NEW ACQUISITIONS - MARKET PREMIERES
THE MANEATER
Directed by: Natalie Saracco
Original language: French
Cast: Mylène Jampanoï, Marc Ruchmann, Arben Bajraktaraj, Mathilde Besson, Alexandre Brik, Geneviève Casile
DCP - HD - 2014 - France - 88mn – Color - Erotic Drama
Jezebel, a seductive, free and rebellious young woman, has the desire to live her life to the extreme, until she hits rock bottom. She refuses to believe in mankind and especially in herself. A true Mary-Magdalene of modern times, she hides her fragility and fear of loving by continually pushing the limits of transgression. Until one day when she meets David, a young priest ...
Produced by 7E HEART PRODUCTIONS and UNION PROD
Market Screening:
Thursday May 15th at 3.30pm – Palais H
GOLDEN KINGDOM
Directed by Brian Perkins
Cast: Shine Htet Zaw, Ko Yin Saw Ri, Ko Yin Than Maung, Ko Yin Maung Sein, Sayadaw U Zaw Ti Ka
Original Language: Burmese
DCP - HD - 2014 - USA - 101mn - Color - Drama
GOLDEN KINGDOM is a narrative feature film about four orphan boys, novice monks, living in a Buddhist monastery in a remote part of Northeast Burma. The head monk departs on a long journey from which he may never return, leaving the boys alone in the middle of the forest.
Once the boys are on their own, strange, magical occurrences begin to occur. Orphan WITAZARA realizes he must protect the three other boys throughout this series of bizarre events, which threaten to unravel the fabric of the young monks’ reality.
Produced by Bank & Shoal
Market Screenings:
Friday May 16th at - 11.30am – Palais H
Saturday May 17th at - 1.30pm – Palais H
THE MAN IN THE ORANGE JACKET
Directed by Aik Karapetian
Cast: Maxim Lazarev, Anta Aizupe, Aris Rozentals
Original Language: Latvian
DCP - HD - 2014 - Latvia - 71mn - Color - Thriller
A young man, Dan, wants to enjoy some freedom over the weekend in a luxurious mansion. What he does not expect to find is that mansion is already inhabited, by those that are menacingly familiar to him.
Produced by Locomotive Production
Market Screening:
Saturday May 17th at 4.00pm – Riviera 1a 1
ROSEVILLE
Directed by Martin Makariev
Cast: David Chokachi, Elena Petrova, Kalin Vrachanski, Lydia Indjova, Plamen Manassiev
Original Language: English/Bulgarian
DCP - HD - 2014 - Bulgaria - 120mn - Color – Horror/Thriller
On November 18, 1985. The police found four bodies in an isolated mountain hut, in Roseville. One of the guests, a young man named Vasil is missing. To this day, the case is still labeled "unsolved crime." The film is an artistic interpretation, based on direct and indirect police information: Vasil arrived on honeymoon in Roseville with his wife. Soon afterwards, he feels a strange presence in his nightmares and becomes paranoid, but is also very attracted to the place and refuses to leave. He realizes that he was predestined (marked) to come in Roseville. When the others realize that Vasil has changed, it is too late to leave. The entity which controls Vasil wants victims, in order to return home. All are dead, and Vasil is consumed by a bright light coming from the sky. His whereabouts are unknown until today.
Produced by Promotis Ltd
Market Screenings:
Saturday May 17th at 6.00pm – Palais I
Sunday May 18th at 6.00pm – Palais I
RAINDOLL
(In Post Production)
Directed by Jean-Louis Daniel
Original Language: English
Cast: Marine Renoir, Johanna Capliez, Marie Février, Benjamin Feitelson, David Atrakchi, Akim Ben Hafsia
DCP - HD – 2014 - France – 100 - Not sound mixed - Not colour corrected - Erotic Drama
Two young women’s destinies parallel each other as they go from Paris to Cambodia, hell to redemption. They will finally meet at the seventh wonder of the world: the Angkor Temples, lost in deep jungle.
Produced by L'Atalante & Shikojingo Entertainment
Market Screening:
Monday May 19th at 12.00pm – Riviera 1
EVA BRAUN
Directed by: Simone Scafidi
Original language: Italian
Cast: Andrea Riva De Onestis, Susanna Giaroli, Federica Fracassi, Adele Raes, Giulia Martina Faggioni, Gabriella Riva, Nathan Macchioni, Gabriele Falsetta.
DCP - HD - 2014 - Italy - 82mn – Color - Erotic Drama
Inspired by the Italian sex scandals of the Berlusconi era.
Pier is a powerful and important Mogul who holds the power in his Country. Elegant, ironic and well educated, he has bizarre sexual instincts which are satisfied by his employee and once girlfriend, Romy. For him, she recruits men and women, with aspirations of success (musicians, directors, writers and businessmen), willing to become sex slaves. In Pier’s childhood villa, they spend a few days satisfying his weird fantasies of sadism and bizarre perversion, in exchange for his advice and support to achieve their dreams of success.
Like a Decameron, a group of people in a house trade their pride and for power and money. Eva Braun is Pier and Romy’s daughter, the Symbol behind the compromises of Love.
Produced by Gianluigi Perrone
Market Screening: Monday May 19th at 3.30pm – Palais H
TRANSGRESSION
Directed by Jean-François Davy
Original language: French
Cast: Jean-François Davy, Kitty Kat
DCP - HD – 2014 - France - 72mn – Color - Erotic
If erotism is an art, then the art must excite its audience and reveal the vice in all of us – our impatient sexual desire. While casting for the next woman in his film, Jean-François Davy is captivated by the eighth actress. She walked in, juvenile and beautiful, and drew him in with her deep blue eyes, lack of fear and modesty and seductive gaze. A pure and honest account of this sexual encounter and the proceedings of this relationship where the author plunges into the film and uses his own body to reconcile cinematographic and sexual expression. Some will deem it indecent, in violation of the rules of modesty and even morally shocking due to its inappropriate nature…
Produced by Movinside
Market Screening: Tuesday May 20th at 5.30pm – Riviera 2
A PATRIOTIC MAN
Directed by Arto Halonen
Cast: Martti Suosalo, Pamela Tola, Janne Reinikainen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Kari Ketoen, Mikko Kouki, Ben Johnson, Eppu Salminen, Kari Ketonen, Pirjo Lonka, Satu Paavola, Lauri Tikanan
Original Language: Finnish
DCP - HD – 2014 - Finland - 101mn – Color - Black Comedy
It is the 1980s. Toivo is an unemployed typesetter. His wife Pirkko encourages him to do something useful, so he goes to donate blood. The blood astonishes the hospital nurse who assists him. The Finnish national ski team then discovers the special qualities of Toivo’s blood, and soon Toivo joins the team’s technical division to take up his secret role as a human blood-tank.
Finland’s brightest star is making a breakthrough: Aino. The young woman, Aino is not only a good skier but an impressive public brand, with the nickname Finnmaiden. Soon, Toivo and Aino become an integral pair.
With Toivo’s help, Aino skis to the top of the world rankings. Just before the most important race, however, a disaster occurs, which jeopardizes the highest goal: Olympic victory. Once again, the Finnish team’s success is placed in Toivo’s hands.
Produced by ART Films Production
Market Screenings: Wednesday May 14th at 2.00pm - Lerins 2
Wednesday May 21st at 11.30am – Palais H
MARKET SCREENINGS
COWBOYS
Directed by Tomislav MRŠIĆ
Cast: Saša Anočić, Živko Anočić, Matija Antolić, Kruno Klabučar, Hrvoje Barišić, Ivana Rushaidat,Rakan Rushaidat, Radovan Ruzdjak
Original language: Croatian
DCP - HD- 2014 – Croatia – 104min –Color - Comedy
The film «Cowboys» is a comedy based on a Croatian hit theatre play. It is a story of eight outsiders who will try to create a theatre play while breaking every rule of theatre craft. It tells the story of Sasha, a relatively successful theater director, who returns from the big city to his home town without a clear notion of what that change might bring, leaving behind his career to re-start the neglected local theater. The call came from the mayor and Saša’s school colleagues. However, the play will be a succession of hurdles, as the city does not have any actors or anyone who would know anything about the theater business. The candidates will all be amateurs, and as the play will seem even more impossible to set up, they settle on a common ground: Western.
Produced by KABINET (Croatia) & HRT (Croatian Radiotelevision)
Award:
Pula Film Festival – Golden Gate of Pula Audience Award
Market Screening: Thursday May 15th at 12.00pm – Palais G
BARBARIANS
Directed by Ivan IKIĆ
Cast : Žejlko Markovi, Nenad Petrović, Jasna Djuričić, Mirko Vlahović, Marina Vodeničar
Original language: Serbian, English
DCP - HD- 2014 – Serbia – 89min –Color - Teenage Drama
Feb 17th 2008. Kosovo declares independence and Serbian government announces mass protests, so people could express their discontent. Luka, a troubled teenager on the verge of adulthood, lives in Mladenovac, a ruined ex-industrial town on the brinks of Belgrade, where, with his best friend Flash, he is a leader of local football club fans. During an unannounced visit by the social worker, Luka is faced with a family secret that his father, who was believed to had disappeared in Kosovo conflicts, is in fact alive and asking for him. Torn between family issues, the pressure of his ongoing parole and affection to a girl he can’t have, Luka looses his temper and breaks the leg of the local club’s top player. He is now under pursuit from people who seek revenge because of their ruined investment and even friends from his group take distance. The day of organized trip to Belgrade protests comes and Luka uses this opportunity to leave town. As hooligans demonstrate their rage in Belgrade streets, Luka gathers his strength to finally meet his father who abandoned him years ago.
Produced by SENSE Production (SRB), OR (MNE) & Restart (SLO)
Market Screening: Friday May 16th at 4.00pm – Palais E
FIELD OF DOGS
Directed by Lech Majewski (acclaimed director of THE MILL AND THE CROSS)
Cast: Michael Tatarek, Elzbieta Okupska, Karolina Korta
Original Language: Polish, Italian
DCP - HD - 2014 - Poland - 101mn - Color - Drama
Based on the book The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping up tiles.
A girl in a bikini tempts the hero on the snowy slopes of the Matterhorn.
A forest full of the dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar.
These are the visions of Adam, a poet who has lost his beloved one in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane being torn apart in mysterious circumstances along with the nation’s elite, 96 people on board.
Adam gives up his job as a professor of literature to work at a supermarket checkout. Yet all he wants is to sleep, escaping from his painful reality. For him the only text to read in these hard times is Divine Comedy. And it is Dante’s masterpiece that brings back some meaning to Adam’s life...
Produced by Angelus Silesius
With the parcitipation of Polish Film Institute, Silesia Film, CG Home Video, Odeon Film Studio, 24 Media, Piramida Film, Bokomotive Film AB
Special screening at the National Gallery in London on Saturday 24th of May
Market Screening: Friday May 16th at 6.00pm – Riviera 1
SUPERNOVA
Directed by Tamar Van Den Dop
Cast: Gaite Jansen, Tamar van den Dop, Bob Schwarze
Original Language: Dutch
DCP - HD - 2014 - Netherlands/Germany/Belgium - 102mn - Color - Drama
Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house. She dreams of a young car driver called “Brad” whom she would like to take care of and maybe have sex with. Dad is waiting for the next driver to bring some heroism to his life again. Mom is waiting for the same moment, so they can permanently move to the city. Ever since dad was the first person that ran into the house, grandma cannot stop shaking. The shaking seems to worsen lately. Meis hopes this is a sign that something is bound to happen.
The whole family is waiting in the bisected room, of which three metres plus a thirty-centimetre safety margin have been declared unfit for habitation by grandpa after the last collision. Grandpa himself fell from the half-completed bridge years ago and drowned. They all wait for the next driver to crash their house.
During one of Meis’ forbidden, dangerous nocturnal visits to the half bridge, deliverance finally arrives. Part of a trunk sticks out from the cloud of dust blowing from the house front. In the car, the solution incarnate lies, all crumpled up. He is about 19 years old and his name could very well be Brad.
Produced by REVOLVER AMSTERDAM, Coin Film (DE), Epidemic Film (BE), IJswater Films (NL)
Festival: Berlinale Film Festival 2014 - Official Selection - Generation Section
Market Screening: Sunday May 18th at 2.00pm – Palais G
N - THE MADNESS OF REASON
Directed by Peter Krüger
Cast: Wendyam Sawadogo, Vieux Farka Touré, Hamadoum Kassogue
Original Language: French, Bambara, Fioula Sénoufo, Songhoy & Agni
DCP - HD - 2014 - Belgium/Netherlands/Germany - 102mn - Color - Drama
N is a story of an unusual obsession.
N recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having only reached the letter N.
With his encyclopaedia incomplete, his restless spirit drifts around West Africa, caught between life and death, past and present. Why has he returned to the living? An African woman who helps restless spirits find peace, tries to lead him towards his destiny.
When confronted with civil war, he is shattered. His encyclopaedic mind – bent on drawing borders, on definitions and categorizations – finds the contingencies of reality less easy to cope with. This is the story of how he tries to complete his unfinished task from beyond death.
Produced by Inti Films, Cobra Films, Dieptescherpte, Blinker Filmproduktion & Mollywood
Festival: Berlinale Film Festival 2014 - Official Selection - Forum Section
Market Screening: Wednesday May 21st at 3.30pm – Palais J
NEW ACQUISITIONS - FILMS TO COME
A ESCONDIDAS (COMPLETED)
Directed by Mikel Rueda
Cast: German Alcarazu, Adil Koukouh, Joseba Ugalde, Eder Pastor, Moussa Echarif, Mansour Zakhnini, Ana Wagener, Alex Angulo
Original Language: Spanish
DCP - HD - 2014 - Spain - 88mn - Color - Drama
Ibrahim, a 14 year‐old Moroccan boy, walks down a road in the outskirts of a big city, alone and disoriented. He has just been informed that he will deported in two days, so he has packed up and run away. He is alone with no place to go.
Rafa, a 14 years‐old Spanish boy, runs into a club toilet like a bundle of nerves. Outside, there is a girl, Marta, waiting for him. A girl that expects from him, far more than he can give.
These two boys´ paths are about to cross.
Produced by Baleuko y Bitart
THE CRADDLE OF SHADOWS (COMPLETED)
Directed by Jerome Jacob
Cast: Matthias Pohl, Jérôme Jacob, Aurore Sellier, Jonathan Riggio, Laurette Scarlata, Marcos Adamantiadis, Daniel Dargau
Original Language: French
DCP - HD - 2014 - France - 80mn - Color - Thriller
In the heart of an abandoned bunker, parapsychologists are mandated to investigate strange phenomena. In a frightening world they discover the unthinkable and awaken a dark force. An infernal hunt in darkness will begin ...
Produced by Black Owl Prod
THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT (POST-PRODUCTION)
Directed by Tala Hadid
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fedwa Boujouane, Hocine Choutri, Majdouline Idrissi, Hindi Zahra, Samir El Hakim, Nabil Maleh
Original Language: French and Arab
DCP - HD - 2014 - UK - 90mn - Color - Drama
A young orphan, Aïcha, is found alone in the forests of central Morocco. As the film begins we realize that she has a past and personal history that reveals a courageous attempt at self-determination. Taken and sold from her home in the hills of the Atlas mountains, Aïcha finds herself at the mercy of Abbas, a petty criminal, and his girlfriend, Nadia. They cross paths with Zacaria, a European born Moroccan/Iraqi writer, who has left everything behind - including a troubled relationship with a teacher, Judith - to follow in the path of and search for his missing brother. The group embarks on a journey that will lead them from Morocco, to Istanbul, across the plains of Kurdistan and beyond.
Produced by Autonomous Narrow Frame of Midnight Limited
PANAMA (IN SHOOTING)
Directed by Pavle Vučković
Cast: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac, TamaraDragicevic, Nebojsa Milovanovic, Jelisaveta Orasanin
Original Language: Croatian
DCP - HD - 2014-2015 - Croatia - 100 - Color - Drama
Jovan, an occasional student and a womanizer, starts dating Maja casually. Slowly, her mysterious and shady behavior intrigues him. Following videos and clues over the social networks, Jovan finds indications of Maja’s parallel life. In the web of lies, pride, jealousy and passionate sex, Jovan loses himself only to find who Maja really is.
Produced by Collapse Films
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