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WORLD PREMIEREVINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD by Christophe Van Rompaey.......................................................................................................................................................Page 5

SCARRED HEARTS by Radu Jude ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 9

UPCOMINGSLAYLA M. by Mijke de Jong .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 13

BLESSED BENEFIT by Mahmoud al Massad ............................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 14

CLAIR-OBSCUR by Yeşim Ustaoğlu ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Page 15

THE KING’S CHOICE by Erik Poppe .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 16

HELL (WT) by Stefan Ruzowitzky ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 17

GAME COUNT by Agnieszka Holland ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 18 ANA, MON AMOUR by Calin Peter Netzer ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 19

THE INVISIBLES by Claus Räfle ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................0 PLACE OF SHELTER by Michael Ramsauer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 21

STORM - LETTER OF FIRE by Dennis Bots ................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 22 THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY by Chris Kraus ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 23

ALI’S WEDDING by Jeffrey Walker ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 24

THE HAPPY PRINCE by Rupert Everett ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 25

CONTENT SCREENING SCHEDULE

VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD

SUN AUGUST 7TH 11:00 AM RIALTO 1 (INDUSTRY)

THU AUGUST 11TH 5:15 PM KURSAAL THEATRE (PRESS)

FRI AUGUST 12TH 9:30 PM PIAZZA GRANDE

SCARRED HEARTS

SUN AUGUST 7 TH 08:30 AM KURSAAL THEATRE (PRESS & INDUSTRY)

SUN AUGUST 7 TH 4:30 PM AUDITORIUM FEVI

MON AUGUST 8TH 11:15 PM LA SALA

TUE AUGUST 9TH 11:00 AM PALA VIDEO

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VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Making a comedy about suicide in a country with one of the highest suicide rates in Europe sounds somewhat harsh.

Of course it’s much more than that. Vincent is a dramatic story with a funny edge and deals with both life’s joys and its disappointments, with its fears and its hopes. Its base is a feeling of unease, restlessness, lack of vision and future almost inherent with living and growing up in the world today.

This takes us on a journey, both inward and outward, both in narrative and in the making. But foremost I’d like to think it’s realistic and I ended up putting more of myself into this film then I could have anticipated.

THE DIRECTOR

Christophe Van Rompaey cut his teeth directing with a handful of shorts and Flemish comedy series such as HALLELUJA and TEAM SPIRIT.

His feature film début MOSCOW, BELGIUM proved a commercial success in Flanders and a hit with festivals, winning 3 awards at the 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week. It went on to win fifteen awards at festivals. The film was released in a number of territories including France, Germany and the United States, where it earned a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Christophe subsequently directed the acclaimed drama LENA (2012), which nabbed awards at the Les Arcs and Fantasporto festivals. He also directed the popular mini-series VOOR WAT HOORT WAT (2014) for national television.

VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD is Christophe’s third feature film and his second collaboration with writer Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem.

VINCENT is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint.

Vincent‘s giddy French aunt NIKKI takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle.

DRAMA, COMEDY / FRENCH & FLEMISH / 118 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE VINCENT

DIRECTOR Christophe Van Rompaey (MOSCOW, BELGIUM)

DOP David Williamson

CAST Alexandra Lamy (RICKY, THE BRICE MAN) Spencer Bogaert (LABYRINTHUS) Barbara Sarafian (MOSCOW BELGIUM, BULLHEAD) Geert Van Rampelberg (THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN) Frédéric Epaud

PRODUCER Dries Phlypo, Emmanuel Giraud, Aurélie Bordier and Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem

PRODUCED BY A Private View, Les Films de la Croisade and Les Enragés

TERRITORIES AVAILABLE

World excluding France, Benelux and Switzerland

THIS NEW DRAMATIC COMEDY REUNITES THE TEAM BEHIND MOSCOW, BELGIUM, WINNING THREE AWARDS AT THE 2008 CANNES CRITICS’ WEEK.

WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE

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SCARRED HEARTS

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early 20ies, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis.

The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed.

Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to

the fullest. He makes friends and engages in conversations, political for the most part. He reads, he writes, he smokes and drinks, interacts with doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers. He observes how healing seems to be happening transiently, following mysterious laws: some patients get better, some worse, others die.

He even has a romantic relationship, while outside Romania doesn‘t have much to offer him, turning more and more into an extreme right-wing society...

BASED ON MAX BLECHER‘S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL; CONSIDERED BY WORLDWIDE CRITICS “A MASTERPIECE” OR “LOST CLASSIC”

DRAMA / ROMANIAN / 141 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE INIMI CICATRIZATE

DIRECTOR Radu Jude (AFERIM!)

DOP Marius Panduru

CAST Lucian Teodor Rus Ivana Mladenovic Ilinca Harnut Bogdan Cotlet Marian Olteanu

PRODUCER Ada Solomon

PRODUCED BY Hi Film Productions in co-production with Komplizen Film GmbH


World excluding Romania, Germany, Austria and Ex-Yugoslavia

WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Though it is probably normal for an author to explain his work, I find it extremely difficult. That is because I set off with many intentions and have no idea how many of them came to fruition.

Because I would like the viewers to discover the essence of this film on their own, to discover its qualities (if any) and criticize its faults, to find its meanings, its humour and its poetry.

I will only say that it is a love letter to M. Blecher’s literature. And an invitation for the public to read his books, if only to have grounds to say “the book is much cooler than the film”.

THE DIRECTOR

Radu Jude (1977) graduated from the filmmaking Department of Media University in 2003. He worked as an assistant director and directed a series of short films among The Tube with a Hat (2006) (winner of more than 50 international prizes in Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Uppsala) and Alexandra (2007).

His debut feature film THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009) was awarded the CICAE prize in Berlinale Forum in 2009. In 2011 he directed and produced the independent feature A FILM FOR FRIENDS. EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (2012), his second feature film, which premiered in Berlinale Forum, received the Heart of Sarajevo Film Festival Award, Le Bayard d’Or for Best Film and Best Actor at Namur IFF, CinEast IFF Grand Prix, and was selected by more than 30 film festivals around the world.

His two recent short films SHADOW OF A CLOUD (2013) and IT CAN PASS THROUGH THE WALL (2014) were selected in Cannes Quinzaine des Realisateurs section. The latest was awarded with a Special Mention.

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LAYLA M.

Layla is an 18-year old girl, born and raised in Amsterdam. Layla is smart, witty and stubborn – and of Moroccan background. In the times of constant terrorist threat, she struggles with the increasing suspicion towards girls with headscarves and boys with beards that she witnesses every day. While her frustration grows, her faith intensifies. She joins a group of radical Muslims who fight for their practise of Islam. Layla posts films online depicting the horrors in Syria and Gaza and makes political flyers. And she flirts with the charismatic Abdel.

When her peaceful brother and she are arrested by the police, Layla, feeling hurt and isolated in her anger, is left with only one option: to leave home. She chooses marriage, with Abdel. After their wedding, Layla and Abdel roam the country together, perform ‘missionary work’, and raise money for the good cause. But then they get involved in a shootout between a group of young jihadists and the Belgian police, they have to flee, to the Middle East.Layla encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initially, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.

UPCOMING

PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA / DUTCH, ARABIC & ENGLISH / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE LAYLA M.

DIRECTOR Mijke de Jong

DOP Danny Elsen

CAST Nora el Koussour Ilias Addab

PRODUCER Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings

PRODUCED BY Topkapi Films in co-production with Menuet, Chromosom Film, Schiwago Film and NTR


World excluding Benelux, Germany and Austria

PROMO & SCRIPT AVAILABLE

18-YEAR-OLD LAYLA, A DUTCH GIRL WITH MOROCCAN ROOTS JOINS A GROUP OF RADICAL MUSLIMS. SHE ENCOUNTERS A WORLD THAT NURTURES HER IDEAS INITIALLY, BUT FINALLY CONFRONTS HER

WITH AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE.

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BLESSED BENEFIT

Ahmad, a construction worker, is arrested for using a client’s down payment to help his cousin, Abu, in a deal involving 10 brand-new laptops and the hopes to make a small profit from it.Due to customs procedures, the imported laptops are not released in time. Unable to do the job or pay the money back, Ahmad is sentenced to four months in prison for fraud.

Far from all the obligations of the outside world, where food and drink are not a worry, where new friendships are struck, and where no cell phones are ringing, Ahmad gradually feels something that he’s never felt before – liberty. Halfway through his sentence his biggest worry becomes losing this liberty after his release and, above all, having to deal with a bigger debt…

UPCOMING

DARK COMEDY / ARABIC, GERMAN / 83 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE INSHALLA ISTAFADET

DIRECTOR Mahmoud al Massad

DOP George Mihelis

CAST Ahmad Thaher Maher Khammash Odai Hijazi Mahmoud al Massad

PRODUCER Thanassis Karathanos, Dima Hamadallah, Julius Ponten and Mahmoud al Massad

PRODUCED BY Twenty Twenty Vision, Jo Image, Habbekrats, Isee Film


World excluding Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Jordan

SCRIPT AVAILABLE

AHMAD GETS TANGLED UP IN AN UNFORTUNATE BUSINESS DEAL THAT LANDS HIM IN PRISON. BUT LIFE IN PRISON MIGHT NOT BE THAT BAD…

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THE KING’S CHOICE

On the night of 9th of April 1940, a fleet of Nazi warships attack Oslo. The biggest of them all, the “Blücher”, Hitler’s pride, is sunk. When Germany presents an ultimatum for surrender, the Norwegian Prime Minister hands in his resignation. The country is falling apart but two men stand up for what they believe in, King Haakon of Norway (Jesper Christensen) and the German diplomat Curt Bräuer (Karl Markovics).

A race against time between mediation and warfare ensues. The Nazis have commanded German soldiers to hunt down the King and his family. While King Haakon doesn’t know whether his son and his democratically elected parliament are behind him, he is faced with a choice that will change his nation forever.

UPCOMING

WAR DRAMA / NORWEGIAN & GERMAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE KONGENS NEI

DIRECTOR Erik Poppe (1,000 TIMES GOOD NIGHT, TROUBLED WATER)

DOP John Christian Rosenlund (O‘HORTEN)

CAST Jesper Christensen (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) Anders Baasmo Christiansen (KON-TIKI) Tuva Novotny (JALLA! JALLA!) Karl Markovics (THE COUNTERFEITERS) Katharina Schüttler (GENERATION WAR) Juliane Köhler (NOWHERE IN AFRICA)

PRODUCER Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae

PRODUCED BY Paradox Film 1 AS, Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae


World excluding Scandinavia, Turkey, China and Japan

PROMO AVAILABLE

ERIK POPPE'S COMMANDING TAKE ON THE TRUE EVENTS THAT TURNED A BRAVE MAN INTO THE PEOPLE'S KING

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CLAIR-OBSCUR

Chehnaz, an attractive, modern woman and her husband Cem live in a hip neighbourhood in Istanbul. Chehnaz has been assigned to a public hospital in a small, remote seaside town to complete her mandatory 2-year duty as an aspiring psychiatrist. While treating her patients during the week, she’s mostly looking forward to the weekend and their Istanbul lives. However during this routine, Chehnaz’

sexual problem with her husband becomes more evident - a problem that she is not able to face. After a stormy night the course of Chehnaz's life is changed forever when she meets Elmas, a young woman from the town, who was married-off to a distant relative. Elmas survives as best she can far away from her family in a hostile environment with an older man she doesn't love.

UPCOMING

DRAMA / TURKISH / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE TEREDDÜT

DIRECTOR Yeşim Ustaoğlu (ARAF-SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, PANDORA’SBOX)

DOP Michael Hammon(STOPPEDONTRACK,CLOUD9)

CAST Funda Eryiğit Mehmet Kurtulus (HEAD FULL OF HONEY) Ecem Uzun Okan Yalabik Serkan Keskin Sema Poyraz

PRODUCER Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Titus Kreyenberg and Marianne Slot

PRODUCED BY Ustaoglu Film, unafilm and Slot Machine in co-production with Aeroplan Film and ZDF / ARTE


World excluding Turkey, Germany, Austria, Serbia and Poland


THE SENSUAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL DANCE OF TWO WOMEN WHO ARE DEPRIVED OF THEIR RIGHT TODISCOVER THEMSELVES AND TO LOVE AND BE LOVED IN A RELATIONSHIP OF THEIR CHOOSING,

IN A COUNTRY TORN BETWEEN MODERNITY AND TRADITION

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HELL (WT)

Özge is a young Turkish-born taxi driver, who attends evening classes and is also an ambitious Thai-boxer. She rarely speaks and trains hard. One day she witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The suspect is an insane serial killer, inspired by Islam. And he is convinced that Özge has seen him. A life-and-death struggle ensues.

In his job as a police officer, Christian Steiner often has contact with people from immigrant backgrounds. Some years ago his wife left him, taking their child with her. Since then Steiner has been living with his father and cares for him as best he can. Steiner finds it very difficult to trust other people, especially women.

UPCOMING

THRILLER / GERMAN / APPROX. 95 MIN. / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE DIE HÖLLE

DIRECTOR Stefan Ruzowitzky (THE COUNTERFEITERS, DEADFALL)

DOP Benedict Neuenfels (THE COUNTERFEITERS, ANONYMA - A WOMAN IN BERLIN)

CAST Violetta Schurawlow (HEAD FULL OF HONEY) Tobias Moretti (THE DARK VALLEY) Sammy Sheik (AMERICAN SNIPER) Friedrich von Thun (SCHINDLER'S LIST) Robert Palfrader

PRODUCER Helmut Grasser and Thomas Peter Friedl

PRODUCED BY Allegro Film in co-production with The Amazing Film Company


World excluding German Speaking Territories and Japan


VIENNA. A YOUNG WOMAN WITNESSES A BRUTAL MURDER. THE OFFENDER SEEMS TO BE A CRAZED SERIAL KILLER, INSPIRED BY ISLAM. A LIFE-AND-DEATH STRUGGLE ENSUES...

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GAME COUNT

Janina, an eccentric retired construction engineer, an astrologist and a vegetarian lives in a small mountain village on the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved dogs disappear. They cannot be found anywhere. A few months later on a snowy night Janina's introvert neighbour stumbles upon the dead body of a poacher living nearby. He died a mysterious death. The only traces are those of roe deer hooves around the house…As time goes, more grisly killings are discovered. The victims belonged to

the local elite and were passionate hunters. Janina tries to convince the local police force that they were murdered by wild animals. As another body is found after the costume ball, Janina becomes the main suspect. She was the last to see the victim. When the local parish house burns down and the priest and chaplain of the local hunting association dies in flames, the police are almost certain who did it…

UPCOMING

THRILLER, DRAMA / POLISH / APPROX. 90 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE POKOT

DIRECTOR Agnieszka Holland (IN DARKNESS, BURNING BUSH)

DOP Jolanta Dylewska (IN DARKNESS)

CAST Agnieszka Mandat Wiktor Zborowski Jakub Gierszal Miroslav Krobot

PRODUCER Krzysztof Zanussi and Janusz Wachala

PRODUCED BY TOR Film Production in co-production with Heimatfilm, Nutprodukce, Nutprodukcia, Chimney, Agora, Odra-Film, National Audiovisual Institute, HBO Europe, ZDF, Arte, Czech Television, Film i Väst


World excluding Poland, Hungary, German Speaking Territories, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Scandinavia

SCRIPT AVAILABLE

BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL "DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD". ONE NIGHT AN ELDERLY WOMAN STUMBLES UPON THE DEAD BODY OF HER NEIGHBOUR. THE POACHER

DIED A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. THERE ARE TRACES OF ROE DEER HOOVES AROUND HIS HOUSE…

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ANA, MON AMOUR

ANA, MON AMOUR is the story of an intimate relationship. Despite Anas psychic dysfunctions and the circumstances of their backgrounds, Ana

and Cezar decide to fight for their relationship, creating a closeness which drives them into a fatal co-dependency...

UPCOMING

DRAMA / ROMANIAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE ANA, MON AMOUR

DIRECTOR Calin Peter Netzer (CHILD'S POSE)

DOP Andrei Butica (CHILD'S POSE)

CAST Mircea Postelnicu Diana Cavalioti Adrian Titieni Vasile Muraru

PRODUCER Calin Peter Netzer and Oana Iancu

PRODUCED BY Parada Film in co-production with augenschein Filmproduktion and Sophie Dulac Productions


World excluding Romania, Germany, Austria, France and Ex-Yugoslavia

SCRIPT AVAILABLE

THE NEW FILM BY GOLDEN BEAR WINNER CALIN PETER NETZER

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THE INVISIBLES

Berlin, February 1943: The NS regime declares the Reich’s capital “free of Jews.” At this point in time, 7000 Jews have succeeded in going underground. Almost 1700 will survive the horrors of the war in Berlin. The Invisibles (WT) tells the stories of four of these contemporary witnesses.Hanni Lévy, who has just turned 17, has lost both of her parents. Thanks to her dyed, blonde hair, she is practically invisible to her pursuers, and strolls along the Ku’damm to pass the time away.Cioma Schönhaus has also gone underground and leads an adventurous life that consists of buying a sailboat, dining in Berlin’s best restaurants,

and becoming a forger of passports, through which he saves the lives of dozens of other Jews.And while Eugen Friede joins a resistance group that distributes anti-government leaflets, Ruth Arndt and a friend dream about life in America during the daytime; at night, she pretends to be a war widow and serves black-market gourmet foods in the apartment of an NS officer.The dramatic re-enactments are supplemented with impressive interviews with the actual people whose lives inspired this film. The two levels blend together into an intensive, emotionally moving feature film.

UPCOMING

DRAMA, DOCUMENTARY / GERMAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE DIE UNSICHTBAREN

DIRECTOR Claus Räfle

DOP Jörg Widmer (PINA, TREE OF LIFE)

CAST Max Mauff (BRIDGE OF SPIES) Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee (GHOSTHUNTERS - ON ICY TRAILS) Aaron Altaras Florian Lukas (GOOD BYE LENIN!) Andreas Schmidt

PRODUCER Claus Räfle, Jörg Schulze and Frank Evers

PRODUCED BY cine plus Filmproduktion in co-production with Look! Film and maze pictures


World excluding German Speaking Territories and Japan


FOUR YOUNG JEWS SURVIVE THE THIRD REICH IN THE MIDDLE OF BERLIN BY LIVING SO RECKLESSLY THAT THEY BECOME “INVISIBLE”

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STORM - LETTER OF FIRE

STORM tells the story of 12-year-old Storm, son of printer Klaas Voeten from Antwerp in the early years of Reformation, when Europe’s freedom of speech and religious tolerance were at stake.Oblivious to Storm, Klaas secretly busies himself with the printing of banned texts, encouraged by his client and friend Alwin Dankert. Storm’s mother disagrees heavily. However, when Klaas is presented an assignment in utmost secrecy to print an important, banned letter by Martin Luther which could finally put an end to the city’s corruption, he decides to accept.

Storm’s secure life is completely ripped away when Klaas and Storm are caught. His father is arrested, but Storm flees just in time with the original letter of Martin Luther…Now Storm’s has become the central figure of a headhunt, instigated by the new Inquisitor and his soldiers. Aided by Marieke, an orphaned girl living in the city’s underground tunnels, Storm is in a race against time to save his father from execution and a struggle for everyone’s freedom.

UPCOMING

HISTORIC YOUTHTHRILLER / DUTCH / 97 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE STORM

DIRECTOR Dennis Bots

DOP Rolf Dekens N.S.C.

CAST Yorick van Wageningen (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) Davy Gomez Juna de Leeuw Angela Schijf Maarten Heijmans Peter van den Begin

PRODUCER Harro van Staverden and Petra Goedings

PRODUCED BY Phanta Basta! in co-production with Iris Productions and Bulletproof Cupid


World excluding Benelux and Germany


THE BIGGEST CHANGES IN TIME COME FROM TRUE FRIENDSHIP

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PLACE OF SHELTER

Martin is working as a press photographer. After illegally taking pictures of a crime scene, he collapses. Diagnose Burn out. His wife Katharina is trying to do everything perfect. Her job. Her family. Parenting their six year old son Tobias. He suffers from Autism, Martins and Katharina adopted him when he was just a baby. But as Katharina’s constant worrying and Martins life crisis sabotage their happiness, their relationship goes seriously downhill. Right then two new neighbors are walking right into their lives, Nicole und Christian. Martin finds himself attracted to their joyful carelessness,

he invites them over to use the pool and when he learns that they are actually illegally squatting in the house next door he somehow finds this quite charming. Even Katharina, who was a little wary after meeting them, gets more comfortable with the couple after noticing how Tobias opens up and gets all enthusiastic when Nicole is around. But then Martin starts an affair with Nicole, and this starts a series of events with devastating consequences. Because what he doesn’t know: The new neighbors have a terribly secret…

UPCOMING

THRILLER / GERMAN / APPROX. 95 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE MEIN FLEISCH UND BLUT

DIRECTOR Michael Ramsauer

DOP Josef Mittendorfer

CAST Andreas Kiendl Ursula Strauss (MY BEST ENEMY) Wolfgang Rauh Lili Epply (JAMES BOND 007 - SPECTRE) Nikolai Klinkosch Hary Prinz

PRODUCER Helmut Grasser and Constanze Schumann

PRODUCED BY Allegro Film


World excluding Austria

PROMO AVAILABLE

THE MARRIAGE OF MARTIN AND KATHARINA IS BURDENED WITH THEIR SON’S AUTISM AND MARTIN’S BURN OUT. AS NEW NEIGHBOURS MOVE IN, THE TENSE SITUATION SEEMS TO EASE. BUT THEN MARTIN

INCIDENTALLY REVEALS A TERRIBLE SECRET…

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THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY

A renowned German Holocaust researcher, grandson of a prominent Nazi war criminal, is struggling with his family history, his career and his hatred of people in general. At the height of his personal crisis, he encounters a passionate, manic French

Jewess with a Teutonic complex. Her remarkably frank and unconventional manner turns his professional and family life upside down and helps him finally break down the barriers he has built around his life. An impossible romantic comedy, in effect, a love story programmed to self-destruct.

UPCOMING

ROMANTIC COMEDY / GERMAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE DIE BLUMEN VON GESTERN

DIRECTOR Chris Kraus (FOUR MINUTES)

DOP Sonja Rom

CAST Adèle Haenel (THE UNKNOWN GIRL) Lars Eidinger (CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, EVERYONE ELSE) Hannah Herzsprung (FOUR MINUTES, THE READER) Jan Josef Liefers (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX)

PRODUCER Danny Krausz, Kathrin Lemme, Chris Kraus, Gerd Huber and Kurt Stocker

PRODUCED BY Dor Film and Four Minutes in collaboration with SWR, ARD Degeto, NDR, ORF, BR and HR


World excluding Germany, Austria and Taiwan


FEATURING TWO TIMES CESAR-WINNER ADÈLE HAENEL (THE UNKNOWN GIRL) AND LARS EIDINGER (PERSONAL SHOPPER).

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ALI’S WEDDING

Ali is the charming son of a much-loved Muslim cleric who has migrated to Australia from Iraq and attempts to juggle two very different worlds.Desperate to please his family and community, Ali sets off a calamitous

chain of events that sees him attending medical school despite not being enrolled, and falling in love despite being promised to another. As his wedding day draws ever closer, Ali’s double life is on the brink of exposure.

LOVE, DUTY AND COMIC DECEPTION.AUSTRALIA'S ANSWER TO "BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM"

UPCOMING

COMEDY / ENGLISH & ARABIAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE ALI‘S WEDDING

DIRECTOR Jeffrey Walker

DOP Don McAlpine (MOULIN ROUGE, ROMEO + JULIET, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE)

CAST Osamah Sami Don Hany (LUCKY MILES)

PRODUCER Sheila Jayadev and Helen Panckhurst

PRODUCED BY Matchbox Pictures


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SCRIPT AVAILABLE

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THE HAPPY PRINCE

This great man of letters is now a superstar on the skids. We are taken on a final nocturnal ramble through Paris. Totally inebriated Oscar falls off a table at a Varieté. In bed, dying, the past floods back. We immerge into the great love stories of Oscar Wilde, notably his relationship to Lord Alfred Douglas which, observed under the microscope of death, is revealed for what it really is – a passionate affair based on snobbery. And yet, through the smoky fumes of cigars and absinthe, appears a twinkle of love: Robbie.

Sternly devoted to Oscar like no other friend before. Oscar’s visions intensify. Past scenes of passion, ignorance and humiliation are reviewed in his minds eye. By now, Oscar’s brain has flickered into oblivion, the spectres of memory haunt him: His wife Constance, who he failed miserably and who still loves him, his sons, ashen and unforgiving, and at last Jesus Christ. Oscar tries to encounter suffering with irony and desperately performs the tragedy of his life to the very end.

UPCOMING

TRAGICOMEDY, BIOPIC / ENGLISH, ITALIAN & FRENCH / APPROX. 90 MIN / IN PRE-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE THE HAPPY PRINCE

DIRECTOR Rupert Everett (AN IDEAL HUSBAND)

DOP John Conroy (LUTHER, THE SEA)

CAST Rupert Everett (MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING, HYSTERIA) Colin Firth (THE KING’S SPEECH, A SINGLE MAN) Colin Morgan (LEGEND, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, MERLIN)

PRODUCER Sébastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer and Jörg Schulze

PRODUCED BY maze pictures, Entre Chien et Loup, Palomar, cine plus Filmproduktion


World excluding UK, German Speaking Territories, Benelux, Italy, Australia, former Yugoslavia and Turkey

SCRIPT AVAILABLE

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE LAST DAYS OF OSCAR WILDE

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