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MY LITTLE SISTER

by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ

by Burhan Qurbani NARCISSUS

AND GOLDMUNDby Stefan Ruzowitzky

THE IMMORTALby Marco D’Amore

WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT

by Caroline Link

THE SPACE BETWEEN THE LINES by Vanessa Jopp SON-MOTHER by Mahnaz Mohammadi ROUNDS by Stephan Komandarev

THE CLUB OF UGLY CHILDREN by Jonathan Elbers THE AUSCHWITZ REPORT by Peter Bebjak MY NEIGHBOR ADOLF by Leon Prudovsky

THE KANGAROO CHRONICLES by Dani Levy THE BIKE THIEF by Matt Chambers CORVIDAE by Joe Marcantonio NOWHERE SPECIAL by Uberto Pasolini

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

MY LITTLE SISTER by Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond .................................................................................................................................................................... Page 06

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 10

MARKET PREMIERES

NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND by Stefan Ruzowitzky ................................................................................................................................................................................. Page 14

THE IMMORTAL by Marco D’Amore ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 16

WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT by Caroline Link .......................................................................................................................................................................... Page 18

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THE SPACE BETWEEN THE LINES by Vanessa Jopp ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 0

SON-MOTHER by Mahnaz Mohammadi ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 22

ROUNDS by Stephan Komandarev ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 24

THE CLUB OF UGLY CHILDREN by Jonathan Elbers ............................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 26

UPCOMING

THE AUSCHWITZ REPORT by Peter Bebjak ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 30

MY NEIGHBOR ADOLF by Leon Prudovsky ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 31

THE KANGAROO CHRONICLES by Dani Levy .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 32

THE BIKE THIEF by Matt Chambers ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 33

CORVIDAE by Joe Marcantonio ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 34

NOWHERE SPECIAL by Uberto Pasolini .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Page 35

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GODSEND.

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SON-MOTHER

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SYSTEM CRASHER

A once successful playwright sacrifices her life for her brother and thereby rediscovers what it feels like to be alive.

BY ST É P H A N I E C H UAT & V É R O N I Q U E R E Y M O N D

MY LITTLE SISTER

O F F I C I A L S E L ECT I O N

My Little Sister brings together three elements that are central to our lives. First, the city of Berlin, with which we’ve had strong links for over 15 years. Secondly, the theatre, as we are both actors. And finally, the exceptional friendship that dates back to our childhood. Stéphanie and Véronique were first and foremost two teenagers who shared the same love of theatre and decided to make a career out of it. It is together that we created a multitude of shows and started making films. We both feel more alive when we are creating than in everyday life, like the twins in our film. We made them part of that theatre family because we are fascinated by the fire that drives those known in Germany as “Theatermensch”. In this community, an actor who doesn’t perform doesn’t exist. Whilst on stage, he glows, borne by the presence of the audience. The film tells of the necessity of dreams as a way of escaping reality. And through the unshakeable bonds that link these two beings, our film celebrates the fragility and potency of life, and the strength of transmission, and relates that the end of one life can also be the start of another.

B E R L I N A L E 2 0 2 0

Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond have known each other since childhood. They are both trained actors and since 1993 they collaborated on various dramatic events, combining theater, song and silent film. Since 2001 they are also screenwriters and film directors. Their short film Berlin Backstage won an award at the Berlin Today Awards (Berlinale 2004). The duo moved on to write and direct their first feature film The Little Bedroom, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2010. It was selected to represent Switzerland at the Academy Awards, won two Swiss Quartz Prizes (Best Fiction Film and Best Screenplay), and received a dozen awards at international festivals. Their documentary work includes Evening Class for Adults (2005) Buffo, Bute and Howard (2009), and Ladies (2018). The latter screened at a numerous festivals, was nominated for a Swiss Film Award and became a Swiss box office hit. They also wrote and directed the TV series Open Book (2014) for Swiss and French TV. Their new TV series Toxic is currently in development.

THE DIRECTORS DIRECTORS’ NOTE

MY LITTLE SISTER

I N C O M P E T I T I O N

Schwesterlein

Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond

Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond

Filip Zumbrunn

Nina Hoss Phoenix, The Most Wanted Man Lars Eidinger Proxima, Never Look Away Marthe Keller The Escape, After Love Jens Albinus The Audition, Nymphomaniac: Part I

Ruth Waldburger

Vega Film AG, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SRG SSR and ARTE G.E.I.E.

World excluding Switzerland.

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Lisa, a brilliant playwright, no longer writes. She lives with her family in Switzerland, but her heart remains in Berlin,beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven, the famous theatre actor. Since Sven has been suffering from an aggressive type of leukaemia, the ties between them have grown stronger still. Lisa refuses to accept Sven’s fate and moves heaven and earth to get him back on stage. She gives her all for her soul mate, neglecting everything else even risking her marriage. Her relationship with her husband starts to fall apart, but Lisa only has eyes for her brother, her mirror who makes her think of her own deepest aspirations and rekindles her desire to create, to feel alive...

DRAMA German / 99 min / completedSTORYLINE

Berlinale 2020 BETA CINEMA 98 BETA CINEMA Berlinale 2020

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"AN ACTOR WHO FEELS WANTED,

FEELS ALIVE.

"L I S A

The timely adaptation of the bestselling novel.

BY B U R H A N Q U R BA N I

BERLIN ALEXANDER-

PLATZ

O F F I C I A L S E L ECT I O N

"ONE OF THE

TOP 100 BOOKS OF ALL TIME.

"T H E G UA R D I A N

Making the movie Berlin Alexanderplatz was like working on and with a lifelong companion. To me, the key for the new interpretation of the novel is the continuation of a theme that also plays a role in my other films: the stranger, who must find his way and himself in a new world. Turning the main character, Franz Biberkopf, into a refugee in current times is also a consistent translation of my own history. The novel’s poetic wealth and its visual catalogue of guilt and redemption are the colors that I use, in order to draw a very personal picture of the book. But the focus of this picture always remains the human being and his or her striving for a dignified, “decent“ life in times of upheaval.

B E R L I N A L E 2 0 2 0

In 1979 Burhan Qurbani’s parents fled to Germany as political refugees. He was born in 1980 and grew up in various German cities, due to his father’s work for the US army. After his highschool graduation in 2000 he gained experience at theatres in Stuttgart and Hannover. From 2002 he studied Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His student short films won prizes at many international film festivals. In 2010 his graduation film Shahada screened in competition at Berlinale and was critically acclaimed and awarded at many festivals around the world. With the short documentary Krieger ohne Feind Burhan participated in the documentary project 20x Brandenburg, which won the prestigious Grimme Award in 2011. Qurbani’s second fiction feature We are young. We are strong. (2014) opened the competition at Rome IFF and Hof IFF and received multiple awards worldwide.

THE DIRECTOR DIRECTOR’S NOTE

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ

I N C O M P E T I T I O N

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Burhan Qurbani We Are Young, We Are Strong.

Martin Behnke and Burhan Qurbani

Yoshi Heimrath We Are Young, We Are Strong.

Welket BunguéJella Haase Kidnapping Stella Albrecht Schuch System Crasher Joachim Król Run Lola Run

Leif Alexis, Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach

Sommerhaus Filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF and Lemming Film

World excluding German-speaking territories and Benelux.

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As Francis gets washed up on the shores of Southern Europe, he swears an oath to God: From now on he wants to be a new, a better, a decent man. Soon after Francis finds himself in Berlin, where he realizes how hard it is to be righteous when you are an illegal refugee in Germany – without papers, without nation and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer from the charismatic German, Reinhold, to earn easy money, Francis initially resists the temptation, maintains his oath and stays away from Reinhold’s shady dealings. But eventually he is sucked into Berlin’s underworld and his life spirals out of control.

DRAMA German / 183 min / completedSTORYLINE


"YOU DESERVE

MORE FROM LIFE.

"F R A N C I S

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THU 27 Feb 9:15 Friedrichstadt-Palast

THU 27 Feb 15:00 Haus der Ber. Festspiele

Based on the Literature Nobel Prize winning bestseller by Hermann Hesse. From the director of the Academy Award winning “The Counterfeiters”.

NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND

M A R K E T P R E M I E R E

"HESSE WAS A GREAT WRITER. NARCISSUS

AND GOLDMUND IS HIS VERY BEST.

"T H E N E W YO R K T I M E S B O O K R E V I E W

In the dark middle ages young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. It is there that he meets Narcissus, a brilliant, scholarly novice, who is introverted and aloof. A unique and deep life-long friendship is born. Narcissus chooses to remain detached from the world in prayer and meditation. Goldmund, who is passionate, sensual and impulsive, runs away from the monastery to live a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amorous and artistic adventures leading him to discover the extremes of both ecstasy and pain. Several thrilling years pass, until one day these friends cross paths again...

STORYLINE

Narziss und Goldmund

Stefan Ruzowitzky The Counterfeiters

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Benedict Neuenfels The Counterfeiters, Styx

Jannis Niewöhner Godless Youth, The Collini Case Sabin Tambrea Babylon Berlin, Ludwig IIEmilia Schüle Traumfabrik

Helge Sasse, Christoph Müller, Peter Wirthensohn and Tommy Pridnig

Tempest Film, Mythos Film, Lotus Film in co- production with Deutsche Columbia Filmproduktion

World excluding German-speaking territories and South Korea.

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DRAMA German / 120 min / completed

Stefan Ruzowitzky was born in 1961 in Vienna and studied Theatre Studies and History. He developed journalistic reports and shows for TV and directed multiple music videos and commercials. When directing feature films he has always attempted the balancing act between arthouse and mainstream. He successfully achieved this with the box office hits Anatomy and Lilly the Witch on the one hand and with arthouse successes like The Inheritors and The Counterfeiters on the other. For The Counterfeiters he received the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.

THE DIRECTOR


BY ST E FA N RU ZOW I T Z K Y

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FRI 28 Feb 12:30 Cubix 3

The thrilling cinematic spin-off from the international hit-series “Gomorrah”.

BY M A R C O D’A M O R E

THE IMMORTAL


Having been shot by his only real friend, Ciro sinks down into the dark waters of the Gulf of Naples. As he drifts towards the depths, memories float upwards. Faint sounds find their way through the cold embrace of the water – muffled screams of panic! It’s 1980. A devastating earthquake sends buildings crashing down. From beneath the rubble, the cry of a baby emerges. It is none other than Ciro di Marzio. From that day on, he will be known as “The Immortal”. Years later, he survives even that fateful gunshot. It is true: nothing can kill The Immortal. From his past as an orphan to his present-day Baltic exile, from his first petty thefts to all-out gang warfare: Ciro confronts whatever comes his way head-on, in a world in which immortality is just another form of damnation.

STORYLINE

L’Immortale

Marco D’Amore

Leonardo Fasoli, Maddalena Ravagli, Marco D’Amore, Francesco Ghiaccio, Giulia Forgione

Guido Michelotti

Marco D’Amore Gomorrah Giuseppe Aiello Salvatore D’Onofrio Il Divo Giovanni Vastarella Perez.Alexsei Guskov The Concert

Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimnez and Gina Gardini

Cattleya with Vision Distribution in collaboration with Sky, Timvision and Beta Film

World excluding Italy, Germany, France, UK, Benelux, Israel and Eastern Europe (Pay TV).


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CRIME DRAMA Italian / 116 min / completed

Marco D’Amore was born in Caserta, Italy in 1981. In 2000, he joined the cast of the play The Adventures of Pinocchio. He gained fame in 2014 with his role as Ciro di Marzio in the TV hit-series Gomorrah. Other acting credits include A Quiet Life by Claudio Cupellini, Perez. by Edoardo De Angelis, Alaska by Claudio Cupellini, Drive Me Home by Simone Catania, and Cosimo Gomez’s Ugly Nasty People. In 2018, he co-wrote the comedy Dolcissime. In 2019, he made his directorial debut on two episodes of the fourth season of Gomorrah.

THE DIRECTOR

"SPECTACULAR,

EPIC AND FULL OF TWISTS.

"I L M E S S A G G E R O


OVER $7m

ITALIAN BOX OFFICE

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Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing it became dangerous for some people to live in your country. That is what happens to 9-year-old Anna in 1933. Anna is not sure who Hitler is. But when her own father goes missing one day, she comes to realize that the man on the posters is about to change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life. She is forced to leave her favorite stuffed pink rabbit behind and uproot her entire existence to move first to Switzerland and later to Paris. From now on Anna encounters life as a refugee, not speaking the language, not knowing customs and manners, missing her friends and loved ones. Finding a school is difficult, money is very short and her family encounters xenophobia, too. Yet Anna grows up, finds new friends, and learns to take responsibility.

STORYLINE

Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl

Caroline Link Nowhere in Africa

Caroline Link, Anna Brüggemann, Michael Gutmann

Bella Halben

Riva KrymalowskiCarla Juri Blade Runner 2049Oliver Masucci Never Look Away, Look Who’s Back

Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach

Sommerhaus Filmproduktion in co-production with Warner Bros. Ent., Nextfilm Filmproduktion, La Siala Ent., Hugofilm Production and RAI Cinema

World excluding German-speaking territories, North America, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Ex-Yugoslavia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and AUS/NZ.


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DRAMA German / 119 min / completed

Caroline Link graduated from the University of Television and Film in Munich. Since the mid-1980s she has been working as a screenwriter and director. In 2003 she was the first German filmmaker in 23 years to receive the Academy Award for her film Nowhere in Africa. Today she is one of Germany’s most renowned directors. Her directorial credits include German Academy Award winner A Year Ago in Winter (2008), Exit Marrakech (2013), and most recently All About Me (2018), which also won a German Academy Award.

THE DIRECTOR

WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT

BY CA R O L I N E L I N K

Based on Judith Kerr’s bestselling novel. From the director of the Academy Award winning “Nowhere in Africa”.


"UNMISSABLE.

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"A MOVING ADAPTATION

OF JUDITH KERR’S FAMOUS NOVEL.

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G A L A

B E R L I N E R M O R G E N P O S T


OVER $8m

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Based on the international bestseller translated into over 40 languages.From the producers of “Toni Erdmann”. Starring Alexander Fehling “Labyrinth of Lies”.

Original soundtrack by Oscar nominee Hauschka “Lion”, “Adrift”, “Hotel Mumbai”.

BY VA N E S S A J O P P

THE SPACE BETWEEN THE LINES

"BEAUTIFULLY

ROMANTIC.

"N E U E P R E S S E

Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to “Like” magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This marks the beginning of an extraordinary e-mail exchange, which can only be held between two strangers. Treading the fine line between complete strangeness and noncommittal intimacy, the two are soon sharing their innermost secrets and longings – until they need to face the unavoidable question: Will their feelings, sent and received virtually, survive the test of a real-life encounter? And what will happen if they do?

STORYLINE

Gut gegen Nordwind

Vanessa Jopp Happy as One

Jane Ainscough

Sten Mende

Nora Tschirner Text For YouAlexander Fehling Labyrinth of LiesUlrich Thomsen FestenElla Rumpf The Divine OrderClaudia Eisinger Too Hard to Handle

Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach Toni Erdmann and Klaus Dohle

Komplizen Film in co-production with Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, Erfttal Film

World excluding German-speaking territories, CIS, Taiwan and China.

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ROMANCE German / 122 min / completed

Vanessa Jopp studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. She garnered international recognition for directing Forget America (2000) and Engel & Joe (2001), which won several awards. She directed an episode of the film Honolulu (2001). Jopp also directed several episodes of the popular German TV-series Tatort, and theatre plays at Berlin’s Volksbühne. In 2006, her film Happy as One premiered at the Berlinale and was nominated for two German Film Awards. In 2007 she directed the comedy Messy Christmas. Jopp also won awards for the TV movies Ladylike and Midlife Crisis - including the prestigious Grimme-Award. Her film Lies (2014), premiered at the Munich Film Festival and was nominated at the German Film Awards.

THE DIRECTOR

M A R K E T S C R E E N I N G


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20 BETA CINEMA Berlinale 2020

BY M A H N A Z M O H A M M A D I

A young widow is faced with the difficult choice to either abandon her son or succumb to endless poverty and social degradation in today’s Iran.

SON-MOTHER

"MOHAMMADI IS A

NUANCED DIRECTOR WHOSE PASSION

FOR SOCIAL ISSUES RECALLS THAT

OF RAKSHAN BANI-ETEMAD.

"T H E H O L LY WO O D R E P O R T E R

"TWO EMOTIONALLY

GUTTING PERFORMANCES.

"G L O B E A N D M A I L

Leila is a single working mom of two, living in sanctions-gripped Iran. The factory she works at faces a crisis and jobs are at stake. Kazem, the factory bus driver, proposes marriage to Leila, but she hesitates to accept his conditions. Kazem has a daughter the same age as her 12-year-old son, Amir, and since tradition frowns upon a young girl sharing a household with her stepbrother, Kazem tells Leila not to bring her son until he marries his daughter off. After Leila is fired from her job, she makes the decision to stay with Kazem and leave Amir in the care of a boarding school, until she figures out how to manage his return. After a few months, Amir tries to escape and on the run faces Kazem, who asks him to think about his family’s future. Amir has to decide.

Pesar-Madar

Mahnaz Mohammadi

Mohammad Rasoulof

Ashkan Ashkani

Raha KhodayariMahan NasiriReza BehboodiShiva OrdooieMaryam Boubani

Kaveh Farnam, Mohammad Rasoulof and Farzad Pak

Europe Media Nest s.r.o. and FilminIran

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DRAMA Farsi / 102 min / completed

Known for her provocative documentaries and her tireless activism, Iranian director Mahnaz Mohammadi was arrested multiple times by Iranian authorities. Several of her documentaries are banned in Iran. Her documentary work includes Women without Shadows (2003) and Travelogue (2010). After starring in The Momentary Marriage (2011) she was denied a visa to attend Cannes Film Festival. In 2014, she was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for “endangering national security” and distributing “anti-regime propaganda”, allegedly working with BBC Persia, al-Jazeera English, and other foreign media. Mohammadi denies these allegations. Son-Mother is her first fiction film.

THE DIRECTOR



STORYLINE

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Three teams of police officers patrol the streets of Sofia in this sometimes tragic, often amusing and acutely true-to-life portrait of a society losing all sense.

BY ST E P H A N KO M A N DA R E V

ROUNDS

"AN EFFECTIVE COMBINATION OF

EMOTION AND RELEVANCE.

"

"A CROWDPLEASER.

"

C I N E U R O PA

VA R I E T Y

WINNER

BEST ACTRESSSarajevo

Film Festival

Sofia, November 9th, 2019. Night. As the country prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the regime change in Bulgaria, three police patrol cars roam the streets of the sleeping city. The police officers on their rounds take us on a journey through a society that is still looking for its purpose and identity after three decades of transition. These are scenes of survival and failure, of lives saved while others are lost, of generosity dissolving into social cruelty and indifference. The elusive preservation of dignity seems to be the sole point of getting through the night.

STORYLINE

V krug

Stephan Komandarev Directions, The Judgement

Simeon Ventsislavov and Stephan Komandarev

Vesselin Hristov

Irini Zhambonas DirectionsStefan Denolyubov DirectionsVassil Vassilev DirectionsIvan Barnev Directions

Stephan Komandarev and Katya Trichkova

Argo Film in co-production with SEE Film PRO, Deuxième Ligne Films and EZ Films

World excluding Bulgaria, Benelux, Ex-Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and China.


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DRAMA Bulgarian / 106 min / completed

Stephan Komandarev is a Bulgarian director, producer, and scriptwriter, who has made a number of award-winning fiction and documentary films, such as: Directions (2017), which premiered at “Un Certain Regard” in Cannes and won 12 awards at international film festivals, The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around The Corner, which was distributed in 93 countries, won 35 awards at international film festivals, and was the first Bulgarian film shortlisted for the Oscars 2010, and The Judgment,which won 12 awards, including Best Bulgarian Feature Film at Golden Rose Film Festival and was the Bulgarian Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016. Other titles include: Occupation 1968 (2018, doc), The Town Of Badante Women (2009, doc), Alphabet of Hope (2003, doc), and Bread Over The Fence (2002, doc).

THE DIRECTOR



MARKET SCREENINGTUE 25 Feb 11:00 CinemaxX 12

Heroes come in all shapes and colors.

BY J O N AT H A N E L B E R S

THE CLUB OF UGLY CHILDREN

“Keep it clean!” – The slogan of the new president rings through the streets. It is to be taken literally, and that includes looks. One of the unsightly kids is Paul, whose large ears are quite apparent on class photo day. When he and some of the “ugly” children are taken on a trip the next day, they soon realize that the president wants to hide them away. Paul escapes. On the run, and with help from Sara, one of the “pretty” children, he starts an underground club to fight against the president. The movement soon grows bigger and quickly turns into a revolution. The kids will show the world that even children can rise up and that you don’t have to be “pretty” to be a hero!

STORYLINE

De Club van Lelijke Kinderen

Jonathan Elbers

Jeroen Margry

Thijmen Doornik

Sem HulsmannFaye KimmijserNarek AwanesyanJeroen Van KoningsbruggeJelka Van Houten

Casper Eskes, Niek Teunissen and Wim Boven

Umami Media in co-production with Shooting Star Film Company and EO

World excluding Benelux.


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FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT Dutch / 95 min / completed

Jonathan Elbers (*1988) graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 2012. From the beginning, he has shown a returning interest in creating fantasy worlds, which feature comedic elements and always refer to the world we live in. He won a Young Director Award for his graduation commercial: Where Did This Come From? Subsequently, he directed more award winning commercials for companies such as LG, Volkswagen and Skoda. For TV he made the children’s programs Studio Snugger, Saint Nicolas Journal and a couple of short films. In 2019 his first series The Coup debuted on TV. The Club of Ugly Children is his second feature film.



"KIDS WILL LOVE

THIS FILM.

"A D

"THRILLING AND VERY FUNNY.

"V I P S T V

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THE AUSCHWITZ REPORT by Peter Bebjak ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 30

MY NEIGHBOR ADOLF by Leon Prudovsky ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 31

THE KANGAROO CHRONICLES by Dani Levy .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 32

THE BIKE THIEF by Matt Chambers ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 33

CORVIDAE by Joe Marcantonio ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 34

NOWHERE SPECIAL by Uberto Pasolini .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Page 35

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U P C O M I N GU P C O M I N G

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives. Emaciated and hurt, they make their way through the mountains back to Slovakia. With the help of chance encounters, they finally manage to cross the border and meet the resistance and The Red Cross. They compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.

STORYLINE

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Peter Bebjak The Line

Jozef Paštéka, Tomáš Bombík, Peter Bebjak

Martin Žiaran The Line

Noel Czuczor OpheliaPeter OndrejickaJan NedbalJohn Hannah Four Weddings and a Funeral

Rasto Šesták and Peter Bebjak

DNA Production in co-prod. with Agresywna Banda, Evolution Films, Ostlicht Filmproduktion and RTVS

World excluding Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.


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The untold story about how two Slovak Jews not only escaped Auschwitz, but also convinced those who were afraid to see the truth. Eventually, the Auschwitz Report helped save more than 120.000 Hungarian Jews from deportation.

THE AUSCHWITZ REPORT

BY P E T E R B E BJ A K

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What if… my neighbor is Adolf Hitler?

MY NEIGHBOR ADOLF

BY L EO N P RU D OVS K Y

My Neighbor Adolf

Leon Prudovsky Five Hours from Paris

Leon Prudovsky and Dmitry Malinsky

Radek Ladczuk

David Hayman The Boy in the Striped PyjamasUdo Kier The Painted Bird

Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg, Klaudia Smieja and Staszek Dziedzic

2-Team Productions and Film Produkcja in co- production with Vandalo and United King Films World excluding Israel and Poland.


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TRAGICOMEDY English / in production

Colombia, May 1960, just a few days after the abduction of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann by Mossad agents in Argentina.

Polsky, a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor, lives in the remote Colombian countryside. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rose bushes. One day, when a mysterious old German man moves in next-door, he suspects that his new neighbor is... Adolf Hitler. Since nobody believes him, he embarks on a detective mission to find the evidence. But, in order to gather evidence, he will need to be closer to his neighbor than he would like. So close that the two could almost become friends.

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Based on the bestselling book “The Kangaroo Chronicles”. When a communist Kangaroo rings Marc-Uwe’s doorbell one day, asking for eggs to make pancakes, he doesn’t suspect that this is only the beginning of his life turning upside down.

THE KANGAROO CHRONICLES

BY DA N I L E V Y

Die Känguru-Chroniken

Dani Levy Go for Zucker!

Marc-Uwe Kling

Filip Zumbrunn Night Train to Lisbon

The KangarooDimitrij Schaad Invention of TrustRosalie Thomass Fukushima, mon amourHenry Hübchen Go for Zucker!

Stefan Arndt and Uwe Schott

X-Filme Creative Pool in co-production with ZDF, TRIXTER and ARRI Media World excluding German-speaking territories.


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COMEDY German / in post-production

Marc-Uwe, is a struggling musician living in a run-down flat in Berlin-Kreuzberg. One day, the doorbell rings and he stands face to face with a talking Kangaroo. Being a staunch communist, the Kangaroo doesn’t believe in private ownership and without further ado decides to move in with Marc-Uwe. From now on, the Kangaroo begins to reign over Marc-Uwe’s life, challenging him with philosophical questions and getting them both into all sorts of trouble. Despite their differences, Marc-Uwe and the Kangaroo ultimately unite in a struggle against their common enemy: an insufferable right-wing politician and investor, who wants to build the headquarters for his far-right populist party right next to Marc-Uwe’s apartment building. So together with their neighbors, Marc-Uwe and the Kangaroo choose to resist and fight.

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To the Rider his moped is everything. As a pizza delivery driver it is his livelihood. As a breadline straddling, immigrant father it is his family’s anchor. It takes his wife to work. It gets his daughter to school. So when one night the moped is stolen, his world collapses.

He has to get back his bike – or replace it – in whatever way possible, before his next shifts starts. If he fails, he won’t just lose his job, he will lose it all. He tries to ask the few familiar faces for help in this unfamiliar, disorienting city. However, as he runs out of time and his options are wearing thin, his moral compass begins to crack and he grows more and more willing to forgo his conscience in order to save himself and his family.

After a delivery driver’s moped is stolen, he must find it before he loses everything else.

THE BIKE THIEF

BY M AT T C H A M B E R S

The Bike Thief

Matt Chambers

Matt Chambers

Nanu Segal

Alec Secareanu God’s Own CountryAnamaria Marinca 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

Peregrine Kitchener-Fellowes, Sophia Gibber and Lene Bausager

Ugly Duckling Films and Ellipsis Pictures, in association with Twickenham Studios

Universe.


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STORYLINE DRAMA English, Romanian / in post-production

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A single father dedicates the last few months of his life to finding a new family for his four-year-old son.

NOWHERE SPECIAL

BY U B E RTO PAS O L I N I

Nowhere Special

Uberto Pasolini Still Life

Uberto Pasolini

Marius Panduru

James Norton Mr. Jones, McMafiaDaniel Lamont Eileen O’Higgins Mary Queen of Scots, Brooklyn

Uberto Pasolini, Roberto Sessa and Cristian Nicolescu

Picomedia SRL, Nowhere Special Ltd, Digital Cube SRL, in association with Rai Cinema World excluding France, Spain, Italy, German- speaking territories, Scandinavia, Romania, Israel, Mexico. Japan, Taiwan, China and AUS/NZ.


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DRAMA English / in post-production

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation. Although initially certain of what he is looking for in the perfect family, John gradually abandons his early convictions, over- whelmed by doubts on the decision. How can he judge a family from a brief encounter? And does he know his own child well enough to make this choice for him? As John struggles to find the right answer to his impossible task, he comes to accept the help of a young social worker, opening himself to solutions he would never have considered. And he finally comes to accept his anger at the injustice of his destiny, the need to share the truth with his son, and to follow the child’s instincts on the biggest decision of their lives.

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When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses with shock upon receiving the news. When she regains consciousness she finds herself in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas, determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief-stricken, frail and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte has little choice but to accept their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. She slowly begins to suspect that they are drugging her and keeping her captive, isolated from the outside world with the aim of taking her unborn baby. As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte’s fear builds and she decides that her only option is to break free from this family once and for all – but at what cost?

A tale of a young woman, struggling with a slow breakdown of her own reality. Or is it a tale of a woman who is being brainwashed and psychologically abused by her deceased boyfriend’s family?

CORVIDAE

BY J O E M A R CA N TO N I O

Corvidae

Joe Marcantonio

Joe Marcantonio and Jason McColgan

Carlos Catalan

Tamara Lawrance On Chesil BeachJack Lowden Dunkirk, Fighting With My FamilyFiona Shaw Harry Potter, Colette, Killing EveEdward Holcroft Kingsman, The Sense of an Ending

Dominic Norris, Gareth Wiley and Jack Lowden

Reiver Pictures in co-production with Fastnet Films

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STORYLINE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER English / in post-production

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