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2 3 6 8 12 14 18 21 Using the Catalogue Catalogue & Festival Staff Introduction Rutger Wolfson The Supportive Festival Thanks to Partners & Sponsors Jury Tiger Awards Competition Jury Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

23 Tiger Awards Competition 39 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 47 Bright Future 83 Spectrum 121 Spectrum Shorts 183 Made in Rotterdam 189 203 227 241 263 279 Signals: Peter von Bagh Signals: Regained Signals: The Mouth of Garbage Signals: Power Cut Middle East Signals: Hidden Histories Signals: For Real

291 Industry Services & Facilities 297 311 317 323 327 333 Addresses Print & Sales Film List by Country List of Premieres Index Directors Index Films & Compilation Programmes Programme Day by Day

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TIGER AWARDS COMPETITION

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Awards for a new generation. Seventeen nominated filmmakers compete with their first or second films for the three equal Hivos Tiger Awards.
TIGER AWARDS COMPETITION FOR SHORT FILMS

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Awards for the short but sweet: 21 films of less than sixty minutes have been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films, in which three equal prizes are up for grabs.

BRIGHT FUTURE
Young blood. The first or second films by filmmakers from whom the festival expects big things.

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SPECTRUM
Rotterdam at its most eclectic. The festival has selected contemporary, powerful and innovative work from all over the world; from veterans, maestros and lesser-known directors.

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SPECTRUM SHORTS

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The strength of the short: films from one to 59 minutes long, from all over the world. Screening at the festival either ahead of feature films, or in special compilation programmes.

SIGNALS: PETER VON BAGH

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Thanks to the oeuvre of Peter von Bagh (filmmaker, festival director and walking film encyclopaedia), you can become an expert on Finland during the IFFR. Von Baghs documentaries focus on cinema and Finlands tumultuous history. This retrospective of his work will be accompanied by remarkable, historic films from Finland.

SIGNALS: REGAINED

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A refreshing dive into film history, featuring treasures from the vaults of world cinema. The haul: restored classics, documentaries on cinema, animated films, celluloid experiments and a number of exhibitions.

SIGNALS: THE MOUTH OF GARBAGE

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Retrospective of classic trash, horror, social drama, avant-garde and porn films from the notorious Brazilian red-light district of Boca do Lixo in So Paulo.

SIGNALS: POWER CUT MIDDLE EAST

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The daily bombardment of images of the popular revolutions in the Middle East gives an impression that the Arab Spring could be a flash in the pan. Power Cut Middle East investigates what exactly these images tell us and, using previous works from filmmakers, shows that revolt had been in the air for some time.

SIGNALS: HIDDEN HISTORIES

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Fiction films and documentaries from China that give an impression of the reality of life in that country, contradicting Party propaganda, with subjects including poverty, corruption, displacement and misgovernment. Alongside films, Hidden Histories also has a very special meeting place: the Ai Weiwei Caf.

SIGNALS: FOR REAL


Not films, but real life. Through a whole range of events and activities, everyday reality is transformed into a cinematic experience.

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ABBREVIATIONS

Prod = Producer Prod Comp = Production Company Sc = Scenario Cam = Camera Ed = Editor Prod Des = Production Design Sound Des = Sound Design With = The most important actors and actresses Distr NL = Distributor in the Netherlands

2 = combined programme DGZ = Doelen Grote Zaal

DWBZ = Doelen Willem Burger Zaal DJZ = Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal SGZ = Schouwburg Grote Zaal PA1 - PA7 = Path 1 - 7 CI1 - CI7 = Cinerama 1 - 7 LV1 - LV6 = LantarenVenster 1 - 6 LUX = Oude Luxor All films are English spoken or subtitled in English, except for the films marked: d.s. = Dutch subtitles or f.s. = French subtitles. The films being screened at the festival can be found in the catalogue listed under the IFFR programme sections. Films are ordered by the directors family name in the following sections: TG, BF and SP. Filmmakers from China, Japan and Korea (following the tradition) are listed with their family name first, followed by their given name. Check www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com for biographies, filmographies and programmers notes (for selected titles only).

CATALOGUE

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Editors in Chief Saskia Gravelijn, Lot Piscaer Editor Anne Lynn Cleuren Photo Editor Robert-Jan Schiphorst Copy Editors (English:) Mark Baker, Jane Bemont, Christine Gardner (Dutch:) Mariska Graveland, Pauline Kleijer, Mark Mallon Contributors Niels Bakker, Charlotte Bank, Leo Bankersen, Joost Broeren, Sacha Bronwasser, Edwin Carels, Iwana Chronis, Anne Lynn Cleuren, Anton Damen, KEES Driessen, Jan Pieter Ekker, Mariska Graveland, Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Jolinde den Haas, Erwin van t Hart, Peter van Hoof, Chinlin Hsieh, Juliette Jansen, Pauline Kleijer, Gabe Klinger, Katrien Lamers, Delphine Leccas, Inge de Leeuw, Olaf Mller, Nat Muller, Maricke Nieuwdorp, Mark Peranson, Ronald Rovers, Nicole Sant, Rada Sesic, Bianca Taal, Gerwin Tamsma, Peter Taylor, Jacobine van der Vloed, Andr Waardenburg, Rutger Wolfson, Theus Zwakhals, Gertjan Zuilhof

Translators (English:) Mark Baker, Martin Cleaver, Titus Verheijen, (Dutch:) Sjaan de Bruijn, Leo Reijnen Production Marieke Berkhout, Afke Duinkerken Programme Chris Schouten Cover design 75B Design & typesetting Sjoukje van Gool, Gerald Zevenboom Print Veenman+

2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam Nothing from this publication may be reproduced, stored in an automated retrieval system or made public in print, photocopy, microfilm or in any other way without prior written permission from the publisher. For inclusion of any part(s) of this publication in anthologies, readers and other compiled works, one should contact the publisher. ISSN 1873-8362

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Festival Staff
41st International Film Festival Rotterdam PO Box 21696 3001 AR Rotterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 10 890 9090 fax: +31 10 890 9091 tiger@filmfestivalrotterdam.com www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Board Melle Daamen, Mart Dominicus, Frans van Gestel, Francine Houben, Rudy Stroink, Hans van der Vlist Festival Director Rutger Wolfson Managing Director Janneke Staarink Management Team Afke Duinkerken, Marit van den Elshout, Eva de Jong, Chris Schouten, Juul Veenboer Programmers Edwin Carels, Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Peter van Hoof, Chinlin Hsieh, Inge de Leeuw, Dicky Parlevliet, Bianca Taal, Gerwin Tamsma, Gertjan Zuilhof, (short films:) Peter van Hoof, Sacha Bronwasser, Erwin van t Hart, Juliette Jansen, Peter Taylor, Theus Zwakhals Guest Curators Charlotte Bank, Gabe Klinger, Delphine Leccas, Olaf Mller, Nat Muller Programme Advisors Mary Davies, Mona Deeley, Christiane Gruen, Aihara Hiromi, Robert Gray, Shelly Kraicer, Miryam van Lier, Ralph McKay, Olivier Pierre, Diana Sanchez, Rada Sesic, Roberto Turigliatto, Miroljub Vickovic, Grace Winter Programme Department Chris Schouten, Corto Blommaert, Mary Hasavari, Pim Kipp, Robert de Rek, Melissa van der Schoor, Erik Tijman Press Bert-Jan Zoet, Albert Hidding, Edwige Leblay, Nancy van Oorschot Communication & Marketing Video Library Rob Duyser, Samanta Telleri Distribution Juliette Jansen, Katrien Lamers Education & Youth Marketing Cindy Beck,

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Finance & Human Resources Eva de Jong,

Mirjam Klootwijk, Mariska Korff, Karin Zuijderwijk Office Helma Haak, Miriam Benschop, Naomi Taverdin, (assistant to Rutger Wolfson:) Mirjam Klootwijk Production Juul Veenboer, Remke Annema, Rembrandt Boswijk, Wahid El Solh, Eefje Goderie, Roland Groenenboom, Rosa Schol, Adam Verhaar, Nathalie Wellstood, Paul Westerweel, (CIFFR:) Joost Trines Guest Department & Hospitality Susanne van Doorn, Emy Miranda, Saskia Pique, Kerensa van der Sluys, Nikki Smit, Inge Visser Jury Support Jeroen Achterberg, Gert-Jan Bleeker, Nineke Verhoofstad, Summer Wood
Information & Communication Technology

Afke Duinkerken, Marieke Berkhout, Sanne de Rooij Sponsoring & Fundraising Martje van Nes, Hedwig Hupkes, Barbara Korpershoek, Micha Vinkesteijn CineMart Marit van den Elshout, Fay Breeman, Jolinde den Haas, Nienke Poelsma, Emmy Sidiras, Jacobine van der Vloed, (consultants/matchmakers:) Maegene Fabias, Tobias Pausinger, David Pope, Lucas Rosant Hubert Bals Fund Iwana Chronis, Fay Breeman, Janneke Langelaan, Stien Meesters General Editors Anton Damen, Saskia Gravelijn, Lot Piscaer Editor Anne Lynn Cleuren Photo Editor Robert-Jan Schiphorst Website Lotte Kroese, Niki van der Ende, Fabian Schellevis Film Office Jolinde den Haas, Nikolas Montaldi, Inke van Loocke, Myrthe Terpstra,(industry consultants:) Hayet Benkara, Mary Davies, Jannie Langbroek, Marina Kozul, Aneta Lesnikovska

Cornell den Broeder, Marcel van Sprang, Victor Verheij Volunteers Coordination Annemarie van Leeuwen, Thomas van der Zel, Angelika Geronymaki Box Office Andre van den Berg, Annekoos Logtenberg, Marco Oudewortel Film Technique Martin van Broekhoven, Dick Moesker Electronic Subtitling Els van der Meer Film Control Joop van Langen, Anke Hellebrand, Kathinka Verhoeven Car Service Marie-Louise Calame, Eline Kunz Q&A & Translators Marketa Tom, Angela Visser Talkshows Mieke van der Linden, Farid Tabarki, Franciska Toetenel Horeca Remco Ris
CineMart International Advisory Board

Ido Abram, David Atlan-Jackson, Dora Bouchoucha, Georges Goldenstern, Juan Gordon, Keith Griffiths, Claudia Landsberger, Scott Macaulay, Jeremy Nathan, Chris Paton, Lorna Tee, Susan Wendt International Liaison Lucius Barre
Hubert Bals Fund Selection Committee

Lina Chaabane, Iwana Chronis, Ludmila Cvikova, Jan Pieter Ekker, Marit van den Elshout, Emile Fallaux, Simon Field, Peter van Hoof, Ilse Hughan, Juliette Jansen, Jannie Langbroek, Janneke Langelaan, Dicky Parlevliet, Lucas Rosant, Rada Sesic, Ineke Smits, Gerwin Tamsma, Jacobine van der Vloed, Rutger Wolfson, Gertjan Zuilhof Festival Groningen Gerben ter Haar, Hanneke van den Hoogen, Henk Klein Wassink, Lisa Klompe, Loes Rademaker

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Reality Made Visible


Rutger Wolfson

Daniel Baggerman

One year ago, while the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) was celebrating its 40th anniversary, the people of Egypt started their revolution. Commentators in the West were quick to point out that many Egyptian youth were involved in the revolt and that social media were being used to organise demonstrations on Tahir Square and elsewhere. The events were quickly dubbed the first Facebook revolution. One of the Signals programmes in this years festival, called Power Cut Middle East, will demonstrate that this revolution was not as spontaneous as many in the West might think. It shows how this revolution had in fact already announced itself though Egyptian films and video art. The Arab Spring is far from having reached its conclusion. The developments currently going on in Syria are particularly worrying. As part of Power Cut Middle East, the IFFR is offering a home-in-exile to the Visual Arts Festival Damascus, since for obvious reasons it cannot take place in Syria this year. In China as well, filmmakers and artists play an important role in defining an image, or even making visible what has deliberately been kept hidden. This years Signals programme Hidden Histories focuses on courageous and determined Chinese documentary filmmakers who show us aspects of their society that the Chinese government does not want us to see: poverty, corruption and misrule. The word hidden also applies to the films themselves. The screening and distribution of these films is regularly discouraged or even forbidden in China. As part of this programme, we will also show new works by Ai Weiwei, who not only is one of the most prominent visual artists of our time, but a famous opponent of the Chinese government as well. Showing the work of committed filmmakers is one way to make the world visible through film. Genre films can offer more than pleasure and entertainment; often they also reflect the society in which they are made. This is certainly the case with the quickand-dirty, low-budget Brazilian films from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The festival has dedicated a Signals programme to these films called The Mouth of Garbage, after the red light district in So Paolo where most of these films were made. They highlight the underbelly of Brazilian society and often use established genres like film noir, horror, Westerns and pornography. Some of them were ingeniously critical of the Brazilian dictatorship. Others rebelled against Cinema Novo, the movement in Brazilian art film that was considered good taste at the time.

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Stretching the boundaries of cinema to reveal an unexplored intersection between film and real life is a very topical subject. But this years revamped Regained Signals programme proves that historical cinema can be equally modern. Regained now combines recently restored masterpieces with contemporary ones, like the colour version of Le voyage dans la lune and Martin Scorseses Hugo, which is inspired by the life and work of Mlis. Regained now also employs a wider perspective and includes non-Western treasures from film history as well as several performances and multimedia installations. In the summer of 2011, a long-term festival friend sadly passed away. Ral Ruiz was one of the great storytellers of modern cinema and a versatile artist, active in theatre, opera, visual arts as well as writing. The festival honoured his work with retrospective, in 1982 and in 2004. With an oeuvre of over a hundred films, and ideas for many more to come (some of them currently in production), Ral Ruiz leaves behind an impressive legacy. Wed like to celebrate his life and works by screening two of his films: La maleta (1963), his very first film, and Ballet aquatique (2011), one of the last projects he worked on. During the festival, one of the Smart Talks (January 31) will be dedicated to Ral Ruiz. An important change in this years programme is the downsizing of Bright Future, the section that presents the most promising debut or second-time filmmakers. Also the number of short films, an integral part of Spectrum which presents powerful new work by veterans and less well-known directors, has been significantly reduced. This will help give the individual films in these sections the attention they so deserve. It also means that the overall programme is even more focused and outspoken. Also on behalf of managing director Janneke Staarink and the festival staff, I wish you an exciting 41st edition, full of crazy, profound, meditative, worrying and wonderful films.

Together, these very different programmes illustrate cinemas extraordinary potential to help us see the world around us, identify and interpret new artistic and social developments, and give meaning. Someone who has made the exploration of this potential his lifes work is the writer, director, film critic and film festival director Peter von Bagh. The IFFR is honouring Von Bagh this year with a Signals focus programme, bringing a selection of his work: mostly documentaries on Finnish filmmakers, artists and history, but also feature films he has directed and collaborated on. This focus programme is not only a rare chance to see Von Baghs work outside of Finland, its a chance to get more familiar with a country that, oddly enough, is unfamiliar to most of us. Cinema can not only help us see the world around us, it can quite literally shape how we see it. The Signals programme For Real takes a closer look at the extent to which cinema has become part of how we view everyday reality. Cinema is so deeply imbedded in our consciousness today that we very easily experience reality as film. With a series of subtle interventions, For Real evokes cinematic experiences in reality, for example by adding an extra audio-visual element to a location, scripting real situations and animating a metropolitan experience with a soundtrack.

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The Supportive Festival


The IFFR actively supports independent filmmaking from around the globe. The festival is a recognized international platform in Europe for launching new films and talent from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. CineMart, IFFRs co-production market for small and medium-sized film projects, takes place at the festival from January 29 to February 1, 2012. The festivals Hubert Bals Fund contributes financially to film projects from developing countries. Each year, the festival programme contains a rich harvest of Hubert Bals Fund-supported films. The IFFR promotes training and talent development within its Rotterdam Lab for young film producers and the IFFR Trainee Project for Young Film Critics, as well as the new coaching course Boost! co-organised with the Binger Filmlab. Within the Netherlands, the IFFRs DVD label Tiger Releases publishes several films annually supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, as part of its 10 to Watch series.
HUBERT BALS FUND

The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable, socially relevant and urgent feature films by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion. The HBF provides grants that often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realise their projects. Since the Fund started in 1989, close to one thousand projects from independent filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe have received support. Every year, completed films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund screen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. This year, the IFFR proudly presents a total of 17 films supported by the HBF in various programme sections, including five HBF-supported films nominated for the Tiger Awards Competition. Besides Rotterdam, many international film festivals keep a close eye on completed HBF-supported films and select them for their programmes. Each year, HBF-supported films are screened at the Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Toronto and Pusan film festivals, among others. The Hubert Bals Fund aims to support feature-length fiction projects that are original, authentic and rooted in the culture of the applicants country. Annually, the HBF has close to 1 million at its disposal and is able to make individual grants in the following categories: script and project development, digital production, postproduction/final financing, distribution and special projects. The Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme is a scheme set up for Dutch producers, which aims to facilitate access to artistically interesting co-productions. Those projects that have been granted financial support from the HBF for script and project development are eligible. Every year, HBF Plus can support four projects with 50,000 Euro each, thanks to a contribution from The Netherlands Film Fund. This edition of the IFFRs programme includes no less than three films coproduced by Dutch production companies through the HBF Plus Programme. Boost! is a new partnership between IFFRs Hubert Bals Fund and CineMart and the Binger Filmlab. Boost! aims to provide a financial, creative and networking stimulus to high-potential

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film projects from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe by combining the unique expertise of each of the partners involved. Each year, five projects selected for HBF Script and Project Development support are offered the opportunity to further develop their project at Binger Filmlab. Subsequently, the projects are presented at the CineMart, where they will be offered special pitching and project development sessions prior to having one-to-one meetings at the market. The first selection of Boost! projects will be presented at the 29th edition of the CineMart. The Hubert Bals Fund is proud to present this years HBF Harvest at the 41st edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Hubert Bals Fund Harvest 2012 Tiger Awards Competition

De jueves a domingo, Dominga Sotomayor (Chile, Netherlands); In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire, Wichanon Somumjarn (Thailand); Neighbouring Sounds, Kleber Mendona Filho (Brazil); Sudoeste, Eduardo Nunes (Brazil); Voice of My Father, Orhan Eskiky, Zeynel Dogan (Turkey, Germany)
Bright Future

Abrir puertas y ventanas, Milagros Mumenthaler (Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands); Corta, Felipe Guerrero (Colombia, Argentina, France); Girimunho, Helvcio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina (Brazil, Germany, Spain); Sur la planche, Lela Kilani (Morocco, France)
Spectrum

A Temple, Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni (India); Cornelia frente al espejo, Daniel Rosenfeld (Argentina); Florentina Hubaldo, CTE, Lav Diaz (Philippines); Goodbye, Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran); Los ltimos cristeros, Matas Meyer (Mexico, Netherlands); Mondomanila, Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines, Germany); Rat Fever, Cludio Assis (Brazil); Verano, Jos Luis Torres Leiva (Chile)
CINEMART

The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam marks the 29th edition of its international co-production market, CineMart. This was the first platform of its kind to offer filmmakers the opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to find the right connections to get their projects financed. Launching some 35 new projects in need of additional financing, CineMart also heralds an important start of the film year. Every year, CineMart invites a select number of directors/producers to present their film projects to co-producers, funds, sales agents, distributors, TV stations and other potential financiers. The CineMart staff organise the CineMart meetings prior to the event. After the project selection is completed, the CineMart staff draws up a dossier with information on the selected projects. Attending professionals then inform the CineMart of their interests and a master meeting schedule is set up. Upon arrival in Rotterdam, all guests receive their personal meeting schedule.

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During CineMart 2011, there were some 4,500 meetings between project representatives and potential financiers. One of CineMarts trademarks is its highly productive, yet informal atmosphere. In order to maintain such an environment, the number of projects is kept to around 35 and the invitation process is selective. The four-day event takes place during the IFFR and shares its location with the Festival Center, de Doelen, in the heart of Rotterdam.
Nine films previously selected for CineMart will be presented at this years festival Bright Future

Abrir puertas y ventanas, Milagros Mumenthaler (Argentina, Switzerland); Girimunho, Helvcio Marins Jr. & Clarissa Campolina (Brazil, Germany); L hiver dernier, John Shank (Belgium, France, Switzerland); The Hunter, Bakur Bakuradze (Russia); The Invader, Nicolas Provost (Belgium, France); Sur la planche, Lela Kilani (Morocco, France)
Spectrum

The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev (USA); The Hunter, Daniel Nettheim (Australia, Closing Night Film); Play, Ruben stlund (Sweden)
ROTTERDAM LAB

The CineMart staff also organise the Rotterdam Lab, a five-day training workshop for young and emerging producers designed to build up their international networks and their experience at an international festival and market. Participation in the Rotterdam Lab provides producers with the confidence and skills to navigate the festival circuit and meet professionals who can help finance their projects. Panel discussions are organised on topics such as development, financing, post-production, (digital) distribution, VOD and sales. In these panels, experts from the industry give the producers tools with which to present their project and build up an international network. Complimentary to the panels, participants take part in speed-dating sessions, during which they have time to meet personally with industry delegates and receive advice on their projects. In addition to the organised programme, it is important that the producers take the chance to participate in all other CineMart events, such as networking, breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and other panels. Over the past few years, the Rotterdam Lab has expanded steadily, with more producers from more regions participating every year. The Lab has already resulted in many producers returning to CineMart, and films by producers who have attended the Lab have been screened in the official festival programme. By bringing together a mix of producers from around Europe and the rest of the world, the Rotterdam Lab has also generated many alluring international co-productions.

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The IFFR is very active in the field of distribution; for years, the festival has organised the distribution of its own HBF films and often also the Tiger Award winners in the Netherlands. In this way, the festival strengthens an artistic film climate which is always vulnerable, particularly as far as non-Western cinema is concerned. Moreover, it is important to every maker for their work to be screened, also outside the festival circuit. In the field of distribution, the IFFR pays a great deal of attention to digital developments The IFFR owns a YouTube channel that provides, for example, short film programmes and feature films from the Bright Future section. Cinemalink.tv expanded the cooperation with a VOD (Video On Demand) page on the IFFR site, which means the general public can now also stream festival hits such as Festen (1998) and A Single Man (2009) at a reasonable price. A new platform, Ximon, was launched in April 2011, a collaboration between the NVS, EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid also featuring about twenty Tiger releases. At the end of 2011, the IFFR teamed up with the cinephile VOD platform MUBI.com, that has output deals with Sony (PS 3) and Belgacom. Also, the IFFR is planning to work with vodo.net, a file sharing P2P platform that is rather successful with a very active community sharing films and donating to filmmakers. Furthermore, main sponsor UPC is planning to collaborate with the IFFR in acquiring more content for their VOD service, UPC on demand. The IFFR also wishes to play a mediating role for filmmakers by participating in Festivalscope, a website where sales agents, programmers and other professionals can view art films. In 2011 the IFFR launched the new dvd series 10 to Watch; a package of 10 festival films, mainly Bright Future premieres from earlier festivals, including a few Hubert Bals Fund-supported titles. The DVD releases are on the same day as the VOD releases at the partner platforms mentioned above; Cinemalink, Ximon and in 2012 also MUBI. This years package contains, for example, award-winners such as Winter Vacation, Norteado and If the Seed Doesnt Die.

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THANkS TO

The International Film Festival Rotterdam would like to thank:

Ahmed Aboutaleb Tikoy Aguiluz Michael Amiabel Isabel Arrate Errki Astala Thalita Ateyeh Marline Bakker Charlotte Bank Christine Bardsley Annamaria Basa Violeta Bava Mickel Beckers Justin Bennett Julie Bergeron Guus Beumer Aleksandra Biernacka Ronald de Boom Doreen Boonekamp Olya Borissova Ger Bouma Han Bouman Filip Braams Paulo Branco Rmi Burah Zita Carvalhosa Cristina Cassano Chang Ting Philip Cheah Zo Chen Chung-jung Mihai Chirilov Cho Youngjung Marcel Cobussen Simon Corsl Florian Cramer Arleen Cuevas Claudio Cunha Claudia Curio Ludmila Cvikova Matthieu Darras Costas Daskalakis Amy Dotson Jan De Clercq Roman Dekhtiar Peter Delpeut Christian De Schutter Erik Diks Ellis Driessen Nelleke Driessen Irma Dulmers Ren Dutrieux Basak Emre Tine Fischer Eric Franssen Saskia Frinking Giovanna Fulvi Raviv Ganchrow Angelique van Gasteren Tudor Giurgiu Jacob van der Goot Eva de Grote Trevor Groth Sandra den Hamer Briony Hanson Shanty Harmayn Eric den Hartigh Jacques van Heijningen Sonja Heinen Titia Hienema Kees Hin Steve Holmgren

Hong Hyosook Rogier van der Horst Alexander Horvath Sunny Hu Heleen Hulshof Hans Hurch Helena Ignez Peter Inklaar Jeon Yoonhyung Marit Kapla Ida de Kat Petri Kemppinen Chris Keulemans Eric Khoo King Yiu Chu Gabe Klinger Asya Kolodizhner Konstantinos Kontovrakis Eve-Marie Kuijstermans Pieter Kunz Elise Labb Jannie Langbroek Joanna Lapinska Nina Lath Gupta Stefan Laudyn Delphine Leccas Lee Yongkwan Jeanette Leete-Bijl Li Shanshan Jan Loorbach Michelle Lou Mark Lwoff Scott Macaulay Samuel Maoz Jos Mojica Marins Franois Margolin Dorleta Martin San Venancio Jasmin McSweeney Rob van der Meer Frank Meinster Nathalie Mierop Johan Moerman Olaf Mller Natalie Mooallem Nashen Moodley Marco Muller Nat Muller Pascale Nanning Nakayama Hiroki Beatriz Nava Mary Nazari Mark Neirynck Lauge Nielsen Ken Okubo Roberto Olla Irina Orssich Jacqueline Oskamp Jerome Paillard Michiel Pannekoek Park Ki-Yong Arnaud Pasquali Onno Paymans Theo Peekel Frank Peijnenburg Mark Peranson Gerrit Peters Adina Pintilie Roland van Putten Marten Rabarts Alessandro Raja Dominique van Ratingen Michel Reilhac Rachel Robey

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Jury Tiger Awards Competition


The Tiger Awards Competition was established by the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1995. Having been a noncompetitive event up until then, the idea of the competition was to discover, to highlight and to support emerging film talents in world cinema. Every year, the jury of the Tiger Awards Competition names three equal winners. Since its inception, some 260 filmmakers have competed with their first or second feature film.
Ludmila Cvikova, who has both Slovakian and Dutch nationalities and is now based in Doha, graduated from the University of Amsterdam and Comenius University in Bratislava. She has been the organiser and curator of many cultural events in the Netherlands, collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and worked for international film festivals all over the world. The IFFR is one of these; she has been programming here for many years and searching for new talent as a producer for CineMart. In addition, she has carried out writing and translation work and has extensive experience as a jury member in various areas of the film industry. She is currently Head of International Programming at the Doha Film Institute a relatively new organization where Ludmila specialises in the Middle East. Tine Fischer, based in Copenhagen, graduated in Film and Media Studies from the University of Copenhagen. Between 1997 and 2003 she was Programming Director at the Danish Film Institute. In 2002, she founded the CHP:DOX/Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and has been the director ever since. Fischer is also founder and director of DOX:Lab, the festivals international talent programme, is co-owner of the Scandinavian art gallery Andersens Contemporary, and has her own production company, Fischer Film, which focuses on art film and international co-productions.

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Brazilian actress Helena Ignez studied Law and had never imagined herself as an actress, until in the second year of her studies she attended a play starring young actors. She was so impressed by the performances of the actors that she decided she wanted to do the same. After graduating in Dramatic Arts from the Federal University of Bahia, she made her breakthrough in the avantgarde theatre scene, where she got involved with several Broadway directors. From 1968 onwards, Ignez worked with Rogrio Sganzerla, acting in almost all of his films from The Red Light Bandit (1968) until his last film O signo do caos (2005). She is currently known as one of the pioneers of the Brazilian Marginal Cinema movement with her new underground style of acting for women: debauched, extravagant and violent.
Eric khoo, born in Singapore, was educated in filmmaking at the City Art Institute in Sydney. He put Singapore on the international film map with his first feature film Mee pok man (1995), which was screened in Berlin and Venice. His second feature 12 Storeys (1997) was the first Singaporean film ever invited to participate at the Cannes Film Festival. The following year, Khoo was ranked as one of the 25 most exceptional trendsetters in Asia by the magazine Asiaweek. In 2008, My Magic was selected for the Cannes official main competition. Besides making films, Khoo was president of the jury at the 63rd edition of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2010. His latest production 2359 (2011) shot to number one at the Singapore box office.

was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 1982, when he was 20 years old, he served in the Israeli army in the war against Lebanon he was a gunner in one of the first tanks to enter Lebanon. After the war, he studied cinematography at Tel Aviv University. Maoz started his film career as a production designer for several TV dramas and features. He subsequently began directing video clips, commercials and TV dramas, and later short video art films and documentaries. In 2009, he made his first feature film Lebanon, based on his personal experiences during the war. This debut was awarded many prizes, including the Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice and European Discovery and Best Cinematographer at the European Film Awards in 2010.
Samuel Maoz

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Jury Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films


In the IFFR section Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films, 21 films of up to 60 minutes in length will be presented to an international jury. The winners of the three Tiger Awards for Short Films, each with a cash prize of 3,000 Euros, will be announced on Monday, 30 January at 22:00 hours in WORM.
Dana Linssen watches, thinks, writes and lives film. For her, film is an enchanting mirror for people, the world, practical and philosophical issues. It is the comfort and shock of art in an era when every image hits us is distorted, confused and seductive. But film is also excitement and oblivion a voyage through time to the unimaginable. For more than 10 years, Linssen has been a resident film writer for Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad and editor-in-chief of film magazine de Filmkrant. She is initiator of the Slow Criticism Project, has organised live filmcriticism events and cooperated on several film books. In 2009, she was awarded the Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism. Andra Picard is a film curator and writer

based in Toronto. For 12 years, she was a member of the programming team at TIFF Cinematheque (Ontario), where she curated numerous directors retrospectives and thematic shows. Since 2006, she is the curator of Wavelengths at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as a regular contributor to TIFFs installation programme and its features selection. In addition to her curatorial work, Picard has published internationally on art, architecture and film, and writes a quarterly Film/Art column for Cinema Scope magazine. Originally Lebanese, Rania Stephan graduated in Cinema Studies from Latrobe University in Melbourne and continued for a master degree from Paris VIII University. Her career in film production has been long and diverse. She has worked as a sound engineer, cinematographer, editor and first direction assistant with renowned filmmakers including Simone Bitton (Rachel, Wall) and Elia Suleiman (Divine Intervention). In addition, Stephan has also directed her own documentaries and video art films. The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni is her first feature film, and is included in this years IFFR programme.
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMy EUROPEAN SHORT FILM AWARD

At the IFFR, the jury of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films will nominate one European film to enter the competition for the European Short Film Award. The nominee will be announced on Monday, 30 January at 22:30 hours in WORM. The members of the European Film Academy will vote for the overall winner, which will be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony in December.

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svartur leik
Blacks game

skar Thr Axelsson


Reykjavik, 1999. A man is interrogated by the police. He was arrested the previous night after a fight. Stebbi cant remember a thing about it blind drunk again. In front of the police station smoking a cigarette, Stebbi meets his childhood friend Tti, a no-nonsense guy with an enormous tattoo on his bald head, a goatee and frightful eyes. If you have any problems, just give me a call, Tti says, handing him a card. Then Stebbi finds himself in a world of tough guys, athletic drug dealers, stunning blondes, mountains of coke, truckloads of ecstasy and other designer drugs, robberies and slaughter. The frames are askew, sometimes in split-screen. The colour pallet of this adrenaline-pumping crime thriller is dominated by the black of the night, the white of the snow and the red of the blood that flows copiously. In a voice-over, Stebbi provides a dry commentary. Inspired by some shit that actually happened, it says at the start of Blacks Game, the feature debut by skar Thr Axelsson. Based on the bestselling Icelandic gangster story Black Curse by Stefn Mni, it was executive produced by Nicolas Winding Refn, director of the Pusher trilogy and the recent hit Drive.

worLd premiere

Iceland, 2012 | colour, DCP, 100 min, Icelandic


Prod: Thorir Snaer Sigurjnsson, Skuli Malmquist | Prod Comp: Zik Zak Filmworks | Sc: skar Thr Axelsson | Cam: Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson | Ed: Kristjn Lodmfjord | Sound Des: Ingvar Lundberg, Kjartan Kjartansson | With: Thorvaldur David Kristjansson, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Damon Younger, Egill Einarsson | Print: Icelandic Film Centre | Sales: TrustNordisk | www.zikzak.is

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Babamin sesi
Voice of my Father

Orhan Eskiky, Zeynel Dogan


The Kurdish Zeynel (played by co-director Zeynel Dogan) lives with his pregnant wife in Diyarbakir, a town in eastern Turkey. Zeynels mother Bas (Asiye Dogan, who is also really Zeynels mother) lives alone in the parental home in Elbistan, an almost deserted village. Zeynels elder brother Hasan has fled the country after he had joined the guerrilla movement. Since then, he has not been in touch. Their father Mustafa left for Saudi Arabia to earn money for his family. He had a fatal accident at work, and all that Zeynel has of his is one of the audio cassettes sent back and forth instead of letters (his parents couldnt read or write). Now he is going to be a father himself, Zeynel asks his mother about the other cassettes. She stalls, not wanting to change the picture that Zeynel has of his father. Voice of My Father is a poetic meditation about identity and blood bonds, as well as a profound portrait of a country in transition, wrestling with its past. Just as in the previous film by Orhan Eskiky and Zeynel Dogan, On the Way to School, language is crucially important. And like that film, Voice of My Father balances between fiction and documentary.

worLd premiere

Turkey/Germany, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 87 min, Kurdish/Turkish


Prod: zgr Dogan | Prod Comp: Perisan Film | Sc: Orhan Eskiky | Cam: Emre Erkmen | Ed: Orhan Eskiky, Cicek Kahraman | Prod Des: Emre Yurtseven | Sound Des: Serdar Ongoren | With: Asiye Dogan, Zeynel Dogan, Gulizar Dogan, Fatih Genckal | Sales: Perisan Film | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund | www.perisanfilm.com/bs/en

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Jidan he shitou
egg and stone

Huang Ji
In the village where she was born in the province of Hunan, Huang Ji filmed this quietly disturbing, sober drama about 14-year-old Honggui, who is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. The girl is not wanted. Nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. In the meantime, seven years have passed. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call. The tragedy of Hongguis personal story gradually unfolds. At the same time, in her feature debut, Huang (b. 1984) shows us how other Chinese women are also often afflicted. Not only by the widespread poverty, combined with the policy to restrict births that ensures that parents primarily want boys. A story read out loud in the film illustrates just how deeply-anchored oppressive thoughts about women are in Chinese culture. The blood of women pollutes the water for virtuous men, they say, and women can only cleanse themselves by praying. Its the fault of woman, just as in the Old Testament. But the men in Egg and Stone are not that virtuous. The visual motif of Hongguis spread and closed legs, which the filmmaker uses repeatedly with suitable reserve, is a painful and gripping reminder of the tyrannical power that men can take a power justified by the creative interpretation of principles apparently granted by God.
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China, 2012 | colour, video, 97 min, Mandarin


Prod: Otsuka Ryuji, Hsu Hsiao-ming | Prod Comp: Yellow-Green Pi, Panorama | Sc: Huang Ji | Cam: Otsuka Ryuji | Ed: Otsuka Ryuji | Prod Des: Huang Ji | Sound Des: Wang Chang-rui | With: Yao Hong-gui, Xiao Pin-gao, Liu Xiao-lin | Print/Sales: Yellow-Green Pi

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ro-men-seu Jo
romance Joe

Lee Kwang-Kuk
Where to start? With the filmmaker who was cruelly dumped in a rural town and told to seek fresh inspiration there? With the energetic waitress who is willing to give him more than coffee in return for payment and has a talent for telling stories? For instance about Romance Joe, whom she had interrupted a little earlier as he tried to commit suicide in his hotel room, and who also wanted to make films? It may even start with Romance Joes squabbling parents. In all these intertwined stories, we keep seeing a different narrator. For instance, Romance Joe himself remembers a childhood love that he never dared to pursue. Then theres the little boy who is looking for his mother who ran away... Lee Kwang-Kuk plays a game with stories with unmistakable pleasure in this elegantly filmed feature debut. Its structure and the references to making films betray the influence of his mentor Hong Sang-Soo, to whom he was assistant director and who won a Tiger Award in 1997 for The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well. But Lee touches on Alice in Wonderland, and he also has his very own sense of humour. In Romance Joe, someone can allege you dont exist at all. Should you start doubting everything, just remember its only a film. And yet, despite all the irony and perspective, the characters are real enough to be moving. Winner of an audience award in Busan.
inTernATionAL premiere

South Korea, 2011 | colour, DCP, 115 min, Korean


Prod: Yim Soon-Rye | Prod Comp: Bori Pictures | Sc: Lee Kwang-Kuk | Cam: Jee Yune-Jeong | Ed: Son Yeon-Ji | Sound Des: Kim Yong-Joo | Music: Park Jin-Seok | With: Kim Young-Pil, Shin Dong-Mi, Lee Chai-Eun, Lee David | Print/Sales: M-Line distribution | www.mline-distribution.com

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L
Babis Makridis
In L, you are what you drive. The protagonist, aged 40, is a more than dedicated driver. His work is literally his life and his car is more than a means of transport. He lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who cant drive. The driver, known as the Man, provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, the Man loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport. Aris Servetalis, who can also be seen in Yorgos Lanthimos Alps, plays the Man without batting an eyelid. Whether hes talking seriously to his children, listening to a friend or just has his eyes on the road, he always focuses intensely on what he is doing. With a screenplay by Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, Alps) its not surprising that the absurdist tone recalls Lanthimos films. L is also akin to Attenberg by Athina Rachel Tsangari. But Babis Makridis distinguishes himself from his colleagues because he allows his film to be even more abstract. L is a unique combination of comedy and existential drama. A debut film filled with bizarre dialogues, a stuttering Moonlight Sonata and a song about bears.

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Greece, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 87 min, Greek


Prod: Amanda Livanou | Prod Comp: Beben Films | Sc: Efthimis Filippou, Babis Makridis, based on an original idea by Yorgos Giokas | Cam: Thimios Bakatakis | Ed: Yannis Chalkiadakis | Prod Des: Dafni Kalogianni | Sound Des: Costas Fylaktidis | Music: Coti K | With: Aris Servetalis, Makis Papadimitriou, Lefteris Mathaiou, Nota Tserniafski, Thanassis Dimou | Print/Sales: Beben Films

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o som ao redor
neighbouring sounds

Kleber Mendona Filho


A few years ago, Kleber Mendona Filho was given a Short Profile at IFFR, so his feature debut has obviously been eagerly awaited. This cinephile jack-of-all-trades filmmaker, festival organiser, critic and producer from Recife in Brazil expanded on a theme from his short film Eletrodomstica and turned it into a gripping, ominous debut. An x-ray of a middle-class district in Recife: in the street where a rich family owns lots of real estate, life takes an unexpected turn when a private security outfit offers its services to the residents. The presence of guards (led by Clodoaldo, played by Irandhir Santos, who is also the protagonist in Rat Fever) gives them a feeling of security, but also adds a large dose of anxiety in a society that flourishes on fear. Meanwhile Bia, the mother of two children, tries to find a way to deal with the barking of the guard dogs that gives her sleepless nights. Neighbouring Sounds is a piece of contemporary Braziliana that effortlessly offers new insights into an apparently normal socioeconomic network. Deserving of special mention: the excellent acting across the whole cast and the way in which the urban space and interior design play a leading role.

worLd premiere

Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 124 min, Portuguese


Prod: Emilie Lesclaux | Prod Comp: Cinemascpio Produes | Sc: Kleber Mendona Filho | Cam: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu | Ed: Kleber Mendona Filho, Joo Maria | Prod Des: Juliano Dornelles | Sound Des: Pablo Lamar, Kleber Mendona Filho | Music: DJ Dolores | With: Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, W.J. Solha | Sales: Cinemascpio Produes | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund | www.osomaoredor.com.br

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gui lai de ren


return to Burma

Midi Z
Wang Xing-hong has been a Burmese guest-worker in Taiwan, but now there have been elections in his country, he decides its time to return. During the journey from Rangoon to his birthplace, we hear propaganda songs on the radio about the blessings of democracy. When he sees his mother again after 12 years, she asks: Have you eaten? With those same words, the mother of filmmaker Midi Z welcomed her son when he returned in 2008 after an absence of 10 years. In early 2011, soon after the elections, Midi Z went back again. This time he brought his camera, to shoot Return to Burma. Xing-hong has the sad duty of returning the ashes of a friend who had a fatal accident in Taiwan. But theres also the joy of seeing friends and family. Young people still gather together to sing romantic songs and dream of working in China or even America. Xing-hongs younger brother is about to leave for Malaysia. Xing-hong himself would prefer to stay and goes to markets and smuggling centres to see if there are any opportunities for him. Return to Burma reflects a poor yet hopeful society in images that follow the countryside and the peoples movements and often have a documentary approach. A rare Tiger too, because we dont see many films from Burma at all.

eUropeAn premiere

Taiwan/Myanmar, 2011 | colour, DCP, 84 min, Mandarin/Burmese


Prod: Midi Z, Patrick Mao Huang | Prod Comp: Seashore Image Production, Flash Forward Entertainment | Sc: Midi Z | Cam: Midi Z | Ed: Lin Sheng-wen, Midi Z | Sound Des: Lin Sheng-wen | With: Wang Shin-hong, Yang Shu-lan, Chou Jung-kuo | Print/Sales: Flash Forward Entertainment

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Klip
Clip

Maja Milos
Jasna is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens. Disillusioned by her life in a remote Serbian town with a dispirited mother and terminally ill father, she opposes everyone, including herself, and goes wild, experimenting with sex, drugs and simply killing time. But gradually, this desperate protest helps her come to terms with painful reality. In her first feature, Maja Milos (1983) explores the disturbing state of adolescence as bravely and honestly as her protagonist explores herself. Isidora Simijonovic, also a debutant, gives a striking and fearless performance full of contrasts. Together they create a highly dynamic and vibrant portrait of wasted youth lost in the search for identity. Milos sets this classical coming-of-age story in the world of contemporary teenagers obsessed with pornographic images, violence and online reality, meanwhile exploring the blurring boundaries between sex and affection, simple pleasures and true love, brutality and tenderness. Above all, Clip examines the shifting family and social values in present-day Serbia, where the generation gaps are extreme, placing everyone between disintegrating traditions and uncertain contemporary morality.
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worLd premiere

Serbia, 2012 | colour, DCP, 100 min, Serbian


Prod: Jelena Mitrovic | Prod Comp: Film House Bas Celik | Sc: Maja Milos | Cam: Vladimir Simic | Ed: Stevan Filipovic | Prod Des: Zorana Petrov | Sound Des: Ognjen Popic, Zoran Maksimovic | With: Isidora Simijonovic, Vukasin Jasni, Sanja Mikitisin, Jovo Maksic, Monja Savic, Katarina Pesic, Sonja Janicic, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Vladimir Gvojic, Nikola Dragutinovic | Print/Sales: Film House Bas Celik Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 15:30 PA7 Sat 28-1 21:15 PA6 Mon 30-1 16:15 PA3 Thu 2-2 22:15 LV3 Sat 4-2 21:45 PA5 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 10:30 PA3 Fri 27-1 11:45 PA5
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southwest

Eduardo Nunes
The languid, lateral black-and-white shots and repetitive background sounds of Eduardo Nunes feature debut Southwest inevitably evokes memories of the work of Bla Tarr. But where Tarr used that style to break open reality, Nunes (b. 1969) chooses a more magical approach with this Brazilian parable about a woman who passes through her life in one day. It is immediately obvious from the title that Southwest enters the domain of the fantastic, because the southwest of Brazil doesnt exist at least not officially. Its an area beyond the frontiers of the visible. Most characters experience the day that is coming just like every other, even though the young, pregnant Clarice dies in the early morning in an inn. In the hours that follow, another Clarice appears: first as a baby, then as a little girl, then as a teenager and finally as an adult woman. Under the scorching sun, she changes from one character to another. The contrast between these radical changes and the slow tempo makes the viewer search for a handhold. Nunes, who won several prizes with his short films, uses this dreamy yet also painful and tragic narrative to point to Christian and magical stories. But in the end, there is no clear logic; only the puzzle of time and life.

eUropeAn premiere

Brazil, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:2.35, 128 min, Portuguese


Prod: Patrick Leblanc | Prod Comp: Superfilmes | Sc: Guilherme Sarmiento, Eduardo Nunes | Cam: Mauro Pinheiro Jr. | Ed: Flvio Zettel | Prod Des: Andr Weller | Sound Des: Leandro Lima, Gabriel dAngelo | Music: Cristiano de Abreu, Tiago Azevedo, Yuri Villar | With: Simone Spoladore, Raquel Bonfante, Julio Adrio, Dira Paes, Mariana Lima, Everaldo Pontes, La Garcia | Print/Sales: Superfilmes Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 15:30 PA7 Mon 30-1 12:15 PA6 Tue 31-1 22:00 PA6 Wed 1-2 21:45 LV3 Sat 4-2 18:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 12:30 DWBZ Tue 31-1 14:15 DWBZ

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Tokyo playboy Club


Okuda Yosuke
In 2010, Okuda Yosuke made a name for himself with his low-budget gangster comedy Hot as Hell: The Deadbeat March, the last part of his Hot as Hell trilogy. This year, he returns with a wry crime story about the fringes of Japanese society. Every client and there arent many can see that the Tokyo Playboy Club has seen its best days. After a fight at work, Katsutoshi flees to this club, owned by his good friend Seikichi. Its not long before hot-headed Katsutoshi also makes life impossible for himself here by beating a local gangster to a pulp. Seikichi now fears rightly so for his own skin. In the meantime, one of his barmen gets into trouble, so the mans girlfriend Eriko feels forced to take a job as a hostess. As a result she also becomes involved in the rapidly escalating conflict between the owner, his loose-fisted friend and the furious gangsters. This gangster film with unusual accordion music focuses on people who primarily live by instinct. And this results in extremely bloody, reckless scenes. Director Okuda also offers a dash of absurd Tarantino minus the glamour this dry adventure shows a shabby side of Japan we usually dont get to see.

eUropeAn premiere

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 97 min, Japanese


Prod: Kai Naoki | Prod Comp: StyleJam Inc. | Sc: Okuda Yosuke | Cam: Imai Takahiro | Ed: Onodera Takuya | Prod Des: Hirai Atsuro | Sound Des: Takada Shinya | Music: Ishizuka Toru | With: Omori Naoi, Mitsuishi Ken, Usuda Asami | Print/Sales: Pictures Dept. Co. Ltd. | www.tokyoplayboyclub.jp

Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 18:45 PA5 Sun 29-1 13:30 PA4 Mon 30-1 18:15 PA6 Thu 2-2 17:30 LV3 Sat 4-2 18:45 PA5

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mulgogi
A Fish

Park Hong-Min
Park Hong-Mins feature debut A Fish is the first 3-D film in the Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition, and that 3-D form does justice to the various dimensions overlapping in this metaphysical mystery in a fascinating way. Little by little, the filmmaker reveals where this unfortunate road movie is taking its characters. At first not much seems to happen. In a roadside restaurant, the troubled protagonist, Professor Lee, picks up the detective who says he has found Lees missing wife on an island off the coast. The men head for the sea, but instead of taking the ferry that evening, they must look for alternative transport the next day. That night, the professor has a curious dream. Park, who is still studying directing in Seoul, maintains a realistic style that hides the true nature of events for a long time. But what at first seems like a series of absurd situations slowly changes into a moving and decisive coming-of-age story. A story that leans on the symbolic meaning of water and fish, even though Park clearly does not want to explain or reveal too much. When one of the characters suggests to another that their conversation is starting to sound philosophical, they immediately stop, saying they dont have anything sensible to say. This characterises the playful and provocative way in which A Fish tries to fathom the very last moment we will eventually all experience.
inTernATionAL premiere

South Korea, 2011 | colour, DCP, 105 min, Korean


Prod: Choi Sung-Won | Prod Comp: Dima Entertainment | Sc: Park Hong-Min | Cam: Choi Sung-Won | Ed: Lee Gang-Hee | Prod Des: Lee Hyun-Joo | Music: Oh Su-Jin | With: Lee Jang-Hoon, Kim Sun-Bin, Choi So-Eun | Print/Sales: Mirovision Inc.

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Z daleka widok jest piekny


it Looks pretty from a distance

Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal


From the very start, it is evident that the authors of It Looks Pretty from a Distance, both feature-film debutants, have a huge background in the visual arts. Wilhelm Sasnal, known for his precise yet abstract paintings, and Anka Sasnal, his wife and collaborator, instantly catch us with the traps their protagonists set in the woods. Whats inside the filmmakers traps? Pure images, ideally paced and contemplative, that provide the real tension and suspense. No dialogue needed, not even a plot. The story focuses on a small, incestuous Polish community during an exhaustingly hot summer. Everyone is either about to explode or come to a complete halt. Hidden aggression, hatred, discrimination, as well as fears, longings and emotional crises are constantly about to break through the surface. Using a minimalistic, almost austere style, the Sasnals create an absolutely physical, not to say physiological, portrait of a micro society that turns into a viscious swamp, unresistingly absorbing any kind of violence. An example of purely contemporary cinema, at once tangible and elusive.

inTernATionAL premiere

Poland/USA, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 77 min, Polish


Prod: Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal, Anton Kern | Prod Comp: Anton Kern Gallery | Sc: Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal | Cam: Wilhelm Sasnal, Aleksander Trafas | Ed: Beata Walentowska | Prod Des: Marek Zawierucha | Sound Des: Igor Klaczynski | With: Marcin Czarnik, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Nowak, Elzbieta Okupska, Jerzy Lapinski, Hanka Chojnacka, Michal Pietrzak | Print/Sales: Filmpolis Agata Szymanska | www.itlooksprettyfromadistance.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 15:30 PA7 Sun 29-1 12:15 PA6 Mon 30-1 21:15 PA6 Thu 2-2 12:30 LV3 Sat 4-2 12:30 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 14:15 DWBZ Tue 31-1 16:45 CI2

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Zhit
Living

Vasily Sigarev
Vasily Sigarevs second feature, after his acclaimed Wolfy, is an existential portrait of protagonists living in a wintry Russian province. A mother wants to reunite with her twin daughters. A young couple marry in church, but immediately after the ceremony, God or maybe the Devil, or maybe Blind Fate tests their love in the most brutal way. A boy wants to see his estranged father, despite his mothers violent protests. Each of these characters lives through their own ordeal. Among all the sorrows imaginable, Sigarev focuses on the most devastating: death. Without any sentimentality, but with brutal sincerity, he has made a fiercely personal yet artistically crafted film on the complexity of being. A prominent author of extremely truthful plays written in the tradition of new drama, Sigarev takes his art a few steps further by meticulously depicting the bleak routine of everyday life, while at the same time searching for something hidden beneath its surface. He tackles a fundamental question: Is there catharsis in life, and therefore in art? If so, can our sorrows be healed? And if not, how can one escape despair and go on living? An enigma that transforms this realistic film into a universal parable, revealing a mystery and even in spite of all the bleakness a miracle.

worLd premiere

Russia, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 119 min, Russian


Prod: Roman Borisevich, Alexander Kushaev | Prod Comp: Koktebel Film Company | Sc: Vasily Sigarev | Cam: Alisher Khamikhodzhaev | Ed: Dasha Danilova | Prod Des: Ludmila Dupina | Sound Des: Vladimir Golovnitsky | Music: Pavel Dodonov | With: Yana Troyanova, Yana Sekste, Eugeny Sitiy, Olga Lapshina | Print/Sales: Koktebel Film Company

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sin maysar fon tok ma proi proi


in April the Following Year, There was a Fire

Wichanon Somumjarn
Nuhm is a foreman in the building industry in Bangkok who has to look for other work. On the eve of the Thai New Year, he returns to his birthplace in the north-east of Thailand (where director Wichanon Somumjarn also grew up). After the wedding of a school friend, Nuhm goes to see his father, but their reunion is difficult. Meeting a young woman he was once in love with brings out other feelings. They talk about Albert Camus rules for a happy life and Nuhm admits that he would most love to make films. Meanwhile, on the radio we hear news reports about riots in other parts of the country. The film takes an unexpected turn when, in a documentary fragment, the directors father and older brother appear on screen. Then it becomes apparent that much of what weve seen is autobiographical the title refers to an event that took place when Somumjarn was six months old. Fiction, reality, memories and dreamlike images become increasingly intertwined. This first full-length feature film by former architecture student Somumjarn leans primarily on moods and feelings. A lot remains unsaid. Beauty can be inside issues, such as caring for a horse, the landscape or a karaoke song about diverging life paths. Its also a meditation. And, as the director says: This is the story of my land.

worLd premiere

Thailand, 2012 | colour, video, 76 min, Thai


Prod: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Maenum Chagasik | Prod Comp: Electric Eel Films | Sc: Wichanon Somumjarn | Cam: Ming Kai Leung | Ed: Machima Ungsriwong | Prod Des: Piyabut Jiraborworn | Sound Des: Sorayos Prapapan | With: Nantawut Phoophasuk, Narong Boonbamrung | Sales: Electric Eel Films | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund | www.electriceelfilms.com

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de jueves a domingo
Thursday Till sunday

Dominga Sotomayor
This Chilean road movie is set entirely in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family on a four-day trip to the north of Chile. It will be their last journey as a family. We occasionally catch a glimpse of marital problems, but the crisis is largely implicit. For instance, we often only see the backs of the silent parents heads, seen from the perspective of the children in the back seat, who only have a partial idea of what is going on. The journey that starts so cheerfully with all kinds of games in the car quickly acquires melancholy undertones: the children only want to go to the beach, while the father is heading for a new life in another apartment and the mother primarily yearns for a place which no longer exists, where everything remains the same as it was. Dominga Sotomayor previously made the short film Videogame, which screened at IFFR in 2010. That film also focused on a divorce, seen from the perspective of the child: a boy loses himself in the fictional world of a video game while his parents divide the household effects. Thursday Till Sunday was selected for the Cannes Cinfondation Rsidence 2010 and supported by the Hubert Bals Fund.

worLd premiere

Chile/Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 96 min, Spanish


Prod: Benjamn Domenech, Gregorio Gonzalez, Stienette Bosklopper | Prod Comp: Cinestacin, Forastero, Circe Films | Sc: Dominga Sotomayor | Cam: Brbara lvarez | Ed: Danielle Fillios, Catalina Marn Duarte | Prod Des: Estefana Larran | Sound Des: Roberto Espinoza | With: Francisco Prez-Bannen, Paola Giannini, Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld, Jorge Becker, Axel Dupr | Print/Sales: FiGa Films Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 21:30 PA7 Sun 29-1 09:15 PA6 Mon 30-1 21:45 LV1 Thu 2-2 15:15 PA6 Sat 4-2 09:45 PA5 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 09:30 PA5 Wed 1-2 09:45 PA2

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PUBLIC SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 20:00 LantarenVenster 3 Fri 27-1 17:15 LantarenVenster 3

Im Freien
In the Open Albert Sackl

The inaccessible landscape of Iceland functions as an arena for a fascinating and cinematic double pass between Sackl and his modified 16mm camera. Wherever they are, an image is photographed every three minutes, three months in a row. Fickle weather conditions and shortening days shape the image and enter into a dialogue with introduced sculptural elements. The concept is maintained right up to the final credits, shot on location.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Austria, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 23 min, silent


Prod/Sc: Albert Sackl | Cam: Albert Sackl, Markus Krispel, Franz Zar | Ed/With: Albert Sackl | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.albertsackl.com

Big in Vietnam
Mati Diop

A movie is being filmed around Marseille. Henriette, a French-Vietnamese director, is shooting Les liaisons dangereuses, assisted by her son Mike. Soon, all activity must stop. The main actor is missing. Henriette leaves the stage and goes looking for him. In the port city, Henriette wanders around, discovering a world that reminds her of the one she left. There, she meets a man haunted by a journey of no return. (MD) Mati Diops Snow Canon screens in the compilation programme Short Stories: Surprising Mysteries.
WORLD PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, video, 29 min, French/Vietnamese


Prod: Antonin Dedet | Prod Comp: Neon Productions | Sc: Mati Diop, Thierry de Peretti | Cam: Mati Diop, Yannick Casanova | Ed: Ael D. Vega, Nicolas Milteau | Prod Des: Salom Aubry | Sound Des: Frederic Salles | With: Henriette Nhung, Ghe Bi, Mike Nguyen | Print/Sales: Neon Productions | www.neon.fr/production-film/big-in-vietnam/en

the meaning of style


Phil Collins

Commissioned for the 2011 Singapore Biennale, the meaning of style qualifies as the shortest, most perfectly formed film in the Tiger Shorts competition. Shot with Malaysian skinheads in Penang, its a meditative fantasy on signs, signals and butterflies, leading to pointed reflections on the relationship between British colonial history and popular culture in South-East Asia, says its maker, and to quote Jose Da Silva: Fuck, its beautiful.
WORLD PREMIERE

Malaysia, 2012 | colour, video, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod: Phil Collins, Fran Borgia | Prod Comp: Shady Lane Productions, Akanga Film Asia | Cam: Hideho Urata | Ed: Shantha Kumar | Music: Gruff Rhys & Y Niwl | Print/Sales: Shady Lane Productions

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Springtime
Jeroen Eisinga

A man, a table, a camera and twentyfive kilos of bees: this adventure ended in hospital. Artist Jeroen Eisingas film performance Springtime is a contemporary rite of passage that leaves neither him nor the viewer unmoved. In his meticulously crafted tableau vivant the maker takes the beekeepers sport of bee bearding to the next level. The bees slowly take over his body, and his and our minds.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 19 min, no dialogue


Prod: Jeroen Eisinga | Cam: Benito Strangio | Ed: Jeroen Eisinga | With: Jeroen Eisinga | Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

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As ondas
The Waves Miguel Fonseca

The world premiere of Miguel Fonsecas beautifully judged, beautifully photographed The Waves, where the minutiae of two sisters relationship is placed in balance with the vastness of the ocean, cliffs and late summer sky. This is a Portuguese paradise lost, a terrain rendered even more starkly beautiful by the sense of frailty and loss at its very core. Its a landscape and drama, made ripe for transformation.
WORLD PREMIERE

Portugal, 2012 | colour, video, 22 min, Portuguese


Prod: Lus Urbano, Sandro Aguilar | Prod Comp: O Som e a Fria | Sc: Miguel Fonseca | Cam: Mrio Castanheira | Ed: Sandro Aguilar | Sound Des: Antnio Figueiredo | With: Andreia Contreiras, Alice Contreiras | Print/Sales: O Som e a Fria | www.osomeafuria.com/films/3/40

Shadow Life
Cao Fei

Shadow Life evokes folklore and Communist festivals. The vignettes are performed by shadow puppets; the form of the hand is a synecdoche for the manual labour of workers and peasants, while the silhouette medium allows quick metamorphoses: a grandstanding dictator to a barking dog, a swaying tree to a crane transforming the landscape. A remake of a 2000 Russian pop hit serves as the soundtrack to the third part, Transmigration. (CF)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

China, 2011 | b&w, video, 10 min, no dialogue


Prod: Cao Fei | Sc: Cao Fei, Cao Dan | Cam: Zhang Disheng | Handshadow Performance: Shen Xiao, Xiang XiaoYing | Print/Sales: Cao Fei | www.caofei.com

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Scene Shifts, in Six Movements


Jani Ruscica

Words shape our impressions and form our history. In Scene Shifts, in Six Movements by Finnish artist Jani Ruscica, a journey through historic layers of various spots on several continents unfolds. However, it is primarily an intellectual journey. The locations, images, texts and music hold references to a long history of cross-cultural misinterpretations.
WORLD PREMIERE

Finland/Germany/Denmark, 2012 | colour, video, 15 min, Arabic/French


Prod: Jani Ruscica | Sc: Jani Ruscica | Cam: Anu Kernen | Ed: Jani Ruscica, Tiina Aarniala | Prod Des: Jani Ruscica | Sound Des: Anne Tolkkinen, Pape Sarr, Maryam Hamadon, Denise Akar, Jorma Hellstrm | Music: Franois Couperin | Print/Sales: AV-arkki | www.janiruscica.com

generator
Makino Takashi

Makino Takashis source of inspiration, our place in the world and the universe, never seems to dry up in view of the never-ending flow of immersive films, of which many have already been seen in Rotterdam. Generator may well be the earthiest of his films so far, made as a reaction to the Fukushima disaster. A reality check, but in the world that Makino shows, this can never be achieved without looking inwards too.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 20 min, no dialogue


Prod: Takashi Echigoya | Prod Comp: Aichi Arts Center | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Makino Takashi | Sound Des/Music: Jim ORourke | Print/Sales: Makino Takashi | www13.ocn.ne.jp/~makinokn

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Ovos de dinossauro na sala de estar


Rafael Urban

Dinosaur Eggs in the Living Room

The eccentric 77-year-old widow Ragnhild Borgomanero does everything to preserve the largest private collection of fossils in Latin America and the memory of her brilliant husband Guido for posterity. Determined, she shows us the recently digitised photo collections and talks nonchalantly about her courses in Photoshop and Adobe. Her penetrating presentation reveals a painful void.
Brazil, 2011 | colour, video, 12 min, Portuguese
Prod: Ana Paula Malaga, Rafael Urban | Prod Comp: Tu i Tam Filmes | Sc: Rafael Urban | Cam: Eduardo Baggio | Ed: Ana Lesnovski | Sound Des: Alexandre Rogoski | Music: Alessandro Borgomanero | With: Ragnhild Borgomanero | Print/Sales: Moro Filmes

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Im Lisa
Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen

A sultry evening in tropical Asia. A young housekeeper is busy at work in the kitchen for an elderly woman. She is filleting a frog. She swats a mosquito. It doesnt look as if much is happening, but what does happen is meticulously observed. The maker does not want to say much about it. She refers to Wittgenstein. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. The maker must mean we just have to look and who would wish to contradict her in this case?
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Malaysia, 2010 | b&w, video, 8 min, no dialogue


Prod: Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen | Sc: Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen | Cam: Khoo Eng Yow | Ed: Kok Kai Foong | With: Lai Fooi Mun | Print/Sales: Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen

Al bahth an madina fi awraaq Sein


In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) Hala Elkoussy

A journey through Cairo, led by the voice of the contemporary flneuse Sein. Her journey leads through the age-old streets, through colonial districts modelled on Paris to new apartments in international style. Using voices from now and from the past, Hala Elkoussy shows how the City is repeatedly reborn, resisting meanings just as recalcitrantly as its eight million inhabitants and in this way becoming into the megalopolis it is today.
WORLD PREMIERE

Egypt/United Kingdom, 2012 | colour, video, 34 min, Arabic


Prod: Hala Elkoussy | Prod Comp: Folkestone Triennial | Sc: Hala Elkoussy | Cam: Abde lsalam Moussa | Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Hala Elkoussy | Music: Mohamed Antar | With: Solafa Ghanem, Bassem Wadie, Bassem Yousry | Print/Sales: Hala Elkoussy

Field Notes from a Mine


Martijn van Boven, Tom Tlalim

A journey through the African continent based on a list of traditional pilgrimage routes. The route follows geographical data which are used to generate image and sound compositions. From a walkers perspective, this data-driven, abstract documentary unfolds from an unnamed location in South Sudan and ends in Marrakech, Morocco. In 6,900 kilometres and 10 countries, the film mirrors a transformation of the walker and his surroundings.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 20 min, no dialogue


Prod: Martijn van Boven, Tom Tlalim | Sc: Martijn van Boven, Tom Tlalim | Cam/Ed: Martijn van Boven | Sound Des: Tom Tlalim | Music: Tom Tlalim | Sales: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk) | Distr NL: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk) | www.fieldnotesfromamine.org

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PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 20:00 LantarenVenster 1 Sun 29-1 12:15 LantarenVenster 3

El arca
The Ark Cristbal Len, Joaqun Cocia

Papier-mch marionettes, the passengers from Noahs Ark and an astronaut who gives his genitals to a girl The Ark opens an exuberant world in which the Bible and psychoanalysis are whipped into a heady mix. Animators Lon and Cocina elevated their talents to new heights (during courses at De Ateliers in the Netherlands) and in the process honour Athanasius Kircher, a seventeenth-century scientist/fantasist.
Netherlands/Chile, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 17 min, no dialogue
Prod: Cristbal Len, Joaqun Cocia | Prod Comp: Diluvio | Sc: Cristbal Len, Joaqun Cocia | Cam: Carlos Vasquez | Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music/With: Cristbal Len, Joaqun Cocia | Print: Diluvio | Sales: Upstream Gallery

Manque de preuves
Lack of Evidence Hayoun Kwon

Lack of Evidence tells the tragic story of a father in Nigeria who believes that his twins are cursed and therefore kills one of his sons ceremonially. The other brother manages to escape just in time, after which he embarks on a long journey to Europe, where he becomes embroiled in bureaucratic asylum procedures because he has no proof of what happened. This file, with the story that is repeatedly not believed, is the foundation of this unconventional animated re-construction.
France, 2011 | colour, video, 9 min, French
Prod: Eric Prigent | Prod Comp: Le Fresnoy | Sc: Hayoun Kwon | Cam: Guillaume Brault | Ed: Lee Oh Eun, Hayoun Kwon | Sound Des: Robin Rimbaud-Scanner | Music: Robin Rimbaud-Scanner | With: Christiane Cavallin-Carlut, Bakary Diallo | Print/Sales: Le Fresnoy

Draud iami jausmai


Restricted Sensation Deimantas Narkevicius

In three parts, articulated around three strong institutions a theatre, a prison and a church Narkevicius brings his narrative and fictional method of recounting history to the cinematic scale. Apart from the main story about an aspiring theater director in Vilnius, victim of the Soviet regimes investigations of presumed homosexuality, the filmmaker also constructs a subnarrative of the role of art and creativity within a supposed utopia.
Lithuania/Spain, 2011 | colour, DCP, 46 min, Lithuanian/Russian/Polish
Prod: Deimantas Narkevicius | Sc: Deimantas Narkevicius | Cam: Audrius Kemezys | Ed: Dominykas Kilciauskas | Prod Des: Audrius Dumikas | Sound Des: Sigitas Motoras | Music: Without Letters | With: Valentinas Krulikovskis, Egle Driukaite, Aleksas Kazanavicius, Arunas Smailys, Mikas Urbonas | Print/Sales: Deimantas Narkevicius
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Light Escapes Through the Intervals


Tasaka Naoko

This graduation film is a clever and meditative piece that both caresses and attacks the senses. Director Tasaka Naoko said: Im pursuing something undistinguishable, with no name or with no boundaries, like something implied in a loose connection of the words in poetry. Its not an unknown thing. Its something which I already know but I dont know how to describe. I search in my experience and recollection trying to rebuild something similar with the fragments of my memory.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 15 min, no dialogue


Prod: Tasaka Naoko | Cam: Tasaka Naoko | Ed: Tasaka Naoko | Sound Des: Tasaka Naoko | With: Spencer Holden, Justin Leon | Print/Sales: Tasaka Naoko

Agatha
Beatrice Gibson

A sexual reminiscence, a utopian gender-bending sci-fi of psychometric suggestibility about a place beyond words. Gorgeously shot amongst the gorse, slate and moss of North Wales Snowdonia mountains, Agatha features Gibson herself as protagonist and narrator, continuing her filmmaking explorations with a new looseness and spontaneity within the paradigm of Cornelius Cardews dream recollection.
WORLD PREMIERE

United Kingdom, 2012 | colour, video, 14 min, English


Prod: Beatrice Gibson | Sc: Beatrice Gibson | Cam: Nick Gordon | Ed: Beatrice Gibson | Music: Earle Brown, Jennifer Allum | With: Laura Bartlett, Adam Broomberg, Leni Broomberg, Sarah Entwistle, Beatirce Gibson | Print: LUX | Sales: Beatrice Gibson | www.dliub.org

La maladie blanche
The White Disease Christelle Lheureux

An isolated village in the Pyrenees is entirely under the spell of a sultry summer night and the inhabitants enjoy themselves with music, shadow plays and stories. A community of people in harmony with each other and with their surroundings. Before they go to sleep, a father tells his daughter about a dark cave, about the first signs of civilisation and transience. In the deep of the night, a prehistoric being emerges and leads the girl from the village to the mountains.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

France, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 42 min, French


Prod: Antoine Thirion | Prod Comp: Les films des lucioles | Sc/Cam: Christelle Lheureux | Ed: Christelle Lheureux, Camille Lotteau | Sound Des: Aurlie Mertenat, Damien Guillaume, Edouard Morin | With: Myrtille Finken, Manuel Vallade | Print/Sales: Les films des lucioles | www.christellelheureux.com

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TIgER AWARDS COMPETITION FOR ShORT FILMS

Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 6


PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 20:00 LantarenVenster 1 Mon 30-1 12:15 LantarenVenster 3

Postcard from Somova, Romania


Andreas Horvath

An inconspicuous row of trees and some bushes, somewhere on a riverbank on the edge of the Danube Delta. Time seems to have stood still here. In the minor events that then emerge, we see an unexpected coherence. The animals that have found their homes here and seem condemned to each other, the tired fishermen who chug up in their boat and disrupt the peace and the crumbling material in general all acquire a glowing cinematographic meaning.
WORLD PREMIERE

Austria, 2012 | colour, video, 20 min, Romanian


Prod: Andreas Horvath | Sc/Cam/Ed: Andreas Horvath | Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.andreashorvath.com

5000 Feet Is the Best


Omer Fast

A drone operator discusses his daily routine. Off camera and off the record, he describes recurring incidents in which the unmanned plane fired at both militants and civilians and the psychological difficulties he experienced as a result. Director Fast mixes fact and fiction, merging documentary shots of war zones with happy Las Vegas feature-film images. He erases reality by inventing his own, which is nonetheless true.
USA/France/Ireland, 2011 | colour, video, 27 min, English
Prod: Daniel Desure | Prod Comp: Commonwealth Projects | Sc: Omer Fast | Cam: Yon Thomas | Ed: Omer Fast | Prod Des: Anthony Stabley | Sound Des: Jochen Jezussek | With: Denis OHare, Gabriel Gutierrez, Eddie B. Smith | Print/Sales: Omer Fast

Bobby Yeah
Robert Morgan

Bobby Yeah demonstrates such a staggeringly unprecedented abundance of imagination in its stop-motion, squelchy silicon and revolting rubber universe that we can only pray it comes hermetically sealed. Nightmares arent usually accomplished in such profoundly original, perfectly sub-humanoid shapes. Push that button!
United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 23 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc: Robert Morgan | Cam: Robert Morgan, Charlotte Steeples, Marcus Waterloo | Ed/Prod Des: Robert Morgan | Sound Des: ZnO | Music: ZnO | Print/Sales: BlueLight | www.robertmorganfilms.com

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Bright Future

the ultimate Pranx Case


In October 2010, three American friends decided to play a prank on a girl and to share that via a live stream on their website, pranxxxter.com. But the prank got completely out of hand, with these confrontational recordings as evidence. The plan was as follows: one of them would have a so-called romantic dinner with a girl in a villa filled with cameras. Strange twists in the plot were planned in advance for the evening, such as snacks of dog food. The lady would be tormented to the utmost and her date would have to prevent her running away. The sidekicks checked all this through their camera system in the cellar and provided a commentary on the evening. These virtually undamaged images, partly shot with a hand-held camera and intercepted by the police as evidence, show virtually in real time how an apparently innocent joke can get completely out of hand. Dont try this at home, kids.

WOrLD PreMiere

Canada, 2012 | colour, video, 80 min, English


Prod: Sylvain Guy, Claude Grgoire | Prod Comp: Influenz Films | Print/Sales: Influenz Films | www.pranxxxter.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 20:00 CI1 Sat 28-1 10:00 LV3 Sun 29-1 22:15 SGZ Fri 3-2 22:30 PA4 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 11:45 CI3

Parts of the heart


Paul Agusta

WOrLD PreMiere

Indonesia, 2012 | colour, video, 90 min, Indonesian/English


Prod: John Badalu Matulatan | Prod Comp: KineKuma Pictures | Sc: Paul Agusta | Cam: Faozan Rizal, Azizzah Imam | Ed: Muhammad Ichsan, Ismail Basbeth | Prod Des: Kyo Hayanto | Music: Jerome Kugan | With: Endy Arfian, Ardy Rinaldy, Elbert Powa, Daud Sumolang, Joko Anwar, Bunaya Yulius, Tuhdil Haqiqi, Ade Firza Paloh | Print/Sales: KineKuma Pictures Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 20:15 CI4 Thu 2-2 10:002 LV3 Fri 3-2 22:152 LV6 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 10:00 LV6

Eight contemplative short films show eight stages in the love life of Peter, a gay man in Jakarta. In chronological order, they describe Peters first infatuation at the age of ten (in the segment Stolen Kiss), his first sexual experience (The Game Kiss), love taken away by death (Solace) or crushed by the pressure of a traditional society (The Last Time), the difficult times in a long relationship (3 and The Couch and the Cat), right up to a flirt with a younger man when 40-year-old Peter is married (Why Isnt Peter Happy?). Paul Agusta, who calls the stories partly autobiographical, has plenty of experience in short film: hes made more than 30 since he turned to cinema in 2003. The different segments of Parts of the Heart can be watched separately, but this omnibus film is more than the sum of its parts. The seduction of the younger man who walks into Peters coffee business in the last section is even more powerful when you have seen what led up to it.

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gelecek uzun srer


Future Lasts Forever zcan Alper

eurOPeAN PreMiere

Turkey/Germany/France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 108 min, Turkish/Kurdish/Armenian


Prod: Soner Alper, Ersin elik, C. Asli Filiz | Prod Comp: Narfilm, unafilm, Arizona Films | Sc: zcan Alper | Cam: Feza aldiran | Ed: Ayhan Ergrsel, Thomas Balkenhol, zcan Alper, Umut Sakallioglu | Prod Des: Tolunay Trkz | Sound Des: Mohammed Mokhtary | Music: Mustafa Biber | With: Gaye Grsel, Durukan Ordu, Sarkis Seropyan, Osman Karako, Erdal Kirik | Print/Sales: Narfilm | www.futurelastsforever.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 19:30 PA3 Fri 27-1 12:30 PA7 Sat 28-1 10:15 PA1 Sat 4-2 14:15 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 09:45 CI2

Sumru, an ethnomusicologist by profession, travels to Diyarbakir to make sound recordings of elegies and the stories that belong with them. While she listens to the stories of Kurdish women who lost their husbands or sons during the bloody tyranny, she is confronted with her own past. Sumrus lover left for the Kurdish front years ago and never came back. During her journey, she meets Ahmet. With him, she goes looking for what happened to her lover. A romance seems to blossom between Sumru and Ahmet, but in this spot, marked by sorrow and loss, she finds it difficult to break free of her past. As in his debut Autumn, the second film by zcan Alper displays political commitment. Alper managed to capture the layered story of Future Lasts Forever with a firm hand. The beautiful camerawork and the rich sound design turn the film into pure cinema.

Okhotnik
the hunter Bakur Bakuradze

Russia, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 123 min, Russian


Prod: Sergey Selyanov | Prod Comp: CTB Film Company | Sc: Bakur Bakuradze, Ilya Malakhova | Cam: Nikolay Vavilov | Ed: Daria Gladysheva, Ilya Malakhova, Arseniy Troitskiy | Prod Des: Kirill Shuvalov | Sound Des: Arseniy Troitskiy | With: Mikhail Barskovich, Tatiana Shapovalova, Gera Avdochenok, Vladimir Degilev, Oksana Semyonova | Print/Sales: Intercinema Agency Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 17:00 CI5 Fri 27-1 17:30 CI7 Sat 28-1 22:15 PA3 Sat 4-2 09:45 CI3 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 12:15 DWBZ Wed 1-2 21:30 CI2

The pig farmer Ivan Dunaev lives as free as a modern man can. His life is only dictated by the seasons in the remote north-west of Russia. He eats, works and sleeps and sometimes he hunts. One day, two new workers arrive at the farm: Lyuba and Raya. They are out on parole from the nearby prison. How will these two change the rhythm of Ivans daily life? With the same eye for detail as in his feature debut Shultes (2008), which follows the vicissitudes of a petty thief, in The Hunter Bakur Bakuradze records everyday actions on a farm. The starting point is the fact that life for most people is determined right down to the smallest detail by others especially in cities because of the limited space. Even those who dont accept this are still often dependent on the city. From this background, Bakuradze looks at life outside the city as a form of resistance. But how much resistance can reality bear? Even this apparently timeless and idyllic life does not remain sacrosanct.

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Bright Future

Par exemple, electre


electra, for instance Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Lon

WOrLD PreMiere

France, 2012 | colour, video, 80 min, French


Prod: Martine Marignac | Prod Comp: Pierre Grise Productions | Sc: Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Lon | Cam: Jeanne Lapoirie | Ed: Dominique Auvray | Sound Des: Mathieu Descamps | With: Edith Scob, Evelyne Didi, Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Lon, Emmanuelle Bart, Yves-Nol Genod, Barbet Schroeder | Print/ Sales: Pierre Grise Productions Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 18:152 PA6 Sat 28-1 22:302 CI6 Sun 29-1 15:002 CI4 Mon 30-1 11:302 PA2 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 22:30 CI3

Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Lon roam in tourist outfits through Paris and prepare a play with a producer who keeps changing her clothes. In a parallel world, another layer if you wish, actors rehearse their texts for a Greek tragedy on the beach at Deauville and at prominent Parisian locations. It is the story of Electra, probably a rather inefficient character, one who perseveres and refuses to give up the battle against injustice. This absurd, slightly surrealist and occasionally humorous film looks like a theatre performance with its solemn dialogues and mise-en-scne issues. The makers, the actress Balibar and filmmaker Lon, however also use the medium by inserting screenshots of business e-mails reflections on their plans. In addition, Balibar is a singer and she sings the texts as if the e-mails were edifying lieder. Electra, for Instance is, as one of the characters puts it, a true culture souq.

room 514
Sharon Bar-Ziv

WOrLD PreMiere

Israel, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 87 min, Hebrew


Prod: Sharon Bar-Ziv | Prod Comp: Cinema Alpha Productions | Sc: Sharon Bar-Ziv | Cam: Edan Sasson | Ed: Shira Arad | Prod Des: Tamara Gleser Shafran | Sound Des: Michael Goorevich | With: Asia Neifeld , Guy Kapul, Ohad Hall, Udi Persi, Rafi Kalmar | Print/ Sales: Cinema Alpha Productions Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 16:00 PA1 Mon 30-1 11:45 CI1 Tue 31-1 22:00 CI5 Sat 4-2 14:15 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 18:15 CI3

A female Israeli soldier is ordered to interrogate an Israeli officer who is alleged to have abused an Arab family. Lower in rank and also a woman, she is barely taken seriously by the haughty man; he only gives her sarcastic answers. Her colleagues, including her lover, advise her to stop the case because it is too political, too complex and too notorious. Instead, she fastens her teeth in it, in the hope of getting justice for the victims. In the meantime she has the thumbscrews tightened by her lover and his intended. All the interrogations take place in room 514, where the sound palette is formed only by voices and the air conditioning. Room 514 is a courageous, hyper-realistic, low-budget drama that provides a worrying and critical picture of Israeli Army culture, where young soldiers discover that good and evil, black and white, dont exist. This debut film filled with expressive, hand-held shots was recorded in only a few days.

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Lanabase
the Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and the 27 Years Without images

France, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 66 min, Japanese/English


Prod: Eric Baudelaire | Sc: Eric Baudelaire | Cam: Eric Baudelaire | Ed: Eric Baudelaire, Laure Vermeersch | Sound Des: Diego Eiguchi, Philippe Welsh | Print/Sales: Eric Baudelaire | www.baudelaire.net Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 20:15 CI6 Sun 29-1 10:00 LV3 Mon 30-1 09:45 CI7 Fri 3-2 22:30 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 20:00 CI3

Eric Baudelaire Like his compatriot Philippe Grandrieux, the French artist Eric Baudelaire has made a personal film about the history of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), an extreme leftwing group that took up arms in the early 1970s in order to realise the proletarian revolution. The JRA hijacked aeroplanes and in 1972 organised a raid on the airport of Lod, in which 26 people died. They also fought in Lebanon, with the Peoples Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). On the soundtrack, we hear the story of the Japanese filmmaker Adachi Masao, who lived in Beirut for years and at the time was spokesman for the JRA. Shigenobu May, the daughter of Shigenobu Fusako, the woman who founded the JRA, talks about her childhood in Lebanon and her many secret identities. Baudelaire illustrates their stories with 8mm films that he made in Beirut and Tokyo, at the places where both were active. We also see clips from films by Adachi and newsreel footage of the attack at Lod and the arrest of Shigenobu Fusako in 2000.

La jubilada
the retired Jairo Boisier Olave

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

Chile, 2011 | colour, DCP, 83 min, Spanish


Prod: Jorge Lpez Vidales, Celine Imart, Gregorio Gonzalez, | Prod Comp: Escala Humana, Zapik Films, Forastero | Sc: Jairo Boisier Olave | Cam: Ral Heuty | Ed: Luis Horta, Jairo Boisier Olave | Prod Des: Eugenio Ramirez | Sound Des: Gustavo Araya | With: Paola Lattus, Catalina Saavedra, Jos Soza, Daniel Antivilo | Print/Sales: Rendez-Vous Pictures Intl. | www.zapikfilms.com/lajubilada Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 19:45 CI1 Thu 2-2 16:45 LV1 Fri 3-2 13:00 PA1 Sat 4-2 17:00 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 12:00 CI3

The title of the film refers both to Fabiolas father as to herself: at the age of 30 she turned her back on her career as a porn actress in Santiago de Chile and has returned to her parental home, where her father lives with her elder sister Gina. Fabiola is initially not welcomed with open arms; Gina is not keen to have someone who interferes with her tightly organised housekeeping. It soon becomes clear to Fabiola that it isnt easy to leave her professional past behind her. Moises, who offers her a job, turns out to be interested in more, and others also seem to only regard her as the lust object she once was. While Fabiola tries to improve conditions and relationships at home, an unlikely yet honest relationship develops with the 16-year-old son of Moises. Jairo Boisier Olave brings the story without frills or sentimentality, but with compassion for human weakness.

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Die ruberin
rough Markus Busch

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 92 min, German


Prod: Bernd T. Hoefflin, Lars Bchel | Prod Comp: element e filmproduktion gmbh | Sc: Markus Busch | Cam: Filip Piskorzynski | Ed: Steven Wilhelm | Prod Des: Bader El Hindi | Sound Des: Rick Schepker | Music: Max Berghaus | With: Birge Schade, Daniel Michel, Anna Stieblich, Kai-Ivo Baulitz | Print/ Sales: element e filmproduktion gmbh Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 16:45 SGZ Tue 31-1 11:452 CI1 Thu 2-2 22:152 PA4 Fri 3-2 21:452 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 14:00 CI3

The actress Tania travels from Munich to a village in the north of Germany. The skies are grey, just like the sea and the wintery plains. Her feelings are also covered in a grey veil of mist. Her painful past makes it impossible for this forty-something to feel anything at all. The arrival of the stranger is immediately noticed in the tightlipped community, but she is hardly welcome. Only the teenager Thore, whose imagination is too much for this no-mans-land, has contact with her. A fragile band develops between them attraction, rejection and occasionally sexually charged. Thore reveals a need in Tania, one she didnt know she had. She decides to steal Thore to come to terms with her own loss. Rough is a directing debut filmed with great poise and with a sharp eye for this beautiful yet slightly depressing landscape and the people who inhabit it. The camera first functions as a detached observer, then as an accomplice, always very close to Tania.

the Whirlpool
Alvin Case

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 74 min, French/English


Prod: Alvin Case | Prod Comp: Square Medium | Sc: Alvin Case, Edward Case, Agathe Feoux, Pierre Perrier | Cam: Alvin Case | Ed: Alvin Case | Prod Des: Alvin Case, David Marks | Sound Des: Alvin Case | Music: Claudia Carty | With: Agathe Feoux, Pierre Perrier, Gordon C. Ramsey, Michael Amitin | Print/Sales: Square Medium | www.squaremedium.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 16:45 LV1 Sat 28-1 20:00 CI3 Mon 30-1 09:15 CI1 Sat 4-2 19:15 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 16:30 CI3

By the Niagara Falls on the Canadian border, theres an encounter between twenty-somethings Victor and Agathe: two lost souls who fall for each other. The Parisienne Agathe, adopted and bogged down in a complex relationship with her therapist, is on holiday on her own. Victor is coping with a family drama. Their problems do not get in the way of a passionate relationship; they make love and philosophise all night long about their love, their difficult pasts and a possible future. But Victors ghosts remain alive. The Whirlpool is an experimental, raw film project with a small budget and a large dose of fantasy, filmed with small hand-held cameras, including an iPhone. The production originated in e-mails between director Alvin Case and the French actress Agathe Feoux. Their correspondence provided ideas for the storyline, the locations and possible themes. During the shooting, that raw material developed into a kaleidoscopic, playful story helped by acting, emotion and improvisation.

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Padang besar
i Carried You home Tongpong Chantarangkul

eurOPeAN PreMiere

Thailand, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 113 min, Thai


Prod: Thacksakorn Pradubpongsa | Prod Comp: Triton co., ltd. | Sc: Pramett Chankrasae, Piyakara Bootprasert, Tongpong Chantarangkul | Cam: Pramett Chankrasae | Ed: Adam Hussey | Prod Des: Phairot Siriwath | Sound Des: Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr | Music: Buddhist Holiday | With: Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Akumsiri Suwannasuk, Torpong Kul-on | Print/Sales: Triton co., ltd. | www.icarriedyouhome.tumblr.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 19:15 PA3 Sun 29-1 09:30 PA7 Mon 30-1 22:30 DJZ Sat 4-2 16:45 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 09:45 DWBZ

The death of their mother forces two sisters alienated from each other to make a two-day journey together. They leave in an ambulance from Bangkok to go to the birthplace of their mother in rural Thailand. One of the sisters had moved to Singapore to stay out of the way, the other armed herself with indifference. Seated in the back of the ambulance, beside the coffin with the dead body, they look back on what they shared, but also what drove them apart. Tongpong Chantarangkuls melancholy story about guilt and forgiveness gives space for the silence between two women who have to learn to speak again after years of non-communication. It becomes clear that they did not separate without reason and they have to learn to look that past in the eye. Between them is the eternally silent mother. In the context of her funeral, Chantarangkul gives this road movie the character of a ritual a ceremonial cleansing after which the women may be able to step over the shadows from the past.

Lestate di giacomo
Summer of giacomo Alessandro Comodin

Italy/France/Belgium, 2011 | colour, DCP, 78 min, Italian


Prod: Paolo Benzi, Valrianne Bou, Marie Ghin | Prod Comp: Faber Film, Les Films Nus, Les Films dIci | Sc: Alessandro Comodin | Cam: Tristan Bordmann, Alessandro Comodin | Ed: Joao Nicolau, Alessandro Comodin | Sound Des: Julien Courroye, Florian Namias | With: Giacomo Zulian, Stefania Comodin, Barbara Colombo | Print/ Sales: Faber Film | www.faberfilm.it Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 15:45 PA5 Sat 28-1 09:30 CI5 Sun 29-1 22:30 CI7 Fri 3-2 20:00 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 11:30 PA5

After a long opening scene in which 19-year-old Giacomo plays a stormy drum solo while the camera focuses on his hearing aid, the hard-of-hearing boy sets off on a languid summer afternoon with his childhood girlfriend Stefi through the woods to a remote river. There the two swim and sunbathe, enjoy picnic sandwiches, chatter away mindlessly, listen to music and throw clay at each other in the water. During large parts of the minimalist, delicate, occasionally sultry Summer of Giacomo, the camera moves not a millimetre off Giacomo and Stefi the viewer can almost count the spots on his back and the soft tears in her neck. The wonderful, nonprofessional actors Giacomo Zulian and Stefania Comodin apparently have no trouble holding the viewers attention and slowly the relationship between the two of them becomes clearer. At last years Locarno Festival, novice director Alessandro Comodin won an award in the category Cineasti del Presenti (Filmmakers of the Present).

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Now, Forager: A Film About Love & Fungi


Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin
A couple lives off picking wild mushrooms. They get up before dawn, set off into the woods and sell their harvest to restaurants in New York. He is a monomaniac expert, she is more practical. Its a hard and insecure existence, and thats why they decide to take a job cooking at a trendy restaurant. Cortlund and Halperin juxtapose the fictional story about the growing distance between the two lovers with pictures of the seasons passing and beautiful close-ups of mushrooms in the wild from the deadly poisonous yet beautiful toadstool known as the Destroying Angel (amanita verna) to the bizarre looking Bears Tooth (hericium erinaceous) and the delicious Porcino (boletus edulis). The preparation of the food is also portrayed accurately. Now, Forager provides a counterbalance to the often romantic picture of cooking and eating in films with a culinary bent and meshes perfectly with todays Slow-Food movement.

WOrLD PreMiere

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 93 min, English


Prod: Julia Halperin, Kit Bland | Prod Comp: Now Forager, LLC, Small Drama | Sc: Jason Cortlund | Cam: Jonathan Nastasi | Ed: Julia Halperin | Prod Des: Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin | Sound Des: Jeremy Fleishman | Music: Chris Brokaw | With: Jason Cortlund, Tiffany Esteb, Gabrielle Maisels, Almex Lee | Print/Sales: New Europe Film Sales | www.nowforager.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 15:30 PA2 Sat 28-1 09:15 CI1 Sun 29-1 20:15 CI4 Fri 3-2 14:15 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 15:45 CI3

hail
Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Australia, 2011 | colour, DCP, 104 min, English


Prod: Michael Cody | Prod Comp: Flood Projects Pty Ltd | Sc: Amiel Courtin-Wilson, based on the stories of Daniel P. Jones | Cam: Germain McMicking | Ed: Peter Sciberras | Prod Des: Zohie Castellano | Sound Des: Robert Mackenzie | Music: Steve Benwell | With: Daniel P. Jones, Leanne Letch, Dario Ettia | Print/Sales: LevelK Aps | www.hailmovie.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 21:45 LV1 Mon 30-1 22:30 PA4 Wed 1-2 11:45 CI1 Sat 4-2 17:00 CI1

According to Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Hail is ninety percent based on the stories by the former prisoner Daniel P. Jones. They are memories of his own violent past; or anecdotes about friends, acquaintances and cellmates. Courtin-Wilson met Jones on the day he was released from prison and was immediately gripped by his fierceness and presence, which is also the focus in the alternately heartless and intensely tender Hail. The other ten percent of the screenplay is the adhesive for the story and focuses on the relationship between Daniel (Danny) and Leanne, strikingly candidly played by Joness own wife. Fresh from jail, Danny does what he can to build up a normal life, but the violence inside him has to come out sooner or later. Courtin-Wilson mixes the raw-realistic scenes of their lives with poetic and enigmatic intermezzos, accompanied by an alienating, eclectic soundtrack.

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ensayo final para utopia


Dress rehearsal for utopia Andrs Duque Experimental documentary maker Andrs Duque visits Mozambique, looking for old footage that had been made there. But strange premonitions make him sad. When it becomes apparent that his old father is seriously ill, he returns to his homeland of Venezuela straight away. The film he had been working on grows into a personal collage in which he gives his feelings a place alongside the politically tinted images he found in Mozambique or filmed himself. In this way, Dress Rehearsal for Utopia turns into a diary cum experimental travelogue cum political statement, in the tradition of earlier works such as Color Runaway Dog, which was screened last year in Rotterdam. After an intimate start and a cultural trip to Mozambique, Duque returns home, where he has to face the fact that he cant change anything about the finiteness of life. The musical soundtrack is sometimes interrupted for scenes by a gentle rustling noise that links the different images, their origins and significance together.

WOrLD PreMiere

Spain, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 75 min, Portuguese


Prod: Andrs Duque | Sc: Andrs Duque | Cam: Andrs Duque | Ed: Andrs Duque | Print/ Sales: Andrs Duque | www.andresduque.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 18:15 PA6 Fri 27-1 10:00 CI6 Sat 28-1 22:30 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 09:30 PA5

Nuit #1
Night #1 Anne mond

Canada, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 91 min, French


Prod: Nancy Grant, Sylvain Corbeil | Prod Comp: Metafilms inc. | Sc: Anne mond | Cam: Mathieu Laverdire | Ed: Mathieu BouchardMalo | Prod Des: ric Barbeau | Sound Des: Martyne Morin, Simon Gervais, Luc Boudrias | With: Catherine De Lan, Dimitri Storoge | Print/ Sales: Wide Management Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 22:302 PA4 Thu 2-2 21:452 SGZ Fri 3-2 15:30 PA7 Sat 4-2 22:00 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 17:00 CI2

In a messy Canadian apartment, a man and a woman spend the night together. The very realistically filmed one-night stand ends up with two confessions, in which both judge their own failings sharply and honestly. Everything is set within four walls; the small room is transformed into a kind of confessional space, from which the debutante director Anne mond manages to obtain maximum effect. They are in their early thirties and both feel lost. Nikolai regards himself as a failed romantic idealist, someone who plunges into literary classics but never reaches the last page. His cynical conclusion: Modern life makes me sick. Were better off alone. The mysterious, beautiful Clara leads a double life: during the day she teaches at primary school and in the evening she seeks radical outlets for her uprooted feelings. Just as in her short films, in this chamber play mond investigates the loneliness that cant be combated with sex and not even with love. Individualism largely evokes despair in her work.

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Kong Curling
King Curling Ole Endresen
Just as Kingpin put tenpin bowling on the map, this mild satirical comedy does the same with curling. This bowling on ice is very popular in Norway and the same can be said of the protagonist and co-writer Atle Antonson, who acquired a great deal of fame in the hilarious TV series by the director Ole Endresen. Antonson plays Truls Paulsen, a wellto-do curling star. Diagnosed with an obsessive-compulsive disorder, he has to stop taking part in competitions. But then he hears that his coach Gordon is dying and decides to fight back. Truls leaves his wife, stops taking medicines and brings together his old teammates. When they succeed in winning the national championships, Gordon is able to afford his expensive lung transplant operation. Endresen set his anti-hero film against a backdrop of sets from the 1970s and 1980s, supported by a similarly dated soundtrack. The running gags, which ridicule the winners mentality, work thanks to the perfect timing of the actors.

Norway, 2011 | colour, DCP, 75 min, Norwegian


Prod: Hakon vers | Prod Comp: 4 1/2 | Sc: Atle Antonson, Ole Endresen | Cam: Askild Edvardsen | Ed: Per-Erik Eriksen | Prod Des: Merete Bostrm | Sound Des: Baard H. Ingebretsen | Music: Stein Johan Grieg Halvorsen, Eyvind Andreas Skeie | With: Atle Antonson, Linn Skber, Kre Conradi, Jan Slid, Jon igarden | Print/Sales: Films Boutique Public SCREENINGS Wed 25-1 21:00 PA1 Thu 2-2 13:00 PA1 Fri 3-2 16:00 PA1 Sat 4-2 19:30 LUX

A La Cantbrica
to La Cantbrica Ezequiel Erriquez

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Argentina, 2012 | colour, video, 80 min, Spanish


Prod: Guadalupe Gomez Mardaras | Prod Comp: Tres Jirafas Cine | Sc: Ezequiel Erriquez | Cam: Juan Ignacio Garay | Ed: Ezequiel Galli, Ezequiel Erriquez | Prod Des: Guadalupe Gmez Mardars | Sound Des: Hernn Trtora | Music: Pablo Subatin | With: Matias Baez, Camila Zorzoli, Juan Cruz Lemos, Valentin Delega | Print/Sales: Ezequiel Erriquez | www.alacantabrica.blogspot.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:45 CI1 Mon 30-1 15:00 CI5 Tue 31-1 22:45 DJZ Fri 3-2 19:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 09:30 DJZ

They are 12 years old, the four friends from this sensitive debut film set in Buenos Aires in 1997. The enormous economic crisis facing Argentina at that time only plays a role in the background, because director Ezequiel Erriquez specifically chooses the perspective of his young protagonists. We do, for instance, hear that the father of one of them is going abroad, looking for work. But Lola, Choco, Lija and Zota like all 12-year-olds are primarily interested in themselves and each other. Lola has her ballet lessons, Zota helps with the rehearsals for a play, performed by a group of blind actors. One day, the friends decide to go and play at La Cantbrica, a deserted factory that was recently shut. The precise events of that fateful day are left unseen by the 26-year-old director, just as he also only shows fragments of everyday experiences. The film focuses on what the children experience, and after this day their lives will never be the same again.

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A arca do den
edens Ark Marcelo Felix

Portugal/Brazil/Italy, 2011 | colour, video, 80 min, Portuguese


Prod: Isabel Machado | Prod Comp: C.R.I.M. | Sc: Marcelo Felix | Cam: Miguel Amaral | Ed: Marcelo Felix | Sound Des: Ricardo Sequeira | Print/Sales: C.R.I.M. Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 20:15 CI4 Fri 3-2 15:15 PA6 Sat 4-2 15:00 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 18:30 CI3

Patterns of twigs and leaves in this experimental film poem blend seamlessly with the craquel of old, half decayed films. While the voice-over initiates us in a botanical version of the story of Noahs Ark, enchanting images lead us through a world filled with transience. Attempts to protect and describe disappearing plant species are associated with film conservation and the fight against the loss of memories in this first full-length production by the experimental film and documentary maker Marcelo Felix. A mythical traveller links past and future. He thinks he knows the world, but has to conclude that everything keeps slipping away from him. Via picture and plant archives, the laboratories of scientists, old film fragments and the editing tables of restorers, this poetic reflection ends in an inhospitable polar landscape where time seems to have come to a halt. Here, in a futuristic safe, are frozen seeds, numbered and labelled, conserved for eternity.

Les clats (Ma gueule, ma rvolte, mon nom)


the Fragments (My Mouth, My revolt, My Name)

Sylvain George
Sylvain George compiled this gripping, gritty black & white film from images from his earlier documentary Quils reposent en rvolte (Des figures de guerresI) from 2010. In it he shows about three years in the lives of illegal immigrants who have become stranded in the Northern French port of Calais, on their way to England. They are the people without papers, mainly men of North African origin or from the Middle East. They are staying here illegally and spend their time surviving and fleeing the police. In an experimental form, Fragments shows scenes from the everyday lives of these people on the fringes of a Western society in which they are not welcome. Cool registrations of the cluttered, hostile no-mans-land and warlike images of pursuit are juxtaposed with interviews in which several men talk frankly about how they feel. This provides painful stories and insights into the fact that these men are not looking for a better life but are fleeing to stay alive.

France, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 84 min, English/Persian/French


Prod: Sylvain George | Prod Comp: Noir Production | Sc: Sylvain George | Cam: Sylvain George | Ed: Sylvain George | Prod Des: Sylvain George | Sound Des: Sylvain George | Music: Diabolo | With: Valrie Drville | Print/Sales: Noir Production Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 17:30 CI4 Fri 3-2 12:45 PA5 Sat 4-2 09:15 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 15:30 DJZ

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Corta
Felipe Guerrero
In Corta, Felipe Guerrero records the cultivation of sugar cane in the southwest of Colombia. In all its facets. With a fixed camera. A man walks into the frame, changes his clothes and starts hacking cane, seen from behind. After a few minutes, another one takes over from him. It carries on like that, in a tempo and rhythm it demands some surrender that has a very meditative effect. The men sharpen their knives and chop and chop. When theyre finished, enormous trucks drive back and forth and the countryside is set on fire. Guerreros minimalist recording of the largely manual process is also an ode to the craft of film: the filmmaker used seven 16mm rolls of 11 minutes; the rhythm of the slashing knives determines the rhythm of the editing. Between the different, beautifully photographed scenes are sections of black, occasionally we hear traditional music, often only for a couple of seconds, and that helps shape the mood.

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Colombia/Argentina/ France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 69 min, no dialogue


Prod: Felipe Guerrero, Gema Juarez Allen, Antoine Segovia | Prod Comp: mutokino, Gema Films, Atopic | Sc: Felipe Guerrero | Cam: Andrs Pineda | Sound Des: Roberta Ainstein | Music: Iannis Xenakis | With: Dario Aguilar, Manuel Murillo, Orobio Sinisterra | Sales: mutokino | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund | www.mutokino.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 15:15 PA6 Sun 29-1 12:30 CI6 Mon 30-1 19:15 LV1 Fri 3-2 22:15 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 14:00 PA5 Wed 1-2 09:30 PA5

Weekend
Andrew Haigh

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, DCP, 96 min, English


Prod: Tristan Goligher, Claire Mundell | Prod Comp: The Bureau Film Company, Glendale Picture Company, Synchronicity Films | Sc: Andrew Haigh | Cam: Urszula Pontikos | Ed: Andrew Haigh | Prod Des: Sarah Finlay | Sound Des: Tim Barker | Music: James Edward Barker | With: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Laura Freeman, Vauxhall Jermaine | Sales: The Film Collaborative | Distr NL: ABC Cinemien | www.weekend-film.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 19:45 CI1 Sun 29-1 16:15 PA3 Tue 31-1 14:15 CI1 Fri 3-2 19:15 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 11:30 LV6

When Russell wakes up after a wild night and finds himself beside Glen, the first thing Glen does is thrust a tape recorder under his nose. Its for an art project, Glen explains, and will Russell please describe the events of the previous evening from his own perspective. This is the start of a weekend that is basically one long conversation between the two of them, because they are both surprised to note that the attraction between them extends longer than that one night. Weekend is a British version of the mumblecore genre, and a variation on Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean), but then with a contemporary, liberal sexual morality. Andrew Haigh does not shy away from the eroticism of the relationship between the two men, and the way they handle it is a recurrent topic of conversation. But the dreamily filmed Weekend is primarily about questions that are familiar to everyone. Are you yourself when you meet a new lover? Or are you who you want to be? And how much of yourself do you reveal?

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hello, Shu Xian Sheng!


hello, Mr. tree! Han Jie
Rapid urbanisation in China, seen through slightly absurdist spectacles. A mining company takes over a dusty village in the Chinese hinterland and the inhabitants are sent to the settlement New Sun City that still has to be built. At first the pressure is gentle. The sleepy and rather unworldly Mr Shu the Chinese word for tree doesnt seem to notice any of it. He just tries to carry on his life with the aid of several old friends, and he wants to win the love of the deaf-mute Xiao Mei. Han Jie based his film on what he has seen happen in recent years in the villages in the Chinese hinterland that he visited: the working population moves to the big cities and thanks to the large-scale exploitation of the land, the areas left behind are increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. His film puts these developments together into a narrative filled with mild humour and allegorical layers.

China, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 88 min, Mandarin


Prod: Jia Zhang-ke | Prod Comp: Xstream Pictures | Sc: Han Jie | Cam: Lai Yiu-fai | Ed: Matthieu Laclau, Baek Seung-Hoon | Prod Des: Liu Qiang | Sound Des: Zhang Yang | Music: Lim Giong | With: Wang Baoqiang, Tan Zhuo, He Jie, Li Jingyi, Wang Dazhi, Wang Yabin | Print/Sales: United Star Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 20:00 PA4 Thu 2-2 19:30 LUX Fri 3-2 10:30 PA4 Sat 4-2 17:00 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 15:30 CI2

Skoonheid
Beauty Oliver Hermanus

South Africa/France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 99 min, English/Afrikaans


Prod: Didier Costet, Dylan Voogt | Prod Comp: Equation, Moonlighting Films Pty Ltd | Sc: Oliver Hermanus | Cam: Jamie Ramsay | Ed: George Hanmer | Prod Des: J. Franz Lewis | Sound Des: Ian Arrow | Music: Ben Ludik | With: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Albert Maritz, Roeline Daneel, Sue Diepeveen | Sales: MK2 | Distr NL: ABC Cinemien Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 21:30 PA7 d.s./f.s. Fri 27-1 16:15 PA3 d.s./f.s. Thu 2-2 22:30 DJZ d.s./f.s. Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 17:45 DWBZ e.s.

Franois van Heerden has everything under control. The forty-something runs a successful timber store in Bloemfontein. He has a beautiful house, a sweet wife, successful children in other words he has all the status a conservative Afrikaner could want. Occasionally he drives to a remote farm and stays away for the night, but no one needs to know what really goes on there. When he meets 23-year-old Christian at his daughters wedding, the foundations under his respectable life turn out to be less than stable. The attractive apparition he sees in Christian wont let Franois go. With Beauty, the young South African director Oliver Hermanus proves that his powerful debut Shirley Adams (2009) was not a one-hit wonder. His balanced, nerve-wracking second feature is about suppressed desires, ingrained thoughts and the strange leaps people make when their convictions are set adrift. Beauty was the first film spoken in Afrikaans to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

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he Was a giant with Brown eyes


Eileen Hofer
Eileen Hofers personal, independentlymade feature debut has no professional actors, one or two takes for each scene and a budget of 20,000 Euros. Hofer could not and would not choose between fiction and documentary, so did not get funding via the traditional channels. Born and bred in Switzerland with Turkish roots, the director tells a gripping coming-of-age story about life between two cultures. She follows her stepsister Sabina (17), who came with her mother from Azerbaijan to Switzerland. Her older sister Narmina stayed behind with their father in Bacu. Five years later, Sabina returns to Bacu for a summer holiday. She secretly intends to stay with her beloved relatives. However, her father has marriage plans, again, while Narminas boyfriend has been called up for military service. And has Sabina in the meantime not become too alienated from her roots? The title refers to a dream of every child: that his or her father is a hero. Sabina has to learn to deflate that myth.

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Switzerland/Azerbaijan, 2012 | colour, DCP, 85 min, Azerbaijani/Russian


Prod: Eileen Hofer | Prod Comp: 5 to Five Team Production | Sc: Eileen Hofer | Cam: Javier Gesto | Ed: Andres Enis, Valentin Rotelli | Prod Des: Eileen Hofer | Sound Des: Ivan Castineras | Music: Julien Painot, Ladislav Agabekov | With: Sabina Agamaliyeva, Narmina Agamaliyeva, Namik Agamaliyev, Vagif Agamaliyev | Print/Sales: 5 to Five Team Production | www.eileenhofer.ch Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 15:45 PA5 Wed 1-2 13:15 PA3 Thu 2-2 12:302 CI6 Sat 4-2 19:302 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 12:00 PA5

Amma Lo-fi
grandma Lo-fi: the Basement tapes of Sigrdur Nelsdttir

Orri Jnsson, Kristn Bjrk Kristjnsdttir, Ingibjrg Birgisdttir


Charming documentary, mostly shot on nostalgic Super-8, about the grand old lady of Icelandic music, Sigrdur Nelsdttir. She released her first album in 2001 at the age of 71 and became a cult phenomenon. She had made music all her life but never recorded any of it. When she finally started doing so on a cassette recorder in her kitchen, playing keyboard and any household appliances that made weird sounds, she couldnt stop. Since then, she has recorded over 600 homemade songs and made 59 (!) albums. Nelsdttir was quickly noticed in the independent music scene in Iceland, with artists like Bjrk and members of Sigur Rs and Mm praising her music in interviews. In 2003, Slowblow used two of her tracks on their soundtrack for the film Ni Albni, which screened in the Tiger Competition. The Danish/Icelandic lo-fi grandmothers life story, which is just as rich in peculiarities and unforeseen coincidences as her music, is unveiled in animations, old photographs and her own words.

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Iceland/Denmark, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 62 min, Danish/Icelandic


Prod: Smundur Nordfjord, Louise Hjgaard Johansen | Prod Comp: Republik Productions, Sunn Productions | Sc: Kristn Bjrk Kristjnsdttir, Orri Jnsson | Cam: Kristn Bjrk Kristjnsdttir, Orri Jnsson, Magns Helgason | Ed: Ingibjrg Birgisdttir, Orri Jnsson | Music: Sigrdur Nelsdttir | Animations: Ingibjrg Birgisdttir | Print: Icelandic Film Centre | Sales: Sunn Productions Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 21:152 PA6 Sat 28-1 11:45 SGZ Sun 29-1 09:452 PA5 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 18:30 CI3

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Akataka

that Small Piece JOSEph S KEN


The Ugandan director Joseph Kenneth Ssebaggala, alias JOSEph S KEN, once heard from a former witch doctor how this man was highly respected in society and, like a god, was asked to solve all problems. Ssebaggalas second no-budget film That Small Piece is based on a true story from 1992, when a quarrel about a piece of land acquired illegally was solved with witchcraft. The heart of the drama is a story reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet about two lovers who are driven apart by a conflict about a plot of land. The young man goes mad after being subjected to witchcraft and the quarrel gets out of hand. Witchcraft is still widely used in Uganda to solve conflicts. With his simply told and locally produced film, shot around the town of Nsangi in the Wakiso District, Ssebaggala wants to show that many lives could be spared if people were to approach official organisations instead of the miracle man.

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Uganda, 2011 | colour, video, 90 min, English


Prod: JOSEph S KEN | Prod Comp: Zenken Films Uganda Limited | Sc: Joseph Kenneth Ssebaggala | Cam: Peter Muhumuza | Ed: Joseph Kenneth Ssebaggala | Prod Des: Betty Nabatesa | Sound Des: Kasozi Kaz | Music: Kasozi Kaz | With: Peter Bwanika, Simon Peter Kivumbi, Pricilla Namutebi, Rogers Masaba, Harriet Namusoke | Print/Sales: Zenken Films Uganda Limited | www. youtube.com/zenkenfilms Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 15:30 PA6 Sat 28-1 12:30 CI6 Sun 29-1 20:00 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 11:00 CI5

Sur la planche
On the edge Lela Kilani

Morocco/France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 106 min, French


Prod: Charlotte Vincent, Lela Kilani | Prod Comp: Aurora Films, Soccochico Films | Sc: Lela Kilani | Cam: Eric Devin | Ed: Tina Baz | Prod Des: Yann Dury | Music: Wilfried Blanchard | With: Soufia Issami, Mouna Bahmad, Nouzha Akel, Sara Bitioui | Print/Sales: Fortissimo Films Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:00 PA1 Mon 30-1 20:00 DJZ Wed 1-2 21:45 LV1 Sat 4-2 09:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 16:45 CI2 Thu 2-2 10:00 PA4

After making a documentary about immigrants who risk the crossing from Tangier to Europe, the breathtaking feature debut of Lela Kilani is also about the bitter-sweet dream of globalisation. The plank of the title is a springboard, diving board and pirate plank all at once; a springboard to a richer, more materialistic system but one that is accompanied by great danger to life. Badia and Imane are girlfriends who peel prawns during the day in the factory and at night rob men under false pretences. In the streets, they get to know Asma and Nadal, who have jobs in the Free Zone, the European- oriented part of the city. It is primarily Badia, spiritedly played by Soufia Issami, who sees that as an opportunity to gain more wealth. She will have to raise her criminal activities to a riskier level. Kilani provides a raw and authentic glimpse of the attempts of poor workers/ petty thieves to get a better life. As moody as dynamic film noir, in which the shots of Tangier by night contrast with the broad panoramas by daylight.

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the Pettifogger
Lewis Klahr

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 65 min, English


Prod: Lewis Klahr | Sc: Lewis Klahr | Cam: Lewis Klahr | Ed: Lewis Klahr | Sound Des: Lewis Klahr, Nathan Ruyle | Print/Sales: Lewis Klahr Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 15:002 CI4 Fri 3-2 16:302 PA4 Sat 4-2 11:15 LV1

In the words of Lewis Klahr himself, his first full-length film The Pettifogger is an abstract crime film, a sensorial exploration of the virulence of unfettered capitalism. The life of the pettifogger, a petty criminal in the early 1960s, is collapsing thanks to his greed, his calculating nature and his weakness for playing cards for money. The further he descends, the more vague and enigmatic the story becomes. The form is the same as Klahr developed in recent decades in his renowned short films: moving collages of found images, set against an equally eclectically compiled soundtrack. The variation of materials used is enormous: not only comic strips in the style of Lichtenstein from which the protagonist comes, but also playing cards, poker markers and battered original photos. The many image repetitions, flashing lights and stunning shots complete the hypnotic effect.

Momoiro sorawo
About the Pink Sky Kobayashi Keiichi

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Japan, 2011 | b&w, video, 113 min, Japanese


Prod: Hiroshi Harada | Prod Comp: Michaelgion Inc. | Sc: Kobayashi Keiichi | Cam: Kobayashi Keiichi | Ed: Kobayashi Keiichi | Prod Des: Michaelgion | Sound Des: Hidaka Narishige | With: Ikeda Ai, Koshino Ena, Fujiwara Reiko, Takayama Tsubasa,Togetsuan Hakusyu | Print: Michaelgion Inc. | Sales: Free Stone Productions Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 15:30 PA2 Wed 1-2 09:152 CI1 Thu 2-2 16:302 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 17:00 DJZ

Izumi is a teenage girl who one day finds a wallet with 300,000 yen in it. She lends some of the money to someone in financial need but, urged on by her two girlfriends Hasumi and Kaoru (encounters and conversations between the three of them form a significant part of the film) she decides to give the lost property back to its owner Koki Sato, the son of a rich, corrupt politician. He decides however that he doesnt want the money back, but in exchange, the three girls have to make a newspaper which is only filled with good news for a sick friend. During the production process, we look mainly through the surprised eyes of the cheerful and original-minded Izumi a kind of Japanese Juno at the world around her and we also see her growing up. This subtle comedy, which also touches on difficult questions such as homosexuality, death and economic crisis, is stylishly shot in black-andwhite. Virtually all the roles are played by novice or non-professional actors.

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totem
Jessica Krummacher

Germany, 2011 | colour, DCP, 86 min, German


Prod: Martin Blankemeyer, Philipp Budweg, Jessica Krummacher | Prod Comp: Arepo Media GmbH, Lieblingsfilm GmbH, kLAPPbOXfILME | Sc: Jessica Krummacher | Cam: Bjrn Siepmann | Ed: Jessica Krummacher, Heike Parplies | Sound Des: Daniel Schkermann | Music: Marina Frenk | With: Marina Frenk, Natja Brunckhorst, Benno Ifland, Alissa Wilms, Cedric Koch, Fritz Fenne, Dominik Buch | Print/Sales: Arepo Media GmbH | www.arepomedia.de/totem Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 19:15 LV1 Fri 27-1 13:15 PA3 Sat 28-1 15:00 CI6 Mon 30-1 22:30 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 16:00 PA5

The Bauer family takes on a household help. This young woman, Fiona, is thrown into the middle of the family of five with only a few basic instructions. The inhabitants lead their own lives; they do not take much notice of each other and they dont care how the outside world looks at them. Fiona prepares for each new day without asking questions and without commenting. Uneasy meals, tragic loneliness and unsuitable behaviour do not seem to put her off balance. No one in the house notices that Fiona herself is wrestling with issues. Totem is set in the Ruhr district, but time, place and context are not particularly relevant in this disturbing, soberly filmed drama. The behaviour, the choices and everyday routines of the protagonists are not revealed to Fiona nor to the viewers. Completely normal moments are juxtaposed with absurdist scenes; the tame rabbits in the garden are just as matter-of-fact as the cherished baby dolls in the nursery.

ex Press
Jet Leyco

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Philippines, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 90 min, Filipino


Prod: Jet Leyco | Prod Comp: Kerberus Kinorama Klassiks, Barong Tagalog Inc. | Sc: Jet Leyco | Cam: Jet Leyco | Ed: Jet Leyco | Prod Des: Jet Leyco | Sound Des: Jet Leyco | Music: Jet Leyco | With: Dan Jarden De Guzman, Herald Gregory Chavez, Don Fulgado, Nestor Depositar | Print/ Sales: Kerberus Kinorama Klassiks Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 20:15 CI4 Sun 29-1 10:00 CI6 Mon 30-1 22:30 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 09:30 CI3

Ever since the first use of the film camera by the French Lumire Brothers, the train has been a favourite subject as a metaphor for progress, but also as a depiction of standing still, as at the beginning of Jet Leycos Ex Press. The young Filipino director started filming without a screenplay and juxtaposed documentary footage of the train as it travels in fits and starts through the jungle with fragments of thoughts and dreams. Because the passing trains are regularly pelted with rubbish and stones by inhabitants of the shanties along the railway line, the railway company started up its own police force. One of the officers, the violent Colonel Paliparan, abruptly resigned several years ago for mysterious reasons. His two sons try to find out why. With a mixture of traditional and guerilla filmmaking, Leyco manages to create an idiosyncratic, sometimes even musical, atmosphere from the details and rhythms of apparently everyday scenes around the Filipino train as it thunders on.

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Malaventura
Michel Lipkes

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Mexico, 2011 | colour, video, 73 min, Spanish


Prod: Michel Lipkes, Milko Luis Coronel | Prod Comp: Axolote Cine | Sc: Fernando del Razo, Michel Lipkes | Cam: Gerardo Barroso Alcal | Ed: Michel Lipkes, Len Felipe Gonzlez | Prod Des: Nohemi Gonzalez | Sound Des: Alejandro de Icaza, Jose Miguel Enriquez | Music: Galo Durn | With: Isaac Lopez, Jos Alfredo Martnez, Alejandra Resendis, Manuel Valderama, Graciela Castillo | Print/Sales: RAMONDAParis Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 17:30 CI6 Sun 29-1 10:00 CI4 Tue 31-1 19:15 LV1 Fri 3-2 21:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 09:30 LV5

The opening scene lasts for more than nine minutes and sets the tone for Malaventura. While it slowly, very slowly gets lighter and the slightly threatening music crawls under your skin, an old man wakes up and performs his morning ritual. We follow him in a series of lengthy shots in one day, his last day, shuffling through the streets of Mexico City. There is a series of encounters, some grim and puzzling, some commonplace or absurdist. The old man roams through his past while everyday life slips by him. The final credits state that Malaventura was shot in Chamagoscope. It is a joke at the expense of conservative Mexican critics who tend to write off the films of the younger generation of directors one of whom is Lipkes as chamago cinema, in other words grimy film. With his stately, considered images, Lipkes however demonstrates that grimy does not need to be an insult.

Shapito-shou
Chapiteau-show Sergey Loban

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Russia, 2011 | colour, DCP, 207 min, Russian


Prod: Ekaterina Gerasicheva, Alexey Ageev, Mikhail Sinev | Prod Comp: Organic Films | Sc: Marina Potapova | Cam: Ivan Mamonov, Yevgeni Tsvetkov | Ed: Sergey Loban | Prod Des: Alena Kudrevich | Music: Zhak Poliakov | With: Alexey Znamenskiy, Pyotr Mamonov, Alexey Podolsky, Vera Strokova, Jim Avignon, Dmitry Bogdan | Print/ Sales: Organic Films | www.sh-sh.ru Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 18:30 PA2 Tue 31-1 14:15 PA1 Wed 1-2 14:15 CI1 Sat 4-2 19:30 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 2-2 09:30 CI3

A mysterious circus tent in a seaside resort on the Black Sea forms the start and end-all for bizarre stories filled with light-hearted absurdity. A teenage girl lures her sombre Internet friend very reluctantly into the real world. The main threats in this coastal resort come from fanatical boy scouts, deaf kids and gays. A famous actor yearns for a reunion with his son, and in the last part we follow an ambitious producer. The protagonists want love, friendship, respect and cooperation (the titles of the four parts), but get bogged down in aimless peregrinations that mock their ambitions. For outsiders, their personal tragedies are only comic and banal. Cheerful despair, surrealist winks and minimalist musical numbers set the tone in a play that is refreshingly different from the average Russian art film. Sergej Loban acquired a cult reputation in Moscow underground culture and won the Russian critics prize for his sciencefiction film Dust (2005).

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girimunho
Swirl Helvcio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina

Brazil/Germany/Spain, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 90 min, Portuguese


Prod: Luana Melgao, Paulo Roberto de Carvalho, Sara Silveira, Luis Miarro, Gdula Meinzolt | Prod Comp: TEIA Filmes, Dezenove Som e Imagens, Eddie Saeta SA, Autentika Films | Sc: Felipe Bragana | Cam: Ivo Lopes Arajo | Ed: Marina Meliande | Prod Des: Felipe Duarte | Sound Des/Music: O Grivo | With: Maria Sebastiana Martins lvaro, Maria da Conceio Gomes de Moura | Sales: Urban Distribution International | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 17:002 PA4 Wed 1-2 16:002 CI5 Fri 3-2 13:302 SGZ Sat 4-2 10:15 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 12:30 DJZ Thu 2-2 10:00 CI2

Time takes it easy in So Romo, situated in a distant corner of Brazil. The river calmly follows its course, no one gets worked up. The young Branca is thinking about going to study somewhere else, but for now an important task keeps her at home: caring for her grandmother, who could use some company after her husband died. Bast is a vivacious 81-year-old, just like her old friend Maria, who cheers up every local feast with her music and singing. The neighbours find a lot of support from each other, but not even Maria has any answer to the apparitions that haunt Bast. Swirl includes several beautifully exciting music scenes, but excels primarily in its calm satisfaction. The filmmakers worked on their meticulous feature debut for six years. Their aim was realism, even though in So Romo that is coupled with a touch of magic. The actors are all amateurs who largely play themselves; their lives and memories are incorporated into this loving drama in which generation gaps fade and old and modern Brazil come together seamlessly.

rnia
Roberta Marques

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Brazil, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 85 min, Portuguese


Prod: Roberta Marques | Prod Comp: Latitude Sul | Sc: Luisa Marques, Roberta Marques | Cam: Helosa Passos | Ed: Bernardo Barcellos, Rob Das, Roberta Marques, Luisa Marques | Prod Des: Isabela Veras | Sound Des: Bernardo Uzeda | Music: Bernardo Uzeda | With: Graziela Felix, Mariana Lima, Nataly Rocha, Rob Das, Demick Lopes | Print: Jurubeba Produes | Sales: RAMONDAParis | www.raniamovie.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:45 SGZ Mon 30-1 16:002 PA1 Tue 31-1 20:00 DJZ Sat 4-2 09:302 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 18:00 DWBZ

An obsession with dance runs through the oeuvre of Roberta Marques. Its an obsession with which she infected the protagonist in her first feature film. Rnia (16) dreams of a successful career as a dancer. Thats not a dream easy to realise, because Rnia lives in the slums of the northern Brazilian town of Fortaleza and has to work hard to survive. Alongside her school career, she helps her mother with the housekeeping and has a part-time job in a beach bar. When she meets the choreographer Estela, who selects her for an international dance company, her life goes into top gear. Can Rnia realise her plans and maybe even earn her living dancing? Instead of chosing a raw, social-realistic style that would be an obvious choice in a teenage drama taking such a close look at life, Marques made the daring decision to create a dreamy and tranquil mood. Not such an obvious choice when seen in the context of Rnias life, but its closer to the ambitions and dreams she so passionately yearns for.

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Nana
Valrie Massadian
Nana, awarded the prize for best debut at the Locarno Film Festival, sees the world from the standpoint of an independent four-year-old girl in the French countryside. When she comes home one day, she finds the house empty. There is no explanation for the disappearance of her mother, so the viewer has no idea about the adult world just like the little girl, who goes her own way. She manages very well, thank you. She dresses herself, heads into the woods, jumps over a stream, eats a sandwich. The dandelions and the moss are like a great adventure for her, nor does she shut her eyes at the sight of a dead hare or a slaughtered pig. Nana exchanges an explicit narrative line for a relaxed look at the primeval instincts of a child who is allowed to be herself, without adults to project their ideas on her. The refined lighting and clever compositions betray Massadians background as a photographer; she worked with Nan Goldin for a long time.

France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 68 min, French


Prod: Sophie Erbs | Prod Comp: Gaijin | Sc: Valrie Massadian | Cam: Lo Hinstin, Valrie Massadian | Ed: Dominique Auvray, Valrie Massadian | Sound Des: Olivier Dandr, Jonathan Laurent | With: Kelyna Lecomte, Marie Delmas, Alain Sabras | Print/Sales: Gaijin | www.gaijin.fr/GAIJIN/NANA.html Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:152 PA3 Mon 30-1 23:002 CI5 Tue 31-1 16:45 SGZ Wed 1-2 14:452 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 12:00 CI2

the great Northwest


Matt McCormick

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USA, 2012 | colour, video, 70 min, English


Prod: Matt McCormick | Sc: Matt McCormick | Cam: Matt McCormick | Ed: Matt McCormick | Sound Des: Matt McCormick | Print/Sales: Matt McCormick | www.rodeofilmco.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 18:30 PA2 Sun 29-1 12:00 CI5 Tue 31-1 11:15 LV1 Fri 3-2 18:15 PA6 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 09:30 DJZ

In a junk shop, documentary maker Matt McCormick bought a scrapbook, in perfect condition, of a road trip made by four ladies in 1958 across several American states. Filled with photographs, invoices, menus and admission tickets to all kinds of sites to be seen. McCormick decided in 2010 to take exactly the same route, more than 3200 miles long, with his camera to record how America had changed or hadnt. With a sharp eye for interesting frames, he provides a beautiful, experimental scrapbook film filled with wide landscapes in which people seem not to have intervened. But also with images of mining towns now gone to ruin which were still flourishing in 1958. A striking number of motels and bars seem hardly to have changed since then. The comparisons between old picture postcards and new shots are fantastic. McCormick provides no commentary, at most short screen texts about the course of local history or about differences between the routes then and now.

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Shame
Steve McQueen

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, DCP, 99 min, English


Prod: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman | Prod Comp: See-Saw Films | Sc: Abi Morgan, Steve McQueen | Cam: Sean Bobbitt | Ed: Joe Walker | Prod Des: Judy Becker | Sound Des: Glenn Freemantle | Music: Harry Escott | With: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie | Sales: HanWay Films | Distr NL: Cinart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 22:15 PA3 Wed 1-2 19:302 LUX Thu 2-2 18:30 PA2 Fri 3-2 20:00 DJZ Sat 4-2 18:30 PA7

The bare prison cell of IRA man Bobby Sands in Hunger has been exchanged in Steve McQueens second feature for the equally suffocating space in the head of New Yorker Brandon Sullivan, again a striking role by Michael Fassbender. Sullivans existence revolves around sex: with whores, on the phone, with colleagues or women he picks up in the clubs of a sterile blue Manhattan, Sullivans personal laboratory. That daily routine of emotionless sex is disrupted when Sullivans younger sister Sissy moves in with him. The shadows of a past that injured both of them slowly intrude. But where Sissy directs her destructive tendencies within and lets the world overwhelm her, Sullivan keeps them at a distance. As in Hunger, McQueen is a man of few words. Shame is as physical and naked as Hunger, equally focussed on textures and sounds that make the space of the cell visible. Ironically, in this case it is the total freedom of unbridled consumption of bodies with which Sullivan creates that prison.

Stillleben
Still Life Sebastian Meise

Austria, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 77 min, German


Prod: Oliver Neumann | Prod Comp: FreibeuterFilm | Sc: Thomas Reider, Sebastian Meise | Cam: Gerald Kerkletz | Ed: Julia Drack | Prod Des: Katharina Wppermann, Anja Ronacher | Sound Des: Stefan Rosensprung | Music: Soap&Skin | With: Fritz Hrtenhuber, Christoph Luser, Daniela Golpashin, Roswitha Soukup, Anja Plaschg | Print/Sales: FreibeuterFilm | www.stillleben-derfilm.at Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 21:30 PA2 Fri 27-1 09:30 PA7 Tue 31-1 10:30 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 15:00 CI2

Bernhard is horrified to discover that his father visits a prostitute whom he calls Lydia, even though her name is really something else. Lydia is the name of his daughter, Bernhards sister. This worrying fact causes a series of events and revelations that make this apparently stable family burst apart. The occasionally shocking issues in Sebastian Meises feature debut are worked out subtly, helped by the plausible reactions of all the relatives. For 24 hours, we follow the protagonists father, mother and the adult son and daughter from the moment when the dear son pulls the pin out of the news grenade. With minimal revelations and glimpses behind the veil around this apparently normal family, Meise maintains the tension in this nervewracking drama. Still Life looks at the moral questions surrounding guilt, shame and how to come to terms with them. Even the smallest movements, the most usual situations and silences are filled with significance.

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Louise Wimmer
Cyril Mennegun

France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 80 min, French


Prod: Bruno Nahon | Prod Comp: Zadig Productions | Sc: Cyril Mennegun | Cam: Thomas Letellier | Ed: Valrie Brgaint | Sound Des: Alexandre Widmer | Music: Pascal Mayer, Laurent Petitgrand | With: Corinne Masiero, Jrme Kircher, Anne Benoit, Marie Kremer, Jean-Marc Roulot | Print/Sales: Films Distribution Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:152 PA3 Mon 30-1 17:152 CI7 Tue 31-1 14:152 SGZ Fri 3-2 22:30 DJZ Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 13:30 CI2

After getting divorced, Louise Wimmer found herself on the street. She earns a pittance as a cleaner, but its not enough to live on: her things are in storage and she is forced to spend the night in her car. Whenever she starts the car, we hear Sinnerman by Nina Simone blaring from the speakers. At first its support in a musical form, but it soon becomes an infuriating reminder of her tragic existence. In this realistic drama, we follow the far-from-talkative Louise for several weeks in which she hopelessly waits for somewhere to live and in the meantime tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life. Her isolation only increases because of her poverty and her shame about it. Wimmer is not a psychiatric patient with an alcohol problem, but a normal, intelligent middle-aged woman who just happened to have some bad luck. Without any unnecessary context or explanation, it becomes clear how easily somebody can sink without those around them realising.

Carnival
Madhuja Mukherjee

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India, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 61 min, no dialogue


Prod: Avik Mukhopadhyay | Prod Comp: Imaginary Line | Sc: Madhuja Mukherjee | Cam: Avik Mukhopadhayay | Ed: Avik Mukhopadhayay | Prod Des: Madhuja Mukherjee | Sound Des: Prabuddha Banerjee | Music: Prabuddha Banerjee | With: Dhritiman Chaterji, Shayan Munshi | Print/Sales: Imaginary Line Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 17:302 CI4 Wed 1-2 17:152 CI7 Thu 2-2 17:152 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 14:00 CI3

Babu returns from abroad to his home city of Kolkata due to the demise of his mother. He gets caught up in a whirl of colours, lights, crowds, music, sacrifices and ritualistic spectacles that evoke hidden emotions within him. He deals with his memories while roaming around and rediscovering his home city. The Hindu autumn festival of Durga Puja has a special meaning for Bengali people, and the film is beautifully suffused with the spirit of this auspicious event. Stopmotion, moving pictures, saturated photography, a very free camera style and an intriguing sound design create the inner emotional space of Babu, who after losing his mother spends most of the time with his old father. Carnival, a world premiere, is Madhuja Mukherjees first feature film. An upcoming Indian talent who has previously done some interesting shorts and video installations.

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Abrir puertas y ventanas


Back to Stay Milagros Mumenthaler After their grandma dies, the sisters Sofia, Marina and Violeta try to pick up their lives again in the house where the old woman had brought them up. They quibble and form alliances, drag boyfriends along and then break up. Sofia suddenly wonders if maybe Marina was adopted; she is so different. And she has blue eyes. Then Violeta has suddenly left Buenos Aires. By plane, with some man or other. Back to Stay is a poetic, light-hearted and atmospheric drama about loss and blood bonds. The camera frequently moves through the old house, past the household effects of grandma and the things stored in the garage that had belonged to the three graces parents. The tempo is languidly slow, the soundtrack (Fran Gayo, Bridget St. John, Linda Perhacs) is beautiful. At the Locarno Festival, this ArgentineSwiss-Dutch coproduction won no less than five awards, including the Golden Leopard for best film, the prize for best actress (Mara Canale) and the FIPRESCI Award from the international film press.

Argentina/Switzerland/ Netherlands, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 98 min, Spanish


Prod: Violeta Bava, David Epiney, Rosa Martnez Riovero, Eugenia Mumenthaler | Prod Comp: Ruda Cine, Alina Film, Waterland Film | Sc: Milagros Mumenthaler | Cam: Martn Fras | Ed: Gion-Reto Killias | Prod Des: Sebastin Orgambide | Sound Des: Henrik Makoff | With: Mara Canale, Martina Juncadella, Ailn Salas, Julin Tello | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: Just Film Distribution Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 20:00 PA1 Sun 29-1 21:30 PA7 Tue 31-1 21:00 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 17:45 CI2 Mon 30-1 20:15 CI2

hiStriAS que s existem quando lembradas


StOrieS Only exist When remembered

Julia Murat
Every morning Madalena makes bread for Antonios old coffee shop. And every day she crosses the railroads where no trains have passed for years, cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, listens to the priests sermon and then shares lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the memory of her dead husband and living in her past, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who comes to the village of Jotuomba where time seems to have stopped and people are stuck in their memories and daily rituals. And why is the cemetery locked? The beautifully photographed debut film of documentary maker Julia Murat is a melancholy homage to Brazils Paraiba Valley, once a flourishing region that prospered thanks to its coffee plantations, now a derelict region full of empty estates and ghost towns. Prize winner at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

Brazil/Argentina/France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 98 min, Portuguese


Prod: Julia Murat, Lucia Murat, Juliette Lepoutre, Marie-Pierre Macia | Prod Comp: Taiga Filmes e Video, MPM Film (Movie Partners in Motion) | Sc: Maria Clara Escobar, Jlia Murat, Felipe Sholl | Cam: Lucio Bonelli | Ed: Marina Meliande | Sound Des: Facundo Giron | Music: Lucas Marcier | With: Lisa Fvero, Sonia Guedes, Ricardo Merkin, Luiz Serra | Sales: MPM Film (Movie Partners in Motion) | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 22:15 PA3 Fri 27-1 22:30 PA4 Sat 28-1 20:00 CI2 Thu 2-2 22:00 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 20:30 DWBZ

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An Oversimplification of her Beauty


Terence Nance
One evening in 2006, the young American filmmaker Terence Nance receives a phone call from the woman he had been trying to build up a relationship with for some time. She cant come. He starts having his doubts. Why did she back out? Open-hearted, sharp and playful, Nance tries in An Oversimplification of Her Beauty to trace all the elements of his feelings about the evening back to their true origins. Fantasies, feelings and memories roll over the screen in the form of documentary footage, live action and a wide range of animation styles. And in addition there are the inevitable questions that the maker must pose: How well does he know himself? Is he not being deceived by his own feelings? For a phenomenon that everybody occasionally experiences, the starting point for An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is surprisingly seldom the subject of films. What goes on in your body as you experience emotions at a certain point? And how sure is that moment really?

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 93 min, English


Prod: Terence Nance, Andrew Corkin, James Bartlett | Prod Comp: Media MVMT | Sc: Terence Nance | Cam: Matthew Bray, Shawn Peters | Ed: Terence Nance | Sound Des: Vincent Wheeler | Music: Terence Etc. | Print/Sales: Media MVMT | www.media.mvmt.com Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 20:15 CI4 Tue 31-1 09:00 LV1 Thu 2-2 12:15 PA6 Sat 4-2 17:00 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 16:15 CI3

Portret v sumerkakh
twilight Portrait Angelina Nikonova

Russia, 2011 | colour, DCP, 105 min, Russian


Prod: Angelina Nikonova, Olga Dihovichnaya, Leonid Ogaryov | Prod Comp: Baraban Films | Sc: Olga Dihovichnaya, Angelina Nikonova | Cam: Eben Bull | Ed: Elena Afanasyeva | Prod Des: Oleg Fedikhin | Sound Des: Andrea Feuser | With: Olga Dihovichnaya, Sergei Borisov, Roman Merinov, Sergey Golyudov, Anna Ageeva | Print/Sales: Rezo | www.rezofilms. com/world-sales/twilight-portrait Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 18:30 PA5 Fri 27-1 22:15 PA3 Thu 2-2 20:00 CI5 Fri 3-2 16:45 LV5

A girlfriend of Marina describes her as a happy woman. And thats how it looks. She is married, has a beautiful apartment, lives comfortably in the middle class and has an interesting job as a social worker. What people dont know is that Marina was recently raped by three police officers. Her character changes and she becomes a strange version of herself. As a person and as a woman she wrestles with existential questions about society. It turns out to be corrupt, rock hard and entirely hostile. In coming to terms with her trauma and rediscovering her identity, she throws herself in front of one of the culprits. Is it revenge, self punishment, or considering her work experience is she looking for the roots of his cruel behaviour? With a minimal budget and primarily non-professional actors, debuting director Angelina Nikonova has made a perhaps controversial yet intriguing and credible social drama, filled with grey images of the surroundings that visually underline the mood and the theme.

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the Last Man on earth Gianni Pacinotti

Lultimo terrestre

Italy, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 96 min, Italian


Prod: Domenico Procacci | Prod Comp: Fandango | Sc: Gianni Pacinotti, based on the comic by Giacomo Monti | Cam: Vladan Radovic | Ed: Clelio Benevento | Prod Des: Alessandro Vannucci | Sound Des: Alessandro Bianchi | Music: Valerio Vigliar | With: Gabriele Spinelli, Anna Bellato, Luca Marinelli, Teco Celio,Stefano Scherini | Print/ Sales: Fandango Portobello Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 16:00 PA1 Sun 29-1 22:15 DJZ Mon 30-1 20:00 CI7 Wed 1-2 19:00 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 20:15 DWBZ

What gifts do alien creatures have that humans dont? They make lifeless surroundings blossom again. They distinguish good from evil. But above all: they bring spiritual liberation. In this Italian science-fiction drama, reminiscent in its dark yet warm mood of modern classic Donnie Darko, a spaceship is about to land on Earth. Fear reigns. Only introverted Luca, a waiter in a depressing bingo hall, remains calm in face of the impending invasion. He leads an alien life himself, withdrawn and solitary. Luca grew up without a mother and has contact only with his father, his macho colleagues and two prostitutes. His relationship with the female sex is difficult, but does he know why? Gianni Pacinotti, who caused furore as a comic-strip artist, based his feature debut on a graphic novel by Giacomo Monti. This can be seen in the colourful sets and the absurd, dry humour of the dialogues. This psychological character study is a subtle mix of cinematographic realism and fantasy.

Low Definition Control Malfunctions #0


Michael Palm
Images dominate our lives: from ultrasounds in the womb that let us look at an unborn baby, via the panopticum of surveillance cameras to predictions of the future based on radar images. By only showing these images, supported by a voiceover, Low Definition Control Malfunctions #0 poses questions about the certainties suggested by this perception. Automated pattern analysis of images in public space will increasingly label everything out of the ordinary as suspicious. Someone who stands still too long to eat a sandwich where other people walk on will be noticed. In this way, public space is becoming a risky place. That grand words about risk prevention and security have turned into political superglue prompted Michael Palm to make this reflection about the consequences of automating our perception. What if people withdraw entirely from the automatic-control industry because they cant process the data fast enough? And what if only the computers are left who will then decide about security and risks?

Austria, 2011 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:2.35, 95 min, German


Prod: Johannes Hammel | Prod Comp: HammelFilm | Sc: Michael Palm | Cam: Michael Palm | Ed: Michael Palm | Sound Des: Michael Palm | Music: Trevor Duncan, Maurice Ravel | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/de/ catalogue/show/1925 Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 17:15 LV2 Fri 27-1 20:30 CI3 Sat 28-1 10:15 PA3 Thu 2-2 20:00 CI3 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 14:30 CI2

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the invader
Nicolas Provost
In the hypnotic opening scene of The Invader, refering to Michelangelo Antonioni and Gustave Courbets painting Lorigine du monde, Belgian model Hannelore Knuts walks naked along a beach when she sees several African refugees struggling to survive as they are washed ashore. What follows is an intense, consistent crossover between social drama, revenge film and Lynch-like trip, in which this earthly paradise turns into a hell for one of the refugees. In a ghostly Brussels, the man starts work illegally on a building site. You nothing here, nothing at all, his crooked boss tells him. The Invader is Flemish video artist and short-filmmaker Nicolas Provosts feature debut. At the Ghent Film Festival it won the Jo Rpke Award for young Flemish Film Talent and the award for best director at Cinma tous crans in Geneva. The camerawork by Frank van den Eeden also deserves praise, as does the starring role by Issaka Sawadogo, who switches convincingly between victim and aggressor.

Belgium, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 95 min, French


Prod: Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart, Antonino Lombardo, Helena Danielsson | Prod Comp: Versus Production, Prime Time, Hepp Film AB | Sc: Nicolas Provost, Giordano Gederlini, Franois Pirot | Cam: Frank van den Eeden | Ed: Nico Leunen | Prod Des: Franoise Joset | Sound Des: Senjan Jansen | Music: Evgueni and Sacha Galperine | With: Issaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, Serge Riaboukine | Sales: BAC Films | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 15:30 PA7 Sun 29-1 22:00 LV3 Mon 30-1 21:30 PA7 Wed 1-2 20:00 DJZ

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two Years at Sea


Ben Rivers

United Kingdom, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:2.35, 88 min, no dialogue


Prod: Ben Rivers | Prod Comp: FLAMIN Productions | Cam: Ben Rivers | Ed: Ben Rivers | Sound Des: Ben Rivers | Print: LUX | Sales: Ben Rivers | www.benrivers.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:30 CI1 Sat 28-1 22:45 CI5 Sun 29-1 09:45 LV5 Sat 4-2 12:00 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 09:45 CI2

The self-supporting Jake Williams lives in the middle of the forests of Scotland. In 2006, Ben Rivers went to see him for his short film This Is My Land; in Rivers first full-length film Two Years at Sea, we see this loner in all seasons, beautifully recorded in black-and-white cinemascope. There are days when Jake saws branches, surrounded by derelict cars and broken equipment. There are days when he builds a raft to float on a loch. At other moments, he focuses on strange projects, such as building a tree hut by hanging his caravan in the treetops. During his daily strolls, he whistles as he walks among the fir trees; Jake doesnt need words any more. In Rivers portraits, intangible phenomena such as shifts in light and darkness are more important than explanations. In 2008, the director won a Tiger Award for Short Film in Rotterdam with Ah, Liberty! (2008). Two Years at Sea won the FIPRESCI Prize in Venice. Rivers latest short film, Sack Barrow, can also be seen this year in Rotterdam.

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Lena
Christophe Van Rompaey

Netherlands, 2011 | colour, DCP, 119 min, Dutch/Polish


Prod: Els Vandevorst | Prod Comp: Isabella Films | Sc: Mieke de Jong | Cam: Menno Westendorp | Ed: Nico Leunen | Prod Des: Wilbert van Dorp | Sound Des: Raf Enckels | Music: The Ballroomquartet | With: Emma Levie, Jeroen Willems, Niels Gomperts, Agata Buzek, Lisa Smit, Rifka Lodeizen | Sales: Isabella Films | Distr NL: Benelux Film Distributors Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 20:00 PA7 Sat 28-1 19:15 SGZ Sun 29-1 18:30 PA2

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The second feature by the Belgian director Christophe Van Rompaey is a Dutch-language production, situated in Rotterdam. The working-class Ghent dialect of Moscow, Belgium (2008) has been exchanged for a pronounced Dutch Metropolitan accent. And the feel-good humour with a dash of tragedy has made way for a serious dramatic tone with a comic note. This is a powerful debut by the actress Emma Levie who plays Lena, a 17-yearold girl wrestling with her chubby body and a Polish mother who keeps belittling her. Her only pleasures are line dancing and casual sex until she meets the popular Daan, who seems genuinely interested in her. Lena is all too eager to move in with him, but isnt Daan hiding something from her? And what about his father, who lives as a hermit? The camera does not lose sight of Lena for a moment in this tender coming-ofage story. Van Rompaey gets right inside the world of the insecure adolescent who is learning to defend herself and discovering what self-respect is.

Matire grise
grey Matter Kivu Ruhorahoza

Rwanda/Australia, 2011 | colour, video, 104 min, French


Prod: Dominic Allen | Prod Comp: Camera Club | Sc: Kivu Ruhorahoza | Cam: Ari Wegner | Ed: Antonio Rui Ribeiro | Sound Des: Safari R. Eugne | Music: Sophie Nzayisenga | With: Ruth Shanel Nirere, Ramadhan Shami Bizimana, Herv Kimenyi, Jean Paul Uwayezu, Natasha Muziramakenga, Kennedy Mazimpaka | Print/Sales: Camera Club Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 21:15 PA6 Fri 27-1 21:45 LV1 Sat 28-1 10:00 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 20:00 CI3

Grey Matter is the very first fulllength fiction film by a director from Rwanda produced in that country. It provides a glimpse from the inside of the traumas of genocide. This partially autobiographical debut starts as a film-within-the-film in which a young director describes the faltering production of The Cycle of the Cockroach (Tutsis were called cockroaches). Not without a critical note, this introduction shows that it is basically impossible to make an artistic film in Rwanda. A funding committee only wants to give the director money if he makes films that promote educational government projects such as AIDS prevention. The filmmaker does pursue his idiosyncratic plan, however. He wants to make an experimental film about a brother and sister who take up arms against the demons of genocide. Wearing a crash helmet, the brother fights alone against the insanity that is nestling in his brain: grey matter that can create, destroy and raze itself.

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un nuage dans un verre deau

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France/Canada, 2011 | colour, DCP, 90 min, French


Prod: Caroline Bonmarchand, Nicolas Comeau | Prod Comp: Avenue B Productions, 1976 Productions | Sc: Srinath C. Samarasinghe | Cam: Alexandre Bussire | Ed: Karen Cerutti | Prod Des: Julien Vray | Sound Des: Bruno Pucella | Music: Ramachandra Borcar | With: Anamaria Marinca, Gamil Ratib, Tewfic Jallab | Print/Sales: Avenue B Productions | www.srinath.fr/cariboost1 Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 15:45 PA5 Tue 31-1 17:00 CI1 Wed 1-2 11:00 LV1 Sat 4-2 11:45 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 13:30 PA5

A Cloud in a glass of Water Srinath C. Samarasinghe A curious collection of styles and genres focussed on an Egyptian film operator who passes his old age in a small apartment in Paris. A Cloud in a Glass of Water starts as a documentary: the grandson of Monsieur Noun films while the old man talks about his deceased lover and the days when he screened films during the British rule in Cairo. Then Anna, the woman next door played by Anamaria Marinca from 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) becomes involved in the project. From then on, the film ricochets in different directions. Fiction, biography, animation, mystery, detective story the life of Monsieur Noun has too many stories in it to be captured in one form. Samarasinghes debut, loosely based on the life of his grandpa, who was a film operator in Sri Lanka, playfully explores the possibilities of the medium. A Cloud in a Glass of Water is a bitter-sweet ode to friendship and precious memories that on occasion can be intensely moving.

gaamer
Oleg Sentsov

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Ukraine, 2012 | colour, video, 92 min, Russian


Prod: Oleg Sentsov | Sc: Oleg Sentsov | Cam: Yegor Petrik | Ed: Dmitriy Kundryutskiy | Sound Des: Vladimir Kozlov | With: Vladislav Zhuk, Aleksandr Fedotov, Zhana Biryuk | Print/ Sales: Olga Zhurzhenko Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 17:00 CI1 Tue 31-1 21:45 SGZ Wed 1-2 22:30 CI1 Fri 3-2 16:45 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 18:00 CI3

The boys name is Alex, but in the world of gamers where he spends most of his time, he is known as Koss. The enormous amount of time he spends at the computer screen starts to pay off: in the games clubs in his small Ukrainian village, he is the undisputed king of the shooting game Quake, admired by the noobs the younger and less experienced players he defeats digitally. But there is also a different side. The endless games are getting in the way of his study at technical college, to the great dismay of his single mother. She sees her son growing up into a good-fornothing, just like his absent father. In a realistic style, filmed at a real game tournament with real gamers in the leading roles, debuting director Oleg Sentsov shows the rise of Koss. Because Alex has plans: hes going to be the greatest and that will solve everything. Step-by-step, he approaches his goal: to be world champion. But will success bring him what he wants? And what if he doesnt win?

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the hyperwomen Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, Takuma Kuikuro

As hiper mulheres

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Brazil, 2011 | colour, DCP, 80 min, Kiukuro


Prod: Carlos Fausto, Vincent Carelli | Prod Comp: Video nas Aldeias | Sc: Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, Takum Kuikuro | Cam: Mahajugi Kuikuro, Munai Kuikuro, Takum Kuikuro | Ed: Leonardo Sette | Prod Des: Carlos Fausto, Vincent Carelli | Sound Des: Carlos Montenegro, Leonardo Sette, Mahajugi Kuikuro | Music: Kuikuro Culture | Print/Sales: Leonardo Sette Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 19:45 CI1 Thu 2-2 20:15 CI6 Fri 3-2 13:00 LV3 Sat 4-2 17:30 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 11:30 PA5

Because he fears that his spouse does not have much longer to live, an old Indian asks his cousin whether his wife would like to perform the Jamurikumalu one more time. Its the ritual dance of the native population of the Upper Xingu, who live in the centre of Brazil. The sick wife wants nothing more than to sing along with the women of the village one more time. The preparations are started, but the only woman who knows all the lyrics is far from healthy too. Several old cassette tapes also dont offer a way out. An ethnographic documentary about a tribe that seems to live in a different age, The Hyperwomen is soberly shot but the intelligent cutting helps make it gripping. The Indians live in reed huts, usually walk around naked apart from a few cords and daubs of paint but they seem completely at ease in front of the camera. Their conversations are very openhearted with extremely sexual overtones. The complicated singing is beautiful, just like the equally complicated dance steps that accompany it.

Lhiver dernier
Last Winter John Shank

Belgium/France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 103 min, French


Prod: Joseph Rouschop, Priscilla Bertin, Elisa Larrire, Judith Nora | Prod Comp: Tarantula, Silex Films, Limited Adventures | Sc: John Shank, Vincent Poymiro | Cam: Hichame Alaouie, Antoine Parouty | Ed: Yannick Leroy | Prod Des: Anna Falgures | Sound Des: Emmanuel de Boissieu | Music: D.A.A.U. | With: Vincent Rottiers, Anas Demoustier, Florence Loiret Caille, Aurore Clment, Michel Subor | Sales: Le Pacte | Distr NL: Cinart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 13:00 PA1 Thu 2-2 09:30 PA7 Fri 3-2 12:30 PA7

d.s. d.s. d.s.

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This land has given me so much, according to Johann, a headstrong young farmer in a remote region of France who pursues the tradition of his father and grandfather. He feels very close to the earth, the animals and other inhabitants of this small community. He occasionally sleeps with a girlfriend and sometimes he visits his sister who lives in an institution. He has such strong roots that he is the only member of the farmers cooperative who refuses to succumb to the economic malaise. But as winter approaches, a fresh tragedy will destroy Johanns last handhold and force him to make a radical choice. Last Winter, a project set up at CineMart 2009 that had its premiere at the Venice Festival, is the first full-length feature by the US-born but Belgian resident John Shank. In calm shots and with sparse dialogue, he shows the beauty of the landscape as it contrasts with gripping personal drama.

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Bright Future

the Patron Saints


Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

USA/Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 72 min, English


Prod: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky | Prod Comp: Pigeon Projects | Cam: Brian M. Cassidy | Ed: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky | Sound Des: Nicholas Sjostrom | Print/Sales: Pigeon Projects | www.thepatronsaintsfilm.com Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 18:30 PA2 Wed 1-2 15:15 CI4 Thu 2-2 09:30 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 22:15 CI3

Shot in the corridors and rooms of a small retirement home somewhere in America, The Patron Saints shows fragments from the lives of the needy and often senile inhabitants. The old lady who keeps wondering why she is here; the man who repeatedly tries to escape; the physically and mentally handicapped woman who has been abused for years by her brother. We see them in the surroundings where they spend their latter years, in disconcerting and nerve-wracking, but also moving and humorous scenes. Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky altogether spent about four years in the retirement home for this meticulously constructed, hyperrealistic lament about the latter days of human life. Our guide is Jim, the youngest inhabitant of the home and a real gossip of the purest kind. While his body is paralysed, that does nothing to reduce his vitality and he has a story to fit with every inhabitant.

Anhey ghorhey da daan

India, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 117 min, Punjabi (Panjabi)


Prod: Nina Lath Gupta | Prod Comp: National Film Development Corporation India | Sc: Gurvindar Singh, based on the novel by Gurdial Singh | Cam: Satya Rai Nagpaul | Ed: Ujjwal Chandra | Prod Des: Pankaj Dhiman | Sound Des: Mandar Kulkarni | Music: Catherine Lamb | With: Mal Singh, Samuel John, Sarbjeet Kaur, Dharminder Kaur, Emmanuel Singh, Kulwinder Kaur, Lakha Singh, Gurvinder Makhna | Print/Sales: National Film Development Corporation India Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 22:15 LUX Thu 2-2 13:30 SGZ Fri 3-2 10:15 PA3 Sat 4-2 09:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 12:00 CI2

Alms for the Blind horse Gurvinder Singh In a refined balladic manner, this atmosphere-driven film tackles the fate of a repressed family in a village in the Punjab. The old and ill father joins a villagers protest against a landlord responsible for demolishing a house. His son Melu, a rickshaw driver in a nearby town who was injured during a labour strike, takes to drinking and wandering the streets. On the night of the lunar eclipse, some gunshots are heard and the village is impregnated with tension. Poor and marginalized, the characters silently but emphatically emanate restlessness and discontent. The director creatively uses space as the silent witness of events. The successfully chosen cast of mostly authentic villagers contribute with their minimalistic performances to the contemplative atmosphere of the film. This was the last project of the late great Indian cineaste Mani Kaul, who acted as creative producer in this remarkable debut.

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Papirosen
Gastn Solnicki

Argentina/USA, 2011 | colour, video, 74 min, Spanish


Prod: Gastn Solnicki, Pablo Chernov | Prod Comp: Filmy Wiktora, Naked Faces | Sc: Gastn Solnicki | Cam: Gastn Solnicki | Ed: Andrea Kleinman | Sound Des: Jason Candler | Print/Sales: Filmy Wiktora Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 15:30 PA2 Sun 29-1 20:00 CI5 Mon 30-1 22:45 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 11:30 CI3

On 23 October 2000, immediately after the birth of his nephew Mateo, Gastn Solnicki started filming his relatives. Mateo is the first grandchild of Gastns father Victor, a sweet, generous but also rather dominant pater familias. The strong bond between grandfather and grandson forms the main theme in the fragmentary family portrait Papirosen, which portrays four generations of Solnickis, all encumbered and occasionally imprisoned by the past. Grandmother Pola and grandfather Janek, born in Poland, lost many of their relatives in Hitlers concentration camps. After the war, they ended up via Prague in Argentina, where the family was financially successful. For 10 years, the director continued to follow his parents and the family of his sister as it fell apart, despite regular protests. The result is a surprisingly open-hearted and moving film that, thanks to the daring editing and the beautiful, sometimes impressionistic camerawork, transcends the genre of the autobiographical documentary.

Valley of Saints
Musa Syeed

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India/USA, 2012 | colour, video, 82 min, Kashmiri/English


Prod: Nicholas Bruckman | Prod Comp: Peerwar Pictures | Sc: Musa Syeed | Cam: Yoni Brook | Ed: Musa Syeed, Mary Manhardt, Ray Hubley | Prod Des: Altaf Mehraj | Sound Des: TBD | Music: Mubashir Mohi-Ud-Din | With: Gulzar Ahmad Butt, Mohammed Afzal Sofi, Neelofar Hamid | Print/Sales: Peerwar Pictures | www.valleyofsaints.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 16:45 LUX Sun 29-1 12:30 CI4 Tue 31-1 22:30 CI1 Sat 4-2 19:45 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 09:30 CI3

This compelling human drama is situated in Srinagar, at the Dal Lake in conflict-ridden Kashmir. The young boatman Gulzar (played by a real boatman) tries to escape the violence in Kashmir, but is caught because of a military curfew and must return to the lake. Plotting his next attempt at leaving, Gulzar and his friend Afzal meet a young woman scientist (played by a local TV actress) who is investigating the extreme pollution in the lake, on which the community depends. In their reaction to the violence and environmental degradation they find a common ground. They become close and develop a relationship. Focusing respectively on the human aspect, the love story, the environment and the ordeal of the Kashmiri people, who have been living for decades in a politically turbulent zone, this lyrical film successfully and excitingly merges documentary and fiction.

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Oslo, 31. august


Oslo, August 31st Joachim Trier

Norway, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 95 min, Norwegian


Prod: Yngve Saether, Hans-Jrgen Osnes | Prod Comp: Motlys, Dont Look Now | Sc: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, based on a novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Cam: Jakob Ihre | Ed: Olivier Bugge Coutt | Prod Des: Jrgen Stangebye Larsen, Solfrid Kjets | Sound Des: Gisle Tveito | Music: Ola Flttum, Torgny Amdam | With: Anders Danielsen Lie, Malin Crpin, Aksel M. Thanke, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, ystein Rger, Tone B. Mostraum | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: ABC Cinemien Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 16:302 LUX Tue 31-1 19:152 SGZ Sat 4-2 19:45 LV6

d.s. / f.s. d.s. / f.s. d.s. / f.s.

On the eve of his discharge from an addiction clinic, 34-year-old Anders gets one days leave to have a job interview. He takes advantage of the opportunity to look up old friends and to roam apparently aimlessly through his Oslo, coloured by the last light of summer. But the failed suicide he attempted at the beginning of the film taints everything that follows: the subject of suicide is never far away in the conversations he has. Oslo, August 31st is (loosely) based on the novel Le feu follet (1931) by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, which was filmed in 1963 by Louis Malle. That doesnt seem to be a coincidence: In his film, Trier (a distant cousin of Lars Von Trier) refers openly to the French nouvelle vague with a deceptive light-footedness, an underlying melancholy and several stylistic elements... but then with the penetrating clarity of Norwegian light and a thoroughly contemporary approach.

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Wavumba
Jeroen van Velzen

WOrLD PreMiere

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 76 min, Dutch/Swahili


Prod: Digna Sinke | Prod Comp: SNG Film BV | Sc: Jeroen van Velzen, Sara Kee | Cam: Lennart Verstegen | Ed: Stefan Kamp | Sound Des: Boon & Booy | Music: Jeroen Schmohl | With: Mohammed Masoud Muyongo, Juma Lonya Mwapitu | Print/ Sales: SNG Film BV | www. sngfilm.nl/UK Wavumba.htm Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 18:30 PA2 Fri 27-1 09:45 PA6 Tue 31-1 12:15 LV2 Thu 2-2 17:00 LV6 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 09:30 LV6

In his teenage years, Jeroen van Velzen moved back and forth between a British public school and a Kenyan beach paradise. A culture clash between eating sausages at fixed times, standing neatly in line and using the words Sir or Madam and magic stories about a man who talks to fish, seahorses that dance on the waves and the dream of capturing a giant shark. As an adult, Van Velzen has lost his faith in the supernatural. Yet he has a nostalgic desire for the magic of his childhood. With a film crew, he returns to Kenya, where on a coral island he meets the old fisherman Masoud who teaches his grandson Juma the tricks of the trade. The two hunt for lightning-quick sea snakes, poisonous fish and of course the giant shark, while Masoud describes his brave deeds with great imagination. In this way, just as in Van Velzens childhood, the world of people and the world of spirits meet. In his poetic, contemplative voiceover, the maker also lifts the film to a spiritual level.

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the Mokele-Mbembe hypothesis Marie Voignier


The Loch Ness monster, the abominable snowman, Bigfoot: they exist in myths, sagas and legends. Deep in the jungle in the south-east of Cameroon, the French zoologist and explorer Michel Ballot has for years been looking for proof of the existence of another such mythical being, the Mokele-Mbembe. Its like a rhinoceros with the tail of a crocodile and the head of a snake at least that is how the pygmies describe this giant dinosaur, which apparently can even change its shape. In this occasionally comic documentary essay, Ballot turns out to be a tenacious investigator, who cross-examines the local population keenly and wants to install cameras to capture the Mokele-Mbembe. The French filmmaker Marie Voignier follows him without commentary, adding mystery to her portrait. Is the Mokele-Mbembe pure fiction, or does he perhaps really exist? Or is that question completely irrelevant and does the film show the confrontation between the empirically inclined Westerner and the pygmies, for whom tradition counts?

Lhypothse du Mokl-Mbemb

France, 2011 | colour, video, 78 min, French


Prod: Thierry Lounas | Prod Comp: Capricci Films, Lge dor | Sc: Marie Voignier | Cam: Marie Voignier | Ed: Marie Voignier | Sound Des: Thomas Fourel | Print/Sales: Lge dor | www.capricci.fr Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 10:00 CI4 Thu 2-2 12:30 CI4 Fri 3-2 17:00 CI5

Kill List
Ben Wheatley

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 95 min, English


Prod: Claire Jones, Andrew Starke | Prod Comp: Rook Films, Warp X | Sc: Ben Wheatly, Amy Jump | Cam: Laurie Rose | Ed: Robin Hill | Prod Des: David Butterworth | Sound Des: Martin Pavey | Music: Jim Williams | With: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer, Struan Rodger | Print/Sales: Protagonist Pictures | www.ifcfilms.com/films/kill-list Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:30 DJZ Thu 2-2 22:15 LUX Fri 3-2 22:30 CI1

Ben Wheatly is the new wonder boy of British cinema. He made his debut in 2009 with Down Terrace, a violent gangster comedy he financed himself. The sequel, the horror film Kill List, has the same qualities as his debut: a quasidocumentary style, naturalistic acting, partly improvised dialogues and a large dose of black humour. Wheatly based the last half of Kill List on the nightmares he had as a child. The sensitive and unemployed Jay, a troubled veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, takes on a new job with his Irish mate Gal. But who is really the mysterious client of the two hitmen? With a kill list in their hands, they travel through England. During the day they do their work stoically, at night they stay in cheerless hotels. Halfway through Kill List, the social realism changes into worrying supernatural horror. The strangest film of the year also has an ending which gives you plenty to talk about.

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Black & White & Sex


John Winter

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

Australia, 2011 | colour/b&w, DCP, 94 min, English


Prod: Melissa Beauford, John Winter | Prod Comp: All At Once | Sc: John Winter | Cam: Nicola Daley | Ed: Adrian Rostirolla | Sound Des: Tony Vaccher, John Dennison, Craig Butters | Music: Caitlin Yeo | With: Katherine Hicks, Anya Beyersdorf, Valerie Bader, Roxane Wilson, Michelle Vergara Moore, Dina Panozzo, Saskia Burmeister | Print: Wintertime Films | Sales: All At Once | www.blackandwhiteandsex.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 19:152 PA3 Sat 28-1 09:452 PA5 Sun 29-1 21:302 PA2 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 14:00 CI3

In a bare film studio, a director is standing ready with his crew for an interview with a prostitute. Shot in classic black & white, the documentary maker in Black & White & Sex interviews her at length, with various cameras and a barrage of questions. Eight different actresses portray one and the same woman: Angie, the eloquent prostitute. While the ladies are very different in their appearance, age and clothing, they are the same person with the same text. Yet each new woman heralds a new phase in the conversation between Angie and her interviewer who has to bare all, literally and metaphorically. This film-within-a-film makes one suspect a classic Hollywood casting couch, but turns out primarily to be a confrontational, erotic and intellectual cinematographic striptease partially inspired by Andy Warhols Screen Tests. A joy to watch thanks to the stylish camera work, the clever cutting, the well-thought-out dialogue and powerful actresses.

Sentimental Animal
Wu Quan

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

China, 2011 | b&w, video, 108 min, Mandarin


Prod: Wu Quan | Prod Comp: Gago Culture & Media Ltd. | Sc: Wu Quan | Cam: Zhang Yuedong | Ed: Wu Quan | Prod Des: Wu Quan | Sound Des: Wu Quan | Music: Li Zenghui | With: Xiao He, Liu Dan, Li Zenghui, Wu Ziyi, YangYang, Wu Qiyue, Mei Zhiyong | Print/ Sales: Gago Culture & Media Ltd. Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 14:45 CI6 Sat 28-1 10:00 CI4 Tue 31-1 15:00 CI6 Fri 3-2 13:45 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 14:00 CI3

The fact that there are now signs of growing diversity in style, theme and approach in Chinese independent fiction film is clear from the first film by the versatile Wu Quan. In contrasty, very sharp black-and-white (shot by cameraman Zhang Yuedong, who directed the minimalist-absurdist Mid-Afternoon Barks), Sentimental Animal is a meticulously styled, occasionally sensitive and sometimes shocking allegory that will not easily be forgotten. Wu has made a film about the latter days of a Chinese patriarch. This former soldier and owner of the fish farm where the events take place became physically handicapped after a heroic deed. Although he can no longer speak and needs help from his nurse for virtually all his actions, he is still the respected leader of his clan. But now he is approaching his end and takes on his last, difficult task.

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hikari no oto
the Sound of Light Yamasaki Juichiro

iNterNAtiONAL PreMiere

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 89 min, Japanese


Prod: Kuwahara Hirotaka, Kano Kazuho, Takashi Okamoto | Prod Comp: Youkou Project | Sc: Yamasaki Juichiro | Cam: Tawara Kenta | Ed: Kuwahara Hirotaka, Yamasaki Juichiro | Sound Des: Kondo Takaoi | Music: Masuoka Ayako | With: Fujihisa Yoshitomo, Mori Eri, Masago Takeshi, Sato Toyokuki | Print/Sales: Youkou Project | www.hikarinooto.jp Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 19:30 PA4 Wed 1-2 12:30 PA2 Thu 2-2 15:00 CI6 Fri 3-2 10:00 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 22:00 CI3

Yusuke returns from Tokyo to the rural village in Okayama where his parents have a dairy farm. The enterprise has been in the family for generations. While Yusuke would most love to be a musician, he feels the family duty pressing on him; his father has had an accident and as eldest son he has to help out. The Kariya family farm is hemmed in between motorways and it turns out to be difficult to run a small-scale farm in an era of mass production and globalisation. In this very realistic, honest drama, we follow Yusuke in the uncertain period as he wrestles with his dreams for the future and his relationship with Yoko, who has a child with a man who was once going to be a dairy farmer if he hadnt had a fatal accident. In the run-up to the annual family tradition, standing together to watch the first sunrise in the New Year, the modest young man tries to make a decision about the rest of his life.

Germany, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 83 min, English


Prod: Benny Drechsel | Prod Comp: Rohfilm GmbH | Sc: Jan Zabeil, Alexander Fehling | Cam: Jakub Bejnarowicz | Ed: Florian Miosge | Sound Des: Uwe Bossenz | With: Alexander Fehling, Sariqo Sakega, Obusentswe Deamar Manyma, Babotsa Saxtwee, Nxapa Motswai | Print/ Sales: Rohfilm GmbH | www.rohfilm.de Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 20:00 CI2 Fri 3-2 09:30 PA7 Sat 4-2 21:30 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 09:45 CI2

the river used to Be a Man Jan Zabeil In his feature debut, the young German Jan Zabeil follows in the footsteps of Werner Herzog. He travels with a tiny crew an actor, a cameraman and a sound man to Africa in order to seek adventure in the wilderness. His film is half documentary, half staged and largely improvised. Real and imagined events intertwine, and the result is like a nightmare about alienation and disorientation. A white young man, played by Alexander Fehling, slowly loses any sense of logic. He is a guest in Africa in the territory of all kinds of animals and can be consumed at any moment. When the old fisherman who takes him upstream disappears without trace, he is left on his own. A confrontation with his own fears and observations follows. But what exactly goes on inside him remains a closed book. Zabeil leaves most questions unanswered. A hellish journey through darkest Africa without the exoticism being exploited.

Der Fluss war einst ein Mensch

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Dernire sance
Laurent Achard

France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 81 min, French


Prod: Sylvie Pialat | Prod Comp: Les Films du Worso | Sc: Laurent Achard, Frdrique Moreau | Cam: Sabine Lancelin | Ed: Jean-Christophe Hym | Prod Des: Frdric, Frdrique Lapierre | Sound Des: Xavier Griette, Mikal Barre | With: Pascal Cervo, Charlotte Van Kemmel, Karole Rocher, Austin Morel, Brigitte Sy, Nol Simsolo | Print/Sales: Les Films du Losange | www.filmsdulosange. fr/inter/uk_lastscreening.html Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 22:30 LUX Thu 2-2 21:30 CI1 Fri 3-2 20:00 CI3 Sat 4-2 22:30 CI1

With his pale face, penetrating gaze and inscrutable expression, which is both sad and scary, he could have walked straight out of one of the old classics of the silver screen. Sylvain is the cinephile operator of a small neighbourhood cinema. French Cancan (1954) by Jean Renoir is one of his favourites. But his love for film also has a darker side. At night, he turns into a chilling murderer who preys on women who wear earrings. We are worried sick about the young actress who is about to make her debut in the play Phdre by Jean Racine and innocently falls in love with Sylvain. Laurent Achard, who was given a Tiger Award in 1999 for Plus quhier, moins que demain, brings an ode to cinema with Dernire sance in the form of a modest yet no less exciting and nerve-wracking horror film. He supplely adapts genre conventions for instance, there is a complete absence of thriller music, so the icy screams are even more devastating.

mercado de futuros
Futures market Mercedes lvarez

Spain, 2011 | colour, video, 110 min, Spanish/English


Prod: Eva Serrats, Xos Zapata, Ignacio Benedeti | Prod Comp: Leve Productora SL, Ignacio Benedeti Cinema | Sc: Arturo Redn, Mercedes lvarez | Cam: Alberto Rodrguez | Ed: Pablo Gil Rituerto | Sound Des: Amanda Villavieja | Music: Sergio Moure | Print: Leve Productora SL | Sales: Pennsula | www.futuresmarket.es Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 22:00 LV1 Fri 3-2 17:00 CI1 Sat 4-2 12:30 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 22:15 CI3

The Greek poet Simonides of Ceos is remembered for his fabulous memory and as the founder of mnemonics. In Futures Market, Simonides reflections constitute the backbone of the commentary-free shots, which in a well-paced edit reflect on the past, present and future. The film shows an old house being divested of its valuable contents, which then end up at a second-hand market as a collection of random items. The footage of the trade in objects from the past alternates with futures trading. At the real estate exchange, men in suits sell houses that havent even been built yet and at the stock exchange, abstract numbers change owners during nervous phone calls. In the meantime, Simonides, timeless works of art and energetic market trader Jsus Castro comment on our increasingly hectic society.

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the comedy
Rick Alverson
On the first day of shooting for The Comedy, director Rick Alverson (of the band Spokane) tweeted that his film was an atrocity of cinema. However, given the nature of the film, it is probable that his tongue was lodged firmly in cheek. Because, even if the main characters in The Comedy are played by the crme de la crme of American underground comedy, with Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) in the lead role, the film is primarily a sardonic look at the vacuousness of todays allconsuming irony. Nothing is sacred for the almost apathetic Swanson (Heidecker) and his group of practically identically-clad friends: tennis shoes and polo shirts that fail to hide the beer guts emerging from underneath their pathetic blond beards. Seemingly emotionlessly, they deeply insult one another and others with jokes about any taboo that comes to mind. These men drift aimlessly just as Swanson does on the yacht that serves as his home.

INterNAtIONAL premIere

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 95 min, English


Prod: Brent Kunkle, Mike S. Ryan | Prod Comp: Glass Eye Pix, Inc, Greyshack Films | Sc: Rick Alverson | Cam: Mark Schwartzbard | Ed: Rick Alverson, Michael Taylor | Prod Des: Shawn Annabel | Sound Des: Gene Parks | With: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alexia Rasmussen, Gregg Turkington | Print: Glass Eye Pix, Inc | Sales: Greyshack Films | www.thecomedythemovie.com Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 15:30 PA2 Thu 2-2 13:00 PA4 Fri 3-2 18:45 PA5 Sat 4-2 21:15 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 14:30 DJZ

Wuthering Heights
Andrea Arnold

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.33, 130 min, English


Prod: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader | Prod Comp: Ecosse Films | Sc: Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel by Emily Bront | Cam: Robbie Ryan | Ed: Nicolas Chaudeurge | Prod Des: Helen Scott | Sound Des: Nicholas Becker | Music: Mumford & Sons | With: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Nichola Burley, Steve Evets, Oliver Milburn, Amy Wren, Solomon Glave | Sales: HanWay Films | Distr NL: Cinart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:152 LUX Mon 30-1 09:30 PA7 Tue 31-1 15:00 PA6 Fri 3-2 19:30 LV5 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 20:30 DWBZ

d.s. d.s. d.s. d.s.

Andrea Arnold filmed Emily Bronts Wuthering Heights as the story was intended: dark and sensual. Words are barely audible, eyes see eyes, skin touches skin when no one is looking and the seething rain batters the windows. The heath outside is like an unknown land, where the mansions from Bronts original story have been replaced by derelict farms, closed off from the world. This eighteenth adaptation of the novel turns Heathcliff into even more of an outsider than he already was, as a result of casting the black actors Solomon Glave and James Howson as the young and older Heathcliff. The mood is more hostile than ever: the first time the kid appears, he gets spat in the face. Wuthering Heights was never about romantic love, Arnold stated in interviews, but about obsession. She managed to capture that obsession, that uninhibited, destructive energy.

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Febre do rato
rat Fever Cludio Assis
Rat Fever is the alcohol-drenched story of an unrequited love. The poet Zizo, a pure-bred anarchist, is lost as soon as he meets the sober Eneida. She doesnt mind being his muse, but she wont go any further than that whereas in Zizos circle of friends, made up of social losers, Bohemians and other proud outsiders, everyone goes to bed with everyone else. Meanwhile, Zizo is busy with his dubious battle against the system, using his self-published newsletter Febre do rato and a series of subversive street performances that primarily seem to reach his own friends. Once again, Tiger-Award winner Cludio Assis (Bog of Beasts, 2007) films in his own region, north-eastern Brazil. He portrays Recife as a clammy, stupefying city filled with filthy slums. But Rat Fever has more optimism and humour than the raw Bog of Beasts. Zizo and his friends make the best of it; their high-spirited battle for freedom, anarchy and sex turns Rat Fever into a feverish, erotic manifesto.

INterNAtIONAL premIere

Brazil, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.85, 110 min, Portuguese


Prod: Julia Moraes, Marcello Maia | Prod Comp: Belavista Cinema, Republica Pureza Filmes | Sc: Hilton Lacerda | Cam: Walter Carvalho | Ed: Karen Harley | Prod Des: Marcello Ludwig Maia | Sound Des: George Saldanha, Miriam Biderman, Ricardo Chu | Music: Jorge Du Peixe | With: Irandhyr Santos, Matheus Nachtergaele, Nanda Costa | Print: Republica Pureza Filmes | Sales: Imovision Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 18:30 PA7 Sun 29-1 12:30 PA7 Tue 31-1 09:30 CI5 Fri 3-2 22:30 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 15:00 DWBZ Thu 2-2 17:00 DJZ

A vingana de uma mulher

INterNAtIONAL premIere

Portugal, 2011 | colour, DCP, 100 min, Portuguese


Prod: Joana Ferreira | Prod Comp: C.R.I.M. | Sc: Rita Azevedo Gomes | Cam: Accio Almeida | Ed: Patrcia Saramago | Prod Des: Pedro S | Sound Des: Joaquim Pinto | With: Rita Duro, Fernando Rodrigues | Print/Sales: C.R.I.M. | web.mac.com/c.r.i.m Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 19:45 PA6 Thu 2-2 19:15 SGZ Fri 3-2 18:30 PA2 Sat 4-2 22:30 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 09:30 PA6

A Womans revenge Rita Azevedo Gomes The 19th-century dandy-writer Jules Barbey dAurevilly was specialised in short stories about monarchist aristocracy who had lost their power but not their money and who of course surrendered to morally irresponsible behaviour. Recently, Catherine Breillat also based the film Une vieille maitresse on the work of Barbey dAurevilly, and A Womans Revenge has already been filmed in 1921 by Robert Wiene. Several stories from the anthology Les diaboliques, which was immediately confiscated in 1874, have the structure of a story in a story also this one. Rita Azevedo Gomes sticks fairly close to the original text in a solemn, theatrical yet also picturesquely beautiful style reminiscent of De Oliveira or Eugne Green. Roberto is a handsome, wealthy man of the world. He is arrogant and easily bored. Yet one evening his attention is attracted by a prostitute who turns out to be a missing noblewoman. She tells her story: a marriage without passion, an affair, a shocking murder and ultimate revenge.

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Vorbitor

Visiting room Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean


Radu Muntean and his resident coscriptwriter Alexandru Baciu produced fiction about complex love relationships in unadorned scenes that were spun out at length in the films The Paper Will Be Blue, Boogie and Tuesday, After Christmas. The Romanian HBO documentary Visiting Room shows that love goes where it almost cant: as far as jail. Two prisoners maintain an intimate love affair for years. By writing to each other. Sometimes five letters a week, many pages, and with life-size sketched hearts. They explain how it started, after they happened to see each other on a photo. How creatively they had to work to meet each other physically. And how they even got married. Love knows no barriers, maybe specifically for those who are surrounded by iron bars every day. Muntean and Baciu record the love stories without judging, in a transparent, detached style. They manage to keep their distance and at the same time penetrate deeply to the soul of these prisoners, for whom love seems to be their only hope.

eurOpeAN premIere

Romania, 2011 | colour, video, 60 min, Romanian


Prod: Andrei Cretulescu, Carmen Harabagiu, Aurelian Nica | Sc: Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean | Cam: Tudor Lucaciu, Diana Vidrascu | Ed: Alexandru Radu | Sound Des: Electric Brother | Music: Electric Brother | Print/Sales: HBO Romania | www.hbo.ro/movie/vorbitor_-72189 Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 14:452 CI1 Wed 1-2 21:302 PA2 Fri 3-2 09:302 PA6 Sat 4-2 19:152 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 16:15 DJZ

38 tmoins
38 Witnesses Lucas Belvaux

WOrLD premIere

France/Belgium, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 104 min, French


Prod: Patrick Sobelman, Patrick Quinet, Yvan Attal | Prod Comp: AGAT Films & Cie, Artmis Productions, Films sous influence | Sc: Lucas Belvaux, based on a novel by Didier Decoin | Cam: Pierric Gantelmi dIlle | Ed: Ludo Troch | Prod Des: Frdrique Belvaux | Sound Des: Henri Morelle | Music: Arne Van Dongen | With: Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton, Nicole Garcia, Franois Feroleto, Natacha Rgnier, Patrick Descamps, Didier Sandre | Sales: Films Distribution | Distr NL: Cinart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 13:00 PA1 Tue 31-1 12:30 PA2 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 18:30 DWBZ

Outside an apartment complex in the French port city of Le Havre, a female student is gruesomely murdered in the middle of the night. The complexs 38 inhabitants say they heard or saw nothing. Until one of them, the introverted pilot Pierre (Yvan Attal), decides to break the silence. He admits to the police that he was awakened by a desperate, primeval cry. A cry that cannot have escaped his neighbours attention. But why did they, just like Pierre, not come to the victims aid? Why do they collectively deny having witnessed the murder? Due to cowardice, shame or fear? These questions haunt the traumatised Pierre, and director Belvaux (The Trilogy) states them openly. His book adaptation (the opening film at IFFR 2012) is an unbiased investigation. Why do people tend to want to hush up certain events? 38 Witnesses is a thorough, psychological study and a claustrophobic murder mystery in one. The understated cinematography and subdued soundtrack subtly increase the tension.

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small roads
James Benning
The ne plus ultra of road movies, small roads is precisely what its title indicates. James Benning claims his film is best described by making a list of the 47 roads in question and the cars that drive on them, which together denote a circular journey through Americas west and south over the seasons. But lets speak in grander terms: small roads is digital cinema as virtuoso landscape painting, depicting each two-lane blacktop from a central perspective, each 16:9 countryside highway glistening under the hot sun, shrouded in fog, or coated with a dusting of mid-winter snow. In its execution, small roads most resembles Bennings final 16mm masterpiece RR, in that the action (or here, stasis) inside the frame determines the length of each shot; but with each shot being a careful, invisible digital composite, the suddenly prolific Benning is up to more than just looking and listening.

eurOpeAN premIere

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 103 min, no dialogue


Prod: James Benning | Cam: James Benning | Ed: James Benning | Sound Des: James Benning | Print/Sales: James Benning Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 18:15 PA6 Sun 29-1 22:00 LV1 Mon 30-1 12:30 CI6 Thu 2-2 19:45 LV6 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 11:00 DJZ

L Apollonide Souvenirs de la maison close


House of tolerance Bertrand Bonello
Fin de sicle enters the exclusive Paris brothel of Madame Marie-France and her affluent, eccentric clients (among whom attentive viewers will recognise the occasional French filmmaker). The opulent decor and company of young women suggest a cocoon of timeless pleasure where the outside world no longer exists. But the Madam has to pay her rent and the end of an era nears, even here. Bertrand Bonello primarily wanted to reveal this closed world from the point of view of the prostitutes. More important than the clients are the more mundane sides of the business exhaustion, washing, fear of disease. Bonello shows the camaraderie, gossiping about clients and hope the women have that one day they will be able to pay off their debts to the Madam. The prostitute who was maimed by a client is tragic: now she has a scar in the form of a cruel smile, borrowed by Bonello from The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928), based on the novel by Victor Hugo.

France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 122 min, French


Prod: Kristina Larsen | Prod Comp: Les Films du Lendemain | Sc: Bertrand Bonello | Cam: Jose Deshaies | Ed: Fabrice Rouaud | Music: Bertrand Bonello | With: Nomie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Jasmine Trinca, Cline Sallette, Adle Haenel, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth | Sales: Films Distribution | Distr NL: OBrother Distribution | www.obrother.be Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 16:00 LUX Thu 2-2 10:15 PA1 Fri 3-2 18:45 SGZ Sat 4-2 16:30 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 15:00 DWBZ

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rua Aperana 52
Jlio Bressane
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Jlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressanes parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means wrong road. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressanes youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction.

WOrLD premIere

Brazil, 2012 | b&w, video, 80 min, Portuguese


Prod: Jlio Bressane | Sc: Julio Bressane | Cam: David Pacheco | Ed: Rodrigo Lima | Sound Des: Aurlio Dias | Music: Lvio Tragtenberg, Guilherme Vaz | With: Fernando Eiras, Giulia Gam, Drica Moraes, Maria Gladys, Joel Barcelos Joo Rebello, Caetano Veloso | Print/Sales: Jlio Bressane Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 14:15 CI1 Mon 30-1 17:00 CI5 Wed 1-2 20:00 CI7 Fri 3-2 15:15 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 14:00 DJZ

Way of passion
Joerg Burger

Austria, 2011 | colour, video, 89 min, Italian


Prod: Joerg Burger | Sc: Joerg Burger | Cam: Joerg Burger, Johannes Hammel | Ed: Joerg Burger | Music: Walther Soyka, Karl Stirner | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 10:30 LV1 Sat 28-1 20:00 CI7 Sun 29-1 11:45 SGZ

Trapani, Sicily. The men of the town prepare for the Easter procession. Clothes are remodelled and the immense statues that have to be carried on their shoulders through the narrow streets of the town during the procession have to be repaired. This annual procession has taken place for 400 years, a tradition that is cherished. Its a great honour to be chosen as one of the bearers, be it a heavy and emotional task. Joerg Burger follows the preparations and the procession itself, that lasts all night. His floating camera follows the events without commentary: not only is there no narrator, but in the film itself barely a word is said. The film focuses on the extreme devotion and worship that grips Trapani for 24 hours, both for Christ as for the bearers who now briefly have to take his place.

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A Shape of error
Abigail Child

WOrLD premIere

USA/Italy, 2012 | colour, video, 70 min, English


Prod: Abigail Child | Sc: Abigail Child | Cam: Abigail Child | Ed: Abigail Child, Yael Bitton, Mary Patierno | Prod Des: Abigail Child | Sound Des: Abigail Child, Gisburg | Music: Zeena Parkins | With: Eileen Ryan, Nick Wilding, Aurelia dAntonia, Richard Wittman | Print/Sales: Abigail Child | www.abigailchild.com Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 18:15 PA6 Mon 30-1 10:00 LV3 Wed 1-2 12:30 CI6 Fri 3-2 12:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 2-2 16:00 CI3

Abigail Child uses home-movie aesthetics to reconstruct a life in a time when film still had to be invented. Based on diary notes by Mary Shelley (1797-1851) and her stepsister Claire, she filmed the problems of love, pregnancies, babies who died and the written work of these women, who were very emancipated for their day. Child focuses primarily on Marys intense love affair with Percy Shelley in the years when she was also writing her classic gothic novel, Frankenstein (1818). The form of A Shape of Error is playful and adventurous, with split screen shots filled with doublings and mirrors, chronological facts in inter-titles and Marys poetic voiceover. For Child, the authenticity of the home video is a way to create intimacy. At the same time, her film is a self-reflective investigation of this authenticity, as she previously did in The Future Is Behind You. A Shape of Error is the first part of a trilogy about women and ideology, in which Shelleys biography tackles Romanticism.

A Dangerous method
David Cronenberg

France/Ireland/United Kingdom/ Germany/Canada, 2011 | colour, DCP, 93 min, English


Prod: Jemery Thomas, Marco Mehlitz, Martin Katz | Prod Comp: Recorded Picture, Lago Film, Prospero Pictures | Sc: Christopher Hampton, based on his play and a book by John Kerr | Cam: Peter Suschitzky | Ed: Ronald Sanders | Prod Des: James McAteer | Music: Howard Shore | With: Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel | Sales: HanWay Films | Distr NL: Cinart | www.adangerousmethod-themovie.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 18:30 PA2 Sat 28-1 13:00 PA1 Tue 31-1 22:00 PA1 Wed 1-2 22:30 CI7 Fri 3-2 19:45 LV6 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 12:15 CI2

The Canadian David Cronenberg, known from horror films such as Videodrome (1983) and The Fly (1986) and violence studies such as A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007), provides a surprise with a modest adaptation of the play The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton, who personally rewrote it as a screenplay just as he did with his Oscar-winning screenplay for Stephen Frears Dangerous Liaisons (1988). A Dangerous Method looks at the early period of psychoanalysis and the fruitful clash between Sigmund Freud (played by Cronenberg regular Mortensen) and his critical follower Carl Gustav Jung (a controlled Fassbender). The story focuses on the hysterical Sabina Spielrein (Knightley), who is treated successfully by Jung using Freuds insights, then embarks on a secret relationship with her married doctor and later becomes a famous feminist psychoanalyst herself. With great attention for the early 20thcentury settings in Jungs Zurich and Freuds Vienna.

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mondomanila
Khavn De La Cruz

INterNAtIONAL premIere

Philippines/Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 75 min, Filipino


Prod: Khavn De La Cruz | Prod Comp: Kamias Road | Sc: Norman Wilwayco, Khavn de la Cruz | Cam: Albert Banzon | Ed: Lawrence S. Ang | Sound Des: Dante Perez, Roland Rubenecia, Mei Bastes | Music: Malek Lopez, Khavn de la Cruz | With: Tim Mabalot, Marife Necesito, Palito, Alex Tiglao | Sales: Kamias Road | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 20:00 CI6 Fri 27-1 12:302 CI6 Sat 28-1 12:452 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 09:00 CI5 Tue 31-1 21:00 CI3

Life in the slums of large Third World cities has been filmed in many different ways, but never before was a musical made about it. Khavn De La Cruz has been involved since 2003 with a unique celebration of the lives of losers in the ghettos of Manila, the Filipino capital. Characters like the teenager Tony D and his depraved friends. Theres Lovely Loanshark, the gambling addict, a slum milker whos always screaming. Sgt. Pepper is a policeman and (to his great dismay) the father of only daughters and a gay son. Theres Steve Banners, the old white pederast, and Ogo X, the misformed rapper. Mondomanila got support from HBF a long time ago and was finally made with mainly private money. The film shows a colourful, occasionally almost glamorous but also violent, rancid and perverse society in the gutter, in flashy, fast-cut scenes, with absurd dialogues and bizarre events. Khavn shakes up film styles to his hearts content: exuberant video clips, grubby film noir, hyper-realistic documentary and even slapstick linked by an original story and rousing music.

Siglo ng pagluluwal
century of Birthing Lav Diaz

Philippines, 2011 | b&w, DCP, 355 min, Tagalog


Prod: Lav Diaz | Prod Comp: Sine Olivia Pilipinas | Sc/Cam/Ed: Lav Diaz | Prod Des: Dante Perez, Perry Dizon, Hazel Orencio | Sound Des/ Music: Lav Diaz | With: Angel Aquino, Joel Torre, Perry Dizon, Hazel Orencio, Angeli Bayani | Print/Sales: Sine Olivia Pilipinas Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 17:30 CI6 Wed 1-2 09:45 CI7

The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery. The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, theres another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues. By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homers struggle with cinema and Turbicos struggle with faith.

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Florentina Hubaldo, cte


Lav Diaz
Few filmmakers make films as long as those of Lav Diaz. Six hours is not even particularly long within his oeuvre. He has films to his name that are twice that long. And even fewer filmmakers would want to reshoot a film theyve already made. Yet thats what happened here. Lav Diaz shot a first version of Florentina Hubaldo, CTE in 2009. Once he had a HD camera, he decided to shoot the film again. Another long film. Back to distant and inhospitable locations. It says a lot about this filmmakers commitment that he does not make life easy for himself when telling his epic social dramas. Florentina Hubaldo, CTE has several protagonists. There are the two construction workers, Manoling and Juan, who have become unemployed and left the city to go digging for treasure. Theres the shopkeeper Manang Nena who makes her daughter become a prostitute. And the Harvard-business student Briggs who takes over his familys feudal company. Stories that show the extreme aspects of the Philippines.

WOrLD premIere

Philippines, 2012 | colour, video, 300 min, Tagalog


Prod: Lav Diaz | Prod Comp: Sine Olivia Pilipinas | Sc/Cam/Ed: Lav Diaz | Prod Des: Dante Perez | Sound Des: Willy Fernandez | With: Hazel Orencio, Kristine Kintana, Noel Sto. Domingo, Willy Fernandez, Joel Ferrer, Dante Perez | Sales: Sine Olivia Pilipinas | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 17:30 CI6 Tue 31-1 09:45 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 13:00 CI3

monsieur Lazhar
Philippe Falardeau

Canada, 2011 | colour, DCP, 94 min, French


Prod: Luc Dry, Kim McCraw | Prod Comp: micro_scope | Sc: Philippe Falardeau, based on the play Bashir Lazhar by Evelyne de la Chenelire | Cam: Ronald Plante | Ed: Stphane Lafleur | Prod Des: Emmanuel Frchette | Sound Des: Pierre Bertrand, Mathieu Beaudin, Sylvain Bellemare, Bernard Garipy Strobl | Music: Martin Lon | With: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nlisse, milien Nron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart | Sales: Films Distribution | Distr NL: Imagine Nederland | www.monsieurlazhar.com Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 19:302 LUX Wed 1-2 09:30 PA7 Thu 2-2 22:15 PA3 Sat 4-2 20:00 CI3

d.s. d.s. d.s. d.s.

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A primary-school class is horrified by a most unpleasant event. Simon finds his teacher Martine after she has hung herself in the classroom. Her replacement, the strict yet fair Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar, first tries to teach the children the literature of Honor de Balzac. In vain, as they have other things on their mind. The suicide left a deep wound, especially on Simon and Alice. Bachir is himself in the meantime wrestling with family problems and can be thrown out of the country at any moment. Even if the serious themes of loss, death, guilt and innocence make one think otherwise, this film based on a play by Evelyne de la Chenelire is charming, tender and at times even strikingly humorous. The good-natured Bachir is played subtly and movingly by Mohamed Fellag. Falardeau manages to stimulate milien Nron (Simon) and Sophie Nlisse (Alice) to play very profound roles, as he had done previously with the child actors in Its not me, I swear! The result is a loving, warm audience film like tre et avoir.

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Nick
Fow Pyng Hu

WOrLD premIere

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 84 min, Dutch


Prod: Frans van Gestel | Prod Comp: Topkapi Films | Sc: Fow Pyng Hu | Cam: Benito Strangio | Ed: Menno Boerema, Edon Riznavolli | Prod Des: Billy Leliveld | Sound Des: Ranko Paukovic | Music: Mick Witkamp | With: Merijn de Jong, Luna Mijovic, Elisa Beuger, Marcel Hensema, Maarten Heijmans | Sales: Topkapi Films | Distr NL: Wild Bunch Benelux | www.idtvfilm.nl Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:00 PA1 Mon 30-1 10:30 PA4 Tue 31-1 16:00 LV1 Fri 3-2 17:00 LV6 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 16:15 CI3

Im just here for the ride, I dont mean anything I say, says intelligent, elusive, conceited, cynical Nick to the beautiful Monie during a date that again gets completely out of hand. Just get lost, she snarls at him. Go back to your mother. Nick works as a sous-chef in a restaurant; he is good and he knows it. He thinks all the others are useless, and has hardly any respect for his boss, Wim. One day, an argument gets hopelessly out of hand in the kitchen, and Nick runs off with pretty young Croatian waitress Kristina, heading south to look for white truffles in the vast Croatian forests. And to find himself. The third feature by Fow Pyng Hu ( Jacky, Paradise Girls) is an intriguing combination of character study and road movie, with powerful performances by Merijn de Jong (Nick) and Marcel Hensema (Wim). The beautiful photography by Benito Strangio, especially the curious dream sequences, contribute to the special mood, as do the sound design and music.

Hoy no tuve miedo


today I Felt no Fear Ivn Fund

Argentina, 2011 | colour, video, 122 min, Spanish


Prod: Ivn Eibuszyc | Prod Comp: Frutacine | Sc: Ivn Fund | Cam: Ivn Fund, Eduardo Crespo | Ed: Lorena Moriconi, Ivan Fund | Prod Des: Marianela Castellano, Araceli Castellano | Sound Des: Pablo Setton, Abel Torrtorelli | Music: Ivn Fund | With: Marianela Castellano, Belen Werbach, Araceli Castellano, Lilian Keller, Hugo Fund | Print/Sales: Frutacine Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 19:45 CI1 Fri 27-1 14:00 SGZ Sat 28-1 12:00 CI5 Fri 3-2 21:30 PA2

In the first half of this intimate study of everyday life on the outskirts of a small provincial town, we follow the sisters Ara and Marian and their girlfriend Beln with her dog Lulu. The lyrically photographed Today I Felt No Fear emerges as a collection of impressions and moods. Journeys on mopeds along sandy tracks, work, hanging out with friends, family photos, dancing, preparations for Christmas. A jacket found in a second-hand shop will lead the two sisters to meet their father again. Ivn Funds specific style poetic and impressionistic can be seen even more clearly in the second part, in which he plays with documentary and fiction. A womans visit to a psychiatrist is juxtaposed with a flood of images workers, landscapes and above all many parties. A film crew appears on screen and we even catch a glimpse of the actresses from the first half. This is Funds first solo direction. The film he directed with Santiago Loza, The Lips, was screened in Rotterdam last year.

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patience (After Sebald)


Grant Gee
The point of departure for Grant Gees latest film, after his award-winning documentary Joy Division, is W.G. Sebalds book The Rings of Saturn, a description of the latters long hiking tour of East Anglia. The film follows Sebalds route, but as is the case in the book, the landscape and the places the author visited occasion contemplations. Some twenty writers, artists and other creative minds. including authors Rick Moody and Iain Sinclair, theatre director Katie Michell and artists Tacita Dean and Lise Patt, explain Sebalds impact on their work. They also provide their interpretations of the book which, besides recording a walk, is also a sightseeing tour of the horrors of the twentieth century. The commentaries, the excerpts read by Jonathan Pryce and fragments of interviews with the German writer who died in 2001 create an impression of an original thinker who managed to shape his fascination with and fear of catastrophes in an exceptional manner.

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour/ b&w, video, 82 min, English


Prod: Gareth Evans, Di Robson, Sarah Caddy | Prod Comp: Artevents | Ed: Jerry Chater, Grant Gee | Music: The Caretaker | Print/ Sales: Soda Pictures | www. sodapictures.com Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 18:15 PA6 Thu 2-2 11:45 CI1 Fri 3-2 17:30 CI4 Sat 4-2 09:15 LV1

un amour de jeunesse
Goodbye First Love Mia Hansen-Lve

France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 110 min, French


Prod: David Thion, Phillipe Martin | Prod Comp: Les Films Pellas, Razor Film Produktion GmbH | Sc: Mia Hansen-Lve | Cam: Stphane Fontaine | Ed: Marion Monnier | Prod Des: Mathieu Menut, Charlotte de Cadeville | Sound Des: Vincent Vatoux, Olivier Goinard | With: Lola Crton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Hvard Brekke, Valrie Bonneton, Serge Renko, zay Fecht | Sales: Films Distribution | Distr NL: Lumire Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 10:152 PA3 Fri 3-2 21:302 PA7 Sat 4-2 15:302 PA7

Camille (15) and Sullivan (19) have a passionate affair, overshadowed by her fatalistic insecurity and his need for freedom. Sullivan travels to South America in an attempt to discover himself and the initially regular flow of letters comes to an abrupt end, just like the relationship. The film follows the hopelessly romantic Camille (Love is everything to me, its my only reason to live) in the following years, when she throws herself successfully into her study of architecture in Paris. She doesnt have a serious relationship and doesnt seem to want one until she falls in love with her teacher. The love based on mutual interest and admiration results in a stable and hopeful relationship and the two even move in together. But then Sullivan turns up and the old, confusing feelings come back to the surface. Mia Hansen-Lve (All Is Forgiven, Le pre de mes enfants) records the overpowering, illogical, uncontrollable and finally impossible love.

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When the Lights Went Out


Pat Holden
Loosely based on the Black Monk of Pontefract, a ghost who afflicted the county of Yorkshire in northern England in the 1960s and 1970s, When the Lights Went Out tells the story of the Maynard family. Father Len, mother Jenny and daughter Sally move into their dream house, but soon come across an uninvited presence. The twist comes when the invisible housemate makes friends with 12-yearold Sally. The film reveals a meticulously designed 1970s art direction that also guarantees the necessary humour, for instance in the discussions between man and wife about the colour in the kitchen must be: is it avocado or just plain green? The film mixes the tight and effectively included ghost elements (forms suddenly popping up, flickering lamps, furniture moving on its own) with a northern sobriety that is exceptional for the genre. In this way, an unwilling priest is convinced in an unusual manner to cooperate by performing an exorcism.

WOrLD premIere

United Kingdom, 2012 | colour, DCP, 85 min, English


Prod: Deepak Nayar, Bil Bungay | Prod Comp: See No Evil Productions | Sc: Pat Holden | Cam: Jonathan Harvey | Ed: Rob Hall | Prod Des: Jane Levick | Sound Des: Marc Lawes | Music: Marc Canham | With: Kate Ashfield, Steven Waddington, Tasha Connor, Andrea Lowe, Craig Parkinson, Gary Lewis | Print/Sales: SC Films International | www.patrickholden.co.uk Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 21:45 PA5 Wed 1-2 17:30 CI6 Thu 2-2 21:45 PA5 Sat 4-2 21:45 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 16:15 DJZ

Buk-chon-bang-hyang
the Day He Arrives Hong Sang-Soo
Hong Sang-Soo makes films about filmmakers who make films, but also about filmmakers who dont make films. After Woman on the Beach and Like You Know It All, his The Day He Arrives also slots into this category. In charming black-and-white, Hong follows the young director Seongjun, who after making four films has decided to work as a teacher. Hes not sure if he has stopped filming or whether he just cant do it any more. Thats barely relevant: Hongs film about Seongjun also surreptitiously turns into his own new film. The Day He Arrives is a kind of Groundhog Day, in which Seongjun bumps into several actresses and his ex-girlfriend, drinks himself stupid and experiences plenty of sexual excesses. Its not really clear whether he keeps living through the same event, or that events are completely new to him each time. Hong shows his most self reflective side here. Even though he makes consistent films about the construction of films, he gives them a fresh twist every time.

South Korea, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.85, 79 min, Korean


Prod: Kim Kyoung-Hee | Prod Comp: Jeonwonsa | Sc: Hong Sang-Soo | Cam: Kim Hyung-Koo | Ed: Hahm Sung-Won | Sound Des: Kim Mir | Music: Jeong Yong-Jin | With: Yu Jun-Sang, Kim Sang-Joong, Song Sun-Mi, Kim Bo-Kyung | Print/Sales: Finecut Co, Ltd | www.finecut.co.kr Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 13:30 PA4 Sat 28-1 22:00 SGZ Sun 29-1 14:00 LUX Fri 3-2 16:15 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 12:00 CI2

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Lacan palestine
Mike Hoolboom

WOrLD premIere

Canada, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 70 min, English


Prod: Mike Hoolboom | Cam: Philip Hoffman | Ed: Mike Hoolboom | Music: Machinefabriek | With: Mike Cartmell | Print/Sales: Mike Hoolboom | www.mikehoolboom.com Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 15:00 CI4 Tue 31-1 10:00 CI4 Wed 1-2 22:30 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 09:00 CI3

The foundation of Palestine has a long and difficult history, characterised by a continuing battle for the right to exist. In this cinematographic essay, entirely composed of found-footage material, the history of a land without land is sketched, with its painful relationship with its neighbour Israel. Epic scenes from features, iconic news footage of historic moments, the ever-changing map of Israel, video art by Velcrow Ripper, Elle Flanders and Dani Leventhal, but also very personal recordings of everyday survival, are linked together by the psychoanalytic reflections of filmmaker Mike Cartmell, based on his own painful personal history. From his background as an adopted child, he wonders when you become someone, and how society can emerge from individuals; he compares the functioning of a complex society with that of John Coltranes jazz combo, in which even five super-egos managed to achieve harmony. In Mike Hoolbooms view of Palestine, love and violence exist side-by-side, as a matter of course.

Im Still Alive
Peter van Houten

WOrLD premIere

Netherlands, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 86 min, English/Polish


Prod: Peter van Houten | Prod Comp: Anna-Zharkov-Film | Sc: Peter van Houten | Cam: Peter van Houten | Ed: Peter van Houten | Prod Des: Peter van Houten | Sound Des: Paul Gerrits, Rut Uijtendaal | Music: Z. Preisner | Print/Sales: Anna-Zharkov-Film Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 17:15 LV2 Wed 1-2 10:00 CI6 Thu 2-2 22:30 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 11:00 CI3

A poetic and visual portrait of the old Polish woman Jadwiga Kubis Waslicka. Her life coincided with the 20th century. The great movements of history, such as communism, capitalism and fascism, meant she had to roam Europe from Poland via Germany and the United Kingdom to Holland. Now shes back in her homeland, in Warsaw. She is old. Her body is decaying and shes basically waiting until the angels come to fetch her. The filmmaker is aware of Jadwigas old age and approaching demise, but he also sees much beauty in her appearance. He juxtaposes her wrinkled face with the guilty Polish landscape. At the most intimate of moments, he does not look away and continues to seek beauty in fragility. The woman no longer leaves her house, but the filmmaker does. He brings images and sounds back that tell us things about her life, but without words. Images that mix the suffering from the past with the suffering now.

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tao jie

A Simple Life Ann Hui


Ann Hui lives in Hong Kong and, in an observing style and with mild humour, she tells a minor family tale that is based on true events from the life of the film producer Lee, who co-wrote the film. Deanie Yip won a prize in Venice as the best actress for her role as an ageing amah, a lifelong help in the household of the family of whom only the young film producer (played by the superstar Lau) is still living in Hong Kong. Yip and Lau have played mother and son in several films and on television, and that familiarity is visible in this similar, loving relationship. When the amah has a seizure and has to go to a nursing home, the roles are slowly reversed and both have to adapt. The carefully told story pays great attention to the details of everyday life and also allows space for secondary figures. In between, we get a glimpse behind the scenes of the Hong Kong film industry, including a cameo role for director Tsui Hark.

Hong Kong, 2011 | colour, DCP, 117 min, Cantonese


Prod: Pui-wah Chan, Ann Hui, Roger Lee | Prod Comp: Bona Film Group Limited, Focus Films Limited, Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd. | Sc: Susan Chan, Roger Lee | Cam: Yu Lik-wai | Ed: Kong Chi-leung, Manda Wai | Prod Des: Albert Poon | Sound Des: Tu Duu-chih | Music: Law Wing-fai | With: Andy Lau, Deanie Yip, Qin Hailu, Wang Fuli, Paul Chiang, Leung Tin | Sales: Distribution Workshop | Distr NL: ABC Cinemien Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 13:00 PA1 Wed 1-2 22:15 PA4 Thu 2-2 15:45 PA7 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 09:30 CI3

Bunohan

return to murder Dain Iskandar Said


Dain Saids film is about three Malaysian brothers who all have their own ways of dealing with the other two, and all three also have links with the underworld. It has an unmistakably classic dimension. Adil is the youngest of the three and decides to fight a kick-box contest for financial reasons. But when he resigns from the contest earlier than agreed, the Mafia hitman Ilham is sent after the kid. The man turns out to be his half-brother. Bakar is the eldest of the three and meanwhile pretends to be looking after their very ill father in their birthplace Bunohan (which means murder). In reality, he is trying to acquire ownership of a few hectares of beach to be able to sell it to property developers for a lot of money. Greed is the three-headed monster from the underworld in Saids intriguing confrontation between the old and the new Malaysia. It consumes family bonds and untouched nature in order to build holiday resorts.

eurOpeAN premIere

Malaysia, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 97 min, Malay


Prod: Nandita Solomon | Prod Comp: Apparat | Sc: Dain Said | Cam: Jarin Pengpanitch | Ed: H.K Panca | Sound Des: Vincent Poon | Music: Tan Yan Wei | With: Faizal Hussein, Zahril Adzim, Pekin Ibrahim, Bront Palarae, Namron, Wan Hanfisu, Hushairy Hussein | Sales: Arclight Films (IFTA) | Distr NL: Universal Pictures International Netherlands BV | www.bunohan.com Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 17:00 SGZ Fri 3-2 19:30 LUX Sat 4-2 19:15 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 11:30 DWBZ

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punk in Africa
Keith Jones, Deon Maas

eurOpeAN premIere

South Africa/Czech Republic, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 82 min, English/Afrikaans/Portuguese


Prod: Jeffrey Brown, Deon Maas | Prod Comp: U.F.O. Pictures, Meerkat Media | Sc: Keith Jones | Cam: Gary Griffin | Ed: Andrew Wills | Sound Des: Jonathan Chiles, Jir Suchnek | Print/Sales: Rise and Shine | www.punkinafrica.co.za Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 21:45 PA5 Mon 30-1 16:00 PA2 Tue 31-1 10:00 LV3 Thu 2-2 09:15 CI1 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 20:30 CI3

While young people in the West started to free themselves from traditional authoritarian power relations in the early 1960s and to make the acquaintance of rock n roll and later long hair and punk, in South Africa the institutionalised racism of Apartheid still existed. With the advent of punk music in the mid-1970s, for the first time there was a home-grown youth culture and an opportunity to resist oppressive regimes. Punk in Africa tells the story of punk in South Africa and how it spread to Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Kenya and played a role there in the political struggle. We get to see the most important bands and the legendary venues where they played, but also the evolution of punk music and the influence it had on modern South African bands. In the wings of the many tumultuous concerts, the documentary tells an alternative history of South Africa in the last 40 years, a story unknown to many.

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A Better Life Cdric Kahn

France/Canada, 2011 | colour, DCP, 110 min, French/English


Prod: Kristina Larsen, Denise Robert, Gilles Sandoz, Daniel Louis | Prod Comp: Les Films du Lendemain, Cinmaginaire Inc., Maa Films | Sc: Cedric Kahn, Catherine Paille | Cam: Pascal Marti | Ed: Simon Jacquet | Sound Des: Sylvain Bellemare | Music: Akido | With: Guillaume Canet, Leila Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi, Abraham Belaga, Nicolas Abraham | Sales: Wild Bunch | Distr NL: Filmfreak Distribution | www.uneviemeilleure-lefilm.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:00 LUX Sat 28-1 12:45 PA5 Fri 3-2 12:15 LV2 Sat 4-2 22:00 CI6 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 2-2 12:00 PA5

A better life beckons the young couple Yann and Nadine. In an impulse, the thirty-somethings have bought some real estate by a lake where they want to start a restaurant. Hes a chef, shes a waitress; a dream comes true. But they did not keep their eyes open when they took out their loans and French catering regulations do not prove very cooperative. The project gets delayed, as a result of which Yann and Nadine sink deeper and deeper into money problems. As an extreme stopgap measure, Nadine takes a lucrative job in Canada. Yann stays behind in his mobile home and looks after Nadines nine-yearold son Slimane. When Nadine suddenly doesnt get in touch anymore, Yann is on his own. Kahn, who had primarily made thrillers in the past, now presents the despair and nerve-wracking situation of the protagonists cleverly and briskly, while skilfully avoiding the pitfalls of sentiment. The powerful acting achievements, especially of Guillaume Canet as Yann, turn A Better Life into a beautiful and realistic drama.

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Le Havre
Aki Kaurismki

Finland, 2011 | colour, DCP, 93 min, French


Prod: Aki Kaurismki, Fabienne Vonier, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig | Prod Comp: Sputnik Oy, Pyramide Productions, Pandora Film, ARTE France Cinma, ZDF / ARTE | Sc: Aki Kaurismki | Cam: Timo Salminen | Ed: Timo Linnasalo | Prod Des: Wouter Zoon | Sound Des: Tero Malmberg | With: Andr Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Elina Salo | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: A-Film Distribution | www.janusfilms.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 19:302 LUX Sat 28-1 12:30 PA7 Sun 29-1 15:00 CI6 Tue 31-1 09:45 LV2

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While his Finnish wife is in hospital, the selfish old shoeshine Marcel Marx living in the French port of Le Havre, takes an interest in an African kid who was in a container on his way to his mother in London when the immigration service caught up with him. The hand of the master is immediately apparent in Aki Kaurismkis touching, comforting and wryly comic drama Le Havre. With meticulously framed long shots and the sparse, slightly absurd dialogues. And thanks to his characteristic bitter humour and the special characters, played by Kaurismki regulars such as Andr Wilms and Kati Outinen. At the Cannes Festival last year, this stylish, mildly committed film won the FIPRESCI Award, the prize of the international film critics. Laka, Kaurismkis dog, received a special mention from the Palm Dog jury.

Serdca bumerang
Hearts Boomerang Nikolay Khomeriki

Russia, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:2.35, 96 min, Russian


Prod: Svetlana Kuchmaeva | Prod Comp: Valday | Sc: Alexander Radionov, Nikolay Khomeriki | Cam: Shandor Berkeshi | Ed: Ivan Lebedev | Prod Des: Denis Bauer | Sound Des: Boris Voit, Nikita Ganjkin | With: Alexander Yatsenko, Claudia Korshunova, Natalia Batrak, Alexander Ilyn, Renata Litvinova | Print/ Sales: Valday | www.valdayfilms.com Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 18:30 PA7 Thu 2-2 19:15 PA3 Fri 3-2 16:15 SGZ Sat 4-2 20:00 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 14:30 CI2

In the opening scene, Kostya (23) is confronted with bad news: the doctor tells him that he is suffering from incurable heart disease. In theory, he could drop dead at any moment. Kostya then proceeds to share the news with no one. Not even with his mother, who seems so close. Not with the colleague he shares his metro journey with every day. And not with his girlfriend, with whom he has a difficult relationship. What is Kostya really going through? Is he trying to come to terms with his ticking time bomb? Is he reflecting on the radically changed meaning of his life? Russian director Nikolay Khomeriki builds up the mystery around Kostyas psychological state subtly and patiently. The picturesque black-andwhite photography of St Petersburg in winter is by Shandor Berkeshi (Koktebel ), whose camera remains at a distance and hence gives the viewer plenty of space to penetrate Kostyas soul.

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tatsumi
Eric Khoo

Singapore, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 98 min, Japanese


Prod: Tan Fong Cheng, Phil Mitchell, Freddie Yeo, Eric Khoo | Prod Comp: Zhao Wei Films, Infinite Frameworks | Sc: Eric Khoo, based on works by Tatsumi Yoshihiro | Ed: Taufik Ramadhan | Prod Des: Widhi Saputro | Sound Des: Kazz | Music: Christopher Khoo, Christine Sham | With: voices of Bessho Tetsuya, Tatsumi Yoshihiro | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: A-Film Distribution Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:302 LUX Tue 31-1 11:302 PA1

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Eric Khoo previously came to Rotterdam with a few Singapore features and now pays tribute to the Japanese manga author Tatsumi Yoshihiro in his first animation film. Tatsumi is known as a pioneer of the gekiga, the comic-strip genre aimed at adults that is regarded as the more serious form of manga. The film is based on A Drifting Life, Tatsumis autobiographical manga, through which Khoo has intertwined several of his short stories as independent episodes. At the age of 12, Tatsumi is already a passionate illustrator. He makes many attempts to build up a career as a manga artist, fed by his admiration for the manga grandmaster Tezuka Osamu. Impressions of post-war Japan can be seen in the background of this melancholy story. This last theme is above all powerfully present in the much grimmer short stories by Tatsumi, with their tragic characters and bizarre turns. The simple animation style remains close to the work of Tatsumi himself.

Jultak dongshi
Stateless things Kim Kyung-Mook

South Korea, 2011 | colour, video, 115 min, Korean


Prod: Park Jinweon | Prod Comp: ALIVE Pictures Co., Ltd | Sc: Kim Kyung-Mook | Cam: Kang Kook-Hyun | Ed: Kim KyungMook | Prod Des: Park Jae-Hyun | Sound Des: Lee Min-Hee, Pyo Yong-Soo | Music: Lee Min-Hee | With: Paul Lee, Yeom Hyun-Joon, Kim Sae-Byuk, Lim Hyung-Kook | Print/Sales: Mirovision Inc. Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 17:00 CI1 Fri 27-1 21:45 PA5 Thu 2-2 14:15 CI1 Sat 4-2 19:30 CI4

Jun has fled from North Korea and tries to manage without money or family in the South Korean capital, Seoul. It briefly looks as if a romance will develop with Sun-Hee, a colleague at the filling station where Jun has a job. But Sun-Hee, who comes from a Korean family in China, is too confused and afraid. In a different, more wealthy part of town, the young, handsome Hyeon looks at the night-time lights of Seoul. He lives in a chic apartment registered in the name of his older lover, who is so jealous that he would most like to lock Hyeon up. Slowly but surely, the stories of Jun and Hyeon, two lost souls, come together in the poetic and stylish Stateless Things. Despite his young age, Kim Kyung-Mook (b. 1985) has long been regarded as one of South Koreas greatest talents; he has made a name for himself with short and mid-length films such as A Cheonggyecheon Dog (2008) and the controversial Faceless Things (2005). The positioning of the opening titles is enough to show Kims idiosyncrasy: they only appear on screen after 90 min.

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Girigiri no onnatachi
Women on the edge Kobayashi Masahiro
Women on the Edge has four leads: three actresses and a house. A house in a beautiful rural location, the countryside tarnished by the disaster which struck Japan in March 2011. However, in the houses immediate surroundings everything seems normal. The three actresses play the sisters Takako (Watanabe Makiko), Nobuko (Nakamura Yuko) and Satomi (Fujima Miho). The three have a frosty relationship and the reunion is unplanned. They havent seen each other for ten years. They all accidentally return to the family home for different reasons, which leads to tensions, and the desolate landscape after the disaster just exacerbates the mood. Kobayashi (The Rebirth) has previously shot films in this area that he loves, which led him to purchase the house that the film is set in and around. Initially he doubted whether shooting in the disaster area was appropriate, but those who live there encouraged him.

INterNAtIONAL premIere

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 101 min, Japanese


Prod: Kobayashi Masahiro | Prod Comp: Monkey Town Productions | Sc: Kobayashi Masahiro | Cam: Nishikubo Koichi | Ed: Kaneko Naoki | Prod Des: Kobayashi Masahiro | Sound Des: Eguchi Yasushi | Music: Kobayashi Masahiro | With: Fujima Miho, Nakamura Yuko, Watanabe Makiko | Print/ Sales: Monkey Town Productions Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 17:00 CI1 Mon 30-1 21:45 PA5 Tue 31-1 15:00 CI4 Fri 3-2 09:30 PA2 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 17:30 DJZ

Kiseki

I Wish Kore-eda Hirokazu


The Japanese master of humanitarian fiction again focusses on children in complex family situations, just as in Nobody Knows (2004). However this time his approach is not as severe. Koichi and his younger brother Ryunosuke are very close but, after the divorce of their parents, each moves to a different city. Koichi lives with his mother and his grandparents in the village, while Ryunosuke and his father live in the city, where the father tries to make a name for himself as a musician. The two children decide to conceive a plan to bridge the physical distance once and for all. Their complex operation means taking risks, however. Kore-eda (After Life, Still Walking) chose two real brothers for this adventure maybe his most accessible film so far. Again he shows the world of experience of children, without sentimentality or conventional answers. With beautiful camerawork, lucid colours and an apt rock score by the Japanese band Quruli.

Japan, 2011 | colour, DCP, 128 min, Japanese


Prod: Koike Kentaro, Hijiri Taguchi | Prod Comp: Shirogumi Inc., Big X | Sc: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Cam: Yamazaki Yutaka | Ed: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Prod Des: Mitsumatsu Keiko | Sound Des: Tsurumaki Yutaka | Music: Quruli | With: Maeda Koki, Maeda Ohshiro, Joe Odagiri, Nene Ohtsuka, Kiki Kirin, Hashizume Isao | Distr NL: A-Film Distribution Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 19:00 PA1 Wed 1-2 15:45 PA5 Fri 3-2 20:30 CI6 Sat 4-2 13:45 LV1

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Deool

A temple Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni


A witty and somewhat lyrical black comedy situated in a small village in the Indian state of Maharashtra, where a simple young man unexpectedly receives a divine vision in his sleep. Kesha is visited by the god Dutta, and his auspicious experience changes the dynamics of daily life in the community. Kesha becomes important, but his new position in the limelight puts him under pressure as well. Elections are approaching, and local politicians juggle between two opposites regarding Keshas story. This intriguing film reflects contemporary issues, questioning the human position on faith, the dishonesty of those who are after power and money and the corruption in the whole of society. Kesha, played convincingly by Girish Kulkarni, a scriptwriter and a director himself, keeps the suspense alive throughout the film. This is the third feature fiction film by one of the most exciting directors in India today.

eurOpeAN premIere

India, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 146 min, Marathi


Prod: Abhijeet Gholap | Prod Comp: Devisha Films | Sc: Girish Kulkarni | Cam: Sudhakar Reddy | Ed: Abhijeet Deshpande | Prod Des: Prashant Bidkar | Sound Des: Anthony B.J. Ruben | Music: Mangesh Dhakde | With: Nana Patekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Sonali Kulkarni, Dileep Prabhavalkar | Print/ Sales: Devisha Films | www.deool.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 20:00 CI2 Sat 28-1 14:45 CI5 Mon 30-1 09:15 LV5 Sat 4-2 11:30 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 09:30 DJZ Thu 2-2 12:30 CI2

Los pasos dobles


the Double Steps Isaki Lacuesta

Spain/Switzerland, 2011 | colour, video, 87 min, Bambara/French


Prod: Luisa Matienzo, Dan Wechsler | Prod Comp: Tusitala Producciones Cinematogrficas, Bord Cadre Films | Sc: Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta | Cam: Diego Dussuel | Ed: Domi Parra | Prod Des: Sebastin Birchler | Sound Des: Amanda Villavieja | Music: Gerard Gil | With: Bokar Dembele, Miquel Barcel, Alou Ciss, Hamadoun Kassogue, Amon Pegnere Dolo, Amassagou Dolo, Abinum Dolo | Print/Sales: m-appeal Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 20:15 CI6 Sat 28-1 22:00 LV1 Fri 3-2 12:15 PA6 Sat 4-2 14:30 CI6

The French writer and artist Franois Augiras (1925-1971) loved adventure, grand gestures and mystification. He once made a series of enormous frescoes in a bunker in the desert of Mali, which he then allowed to be swallowed up by the advancing sand dunes. Later generations would have to try and find this grand masterpiece: the Sistine Chapel of the desert. Miquel Barcel, one of todays leading Spanish artists, is fascinated by the work and life story of Augiras. He also often works in Mali, where he finds inspiration for his sculptures and paintings. The Catalan director Isaki Lacuesta made a documentary about Barcel, The Clay Diaries, and simultaneously made the fiction film The Double Steps: a complex, enchanting mix of fantasy and reality in a plethora of narrative lines, inspired by Barcel (who also plays a role in the film), Augiras, and the narrative tradition of the Mali Dogon people. Amateur actors play most roles in this film that won the Golden Shell in San Sebastin.

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el cuaderno de barro
the clay Diaries Isaki Lacuesta
Who would bring clay to Mali? the inhabitants of the Dogon region wonder when a truck arrives from Spain with four tons of wet clay. It is raw material for a performance by Spanish artist Miquel Barcel and French dancer and choreographer Josef Nadj. The performance is called Paso doble, to be performed atop the famous Cliff at Bandiagara. Its a beautiful, humorous choreography for two men in black suits using clubs and their hands to attack the clay, creating a work of art that fits in beautifully with the surroundings. It is immediately obvious why Miquel Barcel, undisputedly one of todays greatest artists, feel so at home in Mali, a country where he has regularly worked for 20 years. He just gets more inspired, even when the wind prevents him painting and termites eat his work. The cooperation between Isaki Lacuesta and Barcel not only yielded this beautiful documentary, but also the fiction film The Double Steps, which also screens at the festival.

Spain/Switzerland, 2011 | colour, video, 60 min, Bambara/French


Prod: Luisa Matienzo, Dan Wechsler | Prod Comp: Tusitala Producciones Cinematogrficas, Bord Cadre Films | Sc: Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta | Cam: Diego Dussuel | Ed: Lupe Prez Garca | Prod Des: Sebastin Birchler | Sound Des: Amanda Villavieja | Music: Gerard Gil | With: Miquel Barcel, Josef Nadj, Alain Mahe, Amon Pegnere Dolo | Print/Sales: m-appeal Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:302 CI6 Sat 28-1 17:452 CI7 Sun 29-1 09:302 LV1 Sat 4-2 12:30 CI6

Les gants
the Giants Bouli Lanners

Belgium/France/Luxembourg, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 84 min, French


Prod: Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal, Jani Thiltges | Prod Comp: Versus Production, Haut et Court, Samsa Film | Sc: Bouli Lanners, Elise Ancion | Cam: Jean-Paul De Zaeytijd | Ed: Ewin Ryckaert | Prod Des: Paul Rouschop | Sound Des: Marc Bastien | Music: The Bony King of Nowhere | With: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel, Marthe Keller, Karim Leklou, Didier Toupy, Gwen Berrou | Sales: Memento Films | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 18:30 PA7 Fri 27-1 16:002 LUX Sat 28-1 09:152 PA6 Mon 30-1 09:302 LV6

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Smoking weed, joyriding, stealing food: the giants from the title are full of mischief. Its a languid summer vacation in the Ardennes mountains of Belgium and the three teenage boys Zak, Seth and Dany have been left to their own devices by their parents. Without a penny in their pocket, they have to fend for themselves. The ideal recipe for an exciting boys book: a series of fairytale adventures in woodlands and over meandering rivers in which not only the local drug dealer and Danys crazy brother, but also three pigs, angry wolves and a good fairy turn up. The worlds of the Belgian actor/director Bouli Lanners are always populated by colourful, eccentric characters. Just as in Ultranova (2005) and Eldorado (2008), Lanners creates a universe of his own that is perched between magic realism and wry-comic absurdity. The painter in Lanners betrays himself in the majestic CinemaScope images. The Giants (SACD Prize in Cannes) is a modern, poetic, bittersweet fairytale about fragile family bonds and pure friendships.

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Alpeis

Alps Yorgos Lanthimos


They call themselves Alps. Their leader is called Mont Blanc. Its a mysterious group; the four members a nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her trainer are not allowed to talk about their activities to non-Alps. In their spare time, they rent themselves out to families in order to fill in for a relative who has recently died. They then act like the lovely daughter, husband or girlfriend and claim that this helps ease the mourning. But its very doubtful whether the roleplay is really that healthy. Alps, after all, is a film by Yorgos Lanthimos, maker of the widely praised and award-winning Dogtooth (2009) and a specialist in creating unhealthy, absurd relationships. With their familiar style filled with wry dialogue spoken completely neutrally, Lanthimos and screenwriter Efthimis Filippou provide even more infamous commentary on Greek society in particular and human shortcomings in general. Everyone is always playing a role a principle that is taken to extreme in Alps.

Greece, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 93 min, Greek


Prod: Yorgos Lanthimos, Athina Rachel Tsangari | Prod Comp: Haos Film | Sc: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou | Cam: Christos Voudouris | Ed: Yorgos Mavropsaridis | Prod Des: Anna Georgiadou | Sound Des: Leandros Ntounis | With: Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed | Sales: The Match Factory GmbH | Distr NL: Filmfreak Distribution Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 19:302 LUX Tue 31-1 16:30 PA4 Thu 2-2 22:30 CI2 Sat 4-2 20:00 CI5

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Demain?
Christine Laurent

WOrLD premIere

France/Portugal, 2012 | colour, video, 95 min, French


Prod: Martine de ClermontTonnerre | Prod Comp: MACT Productions | Sc: Christine Laurent | Cam: Andr Szankowski | Ed: Sandro Aguilar | Prod Des: Carlos Subtil | Sound Des: Rita Cerveira | With: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Marc Ruchmann, Lus Miguel Cintra, Teresa Madruga, Adriano Luz, Vladimir Lon | Print/ Sales: Wide Management Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 16:45 SGZ Sat 28-1 21:45 PA5 Sun 29-1 10:30 PA4 Sat 4-2 11:45 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 11:15 LV5

Tragic artists lives are always a thankful subject for films. Certainly if they end the same way as Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet. In this subtle, supercooled biography, the French director/ scriptwriter/actress Christine Laurent filmed the life of Delmira Agustini (1886-1914), a famous name within female poetry in Latin America. As a member of the Uruguayan aristocratic class, Agustini lived her short life in luxurious mansions, stylishly depicted by Laurent. Here she had all the room she needed to write her titillating, erotic poems. Laurent focuses primarily on the fickle love life on which Agustinis work was based. Her relationship with the possessive Enrique Job Reyes had its ups and downs. He wants to marry her, but she has her doubts and also has to come to terms with her dominant mother. Spoken in French, Demain? turns into a portrait of a young woman who, despite growing up in relative freedom, has to fight for her independence.

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Histoire de mes cheveux


Story of my Hair Boris Lehman Boris Lehman had not cut his hair for more than two decades. It turned grey and dried out and something had to be done. Lehman has the misfortune of being a filmmaker, as he put it himself, so he decided to make a film about it. It became a personal documentary in which Lehman linked the growth of his hair to the time and space he has been on the Earth. Because hair, he found out, retains microscopic particles of everything that has happened in your life. He travelled through Europe, the Ukraine and Russia, back through his own history and that of his parents, but suddenly changed course when he couldnt find anything, when it turned out that his past had partly been rubbed out. The story of Samson and Delilah and other literary fragments accompany Lehman on his journey and reflect on the vulnerability and fleeting nature of life.

Belgium/Russia, 2010 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.33, 90 min, French


Prod: Boris Lehman | Prod Comp: Dovfilm | Sc: Boris Lehman | Cam: Antoine-Marie Meert | Ed: Ariane Mellet | Sound Des: Jacques Dapoz | With: Boris Lehman, Marie Duez | Print/ Sales: Dovfilm | www.borislehman.be Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 22:15 LV6 Thu 2-2 12:00 LV6 Fri 3-2 14:30 LV6

the Loneliest planet


Julia Loktev

USA/Germany, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 113 min, English


Prod: Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Helge Albers, Marie Therese Guirgis | Prod Comp: Parts and Labor, Flying Moon Filmproduktion | Sc: Julia Loktev, based on Expensive Trips Nowhere from the collection God Lives in St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell | Cam: Inti Briones | Ed: Michael Taylor, Julia Loktev | Prod Des: Rabiah Troncelliti | Sound Des: Martn Hernandez | Music: Richard Skelton | With: Gael Garca Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze | Print/ Sales: The Match Factory GmbH Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 17:15 SGZ Mon 30-1 19:15 SGZ

This backpackers adventure is a loose adaptation of Tim Bissells Expensive Trips Nowhere, a series of stories about rich Westerners travelling in poor, beautiful parts of the world. In this case, Alex (Gael Garca Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) have decided to go trekking in the Caucasus a few months before their wedding, led by local guide Dato (Bidzina Gujabidze). They walk for hours, sometimes talking or singing, but usually surrounded by the intoxicating silence of the rugged mountains. An unexpected event sorely tests their relationship. Julia Loktevs second feature film deals with relationships disrupted by misunderstandings, but is also a masterful example of repetition and duration in cinema. Gujabidze, who makes his debut in this film, works as a real-life guide, enabling him to give an authentic performance, while Bernal and Furstenberg manage to create an alienating chemistry. The title is a playful reference to the popular publisher of travel guides.

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La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser


the Legend of Kaspar Hauser Davide Manuli Vincent Gallo plays a double lead in this Italian version of the legend of Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious boy who appeared in the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 and could hardly talk. His ancestry (royal, according to some) and history were never explained. In this absurdist retelling by director Davide Manuli, the tracksuit- and headphone-wearing Kaspar Hauser washes up on the beach of an almost uninhabited island, where he is found and received as the messiah by The Sheriff (Gallo) who is also a DJ. The Duchess, who rules the tiny community, feels threatened by the blond boy and sends The Pusher (also Gallo) to fix things. The brief chapters, which all consist of a single, long take and feature minimal, surreal dialogues, tell Hausers story. All in black-and-white against the sober background of deserted beaches and villages, supported by Vitalics pumping rhythms.

WOrLD premIere

Italy, 2012 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.85, 90 min, Italian/English


Prod: Alessandro Bonifazi, Bruno Tribbioli, Davide Manuli | Prod Comp: Blue Film s.r.l., Shooting Hope Productions srl | Sc: Davide Manuli | Cam: Tarek Ben Abdallah | Ed: Rosella Mocci | Prod Des: Giampietro Preziosa | Music: Vitalic | With: Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini, Silvia Calderoni, Elisa Sednaoui, Fabrizio Gifuni, | Print/Sales: Intramovies Srl Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 19:00 PA1 Tue 31-1 14:45 LV2 Wed 1-2 22:30 DJZ Fri 3-2 22:15 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 18:30 DWBZ

Buenas noches, espaa


Raya Martin
Spanish colonial domination has a very unusual translation in this experimental road movie. Raya Martin took an anecdote about a Filipino soldier who suddenly wakes up and finds himself in Mexico City in 1593. A case of teleportation, and the same goes for the holiday trip by the lovers in the film. They stop the car to admire a mountain panorama, stroll through the city, pull faces at each other and visit a museum, where they exhibit themselves to each other with corny surrender. The scenes, edited associatively, are regularly repeated. Are the protagonists about to be shot off to a different place or time? And is that because they are under the influence of drugs? Martin designs his film as a psychedelic LSD trip: the images are oversaturated in bright reds, blues, yellows and pinks and supported by a grinding and scratchy soundtrack. In his visual essay, Martin reflects on being stuck in time. An obsession with history the colonial past of Spain, Mexico and the Philippines has blocked the couple.

Philippines/Spain, 2011 | colour/ b&w, DCP, 70 min, no dialogue


Prod: Arleen Cuevas, Samuel Martinez, Mario Madueo, Gonzalo de Pedro Amatria, Vctor Iriarte, Raya Martin | Prod Comp: Cinematografica, Pantalla Partida | Sc: Raya Martin | Cam: Vctor Iriarte | Ed: Vctor Iriarte, Lawrence S. Ang | Sound Des: Manuel Alvero, Pat Sarabia, Nacho R. Arenas | Music: Fernando Franco | With: Pilar Lpez de Ayala, Andrs Gertrdix | Print/Sales: Pantalla Partida | www. pantallapartida.es/buenasnoches Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:452 PA7 Sat 28-1 09:302 PA7 Sun 29-1 22:302 CI1 Fri 3-2 20:152 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 1-2 11:30 PA5

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Los ltimos cristeros


the Last christeros Matas Meyer
Mexico, 1938. The very last warriors fight a rearguard action in the latter days of the Cristiada, the bloody war that lasted years between Roman Catholic rebels and the Mexican government, which wanted to reduce the power of the church with strict anticlerical laws. This small group of cristeros are fighting for their religious freedom and holing up in the wild expanse of the Mexican landscape. Occasionally there is a shot; apart from that the war remains limited to just surviving with less and less under the merciless sun. The father of director Matas Meyer is a historian who published several books about the Cristiada, still a sensitive subject in Mexico. While a Hollywood film was also being made about this civil war, with leading roles for Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria, Meyer made the opposite of a Hollywood spectacle: performed by nonprofessional actors, The Last Christeros is an intimate, minimalist Western with great attention to tranquil and comradely moments.

eurOpeAN premIere

Mexico/Netherlands, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 90 min, Spanish


Prod: Julio Brcenas, Matas Meyer, Paola Herrera, Frans van Gestel | Prod Comp: Axolote Cine, Una Comunin, Topkapi Films | Sc: Israel Crdenas, Matas Meyer | Cam: Gerardo Barroso Alcal | Ed: Len Felipe Gonzalez | Prod Des: Nohemi Gonzalez | Sound Des: Alejandro De Icaza | Music: Galo Durn | With: Alejandro Limn, Antonio Garca, Jess Moiss Rodrguez, Salvador Ferreiro | Sales: FiGa Films | Distr NL: Topkapi Films | www.idtvfilm.nl Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:30 PA4 Mon 30-1 13:15 PA3 Tue 31-1 10:15 PA3 Thu 2-2 17:00 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 15:30 DWBZ Wed 1-2 19:30 CI2

Gyakuten Saiban
Ace Attorney Miike Takashi

WOrLD premIere

Japan, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 135 min, Japanese


Prod: Okuda Seiji | Prod Comp: Nippon Television Network Corporation | Sc: Iida Takeshi, Oguchi Sachiko | Cam: Oka Masakazu | Ed: Yamashita Kenji | Sound Des: Shibazaki Kenji | Music: End Kji | With: Narimiya Hiroki, Kiritani Mirei, Saito Takumi, Dan Rei, Daito Shunsuke, Nakao Akiyoshi | Print/Sales: Nippon Television Network Corporation | www.gyakutensaiban-movie.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 15:45 PA1 Sat 28-1 19:152 LUX Sun 29-1 14:00 SGZ Wed 1-2 22:15 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 14:00 DJZ Thu 2-2 14:00 DJZ

Miike Takashi made a film adaptation of the popular Nintendo game Ace Attorney, about the young, rather clumsy lawyer Phoenix Wright, who was also the protagonist of the first three Capcom games. Wright, assisted by old school friends Miles Edgeworth and Larry Butz, has to win several court cases in this story in order to solve a 15-year-old mystery. Among all the comedy and sci-fi gadgets of the lawyers, the film provides a caricature of the show-business character of Japanese law. Through the immense pressure on the legal system, in the near future of Ace Attorney a case will only be allowed to last three days before the judge takes a decision. Under the enormous pressure of time, it is increasingly important for lawyers to intimidate the other party and give a smooth presentation, even though they say that success is determined by strong evidence. Miikes typical cartoon style, combined with dynamic game visuals, results in a playful crossover between live-action, game and manga.

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miss Bala
Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez

Mexico, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 113 min, Spanish/English


Prod: Pablo Cruz | Prod Comp: Canana Films | Sc: Mauricio Katz, Gerardo Naranjo | Cam: Mtys Erdly | Ed: Gerardo Naranjo | Prod Des: Ivonne Fuentes | Sound Des: Salvador Flix, Pablo Lach | Music: Emilio Kauderer | With: Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Irene Azuela, Jose Yenque, James Russo | Print/ Sales: Fox Searchlight Europe | www.missbala.com Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:00 PA1 Sat 28-1 22:30 LUX Wed 1-2 21:30 PA7 Fri 3-2 18:30 PA1 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 17:30 DWBZ

Gerardo Naranjo delivers a narcotics thriller with Hollywood pretensions. Entertaining, exciting, rapid, dark, and filled with action and violence. Like Steven Soderberghs Traffic, Miss Bala is situated around the drug wars on the Mexican-American border. Stephanie Sigman plays Laura Guerrero, a young, attractive but also poor woman who would like to be Miss Universe. When she decides to take part in a local beauty contest, she is blackmailed by the drug baron Lino: he promises her she will win, and in exchange she does a few jobs for him. The dream comes true, but the price is high, as Laura becomes increasingly entangled in the criminal circuit. Inspired by a true story, Naranjo stays close to reality. Just like the modern classic Gomorrah, he provides a raw glimpse of the drug world and packages it as a bloodcurdling, sensational thriller. Making her debut, Sigman presents Laura more as a fearful animal in distress than a thoughtless girl. And as a result, she sinks even deeper into the quagmire.

the Hunter
Daniel Nettheim

eurOpeAN premIere

Australia, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 101 min, English


Prod: Vincent Sheehan | Prod Comp: Porchlight Films | Sc: Alice Addison, based on the novel by Julia Leigh | Cam: Robert Humphreys | Ed: Roland Gallois | Prod Des: Steven Jones-Evans | Sound Des: Sam Petty, Liam Egan | Music: Andrew Lancaster, Michael Lira, Matteo Zingales | With: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances OConnor, Morgana Davies, Finn Woodlock | Print/Sales: eOne Films International | www.thehuntermovie.com Public SCREENINGS Sat 4-2 21:00 DGZ Sat 4-2 22:15 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 20:15 DWBZ

The Australian bush attracts and frightens. That also goes for Martin, who treks into the wilderness of Tasmania in this exciting psychological adventure drama. Via a mysterious biotechnological company, he has been commissioned to track down the last Tasmanian tiger. Not an easy commission, that much is clear. The tiger is sought at length, but without success. Martin hears from the local guide that the previous hunter has been missing for months. He also finds his traps are sabotaged and hes being tracked on his quest. The Hunter, based on the debut novel by Julia Leigh, is both a literal journey and a metaphorical one: Martin, a layered role by Willem Dafoe, has to change his own opinions and behaviour because of his mission. The majestic, breathtaking shots were filmed entirely on location. Rough plateaux, desolate mountains, thick forests: their emptiness and deserted nature underlines the isolation, loneliness and urge for survival of the protagonist. Closing Film of the festival.

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mata tertutup
the Blindfold Garin Nugroho

WOrLD premIere

Indonesia, 2012 | colour, video, 90 min, Indonesian


Prod: Garin Nugroho, Asaf Antariska, Endang Tirtana | Prod Comp: SET Film Workshop, Maaruf Institute | Sc: Tri Sasongko | Cam: Anggi Frisca | Ed: Arturo G.P., Beck | Print/Sales: SET Film Workshop Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 16:45 SGZ Sun 29-1 11:45 CI1 Tue 31-1 19:45 CI1 Thu 2-2 15:45 PA5 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 11:45 CI3

In contemporary Indonesia, religious radicalisation is playing an increasingly important role. The banned Indonesian Islamic State (NII) successfully recruits among young people who dont have any prospects of training or work. Nugroho tells three different stories: that of the girl Rima, who emerges as a valuable staff member of the NII; Jabir, who quits school for lack of money and returns to his parents, and Asimah, the mother of Ainsi, who has been kidnapped by the NII. Rima does so well that she acquires a leading role, but then it soon becomes apparent that there is no room for her ambitions in Islamic conventions. Jabir joins the radical Muslims out of frustration about the lives of his parents, who have no prospects. Asimah walks all over the city looking for her daughter. Nugroho (Leaf on a Pillow, Opera Jawa) made the film on a small budget (less than 100,000 Euros) with primarily non-professional actors.

Le reste du monde
the rest of the World Damien Odoul

WOrLD premIere

France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 81 min, French


Prod: Damien Odoul | Prod Comp: D.O.FILMS | Sc: Sophie Le Breton | Cam: Sylvain Rodriguez | Ed: Jean-Christophe Hym | Prod Des: Antoine Ain | Sound Des: Fred Dabo | With: Marie-Eve Nadeau, Judith Morisseau, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Bart, Aurlie Mestres | Print/Sales: Le Pacte Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 18:45 PA5 Sat 28-1 12:15 PA6 Sun 29-1 09:15 CI1 Tue 31-1 17:30 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Thu 26-1 09:30 CI3

Eve is a young woman who lives in the South of France. One evening, her boyfriend commits suicide and soon after she turns out to be pregnant. It is the start of a drama that (primarily) investigates the role of parenthood. During a family dinner, the new wife of Eves father brings up an old family secret. As a result, Judith, one of Eves two sisters, becomes convinced that her father is not her biological father, and she goes looking for him. In the meantime, Eve wonders whether she wants to keep the child. Damien Odoul is a wayward outsider in the French film industry and based his film, made for television, on an autobiographical detail, using this as a starting point for his story about identity, origins, family bonds and mourning. The French actress Emmanuelle Bart stars as the alcoholic new mother-in-law. Also with minor roles for Mathieu Amalric and Charles Berling.

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Francophrenia (or: Dont Kill


me, I Know Where the Baby Is) Ian Olds, James Franco
When James Franco announced he was to play a role in the TV series General Hospital, it caused quite a stir. Franco is known as a serious actor, so what was he doing in a soap series? There were rumours that his performance had something to do with an art project. Not such a crazy theory, as James Franco (who acted in Spider-Man, 127 Hours and Howl ) has many talents. He directs, writes, studies and makes (performance) art. Francophrenia demonstrates that there is more to his role as artist/murderer Franco in General Hospital than meets the eye. The film starts innocently: we follow him during a days shooting of the soap series. But it soon becomes clear that directors Ian Olds and Franco didnt want to make an ordinary documentary. In voice-over, we hear Francos thoughts as these become increasingly paranoid and megalomaniacal. Francophrenia is a humorous, experimental psycho-thriller that Franco grandly and stunningly trips up. Im everywhere. Im the light of this world!

WOrLD premIere

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 69 min, English


Prod: Vince Jolivette, Miles Levy | Prod Comp: Rabbit Bandini Productions | Sc: Ian Olds, Paul Felten | Cam: Doug Chamberlain | Ed: Ian Olds | Music: Joe DeNardo, Kevin Doria | With: James Franco, Vince Jolivette | Print/ Sales: Rabbit Bandini Productions Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 18:00 PA6 Wed 1-2 21:45 PA5 Fri 3-2 11:45 CI1 Sat 4-2 09:45 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Mon 30-1 14:00 DJZ

play
Ruben stlund

Sweden/France/Denmark, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 113 min, Swedish


Prod: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober | Prod Comp: Plattform Produktion, Film i Vst, Coproduction Office | Sc: Ruben stlund | Cam: Marius Dybwad Brandrud | Ed: Ruben stlund, Jacob Schulsinger | Prod Des: Pia Aleborg | Sound Des: Jan Alvermark, Robert Srling, Claes Lundberg | Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Daniel Bensi | With: Anas Abdirahman, Sebastian Blyckert, Yannick Diakit, Sebastian Hegmar, Abdiaziz Hilowle | Sales: Coproduction Office | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 14:45 LV3 Tue 31-1 22:30 PA4 Wed 1-2 14:15 SGZ Sat 4-2 22:30 PA4

d.s. d.s. d.s. d.s.

Three white boys aged about 12 are surrounded in a large shopping mall by five black kids, just a little older. Do they know the time? When one of them takes out his mobile phone, the game starts: that phone belongs to the younger brother of one of the attackers, he argues loudly. Lets just go and ask him. And that is the start of an apparently endless journey, filmed in real time from the centre to the suburbs, driven by the constantly shifting group dynamics. Director and scriptwriter Ruben stlund (Involuntary) based his film on true events: a group of kids managed to rob about 40 other children between 2006 and 2008 in stlunds home town of Gteborg in the roundabout yet non-violent way shown in the film in long, distant takes. stlund was allowed to study the legal documents surrounding the case and spoke to culprits and victims in order to build up his powerful analysis layer by layer.

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Duch, le matre des forges de lenfer


Duch, master of the Forges of Hell

France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 103 min, Khmer


Prod: Catherine Dussart | Prod Comp: Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP) | Sc: Rithy Panh | Cam: Prum Msar, Rithy Panh | Ed: MarieChristine Rougerie, Rithy Panh | Sound Des: Sear Vissal | Music: Marc Marder | Print/Sales: Films Distribution Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 12:30 PA2 Thu 2-2 18:45 PA5 Fri 3-2 13:15 PA3 Sat 4-2 16:45 LV1

Rithy Panh Duch is the nickname of Kaing Guek Eav. In 2009 he was the first leader of the Khmer Rouge to be tried by an international war tribunal. Between 1975 and 1979, he was part of the horrific regime that had Cambodia in its grip, first as administrator of the M13 prison and later of the S21 camp, a murder machine in which the remaining archives suggest that 12,380 people lost their lives and probably many more were destroyed. Rithy Panh has for years chronicled the Khmer Rouge and allows Duch to tell his own story frankly and unhindered, in a dialogue. But where Duch paints a picture of himself as only a cog in the machine, archive footage and eyewitness accounts provide a very clear picture of that hellish machine which led to the death of almost 2,000,000 Cambodians about a quarter of the population. Panh lays bare the mechanisms of a system that left no space for humanity.

the Descendants
Alexander Payne

USA, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 115 min, English


Prod: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Jim Burke | Prod Comp: Ad Hominem | Sc: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings | Cam: Phedon Papamichael | Ed: Kevin Tent | Prod Des: Jane Ann Stewart | Sound Des: Frank Gaeta | Music: Dondi Bastone | With: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Patricia Hastie, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer | Sales: Fox Searchlight Europe | Distr NL: Warner Bros. Pictures Holland | www. foxsearchlight.com/thedescendants Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 17:30 PA4 Thu 2-2 10:00 PA2 Fri 3-2 19:15 PA3 Sat 4-2 21:15 PA6

Thorough and subtle analyses of emotionally stranded men are a recurring theme in the work of Alexander Payne: the characters of Matthew Broderick in Election, Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt, Paul Giamatti in Sideways and now George Clooney all wrestle with their own selves. Payne chooses his projects with care and also avoids clichs and melodramatic pitfalls in this new comedy drama. The Descendants, based on the debut novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, follows a man in Hawaii who is at a turning point in his life. His wife has gone into a coma after an accident and he is forced to look at himself. Until then he had been the back-up parent, but now this self-appointed understudy has to take full responsibility as a parent for his two daughters. In addition, he wrestles with the painful discovery that his wife had an extramarital affair, and with the question of whether he should sell his land for a large sum of money.

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roman Diary
Michael Pilz

WOrLD premIere

Austria, 2012 | colour, video, 124 min, no dialogue


Prod: Michael Pilz | Sc: Michael Pilz | Cam: Michael Pilz | Ed: Michael Pilz | Sound Des: Michael Pilz | Print/ Sales: Michael Pilz | www.michaelpilz.at Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 17:30 CI4 Mon 30-1 12:15 CI4 Tue 31-1 20:00 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 09:30 CI3

In a long, slow, silent procession, they pass by the viewer: the stone-hewn witnesses of a battle that took place more than a century and a half ago in Rome. In 1849 the city, where the advocates of the democratic republic had entrenched themselves, was besieged by French troops who wanted to restore the Papal States. Led by the legendary Giuseppe Garibaldi, the freedom fighters resisted for a long time. Film artist Michael Pilz shows the silent and tranquil remains in a Roman park, with music and sounds from the present in the background. Life around the statues goes in slow motion, but occasionally the noisy, warm, bubbling present breaks through: people relaxing outside a restaurant, the remains of a meal. In between we see pictures of the city on which the heroes of yore looked out: a city filled with life in hard-fought freedom.

Shock Head Soul


Simon Pummell

Netherlands/United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, DCP, 86 min, English


Prod: Janine Marmot, Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, Keith Griffiths, Marc Thelosen | Prod Comp: Hot Property Films Limited, Submarine, Illuminations Films, seriousFilm | Sc: Simon Pummell | Cam: Reinier van Brummelen | Ed: Tim Roza | Prod Des: Rosie Stapel | Sound Des: Bart Jilesen | Music: Roger Goula | With: Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer, Thom Hoffman, Jochum ten Haaf | Sales: Autlook filmsales GmbH | Distr NL: Cinema Delicatessen | www.shockheadsoul.com Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 19:15 PA5 Tue 31-1 19:152 PA3 Wed 1-2 19:002 LV1 Fri 3-2 22:152 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 20:00 CI3

Daniel Paul Schreber had spent nine years in a psychiatric clinic when, in 1903, he published Denkwrdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken. His book is still regarded as the most famous autobiography written from the inside about schizophrenia, paranoia and megalomania. Schreber believed that he was in contact with God through the Writing-Down Machine, a precursor to the typewriter, and that only his transformation into a woman could save the world. Schrebers notes are the most important source for this experimental portrait of the British crossover filmmaker Simon Pummell (Bodysong) who, in an original, challenging way, mixes documentary, fiction and animation. Interviews with psychoanalysts, dressed in fin de sicle suits, are juxtaposed with fragments from Schrebers prose, his typewriter floating through space like a glowing planet, and performances by the Dutch actor Hugo Koolschijn, who portrays Schreber as crazy and tormented and equally convinced of himself.

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peace versus Justice


Klaartje Quirijns

WOrLD premIere

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 64 min, English/Afrikaans


Prod: Janneke van de Kerkhof | Prod Comp: Submarine | Sc: Stacy Sullivan, Klaartje Quirijns | Cam: Martijn van Broekhuizen | Ed: Ruben van der Hammen, Rinze Schuurman, Michiel Reichwein, Menno Boerema | Sound Des: Jan Willem van den Brink | Music: Nick Laird-Clowes | Print/ Sales: Autlook filmsales GmbH Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 15:15 PA6 Mon 30-1 10:00 CI6 Thu 2-2 22:45 CI4 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 12:30 CI3

For more than 20 years, the Ugandan government has been fighting the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony. In the meantime, this army of child soldiers roams Sudan and Congo. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague hopes to try Kony, but locals mainly want peace and their children back. This layered documentary about complex moral issues shows that, even though deep down everyone wants the same, cultural differences get in the way of solving the problem. For years, Quirijns followed prominent Ugandans involved in peace negotiations with the LRA, when the ICC actively started hunting Kony. They experienced this as a new form of Western colonialism. Quirijns also visited ICC staff trying to stop the rebel leader using an international arrest warrant in the Netherlands. Quirijns (The Dictator Hunter) filmed crucial moments in the occasionally painful process and managed to lay his hands on rare recordings of the peace negotiations with Kony in the jungle.

B omid didar
Goodbye Mohammad Rasoulof

Iran, 2011 | colour, DCP, 104 min, Persian


Prod: Mohammad Rasoulof | Prod Comp: Shargh Tamasha Media | Sc: Mohammad Rasoulof | Cam: Arastoo Givi | Ed: Mohammad Reza Moini | Prod Des: Saeid Asadi | Sound Des: Hosein Mahdavi | With: Leyla Zareh, Hassan Pourshirazi, Behname Tashakor, Sima Tirandaz, Roya Teymorian, Fariba Jedikar, Shahab Hoseini | Sales: Fortissimo Films | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 13:30 PA4 Wed 1-2 22:00 PA1 Thu 2-2 14:45 LV3 Sat 4-2 17:15 CI3 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 18:00 CI3 Wed 1-2 11:45 PA4

Together with Jafar Panahi, director Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced on 20 December 2010 to six years in jail for alleging having endangered the security of the state of Iran. In October 2011, Rasoulofs sentence was reduced to one year, while Panahis was kept at six. Goodbye is a sober, frightening portrait of a society that is stooping under the continual control and threats of its religious regime. Noora, a young, pregnant lawyer in Tehran whose husband has been sent to work in the desert because of his critical journalistic activities, continually faces opposition from the regime and decides to leave the country. That turns out to be very difficult. Because Rasoulof was already banned from making films, Goodbye was shot partly in secret in the winter of 2010/2011. The result is a disquieting film that makes impotence and the desire for freedom painfully tangible in all its simplicity. At Cannes it won the Un Certain Regard Directing Prize.

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Black Dove
Roh Gyeong-Tae
Visually less radical than The Last Dining Table but narratively just as challenging, South Korean filmmaker Roh Gyeong-Tae brings together four characters in the tragic Black Dove whose lives are changed by a severe car accident. While present and past mingle imperceptibly and later the lives of the characters become more and more entangled, it becomes clear how differently these people react to what happens to them. The artist Lee Jon-Hoo wrestles with work for an exhibition while gallery owner and mistress Min-Hee wonders why their relationship suddenly cools so much. More severely damaged is the marriage between Professor Lee Jun-Gu and his subservient wife Sun-Mi. It soon becomes apparent that they were directly involved in the accident in which Lee Jon-Hoos wife and daughter died. But the filmmaker is not interested in a whodunit. Black Dove doesnt want to know what the Ministry of Justice does with guilt and punishment, but focuses on the question of how those involved come to terms with themselves.

INterNAtIONAL premIere

South Korea, 2011 | colour, video, 120 min, Korean


Prod: Ko Young-Jun, Roh GyeongTae | Prod Comp: M16 | Sc: Kaester | Cam: Lee Sun-Young | Ed: Choi Hyun-Sook | Prod Des: Sin Eon-Yeop | Sound Des: Lee Jae-Sin | With: Lim Hyung-Guk, Cho Su-Hyuk, Ahn Ji-Hye, Yang Eun-Yong, Chung Yun-Kyung | Print/Sales: M16 Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 17:00 CI1 Sat 28-1 20:00 DJZ Sun 29-1 22:30 CI4 Sat 4-2 20:45 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 09:30 DJZ

cornelia frente al espejo


cornelia at Her mirror Daniel Rosenfeld
She has brought a phial of poison with her. Cornelia has come to her parental home with only one intention: to commit suicide. Why would an attractive young woman like her do such a thing? And who are those strange people in the house? It should be empty, but Cornelia keeps having visitors. You could call them intruders: the former friends, the mysterious little girl at the door, the masked thief and the charming Daniel. They thwart Cornelias plan, even though she even begs them to murder her. With Cornelia at Her Mirror, Daniel Rosenfeld (1973, Argentina) has made a meticulous, stylish and oppressive literary film. The story by Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) on which the film is based, is about mirrors and the possibility that we do not have just one personality, but several. In this way, gazing into the mirror is a metaphor for the creative process. At the same time, this contemplative, mysterious film is about the tragic, ironic and romantic last moments of Cornelia.

WOrLD premIere

Argentina, 2012 | colour, DCP, 100 min, Spanish


Prod: Daniel Rosenfeld, Agusto G. Zapiola, Liliana Mazure | Prod Comp: Daniel Rosenfeld Films, argentinacine, INCAA | Sc: Eugenia Capizzano, Daniel Rosenfeld, based on the novel by Silvina Ocampo | Cam: Matas Mesa | Ed: Lorenzo Bombicci, Daniel Rosenfeld | Sound Des: Gaspar Scheuer | Music: Jorge Arriagada | With: Eugenia Capizzano, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rafael Spregelburd, Eugenia Alonso | Sales: Daniel Rosenfeld Films | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund | www.corneliafilm.com.ar Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 16:30 PA4 Sat 28-1 13:15 PA3 Sun 29-1 22:15 CI3 Fri 3-2 14:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 13:30 PA3 Thu 2-2 09:30 PA5

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Die unsichtbare
cracks in the Shell Christian Schwochow

Germany, 2011 | colour, DCP, 113 min, German


Prod: Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach | Prod Comp: teamWorx Television & Film GmbH Ludwigsburg | Sc: Heide Schwochow, Christian Schwochow | Cam: Frank Lamm | Ed: Jens Klber | Prod Des: Kobita Syed | Sound Des: Gnter Friedhoff, Rainer Heesch | Music: Can Erdogan Sus | With: Stine Fischer Christensen, Ulrich Noethen, Ronald Zehrfeld, Anna Maria Mhe, Ulrich Matthes, Dagmar Manzel, Christina Drechsler | Print/Sales: Global Screen GmbH Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 16:30 LUX Thu 2-2 16:00 PA1 Fri 3-2 21:45 PA5 Sat 4-2 13:15 PA3

Maybe its her shyness, possibly it something else, but drama student Fine seems invisible in groups. That is also what she is told by her mentor at drama school just before to everyones surprise she is given the demanding leading role of Camille in a play by the celebrity director Kaspar Friedmann, who is determined to work with students this time. Friedmann was looking for a sheep rather than a wolf for the role is one of the many destructive remarks that Fine hears. And Friedmann does want to destroy her, break her down until she almost disappears and then build her up again so she can play Camille. In the meanwhile,the fairly vague boundary between Fines turbulent private life and her work on stage becomes even more vague la Aronofskys Black Swan and Cassavetes Opening Night. Just as in his debut November Child, Christian Schwochow shows that he can make young, talented actresses perform painfully probing and convincing roles.

els noms de crist


the Names of christ Albert Serra

Spain, 2010 | colour, DCP, 193 min, Catalan


Prod: Montse Triola | Prod Comp: Andergraun Films | Sc: Albert Serra | Cam: Jimmy Gimferrer, ngel Martn | Ed: ngel Martn | Prod Des: Montse Triola | Sound Des: Jordi Ribas | Music: Ferran Font, Marc Verdaguer, Enric Junc, Joe Robinson | With: Romn Bayarri, Nanu Ferrari, Jordi Pau, Montse Triola, Victria Aragons | Print/Sales: Andergraun Films Public SCREENINGS Fri 3-2 12:00 CI4 Sat 4-2 12:30 CI3

Catalonian Albert Serras career has been a curious one. He studied literature, but ended up becoming a film director reluctantly, he once said, as he considers literature a higher form of art. This may explain why his films Honour of the Knights and Birdsong (IFFR 2009) were based on the literary classic Don Quichotte and the biblical story of the Three Wise Men respectively, but rendered in an unconventional manner. Serra pays more attention to cinematic atmosphere than to plot, thereby underlining the problems facing film adaptations of books. In this sense, this experimental 14part series sums up his entire oeuvre. The Names of Christ deals with the challenges of the translation process, from literature to film and from film to museum and from museum to television. The majority of the series, shot in Serras unfettered, slow style and over three hours in length, has been incorporated into the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Arts collection.

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ctyri slunce
Four Suns Bohdan Slma

eurOpeAN premIere

Czech Republic, 2011 | colour, DCP, 105 min, Czech


Prod: Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec | Prod Comp: Negativ s.r.o. | Sc: Bohdan Slma | Cam: Divi Marek | Ed: Jan Danhel | Prod Des: Jan Vlask | Sound Des: Jan Cenek | With: Jaroslav Plesl, Ana Geislerov, Karel Roden, Jir Mdl, Klra Mel kov | Print/Sales: Films Boutique Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 15:45 PA5 Sun 29-1 16:15 LUX Fri 3-2 22:30 CI7 Sat 4-2 22:15 PA3 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 10:00 LV2

Bohdan Slma, who won a Tiger Award in Rotterdam in 2002 with his feature debut Wild Bees, continues to build up a refined, unmistakably personal oeuvre. His fourth feature, Four Suns, is set in a small Czech village; the protagonists are not so successful in life and only just manage to keep their heads above water. But alongside setbacks and poverty (and alcohol) there is always friendship and solidarity (and alcohol). Jra lives with his wife Jana, their young daughter and his teenage son Vna from a previous marriage. There are problems with Vna: hes not getting on well at school and is hanging around with a group of losers. Basically hes a lot like Jra, who has just been sacked again. Jra decides to work with his friend Karel, who is very spiritually inclined. But will Karels talents be of any value? Slma again reveals himself to be a gifted narrator with much understanding for the weaknesses of his characters. Four Suns is a loving, almost magical story about growing up, believing and letting go.

Damsels in Distress
Whit Stillman

USA, 2011 | colour, DCP, 92 min, English


Prod: Whit Stillman | Prod Comp: Westerly Films | Sc: Whit Stillman | Cam: Doug Emmett | Ed: Andrew Hafitz | Prod Des: Elizabeth J. Jones | Sound Des: Mikhail Sterkin | Music: Mark Suozzo, Adam Schlesinger | With: Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore | Sales: Sony Pictures Classics | Distr NL: Sony Pictures Releasing Netherlands | www. sonyclassics.com/damselsindistress Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 22:00 PA1 Wed 1-2 16:00 PA1

With Metropolitan (Oscar nomination), Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, director/scriptwriter/producer Whit Stillman had three of the most important American independent films of the 1990s to his name. After an absence of 13 years, he returns with this comedy. Again the succinct dialogues are most striking in his always rather bizarre characters. Stillman lets us take a look into the soul of rich American adolescents. Three attractive young female students, led by the dominant Violet, take the newcomer Lily under their wing. They teach her how to behave, who to date and, strikingly, how to prevent suicide on campus. But then men turn up on the scene. This summary hardly does justice to a plot filled with strange turns. Stillman adds another tragicomic chapter to the subgenre of girlfriend clique films that took off with Clueless, helped by a cast with TV stars Analeigh Tipton, Adam Brody and Megalyn Echikunwoke.

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Verano

Summertime Jos Luis Torres Leiva


Sunlight plays through the leaves, shining on the water of the swimming pool and on the guests lazing or sauntering around an old spa resort in southern Chile. Inside, the staff receive lessons in folding serviettes and from afar someone approaches on a motorbike after having a tattoo done. In the background, a young couple practices kissing. Like Torres Leivas previous The Sky, the Earth and the Rain (Tiger Awards Competition 2008), Summertime is a mosaic filled with minor everyday occurrences and outflanking manoeuvres. The film focuses on the mood, occasionally captured in extreme close-ups of eyes or drops of water on the skin. Love, desire and loneliness are themes in this film that, in the directors words, walks a thin line between beauty and desperation. Shot on location, where Torres Leiva often accompanied his grandparents as a child, Summertime came about with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund and premiered in Venice.

Chile, 2011 | colour, DCP, 93 min, Spanish


Prod: Alicia Scherson | Prod Comp: La Ventura Ltda. | Sc: Jos Luis Torres Leiva | Cam: Inti Briones | Ed: Andrea Chignoli, Jos Luis Torres Leiva | Prod Des: Juan Rosas | Sound Des: Roberto Espinoza | Music: Roberto Espinoza | With: Rosario Blefari, Francisco Ossa, Julieta Figueroa, Ignacio Agero, Mariana Muoz, Muriel Miranda, Rodrigo Lisboa | Sales: m-appeal | Distr NL: Hubert Bals Fund Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 20:00 CI5 Sun 29-1 18:30 PA7 Mon 30-1 10:15 PA3 Tue 31-1 22:45 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 11:30 DJZ Tue 31-1 19:00 CI3

Khyi rgan
Old Dog Pema Tseden

China, 2011 | colour, video, 88 min, Tibetan


Prod: Pema Tseden | Sc: Pema Tseden | Cam: Sonthar Gyal | Ed: Sangye Bhum, Guo Kang | Prod Des: Sonthar Gyal | Sound Des: Dukar Tserang | Music: Dukar Tserang | With: Lochey, Drolma Kyab, Yanbum Gyal | Print/Sales: Marion Bonnet Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 12:45 PA5 Mon 30-1 14:15 SGZ Tue 31-1 20:15 CI6 Wed 1-2 09:00 LV1

The writer and director Pema Tseden is regarded as the inventor of Tibetan cinema. His third feature is both a humorous and tragic allegory in which he manages to record in a pure and naturalistic way the extensive cultural changes in the Buddhist mountain state, with non-professional actors and grainy shots of the majestic Himalayas. The story is told from the perspective of a Tibetan mastiff. This race of dogs is very popular among rich Chinese. Thats why so many get stolen in a village that is hemmed in between the mountaintops. In order to beat the thieves to it, Gonpo decides to sell his mastiff. His father is not happy about this and decides to buy the animal back. This leads to a bizarre series of events that ends in a sad apotheosis. The mastiff keeps changing owner, time and again, and the father-son relationship is put to the test. But Tseden uses the story to show how Tibetans are becoming increasingly assimilated into the dominant Han culture.

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Adikos Kosmos
unfair World Filippos Tsitos

Greece/Germany, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 118 min, Greek


Prod: Alexandra G Boussioub, GianPiero Ringel | Prod Comp: Wrong Men, Neue Road Movies GmbH | Sc: Filippos Tsitos, Dora Masklavanou | Cam: Polydefkis Kyrlidis | Ed: Dimitris Peponis | Prod Des: Spiros Laskaris | Sound Des: Vaggelis Zelkas | Music: Josepha van der Schoot | With: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Theodora Tzimou, Christos Stergioglou, Sofia Seirli, Achilleas Kiriakides, Minas Hatzisavvas | Print/Sales: Films Boutique Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 22:30 PA1 Wed 1-2 10:15 PA3 Thu 2-2 17:00 LUX Fri 3-2 19:45 CI2 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 16:30 DWBZ

Sotiris is a policeman nearing retirement. His work consists of interrogating suspects. One day, he decides he only wants to be just a decision which means all his interviewees are let off and which leads him to make a fatal mistake during a corruption hearing. Dora, an opportunistic cleaning lady, who just like everyone else is desperately trying to keep her head above water in a bankrupt country, is the only person who can help him. The tired policeman trusts her and they even seem to be falling in love. However, time and again, Sotiris desire for and faith in honesty is invalidated. Filippos Tsitos follow-up to Platos Academy, in which Antonis Kafetzopoulos also played the lead, is another GreekGerman co-production. The phlegmatic characters, the deadpan humour and the stylised, minimalist scenes are reminiscent of both the work of Aki Kaurismki and Jacques Tati as well as that of Tsitos countryman Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

Kotoko
Tsukamoto Shinya

Japan, 2011 | colour, DCP, 91 min, Japanese


Prod: Tsukamoto Shinya | Prod Comp: Kaijyu Theater | Sc: Shinya Tsukamoto | Cam: Shinya Tsukamoto, Satoshi Hayashi | Ed: Shinya Tsukamoto | Prod Des: Cocco | Sound Des: Masaya Kitada | Music: Cocco | With: Cocco, Shinya Tsukamoto | Print/Sales: Gold View Co. Ltd. | www.kotoko-movie.com Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 22:152 LUX Thu 2-2 19:00 PA1 Fri 3-2 16:452 LUX

Kotoko is a confused single mother who sees terrifying people and situations everywhere. The only way she can control her fears is by singing. Because she is afraid she will hurt her baby during psychotic nightmares, she cuts herself to prove she is still experiencing reality. In one of her delusory moments, she stands on the roof with her helpless child in her arms. What if she lets go? It isnt long before she is forced to give up her child. During her contact with a writer, Kotokos crises increasingly lead to violent scenes, leaving us wondering whether they are real or part of her gruesome nightmares. This psychological horror drives you mad and, with themes such as alienation and loss of control, fits perfectly in the oeuvre of the Japanese cult director Tsukamoto (Tetsuo). Although this consciously chaoticallyfilmed drama is not suitable for the tender at heart, Kotoko with the powerful Japanese singer-songwriter Cocco in the title role is not only terrifiying but heart-rendingly tragic.

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Iceberg
Gabriel Velzquez

INterNAtIONAL premIere

Spain, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 84 min, Spanish


Prod: Gabriel Velzquez | Prod Comp: Escorado Produccion | Sc: Blanca Torres, Gabriel Velzquez | Cam: David Azcano | Ed: Blanca Torres, Gabriel Velzquez, Manuel Garca | Prod Des: Arantxa Echevarria | Sound Des: Nacho Royo, Jos Martnez de San Mateo | Music: Pablo Crespo | With: Carolina Morocho, Jess Nieto, Vctor Garca, Juanma Sevillano | Print/Sales: Escorado Produccion | www.gabrielvelazquez.es Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 16:15 PA3 Sun 29-1 22:30 PA4 Thu 2-2 22:30 CI3 Sat 4-2 14:30 LUX Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 12:00 DWBZ

Everyone knows that the tip of the iceberg only shows a fraction of a larger picture. The same applies to the emotions of the teenagers in this subdued coming-of-age film. Its motto is the telling comment by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Adolescence is like a second birth. In the first a child is born, in the second, a man or a woman. And its always painful. In Iceberg, we follow several teenagers during a cold winter in a small town by the river. Mauri (13) is mourning his father who died in an accident. Rebecca (12) tries to survive during her first year at boarding school and two boys aged 17 and 18 lead an apparently carefree life in a small hut by the river. Little is said in this fragile, beautifully filmed drama, but the feelings of these struggling children are revealing. Sometimes their stories brush against each other, but they are all wrestling with their own demons.

11 Flowers
Wang Xiaoshuai

China/France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 110 min, Mandarin


Prod: Wang Xiaoshuai, Isabelle Glachant, Lu Dong, Laurent Baudens, Didar Domehri, Gal Nouaille | Prod Comp: WXS Productions, Chinese Shadows, Full House | Sc: Wang Xiaoshuai, Lao Nii | Cam: Dong JinSong | With: Liu Wenqing, Wang Jingchun, Yan Ni, Zhang Kexuan, Zhong Guo Liuxing, Lou Yihao, Wang Ziyi | Sales: Films Distribution | Distr NL: Imagine Nederland Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 21:30 PA5 Fri 27-1 10:15 PA1 Sat 28-1 15:00 LV3 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 12:00 LV6

Wang Han is 11 years old and is growing up during the Cultural Revolution in the countryside of China. His calm, everyday life in which adults work in the factory and children go to school is disrupted. While he is playing, Wangs new shirt, which has been made with great difficulty, is stolen. The culprit is a man suspected of murder who has escaped and asks the boy to help him. Apart from the story of Wang Han and his ward, 11 Flowers sketches a portrait of a society under a harsh regime. The consequences of the Cultural Revolution are noticeable for everyone in everyday life. There is poverty and violence: Wang Hans father, an intellectual, is forced to do manual labour and has a harsh confrontation with the Red Army. The film has many autobiographical elements: for instance, Wang Xiaoshuai was born in the same year and the same region as the protagonist.

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Behind the Scenes


A musical urban landscape, a deconstructed misty park, a mythical mountain view or an indoctrinating river: landscape that defines our thinking and demands a leading role.
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Un luogo a venire
A Place to Come Flatform

The enigmatic A Place to Come veers between a description of an action in a landscape and showing what is described. Shrouds of mist divide the various scenes that are always first announced and then shown. That leads to a new build-up of suspense.
Italy, 2011 | colour, video, 7 min, Italian
Prod/Sc/Cam: Flatform | Ed: Flatform, Marco Forni | Sound Des: Flatform | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution | www.flatform.it

I Met Heine on the Rue Frstenberg


Andreas Rochholl

A kangaroo escapes, a conductor plays clarinet. A cellist in tears and a violin in lingerie, while a composer becomes increasingly entangled in his patterns. These are only a few of the passionate elements of this film work, which has its origins in a composition by Morton Feldman (1926-1987).
WORLD PREMIERE

Germany, 2012 | colour, video, 13 min, no dialogue


Prod: Andreas Rochholl | Prod Comp: KADMOS Produktion | Sc: Andreas Rochholl | Cam: Brries Mller-Bsching | Ed/Prod Des: Andreas Rochholl | Sound Des: Daniel Weingarten | Music: Morton Feldman, Arno Waschk | With: Zo Cartier, Lisa Tjalve, Christina Fassbender, Simone Leona Hueber, Alexander Bader | Print: Karin Kleibel PR | Sales: KADMOS Produktion | www.kadmos-produktion.de/I_met_Heine_english.html

7 Peaks
Anna Abrahams

Would it be possible to survey our complex existence on a mountain? Do angels fly around? Or do you have to fight off dragons? This timeless journey over the summits of Europe is the last part of a trilogy about the cultural significance of the landscape, after Desert 79: 3 Journeys Beyond the Known World and 5 Walks.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2012 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.85, 23 min, English


Prod: Jan Frederik Groot | Prod Comp: Stichting Rongwrong | Sc: Anna Abrahams | Cam: Jan Frederik Groot | Ed: Anna Abrahams | Sound Des: Edwin Bakker, Sam Simons | Music: Edwin Bakker | With: Beek Groot, Carol Molenaar | Sales: Stichting Rongwrong | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.rongwrong.net

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Viento sur
Paz Encina

A Wind from the South

Life along the banks of the Rio Paraguay is defined by the river. A Wind from the South shows the river and lets us listen to a stream of thoughts and memories of two brothers, both fishermen. They reflect on their lives and future and wait for the right moment to leave and flee their lives.
WORLD PREMIERE

Paraguay, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 23 min, Guarani


Prod: Maria Joo Mayer | Prod Comp: Filmes do Tejo II | Sc: Paz Encina | Cam: Willy Behnisch | Ed: Guillermina Garca Silva | Prod Des: Lukas Fster | Sound Des: Guido Berenblum | Music: Dino Saluzzi | With: Ramn del Rio, Cristian Agero Pereira, Gianinna Villalba Vera, Walter Villalba Vera | Print/Sales: Filmes do Tejo II

Bitter Sweet and Golden


To conform to or escape reality? Three films in which time slows down, in between, as attention shifts from the everyday to the sublime.
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Glucose
Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize

A calmly meandering work filled with surprising symbols and delightful compositions with elements including fish, water and giant food. At the same time, the viewers observations are stimulated in an unorthodox way.
WORLD PREMIERE

France/Romania, 2012 | colour, video, 6 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize | Music: Thibault Gleize | Print: Thibault Gleize | Sales: Mihai Grecu | www.mihaigrecu.org/www.thibaultgleize.com

All that She Surveys


Gary Mairs

The idea and screenplay are by James Benning: a day in the life of a young woman (a beautiful role by Amy Seimetz). We see her successively survey her surroundings in a coffee house, become emotional at a tram stop, deep in thought on the tram and attentive in a museum. She looks and listens and takes in the world.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 15 min, no dialogue


Prod: Gary Mairs | Sc: James Benning | Cam: Jay Keitel | Ed: Lee Anne Schmitt, Gary Mairs | Sound Des: Jerry Summers | With: Amy Seimetz, Ryan Beebe, Margery Fairchild, George P. Scott, Nathan Tucker | Paintings: James Hayward | Print/Sales: Gary Mairs | www.imagists.org/allthatshesurveysmovie

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Zima
Katarina Stankovic

When Michael announces he is returning home after a lengthy absence, all those who love him come together. The promise of his arrival puts everyone in a blissful state of mind. This situation of splendid limbo seems to last for ever. Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness. (Stendhal )
WORLD PREMIERE

Germany, 2012 | b&w, video, 49 min, German


Prod: Ute Dilger | Prod Comp: Kunsthochschule fur Medien Kln | Sc: Katarina Stankovic | Cam: Matteo Cocco | Ed/Sound Des: Katarina Stankovic | With: Jules Schunevitsch, Juli Klement, Annette Simons, Jana Allgeier, Nikolai Stanic, Mia Stanic | Print/Sales: Kunsthochschule fr Medien Kln

Chromotherapeutic Strips
Colour and light therapy in one. Film as the stuff that dreams are made of.
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Compound Eyes
Paul Clipson

Compound Eyes shows a macromenagerie of natural life-forms that are introduced in a forests tapestry of earth, water and air: spiders, slugs, flies, bees, and ants navigate their lives in darkness and light. First film in a series of five short film studies, commissioned by the San Francisco Exploratorium.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour/b&w, Super-8, 1:1.33, 6 min, English


Prod/Cam/Ed: Paul Clipson | Music: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma | Print/Sales: Paul Clipson | www.withinmirrors.org

Caridea and Ichthyes


Paul Clipson

Fish and crustaceans appear to swim within an ether of natural and unnatural energies. Fifth film in a series of five short film studies, commissioned by the San Francisco Exploratorium, studying aspects of insect and animal life, viewed within a succession of environments in unexpected ways.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, Super-8, 1:1.33, 6 min, English


Prod/Cam/Ed: Paul Clipson | Music: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma | Print/Sales: Paul Clipson | www.withinmirrors.org

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Deep Red
Esther Urlus

Esther Urlus fervently runs the WORM. filmwerkplaats in Rotterdam. She herself does not lag behind in exploring new territories in processing film material. Deep Red is an investigation into additive colour mixing (a kind of silkscreen technique) but also a successful poetic work that evokes experiences from childhood.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 7 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Print/Sales: Esther Urlus

Reflect
Hsu Tsen-Chu

This film is about the changes in time, light and reflection that I have observed in the place where I live. The intimacy comes not only from this personal space and the subtle things that happen in it, but also from my direct involvement in every aspect: shooting, hand-processing and editing. (HT)
USA/Taiwan, 2010 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 4 min, silent
Prod: Hsu Tsen-Chu | Cam: Hsu Tsen-Chu, Brad Hoffarth | Ed: Hsu Tsen-Chu | Print/Sales: Hsu Tsen-Chu

Never a Foot too Far, Even


Dachi Sato

A short fragment from a 35mm copy of an old Kungfu film has been developed into a picturesque work with sliding patterns and colours. The film acquires a polymetric structure thanks to overlapping 16mm double projection, accentuated by a hypnotic soundtrack by Malcolm Goldstein on violin.
WORLD PREMIERE

Canada, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 13 min, no dialogue


Prod: Ben Donoghue, Dachi Sato | Prod Comp: LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) | Cam/Ed: Sato Dachi | Music: Malcolm Goldstein | Print/Sales: Dachi Sato

99 Clerkenwell Road
Sophie Michael

Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a film focused on light. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole-punched stencils, passing buses shoot beams of light.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

United Kingdom, 2010 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 8 min, silent


Prod/Cam/Ed/Print/Sales: Sophie Michael | www.sophiemichael.co.uk

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Curious Light
Charlotte Pryce

Charlotte Pryce explores protocinematic structures of reverie, juxtaposing the real and the imagined to create deeply saturated, fleeting illuminations that hover on the periphery of vision. Curious Light is an entirely hand-processed illumination, an elusive story revisited.
USA, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 4 min, no dialogue
Prod/Cam/Ed/Print/Sales: Charlotte Pryce | www.charlottepryce.net

Sea Series #10


John Price

CinemaScope reflection on the power of the sea, shot on a beach near a nuclear complex and then developed, using that specific water. A reaction to the disaster in Fukushima from across the Pacific and the apocalypse predicted by Christian fundamentalists on 21 May 2011.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Canada, 2011 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:2.35, 10 min, no dialogue


Prod: Lea Carlson | Prod Comp: 1273503 Ontaro Ltd. | Cam/Ed: John Price | Print/Sales: 1273503 Ontaro Ltd. | www.filmdiary.org

Cinematic tributes to Musicians


Lively portrait of a Belgian jazz quartet which prostitutes itself yet still remains true to itself, and the journey through England to support the latest inventive album by PJ Harvey.
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Standards
Maxime Pistorio, Julie Jaroszewski

A jazz quartet performs at a Belgian banquet for rich businessmen. Behind the scenes, they discuss how they feel about it. The scene in which the host forgets their names is hilarious. Light and enjoyable, voyeuristic documentary with many familiar situations.
Belgium, 2010 | colour, video, 17 min, French
Prod: Maxime Pistorio, Julie Jaroszewski | Sound Des: Benjamin Pasternak | Print/Sales: Maxime Pistorio | www.standards-docu.tumblr.com

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Let England Shake


Seamus Murphy

Dublin-raised photographer Seamus Murphy created short films for all 12 of the songs on PJ Harveys album Let England Shake (2011). In this road journey, Murphy opens himself up to England, the country he lives in, but rarely gets to shoot. An unscripted and unstaged marriage of Murphys visuals and PJ Harveys songs.
United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 53 min, English
Prod/Cam: Seamus Murphy | Ed: Sebastian Gollek | Music: PJ Harvey | Print: Principle Management | Sales: Island Records | www.seamusmurphy.com

Closer Reading
Not close to the skin, but close to the soul. Three intimate contacts with film.
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Villatalla
Jeannette Muoz

The world in Villatalla is not showcased but simply lived. Muoz shoots film and records sounds but does not work with the illusion of the synchronisation of image and sound. According to her, these two dimensions do exist as realities independent of each other, and as such do in fact emerge in our consciousness.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Switzerland, 2011 | colour/b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 22 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Music/Print/Sales: Jeannette Muoz

Paulina, Franz & Maria


Ute Aurand

Three intimate portraits. Paulina Buda and Franz von Lucke are godchildren of the director, Ute Aurand, who has filmed them from childhood. They are now 15 and 26 years old. She also follows Maria Lang, a good friend of Aurands, who lives in the countryside of Southern Germany. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Germany, 2011 | colour/b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 13 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed: Ute Aurand | With: Paulina Buda, Franz von Lucke, Maria Lang | Print/Sales: Ute Aurand | www.uteaurand.de

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the Return
Nathaniel Dorsky

Nathaniel Dorsky, theres no harm in repeating it, makes unique films. Meticulous in their camerawork, editing and concentration. In silence, a dark universe unfolds, a measured structure that emerges from, but has nothing to do with, the visible world. Like a memory already gone, this place of life. (ND)
USA, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 27 min, silent
Prod/Cam/Ed: Nathaniel Dorsky | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Dig! Dig! Dig!


Two resolutely original visions of cinema, uncovering landscapes and exploring histories in a seriously playful and generously subversive manner.
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Sangre de Cristo
Marcy Saude

Marcy Saudes odyssey through highway towns, historical societies, communes, roadside attractions and mountain trails results in a stunning film where embedded layers of oppositional history converge and are revealed in the landscape of Colorado and New Mexico.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 26 min, English/Spanish


Prod/Sc: Marcy Saude | Cam: Eric Coombs | Ed: Marcy Saude | Sound Des: Sarah Jane Biagini | With: Daniel Cervantes, Alex Luna, Juliet Hougland, Dreux Moreland and voice of Ben Morea | Print/Sales: Marcy Saude | www.threecolorsallblack.org/films/sangre-de-cristo

Palcios de Pena
Palaces of Pity Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

Pre-adolescence meets the forest fires of globalisation, product placement, UNESCO world heritage and fearinflamed legacies of oppression. A post-dubbed, post, post, post wonder of cinematic imagination-in-heat from Abrantes & Schmidt, the inspirational partnership which brought the IFFR 2011s succulently subversive A History of Mutual Respect.
Portugal, 2011 | colour, video, 55 min, Portuguese
Prod: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt | Prod Comp: A Mutual Respect Productions | Print/Sales: A Mutual Respect Productions

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Echoes from the Past


No ordinary history lesson, but film as a means to (re) animate the past, to make the course of time visible, to look again or differently.
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Inquire Within
Jay Rosenblatt

The grand master of found-footage film is back with a challenging and also hypnotic new work that uses heartrending archive footage, while we are subtly encouraged to make a series of choices that may be improper.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 4 min, English


Prod/Ed/Sound Des/Print/Sales: Jay Rosenblatt | www.jayrosenblattfilms.com

Historia del mal


Benjamin Naishtat

1879: General Rocas army walks to the great South to build the nation of Argentina. 1979: the military junta organises a National History Conference to celebrate the Conquest. 2011: another reenactment. We want to talk of history, but we end up bogged down in these little stories which emerge from reality and take over.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Argentina/France, 2011 | colour, video, 17 min, Spanish


Prod: Natalia Trebik | Prod Comp: Le Fresnoy | Sc: Benjamin Naishtat | Cam: Alexandre Maubert | Ed: Benjamin Naishtat | Prod Des: Marina Raggio | Sound Des: Ronny Trocker | Music: Sumo | With: Franco Lovisolo, Sonia Costantini | Print/Sales: Le Fresnoy | www.panorama13.net/#/239/Benjamin-Naishtat

Watashi no konseki
traces of Other Nagaoka Daisuke

Nagaoka Daisuke creates video work using the process of pencil drawing as a part of his drawing method. On a single sheet of paper he draws one image, erases it and draws the next scene. Traces of Other features ordinary people during an ordinary coffee break in an ordinary office.
Japan, 2010 | colour, video, 6 min, no dialogue
Prod: Nagaoka Daisuke | Music: Yukiko Watanabe | Print/Sales: Nagaoka Daisuke

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Isla Alta

High Island Federico Adorno

Violence after a violent act has ended. Theres fire in a clay oven; a pair of sunglasses is broken. Peasants from the Isla Alta village are near the ranch, observing, while a wealthy family searches for the missing Paraguayan rancher. High Island is set in the current atmosphere of life in Paraguay.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Paraguay, 2011 | colour, video, 15 min, no dialogue


Prod: Federico Adorno, Roberto Cardozo | Prod Comp: Adentro Cine | Sc: Federico Adorno | Cam: Gabriela Zuccolillo | Ed: Federico Adorno | Prod Des: Roberto Cardozo | Sound Des: Jos Bogado | With: Rogelia Rodrguez, Margarita Armoa, Adriana Casco, Herminio Gimnez | Print/Sales: Adentro Cine

Ghaliz-tar az tiner
Babak Afrassiabi

thicker than Paint thinner

Based on a true story in which Hossein, a revolutionary and former junkie, set fire to a cinema and killed nearly 400 people a few months before the end of the revolution in 1979. At the moment of the fire, the film being screened was The Deer. Afrassiabi made use of Hosseins original confession.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 29 min, Farsi
Prod/Sc: Babak Afrassiabi | Cam: Claire Pijman | Ed/Prod Des: Babak Afrassiabi | Sound Des: Babak Afrassiabi, Ludo Keeris | Music: Morteza Mahjoubi | With: Ayat Najafi | Print/Sales: Babak Afrassiabi

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Excitement of Stealing
Stealing can be big-time or small. Shoplifting can be just as exciting as a robbery. You also have films about stealing in different sizes.
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Sumidaku Kyojima San-chome


Yumiko Kimura

Kyojima 3rd St., Sumida City

Kyojima is a district in the centre of Tokyo. It is the area where the teenage girl Sachi lives. A sweet and well-behaved girl, it seems. She goes shopping for her mother in a local store but is caught shoplifting. Maybe the girl isnt that well-behaved, after all.
Japan, 2010 | colour, video, 30 min, Japanese
Prod: Kimura Yumiko | Prod Comp: Tachibanakan Executive Committee | Sc: Yoshida Kota | Cam: Seki Masafumi | Ed: Yoshida Kota | Sound Des: Shimazu Mikisuke | Music: Ikenaga Shouji | With: Ikenoue Mana, Serizawa Tateto, Kawata Nozomi, Yoshida Yuka | Print/Sales: Tachibanakan Executive Committee

Ken and Kazu


Shoji Hiroshi

They are friends or at least they were. Together they traffic in drugs. One also works for himself by stealing from the big boss. You dont have to have seen many gangster films to know that this tends to be fatal. Genre films are about variations and the filmmaker is well aware of that.
Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 23 min, Japanese
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed: Shoji Hiroshi | With: Nomura Tatsuya, Maiguma Katsuya | Print: Short Shorts Film Festival Asia | Sales: Shoji Hiroshi

Ninifuni
Tetsuya Mariko

Tanaka is a young man from the countryside. Not a professional criminal, but with a friend he robs a pachinko gambling hall. He escapes in the owners car. Days later, the car with Tanaka is found by the makers of a music video. They decide to finish the video anyway.
Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 42 min, Japanese
Prod: Nishigaya Toshikazu, Nishimiya Yuki, Kino Yoshihisa | Sc: Mariko Tetsuya | Cam: Tsukinaga Yuta | Ed: Mariko Tetsuya | Prod Des: Sagae Yoko | Sound Des: Takata Shinya | With: Miyazaki Masaru, Yamanaka Takashi, Clover Moimoro | Print/Sales: Nikkatsu Corporation | www.ninifuni.net

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Follow the Path


In the footsteps of the master, the pupil should follow his own way.
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Incndio
Fire Miguel Seabra Lopes, Karen Akerman

Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schuberts steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethes Erlknig, their film is a revelation.
Portugal, 2011 | colour, video, 23 min, Portuguese/German
Prod: Joo Matos, Joana Gusmo | Sc: Miguel Seabra Lopes, Karen Akerman | Cam: Paulo Menezes | Ed: Karen Akerman | Prod Des: Cypress Cook | Sound Des: Ricardo Leal | Music: Franz Schubert | With: Antnio Moniz Pereira, Antnio Seabra, Joana Craveiro, Joana Gama, Lus Duque | Print/Sales: Terratreme Filmes | www.terratreme.pt

Sonchidi
Amit Dutta

the Golden Bird

Two travellers are in search of a flying craft that would take them to another dimension and possibly enable them to escape from the cycle of births. This intriguing philosophical piece evokes many memories and challenges various interpretations. The film is truly cinematic, a connoisseurs piece.
India, 2011 | colour, video, 55 min, Hindi
Prod: Pranav Ashar | Prod Comp: Enlighten | Sc: Amit Dutta | Cam: Prahalad Gopakumar | Ed: Amit Dutta | Prod Des: Dhanajai Singh | Sound Des: Amit Dutta, Ajit Singh Rathore | With: Nitin Goe, Gagan Singh Sethi | Print/Sales: Enlighten | www.enlighten.co.in

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For a Better World


Sometimes it is necessary: someone who lifts the lid on reality, tilts something and puts it back. Something is going on, but you cant put your finger on it. Yet the world is no longer entirely the same.
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the Bunker the Habituation the Wait the Light Jonas Staal

De Bunker Het Wennen Het Wachten Het Licht

Sober portrayal of the control society in which people are conditioned to serve order, efficiency and productivity, but are also watched to shape everyone into a model citizen. A society that doesnt need prisons any more, but has itself become a prison, according to Staal.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 15 min, Dutch


Prod: Mihnea Mircan | Prod Comp: Extra City Antwerpen | Sc: Jonas Staal, based on a concept by Fleur Agema | Cam: Jonas Staal | Ed: Sjoerd Oudman | Sound Des: Richard Beukelaar | With: Jonas Staal | Print: Jonas Staal | Sales: Extra City Antwerpen | www.jonasstaal.nl

Rise Again
Katarina Zdjelar

Zdjelar focuses on a number of asylum seekers from Afghanistan discovering the woods next to their asylum center. By combining allegorical imagery with martial arts elements, acted and documentary scenes, Rise Again develops a narrative structure in which the men appear in various roles and guises.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Netherlands/United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 11 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed: Katarina Zdjelar | Sound Des: Maziar Afrassiabi | Print/Sales: Katarina Zdjelar | www.katarinazdjelar.net

Zamach

Assassination Yael Bartana

Yael Bartanas trilogy deals with the activities of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), a political group that calls for the return of 3,300,000 Jews; and with Zionist dreams, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the Palestinian right of return. Zamach revolves around the funeral ceremony of the assassinated leader of the JRMiP.
Poland/Netherlands/Israel, 2011 | colour, video, 35 min, Polish/Hebrew/English
Prod: Naama Pyritz | Sc/Cam/Ed: Yael Bartana | Prod Des: Naama Pyritz | Sound Des: Daniel Meir | Print/Sales: Annet Gelink Gallery

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Remember
Elonore de Montesquiou

January 2010. For the first time in my life, I am taking part in a demonstration... Until now, as a reporter, I could feel sympathy or rejection for the demonstrators. One way or the other however, there was a distance between us that I did not want to shrink. Tonight there is no distance. (Andrei Loshak, Moscow journalist)
WORLD PREMIERE

Russia, 2012 | colour, video, 10 min, Russian


Prod/Cam/Ed/Print/Sales: Elonore de Montesquiou | www.eleonoredemontesquiouvideo.blogspot.com

Homelandsssss
Two extraordinary films from Portugal one a debut, one from a seasoned master and both very different; dichotomies almost, but at the same time and both in their own way, dealing with home.
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O nosso homem
Our Man Pedro Costa

Is there space for a green garden? Not even for a house. We revisit Fontainhas, thinking of Cape Verde, the country to which Jos Alberto Silva will be deported but which hes never seen before. This is controlled, hypnotic cinema, moving between life and death, reality and fiction.
Portugal, 2011 | colour, video, 24 min, Portuguese
Prod: Pedro Costa | Sc: Jos Alberto Silva, Lucinda Tavares, Alfredo Mendes, Ventura, Antnio Semedo, Pedro Costa | Cam: Pedro Costa | Ed: Patricia Saramago, Joo Diao | Sound Des: Olivier Blanc | Music: NToni Denti dOuro | With: Jos Alberto Silva, Lucinda Tavares, Alfredo Mendes, Ventura, Antnio Semedo | Print/Sales: Pedro Costa

Yama no anata
Aya Koretzky

Beyond the Mountains

A lyrical ode to what lies beyond, given texture from inky letters and the pixels of home video but sung by goats and crows, Aya Koretzkys extraordinary debut, submerges us in the Mondego River, invoking spirits and interrogating memories to ask pertinent questions about coming and going and home.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Portugal, 2011 | colour, video, 59 min, Japanese/French


Prod: Miguel-Clara Vasconcelos | Prod Comp: Andar Filmes | Sc/Cam: Aya Koretzky | Ed: Toms Baltazar | Prod Des: Aya Koretzky | Sound Des: Pedro Gis | Music: Aya Koretzky | With: Anuta Koretzky, Jiro Koretzky, Aya Koretzky | Print/Sales: Andar Filmes |

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In Dreams
Deep underwater, deep in the forest, high in the sky or far away in the land of dreams. Films with a powerful cinematographic consciousness.
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Line Describing Your Mom


Michael Robinson

A brand new blurry, goofy, hallucinatory pop concoction squeezed from poisonous berries, but what is it? Theres interpretative dance, party-time apparitions of Buffalo Bill channelled through southern gothic voiceovers... Im talking to my mom, leave me alone.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, English


Prod/Ed/Print/Sales: Michael Robinson | www.poisonberries.net

Piattaforma luna
Platform Moon Yuri Ancarani

For three weeks, six scuba divers stayed alternately in the recompression chamber on board the platform Luna or were at work on the bottom of the ocean. All that time, they breathed oxygen mixed with helium and all their actions were tied to very strict protocols. Yuri Ancarani spent three days with them and meticulously recorded all their actions.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Italy, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 25 min, Italian


Prod: Maurizio Cattelan | Sc/Cam/Ed: Yuri Ancarani | Sound Des: Mirco Mencacci | Music: Ben Frost | With: Daniele Andaloro, Ezio Bozzato, Marcello Casadei, Piergiorgio Ferretti, Dario Fiorentino, Alessandro Fogli | Print/Sales: Galleria Zero | www.piattaformaluna.it

Moving Stories
Nicolas Provost

Stock footage is cheaper than shooting new material and is mainly used as illustrative material in a very sober way. Provost (Plot Point, The Invader) shows that it can have esthetic and cinematic value in itself and can tell a story. In this film, he uses nothing but stock footage of a Boeing plane, flying towards a sunset.
Belgium, 2011 | colour, DCP, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod: Nicolas Provost | Print/Sales: Argos Centre for Art and Media

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Late and Deep


Devin Horan

Dark North. Clarity upon waking. Beneath an expanse of sky, a night of flesh absorbed in fever. Second instalment in a film tetralogy that explores a statement made by existential writer Sadeq Hedayat: In life it is possible to become angelic, human, or animal. I have become none of these things.
Norway/USA, 2011 | colour, video, 17 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed: Devin Horan | Prod Des: Elena Perez Guembe, Devin Horan | Sound Des: Sanford Livingston | Print/Sales: Devin Horan | www.devinhoran.carbonmade.com

Its Immaterial
Seven productions from the analogue film culture, using Super-8, 16mm or a pinhole camera; if necessary also hand-developed. By makers who consciously choose for traditional means.
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Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain


Robert Schaller

Made with a rudimentary pinhole technique, traces of a mountain landscape are captured in black and white. The structures of our thought filter what we see, and in fact there is no seeing apart from those structures. This film is part of an ongoing project to show where I am in a natural landscape in a way that reflects those structures of thought. (RS)
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 7 min, no dialogue


Prod/Print/Sales: Robert Schaller | www.robertschaller.org

I Swim Now
Sarah Jane Biagini

I Swim Now challenges the visual intelligibility of landscape aesthetics by imagining the experiences of one Violet Jessop, a stewardess on board all three sister ships of the White Star Line the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic while each suffered varying degrees of collision and wreckage at sea. (SB)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 9 min, English


Prod/Ed/Print/Sales: Sarah Jane Biagini | www.seejanefilm.com

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Pilgrimage
Marc Pelletier

A simple walk in the park can become a spiritual experience, a moment of discovery, a pilgrimage. This film explores the meditative nighttime allure of the Parc Lafontaine in Montreal, Canada, turning this public space into a form of sanctuary. (MP)
WORLD PREMIERE

Canada, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed/Sound Des/With/Print/Sales: Marc Pelletier

Etiennes Hand
Richard Tuohy

A 16mm movement study of a restless hand, made from a single five-second film shot. The sound is constructed from an old French folk tune played on a hand-cranked musical box.
WORLD PREMIERE

Australia, 2012 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 13 min, no dialogue


Prod: Richard Tuohy | Cam: Richard Tuohy | Ed: Richard Tuohy | Print/Sales: Richard Tuohy

Resonance
Karen Johannesen

Resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with larger amplitudes at some frequencies than at others. These are known as the systems resonant frequencies. At these frequencies, even small periodic forces can produce large amplitude oscillations, because the system stores vibrational energy.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

USA, 2010 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, silent


Prod/Cam/Ed/Print/Sales: Karen Johannesen | web.mac.com/kjohannesen

(k)now (t)here
Jang Hey-Yeun

A train journey to nowhere; time passes differently when youre on your way. (k)now (t)here is about what is already there, what isnt and what still has to come.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed/Sound Des/Print/Sales: Jang Hey-Yeun

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Emblem
Hayama Rei

Not a documentary, but an enchantment. Processed sequences of threatened bird species in an investigation into the relationship between what is portrayed and the observer. I think of an image as a standstill moment and each of these essentially includes the whole; a single image already includes beginning and end. (HR)
WORLD PREMIERE

Japan, 2012 | colour, video, 16 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed/Sound Des/Music: Hayama Rei | Telecine: Makino Takashi | Print/Sales: Hayama Rei | marei.web.fc2.com

Lifes Full of Wonders


Hypnotic soundtracks in a very diverse programme. A platform for imagination and amazement.
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Meteor
Christoph Girardet, Matthias Mller

Meteor empathises with childlike realms of imagination, accompanying a boys stages of development towards individuation. The boy sets out on a phantasmatic journey. Conditions of detachment emerge visually against an emotionally charged aria expressing a desperate and futile longing for proximity. Voice-over by John Smith.
Germany, 2011 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 15 min, English
Prod/Sc/Ed/Sound Des: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Mller | Music: Giacomo Puccini | With: voice of John Smith | Print/Sales: Christoph Girardet

Sound of Life
Hirayama Shiho

We make our way through life to the sounds of our surroundings; we all have our own sound. The poetic Sound of Life visualises this music with a stunning hybrid drawing and clay animation technique. The head gets filled with small piles of coloured clay.
Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 5 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music/ Print/Sales: Hirayama Shiho | 18maru.moo.jp

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Praa Walt Disney


Walt Disney Square Renata Pinheiro, Sergio Oliveira

An urban portrait through which polite and fickle sea breezes blow: the quasimusical Walt Disney Square throws an elegant light on urban surroundings. Starting from a real square in the Brazilian city of Recife, we catch a glimpse of the kind of everyday life we all too often overlook.
Brazil, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 21 min, no dialogue
Prod: Sergio Oliveira | Prod Comp: Aroma Filmes | Sc: Renata Pinheiro, Sergio Oliveira | Cam: Pedro Urano | Ed: Misha Warhmann | Prod Des: Ana Lu, Thales Junqueira | Sound Des: Guga Rocha | Music: Paul Dukas, Joo do Cello, Bernardo Viera | Print/Sales: FiGa Films

Dellammazzare il maiale
About Killing the Pig Simone Massi

The men enter the pigs sty and tie his snout. While he is being dragged out to be killed, the animal has the chance to see the sky and the things of the world. Beautiful, handmade drawing animation by award-winning filmmaker Simone Massi about the treatment of animals by human beings.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Italy, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 6 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc: Simone Massi | Cam: Julia Gromskaya | Ed/Prod Des: Simone Massi | Sound Des/Music: Stefano Sasso | Print/Sales: Simone Massi | www.simonemassi.it

Square Dance Hypnotist


Allan Brown

Spun-out film with wall-to-wall image comprising a doubled progressive loop of a piece of square dance footage. The layered audio consists of station announcements that emphasise alienation and a police radio with live pursuit of a fleeing woman. No escape possible.
WORLD PREMIERE

Canada, 2012 | colour, video, 17 min, English


Prod/Sc/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Allan Brown | Music: Joost van Balkom | Print/Sales: Allan Brown

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NL International
Exeptional Dutch film and video works from the last year, which we dont want you to miss.
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544/544 (up/down)
Thomas Mohr

The music of Hanne Darboven (19412009), which is based on the conversion of calender dates into musical notes, inspired the filmmaker. Because the music was partly recorded at St. Peters Church (Hamburg), he made pictures of the church, processed frame by frame in a system of expanding cycles approaching infinity.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 10 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sales: Thomas Mohr | Distr NL: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)

tampopo Head and the Name of the Dogs


Toshie Takeuchi

Inspired by the lives of the former neighbours of the filmmaker, who named one of their dogs after her. The fairytale-like story and romantic pictures are based on daily experience, combined with fictive elements, and her own ideas about the relationship between humans and dogs.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 18 min, Japanese/English
Prod/Sc: Toshie Takeuchi | Cam: Manu Tau, Thomas Vroege | Ed/Prod Des: Toshie Takeuchi | Sound Des: Toshie Takeuchi, Rick Harring | Music: Lars Kynde, Nikolaj Kynde | With: Hilko de Vries, Janneke van der Putten, Ed van der Putten, Toshie Takeuchi | Sales: Toshie Takeuchi | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.filmbank.nl/film/4178

Dochters
Daughters Marta Jurkiewicz

Elzbieta took care of her mother until she passed away. The filmmaker and only daughter of Elzbieta, who has been living in the Netherlands for 10 years, returns to her home country of Poland to help clear away grandmothers home. Apparently the demand for care has shifted to the next generation.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 23 min, Polish/Dutch
Prod: Judith de Weert | Prod Comp: Netherlands Film and Television Academy | Cam: Alex Wuijts | Ed: Leonie Hoever | Sound Des: Lars Blakenburg | Sales: Netherlands Film and Television Academy | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.dochters.filmacademie.nl

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Natural Beauty
Lernert & Sander

The filmmakers investigate the urge for cosmetic overkill by having makeup artist Ferry van der Nat and his assistant Vanessa Chan apply 365 layers of make-up on supermodel Hannelore Knuts in one day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Jennifer Byrne | Prod Comp: Blinkart | Cam: Ram van Meel | Ed: Mathijs Kok | Music: All Shall Be Well | With: Hannelore Knuts | Sales/Distr. NL: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk) | www.lernertandsander.com

Printed Matter
Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat

The father of one of the filmmakers was a press photographer who followed the news in the Middle East for two decades. The photographs change the common picture people have about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film consists entirely of contact prints and photographic negatives from the photographers archive.
Netherlands/Belgium, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 29 min, English
Prod: Marie Logie | Prod Comp: Auguste Orts | Sc: Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat | Cam: Sbastien Koeppel | Ed: Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat | Sound Des: Laszlo Umbreit | Sales: Auguste Orts | Distr NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.tilfar.com/printedmatter.html

Nothing Without a Woman or a Girl


Its quite common for a woman or a girl, real or imagined, to be the motor of a cinematic story. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Here more. Much more.
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After Dark
John Hsu

Mu-shih is a young woman who works as a masseuse. She had a blind daughter who died three years ago. Mu-shih obviously still has not yet overcome her sorrow, and when she herself slowly becomes blind, she refuses to have an operation. She wants to live on in the dark, because her child was not able to.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Taiwan, 2011 | colour, video, 21 min, Mandarin


Prod: Lin Shih-ken, Lin I-ling | Sc: John Hsu | Cam: Lin Chun-yang | Ed: John Hsu, Hsiao Chung-fu | Prod Des: Tang Hao | Sound Des: Agnes Liu, Tseng Ya-ning | With: Hannah Lin, Lu Xue-feng, Tsai Yu-wen, Hsu Chuen-gen | Print/Sales: Public Television Service Foundation

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I Want to Remember
Sherman Ong

An elderly man and a young woman in an interrogation room. He has often told his story. A story about a land torn in two: Malaysia and Singapore. And a story about the mans lover who left for Singapore with her family while he stayed behind in Malaysia.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Singapore/Malaysia, 2011 | colour, video, 26 min, Malay/Mandarin


Prod: Sherman Ong | Prod Comp: 13 Little Pictures | Sc: Sherman Ong | Cam: Lesly Leon Lee | Ed: Azharr Rudin | Prod Des: Foo Fei Ling | Sound Des: John Chua | Music: John Chua | With: Dato Rahim Razali, Foo Fei Ling, Mohd Hanafi Rosdi, Ng Xin Ying | Print/Sales: 13 Little Pictures | www.13littlepictures.com

5f-2
Chung Lee

With little sign of concealment, a scriptwriter for B-films plays the lead in his own story. The world of the imagination starts in the adjacent home of his neighbour and landlord. As detective Fay, he penetrates the bizarre erotic world of Duckie Pete.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Taiwan, 2011 | colour, video, 24 min, Mandarin


Prod/Sc: Chung Lee | Cam: Leung Ming-Kai | Ed: Yang Wei-Shin | Prod Des: Miss Guai | Sound Des: R.T. | Music: Aphasia | With: Michael Chang, Gia Xia-Guo, Enno Cheng | Print/Sales: Chung Lee | www.thechunglee.com

twenty Dollars
Lam See Chit

Its usually boys who like to show they can make an action movie. Show that they know how a gangster should look. How he talks and frowns and makes it clear he wont put up with something. How he casually decides on life and death. But this is a film by a promising girl.
Hong Kong, 2011 | colour, video, 15 min, Cantonese
Prod: Lok Ting Ho | Prod Comp: Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University | Sc: Lam See Chit | Cam: Li Yin Tao | Ed/Sound Des: Lam See Chit | With: Ng Kam Pui, Tsang Ying Lin, Wong Pui Ying, Cheng Ka Wai Cari, Ng Kai Ho | Print/Sales: Lam See Chit

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On the Move
Memories are formed by everything that surrounds us. Sometimes showing it is enough. Sometimes words are needed.
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A Free Moment
Nir Evron

A Free Moment pans around the site of an uncompleted palace, inviting us not to see Jerusalem as the Jordanian king once hoped to see it, nor as many Israelis now hope to see it, a united Jerusalem to remain under Israeli control. Instead, we are invited to loosen our ways of looking at architecture and landscape and to turn them on their head.
Israel, 2011 | b&w, video, 5 min, no dialogue
Prod: Eyal Vexler | Cam: Ziv Berkovich | Ed: Nir Evron | Print/ Sales: Nir Evron | www.nirevron.com

Polvo
Dust Angela Reginato

An essay about corruption and political disappearances in Mexico City under President Jos Lpez Portillo in the late 1970s, told using archive footage, old family photos and other, apparently random images. The main theme is the son of an acquaintance who went missing. A story about memory and recollection.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA/Mexico, 2012 | colour, video, 27 min, English/Spanish


Prod/Sc: Angela Reginato | Cam: Rosario Sotelo | Ed: Angela Reginato | Music: Dave Douglas | Print/Sales: Angela Reginato

Le songe de poliphile
the Strife of Love in a Dream Camille Henrot

Inspired by Sudhir Kakars idea of India as the unconscious of the West, The Strife of Love in a Dream is composed in a braided structure, interweaving a pilgrimage, the production of anti-anxiety medication and the extraction of snake venom, all of which are linked to human strategies to ward off fear.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

France, 2011 | colour, video, 11 min, no dialogue


Prod: Mathilde Henrot | Prod Comp: Maharaja Films | Sc: Camille Henrot | Cam: Camille Henrot, William OCallaghan | Ed: Yann Chapotel | Sound Des: Joakim Bouaziz | Music: Joakim Bouaziz | Print/Sales: Maharaja Films | www.camillehenrot.fr

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Kreis Wr.Neustadt
A to A Johann Lurf

Johann Lurf once again reveals his striking talent and his sense of humour. A to A is an extensive catalogue of mediocre architectural objects on roundabouts, competing for attention in the few seconds as they are passed. A unique artists impression, shot from a spluttering Vespa.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Austria, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc: Johann Lurf | Cam: Mark Gerstorfer | Ed: Johann Lurf | Sound Des: Nils Kirchhoff | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.johannlurf.net/kreiswrneustadt

All the Lines Flow Out


Charles Lim Yi Yong

With beautiful camerawork, the maker very visually and minutely follows the flow of the drainage system in, through and under Singapore: what it carries along with it, and how this lifeline and the fine mesh of the network can apparently no longer be controlled by man. Special mention at the Venice film festival.
Singapore, 2011 | colour, DCP, 21 min, no dialogue
Prod: Wee Li Lin, Leon Cheo | Prod Comp: Bobbing Buoy Films | Sc/Cam/Ed/ Prod Des: Charles Lim Yi Yong | Sound Des: Evan Tan | Music: Williamette | With: Ali Apriadi, James Khoo | Print/Sales: Bobbing Buoy Films | www.charleslim.org

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Ordinary Madness
And now for something different, a rather unsettling observation: the ordinary is, in fact, laced with the contradictory, uncanny, and surreal. On the other hand, the absurd sometimes has a logic and truth of its own.
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the Living Room


Roderick Hietbrink

The private atmosphere of a Dutch living room is interrupted by the disturbing presence of a large oak tree that slowly enters the room. Being both realistic and absurd, the confrontation between the tree and the home raises questions about the meaning and symbolism of the tree and the private domain.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc: Roderick Hietbrink | Cam: Jeroen Simons | Ed: Roderick Hietbrink | Prod Des: Fenna Stapel | Sound Des: Gregoor van de Kamp | Print/Sales: Roderick Hietbrink | www.roderickhietbrink.nl

Rigid Regime
Erkka Nissinen

A pornographic monologue about sense certainty in Hegelian sense with a strong home-made look and feel. In Rigid Regime, the protagonist has two arms chopped off in order to stigmatize himself and is being buried alive. He accepts the situation, goes through the history of mankind and stammers farewell to life.
WORLD PREMIERE

Hong Kong/China, 2012 | colour, video, 14 min, English


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music/With: Erkka Nissinen | Print/Sales: AV-arkki

Modern No.2
Mirai Mizue

In this apparently simple animation, consisting only of straight lines drawn with a pencil on a sheet of squared paper, architectural details and patterns that closely resemble optical illusions come to life in a special way. A short and sweet work that is propelled along by a powerful soundtrack.
Japan, 2011 | colour, DCP, 4 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc/Ed: Mirai Mizue | Sound Des/Music: twoth | Animation: Mirai Mizue | Print/Sales: CaRTe bLaNChe

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Commission
Erik van Lieshout

Erik van Lieshout opened a temporary shop in an abandoned unit in the Zuidplein mall in Rotterdam South, a working class district home to several large immigrant communities. The film is both a portrait of a place and of an artists half-sceptical, half-hopeful attempt to become an agent of social good.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 49 min, Dutch
Prod: Suzanne Weenink | Prod Comp: Sculpture International Rotterdam | Sc/Cam: Erik van Lieshout | Ed: Core van der Hoeven | Prod Des: Suzanne Weenink | Sound Des: Core van der Hoeven | Print/Sales: Suzanne Weenink | www.erikvanlieshout.com

Out and About Africa


Films from or about Africa can also be funny or hopeful or just plain beautiful. Or is that not allowed?
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Aishas Song
Orlando von Einsiedel

It might have become a sad film about the girl Aisha Sani Abdullahi, who almost went blind as a child and pined away in the streets of Nigeria. But the film is fairly optimistic and above all beautifully shot. Not many filmmakers are making beautiful films in Africa, so this is already quite a change.
Nigeria/United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 10 min, Hausa
Prod: Orlando von Einsiedel | Cam: Franklin Dow | Ed: Peta Ridley, Katie Bryer | Sound Des/ Music: Patrick Jonsson | With: Aisha Sani Abdullahi | Print/Sales: Orlando von Einsiedel

My Name Is Feker
Orlando von Einsiedel

A girl might end up in prostitution anywhere in the world, but the chance of this happening to a poor Ethiopian girl is greater. The filmmaker made a portrait of Feker, who meanwhile has managed to escape from prostitution, by allowing three young prostitutes to tell their stories.
Ethiopia, 2011 | colour, video, 12 min, Amharic
Prod: Orlando von Einsiedel | Cam: Franklin Dow | Ed: Peta Ridley | Sound Des/ Music: Patrick Jonsson | Print/Sales: Orlando von Einsiedel

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Mama
Mother Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana

Many films have been made about the traumatic genocide in Rwanda, but maybe not yet enough by Rwandan filmmakers themselves. Its an ordinary story in Rwanda: a woman who has to live alongside her husbands murderer. The children are the first to attempt reconciliation.
WORLD PREMIERE

Rwanda, 2012 | colour, video, 19 min, Afrikaans


Prod: Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana | Prod Comp: Almond Tree Films-Rwanda | Sc: Richard Mugwaneza | Cam/Ed: Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana | Sound Des: Musafiri Kayambi | Music: Thadeo | With: Grace Kayitesi | Print/Sales: Almond Tree Films-Rwanda

Gangster Project
Teboho Edkins

A young white filmmaker wants to make a film in a dangerous neighbourhood in Cape Town a film about real gangsters. He looks for his protagonists and finds them and from a comic documentary, the film changes into a realistic short feature. A feature in which home truths about South Africa are again real.
Germany/South Africa, 2011 | colour, video, 55 min, Afrikaans/English
Prod: Andreas Louis, Anna Guddat | Prod Comp: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin | Sc: Franois Xavier Drouet, Teboho Edkins | Cam: Tom Akinleminu | Ed: Rune Schweitzer | Sound Des: Thomas Wallmann, Niklas Kammertoens | Music: Alan Mensah | With: Teboho Edkins, Thurston Moses, Tammy Miosha Rass, Ralf Jackals Peterson | Print/Sales: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin | www.dffb.de/filminfo/264

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Puzzled
These monumental works were produced by a brilliant and simple intervention or by skillfully juggling an endless number of jigsaw pieces.
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River Rites
Ben Russell

A trance dance water implosion, a newer line drawn between secular possession and religious phenomena. Filmed in one shot at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor secrets of a Saramaccan animist are revealed every day as time itself is undone. Rites are the new trypps; embodiment is our eternal everything. (BR)
USA/Suriname, 2011 | colour, video, 12 min, no dialogue
Prod: Ben Russell | Cam: Chris Fawcett | Ed/Sound Des: Ben Russell | Music: Mindflayer | Print/Sales: Ben Russell | www.dimeshow.com

Well then there Now


Lewis Klahr

A list of 254 shots, divided over 15 scenes. The script is not so much intended as instructions for directing, but more as a musical composition: open to more than one interpretation. The spiritual father of the project is the musician/composer John Zorn. The director is the winner of a Tiger Award for Short Films 2010, Lewis Klahr.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 19 min, English


Prod: Lewis Klahr | Sc: John Zorn | Cam/Ed/Sound Des: Lewis Klahr | Music: John Zorn | Print/Sales: Lewis Klahr

Arcana
Henry Hills

The treatment for this project was written by musician John Zorn. It concists of 254 scenes bundled in 15 sequences. Hills has collected takes for each of the 254 script directions and funneled them into a complex stream of associations, underscored or rather, interlocked by pieces from the John Zorn composition The Bribe (1986). (C. Hller)
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Austria/USA, 2011 | colour, video, 31 min, no dialogue


Prod: Henry Hills | Sc: Henry Hills, John Zorn | Cam/Ed: Henry Hills | Music: John Zorn | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm | www.henryhills.com

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Secret Codes
If our world disintegrates into particles, is there any way to understand it? Each particle has its own story, and if that story doesnt exist, then we create it ourselves.
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#29
Jos Miguel Biscaya

#29 belongs to a series of video works and researches the relationship between landscape representation, perception and the unconscious. The techniques applied to the footage are a mix between hacking of the MPEG information and faulty encoding settings. Crucial data is removed, forcing software to re-interpret the visual information.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 7 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed/Sound Des/Print/Sales: Jos Miguel Biscaya | www.jmbiscaya.com

Remote
Jesse McLean

There is a presence lingering in the dark woods, just under the surface of a placid lake and at the end of dreary basement corridor. Its not easy to locate because its outside, but also inside. It doesnt just crawl in on your wires because its not a thing. Its a shocking eruption of electrical energy.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 12 min, English


Prod: Jesse McLean | Cam: Lori Felker, Mike Gibisser, Jesse McLean | Ed/Sound Des: Jesse McLean | Music: Thad Kellstadt | Print/Sales: Jesse McLean | www.jessemclean.com

Bradley Manning Had Secrets


Adam Butcher

Short animation of Bradley Manning, the whistleblower who leaked secret files to WikiLeaks, portraying him as a young US soldier going through a crisis of conscience and gender identity, as revealed in his chat logs. The style of pixel minimalism is used in a serious and provocative way.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, English


Prod/Sc: Adam Butcher | Cam: Alisdair Cairns, Alec Milne | Music: Blair Mowat | With: Voice of Danny Mahoney, Angus Dunican | Animated by: Ben Claxton, Adam Butcher | Print/Sales: Adam Butcher | www.adam-butcher.co.uk

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Joule
Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni

The joule is a unit of energy, work or heat. The term is adapted here as a sort of prayer, an exercise in devotion and the act of letting go. In the sequential frames of Joule, a daily practice manifests itself in the form of worship, of liturgy; an expression of tensions straddling the realms of the political and the sacred.
Italy/Austria, 2010 | colour/b&w, video, 23 min, Italian
Prod: Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni, Leonardo Monti | Prod Comp: Zapruder, Steirischer Herbs Festival, LM Cineservice | Sc: David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi | Cam: Monaldo Moretti, David Zamagni | Ed/Prod Des: David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi | Sound Des: Francesco Brasini, Mattia Dallara | Print/Sales: Zapruder | www.zapruderie.com

Vexed
Telcosystems

While scientists get closer and closer to revealing that one particle that confirms our understanding of the universe, Telcosystems shows a much less unambiguous particle theory: a recalcitrant and unstable digital world that is only visible at speeds faster than light.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, DCP, 29 min, no dialogue


Prod: Telcosystems | Prod Comp: Spatial Media Laboratories | Sc/Cam/Ed/ Music: Telcosystems | Print/Sales: Spatial Media Laboratories | www.telcosystems.net

Short Circuit
Two magical films with a leading role for the camera, which breathes new life into the world.
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Lighthouse
Wouter Venema

With a special feeling for time and space, Venema manages to create a magical, almost hushed world. We follow the protagonist closely in a labyrinth of corridors, stairs and rooms. Here he comes across an old man who is sitting in a chair gazing quietly into the distance. Something seems to be getting in the way of the course of events.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 18 min, no dialogue


Prod: Tim Leyendekker | Prod Comp: Absent without Leave | Sc: Wouter Venema | Cam: Stef Tijdink | Ed: Wouter Venema, Laurent Fluttert | Prod Des: Lotte de Vries | Sound Des: Jaim Sahuleka, Matt Kemp | With: Ward Weemhoff, Henk Stuurman | Print/Sales: Absent without Leave | www.woutervenema.nl/lighthouse

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Kaspar Film
Florence Pezon

The intriguing stories of the wolf child Kaspar Hauser, found in Neurenberg in 1833, and the lesser-known Genie Susan Wiley, found in Los Angeles in 1970, have been interwoven into a very authentic and poetic film. The striking camerawork portrays the world as if it is being seen for the first time.
France, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 55 min, French/German
Prod/Sc: Florence Pezon | Cam: Thomas Favel | Ed/Prod Des: Florence Pezon | Sound Des: Vincent Villa | Music: Jean-Christophe Marti | With: Axel Bogousslavsky, Vincent Lacoste, Laurent Lacotte, Jean-Christophe Marti | Print/Sales: Florence Pezon

Short Stories: Family ties


Stifling yet loving family ties in these four excellent fiction films from Portugal, Cuba, Slovenia and Austria.
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Lov na race
Duck Hunting Rok Bicek

Two brothers wait for their father by the jail where he has been imprisoned for years. They are going hunting again, just like the old days. Emotional and yet soberly shot film about very difficult family relationships that erupt into violence. A very powerful student film from Slovenia.
Slovenia, 2010 | colour, video, 23 min, Slovene
Prod: Jozica Blatnik | Prod Comp: University of Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television | Sc: Rok Bicek | Cam: Simon Tansek | Ed: Janez Bricelj | Prod Des: Niko Novak | Sound Des: Joze Trtnik, Vlado Popovic | With: Jernej Sugman, Jure Henigman, Blaz Setnikar, Mateja Koleznik, Rok Strucelj, Jost Strucelj | Print/ Sales: University of Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

Mila Caos
Simon Paetau

Warm, human and in view of the subject exceptionally unhysterical: in an illegal transvestite show in Havana, 17-year-old Sebastin turns into the singing diva Mila Caos every weekend. He dreams that his mother will see him onstage one day, but she has no desire to know about it yet.
Cuba/Germany, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 18 min, Spanish
Prod: Ute Dilger | Prod Comp: Academy of Media Arts | Sc: Fbian Surez, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau | Cam: Charlotte Michel | Ed: Ilka M. Valds | Prod Des: Alicia Estrella | Sound Des: Raynier Hinojosa, Vincent Ribaud | Music: Juan Formell | With: Yaniel Castillo, Paula Ali, Rebeca Rodriguez, Jaime Reyes Nomi, Felipe Reyes, Betsy Padrn | Print/Sales: Academy of Media Arts | www.simonpaetau.blogspot.com

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Apnoe
Harald Hund, Paul Horn

A day in the life of an apparently normal family, which however has to live without gravity and this makes their everyday activities considerably more difficult. Brilliant and absurd third part of the Living Space series by Hund and Horn about human life in bizarre circumstances. IFFR has also screened parts 1 and 2.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Austria, 2011 | colour, video, 10 min, German


Prod: Harald Hund, Paul Horn | Sc: Harald Hund | Cam: Viktor Schaider | Ed: Harald Hund | Prod Des: Paul Horn | Sound Des: Andreas Berger, Andreas Hamza | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/1919

Cerro negro
Joo Salaviza

A young woman visits her husband in prison. Both are Brazilian immigrants in Lisbon. Her son is left behind. Powerfully acted, sober and gripping fiction in grey-blue tints by Joo Salaviza, who won a Golden Palm in Cannes in 2009 for his short film Arena.
WORLD PREMIERE

Portugal, 2012 | colour, video, 22 min, Portuguese


Prod: Maria Joo Mayer | Prod Comp: Filmes do Tejo II | Sc: Joo Salaviza | Cam: Vasco Viana | Ed: Joo Salaviza | Prod Des: Ndia Henriques | Sound Des: Raquel Jacinto | With: Ana Jara Laisa Amarante, Allison Vinicius Silva, Iuri Jardim Gonalves | Print/Sales: Filmes do Tejo II

Short Stories: Friend or Foe


Three powerfully acted dramas with an idiosyncratic view of relationships and their sometimes far-reaching consequences.
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Le marais sauvage
the Wild Swamp Martin Drouot

What do you do if the world is against you? The 10-year-old girl Fiona and her depressed neighbour Benjamin make friends on holiday. When Fiona has to leave again, the two decide to turn their backs on the world and to set off a perfect, timeless moment ensues. But it cant last for long.
WORLD PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, video, 25 min, French


Prod: Mina Driouch | Prod Comp: Les Productions Balthazar | Sc: Martin Drouot | Cam: Frederic Mainon | Ed: Damien Maestraggi | Sound Des: Pierre Bariaud | Music: Alexander Zekke | With: Laurent Lacotte, Fiona Elkam | Print/Sales: Les Productions Balthazar

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Everything Will Be OK
Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen

Two Polish friends work illegally in the Norwegian timber industry. They stay up all night at a party nearby and this has enormous consequences next day. Excellently acted gripping fiction with a powerful build-up of tension. Director Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen studied at the Polish film school in Lodz.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Norway, 2011 | colour, DCP, 25 min, Polish


Prod: Alan R. Milligan, Marte Blyseth Pedersen, Stine Blichfeldt | Prod Comp: Film Farms As, De jentene der AS | Sc/Cam: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen | Sound Des: Krzysztof Stasiak | With: Jedrzej Przysiecki, Bartosz Someart Cichorack, Jeanette Alexandra Sundt, Sondre Slgedal, ge Henriksen | Print/Sales: Norwegian Film Institute

Ausreichend
Average Isabel Prahl

A new, young and ambitious teacher does his best to appeal to his pupils and this almost leads to his demise. During a trial lesson, the situation escalates. Exquisite German drama that is reminiscent of Entre les murs. A student film from the Kunsthochschule fr Medien, Cologne.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 30 min, German


Prod: Ute Dilger, Lutz Heineking,jr., Jan Mocka | Prod Comp: Academy of Media Arts, Eitelsonnenschein, Jan Mocka Produktion | Sc: Isabel Prahl | Cam: Max Kaiser | Ed: Daniel Scheuch | Sound Des: Kai Holzkaemper, Andrew Mottl | Music: Gregor Keienburg | With: Thomas Frnzel, Jonathan Dmcke, Carola Schnell, Simon Eckert, Thomas Balou Martin, Mariele Millowitsch | Print/Sales: Academy of Media Arts | www.thebeautyaside.com/filme-2

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Short Stories: Power and Politics


Unconventional, powerful dramas with a political and social undertone. Preceded by short teasers, made by secondyear AV students at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
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Duelo antes da noite


Duel Before Nightfall Alice Furtado

A boy and a girl walk together through the jungle for a long time, until their ways part. By then, their lives have changed for good. A subtle drama on the border between reality and fantasy, based on a short story by Joo Gilberto Noll. Selected for the student competition at the Cannes film festival 2011.
Brazil, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 20 min, Portuguese
Prod: Alice Furtado | Prod Comp: Raio Verde Filmes | Sc: Alice Furtado, Calac Nogueira | Cam: Tiago Rios | Ed: Alice Furtado | Prod Des: Jlia Vanini, Laura Shalders | Sound Des: Joice Scavone | With: Ana Vitria Frana, Chico Vitti, Ricardo Rodrigues | Print/Sales: Raio Verde Filmes

Doa Sonia Borrowed a Gun from Her Neighbor Alcides


Gabriel Martins

Everything is surprising in this condensed narrative from the favela: the narrator, Doa Sonia herself, her son, the neighbour and the gun. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Brazil, 2011 | colour, video, 18 min, Portuguese


Prod: Andr Novais Oliveira, Gabriel Martins, Maurlio Martins | Sc: Gabriel Martins | Cam: Marcello Marques | Ed: Gabriel Martins | Prod Des: Mariana Souto | Sound Des: Carlucio Ribeiro, Pedro Martins | Print/Sales: Gabriel Martins | www.filmesdeplastico.com.br

Bahari
Ahmed Ghoneimy

One night, Amr wanders alone in the streets of Bahari, the marginalized eastern shore of Alexandria. While collecting material for an art project, he is allured into filming a playful group of children. Two locals are provoked by Amrs actions. (AG)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 13 min, Arabic


Prod/Sc: Ahmed Ghoneimy | Cam: Islam Kamal | Ed: Perry Moataz | Sound Des: Samir Nabile | With: Yasser Beltagy, Amr Wishahy, Mohamed El Sayed | Print/Sales: Ahmed Ghoneimy

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Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys


Jens Assur

The title refers to the Chinese government policy by which dissidents are executed in order to frighten off others. In a breathtakingly beautiful opening scene, we see the gruesome conclusion of a series of apparently chance events. In eight powerful scenes, the fateful story is told of someone who just happened to be passing.
Sweden/Thailand, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:2.35, 25 min, Mandarin
Prod: Jens Assur | Prod Comp: Studio Jens Assur | Sc: Jens Assur | Cam: Marek Septimus Wieser | Ed: Fredrik Morheden, sa Mossberg | Prod Des: Sudamol Chaban | Sound Des: Wille Peterson-Berger, Niclas Merits | Print/Sales: Studio Jens Assur | www.studiojensassur.se

Short Stories: Surprising Mysteries


Strange twists in mysterious and atmospheric fiction films, in which nothing is what it seems.
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Yo de aqu te estoy mirando


Felipe Glvez Haberle

I Am Always Looking from Here

A man returns from hunting. His lover is waiting for him in an empty swimming pool in quiet woodland surroundings. Theres a conversation about a suicide in the mans family. The second short film by the Chilean Felipe Glvez Haberle is a mysterious, atmospheric drama with a surprising denouement.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Chile, 2011 | colour, video, 18 min, Spanish


Prod: Ana Perera | Prod Comp: Cinedafne | Sc: Felipe Glvez Haberle | Cam: Andrs Jordn | Ed: Felipe Glvez Haberle | Prod Des: Ana Perera | Sound Des: Roberto Espinoza | Music: Rodrigo Salvatierra | With: Cristin Carvajal, Macarena Teke | Print/Sales: Cinedafne

Domicile
Maeva Ranaivojaona

What if your everyday routine, arriving home after your work, is disrupted by the presence of well, of what? Youd rather find a crocodile under your bed. Powerful form experiment. Without using digital means, fear acquires a very physical and overpowering form here.
WORLD PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, video, 15 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc: Mava Ranavojaona | Cam: Blaise Basdevant | Ed: Gregory Fourquet | Sound Des: Andr Fvre | With: Xavier Stentz, Ccile Choumiloff | Print/Sales: Maeva Ranaivojaona

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Cross

Cross Country Maryna Vroda

Cross: a race over uneven terrain. In this case, that terrain is the microcosm of a boy who has to quick-shift between violence and summer boredom. Maryna Vroda: Is it more important to live or to observe life? Winner of the Golden Palm for short film at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 15 min, Russian


Prod: Florence Keller | Sc: Maryna Vroda | Ed: Thomas Marchand | Sound Des: Masha Nesterenko | With: Egor Agarkov, Nastia Dunaeva, Masha Tkatchenko, Yulia Trigubenko | Print/Sales: Florence Keller

Snow Canon
Mati Diop

Her parents have gone to a funeral and Vanina has the chalets in the picturesque yet godforsaken village in the French Alps to herself. The boredom is only broken by the Skype sessions with her friend Elose. Then the babysitter Mary Jane arrives. Their love-hate relationship comes to a surprising conclusion. Mati Diops Big in Vietnam screens in the compilation programme Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 1.
France, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 33 min, French/English
Prod: Charlotte Vincent | Prod Comp: Aurora Films | Sc: Mati Diop, Judith Lvy | Cam: Jordane Chouzenoux | Ed: Ael Dallier Vga | Sound Des: Sylvain Copans, Delphine Malaussena | With: Nilaya Bal, Nour Mobarak, Alban Guyon, Chan Coc | Print/Sales: Aurora Films | www.aurorafilms.fr/film.php?id=72

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Short Stories: Womens Destiny


Sensitive yet funny fiction films in which women try to come to terms with their fate.
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Hors saison
Off Season Victoria Saez

A woman returns from Paris to the island where she grew up. Her mother has died, after her father. It is some time before she comes to terms with her past. A serene and humorous fiction about identity, beautifully shot and with a wonderful leading role by the French-Spanish director Victoria Saez.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

France/Spain, 2011 | colour, video, 25 min, Spanish/French


Prod: Jean-Jacques Albert | Prod Comp: Arimage Productions | Sc: Victoria Saez | Cam: Luis Armando Arteaga | Ed: Angel Hernandez Zoido | Prod Des: Victoria Saez | Sound Des: Jean-Paul Bernard | Music: Pink Noise Party | With: Victoria Saez, Paquita Canavate Gonzalez, Maria del Carmen Amador Lopez | Print/Sales: Arimage Productions

Le marin masqu
the Shady Sailor Sophie Letourneur

Delightful girly chatter in black-andwhite by the maker of La vie au Ranch. During a weekend in Laetitias Breton birthplace, she and her girlfriend Sophie find all kinds of things: the best pancake bakery, the beach and the local disco. With a revival of F.R. Davids Words Dont Come Easy.
France, 2011 | b&w, video, 36 min, French
Prod: Emmanuel Chaumet | Prod Comp: Ecce Films | Sc: Sophie Letourneur | Cam: Ludivine Renard | Ed: Carole Le Page | Prod Des: Yannig Willmann | Sound Des: Laure Arto | With: Sophie Letourneur, Laetitia Goffi, Johann Libreau | Print/Sales: Ecce Films

fancy-fair
Christophe Hermans

A rather unstable woman visits her family when she is allowed out of the clinic for a day. Shed love to see her daughters school performance, but apart from her son, no-one really wants to see her. A painfully beautiful drama about fragility and family relationships, beautifully acted.
Belgium, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 20 min, French
Prod: Marie Besson | Prod Comp: Eklektik Productions | Sc: Christophe Hermans, Franois Verjans | Cam: Frdric Noirhomme | Ed: Jol Mann | Prod Des: Laurence Goemine | Sound Des: Jean-Franois Levillain | Music: Clare Lousie | With: Dominique Baeyens, Kris Cuppens, Jrmie Sgard | Print: Ministre de la Communaut Franaise de Belgique | Sales: La Luna Productions | www.eklektik.be

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Signal Lost and Found


What goes around, comes around. Something disappears, nothing escapes the attention.
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Loss
David Ferrando-Giraut

Loss reflects on the processes of image recording be they psychological or technological. It expresses a feeling of longing for lost realities that are accessible just through images, and for those aspects of lived realities that have been stranded during their transformation into images. (DFG)
United Kingdom, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 17 min, English
Prod: David Ferrando-Giraut | Print/Sales: LUX | www.davidferrandogiraut.com/LOSS.php

Space Is the Place


Eriko Sonoda

Space Is the Place is the latest video animation by the Japanese Eriko Sonoda, whose meticulous lo-fi explorations of flattened space use sheets of paper to transcend finitude. A corner wall in the artists room is transmuted through a staccato of origami exchanges.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, silent


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Print/Sales: Eriko Sonoda | www.erikosonoda.com

Landfill 16
Jennifer Reeves

This ultimate film-recycling project about the end of 16mm is made up of material left over from Reeves earlier work When It Was Blue; first buried for several months in a rubbish tip where the enzymes and moulds provided beautiful patterns. Then Reeves meticulously painted the 16mm film material again by hand.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 9 min, no dialogue


Prod: Jennifer Reeves | Prod Comp: Sparky Pictures | Cam/Ed/Sound Des: Jennifer Reeves | Print/Sales: Sparky Pictures | www.home.earthlink.net/~jennreeves

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did i?
Sawa Hiraki

did i? explores the phenomenon of amnesia through a series of abstract visual sequences. A boy closes his eyes and wakes up to discover the world behind his thoughts gone missing. His mind is like an emptied lake, unable to contain the depth of it all, the bottomless, fathomless wealth of the things he lost in his sleep.
United Kingdom/Mexico/Japan, 2011 | b&w, video, 9 min, no dialogue
Prod: Abigail Addison | Prod Comp: Animate Projects Limited | Ed: Hiraki Sawa | Print: Animate Projects Limited | Sales: Jessica Lin Cox | www.animateprojects.org

Radiotehnika
Elonore de Montesquiou

The camera first roams for some time around a deserted industrial site. We see a group of women approach the Radiotehnika building, where once the production line stood for high quality hi-fi radio equipment. While the picture traces the surroundings, we hear eyewitness reports by former employees.
WORLD PREMIERE

Latvia, 2012 | b&w, video, 19 min, Russian


Prod/Cam/Ed: Elonore de Montesquiou | Sound Des/Music: Phonic Psychomimesis | With: Galina Tralmane, Ausma Smiltniece, Mikhail Bogdanov | Print/Sales: Elonore de Montesquiou | www.eleonoredemontesquiouvideo.blogspot.com

20 Hz
Semiconductor

Geo-magnetic storm data collected from the CARISMA radio array is interpreted as audio. The sound generates tangible and sculptural forms suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena.
WORLD PREMIERE

United Kingdom, 2012 | b&w, video, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod: Semiconductor | Prod Comp: Semiconductor Films | Cam: Semiconductor | Sound Des: Audio data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta | Print/Sales: LUX | www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/20Hz/20Hz.htm

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Sound Bites
Fifteen DINAMO distributors of experimental film and video art will show unexpected examples of sound bites or else of sound that bites.
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De magische tol
the Magic top Joost van Veen

A spinning top performs on stage, and while it turns enthusiastically, it brings images of a circus acrobat and his donkey to life. A very short and charming film by Joost van Veen, made for children as part of the project Big Art for Small People (Grote Kunst voor Kleine Kinderen) by Cut-n-Paste and KRO TV.
Netherlands, 2007 | b&w, video, 2 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Joost van Veen | Sound Des/Music: Matt Hulse | Sales/Distr. NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.international.eyefilm.nl

Pipeline
Liv Strand

Filmmaker Liv Strand placed a camera in a pneumatic pipe system in the University Hospital at Stockholm. While the camera navigates the piping at varying speeds, Strand studies both the portrayal of speed and the way movement sounds with her video.
Sweden, 2007 | colour, video, 6 min, no dialogue
Prod: Liv Strand | Cam: Micke Hglund, Liv Strand | Ed/Prod Des/ Sound Des: Liv Strand | Print/Sales: Filmform | www.filmform.com

Superimposed Sad
Chris Newman

Newman is reflecting on the effects of happiness and sorrow. How does sadness weigh up against happiness? Accompanied by an atmospheric jazzy soundtrack, he gazes with his contemplative look at what directly brings him happiness. Humorous report on a vision of happiness and the deception of grief.
Germany, 2009 | colour, video, 3 min, English
Prod: Bill Dietz | Sc/Cam: Chris Newman | Ed: Bill Dietz | Sound Des: Chris Newman | Music: Glenn Miller Big Band | Print/Sales: inter media art institute (imai) | www.imaionline.de

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Ruled by Dead People


Delacrew

The camera follows the electric charge of the music through an empty complex, alternating between static and moving modes and with unexpected changes of speed. Animated graffiti on the walls give significance to the empty space. A short, futuristic and explosively powerful social commentary.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Spain, 2006 | colour, video, 2 min, English


Prod: Delacrew | Print/Sales: HAMACA, Media & Video Art Distribution from Spain | www.hamacaonline.net

God Moves on the Water


Erik Bnger

Composer/filmmaker Erik Bnger combines two musical narratives about the sinking of the Titanic, with 70 years in between: that by Celine Dion and by Blind Willie Johnson (1929). In a hilarious way, the new context of both versions permanently changes the way we think about the well-known tearjerker My Heart Will Go On.
Germany, 2008 | colour, video, 3 min, English
Prod: Erik Bnger | Print/Sales: Argos Centre for Art and Media | www.argosarts.org

Very Nice, Very Nice


Arthur Lipsett

Working for the National Film Board of Canada, Arthur Lipsett collected discarded sound material in order to edit it into a new creation. With a combination of archive footage and old photos, he created a unique portrait of an era when sound told the story.
Canada, 1961 | b&w, video, 6 min, English
Prod: Colin Low, Tom Daly | Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada | Sc/Cam/Ed/ Sound Des: Arthur Lipsett | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution | www.lightcone.org

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Surface Noise
Paul Rowley, David Philips, Tim Blue

By isolating and processing archive films affected by dirt and scratches, the makers created an interesting symphonic experiment. With the aid of images of political unrest and intense red colours, interesting parallels are drawn between the mechanics of cinema and the patterns of social unrest.
USA, 2010 | colour, video, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Sound Des: Paul Rowley, David Philips, Tim Blue | Print/Sales: Arsenal Institut fr Film und Videokunst e.V. | www.arsenal-berlin.de

taste test
Andrew Lampert

Three home-movie scenes form an inane symphony to a ballad by James Brown. A familiar work within the oeuvre of film archivist Andrew Lampert, who focuses on coincidences in the changing meaning of private visual material in the public domain of cinema.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, English


Prod: Andrew Lampert | Print/Sales: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) | www.eai.org

Liberty Kids
Moira Tierney

Primary school project in Dublin in which the children chose the Super-8 images and the soundtrack that were incorporated into this film by Moira Tierney. The enthusiasm of the children and the grainy quality of the film material create a charming and carefree picture of a school with not very many means at hand.
Ireland, 2006 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 5 min, English
Prod: Moira Tierney | Print/Sales: Collectif Jeune Cinma (CJC) | www.cjcinema.org

Do I Belong?
Joel Gibb

A man is confronted with a question of identity. While he gets ready for work, he is waylaid by a festive gang of acquaintances from the gay scene in Toronto. A lipdub music video by the queer church folk group The Hidden Cameras that was largely made in a single take.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 5 min, English


Prod: Joel Gibb, Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Brad Horvath | Prod Comp: The Hidden Cameras | Sc: Joel Gibb | Cam: Ben Lichty | Ed: Joel Gibb | Prod Des: Anya Tarboulsy | Music: The Hidden Cameras | With: Joel Gibb, Andrew Paterson, Sean Ling | Print/ Sales: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) | www.cfmdc.org

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Kaivo
Well Juha Mki-Jussila

The camera pulls us along, as it were, down the tunnel deep into our thoughts. Here we find ourselves in a transcendental world where memories come to us like bubbles. A hypnotic animation about the distinction between our conscious and unconscious selves and the symbolism of water.
WORLD PREMIERE

Finland, 2012 | colour, video, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music: Juha Mki-Jussila | Print/Sales: AV-arkki | www.av-arkki.fi

Hands
Bob Kohn

In a fast cut of existing close-up shots of hands, Bob Kohn juxtaposes everyday, religious and sexual activities, accompanied by a rhythmic and exciting soundtrack. Not only are we confronted by human actions, but also with the nature of our existence.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

France, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Ed/Prod Des: Bob Kohn | Sound Des/Music: Jean-Jacques Palix | Print/Sales: Heure Exquise! | www.heure-exquise.org/video.php?id=8547

Woodcarver
Ehren BEARwitness Thomas

In a confrontation in the street, a policeman shoots the innocent John T. Williams dead. The incident resounds on the radio, while we watch through the windscreen of a police patrol car. The hectic nature of the incident becomes even more convincing thanks to the driving dub-step soundtrack.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, English


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Ehren BEARwitness Thomas | Sound Des/ Music: A Tribe Called Red | Print/Sales: V tape | www.vtape.org

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Elektrotechnique
Lernert & Sander

A vacuum cleaner and a rotating office chair have never looked so sexy. The tension builds subtly while the household objects in various installations start moving, as if theyre dancing excitedly to the music. Winner of the Dutch Design Award in the category Best Motion Design.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Macha Rousakov | Prod Comp: suikerdept | Ed: Derek van Egmond | Prod Des: Lernert & Sander | Music: De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig | Sales/ Distr. NL: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk) | www.nimk.nl

German Song
Sadie Benning

A lyrical short film to the sombre tones of the number by the indie rock band Come. A girl roams and enjoys herself in the apparently grimy atmosphere of a town. The black-and-white film German Song , shot on Super-8 with chance images of people and situations, exudes a special homemovie feel.
USA, 1995 | b&w, video, 6 min, English
Prod: Sadie Benning | Print/Sales: V tape | www.vdb.org

Structural Principles
Film is made from material, just like the rest of the world for that matter. The filmmaker is Lord and Master over this material. For as long as it lasts.
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tape Generations
Johan Rijpma

Countless rolls of tape go through a process of development and degeneration. In the extremely slowpaced life of these objects, everything starts out the same. But deviations and differences slowly become visible through the force of gravity, resulting in unpredictable shapes and movements that somehow feel familiar. (JR)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music/Print/ Sales: Johan Rijpma | www.johanrijpma.nl

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Alone with the Moon


Peter Burr

Stepping aside from his adventures in psychedelic insurrection under the CARTUNE XPREZ and HOOLIGANSHIP monikers, Peter Burr creates instead a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendoing in time with Christopher Doulgeris portentously pulsating soundtrack.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | b&w, video, 14 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Peter Burr | Sound Des/Music: Christopher Doulgeris | Print/Sales: Peter Burr | www.peterburr.org

Arrastre
Nicholas Brooks

Through virtuoso camera work, editing and sound, Nicholas Brooks creates a universe from plexiglass, paper and stone where things and non-things come into relation with each other as protagonists in an intriguing drama of indeterminate parameters and force.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

United Kingdom, 2010 | colour, video, 8 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Sound Des/Print/Sales: Nicholas Brooks | www.nickbrooks.info

Sack Barrow
Ben Rivers

With a look of love, Rivers returns with a mineral-encrusted portrait of Servex Ltd, an eight-decades-old factory, fallen out of time and space. A chill falls with only easy listening music, pin-ups and tea breaks to keep us warm in this crystalline cavern.
United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 21 min, English
Prod/Cam/Ed/Sound Des: Ben Rivers | Print/Sales: LUX | www.benrivers.com

Jardin du sel
Salt Garden Rose Lowder

The production of sea salt flower is a process of concentration and saturation of sea water in order to form salt crystals. The agricultural character of the activity is evoked by the term salt garden. Six poetic pictures, five based on the sun, the wind and the sea, while the last lingers on a small park left fallow.
WORLD PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, 16mm, 16 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed: Rose Lowder | Music: Franois Alexis Degrenier | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution | www.lightcone.org/en/film-7477-jardin-du-sel.html

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tales and two Cities


Bring two people together, anywhere in the world, and a story emerges. That can be different: a dialogue between a filmmaker and his city also provides a story.
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Afrikka
Africa Matti Harju

Nerve-wracking and frayed experimental fiction that shows a psychotic man and his direct surroundings in a totally uncompromising way. Our interaction with others is based on the idea that we all share the same reality. That turns out not always to be the case. (MH)
WORLD PREMIERE

Finland/United Kingdom, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, English


Prod/Sc: Matti Harju | Cam: Benjamin Kracun | Ed: Matti Harju, Maya Maffioli | With: Glenn Conroy, Chuk Iwuji | Print/Sales: Matti Harju

tjelesna funkcija
Bodily Function Dane Komljen

A young man goes into town in a van to sell vegetables at the market. He gets in touch with a childhood friend. The low-budget Bodily Function has a completely self-sufficient form and breathes a calm that betrays a great talent. In 2011, the IFFR screened Van Dane Komljens I Already Am Everything I Want to Have.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011 | colour, video, 38 min, Bosnian


Prod: Alex Traila, Davorka Begovic, Vlado Bulajic | Prod Comp: Obala Art Centar | Sc: Dane Komljen | Cam: Amel ikoli | Ed: Jelena Maksimovic | Sound Des: Igor Camo | With: Anel Hasanbaic, Rijad Gvozden | Print/Sales: Obala Art Centar

Radioactive City
Richard Sandler

The mood in Los Angeles was apocalyptic in the spring of 2011. A meticulous diary report about the city dominated by two important events: the disaster at the nuclear power station in Fukushima and the serious assault on a Giants fan outside the Dodger Stadium.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 22 min, English


Prod/Cam: Richard Sandler | Ed: Richard Sandler, Brett Solem, Daniel Brown | Sound Des/Print/Sales: Richard Sandler | www.richardsandler.com

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traces
In these two films, the makers go looking for traces from the past, as silent witnesses of battle and human suffering.
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War Is Over
Roy Villevoye, Jan Dietvorst

The search for the unknown soldiers on the battlefield of the First World War often has very different motives that can also be contradictory. The culture of remembrance turns out to be a combination of mythomania, enterprise, psychopathology and poetic urges. Kaleidoscopic documentary about the aftermath of war.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 29 min, French/Dutch
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Jan Dietvorst, Roy Villevoye | With: Denis Martin, Oswald Gryson | Print/Sales: Jan Dietvorst

Mrtva trat
Into Oblivion imon pidla

With a single pencil stroke, Stalin indicated the line where he wanted a railway through the inhospitable frozen landscape. For four years, 80.000 Gulag prisoners were put to work in horrendous conditions. pidla goes looking for The death of Stalin was their liberation. S witnesses from that period.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Czech Republic, 2011 | colour, video, 52 min, Russian


Prod: Pavel Bercik | Prod Comp: Evolution Films | Sc: imon pidla | Cam: Luk Hyksa, Filip turmankin | Ed: imon pidla | Sound Des: Martin enek | Music: Roman Fojtcek | Print/Sales: Evolution Films | www.evolutionfilms.cz/article/show/id/45

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Waiting for Snow in My Kampong


It never snows in a tropical village. So how could it get radioactively contaminated? In Japan it can snow. And become contaminated.
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15th thai Short Film and Video Festival: Opener


Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Opener is a suitable description for a short film that starts a festival and can also work as an eye-opener. Just how simple is it to make a film these days? Even the filmmakers grandma can do it with a modern photo camera. Apt.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Thailand, 2011 | colour, video, 2 min, Thai


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit | With: Sunisa Thamrongrattanarit, Sok Gieng | Print/Sales: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit | www.nawee4.tumblr.com

Survival Guide untuk Kampong Radioaktif


Survival Guide for Radioactive Village Liew Seng Tat, Tan Chui Mui, Woo Ming Jin, Yeo Joon-han

Of all filmmakers in Southeast Asia, the Malaysians may be the least politically committed, but that is changing rapidly. They are also maintaining their sense of humour. A factory that processes rareearth metals (with radioactive effects) threatens the surroundings on the coast of eastern Malaysia.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Malaysia, 2011 | colour, video, 40 min, Malay/Cantonese


Prod: Foo Fei Ling, Chua Thien See | Prod Comp: Kampong Radioaktif | Sc: Yeo Joon Han, Tan Chui Mui, Liew Seng Tat, Woo Ming Jin | Cam: Tan Teck Zee, Eric Yeong, Yap Gee Yuen | Ed: Yeo Joon Han, Tan Chui Mui, Liew Seng Tat, Woo Ming Jin | Prod Des: Chin Khin Yeow, Ong Sir Shen | Sound Des: Yeo Joon Han, Liew Seng Tat, Woo Ming Jin, Tan Chui Mui | Music: Yeo Joon Han, Liew Seng Tat, Woo Ming Jin | With: Azman Hassan, Ayam Fared, Jerrica Lai, Bella Rahim, Loh Wai Tong | Print/Sales: Kampong Radioaktif | www.facebook.com/kampongradioaktif

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Girl in the Water


Woo Ming Jin, Jeppe Rnde

Made as part of a collaborative project set up by the Danish CPH: Dox. A Scandinavian filmmaker and a Malaysian one made a film together in Malaysia with Scandinavian finance. The Malaysian showed the Dane that he knows the way along the coast of his own country.
INtERNAtIONAL PREMIERE

Denmark/Malaysia, 2011 | colour, video, 19 min, Malay/Thai


Prod: Edmund Yeo, Tine Fischer, Patricia Drati | Prod Comp: Greenlight Pictures, CPH:DOX | Sc: Jeppe Rnde, Woo Ming Jin | Cam: Wan Chun Hung | Ed: Morten Giese, Olivier Bugge Coutte, Edmund Yeo | Sound Des: Rune Palving | Music: Jonas Bjerre | With: Sajee Apiwong | Print/Sales: CPH:DOX

Last Fragments of Winter


Edmund Yeo

Dong tian zui hou de sui pian

The maker calls his film a cinematic poem, which can serve to explain the unexplainable. A young boy in Malaysia goes shopping for his sick mother, while a girl in distant Japan tries to photograph an incredibly beautiful snow landscape. She finds an antique watch.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Malaysia/Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 24 min, Mandarin


Prod: Foo Fei Ling | Prod Comp: Greenlight Pictures | Sc: Edmund Yeo | Cam: Kong Pahurak, Tan Teckzee | Ed: Edmund Yeo | Music: Wong Woan Foong | With: Berg Lee, Tan Ley Teng, Arisa Koike, Foo Kang Chen | Print/Sales: Edmund Yeo | www.edmundyeo.com

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Preludes
Short films screened before a variety of feature length films during the festival.

Shelter
Ismail Basbeth

Apparently a simple film. One single long shot. Thats what it looks like. Under the superficial boredom, there are grand feelings, however. Loneliness. Lost love. Fear of death. And all the while we look at a sleepy couple in an empty bus. Screened before Parts of the Heart.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Indonesia, 2011 | colour, video, 16 min, no dialogue


Prod: Suryo Adhi Wiyogo | Prod Comp: Hide Project Indonesia | Sc: Ismail Basbeth | Cam: Budi Arifianto | Ed: Ismail Basbeth | Prod Des: Beni Arjuna | Sound Des: Lintang Enrico, Rangga Sang Eshayoga | Music: Teguh Hari | With: Hananda Hutami Putri, Krisna E. Putranto | Print/Sales: Hide Project Indonesia PUBLIC SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 10:002 LantarenVenster 3 Fri 3-2 22:152 LantarenVenster 6

Gerays

The Search Resit Baskin

Halil (55) lives in a remote mountainous region and hasnt heard from his son for a long time. He has a powerful bond with his horse, but he also loses that. A beautiful, intimate portrait of the relationship between a man and an animal. The first short film by the Kurdish Zaza (Iranian) Baskin. Screened before He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes.
WORLD PREMIERE

Turkey, 2012 | colour, video, 16 min, Kurdish


Prod: Resit Baskin | Sc: etin Baskin | Cam: Abdurrahman ner | Ed: Abdurrahman ner | Prod Des: etin Baskin | Sound Des: Mehmet Celik | Music: Ciwan Haco | With: Halil Baskin, etin Baskin, Remzi Baskin | Print/Sales: Resit Baskin PUBLIC SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 12:302 Cinerama 6 Sat 4-2 19:302 Cinerama 6

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caf Regular, cairo


Ritesh Batra

A young Egyptian couple has an honest conversation in public about their relationship. Recorded in a bar with real customers, with amateur actors who play their own lives. Taboo-breaking, humorous fiction about male-female relationships in modern Cairo. Ritesh Batra alternates between living in Mumbai and New York. Screened before Night #1.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 11 min, Arabic


Prod: Alaa Mosbah, Guneet Monga | Sc: Ritesh Batra | Cam: Islam Abdelsamea | Ed: Wajdi Elian | Sound Des: Wajdi Elian | With: Alaa Ezzat, Mai Abozeed | Print/Sales: Ritesh Batra PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 22:302 Path 4 Thu 2-2 21:452 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

Sacha lours
Sacha the Bear Henri Desaunay

A hunter is after a bear in the forest. The bear hides in the house of the little girl Goldilocks, who gives him food and plays with him. But then everything changes. The first short film by Desaunay is a wayward, ironic adaptation of the British fairytale Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Screened before Electra, for Instance.
WORLD PREMIERE

France, 2012 | colour, video, 11 min, no dialogue


Prod: Franois Morisset | Prod Comp: Salaud Morisset Production | Sc: Henri Desaunay | Cam: Fabien Drugeon | Ed: Henri Desaunay | Prod Des: Etienne Desaunay | Sound Des: Gal Eleon, Sylvain Lambinet, Olivier Voisin, Fanny Weinzaepflen | Music: Henri Desaunay | With: Lise Werkmeister, Antoine Baillet, Antoine Suarez-Pazos | Print/Sales: Salaud Morisset Production PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 18:152 Path 6 Sat 28-1 22:302 Cinerama 6 Sun 29-1 15:002 Cinerama 4 Mon 30-1 11:302 Path 2

A Resident of the city


Adham El Sherif

Documentary by an Egyptian film student about the big city is told and shot entirely from the perspective of a stray dog. Beautiful camerawork in a very powerful and urgent film, in which the political metaphor about finding and defending your own space is clear. Screened before The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 15 min, Arabic


Prod: Adham El Sherif | Prod Comp: High Institute of Cinema | Sc: Adham El Sherif, Atef Nashed | Cam: Bassam Ibrahim | Ed: Isalm Amer | Prod Des: Maged Nader | Sound Des: Ahmed Kamal, Ahmed Nabil | Print/Sales: Adham El Sherif PUBLIC SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 14:302 LantarenVenster 6 Tue 31-1 19:452 Cinerama 5

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Silncio de dois sons


Silence of Two Sounds Rita Figueiredo

A secret story is stored in a reel of tape and is unfolded by a mother to her child, inside an organic house that commands the characters. Two babies sleep while hearing the story; however, their world of dreams casts other mysteries deeper than those of our own. Fine fiction with a marvellous soundtrack. Screened before Swirl.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Portugal, 2011 | colour, video, 14 min, Portuguese


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Rita Figueiredo | Sound Des: Rita Figueiredo, Miguel Cabral | With: Tnia Ferreira, Joana Pedro, David Sil, Gabriel Zuzarte, Mercedes Zuzarte | Print/Sales: Rita Figueiredo PUBLIC SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 17:002 Path 4 Wed 1-2 16:002 Cinerama 5 Fri 3-2 13:302 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

Moxie
Stephen Irwin

Moxie is a film instilled with verve, safety matches and smudgy, misanthropic bear heartbreak. This is bear life, way beyond the territories mapped out in nature documentaries. Beautifully imaginative *&^%ed up animation, featuring a doubly *&^%ed up bear. Screened before Kotoko.
United Kingdom, 2011 | b&w, video, 6 min, English
Prod: Stephen Irwin | Sound Des: Zhe Wu | With: voice of Ragga Gudrun | Print/Sales: Stephen Irwin | www.smalltimeinc.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 22:152 Oude Luxor Fri 3-2 16:452 Oude Luxor

Mourir auprs de toi


To Die By Your Side Spike Jonze, Simon Cahn

Designer Olympia Le-Tans embroidered clutch bags spring to life in Spike Jonzes tragicomic stop motion animation. On a shelf in a famed Parisian bookstore, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tans illustrations of iconic first edition book covers. Screened before The Pettifogger.
France, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, English
Prod: Gregory Bernard, Diane Jassem | Prod Comp: Realitism Films | Sc: Olympia LeTan, Spike Jonze, Simon Cahn | Cam: Jean-Louis Padis, Stephen Barcello | Ed: Simon Cahn | Prod Des: Sylvain Derosne, Leonard Cohen, Fabien Feintrenie | Sound Des: David Amsalem, Jocelyn Robert | Music: Sam Spiegel, Koool G Murder, Soko | With: Pierre Le-Tan and with voices of Spike Jonze and Soko | Print/Sales: Realitism Films PUBLIC SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 15:002 Cinerama 4 Fri 3-2 16:302 Path 4

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Tamino
Eveline Ketterings

This film is a stop-motion opera scene from Die Zauberflte: Paminas Ach, ich fhls, es ist verschwunden! Since her beloved Tamino doesnt want to speak to her anymore, she prefers to die. This film is dedicated to the one who knows how to keep silent (EK) Screened before Nana.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands/Poland, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod: Eveline Ketterings | Prod Comp: Stichting 8X10 | Cam: Grzegorz Klatka | Ed/Sound Des: Eveline Ketterings | Music: Danil Lehmann, Eveline Ketterings, Julia Beusenberg, Marcel van der Zwet | With/Print/ Sales: Eveline Ketterings | www.sheep-entertainment.nl/film/tamino PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 19:152 Path 3 Mon 30-1 23:002 Cinerama 5 Wed 1-2 14:452 LantarenVenster 2

Dans le cadre
In the Frame Philippe Lasry

The actress Karine (Norah Krief) is taking an audition for the first time in ages. Showing emotions, switching, staying in the frame and crying. Crying is easier said than done. Her opposite number gives her a helping hand. An impressive display of competence that should not be missing at any film festival. Screened before Louise Wimmer.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

France, 2010 | colour, DCP, 14 min, French


Prod: Benjamin Celliez | Prod Comp: La vie est belle films associs | Sc: Philippe Lasry | Cam: Quentin Balpe | Ed: Celine Ameslon | Sound Des: Damien Boitel | With: Norah Krief, Mounir Margoum | Print/Sales: La vie est belle films associs | www.unifrance.org/film/32595/dans-le-cadre PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:152 Path 3 Mon 30-1 17:152 Cinerama 7 Tue 31-1 14:152 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

Patlang
Blank Jet Leyco

The film opens with images of a sorrowful young woman. The film concludes with images of a desperate young man fleeing into a jungle. In between, images that comprise a wealth of information, but there is still no clarity. Only the despair of the disappearance. Screened before Mondomanila.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Philippines, 2010 | colour/b&w, video, 15 min, Filipino


Prod: Jet Leyco | Prod Comp: Kerberus Kinorama Klassiks, Barong Tagalog Inc., Asia Pacific Film Institute | Sc: Jet Leyco | Cam: Jet Leyco, Gym Lumbera | Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des/Music: Jet Leyco | With: Herald Gregory Chavez, Nica Santiago | Print/Sales: Kerberus Kinorama Klassiks PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 12:302 Cinerama 6 Sat 28-1 12:452 Cinerama 7

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Boxing in the Philippine Islands


Raya Martin

Raya Martin loves old silent films and knows better than anyone how to use old moods and techniques in his own films. You could say that he loves experimental films and that he manages to revitalise the old techniques. Here he looks at boxers, even though we hardly see them. Screened before Buenas noches, Espaa.
Philippines, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod: Arleen Cuevas, Raya Martin | Prod Comp: Cinematografica | Sc: Raya Martin | Ed: Lawrence Ang | Print/Sales: Cinematografica PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:452 Path 7 Sat 28-1 09:302 Path 7 Sun 29-1 22:302 Cinerama 1 Fri 3-2 20:152 LantarenVenster 3

Bete & Deise


Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Van Oldenborghs practice explores social relations through an investigation of gesture in the public sphere. Bete & Deise brings about a meeting between veteran telenovela actress and political activist Bete Mendes and Deise Tigrona, one of the most powerful voices in Baile funk, whose song Injeo was the basis for M.I.A.s Bucky Done Gun. World premiere at 22:00 hours in the WORMyWOOD: Friday 27 compilation programme.
WORLD PREMIERE

Netherlands/Brazil, 2012 | colour, video, 40 min, Portuguese


Prod: Frdrique Bergholtz | Prod Comp: If I Cant Dance, I Dont Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution | Sc: Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Deise Tigrona, Bete Mendes | Cam: Heloisa Passos | Ed: Wendelien van Oldenborgh | With: Deise Tigrona, Bete Mendes | Print: Wendelien van Oldenborgh | Sales: Gallerie Wilfried Lentz

hope
Pedro Pires

Director and visual effects artist Pedro Pires explores the moments just before death. Intense and haunting, Hope relays the terrors of war through the eyes of a dying army general. Indelible images of a battlefield, a barber shop and brutality define the generals last moments of consciousness. Screened before Shock Head Soul.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Canada, 2011 | colour, DCP, 11 min, no dialogue


Prod: Phoebe Greenberg | Prod Comp: Phi Group Inc | Sc: Pedro Pires, based on the play Jimmy, crature de rve by Marie Brassard | Cam: Pedro Pires | Ed: Pedro Pires, Aube Foglia | Prod Des: Catherine Chagnon | Sound Des: Bernard Gariepy-Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare | Music: Robert M. Lepage | With: Bill Croft, Lucas Silveira, Vincent dArbouze, Catherine Lipscombe | Print/Sales: Phi Group Inc | www.hope-movie.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 19:152 Path 3 Wed 1-2 19:002 LantarenVenster 1 Fri 3-2 22:152 Cinerama 5

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Standards
Maxime Pistorio, Julie Jaroszewski

A jazz quartet performs at a Belgian banquet for rich businessmen. Behind the scenes, they discuss how they feel about it. The scene in which the host forgets their names is hilarious. Light and enjoyable, voyeuristic documentary with many familiar situations. Screened before Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrdur Nelsdttir.
Belgium, 2010 | colour, video, 17 min, French
Prod: Maxime Pistorio, Julie Jaroszewski | Sound Des: Benjamin Pasternak | Print/Sales: Maxime Pistorio | www.standards-docu.tumblr.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 21:152 Path 6 Sun 29-1 09:452 Path 5

Naach Ganesh
Dance of Ganesha Bikas Ranjan Mishra

Beautifully shot fiction without dialogue about the harsh life of a man who maintains his family and father by working as a welder and, in his little free time dances. He portrays Ganesha, the God of the elephants, a family tradition. Simple yet striking drama about the battle to survive. Screened before Carnival.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

India, 2011 | colour, DCP, 15 min, no dialogue


Prod: Pankaj Dubey | Prod Comp: Sadak Chhaap Films | Sc: Bikas Ranjan Mishra | Cam: Gaurav Singh | Ed: Vinoo Choliparambil | Sound Des: Bikas Ranjan Mishra | Music: Natraj Kala Mandir | With: Hemant Mahto, Aganu Kumar, Balram Mahto, Janki Devi | Print/Sales: Sadak Chhaap Films | www.danceofganesha.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 17:152 Cinerama 7 Thu 2-2 17:152 LantarenVenster 2

Dois
Two Thiago Ricarte

A boy and a girl spend the day in the park, where they do maths homework and meet their friends. Then theres a problem with her brother. Moving fiction about the confrontation with real life and about the relationship between rationality and feelings, shot very naturally with excellent teenage actors. Screened before Rnia.
WORLD PREMIERE

Brazil, 2012 | colour, DCP, 16 min, Portuguese


Prod: Lara Lima | Prod Comp: Lira Cinematografica | Sc: Lima Ricos | Cam: Andr Brando | Ed: Thiago Ricarte | Prod Des: Richard Tavares | Sound Des: Marcelo Lima, Raul Arthuso | With: Gabriela Rocha, Carlos Mandel, Francisco Miguez, Brbara Trabasso | Print/Sales: Lira Cinematografica PUBLIC SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 16:002 Path 1 Sat 4-2 09:302 Path 7

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Dimanches
Sundays Valery Rosier

Sundays is made up of 30 static shots, still lifes really, in which we see people who do or dont do something on a Sunday. Mildly humorous fiction about boredom, the passing of time and the pointless nature of existence. With several delightfully absurd tragicomic situations. Screened before The Giants.
Belgium, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 15 min, no dialogue
Prod: Nicolas Guiot | Prod Comp: Ultime razzia productions | Sc: Valry Rosier | Cam: Olivier Boonjing | Ed: Nicolas Rumpl | Prod Des: Juliette Fassin, Fred De Loof | Sound Des: Arnaud Calvar | Music: Jurgen Biller | With: Andr Caron, Germaine Dervaux, Jonathan Masure, Fernande Delcroix | Print/Sales: Ultime razzia productions PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 16:002 Oude Luxor Sat 28-1 09:152 Path 6 Mon 30-1 09:302 LantarenVenster 6

Romance
Georges Schwizgebel

A grand romantic saga set to Rachmaninoffs Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19; we are transported into a travellers labyrinthine thoughts. Animated with pencil, pastels and acrylics by the Swiss maestro Georges Schwizgebel, Romance is a dazzling visual transcription of this Rachmaninoff scherzo. Screened before Goodbye First Love.
Switzerland/Canada, 2011 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod: Georges Schwizgebel | Prod Comp: Studio GDS | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Georges Schwizgebel | Sound Des: Olivier Calvert | With: Katja Pahor, Nicolas Bigler | Print: Dellers Film | Sales: National Film Board of Canada | www.studio-gds.ch PUBLIC SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 10:152 Path 3 Fri 3-2 21:302 Path 7 Sat 4-2 15:302 Path 7

hurdy Gurdy
Daniel Seideneder, Daniel Pfeiffer

A hurdy gurdy is a musical instrument that you play by turning the handle. They often keep playing the same tune over and over again, just like the people, cars, ships and trains that are continuously moving in this miniature film. An investigation into degrees of reality with the aid of special lenses that were designed for architecture photography. Screened before Oslo, August 31st.
Germany, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Susanne May | Prod Comp: Dropout Films | Sc: Daniel Seideneder | Cam: Daniel Seideneder, Daniel Pfeiffer, Uwe Winter | Ed/Sound Des: Fred Schuler | Music: Aphex Twin | Print/Sales: Daniel Seideneder PUBLIC SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 16:302 Oude Luxor Tue 31-1 19:152 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

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chefu

house Party Adrian Sitaru

On her return from Bucharest, the neighbours welcome Neli with stories about the trouble caused by the wild party her 17-year-old son Dan organised in her absence. Dan, however, has a different version. Neli didnt know her neighbours as well as she thought. Excellently acted fiction from Romania. Screened before Visiting Room.
WORLD PREMIERE

Romania, 2012 | colour, video, 18 min, Romanian


Prod: Monica Lazurean-Gorgan | Prod Comp: 4 Proof Film | Sc: Adrian Sitaru | Cam: Adrian Silisteanu | Ed: Andrei Gorgan | Prod Des: Adrian Cristea | Sound Des: Florin Tabacaru | With: Tania Filip, Clara Voda, Natasa Raab, Elena Ivanca, Emilian Marnea | Print/Sales: 4 Proof Film PUBLIC SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 14:452 Cinerama 1 Wed 1-2 21:302 Path 2 Fri 3-2 09:302 Path 6 Sat 4-2 19:152 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

Bonz
Shohei Tada

A ball. According to the maker, its an iron ball. It floats around like a balloon and appears to be looking for a destination. It seems to find where it belongs with a man whose life is far from spectacular. A joke, but also a mystery. And evidence that special effects can be enjoyable. And simple. Screened before About the Pink Sky.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, Japanese


Prod: Shohei Tada | Sc: Shohei Tada | Cam: Hideo Fujiwara | Ed: Shohei Tada | With: Ryusuke Igarashi | Print/Sales: Short Shorts Film Festival Asia PUBLIC SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 09:152 Cinerama 1 Thu 2-2 16:302 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

My Big-Assed Mother
Tekla Taidelli

For the first time as an actor on the big screen: Abel Ferrara in the role of Charles Bukowski, while he fervently tells his unmistakable stories to a packed bar. Those present hang on his every word. At the end, Abel shuts the book; the applause surprises him. Screened before Black & White & Sex.
WORLD PREMIERE

USA/Italy, 2012 | colour, video, 10 min, English


Prod: Tekla Taidelli | Sc: Tekla Taidelli, Angelica Hester, Giulio Franz | Cam: Frederic Fasano, Aldo di Berardino | Ed: Massimiliano Paolacci | Prod Des: Simona Caruso | Sound Des: Daniele Bertinelli | Music: Giorgio Gaslini | With: Abel Ferrara, Doris Susan Gramovot, Ilene Kristen, Theodore Bouloukos, Mosaad Hassan Mohamed | Print/Sales: Tekla Taidelli | www.teklataidelli.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 19:152 Path 3 Sat 28-1 09:452 Path 5 Sun 29-1 21:302 Path 2
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Dreams
Keiichi Tanaami, Aihara Nobuhiro

As a duo, Keiichi Tanaami and Aihara Nobuhiro made a series of masterly surrealistic hand-drawn animation films. Many have also been screened at this festival. Unfortunately, Keiichi Tanaami will have to carry on alone, because Aihara Nobuhiro died in 2011. One last dream by and for him. Screened before Tatsumi.
EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Japan, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed: Keiichi Tanaami, Nobuhiro Aihara | Music: Masahiro Saeki | Print/Sales: CaRTe bLaNChe PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:302 Oude Luxor Tue 31-1 11:452 Schouwburg Grote Zaal

Deux inconnus
The Strange Ones Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff

A man and a boy with a broken-down car find a motel with a swimming pool. They soon start talking to the woman who works there. When the boy confides in her, we have to start wondering what kind of relationship they really have. Disturbing and powerfully acted fiction. Screened before Rough.
France, 2011 | colour, video, 14 min, English
Prod: Sebastien Aubert | Prod Comp: Ad Astra Films | Sc: Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff | Cam: Drew Innis | Ed: Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff | Prod Des: Juliet Lashinsky-Revene | Sound Des: Anthony Thompson | Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi | With: David Call, Tobias Campbell, Merritt Wever | Print/Sales: Ad Astra Films | www.thestrangeones.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 11:452 Cinerama 1 Thu 2-2 22:152 Path 4 Fri 3-2 21:452 LantarenVenster 1

Applied Theories of Expanding Minds


Rut Karin Zettergren, Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl

Within a future community in Kenya, a group of people have decided to free themselves from years of oppression and no longer follow the usual customs. From now on, they will organise their lives according to rules imposed by the magnetic fields of the Earth. Screened before The Clay Diaries.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Kenya/Sweden, 2011 | colour, video, 29 min, English/Swahili


Prod: Rut Karin Zettergren | Prod Comp: ZBR Productions | Sc/Cam/Ed: Rut Karin Zettergren, Lena Bergendahl, Jennifer Rainsford. Marius Dybwad Branderud | Prod Des: Rut Karin Zettergren, Lena Bergendahl, Jennifer Rainsford | Sound Des: Boris Laible | Music: Petter Emil Samuelsson | With: Hsing Fen Tu lemark, Delphine Nimu, Mariam Khamis, Ken from Black Diamond, Elisha Kwingare | Print/Sales: ZBR Productions | www.zbrproductions.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:302 Cinerama 6 Sat 28-1 17:452 Cinerama 7 Sun 29-1 09:302 LantarenVenster 1

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WORMyWOOD
Late-night programme in WORM draped around themes from the festival with live music, films, performances and DJs.

WORMyWOOD: Fri 27
Special programme presented by If I Cant Dance, structured around the world premiere of Wendelien van Oldenborghs latest work, Bete & Deise. Preceded by a screening of Cncer (Glauber Rocha, 1972, 86) and followed by a response from art historian Eric de Bruyn, a Q&A with Van Oldenborgh, and a concert from one of the films two protagonists: Baile funk singer Deise Tigrona supported by DJ Lonely & Bb Electronica and Kuduro DJs Marfox and Nervoso. Location: WORM, Fri 27, 20:00 till late.

WORMyWOOD: Sat 28
Variety evening starting with two 16mm solo performances: the poetic Quelques minutes de soleil aprs minuit by Xavier Qurel (Metamkine) and the compact Sounddefect by Riojim (MTK). Then a music performance by the Spanish Internet2 (pure-bred weirdo Carlos Carbonell), just as ridiculous and intriguing as the name. Also tonight: the eccentric Kollywood video compilation Play That Beat Mr. Raja by and with DJ Arc de Triomphe. Location: WORM, Sat 28, 22:00 till late.

WORMyWOOD: Sun 29
Two sound artists from the Soundtrackcity project. Francisco Lpez created deep sonic universes in the dark and Lee Patterson opens up an auditive world by using contact mics. The images this evening are by film alchemist Alex MacKenzie with the intimate 16mm set-up of Logbook and the immersive Emaki/Light by Ishida Takashi and Tiger Short nominee Makino Takashi, with live improvisation by cellist Okkyung Lee. Location: WORM, Sun 29, 22:00 till late.

WORMyWOOD: Mon 30
Awards ceremony for the Tiger Awards for Short Films as the finale of the short film weekend and also the opening of the topical Signals: Power Cut Middle East programme. With music and visuals by Swiss/Lebanese duo Praed (Raed Yassin, Paed Conca), a concert by the North African band BooDooRoo, plus a special Sounds of the Middle East set by DJ Arc de Triomphe. Location: WORM, Mon 30, 22:00 till late.
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WORMyWOOD: Tue 31

Two one-off performances. Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), Roel Meelkop and Marco Douma present Pierdrie, a visual and auditory experience in Rotterdams Waalhaven. Karl Lemieux makes short films and film performances and created the live visuals (on 16mm) for bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Black Keys. This evening, a long dreamt-of collaborative venture between Lemieux and the prominent electronic and field recordings musician BJNilsen. Location: WORM, Tue 31, 22:00 till late.

WORMyWOOD: Wed 1

Dronywood triple bill night with Nunatak, a spiritual and icy Nordic performance. Aestuarium makes beautiful, spectral, minimalist music, inspired by Gaelic psalmery and the microtonality of the tetrachord. Phurpa is a Russian group led by artist Aleksei Tegin, which reinterprets an old form of Tibetan ritual music. Two acts by Stephen OMalleys label Ideologic Organ. Location: WORM, Wed 1, 22:00 till late.

WORMyWOOD: Thu 2
Home-made dim sum. A varied evening programme, in which the Chinese zeal for imitation is zealously imitated. With I Did It My Wei Wei (Chinese hotchpotch) and DadaMachinima avant-gardist videogame modification, in a WORMyWOOD surprise night compiled by the chef de mission of WORM: Hajo Doorn. Location: WORM, Thu 2, 22:00 till late.

WORMyWOOD: Fri 3
Dance night. Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss is a house & techno veteran from Chicago, producer, DJ and promoter. He is linked to Ron Hardy (Music Box), the Powerplant in Chicago, Steve Poindexter and labels like 6277, Spectral Sound, Crme Organization and Klang Elektronik. His own productions are independent, electronic pearls that are difficult to categorise. In addition, the official release party for Social Disturbance 001 by I Tekno. Location: WORM, Fri 3, 21:00 till late.

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DINAMO P&I Screenings


DINAMO (Distribution Network of Artists Moving image Organizations) is a network of independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the USA, Canada and Europe. The IFFR presents four Press & Industry programme slots in which 12 of the DINAMO distributors will show recently acquired work. These titles can also be seen in the festival video library. The film descriptions can be found on the IFFR website.

DINAMO P&I Screenings 1


AV-arkki
Miracle
Pink Twins

Fri 27, 10:00, LV 6

DINAMO P&I Screenings 2

Sat 28, 10:00, LV 2

inter media art institute (imai)


The Lake
Aki Nakazawa, Jan Verbeek

Finland, 2012 | colour, video, 8 min, no dialogue Prod: Pink Twins Print/Sales: AV-arkki

In a Musty, Misty Thicket


Maarit Suomi-Vnnen

Japan, Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, Japanese Prod: Aki Nakazawa, Jan Verbeek Print/Sales: imai

Finland,2012 | colour, video, 13 min, no dialogue Prod: Maarit Suomi-Vnnen Print/Sales: AV-arkki

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Sunjha Kim

Germany, 2011 | b&w, video, 12 min, no dialogue Prod: Sunjha Kim Print/Sales: imai

heure Exquise !
The Beautiful Language
Mounir Fatmi

Land of Neon
Aki Nakazawa

France, 2010 | colour, video, 16 min, no dialogue Prod: Mounir Fatmi Print/Sales: Heure Exquise !

Japan, Germany, 2011 | colour, video, 5 min, Japanese Prod: Aki Nakazawa Print/Sales: imai

1862
Philippe Rouy

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)


The Hottest Day of the Year
Keren Cytter

France, 2011 | colour, video, 7 min, no dialogue Prod: Philippe Rouy Print/Sales: Heure Exquise !

Brler la mer
Sabine Massenet

Germany, Israel, 2010 | colour, video, 13 min, English, Hebrew Prod: Keren Cytter Print/Sales: NIMk

France, 2011 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue Prod: Sabine Massenet Print/Sales: Heure Exquise !

Sans-titre
Neil Beloufa

Gartenberg Media Enterprises


Friendly Witness
Warren Sonbert

France, 2010 | colour, video, 15 min, Arabic, French Prod: Neil Beloufa, Natalia Trebik Print/Sales: NIMk

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)


A Fire in My Belly (A Work in Progress)
David Wojnarowicz

USA, 1989 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.33, 22 min, no dialogue Prod: Warren Sonbert Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution, Gartenberg Media Enterprises

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (Opening Sequence)


Ken Jacobs

USA, 1986 | colour, b&w, video, 21 min, no dialogue Prod: David Wojnarowicz Print/Sales: EAI

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 5 min, silent Prod: Ken Jacobs, Jon A. Gartenberg Print/Sales: Gartenberg Media Enterprises
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DINAMO P&I Screenings 3

Sun 29, 10:00, LV 2

DINAMO P&I Screenings 4

Mon 30, 10:00, LV 2

Arsenal - Institut fr Film und Videokunst e.V.


Parallel Worlds
Harald Thys, Jos de Gruyter

Argos Centre for Art and Media


The Corridor
Sarah Vanagt Belgium, 2010 | colour, video, 7 min, no dialogue Prod: Sarah Vanagt Print/Sales: Argos

Belgium, 2010 | colour, b&w, video, 26 min, Dutch Prod: Harald Thys, Jos de Gruyter Print/Sales: Arsenal

Parole la femme
Elonore de Montesquiou

Relocation
Pieter Geenen

Estonia, Germany, 2010 | b&w, video, 8 min, French Prod: Elonore de Montesquiou Print/Sales: Arsenal

Belgium, 2011 | colour, video, 23 min, no dialogue Prod: Pieter Geenen Print/Sales: Argos

Video Data Bank (VDB)


Shaynes Rectangle
Dani Leventhal

Collectif Jeune Cinma (CJC)


Nouakchott Rocks
Moira Tierney

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 5 min, English Prod: Dani Leventhal Print/Sales: VDB

Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation


Evan Meaney

Mauritania, Ireland, 2010 | b&w, video, 19 min, no dialogue Prod: Moira Tierney Print/Sales: CJC

USA, 2011 | colour, video, 7 min, English Prod: Evan Meaney Print/Sales: VDB

Schip
Tanatchai Bandasak

OWS Newsreel No. 5

Jem Cohen USA, 2011 | colour, video, 7 min, English Prod: Jem Cohen Print/Sales: VDB

Thailand, 2010 | colour, video, 2 min, no dialogue Prod: Tanatchai Bandasak Print/Sales: CJC

Back + Forth
Clint Enns

V tape Wee Requiem

Canada, 2009 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue Prod: Clint Enns Print/Sales: CJC

Jenn E Norton Canada, 2010 | colour, video, 7 min, English Prod: Jenn E Norton Print/Sales: V tape

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)


Ransom Notes
Kelly Egan

Gold

Scott Treleaven USA, Canada, 2006 | colour, video, 5 min, English Prod: Scott Treleaven Print/Sales: V tape

Canada, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 5 min, no dialogue Prod: Kelly Egan Print/Sales: CFMDC

Republic of God

A Little Prayer (H-E-L-P)


Louise Bourque

MIMO Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 11 min, English Prod: MIMO Print/Sales: V tape

Canada, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 8 min, no dialogue Prod: Louise Bourque Print/Sales: CFMDC

The Ballad of Roy and Silo

Starlings (at Nightfall)

John Greyson Canada, 2011 | colour, video, 6 min, English Prod: John Greyson Print/Sales: V tape

Peter Dudar Canada, 2010 | colour, video, 8 min, no dialogue Print/Sales: CFMDC

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A sample of talent from Rotterdam, compiled by the IFFR and the Rotterdam Media Fund and comprising animation, dance film, fiction and documentary, the latter sometimes experimental.
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Jays taste
Hans Lein

Jay has finished his prison term and has started a restaurant. Full of good intentions, he attempts to encourage his stepson not to make the same mistakes he did. The kid takes no notice and dreams of power, money and cars. Hans Lein combined film and animation with the palpable directness of theatre.
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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 13 min, Dutch


Prod: Ruud Boel | Prod Comp: Cosmic | Sc: Hans Lein | Cam: Robert Jan Schmidt | Ed: Arthur Bueno | Prod Des: Fabio Thomaz | Sound Des: Henk Jelle de Groot | Music: Paul M. van Brugge | With: Dennis Rudge, Elvin Rigters, Jeremy Moniz, Caitlin Schaap | Print/Sales: Cosmic | www.deontbranding.nl

Kta
Katya Francisca Toetenel

With a mentally ill mother and a father who ran away, Katya is forced to behave more maturely than her actual age. Despite the fact that her mother denies the existence of Katyas father, she decides to go looking for him. That leads to both disappointment and new insight.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, video, 15 min, Czech
Prod: Francisca Toetenel | Prod Comp: Cisca films | Sc: Francisca Toetenel | Cam: Nisha Jurairatanaporn, Dimo Popov | Ed: Francisca Toetenel | Sound Des: Casey Contreary | With: Michaela Patockov, Veronika Bellov, Michal Bregant, Eva Leimbergerov | Print/Sales: Cisca films

Motor
Simone Bennett

An experimental film about seven inhabitants of an apartment block who all live separate lives, but who are linked in a strange way. They share fear and gossip accompanied by the violin and cello sounds of Simon Lenski. The violin was designed especially for this film by Yuri Landman.
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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue


Prod: Bea de Visser | Prod Comp: AnotherFilm | Sc: Simone Bennett | Cam: Lonneke Worm | Ed: Tim Roza | Prod Des: Billy Leliveld | Sound Des/Music: Simon Lenski | With: Henk Stuurman, Herman Gilis, Sjaak Hartog, Fania Sorel, Walter Bart, Toos Scheffers | Print/Sales: AnotherFilm | www.anotherfilm.org/docs/projects/motor.php

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Sobota
Saturday Anna Okrasko

To use the filmmakers own words to describe her work, Saturday is a nonexistent portable public monument, dedicated to the migrant workers in the Netherlands. The film is made up of a collection of contemporary black-and-white shots of Rotterdam, combined with a Polish documentary soundtrack from the 1950s.
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Netherlands/Poland, 2012 | b&w, video, 21 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc: Anna Okrasko | Cam: Marta Bartoszek, Bartlomiej Drygas, Serena Lee, Rene Nuvelstijn, Martijn int Veld, Anna Okrasko, Catarina Lopez Antunes de Oliveira, Jaroslaw Zaleski, Olga Zaleska | Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Anna Okrasko | Music: Zbigniew Jezewski, Halina Paszkowska | With: Marta Bartoszek, Bartlomiej Drygas, Rene Nuvelstijn, Anna Okrasko, Olga Zaleska, Jaroslaw Zaleski | Print/Sales: Anna Okrasko | www.okrasko.art.pl

Letting Go
Gerco de Ruijter

The filmmaker attached a tiny camera to the back of a young homing pigeon and released the bird from the top of a tall building in Delft. We follow it on its flight home to the old city centre of Rotterdam. The maker was inspired by his neighbour who has over two hundred homing pigeons.
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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam: Gerco de Ruijter | Music: Michel Banabila | Print/Sales: Gerco de Ruijter | www.gercoderuijter.nl

untitled/tithed
Vicente Fita Botet

The maker travels in three days from his birthplace Cuenca (in Spain) to Rotterdam. On the way, he not only takes photographs of the road, landscape and travellers, but also of filling stations, traffic and receipts. He edited the images to the music of Johann Strauss.
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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod: Vicente Fita Botet | Ed: Chris Baronavski | Music: Johann Strauss | Print/Sales: Vicente Fita Botet | www.vicentefita.com

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the rocketeer
Richard Raaphorst

Marc is an obsessive Star Wars collector; his marriage has failed because of it. On eBay he finds an ad for the ultimate collectors item The Bobafett Rocketeer for a couple of thousand euros. Marcs furious attempts to scrape together enough cash culminate in him becoming an organ donor.
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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 30 min, Dutch


Prod: Herman Slagter | Prod Comp: Riverpark Film | Sc: Richard Raaphorst, Pim Gerrits | Cam: Gabor Deak | Ed: Jasper Verhorevoort | Prod Des: Billy Lelieveld | Sound Des: Rens Pluijm | Music: Reyn Ouwehand | With: Stephan Evenblij, Pauline Greidanus | Print/Sales: Riverpark Film | www.richardraaphorst.com

Made in rotterdam 2
For an explanation of the content, see the compilation programme Made in Rotterdam 1.
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Nol King ruter


Noud Heerkens

Third dance film by director Noud Heerkens and choreographer Ton Lutgerink about the last intimate performance by former dancer Nol King Ruter. Over the course of the day it becomes apparent that the body cant dance forever. Almost without dialogue, his story is expressed entirely through dance.
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Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 30 min, no dialogue


Prod: Nadadja Kemper | Prod Comp: Holland Harbour Productions | Sc: Noud Heerkens, Clara van Gool | Cam: Niels Boon | Ed: Nathalie Alonso Casale | Prod Des: Tom van den Haspel | Sound Des/Music: Harry de Wit | With: Ton Lutgerink, Kelly Hirina, Rafael Zielinski, Hans Dagelet, Marlies Heuer, Romana Vrede | Sales: Holland Harbour Productions | Distr. NL: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Bad Luck City


Aaike Stuart

With a melancholy expression, a man shuffles through a park. He collects some coins from the fountain and uses the money to go bowling. Then he unburdens himself in front of the camera in a poetic monologue. An exceptionally joyous musical story about the melancholia of an urban cowboy.
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Netherlands/Germany, 2012 | b&w, video, 12 min, English


Prod: Aaike Stuart | Prod Comp/Sc: Authentic Boys | Cam: Boris van Hoof | Ed: Aaike Stuart | Sound Des: Bart Jilesen | Music: Authentic Boys, R.L. Burnside | With: Gregory Stauffer | Print/Sales: Authentic Boys | www.aaikestuart.com

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Ning
Lichun Tseng

By juxtaposing film positives and film negatives on 16mm, filmmaker and visual artist Lichun Tseng creates an unusual depth that seems to mislead the eye. The calm, almost hypnotic soundtrack turns the film into a poetic form of cinema.
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Netherlands, 2012 | b&w, video, 8 min, no dialogue


Prod: Lichun Tseng | Sc: Lichun Tseng | Cam: Lichun Tseng | Ed: Lichun Tseng | Prod Des: Lichun Tseng | Sound Des: Gabrille Barros Martins | Music: Gabrille Barros Martins | Print/Sales: Lichun Tseng | www.lichuntseng.com

Pablo & Pozie


Pablo and Poetry Leo Verheul

Jules Deelder is accompanied on his trip to Medellin, Colombia for the worlds largest poetry festival. His comic performances are alternated with his fascination for the life of drug lord Pablo Escobar. Deelder and Columbia is a tastefully presented, unusual, but convincing combination.
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Colombia/Netherlands, 2012 | colour, video, 50 min, Dutch/Spanish


Prod: Marc van Staveren, Leo Verheul | Prod Comp: Men at Work | Sc: Leo Verheul | Cam: Leo Verheul | Ed: Ernst Gonlag | Prod Des: Leo Verheul | Sound Des: Ernst Gonlag | Music: Lafe-Kurubi, Afri-k Bambata | Print/Sales: Men at Work

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Peter von Bagh


Olaf Mller

the Finland inside


Peter von Bagh has seen every movie worth seeing, usually more often than once; during his half century in film, he has met every icon and every genius, every maverick and every overlooked auteur, every underrated master and even every interesting underachiever from this our arts ancient mornings every one, given that he has lived long enough; and being a great raconteur, graced with a strong, commanding voice as well as a perennially bemused smile around the eyes, he knows how to tell a good story about each of them for he loves to pass on what he learnt during all those hours spent in their company. Yes, Von Bagh is truly a rare example of cinema lived to the full: a legend of oldschool cinephilia. That said, while Von Bagh is undeniably a celebrity of world cinedom, hes still an unknown, ni vu ni connu, certainly outside of Finland. Sounds like a contradiction? Not at all. As a film critic and historian, Peter von Bagh has (co-)written and/or (co-)edited roughly two dozen books, mostly but not only on cinema. Yet who has read them, as only a few (mainly his Kaurismki studies) were ever translated? Even more importantly, who has seen his masses of films? (Were talking about some 50 or 60 titles here: shorts, features, series, not including his contributions to the works of other directors.) Only Von Bagh knows the complete size of his oeuvre, for no filmography so far has proven to be complete; new titles seem to pop up all the time. Again, this has a lot to do with accessibility. Until recently, only a very few of his films got subtitled and that includes into Swedish, Finlands official second language. It seems that the quiet success

Helsinki, Forever

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story of Helsinki, Forever (2008), a vision of the nations capital made from myriads of film scenes, photographs and popular tunes, has changed that for good. Without too much promotion, it managed to chalk up a remarkable number of festival screenings. Jonathan Rosenbaums featuring of Helsinki, Forever as one of the Noughties Ten Best was the icing on the cake. Yet, language was probably not the only barrier here. Culture in general had even more to do with it, as almost all of Von Baghs films talk about history vue par Finlande. Lets be honest: How much do we really know about Finland? Which key dates of Finnish history could we name? What personalities come readily to mind? Hey, would we really be able to find the country on a map? If were honest with ourselves, we have to admit that we know very little about Finland, and that what little we (think we) know is but clichs. It doesnt matter that many of them are as true as reality gets, including the rampant alcoholism, sisu, the discrete warmth and kindness of its people, the stabs of sudden violence, the gut-wrenching beauty of its landscapes, the insane number of suicides. In this world of information, a light grey spot on our data-scape such as Finland, its history and culture, should provoke at least some unease. And mind you, its a European nation, and a wealthy, economically more stable one at that. Kind of embarrassing, isnt it, to know so little about a people so close and not exactly unimportant for our continents well-being. So, yes, theres a lot to learn here. But not only that. Its nice that we will get a sense of the nations becoming and development, thanks to a series of works dealing with key years in Finnish history: 1939 (1993), The Last Summer 1944 (1992), 1952 (1980). Nice to be able to fathom the complexities of opaque figures like the Communist politician Otto Wille Kuusinen (Man in the Shadows,1994; codirectors: Elina Katainen & Iikka Vehkalahti) or modernist AVbard Mikko Niskanen (The Story of Mikko Niskanen, 2010). To know more about and probably even start to love popular Finnish music after seeing Blue Sky Journey into the Land of Memories (1978). But thats not all there is to them, for Von Baghs films are never simple history lessons: theyre meditations on the nature of history. Few are the films by Peter von Bagh in which Finns learn something truly new about their history and culture (Man in the Shadows is probably the most important of those). What they can get out of them is how to consider these dates and names anew what could this, their own history, all mean and be, not only now but in the future, for all the morrows to come? How could these long-gone presences be our contemporaries, possibly even our children and grand-children? How can we give birth to the bygone Finland that Von Bagh finds in newsreels and features, records and recordings from the nations past, its cultural production? History as science fiction, the Steam-Tango variety? That, too. Because, you see, Von Baghs films do not solely deal with the facts. They talk about the once and future dream called Finland, the vision of an easy and comfortable communal life, well-distributed wealth, the promise of beauty and love we find in the voice of the incomparable Olavi Virta (Olavi Virta, 1972), the running of the one and only Paavo Nurmi (Paavo Nurmi The Man and His Times, 1978; co-director: Markku Koski), the words of Juhani Aho and the paintings of his wife Venny Soldan-Brofeldt and the documentaries of his sons Heikki Aho and Bjrn Soldan and the photographs of his grand-daughter Claire Aho (Splinters A Century of an Artistic Family, 2011), or places like the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankyl (Sodankyl Forever: The Century of Cinema, 2010) or Karl Marxs grave

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in London (A Day at Karl Marxs Grave, 1983). For hark: Von Baghs Finland is, in the final analysis, a state of mind to which places and times are but apropos matter just look at Helsinki, Forever, how he shuttles between years, periods, eras, ages. Its telling, really, that Von Baghs first major credit as a screenwriter is on a film about a historian obsessed with bringing the past back to life: late-60s icon Risto Jarvas A Time of Roses (1968), ostensibly Finlands first science fiction film, and an always somewhat underestimated work in this gone-too-young-masters corpus. Around the time of Jarvas demise, Von Baghs Finland ends. He only ever so rarely ventures beyond the early 1970s, the same way he almost never goes further back in time than the mid 1860s, and even that is the rarest of exceptions; most of his films are devoted to the period from the mid 1930s to the late 1960s the time shortly before he was born (August 29, 1943), whose objects and sounds still lingered around when he was little, until the moment he got really serious about filmmaking himself, therewith entering his own time. Almost all films by Von Bagh are made mainly from archive materials; some use shot-for-the-production interviews, many benefit from commentaries spoken often (at least in part) by Von Bagh himself. While the main ingredients remain the same, films like Yrj Nortas SF-paraati (1939/40) have an almost totemic meaning for him. Von Bagh constantly reconsiders and invents the compilation film form, occasionally in one and the same work. For instance, the mid-segment of The Story of Mikko Niskanen which is devoted solely to what many consider the best Finnish film ever, Niskanens Eight Deadly Shots (1972) differs markedly from the two flanking it. Some, like Blue Sky Journey into the Land of Memories or Helsinki, Forever, resemble a prose poem, others, like The Last Summer 1944 (1992), an oratory; others again, like Man in the Shadows, an investigation, and so on. The one thing they all have in common is an almost impossibly perfect sense of rhythm and pacing, pitch and cadence. In the end, what Peter von Baghs cinema feels like is a surprising, invigorating, enlightening and mightily empowering, yet above all else deeply moving, mix of the romantic eternal in Chris Marker and the proto-modernist undertow in post-WWII John Ford, with a will to tell of ones own nation that sometimes resembles Andrzej Wajda and sometimes Hou Hsiao-hsien. Or put more simply: Its la comdie humaine in all its greatness, suomeksi.

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lastuja taiteilijasuvun vuosisata


splinters a Century of an artistic Family

Peter von Bagh


A family like a nation: Finlands painful path to independence, its development from a poor rural backwater to a prime example of progress and liberalism as seen through three generations of the Aho family. Pater familias Juhani wrote Juha (1911), a luminary of Nordic literature; his wife, Venny SoldanBrofeldt, was among Finlands first female painters; his sons Heikki Aho and Bjrn Soldan became pioneers of Finnish documentary cinema; his grand-daughter Claire was among the countrys leading (fashion and ad-art) photographers of the 1950s and 1960s. An immensely moving study of Finnishness, its essence; a grand essay on time and memory, their limits and abysses; a paean to the arts as pillars of a nations self; a vigil for an era in human development. A lifetime in 74 minutes.

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Finland, 2011 | colour, video, 74 min, Finnish


Prod: Jouko Aaltonen | Prod Comp: Illume Ltd | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Ed: Petteri Evilampi | Sound Des: Martti Turunen | With: voices of Erja Manto, Eero Saarinen, Peter von Bagh | Print/Sales: Illume Ltd Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 21:30 PA2 Mon 30-1 15:00 CI6 Wed 1-2 15:30 LV1 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 09:30 LV5

sodankyl ikuisesti: elokuvan vuosisata


Peter von Bagh

sodankyl Forever: the Century of Cinema

Finland, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 90 min, English/Finnish


Prod: Peter von Bagh, Mark Lwoff | Prod Comp: Nosferatu Oy, Bufo Film Production Company | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Arto Kaivanto | Ed: Petteri Evilampi | With: voice of Peter von Bagh | Print: The Finnish Film Foundation | Sales: Bufo Film Production Company Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 09:302 LV6 Thu 2-2 15:302 PA2

Over the last quarter of a century, many of the best and the brightest have come to the Midnight Sun Night Film Festival in Sodankyl to talk about their art. Out of literally hundreds of hours of taped public discussions with Samuel Fuller, Marlen Huciev, Jacques Demy, Michael Powell, Jancs Mikls, Dino Risi, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrej Smirnov, Ivan Passer, Joseph H. Lewis, Aleksej German, Mario Monicelli, Francis Ford Coppola, Claude Sautet and others, Von Bagh has carved and chiselled a forceful, fast-paced, often melancholic while time and again unexpectedly funny essay about cinema as the essence of the 20th century. A splendid work half elegy, half rallying cry that sees the programming of films as the art of building a community, and festivals as a utopia that, perplexingly enough, is within our reach if we chose to embark upon the journey.

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Mikko niskanen ohjaaja matkalla ihmiseksi


the story of Mikko niskanen Peter von Bagh Director-actor Mikko Niskanen was probably his generations greatest auteur, as well as its most troubled in his career, success and failure almost always came in pairs, and sometimes proved indistinguishable. Between the early 1960s, when he directed his brilliant debut feature Pojat (1962), and the late 1980s, when he concluded his uvre with a mind-boggling diptych, Elmn vonkamies (1986) and Nuoruuteni savotat (1988), while reaching a zenith in 1972 with the greatest Finnish film ever, Kahdeksan surmanluotia, Niskanen was as much a chronicler of his life and times as the AV-poet laureat/ pote maudit of his nation. In a lot of ways, The Story of Mikko Niskanen is a companion piece to Man in the Shadows (1994). If the earlier work describes a man trying to be everything and nothing at the same time, then this piece reconstructs the souls painful attempt at becoming a unified whole. A stunning, moving and often painful paean to a life not lived to the full.

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Finland, 2010 | colour/b&w, video, 178 min, Finnish


Prod: Peter von Bagh | Prod Comp: Nosferatu Oy | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Arto Kaivanto | Ed: Petteri Evilampi | Music: Kaj Chydenius | With: voice of Peter von Bagh | Print: The Finnish Film Foundation Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 20:15 LV3 Tue 31-1 20:15 LV3

helsinki, ikuisesti
helsinki, Forever Peter von Bagh

Finland, 2008 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.33, 74 min, Finnish


Prod: Jouko Aaltonen | Prod Comp: Illume Ltd | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Ed: Petteri Evilampi | Music: Henrik Otto Donner | With: voices of Sulevi Peltola, Erja Manto, Peter von Bagh | Print/Sales: Illume Ltd Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 14:45 LV5 Sun 29-1 17:00 CI5

Peter von Baghs international breakthrough: a portrait of Finlands capital made with material taken from all eras and sources, with newsreel footage finding a place as easily as scenes from feature films. Certain locales are contemplated throughout the years, if not always in chronological order as every so often, Von Baghs montage follows an emotional logic that questions real historical developments. The Helsinki he creates is different from the slightly hilly city one can stroll through so pleasurably in summer its a mythical place haunted by ghosts of ever-changing stories and buildings never seen. Von Bagh once casually said: People think I like Helsinki because I made that film; theyre mistaken. Or maybe hes just in denial, for something this beautiful is always made from some kind of love.

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Mies varjossa

Man in the shadows Peter von Bagh, Elina Katainen, Iikka Vehkalahti
Otto Wille Kuusinen remains among the most disputed characters in Finnish history. He was one of the young nations leading Communists, turned traitor to his people by selling out to Stalin, and until he died remained a powerful man as a member of the USSRs Politburo, among other things who was so afraid of power that he did everything he could to protect those close to him from its wrath. That he was known for being vengeful and unforgiving is but the coins flip-side. As a man of contradictions, Kuusinen is as much an enigma as an archetype of the 20thcentury man. Man in the Shadows is a prime example of serious, investigative political filmmaking with an uncommon philosophical edge.

Finland, 1994 | colour, video, 165 min, Finnish


Prod Comp: Epidem, YLE | Cam: Arto Kaivanto | Ed: Elina Katainen | With: voice of Pekka Milonoff | Print: YLE Public SCREENING Fri 3-2 09:15 LV5

vuosi 1939
the Year 1939 Peter von Bagh

Finland, 1993 | colour/b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 107 min, Finnish


Prod: Peter von Bagh | Prod Comp: Nosferatu Oy | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Jussi krs | Ed: Anne Lakanen | Sound Des: Martti Turunen | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 12:30 PA2 Sat 4-2 14:30 LV6

Helsinki was scheduled to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which didnt happen, for historical reasons well known. 1939 was a year of anticipation but of what exactly? Judging by the years key films, a violent clash with the neighbouring leviathan, the USSR, was as much in the air as track-and-field glory. When the Winter War broke out on November 30th, the ambiguous waiting ended. In its utter, almost absurd schizophrenia, The Year 1939 is an exemplary reconstruction of an historical turning point. Time and again, the images and the remembered stories, the songs and the faces of actors, politicians and millions like us, just refuse to add up to a vision that is whole and clear here, something is always askew. History is the abyss staring back, and looking none too happy. A profound meditation on doubt and sorrow.

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viimeinen kes 1944


the last summer 1944 Peter von Bagh

Finland, 1992 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 105 min, Finnish


Prod: Heikki Takkinen | Prod Comp: Filminor | Cam: Jussi krs | Ed: Anne Lakanen | Sound Des: Martti Turunen | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 20:00 LV6 Thu 2-2 21:30 PA2

Finland won the Winter War, and fast. The Continuation War was something else: the fighting went on for more than three years (June 41 September 44) and the nation was slowly bleeding dry; in the end, it took a political ruse to get Finland out of this mess. Even more than The Year 1939 (1993) and The Year 1952 (1980), The Last Summer 1944 is a work of collective remembrance an oratory, really, a memorial mass for a time and people long gone. Von Bagh uses comparatively little archival material here instead, with love and compassion, worry and scepticism, he gazes long and hard into the faces of elderly people trying to talk about those last months of tired drudgery: of time slowing down more and more until that standstill became capitulation. A monument to unknown oral history.

vuosi 1952
the Year 1952 Peter von Bagh

Finland, 1980 | b&w, video, 120 min, Finnish


Prod Comp: YLE | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Antero Virta | Ed: Risto Salo | Sound Des: Jussi Olkinuora | Print: YLE Public SCREENINGS Fri 3-2 12:30 PA2 Sat 4-2 17:15 LV6

It took a dozen years, but in 1952 the greatest dream of sports-crazy Finland finally came true: the Helsinki Olympics took place. The nation had recovered, risen from the ashes of two wars and regained its economic footing. For the first time in a long time, the future looked like a lazy stroll down easy street. The Year 1952 is certainly the lightest work in Von Baghs cycle on decisive moments in Finnish history more like a slightly up-beat tango, perhaps, than a piece of modern classical music. The Year 1952 sways through the days and months of 1952, aware of the bleakness behind as well as the brightness ahead, of a bygone gravitas and a looming flimsiness, of stories left untold back then and a history twisted and distorted ever since. A masterpiece of deft, multi-layered, polyphonic storytelling.

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Paavo nurmi Mies ja aika


Paavo nurmi the Man and his times

Peter von Bagh, Markku Koski


Paavo Nurmi was one of the greatest runners ever, and he had the wins to show it. For some time, his name was synonymous with speed, endurance and grace: if you did something the Nurmi way, you were doing good. But Nurmis story had its more depressing side. He was accused of violating his amateur status. Nurmi died in disgrace, if fondly remembered. Paavo Nurmi The Man and His Times is not so much a portrait of the athlete as a vision of his times. Nurmi, here, is an icon, an epitome just check out the opening, where we see not him but a scene from Orvo Saarikivis Urho Karhumki-adaptation, Avoveteen (1939), a work inspired by the Nurmi cult. More than most other works by Von Bagh, this one has a strident severity to it, a formal rigour, a focused sense of ritual that fits the subject perfectly.

Finland, 1978 | colour/b&w, video, 61 min, Finnish


Prod: Mikko Valtasaari | Prod Comp: YLE | Sc: Markku Koski, Peter von Bagh | Cam: Pekka Aine, Kalevi Kankainen, Raino Kuisma, Matti Kurkikangas | Ed: Risto Salo | Sound Des: Jussi Olkinuora | Print: YLE Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:152 LV6 Fri 3-2 15:302 PA2

sinitaivas Matka muistojen maisemaan


Peter von Bagh

Blue sky Journey into the land of Memories

Finland, 1978 | colour, video, 71 min, Finnish


Prod Comp: YLE | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Lasse Naukkarinen | Ed: Esteri Tuovinen | With: voice of Peter von Bagh | Print: YLE Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 09:302 LV6 Wed 1-2 19:452 LV6

Finland is the greatest tango nation on this planet, save Argentina. The dance pavilion is accordingly a key place in communal life. To quote Von Bagh: It is at the nexus of nature and civilization, town and country, dream and reality. Tenderness, toughness, seriousness bordering on moroseness, and joy derived from a flask ingeniously concealed in a jacket or a trouser pocket. Tensions coming to a dramatic head in the sense of smell: perfume, tobacco, spirits and beer sanitised with breath mints, and sweat. Blue Sky Journey Into the Land of Memories was made in praise of that locuss common magic and its heart, the iskelm (Finnish schmaltzy song). The film itself resembles a popular song, and if at the end one doesnt walk out enchanted and willing to immediately fall in love for all the pain it will bring then surely one is just too stunned by its formal virtuosity.

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Kahdeksan surmanluotia

international PreMiere

Finland, 1972 | b&w, video, 316 min, Finnish


Prod: Mikko Niskanen | Prod Comp: Kpy-Filmi, YLE | Sc: Mikko Niskanen | Cam: Seppo Immonen, Kimmo Simula, Juhani Voutilainen | Ed: Jyrki Rapp | Music: Erkki Ertama | With: Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala, Mikko Niskanen, Paavo Pentikinen, Tauno Paananen | Print: The Finnish Film Foundation Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 13:15 CI1 Sat 4-2 11:45 LV5

eight Deadly shots Mikko Niskanen Peter von Bagh was always joking that Martin Scorseses World Cinema Foundation should handle the restoration of this Zola-esque monument, as it was obviously made in a Third World country. And true, its difficult to imagine that the downtrodden, poverty-stricken, backwoods hole we see here is situated somewhere in 1960s Finland. The real-life story on which Eight Deadly Shots is informally based happened in 1969. In a moment of sheer hopelessness, a certain Tauno Veikko Pasanen shoots four police officers. Tauno is called Pasi here and played by scenario-writer Niskanen himself. Pasi ekes out a meagre living for himself and his family. Times grow increasingly harder. One thing slowly leads to another. In the end, theres blood. A raw, grim, uncompromising, unrelenting, unforgiving and nonconsoling masterpiece which will be shown in its five-hour-plus original version. A very, very rare opportunity!

Kreivi

the Count Peter von Bagh


Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none of them and took the money of each and every one. As far as swindlers go, Lindgren is the real thing. Von Bagh asked him to play his proper part in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments; that is, his most flamboyant stunts and he agreed! So, marvel at Lindgren playing Lindgren, and study the films second narrative line: how hes trying to get by with dancing and being charming all through the summer of 1970 in this dance hall or that pavilion. This is Peter von Baghs feature debut and his sole attempt so far at fiction filmmaking if one can say that of this bizarre hybrid full of lewd humour and a sprightly sense of the all-too-human. The only way to top this would be Von Baghs admission that he invented and carefully planted Lindgren in the real Finland of the late 1960s. Who knows?

Finland, 1971 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 92 min, Finnish


Prod: Jrn Donner, Risto Jarva | Prod Comp: Jrn Donner Productions, Filminor | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Lasse Naukkarinen | Ed: Lasse Naukkarinen | Sound Des: Paul Jyrl, Tuomo Kattilakoski, Matti Kuortti, Timo Linnasalo | Music: Kaj Chydenius, M.A. Numminen | With: Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, Irma Martinkauppi, Titta Karakorpi, Elina Salo, Kirsti Wallasvaara | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 20:002 CI2 Tue 31-1 13:152 PA3

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a time of roses Risto Jarva

ruusujen aika

Finland, 1969 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 108 min, Finnish


Prod: Risto Jarva | Prod Comp: Filminor | Sc: Risto Jarva, Jaakko Pakkasvirta, Peter von Bagh | Cam: Antti Peippo | Ed: Risto Jarva | Music: Kaj Chydenius, Henrik Otto Donner | With: Arto Tuominen, Rita Veps, Tarja Markus, Eero Keskitalo | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 21:152 PA6 Fri 3-2 10:002 LV3

2012: Raimo Lappalainen is wary of his society, which believes in science as the answer to everything, even the imponderables of history. He begins to investigate the life of a certain Saara who died in the mid-1970s in a car accident and whod made a living from appearing in films and on stage, sometimes dressed and often not. He finds a girl called Kisse to play Saara this, as everybody knows whos ever read Georges Rodenbachs Bruges-la-Morte (1892) and/or seen Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo (1958), will end in despair. Yes, this is now the year of A Time of Roses, and its terrifying to see how precisely Risto Jarva, Jaakko Pakkasvirta and Peter von Bagh predicted all our failings and stupidities not of our everyday lives, but of the body politic, not to mention the soul. A gem of science fiction cinema which takes its philosophicalsociopolitical dimension more seriously than most exercises in this particular genre.

sF Paraati
Yrj Norta

Finland, 1939 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 86 min, Finnish


Prod: T.J. Srkk | Prod Comp: Suomen Filmiteollisuus SF Oy | Sc: Tapio Piha | Cam: Theodor Luts | Ed: Yrj Norta | Prod Des: Antero Suonio | Sound Des: Viljo Soini | Music: Georg Malmstn | With: Ansa Ikonen, Tauno Palo, Aku Korhonen, Siiri Angerkoski, Kaarlo Angerkoski, Antero Suonio | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA Public SCREENINGS Thu 2-2 16:15 PA3 Fri 3-2 22:30 CI3

An x-ray of Finland in 1939. The storys simple: singing cabby meets singing tourist guide in a blindingly white and sunny Northern capital. The subtext is more complex: theres unemployment, authoritarianism, a nation in all kinds of uniforms rattled by a certain sense of general unrest something is going to happen. That something should have been the Helsinki Olympics instead, it became the Winter War. To make things even more interesting: although this axiomatic musical comedy (the songs in which by now are part of Finnish pop-cultural DNA) was shot before the outbreak of war, it got released only afterwards which makes one wonder how certain lines played then. A must-see for every Von Bagh-ian, as this is one of the films he quotes most often throughout his oeuvre. Besides, as the first revue film in Finland, its a mighty fine example of assembly-line art.

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Preludes
Short films screened before feature length films in this section.

Faaraoiden maa
land of the Pharaohs Peter von Bagh
Excerpts from Mika Waltaris classic of popular historical fiction, Sinuhe egyptilinen (1945), considered as comments on postwar Finland. A lean work, clear in its conception, straight-forward in its execution, muscular in its movement, and deep in its thoughts. Splendid. Screened before Blue Sky Journey Into the Land of Memories.
Finland, 1988 | b&w, video, 29 min, Finnish
Prod Comp: YLE | Ed: Pentti Kauranen, Risto Salo | Print: YLE PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 09:302 LantarenVenster 6 Wed 1-2 19:452 LantarenVenster 6

ajan draama
Drama of time Peter von Bagh
While Von Bagh was on holiday in the countryside, a hostage crisis kept the capital on its toes till it all ended in bloodshed. Von Bagh took the materials detailing this media (non-)event to craft a concise essay on the slippery reality of time. Screened before A Time of Roses.
Finland, 1986 | colour, video, 15 min, Finnish
Prod Comp: YLE | Ed: Heikki Salo | With: voice of Peter von Bagh | Print: YLE PUBLIC SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 21:152 Path 6 Fri 3-2 10:002 LantarenVenster 3

Piv Karl Marxin haudalla


Peter von Bagh

a Day at Karl Marxs grave

People from some twenty nations meet at the grave of Karl Marx in Londons Highgate Cemetery, a century after the philosophers death. The name Marx stands for a hope shared by people from all over the world. A finely wrought essay on hope. Screened before Sodankyl Forever: The Century of Cinema.
Finland, 1983 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 16 min, English/Finnish
Prod: Peter von Bagh | Prod Comp: Nosferatu Oy | Cam: Tony Chapman | Ed: Elina Katainen | Music: Tapio Tamminen | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 09:302 LantarenVenster 6 Thu 2-2 15:302 Path 2

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olavi virta
Peter von Bagh
Portrait of a national icon as an old, lost and lonely man. When Olavi Virta was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic they couldnt take that sad sight of their tangos greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins. A masterpiece. Screened before Paavo Nurmi The Man and His Times.
Finland, 1972 | colour, video, 30 min, Finnish
Prod Comp: YLE | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Lassa Naukarinen | Ed: Jyrki Rapp | Sound Des: Paul Jyrl | Print: YLE PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:152 LantarenVenster 6 Fri 3-2 15:302 Path 2

Pockpicket eli katkelmia helsinkilisen porvarisnuoren elmst


Pockpicket recollections of a helsinki Bourgeois Youth

Peter von Bagh, Pertti Maisala


A cheeky homage to Robert Bresson: Instead of taking money out of peoples pockets, the films protagonist puts it in to help those in need. A hilarious comment on late 1960s ideological confusion, inspired somewhat by the particular genius of Finnish comedy icon Spede Pasanen. Screened before The Count.
Finland, 1968 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 18 min, Finnish
Prod: Peter von Bagh, Pertti Maisala | Sc: Peter von Bagh | Cam: Pertti Maisala, | Ed: Pertti Maisala | Music: Kaj Chydenius | With: Sulevi Peltola | Print: Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 20:002 Cinerama 2 Tue 31-1 13:152 Path 3

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The opportunities to watch African films in Africa are limited, even though this is important for African cultural awareness. Thanks to the support of the DOEN Foundation, SOON S.A. is able to distribute African films to a widespread local population in Senegal and Mali by mobiCINES: motorcycles with a trailer containing all necessities to build a digital cinema. The mobiCINEs also show several films made by filmmakers supported by Hubert Bals Fund.

AFRICAN

For more information about DOENs projects, visit www.doen.nl

Photo credits: Sarama Films Bamako - SOON S.A. Dakar

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Edwin Carels

Over the past decade, the programme section Regained has become a popular oasis for cinephiles and film explorers wanting to reconnect with cinemas history. Restorations, remakes and homages have been and remain the primary vehicle for taking a fresh look at the past. This year, however, the scope of Regained is being expanded. In addition to documentaries, found-footage experiments and other metamusings, our selection now includes installations, flip books, a documentary salon full of eye candy and even a comic book. Another way of broadening the scope of Regained is by embracing mainstream Hollywood cinema and accentuating the way some directors ascribe their work to a long tradition. And finally, we are also opening up the section to practices other than narrative cinema and beyond the Western canon. Our ambition is to demonstrate how cinemas traditions (narrative, documentary and experimental) are still more than relevant to an understanding of contemporary film, media and visual culture at large. Enjoy!

Babeldom
Paul Bush

As a science fiction documentary, this portrait of a futuristic city is narrated by one of its inhabitants. The twist is that all the images in this found-footage film come from architecture, science and technology of the present day. The future is already here. Thu 26-1 to Sun 29-1, 10:00-17:00, Friday until 20:00 and Sunday from 11:00, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Museumpark 2.
United Kingdom, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 80 min, English
Prod: Paul Bush | Prod Comp: Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd | Sc: Paul Bush | Cam: Paul Bush | Ed: Lawrence Huck | Sound Des: Zhe Wu | Music: Andy Cowton, Stuart Earl | With: Youla Boudali | Print/Sales: Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd | www.babeldom.com

Celluloid Brushes
This growing anthology of films and posters focuses on the filmic representation of the artist, from 1267 till the present. Contemporary artists are invited to create new poster designs for each biographical title; by now there are already more than 50 graphic reinterpretations. Wed 1-2 to Sun 5-2, 11:00-18:00, Witte de With, Witte de Withstraat 50.

Recent documentaries such as Vivement le cinma (Jrme Prieur, 2011) and The First Interview (Denis Tupicoff, 2011) recreate pioneering French contributions to the art of cinema. This setting pays homage to the great film magician Georges Mlis, who ended up as a shopkeeper in a railway station. Free admission. Wed 25-1 to Sat 4-2 (except Sunday) 09:00-18:00, Saturdays until 13:00. Alliance Franaise, Westersingel 14.

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Crumbled Papers, Fragments of Cinema


Madhuja Mukherjee

Inspired by Indian film stars on glass plate negatives from the 1930s, this video installation is an attempt to draw upon the cultural memory of cinemas. The scanning of such rare negatives is like excavating a forgotten archaeological site and traversing through the tracks of history and a range of collective narratives. Mukherjee also presents her first feature, Carnival, at this festival. Wed 25-1 to Fri 27-1 and Tue 31-1 to Fri 3-2, 11:00-18:00, Nieuwe Oogst, Maashavenzuidzijde 20.

in Memoriam Bart Vegter


Compilation of Rotterdam filmmaker Bart Vegters artistic legacy, interlaced with a number of works by fellow artists. See also the compilation programmes Space and Time: The Abstract Films of Bart Vegter 1 and 2. Wed 25-1 to Sun 5-2, 12:00-17:00, Sub-urban video Lounge, Botersloot 44a. Free admission.

The Flip Collection ii


PrintRoom

This group show introduces several young artists who use the playful format of the flip book for surprisingly serious, documentary purposes. With the premires of new works by Esther Urlus, Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva, Sarah Vanagt and Katrien Vermeire. Wed 1-2 to Sun 5-2, 12:00-18:00, PrintRoom, Schietbaanstraat 17.

Pour en finir avec le cinma


Blutch

From the waste-paper basket of film history, comic book artist Blutch digs out his favorite quotes and images. The protagonists flashbacks, nightmares and daydreams are populated by film legends: Hayworth, Deneuve, Piccoli, Visconti, Bardot, and above all Burt Lancaster. But what about about this image of Godard catching dead fish? Blutch paradoxically celebrates his cinephilia by establishing an iconoclast pantheon. Daily, 18:00-19:00, on the video wall in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg.

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Trait de bave et dternit


On Venom and Eternity Isidore Isou Cannes jury member Jean Cocteau proclaimed in 1951 that perhaps in 50 years time, the radical aesthetics of this film might feel more acceptable. Poet, film critic and visual artist Isous first and only stab at filmmaking caused a major scandal. After five minutes of Letterist poetry in the pitch dark, the film kicks off by rejecting any appreciation of the audience. A certain Daniel embodies all that Isou loves and hates about the cinema. Wandering around the streets of Paris like a proto-beatnik, he argues for a film that hurts our eyes. But his aim is also to sculpt flowers on the film stock. Isou inspired many to rethink the parameters of cinema, to exploit the discrepancy between sound and image or to treat the film material as exactly that: substance to be manipulated in every possible way. Ironically, the film that wanted to destroy cinema has itself undergone restoration now and the pompous manifesto has become part of the canon.

France, 1951 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 120 min, French Prod: Marco, Leon Vickman | Prod Comp: Films M.-G. Guillemin | Sc: Jean Isidore Isou | Cam: Nat. Saufer | Ed: Suzanne Cabon | Music: Daniel Garrigue | Print/ Sales: Pip Chodorov
Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 19:30 LV6 Sat 28-1 17:30 LV3

anna
Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli

Italy, 1975 | b&w, DCP, 225 min, Italian Prod: Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli | Sc: Massimo Sarchielli, Roland Knauss | Cam: Alberto Grifi, Mario Gianni, Raoul Calabr | Prod Des: Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli | Sound Des: Raoul Calabr, Agostini, Ponchia | With: Massimo Sarchielli, Vincenzo Mazza, Stefano Cattarossi, Louis Waldon, Jane Fonda, Ivano Urban | Print/Sales: Cineteca Nazionale | www.albertogrifi.com
Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 15:30 CI6 Sat 28-1 09:15 LV1

In the early 1970s, two Italian filmmakers met pregnant, 16-year-old Anna, a junky, on the Piazza Navone in Rome. One of them took her under his wing, partly out of pity, partly due to opportunism thinking theres a great film in this. They film her slow recovery from feral homeless person to human being, initially using a film camera and later on video which, at the time, was a novelty. Alberto Grifi turned the 11 hours of material shot by the duo into a four-hour film and transferred the video onto 16mm film. Anna is more than cinema vrit, it is a reflection on the cameras role in documentary filmmaking whereby the crew also have their say. The long takes create a fascinating portrait of the dynamic between filmmaker and subject, and the work also documents a society very similar to todays rife with political and social discontent. Anna was recently restored by film lab LImmagine Ritrovata and can now be seen with subtitles outside Italy for the first time.

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Playing Ponette Jeanne Crpeau

inTERnaTiOnal PREMiERE

Canada, 2007 | colour/b&w, DCP, 92 min, French Prod: Jeanne Crpeau | Prod Comp: Box Film | Sc: Jeanne Crpeau | Ed: Jeanne Crpeau | Print/Sales: Box Film | www.boxfilm.ca
Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 17:30 CI6 Wed 1-2 22:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 09:30 PA5

In 1996, four-year-old Victoire Thivisol was for many the surprise winner of the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her leading role in Jacques Doillons Ponette. How could an infant run off with this award? The documentary Playing Ponette shows how patiently Doillon worked with her, from the first disastrous day of shooting, up to the triumph in Venice. Playing Ponette consists almost entirely of material that was filmed with the black-and-white camera of the video assist on the set of Ponette. The quality is not up to much, but in all that raw material rehearsals, several takes and footage in between the shots we can discern a meditation about the mystery of acting. One moment Thivisol is romping playfully on the set, less than a minute later she is highly concentrated and embodies very convincingly the role of the girl who has to learn to cope with the recent death of her mother, while she doesnt understand the concept of death.

Retour de flamme
saved from the Flames Serge Bromberg

France, 2011 | colour/b&w, DCP, 90 min, French Prod: Serge Bromberg | Prod Comp: Lobster Films S.A. | Print/Sales: Lobster Films S.A. | www.lobsterfilms.com
Public SCREENING Sat 28-1 19:00 PA4

Since 1985, Bromberg has been bringing a wild variety of short films, commercials and animations back in circulation, either in the cinema, on television or via the Lobster DVD label. This collection of cartoons however, can only be experienced in a cinema with the proper set of anaglyph (red-green) or polarised glasses. From behind his piano, Bromberg demonstrates how the film industry has been developing 3D techniques throughout the entire 20th century. Besides American examples from the Fleischers, Disney and Charley Bowers, there is also a Soviet Parade of Attractions. As a climax, Bromberg has joined two film prints by Mlis together, to obtain a bizar 3D effect. Frustrated by all the plagiarism, Mlis decided to shoot his films with two synchronised cameras. Having two negatives of the same action, he could then release the same title concurrently in Europe and the USA, and thus be ahead of any bootleg copies.

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il se peut que la beaut ait renforc notre rsolution Masao adachi


it May Be That Beauty Has strengthened Our Resolve Masao adachi

France, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 74 min, Japanese/French Prod: Annick Lemonnier | Prod Comp: EPILEPTIC | Sc: Philippe Grandrieux | Cam: Philippe Grandrieux | Ed: Philippe Grandrieux | Prod Des: Philippe Grandrieux | Sound Des: Philippe Grandrieux | Music: Ferdinand Grandrieux | Print/Sales: EPILEPTIC | www.grandrieux.com
Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 17:30 CI4 Thu 2-2 09:45 CI7 Fri 3-2 20:15 LV2 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 11:45 DJZ

Philippe Grandrieux French director Philippe Grandrieux (Sombre, 1999; A Lake, 2009) wants to make a series of portraits of politically committed filmmakers. His film about Japanese avant-gardist Masao Adachi (1939) is the first in this series. In the 1960s and 1970s, Adachi was a prominent film critic and underground filmmaker, with experimental films such as Sain (1963) to his name. He often collaborated with his contemporary and ally Nagisa Oshima, wrote scripts for Koji Wakamatsu and made films in the pink genre. Disappointment with the political direction of Japan made him join the the extreme left-wing Japanese Red Army in the early 1970s and he started making films in Beirut. Grandieux engages in sometimes cryptic conversations with him about film, art and politics and films him in his characteristic style: sometimes out of focus, sometimes under or overexposed. With a few clips from Adachis work, such as The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War from 1971.

Hugo
Martin Scorsese

USA, 2011 | colour, DCP, 126 min, English Prod: Graham King, Martin Scorsese | Prod Comp: GK Films, Paramount Pictures | Sc: John Logan, based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick | Cam: Robert Richardson | Ed: Thelma Schoonmaker | Prod Des: Dante Ferretti | Sound Des: John Midgley | Music: Howard Shore | With: Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer | Sales: Paramount Pictures | Distr NL: Universal Pictures International Netherlands BV
Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 19:00 PA1 Sun 29-1 10:15 PA3 Wed 1-2 15:00 PA4 Sat 4-2 16:15 PA3

With his 12-year-old daughter in mind, Scorsese translates Brian Selznicks childrens book into an initiation into the art of cinema. He does this both in a literal and a metaphorical sense: with an evocation of the both glorious and tragic career of Georges Mlis as well as a playful conceptualisation of filmic parameters such as the notion of time, mechanised movement and the illusion of depth. Leafing through an old note-pad leads to the discovery of a flip book, and a panoramic view over Paris suddenly becomes one big festival of light. While conceiving a homage to analogue film, Scorsese manifests himself a master of digital cinema. And yet the actors always remain his central concern. The film also contains some hints of a larger historical perspective. One of the most stunning and memorable archival documents is the tinted footage of traumatised soldiers returning from the front in the First World War.

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Martina Kudlc ek

WORld PREMiERE

Austria, 2012 | colour, video, 232 min, English Prod: Martina Kudlc ek | Sc: Martina Kudlc ek | Cam: Martina Kudlc ek | Ed: Henry Hills | Print/Sales: sixpackfilm
Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 11:45 LV1 Fri 3-2 20:00 CI4

This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (b. 1934, Vienna). While Kubelkas radical and pioneering body of films is a highly condensed work of little more than an hour, his lectures are legendary for their extended length. These drawn-out presentations on what is cinema and cooking as an art form are frequently illuminated by archaeological objects from Kubelkas eclectic collection. He considers his ongoing collecting to be an expanded film practice that explores the evolution of humanity. Martina Kudlc ek has carefully woven an open-ended portrait that contains a wealth of biographical materials, and yet always remains focused on the essence of cinema.

Pablo
Richard Goldgewicht

WORld PREMiERE

USA, 2012 | colour, video, 103 min, English Prod: Jeremy Goldscheider | Prod Comp: Goldstreet Films | Sc: Richard Goldgewicht, Neil Katcher, Adam Trunell | Ed: Richard Goldgewicht | Music: Lior Ron | Print/ Sales: Shoreline Entertainment | www.pablothemovie.com
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In the opulently designed, largely animated documentary Pablo, the Brazilian director Richard Goldgewicht sketches a lively portrait of the renowned title designer, artist and bohemian Pablo Ferro. Ferro was born in Cuba in 1935, moved to the United States in 1947 and later worked for a design studio where he continued developing his unique style focusing on typography (including handwriting) and high-speed editing. The breakthrough came when Stanley Kubrick asked him to make a trailer and title sequence for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Ferro made countless iconic opening credits, from Bullit and The Thomas Crown Affair to Stop Making Sense and Men in Black. Jeff Bridges is the narrator of the documentary. A cartload of famous names praises the creative spirit, but his children, exes, wives and girlfriends do not fail to mention the darker side of this exponent of the 1960s; he certainly wasnt a traditional father.

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A playful documentary on the restoration of Mlis A Trip to the Moon, followed by the restored classic itself.
PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 13:152 Path 3 Sat 4-2 16:302 Path 4

le voyage extraordinaire
The Extraordinary Voyage Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange

One of the most inventive manifestations of early cinema, Georges Mlis A Trip to the Moon, is now honoured by one of the most expensive and sophisticated restorations in film history. Beyond an introduction to this fantasy-imbued universe (with lots of stunning fragments from old Mlis films), this film is also a case-study of state-of-the-art digital restoration. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Michel Gondry and others demonstrate their admiration and put Mlis achievements into perspective. Screened together with A Trip to the Moon.
France, 2011 | colour, DCP, 65 min, French/English
Prod: Serge Bromberg | Sc: Serge Bromberg | Music: Bruno Alexiu | Print/Sales: MK2

le voyage dans la lune


a Trip to the Moon Georges Mlis

From the extensive oeuvre of the film pioneer Georges Mlis, A Trip to the Moon (1902) is by far the best-known work. Mlis based the story on two popular novels from his time, The First Men in the Moon (1901) by H.G. Wells and Jules Vernes De la terre la lune (1865). The recently restored film can now be seen in colour. Screened together with The Extraordinary Voyage.
France, 1902 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.33, 14 min, no dialogue
Prod: Georges Mlis | Sc: Georges Mlis | Cam: Michaut, Lucien Tainguy | Ed: Georges Mlis | Prod Des: Georges Mlis | Music: AIR | With: Bleuette Bernon, Henri Delannoy, Georges Mlis, Jeanne dAlcy, Victor Andr | Print/Sales: MK2

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The enchantment of incomplete digital images complements Bill Morrisons celebration of decaying film stock.
PUBLIC SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 16:152 Path 6 Sat 28-1 19:302 LantarenVenster 5 Sun 29-1 17:302 LantarenVenster 2

Tributes Pulse
Bill Morrison

In music, a pulse is the heartbeat of a composition, but a pulse does not necessarily have to be regular. The Danish composer Simon Christensen studied the use of the pulse by four modern American composers: Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich and Trent Reznor. Tributes Pulse is his homage to these composers. Bill Morrison is responsible for the visuals: damaged found-footage shots that have their own pulse (and beauty).
Denmark/USA, 2011 | colour, video, 65 min, no dialogue
Prod: Klaus Ib Jrgensen | Prod Comp: Edition S | Sc: Bill Morrison, Simon Christensen | Ed: Bill Morrison | Prod Des: Bill Morrison | Sound Des: Simon Christensen | Music: Simon Christensen | Print/Sales: Edition S | www.tributes-pulse.com

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lyrical data Elias Heuninck

Just like old nitrate films, digital files are vulnerable. For instance, data files can be corrupted and the download can fail as a result. This result can generate its own beauty. In his short film Lyrical Data, Elias Heuninck uses an incomplete download of Peter Delpeuts found-footage film Lyrical Nitrate (1991) for a reflection on the power of images. Screened before Tributes Pulse.
Belgium, 2010 | colour, video, 5 min, no dialogue
Prod: Elias Heuninck | Cam: Elias Heuninck | Ed: Elias Heuninck | Print/ Sales: Elias Heuninck | www.eliasheuninck.be/lyrische_data

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A portrait of French filmmaker Jean Epstein filming in Brittany, followed by his film The Tempest: Poem on the Sea.
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Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema


James June Schneider

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany, the spot where he became inspired by the sea. Using rare archive footage, Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema also looks at Epsteins views on the specificity of the film medium. Screened together with The Tempest: Poem on the Sea.
France, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 68 min, French
Prod: Nicolas Anthom | Prod Comp: Bathysphere Productions | Sc: James Schneider | Cam: James Schneider, Benjamin Echazarreta | Ed: James Schneider, Mathias Bouffier | Sound Des: Nicolas Leborgne, Florent Klockenbrig | Print/Sales: Bathysphere Productions | www.bathysphere.fr

le tempestaire
Jean Epstein

The Tempest: Poem on the sea

The Tempest: Poem on the Sea (1947) was filmed in Brittany, the region where Jean Epstein found much inspiration. He gave the rough sea and the howling wind an important place in this short film, both in sound and image. It is a mystical story about a woman who senses that something will happen to her boyfriend, a fisherman, when he sets sail. With thanks to La Cinmathque Franaise. Screened together with Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema.
France, 1947 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 22 min, French
Prod: Jean Epstein | Cam: Albert Militon | Music: Yves Baudrier | Print: Cinmathque Franaise

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Combined Programme
As a homage to Ral Ruiz, the festival is screening two of his films: his first, and one of his last.
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la maleta
Ral Ruiz

Ruiz always considered this beginning of his exceptionally rich filmography (113 titles) unfinished, and the original print was lost for a long time. In 2008, it resurfaced in a mis-labelled film can in Chile, and typically the director then edited a shorter version, so turned it into one of his last films. Screened before Ballet aquatique.
Chile, 1963 | b&w, video, 19 min, no dialogue
Prod: Ral Ruiz | Prod Comp: Cine Experimental de la Universidad de Chile | Sc: Ral Ruiz | Cam: Enrique Urteaga | Ed: Ral Ruiz | Music: Jorge Arriagada | With: Gastn Duvauchelle, Hector Duvauchelle, Orieta Escamez, Gonzalo Palta | Print: Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia | www.lecinemaderaoulruiz.com

Ballet aquatique
Ral Ruiz

Why it is so difficult to count fish in an aquarium? Ruiz, his loyal actor Melvil Poupaud and his producer Franois Margolin come up with a wide range of hypotheses. With their bone-dry wit, they keep up the tradition of the French pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions.
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France, 2011 | colour, video, 50 min, French


Prod: Ral Ruiz | Prod Comp: Centre Georges Pompidou | Sc: Ral Ruiz | Cam: Christian Bahier | Ed: Ombeline Blanchard | Sound Des: Nicolas Joly | Music: Jorge Arriagada | With: Ral Ruiz, Melvil Poupaud, Franois Margolin | Print/Sales: Centre Georges Pompidou | www.lecinemaderaoulruiz.com

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george Kuchar: Wrap Party


The very last productions of the eternal enfant terrible of the American avant-garde show Kuchar (who died in 2011) at his vintage best: as the perverse orchestrator of a low-tech, low-budget campy fantasy and as a lost soul, yet always in good company.
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Empire of Evil
George Kuchar

Students of the San Francisco Art Institute clearly enjoy acting out Kuchars idiosynchratic film noir satire. Combining a love triangle with homoerotic subculture, the story gradually slides into outlandish orgies. An exuberant celebration of creative freedom in the face of death.
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USA, 2011 | b&w, video, 51 min, English


Prod: George Kuchar | Cam: George Kuchar | Ed: George Kuchar | Print/ Sales: Video Data Bank (VDB) | www.vdb.org/titles/empire-evil

Hotspell
George Kuchar

In this iconic series, some of which will be included in the Whitney Biennial film programme in 2012, Kuchar enjoyed mixing the meteorological with the corporeal, and his solipsism with the desire for social interaction. His eccentric journalistic escapades ended with a visit to Norman, Oklahoma.
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USA, 2012 | colour, video, 26 min, English


Prod: George Kuchar | Cam: George Kuchar | Ed: George Kuchar | Print/ Sales: Video Data Bank (VDB) | www.vdb.org/titles/hotspell

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Kubelka Films
Peter Kubelka (1934) is an artist, anthropologist, cook and teacher. During the five decades he has been active as a filmmaker, he has produced a grand total of 62 minutes of film, in which he explores the essential qualities of cinema. The IFFR will be screening 39 minutes of film, and Kubelka will be present to explain his work.
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adebar
Peter Kubelka

Only certain predetermined shot lenghts are used. The visual material in the film is combined according to certain rules and there is a consistent alternation of positive and negative. Originally commissioned as a commercial, Adebar became Kubelkas first metric film.
Austria, 1957 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 1 min, no dialogue
Prod: Peter Kubelka | Cam: Peter Kubelka | Ed: Peter Kubelka | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/1026

schwechater
Peter Kubelka

Kubelka returns to the individual still frame as the essence of cinema. The fact that a projected film consists of 24 still images per second serves as the basis of his metric art. At the same time, he subverts the supposed power of subliminal messages, by pushing these to the extreme. A deliriously dense ode to consumption.
Austria, 1958 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 2 min, no dialogue
Prod: Peter Kubelka | Cam: Peter Kubelka | Ed: Peter Kubelka | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/1027

arnulf Rainer
Peter Kubelka

One of the most absolute films ever conceived, this metric film derives its title from the friendship (and sponsorship) of fellow artist Arnulf Rainer. The same radical reduction was also pursued in the Flicker films made by Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits and others. With a very different outcome each time.
Austria, 1960 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod: Peter Kubelka | Cam: Peter Kubelka | Ed: Peter Kubelka | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/1028

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Unsere afrikareise
Our Trip to africa Peter Kubelka

The intensely concentrated quality stems in part from the multitude of connections between image and image, sound and sound and image and sound, orchestrated into a unified whole. (Fred Camper) The film is like a monument erected as a record of civilisation, not as a statement but as a kind of totem.
Austria, 1966 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 13 min, English
Prod: Peter Kubelka | Cam: Peter Kubelka | Ed: Peter Kubelka | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/show/1029

The Masters Voice


Two short documentary portraits of canonical avant-garde figures direct the eyes via the ears. In Maya Deren Take Zero, the subject is mostly present through a rare voice recording; in The Silence of Peleshan, the maestro refuses to speak.
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Maya deren, Take Zero


Gerard Gil Fargas, Jaime Ballada Larrasa

Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s, she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.
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Spain, 2012 | colour, video, 30 min, English


Prod: Gerard Gil Fargas, Jaime Ballada Larrasa | Prod Comp: La Ferida Produccions, Marcialav | Sc: Jaime Ballada Larrasa, Gerard Gil Fargas | Cam: Jaime Ballada Larrasa, Gerard Gil Fargas | Ed: Jaime Ballada Larrasa, Gerard Gil Fargas | Prod Des: Jaime Ballada Larrasa, Gerard Gil Fargas | Sound Des: Jaime Ballada Larrasa, Gerard Gil Fargas | Music: Maya Deren, Teiji Ito | With: Jean Rouch, Sasha Hammid, Jonas Mekas, Graeme Ferguson, Cecile Starr, Herbert Passin, Robert Gardner | Print/Sales: La Ferida Produccions | www.gerardgil.com

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il silenzio di Pelesjan
The silence of Peleshian Pietro Marcello

This homage to Armenian director Artavazd Peleshian (1938) juxtaposes lyrical scenes from some of his films with contemporary images of Peleshian in Moscow, where he went in the early 1960s to study at the famous VGIK film school. His ideas about editing (distance montage) are reflected in The Silence of Peleshian.
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Italy, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 52 min, Italian


Prod: Simone Gattoni | Prod Comp: Kinesis Film | Ed: Sara Fgaier | Sound Des: Benny Atria, Mirco Perri | Music: Marco Messina, Sacha Ricci | With: Artavazd Pelesjan | Print/Sales: Kinesis Film | www.pelesjansilence.it

REVERBERaTiOns
Three short films that appeal as much to our sense of imagination as to our notion of (film) history. A search for the trail of Mlis in the Texas mountains is followed by a nightly visit to a museum and a sombre monologue about Camerons Avatar.
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Mlis (single screen)


Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler

Besides being an unsuccesful businessman, the mysterious Gaston Mlis was also a filmmaker with anthropological interests. Mlis (2011) and Grand Paris Texas (2009) are the first two installations in Hubbard/Birchlers trilogy exploring the social and physical locations of cinema.
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USA/Switzerland/Germany, 2012 | colour, video, 24 min, English


Prod: Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler | Prod Comp: Hubbard / Birchler Studio | Sc: Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler | Cam: Wilson M. Waggoner, Teresa Hubbard, Adam Schreiber | Ed: Alexander Birchler, Maria Clara Garcia | Prod Des: Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler | Sound Des: Alexander Birchler, Lyman Hardy | Music: Catherine Davis | With: Ben Lowry, Tom D. Ellison, David Armstrong, Sara Marta, Kit Bramblett, Tom Neely, John Elder | Print/Sales: Hubbard / Birchler Studio | www.hubbardbirchler.net

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Flash in the Metropolitan


Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer

Artefacts from the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections are filmed in the depths of darkness in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The flashing strobe light used in the filming allows the viewer to see the objects as if in animation. The viewer is only granted a fleeting glimpse of a series of artefacts, which, with any detail removed, reduces their status to an icon without a narrative.
United Kingdom, 2006 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, silent
Prod: Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer | Print/Sales: LUX

speech act
Herman Asselberghs

The epic sci-fi genre inspires a teacher to question our visual culture. His film studies class gradually transforms into a theatrical interior monologue, elaborating on the Godard quote: If you really want to see the world, shut your eyes. An apology for the black image.
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Belgium, 2012 | colour, video, 29 min, Dutch


Prod: Marie Logie | Prod Comp: Auguste Orts | Sc: Herman Asselberghs | Cam: Sebastien Koeppel | Ed: Fairuz | Prod Des: Fairuz | Sound Des: Els Viaene, Boris Debackere | With: Willy Thomas | Print/Sales: Auguste Orts | www.augusteorts.be/projects/project/60

space and Time: The abstract Films of Bart Vegter 1


Posthumous tribute to the idiosyncratic abstract filmmaker Bart Vegter. From his earliest works devoted to animated geometric patterns, he later evolved to quiet computer animations relating to natural processes. A compact oeuvre of nine short films in 30 years. With an introduction by Joost Rekveld and a DVD presentation.
PUBLIC SCREENING Fri 27-1 14:30 LantarenVenser 6

structuurverschillen van tijd en plaats


Peter Struycken

Very short and formal film by the multidisciplinary artist Peter Struycken, one of the founders of computer art in the Netherlands.
Netherlands, 1971 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 1 min, silent
Prod: Peter Struycken | Cam: Peter Struycken | Ed: Peter Struycken | Print/Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

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Ponskaart polonaise
Matthijs Blonk

Rhythmic play of light and shadow via holes in the roll of film awakes the suggestion of punch card holes dancing across the image. Formal investigation of rhythm in light and darkness with a powerful visual effect.
Netherlands, 1976 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Matthijs Blonk | Cam: Matthijs Blonk | Ed: Matthijs Blonk | Music: Frans Krijger | Print/Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.matthijsblonk.nl

Horizontalen
Bart Vegter

A film without an outer subject. Only light and motion. Like sunlight, reflected by waves of water on a white wall. By moving a surface vertically in front of the camera and using an eightfold exposure of the film, an image emerges of horizontal stripes in various tints of grey.
Netherlands, 1981 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 6 min, silent
Prod: Bart Vegter | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.longcanalfilm.nl

in need of space
Bart Vegter

In Need of Space is inspired by the minimal music of Steve Reich and consists of moving vertical lines and colour surfaces; the ribs and surfaces of a rotating cube with the format of a film frame. By tilting the object in the frame, a totally different dynamic emerges in three dimensions.
Netherlands, 1982 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 6 min, no dialogue
Prod: Bart Vegter | Music: Steve Reich | Print/Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.longcanalfilm.nl

Kalah
Dora Maurer

The rules of an old Arab game, Kalah, played by two players with 36-36 stones, works as a ready-found system for generating the film. The filmstrip registers the moves of a game based on their notation in a diagram, converting the elements into 72 colour forms and 72 sounds of a chromatic scale in rapid sequences.
Hungary, 1980 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 10 min, no dialogue
Prod: Dora Maurer | Cam: Dora Maurer | Ed: Dora Maurer | Music: Zoltan Jeney | Print/ Sales: Hungarian National Film Archive | www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/show/426

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space-Modulation
Bart Vegter

The point of departure in SpaceModulation is the discovery of the moment when a two-dimensional image transforms into a three-dimensional space. Vegter shows this using a pattern of 196 points that move in relation to each other. By zooming in and out, he seeks the moment when the depth becomes visible.
Netherlands, 1994 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 1 min, silent
Prod: Bart Vegter | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.longcanalfilm.nl

Ecosystem-6-a sort of Mycelium


Koike Teruo

Ecosystems is an extended series of films that work with abstract patterns of extraordinary density and complexity; it is inspired by the elaborate chaos systems present in nature. Ecosystem-6 will be presented in the original Super-8 format, accompanied by Japanese traditional flute played by Koike Teruo.
Japan, 1989 | colour, 1:1.37, 21 min, silent
Prod: Koike Teruo | Cam: Koike Teruo | Ed: Koike Teruo | Print/Sales: Koike Teruo

nacht-licht
Bart Vegter

A computer-generated film in three parts, whereby each part has its own, formal starting point. The images consist of 8 to 14 independent elements. On this formal basis, variations are executed continuously by means of gradual changes in the position, direction, movement, velocity and colour of the elements.
Netherlands, 2011 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 13 min, no dialogue
Prod: Bart Vegter | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Music: Kees van der Knaap | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.longcanalfilm.nl

#3
Joost Rekveld

#3 is a film with pure light. The images were created by recording the movements of a tiny light source using extremely long exposures, so that it draws traces on the emulsion. The light is part of a simple mechanical system that exhibits chaotic behaviour.
Netherlands, 1994 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 4 min, no dialogue
Prod: Joost Rekveld | Cam: Joost Rekveld | Ed: Joost Rekveld | Print/ Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.lumen.nu/rekveld

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de tijd
Bart Vegter

A flat, monochrome image slowly evolves into a dramatic spectacle; colour allows lines and conical forms to subtly dissolve and solidify. In the end, the colours lose their intensity, leaving only the basic structure of the image, the skeleton. Vegter used the Fourier transformation, in three dimensions, to create De tijd.
Netherlands, 2008 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.33, 9 min, silent
Prod: Noud Heerkens | Prod Comp: Stichting Picos de Europa | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Sales: Stichting Picos de Europa | www.longcanalfilm.nl

space and Time: The abstract Films of Bart Vegter 2


Second part of a homage to the filmmaker Bart Vegter. Preceded by a presentation by Simona Monizza of the EYE Film Institute about the complexities of conserving Vegters artistic heritage. See also In Memoriam Bart Vegter in this section.
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Reversals
Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz

The earliest work by Jacques Verbeek and Karin Wiertz was an important source of inspiration for Bart Vegter when he became interested in making film. Reversals is a geometric animation and comprises continuous movements of tipping, turning and sliding blocks and surfaces.
Netherlands, 1972 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz | Cam: Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz | Ed: Jacques Verbeek, Karin Wiertz | Music: Bertus Borgers | Print/Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

de hemel is vierkant
square shape of Heaven Bart Vegter

Exposed to light several times, the images of this abstract film are compiled from basic elements that emerge when a cube is cut equidistant from its three main axes. The surfaces move independently of and in reaction to each other. The rotations and shifts evoke a change in form and composition.
Netherlands, 1985 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 12 min, no dialogue
Prod: Bart Vegter | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Music: Ruud Spetter | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.longcanalfilm.nl

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Four Moves
Bart Vegter

...Four ways to leave home, four ways to hold time... Four Moves consists of four parts, each of which depicts its own abstract variation on the theme of colour and movement. The only shapes used are squares, which move back and forth over each other in different tempos and colours.
Netherlands, 1987 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod: Bart Vegter, Jan Ketelaars | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Music: Floris Kolvenbach | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | www.longcanalfilm.nl

luma nocturna
nighttime light Sky-David

Nighttime Light uses overlapping dissolves of hand-drawn images to capture the luminescent magic of light strewn across the black city at night, from the majestic convergences of great boulevards to ephemeral, amorphous supple reflections.
USA, 1974 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 4 min, no dialogue
Prod: Sky-David | Cam: Sky-David | Ed: Sky-David | Print courtesy: iotaCenter | Print/Sales: Academy Film Archive | www.skydavid.com

The garden of Earthly delights


Stan Brakhage

Classic meditative collage film created entirely without the use of a camera by pasting montane zone vegetation such as petals, grasses and leaves onto strips of clear film leader. As the title suggests, it is a homage to (but also an argument with) Hieronymous Bosch.
USA, 1981 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Stan Brakhage | Cam: Stan Brakhage | Ed: Stan Brakhage | Print/Sales: Light Cone Distribution

Forest-Views
Bart Vegter

The astonishingly delicate, computergenerated Forest-Views suggests the processes not only of blossoming and decay, but also, ironically, of the chemical laboratory. The screen itself seems to sprout organic forms, like a magnified Petrie dish. (Sundance Film Festival Catalogue 2001).
Netherlands, 1999 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 17 min, silent
Prod: Gerard Holthuis | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Sales: Filmstad Producties bv | www.longcanalfilm.nl

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interlude
Joost van Veen

A short meditation inspired by the track Interlude by the British band Manyfingers, a Chris Cole project. The film shows a group of Lookdown Fish (Selene Vomer) swimming through chemical layers of high-contrast black-and-white film stock. Winner of Tiger Short Award at IFFR 2005.
Netherlands, 2005 | b&w, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Esther Urlus | Prod Comp: WORM | Cam: Joost van Veen | Ed: Joost van Veen | Music: Manyfingers | Print/Sales: Joost van Veen | www.archefilm.nl

Monologue exterieur
Francien van Everdingen

Fragments of an interior appear from the dark like pieces of a puzzle that just dont seem to fit. The walls do talk, from whispering to buzzing to a lively conversation about a world outside this tiny room. A botanical kaleidoscope of treetops, green leaves and blossoms with a neurotic claustrophobic taste.
Netherlands, 2003 | colour, 16mm, 1:1.37, 3 min, silent
Prod: Francien van Everdingen | Cam: Francien van Everdingen | Ed: Francien van Everdingen | Print/Sales: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Zwerk
Bart Vegter

Zwerk is an abstract film that depicts an illusionary world. The film was made with the purpose of creating an opportunity to view something as it is. What remains is a visual experience. When making the film I let myself be inspired by the words at the edge of emptiness and by my interest in the field between chaos and order. (BV )
Netherlands, 2004 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 8 min, silent
Prod: Gerard Holthuis | Prod Comp: Filmstad Producties bv | Cam: Bart Vegter | Ed: Bart Vegter | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Sales: Filmstad Producties bv | www.longcanalfilm.nl

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Waving Back
An eclectic compilation of experimental short films, each communicating a sense of threat. The artists share a fascination for looming violence, inviting us to reflect on the return of the repressed, in both nature and human history.
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The green Wave


Ken Jacobs

Jump cuts, tinting and sudden changes in aspect ratio make for a pulsating spectacle. At once an archeologist and an innovator, Jacobs keeps on adapting old or inventing new technologies for exploring the potential of the illusion of depth and motion.
USA, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 5 min, silent
Prod: Ken Jacobs | Cam: Ken Jacobs | Ed: Ken Jacobs | Print/Sales: Ken Jacobs

goose Weather
Stephen Sutcliffe

Film images, poems and archive material, manipulated by means of collage, editing and cheap effects: this is the strategy Sutcliffe has been applying for almost a decade. In old samples of no more than a few enigmatic minutes, he points us back to the pre-MTV era of British culture and television.
EUROPEan PREMiERE

United Kingdom, 2011 | colour, video, 4 min, English


Prod: Stephen Sutcliffe | Cam: Stephen Sutcliffe | Ed: Stephen Sutcliffe | Print/Sales: LUX | www.lux.org.uk/collection/works/goose-weather

night Hunter
Stacey Steers

The young Lillian Gish who had a career spanning 75 years is appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. She finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery in a stream of nightmarish images. Steers style and technique strongly recall the collage novels of Surrealist Max Ernst.
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USA, 2011 | colour, video, 16 min, no dialogue


Prod: Stacey Steers | Sc: Stacey Steers | Cam: Victor Jendras | Ed: Phil Solomon | Prod Des: Stacey Steers | Sound Des: Larry Polansky | Music: Larry Polansky | With: Lillian Gish | Print/Sales: Stacey Steers | www.staceysteers.com

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The Rodeo Trilogy


Kevin Jerome Everson

Everson appeals to the filmic notion of the traditional cowboy, yet here all the performers are black. With a sense of place and history, Everson investigates the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working-class African Americans and other people of African descent. Trilogy consisting of The Mayberry Practice Calf, Second Place and The Wooden Calf.
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USA, 2012 | colour, video, 9 min, no dialogue


Prod: Kevin Jerome Everson, Madeleine Molyneaux | Prod Comp: Trilobite-Arts-DAC, Picture Palace Pictures | Sc: Kevin Jerome Everson | Cam: Kevin Jerome Everson | Ed: Kevin Jerome Everson | Print/Sales: Picture Palace Pictures | www.people.virginia.edu/~ke5d

intermezzo (notes on Film 04)


Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Pfaffenbichler revisits and reworks film history in a systematic way, to address our fascination with power, iconic faces and the aesthetics of violence.
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Austria, 2012 | colour/b&w, video, 2 min, no dialogue


Prod: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Cam: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Ed: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Music: Wolfgang Frisch | Graphics: Nik Thoenen | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.norbertpfaffenbichler.com

Maurice
Patrick Kack-Brice

All the features and attributes of the last cinema in Paris (and possibly the entire world) still screening porn films on 35mm are fetishised and celebrated on the brink of their disappearance: the box office, the posters, the film reels, the pink(!) seats, and of course the mythic seclusion of the projection booth.
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France, 2011 | colour, video, 18 min, French


Prod: Robin Robles | Cam: Lucie Baudinaud | Ed: Arnaud De Cazes | Sound Des: Sylvain Lambinet | With: Maurice Laroche | Print/Sales: Patrick Kack-Brice

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Village, silenced
Deborah Stratman

The footage comes from the 1943 docudrama The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings). Welsh coal miners reenact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of a Czech mining village. Labour, power, industrialisation and historical relevance are the larger themes behind this simple but efficient treatment of forgotten material.
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USA, 2011 | b&w, video, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod: Deborah Stratman | Prod Comp: Pythagoras Film | Cam: H.E. Fowle | Ed: Deborah Stratman | Sound Des: Deborah Stratman | Print/ Sales: Pythagoras Film | www.pythagorasfilm.com/villagesilenced.html

Conference (notes on Film 05)


Norbert Pfaffenbichler

This bizarre conference illustrates our tireless fascination with evil. The expressive modulations of the iconic faces provide an increasingly comic tone. The soundtrack throughout is a degraded vocal sample of Chaplins nonsense language from The Great Dictator, with constant applause abstracted to static.
Austria, 2011 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 8 min, no dialogue
Prod: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Sc: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Ed: Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Sound Des: Bernhard Lang | Music: Bernhard Lang | Print/ Sales: sixpackfilm | www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/1921

day and night


Ken Jacobs

Jacobs uses the stereoscopic effect he patented as eternalism to create a hypnotising rhythm. Since the 1960s, he has been extending the teachings of the painter Hans Hofman to the realm of the cinema. His resolutely original visual forms are the result of equally radical social views.
USA, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, silent
Prod: Ken Jacobs | Cam: Ken Jacobs | Ed: Ken Jacobs | Computer Technical Assistance: Jason Drakeford | Print/Sales: Ken Jacobs

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the Mouth of garbage

the lost Film Culture of the Boca de lixo


gabe Klinger, gerwin tamsma

The Boca do Lixo (Mouth of Garbage) is first and foremost a physical place in the center of So Paulo, covering a few blocks of the Santa Ifignia neighborhood behind the citys main railway terminal. The prevalence of banditry and prostitution in the area earned it its namesake in the film world (by the late 1980s, the area was better known as Crackland). Unglamorous in the absolute, the Boca was a place for young producers to set up shop on little to no budget. The working-class ethos of the neighborhood provided a production infrastructure: construction materials for sets, props, food, costumes, etc., were all furnished cheaply and locally. A restaurant owner could cater for a film shoot with the promise of earning back-end profits. Its proximity to central railway lines also brought added convenience for shipping films to cinemas all over Brazil. In the early 1950s, distributors and small production outfits had already installed themselves on the Bocas main arterial pathway: Triunfo Street (the subject of two affectionate short essay films by Ozualdo Candeias, included in the programme). The Given Word (1962), the first (and only) Palme dOr in Cannes for a Brazilian film, was in fact, a Boca do Lixo product. Oswaldo Massaini, who founded Cinidistri in 1949, had recruited studio talent and suave leading man Anselmo Duarte to direct a series of features, thereby legitimizing the Boca as a production center almost overnight. By the end of the decade, Triunfo Street was a hangout for aspiring filmmakers, starlets, journalists, students, and many others. Business meetings happened unceremoniously in local bars, where a pitch from a confident first-timer could result in a production deal. Studio exiles and young intellectuals congregated in the Boca; its peculiarity as a quick-and-dirty production center meant producers were more likely to take risks on unconventional material, such as twenty-one year-old film critic Rogrio Sganzerlas debut and paean to cinema, The Red Light Bandit. Twenty-somethings Joo Callegaro (The Pornographer) and Joo S. Treivsan (Orgy: or the Man Who Gave Birth) also made their first (and regrettably only) features in much the same vein: one a highly inventive noir riff, the other a violent repudiation of Cinema Novo. For better or worse (mainly worse), these types of productions became scarcer by the minute as it dawned on Boca producers that to survive they had to find a way to squeeze into a distribution landscape monopolized by American product. When Sganzerla, Callegaro and Trevisan were making these first forays, the number of filmmakers actively working under the patronage of the Boca could be counted on two hands. Only 12 films were produced in the neighborhood in 1969 (compared to the 44 per year that would be produced a decade later, and the 55 produced in 1981 alone). Massaini was still knocking out sertanejo films (adventure yarns set in the Brazilian badlands) at the rate of two a year, and independent producers like Ozualdo Candeias and Jos Mojica Marins who had already crafted his on-screen alter-ego Coffin Joe as early as 1964 were successful enough with At Midnight Ill Take Your Soul to find financing for

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roughly one feature every twelve months. Carlos Reichenbach, Antnio Lima and Callegaro, young students of one of Brazils first cinema schools, the short-lived Escola Superior de Cinema So Luis, initiated a production company in the Boca, but only managed to produce a single film: the portmanteau As libertinas (1968). Producers and filmmakers were still testing out the contours of a system that hadnt yet proved a worthwhile alternative to the bankrupt So Paulo-based studios Vera Cruz, Maristela and Multifilmes. These titans of prestige flourished briefly in the 1950s, but failed to justify their means highend production modeled on American studios when national audiences still preferred imports. The new production model was therefore a no-brainer: hire resourceful, hungry youngsters to cheaply turn around a wide range of genre films starring secondrate starlets and heart-throbs in a short period of time. Presto! By 1973, the Boca do Lixo had entered its golden era. Experimenters such as Sganzerla, Callegaro, Trevisan and others migrated elsewhere (Trevisan briefly returned as a screenwriter), while populists like A.P. Galante, Antonio Palacios, Tony Viera and David Cardoso were firmly installing themselves. Burgeoning filmmakers now played it by the book the risks were minimal, and the system had generated a steady audience. Movie-theater owners began to take note. A producer like Galante could now find production funds by negotiating upfront cash from theater executives, covering his production expenses before the cameras had even been loaded with film. Others like Viera and Cardoso were expert marketers, who starred in their own films and worked largely on the branding of their own charismatic personalities. Under this more straightforwardly commercial enterprise, production apprentices were promoted and became reliable directors-for-hire: Ody Fraga, Jean Garret, Alfredo Sternheim, among others. Reichenbach, an avid cinema-lover who mingled in both lowbrow and highbrow circles, found work in the Boca in virtually every skill-set he had: screenwriter, cinematographer, lighting technician, actor and eventually as sought-after director. A major issue looming over national production at the time was the military dictatorship. By the late 1960s, censorship had reached Soviet levels and producers who proposed any political discourse or wanted to push narrative norms (to say nothing of even vaguely explicit on-screen depictions of sex, drug use and violence) could find their films shelved for years (as was the case with three films included in the programme: Orgy; Awakening of the Beast and Vereda

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tropical). Often arbitrary and nonsensical, a military veto could be a decisive nail in the coffin for an emerging producer. But in the 1970s, the military authorities loosened their policies as films of an erotic nature became hugely popular with audiences. Sex was in; politics, however, was still out. A new category of film emerged from the changing tide, pejoratively (or affectionately, depending on who you ask) dubbed pornochanchada. Chanchadas, popular musical comedies that proliferated in the 1930s, were reconfigured as soft-core romps, promoting a similar sense of escapism, only this time catering to a generation that had lived through the sexual politics of the 1960s. In the periphery of the Boca do Lixo, space remained for the socially conscientious and intellectually minded participants. Jairo Ferreira, a film critic and theorist, was one of these, producing no-budget Super 8 essays shown outside of the commercial circuit and below the militarys radar. Ozualdo Candeias, whose widely praised The Margin (1967) brought plenty of initial attention to the Boca, also remained active, directing short and medium-length films and working on film sets while searching for financing for the more ambitious feature film projects he would eventually return to. Ferreira and Candeias were notable exceptions; most who stayed in the Boca got with the programme or fled the scene. Often, working within the confines of pornochanchadas was the more attractive option for directing and writing talent, as state film financing through government body Embrafilme imposed an entirely different set of exigencies. Navigating the politics of Brazilian art house production could prove infinitely more demoralizing, whereas active involvement in Boca filmmaking at least offered the luxury of a steady paycheck and a wide release. Adding to the incentives, cultural laws instigated by Brazils national cinema agency made it compulsory for movie theaters to devote screens to national product (known as the Lei da Obrigatoriedade or Mandatory Law). In 1980, Oshima Nagisas notorious In the Realm of the Senses (1976) became an unexpected art house sensation in Brazil, selling five million tickets and setting an allowing precedent for hardcore production. Censors stepped aside, obliging Boca producers to tackle the hitherto unconquered sexual extremities of pornochanchada. Triple X-rated movie theaters soon proliferated. Many Boca filmmakers were reluctant to adapt, often using pseudonyms (David Cardoso became Roberto Fedegoso, Jean Garret switched to J.A. Nunes), while others embraced explicit sex wholeheartedly (Ody Fraga was an eager and playful contributor, with films such as Sit on Mine and I Will Enter Yours). The whopping number of hardcore films produced in the Boca

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reached nearly 500; even filmmakers like Marins and Candeias were absorbed by the trend. In spite of the boom set off by Oshimas film, Boca production began to decelerate at an alarming pace in the late 1980s, however. A low-budget feature cost producers the equivalent of 35-40,000 Euros back in the day, whereas licensing the rights to an American or European film for Brazilian distribution usually cost 1,500 Euros or less. When the exhibitor Servian Ribeiro negotiated a deal to release fifty North American hardcore films in his theaters, demand for Boca films just about dried up. The starlets and heartthrobs quietly withdrew, producers redistributed their small fortunes into more stable enterprises, and a handful of directors attempted to navigate the subsequent recovery period of Brazilian cinema, most of them unsuccessfully. Although the Boca do Lixo comprises the most prolific and financially solvent production phase in the entire history of Brazilian cinema, its memory has never been recovered from the ruins. Overshadowed by state-funded art films and middlebrow studio product, the Boca is a heroic example of how a low-budget filmmaking movement prevailed over government oppression and American hegemony, cultivating millions of spectators and yielding some of contemporary cinemas most distinguished talents along the way. Thank you to Incio Arajo, Gabriel Carneiro, Alfredo Sternheim and Matheus Trunk.

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The Margin Ozualdo R. Candeias


Candeias contemplative fiction taken from real situations narrates brief moments in the lives of four characters inhabiting the banks of So Paulos Tiet river. The films point of departure is a woman who floats along in a canoe; as we follow her, we see the problems of survival in this community. The Margin is about two couples: on the one hand, a black woman a prostitute who has an affair with an unemployed white man who wears a suit; and on the other, an obsessive guy chasing after a blond girl. The Tiet isnt always the setting for the film, but its characters are always more or less in the margins uprooted from their environments, disoriented, oppressed by the fastchanging city. Finding images that are disarming in their metaphoric simplicity, Candeias opened the possibilities for thoughtful production in the highly commercial environment of the Boca do Lixo.

Brazil, 1967 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.75, 96 min, Portuguese


Prod: Ozualdo R. Candeias, Antnio Alves Cury, Otvio Fernandes, Cleuza Rillo, Virglio Roveda, Michael Saddi | Prod Comp: Ozualdo R. Candeias Produes Cinematogrficas, Produtora Nacional de Filmes | Sc: Ozualdo R. Candeias | Cam: Ozualdo R. Candeias, Belarmindo Manccini | Ed: Ozualdo R. Candeias, Maximo Barro | Prod Des: Jos Pereira da Silva | Music: Luz Chaves, Zimbo Trio | With: Mrio Benvenutti, Valeria Vidal, Bentinho, Lucy Rangel, Tele Kare, Paulo Ramos, Brigitte Maier | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Heco Produes Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 17:002 CI5 Tue 31-1 15:302 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 18:00 CI2

o bandido da luz vermelha


The red light bandit Rogrio Sganzerla Third World is going to explode! Those who wear shoes wont survive! Cinema and life on the fringes, Brazil, poverty, and the Boca do Lixo writ large in 21- year-old Sganzerlas feature debut, widely considered one of the great Brazilian films. Jorge, a suave bandit/rapist (sketched from the exploits of real-life crook Joo Accio Pereira da Costa), rapidly rises to the ranks of crime superstardom. Feared by police, desired by housemaids, mythologised by journalists, he hardly exists in a vacuum of sleaze: dubious cops, politicians, and businessmen encircle Jorge at every corner of the bustling metropolis. Enjoyably crude, Sganzerlas bandit creation is equal parts Mickey Spillane and Mario Andrade (Macunama), a hero barely contained by the slum universe that created him. Complemented by paramour Janete Jane (played with uncommon verve by Helena Ignez), Jorge briefly finds an escape before resuming the path of obliteration.

Brazil, 1968 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 92 min, Portuguese


Prod: Rogrio Sganzerla, Jos Alberto Reis | Prod Comp: Urano Filmes | Sc: Rogrio Sganzerla | Cam: Peter Overbeck | Ed: Silvio Renoldi | Prod Des: Andrea Tonacci | Sound Des: Rogrio Sganzerla | Music: Rogrio Sganzerla | With: Paulo Vilaa, Helena Ignez, Lus Linhares, Srgio Hingst, Pagano Sobrinho | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 14:30 CI5 Mon 30-1 19:15 PA3

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uma rua chamada triumpho (1969-1970) & (1970-1971)


a Street Called Triumph (1969-1970) & (1970-1971)

festa na boca
Party at the boca

Ozualdo R. Candeias
Brazil, 1970/1971/1976 | b&w, 35mm, 11/10/12 min, Portuguese
Prod/Cam: Ozualdo R. Candeias | Ed: Ozualdo R. Candeias, Luiz Elias | Music: Vidal Frana | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Heco Produes

A Street Called Triumph (1969-1970) will be screened before The Margin.


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A Street Called Triumph (1970-1971) will be screened before The Pornographer.


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Party at the Boca will be screened before The Option (or: The Roses on the Highway).
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The first two are intimate essays on the communities inhabiting the Santa Ifignia area in So Paulo from filmmakers to shop-owners and the homeless. Edited largely from the filmmakers own extensive photo documentation of the neighbourhood (he was a long-time resident), these episodes may be described as bittersweet, nostalgic, quietly personal while also retaining a newsreel appearance indicative of Candeias experience as an industrial filmmaker. In the third short, Party at the Boca, Candeias submits a report on a lively party thrown on New Years Eve, 1976, reflecting the camaraderie among So Paulos low-budget filmmaking community. These three films helped to mythologise the Boca as a vital centre of production while also capturing the distinctive humanity of the place.

o porngrafo
The Pornographer Joo Callegaro

Brazil, 1970 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 88 min, Portuguese


Prod: Joo Callegaro, Alfredo Palcios, Antonio Polo Galante, Silvio Renoldi | Prod Comp: Itu Produes Cinematogrficas, Servicine Servios Cinematogrficos | Sc: Joo Callegaro, Jairo Ferreira | Cam: Oswaldo de Oliveira | Ed: Sylvio Renoldi | Music: Joo Callegaro | With: Stnio Garcia, Edgard Gurgel, Liana Duval, Srgio Hingst, Jlia Miranda, Bentinho, Francisco Di Franco | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Galante Filmes Ltda Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 20:302 CI5 Tue 31-1 18:152 CI7

Things arent easy for Miguel Metralha. Boredom and his affinity for the easy life have made him switch roles, from run-of-the-mill journalist to editor of porno mags. But Metralha quickly discovers that the world of pinups and sex bombs brings its own ups and downs. Surrounded by underworld figures, he finds himself dropped into a meta-narrative resembling the American crime films he and the filmmakers, evidently admires. Taking as its departure point the nihilistic, Godardian style of The Red Light Bandit, the sole feature by Joo Callegaro is a traditional genre piece transformed into a carnival of mockery and the grotesque. Attempting to craft a myth for the Brazilian gangster by skillfully inverting film noir tendencies, The Pornographer is an unjustly forgotten landmark from the energetic first period of Boca do Lixo production.

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awakening of the beast Jos Mojica Marins
Originally titled Sadists Ritual and marketed as a ghastly haunted house film, Awakening of the Beast was directed by Brazils horror maestro Jos Mojica Marins and promised a scream-filled romp much like the filmmakers earlier This Night Ill Possess Your Corpse (1967); however, this film ended up going far beyond its genre parameters and became one of the key political films of Brazils era of military repression. A tongue-in-cheek commentary on 1960s counterculture, the plot begins in pseudo-documentary style with a series of experts on TV played by notable Boca do Lixo figures like Carlos Reichenbach and Jairo Ferreira debating the possible link between the use of psychedelic drugs and violent and sexually deviant behavior. An experiment involving four volunteers, LSD and Marins on-screen alter ego Coffin Joe ensues, playfully debunking the drug-related hysteria that dominated the mainstream discourse of the time. Censors did not take the film lightly; it was banned for 14 years.

Brazil, 1970 | colour/b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 93 min, Portuguese


Prod: Giorgio Attili, Jos Mojica Marins, George Michel Serkeis | Prod Comp: Fotocena Filmes, Ovni Indstria Cinematogrfica | Sc: Rubens F. Lucchetti, Jos Mojica Marins | Cam: Giorgio Attili | Ed: Luiz Elias | With: Maurice Capovilla, Joo Callegaro, Carlos Reichenbach, Jairo Ferreira, Walter C. Portella | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 19:452 CI5 Sat 28-1 14:15 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Sun 29-1 16:00 DWBZ

orgia (ou: o homem que deu cria)

Brazil, 1970 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.37, 90 min, Portuguese


Prod: Joo Silvrio Trevisan | Prod Comp: Indstria Nacional de Filmes | Sc: Joo Silvrio Trevisan | Cam: Carlos Reichenbach | Ed: Joo Batista de Andrade | Music: Ibanez de Carvalho | With: Fernando Benini, Srgio Couto, Pedro Paulo Rangel, Jean-Claude Bernardet, Jos Fernandes, Cludio Mamberti | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Joo Silvrio Trevisan Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 18:00 CI5 Sun 29-1 12:15 CI7 Fri 3-2 20:00 CI7

orgy (or: The Man Who gave birth) Joo Silvrio Trevisan The sole film by celebrated novelist Joo Silvrio Trevisan is an anarchic repudiation of the Cinema Novo, a cannibalisation of mainstream cultural tendencies, clichd tropicalist ideas and worn-out Brazilian literary myths about the serto (the backwoods), all in one highly irreverent package that infuriated censors (it was immediately banned) and exasperated left intellectuals trying to find the tools to describe it. Ostensibly about a group of allegorical creations that slowly come together in search of a country, the film expresses the alternating sense of euphoria (economic miracle! football glories!) and fear (secret police squads! media control!) that dominated Brazil at the end of the 1960s. Orgy may have been designed as a provocation, and the immediate rupture that it provoked is a testament to that, but its also a seductively crafted piece of sculptural cinema, inventing unprecedented moments of sensuality even as it attempts to destroy everything else in its path.

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Brazil, 1975 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, 120 min, Portuguese


Prod: Carlos Reichenbach, Elias Curi Filho | Prod Comp: Brasecran, Jota Filmes | Sc: Carlos Reichenbach | Cam: Carlos Reichenbach | Ed: Incio Arajo | Prod Des: Marta Salomo Jardim | With: Clia Olga, Benjamin Cattan, Srgio Hingst, Maracy Mello, Walter Marins, Edward Freund, Caador Guerreiro | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 14:45 CI7 Mon 30-1 20:00 CI5 Thu 2-2 22:30 CI7

lilian M.: Confidential report Carlos Reichenbach A wife and mother from the provinces travels to the big city to get away from her oppressive domestic life and begins to explore her newfound freedom, starting by changing her name from Maria to Lilian. The idea of the sexually liberated woman in 1960s and 1970s Brazil had certainly not been treated extensively in film (the exoticised and much too simplistic Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands came the following year). Reichenbach doesnt approach a taboo subject didactically or exploitatively, his tragicomedy of adventures recalling Joaquim Pedro de Andrades Macunama (1968) in its liberal assortment of stories and colourful personalities that veer in and out of the film. At its centre, Lilian M. is about the awakening of different forms of consciousness: from simple family life to a multiplicity of relationships, from agrarian politics to urban politics, and the complex nature of survival in all its shades.

lilian M.: relatrio confidencial

o vampiro da cinemateca
The Vampire of the Cinematheque

o insigne ficante
The insig nificant

Jairo Ferreira
In the margins of the Boca was a subversive diarist, a fly on the wall whose free-flowing Super-8 works cast Rogrio Sganzerla, Carlos Reichenbach, Jos Mojica Marins and dozens of others from So Paulos film communities; sometimes straightforwardly documenting bar conversations with these luminaries and sometimes launching off into more digressive, even fictive pathways inspired by those same conversations. Remaining invisible Ferreiras Super-8 films were always shown clandestinely The Vampire of the Cinematheque and The Insig Nificant suggest cine-clubism as its own art of invention, not to mention a subversive response to military oppression. As a cheeky homage to pornochanchada, for example, The Vampire shows us a close-up of a man masturbating. And in another part, an inaudible piece of recited poetry by Orlando Parolini is interrupted with Ferreira informing the audience in voice-over that Kodak is cheapening the sound quality of its Super-8 stock. Honest and intimate, Ferreira offers a secret history of the Boca.

Brazil, 1976/1980 | colour, video, 60/60 min, Portuguese


Prod: Jairo Ferreira | Prod Comp: Jairo Ferreira Produes Cinematogrficas | Sc: Jairo Ferreira | Cam: Jairo Ferreira | Ed: Jairo Ferreira | With: Jlio Calasso, Jairo Ferreira, Luiz Alberto Fiori, Jards Macal, Jos Mojica Marins, Carlos Reichenbach, Lygia Reichenbach | Print/Sales: Olhos de Co Produes Cinematog

The Vampire of the Cinematheque screens in combination with The Insig Nificant. Each film is 60 minutes long (120 combined).
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Brazil, 1977 | colour, video, 109 min, Portuguese


Prod: Carlos Duque | Prod Comp: A.R.M. Produes Cinematogrficas, Kinema Filmes | Sc: Cludio Francisco Cunha, Carlos Reichenbach | Cam: Jos Roberto Buzzini, Jos Roberto Buzzini | Ed: Silvio Renoldi | Prod Des: Waldir Siebert | Music: Cludio Francisco Cunha | With: Carlos Vereza, Rossana Ghessa, Canarinho, Nadir Fernandes, Hugo Bidet, Fernando Reski, Roberto Miranda | Print/Sales: Claudio Cunha Artistic Productions Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 22:15 CI5 Mon 30-1 15:15 PA6 Fri 3-2 22:15 LUX

Snuff Victims of Pleasure Cludio Francisco Cunha Two shady producers out to make a snuff film concoct a bizarre plan to trick a crew of technicians and actors by pretending to be well-todo Americans producing high-end porn in Brazil. With a clever script by Carlos Reichenbach, Snuff plays like an exploitation version of Fassbinders Beware of the Holy Whore. Director and producer Cludio Cunha devised several William Castle-like marketing tactics such as parking an ambulance outside the screening room and paying audience members to scream at the films premiere and Snuff ended up becoming an unprecedented hit (four million tickets sold). Embodying both the commercial and artistic aspirations of Boca do Lixo filmmaking, the film looked forward to the uncertain decade that would follow, when censorship norms loosened and producers became eager to take flashier directions.

Snuff Vitmas do prazer

Vereda tropical
Tropical Path Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Brazil, 1978 | colour, DCP, 18 min, Portuguese


Prod: Csar Memolo | Prod Comp: Editora Tres, Lynx Filmes | Cam: Kimihiko Kato | Music: Carlos Galhardo | With: Cludio Cavalcanti,Cristina Ach, Carlos Galhardo | Print: EYE Film Institute Netherlands | Sales: Filmes do Serro Ltda. Public SCREENING Thu 26-1 19:452 CI5

Testing the contours of censorship (it was immediately banned), Andrades small erotic milestone, and one of the funniest Brazilian films of the 1970s, centres on a man whose objects of desire are fresh fruits and vegetables the riper the better! Made as part of an omnibus project of short stories adapted from Brazils mens magazine Status, Andrade described his film as a fantasy whose lead character is cultured and speaks about his personal life in a lucid and healthy way. Theres no nudity or bad words, Andrade said to the press, discouraged, as he received news of the military veto. Evidently the film suggests a liberated form of consciousness that the new regime feared. The outlandishness of fruit-fucking is beside the point, unless the censors were worried people would waste the food supply? Screened before Awakening of the Beast.

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o convite ao prazer
invitation to Pleasure Walter Hugo Khouri

Brazil, 1980 | colour, video, 109 min, Portuguese/English


Prod: Antonio Polo Galante | Prod Comp: Galante Filmes Ltda, W.H.K.Cinema | Sc: Walter Hugo Khouri | Cam: Antonio Meliande | Ed: Gilberto Wagner | Prod Des: Campelo Neto | Music: Rogerio Duprat | With: Roberto Maya, Helena Ramos, Serafim Gonzalez, Aldine Muller, Kate Lyra | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Galante Filmes Ltda Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 17:30 CI4 Tue 31-1 21:30 PA2 Sat 4-2 22:30 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 31-1 16:15 CI3

Narrating the extra-marital adventures of Luciano, a middle-class dentist, and Marcelo, a wealthy businessman, who renew their curious friendship after a lengthy hiatus, Invitation to Pleasure is a not-so-distant sister piece to Walter Hugo Khouris better-known 1960s films about alienated big city dwellers. Touching on similar existential dread this time largely through the lens of pathologically sex-obsessed white males Luciano leeches off Marcelo, whose luxurious lifestyle attracts a vast array of beautiful women. Parallel to this, the mens wives Anita and Ana contemplate a radical course of action in the light of their husbands betrayals. Drawing from Antonioni and Bergman, while also folding in uniquely Brazilian themes, Invitation to Pleasure is a complex look at the male psyche, underlining ambivalence even as it relishes the exquisite physiques of its Boca starlets.

a opo (ou: as rosas da estrada)


The option (or: The roses on the highway)

Ozualdo R. Candeias
Combining documentary and staged action, Candeias delves into the profoundly quotidian reality of a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live modestly in ramshackle neighborhoods along the highway. For many, the only escape (or option, as the title implies) to potentially better their lives is through prostitution. Candeias, a former truck driver, offers a deeply felt vision of these communities based on firsthand experiences. Shot in stark black-and-white at a time when most Boca do Lixo production had turned to colour, The Option unravels powerfully in a few nearly wordless movements. A culmination of Candeias preoccupation with marginality and his craft as a filmmaker (in addition to directing, he also shot, edited, wrote, and acted in the film), The Option received an unexpected plaudit in the form of a Bronze Leopard from the Locarno Film Festival.

Brazil, 1981 | b&w, 35mm, 1:1.66, 87 min, Portuguese


Prod: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias | Prod Comp: Embrafilme, Ozualdo R. Candeias Produes Cinematogrficas, Prodsul Filmes, Secretaria de Cultura do Estado de So Paulo | Sc: Ozualdo R. Candeias | Cam: Ozualdo R. Candeias | Ed: Ozualdo R. Candeias | With: Carmen Anglica, Alan Fontaine, Christina Gondinho, Carmen Ortega, Virglio Roveda, Lair Norton, Jlia Veloso | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Heco Produes Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 19:152 SGZ Tue 31-1 20:302 CI7

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o imprio do desejo
The empire of Desire/Sensual anarchy Carlos Reichenbach

Brazil, 1981 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.37, 110 min, Portuguese


Prod: Roberto P. Galante | Prod Comp: Galante Filmes Ltda | Sc: Carlos Reichenbach | Cam: Carlos Reichenbach | Ed: Gilberto Wagner | Prod Des: Conrado Sanchez | With: Roberto Miranda, Benjamin Cattan, Mrcia Fraga, Meiry Vieira, Orlando Parolini, Jose Luiz Franca, Nadia Destro | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira Public SCREENINGS Mon 30-1 21:45 SGZ Wed 1-2 20:00 CI5

A widow named Sandra is on a trip from the city to reclaim her remote beach house from squatters. She picks up a hippie couple along the way, eventually inviting them to become house-sitters at her coastal getaway. Aided by a shyster named Doctor Carvalho, she successfully evicts the home-invaders and an erotic mnage is suddenly sparked when Sandras boyfriend arrives. Parallel to this, Sandra is horrified as she hears stories of a vindictive angel living in the area, out to kill uncultured loafers, adding a violent counterpoint to the mood of euphoria. The Empire of Desire/Sensual Anarchy was the first Brazilian film to be designated by the loosening military censors as pornographic spectacle and released in cinemas freely as such, setting an important precedent for 1980s Brazilian film culture. Originally programmed by Hubert Bals for the IFFR in the mid-1980s, the film never showed up due to various complications. Unavailable and nearly forgotten for 30 years, the festival presents Sensual Anarchy in a brand new 35mm print.

oh! rebuceteio
Cludio Francisco Cunha

Brazil, 1984 | colour, video, 84 min, Portuguese


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Okay, lets first attempt to tackle that strange, unspeakable title. The Oh! is obviously a tribute to Kenneth Tynans groundbreaking Broadway sex farce Oh! Calcutta. Rebu in Portuguese means a very confusing situation. Rebuceteio is a conjugation of rebu with buceta (vulgar name for the female organ) and the suffix io, which implies collectivity. So, perhaps, knowing all that, you can make up your own title! Oh! Rebuceteio centres on a group of young thesps cast in an experimental theatre production desperate to please their egomaniacal director (played by director Cludio Cunha himself). Early on, they improvise bizarre, unsimulated sexual acts as part of the rehearsal process, playing aggressive one-upmanship to see who can send their boss into the highest state of elation. This hard-core Chorus Line parody is one of the most unexpectedly heady and complex explicit sex films ever made in Brazil wittily breaking down established notions of pornographic spectatorship.

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Ody Fraga

Sit on Mine and i Will enter Yours

Brazil, 1985 | colour, 35mm, 88 min, Portuguese


Prod: Ody Fraga | Prod Comp: Maspe Filmes | Cam: Aloysio Raulino | With: Jaime Cardoso, Slvia Dumont, Walter Gabarron, Sandra Midori, Dbora Muniz, Kelly Muriel, Germano Vezzani | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira | Sales: Heco Produes Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 22:30 CI5 Mon 30-1 22:30 CI7

A clever diptych about odd genital protractions, as it were: Hello, Pussy and The Unicorn, written and directed by one of the Boca do Lixos most audacious voices, Ody Fraga. In the first, a married but sexually loose woman discovers her vagina has the ability to communicate with passersby. Naturally, she obliges her genitalias naughty demands whenever and with whomever she can. In the second, a man wakes up one day with an odd penile outgrowth in his hair, finding that he has to satiate the primordial urges of having not one but two opportunely situated phalluses. A perfect satire on the breaking down of sexual norms with its dialectical approach to inward/outward, discreet/ indiscreet, liberation/repression, autonomy/dependence, it captures a transitional moment in Brazil deploying witty puns and hilarious visuals every step of the way. Radley Metzger and John Waters would approve.

fuk fuk brasileira


fuk fuk brazilian Style Jean Garret

Brazil, 1986 | colour, 35mm, 80 min, Portuguese


Prod: Antonio Meliande | Prod Comp: Meliande Produes Artsticas | Sc: Jean Garret | With: Chumbinho, Bianchina Della Costa, Andrea Pucci, Oasis Minniti, Oswaldo Cirillo | Print: Cinemateca Brasileira Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 22:30 CI5 Sun 29-1 17:45 CI7

A class conflict satire thinly veiled as pornochanchada, Fuk Fuk Brazilian Style is one of the strangest works to come out of the Boca do Lixos hardcore phase. Mixing slapstick comedy and surrealism, the film stars prolific dwarf actor Chumbinho as Siri, a domesticservant-cum-slave who escapes captivity from a wealthy couple to go on a dream-like journey through a subterranean world of repressed sexual yearning. Dragging a crate of dildos behind him, Siris episodic adventures include a flophouse rub from a horny couple and a chance meeting with a talking horse on a beach. Eventually, the character finds himself a servant again, this time in a brothel, where he discovers a spaceship shaped like a giant penis.

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Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds steunt het IFFR 2012.
Beeldende kunst, geschiedenis & letteren, monumentenzorg, muziek & theater en natuurbehoud. Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds zet zich in voor cultuur die u raakt. Al vanaf e 4 per maand sluit u zich aan. Ga naar www.cultuurfonds.nl.

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Busy Making Revolution


Sacha Bronwasser, Peter van Hoof

Flashback to IFFR 2011: On the same day that the film festival in Rotterdam started, the first demonstrators made their way to Tahrir Square in Cairo and never left. Naturally, we had already seen the astounding events in Tunisia. On 17 December 2010, the 26-year-old Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself and this led to demonstrations and riots against the 23-year regime of dictator Ben Ali. In less than a month, the unheard-of happened: the dictator gave in and fled. At the time, however, no one expected there would be such an immense knock-on effect. For the first time in decades, cracks both large and small appeared in regimes around the Arab world. That Hosni Mubarak would resign only a few weeks later in Egypt; that Saudi women would ignore the ban on female driving en masse; that the people of Syria would revolt; and that, after a prolonged struggle, freedom fighters in Libia would pose next to the lifeless body of Muammar Gaddafi in early February 2011 all this was still unthinkable. Naturally, this edition of the IFFR will pay attention to the Arab revolutions, whatever their outcome. As the IFFR has demonstrated for decades, filmmakers are the first to draw outside attention to the injustices in their countries whether openly or concealed by metaphor. Moreover, these contemporary revolutions are supported and fed by moving images. Thanks to the omnipresent cameras, such major historic events can now be, for the first time, experienced almost live at street level. The moving image the raw material for a film festival plays an essential role. The filmmakers both record and participate in the protests. Egyptian artist Hala

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Elkoussy sent the following e-mail when she did not turn up for the premire of her short film Mount of Forgetfulness. I didnt make it to the screening because I was busy making revolution. And there are many others like her. Power Cut Middle East intends to understand these moving images by turning them inside out. Because what are we really looking at? Not just the moving images that spread the Arab revolutions to neighbouring countries, or even farther afield, over the past year. But also the images of what went on behind the news cameras: the video footage filmmakers have been using to show the sentiments of Arab populations for quite some time. Because one thing becomes abundantly clear from the films and installations that are part of Power Cut Middle East: this is not a sudden, Facebook or Twitter revolution. The new social media played an important part as did, for that matter, the rapid dissemination of news images, but large groups of demonstrators did not use the internet. Moreover: revolutions dont develop due to 140-character slogans. There was a much longer run-up to these revolutions, as there will be a longer aftermath. Spring even an Arab one passes, and true democratic change takes time. Peoples dissatisfaction does not dissipate overnight. This is precisely the time at which a new, complex reality develops, which entails intense scrutiny of the new rulers. Power Cut Middle East does not focus on the entire Arab world, but on two countries in particular: Syria and Egypt. Syria, because in spite of continuous massive demonstrations the regime is the only one in the Arab world to refuse to see that things have to change. Egypt, because the revolution seemed te be over; until violence erupted once more.
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Syrian film is often referred to as the best kept secret of Arab cinema, even though national film production was, until only recently, entirely government funded. However, you cannot see this by looking at the works of pioneers such as Omar Amiralay, Mohamad Malas and Oussama Mohammad. Precisely because of the stringent censorship, Syrian filmmakers often developed extremely personal visual idioms in order to be able to still express themselves critically on social and political matters. The first edition of the Damascus Visuals Arts Festival took place in 2010 and featured exhibitions, film screenings, multimedia performances, lectures and debates which sought to create a dialogue between contemporary visual culture in the Middle East and that elsewhere in the world. The odds of another edition of the festival taking place in Damascus in 2012 are slim, however. This is why the festival will now take place in exile: at the IFFR. Suspended Dreams will screen documentaries by sociallycommitted makers who artfully managed to avoid censorship. The restrictions stimulated the development of a rich visual language full of metaphors and symbols which enabled them to deal with subjects that would otherwise have been off-limits. Young filmmakers in particular have, since 2000, employed an idiosyncratic mix of fiction and documentary. Their films will

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be screened alongside the Syrian classic Dreams of a the City by Mohamad Malas, which dates back to 1983 and which inspired many young directors to invent the new, camouflaged style of film. A debate will be held on developments in Syrian cinema entitled: The Road to Damascus. Shifting Shores presents recent video works by Arab artists in which memory, identity and transformation are key concepts in individual quests for the manner in which historic background, collective memory and the transmitted images and stories influence the constantly changing Arab reality. Traditional views are critiqued; new perspectives are presented issuing a challenge to reconsider ideas based on the media reality from before the Arab revolutions. The programme also comprises four installations at the Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations building located at Karel Doormanstraat 278. Over the past twelve months, a mass of images were sent into the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo that all spelled r-e-v-o-lu-t-i-o-n. But the essence of all the unrest and discontent, i.e. the demonstrators real motives for being on the enormous square, can be found in the films from before 25 January 2011. This socio-historical, visual and cultural context can be found in the Egyptian Timelines programme. A number of filmmakers also juxtaposed their own film with another Egyptian production which had inspired them. Their choices are films which have almost never been screened abroad. Egyptian Timelines is an impressive selection of styles and subjects: from the dreamy, poetic walk through Cairo in which Hala Elkoussy makes the citys torn core tangible in In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) to the astounding banality of the executioner who explains how he cut short hundreds of lives in Dina Hamzas documentary In/Out of the Room. From Abwab al khouf: el naddaha, an episode of the worlds first Arab horror series, to an exploration of silence in Emad Mahers Neon Lamp. In the sobering Back to the Square, Petr Lom shows how the systematic use of violence from the Mubarak era continues to this day. Another exceptional film is the tragedy The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni about the imagined life of the famous Egyptian actress Soad Hosni. Edited together, excerpts
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from Hosnis films (on VHS) illustrate a remarkable social move: whilst Arab women first became increasingly modern in the eyes of the outside world, their rights were increasingly being eroded by conservative social movements. Besides screening films from outside of official Egyptian cinema, Egyptian Timelines also reveals a complex daily reality which the old regime preferred to keep under wraps. Stories of cultural repression; national identity pressured by internationalisation; poverty, prostitution and the abuse of power; but above all stories concerning the transitoriness of the city as a metaphor for cultural and economic decline, the arena for all frustrations.
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During an evening of debate, Power Cut Middle East will comment on all these images utilising two lectures and a performance. What are the effects of the omnipresence of moving images? How do these influence the course of events? Has this put us in a constant, global loop of action and reaction? Which images do we or dont we trust? The speakers will be Dutch journalist Ferry Biedermann, former Middle East correspondent of Dutch daily de Volkskrant who nowadays writes for The National and Elsevier Magazine; the Lebanese artist and musician Raed Yassin, with his new performance; and Jasmina Metwaly, artist, activist and one of the founders of Mosireen, a new, independent filmmakers collective in Cairo which developed on Tahrir Square and aims to record the revolution and use the power and emancipatory strength of those images. The English newspaper The Times named Tunisian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi the most influential person of 2011. The American weekly TIME opted to name not an individual, but the demonstrator in general as its Person of the Year 2011. Over the course of a single year, a desperate, brave individual became a movement, a fearless mass. Power Cut Middle East demonstrates in images, films, artworks and in visual culture that this mass had been coming to the boil for some time. Visual Arts Festival Damascus in Exile is curated by Delphine Leccas (Shifting Shores) and Charlotte Bank (Suspended Dreams and Shifting Shores). Nat Muller is co-curator for Egyptian Timelines.

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The programme Suspended Dreams gathers films by Syrian filmmakers that explore alternative and experimental means of storytelling through the use of documentary. From very personal angles they offer a variety of readings of different issues of Syrian society and concerns of the region.

ahlam al-Madinah
dreams of the City Mohamad Malas

Syria, 1983 | colour, video, 120 min, Arabic


Prod Comp: General Organization for Cinema | Sc: Mohammad Malas, Samir Zikra | Cam: Ordijan Anjin | Ed: Haitham Kuwwatli | With: Rafiq Sbeii, Yasmin Khlat, Basel al-Abyad, Talhat Hamdi | Print: ArteEast | Sales: Dunia Film Public SCREENING Tue 31-1 12:30 LV3

A young widow and her two sons are forced to move from their native Quneitra to Damascus to find shelter in her fathers house, only to be met with cruelty and rejection. The youngest son is sent to an orphanage, while the oldest boy, Dib, is forced to take responsibility for himself and his family. Against the background of the turbulent 1950s in Syria with its succession of military coups, Dib comes of age as he learns to support himself and tries to understand the complex realities of Damascene society with its political changes, communal strife and multiple facets. The film is an early example of Syrian auteur cinema; of fiction that borrows strongly from documentary. Filmed from the perspective of a boy, it is at once a document of Syrian recent history and a compelling coming-ofage story.

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i am the one who Carries Flowers to Her grave Hala Alabdalla, Ammar Al-Beik
As one of the filmmakers approaches the age of 50, she decides to embark on a mental and physical journey to re-visit places, people and dreams that have had an impact on her life. She talks with the companions of her youth, friends from her days as a young political activist, asks a filmmaker friend to film the love of her life on his return to his beloved city. The film is an intimate portrait of four strong women, the filmmaker and her close friends and their personal struggles, the changes inflicted upon them through prison, and how life in exile, flight and other harsh experiences have shaped them. It is a film about the strength of art, poetry, love and companionship and a document of love for a country that never fades, even after many years of exile.

Syria/France, 2006 | b&w, video, 105 min, Arabic


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dolls: a woman from damascus


Diana El Jeiroudi
Manal, a young woman from a traditional Damascene milieu, tries to keep up the image of perfect housewife and mother expected by the community: always busy and loving, fulfilled by caring for her husband and children. Her two young daughters are fascinated by a new product on the toy market: Fulla, the Arab Barbie doll, the perfect personification of such ideals, carefully marketed to transmit the idea of the devout, subordinate and pious woman to young girls. Behind her facade, however, Manal misses her professional life before she became a mother, and the satisfaction it gave her. She starts looking for a job, refusing to give up her personal dream, despite the constant pressure she faces. The film interweaves interviews with the Fulla marketing manager with conversations with Manal to investigate the social climate of growing conservatism and the effect it has on womens lives.

Syria/Denmark, 2007 | colour, video, 57 min, Arabic


Prod: Orwa Nyrabia, Mikael Opstrup | Prod Comp: Proaction Film, Final Cut Production | Sc: Diana El Jeiroudi | Cam: Joude Gorani | Ed: Diana El Jeiroudi | Sound Des: Dahna Abou Rahme | Music: Noma Omran | Sales: Proaction Film | Distr NL: Jan Vrijman Fund | www.proactionfilm.com Public SCREENING Tue 31-1 12:30 CI4

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Behind walls
Two critical documentaries about how the prison system has been exploited in the recent past to suppress the protests in Syria.
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ibn al am
Cousin Mohammad Ali Atassi
The Syrian dissident Riad al-Turk is a prominent critic of the Baath regime in Syria and has spent over 17 years in prison. The film reveals a man of deep humanism who, faced with extreme harshness, also managed to keep his ideals.
Syria, 2001 | colour/b&w, video, 50 min, Syrian
Prod: Mohammad Ali Atassi | Print/Sales: Visual Arts Damascus

Fawqa al-raml, tahta al-shams

on the Sand, under the Sun Mohamad Malas, Hala Alabdalla


The film presents a reflection on the effects of prison in general and on the theatre director Ghassan Jbaii in particular. The artist used his work to come to terms with his haunting memories and regain the world outside the prison walls.
Syria, 1998 | colour, video, 32 min, Arabic
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Since the middle of the past decade, Syrian filmmakers have been making increasing use of new digital media. This has opened up hitherto unknown possibilities, also for young emerging filmmakers. An independent film scene has emerged, strongly inspired by the former generations of auteur filmmakers.
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Crack
Reem Ghazzi
The film tells the story of an elderly tailor who has chosen to withdraw from the world after a traumatic incident. He now observes his surroundings from behind the safety of the closed door of his shop.
Syria, 2007 | colour, video, 4 min, Arabic
Prod: Reem Ghazzi | Print/Sales: Visual Arts Damascus

Madeenatain wa sijn
two Cities and a Prison Soudade Kaadan
The filmmaker follows an experimental theatre project in Syria on its tour through rural Syria and in a prison for young delinquents. Through interactive plays, they attempt to question traditional social rules and achieve a re-thinking of role models.
Syria, 2008 | colour, video, 39 min, Arabic
Prod/Sc: Soudade Kaadan | Cam: Soudade Kaadan, Raed Sandid | Ed: Soudade Kaadan | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

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Foam Reem Ali
Foam presents a sensitive and multilayered portrait of a Syrian couple as they strive to balance their care for a mentally disabled family member with work, memories of political prison and a longing for change and emigration.
Syria, 2006 | colour, video, 46 min, Arabic
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For an explanation of the content, see the compilation programme Short Syrian Documentaries 1.
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they were Here Ammar Al-Beik
In this contemplative homage to an important part of Damascene industrial history, the filmmaker revives the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once a symbol of optimistic belief in development, but now a deserted and desolate place.
Syria, 2000 | b&w, video, 8 min, Arabic
Prod: Ammar Al-Beik | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

Before Vanishing
Joude Gorani
This film revolves around the Barada river that runs through Damascus and used to be the traditional source of its wealth. Nowadays, the river is polluted and on the point of drying out. and only runs through the city as a poor trickle.
Syria/France, 2005 | colour, video, 14 min, Syrian
Prod Comp: La Fmis | Cam: Joude Gorani | Ed: Delphine Dumont | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

the right Side of that road


Hazem Alhamwi
A film essay that represents a search for the small details and beauty of the popular quarters of the Old City of Damascus. Life here is characterised by a specific simplicity that seems to be disappearing, and a strong sense of community.
Syria, 2004 | colour, video, 14 min, Syrian
Prod: Hazem Alhamwi | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

Madinat al faragh
City of emptiness Ali Sheikh Khudr
In this experimental short documentary, the filmmaker revisits the city of his youth and presents a searching look back to another time, but seems only to find emptiness and escape as the sole final solution.
Syria, 2008 | colour, video, 8 min, no dialogue
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Silence Rami Farah


Silence is an emotional investigation of sense and senselessness in the conflict over the occupied Golan Heights and the events leading to its loss. It is a film about loss and memory, and a tribute to people who remain human when faced with inhumanity.
Syria, 2006 | colour, video, 40 min, Arabic
Prod: Diana El Jeiroudi | Prod Comp: Proaction Film | Cam: Raed Sandid | Ed: Firaas Jawwaad | Music: Tareq El Naser | Print/Sales: Visual Arts Damascus

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Jibal alsawan
Flint Mountains Nidal Hassan
Abu Beram is a sculptor and architect who collects stones from the mountains surrounding his native village and creates artworks from them. The film presents the protagonist with his circle of friends and their life, filled with friendship and simple joys.
Syria, 2009 | colour, video, 46 min, Arabic
Prod: Shadi Abo Fagher | Print/Sales: Visual Arts Damascus

Stone Bird
Hazem Alhamwi
Stone Bird follows the eccentric Abu Hajar, who has chosen a life apart from society to escape an intractable personal conflict. The film is a reflection on society with its rigid rules and its crippling effects on humans.
Syria, 2006 | colour, video, 35 min, Syrian
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Recent video works by artists from different Arab countries. Centring on a net of meaning around the concepts of memory, identity and change, the works represent individual investigations into how history, collective memory and transmitted images and narratives are closely linked to contemporary, fast-changing realities.
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transparent evil
Roy Samaha
In early 2011, the filmmaker set out together with a friend to undertake a commissioned project to follow in the footsteps of James Bruce and document the Nile river from Alexandria to Aswan, but he got caught up in the events of the Egyptian revolution.
international PreMiere

Lebanon/Germany, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 27 min, Arabic/English


Prod: Jean-Jeaques Viau | Sc/Cam/Ed: Roy Samaha | Prod Des: JeanJacques Viau | Sound Des: Roy Samaha | With: Gheith El-Amine, Roy Samaha | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

Hadinat al shams
the Suns incubator Ammar Al-Beik
The life of a young family as it is interwoven with the stories of the past year; of protests, change, revolutions and martyrs. The birth of a baby, the death of a child who became iconic: hope and misery are closely linked.
Syria, 2011 | colour, video, 11 min, Arabic/French
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Ammar Al-Beik | With: Sofia Shams Al-Beik, Myriam Jakiche Al-Beik, Ammar Al-Beik | Print/Sales: Ammar Al-Beik

the Story of Milk and Honey


Basma Alsharif
This film tells the story of the failure of an unknown author to write a love story. Images, letters and songs are linked through a voice-over narrative and develop into a detailed search for the human perception of history, truth, images and sounds.
Lebanon, 2011 | colour, video, 10 min, Arabic
Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Basma Alsharif | Music: Nagat El Saghira, Abdel Halim Hafez | Print/Sales: Video Data Bank (VDB)

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of Heroes, Football and all that remains of My Childhood


Lynn Kodeih
Taking as her starting point the heritage of impossible change a fatalistic acceptance of the impossibility of change that characterizes her generation of Arabs the artist explores the concept of the revolutionary as the necessity arises to define her place vis--vis the recent events in the Arab world. Performance.
Lebanon, 2011 | colour, video, 25 min, Arabic/English
Prod: Lynn Kodeih, Koussay Hamzeh | Prod Comp: MAD4FILMS | Ed: Pamela Ghanimeh | Sound Des: Victor Bress | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

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For an explanation of the content, see the compilation programme Shifting Shores 1.
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adam
Ali Heraize
In this portrait of Egyptian youth, a young man moves through the streets of Cairo, with their many facets and contrasts. At once familiar, yet at odds with the surroundings, he seems to struggle for a place to be and be heard.
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Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 2 min, Arabic


Prod: Ali Heraize | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

one eye open


Ikon
The image of a city slowly appears as the glittering lights gain in intensity. Traffic noise mounts and mounts to an almost unbearable level. Alluring, yet disturbing, the city seems to hold its breath at the point of a climax, waiting for events to come.
Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 18 min, Arabic
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Siska
The video portrays Lebanons national electricity building, shot on Super-8 and accompanied by droning noises reminiscent of experimental electronic sounds of the 1950s and 1960s. It presents an homage to a modernist project linked to the very construction of Lebanons modern state.
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Lebanon, 2012 | colour, video, 21 min, no dialogue


Prod: Christine Thome | Prod Comp: Ashkal Alwan | Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Siska | Sound Des/Music: Christian Blumberg | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

Master-Slave dialectic
Paul Hage Boutros
The video presents an encounter between a self-conscious being and a non-selfconscious object, where the director is engaged in a struggle with the camera in order to enslave it, only to find that this does not give him the expected control over the machine.
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Lebanon, 2011 | colour, video, 7 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam/Ed/Prod Des: Paul Hage Boutros | Sound Des/Music: Marc Ernest | With: Paul Hage Boutros, Charbel Hage Boutros, Elyse Hage Boutros, Joseph Hage Boutros | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

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Bombs Sandra Ghosn
The artist imitates a succession of profile pictures of Facebook users in a reflection on the social networking site as a breeding ground for narcissism. With its audio track evolving from bomb sounds to entertaining J-pop, the piece evokes an evolution from harsh reality to denial.
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France/Lebanon, 2011 | colour, video, 5 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam: Sandra Ghosn | Ed: Sandra Ghosn, Rabih Gebeile | Prod Des: Sandra Ghosn | Sound Des: Rabih Gebeile | Music: C-ute | With: Sandra Ghosn | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

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A journey to different parts of the Middle East. Images of war and peace and a phone call from Space. Three installations from the Shifting Shores section and one from the section EgyptianTimelines, brought together at the festival venue Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations.

Pipe dreams
Ali Cherri
In a face-to-face encounter between a PVM monitor and a pocket projector, the installation combines archival images, images from the current Syrian uprising and constructed images. Two moments in the history of contemporary Syria that echo the situation across all Arab countries: a memorable phone call between the Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Faris, who was part of the Russian mission to the Mir Space Station, and the late president Hafez al-Assad, and the removal of the statue of Assad by the Syrian government to prevent its destruction by the demonstrators. Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.
Lebanon/France, 2011 | colour, video, 5 min, Arabic
Prod: Imane Fars | Prod Comp: Imane Fars Galerie | Print/ Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus | www.acherri.com

trespass the Salt


Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala
In this collaborative project, Sansour and Chlala investigate the nuanced relationship of Europe and the Middle East through a sumptuous feast around a lavishly set dinner table. As the guests reflect on cultural differences with respect to food and drink, the work examines cultural and power-related dynamics through humour and references to the grotesque and surreal. Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.
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Lebanon/Palestine/United Kingdom, 2012 | colour, video, 11 min, Arabic/English/French


Prod/Sc: Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala | Cam: Hanna Abu Sada, Ayman Nahle | Ed: Riffy Powers | Prod Des: Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala | Sound Des: Sheraz Reshmawi, Ziad Amjad | With: Darine Flefel, Johnny W Hazboun, Baha Hilo, Manal Mitri, Leila Sansour | Print/Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus

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out of Focus
Salah Saouli
This installation presents a vision of a city at a crucial moment of transition. Four videos, each of which presents images from the centre of Beirut in the early 1990s, convey the impression of a panoramic view of the streets of Beirut as the city seems to hold its breath and regain its strength after the end of the Civil War. Located somewhere between fantasy and reality, real and virtual, the images move in an interaction between past and present and draw the observer into an almost physical engagement. Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.
Lebanon, 2011 | colour, video, 60 min
Prod: Salah Saouli | Sales: Video Arts Festival Damascus | www.salahsaouli.com

remarks on a Square
Jasmina Metwaly
A series of videos shot in Tahrir Square during and after the uprising in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011. Here, everything happens in a circle. We may enter as a viewer. Moving towards it, the edge of the circle expands. Remarks on a Square is situated somewhere between the moment and the memory. Remarks are like reminders that were once developed and now turn into mirrors of themselves. They are not about the revolution. Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.
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The revolution did not happen overnight - it was foreshadowed in Egyptian films, visual pamphlets, artworks and documents in recent years. In Egyptian Timelines, current events are placed in a larger socio-historical, visual and cultural context. In addition, some of the filmmakers show, beside their own work, a film of choice: influential or clarifying, but rarely shown abroad.
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dakhal kharag el gorfa


in/out of the room Dina Hamza
In/Out of the Room features the life of an executioner in Egypt. Also known as Ashmawi, the film dwells into the life of 63-year-old Am Hussien, inside and outside of the execution room. Is there a difference between both worlds? Do they affect each other? A few years are left before he reaches retirement age. Does he want to open up without fear? The film is an attempt to get a fearless closer look.
Egypt, 2010 | colour, video, 52 min, Arabic
Prod: Khaled Abdel-Galil | Prod Comp: Egyptian Film Center | Sc: Dina Mohammed Hamza | Cam: Mahmoud Lotfy | Ed: Mohammed Eid | Music: Hazem Shaeen | With: Mahmoud Lotfy, Hazem Shaheen,Mohamed Eid, Khaled M. Ibrahim, Khaled Abdel Galil | Print/Sales: Dina Hamza

ahlam Hind we Kamilia (Fragment)


Mohammed Khan

dreams of Hind and Camilia (Fragment)

Two women, housemaids abused by their employers and male family members, decide to make new lives for themselves, starting a friendship which invents a whole new relationship, a sisterhood unusual in Arab cinema.
Egypt, 1989 | colour, video, 5 min, Arabic
Prod: Hussein M. Kalla | Prod Comp: Al-Alamiya | Sc: Mohamed Khan, Mustapha Gomaa | Cam: Mohsen Nasr | Ed: Nadia Shoukry | Music: Ammar Al-Chere | With: Naglaa Fathy, Aida Reyad, Ahmed Zaki

Sturm: ahmonseto
Philip Rizk
In 2002, Mohamed Khamis a business tycoon close to the Mubarak regime tried to become a partner in the Ahmonseto textile factory. Shortly after owner Adel Agha rejected the offer, he was accused of fraud charges and imprisoned. After his release, Agha fled the country. Caught in the middle of this business dispute were the 2,000 workers employed at the Ahmonseto complex.
Egypt, 2010 | colour, video, 6 min, Arabic
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Sturm: Fayoum
Philip Rizk
In Abuxa, the water no longer reaches the fields. One of the reasons is that those who oversee the water distribution do so for their personal benefit. Not only are many of these agri-businesses owned by former members of parliament, but government policy actually encourages food export. Increased exports are said to strengthen the economy. In 2011, food prices increased by 18%.
Egypt, 2010 | colour, video, 5 min, Arabic
Prod: Philip Rizk | Print/Sales: Philip Rizk

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For an explanation of the content, see the compilation programme Egyptian Timelines 1.
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Maydoum
Omar Robert Hamilton
When he hears his cousin is about to sell their grandmothers land, Sharif gets on the first plane to Cairo. On arrival, he finds himself faced with old arguments and new decisions in a changing country. Shot over 2009 in Cairo and London, Maydoum stars Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, Green Zone) in an original screenplay by best-selling novelist Ahdaf Soueif.
Egypt/United Kingdom, 2010 | colour, video, 13 min, Arabic/English
Prod: Omar Robert Hamilton | Sc: Ahdaf Soueif, Omar Robert Hamilton | Cam: Mahmoud Lotfi, Brian Fawcett | Ed: Ahmad Abdalla, Colin Campbell | Prod Des: Daniel Nussbaumer | Music: Omar Fadel | With: Khalid Abdalla, Salma Said, Mahmoud Hamdy | Print/Sales: Omar Robert Hamilton | www.orhamilton.com

in the last days of the City (trailer)


Tamer El Said
In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid struggles to make a film about the city in which he is losing everything he loves: he is about to be kicked out of his apartment; the woman he loves is emigrating; and the death of his father has reawakened memories of his childhood, when Cairo and his country seemed a brighter world.
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Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 3 min, Arabic


Prod: Tamer El Said | With: Khaled Abdalla | Print/Sales: Tamer El Said | www.lastdaysofthecity.com/last-days.html

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Blue dive
Mostafa Youssef
The sea is a source of life, but at the same time a destructive power. Alexandria: three people who meet each other in the corridors of a hospital have experienced the dangers of the beautiful blue sea. Developed with the aid of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Mostafa Youssef investigates death in todays Egypt.
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Egypt, 2011 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 16 min, Arabic


Prod Comp: Egyptian Film Center | Sc: Mostafa Youssef | Cam: Mohamed Abdel Raouf | Ed: Doaa Fadel | Prod Des: Ayman Elhamy | Music: Huda Asfour | With: Sayed Ragab, Donia Massoud, Atef Youssef | Print/Sales: Egyptian Film Center

eshk akhar
Heba Yossry

another Passion
Another Passion is about a dialogue between a mother and a daughter, in which the formers dream of becoming an actress is dismissed by the latter as dangerous and haram, playing out the potential conflict of art and religion until the father bursts in and puts an end to the dream.
Egypt, 2006 | colour, 35mm, 1:1.85, 20 min, Arabic
Prod: Heba Yossry | Prod Comp: High Institute of Cinema | Sc: Heba Yossry | Cam: Ahmad Yacoub | Ed: Haitham El Hall | Prod Des: Marwa Waheed | Sound Des: Ahmad Gamal | With: Heba Yossry, Salah Rashwan, Fatima Akawi, Maryam Akawi, Azziza Rashed | Print/Sales: High Institute of Cinema

nosskha shabeyya
local Copy Islam Kamal
The prostitute Marwa and her friend agree to meet a regular customer, the student Adel, and his friend. The public nature of the spot she choses, the square in front of the Bibliotheca Alexandria, irritates him. A beautiful play unfolds in front of bystanders.
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Egypt, 2010 | colour, video, 20 min, Arabic


Prod: Islam Kamal | Prod Comp: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Arts Center, Figleaf Studios | Sc: Islam Kamal | Cam: Tamer Nady | Ed: Islam Kamal, Emad Maher | Prod Des: Ahmed Nabil | Sound Des: Samir Nabil | Music: Samir Nabil | With: Ahmed Mustafa, Saeid Kabil, Violla Fayez, Sarah Shalaby | Print/Sales: Figleaf Studios

neon lamp
Emad Maher
Quietness as it is actually defined, including the non-existence of sound waves and pressure and all of that, exists only in outer space. Neon Lamp is a journey into quietness. What does it mean? How is it interpreted? An exploration of apparent human (and inhuman) silence: clocks ticking, lamps buzzing or street noise.
international PreMiere

Egypt, 2008 | colour, video, 26 min, Arabic


Prod: Emad Maher | Prod Comp: Fig Leaf Studio | Sc: Charles Akl | Cam: Islam Kamal | Ed/Prod Des: Emad Maher | Sound Des: Samir Nabil | Music: Shady El Garf | With: May Waleed, Sahdy El Garf, Mostafa Abo Sreaa, Mark Lofty, Mahamed Kareem | Print/ Sales: Fig Leaf Studio | http://www.emadmaher.com/Filmmaking/LambaNeon.asp

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For an explanation of the content, see the compilation programme Egyptian Timelines 1.
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rant
Hassan Khan
This piece uses a minimalist form of expression. The subject, actress Roba El Shamy, is sitting in front of the camera, behind a table. Over a period of roughly six minutes she utters ten phrases. Her gestures and facial expressions are accompanied by a piano composition by the artist.
Egypt, 2009 | b&w, video, 7 min, no dialogue
Prod: Graham Waite | Print/Sales: Galerie Chantal Crousel

rice City
Sherif El Azma
The fi lm mainly borrows its aesthetics from 1930s-1940s fi lm noir and melodrama: to build tension through the craft of narrative fi lmmaking (with all its conventions regarding the use of cinematography, art direction and blocking) without succumbing to its tendency to gravitate towards an ultimate, humanistic meaning. Desires float, suspend and frustrate themselves without generating any obvious emotional climax.
Egypt, 2010 | b&w, video, 20 min, Arabic
Prod/Sc: Sherif El Azma | Cam: Sherif Galal | Ed: Mariam Mikiwi | Music: Nahla Mattar | With: Count Federio di Wardal, Mona Gamil, Santo Walle | Print/Sales: Sherif El Azma

al bahth an madina awraaq Sein


in Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) Hala Elkoussy
A journey through Cairo, led by the voice of the contemporary flneuse Sein. Her journey leads through the age-old streets, through colonial districts modelled on Paris to new apartments in international style. Using voices from now and from the past, Hala Elkoussy shows how the City is constantly reborn, resisting meanings just as recalcitrantly as its eight million inhabitants and in this way becoming the megalopolis it is today.
world PreMiere

Egypt/United Kingdom, 2012 | colour, video, 34 min, Arabic


Prod: Hala Elkoussy | Prod Comp: Folkestone Triennial | Sc: Hala Elkoussy | Cam: Abde lsalam Moussa | Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Hala Elkoussy | Music: Mohamed Antar | With: Solafa Ghanem, Bassem Wadie, Bassem Yousry | Print/Sales: Hala Elkoussy

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Kit Kat (Fragment)


Daoud Abdel Sayed
Sheikh Hosny, portrayed by Mahmoud Abdel Aziz in one of his best roles ever, is a blind man who doesnt pay attention to his disability and enjoys life in many ways, including riding a motorcycle on his own! His son Youssef is an unemployed university graduate who wishes to go to Europe to earn his living. His friends try to persuade him to seek work in Iraq, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, but he refuses.
Egypt, 1991 | colour, video, 5 min, Arabic
Sc: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Music: Ragueh Daoud | With: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Reyad, Nagah El-Mogui | Print: Egyptian Film Center | Sales: El Sobky Film

abwab al khouf: el naddaha


Ahmed Khaled

doors of Fear: el naddaha

This episode of the unique and first Arab horror series revolves around Adam Yassin (played by Amr Waked), a clairvoyant journalist who writes about unsolved mysteries with details that are only known to him and the people he writes about. He has a gift that enables him to contact another realm to find out things about these unsolved cases. This gift, however, plagues him in his personal life as he struggles with his visions and reality.
international PreMiere

Egypt, 2011 | colour, video, 42 min, Arabic


Prod: Amr Koura | Prod Comp: alkarma | Sc: Mahmoud Desoky, Ahmed Khaled, Mohamed Solaiman | Cam: Nezar Shaker | Ed: Ashraf Kholy, Rania Montasser | Prod Des: Karim Shatila | Sound Des: Ibrahim Desoky | Music: Sammy Sayed | With: Amr Waked, Riham Ayman, Gamil Rateb, Rania Shahin | Print/Sales: alkarma | www.ahmedkhaled.com

revolution
Khaled Hafez
We learn throughout the four minutes of this work that what remains of the broken promises are the social equity of the military gun, the pseudo-liberty of the multinational transcontinental corporations and the unity of chopping off heads, representing the global rise of right-wing religious fundamentalism.
Egypt, 2006 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue
Prod: Khaled Hafez | Prod Comp: Anubis Productions | Sc: Khaled Hafez | Cam: Haysam Hosny | Ed: Mohamad el Sahrkawi | With: Bassem Wadie | Print/ Sales: Anubis Productions | www.khaledhafez.net/videos/revolution.htm

the a77a Project


Khaled Hafez
The work ironically documents the current state of the streets of Cairo, once described as one of the most beautiful downtowns in the world, and a reflection of the social and economic challenges facing many communities in the world now.
Egypt, 2009 | colour, video, 3 min, Arabic
Prod: Khaled Hafez | Prod Comp: Anubis Productions | Sc/Cam: Khaled Hafez | Music: Ahmed Saleh | Animator: Ahmed El Shaer | Print/Sales: Anubis Productions | www.khaledhafez.net

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akhtifaat Soad Hosni ath-thalathat


Rania Stephan

the three disappearances of Soad Hosni

Lebanon, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 68 min, Arabic


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The Egyptian Soad Hosni was born in 1943 and committed suicide in 2001. Hosni, one of the most celebrated Arab actresses, played in 82 features. Rania Stephan reconstructed her life, just using fragments on VHS films in which Hosni was a shining star. The film is divided into three acts, a prologue and epilogue, and not only tells the life story of the versatile film star, but also of Egyptian cinema and society. In the first part, we see the actress sing and dance and a cheerful gathering of boys, girls and family. In the second part, we see Hosni who in reality had countless affairs as a desirable woman in sometimes complex relationships. Act three runs parallel to a change in the mood of society: there is violence against and oppression of women. It isnt only the body of Hosni that disappeared; this form of cinema and VHS as a medium also disappeared three disappearances.

Back to the Square


Petr Lom

world PreMiere

Norway/Canada, 2012 | colour, video, 83 min, Arabic


Prod: Torstein Grude | Prod Comp: Piraya Film AS | Sc: Torstein Grude, Petr Lom | Cam: Petr Lom | Ed: Petr Lom, Erik Andersson | Sound Des: Jeroen Goeijers | Print: Piraya Film AS | Sales: Films Transit International Inc. Public SCREENINGS Sun 29-1 21:15 PA6 Mon 30-1 12:15 LV2 Wed 1-2 18:30 PA2 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 28-1 14:30 CI3

What have the sacrifices on Tahrir Square at the start of 2011 yielded? Unfortunately, not a great deal: this much is apparent from the stories of five Egyptians involved, about six months after the historic revolution. A young horse herdsman tells how he drove to the square to ask for the pyramids to be opened again; he only just managed to survive that day. A taxi driver talks about his six years in prison, the torture, and how the police now behave worse than ever. A young woman talks about intimidation and unjust arrests, which according to human rights lawyers are happening continuously. The young Salwa describes how she met her first love during the demonstrations. And then the brother of Michael Nabil: a blogger who was arrested because of his internet comments and is now on hunger strike he is followed on Tahrir Square during the protests that still continue against the ongoing violations of human rights.

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Hidden Histories

the independent Chinese documentary makers and the documentary works of ai Weiwei
gerwin tamsma, gertjan Zuilhof

The most independent documentary films coming out of China can hardly be described as political at all. And if any criticism is aimed at those in positions of authority, those targeted are always people on the lower rungs of the power ladder, or from far-flung provinces. The carryings-on of those at the top of the political tree are never discussed the political decisions taken in Beijing are unassailable. The situation was no different 20 years ago, when Wu Wengguang made Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990). This documentary portrays five artists, illegally staying in Beijing during the period immediately following the bloodbath around Tiananmen Square in 1989. With this film, Wu laid the foundation for the current generation of independent documentary filmmakers. The next milestone appeared more than ten years later: Wang Bings nine-plus-hour masterpiece Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks a report, in minute detail, of the consequences for the common man of the macroeconomic course being set in the New China. The filmmakers in this programme also feel a commitment to the lot of the common man, and the poorest of the poor people who are usually overlooked, or who dont want to be seen. To film them, it is often necessary to undertake long journeys to places far away from the capital; often, to the provinces where they themselves were born. It is for this reason that their presence can go unremarked: they know the way, and they speak the language. Several of these filmmakers could be described as ethnographers or anthropologists in their own country. Filmmaker Cong Feng, for example, spent more than four years in a small community in Gansu province, in the northwest of China. He became so settled there that no one remembered what he had originally come to do. This allowed him to record everyday life, unaffected by the camera. He finally made two films: Doctor Mas Country Clinic and The Unfinished History of Life. Filmmaker Xu Tong, a guest in Rotterdam last year with Fortune Teller, gave rise to controversy by the way he portrays the shadowy dealings of the flamboyant female brothel keeper and entrepreneur Tang Caifeng in Shattered. Not only was he accused of being too close to Tang, but more seriously he remained completely aloof from her at times highly dubious moral practices. Another remarkable aspect of these filmmakers working methods is the length of time they take to record their subjects. Time that proves an effective judge, jury and executioner: the lies inherent in the propaganda of progress are remorselessly exposed by its passing. The camera, however, is also trained on Beijing itself: Born in Beijing by Ma Li and When the Bough Breaks by Ji Dan painstakingly document various homeless communities on the periphery of

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the city. These films provide irrefutable proof that the economic growth of todays China by no means benefits all. Born in Beijing also tells another story. That of the petitioners people in Beijing who have wanted to lodge a complaint against their local authorities. The old women in the film living under bridges were originally petitioners, or in some cases even their children. The other side of the petitioners story is revealed in one of the most exceptional films in this programme: Zhang Zanbos The Interceptor from My Hometown. An interceptor is an official hired by the authorities, authorised to do anything and everything to intercept petitioners from the provinces. He is even authorised to forcibly return them to their place of residence, if necessary. Zhang happened to meet a former classmate of his, who had become an interceptor, and who was prepared to tell his story in front of the camera, allowing Zhang to expose one of the perverse cogs in the power machine.
ai WEiWEi

On Sunday evening, 3 April 2011, world-famous artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at the airport in Beijing. He was confined for 81 days without any clear charge, at a location that was initially kept secret. After being released, he was held under house arrest, suspected of tax evasion and bigamy. Ai Weiwei is Chinas best-known political activist after Liu Xiaobo the writer and human rights activist who received a Nobel Peace Prize in prison in 2010. The Chinese authorities became alarmed when Ai Weiwei garnered a huge army of followers on Twitter-style website Weibo. Not only students and activists, but also artists and filmmakers followed Ai Weiweis activities on this social network. Ai Weiwei has now been removed from Weibo. The arrest of Ai Weiwei made a big impression in China, in particular on independent documentary makers, whose work exposes them to similar risks. In recent years, many activists and their lawyers have been locked up, or have even disappeared;

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nevertheless, the fact that such a famous figure as Ai Weiwei could be arrested just like that was an extremely worrying development. During the months after his arrest, many less well-known artists and filmmakers came into conflict with the authorities. Film festivals were postponed or forbidden and their organisers advised to leave their jobs or return to their home towns or villages to reconsider. Paradoxically, the year in which Ai Weiwei was arrested a year in the shadow of repression proved to be a good, productive year for the independent film scene. Not all independent filmmakers in China have undergone professional film training. Many of the filmmakers included in the Hidden Histories programme are autodidacts. Cong Feng, for example, was a newspaper weatherman, Ji Dan a teacher, He Yuan an anthropologist and Yu Guangyi a wood carver. Only a few people realise that versatile artist and architect Ai Weiwei did receive professional film training, at the film academy in Beijing no less, where he was in the same year as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. Nevertheless, his films display few academic trademarks; his art videos are far removed from traditional filmmaking and his social documentaries often seem to be more about him than made by him. It is remarkable for an artist-filmmaker of his status that his works have hardly been available to the public until now. Opportunities for exhibition in China were minimal, and are now completely non-existent. Previously, Ai Weiwei would give out his films on free DVDs at public appearances, but this option is now closed, too. Of the five documentary films included in this programme (Fairytale; Disturbing the Peace; One Recluse; Ordos 100; So Sorry), only two had subtitles, and Ordos 100 and So Sorry were not even finished. This has now been taken care of, specially for the IFFR.

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Ai Weiwei is not a filmmaker in the usual sense of the word. All of his films are part of larger social, architectural or visual art projects. Some are reports on political activities, such as the entertaining, in fact comical Disturbing the Peace in which Ai Weiwei is plucked from his hotel bed in the pitch darkness one night by the police and some are art projects. But on a grand scale: in Ordos 100, one hundred international architects are invited to realise a huge project in Inner Mongolia; in Fairytale, a thousand Chinese attend the documenta event in Kassel, Germany. Ai Weiwei is the artist who had millions of hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds made and shipped to London, as well as the tireless demonstrator who leaves hundreds of messages on the internet, night after night (twitter.com/#!/aiww). He is never limited by scale, duration or length. The art video Beijing 2003, for example, is no less than 150 hours long. Maybe no one will ever see the film in its entirety, but its the idea that counts : recording all the streets in the centre of Beijing from a moving car.
ai WEiWEi CaF

The films in this programme cannot be seen in the cinemas in China. This is not always the fault of the censors. Some of the films can be shown without problems in museums and at festivals. Sometimes, these festivals encounter difficulties, and may even have to go underground. But not always. Whatever the case, these films are shown in China often in small, at times almost living-room settings. To give visitors to the IFFR a feel of what this is like, during the festival a special caf will be set up and we will call this the Ai Weiwei Caf not only because many of these films require an informal screening and the possibility to speak to the makers, or because Ai Weiweis installation-style art videos need a space, but above all because one very important festival guest cannot be present this year.

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the Unfinished History of life


Cong Feng
For this film, Cong Feng returned to the village of Huangyangchuan in Gansu province in the north-west of China, where he had previously made Doctor Mas Country Clinic. A very ordinary place and far from flourishing, where very ordinary people live who have very little. Thats precisely why Cong went there: he wanted to paint a picture of typical Chinese life in the rural areas. In making this very extensive portrait, he maintained the approach of an anthropologist. Above all, he lived, ate and drank with the people he was filming and not just briefly. All together, he lived in this place for four years. Many of his friends are teachers or former teachers, but they live in poverty as peasants. The filmmaker sees their lives as a repetition of cycles and also tries to depict them as such. This may help explain the considerable length of the film.

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China, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 245 min, Mandarin


Prod: Cong Feng | Cam: Cong Feng | Ed: Cong Feng | Prod Des: Cong Feng | Sound Des: Cong Feng | Print/Sales: Cong Feng Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 19:45 CI4 Fri 3-2 15:00 LV2

Kong shan yi
lost in the Mountain Gao Zipeng

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China, 2011 | colour, video, 95 min, Mandarin


Prod: Bai Qifan | Prod Comp: Beijing Star Wheat Media | Sc: Gao Zipeng, Sun Min | Cam: Yang Yang, Quan Ke | Ed: Gao Zipeng, Wang Fan | Sound Des: Wang Fan, Lou Kun | With: Zhao Shijian, Jia Xinxu, Julie Gary, Li Jianhui | Print/Sales: Indie Workshop Public SCREENINGS Sat 28-1 17:30 CI4 Sun 29-1 09:45 CI7 Mon 30-1 14:45 CI7 Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 27-1 18:30 CI3

This film is an exception within the Hidden Histories programme; it is the only fiction film in the programme one with a hidden story that is told indirectly. Bie Lei has disappeared in a mountainous region and hasnt been found, even after lengthy searches. Part of his family still lives on the mountain a hollow mountain. Hollowed out by large-scale and intensive mining that has now stopped and left the villages in a desolate state. Six months later, four friends of the missing Bie Lie decide to head up the mountain to look for him. Not that they think they will find him, but the journey and the ritual are important for them. The journey through the deserted mining region shows a special side of China. A side in which people just disappear without trace, but also where whole areas are sacrificed to another vested interest.

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apuda de shouhou
apuda He Yuan

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China, 2010 | colour, video, 145 min, Mandarin


Prod: Xiaoqiu Feng | Sc/Cam/ Ed: He Yuan | Sound Des: Sha Qing | Print/Sales: He Yuan Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 20:152 CI6 Thu 2-2 17:002 CI1 Fri 3-2 09:452 CI7

In a sensitive and balanced way, He Yuan portrays two men who live in bitter poverty. Apuda is a simple man, who almost thinks like a child a good child, because he dedicates himself to caring for his sick old father. Even though the film focuses on these two men specifically, it also provides a picture of a China in which millions of people still live in deprived circumstances. Like other Chinese independent filmmakers, He Yuan has an ethnographic and anthropological background and also a fascination with the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens outside the modern urban centres. But he does not observe in the way a social scientist would. He prefers to compare himself with painters from olden times who went out into nature to capture reality as it revealed itself to them. While Apuda worries about the health of his father and lovingly nurses him, the filmmaker observes the inevitable end no less lovingly.

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When the Bough Breaks Ji Dan


When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all. Ji Dan, one of the most important female filmmakers in China, borrowed the title for her at times startling new film from the cautionary lullaby Rock-a-bye Baby. In 2004, at a school for migrant children in Beijing, she met four children from one family. The children, aged between 10 and 19, lived with their parents in a ramshackle slum while the tuition fees were paid by the school. By 2009, when she started filming, the situation had changed: there were now three children and amidst all the economic bustle, they were confronted with the limited choices that life has to offer. In turn, the filmmaker was confronted with the gap between herself and the lowest class: Never before have I become so involved in the story of my subjects and never before have I felt as unsettled or overwhelmed.

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China, 2011 | colour, video, 144 min, Cantonese


Prod: Ji Dan | Cam: Ji Dan | Ed: Sha Qing, Ji Dan | Print/Sales: Ji Dan Public SCREENINGS Thu 26-1 19:45 CI4 Fri 27-1 20:30 CI7

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Born in Beijing Ma Li

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China, 2011 | b&w, video, 240 min, Cantonese


Prod: Ma Li | Cam: Ma Li | Ed: Ma Li | Music: Wang Fan | Print/Sales: China Independent Film Archive (CIFA) Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 10:00 LV3 Fri 3-2 14:45 CI7 Sat 4-2 12:15 LV2

For years, Ma Li has made documentaries for television. After a film about Tibetan celestial burials, Mirror of Emptiness, she has now made an equally gripping work that has been shot in crystal clear black-and-white. Born in Beijing tells the story of petitioners: citizens who feel themselves wrongfully treated by the local authorities and seek settlement in the capital. There are thought to be more than 100,000 petitioners in Beijing. These people, harassed by interceptors (see the film Interceptor from My Hometown), brave terrible conditions in their battle against injustice and corruption. For six years, Ma Li followed the efforts and suffering of a group of homeless petitioners in the south of Beijing. The original title, Jing sheng (born in Beijing), refers to a woman in the film who was born in Beijing more than thirty years ago; her mother came there looking for justice.

lao tang tou


Shattered Xu Tong

China, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 100 min, Mandarin


Prod: Li Shanshan | Sc: Xu Tong | Cam: Xu Tong | Ed: Xu Tong | Print/Sales: Li Shanshan Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 21:302 PA2 Sun 29-1 09:302 CI5 Thu 2-2 17:152 CI7 Sat 4-2 09:452 LV2

Tang Xixin is a retired railway official who has lost little of his outspoken character at the age of 80. He does not like to receive his adult children in his ramshackle home, but he makes an exception for his daughter Caifeng (who was a guest in Rotterdam last year). She runs a brothel and is involved in equally illegal mining practices. In other words, a woman of the world who tries energetically to keep out of the hands of the law. Xu Tong films the family the way it is. The old Tang, with his flood of words, is an ideal witness to the 20th century; his daughter is a colourful symbol of the new China. Even though in the views of the state she is undoubtedly far from being a role model. Xu Tongs intimate, occasionally raw style of filming fits in well with that. He does not make any moral judgement and that makes him controversial in China. The result is nevertheless sincere and authentic.

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Bachelor Mountain Yu Guangyi


A moving and human portrait of a group of unemployed and above all lonely men who stayed behind when their wives moved to the city looking for work. They worked in the timber industry in the province of Heilongjiang, but deforestation has taken its toll. For instance, we see 46-year-old San Liangzi. Twelve years ago, he divorced his wife and became unemployed. For ten years, he has had an eye on Wang Meizi, the only unmarried woman in the area. But the love is not mutual. Director and autodidact Yu Guangyi started recording life in Heilongjiang, the area he came from, a few years ago without too much practical knowledge of filmmaking. He turned out to be an enormous talent. After Timber Gang, about the barren winter lumberjack season, and Survival Song, about an unemployed forest ranger, Bachelor Mountain is the third film he has made about this region in the far north of China.

eUroPean PreMiere

China, 2011 | colour, video, 95 min, Mandarin


Prod: Yu Guangyi | Cam: Yu Guangyi | Ed: Yu Guangyi | Print/Sales: Yu Guangyi Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 12:30 PA2 Sat 28-1 12:30 CI4 Thu 2-2 20:00 CI7 Fri 3-2 17:30 CI6

You yi zhong jing jiao zhuang yan


the interceptor from My Hometown

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China, 2011 | colour, video, 90 min, Mandarin


Prod: Zhu Rikun | Cam: Zhang Zanbo | Ed: Zhang Zanbo | Music: Zuoxiao Zuzhou | Print/Sales: Li Shanshan Public SCREENINGS Wed 1-2 17:15 LV2 Thu 2-2 10:00 CI4 Sat 4-2 20:00 LV2

Zhang Zanbo The versatile and productive documentary maker Zhang Zanbo is just as much at ease making a wellconstructed and beautifully composed film like Falling from the Sky (2010) as a spontaneous film, when the opportunity arises. He is a filmmaker with his camera always at the ready. At the end of 2010, Zhang received a phone call from an old classmate. The two, who had not seen each other for twelve years, turned out to have taken very different paths in life. He is the critical, independent filmmaker while his classmate had made a career for himself within the Communist Party he was about to become mayor of their home town. The classmate turns out to be very talkative and tells revealing stories about his activities for the government. He explains what an interceptor is: a civil servant who has to do everything he can to prevent citizens from seeking justice. The classmate is just such a man. A unique document.

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ordos 100
Ai Weiwei

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China, 2012 | colour, video, 61 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Wang Fen, Zhao Zhao | Ed: Wang Fen, In-serk Yang | After effects: Zhang Jun | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 17:152 CI6 Sat 28-1 09:452 CI7 Sun 29-1 14:452 CI7

Ordos 100 is a construction project curated by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. One hundred architects from 27 countries were chosen to participate and each design a 1000-square-meter villa to be built in a new community in Inner Mongolia. The 100 villas would be designed to fit a master plan designed by Ai Weiwei. On January 25, 2008, the 100 architects gathered in Ordos for a first visit to the site. The film Ordos 100 documents a total of three site visits, during which time the master plan and design of each villa was completed. As of this date, the Ordos 100 project remains unrealised (Ai Weiwei Studio). Screened together with So Sorry.

So Sorry
Ai Weiwei

World PreMiere

China, 2012 | colour, video, 55 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Guo Ke, Li Wake, Zhang Jun, Zhao Zhao | Ed: Wang Fen | Music: Zuo Xiao Zu Zhou | After effects: Wang Xiaoqian, Zhang Jun | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio Public SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 17:152 CI6 Sat 28-1 09:452 CI7 Sun 29-1 14:452 CI7

As a sequel to Ai Weiweis film Disturbing the Peace, the film So Sorry (named after the artists 2009 exhibition in Munich, Germany) shows the beginnings of the tension between Ai Weiwei and the Chinese government. In Disturbing the Peace, Ai Weiwei travels to Chengdu, China to attend the trial of the civil rights advocate Tan Zuoren, as a witness. In So Sorry, we see the investigation led by Ai Weiweis studio to identify the students who died during the Sichuan earthquake as a result of corruption and poor building construction, leading to a confrontation between Ai Weiwei and the Chengdu police. After being beaten by the police, Ai Weiwei traveled to Munich, Germany to prepare his exhibition at the Haus der Kunst museum. The result of his beating led to intense headaches caused by a brain hemorrhage, which was treated by emergency surgery. These events mark the beginning of Ai Weiweis struggle against and surveillance by state police (Ai Weiwei Studio). Screened together with Ordos 100.

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one recluse
Ai Weiwei

China, 2010 | colour, video, 180 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Ai Weiwei Studio | Ed: Ai Weiwei Studio | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio Public SCREENINGS Fri 3-2 11:00 CI6 Sat 4-2 12:15 CI7

In June 2008, Yang Jia carried a knife, a hammer, a gas mask, pepper spray, gloves and Molotov cocktails to the Zhabei Public Security Branch Bureau and killed six police officers, injuring another police officer and a guard. He was arrested on the scene and subsequently charged with intentional homicide. In the following six months, while Yang Jia was detained and trials were being held, his mother mysteriously disappeared. One Recluse is a documentary that traces the reasons and motivations behind the tragedy and investigates a trial process filled with shady cover-ups and questionable decisions. The film provides a glimpse into the realities of a government-controlled judicial system and its impact on the lives of citizens. (Ai Weiwei Studio).

disturbing the Peace


Ai Weiwei

China, 2009 | colour, video, 78 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Zhao Zhao | Ed: Wang Xiaoqian, Zhang Jun | Music: Zuoxiao Zuzhou | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 22:30 LV6 Wed 1-2 09:45 LV5 Sat 4-2 22:30 LV2

Disturbing the Peace is a documentary on an incident during Tan Zuorens trial on August 12, 2009. The civil rights advocate was charged with inciting subversion of state power. During his trial, Chengdu police violently detained witnesses, which is an obstruction of justice. Tan Zuoren was arrested as a result of his questions regarding the casualties among 512 Wenchuan students and corruption resulting in poor building construction. He was sentenced to five years in prison. (Ai Weiwei Studio)

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Fairytale
Ai Weiwei
Fairytale documents Ai Weiweis project of the same name for Europes most innovative five-year art event, documenta 12, in Kassel, Germany in 2007. Ai Weiwei invited 1,001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds to Germany to experience their own fairytale for 28 days. It was the most sensational artwork at documenta 12. The 152-minute film documents the whole process, from the preparations for the project to the challenges the participants had to face before actually travelling to Germany as well as the artists ideas behind the work. (Ai Weiwei Studio)

China, 2008 | colour, video, 152 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Ai Weiwei Studio | Ed: Ai Weiwei Studio | Music: Zuoxiao Zuzhou | Courtesy of: Urs Meile Gallery Beijing-Lucerne, Erlenmeyer Stiftung Switserland, Leister Foundation Switserland | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio Public SCREENINGS Tue 31-1 09:30 CI6 Thu 2-2 09:30 CI5

Beijing: the Second ring


Ai Weiwei
A video document of the two opposite directions of traffic flow on 33 bridges along Beijings Second Ring. The artist records a single one-minute-long frame for each direction on the bridge. The entire piece is made up of 66 segments. The length of the film is 1 hour and 6 minutes. As opposed to Beijing: The Third Ring, which was entirely shot on sunny days, the segments of this film were all shot on cloudy days. The circular ring roads are important urban structural elements of Beijing. They govern the whole spatial organization of the citys urban fabric. Like the Changan Boulevard piece, the act of recording is minimal, focusing on the process of pure observation and the nature of time. The film documents the citys historic aspects and modern development, its nearly 13 million people, mass transport, and the urban reality that defines Beijing. (Ai Weiwei Studio) Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.

China, 2005 | colour, video, 66 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Ai Weiwei Studio | Ed: Ai Weiwei Studio | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio

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Beijing: the third ring


Ai Weiwei
A video document of the flows of traffic from two opposite directions on 55 bridges along Beijings Third Ring. The artist records a single, one-minute-long frame for each direction on the bridge. The entire piece is made up of 110 segments. The length of the film is one hour and fifty minutes. As opposed to Beijing: The Second Ring, which was entirely shot on cloudy days, the segments of this film were all shot on sunny days. The circular rings are important urban structural elements of Beijing. They govern the spatial organization of the citys urban fabric. Like the Changan Boulevard piece, the act of recording is minimal, focusing on the process of pure observation and the nature of time. The film documents the citys historic aspects and modern development, its nearly 13 million people, mass transport, and the urban reality that defines Beijing. (Ai Weiwei Studio) Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 -Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.

China, 2005 | colour, video, 110 min, Mandarin


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Ai Weiwei Studio | Ed: Ai Weiwei Studio | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio

Changan Boulevard
Ai Weiwei

China, 2004 | colour, video, 613 min, no dialogue


Prod: Ai Weiwei | Prod Comp: Ai Weiwei Studio | Cam: Ai Weiwei Studio | Ed: Ai Weiwei Studio | Print/Sales: Ai Weiwei Studio

This film is a record of Changan Boulevard, captured in a sequence of measured distances along its entire 45 kilometers. At each measured increment, the artist records a single, one-minutelong frame. The whole film is composed of 608 one-minute segments. The length of the film is 10 hours and 13 minutes. Beijing, the capital of China for over 600 years, has a prime architectural orientation and order to its urban fabric. The structure of the city is bisected by Changan Boulevard along its east-west axis. After 1949, this boulevard and the heart of the city, Tiananmen Square, became Chinas main cultural political center and landmark. The film records the city through the transformation of its urban landscape. The work reveals Beijing as an organic whole, capturing the citys rhythms, social structure, cityscape, socialist planned economy, capitalist market and political power center as pieces of a multi-layered urban collage. (Ai Weiwei Studio) Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.

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Beijing 2003
Ai Weiwei
Beijing 2003 is a video about the city that the artist lives in, and its people. Participants include assistants Liang Ye and Yang Zhichao, and driver Wu. The piece took 16 days to complete, starting on October 18, 2003. Beginning below the Dabeiyao highway interchange, the vehicle from which the video is shot travels every street within the Fourth Ring of Beijing, one by one. Approximately 2,400 kilometers and 150 hours of footage later, it ends where it began: below the Dabeiyao highway interchange. Through the windshield, the camera objectively investigates all visual information that appears before the vehicle the spatial state of the citys streets, the endlessly changing times, scenery, movements, behavior and other aspects thoroughly, meticulously, and calmly recording the megacity of Beijing through a single lens. The sum of the entire process becomes the meaning of the work (Ai Weiwei Studio). Location: Ai Weiwei Caf/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 - Sat 4, 12:00 - 20:00.

China, 2003 | colour, video, 9000 min, no dialogue


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Preludes
Short films screened before feature length films in this section.

one old Man


Hai Bo
A portrait, without words, of an old man in the countryside. The man was undoubtedly a farmer, but now he is only an old man, a poor and useless man. He shuffles round and watches others at work. A man like so many others in the great China. Screened before Apuda.
international PreMiere

China, 2011 | colour, video, 19 min, no dialogue


Prod/Sc/Cam: Hai Bo | Ed: Yu Shu Yuan | Prod Des/Sound Des/Print/Sales: Hai Bo PUBLIC SREENINGS Wed 1-2 20:152 Cinerama 6 Thu 2-2 17:002 Cinerama 1 Fri 3-2 09:452 Cinerama 7

Whose eyes
Tan Tan
Four fake surveillance videos, mixed with violent outbursts that are recorded on real security cameras and apparently random shots from everyday Chinese reality: the image of Whose Eyes. Which reality is the most real, and who sees what? Screened before Shattered.
international PreMiere

China, 2011 | colour/b&w, video, 15 min, Mandarin


Prod: Tan Tan | Cam/Ed/Prod Des/Sound Des: Tan Tan | Music: Song Song | Print/Sales: Tan Tan PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 21:302 Path 2 Sun 29-1 09:302 Cinerama 5 Thu 2-2 17:152 Cinerama 7 Sat 4-2 09:452 LantarenVenster 2

the road toward Jokhang


Zhao Yantao
The young filmmaker Zhao Yantao is surprised about how Tibetan pilgrims exhaust themselves while making their strange journey to the great temples of their country. He is similarly surprised by his fellow countrymen who go to Tibet as tourists but know hardly anything about Tibetan culture. Screened before Ordos 100 and So Sorry.
international PreMiere

China, 2011 | colour, video, 19 min, no dialogue


Prod/Cam/Ed/Print/Sales: Zhao Yantao PUBLIC SCREENINGS Fri 27-1 17:152 Cinerama 6 Sat 28-1 09:452 Cinerama 7 Sun 29-1 14:452 Cinerama 7
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For Real

Reality is the Whole World around us


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Reality is the whole world around us, not just that thing in front of us. Kevin Slavin In For Real, the boundaries of cinema are stretched and a relatively uncultivated area emerges somewhere between film and reality where the power of the audiences imagination plays the leading role. As early as 2001, media pundit Lev Manovich posited in his Language of New Media that the rules shaping cinema are fixed in a set of specific cultural conventions the mobile camera, representation of space and editing techniques its all laid down. Manovich points out that these conventions are not restricted to cinema. The visual language of other media, such as internet, is based on these cultural conventions. With the advent of smartphones and mobile internet, moving pictures have penetrated deeply into our everyday lives. We are constantly exposed to them. As a result, a cinematographic gaze has become second nature. More and more, we spontaneously interpret the world around us according to cinematographic conventions. In other words, reality is increasingly becoming film. Not only is the moving image always within reach these days, but the interaction between virtual and physical space has become considerably more intense. This means that the mingling of film and reality is a fact of life the start of a new era for cinema; an era

Michel Gondrys Home Movie Factory

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in which cinema partly takes place within reality, and partly in our heads. This also changes the role of the audience, who no longer sit passively in the cinema, but participate as an actor, or even director. Not only are the boundaries between film and reality fading, but the boundaries between professional filmmaker and film-lover are too, while the frontiers between film studio and exhibition space, between script and spontaneous improvisation, are also being stretched. This is the central theme of the For Real programme. The most appealing cinematographic conventions such as framing, script, set design and sound are superimposed upon reality, transforming the festival locations into a huge potential film set. Together with several subtle interventions in reality and a few new technologies, this turns each For Real project into a special cinematographic experience. The rectangular cinema screen makes its appearance in several For Real projects, but each time its a little different. For Eye Trap, Germaine Kruip uses the view from the Cruise Terminal by the river (Nieuwe Maas) as a cinema screen. The Metropole Orchestra will perform a soundtrack specially composed by the Multimedia Music Institute, briefly making reality seem very different. Wouter Huis will be framing the public space by placing a huge disclaimer sign, with the proportions of a cinema screen. Everyone who reads this sign immediately experiences reality as a film set in which he himself is playing a leading role.
SCRiPting REality SCREEn WitH a ViEW

The script the basis of most fiction films is used precisely in For Real to orchestrate reality. The results are clear: the Finnish artist Pilvi Takala, for instance, prefers nothing more than disrupting everyday reality with actions that do not fit in with social conventions. For instance, in Real Snow White (to be seen in Among Others) she visits Disneyland dressed as Snow White. Of course, she is thrown out of Disneyland, because she looks too much like the real Snow White; Disney is afraid of the new and unknown reality she brings with her. In 100 Meters Behind the Future by American artist duo eteam, reality is scripted in a very subtle way. Passers-by and everyday actions are filmed and put on the screen ten seconds later. In this case, two screens are used a car windscreen and a tablet so real reality runs 100 metres ahead of filmed reality. Production design determines the style and mood of a film. One section of this that appeals to the imagination is the film set. All the film sets in For Real require interaction with the audience. Whether the backdrops in Michel Gondrys Home Movie Factory or Meet Your Stranger, all these sets depend on active participation by the audience. In Home Movie Factory, the audience is challenged to make its own short film in ready-made film sets in just three hours, no more is necessary. The Schouwburgplein and a partial virtual space form the set for Dutch project Meet Your Stranger. In this exciting mobile film, you can join in the action with the smartphone acting as your prompter. Do you want to know more about the link between reality as experience and design? Then go to Designed Realities, in which Professor Timo de Rijk talks to production designer Carol Spier. She is best known for her inventive set design on films by David Cronenberg, such as Videodrome, Eastern Promises and eXistenZ.
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Sound is crucially important for film a soundtrack can completely change our film experience. In the project Soundtrackcity Rotterdam, our experience of reality is transformed by sound into a cinematographic experience. For this project, special soundtracks were composed. The more-thancinematographic backdrop for these is formed by the Kop van Zuid area, which will instantly undergo a real transformation. Sound also plays an essential role in the subtlemob Our Broken Voice, for instance. This happens literally in your head; you hear instructions whispered to you through an MP3 player. If you follow them, the world around you will become an exciting film. During the festival, there will be a special space, a space in which films and events just pop up: it is called Reality Check. A lot will happen here conversations with For Real artists, special film screenings, an exclusive book presentation. Here you can find out all about the various For Real projects, and this is where Meet Your Stranger and Our Broken Voice will start. In addition, the special installation Reframing the Artist by Sascha Pohle can be seen here. And of course you can sit down and enjoy again all the experiences youve had. A visit to Reality Check is a constant cinematographic thrill for the senses. Upon entering, youll immediately be surprised by the newly framed reality, designed by Glamcult Studio. Combine this with the alienating soundscapes by Rotterdam sound designers Daniel Sillem and Enio Ramalho and the experience is complete the perfect starting point for your For Real experience. Look on the website or read the festival Daily for the programme. Youll find Reality Check at Schouwburgplein 54. For Real is a programme by Rutger Wolfson, Edwin Carels and Inge de Leeuw. Soundtrackcity Rotterdam is compiled by Michiel Huijsman and Renate Zentschnig on behalf of the Soundtrackcity Foundation and Peter van Hoof (IFFR). With grateful thanks to Corto Blommaert and Katrien Lamers.
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eye Trap
Germaine Kruip

Netherlands, 2012 | 90 min


Music: Bob Zimmerman, Loek Dikker, Renger Koning, Stan Koch, Toon Vieijra, Paul van Vulpen, Than van Nispen, Harry de Wit, Yorick Goldewijk, Vincent de Koning, Jos Jansen, Ad van Dongen | With: Metropole Orkest Public SCREENING Fri 3-2 17:00 Cruise Terminal

On 3 February, the Dutch Metropole Orchestra will perform Eye Trap, conducted by Ernst van Tiel and in cooperation with the Muziekinstituut MultiMedia (MiMM) and artist Germaine Kruip. The musical work is a new soundtrack, but not for a film. It was specially written for one of the most spectacular panoramas in the city: the view from the Cruise Terminal at sunset. In front of the spectators very eyes, lies the Nieuwe Maas river, the Erasmus Bridge and the North Bank of Rotterdam. Germaine Kruip, who has often worked with ingress of light, architecture, composition and the passing of time in her works of art and installations, puts the audience in front of an enormous real-time screen. The viewer allows events to pass by and learns to take a second look at reality.

lusine de films amateurs

France | 180 min

Home Movie Factory Michel Gondry In Michel Gondrys Home Movie Factory, amateurs make a short film at high speed. In this amateur film factory, anyone can set to work. Talent, experience and training are not relevant, but enthusiasm is. With several ready-made film sets and pieces of equipment, teams start work after an introductory workshop and, in three hours, they make a short film together (including their own design for the DVD cover). The team is given a DVD of the film to take home. In addition, a copy is put in the video library, where clients can watch the film. The basis for Home Movie Factory can be found in Gondrys film Be Kind Rewind (2008), in which the protagonists play out well-known films with their own homemade props and sets. The do-it-yourself film style was called sweding in the film, based on the self-invented Swedish origins of the strange works. For instance on the YouTube Channel Be Kind Rewind, countless sweded films can now be seen. Wed 25 Jan to Sun 4 March, Roodkapje ROTTTERDAM, reservations recommended.

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100 Meters Behind the Future


eteam
Filmed from a car, and ten seconds later to be seen in a second car via a tablet. Subtle intervention in reality plays with the audiences experience of reality. What is actually real? Artist duo eteam has made several projects in recent years that investigate the interaction between virtual and physical reality. Fri 27 - Mon 30, 16:30 - 19:00, point of departure LantarenVenster.
USA, 2012 | 15 min
Prod: eteam | Sc/Cam/Ed: Franziska Lamprecht, Hajoe Moderegger | Print/Sales: eteam | www.meineigenheim.org

among others
Pilvi Takala
Staging social situations that run counter to some unspoken societal convention is Pilvi Takalas favorite game. By breaking the rules implicit in pseudo-public contexts and situations, the artist (usually performing herself) exposes the closed systems at work, from office spaces to shopping malls and dance-halls. Continuous screening, point of departure Reality Check.
Finland, 2001-2010
Prod: Pilvi Takala | Print/Sales: Pilvi Takala

Bla Bla
Vincent Morisset
This physical version of BLA BLA, originally an interactive web project, creates an experience in which the audience takes over directing. The animated story in six chapters shows various aspects of communication between people. Morisset previously made interactive video clips for bands such as the Arctic Monkeys. Continuous screening in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg.
Canada, 2012
Prod: Hugues Sweeney | Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada | Prod Des: Caroline Robert | Sound Des: Philippe Lambert | Programming: Edouard Lanctt-Benoit | Sales: National Film Board of Canada | nfb.ca/blabla

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Designed realities: Production Designer Carol Spier


Carol Spier has been active in the film world as a production designer for 30 years. For instance, she worked on many films by David Cronenberg, including Eastern Promises (2007), eXistenZ (1999) and Videodrome (1983). Spier is interviewed by Timo de Rijk, who presently occupies the Premsela Chair in Design Cultures at the VU University in Amsterdam. The lecture is being organised in collaboration with Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion. Sat 28, 16:00, Reality Check.
Netherlands | 90 min
www.premsela.org

imagined Cinemas
This symposium is a follow-up to the Piet Zwart Institutes 2011 conference Imagine an Audience: Filmmaking Post-cinema and TV. Speakers: Pip Chodorov, Paolo Cirio, Ulrich Schreiber, Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr, Michiel Huijsman and Renate Zentschnig, and others. Moderators: Simon Pummell and Edwin Carels. Mon 30, 10:00 - 17:00, Piet Zwart Institute.
Netherlands, 2012
Prod: Florian Cramer | Prod Comp: Piet Zwart Institute, Postgraduate Studies and Research, Willem de Kooning Academy

Map
Aram Bartholl
Bartholl explores the power structures, social systems, cultural innovations, inner dynamics and the products that are shaping our digital age. Map is also the cover image of The Speed Book, his brand new first monograph, introducing an oeuvre in which space and cyberspace mingle and mangle each other. Location: Schouwburgplein.
Germany, 2012
Prod: Aram Bartholl | http://datenform.de/map.html

Meet Your Stranger


Sander Veenhof, Andr Freyssen
In this exciting, mobile film, all the protagonists lead a murky double life. As they improvise, the visitors play the lead in this film, with the smartphone as prompter. Meet your counterparts on Schouwburgplein, where not only the film is set in reality; the square is also transformed into a set of virtual augmented reality. Wed 25 - Sun 5, 16:00 - 20:00, point of departure Reality Check.
Netherlands, 2012
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Circumstance
Circumstance is an international collective of artists that creates cinematic experiences in unexpected locations. It draws on its members backgrounds in performance, theatre, interactive design, music composition, locative and pervasive media. But their focus is always on the social, political and emotional impact of technology. Their motto is try to remain invisible. Thu 26, 18:00, Thu 2, 18:00, point of departure Reality Check.
United Kingdom, 2012
Prod: Circumstance | Music: Sarah Anderson, Duncan Speakman | Developed by: Sarah Anderson, Lottie Child, Emilie Grenier, Duncan Speakman, Tassos Stevens | Sales: Circumstance | http://productofcircumstance.com

Performance #1 & Disclaimer


Wouter Huis
The presentation is held in a vacant garage that for the duration of the event is turned into a theatre. At some point, the electric door opens to reveal a view into a particularly (un) interesting street. With his marble Disclaimer sign, Huis transformes a street into both a screen and a new space. Thu 27, 16:00 & 20:00, Fri 3, 16:00 & 20:00, Theater De Gouvernestraat.
Netherlands, 2011 | 10 min
Prod: Wouter Huis | Sales: Wouter Huis | www.wouterhuis.com

reframing the artist


Sascha Pohle
In the movies, artists are almost always painters. In his video works Sascha Pohle often explores stereotypes. Taking his cue from such French masters as Chris Marker or Jean Rouch, he combines journalism with an anthropological perspective. Thus, nothing was modified in the settings of the Dafen Village. Continuous screening in Reality Check, 12:00 - 20:00.
Netherlands, 2010 | colour, video, 35 min, Mandarin
Prod: Sascha Pohle | Sc: Sascha Pohle | Cam: Sascha Pohle | Ed: Sascha Pohle | Print/Sales: Sascha Pohle | www.saschapohle.net

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Lpezs work with field recordings creates new sound worlds of experience from the sonic substance behind the apparently mundane. In this soundwalk, he has dramatically transmutated original recordings from Rotterdam to give rise to several virtual, vivid, hyper-real, sonic micro-worlds. Thu 26 - Mon 30, 14:00 and Tue 31 - Sat 4, 20:00, point of departure LantarenVenster.
Spain/Netherlands, 2012 | 45 min
Prod Comp: Stichting Soundtrackcities | Sc: Francisco Lpez | Sound Des: Francisco Lpez | With: Barbara Ellison

Soundtrackcity rotterdam: lee Patterson


Lee Patterson
Of Steel and Water uses sounds from the city, not the vibrations that bounce off countless new surfaces, but the interior resonance, usually unheard, of things old and new. Thu 26 - Mon 30, 16:30 and Tue 31 - Sat 4, 12:30, point of departure LantarenVenster.
United Kingdom/Netherlands, 2012 | 45 min
Prod Comp: Stichting Soundtrackcities | Sc: Lee Patterson | Sound Des: Lee Patterson | With: Lee Patterson

Soundtrackcity rotterdam: Jeroen Stout


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The Hive is the title of the soundwalk that Jeroen Stout made with Jan-Bas Bollen. A re-enactment of the tumult on the internet that drove the popular Korean actress Choi Jin-sil to commit suicide. A soundwalk that allows us to experience how social media influence our manner of communication. Thu 26 - Mon 30, 20:00 and Tue 31 - Sat 4, 16:30, point of departure LantarenVenster.
Netherlands, 2012 | 45 min
Prod Comp: Stichting Soundtrackcities | Sc: Jeroen Stout | Sound Des: Jan-Bas Bollen | Music: Jan-Bas Bollen | With: Jihyun Youn, Mikae Natsuyama, Astrid de Bondt, Rolf Bron, Floortje Doornik

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aCCREDitatiOnS
For the 2012 edition, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is providing four different types of accreditations.

Accreditation assignment is at the discretion of the Festival. Badges and delegate bags can be collected from the Accreditation Desk on the third floor of Festival Center de Doelen. An administration fee or accreditation fee may be applicable. For more information, please visit the Accreditation Desk or Guest Desk.
1. CineMart accreditation ( for professionals taking part in CineMart) Access to all CineMart events and CineMart Meeting Request Service Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box-office required) Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (ticket not necessary) Use of the Video Library and other Film Office services Listing in the Industry Manual Access to the Industry Club 2. Industry accreditation ( for professionals active in the international film industry) Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box-office required) Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (ticket not necessary) Use of the Video Library and other Film Office services Listing in the Industry Manual Access to the Industry Club 3. Director accreditation ( for filmmakers with a film in the Festival ) Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box-office required) Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (subject to availability of seats) 4. Press accreditation ( for journalists and media representatives seeking coverage of the Festival ) Access to all Festival and Industry activities and main events

Free admission to Public Screenings (ticket via internet or guest box-office required) Free admission to Press & Industry Screenings (ticket not necessary) Use of the Video Library and Press Desk services

DESK
All desks are located on the third floor of de Doelen. The members of the desk teams will assist you in finding your way through the Festival.
Opening hours:

Accreditation Desk
09:00 - 20:00, Wed Jan 25 - Sat Feb 4

CineMart Desk
09:00 - 20:00, Wed Jan 25 - Wed Feb 1

Guest Desk
09:00 - 20:00, Wed 25 Jan - Sat 4 Feb

Press Desk
09:00 - 20:00, Wed 25 Jan - Wed 1 Feb 09:00 - 18:00, Thu 2 Feb - Sat 4 Feb

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Press & Industry Screenings Accredited guests are welcome to attend the extensive programme of Press & Industry Screenings. As Public Screenings tend to be very busy and are often fully booked, we strongly advise you to schedule your personal programme around the Press & Industry Screenings. The Press & Industry Screenings take place from Thu January 26 through Fri February 3, both day and evenings in de Doelen, Cinerama, LantarenVenster and Path. All locations are within walking distance. For access to the Press & Industry Screenings, badge holders do not have to get a ticket. At the entrance of the Press & Industry screening auditoriums, your badge will be scanned. Screening Schedule The Press & Industry Screening Schedule is combined in this catalogue with the Public Screenings. Schedule changes are published in the Daily Tiger and on the Festival website. The latest print versions of schedule changes are also available at the Box Offices and at the Guest and Press Desk. Access to Public Screenings

Tickets are only available for Public Screenings on the day before and the day of the screening up until

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two hours before the screening begins and can be booked via MyIFFR, on the festival website or via the Guest Box Office in de Doelen.
Central Box Office The Central Box Office is located on the ground floor of de Doelen (entrance Willem Burgerkwartier, Kruisplein 40). Open to the public and badge holders.
Opening hours: 09:00 - 21:00, Wed Jan 25 09:00 - 23:00, Thu Jan 26 - Fri Feb 3 09:00 - 18:00, Sat Feb 5 From Sat 5 February 18:00, the Central Box Office will move to Path.

Video Library Accredited industry guests are welcome to use the Video Library on the fourth floor of de Doelen to view festival titles. Please note that demand can be high, especially during CineMart (Sun Jan 29 Wed Feb 1), and certain restrictions may apply.
Opening hours: 09:00 - 23:00, Thu Jan 26 - Fri Feb 3 09:00 - 20:00, Sat Feb 4 Coordinator: Samanta Telleri videolibrary@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

SERViCES & FaCilitiES


Film Office services The Film Office offers information and advice to all attending filmmakers and industry guests, and lays out the best possible means of screening and promoting their films at the IFFR. It assists filmmakers and their representatives to make the most of their time in Rotterdam and help to facilitate networking between buyers and filmmakers/producers. Together with the Programme Department, the Film Office offers a range of possibilities and facilities to ensure that distributors and buyers are fully informed about and able to view the newly completed films in the Festival programme. During the festival period itself the Film Office team can be found on the third floor of Festival Center de Doelen. Contacts: Jolinde den Haas, Nikolas Montaldi, Inke Van Loocke and Myrthe Terpstra E-mail: filmoffice@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Industry Information The Film Office is the first point of contact for the Press & Industry Screenings, the Video Library and the Industry Club, and distributes all relevant film and contact data to distributors, sales agents and producers worldwide. Available information includes the Rights List (overview of feature length films that are currently not represented by an international sales agent), Audience Award List, Sales & Print Source List, and Viewing Reports of the Video Library and Press & Industry Screenings. Contact: Nikolas Montaldi filmoffice@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Consultancy Meetings & Panels As part of the Film Offices services, a time slot can be pre-booked with our Industry Consultants. They assist filmmakers and buyers in making the right contacts at the IFFR and can give information about the selected films, the attending industry guests, film market developments and the international festival circuit. The Film Office also sets up a number of industry panels aimed at filmmaker and industry guests. Information on the panels and meetings will be available separately. These both take place on the fourth floor of Festival Center de Doelen in the Industry Club. Industry Consultants: Hayet Benkara, Mary Davies, Jannie Langbroek, Marina Kozul and Aneta Lesnikovska. Coordinator: Nikolas Montaldi and Inke Van Loocke consultancy@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Industry Club This year, we are pleased to once again invite buyers and sellers to take advantage of the Industry Club. This facility is exclusive for buyers, sellers (who will automatically have access) and invited guests and includes:

Comfortable, private meeting areas Information stands Reading table with industry periodicals Coffee counter Wi-Fi connection The Industry Club aims to be an efficient and relaxing work environment, centrally located on the fourth floor of Festival Center de Doelen, directly opposite the Video Library.
Opening hours: 10:00 - 17:00, Wed Jan 25 - Fri Feb 3 filmoffice@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

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Mailboxes Mailboxes are located behind the desks on the third floor. You can find the Press, CineMart and Guest mailboxes behind the corresponding desks. You are kindly asked to regularly check and collect your mail. Please ask the staff behind the desks for assistance. Print Facilities Professional guests will find print and photo copying facilities to use at their own expense in de Doelen behind the Guest Desk.

PRESS

Press Office Contacts: Bert-Jan Zoet, Head of Media Relations & International PR Nancy van Oorschot, Press Officer & Trainee Project Manager Edwige Leblay, Press Accreditations & Press Desk Manager Albert Hidding, Press Office Intern press@filmfestivalrotterdam.com Press Desk The Press Desk team can answer questions about the attending guests and arrange interviews with them. As each of the members of the Press Desk is specialized in a group of festival titles and associated attending talent, please do not hesitate to ask for more information. Interview requests and interpreters Press badge holders are invited to contact the Press Desk for arranging their interview requests with attending talent. If possible, interviews take place on a one-to-one basis; there is a possibility in agreement with the filmmaker of a photo call and an interview room. We ask for your understanding if the attendance period of talent does not allow for all interview requests to be honored. For interview schedules with directors from films acquired for distribution within the Netherlands, the Press Desk collaborates with the distributors representatives. In case an interpreter is needed during the interview session, the Press Desk will arrange for this. During the Festival the Press Desk is reachable for any further information. pressdesk@filmfestivalrotterdam.com. Press Materials Upon request, the Press Desk will provide additional information about feature films and documentaries within the Festival programme. Hi-res stills from films in the programme selection

are also available for download on the press page of the Festival website: http://professionals.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/eng/press.aspx We advise all press to use the information available online. For the purpose of television broadcast, the Press Office provides free use of clips from a select number of 2011 titles on Betacam SP tapes. Please call the Press Desk first to ask if a DVD, EPK or Betacam tape is available. The tapes are available for copying at own cost and have to be returned to the Press Office the same day. The Festival does not provide copying or editing services. For copying purposes, the Press Office Intern Tim Vijgen, can provide addresses and contact information of nearby Rotterdam-based companies.

MERCHanDiSE
Festival T-shirts, bags, sweaters and other souvenirs can be purchased in the Festival Shops on the ground floor of de Doelen, Path Cinema and LantarenVenster, along with the catalogue and DVDs from the Festivals own Tiger Releases label. You can also purchase various products from the Festivals webshop by visiting: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/webshop
Opening hours:

de Doelen and Path


Cinema: daily 09:00 - 22:00 Opening hours LantarenVenster: daily from 09:00 until fifteen minutes after the start of the last screening.

PuBliCatiOnS / SOuRCES
The following list comprises the main points of reference published in English by the Festival in print and/or online as well as official documents sent out to film representatives before and after the Festival.
Festival Catalogue The IFFR Catalogue is the complete and essential guide to all festival films and events, including all industry, sales and print information. The catalogue is also a practical guide to the festival, it includes a concise programme overview and schedule. Festival Website All practical information and the latest Festival news can be found on our website. There is a public part (in Dutch and English) for the general audience and a professional part (in English) for our international Industry and Press guests: professionals.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

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Daily Tiger The bilingual (Dutch and English) Festival newspaper, written by professionals, published daily, available at all festival locations and online, and containing the latest news, announcements, programme changes, interviews and more. Daily Tiger Topics E-newsletter During the Festival, a daily version of the monthly digital Tiger Topics newsletter is sent out to international relations of the Festival, informing them about festival highlights. Events List An overview of all official Festival events, both those which are open to all badge-holders as well as those events which are accessible by invitation only. Delegates List The quick reference manual to all Festival and CineMart guests attending, including the dates of their stay and where to find them. Industry Manual The quick reference guide to all Industry companies and representatives attending CineMart and the Festival. There is an online version available prior and during the Festival for CineMart and Industry badge holders. Sales and Distribution Letter The Sales Letter is sent out several times prior to the festival and available during the Festival, details all feature length films not currently represented by an international sales agent. The Distributor Letter lists all feature films in the festival with full contact information. CineMart Dossier The CineMart Dossier has detailed information for all CineMart projects including synopses, directors biographies and filmographies, production company background, budget and technical specifications, and more. The CineMart Dossier is also available online for all CineMart badge holders prior to and during the Festival. The printed version is distributed to CineMart guests upon arrival. Screening Report Press & Industry Screenings All accredited guests who attend a Press & Industry Screening will have their badge scanned. This data is compiled and sent out to the contact person for each film.

Screening Report Video Library Viewings The Video Library staff keeps detailed records of viewings in the Video Library and provides this information to the contact person for each film.

FEStiVal VEnuES

Festival Center de Doelen Kruisplein 40


SCREEning VEnuES

de Doelen Kruisplein 40 Screens: 3 Capacity: 425 - 1516 www.dedoelen.nl

Rotterdamse Schouwburg Schouwburgplein 25 Screens: 1 Capacity: 600 www.schouwburg.rotterdam.nl Path Schouwburgplein Schouwburgplein 101 Screens: 7 Capacity: 205 - 760 www.pathe.nl/schouwburgplein Cinerama Filmtheater Westblaak 18 Screens: 7 Capacity: 103 - 291 www.cineramabios.nl LantarenVenster Otto Reuchlinweg 996 Screens: 5 Capacity: 91 - 240 www.lantarenvenster.nl Oude Luxor Theater Kruiskade 10 Screens: 1 Capacity: 850 www.luxortheater.nl

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Ed Wubbe Combattimento Consort Amsterdam


Playing: 3 Feb. till 8 Apr. 2012 throughout The Netherlands 8 till 11 Feb. & 7 and 8 Apr. in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg Ed Wubbe s latest full-length production is steeped in the rich, theatrical sphere of the Baroque, driven by the tempo and dynamism of now. Romance, resplendence and sumptuousness, seduction, decadence and decay are the ingredients that Wubbe, and his full complement of dancers invoke in bringing Pearl to life. More on www.scapinoballet.nl &
Live music

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A-Film Distribution

PRINT & SALES


1273503 Ontaro Ltd.

Meeuwenlaan 98-100 1030 BG,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3445144 F: +31 20 3445145


office@a-film.nl www.a-film.nl

Just Film Distribution

Melkpad 51 1217 KB,Hilversum Netherlands T: +31 35 6882834 F: +31 35 6882800


info@justbridge.nl www.justbridge.nl

185 Vine Avenue M6P 1V9,Toronto Canada T: +1 416 7624884


john@filmdiary.org www.filmdiary.org

ABC - Cinemien

Amsteldijk 10 1074 HP,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5776010 F: +31 20 5776029


info@cinemien.nl www.cinemien.nl

Lumire

13 Little Pictures

KNSM-Laan 171 1019 LC,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3031280 F: +31 20 3031290


info@lumiere.be www.lumiere.be

6 Kovan Close 548199,Hougang Singapore T: +65 9 7689986 F: +65 6 5431643

13littlepictures@gmail.com www.13littlepictures.com

Benelux Film Distributors

De Poort 40 3991 DV,Houten Netherlands T: +31 20 6255296 F: +31 30 6381312

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)

4 Proof Film

bfd-nederland@bfdfilm.com www.bfdfilm.com

Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6237101 F: +31 20 6244423


info@nimk.nl www.nimk.nl

Intrarea Iuliu Valaori 6, ap.1 030683,Bucharest Romania T: +40 74 9100958


monica@4prooffilm.ro www.4prooffilm.ro

5 to Five Team Production

Cinart Netherlands

Herengracht 328-III 1016 CE,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5308848 F: +31 20 5308849


info@cineart.nl www.cineart.nl

OBrother Distribution

9, Quai de la Goffe 4000,Lige Belgium T: + 32 4 2324050 F: + 32 4 2232171


info@obrother.be www.obrother.be

21 rue Rothschild 1202,Genve Switzerland T: +41 7 64325383 F: +41 76 4325383


info@eileenhofer.ch www.eileenhofer.ch

A Mutual Respect Productions

Cinema Delicatessen

Jan Luijkenstraat 2 1071 CM,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4207123 F: +31 20 4207124

Sony Pictures Releasing Netherlands

info@cinemadelicatessen.nl www.cinemadelicatessen.nl

Overschiestraat 186 c 1062 XK,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3462070 F: +31 20 3462061


info_nl@spe.sony.com www.sonypictures.nl

Rua da Barroca 59 1200-047,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 2 13430205

mutualrespectproductions@ gmail.com www.mutualrespectproductions. blogspot.com

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Absent without Leave

Vondelpark 3 1071 AA,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5891400 F: +31 20 7582370

Topkapi Films

info@eyefilm.nl www.international.eyefilm.nl

Rapenburgerstraat 123 1011 VL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3032494


info@topkapifilms.nl www.topkapifilms.nl

Mauritsstraat 167 3012 CH,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 39793165

production@absentwithoutleave.org www.absentwithoutleave.org

Academy Film Archive

Filmfreak Distribution

Schippersstraat 7 1011 AZ,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4864940 F: +31 20 4864941


info@filmfreaks.nl www.filmfreaks.nl

Universal Pictures International Netherlands BV

Postbus 9255 1006 AG,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6177575 F: +31 20 6623240

1313 North Vine Street CA 90028,Los Angeles USA T: +1 310 2473016 F: +1 310 2473032

filmarchive@oscars.org www.oscars.org/filmarchive

Hubert Bals Fund

www.universalpictures.nl

Academy of Media Arts

PO Box 21696 3001 AR,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 8909090 F: +31 10 8909091

Warner Bros. Pictures Holland

hbf@filmfestivalrotterdam.com www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Postbus 59226 1040 KE,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6802300 F: +31 20 6802306


Wild Bunch Benelux

Peter Welter Platz 2 50676,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 20189330 F: +49 221 20189117
Dilger@khm.de www.khm.de

Ad Astra Films

Imagine Nederland

Prinsengracht 452 1017 KE,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6252653 F: +31 20 6268978


huub@imaginefilm.nl www.imaginefilm.nl

Haarlemmerdijk 159 1013 KH,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5357550 F: +31 20 5357551


info@wildbunch.nl www.wildbunch.nl

150 Impasse Bellon 06370,Mouans-Sartoux France T: +33 9 64352584


sales@adastra-films.com www.adastra-films.com

Adentro Cine

Jan Vrijman Fund

Frederiksplein 52 1017 XN,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6273329 F: +31 20 6385388


janvrijmanfund@idfa.nl www.idfa.nl

Santiago 1333 casi Brasilia Barrio Jara 1425,Asuncion Paraguay T: +595 21 296115
adentro.cine@gmail.com

Afrassiabi, Babak

van Brakel Straat 58 3012 XZ,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 20990174


b.afrassiabi@xs4all.nl

Ai Weiwei StudioBeijing

China T: +86 10 84561233

aiweiwei.fake@gmail.com

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Alhamwi, Hazem

T: +963 11 46 10 444

Arclight Films (IFTA)

associationin@gmail.com www.hazem.alhamwi. productions.com

alkarma

18 Nawal Street 12311,Cairo Egypt T: +20 23748 8756 F: +20 23748 8693
info@alkarma.com www.alkarma.com

Bldg 61, Suite 228, FSA # 40 Fox Studios Australia, Driver Av. NSW 2021,Moore Park, Sidney Australia T: +61 2 83532440 F: +61 2 83532437
info@arclightfilms.com www.arclightfilms.com

Authentic Boys

Ratiborstrasse 4 10999,Berlin Germany T: +31 6 28266502

mail@aaikestuart.com www.authentic-boys.com

Autlook filmsales GmbH

Arepo Media GmbH

All At Once

48 Lamb Street NSW 2040,Lilyfield Australia T: +61 2 80050401

Bonner Str. 486 / 303 50968,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 67774797 F: +49 322 29980627
info@arepomedia.de www.arepomedia.de

Trappelgasse 4/17 1040,Vienna Austria T: +43 6645 105552 F: +43 720 553572

festival@autlookfilms.com www.autlookfilms.com

AV-arkki

melissa@allatonce.com.au www.allatonce.com.au

Almond Tree Films-Rwanda

Argos Centre for Art and Media

Kicukiro/Kanombe 5841,Kigali Rwanda T: +250 788 508803

info@almondtreefilms.com www.almondtreefilms.com

Werfstraat 13 1000,Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 2290003 F: +32 2 2237331

Tallberginkatu 1 C 76 00180,Helsinki Finland T: +358 50 4356092 F: +358 9 6944187


av-arkki@av-arkki.fi www.av-arkki.fi

Avenue B Productions

info@argosarts.org www.argosarts.org

Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd

Arimage Productions

3 Inglis St SE59QT,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 72743110 F: +44 20 76357533

34, avenue des Champs-Elyses 75008,Paris France T: +33 6 01408544

7 bis, rue Geoffroy Marie 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 48000235 F: +33 1 48000380
contact@avenuebprod.com www.avenuebprod.com

Azma, Sherif El

films@paulbushfilms.com www.paulbushfilms.com

clara@arimageproductions.com www.arimageproductions.com

Cairo, Egypt T: +20 1001967935


BAC Films

shelazmaa@hotmail.com

Andar Filmes

Rua de Macau, 14, 3 1170-203,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 21 0192278

Arsenal - Institut fr Film und Videokunst e.V.

af.festivals@gmail.com www.andarfilmes.com

Potsdamer Str. 2, Im Filmhaus 10785,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 26955100 F: +49 30 26955111


mail@arsenal-berlin.de www.arsenal-berlin.de

88, rue de la Folie Mricourt 75011,Paris France T: +33 1 53535252 F: +33 1 53530670
sales@bacfilms.fr www.bacfilms.com

Andergraun Films

Plaa Narcs Oller, 6 Local 3 08006,Barcelona Spain T: +34 93 1843427 F: +34 93 4511231
info@andergraun.com www.andergraun.com

ArteEast

Baskin, Resit

1 Pierrepont Plaza, 15th floor 300 Cadman Plaza West NY 11201,Brooklyn USA T: +1 718 5173666 F: +1 718 8326564
info@arteeast.org www.arteeast.org

Deryadil sok. Tolga apt. 5/1 Besiktas 34357,Istanbul Turkey T: +90 505 8811348

cetinbaskin@yahoo.com

Animate Projects Limited

Bathysphere Productions

89 Borough High Street SE1 1NL,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 74073944

Ashkal Alwan

distribution@animateprojects.org www.animateprojects.org

Anna-Zharkov-Film

Jisr el Wati, 2066 8421,Beirut Lebanon T: +961 1 423879 F: +961 1 423879

11 rue Manin 75019,Paris France T: +33 1 40213702

contact@bathysphere.fr www.bathysphere.fr

Katerdonk 16 4824 CP,Breda Netherlands T: +31 76 5227890

christine@ashkalalwan.org www.ashkalalwan.org

Batra, Ritesh

Auguste Orts

info@anna-zharkov-film.com www.anna-zharkov-film.com

Annet Gelink Gallery

Laurierstraat 187 - 189 1016 PL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3302066 F: +31 20 3302065
info@annetgelink.com www.annetgelink.com

Aalststraat 7-11 1000,Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 8808560 F: +32 2 2133637

40, Aram Nagar Part 1, J.P. Road Versova, Andheri (West) 400061 (Maharashtra),Mumbai India T: +91 88 98629610
riteshbatra@gmail.com

info@augusteorts.be www.augusteorts.be

Baudelaire, Eric

Aurand, Ute

AnotherFilm

Lloydstraat 15 E 3024 EA,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 2449874


mail@anotherfilm.org www.anotherfilm.org

Kottbusser Damm 8 10967,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 6916778 F: +49 30 6916778


uaurand@t-online.de www.uteaurand.de

41 bis Quai de la Loire studio 304 75019,Paris France


info@baudelaire.net www.baudelaire.net

Beben Films

Aurora Films

Anubis Productions

23 Rabaa el Estesmary 11371,Cairo Egypt T: +201 06199619

16, rue Bleue 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 47704301 F: +33 1 47704391

35, Dervenion Street 106 81,Athens Greece T: +30 69 44757339 F: +30 21 06100109

amanda@bebenfilms.com www.bebenfilms.com

contact@aurorafilms.fr www.aurorafilms.fr

Beik, Ammar Al-

khaledhafez@gmail.com www.anubisproductions.com

old cityDamascus Syria T: +971 55 3875116

ammarbeik@gmail.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Benning, James

DQ-19, CalArts, 24700 McBean Pkwy CA91355,Valencia USA T: +1 661 2537825 F: +1 661 2537824
Biagini, Sarah Jane

Burr, Peter

1 North 12th st Suite 316 NY 11249,Brooklyn USA T: +1 860 5734739

Chodorov, Pip

digital_peat@hotmail.com www.peterburr.org

23, rue du Buisson St Louis 75010,Paris France T: +33 1 40226082 F: +33 1 40226083
info@re-voir.com www.re-voir.com/pip

4170 Riverside Avenue CO 80304,Boulder USA T: +1 413 6520079

Butcher, Adam

sarah.biagini@gmail.com www.seejanefilm.com

61 Sandstone Place N19,5TX United Kingdom T: +44 7 914777431

Cinedafne

Biscaya, Jos Miguel

adamjbutcher@gmail.com www.adam-butcher.co.uk

Villarrica 582 A 7501357,Santiago Chile T: +56 99 5506040

anajperera@gmail.com

Frans de Wollantstraat 70 1018 SC,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 28246498


jose.biscaya@gmail.com www.jmbiscaya.com

C.R.I.M.

Cinema Alpha Productions

Av. Almirante Reis 194 / 3esq 1000-055,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 2 18446102 F: +351 2 18463284
crim@netcabo.pt www.crim-productions.com

1 Zeitlin St. 64956,Tel Aviv Israel T: +972 54 4829826

room514film@gmail.com www.room514.com

BlueLight

231 Portobello Road W11 1LT,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 77929791 F: +44 207 7929871
mata@bluelight.co.uk www.bluelight.co.uk

Cinemascpio Produes

Camera Club

447 Church Street NSW 3121,Richmond Australia T: +61 4 02923479


dom@cameraclub.tv www.cameraclub.tv

Rue Jos Moreira leal 207, Apt.102 51030-380,Recife Brazil T: +55 81 91323538 F: +55 813 30324972

Bobbing Buoy Films

cinemascopiofilmes@gmail.com www.cinemascopio.com.br

24 Ewart Park 279761, Singapore T: +65 9 1852092

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)

Cinemateca Brasileira

lilin@bobbingbuoyfilms.com www.bobbingbuoyfilms.com

Bonnet, Marion

Room 301,Courtyard 2 Building 6 Suite 2, LingXiu XinGuiGu,West Road Xi ErQi , 100085,Haidian District China T: +86 10 82431373

401 Richmond St. West, Suite 119 M5V 3A8,Toronto, ON Canada T: +1 416 5880725 F: +1 416 5887956
cfmdc@cfmdc.org www.cfmdc.org

Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, 207 Vila Clementino 04021-070,So Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 3512 6111 F: +55 11 3512 6114

contato@cinemateca.org.br www.cinemateca.com.br

Cao Fei

marion.bonnet8@gmail.com www.tibetmovie@126.com

Room 301, 29 Hao, Hengyijie, Chigangxilu 510300,Guangzhou China T: +86 20 84296760


caofeilove@gmail.com www.caofei.com

Cinmathque Franaise

51, Rue de Bercy 75012,Paris France T: +33 1 53657480 F: +33 1 53657465

Box Film

4026 Coloniale H2W 2B8,Montral, QC Canada T: +33 6 10 04 49 75


jeanne@boxfilm.ca www.boxfilm.ca

diffusion@cinematheque.fr www.cinematheque.fr

CaRTe bLaNChe

165, rue de Paris 93100,Montreuil France T: +33 1 70323916

Cinematografica

Bressane, Jlio

45 rue Saint Sauveur 75002,Paris France T: +33 1 954166383 F: +55 21 22591552


Brooks, Nicholas

hello@c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com www.c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com

353 Vicente G. Cruz St. 1008,Manila Philippines T: +63 2 7497425


arleencuevas@gmail.com www.arleencuevas.com

Centre Georges Pompidou

r.maria.dias@gmail.com

42 Reynolds House, Approach Road E2 9JR,London United Kingdom T: +44 7 963947019

Muse National dArt Moderne, Service Nouveaux Mdias 75191,Paris France T: +33 1 44781233 F: +33 1 44781203
info@centrepompidou.fr www.centrepompidou.fr

Cineteca Nazionale

Via Tuscalana 1524 00173,Rome Italy T: +39 06 722941 F: +39 06 7211619

diffusioneculturale@ fondazionecsc.it www.fondazionecsc.it

nja_brooks@hotmail.com www.nickbrooks.info

Child, Abigail

Brown, Allan

2289 Marie Anne est H2H 1N4,Montreal Canada T: +01 514 5215318

303 East 8th Street, Apt. 6F NY 11211,New York USA T: +1 212 6731608 F: +1 212 6731608
achild@mindspring.com www.abigailchild.com

Circumstance hello@duncanspeakman.net Cisca films

Burg. Meineszlaan 80C 3022BM,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 2135945


francisca@cisca.nl www.cisca.nl

framebruiser@gmail.com www.volatileworks.org

China Independent Film Archive (CIFA)

Bufo Film Production Company

Rauhankatu 7 00170,Helsinki Finland T: +35 8451314652


mark@bufo.fi

YGSD 9-2-102 Chaoyang District 100015,Beijing China T: +86 13 601242887 F: +86 10 59789037

Claudio Cunha Artistic Productions

Brazil T: +55 11 2936 1940

printempsfilms@qq.com www.cidfa.com

claudiocunhaproducoes@ hotmail.com www.claudiocunhaproducoes. com.br

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Clipson, Paul

1055 Fell St. #6 CA 94117,San Francisco USA T: +1 415 4748653 F: +1 415 3574158
paulclipson@yahoo.com www.withinmirrors.org

Devisha Films

Kothrud 411038,Pune India T: +91 98 22653752


abhi@devisha.in www.devisha.in

El Sobky Film

103 El Tahrir St. DokkiGiza Egypt T: +20 2 37499525


Electric Eel Films

Collectif Jeune Cinma (CJC)

Dietvorst, Jan

1, rue Charles Garnier Mains dOeuvres - Atelier 11 93400,Paris France T: +33 1 40118447
admin@cjcinema.org www.cjcinema.org

Glitterstraat 15 1103 SK,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6837838


jand@paradiso.nl www.jandietvorst.com

179/7 Supalai Place Sukhumvit 39, Klongton, Wattana 10110,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 86 8623284

info@electriceelfilms.com www.electriceelfilms.com

Diluvio

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

Cong Feng

Room 501, 30th BLDG, Beiwaxili Haidian District 100089,Beijing China T: +86 010 60514643

Sewanstrasse 122 10319,Berlin Germany T: +56 2 3419344


info@diluvio.cl www.diluvio.cl

535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor NY 10011,New York USA T: +1 212 3370680 F: +1 212 3370679
info@eai.org www.eai.org

congfeng72@gmail.com

Distribution Workshop

Coproduction Office

24, rue Lamartine 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 56026000 F: +33 1 56026001

Unit 215, 2/F 72 Tat Chee Road Kowloon Tong,Kowloon Hong Kong T: +852 2 7688678

element e filmproduktion gmbh

dw@distributionworkshop.com www.distributionworkshop.com

Beim grnen Jger 6a 20359,Hamburg Germany T: +49 40 4446530


su@element-e.net www.element-e.net

info@coproductionoffice.eu www.coproductionoffice.eu

Dovfilm

Cosmic

Grotekerkplein 70 3011 GE,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 22796297


info@cosmicmedia.nl www.cosmicmedia.nl

14 avenue Guillaume Macau 1050,Brussels Belgium T: +32 4 86288345 F: +32 2 6446732


lehman.boris@gmail.com www.borislehman.be

Elkoussy, Hala

Veeteeltstraat 24 1097 WV,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6946522

elkoussyhala@hotmail.com www.halaelkoussy.com

Dunia Film

Costa, Pedro

Rua 1 Dezembro 101,2-F-C 1200-358,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 21 8688256 F: +351 21 8688256


CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival

P.O. Box 3643Damascus Syria T: +963 11 4424837 F: +963 11 4464837


duniafilm@gmail.com

Enlighten

Mumbai 400092,Mumbai India T: +91 98 21226194

Duque, Andrs

pranavaashar@gmail.com www.enlighten.co.in

Tagensvej 85 F DK-2200,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 33930734 F: +45 33127505


daniella@cphdox.dk www.cphdox.dk

Calle Aribau 228 4to 1era 08006,Barcelona Spain T: +34 92 2093992 F: + 34 90 2325536
aduque@me.com www.andresduque.com

eOne Films International

175 Bloor Street East Suite 1400, North Tower M4W 3R8,Toronto, ON Canada T: +1 416 6462400 F: +1 416 6462399
internationalsales@ entonegroup.com

Ecce Films

Daniel Rosenfeld Films

Balcarce 353. 3f 1064,Buenos Aires Argentina T: +54 11 43429187 F: +54 11 48580066

16, rue Bleue 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 47702723 F: +33 1 47704391


eccefilms@yahoo.fr

EPILEPTIC

3, rue des Goncourt 75011,Paris France T: +33 6 87143829


Erriquez, Ezequiel

Edition - S

annicklemonnier@free.fr

rosenfeld.daniel@gmail.com

de Montesquiou, Elonore

veteranenstrasse 24 10119,Belrin Germany T: +49 30 49914876


nagrane@gmail.com

Grbrdrestrde 18 1156,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 33 135445


info@edition-s.dk www.edition-s.dk

Escalada 249 2 dto. 1407,Buenos Aires Argentina T: +54 11 46358013

Egyptian Film Center

ezequielerriquez@hotmail.com www.alacantabrica.blogspot.com/

Dellers Film

Klybeckstrasse 253 4057,Basel Switzerland T: +41 61 6313131 F: +41 61 6931517


kilian@dellers.com

City of the Arts, Pyramids rd. 12111,Giza Egypt T: +20 2 35851613 F: +20 2 35854701
egyptianfilmcenter@hotmail.com

Einsiedel, Orlando von

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 25759152 F: +49 30 25759162


louis@dffb.de www.dffb.de

Grain Media, Unit 1, Gladiator Works Gladiator St SE23 1NA,London United Kingdom T: +44 208 6901010

orlando@grainmedia.co.uk www.grainmedia.co.uk

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Escorado Produccion

Plaza San Miguel 8, 7 iz 28005,Madrid Spain T: +34 65 4013752


lapaginadega@gmail.com www.gabrielvelazquez.es

Figleaf Studios

17 Hassan Zaghmour St- Miami 03,Alexandria Egypt T: +20 3 5553883


01.islam@gmail.com www.figleafstudios.com

Filmy Wiktora

Ciudad de la Paz 561 2 31 1426,Buenos Aires Argentina T: +54 911 52298541 F: +54 911 52298541
pablochernov@gmail.com www.filmywiktora.com

eteamNew York

USA

eteam@meineigenheim.org www.meineigenheim.org

Figueiredo, Rita

Evolution Films

Soukenick 11 110 00,Prague Czech Republic T: +420 2 22240770 F: +420 2 22240770

Rua do Vigrio 86,2 andar 1100-617,Lisboa Portugal T: +35 19 63647116

Finecut Co, Ltd

ritazuzarte@gmail.com

Film House Bas Celik

4F Incline Bldg., 89137 Daechi-dong Gangnam-gu 135-280,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 5698777 F: +82 2 5699466
cineinfo@finecut.co.kr www.finecut.co.kr

pbercik@evolutionfilms.cz www.evolutionfilms.cz

Evron, Nir

26 Shalom Alechem st 63343,Tel Aviv Israel T: +972 54 4576028


nir_evron@yahoo.com www.nirevron.com

Gospodar Jevremova 35 11000,Belgrade Serbia T: +381 11 3034441 F: +381 11 3034448


jelena@bascelik.net www.bascelik.net

Finnish National Audiovisual Archive KAVA

Filmes do Serro Ltda.

Extra City Antwerpen

Tulpstraat 79 BE-2060,Antwerp Belgium T: +32 36 771655

Rua dos Arcos, 24/3 andar CEP 20230-060,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 25322128
contato@filmesdoserro.com.br www.filmesdoserro.com.br

P.O. Box 16 00151,Helsinki Finland T: +358 9 615400 F: +358 96154 0242


kava@kava.fi www.kava.fi

Fita Botet, Vicente

mihnea.mircan@gmail.com www.extracity.org/

Filmes do Tejo II

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

Vondelpark 3 1071 AA,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 5891400 F: +31 20 7582370

Av Liberdade 85- 3 1250-140,Lisboa Portugal T: +351 21 3234400 F: +351 21 3417087

Robert Fruinstraat 24 A 3021 XE,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 48651175


contact@vicentefita.com www.vicentefita.com

Flash Forward Entertainment

filmesdotejo@filmesdotejo.pt www.filmesdotejo.pt

Filmform

info@eyefilm.nl www.international.eyefilm.nl

Faber Film

Via Marmorata 169 00153,Rome Italy T: +39 3 382904240

Svarvargatan 2 SE-112 49,Stockholm Sweden T: +46 8 6518426 F: +46 8 6518426


info@filmform.com www.filmform.com

7F, No. 358, Zhonghe Road Zhonghe Distrct 23574,New Taipei City Taiwan T: +886 2 29262839 F: +886 2 29262834
info@ffe.com.tw www.ffe.com.tw

Fortissimo Films

paolobenzi@faberfilm.it www.faberfilm.it

Filmpolis Agata Szymanska

Fandango Portobello

12 Addison Avenue W11 4QR,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 76051396 F: +44 20 976051391

Dolna 7/9 00-773,Warsaw Poland T: +48 51 4593757


Films Boutique

Van Diemenstraat 100 1013 CN,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6273215 F: +31 20 6261155
info@fortissimo.nl www.fortissimofilms.com

szymanska.agata@gmail.com

Fox Searchlight Europe

sales@fandangoportobello.com www.portobellopictures.com

Fast, Omer

Skalitzer Strasse 54 10997,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 69537850 F: +49 30 69537851

Twentieth Century House 31/32 Soho Square W1D 3AP,London United Kingdom T: +44 207 7537104 F: +44 207 7530112
Free Stone Productions

Linienstrasse 196 10119,Berlin Germany

info@filmsboutique.com www.filmsboutique.com

oliverfunk@hotmail.com

Films Distribution

Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia

Pedro de Valdivia 2057 depto 204 Providencia Santiago 0000,Santiago de Chile Chile T: +56 9 90979982
erick.gonzalez@ficv.cl www.australab.cl

34, rue du Louvre 75001,Paris France T: +33 1 53103399 F: +33 1 53103398

313-3-25-18 Jingumae Shibuya 150-0001,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 34980728


miyukit48@live.jp

info@filmsdistribution.com www.filmsdistribution.com

FreibeuterFilm

Films Transit International Inc.

Fig Leaf Studio

93 Taaoniat Semouha 21311,Alexandria Egypt T: +20 1 221140350

252 Boulevard Gouin Est. H3L 1A8,Montral Canada T: +1 514 8443358 F: +1 514 8447298
jan@filmstransit.com www.filmstransit.com

Kellermanngasse 1-3/1/6 1070,Vienna Austria T: +43 720 346510 F: +43 720 346510-99
welcome@freibeuterfilm.at www.freibeuterfilm.at

Frutacine

3madmaher@gmail.com www.emadmaher.com

Filmstad Producties bv

FiGa Films

3925 Cazador St. CA 90065,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 2299816 F: +1 323 2585241
contact@figafilms.com www.figafilms.com

Valkenboskade 503Den Haag Netherlands T: +31 70 3468284


info@filmstad.com www.filmstad.com

Guardia Vieja 3821 1192,Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires Argentina T: +54 11 48653696
frutacine@hotmail.com

Gago Culture & Media Ltd.

Flat F,19/F Block 2,the Pinnacle, 8 Wan Hang Road,Tseung Kwan O Hong Kong T: +86 13 701223375 F: +86 10 80532999
whw7009@126.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Gaijin

40 rue du Parc 45000,Orlans France T: +33 2 46650151


info@gaijin.fr www.gaijin.fr

Gold View Co. Ltd.

Galante Filmes Ltda

NR Bldg.3F 5-5 Kamiyama-cho Shibuya-ku 150-0047,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 53472501 F: +81 3 53472505
kiyo@goldview.co.jp www.goldview.co.jp

He Yuan

22 Dong 2-401 Room, 94# Renmingxilu 650034,Kunming China T: +86 871 5361521
Heco Produes

heyuanwang@hotmail.com

Rua 276 n105 s/601 88.220.000,Itapema, Santa Catarina Brazil T: +55 47 3268 0345

Grecu, Mihai

galantefilmes@ibest.com.br

Galerie Chantal Crousel

c/o Fargier, 112 rue ordener 75018,paris France T: +33 616 605746
m_f_grecu@yahoo.fr www.mihaigrecu.org

Rua Capito Tefilo Marcondes da Silva 28 05026-010,Pompia, So Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 38710019
heco@heco.com.br www.heco.com.br

10 rue Charlot 75003,Paris France T: +33 1 42773887 F: +33 1 42775900

Greyshack Films

Heraize, Ali

galerie@crousel.com www.crousel.com

Galleria Zero

43-01 21st St. #320 Long Island City NY 11101,New York USA T: +1 718 7061156

Egypt

ali.hrzy@hotmail.com

Heuninck, Elias

Via Tadino 20 20124,Milan Italy T: +39 02 87234577 F: +39 02 87234580


info@galleriazero.it www.galleriazero.it

greyshack@earthlink.net www.greyshackfilms.com

Melkouwen 42 2590,Berlaar Belgium T: +32 4 77134098

Hage Boutros, Paul associationin@gmail.com www.paulhageboutros.com Hai Bo

eliasheuninck@gmail.com www.eliasheuninck.be

Heure Exquise!

Gallerie Wilfried Lentz

Postbus 132 3000 AC,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4126459 F: +31 10 4129313

Yuntong Garden 1112D, Jiaowang Zhuang Tongzhou District 101101,Beijing China T: +86 10 69599159
haifengbo828@sina.com

Rue de Normandie Le Fort - Court Sud 1th floor 59370,Mons En Baroeul France T: +33 3 20432432 F: +33 3 20432433
contact@exquise.org www.heure-exquise.org

office@wilfriedlentz.com www.wilfriedlentz.com

Ghoneimy, Ahmed

HAMACA, Media & Video Art Distribution from Spain

Hide Project Indonesia

Lucembursk 5 praha 3 11111,praha Czech Republic T: +20 3 5220808


ghoneimy3@hotmail.com

Pge. Marqus de Sta. Isabel 40 08018,Barcelona Spain T: +34 93 3033996 F: +34 93 303431
info@hamacaonline.net www.hamacaonline.net

Ngadisuryan KT 1/67 55133,Yogyakarta Indonesia T: +62 274 415051

suryoadhi.wiyogo@gmail.com www.hideprojectindonesia.com

Hietbrink, Roderick

Ghosn, Sandra associationin@gmail.com Gibson, Beatrice

Hamilton, Omar Robert

86 Forest Road E83BH,London United Kingdom T: +44 77 76140327


bea@dliub.org www.dliub.org

5 Sayed el BekriCairo Egypt T: +20 10 05735711

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Studio A75 Sarphatistraat 470 1018GW,Amsterdam Netherlands
roderick.hietbrink@gmail.com

o.r.hamilton@gmail.com www.orhamilton.com

High Institute of Cinema

Hamza, Dina

Girardet, Christoph

Egypt T: +20 23457101


HanWay Films

Spichernstr. 24 30161,Hannover Germany T: +49 511 3881323


girardet@freenet.de

dinahamza20@yahoo.com

9 Amal El Deen Arghany Street, Pyramids RoadCairo Egypt T: +20 2 537703 F: +20 2 5611034
Hirayama Shiho

Glass Eye Pix, Inc

18 Bridge Street, #2G NY 11201,Brooklyn USA T: +1 718 6436911 F: +1 646 3492700

24 Hanway Street W1T 1UH,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 76362251 F: +44 20 72900751

info@hanwayfilms.com www.hanwayfilms.com

1-24-26 #402 Kitaurawa Saitama-shi kitaurawa Saitama-shi 330-0074,Saitama-Ken Japan T: +81 90 61280608
18maru@nk.moo.jp www.18maru.moo.jp/

Harju, Matti

glasseyepix@gmail.com www.glasseyepix.com

Gleize, Thibault

Karjalankatu 14 A 7 00520,Helsinki Finland T: +358 5 05303478

Holland Harbour Productions

21 rue de curial 75019,paris France T: +33 6 86231871

mattiharju@hotmail.com www.mattiharju.com

Willemskade 22 3016 DM,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 2331400 F: +31 10 2331401

Hayama Rei

thibault.gleize@hotmail.fr

Global Screen GmbH

Sonnenstrasse 21 D-80331,Mnchen Germany T: +49 89 2441295 F: +49 89 244195520


info@globalscreen.de www.globalscreen.de

Nakasato 2-16-6 Meko Heights 401 114-0015,Kita-ku Japan T: +81 090 41353962

info@hollandharbour.nl www.hollandharbour.nl

Hoolboom, Mike

i2ei@nifty.com www.marei.web.fc2.com/

680 Queens Quay West apt. 521 M5V 2Y9,Toronto, ON Canada T: +1 416 2605702
fringe@interlog.com www.mikehoolboom.com

HBO Romania

62-64 Buzesti Street Sector 1 021452,Bucharest Romania T: +40 21 3077777 F: +40 21 3077788
andrei.cretulescu@hbo.ro www.hbo.ro

Horan, Devin

350 Adelphi #2 NY 11238,Brooklyn USA T: +1 646 7852517


dvnhrn@gmail.com www.devinhoran. carbonmade.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Hsu Tsen-Chu

14F, No.179, Sec.1, Changrong Rd., 701,Tainan Taiwan T: +31 20 1234567

Influenz Films

109 de Rouville J2L 2B9,Bromont Canada T: +1 450 5340805

Jurubeba Produes

bambooboohsu@gmail.com

influenz@videotron.ca

Rua lvaro Alvim 24 sl 1004, Centro 20031-010,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 25244027

Hubbard / Birchler Studio

inter media art institute (imai)

4707 Shoalwood Ave TX 78756,Austin USA T: +1 512 9252308

info@hubbardbirchler.net www.hubbardbirchler.net

Ehrenhof 2 40479,Dusseldorf Germany T: +49 211 8998799 F: +49 211 8926686


info@imaionline.de www.imaionline.de

jurubebaproducoes@gmail.com www.jurubebaproducoes. blogspot.com

Kaadan, Soudade associationin@gmail.com Kack-Brice, Patrick

Huis, Wouter

Burgemeester Kessenplein 1 6431 KM,Hoensbroek Netherlands T: +31 6 17846229


info@wouterhuis.com

Intercinema Agency

15 Druzhinnikovskaya, office 305 123242,Moscow Russia T: +7 499 2559052


post@intercin.ru www.intercinema.ru

969 Manzanita St. CA 90029,Los Angeles USA T: +1 415 218 2519


patrickack@gmail.com

KADMOS Produktion

Hungarian National Film Archive

Budakeszi t 51/e H-1021,Budapest Hungary T: +36 1 3941322 F: +36 1 3980781

Intramovies Srl

Schwedter Strae 269 10119,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 44342101

www.filmintezet.hu/uj/english

Via Eustachio Manfredi 15 00197,Rome Italy T: +39 06 8076157 F: +39 06 8076156


mail@intramovies.com www.intramovies.com

info@kadmos-produktion.de www.kadmos-produktion.de

Kamias Road

Icelandic Film Centre

Hverfisgata 54 101,Reykjavik Iceland T: +354 5623580 F: +354 5627171

23-F Kamias Road 1102,Quezon City Philippines T: +63 2 4358354

Irwin, Stephen

info@icelandicfilmcentre.is www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

51 Hargrave Mansions N19 5SR,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 5020640 F: +44 17 08705447

oracafe@rocketmail.com www.khavndelacruz.org

Kampong Radioaktif

Ikon

2-2 Okazaki Tennocho Sakyoku, Kyotoshi 606 8335,Kyoto Japan T: +81 80 31009862
ikon@ikoneatsart.com www.ikoneatsart.com

stephen@smalltimeinc.com www.smalltimeinc.com

41, Jalan K.P. 2/19, Kajang Prima 43000,Kajang Malaysia T: +60 1 92728629
Karin Kleibel PR

Isabella Films

thienseechua@gmail.com

Artemisstraat 166 1076 DW,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4229199 F: +31 20 4231125


info@isabellafilms.com www.isabellafilms.com

Gleditschstrae 41 10781,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 88714415

Illume Ltd

Palkkatilankatu 7 00240,Helsinki Finland T: +358 9 1481489 F: +358 9 1481489


illume@illume.fi www.illume.fi

lilian.pfeuffer@karin-kleibel.de www.karin-kleibel.de

Island Records

64-366 Kensington High Street W14 8NS,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 74715183

Keller, Florence

8 rue du Faubourg Poissonire 75010,Paris France T: +33 6 81230626


keller.fl@gmail.com

Imaginary Line

58/125, Prince Anwar Shah Road Basanti Apt. flat- 4A 700045,Kolkata West Bengal India T: +91 33 24301059
imaginarylinefreecinema@ gmail.com

chris.scott@umusic.com www.islandtunes.co.uk

Kerberus Kinorama Klassiks

Jacobs, Ken

94, Chambers Street NY 10007,New York USA T: +1 212 2273144 F: +1 212 2273144

2780 Buencamino St Poblacion Makati 1210,Makati Philippines T: +63 90 69480266


Ketterings, Eveline

praxkerberus@gmail.com

Imane Fars Galerie

nervousken@aol.com www.starspangledtodeath.com

41, rue mazarine 75006,Paris France T: +33 1 46331313

Jang Hey-Yeun

galerie@ifgalerie.com www.ifgalerie.com

81 Orchard St. #12 NY 10002,New York USA


heyyeun@gmail.com

Paradijslaan 132 3034SV,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4777689

eefje@sheep-entertainment.nl www.sheep-entertainment.nl

Imovision

Ji Dan

KineKuma Pictures

Rua Tumiaru 138 Vila Mariana 04008050,Sao Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 32940720 F: +55 11 3051 5512

10-7-402 Dong-Guan-Nan-Li Chang-Ping District 102200,Beijing China T: +86 10 80105223


jdtibet@gmail.com

atendimento@imovision.com.br www.imovision.com.br

Johannesen, Karen

Apartemen Permata Senayan #308 Jl. Palmerah Selatan Kav 20-21A 1020,Jakarta Indonesia T: +62 857 14643129 F: +62 215 364018

Indie Workshop

20th F., Maple Center, 32 Xizhimen North Road, 100081,Beijing China T: +86 10 62275859 F: +86 10 8204 8847
frankzxm@yahoo.com.cn

1315 N Greenview Ave #1R IL 60642,Chicago USA T: +1 77 34123896

furiousroses@gmail.com www.kinekuma.com

Kinesis Film

johannesenkaren@hotmail.com www.web.mac.com/kjohannesen

JOUN FILMS

P.O. Box 11-1472Beirut Lebanon T: +961 3 048894

116A Via dei Volsci 00185,Rome Italy T: +39 06 94426686 F: +39 06 94426687
info@kinesisfilm.it www.kinesisfilm.it

ranrounjoun@rocketmail.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Klahr, Lewis

1938 N. Commonwealth Avenue CA 90027,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 9061734 F: +1 323 9061736
engram66@sbcglobal.net

Le Pacte

5, rue Darcet 75017,Paris France T: +33 1 44695959 F: +33 1 44695941

Lira Cinematografica

contact@le-pacte.com www.le-pacte.com

Praa Sao Francisco da Gloria, 48 01545-090,Sao Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 20625892


lira@liracine.com www.liracine.com

Kodeih, Lynn

7th floor, Al-Ayyash bldg. Kamar St. 0000,Beirut Lebanon T: +961 1706801
lynnkodeih@gmail.com

Lee, Chung

Jinjiang St. No.96-1. 2nd floor 100,Taipei city Taiwan T: +886 981 911194
cl2319@gmail.com www.thechunglee.com

Lobster Films S.A.

13 rue Lacharriere 75011,Paris France T: +33 1 43386969 F: +33 1 43572605

Koike Teruo

3-12-22 Shioyacho, Tarumi-kuKobe Japan T: +81 78 7511782 F: +81 78 7511782

Les films des lucioles

lobster@lobsterfilms.com www.lobsterfilms.com

2 avenue de la porte Brunet 75019,Paris France T: +33 6 09571974


Les Films du Losange

LUX

tettteru3802@nifty.com

lesfilmsdeslucioles@gmail.com

3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane E8 2EZ,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 75033980 F: +44 20 75031606
info@lux.org.uk www.lux.org.uk

Koktebel Film Company

Druzhinnikovskaya 15, office 515 123242,Moscow Russia T: +7 926 5626477


dima@koktebelfilm.ru www.koktebelfilm.ru

22, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75016,Paris France T: +33 1 44438728 F: +33 1 49520640
a.valentin@filmsdulosange.fr www.filmsdulosange.fr

m-appeal

Kunsthochschule fur Medien Kln

Les Productions Balthazar

Prinzessinnenstrasse 16 10969,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 61507505 F: +49 30 27582872

Peter Welter Platz 2 D 50676,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 201890 F: +49 221 2018917
ute.dilger@khm.de www.khm.de

4 rue Clavel 75019,Paris France T: +33 1 47702199 F: +33 1 47702554

berlinoffice@m-appeal.com www.m-appeal.com

M-Line distribution

minadriouch@hotmail.com www.balthazarprod.com

Leve Productora SL

Lge dor

La Friche la belle de mai 13003,Marseille France T: +33 4 95049644


contact@age-or.fr

Carrer Diposit 21 08198,Barcelona Spain T: +34 67 0854278


leve@levenet.com www.levenet.com

6F Samhwa Bldg. 536 Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu 135-889,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 7962426 F: +82 2 7962429

sales@mline-distribution.com www.mline-distribution.com

M16

La Ferida Produccions

LevelK Aps

Apodaca 34, 2 2 43004,Tarragona Spain T: +34 97 7241195 F: +34 6 26232028


info@laferida.com www.laferida.com

Gammel Kongevej 137B, 3rd floor 1850,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 20108580


tine.klint@levelk.dk www.levelk.dk

#103, Sinwoo Bldg, Habjeong-dong, 121-879,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 3249016 F: +82 2 3249016
MacKenzie, Alex

icarus0809@naver.com

La Luna Productions

Li Shanshan

28 rue Chapelle 75018,Paris France T: +33 1 48075600 F: +33 1 48071188

sebastien@lunaprod.fr www.lunaprod.fr

Room 301, Unit 10, Building 2, Yard 50, Anzhenyuan 100029,Beijing China T: +86 150 11549060

2-1435 Commercial Drive V5L 3X8,Vancouver Canada T: +1 604 2554162 F: +1 604 2554162
alexgmackenzie@gmail.com www.alexmackenzie.ca

shan87524@hotmail.com

Maharaja Films

La vie est belle films associs

Light Cone Distribution

45, rue de la Mare 75020,Paris France T: +33 1 43870042 F: +33 1 40330677

41, bis Quai de Loire 75019,Paris France T: +33 1 46590153 F: +33 1 46590312

56, Quai de Jemmapes 75010,Paris France T: +33 6 08948873


Mairs, Gary

mathilde@maharajafilms.com

info@lavieestbellefilms.fr www.lavieestbellefilms.fr

lightcone@lightcone.org www.lightcone.org

Lam See Chit

Lim Lay Kuen, Charlotte

Flat5, 13/F, Block E Garden Vista, Sha Tin, N.T.Hong Kong Hong Kong T: +852 6425 6607 F: +852 2686 8696
seechitlam@gmail.com

No 46, Jalan PU 8/1A, Taman Puchong Utama 47100,Selangor Malaysia T: +60 1 23310400 F: +60 3 79579046
Lin Cox, Jessica

4612 Norwich Avenue CA 91403,Sherman Oaks USA T: +1 818 4611340 F: +1 661 2537824

elkrugamigos@earthlink.net www.imagists.org/ allthatshesurveysmovie/

Makino Takashi

charlottelim527@gmail.com

Le Fresnoy

22 rue du Fresnoy 59200,Tourcoing France T: +33 3 20283800 F: +33 3 20283899

James Cohan 533 West 26th Street 10001,New York USA T: +12 12 7149500
jcox@jamescohan.com jamescohan.com

Nakasato 2-16-6 Meko Haitsu 401 Kita-ku 114-0015,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 35761363

makinotakashi@gmail.com www13.ocn.ne.jp/~makinokn/

communication@lefresnoy.net www.lefresnoy.net

Martins, Gabriel

Rua Quatro, n 62, Milanez 32143040,Contagem Brazil T: +55 31 33938637


gabsmart@gmail.com www.filmesdeplastico.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Massi, Simone

via Serralta 101 61045,Pergola Italy T: +39 0721 734524

MK2

nuvole@simonemassi.it www.simonemassi.it

55, rue Traversire 75012,Paris France T: +33 1 44673011 F: +33 1 43072963


intlsales@mk2.com www.mk2.com

National Film Development Corporation India

McCormick, Matt

6th flr., Nehru Centre Worli 400018,Mumbai India T: +91 22 24951455 F: +91 22 24951455
exports@nfdcindia.com www.nfdcindia.com

820 N River St. #103 97217,Portland Oregon USA T: +1 503 8885037


matt@rodeofilmco.com www.rodeofilmco.com

Mohr, Thomas

Stadhouderskade 114 B1 1073 AX,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6717875


info@nimk.nl

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)

McLean, Jesse

1437 N. Bosworth Ave. Apt. 2F IL 60642,Chicago USA T: +1 412 3345871


jessemclean@gmail.com www.jessemclean.com

Monkey Town Productions

1-5-1-306 Fujimi Chiyoda-ku 102-0071,Tokyo Japan T: +81 72 7347991 F: +81 72 7347991

Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6237101 F: +31 20 6244423


info@nimk.nl www.nimk.nl

Neon Productions

mec film

Emdener Strasse 48d 10551,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 66766700 F: +49 30 66766699


info@mecfilm.de www.mecfilm.de

sarumachi@aol.com www.monkeytownproductions. com/english/e_pro

Moro Filmes

33 Boulevard Longchamp 13001,Marseille France T: +33 4 91082171 F: +33 4 91648779


prod@neon.fr www.neoncinema.com

Media MVMT

Rua Treze de Maio, 92 cj 22A -2 andar 80020-270,Curitiba Brazil T: +55 41 30134163

Netherlands Film and Television Academy

627 Hancock St. #3 NY 11233,Brooklyn USA T: +1 347 416 2497

atendimento@morocom.com.br www.morofilmes.com

terence@mvmt.com www.media.mvmt.com

MPM Film (Movie Partners in Motion)

Netherlands Film and Television Academy 1011 MV,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 52277392
marion.slewe@ahk.nl

Memento Films

9, cit Paradis 75010,Paris France T: +33 1 53349020 F: +33 1 42471124

17, Rue Julien Lacroix 75020,Paris France T: +33 1 58535710 F: +33 1 42814250
info@mpmfilm.com www.mpmfilm.com

New Europe Film Sales

Slowicza 12/2 05-075,Warsaw Poland T: +48 66 6525788

sales@memento-films.com www.memento-films.com

Muoz, Jeannette

anja@neweuropefilmsales.com www.neweuropefilmsales.com

Men at Work

Gustoweg 15 3029 AR,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4733777 F: +31 10 2732492


info@menatwork.tv www.menatwork.tv

Stolzestrasse 18 8006,Zurich Switzerland T: +41 44 4003775


mutokino

Nikkatsu Corporation

jeannette.munoz@bluewin.ch

3-28-12 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku 113-0033,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 56891014 F: +81 3 56891044


t-hirayama@nikkatsu.co.jp www.nikkatsu.com

La Pampa 3098 1428,Buenos Aires Argentina T: +57 321 4325979


mutokino@gmail.com www.mutokino.com

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Michael, Sophie

23 Athenaeum Road Whetstone N20 9AA,London United Kingdom T: +44 7 947127024

Nagaoka Daisuke

sophie2km@aol.com www.sophiemichael.co.uk/

Asano Residence #201 Todoroki 2-29-7, Setagaya-ku 158-0082,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 37049272
gatt@qf7.so-net.ne.jp

Nippon Television Network 1-6-1 Higashi Shimbashi, Minato-ku 105-7444,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 62153028 F: +81 3 62153029
kimura-a.stf@ntv.co.jp www.ntv.co.jp

Michaelgion Inc.

East Plus 008 2-22-3 Higashi, Shibuya-ku 150-0011,Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 34980728
brian@michaelgion.jp

Narfilm

Noir Production

Ministre de la Communaut Franaise de Belgique

Caferaga Mah. Sarraf Ali Sok. No:25/3 Kadiky/Istanbul 34710,Istanbul Turkey T: +90 216 4184206 F: +90 216 3362634
info@narfilm.com www.narfilm.com

26 rue Damrmont 75018,Paris France T: +33 1 4484 9255

noirproduction@no-log.org

Norwegian Film Institute

boulevard Lopold 2, 44 1080,Bruxelles Belgium T: +32 2 4132228 F: +32 2 4132068


www.cfwb.be

Narkevicius, Deimantas

Karmelitu Str. 4-10 Lt-01306,Vilnius Lithuania T: +370 52 313978

P.O. Box 485 Sentrum N - 0105,Oslo Norway T: +47 2 2478045 F: +47 2 2474599
int@nfi.no www.nfi.no/english

Mirovision Inc.

deimantasn@gmail.com

O Som e a Fria

6Fl. Shinhwa Bldg 635-1 Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu 140-887,Seoul South Korea T: +82 2 34432553 F: +82 2 34434842
sales@mirovision.com www.mirovision.com

National Film Board of Canada

3155 Cote de Liesse H4N 2N4,Ville SaintLaurent, Qubec Canada T: +1 514 2833690 F: +1 514 4964372
festivals@nfb.ca www.nfb.ca

Av. Almirante Reis, 113, 5, sala 505 1150-014,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 2 13582518 F: +351 2 13582520

sales@osomeafuria.com www.osomeafuria.com

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ADDRESSES PRINT & SALES

Obala Art Centar

Zelenih Beretki 12 71000,Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina T: +387 33 209411 F: +387 71 664547
ivana.pekusic@sff.ba www.sff.ba

Pezon, Florence

20, rue de la folie-mericourt 75011,Paris France T: +31 6 61998395


zonpe@hotmail.com www.pointligneplan. com/i-would-prefer-not-t

Proaction Film

M. S. Ghnayem Str. 11118,Damascus Syria T: +963 11 3137391 F: +963 11 3137460

guevara@proactionfilm.com www.proactionfilm.com

Okrasko, Anna

Snoekstraat 29 B 3025 PM,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 47114519

Phi Group Inc

aniaokrasko@gmail.com www.okrasko.art.pl

356 Le Moyne street, suite 100 H2Y1Y3,Montreal, Quebec Canada T: +1 514 2122316
info@phi-montreal.com www.hope-movie.com

Protagonist Pictures

4th floor, Waverley House 7 - 12 Noel Street W1F 8GQ,London United Kingdom T: +44 207 7349000 F: +44 207 3068044

Oldenborgh, Wendelien van

Lloydstraat 17F 3024 EA,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4111120 F: +31 10 4111120


wvano@xs4all.nl

Picture Palace Pictures

PO Box 645 Prince Street Station NY 10012,New York USA T: +1 212 2523187

info@protagonistpictures.com www.protagonistpictures.com

Pryce, Charlotte

Olhos de Cao Producoes Cinematog

picturepalacesale@yahoo.com www.picturepalacepictures.com

2006 Vestal Avenue CA 90026,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 6673202


calipman@earthlink.net www.charlottepryce.net

R. Cajaba, 475 cj. 13 05025-000,Sao Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 38733126 F: +55 11 38733126

Pictures Dept. Co. Ltd.

olhosdecao@olhosdecao.com.br www.olhosdecao.com.br

1003-3-H, Horiuchi, Hayama, Miura 240-0112,Kanagawa Japan T: +81 80 12465869 F: +81 3 37059876

Public Television Service Foundation

Organic Films

festival-entry@picturesdept.com www.picturesdept.com

6th F, No.100, Lane 75, Sect. 3, Kang Ning Rd. 114,Taipei Taiwan T: +886 2 26301125 F: +886 2 26301895
PTSFestival@gmail.com www.eng.pts.org.tw

Bersenyevskaya naberezhnaya, 6 Building 3, 3rd floor 119072,Moscow Russia T: +7 495 6440301


info@organicfilms.ru www.organicfilms.ru

Pierre Grise Productions

52 rue Charlot 75003,Paris France T: +33 1 40279906 F: +33 1 40279716

Pythagoras Film

Pantalla Partida

pierre-grise-productions@ wanadoo.fr www.pierregriseproductions.com

1958 W. Walnut St. IL 60612,Chicago USA T: +1 312 2431227

delta@pythagorasfilm.com www.pythagorasfilm.com

C/ Francisca Conde 3, 3A 28029,Madrid Spain T: +34 91 4617151 F: +34 91 4617151


info@pantallapartida.es www.pantallapartida.es

Pigeon Projects

1332 boulevard Mont-Royal H2V 2J1,Outremont, Quebec Canada T: +1 718 5511990


info@pigeonprojects.com www.pigeonprojects.com

Rabbit Bandini Productions

441 Clermont Ave #2 NY 11238,Brooklyn USA T: +1 917 3741294

RabbitBandini@me.com www.rabbitbandinifilms.com

Paramount Pictures

5555 Melrose Ave, Sturges Bldg, Rm111 CA 90038,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 9565000
info@paramount.com www.paramount.com

Pilz, Michael

Teschnergasse 37/12 A-1180,Vienna Austria T: +43 1 4023392 F: +43 1 4023392


film@michaelpilz.at www.michaelpilz.at

Raio Verde Filmes

Rua Custdio Serro, 14/202 22470-230,Rio de Janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 22460385


alicefurtado.m@gmail.com

RAMONDAParis

Peerwar Pictures

99 Vandam St. 6th Floor West NY 10013,New York USA T: +1 646 7270573

Piraya Film AS

info@valleyofsaints.com www.ppls.tv

Kvitsygata 25 4014,Stavanger Norway T: +47 9 2225285 F: +47 5 1116337


torstein@piraya.no www.piraya.no

91, rue de Menilmontant 75020,Paris France T: +33 6 62013241


Ranaivojaona, Maeva

pascale@pascaleramonda.com

Pelletier, Marc

4215 de Brebeuf #401 H2J 3K6,Montreal Canada T: +1 514 7501081


Pennsula

Pistorio, Maxime

marcapelletier@hotmail.com

21 avenue des Villas 1060,Brussels Belgium T: +32 4 72353337

96, Boulevard de Charonne 75020,Paris France T: +33 6 21462167


Realitism Films

maeva.ranaivojaona@gmail.com

maximepistorio@gmail.com www.maximepistorio.com

Avda Nostin ES 15008,La Corua Spain T: +34 90 2105516

Pohle, Sascha

direccion@peninsulagroup.eu www.peninsula.eu

Louise Wentstraat 29 1018 MS,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 41815741

6, rue Chabanais 75002,Paris France T: +33 1 75438898 F: +33 1 49269684

info@realitism.com www.realitismfilms.com

saschapohle@yahoo.com

Reginato, Angela

Perisan Film

Kemankes Mah. Mumhane Cd. No: 39/1 34425,Istanbul Turkey T: +90 212 2438976 F: +90 212 2438976
info@perisanfilm.com www.perisanfilm.com

Principle Management

30-32 Sir Rogersons Quay Dublin 2,Dublin Ireland T: +353 1 6777330


Sally@numb.ie

1116 Magnolia Street CA 94607,Oakland USA T: +1 510 7592122

angela.reginato@gmail.com

Rendez-Vous Pictures Intl.

2, rue de la Durance 75012,Paris France T: +33 9 50707830 F: +33 1 40190773

contact@rendezvouspictures.com www.rendezvouspictures.com

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Republica Pureza Filmes

Rua Viva Lacerda 104 Humait 22261050,Rio de janeiro Brazil T: +55 21 25400609 F: +55 21 25400609

Russell, Ben

116 boulevard de Charonne #4 75020,Paris France T: +33 7 61984156


br@dimeshow.com www.dimeshow.com

Seideneder, Daniel

Wallstrasse 11 55122,Mainz Germany T: +49 6131 930473 F: +49 6131 9066532


info@seideneder.com www.dropout-films.de

ludwigmaia@gmail.com www.republicapureza.com.br

Sadak Chhaap Films

Rezo

29, rue du Faubourg Poissonire 75009,Paris France T: +33 1 42464630 F: +33 1 42464082

B-201, Shivling Apartment, Vrishi Complex, 400103,NOIDA India T: +91 9 810487699


carryonpd@gmail.com

SET Film Workshop

infosrezo@rezofilms.com www.rezofilms.com

Said, Tamer El

Jl.Bambu Kuning no.8 Blok. A Kebayoran Baru 12130,Jakarta Selatan Indonesia T: +62 21 72799227 F: +62 21 7229638
setworkshop_film@yahoo.com

Rijpma, Johan

Rijnlaan 55bis 3522BC,Utrecht Netherlands T: +31 20 7582351

18 Hoda Shaarawi St. 1123,Cairo Egypt T: +20 223 902710


Sato, Dachi

Sette, Leonardo

tamer@zeroproduction.org

Rua Conde dEu 64 / 1304 50050-470,Recife Brazil T: +55 81 30324864


leonardosette@gmail.com www.leosette.com

johanrijpma@hotmail.com www.johanrijpma.nl

Rise and Shine

5535, rue St-Dominique, #100 H2T 1V5,Montreal Canada T: +1 514 2701699


daichi_saito@yahoo.com www.doublenegativecollective. blogspot.com

Shady Lane Productions

Schlesische Strasse 29/30 10997,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 473729810


stefan.kloos@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.kloosundco.de

Leipziger Strasse 40 10117,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 60923976

Salaud Morisset Production

Riverpark Film

88 rue Armand Silvestre 92400,Courbevoie France T: +49 1 5225192336

info@shadylaneproductions.co.uk www.shadylaneproductions.co.uk

Sherif, Adham El

Delftsestraat 25 3013 AD,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4126506


info@riverpark.nl www.riverparkfilm.nl/

salaudmorissetproduction@ gmail.com www.salaudmorissetproduction. com

10 Nawal St Duki 002,Cairo Egypt T: +20 18 6018980


Shoji Hiroshi

adham.elsherif@ymail.com

Rivers, Ben

Samaha, Roy associationin@gmail.com www.galerietanit.com Sandler, Richard

34 Westbrook House E2 0PB,London United Kingdom T: +44 7817 580551


riversben@gmail.com www.benrivers.com

p.o. box 261 Willow NY 12495,New York USA T: +1 917 5140684

3-13-21-103 Minami-Gyotoku 272-0138,IchikawaCity, Chiba Japan T: +81 3 54748201


syozi711@yahoo.co.jp

Shoreline Entertainment

Rizk, Philip

6, road 208 Maadi Digla 11431,Cairo Egypt T: +20 1001604367

ohstop@bway.net www.richardsandler.com

Sansour, Larissa

rizkphilip@gmail.com www.tabulagaza.blogspot.com

28 Westland Place Flat 12 N1 7JH,London United Kingdom T: +44 7 975791456

1875 Century Park east, Ste.600 CA 90067,Los Angeles USA T: +1 310 5512060 F: +1 310 2010729

info@shorelineentertainment.com www.slefilms.com

Robinson, Michael

2462 West Danby Rd NY 14883,Spencer USA T: +1 607 3391072 F: +1 212 6756892

Lsansour@hotmail.com www.larissasansour.com

Short Shorts Film Festival Asia

Saouli, Salah

michaelblayneyrobinson@ hotmail.com www.poisonberries.net

Perleberger Strae 60 10559,Berlin Germany T: +49 30 3948141

2F Hirakawacho Urban Bldg., 2-4-8 Hirakawacho 102-0093,Chiyoda-ku Tokyo Japan T: +81 3 54748844 F: +81 3 52141956
look@shortshorts.org www.shortshorts.org

salahsaouli02@hotmail.com www.salahsaouli.com

Sine Olivia Pilipinas

Rohfilm GmbH

Office Leipzig: Eisenbahnstrasse 99 04315,Leizig Germany T: +49 30 499198880 F: +49 30 499198889


contact@rohfilm.de www.rohfilm.de

Saude, Marcy

5839 Harold Way #3 CA 90028,Los Angeles USA T: +1 415 3732760

marcysaude@gmail.com www.threecolorsallblack.org

Unit 307, Alicante Towers, Marquinton Residences, Sto. Nino 1800,Marikina City Philippines T: +63 920 2314708

lavrente@yahoo.com www.rebolusyonaryo.com

SC Films International

Rosenblatt, Jay

4159 20th Street CA 94114,San Francisco USA T: +1 415 6418220 F: +1 415 6418220

3A Lower James Street W1F 9EH,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 72871900

Siska associationin@gmail.com sixpackfilm

info@scfilmsinternational.com www.scfilmsinternational.com

jayr@jayrosenblattfilms.com www.jayrosenblattfilms.com

Schaller, Robert

Ruijter, Gerco de

Lloydstraat 11d 3024EA,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 22864728

1124 Ridge Road CO 80481,Ward USA T: +1 303 4591016

Neubaugasse 45/13 1070,Vienna Austria T: +43 1 5260990 F: +43 1 5260992

office@sixpackfilm.com www.sixpackfilm.com

robert@ontosmedia.com www.robertschaller.org

gcderuijter@orange.nl www.gercoderuijter.nl

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SNG Film BV

Van Hallstraat 52 1051 HH,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 6867837 F: +31 20 6824367


sngfilm@xs4all.nl www.sngfilm.nl

Studio Jens Assur

Eastmansvagen 12 11361,Stockholm Sweden T: +46 7 08111145

The Finnish Film Foundation

jens@assur.se www.studiojensassur.com

Kanavakatu 12 FI-00160,Helsinki Finland T: +358 9 62203030 F: +358 9 62203050


ses@ses.fi www.ses.fi

Soda Pictures

Sunn Productions

17 Blossom Street E1 6PL,London United Kingdom T: +44 20 73771407 F: +44 20 73771406

Istedgade 55, 1.th. 1650,Copenhagen Denmark T: +45 4090 1900


Superfilmes

The Match Factory GmbH

louise.johansen@gmail.com

info@sodapictures.com www.sodapictures.com

Balthasarstrasse 79-81 50670,Cologne Germany T: +49 221 5397090 F: +49 221 53970910

Sonoda, Eriko

C-202 Daini-shinmei corpoment house, 2992 Hino Hino-shi 191-0012,Tokyo Japan

Rua Simo lvares, 784 / Casa 2 05417-020,Sao Paulo Brazil T: +55 11 30315522 F: +55 11 38159474

info@matchfactory.de www.the-match-factory.com

Topkapi Films

eriko_sonoda@yahoo.co.jp www.erikosonoda.com/

super@superfilmes.com.br www.superfilmes.com.br

Rapenburgerstraat 123 1011 VL,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 3032494


info@topkapifilms.nl www.topkapifilms.nl

Sony Pictures Classics

Tachibanakan Executive Committee

550 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor NY 10022,New York USA T: +1 212 8338833 F: +1 212 8338844

2-15-11, Kyojima, Sumida-ku 131-0045,Tokyo Japan T: +81 80 31550571


yumiko.kimura@gmail.com

Trevisan, Joo Silvrio

Brazil T: +55 11 3258 5619


jstrevisan@uol.com.br

Triton co., ltd.

sony_classics@spe.sony.com www.sonyclassics.com

Taidelli, Tekla

Sparky Pictures

Planetarium Station, Box 136 NY 10024,New York USA T: +1 917 7496390


jennreeves@earthlink.net www.jenniferreevesfilm.com

via Ripamonti 44 20141,Milan Italy T: +39 02 8900634

teklataidelli@gmail.com www.teklataidelli.com

26 Sukhumvit 31, Sukhunvit road, 10110,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 2 6622777 F: +66 2 6622666

pump@tritonfilm.com www.tritonfilm..com

Takala, Pilvi

Spatial Media Laboratories

Hogerbeetsstraat 20C 3039XJ,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4143745

Tallberginkatu 1 C 76 00180,Helsinki Finland T: +358 40 5570321 of +31642852277


pilvi.takala@gmail.com www.av-arkki.fi

TrustNordisk

Filmbyen 28 2650,Hvidovre Denmark T: +45 36 868769 F: +45 36 868750

info@trustnordisk.com www.trustnordisk.com

info@spatialmedialabs.org www.spatialmedialabs.org

Takeuchi, Toshie

Netherlands
Tan Tan

Tseng, Lichun

Square Medium

toshietakeuchi@hotmail.com

123 Stoughton Street MA 02125,Boston USA T: +1 617 2911826


alvin.case@mac.com www.alvincase.com

Cronjestraat 55 3072XM,Rotterdam Netherlands


lichun.nov@gmail.com www.lichuntseng.com

Staal, Jonas

Bergpolderstraat 44a 3038 KH,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 14305309


contact@jonasstaal.nl www.jonasstaal.nl

No.38 Yumin Street, Shun Yi District, Room 905,Building No.1,Xiang Miwan Residential Quater 101300,Beijing China T: +86 10 80478290
sww56@126.com

Tuohy, Richard

36 Grant Street VIC 3460,Daylesford Australia T: +61 3 53484537

richard@nanolab.com.au

Tasaka Naoko

Steers, Stacey

1067 Latin Way CA 90065,Los Angeles USA T: +1 661 6449083


boconon88@yahoo.co.jp

Ultime razzia productions

517 Pine Street CO 80302,Boulder USA T: +1 303 4440102

81 rue de Moncheret 6280,Acoz Belgium T: +32 2 6496332 F: +32 2 6496332

Terratreme Filmes

stacey.steers@colorado.edu www.staceysteers.com

Rua Dom Duarte n3, 5Esq. 1100-198,Lisbon Portugal T: +351 2 12415754


joamatos@gmail.com www.terratreme.pt

urzzia@gmail.com www.facebook.com/ultimerazzia

United Star

Stichting Picos de Europa

Lloydstraat 17 G 3024 EA,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 22451577 F: +31 10 4253933

Thamrongrattanarit, Nawapol

Suite 11, 5/F, 37 Hung to RoadKwun Tong Hong Kong T: +852 6 1872119 F: +852 3 0173946

stichtingpicos@planet.nl www.cineboards.nl/2007/

Stichting Rongwrong

Pieter Holmstraat 28 1087 ZC,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 6 24988884 F: +31 20 6260275


rong@dds.nl www.rongwrong.net

29/9 Soi Intamara 26/1 Suthisarn Rd. Dindaeng 10400,Bangkok Thailand T: +66 2 6916770 F: +66 2 6916771

unitedstar@rocketmail.com

University of Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

nawee4@hotmail.com www.pop-pictures-ltd.com

Nazorjeva 3 SI 1000,Ljubljana Slovenia T: +386 6 1210412 F: +386 61 217433


ftv@agrft.uni-lj.si www.agrft.uni-lj.si

The Film Collaborative

418 Bamboo Lane, Suite A CA 90012,Los Angeles USA T: +1 323 2078323 F: +1 323 4663536
orly@thefilmcollaborative.org www.thefilmcollaborative.org

Upstream Gallery

Van Ostadestraat 294 1073 TW,Amsterdam Netherlands T: +31 20 4284284

info@upstreamgallery.nl www.upstreamgallery.nl

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Urban Distribution International

Yellow-Green Pi

14, rue du 18 Aot 93100,Montreuil sous Bois France T: +33 1 48707307 F: +33 1 49720421
contact@urbandistrib.com www.urbandistrib.com

Unit1, Rm151, No.4 Yunheyuan 101100,Beijing China T: +86 10 89520242 F: +86 10 89520242

ryujiotsuka@hotmail.com www.ygpi.org

Urlus, Esther

Postbus 25045 3001 HA,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4767832 F: +31 10 4781873


esther@worm.org www.worm.org

Yeo, Edmund

1-21-2, Wakeijuku, Tatsumi Ryo, Room 317, Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku 112-0015,Tokyo Japan T: +81 80 32495378
eswiftfire@gmail.com www.edmundyeo.com

V tape

401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 M5V 3A8,Toronto, ON Canada T: +1 416 3511317 F: +1 416 3511509
info@vtape.org www.vtape.org

YLE

Radiokatu 5 00240,Helsinki Finland T: +358 40 5741874 F: +358 9 68435232


fst@yle.fi www.yle.fi

Valday

Str. Pertrozavodskaya house 15 building 5 apartment 211 125502,Moscow Russia T: +7 495 7674952
apocref@gmail.com www.valdayfilms.com

Youkou Project

190 Tsugitaru 717-0415,Maniwa, Okayama Japan T: +81 80 50853876


info@hikarinooto.jp http://hikarinooto.jp

Veen, Joost van

Yu Guangyi

Raephorststraat 57a 3036 VC,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 4650277


joost@archefilm.nl www.archefilm.nl

Xin cun2-32-1-401 Daqing city Heilongjing Province 163000,DaQing China T: +86 4596361050
yuguangyi61@126.com

Video Data Bank (VDB)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan avenue IL 60603,Chicago USA T: +1 312 3453550 F: +1 312 5418073
distro@vdb.org www.vdb.org

Zapruder

Via Garibaldi 59 47020,Roncofreddo Italy T: +39 05 41949253


azapruder@libero.it www.zapruderie.com

ZBR Productions

Visual Arts Damascus

Syria

co/ Rut Karin Zettergren 16370,Spnga Sweden


zbr.productions@gmail.com www.zbrproduction.com

associationin@gmail.com

Weenink, Suzanne

Volmarijnstraat 137a 3021XN,Rotterdam Netherlands


suzmail@xs4all.nl

Zdjelar, Katarina

Wolphaertstraat 27C 3082 BK,Rotterdam Netherlands T: +31 10 7861886

Wide Management

40, rue Sainte-Anne 75002,Paris France T: +33 1 53950464 F: +33 1 53950465

zdjelar.k@gmail.com www.katarinazdjelar.net

Zenken Films Uganda Limited

infos@widemanagement.com www.eyeonfilms.org

P.O. Box, 14074Kampala Uganda T: +256 7 74202525


artzenken@yahoo.co.uk

Wild Bunch

Zhao Yantao

99, rue de la Verrerie 75004,Paris France T: +33 1 53104267 F: +33 1 53104269

distribution@wildbunch.eu www.wildbunch-distribution.com

Room 302, Unit 1, Building No.1 Fenjiu Group Xinhuacun communityFenyang city, Shanxi Province China T: +86 0358 7220599
zytwenger@yahoo.com

Wintertime Films

48 Lamb Street NSW 2040,Lilyfield Australia T: +61 2 98105271

Zhurzhenko, Olga

winterj@bigpond.net.au

Zakrevskogo, 22 02660,Kyiv Ukraine T: +380 93 1520745

olga.zhurzhenko@gmail.com

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Argentina

A La Cantbrica Abrir puertas y ventanas Cornelia frente al espejo Corta Historia del mal HISTRIAS que s existem quando lembradas Hoy no tuve miedo Papirosen
Australia

Black & White & Sex Etiennes Hand Hail The Hunter Matire grise
Austria

Adebar Apnoe Arcana Arnulf Rainer Conference (Notes on Film 05) Fragments of Kubelka Im Freien Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04) Joule Kreis Wr.Neustadt Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 Mosaik im Vertrauen Postcard from Somova, Romania Roman Diary Schwechater Stillleben Unsere Afrikareise Way of Passion
Azerbaijan

Girimunho HISTRIAS que s existem quando lembradas The Hyperwomen O imprio do desejo O insigne ficante Lilian M.: Relatrio confidencial A margem Neighbouring Sounds Oh! Rebuceteio A opo (ou: As rosas da estrada) Orgia (ou: O homem que deu cria) Ovos de dinossauro na sala de estar O porngrafo Praa Walt Disney Rnia Rat Fever Rua Aperana 52 Uma rua chamada triumpho (1969-1970) Uma rua chamada triumpho (1970-1971) Senta no meu, que eu entro na tua Snuff - Vitmas do prazer Sudoeste O vampiro da cinemateca Vereda tropical
Canada

Egg and Stone Fairytale Hello, Mr. Tree! The Interceptor from My Hometown Lost in the Mountain Old Dog One Old Man One Recluse Ordos 100 Rigid Regime The Road Toward Jokhang Sentimental Animal Shadow Life Shattered So Sorry The Unfinished History of Life When the Bough Breaks Whose Eyes
Colombia

Corta Pablo & Pozie


Cuba

Mila Caos
Czech Republic

Four Suns Into Oblivion Punk in Africa


Denmark

He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes


Belgium

38 tmoins Dimanches Lestate di Giacomo fancy-fair Les gants Histoire de mes cheveux Lhiver dernier The Invader Lyrische data Moving Stories Printed Matter Speech Act Standards
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Back to the Square BLA BLA A Dangerous Method Do I Belong? Hope Jouer Ponette Lacan Palestine Logbook Monsieur Lazhar Never a Foot Too Far, Even Un nuage dans un verre deau Nuit #1 The Patron Saints Pilgrimage Romance Sea Series #10 Square Dance Hypnotist The Ultimate Pranx Case Very Nice, Very Nice Une vie meilleure Woodcarver
Chile

Dolls: A Woman from Damascus Girl in the Water Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrdur Nelsdttir Play Scene Shifts, in Six Movements Tributes - Pulse
Egypt

Bodily Function
Brazil

A arca do den O bandido da luz vermelha Bete & Deise O convite ao prazer O despertar da besta Dois Doa Sonia Borrowed a Gun from Her Neighbor Alcides Duelo antes da noite Festa na Boca Fuk Fuk Brasileira

El arca De jueves a domingo La jubilada La maleta Verano Yo de aqu te estoy mirando


China

11 Flowers Apuda Bachelor Mountain Beijing 2003 Beijing: The Second Ring Beijing: The Third Ring Born in Beijing Changan Boulevard Disturbing the Peace

The A77A Project Adam Another Passion Bahari Blue Dive Caf Regular, Cairo Doors of Fear: El Naddaha Dreams of Hind and Camilia (Fragment) In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) In the Last Days of the City (Trailer) In/Out of the Room Kit Kat (Fragment) Local Copy Maydoum Neon Lamp One Eye Open Rant Remarks on a Square A Resident of the City Revolution Rice City Sturm: Ahmonseto Sturm: Fayoum
Ethiopia

My Name Is Feker

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Finland

Africa Among Others Blue Sky - Journey Into the Land of Memories The Count A Day at Karl Marxs Grave Drama of Time Eight Deadly Shots Helsinki, Forever Land of the Pharaohs The Last Summer 1944 Le Havre Man in the Shadows Olavi Virta Paavo Nurmi - The Man and His Times Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth Scene Shifts, in Six Movements SF - Paraati Sodankyl Forever: The Century of Cinema Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family The Story of Mikko Niskanen A Time of Roses Well The Year 1939 The Year 1952
France

Jardin du sel Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema Kaspar Film Louise Wimmer La maladie blanche Manque de preuves Le marais sauvage Le marin masqu Maurice Mourir auprs de toi Nana Un nuage dans un verre deau Par exemple, Electre Pipe Dreams Play Le reste du monde Retour de flamme Sacha lours Skoonheid Snow Canon Le songe de poliphile Sur la planche Le tempestaire Trait de bave et dternit Une vie meilleure Le voyage dans la lune Le voyage extraordinaire
Germany

Iceland

Blacks Game Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrdur Nelsdttir


India

Alms for the Blind Horse Carnival Dance of Ganesha The Golden Bird A Temple Valley of Saints
Indonesia

The Blindfold Parts of the Heart Shelter


Iran

Goodbye
Ireland

5000 Feet Is the Best A Dangerous Method Liberty Kids


Israel

A Free Moment Room 514 The Bands Visit Zamach


Italy

11 Flowers 38 tmoins 5000 Feet Is the Best Un amour de jeunesse Lanabase LApollonide - Souvenirs de la maison close Ballet aquatique Before Vanishing Big in Vietnam Bombes Corta Cross A Dangerous Method Dans le cadre Demain? Dernire sance Deux inconnus Domicile Duch, le matre des forges de lenfer Les clats (Ma gueule, ma rvolte, mon nom) Lestate di Giacomo Future Lasts Forever Les gants Glucose Hands Historia del mal HISTRIAS que s existem quando lembradas Lhiver dernier Home Movie Factory Hors saison Lhypothse du Mokl-Mbemb I Am the One Who Carries Flowers to Her Grave Il se peut que la beaut ait renforc notre rsolution - Masao Adachi

Ausreichend Bad Luck City A Dangerous Method Der Fluss war einst ein Mensch Future Lasts Forever Gangster Project Girimunho God Moves on the Water Hurdy Gurdy I Met Heine on the Rue Frstenberg The Loneliest Planet Map Mlis (Single Screen) Meteor Mila Caos Mondomanila Paulina, Franz & Maria Die Ruberin Scene Shifts, in Six Movements Superimposed Sad Totem Transparent Evil Unfair World Die Unsichtbare Voice of My Father Zima
Greece

Anna A arca do den Dellammazzare il maiale Lestate di Giacomo Joule La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser Un luogo a venire My Big-Assed Mother Piattaforma luna A Shape of Error Il silenzio di Pelesjan Lultimo terrestre
Japan

Alps L Unfair World


Hong Kong

Rigid Regime A Simple Life Twenty Dollars


Hungary

About the Pink Sky Ace Attorney Bonz did i? Dreams Ecosystem-6-A Sort of Mycelium Emblem Generator I Wish Ken and Kazu Kotoko Kyojima 3rd St., Sumida City Last Fragments of Winter Modern No.2 Ninifuni Sound of Life The Sound of Light Space Is the Place Tokyo Playboy Club Traces of Other Women on the Edge
Kenya

Kalah

Applied Theories of Expanding Minds

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Latvia

Radiotehnika
Lebanon

Bombes E.D.L. Master-Slave Dialectic Of Heroes, Football and All That Remains of My Childhood Out of Focus Pipe Dreams The Story of Milk and Honey The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni Transparent Evil Trespass the Salt
Lithuania

Restricted Sensation
Luxembourg

Les gants
Malaysia

Bunohan Girl in the Water I Want To Remember Im Lisa Last Fragments of Winter the meaning of style Survival Guide for Radioactive Village
Mexico

did i? Malaventura Miss Bala Polvo Los ltimos cristeros Who the Hell Is Juliette?
Morocco

Sur la planche
Myanmar

Return to Burma
Netherlands

#29 #3 544/544 (up/down) 7 Peaks Abrir puertas y ventanas El arca Bad Luck City Bete & Deise Commission De Bunker - Het Wennen Het Wachten - Het Licht De jueves a domingo Deep Red Designed Realities: Production Designer Carol Spier Dochters Elektrotechnique Eye Trap Field Notes from a Mine Forest-Views Four Moves De hemel is vierkant Horizontalen Im Still Alive Imagined Cinemas In Need of Space Interlude Jays Taste

Katya Kikkerdril Lena Letting Go Lighthouse The Living Room De magische tol Meet Your Stranger Monologue exterieur Motor Nacht-Licht Natural Beauty Nick Ning Nol King Ruter Pablo & Pozie Panman, Rhytm of the Palms Peace versus Justice Performance #1 & Disclaimer Ponskaart polonaise Printed Matter Reframing the Artist Reversals Rise Again The Rocketeer Saturday Shock Head Soul Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Francisco Lpez Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Jeroen Stout Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Katarina Zdjelar & Maziar Afrassiabi Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Lee Patterson Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: The City As Sound Space-Modulation Springtime Structuurverschillen van tijd en plaats Tamino Tampopo Head and the Name of the Dogs Tape Generations Thicker Than Paint Thinner De tijd Los ltimos cristeros Untitled/Tithed Vexed War Is Over Wavumba Zamach Zwerk
Netherlands Antilles

Paraguay

Isla Alta Viento sur


Philippines

Blank Boxing in the Philippine Islands Buenas noches, Espaa Century of Birthing Ex Press Florentina Hubaldo, CTE Mondomanila
Poland

It Looks Pretty from a Distance Saturday Tamino Zamach


Portugal

A arca do den Beyond the Mountains Cerro negro Demain? Incndio O nosso homem As ondas Palcios de Pena Silncio de dois sons A Womans Revenge
Romania

Glucose House Party Visiting Room


Russia

Chapiteau-show Hearts Boomerang Histoire de mes cheveux The Hunter Living Remember Twilight Portrait
Rwanda

Mama Matire grise


Serbia

Clip

Singapore

All the Lines Flow Out I Want To Remember Tatsumi


Slovenia

Duck Hunting
South Africa

Panman, Rhytm of the Palms


Nigeria

Gangster Project Punk in Africa Skoonheid


South Korea

Aishas Song
Norway

Back to the Square Everything Will Be OK King Curling Late and Deep Oslo, August 31st
Palestine

Black Dove The Day He Arrives A Fish Romance Joe Stateless Things
Spain

Trespass the Salt

Buenas noches, Espaa El cuaderno de barro Dress Rehearsal for Utopia Girimunho Hors saison Iceberg

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Maya Deren, Take Zero Mercado de futuros Els noms de Crist Los pasos dobles Restricted Sensation Ruled by Dead People Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Francisco Lpez
Suriname Sweden

United Kingdom

River Rites Applied Theories of Expanding Minds Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys Pipeline Play
Switzerland

Abrir puertas y ventanas El cuaderno de barro He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes Mlis (Single Screen) Los pasos dobles Romance Villatalla
Syria

Before Vanishing City of Emptiness Cousin Crack Dolls: A Woman from Damascus Dreams of the City Flint Mountains Foam I Am the One Who Carries Flowers to Her Grave On the Sand, Under the Sun The Right Side of That Road Silence Stone Bird The Suns Incubator They Were Here Two Cities and a Prison
Taiwan

20 Hz 99 Clerkenwell Road Africa Agatha Aishas Song Arrastre Babeldom Bobby Yeah Bradley Manning Had Secrets A Dangerous Method did i? Flash in the Metropolitan Goose Weather In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) Kill List Let England Shake Loss Maydoum Moxie Our Broken Voice Patience (After Sebald) Rise Again Sack Barrow Shame Shock Head Soul Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Lee Patterson The Sputnik Effect Trespass the Salt Two Years at Sea Weekend When the Lights Went Out Wuthering Heights
USA

My Big-Assed Mother Night Hunter Now, Forager: A Film About Love & Fungi An Oversimplification of Her Beauty Pablo Papirosen The Patron Saints The Pettifogger Polvo Radioactive City Reflect Remote Resonance The Return River Rites The Rodeo Trilogy Sangre de Cristo A Shape of Error small roads Surface Noise Taste Test Tributes - Pulse Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain Valley of Saints Village, Silenced Well Then There Now The Whirlpool

5f-2 After Dark Reflect Return to Burma


Thailand

15th Thai Short Film and Video Festival: Opener I Carried You Home In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys
Turkey

Future Lasts Forever The Search Voice of My Father


Uganda

That Small Piece


Ukraine

Gaamer

100 Meters Behind the Future 5000 Feet Is the Best All That She Surveys Alone with the Moon Arcana Caridea and Ichthyes The Comedy Compound Eyes Curious Light Damsels in Distress Day and Night The Descendants Empire of Evil Francophrenia (or: Dont Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) The Garden of Earthly Delights German Song The Great Northwest The Green Wave HotSpell Hugo I Swim Now Inquire Within It Looks Pretty from a Distance (k)now (t)here Landfill 16 Late and Deep Light Escapes Through the Intervals Line Describing Your Mom The Loneliest Planet Luma nocturna Mlis (Single Screen)

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fEATuRE LENgTh
WoRLD PREmIERE
38 tmoins
Lucas Belvaux (France, Belgium)

Roman Diary Room 514

Michael Pilz (Austria) Sharon Bar-Ziv (Israel)

Rua Aperana 52

A La Cantbrica Ace Attorney


Miike Takashi (Japan)

Jlio Bressane (Brazil)

Ezequiel Erriquez (Argentina)

A Shape of Error

Abigail Child (USA, Italy)

Back to the Square BLA BLA

Petr Lom (Norway, Canada) Vincent Morisset (Canada)

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: The City As Sound


(Netherlands) (Canada)

The Ultimate Pranx Case Voice of My Father Wavumba


Orhan Eskiky, Zeynel Dogan (Turkey, Germany) Jeroen van Velzen (Netherlands)

Blacks Game The Blindfold Carnival Clip

skar Thr Axelsson (Iceland) Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) Madhuja Mukherjee (India) Maja Milo (Serbia)

When the Lights Went Out


Pat Holden (United Kingdom)

Cornelia frente al espejo


Daniel Rosenfeld (Argentina)

INTERNATIoNAL PREmIERE
Black & White & Sex
John Winter (Australia)

Corta

Felipe Guerrero (Colombia, Argentina, France)

De jueves a domingo Demain?

Black Dove
Ma Li (China)

Dominga Sotomayor (Chile, Netherlands) Christine Laurent (France, Portugal)

Roh Gyeong-Tae (South Korea)

Born in Beijing Chapiteau-show The Comedy


Rick Alverson (USA) Sergey Loban (Russia)

Dress Rehearsal for Utopia


Andrs Duque (Spain)

Egg and Stone


Huang Ji (China)

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE


Lav Diaz (Philippines)

Eight Deadly Shots


Mikko Niskanen (Finland)

Fragments of Kubelka
Martina Kudlc ek (Austria)

Ex Press A Fish

Jet Leyco (Philippines) Park Hong-Min (South Korea)

Francophrenia (or: Dont Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)
Ian Olds, James Franco (USA)

Gaamer

Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrdur Nelsdttir The Hyperwomen Iceberg

Oleg Sentsov (Ukraine)

The Great Northwest


Matt McCormick (USA)

Orri Jnsson, Kristn Bjrk Kristjnsdttir, Ingibjrg Birgisdttir (Iceland, Denmark) Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, Takuma Kuikuro (Brazil) Gabriel Velzquez (Spain)

He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes


Eileen Hofer (Switzerland, Azerbaijan)

Im Still Alive

Peter van Houten (Netherlands)

The Interceptor from My Hometown


Zhang Zanbo (China)

In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire


Wichanon Somumjarn (Thailand)

It Looks Pretty from a Distance La jubilada


Jairo Boisier Olave (Chile)

Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland, USA)

Lacan Palestine
Davide Manuli (Italy)

Mike Hoolboom (Canada)

La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser Living


Vasily Sigarev (Russia)

Malaventura

Michel Lipkes (Mexico)

Mondomanila

Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines, Germany)

Neighbouring Sounds Nick


Fow Pyng Hu (Netherlands)

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty


Terence Nance (USA)

Kleber Mendona Filho (Brazil)

The Patron Saints Rnia

Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy (USA, Canada) Roberta Marques (Brazil)

Now, Forager: A Film About Love & Fungi


Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin (USA)

Ordos 100 Pablo

Rat Fever

Ai Weiwei (China) Richard Goldgewicht (USA)

Cludio Assis (Brazil)

Die Ruberin

Markus Busch (Germany)

Par exemple, Electre Parts of the Heart


Paul Agusta (Indonesia)

Romance Joe
Wu Quan (China)

Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Lon (France)

Lee Kwang-Kuk (South Korea)

Sentimental Animal The Sound of Light


Peter von Bagh (Finland) Yamasaki Juichiro (Japan)

Peace versus Justice Le reste du monde


Damien Odoul (France)

Klaartje Quirijns (Netherlands)

Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family

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The Story of Mikko Niskanen


Peter von Bagh (Finland)

Alone with the Moon


Peter Burr (USA)

That Small Piece Valley of Saints


Ji Dan (China)

JOSEph S KEN (Uganda) Musa Syeed (India, USA)

Bad Luck City Bete & Deise

Aaike Stuart (Netherlands, Germany) Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Netherlands, Brazil)

When the Bough Breaks The Whirlpool


Alvin Case (USA)

Big in Vietnam
Mati Diop (France)

Cerro negro Deep Red Dois

Joo Salaviza (Portugal) Esther Urlus (Netherlands) Thiago Ricarte (Brazil)

A Womans Revenge Women on the Edge

Rita Azevedo Gomes (Portugal) Kobayashi Masahiro (Japan)

Domicile

EuRoPEAN PREmIERE
About the Pink Sky Apuda
He Yuan (China) Kobayashi Keiichi (Japan)

Maeva Ranaivojaona (France)

Emblem

Hayama Rei (Japan)

Etiennes Hand

Richard Tuohy (Australia)

Bachelor Mountain
Yu Guangyi (China)

Field Notes from a Mine Glucose

Martijn van Boven, Tom Tlalim (Netherlands) Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize (France, Romania)

Bunohan

Dain Iskandar Said (Malaysia)

Four Suns

HotSpell

Bohdan Slma (Czech Republic)

George Kuchar (USA)

Future Lasts Forever The Hunter


Daniel Nettheim (Australia)

House Party

zcan Alper (Turkey, Germany, France)

Adrian Sitaru (Romania)

I Met Heine on the Rue Frstenberg


Andreas Rochholl (Germany)

I Carried You Home L


Babis Makridis (Greece)

Tongpong Chantarangkul (Thailand)

In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) Inquire Within


Jay Rosenblatt (USA)

Hala Elkoussy (Egypt, United Kingdom)

Lost in the Mountain


Gao Zipeng (China)

Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04)


Norbert Pfaffenbichler (Austria)

Un nuage dans un verre deau Punk in Africa

Srinath C. Samarasinghe (France, Canada) Keith Jones, Deon Maas (South Africa, Czech Republic)

Jardin du sel Jays Taste Letting Go

Rose Lowder (France) Hans Lein (Netherlands) Gerco de Ruijter (Netherlands)

Return to Burma small roads Sudoeste A Temple

Midi Z (Taiwan, Myanmar) James Benning (USA) Eduardo Nunes (Brazil) Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni (India)

Lighthouse Mama

Wouter Venema (Netherlands) Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana (Rwanda)

Le marais sauvage
Martin Drouot (France)

Tokyo Playboy Club


Okuda Yosuke (Japan)

Maya Deren, Take Zero the meaning of style


Phil Collins (Malaysia)

Gerard Gil Fargas, Jaime Ballada Larrasa (Spain)

Los ltimos cristeros


Cong Feng (China)

Matas Meyer (Mexico, Netherlands)

The Unfinished History of Life Visiting Room


Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean (Romania)

Meet Your Stranger

Sander Veenhof, Andr Freyssen (Netherlands)

Mlis (Single Screen) Motor

Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler (USA, Switzerland, Germany) Simone Bennett (Netherlands)

ShoRT fILmS
WoRLD PREmIERE
100 Meters Behind the Future
eteam (USA)

My Big-Assed Mother
Tekla Taidelli (USA, Italy) Dachi Sato (Canada)

Never a Foot Too Far, Even Ning


Lichun Tseng (Netherlands)

20 Hz #29

Semiconductor (United Kingdom) Jos Miguel Biscaya (Netherlands)

Nol King Ruter As ondas

Noud Heerkens (Netherlands) Miguel Fonseca (Portugal)

7 Peaks Africa

Anna Abrahams (Netherlands) Matti Harju (Finland, United Kingdom)

Pablo & Pozie Pilgrimage Polvo

Leo Verheul (Colombia, Netherlands) Marc Pelletier (Canada) Angela Reginato (USA, Mexico)

Agatha

Beatrice Gibson (United Kingdom)

All That She Surveys


Gary Mairs (USA)

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LIST of PREmIERES

Postcard from Somova, Romania


Andreas Horvath (Austria)

Beyond the Mountains


Aya Koretzky (Portugal)

Radioactive City Radiotehnika Remember Remote

Richard Sandler (USA) Elonore de Montesquiou (Latvia) Elonore de Montesquiou (Russia) Jesse McLean (USA)

Blank

Jet Leyco (Philippines)

Blue Dive

Mostafa Youssef (Egypt)

Bodily Function Bombes Bonz

Dane Komljen (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Sandra Ghosn (France, Lebanon) Shohei Tada (Japan)

Rigid Regime

Erkka Nissinen (Hong Kong, China)

The Rocketeer

Richard Raaphorst (Netherlands)

Bradley Manning Had Secrets


Adam Butcher (United Kingdom)

The Rodeo Trilogy Sacha lours Saturday

Kevin Jerome Everson (USA) Henri Desaunay (France) Anna Okrasko (Netherlands, Poland)

Caridea and Ichthyes


Paul Clipson (USA) Paul Clipson (USA)

Compound Eyes Cross


Maryna Vroda (France)

Scene Shifts, in Six Movements


Jani Ruscica (Finland, Germany, Denmark)

The Search So Sorry

De Bunker - Het Wennen - Het Wachten - Het Licht


Jonas Staal (Netherlands) Simone Massi (Italy)

Resit Baskin (Turkey) Ai Weiwei (China)

Dellammazzare il maiale Doa Sonia Borrowed a Gun from Her Neighbor Alcides
Gabriel Martins (Brazil) Ahmed Khaled (Egypt)

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Jeroen Stout


Jeroen Stout (Netherlands)

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Katarina Zdjelar & Maziar Afrassiabi


Katarina Zdjelar, Maziar Afrassiabi (Netherlands) Lee Patterson (United Kingdom)

Doors of Fear: El Naddaha E.D.L.


Siska (Lebanon)

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Lee Patterson Speech Act Springtime


Herman Asselberghs (Belgium) Jeroen Eisinga (Netherlands)

Everything Will Be OK Generator


Makino Takashi (Japan)

Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (Norway)

Square Dance Hypnotist


Allan Brown (Canada)

Girl in the Water Historia del mal Hors saison

Woo Ming Jin, Jeppe Rnde (Denmark, Malaysia) Benjamin Naishtat (Argentina, France) Victoria Saez (France, Spain)

Tamino

Eveline Ketterings (Netherlands, Poland)

Trespass the Salt Untitled/Tithed Vexed

Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala (Lebanon, Palestine, United Kingdom) Vicente Fita Botet (Netherlands) Telcosystems (Netherlands)

I Want To Remember Im Freien


Albert Sackl (Austria)

Sherman Ong (Singapore, Malaysia)

In the Last Days of the City (Trailer)


Tamer El Said (Egypt)

Viento sur Well

Paz Encina (Paraguay) Juha Mki-Jussila (Finland)

Into Oblivion

imon pidla (Czech Republic)

(k)now (t)here

Zima

Jang Hey-Yeun (USA)

Katarina Stankovic (Germany)

Kreis Wr.Neustadt
Johann Lurf (Austria)

INTERNATIoNAL PREmIERE
15th Thai Short Film and Video Festival: Opener 5f-2
Chung Lee (Taiwan) Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand)

Landfill 16

Jennifer Reeves (USA)

Light Escapes Through the Intervals


Tasaka Naoko (USA)

Line Describing Your Mom


Michael Robinson (USA)

Local Copy

Islam Kamal (Egypt)

Adam

La maladie blanche

Ali Heraize (Egypt)

Christelle Lheureux (France)

After Dark Apnoe

Master-Slave Dialectic
Paul Hage Boutros (Lebanon)

John Hsu (Taiwan) Harald Hund, Paul Horn (Austria)

Maurice

Patrick Kack-Brice (France)

Applied Theories of Expanding Minds


Rut Karin Zettergren, Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl (Kenya, Sweden)

Neon Lamp
Hai Bo (China)

Emad Maher (Egypt)

One Old Man Piattaforma luna


Yuri Ancarani (Italy)

Arcana

Henry Hills (Austria, USA)

Ballet aquatique
Ral Ruiz (France)

Rise Again

Katarina Zdjelar (Netherlands, United Kingdom)

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The Road Toward Jokhang


Zhao Yantao (China) Marcy Saude (USA)

Shadow Life
Cao Fei (China)

Sangre de Cristo Silncio de dois sons


Rita Figueiredo (Portugal) Pietro Marcello (Italy)

Shelter

Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia)

Le songe de poliphile
Camille Henrot (France) Eriko Sonoda (Japan)

Il silenzio di Pelesjan Survival Guide Untuk Kampong Radioaktif


Liew Seng Tat, Tan Chui Mui, Woo Ming Jin, Yeo Joonhan (Malaysia)

Space Is the Place Tape Generations Villatalla


Johan Rijpma (Netherlands) Jeannette Muoz (Switzerland)

Taste Test

Andrew Lampert (USA)

Transparent Evil

Well Then There Now


Lewis Klahr (USA)

Roy Samaha (Lebanon, Germany)

Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain


Robert Schaller (USA)

Village, Silenced Whose Eyes


Tan Tan (China)

Deborah Stratman (USA)

Woodcarver

Ehren BEARwitness Thomas (Canada)

Yo de aqu te estoy mirando


Felipe Glvez Haberle (Chile)

EuRoPEAN PREmIERE
99 Clerkenwell Road Arrastre
Sophie Michael (United Kingdom) Nicholas Brooks (United Kingdom)

Ausreichend Bahari

Isabel Prahl (Germany) Ahmed Ghoneimy (Egypt)

Caf Regular, Cairo


Ritesh Batra (Egypt)

Dance of Ganesha Dans le cadre Do I Belong? Dreams


Philippe Lasry (France) Joel Gibb (Canada)

Bikas Ranjan Mishra (India)

Keiichi Tanaami, Aihara Nobuhiro (Japan)

Empire of Evil

George Kuchar (USA)

Goose Weather Hands Hope


Bob Kohn (France)

Stephen Sutcliffe (United Kingdom)

Pedro Pires (Canada)

I Swim Now Im Lisa

Sarah Jane Biagini (USA) Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen (Malaysia)

Isla Alta

Federico Adorno (Paraguay)

Last Fragments of Winter


Edmund Yeo (Malaysia, Japan)

Logbook

Alex MacKenzie (Canada, Canada)

Night Hunter

Stacey Steers (USA)

Paulina, Franz & Maria


Ute Aurand (Germany)

A Resident of the City


Adham El Sherif (Egypt)

Resonance

Karen Johannesen (USA)

Ruled by Dead People


Delacrew (Spain)

Sea Series #10

John Price (Canada)

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INDEx DIREcToRS

bdel Sayed, Daoud 261 Abrahams, Anna 122 Abrantes, Gabriel 128 Achard, Laurent 84 Adorno, Federico 130 Afrassiabi, Babak 130 Afrassiabi, Maziar 288 Agusta, Paul 48 Ai Weiwei 272 276 Aihara Nobuhiro 178 Akerman, Karen 132 Alabdalla, Hala 247, 248 Alhamwi, Hazem 250, 251 Ali, Reem 249 Alper, zcan 49 Alsharif, Basma 252 lvarez, Mercedes 84 Alverson, Rick 85 Ancarani, Yuri 135 Arnold, Andrea 85 Asselberghs, Herman 218 Assis, Cludio 86 Assur, Jens 155 Atassi, Mohammad Ali 248 Aurand, Ute 127 Axelsson, skar Thr 24 Azevedo Gomes, Rita 86 Azma, Sherif El 260

Circumstance 286 Clipson, Paul 124 Cocia, Joaqun 44 Collins, Phil 40 Comodin, Alessandro 53 Cong Feng 268 Cortlund, Jason 54 Costa, Pedro 134 Courtin-Wilson, Amiel 54 Crpeau, Jeanne 207 Cronenberg, David 90 Cunha, Cludio Francisco 236, 238

Grifi, Alberto 206 Guerrero, Felipe 58 Gulbrandsen, Jonas Matzow 153 afez, Khaled 261 Hage Boutros, Paul 254 Hai Bo 277 Haigh, Andrew 58 Halperin, Julia 54 Hamilton, Omar Robert 258 Hamza, Dina 257 Han Jie 59 Hansen-Lve, Mia 94 Harju, Matti 166 Hassan, Nidal 251 Hayama Rei 138 He Yuan 269 Heerkens, Noud 186 Henrot, Camille 143 Heraize, Ali 253 Hermans, Christophe 157 Hermanus, Oliver 59 Heuninck, Elias 211 Hietbrink, Roderick 145 Hills, Henry 148 Hirayama Shiho 138 Hofer, Eileen 60 Holden, Pat 95 Hong Sang-Soo 95 Hoolboom, Mike 96 Horan, Devin 136 Horn, Paul 152 Horvath, Andreas 46 Houten, Peter van 96 Hsu Tsen-Chu 125 Hsu, John 141 Huang Ji 26 Hubbard, Teresa 217 Hui, Ann 97 Huis, Wouter 286 Hund, Harald 152 kon 253 Irwin, Stephen 172 Iskandar Said, Dain 97 Isou, Isidore 206

De La Cruz, Khavn 91
de Montesquiou, Elonore 134,159 Delacrew 161 Desaunay, Henri 171 Diaz, Lav 91, 92 Dietvorst, Jan 167 Diop, Mati 40, 156 Dogan, Zeynel 25 Dorsky, Nathaniel 128 Drouot, Martin 152 Duque, Andrs 55 Dutta, Amit 132

Bagh, Peter von 193 201 Bakuradze, Bakur 49 Balibar, Jeanne 50 Ballada Larrasa, Jaime 216 Bar-Ziv, Sharon 50 Bartana, Yael 133 Bartholl, Aram 285 Basbeth, Ismail 170 Baskin, Resit 170 Batra, Ritesh 171 Baudelaire, Eric 51 Beik, Ammar Al- 247, 250, 252 Belvaux, Lucas 87 Bennett, Simone 184 Benning, James 88 Benning, Sadie 164 Bergendahl, Lena 178 Biagini, Sarah Jane 136 Bicek, Rok 151 Birchler, Alexander 217 Birgisdttir, Ingibjrg 60 Biscaya, Jos Miguel 149 Blonk, Matthijs 219 Blue, Tim 162 Blutch 205 Boisier Olave, Jairo 51 Bonello, Bertrand 88 Boven, Martijn van 43 Brakhage, Stan 222 Bressane, Jlio 89 Bromberg, Serge 207, 210 Brooks, Nicholas 165 Brown, Allan 139 Bnger, Erik 161 Burger, Joerg 89 Burr, Peter 165 Busch, Markus 52 Bush, Paul 204 Butcher, Adam 149 ahn, Simon 172 Callegaro, Joo 233 Campolina, Clarissa 65 Candeias, Ozualdo R. 232, 233, 237 Cao Fei 41 Case, Alvin 52 Cassidy, Brian M. 76 Chantarangkul, Tongpong 53 Cherri, Ali 255 Child, Abigail 90 Chlala, Youmna 255

Baciu, Alexandru 87

Edkins, Teboho 147

Efrat, Eitan 141 Einsiedel, Orlando von 146 Eisinga, Jeroen 41 Elkoussy, Hala 43, 260 mond, Anne 55 Encina, Paz 123 Endresen, Ole 56 Epstein, Jean 212 Erriquez, Ezequiel 56 Eskiky, Orhan 25 eteam 284 Everdingen, Francien van 223 Everson, Kevin Jerome 225 Evron, Nir 143

Farah, Rami 251 Fast, Omer 46 Fausto, Carlos 75 Felix, Marcelo 57 Ferrando-Giraut, David 158 Ferreira, Jairo 235 Figueiredo, Rita 172 Fita Botet, Vicente 185 Flatform 122 Foighel Brutmann, Sirah 141 Fonseca, Miguel 41 Fow Pyng Hu 93 Fraga, Ody 239 Franco, James 110 Freyssen, Andr 285 Fund, Ivn 93 Furtado, Alice 154

Falardeau, Philippe 92

Jacobs, Ken 224, 226

Jang Hey-Yeun 137 Jaroszewski, Julie 126, 177 Jarva, Risto 199 Jeiroudi, Diana El 247 Ji Dan 269 Johannesen, Karen 137 Jones, Keith 98 Jnsson, Orri 60 Jonze, Spike 172 Jurkiewicz, Marta 140

Glvez Haberle,

Felipe 155 Gao Zipeng 268 Garret, Jean 239 Gee, Grant 94 George, Sylvain 57 Ghazzi, Reem 249 Ghoneimy, Ahmed 154 Ghosn, Sandra 254 Gibb, Joel 162 Gibson, Beatrice 45 Gil Fargas, Gerard 216 Girardet, Christoph 138 Gleize, Thibault 123 Goldgewicht, Richard 209 Gondry, Michel 283 Gorani, Joude 250 Grandrieux, Philippe 208 Grecu, Mihai 123

aadan, Soudade 249 Kack-Brice, Patrick 225 Kahn, Cdric 98 Kamal, Islam 259 Katainen, Elina 195 Kaurismki, Aki 99 Keiichi Tanaami 178 KEN, JOSEph S 61 Ketterings, Eveline 173 Khaled, Ahmed 261 Khan, Hassan 260 Khan, Mohammed 257 Khomeriki, Nikolay 99 Khoo, Eric 100 Khouri, Walter Hugo 237 Kilani, Lela 61 Kim Kyung-Mook 100 Kimura, Yumiko 131 Klahr, Lewis 62, 148 Kobayashi Keiichi 62 Kobayashi Masahiro 101 Kodeih, Lynn 253 Kohn, Bob 163 Koike Teruo 220

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Komljen, Dane 166 Kore-eda Hirokazu 101 Koretzky, Aya 134 Koski, Markku 197 Kristjnsdttir, Kristn Bjrk 60 Kruip, Germaine 283 Krummacher, Jessica 63 Kubelka, Peter 215, 216 Kuchar, George 214 Kudlc ek, Martina 209 Kuikuro, Takuma 75 Kulkarni, Umesh Vinayak 102 Kwon, Hayoun 44

Morisset, Vincent 284 Morrison, Bill 211 Mukherjee, Madhuja 68, 205 Mller, Matthias 138 Mumenthaler, Milagros 69 Muoz, Jeannette 127 Muntean, Radu 87 Murat, Julia 69 Murphy, Seamus 127 agaoka Daisuke 129 Naishtat, Benjamin 129 Nance, Terence 70 Naranjo Gonzalez, Gerardo 108 Narkevicius, Deimantas 44 Nashashibi, Rosalind 218 Nettheim, Daniel 108 Newman, Chris 160 Nikonova, Angelina 70 Niskanen, Mikko 198 Nissinen, Erkka 145 Norta, Yrj 199 Nshimiyimana, Jean Bosco 147 Nugroho, Garin 109 Nunes, Eduardo 32 doul, Damien 109 Okrasko, Anna 185 Okuda Yosuke 33 Oldenborgh, Wendelien van 174 Olds, Ian 110 Oliveira, Sergio 139 Ong, Sherman 142 stlund, Ruben 110

Rompaey, Christophe Van 73 Rosenblatt, Jay 129 Rosenfeld, Daniel 114 Rosier, Valery 176 Rowley, Paul 162 Rnde, Jeppe 169 Ruhorahoza, Kivu 73 Ruijter, Gerco de 185 Ruiz, Ral 213 Ruscica, Jani 42 Russell, Ben 148

Sackl, Albert 40

Lam See Chit 142 Lampert, Andrew 162 Lange, Eric 210 Lanners, Bouli 103 Lanthimos, Yorgos 104 Lasry, Philippe 173 Laurent, Christine 104 Lee Kwang-Kuk 27 Lee, Chung 142 Lehman, Boris 105 Lein, Hans 184 Len, Cristbal 44 Lon, Pierre 50 Lernert & Sander 141, 164 Letourneur, Sophie 157 Leyco, Jet 63, 173 Lheureux, Christelle 45 Lieshout, Erik van 146 Liew Seng Tat 168 Lim Lay Kuen, Charlotte 43 Lim Yi Yong, Charles 144 Lipkes, Michel 64 Lipsett, Arthur 161 Loban, Sergey 64 Loktev, Julia 105 Lom, Petr 262 Lopes, Miguel Seabra 132 Lpez, Fransisco 287 Lowder, Rose 165 Lurf, Johann 144 a Li 270 Maas, Deon 98 Maher, Emad 259 Mairs, Gary 123 Maisala, Pertti 201 Mki-Jussila, Juha 163 Makino Takashi 42 Makridis, Babis 28 Malas, Mohamad 246, 248 Manuli, Davide 106 Marcello, Pietro 217 Mariko, Tetsuya 131 Marins Jr., Helvcio 65 Marques, Roberta 65 Martin, Raya 106, 174 Martins, Gabriel 154 Massadian, Valrie 66 Massi, Simone 139 Maurer, Dora 219 McCormick, Matt 66 McLean, Jesse 149 McQueen, Steve 67 Meise, Sebastian 67 Mlis, Georges 210 Mendona Filho, Kleber 29 Mennegun, Cyril 68 Metwaly, Jasmina 256 Meyer, Matas 107 Michael, Sophie 125 Midi Z 30 Miike Takashi 107 Milo , Maja 31 Mishra, Bikas Ranjan 175 Mizue, Mirai 145 Mohr, Thomas 140 Mojica Marins, Jos 234 Morgan, Robert 46

Lacuesta, Isaki 102, 103

Pacinotti, Gianni 71

Paetau, Simon 151 Palm, Michael 71 Panh, Rithy 111 Park Hong-Min 34 Patterson, Lee 287 Payne, Alexander 111 Pedro de Andrade, Joaquim 236 Pelletier, Marc 137 Pezon, Florence 151 Pfaffenbichler, Norbert 225, 226 Pfeiffer, Daniel 176 Philips, David 162 Pilz, Michael 112 Pinheiro, Renata 139 Pires, Pedro 174 Pistorio, Maxime 126, 177 Pohle, Sascha 286 Prahl, Isabel 153 Price, John 126 Provost, Nicolas 72, 135 Pryce, Charlotte 126 Pummell, Simon 112, 288

Quirijns, Klaartje 113 Raaphorst, Richard 186

Radcliff, Christopher 178 Rainsford, Jennifer 178 Ranaivojaona, Maeva 155 Ranocchi, Nadia 150 Rasoulof, Mohammad 113 Reeves, Jennifer 158 Reginato, Angela 143 Reichenbach, Carlos 235, 238 Rekveld, Joost 220 Ricarte, Thiago 175 Rijpma, Johan 164 Rivers, Ben 72, 165 Rizk, Philip 257, 258 Robinson, Michael 135 Rochholl, Andreas 122 Roh Gyeong-Tae 114

Saez, Victoria 157 Said, Tamer El 258 Sato, Dachi 125 Salaviza, Joo 152 Samaha, Roy 252 Samarasinghe, Srinath C. 74 Sandler, Richard 166 Sansour, Larissa 255 Saouli, Salah 256 Sarchielli, Massimo 206 Sasnal, Anka 35 Sasnal, Wilhelm 35 Saude, Marcy 128 Sawa Hiraki 159 Schaller, Robert 136 Schmidt, Daniel 128 Schneider, James June 212 Schwizgebel, Georges 176 Schwochow, Christian 115 Scorsese, Martin 208 Seideneder, Daniel 176 Semiconductor 159 Sentsov, Oleg 74 Serra, Albert 115 Sette, Leonardo 75 Sganzerla, Rogrio 232 Shank, John 75 Shatzky, Melanie 76 Sheikh Khudr, Ali 250 Sherif, Adham El 171 Shohei Tada 177 Shoji Hiroshi 131 Sigarev, Vasily 36 Singh, Gurvinder 76 Siska 254 Sitaru, Adrian 177 Skaer, Lucy 218 Sky-David 222 Slma, Bohdan 116 Solnicki, Gastn 77 Somumjarn, Wichanon 37 Sonoda, Eriko 158 Sotomayor, Dominga 38 pidla, Simon 167 Staal, Jonas 133 Stankovic, Katarina 124 Steers, Stacey 224 Stephan, Rania 262 Stillman, Whit 116 Stout, Jeroen 287 Strand, Liv 160 Stratman, Deborah 226 Struycken, Peter 218 Stuart, Aaike 186 Sutcliffe, Stephen 224 Syeed, Musa 77

aidelli, Tekla 177 Takala, Pilvi 284 Takeuchi, Toshie 140 Tan Chui Mui 168 Tan Tan 277 Tasaka Naoko 45 Telcosystems 150 Thamrongrattanarit, Nawapol 168 Thomas, Ehren BEARwitness 163 Tierney, Moira 162 Tlalim, Tom 43

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Toetenel, Francisca 184 Torres Leiva, Jos Luis 117 Trevisan, Joo Silvrio 234 Trier, Joachim 78 Tseden, Pema 117 Tseng, Lichun 187 Tsitos, Filippos 118 Tsukamoto Shinya 118 Tuohy, Richard 137

ang Xiaoshuai 119 Wheatley, Ben 79 Wiertz, Karin 221 Winter, John 80 Wolkstein, Lauren 178 Woo Ming Jin 168, 169 Wu Quan 80

Urban, Rafael 42
Urlus, Esther 125 Veenhof, Sander 285 Vegter, Bart 219 223 Vehkalahti, Iikka 195 Velzquez, Gabriel 119 Velzen, Jeroen van 78 Venema, Wouter 150 Verbeek, Jacques 221 Verheul, Leo 187 Villevoye, Roy 167 Voignier, Marie 79 Vroda, Maryna 156

Xu Tong 270 Yamasaki Juichiro 81


Yeo Joon-han 168 Yeo, Edmund 169 Yossry, Heba 259 Youssef, Mostafa 259 Yu Guangyi 271

Veen, Joost van 160, 223

Zabeil, Jan 81

Zamagni, David 150 Zdjelar, Katarina 133, 288 Zettergren, Rut Karin 178 Zhang Zanbo 271 Zhao Yantao 277

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100 Meters Behind the Future 284 11 Flowers 119 15th Thai Short Film and Video Festival: Opener 168 20 Hz 159 38 Witnesses 87 38 tmoins 87 5000 Feet Is the Best 46 544/544 (up/down) 140 5f-2 142 7 Peaks 122 99 Clerkenwell Road 125 #29 149 #3 220

A La Cantbrica 56

A to A 144 A77A Project, The 261 About Killing the Pig 139 About the Pink Sky 62 Abrir puertas y ventanas 69 Abwab al khouf: El Naddaha 261 Ace Attorney 107 Adam 253 Adebar 215 Adikos Kosmos 118 Africa 166 Afrikka 166 After Dark 141 Agatha 45 Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (Fragment) 257 Ahlam al-Madinah 246 Aishas Song 146 Ajan draama 200 Akataka 61 Akhtifaat Soad Hosni ath-thalathat 262 Al bahth an madina - fi awraaq Sein 43, 260 All That She Surveys 123 All the Lines Flow Out 144 Alms for the Blind Horse 76 Alone with the Moon 165 Alpeis 104 Alps 104 Amma Lo-fi 60 Among Others 284 amour de jeunesse, Un 94 Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha 247 Anabase, L 51 Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and the 27 Years Without Images, The 51 Anhey ghorhey da daan 76 Anna 206 Another Passion 259 Apnoe 152 Apollonide - Souvenirs de la maison close, L 88 Applied Theories of Expanding Minds 178 Apuda 269 Apuda de shouhou 269 arca do den, A 57 Arca, El 44 Arcana 148 Ark, The 44 Arnulf Rainer 215 Arrastre 165 Assassination 133 Ausreichend 153 Average 153 Awakening of the Beast 234

BLA BLA 284 Black & White & Sex 80 Black Dove 114 Blacks Game 24 Blank 173 Blindfold, The 109 Blue Dive 259 Blue Sky - Journey Into the Land of Memories 197 Bobby Yeah 46 Bodily Function 166 Bombes 254 Bombs 254 Bonz 177 Born in Beijing 270 Boxing in the Philippine Islands 174 Bradley Manning Had Secrets 149 Buenas noches, Espaa 106 Buk-chon-bang-hyang 95 Bunker - The Habituation - The Wait - The Light, The 133 Bunohan 97 B omid didar 113 af Regular, Cairo 171 Caridea and Ichthyes 124 Carnival 68 Celluloid Brushes 204 Century of Birthing 91 Cerro negro 152 Changan Boulevard 275 Chapiteau-show 64 Chefu 177 Chromotherapeutic Strips 124 Cinematic Tributes to Musicians 126 City of Emptiness 250 Clay Diaries, The 103 Clip 31 Closer Reading 127 Cloud in a Glass of Water, A 74 Comedy, The 85 Commission 146 Compound Eyes 124 Conference (Notes on Film 05) 226 Confiseries et jouets 204 convite ao prazer, O 237 Cornelia at Her Mirror 114 Cornelia frente al espejo 114 Corta 58 Count, The 198 Cousin 248 Crack 249 Cracks in the Shell 115 Cross 156 Cross Country 156 Crumbled Papers, Fragments of Cinema 205 Ctyri slunce 116 cuaderno de barro, El 103 Curious Light 126

Dakhal kharag el gorfa 257

abamin sesi 25 Babeldom 204 Bachelor Mountain 271 Back to Stay 69 Back to the Square 262 Bad Luck City 186 Bahari 154 Ballet aquatique 213 bandido da luz vermelha, O 232 Beauty 59 Before Vanishing 250 Behind Walls 248 Behind the Scenes 122 Beijing 2003 276 Beijing: The Second Ring 274 Beijing: The Third Ring 275 Bete & Deise 174 Better Life, A 98 Beyond the Mountains 134 Big in Vietnam 40 Bitter Sweet and Golden 123

Damsels in Distress 116 Dance of Ganesha 175 Dangerous Method, A 90 Dans le cadre 173 Daughters 140 Day He Arrives, The 95 Day and Night 226 Day at Karl Marxs Grave, A 200 De Bunker - Het Wennen - Het Wachten - Het Licht 133 De jueves a domingo 38 Deep Red 125 Dellammazzare il maiale 139 Demain? 104 Deool 102 Dernire sance 84 Descendants, The 111 Designed Realities: Production Designer Carol Spier 285 despertar da besta, O 234 Deux inconnus 178 Did i? 159 Dig! Dig! Dig! 128 Dig! Dig! Dig! 181 Dimanches 176 Dinosaur Eggs in the Living Room 42 Disturbing the Peace 273 Do I Belong? 162 Dochters 140 Dois 175

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Dolls: A Woman from Damascus 247 Domicile 155 Dong tian zui hou de sui pian 169 Doors of Fear: El Naddaha 261 Double Steps, The 102 Doa Sonia Borrowed a Gun from Her Neighbor Alcides 154 Drama of Time 200 Draud iami jausmai 44 Dreams 178 Dreams of Hind and Camilia (Fragment) 257 Dreams of the City 246 Dress Rehearsal for Utopia 55 Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell 111 Duch, le matre des forges de lenfer 111 Duck Hunting 151 Duel Before Nightfall 154 Duelo antes da noite 154 Dust 143 .D.L. 254 Echoes from the Past 129 clats (Ma gueule, ma rvolte, mon nom), Les 57 Ecosystem-6-A Sort of Mycelium 220 Edens Ark 57 Egg and Stone 26 Egyptian Timelines 1 257 Egyptian Timelines 2 258 Egyptian Timelines 3 260 Eight Deadly Shots 198 Electra, for Instance 50 Elektrotechnique 164 Emblem 138 Empire of Desire/Sensual Anarchy, The 238 Empire of Evil 214 Ensayo final para utopia 55 Eshk akhar 259 estate di Giacomo, L 53 Etiennes Hand 137 Everything Will Be OK 153 Ex Press 63 Excitement of Stealing 131 Extraordinary Voyage, The 210 Eye Trap 283 aaraoiden maa 200 Fairytale 274 Fancy-fair 157 Fawqa al-raml, tahta al-shams 248 Febre do rato 86 Festa na Boca 233 Field Notes from a Mine 43 Fire 132 Fish, A 34 Flash in the Metropolitan 218 Flint Mountains 251 Flip Collection II, The 205 Florentina Hubaldo, CTE 92 Fluss war einst ein Mensch, Der 81 Foam 249 Follow the Path 132 For a Better World 133 Forest-Views 222 Four Moves 222 Four Suns 116 Fragments (My Mouth, My Revolt, My Name), The 57 Fragments of Kubelka 209 Francophrenia (or: Dont Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) 110 Free Moment, A 143 Fuk Fuk Brazilian Style 239 Fuk Fuk Brasileira 239 Future Lasts Forever 49 Futures Market 84

Golden Bird, The 132 Goodbye 113 Goodbye First Love 94 Goose Weather 224 Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrdur Nelsdttir 60 Great Northwest, The 66 Green Wave, The 224 Grey Matter 73 Guanggun 271 Gui lai de ren 30 Gyakuten Saiban 107 gants, Les 103 adinat al shams 252 Hail 54 Hands 163 He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes 60 Hearts Boomerang 99 Hello, Mr. Tree! 59 Hello, Shu Xian Sheng! 59 Helsinki, Forever 194 Helsinki, ikuisesti 194 hemel is vierkant, De 221 High Island 130 Hikari no oto 81 hiper mulheres, As 75 Histoire de mes cheveux 105 Historia del mal 129 HISTRIAS que s existem quando lembradas 69 hiver dernier, L 75 Home Movie Factory 283 Homelandsssss 134 Hope 174 Horizontalen 219 Hors saison 157 HotSpell 214 House Party 177 House of Tolerance 88 Hoy no tuve miedo 93 Hugo 208 Hunter, The 108 Hunter, The 49 Hurdy Gurdy 176 Hyperwomen, The 75 hypothse du Mokl-Mbemb, L 79 Am Always Looking from Here 155 I Am the One Who Carries Flowers to Her Grave 247 I Carried You Home 53 I Met Heine on the Rue Frstenberg 122 I Swim Now 136 I Want To Remember 142 I Wish 101 Im Lisa 43 Im Still Alive 96 Ibn al am 248 Iceberg 119 Il se peut que la beaut ait renforc notre rsolution - Masao Adachi 208 Im Freien 40 Imagined Cinemas 285 Imprio do desejo, O 238 In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire 37 In Dreams 135 In Memoriam Bart Vegter 205 In Need of Space 219 In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein) 43, 260 In the Frame 173 In the Last Days of the City (Trailer) 258 In the Open 40 In/Out of the Room 257 Incndio 132 Innahum kanu hun 250 Inquire Within 129 Insig Nificant, The 235 insigne ficante, O 235 Interceptor from My Hometown, The 271 Interlude 223 Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04) 225 Into Oblivion 167 Invader, The 72 Invitation to Pleasure 237 Isla Alta 130 It Looks Pretty from a Distance 35

Gaamer 74

Gangster Project 147 Garden of Earthly Delights, The 222 Gelecek uzun srer 49 Generator 42 George Kuchar: Wrap Party 214 Gerays 170 German Song 164 Ghaliz-tar az tiner 130 Giants, The 103 Girigiri no onnatachi 101 Girimunho 65 Girl in the Water 169 Glucose 123 God Moves on the Water 161

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It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi 208 Its Immaterial 136

Jardin du sel 165

Jays Taste 184 Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema 212 Jibal alsawan 251 Jidan he shitou 26 Jing sheng 270 Jouer Ponette 207 Joule 150 jubilada, La 51 Jultak dongshi 100 Kaivo 163 Kalah 219 Kaspar Film 151 Katya 184 Ken and Kazu 131 Khyi rgan 117 Kill List 79 Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys 155 King Curling 56 Kiseki 101 Kit Kat (Fragment) 261 Klip 31 Kong Curling 56 Kong shan yi 268 Kotoko 118 Kreis Wr.Neustadt 144 Kreivi 198 Kubelka Films 215 Kyojima 3rd St., Sumida City 131 Kta 184 (k)now (t)here 137

Kahdeksan surmanluotia 198

marais sauvage, Le 152 margem, A 232 Margin, The 232 marin masqu, Le 157 Master-Slave Dialectic 254 Masters Voice, The 216 Mata tertutup 109 Matire grise 73 Maurice 225 Maya Deren, Take Zero 216 Maydoum 258 meaning of style, the 40 Meet Your Stranger 285 Mercado de futuros 84 Meteor 138 Mies varjossa 195 Mikko Niskanen - Ohjaaja matkalla ihmiseksi 194 Mila Caos 151 Miss Bala 108 Modern No.2 145 Mokele-Mbembe Hypothesis, The 79 Momoiro sorawo 62 Mondomanila 91 Monologue exterieur 223 Monsieur Lazhar 92 Mother 147 Motor 184 Mourir auprs de toi 172 Moving Stories 135 Moxie 172 Mrtva trat 167 Mulgogi 34 My Big-Assed Mother 177 My Name Is Feker 146 Mlis (Single Screen) 217

NL International 140

Lacan Palestine 96 Lack of Evidence 44 Land of the Pharaohs 200 Landfill 16 158 Lao Tang tou 270 Last Christeros, The 107 Last Fragments of Winter 169 Last Man on Earth, The 71 Last Summer 1944, The 196 Last Winter 75 Lastuja - Taiteilijasuvun vuosisata 193 Late and Deep 136 Le Havre 99 Legend of Kaspar Hauser, The 106 leggenda di Kaspar Hauser, La 106 Lena 73 Let England Shake 127 Letting Go 185 Liberty Kids 162 Lifes Full of Wonders 138 Light Escapes Through the Intervals 45 Lighthouse 150 Lilian M.: Confidential Report 235 Lilian M.: Relatrio confidencial 235 Line Describing Your Mom 135 Living 36 Living Room, The 145 Local Copy 259 Loneliest Planet, The 105 Loss 158 Lost in the Mountain 268 Louise Wimmer 68 Lov na race 151 Low Definition Control - Malfunctions #0 71 Luma nocturna 222 luogo a venire, Un 122 Lyrical Data 211 Lyrische data 211

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Naach Ganesh 175 Nacht-Licht 220 Names of Christ, The 115 Nana 66 Natural Beauty 141 Neighbouring Sounds 29 Neon Lamp 259 Never a Foot Too Far, Even 125 Nick 93 Night #1 55 Night Hunter 224 Nighttime Light 222 Ning 187 Ninifuni 131 Nol King Ruter 186 noms de Crist, Els 115 Nosskha shabeyya 259 Nothing Without a Woman or a Girl 141 Now, Forager: A Film About Love & Fungi 54 nuage dans un verre deau, Un 74 Nuit #1 55

Made in Rotterdam 1 184


Made in Rotterdam 2 186 Madeenatain wa sijn 249 Madinat al faragh 250 Magic top, The 160 magische tol, De 160 maladie blanche, La 45 Malaventura 64 maleta, La 213 Mama 147 Man in the Shadows 195 Manque de preuves 44 Map 285

nosso homem 134 O som ao redor 29 Of Heroes, Football and All That Remains of My Childhood 253 Off Season 157 Oh! Rebuceteio 238 Okhotnik 49 Olavi Virta 201 Old Dog 117 On Venom and Eternity 206 On the Edge 61 On the Move 143 On the Sand, Under the Sun 248 ondas, As 41 One Eye Open 253 One Old Man 277 One Recluse 273 Option (or: The Roses on the Highway), The 237 opo (ou: As rosas da estrada), A 237 Ordinary Madness 145 Ordos 100 272 Orgia (ou: O homem que deu cria) 234 Orgy (or: The Man Who Gave Birth) 234 Oslo, 31. august 78 Oslo, August 31st 78 Our Broken Voice 286 Our Man 134 Our Trip to Africa 216 Out and About Africa 146 Out of Focus 256 Oversimplification of Her Beauty, An 70 Ovos de dinossauro na sala de estar 42

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Paavo Nurmi - The Man and His Times 197 Pablo 209 Pablo & Pozie 187 Pablo and Poetry 187 Padang besar 53 Palaces of Pity 128 Palcios de Pena 128 Papirosen 77 Par exemple, Electre 50 Parts of the Heart 48 Party at the Boca 233 pasos dobles, Los 102 Patience (After Sebald) 94 Patlang 173 Patron Saints, The 76 Paulina, Franz & Maria 127 Peace versus Justice 113 Performance #1 & Disclaimer 286 Pettifogger, The 62 Piattaforma luna 135 Pilgrimage 137 Pipe Dreams 255 Pipeline 160 Place to Come, A 122 Platform Moon 135 Play 110 Playing Ponette 207 Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth 201 Pockpicket eli katkelmia helsinkilisen porvarisnuoren elmst 201 Polvo 143 Ponskaart polonaise 219 Pornographer, The 233 porngrafo, O 233 Portret v sumerkakh 70 Postcard from Somova, Romania 46 Pour en finir avec le cinma 205 Praa Walt Disney 139 Preludes 170 Printed Matter 141 Punk in Africa 98 Puzzled 148 Piv Karl Marxin haudalla 200 adioactive City 166 Radiotehnika 159 Rant 260 Rat Fever 86 Red Light Bandit, The 232 Reflect 125 Reframing the Artist 286 Remarks on a Square 256 Remember 134 Remote 149 Resident of the City, A 171 Resonance 137 Rest of the World, The 109 reste du monde, Le 109 Restricted Sensation 44 Retired, The 51 Retour de flamme 207 Return to Burma 30 Return to Murder 97 Return, The 128 REVERBERATIONS 217 Reversals 221 Revolution 261 Rice City 260 Right Side of That Road, The 250 Rigid Regime 145 Rise Again 133 River Rites 148 River Used to Be a Man, The 81 Ro-men-seu Jo 27 Road Toward Jokhang, The 277 Rocketeer, The 186 Rodeo Trilogy, The 225 Roman Diary 112 Romance 176 Romance Joe 27 Room 514 50 Rough 52 Rua Aperana 52 89 rua chamada triumpho (1969-1970), Uma 233 rua chamada triumpho (1970-1971), Uma 233 Ruled by Dead People 161 Ruusujen aika 199 Rnia 65 Ruberin, Die 52

Paavo Nurmi - Mies ja aika 197

SF - Paraati 199

Sacha lours 171 Sacha the Bear 171 Sack Barrow 165 Salt Garden 165 Samt 251 Sangre de Cristo 128 Saturday 185 Saved from the Flames 207 Scene Shifts, in Six Movements 42 Schwechater 215 Sea Series #10 126 Search, The 170 Secret Codes 149 Senta no meu, que eu entro na tua 239 Sentimental Animal 80 Serdca bumerang 99 Shadow Life 41 Shady Sailor, The 157 Shame 67 Shape of Error, A 90 Shapito-shou 64 Shattered 270 Shelter 170 Shifting Shores 1 252 Shifting Shores 2 253 Shock Head Soul 112 Short Circuit 150 Short Stories: Family Ties 151 Short Stories: Friend or Foe 152 Short Stories: Power and Politics 154 Short Stories: Surprising Mysteries 155 Short Stories: Womens Destiny 157 Short Syrian Documentaries 1 249 Short Syrian Documentaries 2 250 Short Syrian Documentaries 3 251 Siglo ng pagluluwal 91 Signal Lost and Found 158 Silence 251 Silence of Peleshian, The 217 Silence of Two Sounds 172 silenzio di Pelesjan, Il 217 Silncio de dois sons 172 Simple Life, A 97 Sin maysar fon tok ma proi proi 37 Sinitaivas - Matka muistojen maisemaan 197 Sit on Mine and I Will Enter Yours 239 Skoonheid 59 Small roads 88 Snow Canon 156 Snuff - Victims of Pleasure 236 Snuff - Vitmas do prazer 236 So Sorry 272 Sobota 185 Sodankyl Forever: The Century of Cinema 193 Sodankyl ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata 193 Sonchidi 132 songe de poliphile, Le 143 Sound Bites 160 Sound of Life 138 Sound of Light, The 81 Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Francisco Lpez 287 Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Jeroen Stout 287 Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Katarina Zdjelar & Maziar Afrassiabi 288 Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Lee Patterson 287 Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: The City As Sound 288 Southwest 32 Space Is the Place 158 Space and Time: The Abstract Films of Bart Vegter 1 218 Space and Time: The Abstract Films of Bart Vegter 2 221 Space-Modulation 220 Speech Act 218 Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family 193 Springtime 41 Sputnik Effect, The 288 Square Dance Hypnotist 139 Square Shape of Heaven 221 Standards 126, 177 Stateless Things 100 Still Life 67 Stillleben 67 Stone Bird 251 STORIES Only Exist When Remembered 69 Story of Mikko Niskanen, The 194 Story of Milk and Honey, The 252 Story of My Hair 105

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Strange Ones, The 178 Street Called Triumph (1969-1970), A 233 Street Called Triumph (1970-1971), A 233 Strife of Love in a Dream, The 143 Structural Principles 164 Structuurverschillen van tijd en plaats 218 Sturm: Ahmonseto 257 Sturm: Fayoum 258 Sudoeste 32 Sumidaku Kyojima San-chome 131 Summer of Giacomo 53 Summertime 117 Suns Incubator, The 252 Sundays 176 Superimposed Sad 160 Sur la planche 61 Surface Noise 162 Survival Guide for Radioactive Village 168 Survival Guide untuk Kampong Radioaktif 168 Svartur leik 24 Swirl 65 ales and Two Cities 166 Tamino 173 Tampopo Head and the Name of the Dogs 140 Tao jie 97 Tape Generations 164 Taste Test 162 Tatsumi 100 Tempest: Poem on the Sea, The 212 tempestaire, Le 212 Temple, A 102 That Small Piece 61 They Were Here 250 Thicker Than Paint Thinner 130 Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni, The 262 Thursday Till Sunday 38 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 1 40 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2 41 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 3 42 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 4 44 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 5 45 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 6 46 Tijd, De 221 Time of Roses, A 199 Tjelesna funkcija 166 To Die By Your Side 172 To La Cantbrica 56 Today I Felt no Fear 93 Tokyo Playboy Club 33 Totem 63 Traces 167 Traces of Other 129 Trait de bave et dternit 206 Transparent Evil 252 Trespass the Salt 255 Tributes - Pulse 211 Trip to the Moon, A 210 Tropical Path 236 Twenty Dollars 142 Twilight Portrait 70 Two 175 Two Cities and a Prison 249 Two Years at Sea 72 ltimate Pranx Case, The 48 ultimo terrestre, L 71 ltimos cristeros, Los 107 Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain 136 Unfair World 118 Unfinished History of Life, The 268 Unsere Afrikareise 216 Unsichtbare, Die 115 Untitled/Tithed 185 usine de films amateurs, L 283

Vorbitor 87 voyage dans la lune, Le 210 voyage extraordinaire, Le 210 Vuosi 1939 195 Vuosi 1952 196 aiting for Snow in My Kampong 168 Walt Disney Square 139 War Is Over 167 Watashi no konseki 129 Waves, The 41 Waving Back 224 Wavumba 78 Way of Passion 89 Weekend 58 Wei chao 269 Well 163 Well Then There Now 148 When the Bough Breaks 269 When the Lights Went Out 95 Whirlpool, The 52 White Disease, The 45 Whose Eyes 277 Wild Swamp, The 152 Wind from the South, A 123 Womans Revenge, A 86 Women on the Edge 101 Woodcarver 163 WORMyWOOD 179 WORMyWOOD: Friday 27 179 WORMyWOOD: Friday 3 180 WORMyWOOD: Monday 30 179 WORMyWOOD: Saturday 28 179 WORMyWOOD: Sunday 29 179 WORMyWOOD: Thursday 2 180 WORMyWOOD: Tuesday 31 180 WORMyWOOD: Wednesday 1 180 Wuthering Heights 85

Yama no anata 134

Year 1939, The 195 Year 1952, The 196 Yo de aqu te estoy mirando 155 You yi zhong jing jiao zhuang yan 271 Zabad 249 Zamach 133 Zhit 36 Zima 124 Zwerk 223

Z daleka widok jest piekny 35

Valley of Saints 77

Vampire of the Cinematheque, The 235 vampiro da cinemateca, O 235 Verano 117 Vereda tropical 236 Very Nice, Very Nice 161 Vexed 150 vie meilleure, Une 98 Viento sur 123 Viimeinen kes 1944 196 Village, Silenced 226 Villatalla 127 vingana de uma mulher, A 86 Visiting Room 87 Voice of My Father 25

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41ST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM


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Tales and Two Cities
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SH Peter von Bagh Lifes Fullfor of TS SH Echoes from the for Puzzled Bitter Sweet and SH SH SH LantarenVenster 3 10:00 A Shape of 12:15 12:30 14:45 15:00 17:15 20:15 20:30 Timelines 1 Competition Tiger Awards SP SH PB SP Felipe Guerrero Dominga Sotomayor Play Traces The Story of Mikko Niskanen 14:45 17:30 Short Films 6 LantarenVenster 1 Abigail Child Lilian M.:Tiger Relatrio 15:15 17:00 Egyptian compila19:15 Corta 21:45 BF HH 70 73 113 83 178 Wonders for Past Golden The Hunter When the Bough Breaks Woman or a Girl Awards PC BF TG TS MG De jueves a domingo Short Films 5 16:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 22:00 23:00 24:00 compilation prog. LantarenVenster 2 Error Competition 74 72 69 von Bagh 21:00 96 Ruben stlund compilation prog. Peter Confidencial LantarenVenster 3 Timelines tion 1 prog. Competition compilation prog. compilation prog. for 76 compilation compilation prog. 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SH SH SH SH SH SP Jet Leyco Temple Secret Codes Dig! Dig! 10:30 Way of Passion 16:45 The Whirlpool 20:00 20:15 21:45 Matire22:30 programma LantarenVenster 2 compilation prog. and Competition for Voice Friend or Foe Tiger Awards 10:00 15:00 17:30 146 59 PC 82 70 83TS 98 BF SP 12:15 Power BF Oude Luxor grise compilation prog. compilation Back to thePolitics Short Stories: The BF Masters Nothing Without 10:00 VPRO SH RG Previewdag Ex Press prog. LantarenVenster 3 Scenes Petr Lom compilation prog. compilation prog. a 83 SH 90 verzamel83 84 84 90 Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni compilation prog. compilation prog. 810 Films 1 prog. LantarenVenster 5 Competition compilation compilation prog. 86 100 80 85 Square prog. Womens Destiny Woman or a Girl 21:30 Joerg Burger Alvin CaseShort Kivu compilation Ruhorahozaprog. compilation LantarenVenster 1 programma Oude Luxor 2 compilation 9:30 Dimanches 12:00 Follow 14:30 A Resident of the City PC 17:00 Signal 19:30 NL International 146 82 70 98 Lost and prog. 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Michael Palm 85/ Julia 95 75 Jason Cortlund Halperin Mukherjee 82 90 61 93 104 104 72 10:00 M. Shatzky / B.Cassidy Nuit #1 SP Wonders Control Malfunctions #0 Four Suns Serge Bromberg compilation prog. from a Distance compilation prog. Path 4 About Love & Fungi Cludio Assis Dominga Sotomayor Buenas noches, Espaa LantarenVenster 2 Patron Saints Musa Syeed Garin NugrohoAki Kaurismki Madhuja Mohammad Rasoulof Kivu Ruhorahoza Path09:00 7 Cinerama 3 Anne mond 102 compilation Bohdan Slma11:00 Palm 420 85 95 75 69 AnkaJason & Wilhelm Sasnal 14:45 Short 17:15 Michael 20:00 22:30 93 110 90 96 LantarenVenster 2 Mondomanila 85/ Julia77 95 75 69 Raya Martin Cortlund Halperin Mukherjee Tiger Awards George Kuchar: Ordinary 82 That Small Piece 90 61 Stories: 93 104 104 72 RG SH TS SH SP BF M. Shatzky /prog. B.Cassidy 105 Competition for Wrap Party SP Surprising Mysteries Madness My Big-Assed Mother 12:45 Une 15:45 Four 18:45 Tokyo Playboy 21:45 Demain? 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Oude Luxor
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Rotterdam op zijn breedst. Het festival selecteerde actueel, krachtig en vernieuwend werk uit 16:00 alle windstreken, van veteranen tot minder bekende regisseurs.

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21:45 When the Lights Went Out 22:15 Shame


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80 Shock Head Soul Simon Pummell 97 19:45 A Womans Revenge Azevedo Gomes BF The Rita Sound of Light 69 Yamasaki Juichiro

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The Count Bagh TG Egg and Stone Peter von Huang Ji 13:30 Goodbye 97 Mohammad Rasoulof 12:30 Return to Burma TG Midi Z
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Path 7 Path 5
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My Father Eileen Hofer Orhan Eskiky / 85 110 Wuthering Heights Zeynel DoganSP Andrea Arnold 16:30 Alps SP 130 Yorgos Lanthimos 104 15:30 Living TG Vasily Sigarev 15:45 He Was a Giant BF

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Pat Holden 80 85 22:30 Valley of Saints SP The Blindfold Garin Nugroho Musa Syeed 22:00 Sudoeste A Womans Revenge SP 102 Rita Azevedo Gomes Eduardo Nunes 100 19:45 The Unfinished History of Life Cong Feng 21:00 Abrir puertas y TG BF
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Eileen Hofer BF Weekend Andrew Haigh 15:00 Wuthering Heights Andrea Arnold 96 97 12:30 Dolls 15:00 Women on the Edge PC SP El Jeiroudi Kobayashi Masahiro 12:30 Diana 15:30 Living Return to Burma TG 53 Midi Z Vasily Sigarev 77 84 15:00 Egyptian Timelines 2 PC Deux inconnus compilationBF prog. 14:15 Weekend BF Die Ruberin Andrew Haigh 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 Markus Busch 106 96 12:45 Excitement of Stealing SH 15:00 Sentimental Animal HH compilation Quan on the Edge SP 12:30 Dolls 15:00 Wu PC prog. Women 152 98 Diana El Jeiroudi Kobayashi Masahiro
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Fairytale Terence Nance

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Wu Quan

Le Havre Wavumba Public Screenings Thursday 26 January

9:45

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152 12:15

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98 14:45

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La leggenda di SP Kaspar Hauser 15:30 Uma rua chamada triumpho

Davide Manuli A margem

14:00 PC

300

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120

Oceans of Cinema 16:00

Jeanne Crpeau 92 SP Im Still Alive Peter van Houten 18:15 Uma rua chamada triumpho 86 O porngrafo 17:00 18:00 19:00 Joo Callegaro 107 Le reste du 17:30 monde SP

Nick J. Schneider + Le tempestaire Fow Pyng Hu

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Dreams of the City Mohamad Malas


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existem quando lembradas Lee Kwang-Kuk

LantarenVenster 5 Path 3
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Ai Weiwei
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Twilight Portrait Angelina Nikonova 11 Flowers Wang Xiaoshuai

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Baciu / R. Muntean 11:30 The Hyperwomen BF 09:30 Jouer Ponette 89 95 83 78 RG Schouwburg Ruben stlund Dain Iskandar Said Alberto Grifi / Massimo Sarchielli Khavn De La Cruz Cinerama 6 various directors Jeanne Crpeau Path 5 10:15 Unfair World 13:15 He Was a Giant 16:00 UPCinema-dag 22:15 Ace Attorney Grote Zaal 113 97 BF SP SP 225 75 80 92 with Brown Eyes Filippos Tsitos Miike Takashi Path 3 13:00 Lhiver dernier 16:00 19:00 19:15 21:45 22:00 SP BF BF SP BF in Distress Lultimo terrestre Totem Hail 09:45 The Invader 12:00 Alms 14:30 BF 16:45 18:30 L hiver Eileen Hofer It Looks Pretty 118 for the Blind 85 350 Goodbye BF BF TG BF Horse Hearts Boomerang SP Damsels dernier John Shank Whit Stillman Gianni Pacinotti Mohammad Rasoulof Jessica Krummacher Amiel Courtin-Wilson from a Distance Path 1 LantarenVenster Nicolas Provost Gurvinder Singh Nikolay Khomeriki John Shank Cinerama 2 15:00 Hugo 17:30 The 20:00 Hello, Mr.96 22:15 A Simple Life 103 92 SP BF 86 104 104 SP Descendants Tree! 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Lon69 117 83 94 93 75 80 Ian Olds / Kore-eda Hirokazu skar Thor Axelsson Path 5 13:15 22:15 16:00 14:45 17:15 20:00 22:30 He Was a Giant BF SP SP Tiger Awards George Kuchar: Short Stories: Ordinary 09:30 Splinters 10:15 11:15 SH TS RG SH Unfair World UPCinema-dag Ace Attorney James Franco -A PB SP 128 100 69 Demain? with Brown Eyes Competition for Wrap Party Surprising Mysteries Madness Century of an Artistic Filippos Tsitos Miike Takashi Christine Laurent Path 3 LantarenVenster 5 of Time 12:15 118 15:15 In prog. 18:15 Patience 21:15 Drama April the Following Short Films 1 Eileen Hofer TG SP compilationPB prog. Family Peter von Bagh 74 compilation prog. 85 compilation 350 Living 95 85 TG 80 (After 80 79 Year, There Was a Sebald) A Time of Roses Vasily Sigarev Path 6 20:00 14:45 15:00 17:15 17:30 19:30 Short 22:00 22:15 10:00 Parts of the Heart 12:00 11 Flowers SP BF SP RG Waving Back On the Wichanon Fire Waiting for Snow in Somumjarn Stories: RG Gee SH SH SH Hugo The Descendants Hello, Mr. Tree! A Move Simple Life BF SP Grant Risto Jarva 119 80 82 123 My Kampong Power and Politics compilation prog. compilation prog. Martin Scorsese Alexander Payne Han Jie Ann Hui Paul Agusta Wang Xiaoshuai Path 4 LantarenVenster 5 6 9:30 Monsieur Lazhar 12:30 L 15:30 18:30 Hearts 21:30 88 TG110 SP prog. SP SP compilation prog. compilation 115 117 Neighbouring Boomerang Miss Bala 89 Sounds TG 126 TG 79 86 74 90 Philippe Falardeau Babis Makridis Kleber Mendona Filho Nikolay Khomeriki Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez Path 7 15:45 I Wish 21:45 22:00 17:00 NL Francophrenia SP Cinematic SP SH SH 18:45 Blacks 19:30 Game International Trait de bave 94 86 100 124 96TG et dternit RG 113 Tributes Ian Olds / to Musicians Kore-eda Hirokazu skar Thor Axelsson compilation prog. Isidore Isou Path 5 LantarenVenster 6 9:15 Bonz 11:45 Hail 14:15 Chapiteau-show 19:45 The Hyperwomen 22:30 Gaamer James Franco BF BF BF BF BF compilation prog. 69 128 100 86 120 72

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Oude Luxor

Rotterdam op zijn breedst. Het festival selecteerde actueel, krachtig en vernieuwend werk uit alle windstreken, van veteranen tot minder bekende regisseurs.

16:30 16:30

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Bohdan Slma 95 75 He Arrives cristeros 85 69 RG AnneMichael mondPalm 420 Bakur Bakuradze Sasnal 14:45 20:00 Tiger Awards 22:30 93 77 17:15 110 90 96 Raya einst Martin George Kuchar: Short Stories: Ordinary SH TS SH 105 Jan Zabeil Michael Palm BF Hong Sang-Soo Matas Meyer 83 11:30 79 95 An Oversimplification 91 123 14:00 Die Ruberin 16:15 18:30 18:45 20:30 Punk 22:15 Mercado Competition for in 90 Wrap Party RG BF BF20:00 SP SP Surprising Mysteries Madness My Big-Assed Mother A arca do den Africa de futuros 9:45 12:45 Une 15:45 Four 21:45 17:15 Ordinary BF Pablo SP14:45 Short SP TG Awards SP 9:15 Now, 13:15 19:45Club 22:30 George vie meilleure Tokyo Playboy Demain? Tiger Kuchar: Stories: SH TS RG SH Suns Forager: A Film BF PB BF MG Eight Deadly Shots Weekend Oh! Rebuceteio of Her Beauty Short Films 1 Jones / compilation prog. compilation prog. compilation prog. 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Press & Industry Screenings Thursday 2 February

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Lyrische data 12:00 Histoire 14:30 Short Syrian 17:00 Wavumba 18:15 21:15 SP PC 16:15 BF Dress Rehearsal SP RG BF 19:45 small BF 23:00 roads 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 de mes 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 24:00 Matire grise cheveux Documentaries 2 for Utopia Tributes Pulse Jeroen van Velzen James Benning Kivu Ruhorahoza LantarenVenster Path 6 Boris Lehman compilation prog. 16:45 Moxie 19:30 75 22:15 Snuff: Vitmas Andrs Duque 90 89 103 Bill Morrison 70 104 do prazer MG SP SP76 Bunohan Kotoko Dain Iskandar Said Cludio Francisco Cunha Oude Luxor 15:30 The Invader 18:30 Les gants 21:30 Skoonheid SP BF BF Tsukamoto Shinya 97 97 109 Nicolas Provost Bouli Lanners Oliver Hermanus Path 7 20:00 22:30 Louise Wimmer 95 84 Shame 99 BF BF de Doelen Steve McQueen Cyril Mennegun 17:00 Stateless Things 19:45 Hoy no tuve miedo SP SP Jurriaanse Zaal 99 80 Kim Kyung-Mook 18:00 Ivn Fund Cinerama 1 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 19:00 Souvenirs 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 24:00 dois sons 13:30 Silncio de 16:15 18:45 LApollonide 21:30 Pablo de la SP 115 122 BF SP RG Hearts Boomerang Schouwburg maison close Girimunho Nikolay Richard Goldgewicht Moxie O vampiro da cinemateca 16:45Khomeriki 19:30 19:45 22:15 Snuff: Vitmas do prazer MG 17:00 SP SP MG HH Bunohan When the Bough122 Breaks H. Marins Jr. / C. Campolina Bertrand Bonello Grote Zaal 104 96 103 Kotoko O insigne ficante DainJi Iskandar Cludio Francisco Cunha Dan Said Oude Luxor Cinerama 4 13:00 La jubilada 16:00 King CurlingTsukamoto 18:30 Shinya 97 Miss Bala 97 21:30 Surprise Film 109 Jairo BF Ferreira SP SP BF 120 144 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 24:00 Jairo Boisier Olave Ole Endresen 17:00 Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez Path 1 Vereda tropical 19:45 20:00 22:15 22:30 BF BF MG BF Shame Louise Wimmer The Hunter Snuff: Vitmas 83 113 90 do prazer MG 09:45 Egg and Stone 12:00 Voice of My Father TG 14:00 Ace Attorney 17:00 Rat 75 de Doelen TG SP SP Fever O despertar da besta Steve McQueen Cyril Mennegun Bakur Bakuradze Cludio Francisco Cunha Cinerama 5 de Doelen Olavi Virta Huang Ji the Edge SP Orhan Eskiky / Miike Takashi 09:30 Women 12:30 15:30 18:30 A Womans 21:30 Hoy Jurriaanse Zaal 99 no tuve miedo 80 Mojica Marins PB PB Cludio Assis SP SP 123 RevengeJos 111 109 on The Year 1952 Zeynel Dogan Jurriaanse Zaal 97 87 135 110 Paavo Nurmi Kobayashi Masahiro Peter von Bagh Rita Azevedo Gomes Ivn Fund Path 2 13:30 Silncio de dois sons 16:15 18:45 20:00 Mondomanila LApollonide Souvenirs de la SP BF 15:30 Anna SP RG SP 21:30 Pablo RG Boomerang 101 120 91 100 122 Peter von BaghHearts / M. Koski 10:00 Sur la planche Schouwburg BF maison close Girimunho Nikolay Khomeriki Richard Goldgewicht Alberto Grifi / Massimo Sarchielli Khavn De La Cruz Cinerama 6 Lela Alms Kilani for the Blind Horse BF H. le Marins Jr. des / C. Campolina 10:15 13:15 Duch, 16:15 The Day He 19:15 Bonello 22:15 La leggenda di 103 Bertrand Grote Zaal Path 4 matre 104 96 122 SP SP SP SP 225 75 The Descendants 106 forges de lenfer Arrives Kaspar Hauser Gurvinder Singh Alexander Payne Path 3 13:00 La jubilada 16:00 King Curling 18:30 Miss Bala 21:30 21:45 19:15 Totem SP SP BF BF BF Surprise Hail Film Rithy Panh Hong Sang-Soo BF Davide Manuli 117 103 79 115 90 09:30 Cornelia frente 12:00 Une SP SP vie meilleure Jairo Boisier Olave Ole Endresen Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez Jessica Krummacher Amiel Courtin-Wilson Path 1 LantarenVenster al espejo 10:30 Hello, Mr. Tree! 13:30 A Fish 16:30 Mourir auprs ... 19:30 Blacks Game 113 22:30 The Ultimate Path 5 83 75 BF 90 TG TG BF Cdric Kahn 86 104BF Daniel Rosenfeld 100 110 The Pettifogger Pranx Case Han Jie Park Hong-Min skar Thor Axelsson Path 4 09:30 Women on the Edge 12:30 The Year 1952 15:30 Olavi Virta 21:30 15:00 Homelandsssss 17:15 Low Definition 18:30 ABF 20:15 Short Circuit PB SP Full of SH Hoy no 22:15 SHSP SH Womans Revenge SP tuve Lifes miedo LewisPB Klahr 88 105 71 100 80 10:00 TG Wonders Control Malfunctions #0 Azevedo Gomes Paavo compilation prog. KobayashiL Masahiro Peter von Bagh Rita Ivn Fund compilation prog. Nurmi Path 6 2 LantarenVenster Babis Makridis 12:45 Les clats (Ma 15:45 18:45 The 21:45 Path April the / Following compilation prog. SP SP122 BF Michael Palm 101 120 100 PeterIn von Bagh M. 85 Koski TG 91 95 Comedy 75 69 Die Unsichtbare 87 Year, There Was a gueule, ma rvolte, mon Rick19:15 Alverson Christian Schwochow Path 5 10:15 Alms for the Blind Horse 13:15 16:15 22:15 14:45 17:15 20:00 22:30 Duch, le matre des The Day He La leggenda di SP SP SP SP BF Tiger Awards George Kuchar: Short Stories: Ordinary Wichanon Somumjarn Fire SH TS RG SH The Descendants nom) Sylvain George 84 80 95 113 10:00 Girimunho 12:30 A Temple 15:30 Play 17:45 BF SP SP BF forges de lenfer Arrives Kaspar Hauser Competition for Wrap Party Surprising Mysteries MadnessLhiver dernier Gurvinder Singh Alexander Payne Path 3 LantarenVenster Helvcio Marins Jr. / Kulkarni Ruben John Shank Cinerama 2 09:30 House Party 12:15 117 15:15 A prog. 18:15 21:15 Short Films 1 Rithy Panh Davide Manuli prog. The Great SP SP BF Sang-Soo BF BF compilation compilation compilation prog. 103 79 115 90 Los Umesh pasos Vinayak dobles arca do stlund den Malaventura 85 Hong 80 80 79 Clarissa Campolina 90 146 113 103 Visiting Room Northwest Isaki Lacuesta Marcelo Felix Michel Lipkes Path 6 Mourir auprs ... 10:30 13:30 16:30 22:30 14:45 17:15 19:30 22:00 TG for Snow16:00 BF Back BF BF Waving On the Move Waiting in SH Short Stories: RG McCormick SH TG SH Hello, A Fish Blacks Game The Ultimate Baciu / R. Muntean Matt 09:30 A. 13:30 Neighbouring 18:00 Blacks 78 Mr. Tree! 87 80 70 73 BF TG SP TG Chapiteau-show Sounds A ShapeThe Game My Kampong Power andAxelsson Politics Pettifogger compilation prog. compilation prog. Case Pranx Han Jie Park Hong-Min skar Thor Path 4 LantarenVenster 5 of Error Sergey Loban Kleber Mendona Filho skar Thr Axelsson Cinerama 3 09:30 Der Fluss war 12:30 Lhiver dernier 15:30 18:30 Living 21:30 Romance BF TG SP BF LewisBF Klahr 70 compilation compilation prog. 88 105prog. 71 100 80 Nuit #1 Abigail 89 Child 79 86 74 207 124 100 einst ein Mensch Un amour de jeunesse John Shank Anne mond Vasily Sigarev Path 7 12:45 Les clats (Ma 15:45 In April the Following 17:00 19:30 Trait de bave TG 91 SP SP BF Cinematic SH Die Unsichtbare NL International SH 18:45 The Comedy et dternit RG 21:45 Jan Zabeil Mia 22:00 Hansen-Lve 83 103 119 117 Year, There Was a gueule, ma rvolte, mon Tributes to Musicians Rick Alverson Isidore Isou Christian Schwochow compilation prog. Path 5 LantarenVenster 6 11:45 Francophrenia 14:15 17:00 Mercado 20:00 Lestate 22:30 Kill nom) Sylvain George SP BF compilation prog. 84 Now, Forager: A Film BF Fire Wichanon Somumjarn 80 95 di 113 BF de futuros 86 SP List 120 72

BrighT FuTure 10:00


17:30 Jeroen van Velzen 22:15
TG
100 80

Shelter TG TG
76 103

BF
97

cheveux 12:30 It Looks Pretty


20:15 In April the Following James Benning

TG

LantarenVenster 6 LantarenVenster 3
Clip Maja Milos

Boris Lehman

Documentaries 14:45 Goodbye 2

BF pc

SP

compilation prog.

89

LantarenVenster 5
24:00
MG
109

from a Distance 90 Parts of the Heart Mohammad Vers bloed. Eerste of tweede film 106 van filmmakers het festival in de toekomst nogRasoulof veel Anka &waarvan Wilhelm Sasnal Paul Agusta 77 goeds verwacht. 11:45 Short Syrian PC

104

Tokyo Playboy Club Year, There Was a signals: power cuT middle easT Okuda Yosuke Fire Wichanon Somumjarn

Documentaries 3

Public Screenings Friday 3 February


SP
97 97

350
76

compilation prog.

83

LantarenVenster 6
19:30
SP

09:00
Bunohan Dain Iskandar Said
22:15
103

specTrum 10:00 11:00


Snuff: Vitmas do prazer Cludio Francisco Cunha

12:00 Histoire de mes

12:00 cheveux

SP 13:00

14:30 14:00

Short Syrian 15:002 Documentaries

sp hh
80

PC

dagelijkse bombardement van beelden van de volksrevoluties in het Midden-Oosten wekt 16:45 Het 19:30 Egyptian Shifting PC PC Shores 2 Timelines 1 pan was. Power Cut Middle East onderzoekt de suggestie dat de Arabische Lente een vlam in de compilation prog. 58 compilation prog. 72 wat die beelden nu preces zeggen en laat,19:45 aan de hand van eerder werk van filmmakers, zien 17:00 Wavumba BF SP small roads 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 dat de revolte al tijden in de lucht hing. Jeroen van Velzen James Benning

89

Oude Luxor
BF
99

de Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal

Public Screenings Friday 3 February

Boris Lehman compilation prog. Rotterdam op zijn breedst. Het festival selecteerde actueel, 90 krachtig en vernieuwend werk uit alle windstreken, van veteranen tot minder bekende regisseurs.

16:45 Moxie

signals: hidden hisTories 20:00

Kotoko Tsukamoto Shinya

Schouwburg Grote Zaal Oude Luxor

09:00

specTrum shorTs 10:00 11:00 12:00

De kracht van kort: films van n tot 59 minuten lang, uit alle windstreken. Ze worden als Girimunho H. Marins Jr. / C. Campolina 104 voorfilm bij lange films vertoond, of gebundeld in compilation prog.s.

13:00 13:30

Silncio de dois sons

14:00

BF

15:00

sh

16:15

16:00

22:30 Louise Wimmer BF Shame Steveschetsen McQueen van de Chinese realiteit dat Cyril Mennegun Speelfilms en documentaires uit China die een beeld

17:00 18:00 19:00 met onderwerpen 20:00 22:00ontwor- 23:00 haaks staat op dat uit de partijpropaganda, als21:00 armoede, corruptie,

24:00

1 de Path Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal Path 2 Schouwburg Grote Zaal Path 3 Path 1

09:30

signals: peTer von Bagh

pB

signals: For real

Fr

Path 4 Path 2

09:30

PRogRAmmE DAy by DAy

Path 5 Path 3

Path 6 Path 4

09:30

41ST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

Path 7 Path 5

09:30

Cinerama 1 Path 6

09:30

Cinerama 2 Path 7

09:30

Cinerama 3 Public Screenings Wednesday 25 January

Cinerama 1 09:00 Cinerama 4 Cinerama 2 Path 1

Cinerama 5 Cinerama 3

Cinerama 6

18:45 LApollonide Souvenirs de la SP 21:30 Pablo RG Hearts Boomerang SP maison close teling Naast films bevat Hidden Histories ook een ontmoetingsplek: Moxie en wanbestuur. 16:45Khomeriki 19:30 22:15 Snuff: Vitmas do prazer MG Nikolay Richard Goldgewicht SP SP bijzondere Bunohan Bertrand Bonello 96 122 103 Kotoko Dain Iskandar Said Cludio Francisco Cunha het Ai Weiwei Caf. Shinya 97 97 21:30 109 13:00 La jubilada 16:00 King CurlingTsukamoto 18:30 BF BF SP SP Miss Bala Surprise Film 20:00 Shame 22:30 Louise Wimmer BF Jairo Boisier Olave Ole Endresen Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez BF 83 75 113 90 Steve McQueen Cyril Mennegun 99 80 12:30 The Year 1952 15:30 Olavi Virta 18:30 A Womans Revenge SP 21:30 Hoy PB PB SP Women on the Edge SP no tuve miedo Paavo Nurmi 13:30 Silncio de dois sons 16:15 Hearts Boomerang SP 18:45 21:30 Ivn Kobayashi Masahiro Peter von Bagh Rita Azevedo Gomes Fund LApollonide Souvenirs de la SP BF RG Pablo Dankzij het oeuvre van Peter von Bagh (filmmaker, festivaldirecteur en wandelende filmenGeen Met een scala aan 100 activiteiten en evenementen wordt de 101 120 91 films, maar het echte leven. 122 Peter von BaghNikolay / M. Koski maison close Girimunho Khomeriki Richard Goldgewicht H. Marins Jr. / C. Campolina Bertrand 104 96 122 cyclopedie) kunt uthe binnen festival documentaires hebben 10:15 Alms 13:15worden. 16:15 The Day He 19:15 Bonello 22:15 La leggenda di 103 alledaagse Duch, le Zijn matre des BF Finland-kenner SP SP realiteit tot filmische ervaring SP SP for Blindn Horse The getransformeerd. Descendants forges de lenfer Arrives Kaspar Hauser Singh 13:00 La jubilada 16:00 King 18:30 Miss Bala Alexander Payne SP 21:30 Surprise Film BF SP BF Curling cinema enGurvinder de woelige Finse geschiedenis als onderwerp. HetPanh retrospectief wordt aangevuld met Rithy Hong Sang-Soo Davide Manuli 117 103 79 115 90 Jairo Boisier Olave Ole Endresen Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez bijzondere historische speelfilms uit Finland. 83 75 90 10:30 Hello, Mr. Tree! 13:30 A Fish 16:30 Mourir auprs ... 19:30 Blacks Game 113 22:30 The Ultimate BF TG BF TG BF The Pettifogger Olavi Virta Pranx Case Han Jie Park Hong-Min skar Thor Axelsson 12:30 15:30 18:30 21:30 PB PB SP Women on the Edge SP The Year 1952 A Womans Revenge SP Hoy no tuve miedo 88 105 71 100 80 Paavo Nurmi Lewis Klahr Kobayashi Masahiro Peter von Bagh Rita Azevedo Gomes Ivn Fund 101 120 100 122 PeterIn von Bagh M. Koski TG 91 12:45 Les clats (Ma 15:45 18:45 The Comedy 21:45 Die Unsichtbare April the / Following BF SP SP Year, There Was a gueule, ma rvolte, mon Rick19:15 Alverson Christian 10:15 Alms for the Blind Horse 13:15 Duch, le matre des 16:15 The Day He 22:15 Schwochow La leggenda di SP SP SP SP BF The Descendants Fire Wichanon Somumjarn 80 George nom) Sylvain 84 95 113 forges de lenfer Arrives Kaspar Hauser Gurvinder Singh Alexander Payne Rithy Panh Sang-Soo Davide Manuli 103 79 115 90 House Party 12:15 117 15:15 A arca do den Hong 18:15 The Great 21:15 SP SP BF BF Los pasos dobles Malaventura BF Visiting Room10:30 Northwest Isaki Lacuesta Michel Lipkes 13:30 A Fish 16:30 Mourir auprs ... 19:30 Blacks Game 22:30 The Ultimate TG Marcelo Felix BF TG BF BF Hello, Mr. Tree! A. Baciu / R. Muntean Matt McCormick 78 87 80 Pettifogger 70 73 The Pranx Case Han Jie Park Hong-Min skar Thor Axelsson LewisBF Klahr 88 105 71 100 80 12:30 Lhiver dernier 15:30 18:30 Living 21:30 Romance Der Fluss war BF BF TG SP Nuit #1 einst ein Mensch Un amour de jeunesse John Les Shank AnneIn mond Vasily Sigarev 12:45 15:45 18:45 21:45 April the Following TG clats (Ma SP SP BF The Comedy Die Unsichtbare Jan Zabeil Mia Hansen-Lve 83 103 91 119 117 Year, There Was a gueule, ma rvolte, mon Rick Alverson Christian Schwochow nom) Sylvain George 84 Now, Forager: A Film BF Fire Wichanon Somumjarn 80 95 di 113 BF 11:45 Francophrenia 14:15 17:00 Mercado 20:00 Lestate 22:30 Kill List SP SP BF de futuros About Love & Fungi Giacomo Ian Olds House Party Mercedes lvarez 18:15 The Great 12:15 /Los pasos dobles SP 15:15 21:15 Malaventura SP BF BF Ben Wheatley A arca do den BF James Franco Jason Cortlund / Julia Halperin Alessandro Comodin 69 93 110 78 94 Visiting Room Northwest Isaki Lacuesta Marcelo Felix Michel Lipkes A. Baciu / R. Muntean Matt McCormick 78 87 80 70 19:45 Unfair World 22:30 73 SP SP Rat Fever Filippos Tsitos Cludio Assis Romance 12:30 Lhiver dernier 15:30 Nuit #1 18:30 Living 21:30 Der Fluss war BF BF TG SP BF 110 einst ein Mensch Un 118 amour de jeunesse John Shank Anne mond Vasily Sigarev Jan Zabeil Mia Hansen-Lve 83 103 91 119 117 20:00 Dernire 22:30 SF Paraati PB sance SP Laurent Achard Norta 11:45 Francophrenia 14:15 Now, Forager: A Film BF 17:00 Mercado de futuros 20:00 Lestate 22:30 Yrj di SP SP BF BF Kill List 81 86 About Love & Fungi Giacomo Ian Olds / Mercedes lvarez 10:00 11:00 12:00 14:00 15:00 17:00 19:00 20:00 Comodin 21:00 22:00 Ben Wheatley 23:00 RG 24:00 James Franco Jason Cortlund SP / Julia Halperin 93 16:00 69 13:00 78 94 12:00 17:30 Patience 18:00 20:00 Alessandro (After SP 110 Els noms de Crist Fragments of Kubelka Sebald) Albert Serra Martina Kudlcek 19:45 Unfair 21:00 King Curling SP SP World BF 22:30 Rat Fever Grant Gee 193 82 230 Filippos Tsitos Cludio Assis Ole Endresen Hope 118 110 10:00 The Sound of Light BF 12:30 A Shape of 14:30 Cornelia frente al 17:00 Lhypothse du 19:30 A la Cantbrica BF 22:15 75 SP SP BF SP Error espejo Mokl-Mbemb Shock Head Soul Yamasaki Juichiro Ezequiel 20:00 Erriquez 22:30 PB SP Dernire sance SF Paraati Abigail Child Daniel Rosenfeld Marie Voignier Simon Pummell 89 70 100 78 97 Laurent Achard 80 Yrj Norta 81 86 11:00 One Recluse 17:30 Bachelor Mountain 20:30 I Wish HH HH SP Ai Weiwei 12:00 Els noms de Crist Guangyi Kore-eda Hirokazu 17:30 Yu 20:00 Fragments Patience (After SP RG SP of Kubelka 180 95 128

Sebald) Albert Serra Martina Kudlcek Cinerama 4 Grant Gee 82 230 SP 09:45 One Old Man 14:45 Born in193 20:00 Orgia ou o homem 22:30 Four Suns HH HH MG Beijing que deu cria Apuda Ma Lifrente al 10:00 12:30 A Shape of 14:30 Cornelia 17:00 Lhypothse du 19:30 A la Cantbrica BF 22:15 HopeBohdan Slma Cinerama 7 SP SP BF SP BF The Sound of Light Joo Silvrio Trevisan He Yuan 164 240 90 105 Error espejo Mokl-Mbemb Shock Head Soul Yamasaki Juichiro Ezequiel Erriquez Cinerama 5 09:00 10:00 11:00 89 12:00 Abigail Child 13:00 13:4570 Sentimental 14:00 Daniel 15:00 BF 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 23:00 inconnus Rosenfeld Marie Voignier Simon Pummell 100 97 24:00 16:45 Gaamer 19:15 BF 78 BF Animal Weekend 20:00 BF 80 21:00 21:45 Deux 22:00 Die Ruberin Wu Quan Oleg Sentsov Andrew Haigh LantarenVenster 1 11:00 One Recluse 17:30 Bachelor Mountain 20:30 I Wish 10:00 VPRO Previewdag HH HH SP Markus Busch 118 92 96 106 Ai Weiwei Yu Guangyi Kore-eda Hirokazu Cinerama 6 Oude Luxor 128 12:15 Une vie meilleure 15:00 The Unfinished History of Life 20:15 Il se peut que la 22:30 Lanabase 810 HH 95 RG BF SP 180 beaut ait renforc Cdric Kahn Cong Feng Eric Baudelaire One Old Man LantarenVenster 2 09:45 10:00 14:45 20:00 22:30 Orgia ou o homem HH HH MG SP Born in Beijing Four Suns VPRO Previewdag notre rsolution Grandrieux 74 110 245 67 que deu cria Apuda Ma Li Bohdan Slma Cinerama 7 Path 1 Drama of Time Boxing Trevisan in... Joo Silvrio He Yuan 10:00 15:15 Rua Aperana 52 SP 17:30 Neighbouring Sounds 20:15 22:15 Corta 164 13:00 The Hyperwomen BF 240 105 810 PB TG SP 90 BF Buenas noches, A Time of Roses various directors JlioBF Bressane Kleber Mendona Filho Felipe Guerrero Deux inconnus LantarenVenster 3 13:45 Sentimental Animal 16:45 Gaamer 19:15 Weekend 10:00 Rotterdam Film Course 21:30 21:45 BF 18:30 Wavumba BF BF BF BF Stilleben Raya Martin Espaa Risto Jarva 123 80 80 124 77 69 Die Ruberin Wu Quan Oleg Sentsov Andrew Haigh Jeroen van Velzen Sebastian Meise LantarenVenster 1 09:15 Path 2 Markus Busch 16:45 Twilight Portrait 19:30 Wuthering 22:30 L 118 92 106 TG 480 76 77 BF SP PB Man in the Shadows Heights 96 various directors Angelina Nikonova Andrea Arnold Babis Makridis BF LantarenVenster 5 12:15 Une vie meilleure 15:00 The Unfinished History of Life 20:15 IlForever 19:30 Future Lasts 22:15 22:30 SP HH se peut que la BF RG HISTRIAS que s Lanabase BF 86 165 105 130 existem lembradas Cdric Kahn Cong Feng Eric quando Baudelaire zcan Alper beaut ait renforc LantarenVenster 2 Path 3 Shelter notre Method rsolution Grandrieux 17:00 Nick 19:45 A Dangerous 22:15 Julia 110 14:30 Histoire de mes 245 67 BF Murat 98 SP SP 108 74 SP cheveux Parts of the Heart David Cronenberg Fow 17:30 Pyng Hu Drama of Time LantarenVenster 6 13:00 The Hyperwomen BF 15:15 20:15 Boxing in... 22:15 Corta 10:00 VPRO PB TG SP BF 52 SP Neighbouring Sounds Previewdag Boris Lehman Rua Aperana Paul Agusta 90 84 93 106 Buenas noches, A Time of Roses various directors Jlio Bressane Kleber Mendona Filho Felipe Guerrero LantarenVenster 3 Path 4 Espaa Raya Martin Risto Jarva 123 80 80 77 69 124
810

Public Screenings Thursday 26 January

LantarenVenster Path 5
105 105 130

09:15 18:30 BF 21:30SP 11

Man in the Shadows various directors


18:15SP SP Dress Rehearsal BF 19:45 A Dangerous Method 21:15

PB

16:45

Twilight Portrait Angelina Nikonova


for Utopia
21:30
84

165

19:30 Wuthering BF Heights Twilight Portrait Angelina Nikonova Andrea Arnold

SP Flowers 22:30 L Wang Xiaoshuai Babis Makridis


110

TG
86

LantarenVenster Path 6
David Cronenberg
84 Andrs Duque 75

14:30 Histoire de mes

cheveux
BF
95

17:00 SP 16:15 Lyrische data

BF
106

Boris Lehman
18:30
SP

90

Nick RG Tributes Pulse Fow Pyng Hu Bill Morrison 70 Les gants Bouli Lanners
SP
115

22:15 Shelter BF Matire grise Kivu Ruhorahoza Parts of the Heart Paul Agusta 104 93

Path 7
Stateless Things Kim Kyung-Mook
19:45
MG
120

15:30

The Invader Nicolas Provost Hoy no tuve miedo Ivn Fund When the Bough Breaks Ji Dan
MG

Skoonheid Oliver Hermanus


SP
122

BF
99

Cinerama 1
19:45

17:00

Cinerama 4
The Hunter Bakur Bakuradze
BF
123

17:00 O vampiro da cinemateca

HH
144

O insigne ficante Jairo Ferreira


19:45 Vereda tropical

PRogRAmmE DAy by DAy

Cinerama 5
RG
225

17:00

22:15
111

Snuff: Vitmas do prazer Cludio Francisco Cunha Mondomanila Khavn De La Cruz


SP
75

MG
109

O despertar da besta Jos Mojica Marins


20:00

41ST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM


19:15

Cinerama 6

15:30

Anna Alberto Grifi / Massimo Sarchielli

LantarenVenster 1
17:15 Low Definition

Totem Jessica Krummacher

BF
86

21:45

Hail Amiel Courtin-Wilson


20:15 Short Circuit

BF
104

15:00

LantarenVenster 2
Michael Palm
17:15 Ordinary

Homelandsssss compilation prog.


Madness
SH

SH

Control Malfunctions #0

BF
95

compilation prog.
20:00 Tiger Awards
80

SH
75

22:15 Lifes Full of

Wonders
TS

SH

85

compilation prog.
Competition for Short Films 1
RG
79

69

LantarenVenster 3
17:15 Waving Back

14:45 Short Stories:

Surprising Mysteries

SH

22:30 George Kuchar:

Wrap Party
80

RG

compilation prog.

85

compilation prog. compilation prog.

compilation prog.
19:30 Short Stories:

79

351

LantarenVenster 5

14:45 Waiting for Snow in

My Kampong

SH

Power and Politics

SH

22:00 On the Move

compilation prog. compilation prog.


SH
86 86

SH
74

compilation prog.

89

LantarenVenster 6

17:00

NL International compilation prog.

19:30

Trait de bave et dternit Isidore Isou

RG
120

22:00 Cinematic

Tributes to Musicians

SH

compilation prog.

72

BrighT FuTure pc

BF

Public Screenings Saturday 4 February


24:00
SP
100

Vers bloed. Eerste of tweede film van filmmakers waarvan het festival in de toekomst nog veel goeds verwacht.

signals: power cuT middle easT

352
La jubilada Jairo Boisier Olave
BF
75

24:00
BF
83

09:00
King Curling Ole Endresen
22:15

specTrum 10:00 11:00


The Hunter
Daniel Nettheim

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

sp hh

16:00

Het dagelijkse bombardement van beelden van de volksrevoluties in het Midden-Oosten wekt de suggestie dat de Arabische Lente een vlam in de pan was. Power Cut Middle East onderzoekt wat die beelden nu preces zeggen en laat, aan de hand van eerder werk van filmmakers, zien 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 dat de revolte al tijden in de lucht hing.

Oude Luxor
113

Rotterdam op zijn breedst. Het festival selecteerde actueel, krachtig en14:30 vernieuwend SP Iceberg werk uit Gabriel Velzquez alle windstreken, van veteranen tot minder bekende regisseurs.
A. Baciu / R. Muntean
78 95

17:00

84

Demain? Future Lasts Forever Public Screenings Saturday 4 February Christine Laurent zcan Alper
SP
91

11:45

SP

14:15

BF

16:45

signals: hidden hisTories 19:15

24:00

Schouwburg Grote Zaal

09:00

specTrum shorTs 10:00 11:00 12:00

Path 1 Oude Luxor

De kracht van kort: films van n tot 59 minuten lang, uitMendona alle windstreken. Ze worden als Kleber Filho 14:30 Iceberg 100 124 Gabriel Velzquez voorfilm bij lange films vertoond, of gebundeld in compilation prog.s.

13:00

Neighbouring Sounds

13:00

95

14:00

TG

15:00

sh

16:00

16:00

108

House Party 21:15 The Comedy BF SP SP I Carried You Home Visiting Room Tongpong Chantarangkul Alverson Speelfilms en documentaires uit China die een beeld schetsen van deRick Chinese realiteit dat

haaks staat op dat uit de partijpropaganda, als21:00 armoede, corruptie, 17:00 18:00 19:00 met onderwerpen 20:00 22:00ontwor- 23:00

24:00
100

signals: peTer von Bagh signals: For real

pB

Fr

SP
105

Path 2 Schouwburg Grote Zaal Path 3 Path 1


79 119

91

SP
113

Path 4 Path 2
18:45

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21:45 Clip TG Tokyo Playboy Club TG Okuda Yosuke Maja Milos 19:15 22:15 BF RG SP SP Bunohan Four Suns 100 Dain Iskandar Said 97 Bohdan Slma 90 126 97 21:15 105 9:15 12:15 In April the Following TG 18:15 Sudoeste TG SP The Descendants Year, There Was a 13:30 Eduardo Nunes 19:30 Living Alexander Payne 22:30 Play TG SP TG Fish Fire Wichanon Somumjarn A 80 115 Park Hong-Min Vasily Sigarev 128 Ruben stlund + Le voyage dans la lune 97 12:30 It Looks Pretty 105 79 113 Romance 9:30 Dois 15:30 18:30 Shame 21:30 119 Der Fluss war BF TG SP BF BF from a Distance einst ein Mensch Rnia Un amour de jeunesse SteveTokyo McQueen 9:45 De jueves a domingo TG 12:45 15:45 18:45 21:45 TG TG toSasnal Burma77 TG Romance Joe Playboy Club TG Clip AnkaReturn & Wilhelm Jan Zabeil Roberta Marques Mia Hansen-Lve 101 117 99 83 Dominga Sotomayor Midi Z Lee Kwang-Kuk Okuda Yosuke Maja Milos 96 11:45 Un nuage dans un 84 115 97 100 SP 9:15 Les clats (Ma 14:15 17:00 Hail 19:45 Valley of Saints 22:30 Dernire sance BF BF BF BF BF Room 514 ma rvolte, verre deau Sharon Bar-Ziv Amiel Courtin-Wilson Musa Syeed Laurent Achard 9:15 gueule, 12:15 15:15 Voice of My Father TG 18:15 Sudoeste 21:15 The Descendants In April the Following TG TG SP Sur planche Sylvain George 84 BF mon la nom) Srinath C. Year, Samarasinghe 90 87 104 82 81 There Was a Lela Kilani Orhan Eskiky / Eduardo Nunes Alexander Payne Fire Wichanon Somumjarn 80 Zeynel 106 87 128 115 9:45 The Hunter 12:30 17:15 Goodbye 20:00 Monsieur BF SPDogan SP SP Els noms de Crist Lazhar Albert Serra Mohammad Rasoulof Philippe Falardeau Romance 9:30 Dois Bakur Bakuradze 12:30 15:30 18:30 21:30 It Looks Pretty Der Fluss war TG SP BF BF BF Shame 104 123 94 from a Distance einst ein Mensch Rnia Un 193 amour de jeunesse Steve McQueen Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal 77 Jan Zabeil Roberta Marques Mia Hansen-Lve 101 99 83 12:30 Mercado 15:00 A arca do 17:30 117 19:30 Stateless Things 22:30 A Womans The Hyperwomen BF SP BF SP de futuros den Revenge SP various directors Mercedes lvarez Marcelo Felix Kim Kyung-Mook Rita Azevedo Gomes SP 9:15 Les clats (Ma 11:45 Un nuage dans un 14:15 Room 514 17:00 Hail 19:45 Valley of Saints 22:30 Dernire BF BF BF BF BF sance 110 80 80 115 100 gueule, ma rvolte, verre deau Sharon Bar-Ziv Amiel Courtin-Wilson Musa Syeed Laurent Achard mon nom) Sylvain George 84 Srinath C. Samarasinghe 90 104 82 SP 81 9:30 Alms 12:00 14:30 O vampiro da cinemateca87 17:00 Hello, Mr. Tree! 20:00 Alps MG BF for the Blind Horse BF Two Years at Sea BF O insigne ficante Gurvinder Singh Ben 12:30 Rivers Han Jie Lanthimos 9:45 The Hunter 17:15 20:00 Yorgos SP SP SP BF Els noms de Crist Goodbye Monsieur Lazhar Jairo Ferreira 117 88 120 93 Bakur Bakuradze Albert Serra Mohammad Rasoulof 88 Philippe Falardeau 09:00 10:00 11:00 RG 123 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 94 22:00 Une 22:00 23:00 SP 24:00 104 10:00 Pablo 12:30 El cuaderno 14:30 Los pasos 17:00 An 19:30 The Search Oversimplification BF SP SP BF dobles 193 vie meilleure barro of Her Beauty Was a Giant with Richard Goldgewicht Isaki15:00 Lacuesta Cdric Kahn 12:30 de 17:30 19:30 He 21:00 King The Hyperwomen BF BF SP Curling SP SP BF 22:30 A Womans Revenge Mercado de futuros A arca do den Stateless Things Isaki Lacuesta Terence Nance Brown Eyes Eileen Hofer 103 60 87 93 101 110 various directors Mercedes lvarez Marcelo Felix Kim Kyung-Mook Rita Azevedo Gomes Ole Endresen 110 80 LApollonide Souvenirs de la SP 80 115 100 9:45 Francophrenia 12:15 One Recluse 16:30 20:00 Hearts Boomerang SP 22:30 75 SP HH MG O convite ao prazer maison Ian Olds / Weiwei Walter Hugo Khouri 9:30 Alms 12:00 Two Ai 14:30 O vampiro da cinemateca 17:00 close 20:00 Nikolay MG BF SP BF for the Blind Horse Years at Sea BF Hello, Mr. Tree! Alps Khomeriki James Franco Bertrand Bonello 69 180 122 96 109 O insigne ficante Gurvinder Singh Ben Rivers Han Jie Yorgos Lanthimos Jairo Ferreira 117 88 120 93 When the Lights 9:15 Patience 11:15 The 13:45 I Wish 16:45 19:15 The Whirlpool BF 21:45 Duch, le matre des SP BF SP SP 88 SP (After Sebald) Pettifogger forges de lenfer Went Out Kore-eda Hirokazu Alvin Case The Search 10:00 Pablo 12:30 El cuaderno SP 14:30 Los pasos dobles SP 17:00 An Oversimplification BF 19:30 22:00 Une vie meilleure BF SP RG Grant Gee Lewis Klahr Rithy Panh Pat Holden 82 65 128 103 74 85

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Daily & continuous
09:00 Last minute Shop Installation installation by Theun Mosk & FLATarchitects (concept) & Touki Delphine, Bo Koek and Rik Elstgeest (music) 09:00 - 21:00, Free admission, Last Minute Shop, Schouwburgplein 09:00 Nocturnal Taipei Visual Installation by David Verbeek. This photo series observes the entanglement of the city and tropical nature in the artificial light between sunset and sunrise. 09:00 - 23:00, Free admission, Jurriaanse Hal, de Doelen debate with a filmmaker. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi, Karel Doormanstraat 278 15:00 Kids on the floor Cinematographic activities for 4 to 12-year-olds. 15:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 20:30 VPRo film Night. 20:30 - 03:00 Various prices. 23:00 Party DJs make the Small Auditorium swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket. 09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise 10:00 babeldom 10:00 - 20:00, Free admission, NAI 11:00 crumbled Papers, Fragments of Cinema 11:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 15:00 Kids on the floor 15:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 16:00 critics Talk Filmmaker Peter von Bagh talks to Olaf Mller (CinemaScope) Following screening of Helsinki Forever. 16:00, Free admission, LantarenVenster 19:30 big Talk Aki Kaurismki talks about Le Havre with writer Natasja van den Berg Film + Big Talk 13/10.50, Oude Luxor Theater 20:00 WoRmyWooD Cncer (20:00, Glauber Rocha), world premiere Bete & Deise (22:00, Wendelien van Oldenborgh), music by Deise Tigrona and DJs Marfox & Nervoso (23:00) 11/8.50, WORM 21:00 Smart Talk Mondo Garbage: Host Leon Verdonschot receives the Brazilian cult phenomenon Coffin Joe and shows many revealing fragments from Brazilian exploitation cinema. Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket.

Wednesday 25
09:00 conseries et Jouets Documentaries Vivement le cinma and The First Interview show work by several French pioneers of cinematographic art. Also back in time with a reconstructed version of the candy and toy stall at which the pioneer Georges Mlis spent his last days. 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise. 11:00 crumbled Papers, fragments of cinema Interactive video installation by Madhuja Mukherjee, inspired by glass negatives of Indian film stars from the 1930s. 11:00 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter Compilation of work left by the late Bart Vegter. With several works by fellow artists. 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise. 10:00 Rotterdam film course 10:00 - 18:00, College + films for students, Path, 18.50 10:00 babeldom SF documentary in which a futurist city is constructed with found-footage material. 10:00 17:00, Free admission, NAI 11:00 crumbled Papers, fragments of cinema 11:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Suburban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with four installations by Ai Weiwei: Beijing 2003, Beijing: The Second Ring, Beijing: The Third Ring and Changan Boulevard. In the cellar, four Power Cut MiddleEast installations: Pipe Dreams (Ali Cherri), Trespass the Salt (Larissa Sansour & Youmna Chlala), Out of Focus (Salah Saouli) and Remarks on a Square (Jasmina Metwaly). With at 14:00, a video screening or

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12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 13:00 Kids on the floor 13:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 17:00 critics Talk Director Wang Xiaoshuai talks to Jeroen Stout, immediately after the screening of 11 Flowers. 17:00, Free admission, LantarenVenster 19:30 big Talk Miike Takashi talking about his Ace Attorney to journalist Gawie Keyser. Film + Big Talk 13/10.50, Oude Luxor Theater 21:00 Smart Talk Rick de Leeuw takes you back to the early years of cinema; with the British theatre illusionist Paul Kieve and film historian Theodoor van Houten. Free admission, Small Auditorium Rotterdamse Schouwburg 22:00 WoRmyWooD 16mm solo performances: Quelques minutes de soleil aprs minuit (Xavier Qurel) and Sounddefect (Riojim), music by Internet2 and DJ Arc de Triomphe. 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket.

19:15 big Talk Andrea Arnold talking about her Wuthering Heights to Media Fund director Hans Maarten van den Brink. Film + Big Talk 13/10.50, Oude Luxor Theater 21:00 Smart Talk The Real World? Bas Heijne investigates where virtual and physical spaces meet, with eteam and cyber philosopher Jos de Mul. Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 22:00 WoRmyWooD Francisco Lpez and Lee Patterson: Sound artists from the Soundtrackcity project, 16mm setup Logbook (Alex MacKenzie) and Emaki/Light (Ishida Takashi, Makino Takashi) with a live improvisation on cello by Okkyung Lee. 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket.

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09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission. Alliance Franaise 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 15:00 Kids on the floor 13:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 16:45 critics Talk Ruben stlund talks to reviewer Floortje Smit about his film Play. 16:45, Free admission, LantarenVenster 17:00 Artist Talk Power cut Charlotte Bank debates with Larissa Sansour & Youmna Chlala, Salah Saouli, Ali Cherri and Jasmina Metwaly Free admission, Ai Weiwei Caf / Power Cut Installations 19:30 big Talk Actress Aggeliki Papoulia and producer Maria Hatzakou talks about Alps with journalist and philosopher Anna Luyten. Film + Big Talk 13/10.50, Oude Luxor Theater 21:00 Smart Talk An Audience With: Anna van der Zwaag receives prominent guests such as David Cronenbergs production designers James McAteer and Carol Spier and sequence designer Pablo Ferro. Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg

Sunday 29
10:00 babeldom 11:00 - 17:00, Free admission, NAI 10:00 Kids only Film, lunch, workshop. Various prices, Path 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 13:00 Kids on the floor 13:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 17:00 Presentation The mouth of garbage Gabe Klinger provides an introduction to the wonderful world of Brazilian exploitation cinema, receives colourful guests and shows robust fragments. 17:00 - 19:00, Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg

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22:00 WoRmyWooD Presentation of the Tiger Awards for Short Films and opening Power Cut with performances by Praed (Raed Yassin & Paed Conca), the band BooDooRoo and DJ Arc de Triomphe. Free admission to the Tiger ceremony, after that 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket.

Tuesday 31
09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise 11:00 crumbled Papers, fragments of cinema 11:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 15:00 Kids on the floor 15:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 16:15 critics Talk Davide Manuli Talking to critic Bor Beekman about The Legend of Kaspar Hauser. 16:15, Free admission, LantarenVenster 19:30 big Talk Philippe Falardeau talks about Monsieur Lazhar to TV presenter Annemiek Schrijver. Film + Big Talk 13/10.50, Oude Luxor Theater 20:00 Smart Talk A tribute to Ral Ruiz. Actors, directors and producers who worked with Ruiz reminisce with actor/director Melvil Poupaud. Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 22:00 WoRmyWooD Rutger Zuydervelt, Roel Meelkop and Marco Douma with Pierdrie and Artist and filmmaker Karl Lemieux with musician BJNilsen. 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing (used) IFFR ticket.

the door 4, free of charge for Tiger Friends, students and CJP-holders, 11.00 - 18.00, Witte de With 12:00 The flip collection II Collective of young artists use playful flip books for strikingly serious games. 12:00 - 18:00, Free admission, PrintRoom 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 13:00 Kids on the floor 13:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 16:00 critics Talk Valrie Massadian talks to film researcher Gerlinda Heywegen about Nana. Free admission, LantarenVenster 19:30 big Talk Steve McQueen talks about Shame to Corine Koole, well-known for her book Hoe mannen liefhebben (How Men Love). Film + Big Talk 13/10.50, Oude Luxor Theater 19:30 Reading the Arab Image former Dutch daily Volkskrant correspondent Ferry Biedermann, the Lebanese musician Raed Yassin and activist Jasmina Metwaly question and comment on the recent flood of images from the Middle East. Free admission, LantarenVenster 21:00 Smart Talk Chinas Hidden Histories. Bas Heijne reflects with producer Zhu Rikun and sinologist Anne Sytstke Keijser on censorship, propaganda and social activism in Chinese cinema. Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 22:00 WoRmyWooD Dronywood triple-bill night with Nunatak, Aestuarium and the Russian Phurpa. 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket.

Thursday 2
09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise 11:00 crumbled Papers, fragments of cinema 11:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 11:00 celluloid brushes Tickets at the door 4, Free of charge for Tiger Friends, students and CJP-holders, 11.00 - 18.00, Witte de With 12:00 The flip collection II 12:00 -

Wednesday 1
09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise 11:00 crumbled Papers, fragments of cinema 11:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 11:00 celluloid brushes Unusual film and poster exhibition. Tickets at

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18:00 uur, Free admission, PrintRoom 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 15:00 Kids on the floor 15:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 16:30 critics Talk Mohammad Rasoulof talks to Filmkrant editorin-chief Dana Linssen about Goodbye. 16:30, Free admission, LantarenVenster 19:30 movieSquad Award awards ceremony followed by a screening of the winning film. 11/ 8.50, Path 21:00 Smart Talk The Road to Damascus. Debate about independent Syrian film with BG curator Charlotte Bank and activist and filmmaker Hala Alabdalla. Free admission, Kleine Zaal Rotterdamse Schouwburg 22:00 WoRmyWooD I Did It My Wei Wei and DadaMachinima avant-garde video-game modification. 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket. 09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise 11:00 crumbled Papers, fragments of cinema 11:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Nieuwe Oogst 11:00 celluloid brushes Tickets at the door 4, Free admission for Tiger Friends, students and CJP-holders, 11.00 - 18.00, Witte de With 12:00 The flip collection II 12:00 18:00 uur, Free admission, PrintRoom 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 15:00 Kids on the floor 15:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 20:00 Jameson film Experience facebook.com/jamesonfilmexperience 21:00 WoRmyWooD Dance night with Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal

Moss and the official release party for Social Disturbance 001 of I Tekno. 11/8.50, WORM 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket.

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09:00 conseries et Jouets 09:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Alliance Franaise 11:00 celluloid brushes Tickets at the door 4, Free admission for Tiger Friends, students and CJPholders, 11.00 - 18.00, Witte de With 12:00 The flip collection II 12:00 18:00 uur, Free admission, PrintRoom 12:00 In memoriam bart Vegter 12:00 - 17:00, Free admission, Sub-urban Video Lounge 12:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Meeting place with debates and screenings. 12:00 - 20:00, Free admission and wifi. 13:00 Kids on the Floor 13:00 - 18:00, Free admission, Foyer Rotterdamse Schouwburg 14:00 Ai Weiwei caf / Power cut Installations Video screening or debate with a filmmaker. Free admission and wifi. 23:00 Party DJs make the Kleine Zaal swing. Free admission for everyone until 23:00, then only on showing a (used) IFFR ticket. 23:00 closing party With Postman, Mikabomb, Sytze & Arnold, DJ Thunderpussy & Dd King among many others. 23:00 - late, 15/12.50, de Doelen

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