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SPRING LINE UP 2020
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BRAND
NEW
2020
CARL TH. DREYER REBORN
By TORBEN SKJØDT JENSEN
The Award-Winning Documentary about one of film’s history biggest icon is back in a new expanded and
improved format.
Torben Skjødt Jensen's elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema's greatest directors.
Originally shot and released in 1995, the documentary is now restored with bonus materials.
Through interviews and rare archival footage, a portrait of Dreyer emerges: an austere perfectionist, yes, but also a passionate man
possessing a genuine sense of humor.
DCP/HD (RESTORED) • DENMARK • 2019 • 105’
POINT OF NO RETURN PRODUCTIONS
Original language : Danish
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BRAND
NEW
2020
LA MESURE DES CHOSES
(ICARUS BALANCE)
By PATRIC JEAN
By the Filmmaker of Male Domination and Lazarus Mirages.
ICARUS BALANCE is a political essay with a relevant theme, in the Mediterranean area.
Where cruise ships meet, fishermen, migrants and scientists studying the consequences of global warming.
Where signs are revealed.
Has our capacity to measure and interpret the world fallen into technological excess? Aren't we burning our wings?
DCP/HD • BELGIUM / FRANCE • 2020 • 85’
IOTA PRODUCTION & TAG FILM
Original language : International
BRAND
NEW
2020
THE LITTLE MOZARTS
By GUILLAUME DE GINESTEL
How music can change your life !
In the suburbs of Paris you can find the most unique school in all of Europe. For the last 20 years, violin teacher Marie-Laure Paradis
shares her passion for music with each of the 400 children, whom she knows by name, and introduce them to a variety of tunes to
be performed at a grand end-of-the-year concert.
We follow the story of five children, that this project allows to uncover their hidden potential and thrive.
Lucas, affected by the departure of his mother, regains a foothold in his studies. Armando, whose Romanian mother doesn’t speak
French, begins to embrace his new culture. Martin overcomes his dyslexia, Nazad gains the confidence he lacks, and Lizzie can
channel her boundless energy.
As the day of the concert approaches, will the children be ready in time? This is the last year before Marie-Laure’s retirement, and
her colleagues have prepared a surprise she will never forget.
DCP/HD • FRANCE • 2019 • 116’ & 97’ & 53’
FRENCH CONNECTION FILMS
Original language : French
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BERLIN
PANORAMA
2020
ALWAYS AMBER
By LIA HIETALA & HANNAH REINIKAINEN
Amber belongs to a queer generation which no longer wants society to dictate their identity. The teenagers proudly
inhabit a spectrum of fluid identities and master their first loves and losses.
Amber is a 17-year-old teen. Together with best friend Sebastian, the two queer youngsters share a world far away from the judging
eyes of society. When they are together, anything feels possible. We get to hang out with Amber and Sebastian during this identity
building period, when they share everything from dreams and parties to new friendships. But when Amber falls in love with Charlie,
something starts to challenge their utopian world.
Trust issues begin to emerge, and in the midst of it all Amber has to face going through their transition alone. In Always Amber, we
get a unique insight into a new generation.
DCP/HD • SWEDEN • 2020 • 90’ & 52’
STORY AB
Original languages: Swedish
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WORLD
PREMIERE IN
2020
VIRAL : ANTISEMITISM IN FOUR
MUTATIONS
By ANDREW GOLDBERG
Antisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading; it mutates and evolves and is seemingly
unstoppable. It appears as vandalism, social media abuse, assault and murder.
By virtually every yardstick, antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening in ways not seen since the 1930s.
It is coming in the forms of vandalism, social media abuse, assault and murder. Like a virus it is mutating and evolving across cultures,
borders and ideologies making it all but impossible to stop.
Filmmaker, Andrew Goldberg, explores its infectious behavior as he travels through four countries to speak firsthand with victims,
witnesses, antisemites, and interviews Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Fareed Zakaria, George Will, Deborah Lipstadt and others.
DCP/HD • USA • 2020 • 83’ & 52’
TWO CATS PRODUCTIONS
Original languages: English, French, Hungarian
TRAILERWORLD
PREMIERE IN
2020
THE QUEST FOR TONEWOOD
By HANS LUKAS HANSEN
The Quest for Tonewood is a treasure hunt and a human adventure in the world of classical music.
In the Balkan forests, one might find maple trees worth their weight in gold. This magical wood could create a priceless musical
instrument; a violin as prestigious as an original Stradivarius.
Gaspar Borchardt, a violin maker, is on this mission since he biked through Bosnia in his twenties and found the most perfect tree
he has ever seen. He couldn't bring the wood back then but will find it again now and create this instrument for the world-famous
violinist Janine Jensen.
DCP/HD • Norway • 2019 • 90’ & 58’
NORSK FJERNSYN AS
Original languages: English, Italian
TRAILERWORLD
PREMIERE IN
2020
I’M IN LOVE WITH PIPPA BACCA
By SIMONE MANETTI
In April 2008, news broke : the body of the artist Pippa Bacca was found lifeless a few kilometers from Istanbul.
Raped and strangled.
Dressed as a bride.
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist.
She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress.
This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only.
After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos.
Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.
DCP/HD • ITALY CANADA • 2020 • 75’ & 52’
Produced by NACNE S.a.s
Original language: ITALIAN, ENGLISH
TRAILERWORLD
PREMIERE IN
2020
HAKAMADA
THE LONGEST-HELD DEATH ROW INMATE IN THE WORLD
By LOUIS DAI
HAKAMADA exposes the failings of the Japanese criminal justice system through the plight of Iwao Hakamada, the
longest-held death row inmate in the world, and his sister’s 47-year-long fight for his innocence.
When conviction is guaranteed, justice is lost.
On the 30th of June, 1966, in a small country-side in Japan, four members of the Hashimoto family are stabbed and burnt to death in their family home.
The savagery of the crime shakes the country and shortly after, 30-year-old retired boxer Iwao Hakamada is arrested, convicted and sentenced to
death. Despite a lack of evidence, Hakamada would remain on death row for almost half a century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
HAKAMADA THE LONGEST-HELD DEATH ROW INMATE IN THE WORLD, reveals the human cost of Japan’s 99,9% conviction rate, through the plight
of Iwao Hakamada and sister Hideko’s 47-year-long battle to save him from execution.
This important expose, featuring an astonishing confession from a former judge, shows us that a “perfect” justice system is anything but…
DCP/HD •Australia • 2019 • 73’
Production : Walkingfish Productions
Original language: Japanese & English
TRAILERBRAND NEW
FOR 2020
WOMEN’S DAY
By DOLYA DRAGASHEVICH (GAVANSKI)
Daughters of the Russian Revolution
Astounding stories by women from the USSR - pioneers and survivors - who reveal their lives from the 1917 revolution to the
present day. Intimate, surprising, funny, eccentric, painful and contradictory - this is the unknown history of Russian feminism.
Drawing on the filmmaker’s extensive research, unique access to rare archive footage and encounters with extraordinary and diverse
women - Women’s Day explores how to survive the siege of Leningrad in subzero temperatures; confronts the challenge of sex in
communal flats; gives tips on smuggling forbidden literature; on how to fly to the space, how to rename a husband - and how to
perform the perfect Soviet balletic pirouette. And then there is the political and cultural complexity of the burning of veils…
DCP/HD • UK / RUSSIA/ GERMANY/ BULGARIA • 2019 •85’& 52’ & 3*27’
Produced by Thea Films Ltd
Original language: English & Russian
TRAILERWORLD
PREMIERE IN
2019
THE ROYAL TRAIN
By JOHANNES HOLZHAUSEN
By the Director and the team behind The Great Museum
Once a year, a very special train sets off on a journey through the Romanian countryside. Thousands of people gather along its route
to enthusiastically greet and cheer some of the descendants of the last King of Romania travelling in those historic carriages.
The documentary The Royal Train – A journey through Romania highlights the backdrop for this nostalgic journey and uses the train
journey as the starting point for a cinematic expedition into both the past and the present of this East European state: Of high-profile
royalist presentation in a post-communist republic.
DCP/HD • Austria / Romania • 2019 • 90’
Produced by Navigator Film production
Original language: Romanian
TRAILERBERLIN BEST
DOCUMENTARY
AWARD 2019
TALKING ABOUT TREES
By SUHAIB GASMELBARI
"What kind of times are these, when to talk about trees is almost a crime, because it implies silence about so many
horrors?" - Bertold Brecht
Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and Altayeb, filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years, idealists and intensely humane.
They were reunited again, after long years of distance and exile, to bring life back to their old dream: make cinema a reality in Sudan.
They are determined to leave a trace of their passage and inspire the love for cinema. Throughout the images they created, the ones
they lost and the ones remaining a desire, the beautiful and horrific faces of their country appear.
DCP/HD • France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar • 2019 • 93’
AGAT FILMS & CIE, in coproduction with MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduktion – GOÏ-GOÏ Productions
Original language: Arabic2019
BEST SELLER
KATE NASH
UNDERESTIMATE THE GIRL
By AMY GOLDSTEIN
“This is a matter of life and death to me because making music keeps me alive. And being in the music industry has
almost killed me,” concludes the British singer-songwriter Kate Nash.
At 18, Kate Nash reached the stratosphere of pop music, vaulting from a working-class family in North London into worldwide tours, a platinum record.
A few years later, Kate is breaking down, defrauded by her manager and dropped by an industry that cannot find a place for her in the girl-pop
machine ; Kate sets out to build a better world, dedicated to the artist as creator, not commodity, and using, as she always has, the uplifting power of
online culture and her own authentic voice.
She pursues acting as another form of artistic expression (and way of making a living) and lands a part in the TV series GLOW.
Punk renegade, TV wrestling queen, and DIY leader of an all-girl band, Kate’s journey is an inspiring call to the creative heart in all of us: be fearless.
DCP/HD • USA • 2018 • 89’ & 52’
Span Productions Inc.
Original language: English
TRAILER2019
BEST SELLER
THE MEN’S ROOM
By PETTER SOMMER and JO VEMUND SVENDSEN
The Men’s Room is an intimate peek inside a world of tough men finding true friendship.
Every Tuesday twenty-five tattooed middle-aged men take a break from their everyday lives, leave their wives and kids behind to
meet and drink beer, tell bad jokes and sing dirty rock songs. In their female free zone, behind closed doors they spend time with
their buddies and let their steam out.
The brotherhood means everything to them. They have even promised to sing in each other’s funerals – a joke of course, it has never
occurred to them that it’s ever going to happen. But one day, when one of them confides he’s got little time left to live, they realize
that life is fragile and that none of them are immortal.
They have landed their biggest and most absurd gig ever – warming up for a Black Sabbath Concert. They just hope they will all live
long enough to experience it together. This summer becomes a race against time and death.
The Men’s Room is an intimate peek inside a world of tough men finding true friendship.
DCP/HD • Norway • 2018 • 75’ & 52’
Produced by Fuglene AS
Original language: Norwegian
TRAILER2019
BEST SELLER
MY FRIEND FELA
By JOEL ZITO ARAÚJO
Fela Kuti: confronting the colonial mindset and privileges, along with his own personal shadows.
My Friend Fela provides a new perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, in order to counter the most often portrayed narrative
of Fela “as an eccentric African pop idol of the ghetto”, according to director Joel Zito Araújo.
The complexity of Fela’s life is unravelled through the eyes and conversations of his close friend and official biographer, the African-
Cuban Carlos Moore.
As the documentary unfolds, it reveals the many influences and forces that shaped Fela’s extraordinary life: from the relationship he
had with his mother to his many and problematic relationships with women, from his ties with his spiritual advisor Professor Hindu
to his mutually influential encounters with African Americans. By placing Fela’s personal history in a pan-African context, the film
becomes not only a portrait of one man but also of a pan-African generation.
DCP/HD • Brazil • 2019 • 94’
Production : O2 Filmes
Original languages: English, French
TRAILER2019
BEST SELLER
THE WANDERING CHEF
(108 PLATES)
By HYE-RYOUNG PARK
An homage to Mother Nature through a heart-warming culinary journey.
Jiho Im, better known as the "Wandering Chef", travels the Korean peninsula, in search of the most unique ingredients, honoring
Mother Nature with whom he has a very strong and personal relationship. For him, Nature is at the core of his life and his creative
work.
One day, he meets someone very special on the road leading him to the most incredible challenge of a lifetime: conceiving and
cooking 108 plates in 24 hours - significant of 108 agonies of life in Buddhism - to pay tribute to his adoptive mother.
DCP/HD • South Korea • 2019 • 85’ & 52’
Produced by Hayanso Entertainment
Original language: Korean, EnglishMUSIC
SPECIAL
ENSEMBLE
By JEAN NICOLAS ORHON
A year behind the scenes of the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montréal
Autumn of 2017.
The Metropolitan Orchestra of Montréal begins its first international tour of Europe's most prestigious concert halls.
This series of concerts is the crowning and paroxysm of the rich relationship between the musicians and their leader, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Over four seasons, Jean-Nicolas Orhon's camera follows the preparation of this international adventure and gently penetrates the daily life of the
orchestra.
ENSEMBLE reveals the precious role of the maestro, exposes the excitement behind the scenes, displays the intimacy of the musicians and poses a
new and delicate look on those whose life sublimes the love of music.
DCP/HD • Canada • 2019 • 92’ & 52’
Production : LES FILMS DU 3 MARS
Original language: French & English
TRAILERMUSIC
SPECIAL
IN THE TRACKS OF
SPECIAL EDITION
By Pascale Cuenot
In the heads of Gabriel Yared, Maurice Jarre, Georges Delerue, Lalo Schifrin, Bruno Coulais, Alexandre Desplat, Jean-
Claude Petit, Francis Lai, Mark Isham, Jean-Michel Bernard…
This unpublished documentary, IN THE TRACKS OF (Special 10 Years Edition) gathers the testimonies of those composers whose portraits we made:
Gabriel Yared, Maurice Jarre, Georges Delerue, Lalo Schifrin, Bruno Coulais, Alexandre Desplat, Jean-Claude Petit, Francis Lai, Mark Isham, Jean-Michel
Bernard ....
Confidents of the greatest filmmakers of the last forty years, we discover their mission, through the evolution of the film industry and how they became
essential to make a film.
With the participation of Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jacques Audiard, Caroll Ballard, Bertrand Blier, George Clooney, Alain Corneau, Frank Darabont, Jodie
Foster, Adrian Lyne, Moby, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Volker Schlondorff, Peter Weir.
DCP/HD • France • 2018 • 92’
Production : PRELIGHT FILMS
Original language: French & English
TRAILERACID
CANNES
2019
INDIANARA
By AUDE CHEVALIER-BEAUMEL and MARCELO BARBOSA
“Revolution can be done with peace, love and beer, but if it’s not working, we’ll throw stones, set fire and break glass!”
INDIANARA
INDIANARA, a bigger-than-life revolutionary character and her group who lead a fight for the survival of transgender people in Brazil.
Shot during tumultuous times in Brazil while Michel Temer is president, while the Marielle Franco is killed in cold blood, Indianara is an incredible
woman, a Gena Rowlands of sort who doesn’t take no for an answer. She cares about humanity and decency for all.
In the shelter she founded, in the streets and during demonstrations, she fights for her ideals, including her relationship with Maurice, her husband.
Nearing fifty, facing political attacks and the advance of totalitarianism, she commits a real act of resistance.
DCP/HD • Brazil • 2019 • 84’
Production : Santaluz
Original language: Brazilian Portuguese
TRAILERCINEMA
SPECIAL
THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS
By PETER MEDAK
“What happened behind the scenes was more outrageous and funnier than the actual movie itself”
The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a documentary based on the movie, "Ghost in the Noonday Sun", which Peter Medak directed in Cyprus and England in
1973.
The film starred Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Peter Boyle, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Melvin and was produced by John Heyman (World Film
Services) and Columbia Pictures. The script was a 17th century Pirate comedy.
The original ‘Ghost’ movie was shot mostly on the Mediterranean Sea on real ships which nobody ever attempted before. Before shooting began,
the Greek Captain delivering the Pirate ship to Kyrenia's magnificent 7th Century Harbour was so drunk that he crashed the ship into the Quay.
The production descended further after Peter Sellers lost confidence in the film and fired the producers and the DOP.
Structured around the original director Peter Medak and his journey back to the island 42 years later, this documentary recaptures what it was like to
work with the geniuses Sellers and Milligan and how it became a total disaster.
DCP/HD • Cyprus, USA • 2018 • 90’
Vegas Media LTD
Original language: English
TRAILERCINEMA
SPECIAL
MERATA
HOW MUM DECOLONISED THE SCREEN
By HEPERI MITA
"The revolution isn’t just running out with a gun. If a film I make causes indigenous people to feel stronger about
themselves, then I’m achieving something worthwhile for the revolution." Merata Mita
The sudden death of pioneering Māori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010, led her son on a journey to uncover a story of mother’s love that changed the
landscape of indigenous films forever.
Indeed, she opened doors for indigenous voices we celebrate today; Warwick Thornton, Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo and Zoe Hopkins to name a few.
Merata was the first Māori woman to write and direct a narrative feature in 1988 (Mauri). Her political films denounced abuses Māori people were
suffering from in the 80’s and often divided the country. She became an international hero but was considered a domestic nuisance.
She worked across the globe for the BBC, National Geographic and directed films in Hollywood, interviewed Robert Mugabe and f ollowed Louis
Farakhan, she was fearless.
DCP/HD • New Zealand / Australia / USA / UK • 2019 • 95’
Produced by Ārama Pictures (Chelsea Winstanley) and Array (Ava DuVernay)
Original language: English
TRAILERART &
CULTURE
PROPHECY
By CHARLIE PAUL
Creating is an incredible journey that can open the door to a new universe.
This is a unique and intimate exploration of a single oil painting and the first major film to reveal the motive and techniques behind
each stroke of paint as the artist is creating. Filmed over four months what starts as a blank canvas, emerges Peter Howson's
monumental oil painting: PROPHECY.
Working from his imagination, Howson draws inspiration from is heroes Goya, DaVinci, Bruegel and El Greco. The film sticks
deliberately and rigorously to the frame work of the painting itself; observing the canvas as it is mounted onto a wooden stretcher,
through its turbulent creation in the artist's Glasgow studio, crossing the Atlantic to its first public exhibition in a New York gallery
and then reaching its destination on the wall of a private art collector in London.
Inventive filming techniques and hypnotic camera work make the invisible, visible, revealing how the unseen images in the artist's
head are transferred to canvas. We discover the intentions and difficulties that push his creative output and how he achieves this
ambitious, masterful and detailed 6ft x 8ft canvas. This film draws us right into the artist's eye, magnifying the apocalyptic world of
PROPHECY.
DCP/HD • United Kingdom • 2018 • 82’
Produced by Mackenzie Studio (Lucy Paul)
Original language: English
TRAILERART &
CULTURE
CITY DREAMERS
By JOSEPH HILLEL
Rethinking the city with women devoting their lives to improve our environment
City Dreamers is a film about our changing urban environment and four women architects, inspiring trailblazers with over 60 years of
experience each, who are working, observing, thinking about and experiencing the transformations that are shaping the city of today
and tomorrow.
They worked with Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and many more. They have decades of experience, and they were pioneers in their
field. As women, their careers have not been without obstacles. You may not have heard of the architects Phyllis Lambert, Blanche
Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and Denise Scott Brown, but City Dreamers will help you get to know them.
DCP/HD • Canada • 2019 • 81’
Produced by Studio Couzin Inc
Original language: English, French
TRAILERWARSAW
FESTIVAL
BORN2DRIVE
By DANIEL FAHRE
A real life Fast & Furious
A blockbuster documentary
Every child is growing up having a dream. Oliver is at first glimpse like any normal 15-year-old, hung up on his favorite thing; cars.
However, you will soon discover that he has a unique talent. With 600 horsepower under the hood, from zero to hundred km/h (0-62
mph) in 1,9 seconds, Oliver drives his car like no one else. He is the world’s youngest rallycross driver.
He comes from a family with gasoline running through their veins and every breath is about the sport of driving. Oliver is the son of
3 times world champion Petter Solberg and is born to drive.
Last year, Oliver started the racing school in Le Mans, France. We follow him finding his place there and making new friends. But in a
foreign country far away from his family, this can be tough.
At the same time Oliver is now competing among the bests, both in rally and rallycross. Does he have what it takes to make it to the
top?
A thrilling and energizing experience, with awesome car racing and action moments, BORN2DRIVE is a fascinating story of talent and
dream.
DCP/HD • Norway • 2019 • 90’
Fenomen TV Film & Scene, Storyline, Sornorsk filmsenter
Original languages: Norwegian, English, FrenchCPH/DOX
2019
16 SUNRISES
By PIERRE-EMMANUEL LE-GOFF
"A real space opera" - Géo Magazine
In November 2016, the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet set off on his first mission to space.
Six weightless months in orbit about 450 kilometres from Earth, together with an international team and a copy of Saint-Exupéry's space adventure
'The Little Prince'.
For as Pesquet says, the mission's ultimate goal is to give children and youth something to dream about.
'16 Sunrises' is on the same frequency, and the mission fully succeeds in a film that combines the researchers' everyday life on board with a poetic
dimension.
But the international space station is also an international semi-utopian project, in both theory and practice, with all the countries in the world
contributing.
DCP/HD • France • 2018 • 110’
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure Production, Prospect tv
Original languages: French, English, Russian
TRAILERBERLIN
FORUM 2019
WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED
By MARIAM GHANI
Five unfinished features from the communist era in Afghanistan.
Then, films were a weapon and filmmakers, targets.
The incredible true story of five unfinished films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991) when films were weapons,
filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told on screen.
What we left unfinished is also a story about a tight-knit group of Afghan filmmakers who loved cinema enough to risk their lives for
art. Despite government interference, censorship boards, scarce resources, armed opposition, and near-constant threats of arrest or
death, they made films that at times were subversive and, in the filmmakers’ opinions, always “true” to life
DCP/HD • USA, Afghanistan, Qatar • 2019 • 71’ – Indexical Films, Ajna Films
Original language: Dari
TRAILERBEST SELLER
FREEDOM FIELDS
By NAZIHA AREBI
The first feature documentary made by a Libyan female director.
In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: playing football for their nation. As the country
descends into civil war and the utopian hopes of the “Arab Spring” begin to fade, can they realize their dream? And is there even a
country left to play for?
Freedom Fields is a film about hope and sacrifice in a land where dreams seem a luxury. Through the eyes of these accidental activists
we see the reality of a country in transition, where the personal stories of love, struggle and aspirations collide with History.
DCP/HD • United Kingdom • 2018 • 97’ & 52’
- SDI Productions Ltd / HuNa Productions
Libya / UK / Netherlands / USA / Qatar / Lebanon / Canada
Original languages: Arabic, EnglishBEST SELLER
LIVING THE LIGHT – ROBBY MÜLLER
By CLAIRE PIJMAN
With the participation of Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch.
Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and polaroid’s that
Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot through his career; often with long term
collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier.
The film intertwines those images with films excerpts, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for LIVING THE
LIGHT, Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art, an additional music voice.
Robby Müller's work has been compared to painters like Vermeer and Hopper, other masters of light. Even when his films are
finished, his images keep on moving. The light never fades because he always creates space for human emotions to come into the
light. Living the Light is the story of that light.
DCP/HD • The Netherlands • 2018 • 86’
Produced by Moondocs
Original languages: English, Dutch, German & French
TRAILERBEST-SELLER
THE RAFT
By MARCUS LINDEEN
The strangest group experiment of all time
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of
violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behavior.
Although the project became known in the press as “The Sex Raft”, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three-month
journey.
Through extraordinary archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition on a full-scale replica of the raft,
this film tells the hidden story behind what has been described as “one of the strangest group experiments of all time.”
DCP/HD • Sweden, Denmark, Germany, USA • 2018 • 98’
Produced by Erik Gandini & Jesper Kurlandsky (Fasad)
Original languages: English, French, German, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish
TRAILERBEST-SELLER
RENZO PIANO, THE ARCHITECT OF LIGHT
By CARLOS SAURA
Carlos Saura and Renzo Piano unfold their view on the relationship between architecture and cinema and show us the
magic surrounding this gigantic building as imagined by Renzo Piano.
A very special building, the Botín Center.
Two masters of creation:
The architect, a contemporary genius, Renzo Piano.
The director, another contemporary genius, Carlos Saura.
The Botin Center, through time, will modify the soul of the city forever.
DCP/HD • Spain • 2018 • 70’
Produced by Morena Films
Original languages: Spanish, Italian, English
TRAILERBEST-SELLER
THE GREENAWAY ALPHABET
By SASKIA BODDEKE
Peter Greenaway constructs an alphabet for and with his daughter Pip as a blueprint of his life.
The fascinations of filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose motto is "art is life and life is art", are captured like butterflies and arranged in
an alphabet, a form suiting him perfectly as an encyclopedist. In intimate conversations with his perceptive 16-year-old daughter Pip,
we discover the ‘whos, whats and whys’ about Greenaway.
They begin with A, which stands for Amsterdam, but could also stand for autism, Pip suggests. Greenaway’s boundless creativity and
unconstrained flow of words brings this to mind indeed, and he admits to wearing the label with pride. The playful conversations
don’t shy away from painful topics; we hear that Greenaway hasn’t seen two other children of his for years.
Later, heartbroken and in tears, Pip asks him if for once, he can stop talking like a commentator.
Pip’s spontaneous questions penetrate Greenaway to the core, enabling his wife, multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke, to make a deeply
personal portrait not only of the artist, but also of Greenaway the father in his battle against time.
DCP/HD • The Netherlands• 2017 • 70’ & 52’
Produced by Beeld TV
Original Languages: Dutch, English
TRAILERBEST SELLER
PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE
By MISSIRKOV and BOGDANOV
Palace for the people tells the stories of the most emblematic four buildings of socialist times – witnessing the
historical turbulence in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century.
Now that socialism is over, it's time for The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, the Moscow State University, the Palace of the
Parliament in Bucharest, the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, to reveal their hidden secrets.
The film takes a snapshot of the palaces today, through the eyes of their architects, former and current directors and ordinary people
who worked in them.
DCP/HD • Bulgaria, Germany, Romania • 2017 • 52’/90’
Produced by Agitprop
In collaboration with MDR, ARTE, Bulgarian TV
TRAILERBEST-SELLER
LARGER THAN LIFE
THE KEVYN AUCOIN STORY
By TIFFANY BARTOK
"...It shows a side of Kevyn I never knew about, it shows the whole man and makes me love him even more." - Kate Moss
Moving to New York City from a small town in Louisiana in the early 1980's, Kevyn Aucoin found acceptance as a gay man and success
in the fashion world. Developing an often-overlooked profession into an influential art form, Aucoin became the go-to makeup artist
for — and fast friends with — supermodels and celebrities until his tragic death at the age of 40.
Director Tiffany Bartok offers an intimate look at a legendary figure who made people beautiful.
DCP/HD • USA • 2018 • 98’
A Vinyl Foote Production in association with Matador Content
North America: Cinetic / The Orchard
Original language: English
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THE WALDHEIM WALTZ
By RUTH BECKERMANN
A film about truth and lies and how a dishonest man can rise to power.
Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the
swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during his Austrian presidential campaign, the denial by the Austrian
political class, the outbreak of anti-Semitism and patriotism, which finally led to his election.
Created from international archive material and what Beckermann shot at the time, the film shows that history repeats itself time and
time again.
DCP/HD • Austria • 2018 • 93’
Produced by Ruth Beckermann Film Production
Original Languages: German, English, French
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THE GREEN LIE
By WERNER BOOTE
“When you shop with a conscience, you don’t save the world, you save the corporations”
Environmentally friendly electric cars, sustainably produced food products, fair production processes: Hurray! If everything the
corporations tell us is true, we can save the world through our purchasing decisions alone! A popular and dangerous lie.
Are the industry's “green products” nothing more than a sales strategy?
In his new documentary film, Werner Boote (Plastic Planet, Everything Under Control) shows us, together with environmental expert
Kathrin Hartmann, how we can protect ourselves.
They easily banter, they agree to disagree and ultimately bring freshness to a never-ending debate.
DCP/HD • Austria • 2018 • 97’
Produced by e&a Film
Original Languages: German, English, Indonesian, Portuguese
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DREAMAWAY
By MAROUAN OMARA & JOHANNA DOMKE
Recent terror attacks have brought tourism in Sharm El Sheikh to a halt. We follow a group of young workers in a
luxury hotel compound, holding onto the town despite the lack of tourists.
Returning home is not an option, as they have absorbed the liberal life style and experience the difficulty of fitting back into their
own culture. Sharm El Sheikh has been for a long time a dream destination for young Egyptians, representing a place of freedom
and easy money.
Clichés and stereotypes of both western and oriental culture clash and create a carousel-like experience, elevating the young
Egyptians into a dream-like state. They lead a double life in the shadow of the shiny shimmering hotel facades, as their families are
unaware of the sinful temptations in town.
DCP/HD • Germany, Egypt • 2018 • 86’
Produced by Monokel
Original languages: Arabic, English
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SWEDISH SIN
By LINDA CALLENHOLT
One of the world’s most enduring myths created through the power of cinema: Sweden, a sexual paradise?
It all began in earnest with two films in the early fifties: “One Summer of Happiness” by Arne Mattson, and “Summer with Monika” by
Ingmar Bergman. “One Summer of Happiness” won the Golden Bear in Berlin and was quickly distributed to over 90 countries.
“Summer with Monika” was in Cannes and got picked up by the U.S distributor Kroger Babb, known for his shameless marketing
methods. He dubbed it in English and rebranded it as “Monika - the story of a bad girl” with the tagline” The Devil controls her by
radar”. It became an instant success. It was not only the nudity that spurred controversy but Monika taking sexual initiatives and
leaving her husband.
Kerstin in Mattson’s movie has sex before marriage. The world these movies portrayed were extreme in its handling of nudity, sex,
marriage and equality. And where did they come from? Sweden.
Our quest for answers takes us on a thrilling and entertaining journey spanning a good chunk of the twentieth century, where we
discover strong movie personalities and festival winning art-house films but also disastrous soft porn flicks, presidents and politicians,
influential journalists and advertising executives against the backdrop of major political and societal changes.
DCP/HD • Sweden • 2018 • 90’ & 58’
Produced by Inland Film AB
Original languages: Swedish, EnglishIN 2021
OH MOSCOW
By SALLY POTTER
OH MOSCOW first manifested as a song cycle, written in 1987, with music by Lindsay Cooper and lyrics by Sally Potter. A group of
the same name performed it in North America, Russia and across Europe, including to audiences on both sides of the Berlin Wall just
months before it came down. Those songs pay tribute to migrations which will never cease and are what the world is made of.
Following Lindsay Cooper's death in 2013, the group re-formed to play tribute concerts at the Barbican in London, the Huddersfield
Jazz Festival and in Italy. This revival was met with critical acclaim. Audiences found the lyrics, though written 30 years ago, increasingly
relevant.
As Sally Potter wrote: “It is a […] visual detective work. ‘Oh Moscow’ will evoke both the hostility and suspicion provoked by every
manifestation of an Iron Curtain, as well as the longings each of us carry to be united with our long-lost friends […] across any border,
metaphorical or actual.
DCP/HD • UK • 2019 • 70’
Produced by Adventure Pictures
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