FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Zak Hilditch

SCRIPT Zak Hilditch
DOP Bonnie Elliott
EDITOR Nick Meyers ASE
SOUND Emma Bortignon
MUSIC Cornel Wilczek

CAST Nathan Phillips, Angourie Rice, Jessica de Gouw, Kathryn Beck, Daniel Henshall, Sarah Snook, Lynette Curran

PRODUCER Liz Kearney
PRODUCTION 8th In Line Production
CO-PRODUCTION ScreenWest, Lottery West, Screen Australia, Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund
SALES Celluloid Nightmares

It’s the last day on Earth, twelve hours before an event will end life as we know it. James makes his way across a lawless city to the party to end all parties. Along the way he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility James is forced to question what really matters as the hours tick away.

Zak Hilditch studied Film at Curtin University in Western Australia where he completed his honours degree in 2004. In 2006, Zak won the Young Filmmaker of the year award at the WA Screen Awards. In 2012, his short sci-fi drama Transmission was in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. At the 2013 AACTA awards, it won Best Short Screenplay. These Final Hours is Zak’s first financed feature film.

FESTIVALS Cannes Film Festival 2014 (Directors’ Fortnight), Melbourne International Film Festival 2013 (The Age Critics’ Award)

DIRECTOR Jean-Pierre Jeunet

SCREENPLAY Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant NOVEL BY The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen
DOP Thomas Hardmeier
EDITOR Hervé Schneid
MUSIC Denis Sanacore

CAST Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett, Niamh Wilson, Jakob Davies, Rick Mercer, Dominique Pinon

PRODUCERS Frédéric Brillion, Gilles Legrand, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Suzanne Girard
PRODUCTION Epithete Films, Tapioca Films, Filmarto
CO-PRODUCTION Gaumont, France 2 Cinema
WORLS SALES Gaumont

T.S. Spivet lives on a remote ranch in Montana with his parents, his sister Gracie and his brother Layton. A gifted child with a passion for science, he has invented a perpetual motion machine, for which he has been awarded the prestigious Baird Prize by the Smithsonian Institution. He leaves a note for his family and hops a freight train to make his way across the United States and receive his prize. But no one there suspects that the lucky winner is a ten-year-old child with a very dark secret.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet began his film-making career with shorts which he co-directed with artist Marc Caro. Their first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), and second The City of Lost Children (1995). This international recognition opened the doors of Hollywood, and he directed Alien: Resurrection (1997) in the United States. In 2000 he returned to France to shoot Amélie, and A Very Long Engagement (2004).

San Sebastian International Film Festival 2013, Nagrade Cezar César Awards 2014 (Best DOP), Sydney Film Festival 2014

DIRECTORS Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

SCRIPT Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel, Rodney Rothman
DOP Barry Peterson
EDITOR David Rennie
ART DIRECTOR Steve Saklad
COSTUMES Leesa Evans
MUSIC Mark Mothersbaugh

CAST Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Peter Stormare, Ice Cube

PRODUCERS Neal H. Moritz, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum
SALES (HR) Continental film

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the athletic team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to
question their partnership. Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller met at Dartmouth College. Today they are the prolific writing and directing duo behind some of today’s most successful comedy films including, The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. Among their television writing credits, Lord and Miller served as co-executive producers on How I Met Your Mother, the Emmywinning primetime sitcom.

DIRECTOR Jon Favreau

SCRIPT Jon Favreau
DOP Kramer Morgenthau
EDITOR Robert Leighton
ART DIRECTOR Denise Pizzini

CAST Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Emjay Anthony, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sofia Vergara, Oliver Platt, Amy Sedaris, Robert Downey Jr.

PRODUCERS Sergei Bespalov, Jon Favreau, Karen Gilchrist
PRODUCTION, SALES Aldamisa Entertainment

When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what’s next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to
launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen – and zest for life and love.

Jon Favreau (1966) is a director, writer and actor who continues to challenge himself with a variety of eclectic projects. On the small screen, he recently directed the pilot for the NBC comedy About a Boy and both directed and executive produced the pilot for the hit NBC sci-fi drama
Revolution. Films: Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Iron Man 2 (2010), Iron Man (2008), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Elf (2003), Made (2001).

FESTIVALS Tribeca Film Festival 2013 (Audience Award for Narrative Feature)

DIRECTOR Mike Cahill

SCRIPT, EDITOR Mike Cahill
DOP Markus Forderer
ART DIRECTOR Alan Lampert
MUSIC Will Bates, Phil Mossman

CAST Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Steven Yeun

PRODUCERS Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky
PRODUCTION Verisimilitud, WeWork Studios
CO-PRODUCTION Bersin Pictures, Penny Jane Films
SALES WME, Los Angeles

I Origins tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray, a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen, they make
a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

Mike Cahill (1979) studied economics at Georgetown University, graduating in 2001. There he formed a close relationship with actress, writer and director Brit Marling, who became his regular collaborator. While living in Cuba, together they directed Boxers and Ballerinas (2004), a documentary exploration of the U.S.–Cuba conflict. Cahill’s feature debut, Another Earth (2011), won a Special Jury Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at that year’s Sundance Film Festival. I Origins is his second feature.

FESTIVALS Sundance Film Festival 2014 (Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize)

DIRECTOR Roberts Gannaway

SCRIPT Jeffrey M. Howard
EDITOR Jeremy Milton
ART DIRECTOR Toby Wilson
MUSIC Mark Mancina

VOICES Dane Cook, Julie Bowen, Jerry Stiller, Ed Harris

PRODUCER Ferrell Barron
PRODUCTION DisneyToon Studios
SALES Walt Disney Pictures

A sequel to Disney’s Planes (2013), Planes: Fire & Rescue features a quirky crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park from a raging wildfire. When world famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his courageous air attack team, including spirited super scooper Lil’ Dipper, heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter, ex-military transport Cabbie
and a lively bunch of brave all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire, and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.

Roberts Gannaway graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1989). He is known for his work on House of Mouse (2001), Mickey’s House of Villains (2001), and Stitch! The Movie (2003).

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Zak Hilditch

SCRIPT Zak Hilditch
DOP Bonnie Elliott
EDITOR Nick Meyers ASE
SOUND Emma Bortignon
MUSIC Cornel Wilczek

CAST Nathan Phillips, Angourie Rice, Jessica de Gouw, Kathryn Beck, Daniel Henshall, Sarah Snook, Lynette Curran

PRODUCER Liz Kearney
PRODUCTION 8th In Line Production
CO-PRODUCTION ScreenWest, Lottery West, Screen Australia, Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund
SALES Celluloid Nightmares

It’s the last day on Earth, twelve hours before an event will end life as we know it. James makes his way across a lawless city to the party to end all parties. Along the way he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility James is forced to question what really matters as the hours tick away.

Zak Hilditch studied Film at Curtin University in Western Australia where he completed his honours degree in 2004. In 2006, Zak won the Young Filmmaker of the year award at the WA Screen Awards. In 2012, his short sci-fi drama Transmission was in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. At the 2013 AACTA awards, it won Best Short Screenplay. These Final Hours is Zak’s first financed feature film.

FESTIVALS Cannes Film Festival 2014 (Directors’ Fortnight), Melbourne International Film Festival 2013 (The Age Critics’ Award)

DIRECTOR Jessica Hausner

SCRIPT Jessica Hausner
DOP Martin Gschlacht
EDITOR Karina Ressler
ART DIRECTOR Katharina Wöppermann
COSTUMES Tanja Hausner
SOUND Nicolas Tran Tong

CAST Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann

PRODUCERS Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Philippe Bober
PRODUCTION Coop99 Filmproduktion, AMOUR FOU
SALES The Coproduction Office

Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin’s insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich’s subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness. Amour Fou is a romantic comedy based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.

Jessica Hausner (1972) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later her film Hotel was screened at the 2004 festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Lourdes (2009), Hotel (2004), Lovely Rita (2001), Inter-View (1999).

FESTIVALS Cannes Film Festival 2014 (Un Certain Regard Award)

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Anthony Chen

SCRIPT Anthony Chen
DOP Benoit Soler
EDITORS Hoping Chen, Joanne Cheong
ART DIRECTOR Michael Wee
SOUND Zhe Wu

CAST Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tianwen, Angeli Bayani, Koh Jia Ler, Peter Wee

PRODUCERS Ang Hwee Sim, Anthony Chen, Wahayuni A. Hadi
PRODUCTION Fisheye Pictures PTE Ltd
WORLD SALES Memento Films International

Set in Singapore, Ilo Ilo chronicles the relationship between the Lim family and their newly arrived maid, Teresa. Like many other Filipino women, she has come to this city in search of a better life. Her presence in the family worsens their already strained relationship. Jiale, the young and troublesome son, starts to form a unique bond with Teresa, who soon becomes an unspoken part of the family. But this is 1997 and the Asian financial crisis is beginning to be felt in the region.

Anthony Chen (1984, Singapore) graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Film and Media Studies. In 2010, he completed his Masters in Film Directing at the National Film and Television School, UK. His short film Ah Ma (Grandma) won a Special Mention at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. Haze (2008), his next short, screened in competition at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.

FESTIVALS Cannes Film Festival 2014 (Directors’ Fortnight)

DIRECTOR Juraj Lehotský

SCRIPT Marek Leščák, Juraj Lehotský
DOP Noro Hudec
EDITOR Marek Šulík
SOUND Marián Gregorovič, Peter Mazáček

CAST Michaela Bendulová, Robert Roth, Venuša Kalejová, Lenka Habrunová, Kika Potočná
PRODUCERS Ján Meliš, Marko Škop
PRODUCTION Artileria
CO-PRODUCERS Petr Oukropec, Pavel Strnad
CO-PRODUCTION, SALES Negativ, Česká televize

The story of 15-year-old Ela who is sent to a re-education centre because of her love affair with Roby, a thirty-year-old man. She has a child’s face, but her body is very feminine despite her age. The first evening at the re-education centre, Ela has to stand on an impromptu stage where she is subjected to the so-called public confession. Ela loves Roby, but she is not allowed to contact him. She decides to run away from the centre during the New Year’s Eve disco.

Juraj Lehotský (1975, Bratislava) from 1990 to 1994, he studied at the Higher Art and Crafts School in Bratislava (SUPŠ), specializing in photography. From 1995 to 2000, he studied documentary film directing at the Academy of Music Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Lehotský directed a number of short documentaries. His feature films are Blind loves (2008) and Miracle (2013).

FESTIVALS Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary (Special Mention – East of the West Competition), Filmfestival Cottbus 2013 (Michaela
Bendulová Award for the Outstanding Actress), Arras Film Festival 2013 (Golden Atlas), Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris 2014 (Michaela Bendulová Best Actress), Neisse Filmfestival 2014 (Best Feature)

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

SCRIPT Iona Antoci, Gabriel Gheorghe, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
DOP Andrei Butica
EDITOR Dragos Apetri
SOUND Vlad Voinescu, Flip Muresan

CAST Victor Rebengiuc, Serban Pavlu, Laurentiu Lazar, Kana Hashimoto, Toma Hashimoto

PRODUCERS Tudor Giurgiu, Bogdan Craciun
PRODUCTION Libra Film (RO)
SALES M-appeal

What does it take to change a solitary life? After twenty years, an old man, widowed by the recent floods, and his son, who has been living in Japan, see each other again for the first time. Their expectations run high and during this brief reencounter, both try to overcome the distance that has grown between them. When his son and his family have to part, they leave him a Japanese Robodog as a souvenir of their visit that will ultimately change his life forever.

Tudor Cristian Jurgiu (1984) graduated from The National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale Bucharest in 2009. His latest short In the Fishbowl (2012) was selected for the Cinefondation competition in Cannes 2013, where he was awarded with the 3rd Prize ex-aequo. This
is his first feature film.

FESTIVALS San Sebastian Intrenational Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Balkan Survey)

DIRECTOR Roger Michell

SCRIPT Hanif Kureishi
DOP Nathalie Durand
EDITOR Kristina Hetherington
ART DIRECTOR Emmanuelle Duplay
MUSIC Jeremy Sams

CAST Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum, Olly Alexander, Judith Davis

PRODUCER Kevin Loader
PRODUCTION Free Range, Film4
SALES Embankment Films

Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness – and even deeper regret.

Roger Michell (1956) graduated from Cambridge in 1977. In 1993, he directed the acclaimed BBC miniseries adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia. He collaborates regularly with Kureishi (The Mother, 2003). Among other films he directed a famous comedy Notting Hill (1999).

FESTIVALS British Independent Film Awards 2013 (Best Actress), San Sebastian Film Festival 2013 (Best Actor), Toronto International Film Festival 2013, New York Film Festival 2013, Palm Springs Film Festival 2014

DIRECTOR Shane Carruth

SCRIPT, DOP, MUSIC Shane Carruth
EDITORS David Lowery, Shane Carruth
ART DIRECTOR Thomas Walker
SOUND Johnny Marshall

CAST Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins

PRODUCERS Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair
PRODUCTION erbp
SALES Visit Films

A young woman is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific orchid. She later meets a man and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he has also been subjected to the same process and that there are other victims of these
disturbing experiments. They struggle to assemble the fragments of their wrecked lives as they are unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Upstream Color is a horror-thriller
with borrowings from the drama and mystery genres. Carruth’s surreal approach and thrilling cascades of images follow a narrative trajectory that is neither linear nor chronological but relies instead on a complex, intense atmosphere.

Shane Carruth (1972, Myrtle Beach, USA) premiered with his debut film Primer at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Upstream Color is his second film.

FESTIVALS Sundance Film Festival 2013 (Special Jury Prize – Johnny Marshall, Shane Carruth), Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2013, SXSW 2013

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Pierfrancesco Diliberto

SCRIPT Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Marco Martani
DOP Roberto Forza
EDITOR Cristiano Travaglioli
SOUND Luca Bertolin

CAST Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Cristiana Capotondi, Ginevra Antona, Alex Bisconti, Claudio Gioe, Ninni Bruschetta

PRODUCERS Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli
PRODUCTION Wildside
CO-PRODUCTION Rai Cinema
SALES Rai Trade

The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer follows the perspective of a schoolboy, Arthur, born in Palermo on the day Vito Ciancimino, the head of the mafia and the Christian Democratic Party is elected mayor of Palermo. In amorous pursuit of his classmate Flora, Arturo discovers the vagaries of first love and a nascent passion for journalism in a community where mafia, students, ordinary citizens, judges and politicians meet in a series of tragic and ridiculous situations. Combining Italian-style comedy and archival footage of the Mafia struggle from the 1970s-90s, the film denounces the murders of courageous anti-mafia crusaders. It reveals how humor, love, courage and imagination contribute to the awakening of a collective consciousness

Pierfrancesco Diliberto (1972, Palermo) from 2001 to 2010, he worked at the investigative current affairs programme Le Iene, as author and reporter. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer is Diliberto’s directorial debut.

DIRECTOR György Pálfi

SCRIPT György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay
DOP Gergely Pohárnok
EDITOR Réka Lemhényi
ART DIRECTOR Tamás Tamási

CAST Piroska Molnár, Miklós Benedek, Tamás Jordán, Krisztina Jankovics, Marina Gera, Csaba Gosztonyi, Dániel Csengery
PRODUCER Ferenc Pusztai

PRODUCTION KMH Film, Popfilm
CO-PRODUCTION JIFF Project – Jeonju Digital Project (KR), Sciapode (FR), VisionTeam and Origo Fil Group (HU)
SALES Vertigo Média

An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. In the last moments of her life she looks into the windows she passes and gets to know the true stories of people living in the house. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A sad and grotesque look at contemporary society.

György Pálfi (1974) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He is a director and writer, known for Hukkle (2002), Taxidermia (2006), and Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012).

FESTIVALS Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary 2014

DIRECTOR Lech Majewski

SCRIPT Lech Majewski
DOP Lech Majewski, Paweł Tybora
EDITORS Eliot Ems, Katarzyna Katarzyna Leśniak
MUSIC Lech Majewski, Józef Skrzek

CAST Michal Tatarek, Elżbieta Okupska, Jacenty Jędrusik, Jan Warta, Szymon Budzyk

PRODUCER Lech Majewski
PRODUCTION Angelus Silesius
CO-PRODUCTION Polish Film Institute, CG Home Video, Bokomotive Film AB, Silesia Film Institute, Odeon Rybarczyk Productions, 24Media, Em Audio, Centrum Kultury Katowice
SALES WIDE Management

The film is a visionary love story based on a contemporary reading of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. A father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles; Niagara falls onto a cathedral altar. These are visions of Adam, a poet who has lost his beloved in a car crash,
and who gives up his job as professor of literature to work at a supermarket. Set in 2010, the year of the plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a national tragedy imposes on a personal one.

Lech Majewski (1953) is a Polish poet, filmmaker and video artist. His credits include films: The Mill and the Cross (2011), Glass Lips (2007), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004), Angelus (2000), Wojaczek (1999). He collaborated on the script for Basquiat (1996). In 2006, The New York Museum of Modern Art honoured him with the individual retrospective entitled Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image.

DIRECTORS Aida Begic (BA), Leonardo Di Costanzo (IT), Jean-Luc Godard (CH), Kamen Kalev (BG), Isild Le Besco (FR), Serguei Loznitsa (UA), Vincenzo Marra (IT), Ursula Meier (CH), Vladimir Perisic (RS), Cristi Puiu (RO), Marc Recha (ES), Angela Schanelec (DE), Teresa Villaverde (PT)

ART DIRECTOR Jean-Michel Frodon
ANIMATION François Schuiten, Luis da Matta Almeida
EDITOR Cristiano Travaglioli
PRODUCERS Fabienne Servan Schreiber, Mirsad Purivata
PRODUCTION Cinétévé (FR), Obala Art Center (BA)
CO-PRODUCTION Bande à part films (CH), Mir Cinematografica (IT), Unafilm (DE), Ukbar filmes (PT)
SALES Indie Sales

European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer many singular styles and visions. François Schuiten, a famous Belgian comic book artist, imagined animated cartoon links in between these films, a metaphoric transposition of the emblematic bridges of the city of Sarajevo.

Aida Begic’s first feature Snow won the 2008 Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Cannes. Her film Children of Sarajevo received a Special Mention from the Un Certain Regard jury at 2012 Cannes.

Leonardo Di Costanzo’s first feature The Interval (2012) won several awards at the Venice International Film Festival (the FIPRESCI Award, the Italian Critics’ Award, the CISC UNESCO Award…) as well as the Best New Director Award at the David di Donatello.

Jean-Luc Godard is one of the greatest living filmmakers and co-founder of the Nouvelle Vague. Films: Breathless (1959), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Contempt (1963), Weekend (1967), Passion (1982), First Name: Carmen (1983), Hail Mary, Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1988-1998).

Vincenzo Marra’s first feature Sailing Home (2001) earned him an award both at the Venice Film Festival and the Critics’ Week at Cannes. Films: Estranei alla massa (2001), Paesaggio a sud (2003), Vento di Terra (2004), The Trial Begins (2011).

First feature film by Vladimir Perišić Ordinary People (2009) was nominated in the Caméra d’or section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Sergei Loznitsa’s film In the Fog (2012) won the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes. Films: My Joy (2010), Maidan (2014).

Isild Le Besco: Half-Price (2003), Charly (2007), Bas-fonds (2010).

Angela Schanelec is an actress, screenwriter, producer and editor. Films: Marseille (2004), Afternoon (2006), Orly (2010).

Two Brothers, My Sister (1994) by Teresa Villaverde was awarded at the Venice Film Festival. Films: The Major Age (1991), The Mutants (1998), Water and Salt (2001), Trance (2006), Swan (2011)

FESTIVALS Cannes Film Festival 2014

DIRECTOR Brendan Muldowny

SCRIPT Brendan Muldowny
DOP Tom Comerford
EDITOR Mairead McIvor
MUSIC Bart Westerlaken
SOUND Ingo Dumlich, Mike Butcher

CAST Robert de Hoog, Pollyanna McIntosh, Amanda Ryan, Emma Eliza Regan, Aiden Condron

PRODUCER Conor Barry
PRODUCTION Fastnet Films (IE)
CO-PRODUCTION Red Lion (LU), Rinkel Film (NL), T.O. Entertainment (JP)
WORLD SALES Reel Suspects

Based on the Japanese novel Loving with the Dead, from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper), the film centres on an isolated and death-fixated young man Ian Harding who tries to make sense of the world and his existence in the only way he knows how – by getting closer to death.

Brendan Muldowny is a graduate of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design (The National Film School in Ireland). He has written and directed nine short films. This is his second film after a debut Savage in 2010.

FESTIVALS Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (Best Irish Film), Leeds International Film Festival, Sitges International Film Festival

DIRECTOR Pirjo Honkasalo

SCRIPT Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio
DOP Peter Flinckenberg
EDITOR Niels Pagh Andersen
ART DIRECTOR Pentti Valkeasuo
SOUND Jan Alvermark
MUSIC Karl Frid, Pär Frid

CAST Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Juhan Ulfsak, Anneli Karppinen
PRODUCERS Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
PRODUCTION Bufo Ltd
CO-PRODUCTION Plattform Produktion, Magic Hour Films
WORLD SALES Film Republic

Concrete Night opens in a cramped, concrete-jungle home. Ilkka, the elder of the two brothers, is leaving to serve a prison sentence. During Ilkka’s last 24 hours of freedom, his younger brother, vulnerable Simo, follows the brother he admires through the fateful events of that night. Pirjo Honkasalo’s bold and analytical urban film is a dream-like odyssey about a fragile mind of a young boy and the loss of innocence.

Pirjo Honkasalo (1947) is a highly established director, cinematographer and screenwriter, who has won countless awards for her work. Together with Pekka Lehto, she directed Flame Top (Cannes competition 1980). Her most famous film is an award winning feature documentary, The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), a story of how Russian and Chechen children were psychologically affected by the war. She is Finland’s first female cinematographer to shoot a feature film. Films: Atman (1997), Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993), Mysterion (1991).

FESTIVALS Camerimage 2013, Jussi Awards 2014 (Best Film, Best Direction, Best DOP, Best Editing, BestArt Director, Best Sound)

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Milko Lazarov

SCRIPT Milko Lazarov, Kitodar Todorov, Georgi Tenev
DOP Kaloyan Bozhilov
EDITOR Veselka Kiryakova
ART DIRECTOR Vanina Geleva
SOUND Aleksander Simeonov

CAST Christos Stergioglou, Mariana Jikich Ovanes Torosian, Neda Iskrenova, Iva Ognyanova Kitodar Todorov, Dora Markova

PRODUCER Boryana Puncheva
PRODUCTION BNT, Red Carpet

A man driving an old-fashioned car is crossing the border. He is Greek and in his fifties, heading to Bulgaria to buy a newborn. Jorgos has prepared a secret compartment in the boot of the car, masked as a gas tank, in order to smuggle the child out. But the baby isn´t born yet, and the Greek needs to wait in a secluded house in the mountains together with the mother, her deaf-mute brother and the midwife. On a stormy night, the child is born.

Milko Lazarov graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he studied film and TV directing. He is an executive producer and director of BNT´s highly successful BBC projects The Great Bulgarians and The Big Read. He has also directed several documentary films. He used to be a lecturer in NATFA´s film department, teaching directing, experimental film and mise-en-scène. Alienation is his first feature film.

FESTIVALS Venice Film Festival 2013 (FEDEORA for Best Debut Film, Europa Cinemas Label – Special Mention), Warsaw International Film Festival 2013 (Competition Award – Milko Lazarov)

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Rok Biček

SCRIPT Nejc Gazvoda, Rok Biček, Janez Lapajne
DOP Dragan Šiša
EDITORS Janez Lapajne, Rok Biček

CAST Igor Samobor, Nataša Barbara Gračner, Tjaša Železnik, Maša Derganc, Robert Prebil, Voranc Boh, Jan Zupančič, Daša Cupevski

PRODUCERS Aiken Veronika Prosenc, Janez Lapajne
PRODUCTION, SALES Triglav Film

Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between students and their new German language teacher becomes critically tense. When one of the students commits suicide, her classmates accuse the teacher of being responsible for her death. The realisation
that things are not so black and white comes too late.

Rok Biček (1985, Novo Mesto) graduated from the University of Ljubljana. He entered the world of cinema as a prominent student at Janez Lapajne’s PoEtika, an occasional academy for researching the art of film directing. He won several awards for his student films. Class Enemy is
his directorial feature debut.

FESTIVALS International Film Festival Bratislava (Best Film, Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize), Les Arcs European Film Festival (Cineuropa Prize), Venice International Critics’ Week (FEDEORA)

DIRECTOR Ken Loach

SCRIPT Paul Laverty
DOP Robbie Ryan
EDITOR Jonathan Morris
ART DIRECTOR Fergus Clegg
COSTUMES Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh
MUSIC George Fenton

CAST Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton, Francis Magee, Aisling Franciosi, Andrew Scott, Brían F. O’Byrne

PRODUCER Rebecca O’Brien
PRODUCTION Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Element Pictures
SALES Wild Bunch

In 1921, Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland, where young people could come to learn, to argue and to dream. But above all to dance and have fun. Jimmy’s Hall celebrates the spirit of these free-thinkers.

Ken Loach (1936, Nuneaton) is known for his naturalistic, social realist topics. His films Hidden Agenda (1990) and Raining Stones (1993) both won Cannes Special Jury Prize; Riff-Raff (1991) received the European Film Award for Best Picture; Land and Freedom (1995) won FIPRESCI and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes, and the European Film Award for Best Picture; The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) won Palme d’Or. In 2014 he was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

FESTIVALS Festival de Cannes 2014 (competition)

DIRECTOR Xavier Dolan

SCRIPT Xavier Dolan, Michel Marc Bouchard
DOP André Turpin
EDITOR Xavier Dolan
ART DIRECTOR Anne Pritchard
MUSIC Gabriel Yared

CAST Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu

PRODUCERS Xavier Dolan, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
PRODUCTION, WORLD SALES MK2 Production

Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for the funeral of his boyfriend Guillaume. There, he is shocked to learn that no one knows who he is, nor his relationship to the deceased. Guillaume’s brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family’s
name and the deceased’s grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his ‘trip’ to the farm.

Xavier Dolan (1989) is an actor, writer and director who attracted international attention when his debut feature I Killed My Mother won three awards from the Director’s Fortnight program at Cannes Film Festival 2009. Dolan’s second feature film Heartbeats, premiered in the Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 and won the top prize of the Official Competition at the Sydney Film Festival. His third film Laurence Anyways was awarded the Best Actress Award for Suzanne Clément at Cannes 2012 (Un Certain Regard).

FESTIVALS Venice Film Festival 2013 (World Premiere), Toronto International Film Festival 2013

DIRECTOR Ralph Fiennes

SCRIPT Abi Morgan
DOP Rob Hardy
EDITOR Nicolas Gaster
ART DIRECTOR Maria Djurkovic
MUSIC Ilan Eshkeri

CAST Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Cristiana Capotondi, Ginevra Antona, Alex Bisconti, Claudio Gioe, Ninni Bruschetta

PRODUCER Gabrielle Tana
PRODUCTION Headline Pictures, Magnolia Mae Films
SALES WestEnd Films

Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back to the time of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens, a man more emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of ‘invisibility’.

Ralph Fiennes (1962) is a British actor known for his stage and film career. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Fiennes received numerous awards for his work as an actor, including two Academy Award nominations for his performances in Schindler’s List (1993)
and The English Patient (1996). He began directing in 2012 with a film version of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. The Invisible Woman is his second feature film.

DIRECTOR Ken Loach

SCRIPT Paul Laverty
DOP Robbie Ryan
EDITOR Jonathan Morris
ART DIRECTOR Fergus Clegg
COSTUMES Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh
MUSIC George Fenton

CAST Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton, Francis Magee, Aisling Franciosi, Andrew Scott, Brían F. O’Byrne

PRODUCER Rebecca O’Brien
PRODUCTION Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Element Pictures
SALES Wild Bunch

In 1921, Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland, where young people could come to learn, to argue and to dream. But above all to dance and have fun. Jimmy’s Hall celebrates the spirit of these free-thinkers.

Ken Loach (1936, Nuneaton) is known for his naturalistic, social realist topics. His films Hidden Agenda (1990) and Raining Stones (1993) both won Cannes Special Jury Prize; Riff-Raff (1991) received the European Film Award for Best Picture; Land and Freedom (1995) won FIPRESCI and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes, and the European Film Award for Best Picture; The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) won Palme d’Or. In 2014 he was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

FESTIVALS Festival de Cannes 2014 (competition)

DIRECTOR Juraj Lehotský

SCRIPT Marek Leščák, Juraj Lehotský
DOP Noro Hudec
EDITOR Marek Šulík
SOUND Marián Gregorovič, Peter Mazáček

CAST Michaela Bendulová, Robert Roth, Venuša Kalejová, Lenka Habrunová, Kika Potočná
PRODUCERS Ján Meliš, Marko Škop
PRODUCTION Artileria
CO-PRODUCERS Petr Oukropec, Pavel Strnad
CO-PRODUCTION, SALES Negativ, Česká televize

The story of 15-year-old Ela who is sent to a re-education centre because of her love affair with Roby, a thirty-year-old man. She has a child’s face, but her body is very feminine despite her age. The first evening at the re-education centre, Ela has to stand on an impromptu stage where she is subjected to the so-called public confession. Ela loves Roby, but she is not allowed to contact him. She decides to run away from the centre during the New Year’s Eve disco.

Juraj Lehotský (1975, Bratislava) from 1990 to 1994, he studied at the Higher Art and Crafts School in Bratislava (SUPŠ), specializing in photography. From 1995 to 2000, he studied documentary film directing at the Academy of Music Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Lehotský directed a number of short documentaries. His feature films are Blind loves (2008) and Miracle (2013).

FESTIVALS Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary (Special Mention – East of the West Competition), Filmfestival Cottbus 2013 (Michaela
Bendulová Award for the Outstanding Actress), Arras Film Festival 2013 (Golden Atlas), Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris 2014 (Michaela Bendulová Best Actress), Neisse Filmfestival 2014 (Best Feature)

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Pierfrancesco Diliberto

SCRIPT Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Marco Martani
DOP Roberto Forza
EDITOR Cristiano Travaglioli
SOUND Luca Bertolin

CAST Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Cristiana Capotondi, Ginevra Antona, Alex Bisconti, Claudio Gioe, Ninni Bruschetta

PRODUCERS Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli
PRODUCTION Wildside
CO-PRODUCTION Rai Cinema
SALES Rai Trade

The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer follows the perspective of a schoolboy, Arthur, born in Palermo on the day Vito Ciancimino, the head of the mafia and the Christian Democratic Party is elected mayor of Palermo. In amorous pursuit of his classmate Flora, Arturo discovers the vagaries of first love and a nascent passion for journalism in a community where mafia, students, ordinary citizens, judges and politicians meet in a series of tragic and ridiculous situations. Combining Italian-style comedy and archival footage of the Mafia struggle from the 1970s-90s, the film denounces the murders of courageous anti-mafia crusaders. It reveals how humor, love, courage and imagination contribute to the awakening of a collective consciousness

Pierfrancesco Diliberto (1972, Palermo) from 2001 to 2010, he worked at the investigative current affairs programme Le Iene, as author and reporter. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer is Diliberto’s directorial debut.

DIRECTOR György Pálfi

SCRIPT György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay
DOP Gergely Pohárnok
EDITOR Réka Lemhényi
ART DIRECTOR Tamás Tamási

CAST Piroska Molnár, Miklós Benedek, Tamás Jordán, Krisztina Jankovics, Marina Gera, Csaba Gosztonyi, Dániel Csengery
PRODUCER Ferenc Pusztai

PRODUCTION KMH Film, Popfilm
CO-PRODUCTION JIFF Project – Jeonju Digital Project (KR), Sciapode (FR), VisionTeam and Origo Fil Group (HU)
SALES Vertigo Média

An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. In the last moments of her life she looks into the windows she passes and gets to know the true stories of people living in the house. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A sad and grotesque look at contemporary society.

György Pálfi (1974) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He is a director and writer, known for Hukkle (2002), Taxidermia (2006), and Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012).

FESTIVALS Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary 2014

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Rok Biček

SCRIPT Nejc Gazvoda, Rok Biček, Janez Lapajne
DOP Dragan Šiša
EDITORS Janez Lapajne, Rok Biček

CAST Igor Samobor, Nataša Barbara Gračner, Tjaša Železnik, Maša Derganc, Robert Prebil, Voranc Boh, Jan Zupančič, Daša Cupevski

PRODUCERS Aiken Veronika Prosenc, Janez Lapajne
PRODUCTION, SALES Triglav Film

Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between students and their new German language teacher becomes critically tense. When one of the students commits suicide, her classmates accuse the teacher of being responsible for her death. The realisation
that things are not so black and white comes too late.

Rok Biček (1985, Novo Mesto) graduated from the University of Ljubljana. He entered the world of cinema as a prominent student at Janez Lapajne’s PoEtika, an occasional academy for researching the art of film directing. He won several awards for his student films. Class Enemy is
his directorial feature debut.

FESTIVALS International Film Festival Bratislava (Best Film, Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize), Les Arcs European Film Festival (Cineuropa Prize), Venice International Critics’ Week (FEDEORA)

DIRECTOR Shane Carruth

SCRIPT, DOP, MUSIC Shane Carruth
EDITORS David Lowery, Shane Carruth
ART DIRECTOR Thomas Walker
SOUND Johnny Marshall

CAST Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins

PRODUCERS Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair
PRODUCTION erbp
SALES Visit Films

A young woman is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific orchid. She later meets a man and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he has also been subjected to the same process and that there are other victims of these
disturbing experiments. They struggle to assemble the fragments of their wrecked lives as they are unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Upstream Color is a horror-thriller
with borrowings from the drama and mystery genres. Carruth’s surreal approach and thrilling cascades of images follow a narrative trajectory that is neither linear nor chronological but relies instead on a complex, intense atmosphere.

Shane Carruth (1972, Myrtle Beach, USA) premiered with his debut film Primer at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Upstream Color is his second film.

FESTIVALS Sundance Film Festival 2013 (Special Jury Prize – Johnny Marshall, Shane Carruth), Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2013, SXSW 2013

DIRECTOR Xavier Dolan

SCRIPT Xavier Dolan, Michel Marc Bouchard
DOP André Turpin
EDITOR Xavier Dolan
ART DIRECTOR Anne Pritchard
MUSIC Gabriel Yared

CAST Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu

PRODUCERS Xavier Dolan, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
PRODUCTION, WORLD SALES MK2 Production

Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for the funeral of his boyfriend Guillaume. There, he is shocked to learn that no one knows who he is, nor his relationship to the deceased. Guillaume’s brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family’s
name and the deceased’s grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his ‘trip’ to the farm.

Xavier Dolan (1989) is an actor, writer and director who attracted international attention when his debut feature I Killed My Mother won three awards from the Director’s Fortnight program at Cannes Film Festival 2009. Dolan’s second feature film Heartbeats, premiered in the Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 and won the top prize of the Official Competition at the Sydney Film Festival. His third film Laurence Anyways was awarded the Best Actress Award for Suzanne Clément at Cannes 2012 (Un Certain Regard).

FESTIVALS Venice Film Festival 2013 (World Premiere), Toronto International Film Festival 2013

DIRECTOR Jessica Hausner

SCRIPT Jessica Hausner
DOP Martin Gschlacht
EDITOR Karina Ressler
ART DIRECTOR Katharina Wöppermann
COSTUMES Tanja Hausner
SOUND Nicolas Tran Tong

CAST Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann

PRODUCERS Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Philippe Bober
PRODUCTION Coop99 Filmproduktion, AMOUR FOU
SALES The Coproduction Office

Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin’s insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich’s subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness. Amour Fou is a romantic comedy based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.

Jessica Hausner (1972) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later her film Hotel was screened at the 2004 festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Lourdes (2009), Hotel (2004), Lovely Rita (2001), Inter-View (1999).

FESTIVALS Cannes Film Festival 2014 (Un Certain Regard Award)

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

SCRIPT Iona Antoci, Gabriel Gheorghe, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
DOP Andrei Butica
EDITOR Dragos Apetri
SOUND Vlad Voinescu, Flip Muresan

CAST Victor Rebengiuc, Serban Pavlu, Laurentiu Lazar, Kana Hashimoto, Toma Hashimoto

PRODUCERS Tudor Giurgiu, Bogdan Craciun
PRODUCTION Libra Film (RO)
SALES M-appeal

What does it take to change a solitary life? After twenty years, an old man, widowed by the recent floods, and his son, who has been living in Japan, see each other again for the first time. Their expectations run high and during this brief reencounter, both try to overcome the distance that has grown between them. When his son and his family have to part, they leave him a Japanese Robodog as a souvenir of their visit that will ultimately change his life forever.

Tudor Cristian Jurgiu (1984) graduated from The National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale Bucharest in 2009. His latest short In the Fishbowl (2012) was selected for the Cinefondation competition in Cannes 2013, where he was awarded with the 3rd Prize ex-aequo. This
is his first feature film.

FESTIVALS San Sebastian Intrenational Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Balkan Survey)

DIRECTOR Pirjo Honkasalo

SCRIPT Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio
DOP Peter Flinckenberg
EDITOR Niels Pagh Andersen
ART DIRECTOR Pentti Valkeasuo
SOUND Jan Alvermark
MUSIC Karl Frid, Pär Frid

CAST Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Juhan Ulfsak, Anneli Karppinen
PRODUCERS Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
PRODUCTION Bufo Ltd
CO-PRODUCTION Plattform Produktion, Magic Hour Films
WORLD SALES Film Republic

Concrete Night opens in a cramped, concrete-jungle home. Ilkka, the elder of the two brothers, is leaving to serve a prison sentence. During Ilkka’s last 24 hours of freedom, his younger brother, vulnerable Simo, follows the brother he admires through the fateful events of that night. Pirjo Honkasalo’s bold and analytical urban film is a dream-like odyssey about a fragile mind of a young boy and the loss of innocence.

Pirjo Honkasalo (1947) is a highly established director, cinematographer and screenwriter, who has won countless awards for her work. Together with Pekka Lehto, she directed Flame Top (Cannes competition 1980). Her most famous film is an award winning feature documentary, The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), a story of how Russian and Chechen children were psychologically affected by the war. She is Finland’s first female cinematographer to shoot a feature film. Films: Atman (1997), Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993), Mysterion (1991).

FESTIVALS Camerimage 2013, Jussi Awards 2014 (Best Film, Best Direction, Best DOP, Best Editing, BestArt Director, Best Sound)

DIRECTOR Ralph Fiennes

SCRIPT Abi Morgan
DOP Rob Hardy
EDITOR Nicolas Gaster
ART DIRECTOR Maria Djurkovic
MUSIC Ilan Eshkeri

CAST Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Cristiana Capotondi, Ginevra Antona, Alex Bisconti, Claudio Gioe, Ninni Bruschetta

PRODUCER Gabrielle Tana
PRODUCTION Headline Pictures, Magnolia Mae Films
SALES WestEnd Films

Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back to the time of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens, a man more emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of ‘invisibility’.

Ralph Fiennes (1962) is a British actor known for his stage and film career. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Fiennes received numerous awards for his work as an actor, including two Academy Award nominations for his performances in Schindler’s List (1993)
and The English Patient (1996). He began directing in 2012 with a film version of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. The Invisible Woman is his second feature film.

DIRECTOR Lech Majewski

SCRIPT Lech Majewski
DOP Lech Majewski, Paweł Tybora
EDITORS Eliot Ems, Katarzyna Katarzyna Leśniak
MUSIC Lech Majewski, Józef Skrzek

CAST Michal Tatarek, Elżbieta Okupska, Jacenty Jędrusik, Jan Warta, Szymon Budzyk

PRODUCER Lech Majewski
PRODUCTION Angelus Silesius
CO-PRODUCTION Polish Film Institute, CG Home Video, Bokomotive Film AB, Silesia Film Institute, Odeon Rybarczyk Productions, 24Media, Em Audio, Centrum Kultury Katowice
SALES WIDE Management

The film is a visionary love story based on a contemporary reading of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. A father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles; Niagara falls onto a cathedral altar. These are visions of Adam, a poet who has lost his beloved in a car crash,
and who gives up his job as professor of literature to work at a supermarket. Set in 2010, the year of the plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a national tragedy imposes on a personal one.

Lech Majewski (1953) is a Polish poet, filmmaker and video artist. His credits include films: The Mill and the Cross (2011), Glass Lips (2007), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004), Angelus (2000), Wojaczek (1999). He collaborated on the script for Basquiat (1996). In 2006, The New York Museum of Modern Art honoured him with the individual retrospective entitled Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image.

DIRECTOR Roger Michell

SCRIPT Hanif Kureishi
DOP Nathalie Durand
EDITOR Kristina Hetherington
ART DIRECTOR Emmanuelle Duplay
MUSIC Jeremy Sams

CAST Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum, Olly Alexander, Judith Davis

PRODUCER Kevin Loader
PRODUCTION Free Range, Film4
SALES Embankment Films

Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness – and even deeper regret.

Roger Michell (1956) graduated from Cambridge in 1977. In 1993, he directed the acclaimed BBC miniseries adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia. He collaborates regularly with Kureishi (The Mother, 2003). Among other films he directed a famous comedy Notting Hill (1999).

FESTIVALS British Independent Film Awards 2013 (Best Actress), San Sebastian Film Festival 2013 (Best Actor), Toronto International Film Festival 2013, New York Film Festival 2013, Palm Springs Film Festival 2014

FIRST FEATURE

DIRECTOR Milko Lazarov

SCRIPT Milko Lazarov, Kitodar Todorov, Georgi Tenev
DOP Kaloyan Bozhilov
EDITOR Veselka Kiryakova
ART DIRECTOR Vanina Geleva
SOUND Aleksander Simeonov

CAST Christos Stergioglou, Mariana Jikich Ovanes Torosian, Neda Iskrenova, Iva Ognyanova Kitodar Todorov, Dora Markova

PRODUCER Boryana Puncheva
PRODUCTION BNT, Red Carpet

A man driving an old-fashioned car is crossing the border. He is Greek and in his fifties, heading to Bulgaria to buy a newborn. Jorgos has prepared a secret compartment in the boot of the car, masked as a gas tank, in order to smuggle the child out. But the baby isn´t born yet, and the Greek needs to wait in a secluded house in the mountains together with the mother, her deaf-mute brother and the midwife. On a stormy night, the child is born.

Milko Lazarov graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he studied film and TV directing. He is an executive producer and director of BNT´s highly successful BBC projects The Great Bulgarians and The Big Read. He has also directed several documentary films. He used to be a lecturer in NATFA´s film department, teaching directing, experimental film and mise-en-scène. Alienation is his first feature film.

FESTIVALS Venice Film Festival 2013 (FEDEORA for Best Debut Film, Europa Cinemas Label – Special Mention), Warsaw International Film Festival 2013 (Competition Award – Milko Lazarov)