
Mathieu Mullier Griffiths
Location: Beirut
Looking for: Co-Production,
Post-Production Funds, Broadcasters,
International Sales
SYNOPSIS
Selim is the forgotten lighthouse keeper that no longer operates. He spends most of his time observing from his
perch the movement of passersby at the Pier of Beirut. One day being bored, he thought seeing among the walkers,
a wave in the sea transforming into a woman coming along from the kingdom of the abyss leading him into the
fantasy of a journey through time, through the ancient ruins along the Lebanese coast, through his own past.
The film takes the form of an enchanted saunter, it describes the vertigo of a standing man in the midst of ultramodern skyscrapers, ruins of war, and antic temples of Lebanon.
Our approach is in the tradition of actors’ films, as through the choice of our main character, played by the
renowned storyteller, Jihad Darwish, we wish to give him free reign to employ his knowledge of Mediterranean
myths by giving him room to improvise. Our text is intentionally conceived to be concise as we consider it to be
changing, alive and never complete. It is the moving basis through which the particular way a storyteller
narrates a story; the eyes and ears of the filmmaker; and the way in which we will film our protagonist high up
in his lighthouse, hallucinating under the heat, are weaved together.
The Sea and its Waves is in the first instance an experimental feature that combines the fiction of this fantastic
journey and the reality show of his day to day: this pier on the waterfront of Beirut; its coast and its inhabitants.
However, we wish to mix up narrative forms and conventions, by beginning with a classic documentary style,
then moving gradually and with the psyche of the protagonist, to the lyricism of fantastic tales.
KAFARD FILMS
Born from a filmmakers association, KAFARD FILMS has been developping for the past 10 years in a place that
has become both a creative and artistic hub in the heart of the French capital.
Aiming to build an eclectic catalog, we produce a multi-faceted range of projects highlighting the daring of innovative authors:
The International department is committed to the production of portraits, essays, features and documentary
films. This choice has grown over the years based on the many experiences of shooting abroad.
The 16 mm section focuses on short and feature movies exclusively shot in celluloïd. Thanks to the expertise of our
technicians and an equipment acquired these recent years, we can offer a specific workflow for each project.
GINGER BEIRUT PRODUCTION
GINGER BEIRUT S.A.L. is a production company for feature and short films, documentaries, TV series, music
videos and public service announcements that covers every aspect of the production process from co-producing
and set work to post production. Their wide range of services and impressive contact list gained through years
of involvement in the Lebanese film scene make of Ginger Beirut the trustworthy name it is today.
KAFARD FILMS
T: +33603576588
E: mathieumullier@gmail.com
W: www.kafardfilms.fr
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DIRECTORS’ FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTORS’ PROFILE
Vertical Village, doc, 2012
Ecrans du Réel - Public Award
Beirut International Film Festival
Traces de Vie Festival
Hangzhou Asian Film Festival
After graduating in Cinema Studies, earning graduate degrees from the directing department at the ESRA film school
(Paris, 2010), Liana Kassir and Renaud Pachot choose to
engage in independent production and direction. Over the
last 3 years they have sought to prove that filmmaking need
not require as many means as most people tend to think.
Hearing remarks such as “a cheap film at 2 million Euros”,
they react with forced laughter. Their films are created with
a conviction that cinema can be other than that. As Robert
Bresson said, “You can’t show everything. If you do, it’s no
longer art. Art lies in suggestion. The great difficulty for
filmmakers is precisely not to show things.”
Last Year in Bagdad, short, 2010
Berceau du cinema
Le Developpeur, short, 2009
Ici et Demain
Renaud Pachot
Le Developpeur and Vertical Village, the previous
films of Liana Kassir and Renaud Pachot, are available
Liana Kassir
Mathieu Mullier Griffiths’ selected filmography:
Matthieu Mullier started cinema at the age of 19, attending for two years in Paris a masterclass in film production
and started his career while getting a first hand experience
for a distribution company. After three years, dealing with
marketing, publicity, press relations and consolidating advertising partnerships, he enters the COURS FLORENT, the
prestigious Paris-based school for the dramatic arts while
starting to write for the stage and cinema. While on location
for a movie in 2003, he met cinematographer Paul Anthony
Mille and decides to launch together with 3 other associates
the production company, KAFARD FILMS. Since then, he has
been executive producer on numerous short films, documentaries and features contributing to make KAFARD FILMS
a full-fledged independent film production company. The
latest documentary he produced, the award-winning Fidaï,
is due to be released in Europe in the comming months. Today he shares his time between KAFARD FILMS and his writing masterclass at a drama school.
A Lapse of Time, short by Céline Tricart, Executive Producer, 2013
3D film Festival Dimension 3 - First Prize
Fidaï, doc by Damien Ounouri, Executive Producer, 2012
Toronto International Film
L.A.I.F.F. - Best Film
IDFA
Dok-Leipzig
Viennale International Film Festival
The Third Way, short, by Jean-Michel Tari, Executive Producer, 2011
3D Film Festival Dimension 3 - Jury’s Special Price
Tulsa International Film Festival - Best foreign short film,
Best short film actor Festival Effets Star - Jury’s Grand Price
Illuminati by Paul Anthony Mille, Executive Producer, 2008
Abla Khoury’s selected filmography:
The Wall, short, by Odette Makhlouf,
Co-Producer/Line Producer, 2012
Behind the Window, short, by Nagham Abboud, Producer, 2011
Gate 5, doc, by Simon El Haber, Line Producer, 2011
Where Do We Go Now?, by Nadine Labaki,
Line Producer/Casting Director, 2011
The Mountain, by Ghassan Salhab, Line Producer, 2010
Mathieu Mullier Griffiths
Abla Khoury graduated in 1995 from IESAV with a BA in Arts
and Theater, and has been dedicated to various forms of visual
art. She acted on stage and screen (in West Beirut by Ziad
Doueiry, Terra Incoginta by Ghassan Salhab, Alger Beirut by
Mirzak Alllouache). She wrote, directed, and acted in numerous
films and plays at La Madina Theater (Beirut, 2001), The House
of World Culture (Berlin, 2003), and La MaMa theater (New
York, 2004). In 2009 Abla co-founded Ginger Beirut S.A.L, Production Company for films with Lara Chekerdgian.
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THE SATELLITES
France, Serbia
Produced by: 25 FILMS / DRUID FILMS
Director: Nenad Mikalacki
Scriptwriter: Nenad Mikalacki
Producer: Pascaline Saillant
Location: Paris and Belgrade
Looking for: Co-producers, Sales agent,
Distributor, Financing
SYNOPSIS
Two kids are sitting at a bus stop in Belgrade. They look at strangers passing by and try to guess who they might
be just through observation. They comment on the passers-by, but really they are talking about themselves and
everyday life in Serbia.
Now, in their mid-twenties, they are in Paris, playing the same old game and talking about their past in Belgrade.
Back then, they were members of a local teenage gang and their middle class families were falling apart.
Blaza was leading the adventure. But one day, while they were celebrating a crime, one of the guys stole the
loot. After that, most of the boys left the country. Back in Paris, they are nostalgic and lost. Srdjan doesn’t
manage to find his place in society, but doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore. He goes back home, while Blaza
soon vanishes forever. Back in Belgrade, Srdjan sits in his apartment for days before finally going back to his old
job. He can’t help but notice the signs of social and political instability all around him. In his free time, he sits in
peace in the national library and starts copying from his Paris notebook into a new one.
The Satellites is inspired by the Serbian book Ljudi za stolom (Men at the Table) written by Srdjan Valjarevic. From
the book, we want to keep the dialogs and the idea of a coming-of-age story, driven by two different characters
wandering between two countries and two cultures. Immigrants in the streets of Paris, these two guys represent
two faces of Serbia, as they just sit on a street corner, drink beer and play an observing game to pass the time.
This is what they used to do as children in Belgrade’s remote neighborhoods. Their monologues and voice-overs
(flash backs) will create bridges between different times, contrasted cities, and their two conflicted moods and
personalities.
With the cast of professional and non-professional actors, an atmospheric approach for the creation of the
music score, a combination of fiction and documentary shooting styles and a small yet international crew, we
intend to create a piece of rough cinematic poetry.
Although this film seeks to portray a specific Balkan soul, it refers not only to Serbians, but also to a wide range
of nations who are wandering the streets of big cities, locals or outsiders, lonely and lost in a European dream.
25 FILMS
25 Films is a Paris-based production company created in 2007. Our ambition is to develop and produce socially
and humanely sensitive international films. We are currently working on projects from different parts of the
world (Syria, Brazil, Serbia, Madagascar), our strategy being to find different ways of producing according to
the specificities of each project. No matter which genre or format, we want to share our passion for innovative
storytelling or for out-of-the-box visual experimentations with the largest possible audience.
25 FILMS
T: + 33 6 07 16 31 01
E: contact@25films.fr
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Selected filmography
Nenad Mikalacki was born in Novi Sad, ex-Yugoslavia in
1975. In 2001, he graduated in Film and TV Directing from
the National University of Drama and Film (UNATC) in
Bucharest. He directed short films and documentaries, including Mr Mr, The Last Swan Lake and At Home supported
by the Robert Bosch Film Prize for international cooperation.
He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent Campus (2013), Sarajevo
Talent Campus (2008) and Ex Oriente (2008).
In 2010, he created the production company Druid Film. In
2013, MEDIA invited him to the Euro Connection short film
coproduction market, where he met French producer Pascaline Saillant with whom he is currently developing his
debut feature The Satellites.
At Home, short, 2011
Broadcast on Arte
Festival International de Huesca, prize
Nominee for Best German Short Film Prize 2012
The Last Swan Lake, short, 2006
Cinemed
Festival Internation de Huesca
Busho Film Festival
Mr Mr , short, 2000
Cinemajove Film Festival
MediaWave Film Festival
DaKino Film Festival
At Home, the previous film of Nenad Mikalacki,
Kaspar Film, doc, by Florence Pezon, 2011
IFFR Rotterdam 2012
Lussas Etats Généraux 2012
FID Marseille 2012
Pascaline Saillant graduated in Cinema Studies in Lyon in
2005 while working as a projectionist in a local arthouse
cinema. After various experiences as a freelance production
manager or producer’s assistant in France and in the UK,
she created the independent production company 25 Films
in 2007, driven by a desire to discover and support new talents. During the past seven years she has produced 10 multiaward winning films: animation, documentary and fiction
short films. She is currently developing two debut features,
The Satellites by Serbian director Nenad Mikalacki, and Another Life from Italian scriptwriter Chiara Cremaschi.
License to Clean, short, by Pascal Jaubert, 2011
Liège - Prize 13ème Rue Liège
Polar Festival Cognac - Best Short Film
Itinérance Alès - Youth Jury Award
I Was Crying Out at Life, Or for It, short,
by Vergine Keaton, 2009
AnimFest Athens - Best Soundtrack
Holland Animation Film Festival - Best Non
Narrative Film Award
Tampere Film Festival - Diploma of Merit
Nenad Mikalacki
Pascaline Saillant
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WATERLOO
Spain
Produced by: KINOSKOPIK
Director: Miguel Angel Jimenez
Scriptwriters: Luis Moya,
Miguel Angel Jimenez
Producer: Gorka Gómez Andreu
Location: Spain
Looking for: European Co-Producers
SYNOPSIS
Waterloo is a romantic tragicomedy about a man who loses everything in the midst of a country about to crash
and decides to start a journey in search of the only thing worth fighting for: Love.
Waterloo is the personal adventure that draws the strange map of that strange place in the middle of the global
crisis, in search of forgotten coordinates: Today is always still.
To shoot with Jose Manuel in Benidorm, riding his last dream, chasing a trail of the past love in Maite´s eyes, it´s
as comforting as shooting from an old porch next to John Wayne, like crossing the ice with Shackleton, like
crossing again the last few inches before giving your first kiss. It is the epic and courage in our closer and
everyday world. Although an old man trying to recapture an old love in Benidorm sounds much less commercial
and desirable than an impossible love between teenage vampires, although it seems that nobody wants to see
the elderly on the screen. I’ll stick with Jose Manuel and I´ll go with him on the bus, I will gorge a waffle with
him in the Sunset Esplanade, and we will listen together to Camilo Sesto in the lobby of the hotel while we get
drunk on a Tuesday afternoon.
This movie is something of a huge importance for me, and I hope to shoot it with my colleagues in the simpliest
and most beautiful way possible, and to be able to convince our audience that to join us in this spanish adventure
of personal revolution before the abyss, has been and will always be worth it.
KINOSKOPIK FILM PRODUKTION
KINOSKOPIK FILM PRODUKTION is a production company based in Spain, formed by young proffesionals who
share nearly 10 years of experience in filmmaking. We develop quality projects with a deep artistic concept
oriented mainly for the European market. We work in a low-medium budget sector with a main interest for European coproductions.
KINOSKOPIK
T: +34 685459712
E: gorka@kinoskopik.com
E: miguelangel@kinoskopik.com
W: www.kinoskopik.com
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Miguel Angel (Madrid, 1979) left a degree in law and started
studying cinematography in TAI School, Madrid.
In 2001, he shot his first short film in 35 mm – Las Huellas
(Tracks) –, that was produced by Aki Kaurismäki.
In 2007, he and three partners founded Kinoskopik Film
Produktion and he directed the documentary Días de El
Abanico (Days of El Abanico), shot in Argentina.
In 2009, his first feature – Ori (The Two) – received praise
from the critics during its premiere in San Sebastian International Film Festival (New Directors section). Also won First
Film Prizes in Tetouan IFF 2010 and PNR Madrid FF 2010.
In 2010, he directed the short film Khorosho that was selected in 25 national and international film festivals. The
film was winner in Cortada Short Film Festival (Spain), UNCIPAR FF (Argentina, 2011), and Jury Prize in Art Kurtz FF
2011 (France).
His second feature film, Chaika (2012) is a Spanish-Georgian-Russian co-production which won the Eurimages prize
for the Best Project in Development in Rome 2010. It was
premiered at San Sebastian IFF 2012 (New Directors), and
it won Best Director´s Debut and Best Cinematographer´s
Debut prizes at Plus Camerimage IFF 2012. The film has
allso been selected to other international festivals, such as
Thessaloniki IFF 2012, Mannheim-Heidelberg IFF 2012,
Santa Barbara IFF 2013, San Francisco IFF 2013 etc.
He is now working in his third feature film, Waterloo, written
together with his scriptwriter Luis Moya.
Chaika, 2012
San Sebastian IFF New Directors
Camerimage - Best Director, Best Cinematographer
Skip City IFF - Best Film
Khorosho, Short, 2010
Cortada FF - Best Short
Uncipar IFF - Best Short
Art Kurtz FF - Prize of the Jury
Ori, 2009
San Sebastian IFF - New Directors
PNR Festival Madrid - Best Debut Film
Tetouan IFF - Best Debut Film
Miguel Angel Jimenez
Luis Moya
Chaika, the previous film of Miguel Angel Jimenez,
Born in Vitoria (Spain) in 1978. Graduate in Audiovisual
Journalism by Universidad de Navarra, in 2000. Graduate
in Direction of photography by TAI Cinema School, Madrid,
in 2003. Director of photography since 2006. Best Debut
Cinematographer at Plus Camerimage 2012 (Poland).
Best Short Film Cinematographer at Madridimagen 2012
(Spain). Best Short film cinematographer at Shimla IFF 2013
(India). Best Short film cinematographer at Daimiel Short
Film Festival 2013 (Spain). He is also producer of Kinoskopik
company´s films: Chaika (2012), Khorosho (2010) and Ori
(2009).
Chaika, 2012
San Sebastian IFF - New Directors
Camerimage - Best Director and Best Cinematographer
Skip City IFF - Best Film
Khorosho, Short, 2010
Cortada FF - Best Short
Uncipar IFF - Best Short
Art Kurtz FF - Prize of the Jury
Ori, 2009
San Sebastian IFF - New Directors.
PNR Festival Madrid - Best Debut Film
Tetouan IFF - Best Debut Film
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THE VETERAN
Greece
Produced by: MARNI FILMS
Director: Zacharias Mavroeidis
Scriptwriter: Zacharias Mavroeidis
Producer: Phaedra Vokali
Location: Greece
Looking for: Co-producers, financiers
SYNOPSIS
Aris has it all: a trendy loft, a fast sports car, a pretty girlfriend - until he loses his job. Penniless, at age 34, he is
forced to leave everything and relocate to his long deceased grandfather’s flat, right above his parents’ house.
Aris’ high-tech gadgets find their place along his pop’s old-fashioned furniture, while he re-discovers the neighborhood he grew up in: security alarms, higher fences and a gang of self-proclaimed nationalist teenage bullies
are now part of the suburban picture. In an attempt to adjust, Aris will reunite with his high school crush and
the freak of the school who still live around, both unemployed and eager to hang out with the former teenKing. Seduced by his reclaimed A-male status and disappointed with his fruitless job hunt, Aris reconsiders the
temporary arrangement as an attractive option. But as he feels more and more at home, the figure of his grandfather Aristides, a WW2 veteran, starts casting an intense influence on him. Aris picks up his grandpa’s habits
and tries on his clothes, confirming their stunning resemblance. When he accidentally meets a former comrade
of Aristides, who is now demented and mistakes him for his old friend, a well-kept secret will be revealed. In the
shadow of his grandfather’s ghost and after months of idleness, Aris enters a downward spiral. The next time he
visits the city centre, he is dressed in his grandfathers’ veteran suit and carries along his sword.
The Veteran is an urban homecoming dramedy. Hometown is the suburb of Papagou, a striking exception of oldstyle suburbia in the otherwise arbitrarily built Athens, founded in the ‘50s to house families of army generals.
Moving temporarily to the grandparents’ empty houses is a fast-spreading phenomenon among the 30-something
unemployed in today’s Athens. In hope of a better future, the newcomers don’t take over the space of their
ancestors. Their stuff appears misplaced in this foreign, old-fashioned environment in which they live as unproductive
pensioners, supported by their families. Meanwhile, in the public discourse, the current crisis is constantly paralleled
to WW2 - the war our grandparents courageously fought. These long-gone hard-working patriots are the archetype
out of which modern Greek society constantly generates distorted replicas of patriotic duty and moral integrity.
Through this desperate quest for role-models in the past resurfaces the polarity that led Greece into a brutal civil
war, right after WW2. The Veteran narrates the dark, Cohen-style journey of a man in search of a hero within a
blind-folded society. Pierced with irony and humor, the film aspires to be a transparent mirror between two generations that, aptly enough, reunite under the same roof: the deceased heroes and the new outcasts.
MARNI FILMS
Marni Films is a young independent company, based in Athens, that produces short films, feature films and
creative documentaries by filmmakers taking their first steps. The company started out in 2011 as a co-producer
of promising local projects, like Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps. After producing its first feature documentary, Directing
Hell (2011), Marni Films is now developing a number of its own projects. At the same time, the company
continues to offer vital help to independent Greek films (A Blast by Syllas Tzoumerkas and Wednesday 04:45 by
Alexis Alexiou). The company’s goal is to keep Greek cinema’s new wave alive by delivering innovative productions
for cinema, TV and internet platforms. Marni Films’ projects aspire to carry a personal vision and are intended
for international audiences.
MARNI FILMS
T: +30 2103228860
E: phaedra@marnifilms.gr
W: www.marnifilms.gr
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Selected filmography
Zacharias Mavroeidis studied Architecture in Thessaloniki
(AUTH), theater in Madrid (RESAD), scriptwriting in Cuba
(EICTV) and Filmmaking in Athens (NYC). Since 2006 he has
been working as a freelance director and scriptwriter for
film and TV. He participated in the 5th Berlinale Talent Campus and in the 2nd Sarajevo Talent Campus. He has directed
4 short films and one documentary. His debut feature film
The Guide premiered in Greek theaters on November 2011
and, until now, it has traveled to 17 film festivals around
the world.
Working Day, short, in post production
The Guide, 2011
Toronto Inside Out Film Festival
Transylvania International Film Festival
Syria, doc, 2010
Pink River, short, 2009
Oslo Skeiver Film Festival - Best Short Film Award
Frameline San Francisco Film Festival
Mediterranean Short Film Festival Of Tangier
Zacharias Mavroeidis
The Guide, the previous film of Zacharias Mavroeidis,
I Talk to My House, short, 2007
Naousa International Film Festival - Best Short Film Award
Pigs on the Wind by Stergios Paschos (in development)
Phaedra Vokali graduated with honors from the Marketing
and Communication Department of the Athens University
of Economic and Business, in 2005. She consequently worked
in distribution where she had the opportunity to attend international markets as a buyer and also organize the press
office. In 2006 she started her collaboration with the Athens
International Film Festival that carries on until this day. She
got her MA in Film Studies from the University College London as a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation. She
has since worked as head of programming of the Athens
Film Festival, while later she became editor in chief of Cinema
Magazine, the only film magazine in Greece. She currently
works as a producer in Marni Films and she has participated
with scholarship in the 2013 EAVE Producers Network.
64 Squares in Athens by Aristotelis Maragkos
(in pre-production)
Generator, short by Nikoleta Leousi, 2013
Drama International Short Film Festival - National
Critics Association’s Best Film, Honorary Distinction for
the script, Greek Cinematographer’s Association Prize
King Kong, short by Nikos Kiritsis, 2013
Elvis Is Dead, short by Stergios Paschos, 2013
Quiet Nights, short by Konstantinos Samaras, 2012
Phaedra Vokali
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WORKS IN PROGRESS 2013
7 NOVEMBER 2013
The Agora Works in Progress selection team are
Marie-Pierre Macia, Yianna Sarri,
Angeliki Vergou (Agora Industry),
Dimitris Kerkinos (Balkan Survey),
Eleni Androutsopoulou, Geortina Serpieri (Greek Films)
AWARDS SPONSOR
This industry activity gives the
opportunity to selected sales agents,
distributors and festival
programmers, to be the first to
discover feature films from Central
Europe, the Mediterranean and
Balkan region, in the stage just
before completion.
THE CURVE
Jordan-Egypt
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FACTORY GIRL
Egypt
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HOME WORK
Greece-Germany
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IMPRESSIONS OF A DROWNED MAN
Cyprus
Works
in
progress
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THE JUDGEMENT
Bulgaria-Germany-Croatia-FYROM
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LAzAR
FYROM-Croatia-Bulgaria-France
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NEXT TO HER
Israel
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THE SKY ABOVE US
The Netherlands-Serbia-Belgium-Greece
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SONG OF MY MOTHER
Turkey-France
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THE WORLD IS MINE
Romania
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ForEver
Greece
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STRATOS
Greece-Germany-Cyprus
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THE CURVE
Jordan, Egypt
Production Company:
THE IMAGINARIUM FILMS
Director: Rifqi Assaf
Screenwriter: Rifqi Assaf
Cast: Fatina Layla, Ashraf Barhoum,
Mazen Moudam
Producer: Rula Nasser
Co-producer: Mohammad Hefzy,
Film Clinic
Key partners: AFAC, Jordan Fund
Production Stage: Editing
Duration: 85’
Looking For: Post production funds,
Sales, Festivals, Co producers
SYNOPSIS
Contact Person:
Rula Nasser, producer
THE IMAGINARIUM FILMS
T: +962795520056
E: rula.nasser@gmail.com
W: theimaginariumfilms.com
One night, Radisuffering from social phobia, hears a shrilling scream in the distance. Despite his phobia, he challenges
himself by switching on the lights of his home – a VW microbus. With the seemingly trivial switching on of a light, he
soon enough finds himself on a road trip that alters his clockwork and very private lifestyle. Starting with the sheltering
of the screaming woman, Laila – recently divorced and traveling back to Damascus, the adventure continues and
eventually introduces two others into Radi’s mobile home. Sami – a Lebanese artist is found struggling on the side of
a road. The third character, a mysterious Jordanian policeman. All characters encompass variance degrees of experience,
pain, fear and a hopeful outlook on change. Within this journey, they come to realize they share much more than they
would have ever thought likely.
The Last Patch, short, 2005
Amman in Red, experimental short, 2006
Rifqi Assaf
The View, short, 2008
Franco-Arab Film Festival - Best Short Film
Taghit d’Or Film Festival - Best Script
Middle East Int’l Film Festival - Best Short Film
Jordan Short Film Festival - Best Script
Izmir Film Festival
Jordanian Filmmaker and screenwriter, born in Amman in 1978, holds a BA in English translation from ASU,
with a Filmography of four short films, and the feature project The Curve that was short listed in Abu Dhabi
Grant Shasha as one of the best screenplays to support. The Curve won the Arab Fund for Culture and Arts, and
was supported by the Jordanian Film Fund.
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THE FACTORY GIRL
Egypt, UAE
Production Company:
DAYDREAM ART PRODUCTION
Director: Mohamed Khan
Screenwriter: Wessam Soliman
Cast: Yasmin Raes, Hani Adel, Ibtihal
Producer: Mohamed Samir
Key partners: Enjaaz Dubai
Production Stage: Post-production
Duration: 90’
Looking For: Sales Agent
SYNOPSIS
Hiyam is a factory worker who’s living in a low middle class area, along with other factory girls. She thought
that her feelings for Salah, the new supervisor in the factory, can grow bigger in-spite of the class differences
between them. Although he shared some feelings with her, the cruel reality calls when a pregnancy test is
found in the factory and because she doesn’t hide her feelings, everybody accuses her of being a sinner. Even
her close friends and family.
Hiyam doesn’t want to defend herself and that makes her pay the price of a society that doesn’t accept proud
women.
Contact Person:
Mohamed Samir, Producer
DAYDREAM ART PRODUCTION
T: +201005135636
M: +201005135636
W: www.ddartproduction.com
E: daydream.artproduction@gmail.com
In the Heliopolis Flat, 2007
Downtown Girls, 2005
Klephty, 2004
Days of Sadat, 2001
Dreams of Hind and Camilia, 1989
Mohamed Khan
Mohamed Khan is one of the most prominent directors in the wave of Egyptian realism that flourished in the
1980s. He directed 23 films, four of them (Missing Person, Wife of an Important Person, Dreams of Hind and
Camilia, Supermarket) listed among the top 100 Egyptian films ever.
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HOME WORK
Greece, Germany
Production Company:
OXYMORON FILMS –
SHPN 3 FILMPRODUKTION
Director: Athanasios Karanikolas
Screenwriter: Athanasios Karanikolas
Cast: Maria Kallimani,
Marissa Triadafyllidou, Alexandros
Logothetis, Yiannis Tsortekis, Ieronymos
Kaletsanos
Producer: Argyris Papadimitropoulos,
Lasse Sharpen
Key partners: ZDF, Greek Film Centre
Production Stage: Post Production
Duration: 90’
Looking For: Sales Agent,
Festival Premiere
Contact Person:
Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Producer
OXYMORON FILMS
T: +306977611335
E: argyburgy@gmail.com
W: argyburgy.com
SYNOPSIS
Nadia is working for twelve years in Evi’s and Stefano’s house. They are like a family. Apart from the house care,
Nadia also takes cares of their daughter, Iris, as if she were her own child. When medical tests show that Nadia
is having a cureless neurological disease, her relationship with the family gets complicated. After having a short
disagreement with Evi, who in the beggining is against letting her go, ultimately Stefanos finds an excuse and
fires her, despite the fact that she is uninsured. On a very hot day, Nadia, while waiting for a bus to take her
downtown, collapses. A few hours later she wakes up at a hospital, only to find out that she has been robbed.
She decides to go back to Evi’s and Stefano’s house.
Echolot, 2013
Berlin Film Festival - Forum
Elli Makra - 42277 Wuppertal, 2007
Thessaloniki International Film Festival – Best Actress
Göteborg Film Festival
Mein bester schlimmster Fehler ,Documentary short, 2005
Mein Erlöser, short, 2003
S, short, 2002
Athanasios Karanikolas
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Athanasios Karanikolas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Photography in New York and then went
off to continue his studies in Media Art and Directing in Germany. He has directed fiction, documentary films
and theater. His first feature Elli Makra, 42277 Wuppertal has won him among others the Best Actress Prize in
the 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. His second feature Echolot was in the official selection of the
Berlinale’s Forum 2013 and since then it was screened in numerous festivals around the world. Since 2006 he
teaches directing and acting in the HFF in Potsdam, in the Met School Berlin, in the HFS Ernst Busch and in
Actors Space in Berlin. His fourth feature film Home Work, financed by the ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehsspiel and
shot in Athens is now in post production.
IMPRESSIONS OF A DROWNED MAN
Cyprus
SYNOPSIS
A man called the Passenger meets the Co-Passenger who introduces himself as an amateur actor and gives him
a DVD from an unfinished film where he starred, called Impressions of a Drowned Man. The Passenger meets a
woman named Maria. She reveals to him that he is Kostas Karyotakis, a famous poet that had committed suicide
in 1928, and that he relives the last days of his life before every anniversary of his death. She also reveals that
she was his ex-lover and that she was expecting his baby when he died. The Passenger watches the DVD given
to him by the Co-Passenger, but the DVD shows his own point-of-view while taking the DVD. Moreover he
enters a photo-booth for I.D. photos, but the photos depict landscapes previously or later seen in our film. He
later finds out that the Co-Passenger starred as Kostas Karyotakis in a TV series about the famous poet. He ends
up at an exhibition about suicide poets. The poets themselves stand as exhibits. Among them stands the CoPassenger at the pedestal of Kostas Karyotakis. The Co-Passenger reveals that they are both the same person,
and that they soon have to commit suicide as their history prescribes.
Production Company: DRYTREE FILMS
Director: Kyros Papavassiliou
Screenwriter: Kyros Papavassiliou,
Yiorgos Zois
Cast: Thodoris Pentidis,
Marissa Triantafyllidou,
Christodoulos Martas, Melina Apostolidou
Producer: Kyros Papavassiliou
Co-producer : Monica Nicolaidou,
Filmblades
Production Stage: Post-Production
(finished first cut)
Duration: 95’
Budget: 480.000 euro
Looking For: Financing to complete
the film, Post-production services
(image & sound), Festival Premiere,
Sales Agent
Contact Person:
Kyros Papavassiliou, Director, Producer
DRYTREE FILMS
T: +357 97855893, +30 6982155096
E: kyrospv@gmail.com
W: drytreefilms.com
In the Name of the Sparrow, short, 2007
Cannes Film Festival - Short Films Official Competition
At Kafka’s Trial Room, short, 2005
Drama Film Festival - Special Mention by Greek Film Center
Lament, short, 2003
Kyros Papavassiliou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1972. He studied Philosophy and Musicology in the United
States. He has written & directed three short films. Impressions of a Drowned Man, currently in post-production,
are his first long-feature film. His most recent short film In the Name of the Sparrow was presented in competition
at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 (Selection Officielle, Court Metrage). The film was then presented in many
other international festivals. As a theatre director he has recently produced his first theatre performance titled
Misunderstanding Concerning a Sweet Land Called Cyprus. He has worked as a film editor for short films, documentaries as well as for various TV programs. He has published a collection of poems entitled Poneman in
2002, by Gabrielides Publishings, Athens.
Kyros Papavassiliou
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THE JUDGMENT
Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, FYROM
Production Company: ARGO FILM LTD
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Screenwriter: Marin Damyanov,
Emil Spahiyski, Stephan Komandarev
Cast: Assen Blatechki, Miki Manojlovic,
Ovanes Torosian
Producer:
Stephan Komandarev - Argo Film
Co-producers: Alexander Ris - Neue
Mediopolis Filmproduktion,
Boris T. Matic - Propeler film,
Vladimir Anastasov - Sector film
Key partners:
Bulgarian National Film Centre,
Bulgarian National Television,
German Film Funds - MBB, MDM, DFFF,
Croatian Audio-visual Centre,
Macedonian Film Fund, EURIMAGES,
MEDIA, SEECN
Duration: 110’
Secured Financing: 100 %
Looking For: Festivals, World Sales
SYNOPSIS
The Judgment is a story about Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area near to the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek
border. For 25 years Mityo has lived with the burden of a terrible secret - as a soldier on the Bulgarian border, he was
forced to kill a young couple from GDR that tried to escape to the West – from Bulgaria to Turkey. Nowadays, Mityo
is on the border again, but this time smuggling illegal immigrants from Syria in the opposite direction – from
Turkey to Bulgaria and the EU. He had lost everything that has mattered to him - his wife, his work, the confidence
of his son, Vasko. In order to get Vasko back, Mityo has to find forgiveness and pay for his sin.
The Town of Badante Women, doc, 2009
Dokufest I Internazionale a Ferrara Festival I Bratislava International Film Festival
Contact Person:
Stephan Komandarev, Director, Producer
ARGO FILM LTD.
T: +359878308238
E: komandarev@abv.bg
W: www.thejudgmentmovie.bg
W: www.argofilm.eu
World is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner, 2008
35 International Film Awards I Oscar Academy Awards - Shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film
Alphabet of Hope, doc, 2003
Golden Rython Bulgarian Documentary Film Festival - Golden Rython for Best Bulgarian Documentary Film,
Best Producer Award
IDFA - Official Selection, 2003
GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film - Best Documentary Film Award of the Hertie Foundation
Bread Over the Fence, doc, 2002
Dogs’ Home, 2000
Berlin Film Festival - International Forum of New Cinema
Stephan Komandarev
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Stephan is a film director and a producer. He is a member of the European Film Academy, of the Bulgarian Film
Directors’ Association and of the Bulgarian Film Producers’ Association. He completed a degree in Film & TV
directing at the New Bulgarian University (1998). Stephan Komandarev’s works include documentary and
feature films. He is a lecturer at the Film Department of the New Bulgarian University since 2008. He is an EAVE
alumni and has participated at the Mediterranean Film Institute Script 2 Film Workshops, the ScripTeast –
training program for scriptwriters from Central and Eastern Europe and the Ex Oriente Film. He is currently developing his 3rd feature film The Other Man based on the short story Macedonia from the book East of the
West by Miroslav Penkov, #1 best seller in Bulgaria for the year 2012.
LAzAR
FYROM, Croatia, Bulgaria, France
SYNOPSIS
Lazar is disaffected and emotionally disconnected from the world around him. When his father left the family,
he had to grow up to be resourceful and tough, and now in his mid twenties, he is involved in a smuggling ring
of illegal aliens. His worldview starts to change when he falls in love with Katerina, an architecture student,
who he randomly meets. She is able to awaken his stunted emotional life, and Lazar starts to see a different
possibility for his future. The more involved he gets with Katerina, the more he tries to get out of his criminal environment. However, he will soon realize that it is not easy to simply break out from the criminal world that he
is part of. Toni, Lazar’s brother in law, who lost his job due to the economic collapse of the country, desperately
tries to find ways of making money. He would do anything to change the image of a loser, and to provide a
better childhood, than the one he had, for his son Zlate.
Production Company: SMALL MOVES,
MP FILMSKA PRODUKCIJA, GALA FILM,
ARIZONA PRODUCTIONS
Director: Svetozar Ristovski
Screenwriters: Svetozar Ristovski,
Grace Lea Troje
Cast: Vedran Zivolic, Dejan Lilic,
Natasa Petrovic, Vlado Jovanovski,
Goran Navojec, Alexander Sano,
Krassimira Kuzmanova
Producer: Svetozar Ristovski, Igor
Aleksander Nola, Galina Toneva,
Guillaume de Seille
Production Stage:
Post-production/Picture editing
Duration: 110’
Looking For: Post-production services
(image & sound), Festivals, Sales Agents
Dear Mr. Gacy, feature film, 2010
Mirage, feature film, 2004
International Film Festival Rotterdam - Lions Film Award
Tokyo International Film Festival - Special Jury Mention
Anchorage International Film Festival - Best Feature Film
Toronto International Film Festival I Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Contact Person:
Guillaume de Seille
ARIZONA PRODUCTIONS
T: +33 67 8180105
E: guilaume@arizonafilms.net
W: www.arizonafilms.net
Joy of Life, documentary, 2001
GoEast Film Festival Wiesbaden - Best Documentary I Wine Country Film Festival - Best Documentary
Hunter, short, 2000
Ristovski was born in Titov Veles, SFR Yugoslavia and attended the University of St Cyril and Methodius in Skopje,
where he studied architecture and filmmaking. In 2001, he made his first documentary, Joy of Life, which was
awarded Best Documentary at the GoEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany and Best Documentary (International Selection) at the Wine Country Film Festival in Napa Valley, California. The critically acclaimed, Mirage
(2004) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004 (Discovery) and was screened in film festival
official selections around the world including Thessaloniki International Film Festival, winning several awards
and nominations. In 2010 Ristovski made his North American debut with Dear Mr.Gacy starring William Forsythe,
a Canadian production which premiered on HBO Canada in 2010.
Svetozar Ristovski
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NEXT TO HER
Israel
Production Company:
2-TEAM PRODUCTIONS
Director: Asaf Korman
Screenwriter: Liron Ben-Shlush
Cast: Liron Ben-Shlush, Dana Ivgy,
Yaacov Zada-Daniel
Producers: Haim Mecklberg,
Estee Yacov-Mecklberg
Production Stage: Rough Cut
Duration: 90’
(not including post production)
Looking For: Finance of
post-production, Worldwide Sales
SYNOPSIS
Contact Person:
Haim Mecklberg & Estee Yacov-Mecklberg,
Producers
2-TEAM PRODUCTIONS
T: +972.3.6875111
E: office@2teamproductions.com
Chelli, 27, is raising her mentally retarded sister Gabi, 24, all by herself. When the social worker discovers she
leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, Chelli is forced to place her in a day-care center and the huge
void left by her sister’s absence, makes room for a man in Chelli’s life.
That man, Zohar, tears another crack in the symbiotic relationship of the two sisters. Chelli hangs on to his love
as to a life belt, but her inability to lead a normal, intimate relationship with anyone but her sister, forces them
into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing and torturing – are broken.
Death of Shula, short, 2007
20 other film festivals and awards
Birthday, short, 2005
Munich International Film Festival
Hamburg International Film Festival
Jerusalem International Film Festival
Asaf Korman
Korman is a leading film editor of Jaffa, The Slut, God’s Neighbors, (all premiered at Cannes) and of the acclaimed
Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves. His short Death of Shula premiered at Cannes Director’s Fortnight, 2007 and won
many awards at international film festivals. Next to Her is his first feature film.
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THE SKY ABOVE US
The Netherlands, Serbia, Belgium, Greece
Production Company:
CTM LEV PICTURES
Director: Marinus Groothof
Screenwriter: Marinus Groothof
Cast: Nada Sargin, Nikola Rakocevic,
Boris Isakovic
Producers: Sander Verdonk &
Denis Wigman
Co-producers:
Art & Popcorn - Miroslav Mogorovic
Entre Chien et Loup - Benoit Roland
Heretic - Giorgos Karnavas
Production Stage: Editing
Duration: 95’
Looking For: Post Production funding
SYNOPSIS
This is Belgrade of ‘99. People move in and out of cafes and the rise and fall of lively conversation echoes all
around. It is as if no one knows that NATO bombings are expected. It is as if they never even started. However,
the tension is there, behind their eyes where the fear is suppressed at any cost. It is in this time and place that
Ana, Sloba and Bojan find the need to construct their own normality in order to keep their sanity. Three ways to
deal with fear. One random sky above.
Contact Person:
Sander Verdonk, Producer
CTM LEV PICTURES
T: +31653394875
E: Sander.Verdonk@ctmlevpictures.com
W: www.ctmlevpictures.com
The Sky Above Us, 2013, in production
At Sea, TV film, premieres December 2013
Spiegelingen, short, 2011
Sunset from a Rooftop, short, 2009
Morning to Noon, short, 2008
Marinus Groothof
Born on 24 July 1979 in Amsterdam. Marinus is a writer and a director of shorts and feature films. Alumni of
Dutch Film Academy, EAVE Producers Workshop and Binger Directors Lab. He has won several prizes for his
films, among them Best Dutch Short at Dutch Film Festival, Best Dance Film Belgrade Film Festival and long
listed for the Academy Awards with his short Sunset from a Rooftop
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SONG OF MY MOTHER
Turkey, France, Germany
Production Company: MINTAS FILM
Director: Erol Mintas
Screenwriter: Erol Mintas
Cast: Feyyaz Duman, Zubeyde Rohani,
Nesrin Cavadzade, Cuneyt Yalaz
Producer: Asli Erdem
Co-producer: Guillaume de Seille
(Arizona Productions),
Mehmet Aktas (Mitosfilm)
Key partners: Turkish Ministry of
Culture and Tourism, Municipality of
Dogubeyazit, Anadolu Kultur
Production Stage: In production
Duration: 90’
Looking For: Post-production partners
or completion funds for post-production,
festival launch possibilities, sales agent
SYNOPSIS
This is the bittersweet story of a displaced Kurdish family: a young man torn between his nostalgic mother
chasing an old song in her dreams and a girlfriend who unexpectedly gets pregnant.
Contact Person:
Asli Erdem, Producer
MINTAS FILM
T: +905332639896
M: +905332639896
E: aslierdem84@gmail.com
Berf, Short, 2010
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Best Short
Timishort Film Festival - Best Director
Boston Turkish Film Festival Short Film Competition - Special Mention
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival - Audience Award
Istanbul Sinepark Film Festival - Best Editing
Izmir Short Film Festival - Special Jury Award
Montpellier Film Festival - Official Selection
Erol Mintas
Butimar, Short, 2008
İFSAK Short Film Festival - Special Jury Award
Kristal Klaket Short Film Competition - Best Film
Turkish Pharmacists Congress Short Film Competition - Best Film
Filmmakers of Tomorrow Script Competition - Third Place
Born in Kars, Turkey. His first short film Butimar was screened in various film festivals and received four awards.
His recent short Berf received the Golden Orange for Best Film in Antalya FF. Berf has competed in important
film festivals in the country and around the world and won seven awards.
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THE WORLD IS MINE
Romania
Production Company: LIBRA FILM
Director: Nicolae Constantin Tanase
Screenwriter: Raluca Manescu
Cast: Ana Maria Guran, Florin Hritcu,
Oana Rusu, Mircea Rusu
Producer: Tudor Giurgiu
Co-producer: Radu Stancu, De Film
Key partners: Digital Cube - Romania
Duration: 100’
Looking For: Co-producers,
Sales Agent, Festivals
SYNOPSIS
Larisa is 16 and lives in a small town by the sea. She grows up in a violent society, dominated by money and influence, where “if you’re not somebody, you’re nobody”. And Larisa wants nothing more than to be somebody!
12 minutes, short, 2013
Transilvania International Film Festival - Short Films Competition I Namur IFF - ‘Regards du Present’ Selection
BLU, short, 2012
Transilvania International Film Festival - Best Romanian Short I Cortex International Film Festival
Lisabon - Best International Film, Jury Award I Sarajevo International Film Festival I Tirana International
Film Festival- Short Film Competition I Gopo Nomination for Best Romanian Short Film
Contact Person:
Tudor Giurgiu, Producer
LIBRA FILM
T: +40213266480
E: office@librafilm.net
W: www.librafilm.net
Outrageously Disco, short, 2009
Hyperion Stud Fest Film Festival, Bucureşti - Best Film of the Festival - Trofeul Hyperion I FFest Student Film
Festival, Cluj Napoca - Audience Award I Future movie Film Festival, Galaţi- Best short fiction film - Grand
Prize I National Artistic Short Film Festival, Resita- Festival Tropy for Best Short Film
zombie Infectors 3, short, 2008
CineMaIubit International Film Festival - Best Set-Design, Best Editing
Nicolae Constantin Tanase
Nicolae Constantin Tanase started his film-studies at F.A.M.U. and graduated in directing from U.N.A.T.C. in
2009. His final short from the film school Outrageously Disco won numerous awards, and continued the successes
that his third-year-short Zombie Infectors 3 had. His first independent short film BLU brought him several
awards at international film festivals, including the Best Romanian Short award at Transilvania IFF and the
Young Hope Award at Gopo 2013. Currently touring the festivals, his last short 12 minutes premiered in the Romanian Days Competition at Transilvania IFF 2013, and was screened in Namur IFF in the Regards du Present
section. His feature-film-debut, The World is Mine was shot this year and is in post-production, expected to be
finalized mid-2014.
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ForEver
OUT OF COMPETITION
Greece
Production Company:
FALIRO HOUSE
Director: Margarita Manda
Screenwriter: Margarita Manda
Cast: Anna Mascha, Kostas Filippoglou
Producers:
Christos V. Konstantakopoulos,
Kostas Kefalas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis,
Costas Lambropoulos, Margarita Manda
Co-producers: CL Productions, Heretic
Production Stage: Post-Production
Duration: 85’
Looking For: Sales Agent, Festivals
SYNOPSIS
Contact Person:
Kostas Kefalas, Producer
FALIRO HOUSE
T: +302109404762
E: info@falirohouse.com
W: www.falirohouse.com
Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Producer
HERETIC
T: +306976887137
E: konstantinos@heretic.gr
W: www.heretic.gr
Costas is a driver of the Athens railway that has been connecting the city’s mountains to the sea for the last 100 years. He
lives without a social life or relationship. He believes that the train he drives every day is the last remaining river of the
city – a city that covered its real rivers to turn them into roads. Anna sells tickets for a fairy company in a booth situated
in the port of Piraeus. She lives alone, without a social life or relationship. She takes the train every day to go to her work
and back. Costas and Anna are two solitary people journeying in a city that’s slowly dying from the lack of love. Athens.
Costas falls in love with Anna, whom he takes every day to the port and back. He loves her silently, without ever daring
to approach her. He tries to make a recording of his fairy tale about the rivers of Athens to give it to her as a gift. He
doesn’t dare to do it until, one day, a random event changes his life forever and he decides to claim his right to life and
love. Anna, after a lot of hesitation, finally succumbs to his persistent approach. These two lonesome people will finally
say “I love you” to each other and their words will breathe life to the fairy tale of the rivers that protect Athens. At the
dawn of a bright, new day.
Gold Dust, 2009
Panorama of European Cinema - Audience Award I Hellenic Film Academy - Best Supporting Actress Award
London Greek Film Festival IMunich Greek Film Festival ICairo International Film Festival - Official Competition
New Odessa – the Village of the Lake, 2004
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival - Official Selection I Montpellier International Film Festival
The Guardians of Time, documentary, 2002 I Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - FIPRESCI Award
Margarita Manda
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Margarita Manda studied Political Science and French Literature while completing her studies in film directing at the
Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School. She has worked as assistant director to many notable Greek filmmakers. She was
Theo Angelopoulos’ assistant on the films: Ulysses’ Gaze, Eternity and a Day, The Weeping Meadow and The Dust of
Time. Manda has written and directed short films and features, documentaries, videos for theatre productions and
corporate videos. She has worked with the world famous photographer Joseph Koudelka and was the literary
supervisor for the published editions of the Theo Angelopoulos scripts Ulysses Gazeand Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow.
Her novel Memory Immovable was published in 2002 and her memoirs from the shooting of Ulysses’ Gaze in 2013.
OUT OF COMPETITION
STRATOS
Greece, Germany, Cyprus
SYNOPSIS
Stratos works at a bread factory by night, by day he kills people for money. He needs it to finance a jailbreak for
the man who saved him while in prison, Leonidas. He owes the man his life and Stratos always pays his debts.
Knifer, 2010
LA Greek Film Festival - Best Feature Film Award (Orpheus Award)
Cyprus Film Days - Best Feature Film Award
Hellenic Film Academy Awards - Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay,
Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Sound
Greek Association of Film Critics Award - Best Greek Film of the Year
Soul Kicking, 2006
Cannes International Film Festival - The International Critics’ Week I Chicago International Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival I Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Matchbox, 2003
Montreal World Film Festival I Pusan International Film Festival I International Film Festival of India
Production Companies:
FALIRO HOUSE
ARGONAUTS
THE MATCH FACTORY
YANNIS ECONOMIDES FILMS
Director: Yannis Economides
Screenwriters: Yannis Economides,
Thanos Xiros, Vangelis Mourikis,
Haris Lagoussis
Cast: Vangelis Mourikis,
Vicky Papadopoulou, Petros Zervos,
Yannis Tsortekis, Giorgos Giannopoulos,
Yannis Anastasakis, Polina Dellatola
Producers:
Panos Papahadzis, Michael Weber
Associate Producer: Irini Souganidou
Key partners:
Feelgood Entertainment
Greek Film Centre, ERT,
Film Advisory Board of Cyprus,
FILM-UND MEDIENSTIFTUNG NRW
and Eurimages
Production Stage: in post production
Duration: approx. 135’
Contact Person:
Greg Tselentis
FALIRO HOUSE
T: +30 210 9404762
E: info@falirohouse.com
W: www.falirohouse.com
The Life You Hoped For, documentary, 1995
Just Smelling the Jasmine, documentary, 1994
Yannis Economides was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1967 and studied film in Athens. He has directed several short
films and documentaries. He directed his debut feature film Matchbox back in 2003. Soul Kicking, his second feature,
celebrated its world premiere at the renowned official section of the Cannes International Film Festival 2006, The
International Critics’ Week and was selected for competitive screening at various film festivals throughout the world.
His third feature, Knifer, had its world premiere in Pusan International Film Festival 2010. At the Hellenic Film
Academy Awards Knifer excelled and received seven awards (Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Sound). It was also awarded with the Greek Association of
Film Critics Award as the Best Greek Film of the Year 2010 and at the LAGFF 2011 as the Best Feature Film.
Yannis Economides
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AGORA FILM MARKET
2-9 NOVEMBER 2013
The Agora Film Market promotes the majority of the
feature films participating in the official sections of the
54th TIFF and the latest film productions from Central
Europe, the Mediterranean and the Balkans.
Also includes the previous films of Crossroads
participants, as well as a selection of Greek films
produced within the past two years.
Agora Film
Market
Film Market
A man runs away from home, leaving a wife and a child behind. He
checks-in to a hotel, biding his time, dying for something to happen,
something that will shake him up. But home is where the heart is,
and the heart is in the chest. You can’t just rip it out.
309
The 10th Man 21’
Assaf SNIR, Israel 2012
Production Company
Sam Spiegel Film School Jerusalem
Einat Ohana
+972 2673 1950
einato@jsfs.co.il
Crossroads Previous Films
In 1989, the whole country watched live on television as angry
crowds forced Romanian dictator Ceausescu to flee Bucharest by
helicopter. In a quiet town east of the capital, sixteen years since
this historic day, the owner of the local TV station invites two guests
to share their moments of revolutionary glory. One is an old retiree
and sometime Santa Claus, the other a history teacher who has just
devoted his entire salary to his drinking debts. Together they will
remember the day when they stormed their town hall shouting
“Down with Ceausescu!”. But phone-in viewers dispute the claims
of the heroes, who were propably drinking in the bar or making
Christmas preparations rather than rebelling in the streets.
278
12:08 East of Bucharest 89’
Corneliu PORUMBOIU, Romania 2006
World Sales Company
The Coproduction Office, Paris, France
+33 1 5602 6000
info@thecopro.de
www.thecopro.de
Official Selection
At the age of 33, Arman decides it’s time to change his life. To begin,
one Saturday he goes jogging in a park. As he turns a corner he
bumps into Amélie. The first meeting is a shock; the second will be
like a stab in the heart. Benjamin is Arman’s best friend. One evening
he collapses and falls over into a hedge grove. Doctors diagnose a
stroke. Between two autumns and three winters the lives of Amélie,
Arman and Benjamin intermingle and are filled with meetings, accidents, love stories and memories. The time which passes is made
up only of monologues.
150
2 Autumns 3 Winters 93’
Sébastien BETBEDER, France 2013
World Sales Company
Alpha Violet
Keiko Funato
+33147973984
info@alphaviolet.com
Film Market
Electra is in her early 30s, living in modern-day Athens. She is an
artist but makes a living as a babysitter. She is an activist and her
boyfriend is a political prisoner. She is lonely and struggles to find
her place in the world. We follow her as she meets the most important
people in her life. Through these meetings, we understand better
Electra, but also a whole generation of young people who feel suffocated by this world. These days, when capitalism, consumerism,
and globalization is called into question, and the director’s need is
to make a film that questions all these things. My interest is to show
the effects they have on everyday life, on people’s small decisions,
on our intimate relationships.
328
A.C.A.B All Cats Are Brilliant 85’
Constantina VOULGARIS, Greece 2012
World Sales Company
Rendez-vous Pictures
Philippe Tasca
+33 1 4857 4997
philippe@outplayfilms.com
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112
Acrid 94’
Kiarash ASADIZADEH, Iran 2013
Film Market
Acrid depicts the inner feelings of different couples suffering from
discordances to infidelity. We travel from one character to another,
young lovers or married ones, who turn out to be linked together,
creating a close circle between them where trust is at stake.
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
infos@widemanagement.com
Film Market
216
Ali Blue Eyes 100’
Claudio GIOVANNESI, Italia 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
jef.nuyts@intramovies.com
Nader and Stefano: one is Egyptian but was born in Rome, the other
is Italian and is his best friend. Nader’s girlfriend Brigitte is Italian
too, and that’s exactly why the boy’s parents oppose their love. A
week in the life of an adolescent boy who tries to flaunt the values
of his family. Precariously balanced between being Arab or Italian,
Nader, courageous and in love, will have to endure solitude, the
streets, cold, hunger, fear and the loss of friendship, in an attempt
to regain his own identity.
Official Selection
225
All About You 83’
Alina MARAZZI, Italia 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Film Market
341
Anemistiras 93’
Dimitris BITOS, Greece 2013
World Sales Company
Highway Productions
Yorgos Lykiardopoulos
+30 210 331 4088
anemistiras.film@gmail.com
Film Market
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Pauline (Charlotte Rampling) returns to Turin – her place of birth –
for the first time after many years and gets in touch with Angela
who runs a Maternity Center. There, Pauline egins to research motherhood – as it is experienced by women today – by accessing videos,
photographs and actual statements of mothers collected by Angela
at the Center. Among the mothers attending the Center is Emma
(Elena Radonicich), a young and elusive dancer in deep crisis: she
can’t cope with the responsibilities demanded by motherhood and
sees her life at a standstill. She feels isolated and inept. A relationship
of complicity develops between the two women which, in a mirrorlike play of reflections, will lead Pauline to come to terms with her
own tragic past and Emma to acknowledge her new identity as a
mother.
A young girl – holding a grenade in her hands – directs her parent’s
relationship from scratch. The claim of an ‘ideal’ world through the
harsh innocence of a child.
Film Market
Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway
culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to
change and escape from their empty, monotonous lives.
251
Araf - Somewhere In Between 124’
Yesim USTAOGLU, Turkey- France- Germany 2012
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
festivals@matchfactory.de
Film Market
Abed, a young Palestinian enters Israel illegally by passing under
the Wall, through the sewers. He works in a restaurant in the West
of Jerusalem. On his day off, Abed decides to go home with a mysterious white box. It is the beginning of a long journey.
337
Archipel 23’
Giacomo ABBRUZZESE, France-Palestine 2010
Production Company
Le Fresnoy, Yellow Dawn Production
Natalia Trebik
+33 320 283 864
ntrebik@lefresnoy.net
In the South of Lebanon, you might find a strange object under the
ground, so strange that you lose your job and you lose yourself.
323
An Army of Ants 23’
Wissam CHARAF, France 2007
Production Company
Aurora Film
Charlotte Vincent
+33 1 4770 4301
contact@aurorafilms.fr
Set in the 1970s, the story follows brother and sister Kuenphen and
Jamyang as they learn traditional archery from their old and strict
warrior grandfather. Kuenphen has opportunities to further his interests, while sister Jamyang must stay home to weave, cook and
get married; a fate the young woman is not willing to accept without
a fight. Filmed entirely on location in the breathtaking Himalaya
mountains, the actors are local highland village people, including
current members of the famous Bhutanese Olympic women’s archery
team.
111
Arrows of the Thunder Dragon 91’
Greg SNEDDON, Australia 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
69
116
Artificial Paradises 96’
Marcos PRADO, Brazil 2012
Film Market
Artificial Paradises tells the love story of Nando and Erika, two young
people in their early 20s, who meet and miss one another over the
years. Against a background of the universe of mega raves and electronic music festivals, the film portrays the maturation of its protagonists from their experiences with family and friends.
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Film Market
307
At Home 19’
Nenad MIKALACKI, Serbia-Germany 2011
An elderly lady goes from Germany to Eastern Europe to find and
visit the house of her childhood. Meanwhile, two deported boys,
now back in Serbia, are trying to survive in totally different living
conditions. They tell her that they can help her find this house
Production Company
Druid
Nenad Mikalacki
+381 63 592 042
home@druidfilm.org
135
Bad Hair 93’
Mariana RONDON, Venezuela 2013
World Sales Company
FiGa Films
Alex Garcia
+1 323 258 5241
contact@figafilms.com
Official Selection
117
Bad Hair Friday 100’
Andres KOPPER, Arun TAMM, Estonia 2012
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Film Market
70
Junior, a beautiful nine-year-old boy with curls, longs to straighten
his hair; his fantasy of looking like a long-haired troubadour has become a fixation. His mother, Marta, exhausted from lack of steady
work and single motherhood, worries about the homosexual connotations of his behaviour. Junior is caught between his mother’s
anger and his grandmother’s absolute acceptance. Both women go
to extremes and Junior’s process of self-discovery, complicated in
and of itself, becomes imbued with confusion and guilt. Shot in the
vast Caracas multi-family housing units that form a cruel tableau of
thousands of families and thousands of stories, Pelo Malo is unflinchingly pragmatist, yet tender towards its protagonists. Spartan
in its execution, the film portrays unique, full-blooded characters
and achieves a moving and rare humanity.
At an ever-accelerating pace, this thriller/dark comedy tells the story
of 8 very different groups whose paths cross in the space of 24 hours.
We meet a wide range of characters – from spoiled rich brats to real
bottom-feeding criminal scum, and everyone in between. In the
best traditions of Commedia dell’arte, the characters each have easily
recognizable roles – although there are a few twists to throw the
audience off and keep things fresh. It starts out innocently enough
with jokes, fun and a bit of alcohol, but given the level of intellectual
capacity in our leading characters, you can see the train wreck
coming. And when some drugged out punks go all Clockwork Orange
on an opera loving cankerous old man, it can only end up in tears
(and blood, guts and bit of rather literal toilet humor as well).
Film Market
Jeton, a 10-year-old boy, is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the
4th floor. Neighbors and passers-by, terrified at the sight, call the
police and firefighters. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable.
185
Balcony 20’
Lendita ZEQIRAJ, Kosovo 2013
Production Company
n’Art
Bujar Kabashi
+386 200 408
info@nartstudio.com
Official Selection
Ernesto and Helena have been married for many years. They live in
an isolated estate between tobacco fields and the high mountain
jungle in the northwest of Argentina. One day, Helena’s cousin
Joaquín arrives. He has just been discharged from rehab, and has
been sent by his family and against his will, to spend some time
with his cousin and her husband. Helena and Ernesto’s marriage is
going through a fragile phase, their problems with conceiving a
child having plunged them into obsession and a loss of desire. This
new presence is Helena’s opportunity to reinvent herself; for Ernesto
it’s an infusion of oxygen. Living at close quarters will destabilize
the couple and a love triangle begins to take form among the hunting,
the cockfights and life in the fields. Desire can also take on the shape
of a deeply felt violence.
Athens Greece, 2012.In his attempt to trace the causes of the suicide
of a colleague, Sergeant Aristides Kormas will find himself embroiled
in a nightmarish adventure, where organized crime and the police
are two sides of the same coin.
303
Belated 102’
Barbara SARASOLA DAY,
Argentina-Colombia-Norway 2013
World Sales Company
Philippe Tasca
+33 1 48 57 49 97
Official Selection
317
Big Hit 95’
Karolos ZONARAS, Greece 2012
Production Company
Zonaras Productions
Katia Leclerc Zonaras
+33 685 07 34 70
katiazonaras@gmail.com
Once upon a time in a coastal village there lived a beautiful girl who
used to gather seaweed. One day this girl was taken to the rock
called Aebawi by a man who had a contract to marry her. The man
went back to the village. At dusk the girl waited for him to come
and take her home but he couldn’t, due to very rough seas. A large
wave struck the rock drowning the girl. From that day onward the
fishermen had no luck with their catch. The villagers believed that it
was due to the dead girl’s bitter soul. Finally, the people decided to
offer curved wooden phalluses as a sacrifice in Haesindang Park to
appease the dead girl’s spirit. After that, the village fishermen enjoyed
a bountiful catch once more. The phallus offering ceremony is still
held even today on the first full moon of the lunar year.
230
The Birds Singing ...in Korea 62’
Angelos THEODOROPOULOS, Greece 2013
Production Company
AngelosTheodoropoulos
+30 6993 681 194
theaggelos@yahoo.gr
Film Market
71
147
Black Diamonds 110’
Miguel ALCANTUD, Spain - Portugal 2013
Film Market
Two African boys are brought into Europe to play football. They will
enter a dark world of agents, money, interests, and some kind of
football that will take them into a different reality than they have
dreamt of.
World Sales Company
Latido Films
Juan Torres
+34 91 548 88 77
juan@latidofilms.com
Film Market
316
Block 12 94’
Kyriacos TOFARIDES, Cyprus-Greece 2013
World Sales Company
TANWEER ALLIANCES
Dionissis Samiotis
+30 210 894 1117
dionyssis@tanweer.info
English satellites that conduct research from space discover large oil
deposits in the area of the Old Mines in Cyprus. A big part of the
area belongs to Costantas Rizites (he has bought half of it from his
Turkish Cypriot colleague Ahmet Beyoglu), who has retired there
with his wife Ellou. The outbreak of a big economic crisis leads the
two sons of the family to bankruptcy forcing them to move their
families to the house. This whole situation is made worse when the
Cyprus government keeps asking to buy the house, and Costantas
stubbornly refuses. Moreover, two English agents and Hassan Beyoglu
(son of Ahmet) camp outside the house. The house is in a state of
internal and external siege.
Film Market
262
Blood Pressure 95’
Sean GARRITY, Canada 2012
World Sales Company
Alpha Violet
Keiko Funato
+33 147 973 984
Film Market
206
The Blue Identity 20’
Mumin BARIS, Turkey-Germany 2012
Production Company
layla film
Kristin Nahrmann
+49 152 5699 6224
info@laylafilm.com
Film Market
72
Nicole, 41, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids,
who is at a point in her life when she is asking if ‘this is it,’ or whether
there’s something more.
One day she gets a letter from an anonymous Observer who knows
her daily habits and her potential – intimately. He has a plan for
her, if she is interested. The letter contains a green card that she
should place in her window, if she wishes to pursue the mysterious
relationship. If not, she should throw the letter away, and she will
never hear from the Observer again.
After a few days of internal debate, she puts the card in the window
and begins a long relationship with the elusive Observer, who puts
her on a program that starts by changing her life, but ultimately
threatens everything that has meaning for her.
Two Kurdish men with a Blue (refugee) passport living in Berlin try
to deal with the idea of not being able to go back to their homeland
ever again.
Film Market
In the northern reaches of Maine, a local school bus driver becomes
distracted during her end-of-day inspection and fails to notice a
sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the
tranquillity of her small Maine logging town, proving that even the
slightest actions have enormous consequences.
334
Bluebird 90’
Lanse EDMANDS, USA-Sweden 2013
World Sales Company
The Yellow Affair
Chris Howard
+46 8 645 1212
contact@yellowaffair.com
Official Selection
A teenager gets into a taxi and discovers it’s a car bomb. From that
moment, the driver and his passenger become prisoners of one another.
140
The Bomb 75’
Sergio BIZZIO, Argentina 2013
World Sales Company
URBAN FILMS S.L.
Horacio Urban
+34 914 479 543
urban.films.sl@gmail.com
Film Market
Herman, Lykov, Shorokh, and Grekh are the best of friends. Having
each done their service in the army, they now serve as operatives in
OMON, the Russian special police force. By night, they patrol the
crime-ridden streets, looking for whatever excitement is to be had.
When a simple misunderstanding with the local mafia escalates
into a bigger conflict, the friends prepare for war. To exacerbate matters, Herman has fallen in love with the mob boss’s girl, Aglaya. He
dreams of running away with her and starting a better life — but
fears what would no doubt mean drastic consequences for his companions.
325
Break Loose 85’
Alexey UCHITEL, Russia 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 153 950 464
Film Market
Roshan is a teacher in a kindergarten. She intends to save the life of
one of her student’s fathers, who is accused of unintentional homicide.
There were seven witnesses, who saw the incident, but no one
intends to tell the whole truth because of the power and the influence
of the slain’s family. If the witnesses don’t tell the truth, the accused
will be facing retaliation and the death penalty under the law of
Ghesas…
301
Bright Day 86’
Hossein SHAHABI, Iran 2013
World Sales Company
Iranian Indedependents
Mohammad Atebbai
+98 912 3198 693
info@iranianindependents.com
Film Market
73
314
Carmina or Blow up 72’
Paco LEÓN, Spain 2012
Film Market
Carmina is a 58-year-old lady who runs a grocery store in Seville.
After suffering several robberies and unable to get support from an
insurance company, she invents a way to recover the money to keep
her family going. While she waits for the outcome of her plan, she
reflects on her life, work and miracles in the kitchen of her house.
World Sales Company
Cinema Republic
David Castellanos
+34 91 859 39 94
info@cinemarepublic.es
Official Selection
295
A Castle in Italy 104’
Valeria BRUNI-TEDESCHI, France 2013
Louise meets Nathan. She is able to dream again. This is also the
story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a wealthy
Italian industrialist family. The story of a family that is disintegrating,
an era that is ending, and a love that is beginning.
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 53 10 33 99
sanam@filmsdistribution.com
Official Selection
203
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
106’
Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Russia 2012
World Sales Company
Antipode Sales
Elena Podolskaya
+7 916 604 5884
elena@antipode-sales.biz
The Mari are a Russian ethnic group of Finnish-Hungarian origin,
who live on the shores of the Volga in western Russia and continue
to keep alive the pagan customs of their ancestors. The film is made
up of twenty-nine vignettes focusing on the sex life of a group of
Mari women and recreating a distinctive world of magical realism,
in which female fertility, beauty and happiness are the driving forces,
and where a woman’s life is prescribed folkloric beliefs – from the
smell that will confirm that her husband is being unfaithful, to the
phallic-shaped mushroom that will help her choose the ideal husband.
Official Selection
300
Chaika 95’
Miguel ANGEL JIMENEZ, Spain 2012
World Sales Company
Media Luna New Films
Alessandro Lombardo
+34 685 459 712
gorka@kinoskopik.com
74
Chaika is a love story between a prostitute and a loser sailor, taking
place between two seasons: the eternal winter of Siberia and the
summer in the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan. Young Tursyn comes
back home to face what remains of his family: an old nomad about
to die and a shipwrecked father. Both of them will bring back the
vague memories that Tursyn has of his mother. Chaika is the adventure
of joining those memories that life left scattered in the most hidden
paramo, almost at the ends of the world.
Film Market
Zoé tries to escape herself. She travels north through bleak landscapes
until she gets on a ferryboat where a mysterious woman suddenly
disappears. In the winter coat of a stranger, Zoé reaches the other
side of the Channel.
129
Cherry Pie 85’
Lorenz MERZ, Switzerland 2013
World Sales Company
Film Republic
Xavier Henry-Rashid
+44 783 599 9112
xavier@filmrepublic.biz
Film Market
In the midst of a mysterious, devastating epidemic, Eusebio – a
forensic cleaner who sterilizes the apartments of the dead – discovers
an eight-year-old boy hiding in an uninhabited house. A grizzled
loner all his life, Eusebio suddenly finds that he must care for this
young boy as civilization crumbles around them in this quietly compelling dystopian drama.
130
The Cleaner 95’
Adrian SABA, Peru 2012
World Sales Company
Film Republic
Xavier Henry-Rashid
+44 783 599 9112
Film Market
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s the day to day living that wears you
out This is the every-day story of two women taking care of their
sick man.
193
Coming Forth by Day 96’
Hala LOTFY, Egypt 2012
Production Company
Hassala Films
Hala Lotfy
+20 122 741 8314
info@hassala.org
Official Selection
Widowed plumber Leo (Valerio Mastrandrea) is the one trying to
make some sense of his life as he struggles to deal with distracting
visions of his late wife and the growing pains of his teenage daughter.
Meeting penniless artist Diana (Alba Rohrwacher) and her eccentric
landlord Amanzio (Giuseppe Battiston) was definitely not part of
his plan. This thoughtful, touching fable unfolds under the stern
gaze of a statue of Garibaldi mounted on a horse. Garibaldi adds his
own rueful reflections on modern Italy and the chaotic lives of the
people who pass beneath him.
228
The Commander and the Stork 108’
Silvio SOLDINI, Italy 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 068 077 252
Film Market
75
171
Concrete Night 96’
Pirjo HONKASALO, Finland- Sweden- Denmark 2013
Production Company
Bufo
Helena Mielonen
+358 41 532 3394
helena@bufo.fi
Official Selection
103
Condom Lead 14’
Arab NASSER, Tarazan NASSER, Palestine 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Film Market
318
Dad, Lenin and Freddy 20’
Rinio DRAGASSAKI, Greece 2011
Film Market
A dream-like odyssey through Helsinki over the course of one night.
The protagonist of the film is a 14-year-old boy named Simo who is
still searching for his own identity. Simo and his big brother Ilkka are
the sons of a helpless and unpredictable single mother. Their chaotic
home is located deep in the heart of a concrete jungle in Helsinki. Ilkka
has one day of freedom left before starting his prison sentence. The
mother persuades Simo to spend the last night with his brother. During
the course of the day and night spent roaming around Helsinki, the
brothers witness incidents they would rather not see. Vulnerable Simo
is not equipped to handle what he sees or delude himself – he sees
things exactly as they are. To him, the unfiltered world seems unbearable. Finally, a casual encounter with a photographer, whose intentions
Simo misreads, launches him into blind fear. In the panic-stricken violence that ensues, Simo finds his missing identity, his true face.
Just like any place in the world wracked by conflict, the people of
the Gaza Strip experienced unbelievable tension, anxiety, and loss
of hope. Sex was universally jettisoned by more pressing concerns,
such as food, fuel, electricity, and the search – elusive though it
may be – for physical and psychological safety, security, and equilibrium. This makes sense: during war, sex becomes a kind of no-fly
zone; the sexual instinct is suppressed, and the conjugal bed is worn
out with worry over when the next bomb will hit. Even if we manage
to overcome the fear and make a mental break from the imminent
dangers in our surroundings, the sheer exigency of the machines of
war – the airplanes and tanks, the ambulances and missiles, the
constant hum of their moving parts, the ground-shaking force of
their explosions – will always win out over the most triumphant
acts of human will.
During the 80s, in Athens, a nine-year-old girl gradually loses touch
with her workaholic communist father. She fantasizes that Vladimir
Lenin wants to harm him. Things get worse when the American
movie maniac, Freddy Krueger, joins forces with the Russian.
Production Company
Guanaco
Rinio Dragassaki
+30 6949 807 016
drrinos@yahoo.gr
180
The Deflowering of Eva van End 98’
Michiel TEN HORN, The Netherlands 2012
World Sales Company
M-appeal world sales UG
Katja Lenarcic
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Film Market
76
Etty, her husband Evert and their children Erwin, Manuel and Eva
are a perfectly normal family, who over the years developed a slightly
dysfunctional way of relating to one another. Then, all of a sudden,
the incarnation of perfection enters their lives, embodied by the
German exchange student Veit. With his arrival, doubt, insecurity,
fear and desire invade the Van End family. During the two weeks of
Veit’s stay, all five family members start to reinvent themselves, as
they feel increasingly alienated from themselves and from each
other. But in the end, it’s not perfection they are looking for.
Film Market
Eladio, an aged man, lives alone in his dilapidated factory, making
and distributing a drink with the label “Devil’s Liquor.” Straight from
the past of Chilean history, the drink’s name comes from a time
when the army’s 18-year-old soldiers were given a mixture of alcohol
and gunpowder that would drive them crazy so that they’d be unstoppable in battle. Eladio is no longer 18, nor does he ever “lose” it.
He just waits to die, having given up on his relationships with his
family and people in general, who just “bother him”. The only thing
he’s interested in is his factory, which he protects from a real estate
company that’s claiming it. The arrival of his grandson, who decides
to work for him, provides Eladio with a chance to save his job and
maybe make human contact. Between past and future, old and new,
The Devil’s Liquor paints with careful brushstrokes of respect the portrait of a man, who gives his own personal battle with his demons.
Dor, a handsome IDF soldier, returns home for the weekend with a
dark secret in his heart. While spending time with his family and
friends, Dor finds himself doubting the values and ideas on which
he was raised.
169
The Devil’s Liquor 97’
Ignacio RODRIGUEZ, Chile 2012
World Sales Company
Huachaca filmes
Tomás Arriagada
+56 988 090 020
tomas.arriagadai@gmail.com
Official Selection
280
Dor 27’
Ofir Raul GRAIZER, Israel 2009
Production Company
Sapir College
Oriana Ben Aba
+972 77 980 2787
orianab@sapir.ac.il
Symeon is a young man whose nighttime dreams come true the
very next day. Things get complicated when he dreams of Chloe,
whom he is in love with, dying. Afraid of losing Chloe, he tries to
prevent his dreams coming true but he only makes her hate him,
since she cannot understand what’s wrong. In the end, Chloe doesn’t
die but Symeon loses his love because Chloe moves to another
country with her family.
157
Dreamer 61’
Andi RAFMANI, Greece 2012
Production Company
Andi Rafmani
+30 6979 861 876
andi7239@yahoo.com
Film Market
They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia...
The eldest ones appear no older than 25; as for the youngest, there
is no way of telling their age. They spend all their time hanging
around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They might be prostitutes. Daniel, a discreet man in his early fifties, has his eye on one of
them – Marek. Gathering his courage, he speaks to him. The young
man agrees to come and visit Daniel the following day at his place...
297
Eastern Boys 128’
Robin CAMPILLO, France 2013
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 53 10 33 99
Official Selection
77
263
Eden 101’
Masaharu TAKE, Japan 2012
World Sales Company
Alpha Violet
Keiko Funato
+33 1 4797 3984
Film Market
Miro is a choreographer and madam in a Tokyo gay host bar, Eden.
Early one morning he brings home a friend who’s had too much to
drink and is crying over her most recent break-up. Noripee is a
woman on the inside, but she was born in a man’s body. When she
dies, Miro and the Eden dancers reflect on the rejection they constantly face from society and their families. They decide to bring
Noripee’s body back to her family, who disowned their son after his
transformation.
Film Market
102
Emigrants 75’
Justinas KRISIUNAS, Lithuania 2013
Production Company
Justinas Krisiunas
Vaida Kanopaite
+37 061 515 141
vkanopaite@gmail.com
A feature film, Emigrants is like a protest against what is going on in
Lithuania nowadays. A problem of emigration involves every family.
In the movie, a heartbreaking family’s tragedy is revealed through
irony and humor. A young Monica is planning her designer career in
Lithuania. Her boyfriend Linas helps Monica’s dreams come true.
Due to financial difficulties, Monica’s family has to move to London.
This has a negative effect on Monica and Linas’s destinies...
Film Market
232
Emilia’s Friends 90’
Ludmil TODOROV, Bulgaria 1997
Production Company
Gala Film ltd.
Galina Toneva
+35 92 981 4209
galafilm@gala-film.com
The film consists of seven short stories, each of which deals with a
paradoxical human behavior. Sometimes, man acts in a generous
way, only to be able to steal. Sometimes, to be in love means not to
want to see the object of your love. Sometimes, being regal means
mending old socks. Sometimes, you can tell lies with tears in your
eyes. Sometimes, the stronger the desperation is, the stronger the
love among the people is. The film focuses on the human soul, on
human characters that are unpredictable, true to life and typically
Bulgarian. Thus, with no direct mention of the changes in the country,
the film makes an attempt at outlining the spiritual parameters of
the new times.
Official Selection
162
The Emperor 40’
Konrad LECKI, Poland 2013
Production Company
Lidia Sadowska
+48 793 525 141
kontakt@kadrujemy.pl
Film Market
78
The film is set in the period of ancient Rome. A group of aristocrats
carry out a coup by which Emperor Nero is overthrown. The protagonist is a General Marcus Otho, who we meet at a crucial moment in
his life. After years in exile, Germania gets his chance for a change
of fate. He will have a short time to take a number of difficult
decisions that permanently affect his future.
Film Market
Α violent dilemma. In Athens 2012, Kostas, a progressive ideologist,
lives a regular life with his wife and their teenage daughter and
son, until his home is ransacked by a hooded gang. The experience
of extreme violence shatters the family’s peace, bringing his father’s
hunting rifle violently into their lives. The story of a morally demolished man who used to be the pillar of his family and of his struggle
to get life back to normal.
120
The Enemy Within 107’
Yorgos TSEMBEROPOULOS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Blackbird production
Eleni Kossyfidou
+30 6946 127 354
eleni.kossyfidou@gmail.com
Film Market
Antonis arrives at a hotel in a seaside resort. It is winter time the
hotel is closed and Antonis drifts around alone. He has a lot of time
to kill. Until the TV announces the disappearance of the famous anchorman Antonis Paraskevas…
270
The Eternal Return
of Antonis Paraskevas 88’
Elina PSYKOU, Greece 2013
World Sales Company
M-appeal world sales UG
Katja Lenarcic
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Official Selection
Paulo Virzì’s delightful romantic comedy has been a box-office hit in
Italy and helped to establish Luca Marinelli as one of the country’s
rising stars. Marinelli plays Guido, a shy, unassuming intellectual
who works as a night porter in Rome. He is besotted with Antonia,
a restless, unpredictable young woman who dreams of becoming a
singer and works for a car rental company. Jobs and lifestyles mean
they only see each other early in the morning as Guido returns from
work and prepares breakfast. They are a perfectly happy couple until
they decide that the one thing that would make their lives complete
is a baby.
A tender, touching comedy unfolds, made all the more appealing
by its fairytale feel and talented cast.
The story of a grim and authoritarian father living with three teenage
daughters in an old flour farm in the state of Maranhão, far from
the town. The family lives without a mother, who has allegedly disappeared, and deals with the strict orders of a strange taskmaster,
who observes them while preying on the innocence of the girls,
who are divided between the illusion of childhood and the cruel reality of their lives. While the family unity crumbles bit by bit, the
fragile characters stand on the dividing line between reason and
madness, chaos and faith.
229
Every Blessed Day 102’
Paolo VIRZI, Italia 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 068 077 252
Film Market
204
The Exercise of Chaos 71’
Frederico MACHADO, Brasil 2013
Production Company
Lume Filmes
Mauricio Escobar
+55 98 3235 4860
producao@lumefilmes.com.br
Official Selection
79
326
The Film to Come 83’
René FERET, France 2013
Film Market
Louis, 50 years old, is trying hard to break through to become a comedian. His brother Pierre, a film director, offers him the opportunity
of playing the leading role in a comedy he plans to shoot. Family
issues will soon emerge and prevent them from making it. It eventually gives birth to a totally different film – new and unexpected.
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
123
The Final Payoff 126’
Alexander LEONTARITIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Desmida Visual Creations
Alexander Leontaritis
+30 210 639 2074
aleondaritis@yahoo.com
An ex-boxer, Greg, works for Markos, a powerful Athenian loan shark.
He and his partner are assigned the difficult task of collecting back
money and interest from borrowers. They both come across everyday
people that have been affected by the financial crisis and they’ve
taken out loans which they have to payoff by deadlines. Greg starts
having moral concerns when things go bad and he has to choose
between his job and starting a new life with an ambitious actress
he falls for. But a well kept secret from his past will quickly make
him reconsider his life and force him to clash with everyone and
everything to make the final payoff.
Film Market
142
Fine, Thanks 134’
Mátyás PRIKLER, Slovakia 2013
Production Company
Mphilms
Mátyás Prikler
+421 944 201 190
mphilms@mphilms.sk
Three main stories, and an epilogue. The stories take place during
the current financial crisis that affects the intimate lives of the characters and reveals a harsh picture of their twisted relations. The applied narrative method, which is based on observation and borders
on documentary filmmaking, is also the key approach in portraying
a world that is losing morals but has not yet lost all hope.
Film Market
338
Fireworks 21’
Giacomo ABBRUZZESE, France-Italy 2011
World Sales Company
La Luna Productions
ANTHONY TRIHAN
+33 320 283 864
ntrebik@lefresnoy.net
80
For fifty years, Taranto has been home to Europe’s largest steel industry, an immense and hideous complex that occupies every economical, visual and imaginary horizon, making it the most polluted
city in Western Europe. On New Year’s Eve, as the fireworks explode,
an international group of ecologists decides to blow the entire factory
up.
Film Market
A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order
to participate in a kite-flying event during the Winter solstice. Next
to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a
nearby restaurant. The cooks are looking for some meat to cook and
there’s no one around other than the young students. The film is
based on a true story about a restaurant that served ground human
flesh for food and is shot in a single take.
199
Fish & Cat 134’
Shahram MOKRI, Iran 2013
World Sales Company
Iranian Independents
Mohammad Atebbai
+98 912 319 8693
Film Market
It’s a story which befalls a woman, through a question she’s asked:
“Are you pregnant?” She doesn’t know, and on the spur of the moment she leaves it hanging. However that doesn’t bode well for her
boyfriend, who was planning on leaving her: he winds up believing
it. Try as he will to tell he doesn’t want a child, she does nothing to
terminate... because in fact she’s not pregnant. The only thing is, she
can’t bring herself to tell him. She leaves things be, only to further
stave off the dreaded moment of breaking that spell which draws
him to her, comforts her very ill father and delights her entourage.
Day by day, the fiction takes hold and nothing can seem to stop it.
283
A Foreign Body 115’
Claire SIMON, France-Canada 1997
World Sales Company
France Télévisions Distribution
+33 1 5622 9000
+33 1 5622 9084
www.francetv.com
Official Selection
Forgive Me is the heartbreaking story of a grown man with severe
mental retardation, around whom his family’s life is molded. Selim’s
disabilities arise from his severe mental retardation: his perception
is slow, and though he recognizes family members and is filled with
love for them, he cannot express himself in any way. He has to live
his entire life dependent on his caretaker – something everyone except him knows. Here lies Neriman’s biggest fear in life: she cannot
help but worry about what would become of Selim if anything were
to happen to them. This is their reason for having a second child.
215
Forgive Me 85’
Cemil AGACIKOGLU, Turkey 2013
Production Company
Yol Film Production
Basak Kirac
+90 533 212 3789
basaksay@gmail.com
Film Market
Vincentas is the best employee at the emergency services station,
whose passion is gambling in different games. Whenever he faces
difficulties, the medic is forced to make radical decisions to repay
his debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related
to his profession. Financial matters keep on improving, but Vincentas
is going to make a fateful choice. Love, life and death will be at
stake.
324
The Gambler 109’
Ignas JONYNAS, Lithuania-Latvia 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
81
284
Gare Du Nord 119’
Claire SIMON, France 2013
World Sales Company
Doc and Film International
Daniela Elstner
+33 1 4277 8969
a.damiani@docandfilm.com
Film Market
Paris, the Gare du Nord, where anything can come along – even
trains. We’d like to stay but we have to hurry on...
Like the thousands of people whose lives intersect at the station, Ismaël, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet there. Every day,
Ismaël is dazzled, fascinated and exhausted by the place. He sees
Mathilde for the first time on a suburban train platform. They gradually fall in love. They meet Sacha and Joan. Sacha is looking for his
missing daughter while Joan spends her life in the station between
Lille, London and Paris. The station is a world apart, frequented by
everyone: the French, immigrants, emigrants, travellers, and ghosts.
It’s an intersection where each life passes quickly and vanishes.
Official Selection
281
God’s Offices 117’
Claire SIMON, France-Belgium 2008
World Sales Company
Films Boutique, Germany
Valeska Neu
+49 30 6953 7850
info@filmsboutique.com
Official Selection
269
The Golden Cage
102’
Diego QUEMADA-DÍEZ, Mexico 2013
Djamila would like to be on the pill because her relationship with
her boyfriend has become serious; Zoé’s mother gives her condoms
but calls her a whore; Nejma hides her pills outside because her
mother searches her bag; Hélène finds herself too fertile; Clémence
is scared; Adeline wishes she could have kept it, and so does Margot. Maria Angela would like to know who she’s pregnant by, while
Ana Maria has opted for love and freedom. Anne, Denise, Marta,
Yasmine, and Milena are the councilors listening to each of these
women who wonder whether “sexual freedom” actually exists. In
God’s Offices, you laugh and cry and feel swamped. You dance
there, you have a cigarette on the veranda, and you come anonymously to tell the commonplace or unbelievable story of your life.
Juan, Sara and Samuel, three teenagers from the slums of Guatemala,
travel to the US in search of a better life. On their journey through
Mexico, they meet Chauk, an Indian from Chiapas who doesn’t speak
Spanish. Traveling together in cargo trains, walking along railroad
tracks, they soon have to face a harsh reality.
World Sales Company
Films Boutique, Germany
Valeska Neu
+49 30 6953 7850
info@filmsboutique.com
Official Selection
182
Goldfish 94’
Thanos TSAVLIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Thanos Tsavlis
+30 6945 955 854
thanostsavlis@yahoo.com
Official Selection
82
Post-bankruptcy Greece: A man hides from his dark past. A girl in
search of true love. Τwo down-on-their-luck brothers try to save
their father’s business. They will cross paths with unpredictable developments. Bounty hunters, drachmas, noodles, assassins, roses
and goldfish.
Film Market
Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding
ten years ago. But now that they’re older, the two brothers are roadweary and eager to take advantage of the perks of young adulthood.
When the authorities discover their whereabouts, they are forced to
move yet again and Pierre, the elder, disappears. Alone with his
father on an island in the Loire River, Sylvain meets Gilda: his first
girl, his first crush, and the first stop on his way to “the good life” –
his own.
238
The Good Life 93’
Jean DENIZOT, France 2013
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
Official Selection
Leigh’s 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces
to her friends that the evening may be the last time her friends see
her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately
follow.
207
Good Night 85’
Sean H. A. Gallagher, USA 2013
Production Company
Fastbel Movie Company
Sean H. A. Gallagher
+1 512 662 2295
sean.h.a.gallagher@gmail.com
Official Selection
Good Friday. After many years, Christos sees his childhood friend
Maria again and falls in love with her. Holy Saturday. Christos wants
Maria. Between them: his best friend Vassilis, a robbery at their
store, Aunt Vana’s bicycle, his brother-in-law’s club, the economic
crisis in Greece and a piece of land turned into a strip joint. What
happens on Easter Sunday is beyond imagination.
265
A Gospel According to Life 76’
Aris KAPLANIDIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Aris Kaplanidis
+30 6975 711 612
info@ariskaplanidis.com
Film Market
Gary is young, agile, and a quick study. He is one of those people to
whom life promised nothing. From odd job to odd job, he finally
finds himself employed in a nuclear power plant. There, near the reactors where the radioactive doses are the highest, he at last finds
what he’s been looking for: money, a team, a family. But the team is
also Karole, a married woman, with whom he falls in love. Forbidden
love and exposure to radiation slowly contaminate Gary. Each day
becomes a threat.
271
Grand Central 94’
Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI, France-Austria 2013
World Sales Company
Elle Driver
Adeline Fontan Tessaur
+33 1 5643 4870
sales@elledriver.eu
Official Selection
83
268
Gravehopping 99’
Jan CVITKOVIČ, Slovenia 2005
World Sales Company
Cinemania Group
Goga Minja
+386 1 524 4563
miha@staragara.com
Film Market
A film about people from a small town in the Slovenian Karst region,
it focuses on the basic force of the human existence: fear. Out of the
fear of death stems the desire for security, warmth and love. Pero,
the film’s protagonist, is an intelligent man in his mid-thirties. He
uses his considerable talent as a writer for writing funeral speeches.
These are not mere eulogies for the deceased, since Pero consciously
or unconsciously entwines his own perception of the course of events
and his life philosophy into them. He lives in his family home with
his sisters, Vilma and Ida, his father, and his nephew Johnny. Pero’s
neighbour, Shooki, Johnny’s father Dzeger, and Renata – the love of
Pero’s life – also frequently cross his path...
Official Selection
322
The Guide 94’
Zacharias MAVROEIDIS, Greece 2011
Production Company
WESAW productions
Zacharias Mavroeidis
+30 210 346 0175
zacharias@wesaw.gr
Iasonas arrives in Athens το start his new ambitious career as an“architects’ guide”. His group consists of international students of architecture finishing their Erasmus program in Thessaloniki. Soon,
Iasonas faces the contradicting wishes of the students who prefer a
day-long coffee or a visit to a graveyard than a guided tour of the
Acropolis. Meanwhile, he meets back with his once (more than just
a) best friend Mirsini. Trapped between a friend who progressively
sees him less and less as a friend and a group that sees him less and
less as a guide, Iasonas will have to give an answer to all his personal
questions regarding his sexuality and his career.
205
Hank and Asha 73’
James E. Duff, USA 2013
World Sales Company
Recreation Media
Juraj Barabas, Ariel Veneziano
+1 310 305 1285
jurajb@recreation-media.com
In this charming romantic comedy, an Indian woman studying in
Prague and a lonely New Yorker begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters - two strangers searching for human
connection in a hyper-connected world. When their relationship intensifies, they must decide whether or not to meet face to face. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival,
Hank and Asha is a film about identity, longing, and the irresistible
appeal of entertaining life’s what-ifs.
Official Selection
144
The Happets in the Rainbow
Forrest 75’
Álex COLLS, Spain-Brazil 2013
World Sales Company
LATIDO FILMS
Juan Torres
+34 915 488 877
Film Market
84
In this new and exciting adventure, The Happets travel to help the
Rainbow regain its colors. The Earth’s pollution is causing it to fade
and disappear... but The Happets won’t allow that to happen!
Film Market
Α film about a helpless man who is reunited with a childhood friend
who helps him, creating a bond that goes beyond friendship. Martin
seeks an odd job at Eugenio’s house. When Eugenio recognizes
Martin as a childhood friend, and realizes his current situation, he
decides to give him work for the summer. A game of power and
desire begins and a strange relationship starts to grow, but it cannot
flourish, mostly because of the social differences that have grown
between them. This barrier, typical of Jane Austen’s novels, is resignified in a contemporary story of social class.
287
Hawaii 102’
Marco BERGER, Argentina 2013
World Sales Company
Media Luna New Films
Carolina Jessula
+49 221 510 91 891
festival@medialuna.biz
Official Selection
Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two brothers
as they abruptly come of age through the experience of a friend’s
mysterious death. The event ripples under the surface of their town,
unsettling the brothers and their friends in a way that they can’t
fully understand. Once familiar interactions begin to take on a
macabre tone in light of the tragic accident, leading Eric, 14, and
Tommy, 9, to retreat into their wild surroundings. As the two brothers
vocally face the questions they have about mortality, they simultaneously hold their own silent debates within their minds that build
into seemingly insurmountable moral peaks. Hide Your Smiling Faces
is a true, headlong glimpse into the raw spirit of youth, as well as
the calluses that one often develops as a result of an unfiltered past.
After more than a year in prison, Meir gets his first home leave.
Three days on the outside. He hasn`t seen Ido, his son, since he was
sent to prison. This time, however, he must see him. For one last
time.
108
Hide Your Smiling Faces 81’
Daniel Patrick CARBONE, USA 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Official Selection
310
The Home Leave 29’
Amikam KOVNER, Israel 2008
Production Company
Amikam Kovner
+972 506 878 519
amikamk@gmail.com
Τhe story of Irene, a 30-year-old woman who helps suffering people:
terminal patients who want to make shorter the struggle with death;
people whose illness has led to a loss of dignity. One day, a 70-yearold man in good health, who simply feels he has lived long enough,
asks for her help. The meeting will put Irene’s convictions to the test
and will provoke a forceful debate between the two of them. Their
relationship gradually becomes full of implications and emotional
ambiguities.
275
Honey 96’
Valeria GOLINO, Italy-France 2013
World Sales Company
Cité Films, France
+33 1 82 645 298
rberdugo@citefilms.com
Official Selection
85
141
Honeymoon 100’
Jan HREBEJK, Czech Republic-Slovak Republic 2013
World Sales Company
Latido Films
Oscar Alonso
+34 915 488 877
oalonso@latidofilms.com
Film Market
Honeymoon takes place over three days, during Radim and Tereza‘s
wedding party. Secrets from Teresa’s past return to her life during
her own wedding. The past suddenly breaks into the present in the
shape of an optician from a neighboring town who surreptitiously
mixes with the guests at the wedding ceremony. Tereza believes
that he is an acquaintance of Radim – but Radim denies it. The uninvited guest introduces himself as Jan Benda and reminds Radim
that they are acquainted from their secondary school days, revealing
part of a tormenting past which will transform the party into a
nightmare.
Official Selection
241
The Hour of the Lynx 92’
Søren KRAGH-JACOBSEN, Denmark-Sweden 2013
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
Forty-five-year-old priest Helen is approached by scientist Lisbeth
with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to
a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple,
has attempted suicide while rambling on about God. Having been
part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning
them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that
he will attempt suicide again, priest and scientist must now confront
their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race
against time, the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and
deeper into the sick mind of a young man’s soul. What they are
about to realize will change them forever.
Official Selection
252
How the War Started
on My Island 97’
Vinko BREŠAN, Croatia 1995
World Sales Company
Mario Oreskovic
Croatian radiotelevision (HRT)
+385 1 634 4058
mario.oreskovic@hrt.hr
A huge commercial success in its native Croatia, How the War Started
on My Island is an affectionate comedy in the mode of Milos Forman’s
The Fireman’s Ball. The film is set in 1991. Croatia has just conducted
parliamentary elections and has decided to break away from Yugoslavia to form an independent state. Confusion reigns. Federal
Yugoslav institutions scramble to deal with what this all means. On
a small island in the Adriatic, a federal garrison of the military finds
itself surrounded by local Croatians urging them to surrender. The
garrison commander, Major Aleksa, refuses to take orders from
anyone except Belgrade, but no orders come. Then, the elderly father
of one of the conscripts in the camp arrives to take his boy away...
Official Selection
223
The Human Factor 83’
Bruno OLIVIERO, Italia 2013
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Film Market
86
After the death of his wife, inspector Monaco seems uninterested
and tired of his work. Refusing to return to active investigating, he
spends his days behind a desk at the office, checking documents,
photographs, looking for evidence - anything to avoid human contact.
One night, the murder of a rich entrepreneur Mr Ullrich, forces him
back onto the streets. He finds himself facing his own daughter
Linda, arrested for possessing a gun and suspected of being involved
in the case. As a policeman and as a father, he decides to take part
in the investigation along with Levi, his colleague and friend. It will
be a long night of revelations and discoveries.
Film Market
This story of an unexpected encounter between a young boy and a
wounded foreigner somewhere in the Romanian wilderness is a
parable about the freedom of man in modern society. The film was
made with non-professional actors, a minimal crew and no accompanying music. The plot is subdued, while emphasis is placed on
the endeavor to probe the minds of the individual characters and to
create a true sense of atmosphere.
253
Hungry Man 70’
Philip MARTIN, France 2013
World Sales Company
Eaux Vives Productions
Xénia Maingot
+33 1 7473 4472
xmaingot@eauxvivesproductions.com
Official Selection
Christos is coming home after three years. His mother is delighted
but not his father and brother. His father, Dimitris, wants to know
why he has come back to visit them after all these years. Christos
does not answer clearly and his painful past with his family leads
him to deal with them once for all.
181
Hyssopus 99’
Ioannis THOMAIDIS, Greece 2012
Production Company
Ioannis Thomaidis
+30 6932 392 346
adiaf14@yahoo.gr
Film Market
I Am Yours is a portrait of Mina, a young single mother living in Oslo
with her 6-year-old son Felix. She is Norwegian-Pakistani and has a
troubled relationship with her family. Mina is constantly looking for
love and has relationships with different men, however none of the
relationships last very long. Then Mina meets Jesper, a Swedish film
director and they fall head over heels in love. Mina takes Felix with
her to Stockholm to live with Jesper, but Jesper is not ready for a
family life. Mina fights hard for their love, but finally she has to find
out what love is on her own.
195
I Am Yours 98’
Iram HAQ, Norway 2013
World Sales Company
Premium Films
Kasia Karwan
+33 1 4277 0639
kasia.karwan@premium-films.com
Film Market
After meeting each other in a bike parking lot, Christina and Dolores
fell in love with each other in the streets of Amsterdam, when suddenly the unexpected question appears: How long does a passion
last and how far can it take us?
121
I Still Love You 5’
Henrique FARIA, Brazil 2012
World Sales Company
Moro Filmes
Diana Moro
+55 413 013 4163
contato@morocom.com.br
Film Market
87
137
I Used to Be Darker 90’
Matt PORTERFIELD. USA 2013
World Sales Company
New Europe Film Sales
Jan Naszewski
+48 600 173 205
jan@neweuropefilmsales.com
Film Market
When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in
Ocean City, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore.
But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle
the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter
Abby, just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other and letting each other go, looking
for love where they’ve found it before and, when that doesn’t work,
figuring out where they might find it next.
Official Selection
276
Ida 80’
Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI, Poland-Denmark 2013
World Sales Company
Porto Bello Pictures
+44 20 7605 1396
sales@fandangoportobello.com
Official Selection
143
Ignasi M. 85’
Ventura PONS, Spain 2013
World Sales Company
LATIDO
Juan Torres
+34 915 488 877
Poland 1962. Anna is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman. She is
preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since
orphaned as a child, when she learns she has a living relative: her
mother’s sister Wanda. Together, the two women embark on a voyage
of discovery of each other and their past. Her aunt, she learns, is not
only a former hard-line Communist state prosecutor notorious for
sentencing priests and others to death, but also a Jew. Anna learns
that she too is Jewish – and that her real name is Ida. This revelation
sets Anna, now Ida, on a journey to discover her roots and confront
the truth about her family. Ida has to choose between her birth
identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the
Nazi occupation of Poland, while Wanda must confront decisions
she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before
family.
Spanish director Ventura Pons returns to documentary filmmaking
with this study of world-renowned museum expert Ignasi Millet.
HIV-positive yet promiscuous, accustomed to opulence yet now
struggling to endure Spain’s economic crisis, Ignasi is a fascinating
set of contradictions — and Pons’ film is a portrait of both the man
and his times
Film Market
166
Illusion 96’
Savvas KARIDAS, Greece 2013
World Sales Company
Greek Film Center
Michalis Pannagiotopoulos
+30 6944 933 280
ptosi1453@gmail.com
Film Market
88
“Illusion” is the name of a strip-joint in Athens. Around it unfolds a
story of love, escape and deception. In the film, no one is utterly innocent, no one is absolutely free. Everyone is trapped in their own
fallacies; the lies and misconceptions that promise them everything
and blind them. Sotiris, a young financial reporter, sees everything
around him falling into stagnation, but he thinks that he can change
the rules of the game with the right throw of the dice. Manos, his
older colleague, teaches him lessons in cynicism and competitiveness.
Olga, a Russian dancer, a stranger in a dried up town, sells fantasy
and love. Mimis, her boss, a local mobster, is looking for ways to get
his dirty money out of the country. Deep down, each one of them is
alone, and the world around them seems as though it is dipped in
ink-black darkness.
Film Market
Sisters Lale and Yasemin are vacationing on the Turkish Aegean,
reacquainting themselves with each other after a long silence. What
starts as a pleasant holiday soon turns into a vicious trial as a man
appears.
219
The Impeccables 95’
Ramin MATIN, Turkey 2013
World Sales Company
Giyotin Films
Emine Yildirim
+90 532 646 1907
emine@giyotinfilm.com
Film Market
David is sad because his girlfriend, Martina, just left him. David is in
bed and doesn’t want to get up. David has to write, but he just can’t.
David takes a shower, cooks some food and tries to write. David
visits his psychoanalyst and tries to understand a dream he had.
What happened with Martina? David goes out and tries to clear his
head. David asks himself a lot of questions, but is not able to find
many answers. David is almost 25 years old and is afraid of the dark.
159
In Here 66’
Mateo BENDESKY, Argentina 2013
Production Company
Sandwich Club
Mateo Bendesky
+54 11 4801 3606
mateobendesky@gmail.com
Official Selection
In every moment we make choices that define our being; choices
that create shapes and patterns and carve out our lives. Up until the
pattern is broken – by faith, decision or coincidence. In Real Life is
about such moments, where lives are drastically changed. As a multi
plot drama, created out of 3 years of acting improvisations, In Real
Life follows three story threads with characters woven together by
internet dating and by their persistent search for some kind of meaning in life between love and sheer survival.
260
In Real Life 102’
Jonas ELMER, Denmark 2013
World Sales Company
LevelK
Tine Klint
+45 4844 3072
freja@levelk.dk
Official Selection
Elisabeth is completely devoted to her faith, her two sons, and her
work as a Catholic radio host where she evinces profound empathy
for the sufferings of people around the world. After an unexpected
family tragedy, Elisabeth summons an inveterate and unexpected
strength that enables her to face her new situation in a way she
never imagined. With intransigent determination she stands up
against the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church whose obdurate silence
introduces chaos into its flock. This new film from an original Belgian
director, who seems to enjoy rousting viewers out of their comfortable
cinema seats, is an absurd, genre-mixing thriller spiced with the
blackest of humor.
227
In the Name of the Son 80’
Vincent LANNOO, Belgium 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 068 077 252
Film Market
89
125
Include Women Out 87’
Vangelis SEITANIDIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
More Wind
Vangelis Seitanidis
+ 30 6972 236483
vangelis_seitanidis@hotmail.com
Film Market
A road movie. Two old schoolmates (a civil servant and a bankrupt
businessman) go looking for their high school “beauty”. Allegedly,
she has joined a convent somewhere in the south of Greece. What
they discover makes them confront each other. For their lifelong
friendship to survive, they must transcend a rift in Greek society
dating back to the Civil War of 1947-49. Once that happens, a small
miracle ensues.
Film Market
173
India Blues 73’
George MARKAKIS, Germany 2013
World Sales Company
Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting
Patra Spanou
+49 1520 1987294
patra.spanou@yahoo.com
Film Market
236
Innocence 105’
Zeki DEMIRKUBUZ, Turkey 1997
Production Company
MAVI FILM
Basak Emre
+90 312 466 3484
info@festivalonwheels.org
Official Selection
294
It’s Αll So Quiet 93’
Nanouk LEOPOLD, The Netherlands 2013
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 53 10 33 99
Official Selection
90
India Blues is an edgy, bold and passionate love story between two
young men who are sometimes afraid to love each other. Through
exploring their experiences and the trivial or important moments in
their relationship in real time (their first kiss, their first sexual encounter, their awkward silences, their last hug), we are submerged
in their universe of love and the feelings that come with it. Like
Jean-Luc Godard once said, “a film should have a beginning, a middle,
and an end. But not necessarily in that order.” In taking full advantage
of that challenge lies the unique element of India Blues: the feelings
the characters experience are not presented to us in sequence, but
in the “wrong” order – Pain, Lust, Happiness, Jealousy, Attraction,
Peacefulness, Love and Anger, function as eight segments/chapters
in the coming together and the tearing apart of two very different
people.
Yusuf has just been released from prison, after serving a ten-year
sentence. Having nowhere else to go, he decides to go to his sister’s
house in Izmir. Once there, he checks into a cheap hotel, where he
meets Ugur, a night club singer, and Bekir, her pimp and lover. Ugur
is raising a small child, and we also learn that she is keeping a secret
concerning someone in prison. Yusuf soon becomes entangled in a
romantic triangle. When Bekir dies, Yusuf takes his place, looking
after Ugur and her child. One day, Ugur disappears, and Yusuf starts
searching for her, going from one town to the next, along with the
child. Innocence is about people under pressure, who are driven to
destruction in their effort to defend their principles, their beliefs,
and their human values.
Helmer, a single farmer in his fifties, lives with his aged, bedridden
father in the Dutch countryside. His working days are marked by
the visits of milk collector Johan, a man of his own age for whom
Helmer holds a secret fascination. One day Helmer decides to renovate the house, buying himself a new double bed and moving
his father upstairs. His life gains even more momentum, when
adolescent farmhand Henk comes to help him out at work in the
farm.
Film Market
After twenty years, an old man, widowed by the recent floods, and
his son, who has been living in Japan, see each other again for the
first time. Their expectations run high and during this brief reencounter, both try to overcome the distance that has grown between
them. When his son and his family have to part, they leave him a
Japanese Robodog as a souvenir of their visit that will change his
life forever.
176
The Japanese Dog 85’
Tudor Cristian JURGIU, Romania 2013
World Sales Company
m-appeal world sales UG
Katja Lenarcic
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Official Selection
Jin is something of a Little Red Riding Hood, a teenaged girl aiming
to cling to life and discover the world while stuck in the turmoil and
conflict between two nations. She flees an armed organization in
the mountains for an unknown reason. She spends solitary days in
the mountains and forests hiding both from organization members
and from security forces. Her aim is to get to the big city, to achieve
her dreams of new and wider worlds unknown to her until now. Armed with a small but robust body and a fresh but powerful sense of
resolve, she manages to create a space for herself in the dark and
forbidding wilderness. But for Jin, the plains are more dangerous
than the mountains, more threatening and more hurtful. She returns,
deeply disillusioned, to her solitary existence in the mountains and
reaches out mournfully to the natural world.
After 15 years in prison, Jo returns to his former neighborhood Menilmontant, a collection of high rise estates on the gritty outskirts
of Paris. What used to be his patch, has completely changed; new
gangs and new codes now rule this place. Jo finds it difficult to settle
back into life on the outside, especially when he discovers that the
woman he used to love is the mother of a 14-year-old boy. Ultimately,
Jo must come to terms with his shady past and the endless settling
of scores.
212
Jin 122’
Reha ERDEM, Turkey 2012
Production Company
Atlantik Film
Claudine Avetyan
+90 212 278 3611
claudine@atlantikfilm.com
Official Selection
114
Jo’s Neighborhood 92’
Alain MINIER, France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Film Market
Joshua Tree, 1951 is a fearless, intimate portrait of James Dean on
the cusp of becoming both a great actor and an outsider icon. Set in
the early 1950s and focusing on Dean’s experiences as a rising star
in Los Angeles, the film’s surreal and dreamlike vignettes blend biographical and fictionalized elements to present pivotal moments
in his short yet remarkable life.
131
Joshua Tree, 1951:
A Portrait Οf James Dean 93’
Matthew MISHORY, USA 2012
World Sales Company
Film Republic
Xavier Henry-Rashid
+44 783 599 9112
Film Market
91
293
Joy and Sorrow of the Body 149’
Andreas PANTZIS, Cyprus-Greece 2013
Production Company
Famagusta Film Factory Ltd (Cyprus)
and Curium Films (Greece)
Andreas Pantzis
+357 99 652 616
andreaspantzis@gmail.com
Film Market
Evagoras was sentenced to five years in prison because he was
making counterfeit banknotes in collaboration with his Bulgarian
friend Milen. He gets out of prison and travels to Varna, Bulgaria, to
meet Milen. Socrates who lives in Varna, meets Evagoras and helps
him. He introduces Evagoras to Dita, a beautiful and kind-hearted
hooker. Evagoras falls in love with her but never touches her. In the
meantime John, an Interpol officer, from Cyprus, in charge of the
Evagoras-Milen case, arrives in Varna…
Film Market
148
Jungle 83’
Alexander VOYTINSKY, Russia 2012
World Sales Company
Latido Films
Juan Torres
+34 91 548 88 77
Sergey and Marina’s relationship is going through a crisis. To try and
improve things, they go on an exotic trip. Throughout the journey
they argue with each other and end up on a desert island in the
middle the ocean, inhabited by cannibals. Instead of fighting for
survival, Serghey and Marina continue their showdown that turns
into open fighting.
Film Market
191
The Kampala Story 62’
Kasper BISGAARD , Donald MUGISHA, Uganda 2012
Production Company
Dix Film & Deddac Film
Kasper Bisgaard
+45 28 917 329
kbisgaard@rocketmail.com
Apio, a 14 year old Karamojong girl and her mother run their household on money wired through a mobile money service from her
father who works at a security firm in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
When her father all of a sudden stops communicating with the
family at a time when Apio’s mother is pregnant and might need a
costly medical operation, she travels to Kampala to find him so they
can SMS money back home.
Official Selection
315
Khoja 107’
Vahid Mustafa YEV, Azerbaijan 2013
World Sales Company
“ANS Independent Broadcast and Media” Company
Natavan Museibova
+994 50 252 9036
kamran.bakifilm@gmail.com
Film Market
92
In this story of love during wartime that blends comedy, action, and
romance, a young couple are getting married and are told to come
back in a month’s time. Gunel (Nigar Bahadirqizi) is the daughter of
a wealthy city man, and Aliakbar (Ilgar Musayev) is an army officer
from a rural region. The couple promises to come back, unaware of
the overwhelming forces moving toward them which will shatter
their world and alter history. In February 1992, war rages throughout
Azerbaijan, but the word on fighting has yet to arrive at the capital
Baku, where life continues to follow its own slow pace. Gunel’s father
is arranging a lavish wedding party for his daughter. While Aliakbar
is making his way to his wedding, his countrymen are waiting for
promised reinforcements which never come.
Film Market
G. Andrianopoulos uses his camera to seduce an 11-year-old boy,
Manolis. The cameraman buys Manolis a toy gun and thus they become more familiar with each other. Manolis brings G. Andrianopoulos into his house and the camera starts introducing the man into
the world of kids, the world of Manolis and his sister, Roxani. G. Andrianopoulos tapes the games of the siblings; later on, a friend of
his asks Manolis about his worldview. Years later, Manolis and Roxani
have become adults and take their revenge on G. Andrianopoulos,
at his house, by giving him the end he deserves – according to their
opinion.
274
Kids in Da Tape 62’
Giorgos PAPAGAROUFALIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Giorgos Papagaroufalis
+30 210 322 4190
geephalis@yahoo.gr
Film Market
Armand Lacourtade, 43, an agricultural equipment salesman, is sick
of life as a single gay man. After meeting Curly, a brash teenage girl,
he goes straight. With all kinds of people on their tail, they defy
every danger to be together in their forbidden love. But is this really
what Armand dreamed of?
245
The King of Escape 97’
Alain GUIRAUDIE, France 2009
World Sales Company
Les Films du Losange
Marine Goulois
+ 33 1 4443 8724
m.goulois@filmsdulosange.fr
Official Selection
Sixty-five-year-old Mrs. Mirković’s husband has just died. It happened
after a two-year long, painful and exhausting illness. Her neighbor, 75year-old Mr. Kolak, has been waiting for this moment. He has been in
love with her for a long time. He dresses up, shaves, fixes his hair and
knocks on her door to express his sympathy. But he’s actually going
courting. Overwhelmed by his emotions, Mr. Kolak pours out his feelings
for Mrs. Mirković as if they were both teenagers. Suddenly there is lightning and thunder, and the spirit of her late husband Peter, whose body
was just taken from the apartment less than an hour ago, appears on
TV and attacks Mr. Kolak for trying to seduce his newly widowed wife.
Mrs. Mirković begins to argue with her husband, telling him all the
things she didn’t dare tell him while he was alive. The spirit disappears
from the TV screen and the strange and comical situations that ensue
clearly suggest that this is the beginning of a beautiful love story.
Liso, an upper middle class young man, has just finished a stay at a
psychiatric institute. He goes to live at his parent’s house where he
is treated as if he were a child. He begins a relationship of mutual
complicity with Sonia, the Bolivian maid, who takes care of him and
protects him. Liso tries to recapture old loves, but he is unable to
pull his life together. Everything seems to be broken. The only things
that seem to keep him going is his relationship with Sonia and the
time he
spends with his grandmother.
235
Kolak Mirković 23’
Nikola IVANDA, Croatia 2013
Production Company
SvemIR.hr
Ivan Rajković
+385 99 815 3651
direktor@svemir.hr
Official Selection
161
La Paz 73’
Santiago LOZA, Argentina 2013
World Sales Company
FiGa Films
Alex Garcia
+1 323 309 4856
alex@figafilms.com
Official Selection
93
211
The Lament 30’
Aydın KETENAG, Turkey 2012
Production Company
Aydın Ketenağ
+90 533 475 2923
aketenag@gmail.com
Film Market
A son, a father, a lover... This film is about the struggle of four people
trying to reconnect with life after the death of a young man, who
had been fulfilling these three different roles for them, each of which
is more important than the other. The Lament has no dialogue. This
film can be thought of as an investigative work which explores the
relationship between man and nature.
Official Selection
291
Le Demantelement 111’
Sébastien PILOTE, Canada 2013
World Sales Company
eOne Films International
Natalie Kampelmacher
+1 416 646 2400
internationalsales@entonegroup.com
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: the Bouchard & Sons
Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he
raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day,
the oldest asks him for financial support so that she doesn’t end up
losing her house. Gaby, for whom fatherhood has evolved to a point
where it has become unreasonable, decides to dismantle the farm.
Official Selection
332
Le Developpeur 15’
Liana KASSIR, Renaud PACHOT, France 2009
Perhaps you were wondering what Japanese tourists might be doing
in Paris?
Production Company
ESRA
paris@esra.edu
+33 1 4425 2525
paris@esra.edu
118
Left Over 82’
Yamini Lila KUMAR. France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
94
Two couples meet for dinner on July 9th, 2006, the very night of the
Final Football World Cup when France is playing Italy. Their conversations wander from intimate subjects to deep political discussions.
During six years, their political attitudes evolve along with their relationship to each other. From the Socialist Party primary election
in 2007 to the 2012 presidential election, the political scientist, the
historian, the journalist and the comedian are facing their point of
views up to the most dramatic ends in a time when faith and belief
are reassessed.
Film Market
An actress is about to play the part of Marianna Alcoforado, a young
nun from the convent of Beja who was writing fiery letters to her
French lover, the officer Chamilly. The actress, being the perfect embodiment of Marianna, will take us on a journey beyond time and
imagination.
Adapted from the book Letters of a Portuguese Nun by Mariana Alcoforado.
106
Letters of a Portuguese Nun 85’
Bruno François BOUCHER, France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Film Market
Maciej Pieprzyca recounts the true story of a man who battles a disability to retain his dignity and contact with the ones he loves in
this moving feature inspired by a cerebral palsy patient.
The protagonist in Life Feels Good proves he can function intellectually
and form healthy relationships despite his condition. Dawid Ogrodnik
plays Mateusz, a boy who grows up surrounded with the love and
care of his parents, who see past his disability. He is bright, funny
and capable of strong emotional connections. When fate takes him
from his family home and he becomes a patient at a special care facility, Mateusz needs to fight for dignity. When he meets a young
female volunteer and a doctor willing to try some experimental
treatments, everything changes.
Deep in the forest a group of five friends wander around like a lion
herd. Lost in their word games, they play and seduce each other
while going back and forth into adulthood territory, in a desperate
search to avoid their predetermined story.
224
Life Feels Good 107’
Maciej PIEPRZYCA, Poland 2013
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Film Market
189
Lions 82’
Jazmin LOPEZ, Argentina-France-The Netherlands 2012
World Sales Company
Premium Films
Kasia Karwan
+33 1 4277 0639
Official Selection
A young farmer named Sasha stands at the beginning of a new, happy
life. The state is buying up land from small landowners. For Sasha, this
is a chance to escape the potato farm he has grown tired of, and return
to the city, taking along his beloved Anna, a clerk in the local land administration department. But once the deal is closed and the farm is
doomed, the local villagers suddenly rise up in protest. They convince
Sasha, the “boss,” to come to their aid and save the farm – the village’s
only means of survival. Sasha is touched by the villagers’ eagerness to
cast him in the role of a local leader and object of their love and hope.
He tries his best to help the villagers. But when he puts the brakes on
the transfer of the farm to the state, local officials view it as a symptom
of schizophrenia, and his girlfriend takes it as his refusal to share a life
in the city with her. Sasha finds himself caught up in a fight which is
not his, entangled in a web of passion, pride, and irreversible actions.
133
A Long and Happy Life 77’
Boris KHLEBNIKOV, Russia 2013
World Sales Company
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 30 6953 7850
valeska@filmsboutique.com
Official Selection
95
127
The Longest Distance 113’
Claudia Pinto EMPERADOR, Venezuela 2013
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Film Market
Two sides of the same country: a chaotic and violent city contrasting
against a natural paradise where the oldest mountains on the planet
can be found. Two main characters that find each other at a crucial
moment. Two fearless journeys, one that begins as a childlike adventure and ends up on the other side of the country and a oneway journey, free and determined. The same destiny will inevitably
bond a woman with her grandson. Without knowing it they are part
of an unbreakable family circle that deeply unites them. Second opportunities will arise while individual freedom of choice will become
imposing. Everything comes together to tell us: there is only one
destiny, the one you choose for yourself.
Film Market
151
Love Me 90’
Maryna ER GORBACH, Mehmet BAHADIR ER, TurkeyUkraine 2013
World Sales Company
Patra Spanou
+49 1520 198 7294
Cemal has agreed to an arranged marriage, when his uncle and
cousin drag him to a sex holiday in Ukraine on the occasion of his
bachelor party. The rather shy Cemal stumbles upon the beautiful
Sascha - an independent and confident girl with an agenda of her
own. Despite the language barrier, the chemistry between them is
undeniable. In an adventurous night through the snowy streets of
Kiev, they will experience affection, respect and love. Sprinkled with
hilarious notes of cultural clashes and an endearing display of the
kindness of strangers, this idiosyncratic “comedy drama” will warm
hearts in the most unexpected way. If there would be a Kiev episode
on Night on Earth this would be it!
Film Market
266
Love Me or Leave Me 95’
Mariana ČENGEL SOLČANSKÁ, Slovak Republic 2013
Production Company
JMB Film & TV Production
Soňa Javorská
+421 2 5920 4611
sonajavorska@jmbfilm.sk
Sixteen-year-old Mira falls in love with her stepfather. She seduces
him by sexual provocation and uses him as the lightning rod of her
frustrations – those of a child neglected by her mother. Zuza only
sees the surface of things; she has pushed aside her difficult and
non-conforming daughter and instead, focuses on her younger child
from her second marriage. With her friends – two women similarly
unloved as herself – she sets out on a trip to a remote house in the
countryside. There, they will try to discover the meaning of their
lives.
Film Market
124
Loving 106’
Slawomir FABICKI, Poland 2012
Production Company
Odeon Film Studio
Marek Rudnicki
+ 48 22 380 40 50
odeon@odeon.com.pl
Film Market
96
Maria and Tomek are in their thirties and have been married ten
years. They live in a small town. Both find professional fulfilment in
their jobs – he in a design company, she at the town hall. They are
working together on the decoration of their apartment and are expecting a baby. It seems that nothing is capable of disturbing their
peaceful lives. But one day the mayor, who has long lusted after
Maria, rapes her. She decides not to report this to the police. Nor
does she tell her husband. From that day forth, their love is put to
the test.
Film Market
During a stormy night, Ann is all alone in her villa. An intruder breaks
in. Ann, in absolute terror, has to fight this mysterious creature, as
well as to confront her husband and her own demented mind...
158
Lurk 87’
Vassilis KATSIKIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Vassilis Katsikis
+ 30 6979 110 143
vkatsik@hotmail.com
Film Market
Jimmy is a wealthy high-school student, about 17 years old. Mary is
a trainee lawyer in her 30s. Makis is a fifty-year-old family man and
the owner of a mini-market. Three very different people. In the
frame of their conventional life that pressures them, when everything
seems so still and predictable, these three people find their own
way out.
321
Luton 100’
Michalis KONSTANTATOS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Horsefly Productions
Yorgos Tsourgiannis
+30 6932 415 705
info@horsefly.gr
Film Market
Marjoram is a psychological suspense drama about a mother-daughter relationship. Anna (11) strives to be the perfect daughter to
please her mother, Mary. However, Anna suddenly starts behaving
in strange ways, putting herself in danger and driving Mary to her
limits. Why is a child who seems happy on the surface, acting so unpredictably?
184
Marjoram 88’
Olga MALEA, Greece 2013
Production Company
Malea Productions
Olga Malea
+30 6944 301 715
olgamalea@gmail.com
Film Market
When the sugar mill is shut down, the village of Melaza is devastated,
and soon seems completely lifeless. Monica and Aldo, a young
married couple hidden among rusted machinery in a desolate sugar
mill, struggle for survival in an attempt to save their world without
losing their faith – even when the police impose a fine for inhabiting
the mill without authorization.
188
Melaza 80’
Carlos LECHUGA, Cuba-France-Panama 2012
World Sales Company
Habanero Film Sales
Alfredo Calvino
+55 22 9972 8481
acalvino@habanerofilmsales.com
Official Selection
97
231
Midwinter Night’s Dream 95’
Goran PASKALJEVIC, Serbia and Montenegro 2004
World Sales Company
Bavaria Film International, Germany
+49 89 6499 2686
bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de
Official Selection
249
Milk 102’
Semih KAPLANOGLU, Turkey 2008
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
Film Market
Serbia, Winter 2004. Lazar returns home after ten long years of absence. He is a different man today: having regained his liberty, he
has decided to free himself from the heavy burden of his past and to
start a new life in a country that also seems to want a better future.
The apartment where he formerly lived is now occupied by Jasna, a
single mother who is raising her autistic 12-year-old daughter Jovana.
Refugees from Bosnia, they have been squatting in Lazar’s apartment
for some time now. Jasna, whose husband never accepted their
daughter’s autism and abandoned them, also wishes to turn the
page on a difficult past.
Since mother and daughter have nowhere else to go, Lazare doesn’t
have the heart to make them leave. Little by little, among these
three beings marginalized by society, a special kinship will develop…
Young Yusuf, 18-years-old, is disconcerted when he learns that his
mother Fatma, 40-years-old, is having a secret affair with the town’s
railroad stationmaster. Should he behave in accordance with the
traditional male-dominated culture and traditions of the town or
should he develop a new perspective that goes along with the new
modernization process that is on-going in the area?
Official Selection
186
Miracle 78’
Juraj LEHOTSKY, Slovak Republic-Czech Republic 2013
World Sales Company
Negativ
Zuzana Bielikova
+42 06 0814 1437
zuzana@negativ.cz
Official Selection
313
Mirage 103’
Svetozar RISTOVSKI, FYROM 2004
World Sales Company
EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH (Austria)
Maja Zaric
+43 1 524 9 310
office@eastwest-distribution.com
Official Selection
98
The girls are fourteen and fifteen years old and have already experienced more than most adults. Truancy, escapes from home, prostitution, drugs, life on the streets and misguided loves, even though
they are still children. They have incomplete families and botched
up lives. Re-education centers are full of them.
Ela has a child’s face, but her body is very feminine despite her age.
The first evening after her mother drives her to the re-education
centre, she has to stand on an impromptu stage where she is subjected to a so-called public confession. We learn that she had a
thirty-year-old boyfriend Roby, whom she met regularly and lived
with when she ran away from home. Ela loves him, but she is not
allowed to contact him. She decides to run away from the center
during the New Year’s Eve disco.
Inspired by Tarkovski’s Ivan’s Childhood, the film tells the story of a
pupil who is led to violence and revenge when he is robbed of all
hope for a better life. Living within a broken down social and family
environment, twelve-year-old Marko pins all his hopes on a poetry
competition that his teacher has suggested he participate in. But
when that same teacher betrays him and things around him just
keep getting worse, Marko will take his fate into his own hand and
put into practice the lessons he was taught by a lone desperado.
Film Market
After an argument with her lover, a young woman recklessly gets
into the parked car of a mysterious stranger. Their brief encounter
will lead to mutual attraction, insight and fatal accomplishment,
during a journey to the end of the night.
Through a maze of colorful flashbacks, intricately related to the main
character’s painful past, the destiny of the young woman is inevitably
connected to that of an imaginary fish.
168
Miruna 20’
Piotr SULKOWSKI, Poland 2013
World Sales Company
The Polish National Film, Television and Theater School
Andrzej Bednarek
+48 661 589 805
sulkowskipm@gmail.com
Film Market
Set in the dunes near the North Sea, a small circus company is suffering from a serious lack of audiences for their shows, leading the
most desperate ones of the troupe to call on magic and spells. Angele
(Natacha Regnier), the diaphanous ballerina, her clown lover Elliot
(Denis Lavant) and the circus ringmaster (Tcheky Karyo), full of
cruelty and disturbed by fits of schizophrenia on the one hand, and
Zohra (Béatrice Dalle) in love with Elliot, haunted by an uncanny
conscience (Iggy pop), on the other.
Secrets, jealousy, and envy will progressively take hold of them and
trigger some irreversible acts.
110
Morning Star 100’
Sophie BLONDY, France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
12-year-old Raimonds does what he can to make his strict mother
proud – he even plays the saxophone in the school band instead
of riding his kickboard in a skate park. When he tries to cover up a
bad note at school, a spiral of lies is started, which soon spins out
of control. Thanks to his friend Peteris, whose mother is a cleaner,
Raimonds gets hold of the keys to a fancy apartment and wants
to spend the night there. Unfortunately, the owner comes back
home with a girl, who not only robs him but also takes Raimonds’
saxophone. The boy has to venture into nighttime Riga to get the
instrument back. When Peteris is accused of robbing the flat, Raimonds has to decide whether to save his friendship or to save face
with his mother. An exciting story about the healing power of
truth.
Dipus is a man torn between his desire to love and his immense fear
of loving. Seeking the origin of his fear and trying to find a way of
loving, he digs deep into his memory and retraces, scene by scene,
the story of his family, as he experienced or as he imagines it: They
fall in love. In order to make their love last, they get married. In
order to make their marriage last, they have a child, Dipus. But when
Jo realizes that Dipus will eventually be gone one day, she convinces
herself that without Dipus’ fresh blood, the family structure she created will collapse. So, in order to keep the three of them forever together, she decides to tell Laius that the boy suffers from a rare
disease and if he ever opens his eyes, he will die. Dipus will meet
Niovy. She is the one who forces him to open his eyes and see the
truth. Dipus wants to love her, but is he ready to eliminate the sick
way of loving that runs in his blood and make a new start?
333
Mother, I Love You 83’
Janis NORDS, Latvia 2013
World Sales Company
Jan Naszewski
+48 600 173 205
Official Selection
175
My Blood 85’
Diamantis KARANASTASIS, Greece 2012
World Sales Company
Patra Spanou
+49 1520 1987294
Film Market
99
202
My Dog Killer 90’
Mira FORNAY, Slovak Republic-Czech Republic 2013
Film Market
Eighteen-year-old Marek lives near the Slovak-Moravian border with
his dad and his hooligan pals, although Marek’s best friend is his
dog. Alienated from everyone, he is on his own in the racist circle
that surrounds him. His life is shaken up when he discovers the
secret of his lost mother Marika.
World Sales Company
Katja Lenaric
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Official Selection
304
Night 92’
Leonardo BRZEZICKI, Argentina-Colombia-Norway 2013
World Sales Company
Philippe Tasca
+33 9 5070 7830
Official Selection
221
Nina 80’
Elisa FUKSAS, Italia 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Film Market
250
No Rest for the Brave 108’
World Sales Company
Coproduction Office, France
Philippe Bober
+33 1 5602 6000
info@coproductionoffice.eu
Official Selection
100
Six friends return to the place where their friend Miguel spent his
last days, a colonial farmhouse in the middle of a subtropical landscape. They are here to pack boxes and collect things Miguel left
behind. Turntables still connected to speakers, cables lying on the
floor, his clothes and random belongings still spread around the
house... Miguel used to record sounds compulsively and his recordings are now playing continuously through speakers inside and
outdoors. Pedro was Miguel’s boyfriend and he’s having a hard
time coping with his absence. He splits from the group, neglecting
his new boyfriend, Juan. The sounds continue invading the space
the group inhabits, pervading their thoughts and affecting their
actions, creating a fine line between artifice and reality. It’s night
time and Pedro loses himself deep in the forest, where the past
will haunt the present.
The fascist architecture of Rome is at the heart of this handsomely
produced romantic drama, which is named for a pixie-ish twenty
something singing coach who spends the summer dog sitting in her
friend’s swanky apartment and resisting the advances of a handsome
young cellist. Although Nina is almost 30, she still hasn’t figured
out what to do with her life. While waiting, she motors her Vespa
through sun-bleached suburban Rome, eats pastry and practices
calligraphy. Michele D’Attanasio’s striking cinematography evokes
Nina’s indefinable anxiety. A preoccupation with colonnades and
arches and a fixation with composition betray the 31-year-old director’s background: she is the daughter of two leading Italian architects and studied architecture herself before finding an outlet for
her creativity in film.
Basile Matin dreamed of Faftao-Laoupo, man’s “final resting place.”
Tonight could be his last night. To rule out mortality, he decides to
go for a ramble and never to sleep again.
Film Market
After her husband’s death, Nurcan is left alone with her grown up daughter Feride and two young children, İlker and Özge. The eldest child,
Feride has to take up the role of the father. Already in great need, Nurcan
embraces this situation, almost replacing her late husband with Feride,
imposing all responsibilities on her. Devoted to his father as the only
son, İlker fiercely reacts when authority is given to Feride, and is alienated
from the family. As a teenager in need of her family more than ever,
Özge is unable to reach her mother or her sister, ignored by both who
are too caught up in the family drama. She tries to make herself noticed,
tries to be a part of the family, to “belong”... The status quo at home is
disrupted when Feride, fed up with her burden, accepts Gülağa’s proposal
and decides to marry him, as a way out. The story of four characters
who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who are
destroying themselves day by day...
Northwest is one of the most impoverished multi-ethnic areas of
Copenhagen. Living here with his mother, younger brother and little
sister is 18-year-old Casper, who struggles to make ends meet based
on selling stolen goods to one of the neighbourhood pack leaders.
When organized crime hits Nordvest, the hierarchy of the neighbourhood shifts and Casper is offered a chance to climb the ranks.
Soon he’s hurled into a world of drugs, violence and prostitution
and as things escalate his childhood playground becomes a battlefield.
Consequently Casper finds himself and his family dead centre in a
conflict that threatens to destroy them.
279
Nobody’s Home 81’
Deniz Akçay, Turkey 2012
World Sales Company
Mars Production
Marsel Kalvo
+90 212 244 8252
marsel@marsfilm.net
Official Selection
305
Northwest 91’
Michael NOER, Denmark 2013
World Sales Company
Trustnordisk
Susan Wendt
+45 60 298 466
susan@trustnordisk.com
Official Selection
Myrto is an opera singer. She’s rehearsing for the role of Medea. Her
boyfriend, Dimitris buys her a sculpture. He adores it, as if it was
their child, but she finds it repulsive. The sculpture understands
Myrto’s negative emotions and hopes they will change in the future.
Michael is a puppeteer. Due to financial difficulties, he decides to
put aside his puppet and work as the assistant of a magician called
Midas.
165
Not Medea 70’
Dimitris KARAKASIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Dimitris Karakasis
+30 6948 826 206
dkarakasis@yahoo.gr
Film Market
Bucharest, 1988. Nela, a young schoolteacher, takes care of her
father, a former colonel with the “Securitate” (the Department of
State Security in Communist Romania), as he dies. His wish is for his
remains to be used by medical science. However, no one wants his
body as the refrigerators at the university aren’t working. Nela leaves
for a teaching job in a provincial town. There she meets Mitică, a
doctor at the local hospital, who, like Nela, refuses to compromise
and is full of dreams and optimism. They disturb everyone by their
attitude but they survive the harshness of reality, as if touched by a
kind of grace.
340
The Oak 105’
Lucian PINTILIE, France-Romania 1992
World Sales Company
MK2
Juliette Schrameck
+33 1 4467 3018
juliette.schrameck@mk2.com
Official Selection
101
239
October November 114’
Götz SPIELMANN, Austria 2013
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
Official Selection
282
On Fire 111’
Claire SIMON, France 2006
Film Market
In a small village in the Austrian Alps there is a hotel, now no longer
in use. Two sisters grew up here. Sonja now lives in Berlin. She has
become an actress, very successful, a TV star. She made a career for
herself very quickly: she is still only in her early 30s. She has achieved
a lot in this short time – but something seems to be missing from
her life. Her sister Verena, who is a little older, has never left the village. After their mother died in an accident she, her husband and
her little boy moved into the former hotel, which is much too big for
them. The father of the two sisters also still lives in the former hotel.
Still a patriarch, he has grown old and surly. Then a major heart
attack brings him close to death. He survives, but from now on he is
a sick man. And for Sonja it is high time to visit her family once
again, and the scenes of her childhood. A new chapter begins; old
relationships are reconfigured. The reunion slowly but relentlessly
Fifteen-year-old Livia recovers from a nasty fall from her horse thanks
to the help of a fire fighter, 37-year-old Jean, married and a father
of two. Livia falls in love with him. The teenager will do everything
in her power to conquer the older man for whom she feels an increasingly burning passion.
World Sales Company
Films Distribution, France
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 5310 3399
info@filmsdistribution.com
Official Selection
164
One Last Joke 84’
Vasilis RAISIS, Greece 2013
Four young scientists have a strange “hobby”: they play pranks on
psychics, mediums etc., in order to expose them. One of the scientists
joins the group of a pseudo-therapist so as to reveal he is a fraud.
Things will not go as planned, though...
Production Company
Digi dv productions
Diamantis Tassis
+30 6944 707 070
contact@digidvpro.com
Film Market
109
One O Οne 94’
Franck GUERIN, France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
102
Abbas and Clara live together in a French mountain village, cut off
from the world and deserted by its population. The couple survives
under the constant threat of a devastating virus that has left the
world in an apocalyptic state.People becoming infected with the
pandemic are suffering from disturbing behavior.
One day, in the woods, Abbas discovers a child who is hiding her
mother affected by the disease. After the young girl disappears
under mysterious conditions, Abbas will start looking relentlessly
for her, leading him to travel to the city of Taipei.
An obsessive quest will begin…
Film Market
Arafat, a thirty-year-old Arab New Yorker, lives at home with his
parents who are desperate to find him a Muslim bride. Horny and
lonely, he tries the New York dating scene with zero luck. Then he
meets Kenny, a smooth talking single New Yorker who becomes his
wingman. Kenny helps Arafat score a beautiful woman on their first
night out, but he is caught by his parents having sex with her. According to Kenny the only solution for Arafat is to move out of his
parents’ house. With no money or job, Arafat can’t afford to move
out. Then Kenny proposes an idea – a Green Card marriage for money!
But, with an Israeli girl...
105
Only in New York 95’
Ghazi ALBULIWI, USA-France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 53 95 04 64
Film Market
Niki lives in Athens with her husband and her seven-year-old son,
Orfeas. The young woman, trapped in a dull marriage, meets and
falls in love with Giannis, a young bohemian city guy. They both feel
the strong attraction that dominates their body and soul, and decide
to take a trip to the Greek provinces. The return to the big city will
bring changes and will signal new unforeseen developments. Orfeas
will disappear and Niki will be forced to return abruptly to reality.
Always in the background of the story, a country plagued by an economic, political and emotional crisis.
170
Orfeas’ Path 72’
Kostas KOLIMENOS, Greece 2013
World Sales Company
Mediascope
Kostas Kolimenos
+30 6945 296 469
kolis1960@yahoo.gr
Film Market
Sergio, Ruben and Alicia are caretakers of a countryside estate in Tucumán, a northern province in Argentina. When the estate owners
are absent, the sneaky workers secretly occupy the house and emulate
the owners’ lifestyle. They sleep in comfortable beds, watch movies
on a big screen TV and eat food that they could never afford. When
the owners of the estate, Pía and her sister Lourdes, show up unexpectedly for the weekend with their husbands, Manuel and Gabriel,
the workers are left out to their own humble abode and daily duties.
But it’s difficult to stay away from the comfort to which they have
grown accustomed.
The owners have secrets of their own, and soon everyone is wondering
who will end up running the house.
In a small village in Moldova, an old woman dies, leaving her son
Petru and her granddaughter Anişoara behind. According to their
tradition, the whole village mourns and bids farewell. The women
sing and pray at the open coffin. Petru and the men drink and philosophize about the life. They are observed by curious Anisoara until
she falls asleep, the storm calms down and the morning sun rises.
On the coming day, everybody starts the way to the cemetery. The
old men carry the heavy coffin over stony paths up to the sacred
hill. The sun is high and the way seems endless. In this landscape of
heavenly beauty, joy mixes with sorrow on the final journey and in
the end, life stands above death.
240
The Owners 95’
Agustín TOSCANO, Ezequiel RADUSKY, Argentina 2013
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
Official Selection
237
Panihida 61’
Ana-Felicia SCUTELNICU, Moldova-Germany 2012
Production Company
Weydemann Bros.
Jonas Weydemann
+49 30 6792 8270
jonas@weydemannbros.com
Official Selection
103
136
Papusza 131’
Joanna KOS-KRAUZE , Krzysztof KRAUZE, Poland 2013
World Sales Company
Jan Naszewski
+48 60 017 3205
Film Market
The true story of Papusza, the first Roma woman who put her poems
into writing and published them, thus going against the traditional
female image in the gypsy community. The film follows Papusza’s
life from birth to old age: an arranged marriage as a small girl, her
life in a gypsy tabor before, during and after World War II, then
forced settlement in communist Poland and urban life in poverty.
Her meeting with the Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski, who discovered
her great talent for poetry and published her works led to a tragic
paradox: a famous poet lived in poverty, rejected by the Roma community for betraying their secrets.
Official Selection
233
The Particle 80’
Erdem TEPEGOZ, Turkey 2012
Production Company
Kulefilm
+90 312 241 9341
info@kulefilm.com
Film Market
160
Party of Eight 93’
John KOLYA REICHART, Germany 2013
Production Company
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Tim Krüger
+49 160 2841584
krueger.tim@web.de
In a city full of unemployment, people, their troubles and lives –
are they like mundane, haphazard and tiny as myriad dispersed particles? What about Zeynep, clinging onto life with her little daughter
and mother, how much space does she take up in this immense Universe? A family of three tries to survive in the dusty and dim atmosphere of the abandoned apartments evacuated for destruction…
The existence of her elderly mother and disabled daughter is bound
to Zeynep’s(Jale Arıkan) struggle… Under these compulsive circumstances and pressure from her landlord Kudret (Ergun Kuyucu)
for the rent, Zeynep has to take a job offer and move out of town
where even finding an ordinary job is impossible…
Eight people come together on a farm in the middle of nowhere. All
of them are related by blood, friendship or love to Anton, who
escaped his old life and disappeared some years ago and who has
now invited them to celebrate his 30th birthday. Anticipating the
reunion with their lost son, they put old grievances and injuries
aside at first; however, as time passes without Anton showing up,
frustration and anger resurface among the waiting. With old conflicts
rising from the dead at every turn, the eagerly awaited party turns
into a boiling family battle...
Film Market
138
Penumbra 98´
Eduardo VILLANUEVA, Mexico 2013
Production Company
Eduardo Villanueva Independent Filmmaker
Eduardo Villanueva
+52 312 315 6372
vilas129@gmail.com
Official Selection
104
An experienced old hunter shows us his captive world within a rural
Mexico lost in time. A place where suspense and mystery atmospheres
will be very present, creating in his mind a fascinating and illusory
world, together with the spirits of the forest.
Film Market
Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker are involved in
several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting
the “golden youth” beauty Sabina, he looks for a fresh start in downtown circles, but only finds contempt. His hopes for love, compassion
and opportunity are dashed by the even more ruthless rules of the
bourgeoisie, and he comes to realize that the only one he can count
on is himself.
115
People Οut Τhere 90’
Aik KARAPETIAN, Latvia 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
16-year-old Adam discovers an old photograph of his pregnant
mother, looking very happy with an unknown man. He begins to
doubt his family and sets off to find his supposed real father. He experiences his first love, true friendship and finally unveils a secret
from the past.
174
The Photograph 82’
Maciej ADAMEK, Poland-Germany-Hungary 2012
World Sales Company
Patra Spanou
+49 1520 198 7294
Film Market
We will not give even a button - so many of them said. Young and
beautiful. Polish elite in the early 1940s, ready to defend their homeland. They believed that they wouldn’t leave for long. Everyone said
it would be a quick war, which would end in a few days. They didn’t
realize, however, that when they said goodbye to their wives, mothers, sons and sisters, they were seeing them for the last time. Death
awaited them, and to meet again in the spring in Warsaw remains
an unfulfilled hope.
163
Pre Mortem 33’
Konrad LECKI, Poland 2013
Production Company
Lidia Sadowska
+487 935 25 141
kontakt@kadrujemy.pl
Film Market
Convinced that he is behaving in a righteous manner, because “even
the Pope is against the use of condoms”, Don Fabijan, a Catholic
priest in a small town on a Dalmatian island, starts puncturing condoms which the God-fearing newsstand salesman Petar then sells
at his kiosk. Don Fabijan and Petar are soon joined by Marin, a local
pharmacist, who starts secretly planting vitamin pills instead of contraceptives in his pharmacy. Thus, by controlling the sexual lives of
men and women, they practically abolish contraception on the
island. As the unwanted pregnancies start occurring, Don Fabijan
does all he can to marry such couples in a proper Christian way, even
against their will. But soon, the trio’s action starts influencing the
lives of local people who stop being the masters of their own faith...
311
The Priest’s Children 93’
Vinko BREŠAN, Croatia-Serbia 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Official Selection
105
264
The Prophet 100’
Demetrios POULOS, Greece 2013
Film Market
In the midst of the world’s most harrowing war, a young soldier
arrives at an abandoned monastery in search of his father. However,
he soon suspects that the monastery’s guests might know where
his father is.
Production Company
Poul Over
Demetrios Poulos
+30 6972 762 714
poulover1@gmail.com
Official Selection
145
Puppy Love 85’
Delphine LEHERICEY, Belgium-Switzerland-France-Luxembourg 2013
World Sales Company
Latido Films
Juan Torres
+34 915 488 877
At 14, Diane is an enigmatic teenager and a loner. She is busy bringing
up her little brother, Marc, and has an intense relationship with her
father, Christian.
The appearance of Julia, a young charismatic and emancipated
English girl, in her neighborhood turns Diane’s everyday life upside
down.
Diane, who wants to break out of the confines of childhood at any
price, goes through the most dramatic experiences of her life in the
space of six months. The closer she is to Julia, the more she turns
her back on morality, paying no attention to the consequences or
the limits of her desires.
Film Market
330
The Quispe Girls 83’
Sebastian SEPULVEDA, Chile-France-Argentina 2013
Based on a true story that occurred in 1974, The Quispe Girls is the
tale of the sisters Justa, Lucia and Luciana Quispe, shepherds on the
Chilean Plateau, who lead a solitary life. The recent death of a fourth
sister and news from abroad, forces the sisters on an existential
quest that will bring them to a tragic end.
World Sales Company
Swipe Films, UK
+33 1 401 305 86
enquiry@swipefilms.com
www.swipefilms.com
Official Selection
286
Rabbitland 7’
Nikola MAJDAK Jr., Ana NEDELJKOVIC, Serbia 2013
Production Company
Film House Bas Celik
Jelena Mitrovic
+38 111 303 4441
jelena@bascelik.net
Official Selection
106
Brainless Rabbits live in Rabittland, a perfect world ordered according
to the most successful examples of war zones, ghettos and slums.
They are intensively pink, have holes in their heads instead of brains,
and they are happy regardless of what happens to them. They are
the highest stage the evolution has ever reached. Their everyday
life is completely fulfilled. The Rabbits spend days voting in free and
democratic elections, which take place in Rabbitland once a day,
because Rabbitland is an ordered democracy. Nevertheless, it is revealed that the elections are organized by the Evil Girls, just for their
entertainment.
Film Market
After escaping years of incarceration, a nameless man tries to find
his way home in a Cairo turned upside down by the protests of the
January 25, 2011 Egyptian Revolution. As he revisits the family and
country he has been separated from for so long, he finds that everything about life as he knew it has irrevocably changed.
242
Rags and Tatters 87’
Ahmad ABDALLA, Egypt 2013
Production Company
Visit Films, USA
Aida Lipera
+1 718 312 8210
al@visitfilms.com
www.visitfilms.com
Official Selection
In a city that has revolted, with heavy metal music haunting the heroes
and the voice of Maria Callas being broadcast from the rooftops, an elderly homosexual, former terrorist, and cross-dresser known as “Red
Maria”, lives in the margins of society, hiding in the shadows, working
as a prostitute and performer, dancing to old-fashioned tunes on the
streets for passers-by who give him money. He meets a young boy, a
street urchin at death’s door, a victim of an attack by Neonazis. The boy,
an alcoholic, listens to the voice of Maria Callas coming from the sky,
and talks to the dead diva and to his mother whom misses. On a drug
overdose, he dreams of the perfect world. Red Maria rescues the boy
and they stay together. In order to survive, they storm into cafés, giving
performances about a new, political God. They become the magicians
of the tribe, the holy fools, the rebels. But a series of murders will transform them, from idealists into serial killers...
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty
hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
306
The Rebellion of the Red Maria 95’
Costas ZAPAS, Greece 2011
Production Company
Minus Pictures
Gregory Athanasiou
+30 210 364 1652
minuspictures@yahoo.com
139
The Retrieval 94’
Chris ESKA, USA 2013
World Sales Company
September Morning Releasing
Chris Eska
+1 512 925 9787
sales@theretrieval.com
Official Selection
Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers’
block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide
care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted
with the fact that fun-loving Rosie refuses both outside assistance
and a care home, he discovers that he is stuck fast in his small home
town of Altstätten. But it is not only his mother’s battle against
being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with.
It’s also his own midlife crisis. And when long-kept secrets are suddenly revealed under the tensions of family dynamics, Lorenz almost
fails to notice that love is knocking on the front door of his parent’s
house…
128
Rosie 106’
Marcel GISLER, Switzerland 2013
World Sales Company
Film Republic
Xavier Rashid
+44 783 599 9112
Official Selection
107
167
Rough Night 90’
Film Market
A dramatic story of a family from a small conservative village in
Greece and their experiences with drugs and trafficking in Athens
and Rome.
George PAPATHEODOROU, Greece 2013
Production Company
ikonfilm
George Mouzakitis
+30 6974 966 694
ikonfilm@yahoo.gr
Film Market
217
Runaway Day 86’
Dimitris BAVELLAS, Greece 2013
World Sales Company
Patra Spanou
+49 1520 198 7294
A black and white allegory with 60s b-movie elements trying to
depict how desperate the new Greeks feel in modern-day Athens.
Both the city and the general situation create an uncontrollable urge
in all residents to run away. Maria and Loukas decide at the same
time to run away from their personal issues. Both of them begin
wandering around Athens. They come across a series of controversial
events and meet with strange characters. Furthermore, various
people seem to be on their tail. Maria is followed by two policemen.
Loukas is followed by Iossif, a weird stranger dressed in black, who
desperately wants something from him.
Film Market
226
Russendisco 96’
Oliver ZIEGENBALG, Germany 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Berlin 1989. A rumour is being spread just after the wall came down:
Jewish citizens from the Soviet Union are now accepted in the German
Federal Republic.
Young Vladimir and his lifetime friends Andrej and Mischa seize their
chance to leave Moscow for Berlin, blending into this lucky wave of
immigration.
Berlin in the early nineties is one of the most exciting places on the
globe, a place where everything seems possible. Wladimir and Andrej
get a permanent residence permit, but Mischa, who is Russian but
not Jewish, only gets a three-month visa.
Film Market
201
Salvo 103’
Fabio GRASSADONIA , Antonio PIAZZA, Italy-France 2013
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 5310 3399
Official Selection
108
A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless.
When he sneaks into a house to eliminate a man, he discovers Rita,
a blind girl who powerlessly stands by while her brother is assassinated. Salvo tries to close those disturbing eyes, staring at him yet
unseeing. Something impossible happens. Rita's eyes see for the
first time. Salvo decides to spare her life. From then on, these two
beings, both hunted by the world they belong to, are linked together
forever.
Film Market
A father has killed a man and will shortly be arrested and sent to
prison. His young daughter will be taken into care. She is his everything, and he, for all his failings, is the ground under her feet. They
are inseparable and have nothing but each other. Unwilling to give
up their freedom, they escape into the woods.
288
Sanctuary 88’
Fredrik EDFELDT, Sweden 2011
Production Company
Bob Film Sweden AB
Anna Croneman
+46 855 693 090
info@bobfilm.se
Official Selection
The human mind is the most explosive mixture of the universe.
Love is the fastest detonation wick.
Helen and James are two youngsters in love.
Can they survive the unknown called human intelligence?
183
The Scholars 100’
George BAKOLAS, Greece 2013
Production Company
George N. Bakolas
+30 6977 732 771
gbakollas@yahoo.com
Film Market
Α contemporary fable about 13-year-old Arbor and his best friend
Swifty. Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten, a local scrapdealer – the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and
cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses, while Arbor emulates
Kitten – keen to impress him and make some money. However,
Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving
a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and
exploitative, resembling Kitten more and more. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event which will transform them all.
277
The Selfish Giant 91’
Clio BARNARD, UK 2013
World Sales Company
Protagonist Pictures
David Bartholomew
+44 20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.com
Official Selection
“My wretched life has passed like a deep sleep, like the shadow of a
cloud, withering like a wildflower. And the joints of my limbs have
begun to weaken, to twist and shake in my body. And my evil deeds
have surpassed the countless grains of sand in the sea” (fragment
from a prayer). On a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin
Florescu is called to a dying woman’s side to say a prayer.
258
Shadow of a Cloud 30’
Radu JUDE, Romania 2013
Production Company
Hi Film Productions
Ada Solomon
+40 21 252 4867
office@hifilm.ro
Official Selection
109
197
Shallow Yellow Sky 80’
Film Market
As a young couple reviews memories of their life in order to improve
their relationship, a new and influential event takes place.
Bahram TAVAKOLI, Iran 2013
World Sales Company
Mohammad Atebbai
+98 912 319 8693
Film Market
327
Shanghai Belle 100’
Jean Louis DANIEL, France 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Shanghai Belle portrays Xin, a beautiful and quiet Chinese girl, propelled from the slums of Shanghai to the glittering world of Paris,
discovering the wild and carefree lifestyle of a photographic model.
Her life is a whirlwind of drugs, money, sex and love. Paris, the
famous “City of Light,” is also a giant meat market, producing and
discarding young hopefuls at a terrifying speed.
Film Market
187
Sheep 100’
Marianne PISTONE, Gilles DEROO, France 2013
It was said that Mouton lived a simple life as a worker at the seaside
restaurant for three years and that he was snatched from this life
after a tragic night at the Sainte-Anne ball. This is the story of his
friends, who stayed in a town now inhabited by dogs and by the
hope that is contained in tiny gestures.
Production Company
BOULE DE SUIF Production
Gilles Deroo
+33 06 2428 9475
boule2suif@gmx.fr
Official Selection
209
Shirley - Visions of Reality 92’
Gustav DEUTSCH, Austria 2013
World Sales Company
EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH
Miriam Kienberger
+431 524 9310
office@eastwest-distribution.com
Official Selection
110
Thirteen of Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought alive by the film,
telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history. Shirley is a woman
in America in the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s, and early ’60s. A woman who would
like to influence the course of history with her professional and sociopolitical involvement. A woman who does not accept the reality of the
Depression years, World War II, the McCarthy era, race conflicts and civil
rights campaigns as given, but rather as generated and adjustable. A
woman whose work as an actress has familiarized her with the staging
of reality, the questioning and shaping of it. A woman who cannot
identify with the traditional role model of a wife, yet longs to have a
life partner. A woman who is infuriated by political repression yet not
driven to despair, and who has nothing but disdain for betrayal. Shirley,
an attractive, charismatic, committed, emancipated woman.
Film Market
The young Eastern European woman Csilla and her little brother Isti
are traveling together without a clear destination, looking for a
better life.
One day Csilla wakes up inside a crashed car, in the middle of nowhere,
not knowing where her brother Isti is. He has vanished without a
trace. Upset and alone, without saying a word, Csilla leaves aboard
a cargo ship heading to Western Europe. At sea, Gábor, a self-proclaimed businessman who convinced her to work for him on the
ship, turns out to be a brute and a drunk.
113
Silent Ones 97’
Ricky RIJNEKE, The Netherlands- Hungary 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined
to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks
she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school.
Their encounters get more and more sexual, each time exploring
their limits a little further. The boys are eager to take what is so
generously offered, and Gili is thrilled with the attention. Gili is
trapped in the zone where it’s not certain if she is giving her consent
to what is happening...
312
Six Acts 96’
Jonathan GURFINKEL, Israel 2012
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 5310 3399
Official Selection
The film depicts the life of a family living in a typical Turkish town,
as perceived by the children of the family. In the first part it is winter;
the family’s eleven-year-old daughter is in school, and we are shown
the difficulties she encounters in adapting to her social environment.
The second part is set in spring. The girl and her younger brother
walk through the countryside, towards a cornfield where their parents
await them. As they walk along, they encounter the mysteries of
nature. In the third part, the children reach the cornfield where their
family is gathered. As their elders talk into the night, the children
witness the paradoxical adult world, with its complex interaction of
recrimination and understanding, conflict and tenderness. The fourth
part takes place in the home. The child learns to sublimate its amoral,
natural instincts and become a compassionate human being.
Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics
student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, which undermine his sexual identity and interfere with his peaceful life with
his beloved girlfriend.
Based on a short story from the book The Garden of Dead Trees
(Zmorah Bitan 1995) by Yossi Avni Levy.
248
The Small Town 85’
Nuri Bilge CEYLAN, Turkey 1997
World Sales Company
NBC Film, Turkey
+90 212 249 6962
info@nbcfilm.com
www.nbcfilm.com
Official Selection
104
Snails in the Rain 85’
Yariv MOZER, Israel 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
111
200
Snow on Pines 96’
Payman MAADI, Iran 2013
World Sales Company
Mohammad Atebbai
+98 912 319 8693
Film Market
Roya (40) is a piano teacher in Tehran. Following 14 years of marriage, her husband Ali (50) leaves her for another woman who
happens to be Roya’s young student. Subsequently, she has to
face an entirely new perspective of life and survive on her own.
After six months, when the regretful husband returns home and
seeks the forgiveness of his former wife, Roya surprises him with
a revelation of her own regarding her new experience. Sometimes
the only thing that can save a branch from breaking in the winter
is to wipe the snow off of it.
Film Market
336
So Much Water 102’
Ana GUEVARA, Leticia JORGE, Uruguay 2013
World Sales Company
Alpha Violet
Keiko Funato
+33 1 4797 3984
What could be worse than being fourteen years old and on holiday
with your father? Taking your children on holidays under constant
rain.
Since his divorce, Alberto does not see Lucía and Federico very often.
They set off for the hot springs one stormy morning; holidays are
short and they want to make the most of them. Alberto is full of enthusiasm; he does not want anything to ruin his plans. But the swimming pools are closed indefinitely and his children keep giving him
reproachful looks, so he loses his temper. Soon, everyone’s mood
grows touchier and the weather gets stickier.
Film Market
190
Soldier Jane 79’
Daniel HOESL, Austria 2013
World Sales Company
Premium FIlms
Kasia Karwan
+33 1 4277 0639
Fanni has had enough of money and leaves to buy a tent. Anna has
had enough of pigs and leaves the farmer – one needle in the hay.
In this new game, Fanni rolls the dice while Anna doesn’t think
twice: she knocks down all the pins. Together they raise their voice
and shape one mutual tune. Differences attract each other, and happily they move on – together on their distinct journeys, where their
dreams are set – towards a new found liberty.
Official Selection
290
Soubresauts 22’
Leyla BOUZID, France-Tunisia 2011
Production Company
La Fémis
Geraldine Amgar
+33 1 5341 2116
g.amgar@femis.fr
112
In those huge houses of the Tunisian bourgeoisie, when a tragedy
occurs, we do everything to hide it.
Film Market
The film follows an unnamed character through three seemingly
disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him
in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in
isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during
a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest
sort.
172
A Spell to Ward Off
the Darkness 98’
Ben RIVERS, Ben RUSSELL, France-Estonia 2013
Production Company
Rouge International &
Thomas Lambert
+33 9 51 493 844
production@rouge-international.com
Official Selection
Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents
homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts
of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman,
subservient to men while keeping her emotional and physical purity
intact until marriage. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull
rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she
has ever known. In a stunning portrayal of contemporary America
and the insular communities that dot its landscape, the film is an
exploration of adolescence, family and social values, gender roles,
and religion in the rural American South.
154
Stop the Pounding Heart 100’
Roberto MINERVINI, USA-Belgium-Italy 2013
World Sales Company
Doc & Film International
Hannah Horner
+33 1 4277 5687
international@docandfilm.com
Official Selection
In Athens, Amir, an Iranian immigrant, has a modest flat which has
become a place of transit for migrants who like him have chosen to
leave their country.
But Greece is only a stop-over, all of them hoping to reach other
Western countries.
They find themselves stuck at Amir’s, hoping for ID documents, contacts and the smuggler to whom they might entrust their destiny.
153
Stop-Over 100’
Kaveh BAKHTIARI, Switzerland 2013
World Sales Company
Hannah Horner
+33 1 4277 5687
international@docandfilm.com
Official Selection
Casanova hires a new servant to be the witness of the last moments
of his life. Leaving a gallant and libertine French castle with a typical
atmosphere from the 18th century, he spends his last days in the
poor and dark lands of northern Europe. There, his casual society
life and rational thoughts are collapsing against a new, esoteric, romantic and violent force, represented by Dracula and his eternal
power.
299
Story of My Death 148’
Albert SERRA, Spain-France 2013
World Sales Company
Capricci Films
Farid Lounas
+33 240 892 059
international@capricci.fr
Official Selection
113
149
The Strange Little Cat 72’
Ramon ZURCHER, Germany 2012
Production Company
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - dffb
Laure Tinette
+49 30 25759 152
l.tinette@dffb.de
Film Market
Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little
sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for
dinner. This sequence of family scenes in a Berlin flat creates a wondrous world of the everyday: Coming and going, conversations, all
manner of doings, each movement leading to the next, one word
following another. It is a carefully staged chain reaction of actions
and sentences. And, in between, silent gazes and anecdotes about
experiences. Putting the absurdities of daily life on display, the film
assembles seemingly unspectacular details and snippets into an exciting choreography of everyday life.
Film Market
244
Stranger by the Lake 97’
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of
a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and
lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out
his passion anyway.
World Sales Company
Marine Goulois
+ 33 1 4443 8724
Official Selection
292
Strangers in the House 90’
Dilek KESER, Ulas GUNES KACARGIL, Turkey 2012
World Sales Company
Biz Film
Dilek Keser
+90 55 4941 9394
ozkanylmz@gmail.com
Film Market
261
The Summer of Flying Fish 87’
Marcela SAID, France-Chile 2013
World Sales Company
Alpha Violet
Keiko Funato
+33 1 4797 3984
Film Market
114
Strangers in the House is a film based on a house that cannot be
shared, that silently witnesses the intersecting lives of a woman in
search of her past and a man trying to look out for his future. An autumn in the 1990s… An Aegean seaside town in Turkey… A Greek
woman (Agapi) in her 80s, born and brought up in this town, having
left to immigrate to Greece during the struggle, is now back to find
her childhood house. She’s accompanied by her granddaughter (Elpida) who is in her 20s. Agapi’s house now belongs to a young Turkish
man in his 30s (Yasar). Agapi wants to buy the house back, but Yasar
is determined not to sell. The old woman and young man are both
stubborn and have trouble sharing the house. These three strangers
begin to share a house together.
Manena is a very determined teenager, and the darling daughter of
Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a
single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his artificial lagoon. As he resorts to more and more extreme methods, Manena experiences her first love and deception, and discovers a world
that silently co-exists alongside her own: that of the Mapuche Indian
workers who claim access to these lands… and who stand up to
her father.
Film Market
Sang-won, Seung-jun and Min-wook are high school best friends.
However, after graduation, they are in three different stages of life:
Sang-won is a college student, Seung-jun needs to study one more
year before he can enter college, and Min-wook is carrying out his
military service. One day, the two friends visit Min-wook at military
amp. Seung-jun has an added reason for the visit: he is delivering a
letter from Min-wook’s girl friend, Esther, ending their relationship.
Once the three boys reunite, they spend one night of carousing devoted to the poor military boy and try to decide when to give him
the letter. Before they separate, will the Dear John letter be delivered
successfully?
208
Sunshine Boys 85’
Tae-gon KIM, South Korea 2012
World Sales Company
Indiestory Inc.
Kate WON
+82 2 722 6051
kate@indiestory.com
Official Selection
Well it was the story of a young unemployed hairdresser who wanted
to meet shepherds. It was also the story of a run-away bandit who
wanted to leave his country... A young woman and a shepherd, both
from different worlds, meet and spend a day criss-crossing the
Causse’s high plains looking for some of the shepherd’s animals that
have wandered off. While they walk, the talk about life, work and
love. They occasionally cross paths with a minor local bandit who
wants to go to Montpellier, but who has difficulty making his mind
up to leave.
272
Sunshine for the Scoundrels 55’
World Sales Company
Marine Goulois
+33 1 4443 8736
Official Selection
The story of a destiny: Suzanne’s and her family’s. The ties that bind
them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point
of leaving everything behind.
273
Suzanne 94’
Katell QUILLÉVÉRÉ, France 2013
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 5310 3399
Official Selection
A phlegmatic swimming instructor, a teenage girl who is missing a
leg, a boy with Down’s Syndrome, another one with defective legs
and one with no apparent physical disability but who refuses to
speak, spend a day at the swimming pool. The five outcasts inevitably
struggle, clash, separate – and in the end reunite thanks to their
imperfections.
178
The Swimming Pool 66’
Carlos MACHADO QUINTELA, Cuba-Venezuela 2012
World Sales Company
Katja Lenarcic
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Film Market
115
259
Talea 75’
Katharina MÜCKSTEIN, Austria 2012
World Sales Company
Filmdelights
Christa Auderlitzky
+43 1 944 3035
office@filmdelights.com
Film Market
Fourteen-year-old Jasmin longs to be near her biological mother,
Eva. Following her mother’s release from prison, an excursion into
the country together becomes a first test for the fledgling motherdaughter relationship. They smoke, dance and stroll together – the
mood is promising. But time and again, it is revealed that their
needs and expectations are light years apart. For the moment, neither
Eva nor Jasmin seem up to the task of fulfilling each other’s need for
identity and support.
(Talea is Italian for scion, a detached shoot or twig containing buds
from a woody plant, used in grafting.)
Official Selection
122
Tate Parade 9’
Sharon Tate is back from beyond to avenge her death and save her
baby, after being brutally murdered by Charles Manson.
Marja CALAFANGE, Brazil 2013
World Sales Company
Moro Filmes
Diana Moro
+55 41 3013 4163
contato@morocom.com.br
Film Market
243
A Teacher 75’
Hannah FIDELL, USA 2013
World Sales Company
Visit Films
Aida Lipera
+1 718 312 8210
al@visitfilms.com
Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, A
Teacher explores the unraveling of a young high-school teacher,
Diana, after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students,
Eric. What starts as a seemingly innocent fling becomes increasingly
complex and dangerous as the beautiful and confident Diana gets
fully consumed by her emotions, crossing boundaries and acting
out in progressively startling ways. A descent into the mind of an
adult driven to break taboos against her better judgment.
Official Selection
132
The Tears 66’
Pablo Delgado SANCHEZ, Mexico 2012
Production Company
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica
Boris Miramontes
+52 55 41 55 00 90 ext 1813
divulgacion@elccc.com.mx
Official Selection
116
Fernando and Gabriel are two brothers living in a broken home. The
anger and sadness that fill the house forces them to escape for a
weekend into the woods. Gabriel will witness his eldest brother’s
self-destruction.
Film Market
Roberto Bermudez is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown
into chaos when he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his
best students, has committed a brutal murder right in front of the
Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal
investigation that will soon become an obsession.
146
Thesis on a Homicide 102’
Hernán GOLDFRID, Spain-Argentina 2013
World Sales Company
Latido films
Juan Torres
+34 91 548 8877
Film Market
They Are the Dogs tells the story of Majhoul, an old man that has
been taken away in 1981 during a massive demonstration asking
for reforms and change in the kingdom. He has been released in
2011, 30 years later, and has to come to terms with the new reality
of things, the evolution of society and technology as well as his
place among this “new” state of things.
156
They Are the Dogs 88’
Hicham LASRI, Morocco 2012
World Sales Company
Zaza film distribution
Houda Lakhdar
+212 6 61 40 38 85
houdalak.prod@gmail.com
Film Market
Gary has arrived in Beijing to make it big, but after failing to impress
his Chinese investors he soon takes up teaching English and gets life
lessons from Frank, an incompetent mentor. Gary’s real reasons for
staying become apparent when his son and Chinese ex-wife enter
the picture. Can Gary outsmart the city of cynics and repair his relationship with his family? Or will he have to fly home in disgrace as
Frank predicted all along?
196
This Is Sanlitun 95’
Robert I. DOUGLAS, Iceland 2013
World Sales Company
Premium Films
Kasia Karwan
+33 1 4277 0639
Film Market
In a small Anatolian town, life goes on. Cemal is an assistant referee
in football matches, Yasemin works in an egg factory, Defne is a
street vendor who sells books, and Doctor Irfan is busy with his patients. In this town with two suns and three full moons in the sky,
Cemal – who can see through walls – has no expectations out of
life and is looking for a way out with Yasemin – who can move
objects with her fingers – as he tries to deal with the distress that
has taken hold of him. However, Defne, who can freeze time, will
muddle things up. The actions of Yasemin’s immortal boss will contradict the advice of the invisible elementary school teacher, who is
trying to eliminate Cemal’s worries. Α story about the ordinary sorrows, worries and troubles of a group of townspeople with extraordinary abilities.
210
Thou Gild’st the Even 107’
Onur UNLU, Turkey 2013
World Sales Company
CinemaVault
John Dunstan
+1 416 363 6060
johndunstan@cinemavault.com
Official Selection
117
296
Time Has Come 92’
Film Market
A social, political and economical fable taking place in a not so imaginary country, in which people exploit one another, betray one another, look for love by all means.
World Sales Company
Films Distribution
Sanam Madjedi
+33 1 5310 3399
Official Selection
214
Times and Winds 111’
Reha ERDEM, Turkey 2005
Production Company
Atlantik Film
Claudine Avetyan
+90 212 278 3611
claudine@atlantikfilm.com
The people of a poor mountain village struggle to cope with a harsh
life. They make their living from the earth and their animals. In child
raising, the grownups follow the practices they know from their parents. Ömer, Yakup and Yildiz are three children about 12-13 years
old. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes desperately for the death of
his father and searches for childish ways to kill him. Yakup is in love
with his teacher. He hides his guilty feelings. When one day he sees
his father spying on the teacher, he too dreams of killing his father.
Yildiz learns about the secrets of the relationship between men and
women.
Official Selection
152
The Tree and the Swing 107’
Maria DOUZA, Greece-Serbia 2013
World Sales Company
Greek Film Centre
Iliana Zakopoulou
+30 210 367 8506
iliana.zakopoulou@gfc.gr
Film Market
107
Two Hundred Thousand Dirty 89’
Timothy L. ANDERSON, USA 2013
World Sales Company
Wide
Yaël Chouraqui
+33 1 5395 0464
Film Market
118
Eleni Karapanos, a professor of cardiology in London, has been estranged from her father Kyriakos for over fifteen years, ever since
she left Greece to relocate to England. Kyriakos, who had been a
refugee child in Serbia after the war, has never forgiven her for
leaving her country. One day, Eleni’s British husband Harry loses his
job in a big corporation and is posted to China indefinitely. Faced
with a tough personal and professional dilemma, Eleni decides to
visit her homeland and make amends with her father. On the pretext
of responding to one of his calls, she takes her daughter Anna, and
comes to Greece for Easter. But when she reaches home, nothing
she finds is as she expects. A Serbian woman, Nina, is living with
Kyriakos, looking after his large estate. Kyriakos has been harboring
a few secrets of his own.
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American by-product of suburban sprawl: the urban strip mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield)
and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and uncouth sales
force behind Affordable Mattress. When new employee Isabelle
(Rocío Verdejo) is hired in hopes of improving dismal sales, some
things do change and, after recruiting fellow strip mall burnout
Martin (C. Clayton Blackwell), she’s got everyone working together
to split a common goal – 200,000 dollars.
Film Market
When Katja and Isabella, happily married, decide to have a child,
they are confronted with unexpected obstacles: most of the fertility
clinics don’t offer treatment for homosexuals. After months of wearing
and pricey procedures in one that does, they find a trader who sells
utilities for an insemination at home. A casting for potential donors
begins. As weeks pass by, Katja starts having doubts and discovers
that Isa is willing to betray their relationship in order to fulfil her
wish of becoming pregnant.
177
Two Mothers 79’
Anne Zohra BERRACHED, Germany 2013
World Sales Company
Katja Lenarcic
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Film Market
Ida, porcelain and kind-hearted, gets a new job at a school. She
almost instantly catches the eye of seemingly shy but determined
Krister, who doesn’t hesitate to defend her in class when she, as a
newcomer, comes up against problems with her students. Everything
happens quickly – the first date, the moving in together, the promises
of eternal love. Their passion is evident, just like the, albeit still
distant, gray cloud approaching them. Gradually, he starts revealing
his repressive side: he becomes jealous and unpredictable in his reactions, and even tries to isolate her from her family and best friend.
She – weak, insecure and prone to lying – uses sex in order to avoid
the bumps and truths. Feeding off of each other, they develop a
mutually obsessive dependence.
The city is a permanent construction site. At the feet of skyscrapers,
a small house and its garden remain. Above the roar of excavators,
neighbours raise their voices. And soon a rumour arises: the end is
near, but when?
329
Us 92’
Mani MASERRAT, Sweden 2013
World Sales Company
The Yellow Affair
Chris Howard
+46 8 645 1212
contact@yellowaffair.com
Official Selection
331
Vertical Village 38’
Liana KASSIR, Renaud PACHOT, France 2012
Production Company
Renaud Pachot
+33 6 8715 0934
renaud.pachot@gmail.com
Victoria, an ex-convict in her sixties, wants to start new life in a
remote sugar shack. Under the supervision of Guillaume, a young,
sympathetic parole officer, she tries to get her life back on track
along with Florence, her former cellmate with whom she shared
years of intimacy in prison. Stalked by ghosts of the past, their new
life together is unexpectedly jeopardized.
134
Vic+Flo Saw a Bear 95’
Denis COTE, Canada 2012
World Sales Company
Films Boutique
Valeska Neu
+49 30 6953 7850
valeska@filmsboutique.com
Official Selection
119
254
Viola 63’
Matias PINEIRO, Argentina 2012
World Sales Company
Matias Pineiro
matiaspineiro@hotmail.com
+1 917 664 9951
Official Selection
222
Viva Belarus 98’
Krzysztof LUKASZEWICZ, Poland 2012
World Sales Company
Intramovies Srl
Jef Nuyts
+39 06 807 7252
Film Market
255
The Voice of the Voiceless 85’
Maximon MONIHAN, USA-Guatemala 2013
Production Company
Bricolagista!
Sheena Matheiken
+1 718 788 8002
matheiken@bricolagista.com
Official Selection
155
Wajma - An Afghan Love Story 85’
Barmak AKRAM, France-Afghanistan 2013
World Sales Company
Hannah Horner
+33 1 4277 5687
h.horner@docandfilm.com
Film Market
120
Film Market
Cecilia is a young actress who spends her days rehearsing Shakespeare’s
comedy Twelfth Nightin a small theater in Buenos Aires. Viola, meanwhile,
spends her days on a bicycle, delivering pirated movies throughout the
many districts of the same city. And, lastly, Sabrina is the one who
brings these two stories together. While, on the one hand, she has
decided to separate from her boyfriend Agustin, on the other, her coactress in the play, Cecilia, tries to convince her otherwise with dubious
theories of love. And while Agustin already belongs to her past, he
insists on sending her films purchased from Viola, the pirate saleswoman.
Thus, an encounter between Viola and Cecilia becomes inevitable, and
the change in partners inescapable. Violainterweaves different theories
of desire with dreams, verses and fiction in a world of Shakespearean
women, where the mysteries are rarely solved, but where love flows
without restraint.
Belarus has been under the dictatorship of Lukashenko for 15 years.
Despite his congenital heart disease, Miron is conscripted into the
army for 15 months as punishment for “fomenting political unrest
among young people.” In his military unit, Miron has to deal with
abject conditions which do not meet basic human needs and the
absurdity of Soviet-inspired indoctrination. Via a contraband mobile
phone, Miron starts secretly dictating to his girlfriend, Vera, his diary
of “a conscript soldier”. The diary posted by Vera on an internet blog
shows the army as a miniature version of the social and political relations in Lukashenko’s Belarus. Miron combines fragments of the
blog into satirical songs “in honour of the army and the regime”,
and they soon become actual hits among young people. The regime
hatches a plot to discredit and crush Miron…
A radically different vision of filmmaking. A silent film that tells the
story of modern-day slavery, using non-actors, Brechtian edits, a
brutal subway landscape, and the isolation of deafness. Somewhere
in this manic plot is also a magic penguin. Inspired by a real New
York story, the film follows Olga, a hearing impaired teenager from
Central America. Lured to New York City under the false promise of
attending a Christian sign language school, she finds herself a slave
to an international criminal syndicate. Forced to sell “I am deaf” trinkets on the subway, Olga is trapped inside a nightmare that will not
end – and we, the audience, are trapped with her. Based on the
true story of a crime ring that was discovered by New York police in
1997, The Voice shatters our ideas of film, storytelling, and sound.
It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty
student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship.
They’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules
they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty
that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets
out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to
uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.
Film Market
The Mahmoodis live in a large, old house, and observe traditional
values and beliefs. They have decided to renovate the building. Mrs
Mahmoodi’s niece arrives with her architect husband to see to the
renovation. Disagreements about the renovating spill over into their
relations and connections. It is gradually revealed that the people
in the house are torn between traditional and modern viewpoints
and so are the guests.
198
The Wedlock 82’
Rouhollah HEJAZI, Iran 2013
World Sales Company
Mohammad Atebbai
+98 912 319 8693
Film Market
Fitri, 20 years old and blind, lives in a school for young people with
special needs. She is in love with a ghost doctor, who turns out to be
just a regular man, named Edo, who is deaf. If Fitri could see and
Edo hear, would their love survive? Fitri’s classmate Diana, a myopic,
falls for Andhika, a new student who lost his eyesight in an accident.
Diana thinks they are in love, but is Andhika still attached to Gadis,
his beautiful ex-girlfriend?
179
What They Don’t Talk About When
They Talk About Love 104’
Mouly SURYA, Indonesia 2013
World Sales Company
Katja Lenarcic
+49 30 6150 7505
films@m-appeal.com
Film Market
Jordan, 1967. Τhousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek,
11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are among this latest wave of refugees.
Placed in “temporary” refugee camps made up of tents and prefab
houses until they are able to return, they wait, like the generation
before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in
Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches
a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times... Τhe
story of people affected by the times around them, in search of something more in their lives. A journey full of adventure, love, humor, and
the desire to be free, but above all this is a story about that moment in
a person’s life when he wakes up and finds the whole world is open
and everything is possible. It is a journey of the human spirit that
knows no borders. Following the loss of her parents, Giulia hs difficulty coping with
the harsh reality she has to face. The fragility of a young child in the
aftermath of a traumatic experience and a personal journey towards
acceptance.
256
When I Saw You 95’
Annemarie JACIR, Palestine-Greece-Jordan 2012
World Sales Company
The Match Factory
Michael Weber
+49 221 539 709-0
info@matchfactory.de
Official Selection
220
The Whistle 15’
Lamberto SANFELICE, Italy 2012
Production Company
ANG Film
Damiano Ticconi
+39 06 321 1960
damiano@angfilm.com
121
194
White Shadow 115’
Noaz DESHE, Italy 2013
World Sales Company
Premium Films
Kasia Karwan
+33 1 4277 0639
Film Market
Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch
doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in
magic potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch-doctor inspired murders occurred. As a local saying goes: “Albinos do not die,
they just disappear.” This is the story of Alias, an albino boy on the
run. After his father’s murder, his mother sends him to the city. His
uncle Kosmos, a truck driver, takes care of him. Alias learns fast in
the city. Selling sunglasses, DVDs and cell phones, it won’t take long
before the boy experiences at first hand the difficulties of life and of
being different.
Film Market
126
Wild Duck 88’
Yannis SAKARIDIS, Greece 2013
Production Company
Athens Filmmakers’ Coop
Yannis sakaridis
+30 210 991 5036
ysakaridis@gmail.com
Unable to cope with his excessive debts, Dimitris, a bankrupt telecom
engineer, closes down his business. His ex-boss hires him and a
former colleague Nikos, also a telecom engineer, to investigate a
phone-hacking operation at a big corporation. Their rigorous search
of mobile phone antennas leads them to a suspicious flat in a tower
block in Glyfada, a suburb by the sea in the south of Athens. Panayota,
a tenant who lives in the flat above, attracts Dimitris’ attention. He
starts spying on her and listening in on her phone conversations.
Her story is the reason why Dimitris ends up feeling trapped into
paying off either his economic or his moral debts.
Film Market
335
Will There Be
a Theater up There? 55’
Nana JANELIDZE, Georgia 2011
Production Company
N7N, STUQO
Nanuka Khuskivadze
+995 599 576 406
janelidzenaniko@gmail.com
The main character of the film is one of Georgia’s most popular
actors: Kakhi Kavsadze. But this film is not about just an actor. The
film depicts the chronicle of the Kavsadze family; a family of great
folk singers and their life’s ordeal, which reflects the lives of millions
who lived in the former USSR. These people participated in World
War II, ended up in Nazi concentration camps and afterwards in
Soviet concentration camps in the USSR.
Despite a tragic fate, Kakhi became a great actor and now he is loved
and well known not only in Georgia but beyond its borders. His love
story is also full of romantic and dramatic details and is known in
Georgia as the “Legend of Love and Loyalty.”
213
Winds 117’
Selim EVCI, Turkey 2012
Production Company
Evci Film Production
Mediha Didem Turemen
+90 212 249 5835
evcifilm@gmail.com
Film Market
122
Murat records sounds for movies, then records some voices he hears
and takes pictures of Gökçeada (Imbros), wishing to hold a photography exhibition of the island. He meets Mrs. Styliani during that
time and they become friends. Murat starts to record life and memories of Mrs. Styliani as she tells him her story.
Film Market
A romantic young Greek writer struggling financially in London escapes to the rural mountain town where his father died under mysterious circumstances. Haunted by the past and a suspect in the eyes
of the village, he must choose between a normal life or an escape to
his inherited world of fantasy and madness.
218
The Winter 101’
Konstantinos KOUTSOLIOTAS, Greece-UK 2013
Production Company
Melancholy Star
Elizabeth E. Schuch
+44 753 213 6112
info@melancholystar.com
Film Market
Janko returns to his deserted, godforsaken village after several years
of living in Belgrade. He is ready to do anything to leave for Switzerland and find his place under the sun – even sell his fathers grave.
247
Withering 109’
Milos PUSIĆ, Serbia-Switzerland 2013
Production Company
Hit and Run
Branislav Trifunović
+381 63 834 8067
hitandrun.production@gmail.com
Official Selection
Three children are living in a futuristic world where life is completely
programmed. One night, looking for more reward points for school,
they get lost in space and discover an infinite universe, forgotten in
a small circus.
After lots of playing and trying new experiences, the programmed
world sends someone special to get them back. It’s time for them to
choose their own path...
119
Worldturner Circus 75’
Alê ABEU, Brazil 2013
World Sales Company
Wide House
Anais Clanet
+33 1 5395 0464
infos@widehouse.org
Film Market
How much do we value life and to what extend do we truly enjoy it?
In a world where everyone dies before they reach thirty due to a
virus, a team of young people tries to bring back the old way of life
and live until they get old. However, their quest won’t be easy. Young
people have turned the world into an unstable and violent environment. It’s not just the gangs that lurk in the wastelands; the members
of the team will personally struggle to understand whether they
truly deserve to live until they get old.
289
Years of Youth 97’
Michail CHARALAMPIDIS, Greece 2012
Production Company
Iakovos Charalampidis
+30 6932 268 490
charalampidismic@gmail.com
Film Market
123
257
Yozgat Blues 92’
Mahmut FAZIL COSKUN, Turkey-Germany 2013
Production Company
Hokus Focus Film
Halil Kardas
+90 532 235 9806
halil@hokusfokusfilm.com
Film Market
Yavuz (58) sings popular songs from the 70s, but his career has sunk
to irregular performances in a shopping mall and teaching music at
free courses held by the municipality. Neşe (30), one of his students,
has a real talent for music, but earns a living by giving out sausage
samples at supermarket stands. When Yavuz is offered a singing job
in Yozgat, he asks Neşe to accompany him. Before long, Yavuz and
Neşe meet Sabri (30), a barber who has two ambitions in life: to get
married and to open a women’s hairdressing salon. A friendship begins to grow between Neşe and Sabri, throwing Yavuz into a state of
anxiety. The choice that Neşe now faces is between two different
men and two different lifestyles.
Film Market
234
zilo 17’
Ulku OKTAY, Turkey 2010
Production Company
Gezici Film
Başak Emre
+90 312 466 34 84
info@gezicifilm.com
Seven-year-old Zilo, who lives in Kars, has just one friend: a chick.
The two are inseparable. Zilo is out of place with her chick both at
home and at school, but one day finds herself deeply impressed by
what her teacher has to say about Ankara. Setting herself the goal
of going to the capital, Zilo needs to find the money to make her escape.
319
zoran, My Nephew the Idiot 104’
Matteo OLEOTTO, Italy-Slovenia 2013
World Sales Company
Slingshot Films
Manuela Buono
+39 34 7627 3390
manuela@slingshotfilms.it
Official Selection
124
Paolo spends his days at Gustino’s, who runs a tavern in a small
village close to Gorizia. A 40-year-old misfit, Paolo is cynical and
misanthropic, a true drinking professional and a compulsive liar,
who reluctantly works at a retirement home cafeteria and is still
unsuccessfully pursuing the dream of winning back his ex-wife Stefania. But things are about to change when Zoran shows up: a 15year-old kid with big glasses, whom Paolo “inherits” from a distant
Slovenian relative, who speaks in a weird way and seems a little bit
retarded. Paolo finds himself being an uncle, and that to him is just
sickening. Only when he notices that his nephew Zoran is a true
phenomenon at playing darts does he change his mind. Every year
the world darts championship grants a top prize of 60 thousand
euros and Paolo has no intention of letting this opportunity go by...
Festival Director: Dimitri Eipides
General Coordinator: Eleni Rammou
AGORA INDUSTRY
Coordinator: Marie-Pierre Macia
Head of Market: Yianna Sarri
Services Coordination: Angeliki Vergou
Market Coordination: Denise Andreola
Market Assistant: Nikos Smpiliris
Crossroads: Marie-Pierre Macia, Angeliki Vergou
Agora Industry Production: Panagiotis Galios
Agora Industry Production Assistant: Nikos Bozanis
Films Digitization Coordination, Translation, and Film Market Technical Assistance:
Neaniko Plano Subtitles
Copy editing and translations: Denise Andreola, Nikos Smpiliris
Design-Production: Andreas Remountis
Acknowledgements
Bulgaria: Mira Staleva (Sofia Meetings)
France: Jerome Paillard, Julie Bergeron (Cannes Film Festival), Isabelle Fauvel (Initiative Films)
Greece: Yorgos Kalogeropoulos, Apostolia Papaioannou,
Dimitris Emmanouilidis (MFI Script 2 Film Workshops), Pola Bousiou
10 Aristotelous Sq., 54623 Thessaloniki, Greece
Τ. +30 2310 378400 F. +30 2310 285759
7, Dion. Areopagitou st., 11742 Athens, Greece
Τ. +30 210 8706000 F. +30 210 6448143
info@filmfestival.gr www.filmfestival.gr
© 2013, Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Agora Market Manual 2013

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