Doc Market

11th THESSALONIKI 

DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 

IMAGES OF THE 21st CENTURY 

13-22 MARCH 2009 

11th Thessaloniki 

International 

Doc Market 

16-21 March 2009 

Organized by 

OFFICIAL SPONSOR 

COMMUNICATION SPONSOR 

WITH THE SUPPORT OF 

AUDIENCE AWARDS SPONSOR 

Sponsors 

TRANSPORTATION SPONSOR 

Communication Sponsors 

Communication Support:

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival 

is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture

General information 

Venue: 

Electra Palace Hotel, Byzantium Hall 

Opening hours: 

10:00 - 20:00 

Happy hour: 

17:30 - 18:30, at Excelsior Lounge, Electra Palace Hotel 

Reservations: 

Video booths can be booked for a maximum 

of four consecutive hours. 

Please show up on time otherwise your reservation 

will be cancelled. 

Reservations should be made one day in advance. 

Please note 

• When asking for a DVD, please refer to the documentary by its ref. number and 

not by its title. 

• A maximum of four (4) DVDs can be borrowed each time. 

• Please make sure that the correct DVD is in the correct box. 

• Please return the DVDs when finished. 

• You are kindly requested to register your evaluation for each film you have 

watched. 

• You are kindly requested to leave the video booth the way you found it. 

• Smoking is not allowed at the DocMarket’s facilities.

Indexes 

Index of Directors 506 

Index of Sales Companies 515 

Documentaries Participating 

0-9 20 

A 27 

B 61 

C 103 

D 141 

E 159 

F 175 

G 197 

H 215 

I 227 

J 245 

K 255 

L 267 

M 289 

N 317 

O 327 

P 335 

Q 365 

R 369 

S 397 

T 441 

U 467 

V 471 

W 477 

Y 495 

Z 501

Th e s s a l o n i ki 

I nternat i o n a l 

D o c M a r ke t 

docmarket@filmfestival.gr 

Head of Doc Market: Yianna Sarri 

Coordinator: Denise Andreaola 

Assistants: Chryssa Koussela, Laurien ten Houten 

Doc Videotheque: Spyros Savvas 

Sales Manager, ERT: Yannis Kollias 

Sales Assistant Manager, ERT: Zefi Tsoukala, Nikoleta Karra 

Doc Market Catalogue Editor-in-Chief: Mary Kitroeff 

Coordination: Iliana Loukopoulou, Manthi Botsiou 

Design-Art Direction: Andreas Remountis 

I m a g e s o f t h e 2 1 s t centur y 

1 1 t h T H E S S A LO N I K I D O C U M E N TA RY F E S T I VA L 

Artistic Director: Dimitri Eipides 

Thessaloniki: 

10 Aristotelous Sq., Thessaloniki 546 23, Greece 

Τ. +30 2310 378 400 F. +30 2310 285 759 

Athens: 

9 Alexandras Ave., Athens 114 73, Greece 

Τ. +30 210 870 6000 F. +30 210 644 8143 

info@filmfestival.gr 

www.filmfestival.gr

We are happy to welcome you to the 11th edition 

of the Thessaloniki International Doc Market. 

TheThessaloniki International Doc Market is evolving into an important international market 

and a major meeting place for film professionals. In the last ten years it has managed 

to quadruple its size and put itself on the map of the international documentary film industry. 

Last year the Doc Market took place at the Electra Palace Hotel and following its success, 

we decided to organize it in the same place. We would also like to note that we are very 

pleased that the collaboration with the Media Program of the European Union is continuing. 

Furthermore, this year we made a great effort to have the Doc Market in digital form. Due 

to technical reasons we could not complete this task, but we will do our best to digitalized 

the 12th Thessaloniki Doc Market. 

The 2009 Doc Market welcomes a large number of TV buyers, distributors, commissioning 

editors and international festival representatives. While attending the Thessaloniki International 

Documentary Festival they will have the opportunity to watch documentaries 

in our theaters and Doc Market facilities and meet with producers, directors and sales 

agents. 

The Doc Market catalogue includes 470 titles, 160 of which have been selected for the 

11th TDF program. In our selection we have included productions from various countries, 

representing different topics, views and approaches to the world. We believe we have 

achieved a fine balance between independent as well as larger scale productions in order 

to highlight all aspects of contemporary documentary filmmaking. 

We are confident that the 11th Thessaloniki International Doc Market will give many of its 

films the opportunity to find their place on television and movie screens all over the world. 

Happy viewing! 

Dimitri Eipides 

Artistic Director

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FRANCE - BELGIUM 

Category: History & Politics 

14-18 NOISE AND FURY 

Jean-François Delassus 

Not everything has been told about World War I. This documentary tries to explain the inexplicable: 

how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable toughness 

of life in trenches during 4 years, season after season, day after day, night after night How 

could they have accepted the idea of a sure death or injury while they could not even say 

exactly why they were fighting 

What you are about to see may seem crazy: WWI was maintained by a general consent. 

14-18 Noise and Fury, is a documentary based on rare archives that have been colorized, 

restored and given sound for the first time. It was broadcast on prime time and received 

top ratings. 

Running time: 100’ 

Year of production: 2009 

Sales Contact: 

Contact Person: 

Wide Management 

Anais Clanet 

40 rue Sainte Anne 

Paris 75002, France 

T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 

ac@widemanagement.com 

www.widemanagement.com 

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GERMANY 

0-9 

Category: Sports 

20 SECONDS OF JOY 

Jens Hoffman 

Three things are certain about base-jumping. You will break your bones. You will watch 

your friends die. And – if you do it long enough – it will eventually kill you. In this heady, 

testosterone-packed environment, adrenaline junkie Karina Hollekim is regarded as one 

of the best of the best. We follow Karina for several years as she hurls herself off increasingly 

treacherous cliffs in search of the ultimate high. What compels someone to risk their 

life on a regular basis in this way Is base jumping a way of “living life to the full” or simply 

running away from your demons And – when tragedy strikes – will the rush have 

proved worth the price 





Java Films 

Kathryn Bonnici 

4-6 Villa Thoreton 


T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 

kathryn@javafilms.fr 

www.javafilms.fr 

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521 

PALESTINE 

Category: Current Affairs 

5 MINUTES FROM HOME 

Nahed Awwad 

Jerusalem Airport lies along the road that links Jerusalem to Ramallah. It has been occupied 

by the Israeli army since 1967, at a 5 kilometer distance from Ramallah and 10 kilometer 

distance from Jerusalem. Today, to the east of the runway, a huge military 

checkpoint blocks the Jerusalem-Ramallah road, a dead end street. 

Nahed Awwad discovers that life has not always been like this, and that this sad spot used 

to be a place where international aircraft landed in the 1950s and 1960s, when Palestinians 

traveled freely. The happy images and testimonies of the past contrast bitterly with 

those of the present where access is denied to the aviation zone that is now besieged behind 

barbed wire and soon will be trapped behind the Israeli Separation Wall. 

Nahed Awwad goes to discover this place, exploring the past in order to have a better 

comprehension of the present: today’s Palestinian reality that is marked by forgetfulness. 





Point du Jour International 

Doris Weitzel 

23 rue de Cronstadt 


T. +33 1 7544 8088 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 

d.weitzel@pointdujour.fr 

www.pointdujour-international.fr 

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ISRAEL 

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6 FLOORS TO HELL 

Jonatan Ben Efrat 

Illegal Palestinians live in an unfinished mall near Tel Aviv, six floors underground, with no 

electricity or water. Among them is Jalal who dreams of his fiancée. 

A life between darkness and light. 





JMT Films Distribution 

Michael Treves 

20 Bialik Street 

Tel Aviv 63324, Israel 

T. +972 52 363 3398 

jmtreves@012.net.il 

www.jmtfilms.com 

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IRAN 

Category: Creative Documentaries 

7 BLIND WOMEN FILMMAKERS 

Mohammad Shirvani 

In Spring 2004, Mohammad Shirvani decided to answer an old question in his mind. 

“What should I do if I, as a film director, would become sightless” He was wondering if 

he could keep making films. This film has been made by a number of blind women filmmakers 

to answer that question. He taught them how to narrate their own stories through 

the language of cinema and by small digital cameras and they also taught him how to see 

the world with the“third eye” on his forehead. The result of such an experience is the feature 

documentary: 7 Blind Women Filmmakers. 





Iranian Independents 

Mohammad Atebbai 

PO Box 15875-4769 

Tehran, Iran 

T. +98 912 319 8693 

F. +98 21 222 71157 

info@iranianindependents.com 


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AUSTRIA 

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7915 KM 

Nikolaus Geyrhalter 

The title refers to the length of the renowned Paris to Dakar Rally as it was raced in 2007, this 

time from Lisbon, Portugal to Dakar, Senegal. For the time being, it would be the last race 

through the North African desert due to fears of terrorist attacks. This road documentary begins 

where the race cars leave their dust clouds behind: with the people who live along the 

route, in Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal.The contrast between the motorised might 

and the simple population is striking. One local is surprised that the racers trust their navigation 

systems more than his knowledge of the land, a goatherd nervously keeps the city and 

TV at a safe distance, the owner of a movie theater explains why he shows“white porn,”and 

politicians make promises to the impoverished people, who in turn decry the Western big 

business that is plundering their mineral resources. Many of them want to immigrate to Europe, 

assuming that they would have a chance at a better life there. Most of them talk as if 

they’re giving a museum tour, at a leisurely pace and in a measured tone, which also stands 

in sharp contrast to the hectic world of the race. 





Autlook Filmsales 

Susanne Guggenberger 

4/17 Trappelgasse 

Vienna 1040, Austria 

T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 

susanne@autlookfilms.com 

www.autlookfilms.com 


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USA-ITALY 

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ABOUT NAPOLI 

Robert A. Russo 

Some have described Naples as a city in a constant state of decay. Others have called it the 

Keith Richards of cities. But to the Neapolitans, it is just another day in“Bella Napoli”. How 

does one describe a city-especially one like Naples In this documentary, six questions 

are asked of the Neapolitans themselves. The responses provide an intimate look at what 

makes this chaotic, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous city. With perspectives from every 

walk of life, young and old, rich and poor, sophisticated and simple, the story is told with 

an insider’s view of the daily machinations that are required to live in one of Europe’s oldest 

cities and cultures. It provides an anthropological/sociological look at a city that has all 

but been abandoned by the government infrastructure and yet still maintains itself, creating 

its own city state in a contemporary world. 





Ro * co Films 

Annie Roney 

80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5 

Saucalito CA 94965, USA 

T. +1 415 332 6471 

F. +1 415 332 6798 

info@rocofilms.com 

www.rocofilms.com 


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NORWAY 

Category: Art/Music & Culture 

ABRAHAM’S CHILDREN – LOVERS 

AND NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 

Dag Hoel 

In four 30-minute episodes we set out in the footsteps of biblical Abraham as he journeys 

from his birthplace in ancient Mesopotamia, through Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, to 

his final resting place in the West Bank city of Hebron. Along this trail we meet Muslims, 

Christians, and Jews, all united in the belief that they are descended from him. We meet 

with a Syrian philosopher in Damascus, a gay rights activist in Beirut, and a Palestinian 

feminist in Hebron. But this is also an amusing and entertaining road movie introducing 

us to rock ’n’ roll bands in the desert, skateboarders on the beach, and assassins high on 

weed. Through the intimate relationships created by the director, we break down barriers, 

traverse frontiers, and eliminate stereotypes. 

Running time: 4 x 30’ 




Cinephil 

Philippa Kowarsky 

18 Levontin Street 


T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 

info@cinephil.co.il 

www.cinephil.co.il 


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SWEDEN 

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ACHING HEART 

Oscar Hedin 

Why do young Muslims, who have grown up in the safe bosom of Europe, want to sacrifice 

their lives for Allah 

While filming the radical milieu for over three years, the director entered a world behind 

the news headlines and found several young men who were seeking martyrdom. He also 

found new explanations for radicalism. 

An exceptionally up-close glimpse into an isolated but growing community. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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USA 


AFTER THE PARTY: DOMINICK DUNNE 

Kirsty de Garis & Timothy Jolley 

Dominick Dunne has led an incomparable life. From 1950s Hollywood producer to Vanity 

Fair’s “Special Correspondent”, he is a best selling author and journalist with a stellar reputation. 

After the Party is his story. Told with amazing candor and set against the backdrop 

of music producer, Phil Spector’s murder trial, this atmospheric portrait is a study of a 

complex man who has mastered the art of reinvention. 





Mercury Media International 

Patricia Hickey 

6 Baseline Studios, Whitchurch Road 

London W11 4AT, UK 

T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 

patricia@mercurymedia.org 

www.mercurymedia.org 


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UK 

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THE AGE OF STUPID 

Franny Armstrong 

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual 

Suspects) stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at 

“archive” footage from today and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we 

had the chance 





Celluloid Dreams 

Violaine Pichon 

2 Rue Turgot 


T. +33 1 49 700 370 

F. +33 1 49 700 371 

violaine@celluloid-dreams.com 

www.celluloid-dreams.com 


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UK-USA 


THE AGONY AND ECSTASY 

OF PHIL SPECTOR 

Vikram Jayanti 

In October of this year, the second trial against the legendary music producer Phil Spector 

began in Los Angeles. Spector stands accused of murdering the B-movie actress Lana Clarkson 

in 2003. Last year, the first trial against him ended in a mistrial after the deadlocked jury 

couldn’t come to a decision. The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector is based on an interview 

that Spector gave to BBC producer Vikram Jayanti, and consists of interview footage intercut 

with clips from music videos of songs Spector produced. Jayanti refrains from asking 

about the murder, possibly a demand that Spector made himself. The man who worked 

with both Elvis and The Beatles and says that he once had the power to destroy Martin 

Scorsese’s career is a closed book.That’s not surprising, considering Spector lives like a hermit 

in his 30-room mansion just outside of Los Angeles and is not one to share his thoughts. 

Interviews with Spector are rare. Jayanti refers to them as the holy grail for documentary 

filmmakers so, despite his reticence, this film is a chance to catch a glimpse of this unusual 

individual. 





VIXPIX Films Ltd. 

Vikram Jayanti 

3-4 Portman Mews 

London W1F 8TF, UK 

T. +44 20 7497 6200 

vikramjnt@mac.com 


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UK 

A 


ALL SHADES OF GREY 

Minou Norouzi 

Part 1 - Two Eritrean girls enchant with fragmentary tales of escaping their country and 

what it really feels like living as an unaccompanied child refugee, alone in London. An intimate 

portrait, highlighting the emotional fallout of political conflict. 

Part 2 – Sixteen-year-old Omar, a Somali refugee, has high ambitions. He is the captain 

of the Islington Somali Football Club but that’s not enough. He wants to be a politician – 

mainly because he likes “being the leader”. But there are more serious implications to the 

football club’s regular training sessions. It keeps the boys off the streets and off drugs. 

Part 3 - Hafiza, a beautiful young Muslim girl born in London is trying to “find” herself. She 

is undecided as to whether the Hijab is for her. Her father does not approve of her socializing 

at the mosque. He feels it’s a place where she “could get up to no good”with other 

local Muslim youths. So Hafiza takes part in all sorts of other social activities that connect 

her with her Muslim peers. We see her at a go-carting race giving her all despite her lack 

of success with the sport and her near single presence as a girl among a sea of boys. 





Ad Lumina Productions 

Minou Norouzi 

17A Bethune Road 

London N16 5DA, UK 

T. +44 793 031 7057 

ad.lumina@freeuk.com 


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USA 


AMERICAN OUTRAGE 

George Gage & Margaret Gage 

Why would the US government spend millions of dollars persecuting two elderly ladies 

for trespass Carrie and Mary Dann have always grazed their livestock in the desolate Nevada 

desert outside their ranch. That land is recognized as Native American property but 

was seized by the government after lucrative gold deposits were discovered. When the 

Dann sisters refused to stop grazing their animals, the government tried to sue them.Their 

dispute spread to the Supreme Court and eventually to the United Nations. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




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GREECE 

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AMONG THE ROCKS 

Alinda Dimitriou 

In Among the Rocks, thirty-three women testify about the persecution they and their families 

suffered following the ratification of the Varkiza Peace Agreement on 12 February 

1945. To save themselves, many joined the Democratic Army, while others were arrested 

and imprisoned or sent into exile. The film attempts to reveal the role of a social group 

which, voiceless until now, has been ignored by official written history. As a relatively new 

discipline, oral history investigates first-hand accounts and the experiences of ordinary 

people in order to shed light on the past and on historical potential that was never fulfilled. 

In this film, the“voiceless”group are Women. 




Alida Dimitriou 

51 Taxiarhon Str., Alimos 

Athens 17455, Greece 

T. + 30 210 981 0549 

alida.sotiris@gmail.com 


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GERMANY 


THE AMOUNT OF SMALL THINGS 

Sophie Narr 

First year in school and life ain’t easy: Laethicia, Sanita, Fuat and Bright are 7 years old 

and confronted with the adult world of discipline and merit. 

“Why don’t you like school”“Because I cannot play with the teacher”, says Laethicia. She 

is one of four first-graders struggling with the reality of her new primary school. Potentially 

a safe haven for children with delicate family backgrounds, the school’s demands 

are, however, tough on the youngsters who already feel caught in a rat race. Will they fit 

in or will they be left behind Fuat, Sanita, Bright and Laethicia are trying hard to find the 

balance between school and play, between fulfilling demands and rebelling in order to 

shape a personality of their own. And this is only the beginning of a life-long quest. 

A moving trip back to childhood. Whoever liked ETRE ET AVOIR will love this film! 

Running time: 58’& 92’ 




Rise and Shine World Sales 

Stefan Kloos 

29/30 Schlesische Str. 

Berlin 10997, Germany 

T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 29820 

stefan.kloos@riseandshine-berlin.com 

www.riseandshine-berlin.com 

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UK 

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ANATOMY OF FAILURE 

Minou Norouzi 

An unorthodox biopic about Carlos Castaneda, 60s cultural icon and author of The Teachings 

of Don Juan, takes the form of fragmented portraiture, touching on failures of love, 

power relationships and myth making. 

In a series of Californian road trips, projected realities become as contradictory as the wildly 

differing characters encountered in this film. 

The filmmaker meets a concoction of Castaneda associates who are all invested in telling 

her about the man. But what remains in shadow is the story of five disappeared women 

believed to have been part of Castaneda’s‘harem’, and the discovery of bones at the edge 

of Death Valley belonging to one of the missing women. Trying to find out what hooked 

these women onto the cultish guru figure, the filmmaker unveils some uncomfortable 

truths she was unaware of, about herself. 





Ad Lumina Productions 

Minou Norouzi 

17A Bethune Road 

London N16 5DA, UK 

T. +44 793 031 7057 

ad.lumina@freeuk.com 


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GREECE 


ANCIENT GREEK RAYED STAR SYMBOL 

Gregory Zorzos 

This movie presents the Ancient Greek Macedonian symbol of the rayed star. There are 

many other symbols with the rayed star as an ancient Greek symbol throughout the centuries. 

Ancient Greek stars can have from three up to 24 rays. And these rays can have 

many shapes according to the meaning of the star in archeological monuments. 

The best known rayed star is the Ancient Greek Macedonian symbol ofVergina. TheVergina 

Sun, Star of Vergina or Argead Star is the name given to a symbol of a stylised star or sun 

with sixteen rays. It was unearthed in 1977 during archaeological excavations in Vergina, 

in the northern Greek province of Macedonia. The famous larnax on which it appears belonged 

to Greek King Philip II of Macedon, the father of the Greek Alexander the Great III. 

The larnax is on display at the archaeological museum in Vergina, where it was found. 

Another version of the Vergina Sun, with 12 rays, was found on the larnax of Olympias, the 

mother of Alexander the Great. 

Only the Greeks can understand the inner meaning of the rayed symbol and this is the 

topic of this film. 





PO Box 75070 

Kallithea GR 17610, Greece 

T. +30 210 958 9940 

zorzos@otenet.gr 


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GREECE 

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ANCIENT SEX POSITIONS 


Human beings have always tried to express their love when having sex by assuming many 

different positions. In this film, ancient sex positions are presented as they were devised 

by ancient Greeks. 

Many ancient archeological findings exist today, such as ancient Greek coins, texts, icons, 

emblems, tituli, ostraca, fragments, epigrammata, papyrorum, tablettes, recessions, sculptures, 

vases, monuments, etc. which bear representations of ancient Greek sex positions. 





PO Box 75070 


T. +30 210 958 9940 



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GREECE 


ANCIENT HELLENIC GRIFFIN 


This study by author Gregory Zorzos analyzes the form and symbolism of the Grypas (Griffin) 

according to Ancient Greek thought. The film presents representations of the Griffin 

from findings and ancient coins that are not known to the modern world. 

The Grypas was one of the so-called monsters or legendary creatures of Ancient Greece. 

For the Ancient Greeks, the Griffin symbolized forbidden military knowledge or bravery, 

the ability to fight, the art of fighting and its secrets. The Griffin’s role is to save the weak. 





PO Box 75070 


T. +30 210 958 9940 



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GREECE 

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ANCIENT HELLENIC SPHINX 


The film analyzes the form and symbolism of the Sphinx according to Ancient Greek 

thought. It includes many forms of Ancient Greek sphinxes from archaeological discoveries 

and ancient statues and coins that are unknown to the modern world. 

The Sphinx was one of the so-called monsters or legendary creatures of ancient Greece, 

with the body of a lion, the head and breasts of woman, and the wings of an eagle. 

“Sphinx” is also what we call an enigmatic person. For the Ancient Greeks, the Sphinx 

symbolized forbidden knowledge or the secrets that are kept from the many. The Sphinx’s 

role is to save secrets. 





P.O. Box 75070 


T. +30 210 958 9940 



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500 

GREECE 


ANDRIKOS VETTAS – 

THE SATIRICAL POET OF KAVALA 

Panayiotis Nestoridis 

The fabulous biography of the well-known satirical poet Adrikos Vettas born in Eleftheroupoli, 

Kavala and lived in the city of Kavala in the late 19th century. Discover along with 

the historic researcher Nikolaos Roudometof both the life of this popular poet and the history 

of the prime tobacco workers’ movement of Kavala. Learn about the first strike that 

took place in the Balkans and how this incident became known throughVettas’s poetic collection. 

Acquaint yourself with the three Greek publications issued in the city of Kavala 

during the period of the Turkish occupation. Enjoy a unique documentary that narrates 

the unknown aspects of Kavala. 





Historical & Literary Archives of Kavala 

Nikolaos Roudometof 

183 Omonias Street 

Kavala 651 10, Greece 

T. +30 2510 222 830 

F. +30 2510 837 880 

histarchiv@otenet.gr 

www.ilak.org 


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THE NETHERLANDS 

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ANNA’S SILENT STRUGGLE 

Willy Lindwer & Tom Linszen 

The survival of Anna van Dam, a deaf girl in Auschwitz, is a unique story. For the hearing, 

Auschwitz is characterized as a place of terrible sounds; for the deaf, the terror was silent. 

Young deaf filmmaker Tom is in search of what happened to deaf Jews during the war, and 

how some survived Nazi persecution. He finds the moving story of Anna, now an 82 year 

old woman and asks how she managed to survive. 

Her ability to read lips, a tremendous amount of luck and a highly developed intuition 

were vital tools in her struggle. She tells Tom her story from her Jewish upbringing to her 

experiences in the concentration camps and returns to Auschwitz for the first time.The film 

will also tellTom’s story as a young deaf boy in Amsterdam, his strong ambition to become 

a filmmaker, and his desire to bring stories of deaf people to the world. This documentary 

is made with award winning filmmaker Willy Lindwer who has produced more than 

twenty films about the Holocaust. 





Espresso TV 

David Hooper 

25 York Villas 

Brighton BN1 3TS, UK 

T. +44 1273 730 929 

F. +44 1273 299 403 

david@espressotv.co.uk 

www.espressotv.co.uk 


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HUNGARY 


ANOTHER PLANET 

Ferenc Moldoványi 

Shot over a two-year period in four countries on four continents – Ecuador (South America), 

Mexico (North America), Democratic Republic of Congo (Africa), and Cambodia (Asia) 

– Another Planet unfolds as a cinematic poem in the tradition of Koyaanisqatsi, exposing 

the unequal distribution of wealth around the world as a major humanitarian crisis. 

Framed by pastoral sequences in which a Tarahumara shaman imparts a dream of paradise 

on earth, the film moves quickly and seamlessly between the lives of seven children 

inextricably linked by their shocking and tragic experiences of daily exploitation and abuse. 

We meet lonely, aimless urchins, barely eking out a living on the streets. We see child laborers 

toiling in brick factories, garbage dumps, and brothels, only to be beaten when 

business is down. And perhaps most harrowing of all, we get to know the child soldiers 

of Congo as they are turned into killing machines. Throughout this journey, Moldoványi’s 

unwavering vision reminds us of the eternal coexistence of beauty and horror all over the 

world. 

Running time: 54 & 96’ 




Engram Film Productions Ltd. 

Ferenc Moldoványi 

58 Cseresznye utca 

Budapest 1112, Hungary 

T. +36 30 986 8903 

F. +36 1 788 1417 

engram@c3.hu 

www.another-planet.eu 


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GREECE 

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THE ANTENNAS OF OUR TIME – 

GUNNAR STAALESEN 

Etienne Nikolaos Theotokis 

Gunnar Staalesen is Norway’s best-known contemporary writer. He writes mostly crime 

novels that also address social and political issues. He receives us in his home, on a hill by 

a lake on the edge of Bergen. We listen to him talk about a variety of interesting subjects: 

Norwegian literature, the way in which he chooses his own topics; what it means to live 

in a picturesque but small town; the weight we all carry in terms of the history of our 

country; and whether each one of us could, potentially, become a murderer... 





Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT SA 

Yannis Kollias 

432 Messoghion Ave., Aghia Paraskevi 


T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 

ykollias@ert.gr 

www.ert.gr 


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CANADA 


ANTOINE 

Laura Bari 

The real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, makes decisions, 

hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of 

two years he uses a mini-boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds surrounding 

him. In this manner he co-created the soundtrack of this film. This child, who is 

of Vietnamese origin, was born one hundred days prematurely. He is integrated into the 

regular school system in Montreal with unprecedented success. Antoine is five years old 

and he is blind. 





Eyesteelfilm 

Halima Ouardiri 

4475 Boul St Laurent #202 

Montreal H2W 1Z8, Canada 

T. +1 514 937 4893 

F. +1 514 313 7383 

halima@eyesteelfilm.com 

www.eyesteelfilm.com 


528 

ESTONIA 

A 


ANTS ESKOLA. TO BE OR NOT TO BE 

Kristian Paul Virve 

The story of prince Hamlet touched a deep and most painful part of the soul of my grandfather, 

actor Ants Eskola. To him, Hamlet’s“To be or not to be”monologue did not simply 

express the will to die or the concept of suicide, but rather the fact that other people are 

those who force you to ask yourself whether you are you capable of fulfilling your dreams 

in life. As a young actor raised in freedom, he was arrested when the Soviets occupied Estonia 

and was taken to a gulag in Siberia. His best years were spent in gulags. 

When he returned to Estonia, freedom had been replaced with a foreign dictatorship. A 

country of ones own with an“oblast”. Life as a public enemy began, a fight for survival in 

a totalitarian system. 

Ants Eskola: To Be or not to Be is a film about the life of a well-known Estonian actor and 

his work with the stories of Estonian theatre against a background of the history of Estonian 

statehood. Birth and ruination of different ages. 





Kaos World Studios 

Kristjan Paul Virve 

6-10 Narva Mnt. 

Tallinn 10117, Estonia 

T. +372 5 017 315 

F. +372 6 601 148 

kristjan@kaos.ee 

www.kaos.ee 


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220 

GREECE 

Category: Discoveries/Nature/Wildlife 

THE APE WHO FELL FROM THE SKY 

Zahos Samoladas 

The study of human evolution generally focuses on the hominids, beginning with the 

australopithecines, but to truly understand where humans came from it is necessary to 

look even earlier, when the human/great ape clade diverged from the other primates. 

Ouranopithecus macedoniensis is one European Middle Miocene hominoid that has been 

the source of much controversy. Ouranopithecus macedoniensis gets its name from the region 

where its fossils were found, Macedonia in Northern Greece. Fossils were first discovered 

near the village of Vathylakkos in Northern Greece during World War I. They were 

unearthed by French soldiers under the supervision of paleontologist Camille Arambourg. 

In the 1970s, Louis de Bonis resumed the search for fossils in northern Greece along with 

George Koufos from the Aristotle University and located hominoid remains at the sites of 

Ravine de la Pluie and Xirochori nearVathylakkos and another site near the village of Nikiti, 

which lies east of the city of Thessaloniki. These localities have been biostratigraphically 

dated to the Late Miocene, between 9 and 10 mya. 





Magic Lantern 

Zahos Samoladas 

22 Analipseos Street 

Thessaloniki 546 44, Greece 

T. +30 2310 222 247 

magiclanternfestival@gmail.com 


193 

ROMANIA 

A 

Category: Docudrama 

APOCALYPSE ON WHEELS 

Alexandru Solomon 

This is not a film about roads or cars, but about what traffic turns us into. I chose five people 

whom I accompanied all over town, in their everyday lives. For five months I sat in the 

passenger seat of their car, listening to them. They are all ordinary people: a delivery boy 

who spends about 14 hours a day driving around Bucharest; a half paralyzed man who not 

only drives a car, but also helps other people to avail themselves of cars; a Peruvian-born 

woman who was raised in a city with equally crazed traffic; a father who recently lost his 

daughter in a traffic accident; and a policeman who, before December ’89, was beaten up 

by the militia. 





Hi Film Productions 

Alexandru Solomon 

179 Traian Street 

Bucharest 024043, Romania 

T. +40 21 252 4867 

F. +40 21 252 4866 

alecusolomon@clicknet.ro 


49

A 

448 

GREECE 


APOLOGY OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN 

Stelios Kouloglou 

In front of an angry audience somewhere in Latin America, a North American tells of his 

personal journey: he is a man who has decided to tell the truth, regardless of the risks for 

his family and his life. He worked for a secret network that used loans from the World 

Bank, payoffs, extortion and sex, military coups and political assassinations to create the 

American empire. 

But an unexpected crowd storms the theatre demanding answers about the country’s suffering. 

Among the people gathered is the daughter of an assassinated president. Perkins 

doesn’t know if he will be well accepted or lynched… 

Based on rare propagandistic material, film-noir-style reconstructed sequences and exclusive 

filmed confessions of best selling writer John Perkins, the documentary sheds new 

light on recent American history, from the World War II to the invasion and looting of Iraq. 

The definitive answer to President Bush’s question:“Why do they hate us” 





Deckert Distribution 

Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 

Leipzig 04103, Germany 

T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 

info@deckert-distribution.com 

www.deckert-distribution.com 


258 

USA 

A 


ARC OF FIRE 

Alexandre Bouchet 

They call it “Arc of Fire”. It’s the biggest operation against illegal logging in Brazil’s history. 

And its mission is to save the Amazon. Since April 2008, Federal Police, National Security 

Force agents and the Environmental Protection Agency have been conducting joint operations 

against the timber mafia. Hundreds of armed policemen scour the Amazon by helicopter, 

looking for signs of illegal deforestation. Already, they’ve imposed millions of euros 

in fines, dismantled illegal sawmills and razed thousands of charcoal ovens to the ground. 

But locals, who rely on the lumber industry, claim they’re being forced out of work. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




51

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570 

ITALY 


ARGENTINA A COUNTRY ON THE 

BRINK OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 

Pietro Suber 

It looked like Argentina was about to sink.The causes of the rage of the Argentineans are still 

there, but the will to survive is stronger than frustrations. According to the government, unemployment 

is below 10%, a very positive result compared to 21% in June 2002. This data 

is misleading because it includes thousands of cartoneros, an army of people that live off the 

materials they find in the trash. Today, in the poorest areas of Buenos Aires, three out of four 

inhabitants are poor and 40% live in absolute poverty.The new boom of psychoanalysis, connected 

to the economic crisis, is especially visible in Buenos Aires, the city with the highest 

number of psychotherapists in the world. One of the most charming areas of the city, in the 

Palermo neighborhood, has been called Villa Freud. The reason is the impressive number of 

psychoanalysts, more than one thousand, who work there. They have a totally different approach 

compared to Europe: to go to the“shrink”here is the most common thing in the world, 

like going to the dentist. After the 2001 crisis, what was already a common custom became 

even more popular. Psychoanalysis is not for well-to-do people. In the capital there are 1800 

psychologists who work for the state and offer their counselling for free to the poorest sectors 

of the population. Cartoneros also go to shrinks for a whole set of different problems. 





Oyibo Productions 

Fulvia D’Ottavi 

Via Cassia 878, Rome 00189, Italy 

T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 

fulvia@oyiboproductions.com cristinarajola@mail.com 

www.oyiboproductions.com 


288 

USA 

A 


THE ART OF FAILURE. CHUCK 

CONNELLY: NOT FOR SALE 

Jeff Stimmel 

Chuck Connelly was once on his way to being a true art star. In the 80s, he sold more than 

a million dollars worth of art. But Chuck Connelly also alienated every collector and gallery 

owner he worked with. Filmed over six years, the documentary explores a prolific painter’s 

passion for his work, and his struggle to regain his place in an often-capricious art scene, 

despite being his own worst enemy. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 

252 Gouin Boulevard East 

Montreal, Quebec H3L 1A8, Canada 

T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 

janrofekamp@filmstransit.com 

www.filmstransit.com 


53

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294 

NEW ZEALAND 


THE ART STAR AND 

THE SUDANESE TWINS 

Pietra Brettkelly 

Thirty African women lie face down on a canvas. Eyes shut, bodies motionless. Controversial 

artist Vanessa Beecroft makes wild red paint strokes over bodies. Genocide. Darfur. 

Jackson Pollock. VB61, Venice Biennale. 

The film follows Beecroft’s intentions to adopt orphaned twins. But as New York gallerist 

Jeffrey Deitch states, with Vanessa there is no boundary between life and art. Alongside 

the adoption process she photographs herself breast-feeding the twins, provocative work 

at $35,000 a print. The film exposes Vanessa’s creative process, her struggle with depression, 

her volatile relationship with her husband and her love of the twins. Like Angelina 

and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on‘rescuing’third world babies. But at 

what cost to her personal life 

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins won Best Editing at the World Documentary Competition, 

Sundance 2008; Best Documentary Award at the Whistler Film Festival; Best Director 

at the International Documentary Festival, Seoul; and Special Jury Mention at the 

Zurich Film Festival. 




Pietra Brettkelly 

P.O. Box 91189 

Auckland 1142, New Zealand 

T. +64 21 222 4122 

pietra@pbk.co.nz 


531 

GREECE 

A 


ARTA. SAKIS’ REEDS. ELIAS’ LORRY. 

THE ROAD TO FLORINA. GIANT BEANS. 

Yorgos Matsikas 

How is Arta related to Florina 

What’s the connection between a bunch of reeds and giant beans 

The only thing we can be sure about is that the road belongs to the lorries. 




George Matsikas 

5 Sarantaporou Str., Ilioupoli 


T. + 30 213 037 1962 / 697 230 3676 

thegeomat@in.gr 


55

A 

421 

USA 


ASK NOT 

Johnny Symons 

As we mark the 15th anniversary of the US military’s“don’t ask, don’t tell”policy, filmmaker 

Johnny Symons ventures to explore its affect. The policy was created to allow gay men 

and women to join the US military without being asked about their sexual orientation, but 

with the restriction that they don’t disclose it themselves. The documentary exposes the 

tangled political battle that led to the discriminatory law, and profiles charismatic young 

activists determined to abolish it. The film reveals personal stories of gay Americans who 

serve in combat under a veil of secrecy. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




219 

GREECE 

A 


ASTAKOS, A WINDOW IN TIME 

Teo Babouris 

Astakos is a seaside town on the Ionian Sea inWestern Greece. Filmmakers capture the images 

of the daily life of its people and the natural beauty of the place. This is also a trip 

down memory lane, showing the link between the past and present through old photos 

of Astakos and the people who used to live there. The film is a nostalgic look at a way of 

life that is slowly fading, against the backdrop of a magical, beautiful place. 




Teo Babouris 

19-21 Karvela Street 

Athens 153 42, Grece 

T. +30 210 639 4493 

snowbabourman@hotmail.com 


57

A 

148 

USA 

Category: Adventure & Travel 

AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 

Dan Stone 

The film chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign 

against a Japanese whaling fleet. The international volunteer crew, working with limited 

resources and mixed levels of experience develop a combination of bizarre and brilliant 

tactics with which to stop the whalers. But first they must find the Japanese ships, a far 

more difficult challenge than ever imagined. Long-time activist Paul Watson and firsttime 

captain Alex Cornelissen employ an array of strategies in the hopes of finding an elusive 

adversary in the vast expanse of the Ross Sea. With one ship (the “Farley Mowat”) too 

slow to chase down the whaling fleet, with their second ship (the “Robert Hunter”) unsuited 

for Antarctic ice conditions, and with no country supporting their efforts to enforce 

international law, the situation becomes increasingly desperate. Against all odds, however, 

a real-life pirate tale unfolds – a modern-day David vs. Goliath adventure which becomes 

the most dramatic environmental campaign ever filmed. 





Spotlight Pictures 

Jack Cambell 

6671 West Sunset Blvd. Suite 1591 

Hollywood CA 90028, USA 

T. +1 323 871 2551 

F. +1 323 871 2554 

jc@spotlight-pictures.com 

www.spotlight-pictures.com 


524 

POLAND 

A 


ATIJAT, THE FIRST WIFE 

Anna Błaszczyk 

A starting point for the film is a story of Atijat and her husband Adil – a story that shows 

the world of dilemmas, painful experiences and indifferent marriage relationships in an 

Arabian family. After a few years of living together, our heroine finds out that her husband 

is looking for a second wife. Reconciled with his plans and the reality she lives in, Atijat 

tells her painful story to Ania – the director of the film. 

This film forces us to reflect on the intricate relations between men and women in this 

distant African land and the fact that people treat this disproportion of needs as the natural 

order of life. A man-guru spends his time on entertainment and very little work, often 

searches for a new wife, while a woman stands in his shadow and satisfies her master, injured 

for the sake of her good name, deprived of sexual satisfaction, often in danger of 

miscarriage. 

A touching film, full of beautiful shots, focused on the most important things that help a 

woman to feel fulfilled. A film that shows a distance between Arabic and European culture, 

and – at the same time – the similarity of emotions, needs and goals. 





Telewizja Polska S.A 

Agata Chlopek 

17 Woronicza Str 

Warsaw 00-999, Poland 

T. +48 22 547 5680 

F. +48 22 547 4248 

sales@tvp.pl 

agata.chlopek@tvp.pl 

www.tvp.pl 


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170 

AUSTRIA-GERMANY 

B 


BACK TO AFRICA 

Othmar Schmiderer 

Tata, Huit Huit, Sonko, Waterman and Georges are successful artists both in Africa and in 

Europe, where their performances in Afrika! Afrika! have greatly contributed to the success 

of this André Heller circus show. Back to Africa follows the five protagonists over a period 

of one year: during rehearsals, during the show, but mostly during their visits to their 

home countries in Africa. The film explores the extraordinary energy and adventurous life 

stories of these artists, conveying very personal insights into the African way of life and, 

using spectacular images, showing their immediate environments and the vast landscapes 

in which they live. In fascinating images shot in Senegal, Ghana, Gambia, Congo, 

Guinea and Europe, Othmar Schmiderer’s documentary tells a story of a love for life and 

of everyday culture, of dance and music, of hope, diversity and inspiration. 





The Match Factory 

Thania Dimitrakopoulou 

79-81 Balthasarstrasse 

Cologne 50670, Germany 

T. +49 221 539 7090 

F. +49 221 539 70910 

festivals@matchfactory.de 

www.matchfactory.de 


B 

433 


Category: Science & Knowledge 

BACKLIGHT: CARS 2.0 – THE RACE 

FOR THE CAR OF THE FUTURE 

Martijn Kieft 

With rising temperatures and rising gas prices, cars need to become greener fast. On the 

surface, the large car manufacturers seem to be working hard to improve the fuel efficiency 

of their products. But are they really The technology to make cars much more fuelefficient 

has already existed for decades, but it never makes it to the showroom. Why do 

we have to wait so long for fuel-efficient vehicles 





NPO/RNW Sales 

Kaisa Kriek 

45 Sumatralaan 

Hilversum 1217 GP, The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 

Kaisa.Kriek@omroep.nl 

www.nposales.com 


434 


B 


BACKLIGHT: HERE COMES THE SUN! 

Rob van Hattum 

Here Comes the Sun! is a 50-minute story that will change your ideas about the future of 

energy. Even without major breakthroughs, we know how to harness the sun’s energy. A 

piece of desert the size of France is enough to fulfil all our current energy needs. So with 

all the problems of global warming, political oil dependency, and energy security, why 

don’t we convert our oil-dependent society into a helio-dependent society 

In fact, we are doing so; the only thing is you do not know it… yet. 

The documentary Here Comes the Sun! will show that solar stocks are soaring, that the 

desert is our new land of glory, that algae in the garden will fuel your car and that your 

roof is a new marketplace for solar real estate managers. 

Oil companies say that it’s inefficient, too expensive and that it’s not going to happen 

soon. But after having seen Here Comes the sun! you will know better. 





NPO/RNW Sales 

Kaisa Kriek 



T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




63

B 

432 


Category: Lifestyles 

BACKLIGHT: I WANNA BE BOSS 

Marije Meerman 

I Wanna Be Boss portrays five smart, hardworking, competitive, creative 17-year-old students 

during their graduation year at Bashu Middle School #2, one of the best secondary 

schools in Chongqing, Central China. The students from this school are hastily being prepared 

for important functions in the global economy, and the very best will determine the 

face of the new China. We are witness to their dreams, their fears and their expectations 

during one of the most tension-filled periods of their lives. 

There is an inconceivable gap between the current generation of Chinese school children 

– named the “I want generation” by the Chinese press – and that of their parents, who 

often had a hard life; they are very thrifty and have to work hard to scrape together enough 

money for school fees, often have little or no education themselves and are under a frequent 

threat of unemployment. Yet they find themselves surrounded by technological development. 

Their children will grow up with western products; they will close mortgages, buy shares, 

travel and live in relative freedom. They have faith in the future. This will be the first generation 

that, since the loss of communist ideals, is ready to embrace western values such 

as economic growth, individualism and consumerism. 





NPO/RNW Sales 

Kaisa Kriek 



T. +31 35 677 3561, F. +31 35 677 5318 




209 

GREECE 

B 


BACKSTAGE: ANDREAS EMBIRICOS – 

THE POET THROUGH HIS PICTURES 

Εlias Yannakakis 

A different portrait of the outstanding surrealist poet; one that doesn’t refer to the opinions 

of analysts and experts on his work. Rather, by using the footage that Andreas Embirikos 

filmed in Super 8 and in 16mm and the countless extraordinary photographs he 

took over a period of over forty years, we attempt a unique journey into the world of the 

poet, through the images that he himself captured. 









T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


65

B 

210 

GREECE 


BACKSTAGE: 

GEORGE PAPANIKOLAOU – PAP TEST 

Lefteris Xanthopoulos 

The doctor and researcher Georgios Papanikolaou, a major figure of medical science on international 

level, was the father of cytopathology and is considered the benefactor of millions 

of women all over the world. The diagnostics gynaecological method for the 

prevention of cervical cancer, known as the Pap test, was developed by Papanikolaou in 

1928 and became internationally recognized in the mid-1940s. Despite the development 

of related vaccines in recent years, the Pap test is still considered the most valid diagnostic 

method. 









T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


215 

GREECE 

B 

Category: Art/Music&Culture 

BACKSTAGE: JULES DASSEN 

AN AMERICAN DIRECTOR 

Yorgos Skevas 

For many years, in Greece, the name Jules Dassen has been inextricably tied to that of his 

wife, Melina Mercouri. Honoring the American filmmaker who passed away recently, this 

documentary sheds light on another, less well-known period of Jules Dassen’s life.Through 

the use of rare audiovisual material and narrated by Dassen himself, the film chronicle’s the 

director’s life and career. A journey from Harlem during the Great Depression, on to Broadway 

and then Hollywood of the big studios and McCarthyism, and finally to Europe of the 

1950s. 









T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


67

B 

536 

GREECE 

Category: Art/Music&Culture 

BACKSTAGE: KAROLOS KOUN – 

42 MOVING IMAGES 

Lakis Papastathis 

An retrospective of the Backstage documentary series in honor of the master of Greek theater, 

100 years after his birth and 21 years after his death. Today, theater aficionados are 

compelled, more than ever, to remember the values of the Theatro Technis (Art Theater) 

that Karolos Koun founded. 









T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


515 

GREECE 

B 


BARBER’S BLUES 

Dimitris Andjus 

An entire day with George in his barber shop in downtown Athens as he works, gossips, 

sings and plays his favorite guitar with friends. 





FP Films 

Dimitris Andjus 

3 Efstathiou Lampsa Street 

Athens 115 24, Greece 

T. +30 6932011677 

d_andjus@yahoo.com 


69

B 

200 

FRANCE 


BARCELONA OR DIE 

Idrissa Guiro 

From a Dakar suburb, flimsy boats set sail for Europe, their passengers in danger of disappearing 

into the Atlantic. Local fishing has died out and the country is struggling hard 

to offer its youth a future. In each family there is someone who dreams of leaving, at any 

price. 





Andana Films 

Stephan Riguet 

Le Village 

Lussas 07170, France 

T. +33 475 943 467 

F. +33 475 942 509 

sriguet@andanafilms.com 

www.andanafilms.com 


344 

HUNGARY-AUSTRIA-GERMANY 

B 


BARTHALO! (GOOD LUCK!) 

Robert Lakatos 

How to hit the Jackpot This question is not a simple one to answer for anybody. But it is 

even harder to solve for the two friends in this film, the “big hat”Gypsy and his Hungarian 

buddy – both of them Transylvanians. Often they don’t succeed, but even if they do, 

their success doesn’t last long. But they know something not all of us know: how to enjoy 

life. 

In this neorealist comedy, even though the situations are set up by the director, the two 

main characters are playing themselves and solving their problems in their own way. In 

fact, the camera follows the adventures of a real friendship in different countries, through 

different cultures. 





Taskovski Films 

Irena Taskovski 

4B Wentworth Street 

London E1 7TF, UK 

T. +420 2 3331 3839 

irena@taskovskifilms.com 

www.taskovskifilms.com 


71

B 

532 

BULGARIA 


THE BASE: AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN 

Sevda Shishmanova 

This is a territory that you feel is tense with the shock after every attack and finding out 

that the suicide bombers have either attended a Madrasa in Pakistan or have been trained 

in camps in Afghanistan; with the insanity of every western politician who waves around 

the Qur’an, not knowing what it says; with the resources of all international NATO, Islam 

League, United Nations summits, that are never going to be enough if they look onto this 

land through the embrasure; with the confusion of borders and fates, of generations traversing 

open spaces that we are setting borders to, out of our own fear and suspicion; 

with the intensity that we live in a connected world, and to stay together, we need to look 

at each other unveiled. 





Bulgarian National Television 

Daniela Kuzmanova 

29 San Stefano Str. 

Sofia 1504, Bulgaria 

T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 

sales@bnt.bg 

www.bnt.bg 


314 

GREECE 

B 

Category: Creative Documentary 

BATHERS 

Eva Stefani 

The film follows a summer season in the lives of a group of retired Greek men and women 

who are regular visitors to various Greek spa towns. Life around spa towns moves slowly, 

at a pace that is reminiscent of past times. Within this listless atmosphere, people feel free 

to do and say things they would never be allowed to in their regular social circles. A sense 

of freedom and lightness is in the air. Instead of being among elderly people, one often 

feels as if one were around a group of teenagers at a summer camp.This joyful atmosphere 

often alternates with reflections on the past or on death. 







Graal S.A 

Nikos Moustakas 

10 Panepistimiou Str. 

Athens 10671,Greece 

T. + 30 210 339 0481-4 

F. + 30 210 3636216 

lamoustakas@graal.gr 





T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


73

B 

262 

ZAMBIA 


BATTLE FOR KAVALAMANJA… 

IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION 

Abdon Yezi 

The film chronicles the story of Kavalamanja, one of the many untold stories of the atrocities 

people suffered – especially innocent civilians at the height of the liberation struggles 

for Southern Africa. Shot on location, the story of Kavalamanja and Kakaro speaks of 

experiences of the survivors of a 3-day war launched by Ian Smith’s Southern Rhodesian 

Army between March 6-9, 1978. Barely a year after attaining its political independence 

from Britain in 1964, Zambia was the base for many liberation movements, especially for 

countries around its borders including South Africa. 

The carnage that took place at Kavalamanja reveals and relives some of the horrors that 

innocent people faced during the years from 1965 to 1993 – when the last of Zambia’s 

neighbors, South Africa, attained majority black rule. In Zambia, these stories remain undocumented 

and untold. 





Yezi - Arts Promotions and Productions 

Abdon Yezi 

Plot 1262 Avondale ext., Co Yezi Arts 

Lusaka, E891, Box 35, Zambia 

T. +260 211 840 228 

F. +260 977 982 833 

yeziartspromozambia@yahoo.com 


346 

CAMBODIA-UK-GERMANY 

B 


THE BEETLE KFZ – 1348 

Gabriel Mascaro & Marcelo Pedroso 

In 1965 a young civil engineer in São Paulo buys a VW Beetle. Forty years later the car 

ends up in a Recife scrap yard, with the license plate KFZ-1348. Over these four decades, 

the car has had seven more owners: from a São Paulo businessman to a hairdresser in the 

interior of Pernambuco State. This Beetle meant something to each of them at different 

points in the history of Brazil. The documentary goes in search of their stories, with the car 

as the link between the various owners and their lives as unique windows on Brazilian society. 









T. +420 2 3331 3839 




75

B 

479 

GERMANY 


BEHIND GREEN DOORS 

Klaus Betzl 

Hetzeldorf is a village in Transylvania. After the Romanian revolution, almost all residents 

of German descent emigrated. Some old people stayed, as well as two young farmers and 

their families who live in a seemingly archaic culture and speak an archaic language. 

Emigration changed a lot. One thing is the colors of the village. The estates of the Saxons 

always had green gates. The first ones to leave for Germany sold their estates for a song. 

The new owners repainted the gates in their own colours: greyish-blue and brown. 

For a year, we follow the protagonists and their families. Documentary sketches of work 

and everyday-life tell something about the life of pragmatic individuals. Peter’s musings 

about the quality of life sound like this: “It’s not that I could eat or drink any more over there 

than I do here.” 




Klaus Betzl 

53 Emilienstr. 

Essen 45128, Germany 

T. +49 179 102 6992 

klaus.betzl@web.de 


429 

SOUTH AFRICA-FRANCE-EGYPT 

B 


BEHIND THE RAINBOW 

Jihan El-Tahri 

Behind the Rainbow explores the transition of the ANC from a liberation organization to 

South Africa’s ruling party, through the evolution of the relationship between two of its 

most prominent cadres, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Exiled under Apartheid, they were 

brothers in arms, under Mandela they loyally labored to build a non-racial state, now they 

are bitter rivals.Their duel threatens to tear apart the ANC and the country, as the poor desperately 

seek hope in change and the elite fight for the spoils of victory. 

Behind the Rainbow features key interviews with ANC current and former leaders, including 

Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki. 





Big World Cinema 

Steven Markovitz 

27 Caledon Street 

Cape Town 8001, South Africa 

T. +27 21 465 4686 

F. +27 21 461 6964 

steven@bigworld.co.za 

www.bigworld.co.za 


77

B 

583 

IRAN-UK 


BEHIND THE WHEEL OF LIFE 

Sahar Salahshour 

Day in and day out, behind the wheel of her car, Nasrin, a female driver, single parent and 

bread winner drives in the chaotic metropolis of Tehran. She tries hard to stay independent. 

The film depicts the happy, lively Nasrin as a female driver who, although her job is 

considered unconventional from the point of view of traditional Iranian society, she still 

manages on her own. 





Sheherazad Media International 

Katayoon Shahabi 

2, 3rd Sarvestan, Pasdaran St., Shariati Ave. 

Tehran 16619, Iran 

T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 

sheherazad@smediaint.com 

katsha@smediaint.com 

www.smediaint.com 


188 

RWANDA 

B 


BEHIND THIS CONVENT 

Gilbert Ndahayo 

Behind this Convent features revealing interviews with survivors of both the modern 

Rwanda and those who are still trapped in its past. Intercut throughout this film is footage 

taken from 600 faces and voices, survivor testimonies, murderer testimonies, and the silent 

witnesses. In this film, Rwandan filmmaker Gilbert Ndahayo faces his own demons and 

those of his country in an impassioned moment when he faces his father’s killer in the 

“gacaca”court. A non-chronological time line of Rwanda’s 1994Tutsi genocide is dissected 

and includes a review of both survivor and murderer ideologies, and a look into one of 

the locations where the tragedy hit hardest, behind a convent in Kigali. Behind this Convent 

is a profoundly intense and emotional journey into Africa’s most intense killing campaign 

in recorded history, and the filmmaker’s testimony to the power of film and 

forgiveness. 





Ndahayo Films 

Gilbert Ndahayo 

60 West End Avenue 

Newark NJ 07106, USA 

T. +1 417 849 6039 

g.ndahayo@mac.com 


79

B 

513 

GREECE 


BELLS, THREADS & MIRACLES 

Marianna Economou 

Every year, on April 23rd, at least 100,000 Muslims visit the Christian Monastery of Saint 

George on Prince’s island, off the coast of Istanbul, to pray for a miracle. They ask for a 

house, a car, a baby, a computer, or to be cured of an illness. Irrespective of religion, culture 

or ethnic origin, at some point in our lives we all feel the need to believe in miracles. 

The film explores this universal human need, the ways in which it is expressed and the 

consequences it brings, by following Suha and Deniz, a Muslim couple, and Diamantis, a 

Christian, during their visit to the monastery. These are people that belong to a different 

culture and religion, yet share the same Saint. But will the Saint grant their wishes as he 

did last year Are miracles possible in this day and age 







Inkas Film Productions 

Lilette Botassi 

21 Heiden Str., 


T. + 30 210 884 3661, F. + 30 210 823 4181 

inkas@hol.gr 

Greek Film Center 

Evi Lazari 

7 Dionysiou Areopagitou Str. 

Athens 117 42,Greece 

T. + 30 210 368 7503, F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


411 

FRANCE 

B 


BERLUSCONI: THE MONDADORI 

AFFAIR 

Mosco Boucault 

How the head of the Italian government took over the country’s largest publishing house. 

A brisk, fierce and biting enquiry into the heart of high finance, the legal system and politics. 

In 1987, the sudden death of Mario Formenton, the head of Mondadori, Italy’s largest 

publishing house, triggered a battle of succession between two of the country’s most 

skilled businessmen, Silvio Berlusconi and Carlo de Benedetti, both minor shareholders. 

It was the beginning of a very long legal tussle, during which Berlusconi, the Forza Italia 

leader, came to power for the first time in April 1994, and then again in June 2001. He has 

been acquitted on the basis that there were no grounds for prosecution as the statute of 

limitations had expired. He then pulled out every stop to avoid his allies being convicted. 

This included having ad-hoc laws passed by“his”deputies. 





ARTE France 

Audrey Kamga 

8 rue Marceau 

Issy-les-Moulineaux 92130, France 

T. +33 1 5500 7081 

F. +33 1 5500 8065 

a-kamga@artefrance.fr 


81

B 

128 

USA 


THE BETRAYAL 

Ellen Kuras 

Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal tells the epic story of a family odyssey 

from war-torn Laos to the mean streets of New York. Thavi narrates his own story as a 

child surviving the Vietnam war and then as a young man struggling to overcome the 

hardships of immigrant life, an experience shared with his mother who tells her own astonishing 

tale of perseverance as a wife and mother in war.Thavisouk’s unforgettable journey 

reminds us of the strength necessary to survive and of the human spirit’s inspiring 

capacity to adapt, rebuild, and forgive. 







2 Rue Turgot 


T. +33 1 49 700 370 

F. +33 1 49 700 371 




289 


B 


BEYOND THE GAME 

Jos de Putter 

Fingers type on a keyboard quick as lightning; eyes stare at a screen totally concentrated. 

Headphones smother war sounds. The movements are minimal; silence reigns. The world 

championship of theWarcraft computer game progresses in seeming stillness, while in the 

virtual environment players fight out hyperactive battles. Beyond the Game is set in the 

World of incredibly popular cybergames. The film focuses on the world’s best professional 

Warcraft III-players (the most popular game worldwide) on their way to the world championships. 

Structured as a hypermodern western in cyberspace, the film tells the life stories of cyberidols 

SKY, from China, and GRUBBY, from The Netherlands. We become aware of their different 

style, ways of living, and sacrifices to reach their goals. Their final duel is the climax 

of the film. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




83

B 

259 

FRANCE 


BIG BUSINESS 

Miryam Akil 

Over the past 20 years, obesity rates in America have tripled. But while doctors despair, 

some people are making a killing. This eye-opening new film profiles the profiteers of 

morbid obesity. Visit the restaurant that invented the 8,000 calorie burger, where diners 

are pushed to their cars in wheelchairs; study at the first weight loss school for overweight 

children, which doesn’t see the need to provide medical care; and try out the products 

developed to cater for the morbidly obese – everything from extra large coffins to reinforced 

toilets. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




382 

USA 

B 


BIG EASY LIFE 

Naftali Beane Rutter 

Big Easy Life is the anti- Hurricane Katrina documentary, the only film of its kind, a cinema 

verité chronicle of one day in the life of three fascinating families in New Orleans. 

Shot with gripping intimacy, throwing us right into the middle of the lives of a large cast 

of wild and diverse characters, we share in the rebirth of the daily rituals of three American 

families. As they wake up, catch a fish, run, sing, eat, and pray, we come to know the 

McPeeks, the Staniches and the Blaises as something more than just victims of disaster. 

Big Easy Life dares us to see this tapestry of ordinary American lives as something exciting, 

tragic, medicinal, hilarious, sublime and universally human. 





Waterbound Pictures 

Naftali Beane Rutter 

405 9th Street 

Brooklyn NY 11215, USA 

T. +1 310 562 0342 

waterboundpictures@gmail.com 


85

B 

472 

FRANCE 


BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS 

Yvon Legars 

In the Air, on the earth or on the sea, the birds living on the Atlantic Coast of Europe are 

almost unknown. From the Fulmar to the Penguins, the European Shag and the Atlantic 

Puffin, they live on our coasts. Here is a short series directed by the wildlife director Y. 

Legars 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 

28 Rue de L’Equerre 


T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 

10francs@10francs.fr 

www.10francs.fr 


355 

SWEDEN 

B 


BLACK NATION 

Mats Hjelm 

Black Nation is a feature documentary film that takes an uncompromising look at the state 

of Black manhood in America as seen through the prism of the streets of Detroit, past and 

present, and that city’s controversial Church of the Black Madonna. Filmmaker Mats Hjelm 

draws on his deep personal connection with the Church and the City to explore the racial, 

cultural and political ramifications of a “black male Genocide”. In a year where Race and 

Religion are at the forefront, Black Nation offers the audience a penetrating look at what 

it means to be a Black Man in America today. 





Herrlander Pictures 

Claes Herrlander 

Apelsinlunden, Allhelgonagatan 5 

Stockholm 118 58, Sweden 

T. +46 704 337 270 

F. +46 86 404 541 

info@herrlanderpictures.se 

www.herrlanderpictures.se 


87

B 

272 

CANADA 


BLACK WAVE: THE LEGACY 

OF THE EXXON VALDEZ 

Robert Cornellier 

In the early hours of March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez super-tanker runs aground in 

Alaska. Millions of gallons of crude oil wash ashore and the incident becomes the biggest 

environmental catastrophe in North American history. For weeks, dramatic images of dead 

seabirds and sea otters covered in oil shoot across the planet. For twenty years now Riki 

Ott and the fishermen of the little town of Cordova, Alaska have waged the longest legal 

battle in US history against the world’s most powerful oil company, Exxon Mobil, a battle 

which came to an end in June 2008 before the US Supreme Court, practically exonerating 

the company. 

. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




146 

USA 

B 


BLAST! 

Paul Devlin 

Welcome to Astrophysics Indiana Jones style! Five times Emmy winner Paul Devlin follows 

the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping 

to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope 

under a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their adventure takes them from Arctic Sweden to 

Inuit polar bear country in Canada, where catastrophic failure forces the team to try all 

over again on the desolate ice in Antarctica. No less than the understanding of the evolution 

and origins of our Universe is at stake on this exciting escapade that seeks to answer 

humankind’s most basic question, How did we get here Blast! is about the crazy life of 

scientists. Their professional obsessions, personal and family sacrifices, and philosophical 

and religious questioning: all give emotional resonance to a spectacular and suspenseful 

story of space exploration. 

Running time: 56 & 74’ 




Louise Rosen Ltd. 

Louise Rosen 

16 High Street 

Brusnwick, Maine 04011, USA 

T. +1 207 725 8215 

F. +1 207 725 8057 

lrosenltd@aol.com 

www.louiserosenltd.com 


89

B 

175 

SLOVAKIA 


BLIND LOVES 

Juraj Lehotský 

Blind Loves is a film about love between blind people. Love can be soft, love can be silly, 

and love can be blind sometimes... To find one’s place in this world is not an easy thing to 

do for sighted people, let alone for someone who is blind! The“view” of a blind person is 

often pure, picking up on the essence of things, and very often it is witty. It reveals new 

dimensions of the meaning of happiness. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




492 

SOUTH AFRICA 

B 


BLISSFULLY LOST 

Darell Lourens & Nele Jensen 

The film that we produced is a contemporary form of documentary that discusses the different 

facets of the HIV/AIDS situation in Western Europe and the UK with a focus on the 

generation of 18- to 35-year-olds. 

It constitutes an interface between a mediator of (scientific) information and the attempt 

to simultaneously draw a “zeitgeisty” picture of the addressed audience itself. Stylistically, 

it borders on the genres of music video and reality show. Fast cuts and artistic camera 

angles are used to fill the canvas of the work generated and make the documentary 

not only a product but even more so a mirror of pop culture in itself. While it asks the kinds 

of questions that can lead to the development of better programs for prevention and care, 

it can also be used as a mouthpiece and a reference point for future anti-AIDS campaigns. 





een2dee Productions 

Darell Lourens 

55 Belmont Avenue 


T. +27 72 599 7882 

F. +27 12 480 2055 

blissfullylost@een2dee.co.za 

www.een2dee.co.za 


91

B 

226 

GREECE 


THE BLOOD OF KOUAN KOUAN 

Yorgos Avgeropoulos 

In the virgin tropical forests of the Amazon, the region with the richest biodiversity in the 

world, an unspeakable crime has been committed and continues to be committed against humankind.Texaco 

is accused of dumping 18,5 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into the Ecuadorian 

Amazonia. Petroecuador, the state oil company, is accused of causing hundreds of leaks 

of tons of crude oil into the jungle. Ancient native populations are considered invisible and expendable, 

victims of the oil companies’easy profiteering.They are disappearing on a massive 

scale, as pollution kills the animals they hunt and causes illnesses until recently unknown to 

them, such as cancer. This documentary – the second by Yorgos Avgeropoulos on the same 

subject, following the award-winning Delta – Oil’s Dirty Business – is dedicated to theTetete 

and Sansahuari tribes. Their voices were silenced forever at the dawn of the 21st century on 

account of the region’s“development”. 









T. +30 210 607 5711-12, F. +30 210 607 5715 

ykollias@ert.gr www.ert.gr 



Small Planet 

Anastasia Skoubri 

55 Pitheou Str., Neos Kosmos 


T. +30 210 951 5295, F. +30 210 951 5294 

info@smallplanet.gr 


180 


B 


BLOODY MONDAYS & 

STRAWBERRY PIES 

Coco Schrijber 

Beauty, love, work... sometimes it just isn’t worth getting out of bed for. Bloody Mondays 

& Strawberry Pies examines the role of boredom in the human condition by showing the 

lives of a 32-year-old Wall street stockbroker who makes millions a year, a desert nomad 

who does nothing all day, the last living female spy from World War II, a painter who has 

been painting Time for the last 42 years, and the first school shooter in history: Brenda 

Spencer who, at the age of 16 shot eleven people because: “I don’t like Mondays”. The 

actor John Malkovich gives voice to the inner bored human being. His fascinating timbre 

crawls under your skin and wonders: “How many people in the world are like me” The 

answers are right there in the silent Sahara of your mind. 





Bonanza Films 

JB Macrander 

689-691 Sumatrakade 

Amsterdam 1019 PV, The Netherlands 

T. +31 20 626 3801 

documentaries@bonanza.nl 

www.bonanza.nl 


93

B 

158 



a BLOOMING BUSINESS 

Ton van Zantvoort 

Flowers love people. Anyway, that is what the flower growing industry is trying to propagate. 

But whether flowers actually do love people, well, that remains the question. a 

Blooming Business is a poetic documentary about people in Kenya who are imprisoned by 

the power of the global flower growing industry. The dilemmas of the industry grow 

painfully clear and a dark world of oppression, sexual abuse and terrible working conditions 

unfolds. There is only one conclusion possible: the smell of the imported rose is not 

sweet, but bitter. The film combines pure observation with direct comments by the main 

characters. The camera is present and absent at the same time and reshapes the documentary.With 

great humanism van Zantvoort shows us a different world where all human 

life is valuable. 





Newton Film 

Ton van Zantvoort 

27 Vogelschoot 

Breda 4813 NG, The Netherlands 

T. +31 6 4103 9081 

F. +31 8 4744 6200 

ton@newtonfilm.nl 

www.newtonfilm.nl 


142 

USA 

B 


BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS 

Sam Bozzo 

Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all 

life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, 

and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting 

protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations 

have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive 





Filmoption International Inc. 

Muriel Rosilio 

1686 Wedmore Way 

Mississauga L5J 2J8, Canada 

T. +1 905 916 4000 

F. +1 905 916 4001 

mrosilio@filmoption.com 

www.filmoption.com 


95

B 

333 



BOLLYWOOD BLUES 

Rishi Chamman 

In a few months’ time, 23-year-old Monique will graduate from university. After all the 

hardship she longs to be free at last, to go out and date and become a Bollywood-star. Her 

father has something else in mind: he wants her to give up dancing, find a good Hindu 

man and get married like her two older sisters. Parental opposition to what she wants is 

fuelled by a secret that has been haunting the family for years. Her inner conflict is expressed 

in her diary and in the Bollywood musical where she plays a leading role. But 

time is running out: will she give in to the pressure of her environment or will she follow 

her heart, with the risk of losing a part of it. 





Pieter van Huystee Film 

Curien Kroon 

37-39 Noordermarkt 

Amsterdam 1015 NA, The Netherlands 

T. +31 20 421 0606 

F. +31 20 638 6255 

curien@pvhfilm.nl 

www.pvhfilm.nl 


410 

GREECE 

B 

Category: Arts, Music, & Culture 

BOMBING 

Angelos Athanasopoulos & Dimitris Nikolopoulos 

“We like bombing; we like that it’s illegal”. Four kids walking along the street, singing a 

tune, painting walls at night.That’s their story.They pass by swiftly, faster than their words. 

They disappear into the city; their city. A street documentary capturing moments from 

the daily life of Thodoris, Vangelis, Thomas and Yannis – aka Jef82, Mr Phaz, Eversor and 

JK-1 – hip hop and graffiti artists, “correspondents of events”. The camera follows them 

through Athens, on their daily quest for right colours and true rhymes and the night adventure 

of bombing. Their words are strong. They“wake you up”, tuned into a youth urban 

rhythm. A movie about a gang of four and the adventures of their generation. 





Non Stop Media PC 

Myrto Boutsi 

7 Ippokratous Str. 


T. + 30 210 362 5201 / 694 46 22949 

info@nonstopmedia.gr 


97

B 

553 

POLAND 


THE BOOTH OF FORTUNE 

Leslaw Dobrucki 

In the modern city, there is no place for a small booth with a lottery. We witness the last 

few days of an old lottery ticket booth located on the track of the future subway line. It has 

to be demolished together with the close relations between its regular customers. 





Krakow Film Foundation 

Katarzyna Wilk 

5 Morawskiego p.434 

Krakow 30-102, Poland 

T. +48 12 294 6945 

katarzyna@kff.com.pl 

www.kff.com.pl 


194 

MEXICO 

B 


BORN WITHOUT 

Eva Norvind 

A tender and controversial love story between actor and musician José Flores, a man born 

with no arms, and the woman that bore him six children and is expecting another. José 

is often labeled a“beggar”as he travels throughout Mexico playing the harmonica to support 

his family. He also appears in feature films. The film includes clips from José ’s acting 

career and interviews with the filmmakers and actors who worked with him, but still more 

powerful are the stories told by José ’s sisters and older relatives who were with him as he 

grew up. 





Latinofusion 

Alfredo Calvino 

2755 Parque de las Estrellas, Jardines del Bosque 

Guadalajara Jalisco 44510, Mexico 

T. +52 33 3123 2738 

F. +52 33 3647 3714 

latinofusion@latinofusion.com.mx 

www.latinofusion.com.mx 


99

B 

260 

ISRAEL 


BRUNA 

Nili Tal 

Twenty years ago, an Israeli family, adopted Bruna, a four-month-old Brazilian infant. 

After two years, the biological mother, Rosilda, arrived in Israel claiming that Bruna had 

been kidnapped. With the help of a British television crew, Rosilda petitioned the high 

court. A psychiatrist’s assessment asserted that the child would have no irreversible damage 

if she were to be returned to her biological mother.What has happened to Bruna since 

then How did the court case affect the course of her life Was the intervention of the television 

crew justified Nili Tal returns to Brazil and follows the events in the life of Bruna 

and her biological parents. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




156 

DENMARK 

B 


BURMA VJ – REPORTING 

FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY 

Anders Hosbro Østergaard 

The DemocraticVoice of Burma (DVB) consists of a group of about 30 Burmese reporters who 

secretly film the abuses in their country.The footage is then smuggled across the border and 

broadcast via satellite from the headquarters in Oslo.These are the images that could be seen 

across the globe when a revolution was about to erupt in the late summer of 2007. Led by 

Buddhist monks, more than 100,000 people took to the streets to march peacefully against 

the military dictatorship that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years. Burma VJ is almost 

exclusively compiled from footage shot by DVB reporters. One of them supplies the 

voice-over. From his hiding place in Thailand, he uses the telephone or Internet to stay in 

touch with colleagues who report on the uprising: shaky hand-held images of emergency deliberations 

by protesters, of the dispersion of the crowd. Their cameras hidden in bags or 

clenched under their armpits, the DVB reporters risk their lives and take the viewer right into 

the heat of the turmoil. 





First Hand Films 

Esther van Messel 

5 Fritz Heeb Weg 

Zurich 8050, Switzerland 

T. +41 44 312 2060 

F. +41 44 312 2080 

info@firsthandfilms.com 

www.firsthandfilms.com 


101

416 

FRANCE 

C 


THE CABAL 

Mathieu Verboud 

How was a group of neoconservatives referred to as the “Cabal”, established And how 

did it end up at the controls of the second attack on IraqThis enlightening enquiry reveals 

the details of a lie told to the American people, to Congress, to the allies, to the United Nations 

and to the world at large. 

In Spring 2008, two small towns in Vermont made headline news by voting in a referendum 

for the impeachment and arrest of the American president and vice-president. It was 

a symbolic vote – and a first – which unleashed passions in a divided country. The vote 

came after five years of an Iraqi blood bath, with no solution in sight. After five years of 

State lies, strategic errors and political impunity. 

This documentary sets out to meet a handful of these disappointed patriots. Not without 

bitterness, they speak of the political disaster of this “second Vietnam”, and the taking of 

power by the military-industrial complex, as forecast by General Eisenhower. No longer 

do they hide their doubts on the capacity of American democracy to stop this perpetual 

war, with neither end nor winner possible. 





ARTE France 

Audrey Kamga 

8 rue Marceau 


T. +33 1 5500 7081 

F. +33 1 5500 8065 


www.artefrance.fr 


103

C 

290 



CALLING E.T. 

Prosper de Roos 

Just imagine if we were to get in touch with extraterrestrial intelligence, now, in our lifetime! 

There is a small group of people who are taking this unlikely scenario very seriously. 

Their daily life is spent looking for signals from extraterrestrial civilisations and wondering 

how we, earthlings, should present ourselves if we were to make real contact. Is there 

a protocol for the big moment Will we manage to speak as one world Old tensions dating 

from the Cold War between the West and Russia are surfacing again in this area. Can 

contact with extraterrestrial beings help to solve the problems of our planet 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




337 

GREECE 

C 


CANYONING IN THE MYSTERY ISLAND 

OF SAMOTHRAKI 

Christos Barous 

Samothrace is a beautiful and mysterious island at the edge of the Aegean Sea. Abundant 

waters flow from its high peaks, cutting paths through the granite stone, opening 10 fascinating 

canyons leading to the sea. Several groups of explorers (canyoners) came to follow 

these water routes, descending with ropes. They try to explore the whole path, from 

the start of the springs to the end of the water route. Along the way they come across 

many impressive waterfalls, beautiful lakes, and the green countryside against a backdrop 

of the blue sea. The energy created by water is also something unique here, and the 

visitor can feel this energy. That is why the Ancient Greeks performed here the famous 

“Kavirian” mysteries… The film following the canyoners in their descent of the 3 most 

beautiful canyons of Greece. Gria Bathra (old lady), Kremastos (hangman) and the famous 

Fonias (killer). 





ExploreNatureGR 

Christos Barous 

9 Elpidos Street 

Markopoulo 190 03, Greece 

T. +30 69 74 570 161 

christos@explorenature.gr 

www.explorenature.gr 


105

C 

538 

GREECE-TURKEY 


CAPTAIN KEMAL, A COMRADE 

Fotos Lamprinos 

The portrait of Mihri Belli, a Turk born in 1915, who, after the Greco-Turkish War (1919- 

1922) was a devout nationalist and fanatic enemy of the Greeks, but decided, in 1947, to 

travel illegally to the mountains in Thrace to fight in the Greek Civil War on the side of the 

Greek communist guerrillas. Today, at the age of 92, he makes a journey back to Greece 

where he fought to visit the battle fields and hopefully meet again with his comrades. 









CL Productions 

Zoe Lisgara 

65 Vrilissou Str., Polygono 


T. + 30 210 641 2700, F. +30 210 641 2709 

info@clproductions.gr 





T. + 30 210 607 5711-12, F. + 30 210 607 5715 



Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503, F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr www.gfc.gr 


335 


C 


CARMEN MEETS BORAT 

Mercedes Stalenhoef 

Carmen meets Borat is a film about a small village in a big universe. A gypsy village is 

suddenly confronted with huge dilemmas after they are portrayed as backward people 

from Kazakhstan in the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious 

Nation of Kazakhstan. Carmen sees the people around her change and knows her future 

will change dramatically as well. A hilarious film with serious undertones. 






Curien Kroon 



T. +31 20 421 0606 

F. +31 20 638 6255 




107

C 

466 

FRANCE 


CASABLANCA: ONE-WAY TICKET 

TO PARADISE 

Hind Meddeb 

Casablanca, May 16th, 2003. Fourteen young Moroccans are engaged in a collective suicide 

bomb attack. Hind Meddeb and Gallagher Fenwick follow in the foorsteps of the 

kamikazes. The terrorists were all in their twenties and came from the same district: the 

shantytown Thomas, situated in the suburbs of Casablanca. 

Thanks to the testimonies of their neighbors, their old football mates, their friends and 

one of their sisters, the viewer discovers the life of this shanty town, the sufferings and the 

hopes of a part of Moroccan youth. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




403 

AUSTRIA-CROATIA-FYROM 

C 


CASH & MARRY 

Atanas Georgiev 

Two young immigrants from the Balkans try to find a solution for their legal residence 

permit in Austria. They are prepared to do almost anything to get a European passport, including 

paying for a marriage of convenience. With nothing but 7,000 Euros, they set out 

to find the woman to realize their dreams – one who will walk them down aisle and then 

hang around long enough for the divorce. 

An odyssey through the hidden dilemmas of immigration and a touching insight into 

what it takes to overcome the barriers of European immigration restrictions. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




109

C 

291 

SERBIA 

THE CAVIAR CONNECTION 

Dragan Nikolic 

The Caviar Connection is a fishing roulette about the Rat brothers, hunting unsuccessfully 

for the big fish, which will bring them easy money to leave their small village in Serbia. 

And not for just any fish. They dream of finding a fat sturgeon in their nets, whose eggs 

are literally worth their weight in gold.The film follows the two brothers during the painful 

awakening after yet another late and inebriated night, the practiced preparation of the 

boat and nets, the quarrels with other fishermen about fishing territories, the disappointing 

catch – if there is one. The drudgery is occasionally interrupted by a bingo drive in the 

dirty village centre, where people fill in the numbers while a porn movie plays in the background; 

or by death, which is never far away; or by an absurdist local court session about 

territories, which leaves unclear who is the witness, accused or plaintiff. A fishing ban enforced 

by the European Union eventually causes a trail-blazing change... 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




163 

USA 

C 


CELIA THE QUEEN 

Mario de Varona & Joe Cardona 

This touching documentary pays tribute to the work of a stellar performer who brought 

the sound of salsa to the whole world. As a teenager in 1940s Havana, Celia Cruz found 

her audience in the local canteens. But her real start came when, pressed by her family, 

she entered and won a local radio contest. A few years later she was signed by one of 

Cuba’s most popular orchestras, and her sultry, gravelly voice became Cuba’s most adored. 

Her trademark cry “¡Azúcar!” became known across Latin America. And when she fled 

Castro’s Cuba in 1960 and eventually arrived in the United States, she started a second 

even more successful career fueled by her partnerships with salsa greats Tito Puente, Willie 

Colon, and Johnny Pacheco. Directors Joe Cardona and Mario de Varona use archival 

footage of both Celia and her loving husband, Pedro Knight, to tell the inspiring story of 

a little girl from Havana who became an international diva. 





Altadena Films 

Ildi Toth Davy 

2817 St James Pl. 

Altadena CA 91001, USA 

T. +1 626 296 9977 

F. +1 626 296 9977 

ildi@altadenafilms.com 

www.altadenafilms.com 


111

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518 

GREECE 


CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE 

Yorgos Paterakis & Iordanis Karaisaridis 

Jannis Farm is a time machine that transports you back to the 60s and the era of flower 

power. Surrounded by olive trees and vineyards, one can listen to the psychedelic and folk 

music of the sixties, as well as to stories about that time narrated by the owner of the 

place. Jannis Farm is also a place of isolation and self-exile for its one and only inhabitant. 

He lives far away from the city, the noise, money, and other people, becoming a dropout 

and, at the same time, a unique individual. But perhaps the most important aspect of this 

story is the unexplained charm of Jannis Farm that fascinates people.This could be the desire 

for a way of life that we once dreamed of and then denied, but which, in some parts 

of the world, is actually lived. 





World Alone 

Yorgos Paterakis 

24 Heyden Str. 


T. + 30 693 880 9524 

fallentserc@hotmail.com 


216 

DENMARK 

C 

CHAMELEON BEACH 

Adam Schmedes 

The film follows two chameleons out of a population of only 300, living by a lagoon in 

Greece. From the moment they appear in the sand as tiny vulnerable animals to their 

death, we remain close to our main characters. The aim is to experience what a 

chameleon’s life is like and to explore never before filmed behaviors such as a swimming 

chameleon or the male’s humiliation caused by another male. But living on this beautiful 

Greek beach, which is also a growing tourist destination, is not without risks. Natural enemies 

include snakes, birds, scorpions and the climate – low winter temperatures and 

devastating sandstorms. But the real danger is people: the rubbish they leave behind that 

attracts rats, the 4x4 wheelers riding the sand dunes and even thieves that steal the 

chameleons. 







National Geographic Television International 

Adam Schmedes 

Shepherds Building East, Richmond Way, Shepherds Bush 

London W 14 ODQ, UK 

T. +44 20 7751 7560, F. +44 20 7751 7556 

adam@lokefilm.dk info@natgeotv-int.com 

www.natgeotv-int.com 





T. +30 210 607 5711-12, F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


113

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395 

NEW ZEALAND 


CHANCE OF A LIFETIME 

Sandy Crichton 

This award-winning tale tells the extraordinary story of how a population of wild New 

Zealand falcons managed to survive in the face of fierce commercial forestry logging practices 

that stripped the birds of their natural habitat. It also tells the story of two friends – 

conservationist and film director Sandy Crichton and 88-year-old wildlife photographer 

George Chance. Bound by their mutual love and admiration for the falcons, Chance’s failing 

health and eyesight inspires the young Crichton to capture footage of the falcons as a 

tribute to the latter’s body of work from the 70s that featured photographs of the wild 

birds. What began as an empathetic response to fulfill a friend’s final wish to see the magnificent 

birds on film ended up becoming a chance of a lifetime. When Crichton begins 

filming the falcons, he inadvertently becomes witness to new falcon behavior, capturing 

a turning point in the ecological evolution of the wild birds. In the heartfelt tradition of 

post-war Disney nature stories, the film is a quietly moving treatment to the resilience of 

the animal kingdom in surviving against the odds; a documentary that will keep all generations 

of viewers spell-bound. 





Smiley Film Sales 

Ewa Bigio 

PO Box 90943 AMSC 


T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 

bigio@smileyfilmsales.com 

www.smileyfilmsales.com 


308 

GREECE 

C 


CHARISMA X – IANNIS XENAKIS 

Efi Xirou 

This is a documentary on the life and work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, the“architect 

of sound”, whose visionary work reconciles art with science. The film develops in such a 

way as to show how Xenakis’s philosophy, architectural experience, mathematics and political 

background morph into music and how physical phenomena are transformed into 

musical expression. Iannis Xenakis’s multidimensional work is presented through excerpts 

of his musical compositions, his architectural work, his interviews, and archival material 

from Oresteia and Polytopes, the grand spectacles of sound and light. The camera follows 

musicians who perform, specifically for this film works by Xenakis, such as Nomos, Alpha, 

Charisma, Naama and Keren at Delphi, La Tourette Convent and his house in Paris. The film 

includes interviews with Françoise Xenakis, Mâkhi Xenakis, Yorgos Aperghis, Curtis Roads, 

François-Bernard Mâche, Sharon Kanach, Makis Solomos, Gérard Pape, Elisabeth Chojnacka, 

Yorgos Koumendakis and Robert Manthoulis. 







Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503, F. + 30 210 361 4336 


Vox Documentaries 

5 Stadiou Str., Nea Smyrni, 


T. + 30 210 931 7748, F. + 30 210 331 2429 

ginapetropoulou@hotmail.com 


115

C 

307 

GREECE 


THE CHARMER OF GRAMMOS 

Vangelis Efthymiou 

For 80 years now, Mister Sotiris has been living in the region of Mount Grammos. Every 

fall, he starts a difficult journey into the woods, in search of wild bees. But lately, during 

his outings, wild bees seem to have become much rarer than in the past... 




Myrsini Lionaraki 

140 Xanthippou Str. 


T. + 30 694 549 1064 

myrsilio@gmail.com 


460 

ITALY 

C 


CHE GUEVARA, THE BODY 

AND THE LEGEND 

The post-mortem life of Che Guevara: his elusive remains, at large for thirty years, and 

the creation of a myth. A story told through the critical and personal perspective of those 

who“touched”some of history’s most famous remains. 





B&B Film 

Carmen Gonzales 

9 Via Ottaviano 

Rome 00192, Italy 

T. +39 06 3972 9989 

F. +39 06 3972 6129 

contact@bbfilm.tv 

www.bbfilm.tv 


117

C 

106 

UK-BOLIVIA 


CHILD MINERS 

Rodrigo Vázquez 

Llallagua, Bolivia. For 100 years, the Llallagua mine has been used to extract tin. The director 

filmed child miners Alex Choque and Jorge Mollinedo in December 2005, when 

Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, won the elections with the promise of 

transforming poor people’s lives. Morales promised to give miners a better life by re-nationalizing 

the industry. Jorge’s father has contracted silicosis, also known as“miners’disease” 

and is now out of work. Jorge has had to increase his work load to keep bringing food 

to the house, thus increasing the chances of becoming ill like his father. Newly-arrived 

Cuban doctors sent by Morales’government established that Jorge has begun developing 

silicosis and advised him to stop working immediately. But now more than ever, Jorge 

needs to keep working. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




227 

GREECE 

C 


CHILDREN OF A RAPE 


Children of a Rape tells the story of El Salvador’s two biggest gangs, mainly made up of 

teenagers. The 18 and the MS13 have turned the country into a war zone, as they relentlessly 

clash over control of the weapons and drugs markets. 

With their words, actions and bodies tattooed with their gang’s symbols they are writing 

the contemporary history of a country which was raped by a 12-year-long civil war, a war 

which might not yet be over… 











T. +30 210 607 5711-12 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 

Small Planet 




T. +30 210 951 5295 

F. +30 210 951 5294 



119

C 

111 

INDIA 


CHILDREN OF THE PYRE 

Rajesh S. Jala 

Varanasi, for many a synonym of India, perhaps owes a large part of its fame to Manikarnika, 

the busiest cremation ground in India. Over 150 bodies are consigned to flames here everyday 

with the guarantee of instant “moksha” or liberation from the cycle of births and rebirths. 

Amidst grieving relatives, profit hungry shopkeepers and somber cremators can be spotted 

groups of frolicking children who have turned this graveyard into their playground and a 

source of their livelihood. Children of the Pyre is a compelling real-life, self-narrative of seven 

such extraordinary children who make their living off the dead. They collect, snatch or steal 

used coffin shrouds and sell them for petty amounts in order to ensure their own and their 

family’s survival. Tempered by the heat of the pyre, strengthened in the face of adversities 

and crafted by a volley of abuses, these imps weave through the pyres and struggle through 

disdain in this land of the dead. The film is a terrible saga of exploitation that celebrates the 

victory of innocence over the most harrowing realities of life. 




Rajesh S. Jala 

412 / 459 Bholi Nagar, Masjid Moth, South Extn. Part 2 

New Delhi 110049, India 

T. +91 98 1101 1685 

rajeshjala@gmail.com 


134 

USA 

C 


CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY 

Guido Santi & Tina Mascara 

Chris & Don: A Love Story is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship 

between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait painter Don 

Bachardy, thirty years his junior. The film includes some never-before-seen footage shot 

by Chris and Don in the 1950s and features interviews with Leslie Caron (star of Gigi), 

John Boorman (director of The Emerald Forest), Liza Minnelli, and others. From Isherwood’s 

Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany to the couple’s first meeting on the sun-kissed 

beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life in this 

joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple. 





The Film Sales Company 

Andrew Herwitz 

165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601 

New York NY 10016, USA 

T. +1 212 481 5020 

F. +1 212 481 5021 

andrew.herwitz@filmsalescorp.com 

www.filmsalescorp.com 


121

C 

120 

USA 


CIRCUS ROSAIRE 

Robyn Bliley 

For nine generations, the Rosaire family has entertained audiences all over the world with 

their legendary animal acts. From lions and tigers, to bears, horses and chimpanzees, the 

Rosaires are renowned for their unique and respectful way of training and performing 

with animals. At the height of their fame, they headlined shows for royalty, presidents 

and legions of fans with their spectacular feats. Today, they are struggling to survive in the 

modern age of entertainment. Major declines in audience attendance and increasing concern 

for animal welfare have significantly impacted the Rosaires’way of life. Jobs are scarce 

in the circus, and living the life of gypsy performers is taking its toll on the family. The Rosaires 

are acutely aware that their traditional way of making a living is slowly dying. However, 

they continue struggling to keep it alive because it’s in their blood and it’s all they 

know. 





Progressive Productions 

Chad Wilson 

8306 Wilshire Blvd, #1710 

Beverly Hills CA 90211, USA 

T. +1 323 212 3007 

F. +1 323 938 6166 

robyn@progressiveproductions.com 

www.progressiveproductions.com 


118 

CHINA 

C 


CIRCUS SCHOOL 

Guo Jing & Ke Dingding 

The history of Chinese acrobatics dates back centuries. An art form that focuses on challenging 

physical limitations, acrobatics is the quintessence of China’s strength and power 

as a nation. At the Shanghai Circus school, students ranging in age from six to fifteen must 

complete a seven-year program before working as professionals. The film gives us a rare 

and unfettered look at the intense daily regime of several students and teachers at this 

lauded institution as they prepare for a national competition. Xu Lu is a tiny 10-year-old 

girl who is part of the trapeze team. She is tossed through the air countless times a day 

even while injured. Cai-Ling, a 13-year-old boy, performs feats of flexibility and strength. 

He struggles to keep his weight down despite the extreme exertion of his training. Images 

of their punishing exercises are contrasted with the seamless beauty and precision of their 

performances, casting a new light on one of China’s most treasured commodities. 





DR International Sales 

Kim Christiansen 

20 Emil Holms Kanal 

Copenhagen C DK 0999, Denmark 

T. +45 3520 2299 

F. +45 3520 3969 

kimc@dr.dk 

www.drsales.dk 


123

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445 

CZECH REPUBLIC 


CITIZEN HAVEL 

Pavel Koutecký & Miroslav Janek 

After the split of Czechoslovakia in 1992, former political dissident, leader of the Velvet 

Revolution, playwright and essayistVáclav Havel became the first president of a new country, 

the Czech Republic. Thus it came to pass that a former enemy of the state was actually 

given the popular mandate to transform that state and its institutions. Such events are 

not commonplace so, from day one, he permitted his friend, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký, to 

be with him, to capture as much of it as possible, whether in the Prague Castle or around 

the world. The result is Citizen Havel, a feature-length documentary of never-before-seen 

footage that provides an intimate look at a man thrust into the spotlight of international 

politics and celebrity, trying to maintain a balance between public and personal life while 

bringing his nation out of its communist past and into a free, democratic future. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




339 

GERMANY 

C 


CITYBOY – THE LIFE OF INVESTMENT 

BANKER GERAINT ANDERSON 

Stephan Lamby 

At a glance, the story of Geraint Anderson seems like that of an average banker. But his 

story is different. Within a very short time, Geraint works his way up and becomes an expert 

on the energy industry. But after twelve exciting years in the City, Geraint burns out 

and faces a serious personal crisis. He begins to write down his experiences and gets published 

in a London newspaper – anonymously. Very soon the confessions of the“Cityboy” 

gain cult status. Anderson realistically describes the tricks in the business and the often 

overworked young bankers. He wants to describe the moral standards of a business that 

is consequently sliding into the abyss. He sees the catastrophe coming. Eventually, in early 

2008, he gets a last huge bonus payment and then quits. In the summer of 2008, Geraint 

reveals his identity and causes a commotion. Many former colleagues do not want to have 

anything to do with him anymore. But with the outbreak of the financial crisis, Geraint Anderson 

suddenly appears as a courageous, visionary man. 





United Docs 

Anne Hufnagel 

48-50 Breite Strasse 


T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 

anne.hufnagel@united-docs.com 

www.united-docs.com 


125

C 

413 

FRANCE 


CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS BY HIMSELF 

Pierre-Andre Boutang 

A superb self-portrait of the philosopher. In what way can reflecting on worlds very far 

from our own, either in space or time, bear relevance for us today Is there a scientific 

legacy – a before and after Levi-Strauss – in anthropology 

This documentary retraces the intellectual path of the author of Tristes tropiques (A World 

on the Wane) and La Pensée sauvage (The Savage Mind), Claude Levi-Strauss. The anthropologist 

and founder of structural anthropology in France is portrayed via numerous 

selected extracts of interviews he has given since the 1960s. The film is a fascinating introduction 

to the mind of a man who is interested in all men. Levi-Strauss has great confidence 

(in spite of a pessimistic view of our contemporary world) in the creative capacities 

of the human mind. 





ARTE France 

Audrey Kamga 

8 rue Marceau 


T. +33 1 5500 7081 

F. +33 1 5500 8065 




255 

GERMANY 

C 


CLUB NO BORDER 

Sigrid Dethloff & Matis Menneking 

On the stage they show fireworks of vitality, creativity and optimism – in their private 

lives they struggle to exist. The youthful artists of the Hamburg theatre group Hajusom arrived 

as children or teenagers in Germany. They stem originally from crisis regions and 

war zones of Africa or Asia. They fled starvation, war and violence, having escaped without 

their parents or relatives. 

Hindatou from Togo(18) and Ibrahima from Guinea (21) are two of them. In the theater 

they have found a kind of home. Here, the young refugees may raise their voice; here they 

make take pride in their origin and cultural roots. In their everyday life they are only“tolerated”. 

That means they are labeled second-class citizens by German legislation concerning 

asylum and non EU subjects. They are on a deportation list and will probably leave 

the country. But Hindatou and Ibrahima don’t want to resign themselves. A return to their 

mother country could mean their death. Surrounded by pictures of their stage play, Club 

No Border, Hindatoy and Ibrahima recount the stories of their lives. 

A documentary full of dance and power: Young refugees in Europe – dynamic and powerful, 

but almost without any rights. 





Dethloff /Mennekinf Film 

Sigrid Dethloff 

278 Duerener Str. 


T. +49 221 430 3647 

F. +49 221 423 2618 

sigriddethloff@gmx.de 


127

C 

484 

SOUTH AFRICA 


CONGO MY FOOT 

Okepne Jang & Kyle O’Donoghue & Miki Redelinghuuys 

Congo My Foot tells the story of Tino La Musica, a Congolese band based in Cape Town. The 

band falls apart as they are evicted from their home at the same time as xenophobic attacks 

against African immigrants in Cape Town cast their world into chaos. The film is told 

from the perspective of filmmaker Okepne Ojang, an immigrant from Congo, who was 

hoping to tell a positive tale about a Congolese band, but then gets caught up in the ensuing 

political and social drama that unfolds. The film follows Mohammed, the band’s 

producer, as he tries to find his dispersed band members, picking up the pieces of his own 

life along the way. 

Congo My Foot is the story of a tenacious man, who refuses to be a victim of a damaged 

society. He bravely starts and restarts his life from nothing and retains his pride and dignity 

when he’s lost everything else. His search for the band members represents something 

greater than just the band itself, for in their ability to get it together and play again, lies 

the hope of a people being able to rise against a great social injustice. 





Plexus Films 

Miki Redelinghuys 

P.O. Box 12530 Mill Street 


T. +27 21 426 2070 

F. +27 21 426 2069 

miki@plexusfilms.co.za 

www.plexusfilms.co.za 


388 

USA 

C 


CONSTANTINE’S SWORD 

Oren Jacoby 

The theme of US President-Elect Barack Obama’s election night speech was tolerance. His 

message to the world was that America is more than a vicious rivalry between blue and 

red states. However, his non-partisan aspirations may encounter challenges from the radical 

religious right that still dominates a Republican Party base, championed by outgoing 

President George W. Bush and, now, by Governors Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, leading 

contenders to be the next GOP Presidential candidate. Palin, who has said that American 

soldiers in Iraq are “on a task from God” and that “there is a plan… God’s plan”, is 

riding on a wave of Christian conservatism that led to an increasing breakdown between 

Church and State during the Bush years. 

In Constantine’s Sword, James Carroll, a former Catholic priest, examines the roots of how 

this radical fundamentalism evolved to become a defining influence on US military and 

foreign policy. The Democrats won a convincing victory in the 2008 elections, but Constantine’s 

Sword is a timely reminder of the deadly costs of an unholy union between religion 

and military power and of the politicized evangelicals who will continue to be a 

divisive factor in America for years to come. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 




129

C 

310 

GREECE 


CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENS 

Michalis Moatsos 

An animation film based on the manifest entitled “The Construction of Citizens” written 

by E.A. Rauter in the spirit of the events of May ’68. 

Construction of Citizens is an effort to depict in an animated short the fundamental ideas 

behind E.A. Rauter’s manifest by the same name. Written shortly after the events of 1968 

in Europe, “The Construction of Citizens” assembles activist theoretical notions written 

without strict theoretical forms. As the language used by Rauter is plain and straightforward, 

so is the artistic approach in this project, in an effort to support the ideas behind it. 





MachineOff - TV & Cinema Productions Company 

Michalis Moatsos 

10 Solomou Street 


T. +30 69 74 381 389 

F. +30 210 651 2545 

mmoatsos@machineoff.gr 

www.machineoff.gr 


559 

IRAN-UK 

C 


CONSULTING GOD 

Mohammad Sadegh Jafari 

Estekhareh literally means asking for God’s consultation. High-ranking clerics perform it 

by consulting the Quran, for those who cannot decide or find an answer after consulting 

with their family and friends. Due to people’s widespread belief in Estekhreh it has become 

quite a modern procedure nowadays. Some clerics are busy responding to people’s 

demand for Estekhareh by meeting them in person, over the Internet or even over the 

phone. Because of the unstable social situation, people welcome Estekhare even for the 

most vital issues of their lives. The film covers these concerns and reasons for this social 

phenomenon. 









T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





131

C 

345 

AUSTRIA-SLOVAKIA-CZECH REPUBLIC 


COOKING HISTORY 

Peter Kerekes 

A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and 

have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century. Their recollections tap into a subjective 

view of historical events and one that diverges in some respects from conventional 

history. They take us behind the scenes of dates, facts, declarations of war, battles, and 

peace agreements. 

Cooking History shows the little secrets of these people, opens up a dimension of history 

one won’t find in textbooks or archives. The directness of the anecdotes and destinies of 

the people in this film conveys a sense of life and death in the“war apparatus,”a sense of 

hope, longing, and survival strategies in the midst of destruction and despair. 









T. +420 2 3331 3839 




571 

ITALY 

C 


CORE DE ROMA – THE HEART OF ROME 

Gwyn Sannia 

In 1968 a group of close friends and AS Roma fans – one of Rome’s two Seria A teams - 

decided to open what today is Rome’s most famous sporting club: the Testaccio Roma 

Club. Forty years on, this very special place has become the Core de Roma, the heart of 

Rome, and even though the neighborhood had aged, just as Club members have, they 

seem to keep it alive somehow. This is a story about people, their friendships, their traditions 

and their love of football. 








T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 




133

C 

110 

ICELAND 


THE CORNER SHOP 

Helga Rakel Rafnsdóttir & Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir 

The Corner Shop is a documentary about one of the last remaining grocery stores in Iceland. 

Run by two eccentric brothers, it is the glue that keeps the community together. 

Armed with humor and good intentions, the brothers fight a battle against more efficient 

models of consumption. How far does one go to help one’s neighbor and how much can 

one talk on the topic of potatoes and chewing gum This is an unusual love story, a funny 

and intimate film that shows the art of shop keeping in a new light. 





The Icelandic Film Center 

Vigdis Thormodsdottir 

14 Tungata 

Reykjavik 101, Iceland 

T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 

vigdis@icelandicfilmcentre.is 

www.icelandicfilmcentre.is 


560 

IRAN-UK 

C 


COUNTDOWN 

Khatereh Hanachi 

All day long, 18-year-old Parisa Pouladi, from early morning till late at night, is busy with 

one thing: the university entrance exam. Along with more than a million other school-leavers 

in Iran, Parisa hopes she will be admitted to a first-rate college. Of all the candidates 

in the exam, less than half will pass. Most entrants are girls, who consider a college education 

their only chance for a good job. Female director Khatereh Hanachi has recorded the 

struggle of Parisa and her family as a symbol of the one milion young Iranians who wish 

to succeed at the national university entrance exam. 









T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





135

C 

176 

USA 


COURTING CONDI 

Sebastian Doggart 

A musical docu-tragi-comedy. Courting Condi follows a love-struck soul’s hilarious, emotionally 

engaging quest to woo Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. A spin on the Rapunzel 

fairy-tale, this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows musician Devin 

Ratray as he travels across America to win her heart. On Devin’s journey to meet and court 

her, he discovers stories that he, and most viewers, never knew about Condi – including 

some shockingly dark revelations about how she has changed all our lives. Throughout his 

odyssey, the biggest question remains: Can one man with a dream win the heart of the 

world’s most powerful woman 





American Princess LLC 

Sebastian Doggart 

51 Greenwich Avenue, #8 


T. +1 310 403 4244 

F. +1 646 638 3740 

shockedandawed@aol.com 


151 

USA-ECUADOR-UK 

C 


CRUDE 

Joe Berlinger 

Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature is the epic story of one of the largest 

and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion 

“Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a 

backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights 

advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous 

cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts 

the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all 

angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering 

into focus. 





Radical Media 

Joe Berlinger 

435 Hudson Street, 6 th Floor 


T. +1 212 462 1500 

F. +1 212 462 1600 

berlinger@radicalmedia.com 

www.radicalmedia.com 


137

C 

592 

AUSTRALIA 


CROCODILE ISLAND 

Ben Cropp 

Off the northern tip of Australia is a crescent-shaped stretch of sand called Crab Island, an 

important breeding ground for the distinctive Flatback turtle. Australian marine expert 

Ben Cropp captures unique footage of crocodiles feeding on turtle babies in the pitch black 

of night on Crab Island. He and his son Dean get perilously close to the crocs, who are 

waiting in silence for their dinner to scramble past. Using the latest in infra-red technology 

they capture this aggressive behavior in never before seen detail. The scenic tranquility 

belies the danger these turtles face, for the croc is king here. 

Ben also investigates a mixture of other species on and around Crab Island. He uses pole 

cameras to go underwater with dangerous predators such asTiger sharks and Bull rays and 

swims among the coral to film scenes of beautiful serenity. The documentary includes 

footage of a tiger shark attempting to get back to water after chasing a tern chick onto the 

shore and Dean Cropp stroking a huge Grouper. Ben also follows hunters as they capture 

and cook the indigenous mud crab, observing how the creatures behave in their natural 

habitat 





Espresso TV 

David Hooper 



T. +44 1273 730 929 

F. +44 1273 299 403 



138 


467 


C 


CULTIVATING THE DESERT – 

INSTANT CULTURE 

IN AN ARABIAN WONDERLAND 

Michael Krass 

The film looks at the remarkable emergence of an art scene in Dubai. How can such a phenomenon 

exist in a state driven by profit, in a region besieged by war and repression 

Nestled snugly between Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Dubai has become a capitalist dream 

world where full-option Hummers cruise down streets lined with some of the most outrageous 

architecture in the world. 

This year, Dubai’s leader introduced a plan for promoting cultural life in the emirate. 

Christie’s has set up camp here; Sotheby’s is on its way. The question remains though: 

While you may be able to put culture on the agenda, and even create an infrastructure for 

it, will it take root 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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GREECE 


CYCLOWN CIRCUS 

Dimitris Sfyris 

They travel only by bicycle. They are talented musicians and acrobats. Though they could 

have had a brilliant career in show business, they chose to travel from continent to continent, 

from country to country and from town to town giving open-air performances. On 

their way, they draw others interested in living out the same experience. Over the last six 

years they have crossed 27 countries in four continents. Over 125 people have traveled 

with them. Their bicycles are made by themselves from parts of discarded bicycles that 

they find along the way. They are the Cyclown Circus. The film documents their passage 

through the city of Hania in Crete, following their performances in parks, squares and 

schools, and talking with them about their experiences, thoughts and philosophy. 




Dimitris Sfyris 

26-32 Vassileos Konstantinou Str. 

Xanthi 67100, Greece 

T. + 30 25410 29370 

F. + 30 25410 20790 

jhammer00@gmail.com 

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DAMIEN’S ROOM 

Jasna Krajinovic 

In Slovenia, Damien was sent to jail six years ago. Soon to be released, he is already starting 

his journey from his prison cell to the room waiting for him at his grand parents’home. 

The film focuses on the crime Damien committed, the hard times of prison life, but also 

rebirth and the hope in a new beginning. 





Ventes - CBA/WIP - SALES 

Thierry Detaille 

19F Avenue des Arts 

Brussels 1000, Belgium 

T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 

ventes-cbawip-sales@skynet.be 


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THE DAMNED OF THE SEA 

Jawad Rhalib 

Thousands of struggling Moroccan fishermen have to move further and further south in 

hope of catching some fish, any fish, if there are any fish left to catch. In the background, 

but quite close to the shores where they end up staying idle, huge foreign trawlers drag 

the waters with their death nets, killing an entire ecosystem, and sometimes literally“vacuuming” 

it. The government sold them fishing licenses allowing them to do so. Desperate, 

the Moroccan fishermen witness their own inevitable disappearance, while a protest 

carried out a few month earlier was violently repressed by the authorities. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 


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THE DANCING FOREST 

Brice Lainé 

The Dancing Forest is a powerfully optimistic vision of Africa in the 21st century and a 

touching story that shatters many destructive myths about the Dark Continent. Long abandoned 

as a land without hope, Africa has battled to overcome the negative stereotypes 

that have condemned it to the periphery of civilization. The Dancing Forest is Africa’s strident 

retaliation. In the shining example of a small village in Togo, we discover a community 

that refuses to wait for outside aid to make its way out of poverty and ruin. With tools 

in hand, its proud men and women stoop to build their own destiny and a model of selfreliance. 

Mixing traditional agricultural knowledge with modern techniques, they provide 

a timely lesson to the West on how we ought to harmonize with nature and build a 

sustainable relationship with the land based on preservation and respect. The Dancing 

Forest takes us on a trip to a world where time, nature and everyday gestures still have 

meaning; a world where forests can dance. 





Elmadno Productions 

Brice Lainé 

1 Queens Court, 6 Grove Park 

London SE5 8LS, UK 

T. +44 798 413 7456 

brice.laine@gmail.com 


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DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM 

Bari Pearlman 

An inside view of a rare and exceptional Buddhist Monastery in remote northeastern Tibet 

created exclusively for women. 

Daughters of Wisdom is an experiential and transporting view of contemporary Tibet seen 

through the eyes of some if its most extraordinary women – the nuns of Kala Rongo 

Monastery of Nangchen, Kham. Founded in 1990, the Kala Rongo Monastery is granting 

women choices they’ve never had before, and changing outmoded attitudes that no 

longer serve the greater good of the community. Through the pragmatic vision of their 

benefactor, Lama Norlha Rinpoche, nearly 300 nuns are now receiving religious and educational 

training previously unavailable to them. They are being given a real opportunity 

to change the course of their lives, and to preserve the rich spiritual heritage of their people, 

even as they slowly reshape it. Some shy, some outspoken, all committed to the difficult 

life they have chosen, the film presents their vibrant spiritual community and their 

exemplary lives. 





Illumina Films 

Robin Brinster 

106-IV Leidsestraat 

Amsterdam 1017PG, The Netherlands 

T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 

robin@illuminafilms.nl 

www.illuminafilms.nl 


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THE DAY AFTER PEACE 

Jeremy Gilley 

Against all the odds, an individual manages to create an annual global ceasefire 

non-violence day; but can he silence the cynics and prove that the day can actually save 

lives 





3DD 

Dominic Saville 

5 th Floor 8-12 Camden High Street 

London NW1 OJH, UK 

T. +44 207 380 8100 

F. +44 207 380 8118 

dominic@3ddgroup.com 

www.3ddgroup.com 


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MEXICO 


DE MOTU CORDIS 

Mariana Ochoa 

A journey which explores one of science’s most momentous discoveries, made by the English 

physician William Harvey: the circulation of the blood and its relation to the heart. 

More than 400 years later, we embark on a search to reveal and expose the truth hidden 

within our bodies and the life that exists in every living being. 





Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica 

Jessy Vega 

Calzada de Tlalpan 1670 Col. Country Club 

Mexico 04220, Mexico 

T. +52 55 415 50090 

F. +52 55 415 50092 

divulgacion@ccc.cnart.mx 

ccc.cnart.mx 


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DEAR MORRIS 

Joanne Levitan 

For 9 years Levitan had an intense relationship with a pen pal named Morris.When, finally, 

she flew to America to meet him for the first time – he never appeared. She never heard 

from him again. Dear Morris is an intensely intimate and personal film through which 

Levitan tries to solve the mystery of Morris and finally let go of him. 





Encounters FF & Distribution 

Nazeer Ahmed 

27 Caledon Street, 1st Floor 


T. +27 21 465 4686 

F. +27 21 461 6964 

distribution@encounters.co.za 

www.encounters.co.za 


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DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO 

A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER 

Kurt Kuenne 

On the evening of November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby, 28, was murdered in a parking 

lot in western Pennsylvania. The prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, 

promptly fled the United States for St. John’s, Newfoundland – where she announced that 

she was pregnant with Andrew’s child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt 

Kuenne, Andrew’s childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for little Zachary 

to learn about his father. But when Shirley Turner was allowed to walk free on bail in 

Canada and given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the United States, the 

film’s focus shifted to Zachary’s grandparents, David and Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate 

efforts to win custody of the boy. 





PBS International 

Charles Schuerhoff 

10 Guest St. 

Boston, MA 02135, USA 

T. +1 617 300 2659 

chschuerhoff@pbs.org 


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DEFAMATION 

Yoav Shamir 

What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust In his continuing exploration 

of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir travels the world in search of the 

most modern manifestations of the “oldest hatred”, and comes up with some startling 

answers. In this irreverent quest, he follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of 

Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-Semitism and he 

tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz. Opinions 

often differ and tempers sometimes flare but in Defamation we find that one thing is certain: 

only by understanding their response to anti-Semitism can we really appreciate how 

Jews today, and especially modern Israelis, respond to the world around them, in New 

York and in Moscow, in Gaza and Tel Aviv. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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DESERT BRIDES 

Ada Ushpiz 

This is the story of three, relatively educated and independent women, trying to survive, 

each in their own way in their world – a life of polygamy. One is a “first wife”, living in 

constant fear that her husband will bring home a second wife. The other two are pushed 

into marrying already married men, and become “second wives”, forced to cooperate 

within a structure they despise or are afraid of. The family tragedies presented in this film 

highlight the strength and survival of the social structures and their injustices, due in part 

to the victims’ cooperation. 





Go2Films 

Hedva Goldschmidt 

37/8 Issar Natanzon St. 

Jerusalem 97787, Israel 

T. +972 2 583 1371 

F. +972 2 583 5450 

go2films@bezeqint.net 

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DEVIL’S BARGAIN 

Shelley Saywell 

Small arms are the real weapons of mass destruction: killing more than half a million people 

a year, spreading like a disease and destabilizing entire regions. Beginning in the gun 

markets of Somalia, we travel within the region where guns are making life a misery of 

violence and fear. But no guns are made in Somalia. From France to South Africa, from 

Bosnia to Moldova, from the USA and Canada, we travel around the world to examine 

ways in which the guns slip from legal into illegal markets, via the so-called Grey Zone. 

From dealers to pilots to end-users, to the victims, we witness an unregulated trade in 

what has become the globalization of death. When 200,000 AK47s go missing from 

Bosnia stockpiles and are flown on illegal flights to who knows where, activists try to push 

initiatives to curb the trade at the UN. But the call for a treaty similar to the Land Mines 

Treaty is blocked and loopholes “large enough for Antonov-12s to fly through” continue 

to destabilize our world. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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495 

ICELAND 


DIETER ROTH PUZZLE 

Hilmar Oddsson 

In 1957 a young and unknown artist by the name of Dieter Roth boarded a ship to Iceland 

in the pursuit of love. After seven years in a small society unable to contain his talent, he 

left, leaving behind his life partner and four children to become one of the most influential 

artists of the 20th century. The film is a colorful portrait of Dieter Roth, one of the most 

singular and important artists of our time, as described by his family, many friends and colleagues. 







14 Tungata 


T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 




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DIMITRI’S TIME TRAVEL 

Maria Ingrid Bandmann 

Just like forty-nine-year-old Casian Balabasciuc, a Hutsul writer and forester, many people 

are fascinated by old traditions, values and dress and, in this highly-engineered age, 

they dream of a simple life in the country. Fifty-year-old Dimitri Tomiuc, a simple Hutsul 

mountain farmer and well-builder, doesn’t long for the good old days; he lives in them. 

It might look like a museum in his spick and span little house but the charcoal iron, left to 

him by his parents is actually used, the oil lamps hanging from the ceiling aren’t just for 

decoration and the cozy fire in the brick stove is essential for cooking and heating. He lives 

the way the Hutsuls, an ethnic minority of Romania, lived over a hundred years ago.Whilst 

Casian enthusiastically puts himself to the task of preserving the Hutsuls’ ancient customs, 

Dimitri fights a desperate fight to let the modern world find a way into his life. 

Running time: 45’& 52’& 85’ 




Lioba Film 

Maria Ingrid Bandmann 

23 Lindenstr. 


T. +49 178 514 4505 

F. +49 30 8040 2877 

maring33@yahoo.de 


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DISPLACED: THE BAD BOYS 

OF THE EXODUS 

Yael Kipper 

This is a film about the reunification of two heroes: two men from vastly different worlds 

who met one fateful moment in the history of the state of Israel. The first – the twentyfour-year-old 

captain of the ship“Exodus”, a native of the land soon to become Israel, already 

a hardened sailor, a rebel, bursting with the drive to fight the British – is Ike 

Aharonovich. 

Alongside him, a thirty-year-old refugee – a gifted speaker and adamant Zionist whose 

entire family was murdered in the Holocaust; he boards the ship and with the force of his 

words alone keeps 4,500 refugees going in the middle of the sea – Mordechai Rozman. 





Go2Films 




T. +972 2 583 1371 

F. +972 2 583 5450 



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DOMINIQUE’S STORY 

Giulia Sirignani 

Dominique Green was just 19 years old when he was sentenced to die by the state of Texas 

for the shooting death of a 41-year-old-man. Dominique always maintained his innocence 

and the victim’s family pleaded for clemency. But after spending 11 years on death 

row, three lethal injections ended Dominique’s life on October 26, 2004. The documentary 

is the story of Dominique’s life and inspiring transformation and growth in those years. It 

is a story about how a young, angry and desperate boy who grew up in a culture of abuse 

and poverty became a loving, wise and compassionate man. It is a journey from violence 

and ignorance to strength and knowledge. A quietly spoken and thoughtful Dominique 

shares his hopes and fears in 3 exclusive interviews filmed on death row. We meet his 

troubled family, the friends who joined his struggle for life in Texas and around the world, 

the dedicated legal minds who fought Texas prosecutors and the global activists who rallied 

for his cause, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 

Oscar winning composer of Life is Beautiful, Nicola Piovani provided the music. Emmyaward 

winning actor John Turturro narrates Dominique’s Story. 





Suttvuess 

Federico Schiavi 

61 Via Sannio 


T. +39 06 4341 9651 

F. +39 06 4341 9652 

suttvuess@fastwebnet.it 

federico.schiavi@gmail.com 


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FRANCE 


DYING FOR CHANGE 

Gilles Nivet 

Largely overlooked by the international media, the Guinean revolution started on January 

10th 2007. Shot within the capital city Conakry, Dying for Change takes us at the heart 

of this uprising and presents a breathtaking chronicle of the rebellion. To the beat of the 

rap music band Sembédékhé, composer of the revolutionary song “Listen to the thunder 

roaring”, we follow a few ordinary young heroes, filmed before, during and after this popular 

movement that gave the people freedom of expression. 

Dying for Change bears witness to a crucial turning point for a troubled African country: 

as well as demanding justice and the renegotiation of recent mining contracts, this despairing 

Youth is calling for a break-away from exclusive ethnic alliances... 

Director, Gilles Nivet has been producing reports and documentaries for TV since 1985. 

He has been living and working in Guinea since the year 2000 and has become an expert 

on the political and economical situation of the region. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



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DYING IN ABUNDANCE 


A handful of multinational companies have managed to control the“heart”of the food we 

put on our table everyday: the seed itself and, therefore, global agricultural production. Brokers 

in the developed world gamble with food, raising and lowering prices, playing with 

the fundamental right of millions of people to access food. Meanwhile, almost a billion people 

on this planet are undernourished and 25,000 die of hunger each day. Could it be that 

the Earth can no longer feed its population The evidence proves otherwise! The food crisis, 

as it will go down in history, occurs at a time when the planet is producing more food than 

ever. Dying in Abundance unfolds the absurd before our eyes, the interconnections of a system 

in which, while there is enough food, it is so expensive the poor cannot afford it. 











T. +30 210 607 5711-12 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


Small Planet 




T. +30 210 951 5295, F. +30 210 951 5294 



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EARTH FOR EACH 

Pierre Meynadier 

The great diversity of environments conditioned the number and variety of human societies’ 

cultures. Situations or events which affect Man and his History often find their origins 

in the nature of his environment. Earth for Each highlights this connection. 

Each episode presents an individual or a group in their everyday life, in direct link to their 

environment. The stress is put on the way they interact with their environment, live with 

it, adapt to it, exploit, develop or transform it. Sometimes, the environment has preserved 

a culture or a community. Most of the time, people have managed to control it and exploit 

its natural resources. But sometimes they only cause troubles and catastrophes. 

Earth for Each is a discovery program, which offers a pleasant and exotic panorama of 

Earth. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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573 

ITALY 


EARTHQUAKE 68 – 

PEOPLE FROM GIBELLINA 

Emanuele Svezia 

In 1968 Gibellina was destroyed by a violent earthquake. The complicated history of this 

small Sicilian community is told along with another story, of a challenge that was made 

to the people of Gibellina. To pose for a photograph on the site which had become the 

taboo space of the whole community: the Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri. Created in 1989, 

the work is an enormous expanse of white cement that covers the twelve hectares of rubble 

that used to be the historical center of the town. 

“The story of this film began when by chance I found myself in Gibellina in front of the sign 

of a pub called ‘Earthquake ’68.’It was odd how the tragedy had become part of the imagery 

of the young people who had opened that bar. The earthquake was one of the underlying 

traits of their identity, but at the same time they had decided to write the sign in 

English, as though subconsciously they wanted to hide its meaning from the older members 

of the community. That sign sparked the curiosity that generated this film and I was 

soon to discover that the reality of that town went well beyond my imagination.” 








T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 



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ECHOES OF HOME 

Stefan Schwietert 

What does a baby’s cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what 

connects the head tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a vocal artist The answer 

is: the voice. Against a background of powerful alpine vistas and modern city landscapes, 

Echoes of Home enters the wondrous sonic world of three exceptional Swiss vocal 

artists. Their universe of sound extends far beyond what we would describe as singing. In 

their engagement with local and foreign traditions, the powerful mountain landscape becomes 

a stage, as do the landscapes and sonic backdrops of modern life. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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ECO-CRIMES – 

CRIMES AGAINST NATURE 

Heinz Greuling & Thomas Weidenbach 

Organized crime has a new field of activity: ecological crime. Similar to arms and drug trafficking, 

it has become highly lucrative to deal illicitly in Nature’s most precious possessions. 

Black markets have evolved in the most expensive trading commodities banned by environmental 

legislation. This three-part series documents for the first time the methods used by 

internationally operating networks of poachers, pirates, smugglers and criminal cartels to 

strip Nature of her treasures and thereby threaten the basis of life on our planet. Eco-Crimes 

graphically reveals to a wide audience just why urgent action is necessary to stop all this.The 

films also show how committed people have taken up the battle against the eco-mafia: tenacious 

customs officers, courageous fisheries inspectors, determined public prosecutors and 

above all members of non-governmental environmental protection organizations, who risk 

their lives conducting undercover investigations. With their help and with the evidence of 

court proceedings, interrogation records and eyewitness statements, each documentary traces 

an authentic example of ecological crime: the trade in banned chemicals which destroy the 

ozone layer; illegal fishing in the oceans of the world; and dealing in rare animal products. 

Meticulously researched, painstakingly filmed and narrated with the pace of a thriller. 

Episodes: Ozone Killers – The Tibet Connection – Fishing Pirates 






Anne Hufnagel 



T. +49 221 920 690, F. +49 221 920 6969 




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THE ENGLOUVI PLATEAU – 

CODE: ILL 293 

Eleonora Fiorou 

The eighty inhabitants of Englouvi, Lefkada’s most mountainous village, cultivate in their 

fields – on the Vouni plateau, at an altitude of 1,000 meters – an organic product, the famous 

Englouvi lentil, considered to be the best quality lentil in the world. This is the home 

of the ancient and unique Volti settlement, made of stone buildings and threshing floors. 

The Englouvian women, wearing their traditional costumes, sow the lentil seeds when the 

weather gets cold and leave them to “sleep” under the snow. In spring, they weed them 

with great knowledge and skill. In the summer, when the lentils have matured, they uproot 

them by hand and take them to the threshing floor. They keep the seeds to be sown 

the following year. Only a few women still live there. The Volti settlement is in decline. 

The plateau must be protected as an example of a unique natural environment, architecture 

and human activity. 




Eleonora Fiorou 

43 Syrou Str., Kypseli 


T. + 30 210 823 9423 

F. + 30 210 884 7782 

fioroueleonora@ath.forthnet.gr 


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ICELAND 


ELECTRONICA REYKJAVIK 

Arnar Jonsson 

Electronica Reykjavik is the story of a revolution in music. The electronic and house music 

of the late 80s and early 90s has made and affected a whole generation of musicians. A 

scene of mostly underground and avant-garde Icelandic electronic artists emerged, many 

of which are portrayed in the film. Be prepared for the deepest rhythms of nature and 

above all a very sexy party. Featuring rare foοtage from the early days of music as well as 

artists such as Anonymous, Biogen, GusGus, Ghostdigital and many more. 







14 Tungata 


T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 




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ENCIRCLEMENT – NEO-LIBERALISM 

ENSNARES DEMOCRACY 

Richard Brouillette 

Using the reflections and analysis of many renowned intellectuals, this documentary 

draws a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose 

its dictates throughout the world. 





Andoliado Producciones 

Esteban Bernatas 

17 c/ Sant Guillem, 1-1 

Barcelona 08006, Spain 

T. +34 93 209 0897 

F. +34 93 209 0897 

esteban@andoliado.com 

www.andoliado.com 


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ENJOY POVERTY 

Renzo Martens 

An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa’s most lucrative export: 

filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens singlehandedly 

undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps 

the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: poverty. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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ENRIQUE Y JUDITA 

Andrea Roggon 

They love, they fight, they dance. Enrique and Judita are the most acclaimed and extraordinary 

tango-couple in Buenos Aires. And they are from Germany. In fact, they are the 

first Europeans to have won the 2nd place in the world tango championships. Every year, 

they spend five months with the great masters in Argentina’s capital to bring their technique 

to perfection. Impulsive and passionate, both on stage and in real life, Enrique and 

Judita embrace and confront each other, they split up but always reunite. The film is a celebration 

of their unique love story, narrated like a tango in its own right. An intimate and 

thrilling look at two outstanding characters. A film full of great music and dazzling tango 

performances, scheduled for theatrical release. 






Stefan Kloos 



T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 29820 




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167 

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EVERY LITTLE STEP 

James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo 

The Broadway musical A Chorus Line is an international phenomenon that has reached 

audiences in over 22 countries. Through 15 years of continuous performances from the 

70s to the 90s and a revival beginning in 2006, the show has touched generations around 

the world. Every Little Step explores the journey of A Chorus Line from ambitious idea to 

worldwide sensation. It compares and contrasts the original musical with the current revival. 

It investigates the societies in which they’ve debuted, and why the themes are so 

timeless and universal. Finally, it goes behind the scenes with exclusive interviews and 

footage of the audition process, revealing the dramatic struggles of the performers. Thus 

the story of life imitating art unfolds... 





Fortissimo Films 

Nicole Mackey 

100 Van Diemenstraat 

Amsterdam 1013 CN, The Netherlands 

T. +44 20 7498 6978 

F. +44 20 7497 1133 

nicole@fortissimo-uk.com 

www.fortissimofilms.com 


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ICELAND 

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EVERYBODY PRESENT 

Maria Gudmundsdottir 

Everybody Present is a documentary that tells the story of Astbjorg Gunnarsdottir, a seventy-year-old 

fitness teacher who has run the same fitness group for 50 years. Over this 

time she has formed a close and personal connection with all the women in the group. 

Some of them have joined her special performance group that has performed all over the 

world, from Götebοrg to the Canaries. The documentary shows her life, her work and the 

women in this unique fitness group. 







14 Tungata 


T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 




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113 

DENMARK 


EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE 

Mikala Krogh 

Do we all harbor the same feelings of sorrow, happiness, anger and love Is the road to 

happiness always equally winding or straight Do we love and hate with the same zeal 

Does a young woman with breast cancer feel the same pain as a family from Mozambique 

losing their home in a flood Does a modern slave from Bangladesh working in 

Dubai feel the same fear as a US soldier going to Iraq Are our values, dreams and hopes 

basically the same, merely mirroring our different lifestyles Everything Is Relative is a 

kaleidoscopic fusion of documentary sequences, archival material and tableaux of human 

beings. It seeks to portray how our reactions to challenges in life are relative to the conditions 

that guide our individual lives. A film about the diversity and relativity of human 

emotions, shot in major cities around the world including Maputo,Tokyo, Dubai, Dallas and 

Copenhagen. 





SF Film Production 

Karoline Leth 

10 Halfdansgade 

Copenhagen S 2300, Denmark 

T. +45 3527 0080 

F. +45 7026 7627 

leth@sf-filmproduction.dk 

www.sf-film.dk 


332 

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Category: Currents Affairs 

EXPRESS SCOPELITIS – 

MOTHER OF THE ISLANDS 

Manolis I. Kazamias 

A chronicle of the unique and long-standing relationship between the Scopelitis family 

and the inhabitants of the Small Eastern Cyclades islands, which dates back to 1958, when 

young Captain Mitsos Scopelitis began delivering the islanders their mail with his caique, 

the“Panormitis”. Today, fifty years later, the survival and development of these remote islands 

owe a lot to the daily trip of a little ship, the“Express Scopelitis”, skippered by Captain 

Mitsos’ son, Υannis Scopelitis and his first mate Υannis Fostieris. They serve the 

islanders with a rare combination of professionalism, modesty and kindness. It is not surprising 

that the inhabitants of the eastern Cyclades refer to the“Express Scopelitis”as the 

“mother of the islands”. Captain Mitsos Scopelitis is also known for his exceptional talent 

at playing the violin. 





Kazco Ltd 

Manolis Kazamias 

71 Agias Sofias Str., Nea Smyrni 


T. + 30 210 935 0103 

F. + 30 210 935 9536 

manolis@kazco.gr 


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196 

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EX-VOTO FOR THREE SOULS 

Diego Rivera Kohn 

An ex-voto is a votive offering to thank God for a miracle, or to ask for one. This is the portrait 

of three Mexicans, all of whom need such a miracle for different reasons. Christian is 

a young boxer who is literally trying to fight his way out of poverty; a victory in the ring 

can be the necessary step to a professional career. Eight-year-old María-Teresa has to have 

a major heart operation and asks for God to stand by her surgeons. And then there’s Luis 

the fisherman, who wants God to put a stop to the fish shortage and the low profits that 

come with it. Ex-voto for Three Souls translates its subjects’deep faith into a film with atmospheric 

camerawork, minimal dialogue and solid sound design; a film that sweeps the 

viewer along in the mental states of the three believers. 




Diego Rivera Kohn 

4651 Saint Dominique 

Montreal H2T 1T7, Canada 

T. +1 514 845 9377 

mevoyalmar@gmail.com 


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EVRIDIKI’S CASE 

Freddy Vianellis 

The film is based on the theatrical play Evridiki’s Case and is about a young girl’s struggle 

with drugs. After ten years of drug abuse, she manages to overcome her addiction through 

a drug rehabilitation program. The film moves along four thematic axes: her personal 

statement; a theatrical play based on her experiences; the everyday reality of the drug 

scene in downtown Athens; and, finally, the upbringing of four girls, aged three to sixteen 

years, who are very close to their parents. It emerges that Evridiki’s childhood and her relationship 

– or lack thereof – with her parents were what made her turn to drugs. 


Year of production: 2008-2009 



Modiano S.A. 

Freddy Vianellis 

73 K. Palaiologou Street 


T. +30 210 684 6398 

F. +30 210 684 4078 

freddy@modianotv.com 

www.modianotv.com 


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FANDANGO 

Rene Goya Filho 

Fandango is a musical documentary that portrays one of the biggest instrumental musicians 

of Brazil. Renato Borghetti has garnered national and international recognition as 

an exceptional musician interpreting touching songs. The documentary follows Renato 

during the production of his last project, the Fandango CD, recorded in his own farm, in 

amidst beautiful views, taking modern technology into the countryside. In the film, we see 

the entire creative process and get to know a little bit more of the artist, his influences, his 

origins and how all that reflects in Renato Borghetti and his band’s music. 





Okna Produções 

Aletéia Selonk 

48 Saldanha Marinho St. 

Porto Alegre 90160-240, Brasil 

T. +55 51 3737 7533 

F. +55 51 3737 7544 

paula@okna.com.br 

aleteia@okna.com.br 

www.okna.com.br 


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THE FARMER WHO WANTED 

TO EMIGRATE 

Geertjan Lassche 

On New Year’s Eve 2006, Heijmen Brouwer (61), an old-school dairy farmer living in Holland, 

finally reaches a decision. Taking with him all his livestock, his blind farm-hand Hendrik 

(77) and his new girlfriend Janine (42), he will emigrate to France. Farmer Brouwer 

is fed up with the rigid Dutch agricultural regulations and continuous inspections. To start 

all over again in France had always been his dream because down there in France“at least 

they still like farmers”. 

It isn’t long before he runs into all kinds of problems, however... all caught mercilessly on 

film. His planned emigration seems doomed to fail and tension mounts right up until the 

end. Will he or won’t he go 

A film about a man who, in his old age, insists on following his heart and finally fulfills a 

life-long dream. It’s also about the difference between a farmer’s common sense and a 

farmer’s obstinacy, about the room to maneuver on both sides of the law, and about the 

farming legacy that is rapidly disappearing from modern Holland. 





NPO/RNW Sales 

Kaisa Kriek 



T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




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FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT 

MEETS ACTION 

Velcrow Ripper 

Fueled by the belief that another world is possible, acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper 

takes us on a global journey tracing spiritual activism’s historical roots and capturing the 

powerful personalities that are igniting a new wave of spiritual action around the globe. 

Martin Luther King called it“love in action”. Gandhi called it“soul force”. 





National Film Board of Canada 

Johanne St. Arnauld 

3155 Cote de Liesse Road 

St. Laurent Quebec H4N 2N4, Canada 

T. +1 514 283 2703 

F. +1 514 496 1895 

international@nfb.ca 

www.nfb.ca 


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FIGURING OUT FATHER 

Sandra Löhr 

Sophie Templer-Kuh, a Jewish woman born in 1916, learns late in life that her father is the 

Austrian anarchist and psychoanalyst Otto Gross. She then undertakes a search for her 

family’s history and her own past in Vienna, Graz, Berlin and the USA. Figuring Out Father 

is not about finding, but about searching – searching for one’s identity and personal truth. 

The result is a film portrait of an unorthodox woman full of contradictions and wit, whose 

life story reflects the cultural and political upheaval in the 20th century. 





Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH 

Anne Wendelin 

26 Hildebrandgasse 


T. +43 1 403 0162 

F. +43 1 403 0162 15 

office@geyrhalterfilm.com 

www.geyrhalterfilm.com 


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FILMING DREAMS 

Isidor John Leontis 

Director Isidor Leontis and the Art In Vision production company offer a new angle to Theo 

Angelopoulos – in production. The crew travels with the master director across Europe 

and Russia to shoot a film of passion and family tragedy. 

Willem Dafoe leads the brilliant cast of the Dust of Time. The renowned actor plays character 

A, a filmmaker relating the odyssey of his parents’ lives. Once again, Angelopoulos 

borrows from history to tell his story. A story that takes him back to Cold War Russia. Authenticity 

is a hallmark of the director’s cinematic art, and he goes to great lengths and 

great distances to achieve it. A dedicated director, the actors and crew face difficult conditions 

in sub freezing temperatures in Russia and Kazakhstan. 

Bruno Ganz, a great actor, is collaborating with Angelopoulos for a second time. Irene 

Jacob, a European muse of film, and classical actor Michel Picolli completes the cast. 

The Dust of Time covers the period from 1953 to the present. Locations in Berlin and 

Cologne set the stage for today’s social problems – and its victims. 

Following Theo Angelopoulos through the Dust of Time turns the reality of a documentary 

into the magic of filming dreams. 





Art in Vision 

Maria Birbili 

28 Danaidon Street 


T. +30 210 684 5100 

F. +30 210 684 0974 

mbirbili@artinvision.gr 

www.artinvision.gr 


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FILO AND MARINA 

Calliope Legaki 

Philo is a great Greek sculptor, devoted to his art and married to Marina. He has been living 

and working in the suburbs of Paris for the last fifty years. An unexpected incident will 

change everything and the only thing than can now offer a solution and give a new meaning 

to their life is love. 





Portolanos Films 

Maria Gentekou 

23 Charilaou Trikoupi Str. 


T. + 30 210 483 3515 

portolan@hol.gr 


545 

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F 


FIRE UNDER THE SNOW 

Makoto Sasa 

In 1959, Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk since childhood, was incarcerated by 

the Chinese Communist Army for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation 

in Tibet. For 33 years, he endured jail, torture, starvation, humiliation and forced 

labour. After his release, Palden escaped to Dharamsala, India, home of the Tibetan exile 

community. He became an activist, speaking out against the Chinese occupation, giving 

voice to thousands of dead, displaced or imprisoned Tibetans. Today, his spirit remains unbroken 

and his fight against injustice and ignorance continues. Fire Under the Snow illuminates 

the dramatic and inspirational story of a man whose will and belief remained 

unbroken even under unthinkable duress. Director Makoto Sasa’s elegant interweaving of 

interviews with Palden, political prisoners, family members and the Dalai Lama, as well 

as with impressive archival footage, makes this film a captivating, revealing and heartbreaking 

historical document. 






Stefan Kloos 



T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 29820 




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THE FLOW 

Jan Komasa 

“I am here because I can no longer run away from myself”. That’s what young participants 

of the canoeing camp for drug addicts say about themselves. The camp is organized by the 

Łódź branch of Monar. Participation in the canoeing rally through the Rospuda valley is an 

part of group therapy that teaches the addicts how to be responsible, well organized and 

how to live in a community. However, only a few will manage to permanently overcome 

their addiction and return to normal life. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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FLOWERS OF RWANDA 

David Muñoz 

Rwanda. Fourteen years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800.000 

people. What’s the current situation of the country What feelings prevail in the hearts of 

the victims Can victims and killers live together What’s the importance of education in 

a society that has lived through a genocide Can a film festival make a difference May a 

genocide happen again in Rwanda Who should act when a genocide is happening Do 

we, as individuals, have any responsibility 





Hibrida 

David Muñoz 

21 Burgos, Pozuelo de Alarcon 

Madrid 28223, Spain 

T. +34 677 416 560 

hibrida@hibrida.es 

www.floresderuanda.com/flowers-of-rwanda.html 


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FLY ME TO THE MOON 

John Curtin 

A light-hearted, whimsical look at our relationship with our closest and most romantic 

neighbor in the sky: the Moon. This year (in July) it will be 40 years since man set foot on 

the moon and now in 2009 the relationship is hot again. Private companies are building 

moon-bound rockets, NASA plans a human settlement there and scientists say lunar solar 

power could solve our energy crisis. From Shakespearean romance to popular love songs, 

the moon has profoundly influenced our culture. The absence of moonlight doomed the 

Titanic while entire cities were destroyed in WWII under the “bombers’moon”. Today, the 

ancient art of moon gardening is making a comeback while experts still debate whether 

a full moon induces all the loony effects ascribed to it. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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FLYOVERDELHI 

Paolo Faver & Angelo Fontana 

Based on an anthropological research on modernity and globalization in New Delhi, Flyoverdelhi 

offers a series of snapshots on the life of young middle class men and women 

in this Indian metropolis. Young managers, sports professionals, journalists, tourist guides, 

airline hostesses, and DJs relate their experiences of growing up in a country that since 

1991 has definitely opened up to the global market. 

The changes in lifestyles, the relationship to tradition, the growth of feelings of pride towards 

an India projected, in their visions, to become one of the leading powers in the 

world, the ideas of the‘West’, issues of love, sex and marriage, are the themes addressed 

by the characters presented in the film. 

With a music-video visual language alternating with more, stylistically speaking, classical 

moments, the film introduces the viewer to a modern India seldom depicted in the 

Western mass media, raising also questions regarding the meaning of globalization in today’s 

world. 








T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 




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FOOD DESIGN 

Martin Habelsreiter 

The TV documentary Food Design shows how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds 

made during eating, manufacturing technique, history and stories influence food design. 

Should foodstuffs be considered designer products in the same way as Armani suits, Alessi 

coffee cups and Ferraris Of course! 

Food Design makes a case for a design discipline that has received little attention, inviting 

its audience to take part in a sensual journey through the wonderful world of food. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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FOOD FIGHT 

Chris Taylor 

When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice 

of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was coopted 

by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, 

healthy, sustainably-produced food. 

Fortunately for America, an alternative emerged from the counter-culture of California in 

the late 1960s and early 1970s, where a group of political anti-corporate protesters – led 

by Alice Waters – voiced their dissent by creating a food chain outside of the conventional 

system. The unintended result was the birth of a vital local-sustainable-organic food 

movement which has brought back taste and variety to our tables. 

Food Fight is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed 

in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counterrevolution 

against big agribusiness. 





Positively 25th St Prods 

Chris Taylor 

334 25th St 

Santa Monica CA 90402, USA 

T. +1 310 451 6754 

F. +1 310 451 6744 

kinophile@mac.com 


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FOOTBALL FATHER 

Michał Jóźwiak 

Marcin works as a masseur in a soccer club. Instead of going to the match with the team, 

he prefers the riskier way of getting there with the hooligans. Although he is blind himself, 

he starts taking his partially sighted son with him. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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FOOTBALL UNDER COVER 

David Assmann & Ayat Najafi 

Narmila is on the Iranian Women’s national football team. They women are dedicated, 

they train, they love football, but they have one problem: they are not allowed to compete. 

Under Iranian law only men can participate in or watch a sporting match. When Marlene, 

the left back on the Berlin-Kreuzberg women’s team, hears of this, she decides to do something 

about it. She spends the next year in a difficult struggle with the Iranian government 

to get a match arranged between her team and the Iranian women’s team. Finally, she and 

her colleagues manage to get through the red tape, approval is granted and the game 

takes place. Men are banned from attending, and the morals police stand outside to prevent 

anyone from peaking inside. Inside, even though it was forbidden to advertise the 

match, 1,000 women chant and cheer. The excitement ignites the stadium until over the 

loudspeaker a woman’s voice reminds them to behave decently and tend their hijab. 

Football Under Cover is more than a film about a football match. It’s a film about real life 

in a restrictive culture where women are severely controlled by men, but still, through it 

all, self-expression burrows its way out. 







106-IV Leidsestraat 


T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 




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FORCED TO FLEE 

Peter Murimi & Polly Renton 

Tens of millions of people around the world have been forced to flee their homes, but unlike 

refugees who are protected by international law, they remain within the borders of 

their own countries. They are the displaced. 





Irin News 

David Gough 

Ocha House, Un Crescent 

Nairobi, Kenya 

T. +254 20 762 2147 

gough@irinnews.org 

www.irinnews.org 


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FOREVER YOUNG 

Ranjan Palit 

For the past decade, every year in the Northeast Indian city of Shillong, 62-year-old hippy 

Lou Majaw and his band, Ace of Spades, has been performing a tribute concert with their 

rendering of Dylan songs. The film is about this man and how his annual celebration of 

Dylan’s music has made him into a small-town hero in the rock capital of the country. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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FORGETTING DAD 

Rick Minnich & Matt Sweetwood 

One week after a seemingly harmless car accident, Richard Minnich – a California data 

processing executive and father of five – wakes up with total amnesia. He no longer recognizes 

his wife and children and has a great deal of difficulty with the simplest daily 

tasks. The doctors are baffled, as there is no evidence of brain damage or other physical 

causes. For the family, the event marks the beginning of a never-ending nightmare. Sixteen 

years later, filmmaker Rick Minnich – the oldest son from Richard’s first marriage – 

returns to California in search of answers to why his father’s memory still hasn’t returned. 

Along the way, Rick not only discovers many deep-rooted emotions that had never been 

dealt with, but also uncovers startling facts. Was Richard really struck by a horrible affliction, 

or was he perhaps trying to escape from a life he could no longer lead 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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FREEING SILVIA BARALDINI 

Margo Pelletier & Lisa Thomas 

On November 9 th , 1982, on a New York City street, Silvia Baraldini was jumped by eight 

members of the FBI terrorist task force and brought into custody during a sweep of the radical 

left. Silvia was the leader of the May 19th Communist Organization, a key element in 

an alliance of revolutionaries, black, bhite and Puerto Rican, who worked relentlessly to 

expose repressive policies of the US government. In 1983, using an array of tactics, the 

government put an end to the alliance. Silvia was convicted of helping to free Black Panther 

Assata Shakur from prison and received a 43-year sentence. Baraldini speaks with an 

almost religious integrity, focused on essential beliefs and principles. Her insistence on 

justice for the oppressed transcends politics, so does her personal suffering. After seventeen 

years in U.S. prisons, in 1999, following a ten-year campaign culminating in one million 

Italian signatures, Silvia won the right to serve out the remainder of her sentence in 

her homeland, Italy, and was transferred to Rebbibia prison in Rome. Silvia’s story exemplifies 

the enduring human spirit within the resistance movements as well as the repressive 

measures waged against them by the US government. 





Thin Edge Films 

Lisa Thomas 

405 Route 385 

Catskill NY 12414, USA 

T. +1 518 943 4871 

F. +1 518 943 4871 

thinedgefilms@gmail.com 


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FRIXOS 

Emmanouil Tselentakis 

Frixos Theodosakis was a great painter 

sculptor and teacher at the Pedagogical Department of the University of Crete. He was 

much loved for many reasons, mainly for his refreshing and particularly vivid presence in 

often dry areas and times; for his breezy and light presence, which ran through the university. 

And for his wit... Frixos left us all of a sudden at Christmas 2006. This documentary 

was made by the University of Crete to honor his memory. Despite the extremely low 

budget, it was successfully completed thanks to the generosity and love of its contributors; 

a small gift in return of the love he offered. It chronicles his life, work and unconventional 

spirit; from a Cretan village as a child-prodigy, all the way to University, where he 

was the students’favorite. 




Manolis Tselendakis 

13 Aiolou Str. 


T. + 30 2810 31 0200 

etselenti@edc.uoc.gr 


522 

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Category: Adventures & Travel 

FROM OLYMPUS TO EVEREST 

Pavlos Tsiandos 

Climbing the summit of Mount Everest had been a long-time dream for Greek 

mountaineers. It was a long way to go from Greek everyday life to the 8,850-meter high 

mountain top, and it was filled with many obstacles. Yet neither the lack of experience, nor 

the high altitude and the extreme weather conditions, nor the lack of financial or any 

other kind of support, nor the disputes among the climbers, not even death itself could 

stop the dream from coming true. In the spring of 2004, two teams were ready to try for 

the fifth time to scale the mountain. One chose the South route from Nepal and the other 

the North route from Tibet. Under the guidance of Greek-American climber and seventime 

Everest summiter Pete Athans, the two teams aimed to meet on the summit. 





Iris Productions 

Tsiandos Pavlos 

43 Aristotelous Str. 


T. + 30 210 645 0590 / 694 652 6542 

tsiapas2001@yahoo.gr 


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FRONTRUNNERS 

Caroline Suh 

Frontrunners is a smart and funny political documentary that follows the student council 

presidential campaign at one of the country’s most prestigious public high schools: 

Stuyvesant High School in New York City. 

An entertaining and symbolic campaign film, put forth in classic verité style, we follow 

four charming and idiosyncratic candidates as they navigate an electoral process that is 

said to be one of the most competitive at the high school level. 

These teenaged candidates face the same issues as candidates of any age, such as picking 

the “right”running mate, shaking as many hands as possible, preparing for televised 

debates, impressing the pundits and journalistic community, addressing sensitive race-related 

issues, and mobilizing an apathetic voter base. 

A microcosm of the US Presidential elections, Caroline Suh’s film shows politicking and 

pluralities through the lens of the adolescent experience. 





Oscilloscope Laboratories 

Dan Berger 

511 Canal St., 5E 


T. +1 212 219 4029 

F. +1 212 219 9538 

dan@oscilloscope.net 

www.oscilloscope.net 

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GADJO 

Kryspin Pluta 

Music becomes a reason for the meeting of a Gypsy boy and an old Silesian man. Rebellious 

hip hop texts contrast with idyllic songs played on the old man’s guitar. The confrontation 

of those two distinct worlds leads to the surprising and close relation between 

them. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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GAETANO 

Renato Giugliano 

When Gaetano left Italy he was disappointed by its people and system. He then reached 

lush Ireland where love came into his life and gave him a new purpose: to travel the world, 

to discover places and maybe, have some kids… A life on the road that doesn’t forget its 

roots and motherland. 





RLP - Renato Giugliano 


17 via S. Campagnoli 

Bologna 40128, Italy 

T. +39 335 667 8740 

renato.giugliano@gmail.com 


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GAZA HOSPITAL 

Marco Pasquini 

Beirut. Gaza Hospital sits at the crossroads between the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra 

and Chatila. The ten-storey high building carries the mark of its past. Bullet holes cover the 

façade. Yasser Arafat spoke of the desire to build a proper state including free health care; 

Gaza Hospital was a key part of this revolutionary project. Nowadays, Gaza Hospital is no 

longer a hospital; it is a home for refugees. They live with the pain of being exiled Palestinians. 

Yet, they share in the suffering, the joy, the wedding celebrations and religious 

feasts. The building has virtually been transformed into a vertical refugee camp. It still 

overlooks the camps, it is a symbol that bears witness to a people’s struggle that will continue 

to resist and not give up. 

These days, the interior of the building is a like a maze. Beams of light come from the open 

doors of nearby dwellings which sometimes light up the gloomy staircases and rooms. 

Many Palestinian refugee families that witnessed the destruction of their houses over the 

course of many years of hostilities have found in this hospital a place to settle down. 





Suttvuess 


61 Via Sannio 


T. +39 06 4341 9651 

F. +39 06 4341 9652 




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GENDER POP 

Constantine Giannaris 

April 2008, at the BIOS café theater in downtown Athens, a three day event showcasing 

contemporary artistic directions in gender role and identity issues. 





Goethe Institute Athen 

Constantinos Giannaris 

14-16 Omirou Str. 


T. + 30 210 366 1000 

F. + 30 210 364 3518 

michailidou@athen.goethe.org / giann@hol.gr 


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GET ME OUT OF HERE 

Igor Mołodecki 

A sociological portrait of a seemingly ordinary family, in which one of the sons becomes 

in time more and more troublesome. This is a long, and therefore unique observation over 

many years of a man that is slowly getting into serious problems with the law, and an 

up-close look at his loving mother and father’s reactions. 






Agata Chłopek 



T. +48 22 547 5680 

F. +48 22 547 4248 

sales@tvp.pl 


www.tvp.pl 


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GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE – THE PAINTER 

OF THE QUIET HORSES, 1688-1766 

Joël Farges 

The Painter of the Quiet Horses tells the unique destiny of Giuseppe Castiglione, a Jesuit 

missionary who left for China in 1716. 

Tremendously inspired by Chinese culture, Castiglione progressively got to master the 

technique of Chinese painting. By doing so he became a favorite of the Emperor whose 

prestige he honored in his paintings which mostly stage horses in battles or in hunting 

scenes. Later on, he was in charge of designing the Palaces in the imperial gardens of the 

Old Summer Palace. 

He then became an official painter of the Emperor’s court, a rare and privileged position 

especially for a foreigner; he took this opportunity to bring together Europe and China. 

Through the fascinating story of Giuseppe Castiglione, this film will question topics such 

as faith, history, and artistic creation, interlaced in a world where both European and Chinese 

culture constantly meet and examine each other. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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GLASS TRAP 

Pawel Ferdek 

Cash, a car and a mobile phone... as well as fish. A group of tough men from near Warsaw 

organize a new form of entertainment. Their customary meetings over alcohol and 

drugs start to include fights between aggressive aquarium fish, which fights are, of course, 

accompanied by bets for large sums of money. Such is the extent of this hobby that one 

of the characters hopes that his champion will contribute significantly to the purchase of 

a new Subaru. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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GLOSSOLALIA 


It is an ancient belief from south Italy that frightened entire generations of people. It was 

said that women bitten by a tarantula whilst working in the fields would go crazy and 

live a cursed life until someone would find the right chords to wake them up. It is the beginning 

of the Taranta dance, the“Pizzica”, so called for the bite itself. By dancing, women 

would release their pain, lose the poison that held onto their spirits and go back to their 

families. 









T. +39 335 667 8740 



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GOD MADE THEM BLIND 

Richard Todd 

John Fawcett dies on an operating table, comes back to life with amnesia and has no idea 

why he is about to change the lives of 25,000 blind Balinese. God Made Them Blind is a 

documentary focusing on the life and work of an ordinary Australian who has devoted 

years to reducing the enormous number of cataract blind people in Indonesia. Confronted 

with skeptical Hindu belief systems and black magic, John’s challenge is to convince a nation 

that blindness is not God’s punishment. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




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GOING AGAINST FATE 

Viviane Blumenschein 

The documentary follows the American conductor David Zinman and theTonhalle-Ochestra 

Zurich during rehearsals, concerts and the recording of Gustav Mahler’s 6th Symphony. 

The central character of the film is the charismatic David Zinman, who takes us through 

the film, providing both content information and an emotional connecting thread. His 

narration of Mahler’s private life gives us insight into the emotional and musical world of 

the eminent composer. At the same time, we look behind the scenes and witness how 

conductor and orchestra interact on their journey towards the finished recording, as they 

unravel the secret of a musical masterpiece:The Symphony. In many ways, Gustav Mahler’s 

music expresses his searching, tinged with self-doubt, and his longing to explore the most 

remote areas of the human soul. The problematic existence of mankind was on his mind 

for his entire life and an ever inspiring, powerful source of his creativity. Every new piece 

of work was a further attempt to find an answer. The 6th Symphony, called“Tragic”, is his 

most autobiographical and personal work. The film conveys Zinman’s intense closeness to 

Mahler’s emotional universe and takes the audience on a powerful visual and aural journey 

into the world of sounds. 





Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion 

Susanne Radelhof 

15 Heinrich-Roller Strasse 


T. +49 30 6956 6910 

F. +49 30 6956 6915 

s.radelhof@gebrueder-beetz.de 

www.gebrueder-beetz.de 


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GOISERN GOES EAST 

Markus Wogrolly 

Enjoy a concert tour by ship. The Austrian musician Hubert von Goisern is crossing the East 

of Europe on the Danube from Austria to the Black Sea. He invites excellent musicians 

from the local pop and jazz scene. 

These musical and personal encounters along the river banks reflect the changing cultures 

and their powerful expressions. Music that makes you dance and smile… 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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GOLDEN MACEDONIA 

Apostolos Tsitsoulis 

Is it by chance that mythology puts Midas in Macedonia What does science prove thousands 

of years later Did gold play the same role in Ancient Macedonia as it does today 

Did the Ancient Macedonians, under the reign of Philip, interpret the myth of Midas and 

his love of gold the same way we do Did they see in the tale merely the avarice of the king 

or did the story of Midas also have other dimensions 



Sales Contact: ERT 3 

Contact Person: Lazaros Lazaridis 

Kaftatzoglou & Stratou Ave., 

Thessaloniki 54640, Greece 

T. + 30 2310 299500-1 

F. + 30 2310 299550 

www.ert3.gr 


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GOLDFISH 

Tomasz Wolski 

Goldfish is a documentary about the colorful everyday lives of a group of mentally handicapped 

people. The film follows the group as they prepare to put on a production of “The 

Tale of the Goldfish”, an adaptation of a story by Alexander Pushkin. It’s a unique and optimistic 

story about simple dreams that come true. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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GOODFELLAS – THE LANDS FREED 

FROM COSA NOSTRA 

Luigi Abramo & Emanuele Piano 

The Mafia can be fought in Sicily without weapons or police operations. Cosa Nostra can 

be defeated through hard work and hope. Young Sicilians are waging their personal battle 

against the criminal organization by cultivating lands confiscated from the Mafia. Antonio, 

Francesca, Gianluca, Leonardo and Marco are the members of the Placido Rizzotto 

cooperative. Rizzotto was a union leader. He fought in favor of local peasants and against 

the landlords protected by the Mafiosi. He was killed 50 years ago and the cooperative 

has decided to pick up his fight. The Placido Rizzotto cooperative cultivates lands formerly 

owned by Mafia bosses producing oil, pasta and tomato sauce. Their produce is sold 

throughout Italy thanks to Libera, an anti-Mafia organization lead by priest Don Luigi 

Ciotti. Our“Goodfellas” are there to show how Cosa Nostra can be beaten by ordinary, responsible 

people. 








T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 




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THE GREEN DUMPSTER MYSTERY 

Tal Haim Yoffe 

A detective-like search is launched when the director encounters some very old photographs 

and documents in a dumpster near his home in southernTel Aviv.The photos spark 

his imagination and set him off on a humorous, personal and touching journey to search 

for the owner’s identity, discover their story and bring them back from oblivion. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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GREECE 


GRIEF: LITTLE TALES 

OF UNEMPLOYMENT 

Yorgos Ch. Zervas 

A contemplative “portrait” of the grief felt by the unemployed in Greece today. How do 

they feel now What do they think about the future About the past About others who 

have jobs What is their relationship to their family To their friends To people around 

them Does the cloud have a silver lining that gives them hope Textile mills and garment 

factories, tobacco factories and tobacco warehouses, shipyards... Desolate spaces, falling 

to ruin, empty husks that now stand lifeless. And the jobless: at a loss, confessing, showing 

anger, reminiscing, becoming emotional, struggling, despairing. And then there are 

those who hope and who, above all, defend their right to human dignity. A journey into 

a painful landscape of today’s reality. 






Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503 

F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


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THE GYMNASIUM OF RIZOKARPASO 

Natasa Louka 

Α documentary about the history of the gymnasium which is located in the remote area 

of Rizokarpaso on Cyprus. Greek-Cypriots have been living in this enclave for the last 40 

years, following the Turkish invasion. The Gymnasium was closed down in 1974. Thanks 

to the struggle of the community and the efforts of the Cypriot government, it was reopened 

in 2004. The gymnasium is the reason why the families still live in the enclave of 

Rizokarpaso. It constitutes the sole Greek voice in the occupied territories of Cyprus. The 

documentary includes recent filming in the area of Rizokarpaso and interviews with former 

and current students and teachers, Greek as well as Cypriot, about the history of the 

gymnasium. Never before seen documents dating back to 1917 attest to the establishment 

of the first nucleus of the Rizokarpaso Gymnasium. 





Cyprus Broadcasting Corporations 

Natasa Louca 

Rik Ave. 

Nicosia 2120, Cyprus 

T. + 357 2 286 2409 

F. + 357 2 233 0241 

natasa.louca@cybc.com.cy 


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HAIR INDIA 

Raffaele Brunetti & Marco Leopardi 

The journey of a young Indian woman’s hair, donated to the Temple to be then converted 

into exquisite hair extensions in Italy. This same hair will then return to India to satisfy the 

whim of a successful career woman in Bombay. 

A story of the cult of beauty in the era of globalization. An original view of today’s India 

with its contradictions. A kaleidoscope of modernity, economic expansion and ancient 

traditions. 





B&B Film 

Carmen Gonzales 

9 Via Ottaviano 


T. +39 06 3972 9989 

F. +39 06 3972 6129 

contact@bbfilm.tv 

www.bbfilm.tv 


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(HALF) THE TIME OF MY LIFE 

Marko Doringer 

Filmmaker Marko Doringer has decided to go on a very personal mission: he is 30 years 

old, hasn’t achieved anything in life, and has just lost his first molar. In a light and comic 

tone, Marko ventures out to visit old friends, his parents, and their friends to find out 

whether they are better off than him. Why does being 30 have to be this hard 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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HALIMA’S CELLPHONE 

Olga Prud’homme 

This story takes place in Bangladesh. It is May 2000. I have come to follow the arrival of a 

cell phone in the life of Halima, a village woman. Halima got this cell phone thanks to a 

loan from the Grameen Bank, the “bank of the poor”. It is the first phone ever to arrive in 

this village. It will benefit Halima as well as all the village people. 

January 2007: back to Halima. Has Professor Yunus, who meanwhile has been awarded 

the Peace Nobel Prize, won his wager Can a cell phone change a destiny Can micro credit 

help the poor to jump above the poverty line What happened to Halima and to her cell 

phone 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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THE HANGING GARDENS 

OF SANTA EMILIA 

Floor Kooij & Sibel Bilgin 

A documentary about the construction of a new, completely sustainable settlement on the 

Coffee Farm Santa Emilia in the Matagalpa region of Nicaragua. The project includes housing 

for the workers, a huge kitchen, water purification and the use of biogas. Everything 

is made by local, natural materials. Designed by an international team of architects and 

engineers, the project is more than just a case of sustainable building. Experts from Europe 

and the United States tried to dissuade the people of Nicaragua from making the same 

mistakes that were made in the West, but it was not easy to do. Besides the project itself, 

the film also focuses on the cultural conflict between the Western world and a developing 

country like Nicaragua. The documentary shows that if all the different parties are 

open to each other, then we can all learn and benefit. 





Parallel Film 

Sibel Bilgin 

14 Hemonystraat 

Amsterdam 1074 BP, The Netherlands 

T. +31 20 675 7180 

parallelfilm@hotmail.com 


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HEART OF THE FACTORY 

Virna Molina & Ernesto Ardito 

The film looks at the life of a group of workers, men and women, inhabitants of Argentinian 

Patagonia. In a poor country looted by its own governments and businessmen, the 

workers of the Zanon ceramic tile factory take over the factory when its owner closes it. 

They start to produce ceramics again, but this time without bosses. In order to do so, the 

workers had to study and to outdo themselves in order to solve all the problems linked to 

the areas of production. Together with 5,000 inhabitants of Neuquén province who support 

them, workers have resisted four attempted evictions. They do not consider themselves 

the new owners of the factory: on the contrary, they consider the Neuquén 

community as the only owner. They give back in donations to the most needy sectors the 

surplus that the factory produces. This is the only factory in the world where the workers’ 

management has been operating for more than seven years. This is a permanent challenge 

where every day the workers have to fight against a political and economic system 

that tries to boycott them. 




Virna Molina / Ernesto Ardito 

4554 Paraguay, 1º“C” 

Buenos Aires 1425, Argentina 

T. +54 11 4775 5026 

nikargentina@ciudad.com.ar 


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GREECE 


HELEIA 

Kovotsos Angelos 

Fire has changed the life of people on Mount Lapithos in the prefecture of Heleia. The film 

shows forests and villages after the devastation. Our camera captures people’s first reactions 

and emotions. 

(Research by Hara Fragou. Documentary series Fotosfera.) 





Aktis AVteam 

Athanasios Palos - Papantonopoulos 

1 Ellis Street 


T. +30 210 683 8888 

F. +30 210 684 8008 

ap@aktis.biz 

www.aktis.biz 

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HIDDEN HEART 

Cristina Karrer & Werner Schweizer 

Christian Barnard of Capetown didn’t write the great success story of the first heart transplant 

in 1967 alone. Hamilton Naki, a black man, was equally part of the sensational operation. 

Hidden Heart tells the story of two men, glamour, injustice and uprising. 






Anais Clanet 



T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 




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ISRAEL 


HOLY FIRE 

Yoram Sabo 

The Old City of Jerusalem is in the heart of the Middle East conflict. Measuring just a single 

square kilometer, people from three of the world’s great religions rub shoulders in four 

distinct quarters, and houses built on top of each other nestle against some of the holiest 

sites in the world. There, of all places, tense co-existence is maintained. In the churches, 

leaders of the feuding sects stake their religious and territorial claims as they prepare for 

Easter Sabt an-Nur, the most sacred ceremony of the year. On top of theTemple Mount (al- 

Haram to Muslims), a group of Palestinian children practice throwing stones, while beneath 

them an orthodox Jew plans to replace the landmark mosques with a rebuilt Jewish 

Temple. Presiding over this is the Chief of the Old City Police, who serves more as an arbitrator 

than as a law officer. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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HOPE AGAINST HOPELESSNESS 

Constantinos Patsalidis 

Hope against Hopeless deals with the causes that provoke the waves of refugee and the violation 

of human rights. It aims to shed light on the illegal movement of economic immigrants 

and refugees from Syria into Turkey and then into Cyprus. Shocking images of 

immigrants at the borders of Syria and Iraq oscillate between hope and hopelessness. The 

political position of Turkey and the position of the Amnesty International. A refugee’s story. 

Three years in prison without trial and the never-ending struggle of people striving for a 

better quality of life. 





Walking Around the World 

George Avraam 

1st April N.60, Kato Lakatamia 

Nicosia 2310, Cyprus 

T. +357 96 546 046 

F. +357 22 720 026 

grgavraam@yahoo.com 


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GERMANY 


HOTEL SAHARA 

Bettina Haasen 

A dead-straight, endless road leading to nowhere. And at the end of the road: Nouadhibou, 

a town in the West African country of Mauritania, bordered by the ocean on one side 

and the Sahara Desert on the other. A bleak and inhospitable departure point for the tens 

of thousands of people that pour in from neighboring countries, all with only one dream 

in mind: Europe. 

Hotel Sahara is a film journey to the last invisible border from theWest-African coast to Europe. 

This place is a metaphor, a point of arrival, of departure, of broken dreams – of waiting 

for that better life on the far side of the Atlantic. It is, above all, a no-man’s land, a 

place of endless waiting, and endless hoping. The film reveals how difficult it is to differentiate 

between “true” and “false” refugees. Is one a “real”refugee only when one’s life is 

being threatened What if one simply desires to escape a deadening lack of perspective 

With an observant and cautious eye, Hotel Sahara documents how closely the dream of a 

better life is linked to sudden stagnancy, and how much patience is required to wait for 

years until finally, perhaps, arriving somewhere. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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HOW FUNKY IS MY CHICKEN 

Tim Wege 

Three dynamic youngsters from Cape Town’s townships are fighting HIV with the most 

unusual weapon – soccer. They’re driven, inspiring, and the kind of people that might just 

rescue South Africa from its crippling health crisis. This film will follow the “All-Stars” of 

Soccer for Hope, as they harness pre-2010 Soccer World Cup frenzy to subversively feed 

messages about contraception and HIV awareness to pre-teenage children in the townships, 

where HIV is killing 900 people a day. 

The voices of the film are the three characters, Wewe, Bev and Rogerio. Their daily outreach 

programs at Soccer for Hope form the backbone of the film, as we use these journeys into 

Cape Town’s townships to explore the characters’motivation, and their approach to life in 

South Africa“after the rainbow”. 





Plexus Films 




T. +27 21 426 2070 

F. +27 21 426 2069 




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USA 


HUXLEY ON HUXLEY 

Mary Ann Braubach 

Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso who turned renowned psychotherapist, married Aldous 

Huxley, author of Brave New World, in 1956. Their Hollywood Hills home became a 

hotspot for California’s artistic and intellectual avant-garde like Orson Welles, Igor Stravinsky, 

George Cukor and Christopher Isherwood. At the vanguard of psychedelic experimentation, 

they stood in conflict with the libertine Timothy Leary. As seekers of expanded 

states of human consciousness, their lives and work greatly influenced contemporary 

American cultural history. Laura’s candid recollections offer a compelling glimpse of her 

life and work with Huxley, a literary giant and visionary of the 20th century. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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I DREAMT OF COLORFUL CLOUDS 

Mario Balsamo 

Edison, a young boy from Albania, arrived in Italy in 1999, alone, without his parents, in 

an inflatable boat. Today he is in a reformatory in Lecce. Full of hope, he doesn’t consider 

himself a victim, but rather the hero of an adventure that is chasing his dreams. Dealing 

not only with issues of immigration and integration, Mario Balsamo’s documentary is also 

the story of a friendship so strong that it has changed two lives: the child and the filmmaker 

return to Albania together, where Edison meets his mother again for the first time 

since he left for Italy. 





Vitagraph 

Filippo D’Angelo 

1 Via Schiavonia 


T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 

vitagraph@libero.it 


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ICELAND 


I THINK SHE’S A MUSUNGU 

Anna Thora Steinthorsdottir 

I Think She’s a Musungu is a documentary about 8-year-old Erna Kanema. She lives in 

Reykjavik with her Icelandic mother, Zambian father and little sister. She takes her Icelandic 

grandmother and uncle’s family on an adventurous trip to Zambia to meet her relatives 

there. Erna Kanema reflects on her identity as a white, black or brown girl. 







14 Tungata 


T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 




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I WILL PLAY IT TO YOU 

Katarzyna Jezior & Maciej Białobrzeski 

A documentary presenting the most extraordinary Polish violinist, her career as well as her 

personal history. The film comprises three parts, based on the Brahms concerto: allegro, 

adagio and vivace. In the first part, the artistic career of the character is presented. In the 

second the author talks about her childhood, war, Jewish family and marriage with the 

Prime Minister of communist Poland. The last part shows the artistic passion of 

Wilkomirska. 









T. +48 22 547 5680 

F. +48 22 547 4248 

sales@tvp.pl 


www.tvp.pl 


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ICE PEOPLE 

Anne Aghion 

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ann Aghion spent four months in Antarctica, living “on 

the ice” with modern-day explorers, to find out what drives these dedicated researchers 

to leave the world behind them in pursuit of science. While there, she captured a genuine 

sense of what it means to live and work in one of the most extreme environments on 

Earth. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




566 

ITALY 

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IDENTITY – THE TRUE STORY 

OF JUAN PIRAS PERON 

Chiara Bellini 

In 1909, emigrant from Sardinia Giovanni Piras leaves for Argentina. A few years later he 

vanishes, but then his traces allegedly overlap with those of Juan Domingo Peron. Among 

concealed documents and coincidences bordering on the absurd, an incredible journey 

between mystery and international politics, from Sardinia to Argentina, throughout the 

entire 20th century. 





Morgana Production s.r.l. 

Giona A. Nazzaro 

51 Via Goffredo Mameli 


T. +39 06 5833 2148 

F. +39 06 58345669 

cinema@morganalab.eu 

www.morganlab.eu 


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IMMATERIAL TREASURE 

Markus Hansen & Jean-Marie Boulet 

A musical documentary about an African-American violinist in Vietnam, when musical 

encounters and creation overcome nationalism, traditions, borders and sorrows. A violin 

road movie. 






Anais Clanet 



T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 




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GREECE 

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IN AWE OF THE GREAT SHADOW 

Manolis Dimellas & Philippos Alaveras 

Let’s take a journey into space and time. On 29 March 29, 2006 we had the good fortune 

in Greece to watch a solar eclipse. For the first time in many decades, a total eclipse was 

visible from Greek soil. The eclipse was partial to the whole of Greece except to the island 

of Kastelorizo where it was total. The two previous total solar eclipses, which were visible 

from Greece, occurred in 1870 and 1936. After the eclipse of March 2006, the next total 

eclipse, visible from our country will take place in 2088! But what is it about a solar eclipse 

that evokes primal emotions in people Who can explain the phenomenon Is vision necessary 

in order to see a solar eclipse 




Manolis Dimellas 

38 Athanassiou Diakou Str., Pireaus 


T. + 30 210 411 7149 / 697 701 0457 

F. + 30 210 692 4770 

dimellasm@hotmail.com 


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.IN FOR MOTION 

Anirban Datta 

.in for Motion is a visual essay about the dramatic change what the world’s largest democracy, 

India, has been going through for the past two decades. Economic liberalization and 

the IT revolution took place simultaneously in a country where the real industrial revolution 

hasn’t yet happened. 

The cities expanded vertically and horizontally, the consumables changed in variety and 

choice. The citizen realized his power as a consumer and democracy’s fundamental unit 

assumed a new identity. Underneath, the country witnessed an ever-increasing drain of 

inhabitants to the cities, fields of traditional crops gave way to industries, hillocks to IT 

towers. The population, once considered a burden, coupled today with education and professional 

exposure, appears to have become the world’s largest contributor to the evergrowing 

IT industry. 

One development erases memory of the previous one. The fact that India was among the 

earliest in Asia to develop digital computers indigenously is a forgotten story today. This 

film is my journey through the alleys of development, cutting across multi ethno-cultural 

routes, tracing the disconnect, what lies behind the information hole. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: 

THE NEUROSCIENTIST ERIC KANDEL 

Petra Seeger 

Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize and one of the most important neuroscientists of 

the 20th century, published his autobiography In Search of Memory in 2006 to great critical 

acclaim. This film interweaves Kandel’s eventful life-story with the latest advances in 

his neuroscience. Kandel is a Viennese Jew by birth. At the age of nine he was forced to 

emigrate to the USA. In New York he studied Austrian history and literature, but later qualified 

in medicine and became a psychoanalyst. 

For 50 years he has been a “rockstar of neuroscience” to his students. Kandel’s research 

field, which is closely linked to his traumatic childhood experience during the Nazi era, is 

the search for memory. He has proven that everything we experience changes the brain 

and even our genetic expression. A very personal journey into Eric Kandel’s own memory 

will take us to the exterior and interior locations of his childhood, to the exciting everyday 

laboratory life at new York’s Columbia University, and right into the center of the brain, to 

where our memories are stored. This is a film about the art of research and a captivating 

personality’s lust for life. 






Anne Hufnagel 



T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 




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IN SEARCH OF SHILAN 

Mem River 

Ten years ago, Cetin, a Kurdish poet, went into exile from Turkey, and after many months 

via Bulgaria and South Africa, arrived in Australia as a refugee. Leaving the Turkish army 

after bearing witness to atrocities in Kurdish villages, he put himself in danger by publicizing 

the army’s actions, and in doing so was forced to leave the woman he loved. Now, 

he wants to find Shilan, his lost love. He’s never forgotten her, and never married during 

his life in Australia. But now she’s made her choice; she’s a female guerrilla in the PKK, 

living in the remote Zagros Mountains of northern Iraq and Iran, and devoted to the struggle 

to re-establish a Kurdish homeland. Ten years on, and the situations are reversed; this 

time it’s Shilan who has to choose between love for a man or love for her homeland. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 



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IN THE FOG OF THE PAST 

Anna Montanyà 

The Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra was once the biggest in Italy. 

The film tells its story by showing the lives of two ex-patients, Tullio and Pilade. 

Ex-staff members complete the historical background and discuss the ethical implications 

of psychiatry. 





La Boia 

Sebastian Schaal 

c/o Schaal Stettiner Strasse 39 


T. +49 160 754 7480 

F. +49 30 493 8912 

seba@laboia.de 

www.laboia.de 


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IN THE HOLY FIRE OF REVOLUTION 

Masha Novikova 

This film gives a unique insight into the Russian opposition against the Putin regime during 

the last two years. Since the victory of the recent elections in March 2008 this regime 

does not tolerate any opposition at all. 

Young people are demonstrating in the streets of Moscow. Their flags and banners tell 

us they want a better future for Russia. Some with Putin, others absolutely without 

Putin. They call themselves communists, anti-communists, or patriots. They all talk about 

their immense love for Russia, and they all want to save this Russia; conflicting parties, all 

armed with the same portrait of Che Guevara. 

The daily routine is heavy for the opposition leaders. They have no access to the media, 

they are beaten up during the demonstrations and often they are put in prison. The pro- 

Putin Youth follows them everywhere and uses every means to accuse them of betrayal. 

Or, on occasion, the Kremlin tries to bribe the opposition leaders. But still, even the most 

dangerous demonstrations, or having to go to court and facing imprisonment: it all eventually 

becomes part of daily life. 

What the life of an opposition leader looks like in Russia, when people do not trust you! 





NPO/RNW Sales 

Kaisa Kriek 



T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




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USA 

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INFINITE SPACE: THE ARCHITECTURE 

OF JOHN LAUTNER 

Murray Grigor 

Infinite Space traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture 

that has no beginning and no end”. It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated 

life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century. As a young man, 

Lautner broke from his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright, and went west to California to forge 

his own unique style. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles 

with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicenter of pop culture, bitterness at lost 

opportunities, and finally – monumental achievement. Lautner was idolized by young 

modernists, criticized by academics, and beloved by the clients who worked side by side 

with him to build their houses. It was a life in pursuit of beauty. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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MEXICO 


THE INHERITORS 

Eugenio Polgovsky 

At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. The Inheritors is a portrait 

of their lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children work at farming, sculpting 

and painting traditional alebrijes, shepherding, making bricks, weaving cloth, looking 

after their younger siblings, carrying water, harvesting tomato, chili, maize, and laboring 

at a myriad other activities. They have inherited tools and techniques from their ancestors, 

but they have also inherited their day-to-day hardships. Generations pass and child workers 

remain captive in a cycle of inherited poverty. 





Tecolote Films 

Eugenio Polgovsky, Camille Tauss 

17 Malintzin,, int 314, Col.del Carmen 

Coyoacan 04100, Mexico 

T. +52 55 5554 3224 

tecolotefilms@gmail.com 


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INTIMIDAD 

David Redmon & Ashley Sabin 

Cecy and Camilo are a young couple struggling to make ends meet. They leave their modest 

hometown of Santa Maria, Puebla, east of Mexico City and their baby daughter Loida 

with Cecy’s parents and resettle in Reynosa; a city in a nearby state. 

Reynosa is now a global production centre having undergone a major industrial boom 

with foreign corporations building assembly plants or maquiladoras, attracted by the 

cheap peso and incentives under NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement). 

Everyday thousands of migrants like Cecy and Camilo pile into factories like the Victoria’s 

Secret assembly plant that Cecy works at, lured by the promise of a minimum wage and 

a better life. Filmed in Super 8 and 16mm, Intimidad captures acutely the contrasting images 

of consumer culture and dire poverty that exist alongside each other in Reynosa. 

Intimidad explores the difficult choices and sacrifices that we are confronted with in trying 

to build better lives for our families. The travails faced by the couple are intimately 

captured against a background of extreme poverty, rapid industrialization and consumerism. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 




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INTO THE WORLD 

Constantin Wulff 

A moving portrait of a maternity clinic in Vienna provides a fascinating look at the drama, 

pain and beauty of entering this world. In all its intensity and variety, the everyday miracle 

of birth is depicted in direct cinema and linked to the cycle of the procedures that accompany 

it. A chronicle of life’s beginning and the organization surrounding it. 

In the finest tradition of direct cinema the film dispenses entirely with commentary, interviews 

and music, and any kind of exposition at all. The viewer is merely placed in the 

middle of the action. Thanks to the art of careful editing, fascinating observations and microdramas 

of everyday life are assembled into larger themes that go far beyond a simple 

portrait of a medical clinic, becoming, in a sense, a portrait of society as it relates to birth. 



BLIND LOVES 







T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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IRAN – THE HUNDRED-YEAR WAR 

Jean Michel Vecchiet 

A country at a crossroads, a nation divided; Iran is on the rise after a century of political upheaval. 

The nuclear crisis has revealed to the world its goal: to become a world power. 

The roots of this bold challenge issued to the West sink deep into a past rife with revolutions, 

coups de force and intrigues elaborated in foreign capitals. The telling of this story, 

with light shed on it from the point of view of Iranians who were its key players, provides 

the keys to present-day Iran’s goal of international influence. 

For the first time ever, this film will look back over 100 years of Iranian history to the veritable 

wellsprings of the confrontation between Iran and the western powers. 

From 1908 to 2008, from the discovery of oil reserves to the nuclear crisis, we present a 

spectacular voyage to the heart of a country and a people, a colorful fresco focusing on 

real-life stories, unveiling archive images and authentic documents, and giving eyewitnesses 

– Iranian men and women – a chance to speak. A crisscrossing gaze, free of both 

prejudice and compromise: how they see us, how we see them. 





ARTE France 

Audrey Kamga 

8 rue Marceau 


T. +33 1 5500 7081 

F. +33 1 5500 8065 




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JACK, THE BALKANS & I 

Sergej Kreso 

In 1972, Congolese-Belgian pop star Jack Roskam moves to Yugoslavia, where he meets 

and marries his Croatian wife. He becomes the guitarist of one of the most popular local 

rock bands, Galija. Tall, black and adorned with dreadlocks, Jack stands out on stage, 

among his mostly Serbian colleagues. A confirmed pacifist, Jack had escaped service in the 

Belgium army, but at the time of the outbreak of the Yugoslavian war his convictions are 

sorely tested. As Galija’s songs become more Serb orientated, Jack decides to leave the 

band. While Yugoslavian people are forced to choose sides, Jack faces the dilemma to either 

return to Belgium or to stay and share the fate of his new country and family and 

friends. The war will force him to change his Fender Stratocaster for a Kalashnikov and to 

fight in the Croatian army. In this road movie, Jack and the Bosnian filmmaker travel 

through former Yugoslavia, reflecting on the choices they both made in the war. 





Andana Films 


Le Village 


T. +33 475 943 467 

F. +33 475 942 509 




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JELENA’S WORLD 

Tanja Brzakovic 

A young, beautiful girl wakes up in a hotel room in some exotic corner of our planet. After she 

gets up, dresses herself, brushes her teeth, as any other twenty-two-year-old- girl would do, 

any similarity between this girl and regular twenty-two-year-old- girl disappears.This girl is 

the world’s third best tennis player and today is the first day of a new tennis tournament. She 

has a very strict schedule to follow: breakfast, training, signing autographs, massage, consultations, 

relaxing and then the first match. Her mother is always at her side, as are a couple 

of important associates. Sponsors, tournament organizations, fans: they all want something 

from her. What Jelena wants is to become Number 1. She shares this dream with a bunch of 

other girls, but she is the one of the one or two chosen ones that could see it come true. As 

she fights her way towards that goal, she is not alone. Behind her is an army of fans from Serbia 

and all over the world, young and old, that need and believe in Jelena’s success.They identify 

themselves with this smiling, eccentric, fighting girl and experience her every success as 

their own. But Jelena is not a super heroine. She has ups and downs, knows success, but also 

defeat, she cries when she is sad and smiles when she is happy; she’s not afraid of showing 

her true feelings.Through this film, all sport, tennis and Jelena fans are given an insider’s look 

into the world of professional tennis, guided by Jelena Jankovic herself. 





Talas Film 

Anais Clanet 

14/8 Senjacka 

Belgrade 11000, Serbia 

T. +381 6363 3809, F. +381 1126 51551 

office@talas.info 

www.talas.info 


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JOAQUIN SABINA – 19 DAYS 

AND 500 NIGHTS 

Ramon Gieling 

For about two decades now the poet/singer Joaquín Sabina has been an icon and a benchmark 

for over twenty million people in Spain and South America. 

The presidents of all South American countries want to be photographed with him, and 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro, Shakira, Pedro Almodovar, the writer Almudena 

Grandes and the former football player Diego Maradona are among his fans. Sabina is 

controversial; he is left wing, he is a aficionado of bullfighting, and yet he unites left and 

right with the impact of his lyrics and songs. 

Until a few years ago, Sabina’s house in Madrid was the centre of the world; he used to give 

the key to friends, acquaintances and people he knew less well. In 2001, after he suffered 

a brain haemorrhage as a result of his lifestyle, the lock was changed and he retired into 

voluntary isolation for a period of three years. 

In a studio in Madrid, Ramon Gieling had Sabina’s house reconstructed and in it he received 

a number of friends who used to own a key. The house becomes a point of departure 

for a journey among people in Spain who were moved by Sabina’s songs and lyrics. 






Curien Kroon 



T. +31 20 421 0606 

F. +31 20 638 6255 




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JOHN F. KENNEDY. 

A PRESIDENT TO REMEMBER 

Robert Drew 

When John F. Kennedy launched his bid for the presidency, Robert Drew was there, always 

a step behind him, catching history on camera as it happened. In the years that followed, 

Kennedy continued to allow Drew and his team unprecedented access – to his office, to 

the members of his administration, and to his high level briefings on such signal matters 

as nuclear disarmament and civil rights. Though much of that footage has been seen before, 

this new, tightly edited documentary composed from the Drew archives provides a 

timely “view of a President widely respected by his fellow countrymen and celebrated 

across the world.” 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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JOURNEY THROUGH HELL 

Daniel Grandclément 

Every year, thousands of people die trying to make it to Europe. This is their story. We travel 

inside a boat trafficking Africans to Yemen, the first stage of their journey to the West. Over 

100 people are crammed into the tiny 30-foot vessel. Denied food or water and without 

even room to move, they became ill and dehydrated. Anyone who complains is beaten or 

thrown overboard. When the boat approaches the shore, the refugees are forced to jump 

into the sea and swim to shore. Many can’t swim or are so exhausted they drown. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




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GREECE 


JOURNEY TO RAKHIV 

Takis Touliatos 

A cinematic journey through the traumatic turmoil of the past century and the expectations 

for the present one, as experienced today by the people of Rakhiv – a small town in 

Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains – and discussed by them in an atmosphere of simplicity, 

life wisdom and whimsy. 







Protasis Production 

Nikos Nikolettos 

Heiden 1 Str. 


T. + 30 210 825 9541 

F. + 30 210 825 9532 

takis_touliatos@yahoo.gr 


Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503 

F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 

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JUMP. THE WORLD’S GREATEST 

STREAKERS 

Dan Emery 

Jump! follows Spain’s number one streaker, Jaume Marquet (alias Jimmy Jump), from 

Barcelona to Madrid as he prepares to streak at the largest soccer match in Spain, live in 

front of 80,000 spectators and 100 million TV viewers. On the way, the doors open to the 

eccentric world of streaking.We meet world famous Mark Roberts, who has streaked more 

international events than anyone in history and Ron Bensimhon, who dove into the pool 

at the 2004 Olympics. All talk about what drives them and what it takes to be a true professional 

streaker. We meet the lawyers representing them, security teams trying to stop 

them, marketing companies sponsoring them, and the PR specialists dealing with streaks 

turning into publicity disasters. At the end of the film Jimmy arrives in Madrid, will he 

succeed 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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JUST LEAVE DADDY BE 

Debbie Kleijn 

Just Leave Daddy Be is a documentary about twelve-year-old Melvin, whose stepfather 

Hans has a personality disorder. 

During almost two years, director Debbie Kleijn filmed the family in their daily struggle to 

cope with the Hans’s problems. The documentary unravels the vulnerability of children in 

problematic family situations. While the adults are entangled in their own problems, 

young Melvin keeps his worries to himself. 





Roaring Films 

Jan Katsma 

13c Lloydstraat 

Rotterdam 3024 EA, The Netherlands 

T. +31 62 833 8969 

F. +31 10 476 9701 

jan@roaringfilms.com 

www.roaringfilms.com 


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JUST LIKE HEAVEN 

Filip Marczewski 

Just like Heaven is a poetic tale about a young couple who are looking for their natural 

place on Earth. It’s also a story about Europe and Poland, with its eternal exodus from East 

to West while many Western people, like the Dutch in this film, for the very same reason, 

are heading the other way round. Filip Marczewski, an Oscar nominated director for his former 

short student film and cinematographer Szymon Lenkowski, have spent several 

months with their heroes. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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KALANDIA – A CHECKPOINT’S STORY 

Neta Efroni 

Over a period of six years, filmmaker Neta Efrony documented an Israeli military Checkpoint 

– on the road between East Jerusalem and Ramallah – that grew and expanded into 

a terminal. Kalandia’s Checkpoint does not distinguish between Arabs and Jews; it distinguishes 

between Palestinians and Palestinians. 

The film is an authentic and disturbing testimony to the daily struggle of Palestinians who 

wish to continue their routine lives, going through the check point on their way to work, 

to school, to receive medical care or for religious reasons. 









T. +972 52 363 3398 




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GREECE 


KANUN – THE LAW 

OF HONOR AND BLOOD 

Dimitris Gerardis & Sotiris Danezis 

For more than six centuries in the Albanian north, blood is repaid with blood. The law of 

the vendetta is holding thousands of people hostage. Families are at war for killings that 

took place more than half a century ago. The passion for revenge will even kill small children. 

Those who want to live have had to turn their homes into prisons. Some have remained 

imprisoned for their entire lives… It is estimated that 800-1,500 children in 

Albania are living in fear because of the threat of vendetta. They grow up “in a cage”, with 

no access to school. They are not even allowed out to play. In the so-called “valley of 

death”, people have been taught by their ancestors to settle their differences with their 

weapons, following the rules of a justice system carried down through generations from 

the Middle Ages. The documentary producers meet with the victims and perpetrators and 

the children that are being held hostage by hate and revenge. They enter the prisons that 

are their homes and record the despair and the hope of forgiveness. 

This shocking documentary, which was filmed in Albania in March 2008, was part of the 

official selection of the FIPA 2009“Reportage and Current Affairs”category. 





Teletypos SA - Mega Channel 

Litsa Deli & Ioanna Louloudi 

Roussou 4 & Messoghion Ave. 


T. + 30 210 690 3656 

F. + 30 210 699 6811 

warzone@megatv.com 

www.megatv.com 


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TURKEY 

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KARATEPE – ON THE TRACES 

OF BOSSERT 

Mujgan Taner 

The story begins with a few old photo albums bought at a flea market. The faded photographs 

of a journey and an excavation. The man wearing a colonial hat stood at the center 

of all the photographs. He seemed like the Head of the Excavation. But who was that 

man And which part of Anatolia did he excavate 

We follow the traces of the albums… 

An archeological dig that took place between 1945-51 comes to light. A great discovery 

was made. The archaeologist was the founder of the Turkish Archeological Institute, Hittitologist 

Professor Helmuth Theodor Bossert. He discovered the late Hittite Castle 

Karatepe-Aslantaş, dating back to the 7th or 8th century BC. As a result of his work, a new 

language was deciphered at Karatepe-Aslantaş, behind Kadirli, modern-day Adana 

Province, which was written in an unknown alphabet belonging to an unknown nation. 

It was the Hitite Hieroglyph. 

The journey of the discovery, which started in the flea market and took us through Hittite 

History in Anatolia, is depicted with dramatic re-enactments in the documentary. 





TRT 

Asim S. Uvez 

Trt Or-An Sitesi, Dis Kaynaklar mudurlugu a blok Kat: 6 

Ankara 616 06190, Turkey 

T. +90 312 463 2774 

F. +90 312 490 8928 

uvez@trt.net.tr 

www.trt.net.tr 


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KASSIM THE DREAM 

Kief Davidson 

This is the story of World Champion boxer, Kassim Ouma – born in Uganda, kidnapped by 

the rebel army and trained to be a child soldier at age 6. After a decade of warfare, Kassim 

defected and began a new life in America, quickly rising through the boxing ranks. As 

he trains for his next world title fight, keeping his demons out of the ring becomes increasingly 

difficult. A chance to reunite with his family in Uganda hinges on a military 

pardon from the same leaders responsible for his abduction. 





Ro * co Films 

Annie Roney 

80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5 

Saucalito CA 94965, USA 

T. +1 415 332 6471 

F. +1 415 332 6798 

info@rocofilms.com 

www.rocofilms.com 

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KAROSTA: LIFE AFTER THE USSR 

Peter King 

This film explores the abandoned military port of Karosta, in Western Latvia, which has 

seen some of the most influential and disturbing eras of modern times from RussianTsarist 

origins, to Nazi and then Soviet occupation. 

When the Russian army left in 1994 after Latvian independence, Karosta became largely 

uninhabited and most structures fell to ruin. In the late 1990s, the area was troubled by 

high unemployment, street crime and drug problems. 

This documentary explores how the residents of Karosta have coped throughout the years 

without infrastructure and order, and examines how community organization K@2 aims 

to stimulate positive change by means of art, culture, education, and cooperation to give 

residents hope of a better future. 

Karosta is somewhere that has been long forgotten, and at such a pivotal moment in the 

modern world’s development, now is the most vital time to unearth such an important 

part of history, as our power-driven world is soon heading back to the state it was in when 

Karosta was conceived. 





Espresso TV 

David Hooper 



T. +44 1273 730 929 

F. +44 1273 299 403 




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GREECE 


KATRINA MUSIC 

James Brooke & Chronis Pehlivanidis 

What is it about New Orleans and the spirit of the people who live there that could produce 

a mythology, a soul, a humanity that has touched people around the world Real 

New Orleans music is best heard in a real New Orleans music club – where the music 

rises every night – and never stops. Jazz, reggae, gospel, hip hop, R&B, zydeco, rock, blues. 

The city has repeatedly catalyzed American music, as sounds that started in the streets of 

New Orleans reached the world as jazz, rock ’n’ roll, and rhythm and blues. Within the 

songs is the tension and fascination between classes and cultures: African, European, 

Caribbean, Native American, rich and poor – and some of the best music in the world. 





Onos Productions 

Chronis Pechlivanidis 

18 Iraklidon Str. 


T. + 30 210 341 7228 

F. + 30 210 341 7228 

info@onos.gr 


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KEISKAMMA – A STORY OF LOVE 


On the east coast of South Africa, where the Keiskamma River flows into the sea, lies a tiny 

village with a huge legacy. One hundred and forty villagers worked together to create a 

massive tapestry – a multi-media altarpiece that is traveling the world to tell their story. 

Keiskamma – A Story of Love tells the remarkable story of a village that won’t give up in 

the face of adversity. In vérité tradition, the film interweaves the story of a formidable Aids 

activist, Eunice Mangwane, and that of her comrade in arms, Carol Baker. As the artistdoctor, 

Carol, speeds along bumpy Eastern Cape roads, between the Hospice, making 

home visits and creating the altarpiece, Eunice is confronted with news of her daughter 

and grandson’s HIV positive status. While Eunice tries to save her family, Carol meets Nkululeko 

– a lonely, bright eyed 13-year-old boy who has lost his family to HIV/AIDS. What 

follows is a story about how love can change the course of someone’s life. 





Plexus Films 

Miki Redelinghuys, Lauren Groenenwald 



T. +27 21 426 2070 

F. +27 21 426 2069 


lauren@plexusfilms.co.za 



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ISRAEL 


KING LATI THE FIRST 

Uri Bar On 

Lati is only eight years old, but he already has a heavy load on his shoulders. Born in Tel 

Aviv to a Senegalese father and a Belarusian mother, he is heir to the throne of a Senegalese 

tribe. He is now about to travel to his kingdom for the first time where over one million 

of his subjects await his return. Told with a light, comic tone, this film highlights the 

personal cost of globalization and the dilemma we face as we straddle the crossroads of 

tradition and modernity. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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KITES 

Beata Dzianowicz 

In 2006, in the Art School in Kabul a film course entitled“Kabul – My City”was held. Students 

were given cameras and professional help from a young polish director, Jacek 

Szarański. But that was all. They themselves had to come up with the ideas their films 

would be about and in what way they would show Kabul.They trained their lenses on their 

closest surroundings – neighborhood children, ubiquitous kites and themselves. Kites has 

become a record of present-day Kabul from the perspective of an Afghan teenager. It also 

became a story about how a passion for film is awakened, about the difficulty of asking 

questions and the courage to listen to answers. 





Journeyman Pictures 

Katie Adams 

4-6 High Street, Thames Ditton 

Surrey KT7 0RY, UK 

T. +44 208 398 4616 

F. +44 208 972 9100 

journeymantv@btinternet.com 

www.journeyman.tv 


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POLAND 


KITTY, KITTY 

Pawel Lozinski 

There are elegant ladies as well as poor pensioners among them. Burdened with shopping 

bags, day and night, regardless of the weather and time of year, they visit parks, cemeteries 

and secluded places. These are the“cat ladies”, considered as weirdos by some and angels 

of kindness by others. Maybe these women feeding homeless cats are trying to fill an 

empty space in their lives or satisfy their maternal instincts. On camera, they philosophize, 

sing old songs and tell stories of love, fear and lost opportunities. One character argues 

with her husband with whom she shares nothing but a love of cats. They all speak of their 

pets with fondness and affection and have a name for each of them. Łoziński has managed 

to paint a portrait of women who have found a purpose at the end of their lives. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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KLUCIS. THE DECONSTRUCTION 

OF AN ARTIST 

Peteris Krilovs 

This film is a deeply personal view on the life of artist Gustav Klucis, one of the foremost 

representatives of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art. When his career was at its 

peak, he fell victim to Stalin’s terror. His fate after his arrest in January 1938 was kept secret 

for many years. The only thing his widow Valentina Kulagina managed to squeeze 

out of the KGB was the date of his death. Years later, even that bit of information was 

found to be wrong. Τhis film tells a story in which the controversial life and career of an 

artist reflects the tragedy of a whole nation during the first decades of the 20th century. 







Vides Filmu Studija 

Uldis Cekulis 

17 Lapus Street 

Riga LV1002, Latvia 

T. +371 6750 3588, F. +371 6750 3589 

uldis@vfs.lv 

www.vfs.lv 





T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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GREECE 


KREUZBERG 36 

Angeliki Aristomenopoulou 

Hip hop has often been credited with helping to reduce inner city street violence by replacing 

physical violence with breakdance, graffiti and rap. In this film, filmed in Kreuzberg, 

Berlin, we see how hip hop culture integrates into the lives of immigrants, giving them the 

opportunity to express their voice while at the same time keeping them away from gang 

life. 





Onos Productions 

Chronis Pechlivanidis 

18 Iraklidon Str. 


T. + 30 210 341 7228 

F. + 30 210 341 7228 

info@onos.gr 


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THE LADIES 

Christina Alexandra Voros 

When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue, they kept a dozen of 

their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the 

pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87- and 93-year-old sisters reflect on 

the dying of a craft, the importance of family and the persistence of the creative spirit. 





Migrant Turtle Films 

Christina Voros 

16 Hancock Street #2 


T. +1 617 501 6595 

F. +1 212 372 9669 

christina@migrantturtle.com 

www.migrantturtle.com 


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LADY MERCEDES – GETTING OLD 

AS A CAR PROSTITUTE 

David Fonjallaz & Simon Jäggi & Louis Mataré 

In Bern, the capital of Switzerland, Sylvia Leiser has been working for 35 years in her car 

as a prostitute. She is known as “Lady Mercedes”, her car and working place being a Mercedes. 

She has directly experienced the changes that have taken place in her profession: 

brothels have been legalized with the paradoxical consequence that no new legislature has 

been enacted concerning their operation. Prostitution is now socially acknowledged but 

at the same time has lost its glamour, and the profits are no longer what they used to be. 

The number of customers is always the same, yet in Bern the number of women working 

in prostitution has increased tenfold. Today, Lady Mercedes earns in one month what she 

used to earn in one day. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a 

documentary about a vanishing chapter of Swiss social history. 





Lomotion AG 

Louis Mataré 

28 Weyermannsstrasse 

Bern 3008, Switzerland 

T. +41 31 388 0089 

F. +41 31 388 0099 

info@lomotion.ch 

www.lomotion.ch 


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LADY OF THE ROSES 

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb 

Lady of the Roses is the name given to the late Shahindokht Sanati, a lady who went to the 

Lalehzaar region of Kerman before the Islamic revolution and replaced poppies with roses 

and opium with rosewater, and took this so far as to transform the agricultural destiny of 

a whole region. The story is told by Homayoun Sanati, Shahindokht’s spouse, three years 

after her death. He’s the founder of Franklin Publishing, Offset Printing house, Pars Paper 

Co., etc., and who, on the whole, is considered a one-of-a-kind figure in Iran’s culture, industry 

and management. 





Iranian Independents 

Mohammad Atebbai 

PO Box 15875-4769 

Tehran, Iran 

T. +98 912 319 8693 

F. +98 21 222 71157 

info@iranianindependents.com 


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FRANCE 


LAKE LUGU’S LOVERS 

Pierre Meynadier 

Imagine a civilization where there is free love, no marriage, where men do little work, 

don’t inherit property, and where women head families and hold the economy! 

Enter the Women’s Kingdom of the Mosuos in China and follow an unusual love story in 

the world’s last matriarchal society. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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THE LAKE THAT WAS 

Pezhman Mazaheripoor 

Oroomieh lake with the circumference of more than 400 kilometers is located in the northwest 

of Iran, which used to attract many Iranian and foreign tourists. Due to a lack of rainfall, 

several wells and underground water sources have been used and the construction of 

dams on the rivers have caused concerns that Oroomieh Lake will soon dry up. 

This film narrates the lake’s history, when people enjoyed it at their leisure and did not 

suspect the consequences of its demise. 









T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





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THE LAND OF NO EVIL 

Anna Recalde Miranda 

After 35 years under the Stroessner dictatorship and 17 of power and corruption lead by 

the Colorado Party (the only one allowed after the democratic transition), Fernando Lugo, 

a former bishop who ran for President, represents the hope to build a better future. 

Internationally recognized as a human rights activist and discoverer of the archives of terror, 

Martin Almada leads a lonely and exasperated battle to expose the links between the 

old dictatorial system and the current corrupt democracy. 

Guillermina Kanonnikoff, a courageous activist and general secretary of theTekojoja Movement, 

accompanies Fernando Lugo on his journey until the elections on April 20th. 

Through the lives of these characters, we discover a tragic and unknown side of Paraguay’s 

history, a nation which now seems to have all it takes to change its course. 





Suttvuess 


61 Via Sannio 


T. +39 06 4341 9651 

F. +39 06 4341 9652 




463 

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THE LAST WHITE KUARUP 

Bhig Villas Bôas 

Shot in HD, The Last White Kuarup is a dreamlike contact experience, immerged in a visual 

ambience that evokes the mind-altering stages of the mysterious rituals of the indigenous 

people of Xingu. In this film, through animations and testimonials, the Indians appear 

for the first time as protagonists of their own story, and what we see is very painful. 

We realize that the levels of production and consumption of our world are unsustainable 

to the planet, as well as for the human condition. Substituting collaboration with competition, 

that by itself brings on disaster. We also realize how little time we have to turn 

the problem around. We perceive in horror, that besides destroying ourselves in collective 

insanity, our civilization destroys these ancient people that live under a sophisticated system 

of respect to natural and human cycles. And we receive a message from the old Indian 

woman called Airé: “Don’t kill us!“ It is the same as a reminder coming from the 

human heart itself that says:“Do not forget the humanity that lives within you”. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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AUSTRIA 


LET’S MAKE MONEY 

Erwin Wagenhofer 

Let’s Make Money follows the tracks of our money through the worldwide finance system. 

Wagenhofer looks behind the scenes of the colourful backdrop of banks and insurance 

companies. What does our pension provision have to do with the property market 

boom in Spain We don’t have to buy a home there in order to be involved. As soon as we 

open an account, we’re part of the world-wide finance market – whether we want to be 

or not. The bank enters our account into the global money circuit. Banks or pension funds 

might lend our money to speculators. We customers have no idea where our debtor lives 

and what he does to pay our interest fees. Most of us aren’t even interested, because we 

like to follow the call of the banks:‘‘Let your money work for you’’. But this is absurd! Money 

can’t “work”; only people, animals or machines can work. 







2 Rue Turgot 


T. +33 1 49 700 370 

F. +33 1 49 700 371 




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LETTER TO ANNA 

Eric Bergkraut 

On October 7, 2006, Putin’s 54th birthday, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya is shot in the 

lift of her Moscow home. Anna’s death is a personal tragedy: she has just learnt that she 

is to become a grandmother. But the murder is also a political act, for Politkovskaya was 

the President’s fiercest critic.Why was she shot in cold blood, this elegant woman who was 

always on the side of the weak and those who had no rights Letter to Anna is a personal 

quest, but also a political film. 





Accent Films International Ltd. 

Carol Spycher 

46 Rue de la Gare 

Montreux 1820, Switzerland 

T. +41 21 963 9300 

F. +41 21 963 9305 

cspycher@accent-films.com 

www.accent-films.com 


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LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT 

Petr Lom 

Petr Lom was allowed to follow Irani President Ahmadinejad on his trips around rural Iran, 

where he preaches his domestic populism and anti-US foreign policy. The mass support 

he receives in the countryside is astounding. As part of his strategy, Ahmadinejad has set 

up a presidential letter-writing center that purports to solve the personal problems of ordinary 

Iranians. The center has received more than 10 million letters, usually requests for 

financial help. The administrators of the center tell us they are largely successful in answering 

the letters and solving the problems. Soon, however, it becomes clear that all is 

not as it seems. Bureaucratic incompetence and empty promises are the real results of 

most letters to the President. We begin to feel the economic desperation faced by many 

Iranians today. Equally surprising is the open contempt for Ahmadinejad in the cities. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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LIBERTY IN RESTRAINT 

Michael Ney 

As an aspiring photographer, the clandestine world of bondage and discipline, dominance 

and submission, sadomasochism, fetish fashion and alternative sex was a powerful attraction 

for Noel Graydon. 

Liberty in Restraint follows Noel in his quest for authenticity. In this riveting series of testimonials 

we meet the mentors, muses and masochists who have inspired artistic endeavors. 

Noel’s journey also embraced years of drug addiction, then total recovery, 

fatherhood and an ongoing struggle to reconcile fetish life with family life. Peeking behind 

the scenes on numerous fetish portraits, we enter a curious world of rope artists, lapsed 

Catholics, pain sluts, adult babies, electro-torture and blood play enthusiasts who approach 

‘absolution’and sexuality“like an advanced driving course in sex”, and where the 

initiated take carnal license to extreme limits. 

Liberty in Restraint delves deeply into Noel’s life and portfolio to reveal his work in progress, 

the passion for his art and its themes, the community he loves to photograph and their 

controversial transgressive activities. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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306 

GREECE 


LIKE THE AIR I BREATHE, WORLD 

MUSIC IN CRETE 

George Zervas 

This documentary adopts an exploratory, meditative, poetic approach to the meeting of 

outstanding traditional musicians from around the world at Lavyrinthos, a series of workshops, 

discussions and events organized in the village of Houdetsi on Crete by Ross Daly, 

himself a musician of international renown. 

The musicians’teaching, their contact with students in the workshops, and the dialogue 

between traditional musical idioms and instruments from various Mediterranean cultures 

(Europe, Asia, Africa) all reveal the amazing pluralism of world music, as well as the triumph 

of difference accepted, of meaningful communication and creative coexistence. 

The documentary is not an all-inclusive showcase of world musical traditions, nor a flashy 

juxtaposition of exotic instruments and musical traditions. It is a journey which, free of 

ostentation and quaintness, lauds music’s global dimension, its resistance to homogenization 

and the entertainment industry, and its respect for difference, for the world’s great 

musical traditions all owe their riches to interaction between historic civilizations; of 

course, it is also a journey which simultaneously bolsters up all the things we have in 

common. 





VOX Documentaries 

Gina Petropoulou 

5 Stadiou Street 

Athina 171 22, Greece 

T. +30 210 931 7746 

F. +30 210 931 7746 

ginapetropoulou@hotmail.com 


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LONG DISTANCE LOVE 

Magnus Gertten & Elin Jönsson 

Α love story, but also a film about the gigantic migration wave into Russia. Alisher, from 

the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, is a young man looking for love in his life, but who also longs 

to survive in a country where people are living under severe pressure ever since the breakdown 

of the Soviet Union. Alisher marries Dildora on a sweltering summer day, but soon 

– as almost every other young man in this region – he has to go to Russia and try to find 

a job. The distance between Osh and Moscow is 3,500 kilometers. A film about love, hope, 

migration and global injustice. 





Auto Images 

Lennart Ström & Magnus Gerttern 

17E Monbijougatan 

Malmö SE 211 53, Sweden 

T. +46 40 661 0160 

auto@autoimages.se 

www.autoimages.se 


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POLAND 


THE LORD OF THE RIMS 

Kuba Maciejko 

An old man has been fixing rims for all his life. He’s the last person doing this job in constantly 

changing Warsaw. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




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TURKEY 

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LOST SONGS OF ANATOLIA 

Nezih Unen 

A musical voyage among exotic places and people of Anatolia, unique host of ancient civilizations, 

empires as well as mythologies and glory of 10 millennia. As the fruit of 350 

hours of footage and five years of hard work and creative studies, Lost Songs of Anatolia 

may be the first example of its kind as a music documentary. The cultural riches of Anatolia 

are sung in authentic performances, recorded live on location. With the modern arrangements 

made, incomparable music is produced. 

While this journey shows how music and culture derives from life, geography and work, 

an exploration of Anatolia’s versatile cultures takes place on the basis of music, dance and 

rituals. The staggering environment surrounding these people and influencing their lifestyles 

contributes to the lyrical flow of the film. 





Nezih Unen Productions 

Nezih Unen 

Boyalikosk sokak No 5, Sozer Apt. Daire 8, Arnavutkoy 

Istanbul 34345, Turkey 

T. +90 532 245 4346 

F. +90 212 263 4930 

mail@nezihunen.com 

www.nezihunen.com 


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UK 


THE LOST WORLD OF MR HARDY 

Andy Heathcote & Heiki Bachelier 

“Only the best is good enough for fishermen”, said J.J. Hardy at the end of the 19th century; 

how right he was. The name Hardy has been synonymous with the best in angling 

for 135 years, a name to stir the heart of many a fisherman. Experience a beautiful, evocative 

film about the people who have spent their working lives in the pursuit of perfect angling. 

Meet the company’s directors past and present, including James L. Hardy and many of 

the surviving craftsmen, engineers, and employees from the heyday of this legendary 

British firm. See forgotten films capturing an incredible world of 80 years ago with rivers 

teeming with salmon. Discover a new world of rod and reel makers still working by hand 

today and the magic and elegance of the world’s very best fishing tackle. 

Be inspired by a poignant reflection of the world we live in, and the myriad ways it has 

changed over 130 years. Celebrate the longevity of the craftsman’s hand and the essence 

of angling. 

Running time: 90’& 2 x 45’ 




Espresso TV 

David Hooper 



T. +44 1273 730 929 

F. +44 1273 299 403 



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USA 

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LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, 

THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE 

Marion Cajori & Amei Wallach 

A journey into the psyche and imagination of an icon of modern art. Bourgeois is magnetic, 

mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life and art. “Some 

people are so obsessed with the past that they die of it. If your need is to refuse to abandon 

the past, you have to do sculpture”, she says. Scene by scene she exposes past traumas 

as they become sculptures, whose beauty and aggressive magic the camera explores. 





Arthouse Films 

David Koh 

80 Greene Street c/o HASTENS 


T. +1 212 966 1760 

F. +1 212 202 3538 

arthousefilmsdk@gmail.com 

www.arthousefilmsonline.com 


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579 

ITALY 


THE LOVE HOUR 

Andrea Appetito & Christian Carmosino 

The Love Hour is a film about confines, the complex barriers that make love relationships 

impossible. 

To explore this we’ve chosen a place where barriers are visible and insurmountable, a place 

where love becomes impossible: in jail. 

The separation, loneliness and institutionalization of prison life intensifies the waiting, the 

fears, the hopes, insecurity and neediness, emotional blackmail and dependency. A long 

tunnel of barriers progressively narrows and eventually blocks out the horizon for a love 

relationship. 








T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 



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LOVE ON DELIVERY 

Janus Metz 

In a remote fishing community in the north of Denmark live 575 Thai women married to 

Danish men. Fifteen years ago, there were almost none. But Sommai – a former sex 

worker from Pattaya – was there. Now, she and a group of other industrious and strong 

Thai women are trying to find a man for Sommai’s young niece Kae, who is in Denmark 

on a three-month tourist visa. A different kind of love story, the film provides an intimate 

look into the special relationships between Danish men and their Thai wives who all try 

to live out the idea of Western happiness and thereby achieve respect and social status 

back home in Thailand. A story of globalization, poverty, prostitution and our common 

need for security, love and“somebody to care about”. 






Sanna Arlø 



T. +45 3520 3040 

F. +45 3520 3969 

saar@dr.dk 



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189 

UGANDA 


LOVE, POSITIVELY 

Peter Murimi 

Worldwide, more than two million children and adolescents are living with HIV. Close to 

90% of paediatric infections occur in sub-Saharan africa. Love, Positively follows the lives 

of four young adults living in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, who were infected at birth, 

and explores the challenges they face growing up with HIV and the courage they need to 

overcome it. 





Irin News 

David Gough 



T. +254 20 762 2147 



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BELGIUM 

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LUCE’S BESA. AGAINST BLOOD JUSTICE 

Nathalie Rossetti & Turi Finnochiaro 

In Albania, Luce’s son was murdered. At the end of a personal and spiritual journey, the 

mother forgives the assassin, further to the “Besa” of the traditional Kanun law. The“Forgiven” 

considers Luce from then on as his own mother, and he’s rehabilitated. Luce has 

now become an ombudsman and helps other families to refuse blood justice. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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ITALY-GREECE 

M 


MAESMAK 

Georges Salameh 

Maesmak is“What’s your name”in Arabic. 

Maesmak, is an exploration of an interrupted journey taken years ago (December 2002) 

to Baghdad. The movie metaphorically circumnavigates this experience and is a meditation 

on my own process of reflection and interpretation of one day spent in Rutba a few 

weeks before the invasion of Iraq. 





Le Artigiane Della Comunicazione 

Laura Sestito, Georges Salameh 

15 via Michele Amari 

Palermo 90139, Italy 

T. +39 091 581 648 

F. +39 091 581 648 

georgessalameh@gmail.com 

leartigianedellacomunicazione@gmail.com 


289

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145 

TAIWAN 


THE MAN WHO PLANTS TREES 

Lin Yu-hsien 

Lu Ming-shih is a man who has vowed to plant trees along the Tropic of Cancer. As a result 

of a book and a trip to Provence, he embarks on an ambitious project: to plant trees 

in Chianan plain. He has been working on this project for nine years. Along the way he has 

enjoyed the support of many people but has also been treated by some with contempt. 

Nevertheless, Lu doesn’t care what people think of him. He says,“As I’m hopelessly in love 

with Nature, I plant trees”. He believes that all dreams can come true. Lu understands that 

to plant trees along the Tropic of Cancer is a mission which may be not completed by one 

generation, but he believes that it can be handed down to the next generation. The most 

important thing is for someone to make a start. He is convinced that as long as there are 

people who will carry on working, this dream will one day come true. 





Joint Entertainment International Inc. 

James Liu 

421-6F Guang Fu South Road 

Taipei 11074, Taiwan 

T. +886 2 2720 6007 

F. +886 2 2758 8516 

james@j-ent.com.tw 

www.j-ent.com.tw 


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JAPAN 

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MANHOLE CHILDREN 

Taro Takahashi 

In early 1990, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Mongolia was forced to make the transition 

from a communist to a capitalist economy. The rapid introduction of a free market 

economy, however, produced economic confusion that caused massive unemployment 

and plunged nearly half of the population into poverty. In the winter of 1998, while economic 

disorder was still at its height, thousands of children were living in manholes in 

the streets of Ulan Bator. The manholes provide access to a vast network of steam pipes 

that provide homes with heat and that also helped the children escape winter temperatures 

as low as 40 degrees below zero. This film documents ten years in the lives of three 

“manhole children”who reach adulthood while living under the streets. 





Efubun-no-ichi Inc. 

Hideya Yamaguchi 

Itoh Bldg. 4F, 7-10-9 Akasaka Minato-ku 

Tokyo 107-0052, Japan 

T. +81 3 5570 1081 

F. +81 3 5570 1677 

boss@ef-1.co.jp 

www.ef-1.co.jp 


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101 

USA 


MARINA OF THE ZABBALEEN 

Engi Wassef 

Enter the extraordinary world of seven-year-old Marina. Through her magical eyes, you’ll 

be led into the never-before-seen Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. 

Marina spends her days riding flying elephants, befriending mystical pigeons, and dodging 

out of control butcher knives – she even confronts an evil witch. Despite common 

misconceptions, all this can happen in a documentary. Marina of the Zabbaleen transforms 

a squalid landfill village into a beautiful, dream-like portrait of family, childhood, 

and spirituality. 





Rosalind Lichter Law Firm 

Rosalind Lichter 

Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich Street 


T. +1 212 941 4075 

F. +1 212 941 4076 

rl@rlichterlaw.com 

www.rlichterlaw.com 


268 

ITALY 

M 


MARIONETTES OF THE 

ACCETTELLE FAMILY 

Vito Rubino 

The Marionettes of the Accettelle Family represent a wonderful journey in the extraordinary 

world belonging to three generations of artists who work in a place known as theater, but 

called: soul. Not every one knows that, first of all, a puppeteer is an actor. Although their 

activity began as a game, at present the Accettelle are the only puppeteers in Rome with 

their own fixed theatre, Mongiovino. The testimonies of cultural celebrities, including the 

actor Leo Gullotta, the sculptor Ferdinando Codognotto and Professor Guido Di Palma, 

emphasize how these artists create empathy with the world of adults and children. 





Rai Trade 

Margherita Zocaro 

18 Via Umberto Novaro 


T. +39 06 3749 8341 

F. +39 06 3701 1343 

zocaro@raitrade.it 

www.raitrade.it 


293

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503 

GREECE 


MARKETPLACE 11 A.M 

Maria Giannouli 

Bittersweet details in the central Marketplace of Athens. Love that originates in a city that 

changes. Past and present. Our borderline. Smells of victims and entrails. Clumsy flirting 

“away” from the car horns and the noise that is somewhat authentic. Smiles and mischievous 

glances… In the heart of noisy Athens, the silence of multinational love. 




Maria Giannouli 

13 Korai Street 


T. +30 210 894 3692 

magiannouli@yahoo.gr 


352 

ITALY 

M 


MARTHA, MEMOIRS OF A WITCH 

Giovanni Calamari 

As tough and imposing as the Dolomites. As gentle and fragile as the paths that wind 

their way across the Sciliar plateau. Martha is the mirror image of an ancient mountain 

made up of traditions, fairytales, fragrant herbs, drudgery and loneliness. She was born 

in Bolzano and grew up in Castelrotto, a delightful, tidy little village in South Tyrol. Martha 

soon realizes that she is out of place, and that she cannot follow the path mapped out for 

her by the others. This leads to her embarking on a long and difficult quest for her identity. 

She tackles herself, her village and her family at a steady pace, the same steady pace 

of the endless hikes in the mountains. On her shoulders, along with the weight of the 

rucksack, she carries the suffering of every woman before her who has ever tried to break 

down the cage made up of stones, meadows and window boxes. Martha draws. She 

draws on the grass, under the sun, to stop up the feeling of anxiety. She sketches colorful 

shields with which to protect herself. She dances around the fire and tells stories of fairies 

and dwarves. In the village they call it“Martha’s sickness”. 





Vitagraph 




T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 



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141 

CANADA 


MASTERCLASS 

Algis Kemezys 

Walter Lassally, master cinematographer of 100 famous movies, including Zorba the Greek, 

for which he won an Oscar, meetsW. Lambert Scot Gardiner, a university professor of communications 

and psychology. They have a conversation that becomes a master class in 

their respective fields while lunching in a seaside taverna in Greece. They let us into their 

trade secrets, but also reveal aspects of their personalities and their passion for cinema and 

for life. The cinematic experience they provide is like a private and privileged visit with 

two highly accomplished professionals in their golden years. 





BAK 

Byron Ayanoglu 

7-1360 Av. Bernard Outremont 

Quebec H2V 1W2 

T. +1 514 278 5397 

bakxx@videotron.ca 


447 

GERMANY 

M 


MATERIAL 

Thomas Heise 

It starts with the laughter of children. 

Those residual images have besieged my head, constantly reassembling themselves into 

new shapes that are further and further removed from their original meaning and function. 

They remain in motion. They become history. 

The material remains incomplete. It consists of what I held on to, what remained important 

to me. It is my picture. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




297

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271 

ITALY 


MAYBE GOD IS ILL 

Franco Brogi Taviani 

The film follows the main stories ofWalterVetlroni’s book by the same name. In Maybe God 

is Ill, the writer tells about a trip he made through tormented Africa where wars, hunger 

and AIDS generate everyday disasters. The tour goes through different countries: Mozambique, 

Angola, Senegal, Cameroon, Uganda and South Africa. Everybody knows Africa is 

going through a very difficult time, but is anyone able to understand the world’s responsibilities 

for this situation 

“Everything is becoming global except consciences, especially the western ones”. All stories 

in the film will be introduced by songs, the majority of them written expressly. The 

songs will be sung by singers of the countries where we will be shooting. 

This kind of approach – basic structure of the film – will flow in parallel to the documentary 

and fiction stories. Its purpose is to recount both the tragedy and the hopefulness 

of a big continent such as Africa. 





Rai Trade 




T. +39 06 3749 8341 

F. +39 06 3701 1343 




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MBIRA’ MY MUSIC MY LOVE 

Dorothy Meck-Chimbuya 

Traditional values clash with modernity, and it seems as though the younger generation 

has lost touch with its cultural identity. This space is being reclaimed by American-born 

Zimbabwean musician Chiwoniso ‘Chii’ Maraire, who has embraced Zimbabwean music 

traditions and is determined to make them appealing to the youth. 






Nazeer Ahmed 



T. +27 21 465 4686 

F. +27 21 461 6964 




299

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301 

GREECE 


MEGAS DIAKOSMOS (UNIVERSE) 


The research of the Universe carried out by the Ancient Greek philosopher Democritus is 

entitled Megas Diakosmos (The Great Cosmic Universe) and this experimental film presents 

his ideas about the creation of our Universe and the case of our existence with pictures 

from NASA and other sources. 

Every being during its lifetime tries to find the continuation and the reason for its existence 

on planet Earth. The Universe is huge and unknown to human beings because humans are 

so involved in their day-to-day lives that they forget the real life of being alive. 

Ancient Greek philosophy gives answers to these questions and the keys to explore the real 

meaning of life and the mystery of birth. 





PO Box 75070 

Kallithea GR 176 10, Greece 

T. +30 210 958 9940 



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BELGIUM 

M 


MEN / DES HOMMES 

Khristine Gillard 

A woman talks about a man. Then another. And another. This woman is also a prostitute. 

That man is sometimes a client or a brother, a neighbor, a boss, a childhood friend, a husband, 

a shopkeeper round the corner, a lover, a son, a passer-by. A wish to delicately touch 

this daily life behind the neon lights. Routine, tenderness, desire, waiting, everyday life, 

intimacy. 





Ambiances…asbl 

Thierry Zamparutti 

20 rue de Gembloux 

Rhisnes 5080, Belgium 

T. +32 81 739 720 

F. +32 81 739 720 

info.ambiances@skynet.be 


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192 

MEXICO-SPAIN 


THE MERMAID AND THE DIVER 

Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez 

The body of Simbad the Diver turned up floating off the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. The 

mermaid had turned his soul into a turtle, and the turtle was the one who returned him 

to the world of men. Simbad was born once more as a Miskito and was raised on the 

banks of the wonderful Coco River. When he grew up, nature took care of carrying him 

back to the sea, where the mermaid is waiting for him. The Mermaid and the Diver is a 

journey to Central America, to Nicaragua, to the Atlantic Coast, and to the Miskito people. 





Latido Films 

Oscar Alonso 

9 Veneras, 6 th Floor 

Madrid 28013, Spain 

T. +34 91 548 8877 

F. +34 91 548 8878 

oalonso@latidofilms.com 

www.latidofilms.com 


504 

GREECE 

M 


MIKIS THEODORAKIS: THE COLOR OF 

FREEDOM – AN OUTLINE OF THE 

COMPOSER’S EARLY YEARS (1925-1950) 

Yannis Katomeris 

A great Greek composer: this is the journey of his life. Built around a narration that took eight 

months to complete, his daily heartfelt confessions paint strong images, reflect his emotions 

and illuminate his intellect. Alone in front of the camera, Mikis takes viewers on a journey 

through time filled with passion, rebellion, vision, music and culture. His passionate and 

spirited account is brought to the screen through a combination of footage from the places 

where he lived and worked at a young age (where his future character was shaped) and 

dramatized scenes based on his descriptions. Starting with his birth in 1925, the film revisits 

interwar Greece when Mikis was fighting against the German invaders of his country, 

enduring torture and exile until 1950, when at last, after so many years, he was free to translate 

his memories into music. 





SKAI TV 

Elpida Kallinteri 

2 Falireos & Ethnarchou Makariou Str., Piraeus 


T. + 30 210 485 4542 

F. + 30 210 485 4538 

ekallinteri@skai.gr 


303

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312 

GREECE 


MILOS REVISITED 

Nikos Alpandakis 

A documentary based on color 8mm films shot on the island of Milos between 1956-62 

by Agathocles Kypriotis (Athens, 1910-1978) who, due to his political beliefs, ended up 

on the island in 1946 and took over as director of the barite factory. During his 17 years 

there, he became deeply involved in local life, helping in the modernization of the islanders’ 

living conditions and the building of the settlement of Pollonia. At the same time, 

he filmed the islanders and their way of life. For many years his films remained undiscovered. 

Fifty years later, we visited Milos and met 49 of his ‘protagonists’. We showed 

them the films and they told us the strange story of Kypriotis. His name remains legendary 

on Milos, mostly because of events surrounding his sudden removal from the factory in 

1962 – a taboo subject to this day. 





Ironick Ltd 

Iro Diamandourou 

5 Mimnermou Str. 


T. + 30 210 721 1187 

F. + 30 210 721 1187 

nick@ironick.gr 


119 

SWITZERLAND-FRANCE-RUSSIA 

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THE MOTHER 

Antoine Cattin & Pavel Kostomarov 

The main character in this film is Lyuba, who flees with her nine children to the countryside 

to escape from a violent husband. She tries to earn a living at a dairy farm and, despite 

the family’s hand-to-mouth existence, she still intends adopting 3-year-old Sasha, 

who is being totally neglected by a work colleague. Over the three-year period in which 

the filmmakers record the life of Lyuba and her children, we witness the imprisonment of 

her eldest son, the marriage of her daughter Alesia to tractor-driver Zhenya, and the brief 

romance between Lyuba and Sergei. Αn unusually strong, raw yet also poetic portrait of 

a woman who, despite her ill fortune, manages to express her love for her children and live 

a dignified existence. 





Les Films Hors-Champ 

Helena Hill 

1 L’Epignau 

Chavornay 1373, Switzerland 

T. +41 21 550 3640 

films@hors-champ.ch 

www.hors-champ.ch 


305

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321 

USA 


MOTHERLAND 

Jennifer Steinman 

On December 1, 2006, six diverse American women came together to take an unusual 

trip, an intensive pilgrimage to work as volunteers with children in rural South Africa. 

Strangers to each other before the journey, these women have one life changing experience 

in common: each has suffered the death of a child. Emmy Nominee Jennifer Steinman 

and Oscar Nominee Mira Chang (Cinematographer) craft an inspiring journey, 

charting over 17 days how the lives of these remarkable women were forever transformed. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 



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A MOUNTAIN MUSICAL 

Eva Eckert 

The Austrian mountains hide much more then The Sound of Music! 

A fascinating diversity of people; miners, charcoal burners, farmers, illegal hunters and 

steel-factory workers, all have one thing in common; a passion for their traditional music. 

An intriguing and often hilarious musical glance at the myths and troubles of an Austrian 

industrial landscape. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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373 

BELGIUM 


THE MOUSTACHE BROTHERS 

Thandiwe Cattier 

Moustache Brothers Top Bananian Comedian’s electrical board is the only one shining in 

the night of Rangoon, above the one place where they may perform, since Aung Sang 

Suu Kuy’s 1996 invitation to one of her meetings. Jailed for 7 years, comedians for 30, 

they welcomed the entire world to the show and fought for freedom of speech. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 


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279 

USA 

M 


MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT 

Daniel Anker 

Music from the Inside Out is a cinematic exploration of music through the stories and 

artistry of the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The film follows these musicians 

as they explore what music means to their lives, both inside and outside the concert hall. 

The resulting stories – of passion, struggle, perseverance and transcendence – serve to illuminate 

the role of music in all of our lives. Filmed over a period of five years on three continents, 

Music from the Inside Out is the result of the collaboration between the filmmaker 

and the musicians themselves. Unique in style and approach, the main character of this 

film is music itself. An eclectic soundtrack incorporates a blend of well-loved musical 

works – including classical, jazz, bluegrass, salsa and world music. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




M 

453 

POLAND 


MUSIC PARTISANS 

Miroslaw Dembinski 

Music Partisans aims to show Belarus through its rock music scene. The main character is 

Svieta, a 20-year-old rock singer. Svieta is very passionate, believing that Belarus will one 

day be free. Lavor Volski, 10 years older than Svieta is more sceptical. He is the leader of 

the most popular rock band in Belarus called NRM (Independent Republic of Dreams). 

This documentary presents young rock music bands that are opposed to President 

Lukashenka’s regime. They express their attitude to the surrounding reality trough their 

music, clothes and behavior. 






Anders Bruus 



T. +45 3520 3040 

F. + 45 3520 3969 

andb@dr.dk 



561 

IRAN-UK 

M 


MY CITY, PIZZA 

Ala Mohseni 

While a wide range of delicious and well-known traditional foods are available, pizza is 

very popular in Tehran. This light-hearted, amusing, fast-paced documentary about eating 

habits in modern Tehran offers a kaleidoscopic view of Iranian society. We see young 

people, old people, progressive and conservative Iranians who all divulge their identity via 

their standpoints with respect to the popularity of Italian fast-food; pizza, in the capital. 









T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





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195 

MEXICO 


MY LIFE INSIDE 

Lucía Gajá 

Seventeen-year-old Rosa Jiménez went to the United States for the same reason as thousands 

of other Mexican immigrants: to provide a better life for her family back home. At 

first, America delivered on its promises. Rosa found work in Texas. She found a husband. 

She had a baby. She sent money home to her mother and brothers in Mexico. But several 

years later the dream turned to a nightmare when a tragedy befell the two-year-old boy 

Rosa was babysitting. My Life Inside catches up with Rosa in Austin in August 2005. She 

has spent the last two years in a cell. Tomorrow she goes to trial. The charge: murder. Rosa 

came to America for freedom, and now she stands to lose it forever. Like other incarcerated 

Mexican immigrants in the United States, some of whom also share their stories with 

director Lucía Gajá, Rosa is generally viewed as guilty unless proven innocent. 





Andana Films 


Le Village 


T. +33 475 943 467 

F. +33 475 942 509 




562 

IRAN-UK 

M 


MY LITTLE COUNTRY 

Abbass Mohammadi 

About one million Afghan refugees live in Iran, where most of their children cannot attend 

normal schools because of the lack of an ID card. My Little Country tells the story of Afghan 

independent schools and the way they try to educate these children without the support 

of the government in order to prevent the kids from remaining illiterate and how these 

Iranian children originally from Afghanistan try to find a “country” of their own so that 

they can feel at home. 









T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





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MY MOTHER’S FARM 

Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen 

Tale Kalna is a magnificent woman: hardworking, clever, strong and with a great sense for 

human relationships. In another life, Tale Kalna might have made it to the presidency of 

Latvia, but reality has made her a farmer with a small parcel of land, a couple of cows and 

an unflagging work ethic.This documentary doesn’t only focus onTale Kalna’s personal life, 

but connects that life to the recent history of Latvia. In an eclectic collage of audio and visual 

fragments, we see all the important moments pass by.The voice-over tells us how the 

once wealthy country of Latvia experienced great poverty in the post-war years as part of 

the Soviet Union. We witness how Tale was a cog in the toilsome communist bureaucratic 

machine back then. She found a kindred spirit in Mikhail Gorbachev and, with him in power, 

independent farms returned to the Latvian landscape. Tale and her second husband left 

the city in 1991 to start a modest farm. From that moment on, her daughter Ilze began 

filming her mother and became the chronicler of a harsh farming existence. 





Nordic World 

Camilla Paludan Johansen 

14 Karl Johansgate 

Oslo 0101, Norway 

T. +47 2281 4288 

cpj@tv2.no 


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THE MYSTERY OF ARIS SAN 

Dalia Mevorach & Dani Dothan 

A journey into the mysterious life of Aris San, the Greek singer who became a megastar 

in Israel, close friend of generals and politicians including Moshe Dayan, until rumors 

spread that the genius guitarist and playboy was a spy. Aris left for New York. He opened 

a nightclub where Hollywood stars, politicians, and mobsters mingled. His friends included 

Anthony Quinn, Telly Savalas, and Harry Belafonte, as well as the Gallo crime family. 

His meteoric rise ended with an addiction to drugs, jail time and a mysterious 

disappearance in Budapest. 





Go2Films 




T. +972 2 583 1371 

F. +972 2 583 5450 



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477 

FRANCE 


MYTHICAL ROADS: THE AMAZON 

FROM BELéM TO TABATINGA 

Patrick Profit 

Amazon is the name given to the river flowing in South America, named after the explorer 

Francisco de Orellana who, according to legend, would have met Amazons in the 

region. 

“For more than anything else, I wished to discover these infinite forests, these islands 

rustling with the songs of birds and these Amerindians discovering a new future as the 

transamazonian returns to the jungle. 

I felt dizzy because at these figures: 7 million square kilometers of water and jungle, 60% 

of which are in Brazil. The widest tropical humid forest on the planet bristling with 2,5 

million species of insects, 60,000 varieties of plants, 2,000 kinds of birds; an 80,000 kilometer 

navigable canal system... 

In order to drive the Caymans, the pink dolphins, the monkeys, the macaws, and the toucans, 

out from their cover, you have to leave the river and follow with your pirogue the 

iguarapées, small South American rivers...” 

Between El Dorado and a green Hell... 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



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NATIONAL GARDEN 

Apostolos Karakasis 

In the heart of modern Athens, next to the gridlocked traffic and roar of the city centre 

there is also another world.Τhe “national garden”, with its lush vegetation, tall trees and 

winding paths, resembles a hidden paradise beyond time and place. That is where the 

film’s protagonists seek refuge. People of every age and origin, regulars, workers, occasional 

visitors, they all seek relief from the major and minor dramas of their everyday lives 

in this oasis. It is there that they allow their deepest desires to express themselves, reveal 

their dreams and illusions, and are confounded by the passage of time and the surprises 

that life holds in store for them. 













T. + 30 210 607 5711-12, F. + 30 210 607 5715 



Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503, F. + 30 210 361 4336 


Portolanos Films 

Maria Gentekou 

23 Charilaou Trikoupi Str. 


T. + 30 210 483 3515 

portolan@hol.gr 


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ESTONIA 


NAZIS & BLONDES 

Arbo Tammiksaar 

What was the role of the Baltic film actors in creating the figure of the enemy in the cinema 

of the Soviet era Many generations of Soviet citizens were raised in the spirit of Soviet 

war films. Most Nazi villains in Soviet war movies were played by Baltic actors. This 

film follows the development of the enemy figure in Soviet films and the role of Baltic actors 

in creating it. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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THE NEW RIJKMUSEUM 

Oeke Hoogendijk 

A documentary about the fascinating and complicated process of the rebuilding of Holland’s 

most famous museum, the Rijksmuseum. The film shows the people behind the 

scenes during the years of demolition, restoration, and political and financial debate. We 

witness their efforts, joys and struggles with one goal in common: the love of art. 






Curien Kroon 



T. +31 20 421 0606 

F. +31 20 638 6255 




319

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GREECE 


NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS – 

AN ACROBAT ABOVE THE CHAOS 

Lefteris Haronitis 

A personal portrait of the great Cretan writer 

thinker, Nikos Kazantzakis. The film follows the footprints of the adventurous life and the 

inner spiritual and ideological undulations of Kazantzakis in order to recreate a true, personal 

portrait of this important writer. 





Heraclion Prefecture Self-Government 

Lefteris Haronitis 

30-32 Kanari Str. 


T. + 30 210 940 7144 

F. + 30 210 482 4037 

www.nah.gr 


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LES NINJAS DU JAPON 

Giovanni Giommi 

Five young semi-professional Japanese cyclists, supported by their team manager, face the 

most famous stage competition in Africa: theTour du Faso. Under the burning sun of Sahel, 

in the thick dust of African tracks, their adventure begins; it will bring them to ride their 

bicycles across Burkina Faso just by using the power of their legs. A vector traveling at full 

speed on the roads of the fifth poorest country in the world, in which the passing of the 

race is longed for as the most spectacular event of the year. A vector that allows us to 

meet the people who work and live outside of this sports event: the extravagant official 

Tour speakers, who have named the Japanese team“Ninja du Japon”; N5, the race steward 

and his stories about Fausto Coppi and also tiny stories about a number of different 

people, that the camera finds among the crowd that surrounds this area. During the narration, 

African images are intercut with short descriptions of the lives of our five athletes 

in Japan. We are told about the efforts of these five young, ordinary guys who have made 

cycling the most important part of their lives: a hard and not very profitable sport, in 

which passion counts much more than economic gain. 





Mercurio Cinematografica 

Priscila Benatti 

24 Piazzale Aquileia 

Milan 20144, Italy 

T. +39 02 480 901 

F. +39 02 4800 8319 

priscila@mercuriofilm.com 

www.mercuriofilm.com 


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USA 


NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: 

LASZLO AND VILMOS 

James Chressanthis 

The film follows the lives of renowned cinematographers Laszlo Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond 

from escaping the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary to the present day. As film students 

in Hungary, they shot footage of the Russian invasion of Budapest and subsequently 

volunteered to smuggle it out of the country. Barely escaping with their lives, they fled to 

America and settled in Hollywood, eventually saving enough money to buy their own 

16mm camera to begin shooting movies. 





Cinetic Media 

Sarah Lash 

555 West 25 th Street 

New York NY 10001-5542, USA 

T. +1 212 204 7979 

sales@cineticmedia.com 

www.cineticmedia.com 


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NOBODY’S PERFECT 

Niko von Glasow 

Eleven people are preparing to pose naked for a book of photos. They were born disabled, 

like the director himself, due to the disastrous side-effects of Thalidomide. These fascinating 

characters are working in areas such as politics, the media, sports, astrophysics and 

acting, and have learned to live with their disability to an impressive level of“normality”. 

Filmed with a darkly humorous touch and no deference to political correctness. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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380 

BELGIUM 


NORTH-SOUTH.COM 

François Ducat 

In Cameroon, cyber-bars are mainly visited by women seeking a white European or American 

husband. Several stories of couples and destinies depict the dreams and disappointments 

underlying these encounters. Inspired by hope or illusions, some dreams turn to 

nightmares: prostitution is also on the lookout online. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 


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BELGIUM 

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NOT QUITE A TALIBAN 

Fadi Hindash 

Not Quite a Taliban is the story of one man’s frustration with his generation of ‘modern’ 

Arabs who appear Western but are more conservative than traditional Arabs. While 

there are many films about hypocrisy in the Middle East made by Western filmmakers, 

Not Quite a Taliban is the first to be made by an Arab who’s put himself on the line by 

speaking up about taboos, such as his homosexuality. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




N 

112 

FRANCE 


NOTHING TO LOSE 

Jean Henri Meunier 

This movie is the result of a chance meeting in a Toulouse street with a wanderer,“a man 

with soles of wind”, a cocky and radiant vagabond, Phil the Fakir. A professional homeless 

clown, he had gone on a hunger strike against the harassment of the municipal police 

and for the daily struggle of the local “Children of Don Quixote”. We met on his birthday. 

He was quite happy and cried out that he was born on the day Edith Piaf died, and in the 

same hospital... The film had to be a portrait of flamboyant obscure types, majestic wanderers, 

generous losers, “déclassé” individuals with unequaled human class, characters 

from the shadows brought into the light... 





K Production 

Jean Henri Meunier, Lilie Lê Liêu 

24 rue Saint Sylve 

Toulouse 31500, France 

T. +33 5 3431 5550 

meunierjeanhenri@gmail.com 

kprod00@wanadoo.fr 


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OBLIVION 

Heddy Honigmann 

The film takes us to the forgotten city of Lima, to a forgotten people, the Peruvians and – 

like most countries in Latin America – the forgotten land of Peru. Occasionally – during 

presidential elections, after a serious earthquake, or when a new mass grave is discovered, 

and then only if it’s big enough – the world remembers Peru’s existence, but just for 

a few days. But in El Olvido, we do not witness elections or experience earthquakes and 

neither are we present at the discovery of a mass grave. As we wander through the streets 

of Lima, we visit old restaurants and some small shops, we enter a few smart bars and we 

sit down in various plazas to watch and observe. We meet some moving characters who 

use poetry, real or mental juggling, dreams and creativity to resist being consigned to 

oblivion and against those who have sworn for centuries that they love their people, but 

in reality they despise them. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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563 

IRAN-UK 


OF MEN AND MOTORCYCLES 

Shahriar Siami Shal 

Unemployment is one of the major social problems of contemporary Iranian society. 

Tehran with around twenty million inhabitants and millions of vehicles has one of the 

heaviest traffic congestions in the world. Consequently, being punctual is one of people’s 

main concerns. Amid such chaos, motorcycles driving at a high speed in the traffic-restricted 

zones have become a popular means of transportation. Of Men and Motorcycles 

depicts Abbas and a large group of youngTehranis who have lost their jobs and are obliged 

to make a living by transporting people or messages by motorcycle. 









T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





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OLD-TIME, LONG-TIME LOVE 

Mali Kambandu 

Kambandu is scared of marriage, believing that it no longer has relevance, that it may 

even change the nature of her loving relationship. Her boyfriend disagrees. In this film she 

explores why she should consider it, by consulting with old couples whose marriages 

have lasted or failed, and why there are still so many weddings – every weekend. 






Nazeer Ahmed 

27 Caledon Street, 1st floor 


T. +27 21 465 4686 

F. +27 21 461 6964 




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105 

TURKEY 


ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL 

Orhan Eskiköy & Özgür Doğan 

The young Turkish teacher Emre Aydin has been appointed by the government to teach at 

a school in a remote and impoverished Kurdish village. He arrives in the village at the beginning 

of the school year to a few unpleasant surprises. There’s no running water in the 

village and the students don’t show up for class. On the Way to School follows Aydin during 

the entire academic year. Many families only speak Kurdish at home, so learning Turkish 

isn’t only hard for the kids, but it’s also a sensitive matter as far as the strained relations 

between Kurds and the Turkish state are concerned. Aydin feels like a foreigner in his own 

country, but he’s determined to accomplish the task at hand. For the most part, he’s a 

friendly and patient instructor, but when students write Kurdish words in their notebooks 

he loses his cool and kicks them all out of class. He then grabs his cell phone and calls 

home, where his mother lovingly lends him her ear. 





Fortissimo Films 

Nicole Mackey 

100 Van Diemenstraat 

Amsterdam 1013 CN, The Netherlands 

T. +44 20 7498 6978 

F. +44 20 7497 1133 

nicole@fortissimo-uk.com 

www.fortissimofilms.com 


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PUERTO RICO 

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OSO BLANCO 

Christian Suau & Ramiro Millan 

The Oso Blanco is the most feared prison in Puerto Rico. 

It is the birthplace of two famous gangs, Neta and Los 27, and the scene of hundreds of 

murders. The film includes testimonies from El Jibaro, serving 48 years in the institution, 

and Flores, his guard for the last 27 years. 





Ondamax Films 

Eric Mathis 

800 West Ave. 

Miami Beach FL 33139, USA 

T. +1 305 535 3577 

eric@ondamaxfilms.com 

www.ondamaxfilms.com 


0 

412 

FRANCE 


THE OTHER AMERICA 

Bernard Faroux 

Is the America of George Bush the only one ArielWizman answers no and brings us to discover 

in this road movie a different America from New York to San Francisco. 

There is an alternative to the well-known America; it’s the America of thinkers, philanthropists, 

eccentrics, underground artists, migrants. Ariel Wizman launches his search for 

this America from New York to San Francisco, Miami, Arizona, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. 

In this film, committed thinkers, journalists and artists show an astonishing aptitude for 

self-criticism. They relentlessly denounce the present woes of their country: misinformation, 

immaturity, etc. 

Moved by a tremendous will for redemption, this other America is very imaginative in 

suggesting alternatives to society. Anti-establishment media are very active. For example, 

the“Collective Voice”took a group of individuals with Down’s syndrome to democratic and 

republican conventions to confront the politicians with the real questions. 

Let’s go on an anti-Disneyland tour. We visit America following byways: a skating park, a 

volcano crater, a ghetto… This unusual journey reveals the instinctive, activist and creative 

face of the American giant. 





ARTE France 

Audrey Kamga 

8 rue Marceau 


T. +33 1 5500 7081 

F. +33 1 5500 8065 



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OVER THE HILL 

Sunny Bergman 

Sunny Bergman goes to American to find out why it is that at 34 she already feels over 

the hill. 

Over the Hill is a powerful look at the forces of the marketplace that worm their way into 

our minds and bodies making 35-year-old women feel over the hill. Sunny Bergman 

draws from her personal experience to discover why, at 34, she is worried – and angry – 

that her days as an attractive woman are numbered. What she discovers is the persuasive 

power of the cosmetics industry and fashion magazines. Rather than making women feel 

better about themselves, they actually make them feel worse. Women are no longer able 

to see themselves in a proper perspective but fall victim to a seductive and corrupting industry 

as they struggle in vain to achieve a beauty ideal that doesn’t exist. 







Leidsestraat 106-IV 


T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 




300 

GREECE 

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PAGRATION (PAN+KRATOS) 


The ancient Hellenic martial art of pankration is described in this unique study by Gregory 

Zorzos from the ancient times until today. It is known by many names today, including: 

pangkration, pancraio, paradosimos, pankration, pancratium, pangratius, 

pankration, pancrace, pankratos, pancrazio, pagration, pangration, sanda, etc. Research includes 

many ancient scripts from ancient texts from many countries and many archaeological 

items from many places. Analysis proves that all modern martial arts of the world 

have their roots in Ancient Hellas. Some parts of Pankration make up today’s martial arts 

such as Grabble Submission, tug-of-war, sumo, kickboxing, etc. The director has written 

several books on pankration. Gregory Zorzos is the founder of the Pangration Federation 

and also president of the Historical Committee. This work has been approved by the Ministry 

of Culture and the Hellenic Army and won the Writer of the Year Award. 





PO Box 75070 

Kallithea GR 176 10, Greece 

T. +30 210 958 9940 



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GERMANY 


PATRICIA KAAS – MY LIFE 

Horst Mühlenbeck 

Patricia Kaas is one of the most successful French-speaking singers in the world. With 25 

million records sold, numerous world tours, and appearances together with Michael Jackson 

and Plácido Domingo, Patricia Kaas represents on of the most successful French careers 

internationally. Her key to success: in her very own distinctive way she has developed the 

concept of the classic“chanson”further; it is a mixture of pop, rock, blues, and jazz – with 

which the singer has won international acclaim. Oscillating between alto and mezzo soprano, 

her“smoky”voice is characterized by a subtle brittleness and contributes greatly to 

her convincing enactment on stage of the manifold moods of her songs. The artist is most 

fascinating when performing live. Her convincing stage presence is an essential part of her 

success. For the audience she’s the strong woman with the mighty voice; in private, however, 

she requires close friendships in order to feel protected. For My Life Patricia Kaas has 

once again visited the places most important in the course of her life: her birthplace of Stiring-Wendel, 

her hometown of Saarbrücken, where her stage career began, and Paris, her 

present address and the city of her greatest success. With a surprising frankness in front of 

the camera, the star talks about her life and its disruptions, about her beloved mother, 

and about the most important thing of all: about the passion for music. 





Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Hamburg 

Eva Fouquet 

93A Eppendorfer Weg 

Hamburg 20259, Germany 

T. +49 40 7697 3070, F. +49 40 7697 3065 

e.fouquet@gebrueder-beetz.de 



415 

FRANCE 

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PAUL VIRILIO: REFLECTIONS ON SPEED 

Stephane Paoli 

Reflections on Speed, with one of its foremost theorists – Paul Virilio. Ubiquity was once a 

dream, now Internet has made it possible. The speed at which our planet has gone online 

has thrown all aspects of our daily lives into question, whether economic, cultural or political. 

Through his reflections and writings, Paul Virilio has shown that contemporary history 

is the daughter of speed. Can we not consider the Y2K bug as a preamble to his 

prophecy of the “Integral Accident” The desynchronisation between human time and 

technological time is underway for the first time in the history of humanity. Does being 

here and there at the same time make us mutants In 90 minutes, this film examines our 

era in the light of Paul Virilio’s thoughts. It shows, with supporting examples, that politics, 

economics and information are now subjected to the dictatorship of speed. Major contemporary 

experts and informed observers like Jeremy Rifkin, Walter Bender, Mahammad 

Yunus, Hubert Vedrine, Jacques Attali, Jean Nouvel and Enki Bilal support or counteract 

Paul Virilio’s line of reasoning. With its accessible content and surprising form, this film 

takes the time – a necessary and vital luxury – to think about our environment and about 

the meaning of things. A beneficial exercise when losing your bearings. 





ARTE France 

Audrey Kamga 

8 rue Marceau 


T. +33 1 5500 7081 

F. +33 1 5500 8065 




337

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377 

BELGIUM 


PAUWELS CIRCUS 

Agnes Bensimon 

The life of a Jewish family where everyone is either a clown, a musician or a juggler and 

has been so for six generations. These days, Marquis, Pepete’s son, is passing on the heritage 

of the art of the circus as well as Jewish traditions to his sixteen-year-old son Samuel, 

a juggler himself, who has been chosen to become the next manager of the Pauwels Circus. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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IRAN 

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A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS 

Bani Khoshnoudi 

Almost thirty years after the revolution, and twenty since the end of the long 

Iran-Iraq war, A People in the Shadows takes us on a voyage into the heart of Tehran, a 

metropolis of 14 million people. The city is still recovering from its past, as talk of sanctions 

and a possible American attack resonate. Using direct cinema methods, the film takes an 

intimate look at the way people live in this immense city today, caught up in the paradoxes 

and contradictions of their society, surrounded by images of past and future death, and 

finding ways to juggle state propaganda and foreign threat on a daily basis. 





Pensée Sauvage Films 

Bani Khoshnoudi 

486 Eastern Parkway, #3C 


T. +1 212 729 1016 

penseesauvage@yahoo.com 


339

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505 

GREECE 


PERAMA NO SPONSORS 

Alexandros Papaeliou 

Perama, of the fighters of Salamis, of the Asia Minor immigrants, of the locals from all 

over Greece who form a unique city. The shipyard and it’s low wage workers, the oil companies, 

the pollution, the poverty, from a culture and life style with qualities that derive 

from ancient times. 

The environmental degradation of the area cannot affect the beauty of the sunset and the 

hopes of its inhabitants for the future. 





Aktis AVteam 

Athanasios Palos-Papantonopoulos 



T. +30 210 683 8888 

F. +30 210 684 8008 

ap@aktis.biz 

www.aktis.biz 


129 

BELGIUM 

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PERSONA NON GRATA 

Fabio Wuytack 

Persecuted as a revolutionary, banned as a priest, arrested as a rebel, celebrated as an 

artist. This is Frans Wuytack’s truly inspiring and overwhelming story. He unchained a social 

and cultural revolution in the 60s changing the lives of so many people, from the 

Venezuelan slums to the Belgian ports. An epic journey made by his son Fabio Wuytack. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




341

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CANADA 


PETALS: A JOURNEY 

INTO SELF DISCOVERY 

Richard Beck Peacock & Nick Karras 

Photographer Nick Karras turns the image of a woman’s vulva into high art as the filmmaker 

confronts deep-seated personal issues and distorted cultural myths brought to light 

by his work. 

The documentary both questions and examines the many unspoken myths of the essence 

of a woman’s core sexuality – her vulva. These deep-seated beliefs directly affect female 

sexual self-esteem. Photographer Nick Karras has composed intimate images with an unusual 

sensitivity. Following his personal journey in producing a book of artful photographs, 

the film records the reactions of sex educators, women’s health professionals, art critics, 

female activists, and men/women-in-the-street as they confront the physical mystery of 

womanhood. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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THE PIER OF APOLONOVKA 

Andrei Schwartz 

The people on the pier of Sevastopol Bay are a symbol of the inextricable dilemma in 

which the city finds itself: too impoverished for splendor and glory, and much too alive for 

the scrap heap. 

People such as handsome 14-year-old Push, who finds mopeds much cooler than girls, 

or shy 13-year-old Nastja, still mourning her first love, spend their summer together on 

the pier. Even 80-year-old Galina still has a few tears to spare for the bass voice of her 

erstwhile lover, but not before she completes her morning swim at Apolonovka’s rundown 

beach. And then again there’s wiry, long-distance swimmer Sergej who, despite 

his 85 years, would certainly never consider neglecting the‘third point’of health – sex. Finally, 

we meetVova and Andrej on the pier: one a tattooed former prisoner the other a discharged 

police officer – now working together illegally as divers next to the ships of the 

Black Sea Fleet. 

A summer on Sevastopol pier, a place made fascinating by the encounter between parallel 

worlds. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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322 

UK 


PIG BUSINESS 

Tracy Worcester 

Eco-Warrior Tracy Worcester’s determination to find out what was in the pork products 

her children ate takes us from farms across Europe and America to confrontations with EU 

officials and corporate executives. Pig Business uncovers what dangerous new farming 

practices are doing to our health, our environment and traditional farmers. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




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PILGRIMAGE 

Peter Wintonick & Mira Burt-Wintonick 

In this road-movie about movies, PeterWintonick takes a film-trip across the world with Mira, 

his 20-year-old media-making daughter. They journey through film history and media’s future, 

questioning how different generations view, use or make their own film, images, sound 

and media. From Fellini’s hometown in Italy to Nuremburg, where Leni Riefenstahl shot Triumph 

of the Will; from Chaplin’s grave to blogging theorists in Vienna; from the Wizard of Oz 

to Romeo and Juliet viaThe Sound of Music; from Jean-Luc Godard’s Swiss village to the next 

media artists at theVenice Biennale; from Lumière’s first film factory to media-activist Franny 

Armstrong, pilgrIMAGE playfully mixes contemporary and historical cinematic sites with personal 

encounters and film-life lessons. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




345

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270 

ITALY 


PINUCCHIO LOVER. 

A MIDSUMMER DEATH’S DREAM 

Pippo Mezzapesa 

Pinucchio Lovero has always dreamed of being an undertaker. Five months ago, at the 

age of forty, he was finally hired to be the custodian of the cemetery in Mariotto, a town 

near Botonto in Italy’s scorching deep South. This particularly torrid summer he awaits his 

first funeral but it will not come. In fact, since he was taken on the job no one in Mariotto 

has passed on to a better place. 

His days are spent tending to the cemetery gardens, cleaning and chiseling headstones, 

watering flowers and generally fulfilling his official duties. 

This precarious and frustrated undertaker named Pinucchio Lovero and all those who take 

part regularly in his daily life thus accompany us on a trip through the remote South, a 

place that is but a step away from inexorable extinction. It is a place of a choral nature, 

made of devotion, town festivities, tiny streets and dialects. As Pinucchio’s tale unfolds, we 

discover that he is also a philosopher of the everyday. His hilarious theories on the meaning 

of death, love and work strike us as bizarre and understandable at the same time. 





Rai Trade 




T. +39 06 3749 8341 

F. +39 06 3701 1343 




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PIRRERA. MEMORIES 

OF OLD SICILIAN MINES 

Piero Messina 

Pirrera in Sicilian means mine. This documentary tells the story of sulphur mines in Sicily 

through the memories of ex-workers. A brutal reality which contributed to develop dozens 

of towns in central Sicily. Those same towns are nowadays disappearing, condemned by 

the closure of the mines and by a policy of exploitation. A deep contrast between the violence 

of the memories and the nostalgia that fills the ones who share them. 





Vitagraph 




T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 



347

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379 

BELGIUM 


A PLACE IN THE VILLAGE 

Tatiana de Perlinghi 

The four-season chronicle of a tiny village where farmers and newcomers experience tradition 

and ecology together, on a daily quest of work, mobility and happiness, while farming 

declines, and city suburbs spread like futuristic projects. The “new rurals” espouse 

values inspired by ecology: windmills and houses are made of wood, earth and straw are 

used for building, and traditional celebrations are revived. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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A PLACE OF LIFE – A PLACE OF MEMORY, 

THE GREEK FOUNDATION IN PARIS 

Pandora Mouriki 

The Greek Foundation at the Cité in Paris is a student residence hall that was founded in 

1932 and, through the lives of its residents, followed Greek and French historical events. 

The documentary presents some of these events with eyewitness accounts by film directors 

Manos Zakharias, Theo Angelopoulos, and Robert Manthoulis; writer Alki Zei; artists 

Panagiotis Tetsis, Kyriakos Rokos, Daniel Gounarides, and Anton; architect Yannis Tsiomis; 

composer Yorgos Kouroupos; and university professors Venios Angelopoulos, Costas Vergopoulos, 

Vilma Hastaoglou and Sofoklis Theodorides. 









T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


349

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397 

ISRAEL 


PLAY ME ALLEGRO – AN OPTIMISTIC 

BORDERLINE STORY 

Alon Alsheich & Eran Yehezkel 

Four kilometers from Gaza, the Nir-Am kibbutz is located on the border between Israel 

and the Palestinian Authority. In spite of Israeli missiles and helicopters soaring above 

their heads and the Palestinian rockets falling in their yard, Julia, a Russian immigrant, 

and her five-year-old daughter choose not to give up. 









T. +972 52 363 3398 




368 

USA 

P 


PLAYGROUND 

Libby Spears 

Appalled by modern day sex slavery, filmmaker Libby Spears began a covert investigation 

to document the worldwide child sex trafficking problem and to see how and if it led back 

to the United States. What she was astonished to find, however, was the involvement of 

the United States and the degree to which they were influencing the global demand and 

growth of the sex trafficking industry. 

At the heart of story is Michelle, whose first encounter with sexual abuse began at five. 

Having run away from a foster care system that left her vulnerable and at risk, the film 

opens with the filmmaker’s search for her. Over a five-year period, Spears unravels the 

gut-wrenching atrocities suffered by Michelle and other children like her, who are victims 

of the American sex trafficking industry. Spears constructs an insightful and nuanced narrative 

that details just how complex and massive this crisis is. 

Playground examines our legal and social systems, and their inability to deal with this 

problem. Neither dogmatic nor sensationalist, Playground offers no clear-cut answers, but 

compels us to begin asking the right questions: why do we treat children as victims in 

cases of sexual abuse, but as soon as money is exchanged these sexually abused children 

are deemed criminals Why is there such an overwhelming demand for sex with a child 





Bluprint Films 

Libby Spears 

5482 Wilshire Blvd, No. 147 

Los Angeles 90036, USA 

T. +1 213 385 5353 

libbyspears@bluprintfilms.com 

www.bluprintfilms.com 


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CANADA 


PORN-DEMIC 

Robin Benger 

Internet porn is now bigger than the combined financial turnover of professional sports 

and live music. In 2008, it was worth 10 billion dollars. 

With extraordinary access, Porn-Demic goes behind the scenes to reveal the main players 

in an old industry, now larger than ever and quickly taking over the latest, biggest delivery 

system in the history of sex: the Internet. Porn-Demic looks at the immense financial 

prosperity of the players and the seeming impossibility of governments and other watchdog 

organizations to regulate or just to stem it. An unflinching portrait of the people both 

living the high life and swept along in the deluge of electronic pornography. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




347 

USA 

P 


THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS 

Cory Taylor 

This year (2009) marks the twentieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia 

– an event comparable to the nonviolent movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson 

Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed modern history. Two decades after the 

collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, The Power of the Powerless brings to life the 

events that led to theVelvet Revolution, provides an insider’s view of life in the pro-democracy 

underground opposition, and examines whether the spirit of dissent, which thrived 

a generation ago, endures in the lives of young Czechs. 

Featuring new and original interviews with former President Václav Havel and more than 

a dozen other prominent dissidents, this film explores the consequences of waging an 

open struggle for human rights versus conforming to the pressures of an authoritarian 

regime. 









T. +420 2 3331 3839 




353

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391 

USA 


PRAYING WITH LIOR 

Ilana Trachtman 

“If there is a God, Lior is definitely closer to God than anyone else I know.” 

Yoni Liebling, Lior’s brother 

Praying with Lior introduces Lior Liebling, also called “the little rebbe”. Lior has Down’s 

syndrome and has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. Is he a “spiritual genius” 

as many of those around him say Or simply the vessel that contains everyone’s unfulfilled 

wishes and expectations Lior – whose name means “my light” – lost his mother 

at age six, and her words and spirit hover over the film. While everyone agrees Lior is 

closer to God, he’s also a burden, a best friend, an inspiration, and an embarrassment, depending 

on which family member is speaking. As Lior approaches Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish 

coming-of-age ceremony, different characters provide a window into a life spent 

“praying with Lior”. 

The film poses difficult questions, such as what is “disability” and who really talks to God 

Told with intimacy and humor, Praying with Lior is a family story, a story of triumph, a 

story of grief, and a divinely inspired story. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 




533 

BULGARIA 

P 


PREHISTORY: GODS AND WORSHIPERS 

Atanas Dimitrov 

The creators of this six half-hour docudrama series focus on the cult to the Sun and the secret 

knowledge in the Bulgarian lands existing for over seven thousands years. They explore 

the chalcolithic graves near Varna, search for the roots of this cult in Egypt as well as 

its reflection in the ancientThracian and Greek beliefs.The series also investigates the heresies 

and takes the viewers into a mysterious journey through the secret societies in Europe. 







29 San Stefano St. 


T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 

sales@bnt.bg 

www.bnt.bg 


355

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456 

GERMANY 


PRESTES MAIA – 

FREEDOM IN CONCRETE 

Levin Peter & Jonas Ginter & Ira Wilke 

Sao Paulo, 2008: Brazil on its way to becoming an economic superpower. Right in the 

center of the 20-million-strong metropolis of Sao Paulo, Prestes Maia Road 911, lays the 

bastion of the underclass: a huge and proud bastion. 468 families on 22 floors, 1,379 inhabitants 

with 1,379 stories. And all of them have only one goal: to stay. But the government 

has different plans. Freedom in Concrete is a film about a country on its way to 

becoming a global player and about its poorest, who try their best to find their place in 

this new society and to stay there. 





Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Hamburg 

Eva Fouquet 

93A Eppendorfer Weg 

Hamburg 20259, Germany 

T. +49 40 7697 3070 

F. +49 40 7697 3065 

e.fouquet@gebrueder-beetz.de 



281 

MEXICO 

P 


PRESUMED GUILTY 

Roberto Hernández 

Presumed Guilty is the heart-wrenching story of a man who happened to be in the wrong 

place at the wrong time. On a December day in Mexico City, in the year 2005, Toño 

pleaded: “God, kill me or put me in jail” to escape an unhappy love affair. Weeks later, a 

judge who never heard him speak sentenced him to twenty years in prison for killing a 

man he’d never met. Through one man’s extraordinary two-year struggle to regain his 

freedom, two lawyers document the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes 

guilt. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




357

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551 

POLAND 


PRL DE LUXE 

Edyta Wróblewska 

Crazy Mike organizes trips for the Western tourists. He reveals to them the past PRL way 

of life. They travel with the old bus to the Nowa Huta; together they visit relics of the past. 

During every visit to another place he tells stories about the absurdities of real socialism. 

Will this trip leave the tourists with a vivid memory 









T. +48 12 294 6945 




124 

USA 

P 


PRODIGAL SONS 

Kimberly Reed 

Kimberly Reed returns home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, 

hoping for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way, 

Prodigal Sons uncovers stunning revelations, including a blood relationship to OrsonWelles 

and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries, and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender. 

Reed’s rare access delicately reveals not only the family’s most private moments, but also 

an epic scope as the film travels from Montana to Croatia, from jail cell to football field, 

from deaths to births and commitments of all kinds. This unflinching look at identity and 

the past challenges us to wonder if we can ever truly become someone new. 






Louise Rosen 



T. +1 207 725 8215 

F. +1 207 725 8057 




359

P 

527 

ARGENTINA 


PROJEKT HUEMUL: 

THE FOURTH REICH IN ARGENTINA 

Rodrigo H. Vila 

“Projekt Huemul”was a secret atomic project developed by former president Perón with 

the collaboration of German scientists. The project began in 1946, only months after Hiroshima. 

In 1951, President Perón announced to the world that his administration had 

produced atomic energy in what was, at the time, a secret atomic plant. The amazing discovery 

was published by the most important newspapers in Argentina and all over the 

world, such as the New York Post and the London Times. One year after the success, the island 

was closed and the project cancelled. Even today the remnants of the main reactor 

and laboratories stand abandoned on the island. Our documentary film is about the way 

in which Argentine military officers were molded in the Prussian military tradition and 

how Perón helped and financed the immigration of German scientists, military men and 

war criminals, and how, during Perón’s presidency, the most ambitious project was carried 

out. This was“Projekt Huemul”. 

Running time: 52’& 90’& 115’ 




Cinema 7 Films 

Dalila Zaritzky 

1691 Freire 

Buenos Aires 1426, Argentina 

T. +54 11 4555 4159 

F. +54 11 4555 4159 

dalila_zaritzky@cinema7.com 

www.cinema7.com 


589 

UK 

P 


PROMISED LAND OF HEAVY METAL 

Tanja Katinka Karttunen 

Promised Land of Heavy Metal is a documentary about the history and philosophy of Heavy 

Metal and how it became such a big deal in a small country called Finland. 

We tell the story of Finnish Metal, from its early“underground”days to the present success 

stories, interviewing musicians, experts, event organizers, a psychiatrist and a doctor of 

theology. The film takes us from the graveyard to the Finnish President’s palace. 

Why is metal a religion for so manyWhat are its links to Satanism and ritualistic murders 

What made metal mainstream in Finland Why does the Finnish Church have Metal 

Masses What’s the future of metal, after Lordi won the Eurovision song contest and even 

the President approves We hear strong opinions: some see metal as the new folk music, 

while others detest its commercialization. 

The film is narrated by Kimmo Kuusniemi, a filmmaker, Sarcofagus guitarist and forefather 

of Finnish metal. Kimmo has lived in England for 16 years, and sees the current popularity 

of heavy metal as a strange phenomenon. He was the one who fought for the metal 

message 30 years ago. What happened in Finland in his absence 





Espresso TV 

David Hooper 



T. +44 1273 730 929 

F. +44 1273 299 403 




P 

465 

ITALY 

Category: Currrent Affairs 

PRO-VEIL-LAYMEN: 

THE DISCORD IN TURKEY 

Vincenzo Pergolizzi 

Today, Turkey is torn between pro-veil and laymen. Two opposite visions of the world, of 

freedom and democratic struggle. In the public arena, two ideologies of the world collide 

and proclaim themselves for or against the fundamental symbol of the discord. 

The question to authorize the wearing of the veil in public institutions such as universities 

is just the tip of this iceberg that divides Turkey. It’s a universal issue, which is troubling 

Turkey and a number of other countries. Moreover, the Turkish state, just as its European 

neighbors, suffers difficulty in satisfying two opposite visions. 

How far will this fight go What disastrous consequences can be foreseen 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



362 


282 

USA 

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PULLING JOHN 

Vassiliki Khonsari 

Pulling John explores the mythical professional world of arm-wrestling, where two titans 

battle in pursuit of their ultimate hero. The hero, American John Brzenk, is consumed by 

one question. A living legend in a sport he helped popularize, Brzenk has been the undefeated 

arm-wrestling World Champion for 25 years. Today at age forty, he is torn as to 

whether he should retire or confront the inevitable: be defeated by a new champion. The 

young generation is ready: Alexey Voevoda, a 23-year-old Russian. Alexey’s one goal is to 

dethrone Brzenk and become the new world champion. From the deep ends of West Virginia 

comes a second challenger, a young bull named Travis Bagent who has inherited 

the legend of John Brzenk and the spiritual importance of arm-wrestling from his father. 

As this fast talking powerhouse rises to glory from the ashes of poverty and hardship, he 

must defeat Alexey Voevoda and finally John Brzenk for ultimate glory. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




398 

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Q 


QADIR – AN AFGHAN ULYSSES 

Anneta Papathanassiou 

The journey of Qadir, an Afghan refugee who came to Greece after the Taliban invasion. 

He returns home nine years later, searching for his family. The country is destroyed, the Taliban 

are still there. Qadir is torn between two worlds, East and West, and his emotions 

are mixed. 









T. +972 52 363 3398 




Q 

137 

SWEDEN 


THE QUEEN AND I 

Nahid Persson Sarvestani 

Director Nahid Persson is an ex-revolutionary filmmaker who helped overthrow the 

monarchy in Iran’s 1979 revolution. After having made two documentaries with anti-Islamist 

messages, she decides to make a film about the former queen, her old enemy. They 

are both women living in exile. Over a two year period, the two confront each other about 

their past, question their old beliefs, and share their grievances. Their relationship grows 

as they realize they have more in common as two strong women who have risen above 

the hardships and continue evolving toward a positive future. 





Shoreline Entertainment 

Sam Eigen 

1875 Century Park East, Suite 600 

Los Angeles CA 90067, USA 

T. +1 310 551 2060 

F. +1 702 974 0707 

sam@slefilms.com 

www.slefilms.com 


369 

USA 

Q 


QUILOMBO COUNTRY 

Leonard Abrahams 

Brazil, once the world’s largest slave colony, was a brutal and deadly place for millions of 

Africans. But many thousands escaped or rebelled, creating their own communities in 

Brazil’s untamed hinterland. Today they navigate the hazards of the modern world. 

Quilombo Country (“Quilombo” is an Angolan word meaning “encampment”), which 

ranges from the northeastern sugar-growing regions to the heart of the Amazon 

rainforest, portrays these contemporary communities, and includes examples of material 

culture such as hunting, fishing, construction and agriculture; rare footage of local musical 

performances; syncretic Umbanda and Pajelança ceremonies; Tambor de Crioula, Carimbó 

and Boi Bumbá drum and dance celebrations; and Festivals of the Mast. Also included are 

frank discussions of political identity, land rights, and racial and socioeconomic 

discrimination. 





Media Space Inc. 

Hisami Kuroiwa 

718 Broadway, 2b 


T. +1 212 475 4488 

F. +1 212 475 4488 

Hkuroiwa1900@aol.com 


367

Q 

350 

ITALY-ARGENTINA-UK 


QUIRINO CRISTIANI. THE MYSTERY 

OF THE FIRST ANIMATED MOVIES 

Gabriele Zucchelli 

Who made the first animated feature film Today forgotten, Quirino Cristiani delivered the 

first animated movie – El Apostol – in Buenos Aires in 1917. In 1931, Cristiani’s genius and 

industry resulted in another breakthrough when he produced Peludopolis, the first animated 

feature film with sound. The documentary shows what’s left of his work, a lost interview 

and two short films that were re-discovered during the making of this film. Since 

his ground breaking feature films were destroyed in a number of fires, this documentary 

is all that exists to chart his unique adventure. 





Vitagraph 




T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 



426 

ISRAEL 

R 


RABBI FIRER – 

A REASON TO QUESTION 

Amit Goren 

Hippocrates cautioned, “The sick must battle both their illness and their doctors”. This is 

especially true today, with medicine emerging as an incomprehensible series of specialists 

and doctors, options and opinions, experimental drugs and high-tech medical equipment. 

About 150 patients a day seek an unbiased second opinion from an unusual rabbi, 

self-educated in medicine. He can change the way the patients are treated with a single 

phone call, often to world-renowned experts in their fields. Admired by some doctors and 

harshly criticized by others, he remains a fascinating phenomenon in the tangled web of 

modern medicine. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




369

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577 

ITALY 


RADIO EGNATIA 

Davide Barletti (Fluid Video Crew) 

A Neapolitan artist with nomadic leanings is the guide along a journey which, from Durazzo 

to Istanbul, follows the Via Egnatia, the ancient Roman road which is a continuation 

of the Appian Way in the Balkans. 

The itinerary, which is marked at every stage by a chianca, a typical stone from Lecce, tells 

the stories of peoples and traditions, from Salento to Turkey, passing through Albania, 

FYROM and Greece, across the borders that divide many different cultural identities. The 

journey finds its voice in Radio Egnatia, an imaginary radio station whose program schedule 

is created by the mingling of sounds and real information from those places. 

Radio Egnatia documents the living history of a secret identity of Mediterranean territories 

and people, and of a group of men and women who have gone in search of it. Besides 

being a geographical term, Via Egnatia is a place of the soul, the connective tissue of three 

thousand years of history spanning East and West. 

A ‘relational’ film, in a web of perceptions that is traversed by a sensitivity and culture 

which today could help free us from the constant fear of one another. 








T. +39 068 7903 958, +39 064 3419 651 

F. +39 068 7903 958 




506 

GREECE 

R 


RAMBA-ZAMBA 


Due of the birth of his Down syndrome child, a famous theater director of the Deutsche 

Theater, Klaus Erforth, decided to change his life and the life of his companion, after the 

fall of the Berlin wall. In 1990 he founded the Ramba-Zamba theater, a powerful creative 

centre for handicapped actors, located in the Kultur Brauerei. Hommage à Tadeusz Kantor 

is their latest production. A moving story of love and social engagement. 





Aktis AVteam 




T. +30 210 683 8888 

F. +30 210 684 8008 

ap@aktis.biz 

www.aktis.biz 


371

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283 

CHINA-USA 


THE REAL SHAOLIN 

Alexander Sebastien Lee 

The Real Shaolin is a moving, poetic and action-packed documentary feature about two 

Chinese and two Westerners who journey to the Shaolin Temple in China, inspired by the 

legends portrayed in Kung Fu movies with Bruce Lee and Jet Li. In the course of excruciating 

martial arts training, their fantasies to become Kung Fu warriors collide with harsh 

reality, as the Shaolin Temple is the ultimate test for martial artists from all over the world. 

Will they achieve their goal of living the Shaolin dream 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




487 

ISRAEL 

R 


THE REBELLIOUS SON 

Shoshi Greenfield 

My cousin Ya’acov’s secret ambition is not to be noticed. He dreams of becoming a monk, a 

recluse. One summer, towards the end of high school, he fulfills his monastic ambitions. He 

drops out of school and becomes a shepherd on a forsaken farm in the South Hebron Hills. 

The mystery and magic that he discovers in the mountains aren’t exactly greeted with enthusiasm 

by his family. 

The behavior of their rebellious son draws the family into quarrels that reveal surprising 

and invigorating points of view about themes such as love, war, and the beard my cousin 

has decided to grow. Grandma, for example, has turned out to be an admirer of Joan of 

Arc, though she supports draft-dodging. Uncle Shmulik views quarrelling as just another 

form of love. 

My brother, Yehuda, thinks that life gives you the most when you expect the least. 

This is a docu-comedy with a hint of tragedy; a family story about one individual’s attempt 

to find his own path and independence, even when those around him think differently. 





Go2Films 




T. +972 2 583 1371 

F. +972 2 583 5450 



373

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446 

FINLAND 


RECIPES FOR DISASTER 

John Webster 

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family 

should go on an oil-free diet, yet without having to give up their middle-class suburban 

lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don’t do, or that we can’t help doing, make up 

recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values 

and putting to the test their willpower and ultimately, their happiness. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




284 

USA 

R 


THE RECKONING 

Pamela Yates 

In response to horrific atrocities igniting increasingly around the world, more than 60 

countries united to launch the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the first permanent 

home for prosecuting perpetrators (no matter how powerful) of crimes against humanity, 

war crimes, and genocide. The Reckoning follows charismatic ICC prosecutor Luis 

Moreno-Ocampo for three years across four continents, as he and his team tirelessly issue 

arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put Congolese warlords on 

trial, challenge the UN Security Council to help indict Sudan’s president for the Darfur 

massacres, and shake up the Colombian justice system. Moreno-Ocampo has a mandate 

but no police force. At every turn, he must pressure the international community to muster 

political clout for the cause. As this tiny court in The Hague struggles to change the world 

and forge a new paradigm for justice, innocent victims suffer and wait. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




375

R 

437 

UK-GERMANY 


RED OIL 

Lucinda Broadbent 

The film takes a look at Hugo Chavez, the leader of the Socialist revolution in Venezuela, 

whose main pillar of support is formed by the state oil company PDVSA. Lucinda Broadbent 

heads for the South American nation to find out more. Who is Hugo Chavez Is he really 

something of a soap opera hero, a champion for his socially-disadvantaged 

compatriots Or is he simply a megalomaniac villain who uses his clout in the oil industry 

to buy votes and who will stop at nothing in order to retain his political power Stay 

tuned to find out! 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




427 

ISRAEL 

R 


A REFUSENIK’S MOTHER 

Ori Ben Dov 

In Israel, military service is obligatory for all 18-year-olds. Refusing to enlist is punishable 

by imprisonment in a military prison. Marit’s son decided to become a conscientious objector 

despite her disapproval. This is a story of a mother torn between the values she was 

brought up on, the instinct to protect her son and the will to let him follow his beliefs. The 

film also offers a fascinating look into the phenomenon of young Israelis refusing to serve 

in the Israeli Army and willing to pay the price. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




377

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133 



RENé 

Helena Třeštíková 

“Why has my shitty life turned out like this No one knows. Not even God. God’s on holiday 

and he’s reading porn.”Αn excerpt from “Diary of the Forgotten”, the journal kept by 

the main protagonist. With raw authenticity, the director records the luckless fate of René 

over a period of twenty years, as he goes back and forth between prison and freedom. The 

life of René, who successfully stylizes himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against 

a backdrop of important political events occurring in the Czech Republic and beyond its 

borders. The Velvet Revolution, the presidential election, 9 

11 and the Czech Republic’s accession to the EU - all this is “digested” by René, mostly 

from the confines of various prisons. 









T. +420 2 3331 3839 




285 

USA 

R 


REPORTER 

Eric Daniel Metzgar 

As focused as this superbly conceived examination of New York Times reporter Nicholas D. 

Kristof is on its subject, filmmaker Eric Metzgar has a much greater arena in mind in this 

multilayered exploration of journalism than just the work and impact of the Pulitzer Prizewinning 

columnist. Tracking Kristof as he traveled to the Congo to report on the conflict 

and desperate poverty besieging the African republic – where 5.4 million have died in 

the last decade as a result of the unceasing and convoluted warfare over territory, resources 

and tribal hatred. In an attempt to put this crisis on the international radar, as he 

did with his articles on Darfur, the film immerses us in a discussion of the ways this kind 

of reportage reaches the public, effects change, and creates a humanitarian response. He 

knows that statistics deaden his readers’ compassion, so to get the world to care Nick goes 

in search of a single individual whose story will reflect the country’s desperate crisis and 

mobilize readers worldwide. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




379

R 

473 

FRANCE 


RESEARCH: TERRA INCOGNITA 

Eric Chevillard 

Terra Incognita takes us behind the scene of this event, which, every 50 years, gathers the 

international scientific world around ambitious research programs related to the North 

and South Pole. 

For these researchers and specialists, the international polar year is an opportunity to expand 

their knowledge of the Polar Regions, as well as to put this knowledge at the center 

of the news. This year the main topics are the evolution of the environment and the 

climate, and the protection of bio-diversity. The study of ice, astronomy and biology are 

intermingling topics in these fields. 

We follow Mireille Raccurt, penguin specialist, in her mission from Dumont d’Urville in the 

South Pole, as well as Delphine Six in her drillings on the Saint Sorlin glacier. 

Through science, Terra Incognita offers perspectives on our future. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



380 


534 

BULGARIA 

R 


RESERVE FOR GELINAS 

Damyan Petrov 

The documentary is dedicated to a group of extraordinary people – the Bulgarian Mohammedans 

living in the village of Ribnovo – and their way of life. The narration focuses 

on the seldom-held wedding ritual “gelina”, only preserved in this area of the Rhodope 

Mountains. But the wedding is just a reason to take a look at the unusual world of these 

people, who have harmoniously combined in an incredible way the wisdom of experience 

and tradition with an eye to the world of the 21st century. The documentary is a film 

about a different point of view on life. The team has tried to write a contemporary and 

unusual fairy-tale about the existence of eternal love and the changes time might have 

caused to the relationships between men and women. 







29 San Stefano Str. 


T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 

sales@bnt.bg 

www.bnt.bg 


R 

348 

CAMBODIA-UK-GERMANY 


THE RETURN 

Jo Parkes & Sven O. Hill 

Sathia lives through dance. As a child in Cambodia, she survives the brutal Khmer Rouge 

regime by dancing for the soldiers. One day she has a road accident and is left disabled. 

Sathia accepts that she will never dance again. Then she meets Katie, an English dancer, 

who desperately wants Sathia to dance with her and return to the stage. 









T. +420 2 3331 3839 



382 


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GERMANY 

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THE RETURN OF THE MARTYR 

Thomas Tielsch 

Nobody had expected his return. In the glare of the world’s publicity, he stepped out from 

the dark of his past on September 11, 2001. Since then, he has been back: the martyr 

(from the Greek martyr = witness). His history reached far back into the ancient world, 

but only in Christ was he given a face. By now the martyr has become a figure with many 

faces and he shows up wherever conflicts are smoldering. The film presents the historical 

background to the worship of martyrs in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and describes the 

forming of a new religion in the 20th century: nationalism, a religion that is breeding new 

martyrs every day. Experts from the three religions are interviewed, old representations 

and archival film material are presented and the most important sites of modern-day 

martyr worship are shown. The film also tells the stories of courageous people, who, beyond 

any normal sense of mission, stand up for those closest to them and for their religious 

and moral convictions. 






Anne Hufnagel 



T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 




R 

546 

GERMANY 


THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN’T 

Aliona Polunina 

In Russia 2007, the opposition to Putin’s regime is gathering force for the next presidential 

elections due in exactly one year. Anatoly and Andrei are not just two such opposition 

fighters, they are veteran revolutionaries. According to them, only a revolution can bring 

about “The other Russia”. However, as members of the banned National Bolshevik Party 

they will try and go the“democratic”way – but neither Revolution nor victory are in sight. 

While Anatoly’s teenage son remains with the political cause, Anatoly finds spiritual refuge 

in the Orthodox Church – the Russian revolution’s arch-enemy. 

The Revolution that Wasn’t shows us the ongoing conflict between an opposition clinging 

onto the ideals that once formed the Soviet Union and those ruling Russia with a firm 

neo-capitalist grip. A film about political activists in the Russian underground who know 

they might have to sacrifice their lives in order to fight a system that seems unbreakable 

from within. 






Stefan Kloos 



T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 29820 



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R-EXISTENCE 

Marco Pasquini 

Srifa; South of Lebanon. August 2006. They struggled for survival amongst more than one 

million people forced away from their houses because of the Israeli bombings of inhabited 

areas. 

Layla, Haifa, Dina, Zeynab and Fatme speak with grace, sitting in what remains of their 

houses. They tell us about their life in the village during the bombings, they speak about 

the meaning of having a home and what they felt when they discovered that everything 

had been destroyed. They struggled for survival among more than one million people 

forced away from their houses, refugees of the Israeli bombings of inhabited areas. 

Women reflect on the unending war, they explain the difficulties of living in a permanent 

condition of war and describe their will to resist as a result of their conscious social role in 

the community. 

Their everyday resistance is intimate, sweet and tenacious. The Lebanese women of the 

South are educated to resist, it is part of their upbringing passed on by their mothers 

within the walls of the home. This kind of resistance is now a part of their life and identity. 





Suttvuess 


61 Via Sannio 


T. +39 06 4341 9651 

F. +39 06 4341 9652 




R 

517 

GREECE 


RHYTHMS AND RHYMES 

Nikos Skarentzos 

Nikos Skarentzos’musical film entitled Rhythms and Rhymes is a portrait of the Greek hip 

hop scene. The film is divided into 12 thematic chapters in which the creators and protagonists 

of the genre talk about the history of hip hop in this country, from its birth in the early 

90s to the present day, with reference to its main features, such as DJing, MCing, graffiti, 

breakdancing and beatbox. Each chapter begins with single-minute excerpts (which, when 

put together, will constitute a short film) from the lives of a group of Greek and immigrant 

kids who live in Athens and are trying to make a name for themselves in Greek hip hop. 







Top Cut 

Nikos Skarentzos 

36 b Marousiou – Halandriou Str. 


T. + 30 210 610 0100 

F. + 30 210 610 0109 

stamatis@topcut.tv 


Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503 

F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


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RICH BROTHER 

Insa Onken 

Ben,“The Lion of Cameroon”, has just succeeded in becoming a professional boxer, yet his 

goal is higher: not only does he want to become a champion but“the world boxing champion”.That 

way he will have fulfilled his family’s high expectations. Without a title or money, 

Ben cannot go back to Cameroon. He was the one his family chose to send to Europe and 

he must return a success, bringing them money, gifts and business connections. Together 

with Wolfgang, a non-professional yet dedicated trainer from the former Democratic Republic 

of Germany, Ben bushwhacks his way through the tough jungle of the boxing world. 

Under the enormous pressure of achieving success, their friendship eventually breaks up. 

Ben must make his way alone and soon begins to lose matches. Disheartened, he is just 

about to give up boxing when a golden opportunity arises and he gets an offer to fight for 

the world title. At last he can afford to fly back to Cameroon and face his family: his ticket 

is booked and no matter how the fight goes, Ben will fly. 





Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion 

Thanassis Karathanos 

13 Schwedter Str. 


T. +49 30 6128 1750 

F. +49 30 6128 1751 

office@twentytwentyvision.eu 

www.twentytwentyvision.eu 


387

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166 

CANADA 


RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO 

Brett Gaylor 

In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright 

in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and 

shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, 

a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a 

paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy Creative Commons founder, Lawrence 

Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are 

also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his 

raw footage at opensourcecinema.org for anyone to remix. With RiP: A Remix Manifesto, 

Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle. Which side of the 

ideas war are you on 





National Film Board of Canada 

Johanne St. Arnauld 

3155 Cote de Liesse Road 

St. Laurent Quebec H4N 2N4, Canada 

T. +1 514 283 2703 

F. +1 514 496 1895 

international@nfb.ca 

www.nfb.ca 


457 

SENEGAL-FRANCE 

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RIVER MOVIE 

Laurence Attali 

A film’s genesis and metamorphoses, from the first intuition to the first clapboard. 

From Tom Waits to Cheikh Lô and from Venice to Paris, on to Saint Louis in Senegal, this 

documentary travels the river’s flow in search of the Unshod Man. Not a ‘making of’ or 

behind-the-scenes look, but more like the hidden side before the shoot starts. A testimony 

to what could have been, seen, heard... Describing the build-up to the word: Action! 





Autoproduction 

Laurence Attali 

12 rue Jean Du Bellay 


T. +33 1 4329 5737 

F. +33 1 4329 5737 

autoprod@club-internet.fr 


389

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172 

AUSTRIA 


A ROAD TO MECCA - THE JOURNEY 

OF MUHAMMAD ASAD 

Georg Misch 

In the early 1920s, Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew, traveled to the Middle East. The desert 

fascinated him, and Islam became his new spiritual home. He left his Jewish roots behind, 

converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad. He became one of 

the most important Muslims of the 20th century, first as an advisor at the royal court of 

Saudi Arabia, and later translating the Koran into English. The director follows his fading 

footsteps, leading from the Arabian desert to Ground Zero. He finds a man who was not 

looking for adventures but rather wanted to act as a mediator between East and West. A 

Road to Mecca takes this opportunity to deal with a heated debate which is currently becoming 

more and more important. 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




451 

GERMANY-FINLAND-POLAND 

R 


ROBINSONS OF MANTSINSAARI 

Victor Asliuk 

The film tells the story of two elderly men who are the last residents of a now Russiancontrolled 

island on Lake Ladoga. Although they are the sole inhabitants of the islands, 

neither speaks to the other: one is of Belarusian origin, the other of Finnish origin. And between 

the two, there is a long history. Occasionally though, the younger of the two men 

climbs up on a hill during the evening to see whether light still burns at his neighbor’s 

house. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




391

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578 

ITALY 


ROMA RESIDENCE 

Andrea Foschi & Marco Neri 

The urgent need for living quarters, as told through the experiences of the inhabitants of 

Roma Residence, a residential complex located in Bravetta, not far from downtown Rome. 

This documentary isn’t an investigation; it shows the metamorphosis of a living experience 

that lasted over a year. It shows the faces, the dynamics between different communities, 

the building of the residence itself and the changes it undergoes. 

“Once the spatial-temporal coordinates were set out and once the existence of a ghetto 

and its decay just a few kilometers from the center of Rome was established, the film took 

off with a succession of sequences toward a reflection that, above all, valorizes the visual 

experience. The chronological story is almost always a pretext for visualizing the spaces, 

the internal dynamics within the various communities, the encounters between people in 

their environment, their arenas. The film develops and finds its meaning in an increasingly 

intimate way of representing the relationship between the residence and its inhabitants.” 







Via Cassia 878 


T.-F. +39 068 7903 958 



392 


261 


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ROOTS OF EVIL: 

WORD FROM DUTROUX 

Jessica Villerius 

The definitive documentary on paedophile and serial killer Marc Dutroux, made with his 

co-operation from prison and featuring exclusive interviews with his father and sister and 

police investigators. What turned Dutroux into a serial killer Was it nature or nurture In 

this unique film, we trace Dutroux’s life from his childhood in Obaix to his abduction and 

rape of six girls, four of whom he murdered. From his prison cell in Belgium, Dutroux publicly 

comments on his crimes – crimes that caused a national scandal in Belgium and led 

to the reorganization of the country’s criminal system. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




R 

104 

UK 


ROUGH AUNTIES 

Kim Longinotto 

Fearless, feisty and resolute, the Rough Aunties are a remarkable group of women unwavering 

in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children 

of Durban, South Africa. This documentary follows the outspoken, multiracial cadre of 

Thuli, Mildred, Sdudla, Eureka and Jackie, as they wage a daily battle against systemic 

apathy, corruption and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their 

communities. Neither politics, nor social or racial divisions stand a chance against the 

united force of the women. It brings us an intimate portrait of change from Africa, this 

time from post-apartheid South Africa, a nation being transformed with hope and energy 

into a new democracy. 

Running time:105’ 




Rise Films 

Manu Pandey 

46 Berwick Street 

London W1F 8SG, UK 

T. +44 207 214 6072 

F. +44 207 214 6070 

manu@risefilms.com 

www.risefilms.com 


526 

POLAND 

R 


THE RUNAWAY 

Marek Tomasz Pawłowski 

The film presents the complicated vicissitudes of the last living fugitive, organizer of the 

most famous and courageous escape from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp which took 

place on June 20, 1942. 

Four prisoners wearing SS uniforms fled with weapons in the camp commander’s car. This 

was the most famous, daring and spectacular flight from the camp ever. It became a legend 

among prisoners and buoyed their spirits for a long time. The entire story is told by 

Kazimierz Piechowski himself, one of the runaways. Thanks to his fluent German the escape 

was successfully carried out. 

The film contains previously unpublished photos and materials showing the private life of 

the SS-men that tortured and oversaw the prisoners in the camp. 









T. +48 22 547 5680 

F. +48 22 547 4248 

sales@tvp.pl 


www.tvp.pl 


395

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317 

USA 


RUNNERS HIGH 

Justine Jacob 

When teenagers from one of the nation’s toughest neighborhoods in Oakland, California 

sign up to train for a marathon, they begin the journey of a lifetime. Runners High is an intimate, 

character driven documentary of struggle, courage and hope showing that no 

matter what happens next, one season of training to run 26.2 miles can change your life 

forever. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 



396 


523 

POLAND 

S 


THE SAGA OF THE ANCIENT FOREST 

Bożena Walencik & Jan Walencik 

The Saga of the Ancient Forest presents the nature of the Bialowieza Forest, the last remaining 

of the lowland ones that used to cover nearly the entire continent of Europe. In 

the area between Poland and Belarus everyone may find roots and see an exclusively nature-made 

primeval forest. 

The sophisticated shooting techniques consciously ignore computerized effects. It is with 

nature sounds that they complete the reflective character of the whole, building up emotions 

with calls of animals and sophisticated music, rarely using the voice of a narrator. 









T. +48 22 547 5680 

F. +48 22 547 4248 

sales@tvp.pl 


www.tvp.pl 


397

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378 

BELGIUM 


SAINT-MARCEL. 

SEEING ALL & NOTHING 

François Hien 

A thriller about the relationship between two women, bound by the degenerative illness 

of one of them who is blind and slowly dying. In this ‘huis-clos’ with a fantastic film atmosphere, 

the director finds himself cornered between reality and appearance, madness 

and reason, truth and lies; reality becomes stronger than fiction. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



100 

FRANCE 

S 


SANDRA’S PARADISE 

Marianne Roussy 

As soon as she moved to the ghetto of El Paraiso in Bogota, Columbia, at the age of seven, 

Sandra decided she had to do something about the misery and poverty around her. A few 

years later, she opened up a neighborhood center where young and old come everyday to 

share a meal and spend time together. 





Les Films du Voilier 

Steve Moreau 

Rue Lemecier 29 


T. +33 1 7550 0144 

info@lesfilmsduvoilier.com 

www.lesfilmsduvoilier.com 


399

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507 

GREECE 


SCHOOLWAVE ON THE ROCKS 

Alexandros Grammatopoulos 

A unique festival has been taking place in Athens for the past 4 years. High school bands 

from Greece and Europe come and play their own music on a huge stage in front of thousands 

of their schoolmates. Schoolwave 2008 took place at the Theatro Vrahon (the theater 

on the rocks) in Vyronas, a northeastern suburb of Athens. The cameras record the 

frenzied rhythm of the kids on stage, their nervousness before going on and their joy afterwards. 

For three days they have the leading roles in a play written by themselves and 

not by adults. 





Schooligans Creative Team 

Christos Ioannidis 

6 Saronos Str. 


T. + 30 693 661 4715 

theschooligans@yahoo.com 


212 

GREECE 

S 


SCIENCE’S PATHS: 

CHRISTOS PAPADIMITRIOU 

Ioannis Kaspiris 

George Grammatikakis talks with Christos Papadimitriou, a famous and important researcher 

in computer science and professor at one of the world’s leading universities as well as at 

Berkeley, one of the most popular universities in the United States. He became very well 

known in Greece following the publication of his book Logicomix co-authored with Apostolos 

Doxiadis.This is a graphic novel, dealing with the genesis of Reason, Reason as science 

and as the necessity for the existence of a language which can be clear, accurate and logically 

consistent. In this effort, George Grammatikakis and Christos Papadimitriou talk and 

compare the level of research of the Greek Academic Community with that of the USA.“It’s 

true that Greek postgraduate students are probably the best that I have ever had,”he states. 

He was a student at the National Technical University of Athens and later a postgraduate 

student at Princeton, a professor at Harvard and MIT. Later on he taught at the NTUA for a 

short time, but he soon went back to the USA and taught at UC Berkeley. For Christos Papadimitriou, 

computer science is the precursor of the Internet, which has dramatically 

changed the world. Algorithms have been a large part of Papadimitriou’s research. He has 

written a book entitled Algorithms, whose subject is the importance of algorithms in the 

future of computer science as well as in the future of the world. 









T. +30 210 607 5711-12, F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


401

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318 

SOUTH AFRICA 


SEA POINT DAYS 

François Verster 

Set between city and ocean, Sea Point Days presents a record of transformation on Cape 

Town’s coast. This Toronto Film Festival selected film uses cinematic vignettes to explore issues 

of belonging, integration, nostalgia, happiness and identity. Beautifully shot, enigmatically 

edited, complex and richly rewarding, this treat from Emmy award-winning 

François Verster will delight fans of the creative documentary genre. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




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SEAVIEW 

Nicky Gogan & Paul Rowley 

Mosney, on the beautiful Irish coast, is a holiday resort whose glamour and amusementpark 

atmosphere have long since faded. Today, it houses nearly 800 asylum seekers from 

around the globe who wait for permission to start their lives over, offering a surreal and 

incongruous backdrop to their stories. This lyrical and deliberately displacing film captures 

the irony of a space repurposed and stories of migration put on hold. A unique view into 

a closed world – we meet the people who have been waiting in the asylum process for 

years on end in this bizarre no-mans-land. 





Forward Entertainment 

Sheri Levine 

125 East 87th Street, #15B 


T. +1 914 450 6781 

F. +1 212 300 6677 

slevine@forwardentertainment.us 

www.forwardentertainment.us 


403

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131 

USA 


SECRECY 

Peter Galison & Robb Moss 

In a single recent year the United States classified about five times the number of pages 

added to the Library of Congress. We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge 

dwarfs the production of open knowledge. Depending on whom you ask, government 

secrecy is either the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles 

heel. But is so much secrecy a bad thing This film is about the vast, invisible world of 

government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets and the government’s ability to put 

information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions 

between our safety as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy. 






Louise Rosen 



T. +1 207 725 8215 

F. +1 207 725 8057 




481 

FRANCE 

S 


SECRET HISTORY: 

THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO 

Jean Crepu 

It was one of the most important books of the twentieth century. An account so shocking, 

few believed it could be true. But the real story of how Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago 

came to be published is just as remarkable as the manuscript itself. In this exclusive 

new film, Solzhenitsyn and his team of‘invisible’helpers describe how they smuggled his 

masterpiece to the West. 





Java Films 




T. +33 1 4060 2624 

F. +33 1 4060 2649 




405

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543 

GERMANY 


THE SECRET OF DEVA 

Anca Miruna Lazarescu 

The Romanian city of Deva is famous for its medieval castle, the legendary gymnast Nadia 

Comaneci, and for its poverty. Deva is also famous for its sports boarding school, which 

for decades has been training world-class gymnasts. Pitic and Malina might be two future 

stars, but their way to the podium is full of deprivation. They are 8 and 9 years old. 

Their parents sent them to live in Deva when they were six. They train for four hours every 

day and spend the rest of their time in school. The filmmaker followed the girls for two 

years until their first and most important competition. 

An intimate and moving film about innocent dreams and harsh reality – and with lots of 

merciless and sometimes bitter moments that make the viewer aware of what physical exercise 

really means. 






Stefan Kloos 



T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 29820 




130 

USA 

S 


SECTION 60: 

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 

Jon Alpert & Matthew O’Neill 

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery provides rare, intimate glimpses of the loss, love 

and pride felt by Section 60 visitors, underscoring the human toll exacted by the military 

conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, while honoring those who sacrificed their lives for their 

country. The directors capture the sights and sounds of this quiet pocket of Arlington National 

Cemetery, where families and friends grieve, honor, remember and find comfort 

and community with others who share profound loss. A reverent snapshot of the ever-expanding 

Section 60, the film comprises vignettes shot from early morning to sundown. 





HBO International Distribution 

Dan Selig 

1100 Avenue of the Americas 


T. +1 212 512 1266 

dan.selig@hbo.com 

www.hbotvsales.com 


407

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468 

SWITZERLAND 


SEX TOYS STORIES 

Anne Deluz & Béatrice Guelpa 

From “Tupperware”parties to “Fuckerware” ones! 

Or how the sex toy got rid of its vulgar image and sex taboos. 

Through three portraits, with delicacy, a lot of humor but also with precision, the film offers 

a contemporary and surprising vision of these objects of pleasures. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




565 

SOUTH AFRICA 

S 


SHAMIELA’S HOUSE 

Robyn Rorke 

Shamiela’s House is a milk-and-cookies mother’s extraordinary fight to save her house for 

her kids. From revolutionary street protests through the halls of power, the battle for her 

home becomes a balancing act between her roles as an activist, a leader and a mother. It 

is a sober reflection on the state of South Africa’s democracy. 

The film is an intimate observation of a mother’s struggle to save her home and her children 

from being evicted by a mismanaged state-funded housing company. Shamiela is a 

strict and loving mother, a deeply spiritual person, and her house a haven for many children 

on the ganglands of Cape Town. 

The Cape Town Community Housing Company begins unfairly evicting residents. The film 

follows Shamiela as she reluctantly accepts the position as a community leader in the 

fight to stop evictions – a public role that she struggles with, being a shy homebody. 

Shamiela’s first person account of her experience intertwines with observational footage, 

leading residents from burning tyres through the halls of power. Tension mounts as the 

community splits between those who support negotiations, and residents who want to 

resort to revolutionary tactics to be heard. 

The film is a close and timely comment on the state of grassroots democracy in South 

Africa two decades after independence. 





nightswimming films cc 

Robyn Rorke 

6 Hawthorn Way, Pinelands 


T. +27 83 420 1705 

robynrorke@gmail.com 


409

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488 

ISRAEL 


SHINING STARS 

Yael Kipper 

Maytal, the first film about Maytal, was filmed shortly after the terrorist attack at Dizengoff 

Center in 1996. Nine years later, I’ve resumed my documentation of Maytal at a point 

at which her life will once again undergo dramatic change. 

About a year and a half following the attack, Maytal separated from her husband. And 

after years on her own, she decides to commence fertility treatments and to have a child 

as a single mother. The treatments, the bouts of anesthesia, the operations under lifethreatening 

conditions; all force Maytal, in a single moment, back to the past. 

The physical distress is enormous, but even more trying is coping emotionally not only 

with the present difficulty but also with what she has repressed since the attack. 

The film interlaces with Maytal’s spirit, joining the complex journey down the road of realizing 

her dream. 





Go2Films 




T. +972 2 583 1371 

F. +972 2 583 5450 



139 

TURKEY 

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SHOULD I REALLY DO IT 

Ismail Necmi 

This real-life feature follows the extraordinary life of Petra, a German woman living in Istanbul, 

in an ironic inversion of the Turkish migrant in Germany. Her life will take such 

strange turns you’ll think she’s following a script. But we’re actually watching a real life protagonist 

evolve in the face of life. For, ultimately, nothing is ever as surprising as life. Except, 

perhaps, fiction! During ‘sessions’ with the mysterious, masked Herold, her life 

unfolds before our eyes and we learn about everything: Istanbul, Germany, family, friends, 

drugs and death. Should I Really Do It plays with these concepts of real life and fiction, 

documentary and drama... Could life ever be more interesting than fiction 





Zeyno Film 

Zeynep Ozbatur 

Akkavak Sok. No: 6-2 Nisanatasi 


T. +90 212 224 0198 

F. +90 212 291 7220 

info@zeynofilm.com 

www.zeynofilm.com 


411

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187 

FRANCE-BELGIUM-SENEGAL 


THE SILENT MONOLOGUE 

Khady Sylla & Charlie Van Damme 

Senegal, Dakar, the dawn of the 21st century. Guéro, a young girl exiled from the countryside 

where she grew up, works as a maid who is at the beck and call of a family living 

in the poor suburbs of Dakar. Guéro talks to us about her life as a maid in a long monologue 

full of contained rebelliousness and a desire to escape. A strange mixture of documentary 

and dramatized fiction, the film uses Guéro’s case as a starting point from which 

to explore the economic and social conditions that make it possible for women to live in 

such extreme servitude. It is a reality which one finds hard to accept, and yet it is imposed 

almost as a way of life. As one of the women in the film says: “This story takes place in 

Dakar, which is to say, pretty much everywhere, and it’ll take much more than good intentions 

to make it a part of the past.” 





Andana Films 


Le Village 


T. +33 475 943 467 

F. +33 475 942 509 




405 

SOUTH AFRICA 

S 


SILENT RESPONSE 

Makela Pululu 

Pululu is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who lost contact with his son 

when in 2005 Mark walked out the door of their Sea Point flat, choosing to live on the 

streets. Since then Mark has written to his father asking for forgiveness and this film is 

Pululu’s response. 






Nazeer Ahmed 



T. +27 21 465 4686 

F. +27 21 461 6964 




413

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311 

GREECE 


SING ALONG 

Lucia Rikaki 

Sing Along is a film about the experimental amateur choir of the island of Rhodes, a group 

of 50 musicians offering music to the community. They visit old people‘s homes and invite 

them to sing along, they visit prisons and encourage the inmates to sing and dance 

along with the choir. They also participate in international music festivals around the 

world. The film follows the choir for over three years and documents highlights along their 

musical journey. 







Tricky Trick Films Ltd 

Lucia Rikaki 

10 Ionos Dragoumi Str. 


T. + 30 210 724 5227 

F. + 30 210 729 3776 

lrikaki@otenet.gr 


Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503 

F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


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TURKEY 

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SISTERS OF LILITH 

Emel Çelebi 

Three women who live in harmony with nature. Yielding to nothing, living at peace with 

nature by the strength they derive from their own labor. A shepherdess who lives with 

her flock in wild and remote mountains; a fisherwoman who sails out to sea and casts 

her nets every day, even though she can’t swim; and a farmer who looks after her household, 

buying and selling fields when necessary. This is a song of praise for strong and productive 

women as told through the stories of three characters. 





ZeZe Film 

Necati Sonmez 

Sahkulu Mah. Seraskerci Cik. 4/2 Galata, Beyoglu 


T. +90 212 249 9721 

zezefilm@gmail.com 

www.zezefilm.com 


415

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343 

GERMANY 


SISTERS OF NO MERCY 

Lukas Roegler 

A shocking inside view of the African human trafficking and forced prostitution business. 

Sisters of No Mercy tells the very personal stories of Faith, Linda, Betty and Queen – four 

Nigerian girls whose dream of a better future turned into a prostitution nightmare on the 

streets of Europe. Recruited from one small animist region in Southern Nigeria, they do not 

only suffer from the horrible exploitation as sex slaves, but have to go through an occult 

‘juju’ ritual, which inescapably ties them to their traffickers – until they repay their individual 

debt of up to €60,000. At the hub of this brutal new African slave trade are the socalled‘Madams’– 

Nigerian female pimps, who make the human trafficking business from 

Nigeria the only major organized crime business worldwide controlled by women. Told 

through the eyes of the trade’s victims, Sisters of No Mercy, for the first time ever, sheds 

light on a new and vicious form of slavery between Nigeria and countries such as Italy, 

where today an estimated one in three prostitutes comes from Nigeria. 






Anne Hufnagel 



T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 



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THE SKY AND BEYOND – 

ON THE TRAIL OF DOROTHEA BUCK 

Alexandra Pohlmeier 

The Sky and Beyond reflects on the remarkable life of the 91-year-old sculptor Dorothea 

Buck who cured herself from schizophrenia. 

Born in 1917, she was overcome by a severe mental crisis at the age of nineteen. During 

the Third Reich, with the diagnosis of schizophrenia, she was classified as a minor human 

being. According to the Nazi race policies she was forcibly sterilized in 1936. A few years 

later she barely escaped“euthanasia”. Contrary to all prognoses – incurable mental illness 

– Dorothea Buck tried to understand what drove her into psychosis and developed her 

own theory about her illness. That way she found the key to her own sanity. 

Between 2001 and 2008, director Alexandra Pohlmeier was able to capture Dorothea 

Buck’s breathtaking story during regular visits to her home and studio in Hamburg and by 

traveling with her. Buck’s younger sister provides an outside view, reflecting on the dismay 

and helplessness most families experience when mental illness strikes in their midst. By 

accentuating the narrative, Dorothea Buck’s sculptures unfold an impressive body of work. 

The Sky and Beyond is a film about the life and work of a courageous woman – an encouraging 

film. 





Alexandra Pohlmeier Filmproduktion 

Alexandra Pohlmeier 

10 Bleibtreustr. 


T. +49 30 881 9973 

F. +49 30 882 3318 

pohlmeier-alexandra@web.de 


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SLAVES 

Hanna Heilborn & David Aronowitsch 

“We were abducted, my mother, father, sister and me. Then they killed my parents and 

separated me from my sister. I was five,” Abouk tells us in a low voice. “I stayed with one 

of the men who kidnapped us and took care of his goats.” Slaves is about Abouk, nine 

years old, and Machiek, fifteen years old. Like thousands of other children they were taken 

by government sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves. They were later liberated 

by an organization headed by James Aguer. Slaves is based on an interview made in 2003 

and is the second film in a series of animated documentaries with and about children in 

difficult situations. 





Story AB 

David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn 

2a Virkesvägen 

Stockholm SE 12030, Sweden 

T. +46 8 156 280 

F. +46 8 156 282 

david@story.se 

hanna@story.se 

www.story.se 


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SLUM SURVIVORS 

Peter Murimi & David Gough 

Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums. As many as one million of them in 

the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors tells the stories of a few of them and charts 

their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty. 





Irin News 

David Gough 



T. +254 20 762 2147 




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363 

UK 


SO HELP ME GOD 

Simon Cole 

The English “advertising Guru” Simon Cole loves his job, his beautiful car and his wife. But 

there is no connection to God. He starts a personal and amusing journey across America 

and its religious people, trying to find the meaning of God in the 21st century. This documentary 

is the first collaboration from the acclaimed Cole Brothers (Ben, Nigel & Simon 

Cole). 









T. +43 720 346 934 / +43 676 900 3771 




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THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES 

Eva Weber 

Part city symphony part visual poem, The Solitary Life of Cranes explores the invisible life 

of a city, its patterns and hidden secrets, seen through the eyes of crane drivers working 

high above its streets. 





Odd Girl Out Productions 

Samantha Zarzosa 

10 Kemp House, Sweardstone Road 

London E2 9JL, UK 

T. +44 20 8980 3834 

samantha@oddgirlout.co.uk 

www.oddgirlout.co.uk 


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GERMANY 


SONBOL 

Niko Apel 

“Why can’t you actually find a man”Sonbol is asked by her mother. The answer is silence. 

Sonbol Fatemi is 35: she is attractive, single and divorced, has her own dentist surgery, likes 

to tell dirty jokes and has a passion for car racing – competing against men. Sonbol lives 

in the holy city of Mashad, in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Living a life like this in Iran 

means that she has to fight everyday. Against her mother who would love to arrange another 

marriage for her. Against the sports administration that wants to exclude women 

from rallies altogether. And, not least, against her own doubts about God and whether He 

is actually by her side. 

Sonbol gives a unique insight into a torn society by painting the portrait of an extraordinary 

and unconventional woman who pays a high price in order to be her self. 






Stefan Kloos 



T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 29820 




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SOS ANIMALS IN DANGER 

Angelos Kovotsos 

The Greek episode of the European TV series SOS Animals in Danger focuses on the Viper 

of Milos, the sea turtle Caretta-Caretta, and the brown bear; these animals are threatened 

with extinction and are therefore protected.The case of the Dalmatian Pelican – the fourth 

animal featured in the film – is quite a different one: after successful measures for the 

protection and management of its habitat in Northern Greece, this bird’s population has 

been restored to an impressive degree. The episode is in four parts and there is no narration. 

Each animal’s habitat is presented by a young child (between 8 and 10 years of age), 

who interviews the environmental scientists working for its protection. Filmed on the islands 

of Milos and Crete, in the village of Nymphaeon, on Mount Hasia and the Prespes 

Lakes, the Greek episode tries to help young viewers become better acquainted with the 

wealth of Greek nature and the passion of the people who work in environmental protection 

programs. 









T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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ISRAEL 


SOUL TRIPPING 

Michael Greenspan 

Jewish communities around the world are surrendering to the lure of assimilation. In an 

effort to reverse this trend, Jewish mega-philanthropists are bringing tens of thousands 

of young Jews on free visits to Israel in a project called Taglit Birthright Israel. 

Photographed in the US and Israel, this hour-long documentary follows three young 

American Jews as they make the journey: 

Rachel – a 26-year-old public-relations professional, married to a non-Jew and raising 

their adopted son in a mixed religious environment. 

Emma – a 22-year-old actress, the daughter of two lesbians, who is seeking to resolve her 

alternative lifestyle with her sense of Jewish identity. 

Michelle – a 27-year-old singer-songwriter who joined the first TBI trip in 2000. 

Soul Tripping seeks to understand how TBI affects the lives of participants. Hosted by Israeli 

television journalist Linoy Bar-Geffen, it blends a whirlwind journey through Israel, 

moments of fun and adventure, with intimate, personal experiences. It includes revealing 

video blogs photographed by the participants themselves. 





Go2Films 




T. +972 2 583 1371 

F. +972 2 583 5450 


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THE SOVIET STORY 

Edvins Snore 

The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power; a regime which helped the 

Nazis to murder Jews, which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale, and whose 

crimes were largely ignored by the West. The complete story of Europe’s most murderous 

regime has never been told. Until now… 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




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516 

GREECE 


SPECIAL RIDES WITH A MOTORBIKE 

Eleftherios Katsaros 

Someone with a motorbike takes it upon himself to offer help and transport sight impaired 

people to their jobs and anywhere else they wish to be taken. 

Out of these journeys, we really come to terms with and get a feel for the daily grind, the 

problems and the ways in which these people, who live mainly in Athens, occupy themselves. 





Video-books.gr 

Eleftherios Katsaros 

27 Fanariou Street 


T. +30 213 006 7576 

F. +30 210 523 0322 

sales@video-books.gr 

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SPENCER TUNICK IN MEXICO 

Javier Garcia Rivera 

Spencer Tunick, the well known contemporary artist who has traveled all over the world 

photographing individual and massive naked body installations, visited Mexico City and 

introduced us to a new face of the city with his work. 

Reaching more than 18,000 participants, Spencer touched their souls in more than one 

way and, for some of them, changed their lives. Even though the artist had already photographed 

this kind of installation many times, the Mexican people gave him more than 

he could expect from them. 

This documentary that ran to the final stage of the Emmy International Awards for Arts 

Programming is a visual retrieval of those events and a mosaic of opinions and experiences 

of those who shared that day. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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USA 


SQUEEZEBOX! 

Steve Saporito & Zach Shaffer 

During the turbulent reign of Mayor Giuliani in the 90s whenTimes Square was being sold to 

Disney and sex clubs were shuttered in favor of fast food chains, there was a brief shining 

moment when drag queens rocked New York nightlife. The epicenter of that moment was 

SqueezeBox, a weekly pansexual rock and roll party at Don Hill’s night club. Started as a refuge 

for gay rock and rollers who felt like outsiders in both the gay and rock worlds, the party grew 

to become a landmark event in nightlife history. By bringing together two seemingly contradictory 

worlds, SqueezeBox engendered a spirit of universal acceptance for everyone who 

passed through its doors.What transpired for seven years on the corner of Spring and Greenwich 

was an often hilarious, always rocking, and frequently debauched assemblage of everything 

from the ridiculous to the profane. SqueezeBox! re-creates the chaotic, frenetic, and 

unapologetic energy of the club and spotlights the people and the times that demanded 

something original in an ever increasingly capitalistic world. 





Moving Forward Pictures 

Steven Saporito 

130 Berry Street 


T. +1 323 810 4915 

SMSaporito@gmail.com 

zachny@gmail.com 


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THE STARE OF THE ANIMAL 

Angelos Panagou 

As he works, the painter Vassilis Stavrou makes mental trips to the place where his images 

originate. This film doesn’t endeavor to analyze his technique (a combination of painting 

and photography); rather, it’s an attempt to express the inner journey of his images from 

their place of origin, the little Greek village in Epirus where Stavrou grew up, to the finished 

canvas. The texts are a selection of the artist’s notes, intercut with excerpts from an old 

diary that his grandfather kept between 1922-1937. While in his diary his grandfather 

constantly refers to the struggle against nature to keep life going, the artist’s struggle consists 

in trying to achieve a more precise depiction of these primal images that accompany 

him while he works; images in which the “stare of the animal” is the main theme. 





Repo Film 

Angelos Panagou 

Petsovou 7 


T. + 30 210 523 8436 

panagou@ath.forthnet.gr 


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328 

GERMANY-ITALY 


STATES OF MIND 

Elisa Mishto 

A nurse and three mental patients take turns playing the lead roles in four stories told over 

four seasons. Their world within the rooms and hallways of the psychiatric clinic is at once 

brutally honest, tragic, and poetic. Moving through summer, autumn, winter, and spring, 

we are presented with the stories of four individuals moving through crisis, waiting, normalization, 

and adjustment. Elements of their previous lives and of their current daily adventures 

are told with the lightness of a fairy tale or the playfulness of a game, but without 

omitting the harshest and most melancholic aspects of their existence. 






Anais Clanet 



T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 



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UK 

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STEAL THIS FILM 

Jamie King 

Following the success of the original Steal This Film with over 5 million downloads, this revised 

edition takes a second electrifying look at how copyright theft threatens to destroy 

existing intellectual copyright conventions. The sudden and unexpected emergence of 

‘Peer to Peer’ technology has taken Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry by 

surprise and has changed the way the public think about music and film, and its exploitation. 

This documentary shows how widespread piracy has become and how it 

threatens the business models driving the media industry. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




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POLAND 


STEP BY STEP 

Marcin Pieczonka 

Three young, teenaged Italians visit Mielno, northern Poland. Every day, wearing extra-designed 

suits, they practice walking, step by step. The rehabilitation center in Mielno specializes 

in paraplesis. Although being in a difficult position – Serena, Genny and Gianluca 

retain hopefulness, a sense of humor and joy of life. The film is about living “despite” or 

“nevertheless”. 









T. +48 12 294 6945 



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STOLEN ART 

Simon Backès 

A criminal and esthetical investigation of artist Pavel Novak, virtuoso forger wanted by 

the FBI and on his 1978 Stolen Art exhibition in New York that caused a scandal. Some 

pieces proved to be originals. Specialists discuss our relation to Art as cultural object but 

also merchandise. A film as a hoax to reveal the real emotion an art piece awakes in us. 

Does beauty exist without copyright 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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GERMANY 


STUMBLING STONE 

Dorte Franke 

The stumbling stones of the title are small concrete blocks covered with a sheet of brass, 

embedded flush into the footpath in front of the last residence of Nazi victims. Engraved 

on the plaque is the legend “Hier wohnte” (Here lived), followed by a name, the date of 

deportation and the place of death. With this project, conceptual artist Gunter Demnig 

aims to give back to the nameless victims their identity. It has triggered an avalanche. 

There are now 6,000 of these blocks all across Germany –and they will soon be arriving 

elsewhere in Europe. Demnig prepares each individual block himself and installs it personally. 

The film portrays the stumbling stones on shining projection screens, which are 

used to help us deal with the history of the Third Reich today in a very tangible manner. 

They also have a polarizing effect, because they are a democratic form of memorial, which 

were not commissioned by any government, through which we are confronted with moving 

personal histories and experience a heated, social controversy that is spreading further 

across Europe every day. 






Anne Hufnagel 



T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 



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SUCH A GAME – A BOSNIAN JOURNEY 


War has always been a game in the hands of the few who play as they like with the destiny 

of people, their lives and countries. Years after the end of the Bosnian conflict, its effects 

are still present in every day life, though the youngsters are trying to forget. Four 

Italian friends wanted to see with their eyes what comes out of if, by traveling through the 

country and meeting people. 









T. +39 335 667 8740 



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ITALY 


SUSPENDED STEPS I 

Marco Valentini 

The Passi Sospesi I (Suspended Steps I) theater project took place in the Santa Maria Maggiore 

District Prison (Venice). It started in September 2006 and ended in September 2007. 

It was led and coordinated by Michalis Traitsis, a sociologist, actor and theater teacher 

from the cultural association Balamòs. 

The project in the Santa Maria Maggiore District Prison consisted of a theater workshop 

based on actor dramaturgy, Stanislavski’s method, theory and techniques about forum 

theatre. The video record shows a summary of the theatre workshop with commentary 

and remarks by Michalis Traitsis, accounts given by people who helped with the project, 

members of the prison authorities and inmates. Finally, it shows some scenes from Vite 

Parallele (Parallel Lives), the ForumTheater performance that took place in the Santa Maria 

Maggiore District Prison inVenice, before an audience of inmates, guests, educational staff, 

social workers and university lecturers and students. 





Associazione Culturale Balamòs 

Michalis Traitsis 

5 Via Belli 

Ferrara 44100, Italy 

T. +39 328 8120452 

info@balamos.it 

www.balamos.it 

436 


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ITALY 

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SUSPENDED STEPS II 

Marco Valentini 

The Passi Sospesi II (Suspended Steps II) theater project took place in the SAT District Prison 

(Giudecca, Venice). It started in September 2006 and ended in September 2007. It was led 

and coordinated by Michalis Traitsis, a sociologist, actor and theater teacher from the cultural 

association Balamòs. 

The project in the SAT District Prison consisted of a theater workshop based on the techniques 

of narration, singing and the construction and use of stage props for open spaces. 

The video record shows a summary of the theatre workshop with commentary and remarks 

by Michalis Traitsis, accounts given by people who helped with the project, members 

of the prison authorities and inmates. Finally, it shows some scenes from Storie Sconte 

(Secret Stories), the walkabout performance staged in the SAT District Prison in Giudecca, 

Venice, before an audience of inmates, guests, educational staff, social workers and university 

lecturers and students. 





Associazione Culturale Balamòs 

Michalis Traitsis 

5 Via Belli 

Ferrara 44100, Italy 

T. +39 328 8120452 

info@balamos.it 

www.balamos.it 


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SWEETY – THE FRIENDS, BETRAYAL 

AND MURDER OF MAJA BRADARIC 

Menna Laura Meijer 

On November 17, 2003, Maja Bradaric was killed by three of her friends during a car ride. 

They strangled her, burned her body in the countryside and cold-bloodedly paid their respects 

to her family. She was 16 years old. 

Maja’s best friend Nina was the girlfriend of one of the murderers. She was convicted for 

her alleged foreknowledge of the murder plan. In the film, Nina talks about her experiences 

for the first time. Friends of Maja ask themselves how this murder could have taken 

place in their midst and why none of them saw it coming. 

Sweety tells the story of a group of close friends and how evil came to them disguised as 

a friend, changing their lives forever. 






Curien Kroon 



T. +31 20 421 0606 

F. +31 20 638 6255 




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SWIMMING 

Carla Subirana 

Α grandfather who disappeared and was executed in the civil war for carrying out three 

armed attacks, a grandmother who died of Alzheimer’s and a mother suffering from the 

same illness. Swimming is a personal journey of director Carla Subirana that reflects on the 

loss of historical memory and the search for personal identity through the reconstruction 

of the past. But, above all, it enables us to see how later generations face up to reconstructing 

the past. 





Benece Produccions 

David Matamoros 

10 Passatge Tona 

Barcelona 08023, Spain 

T. +34 93 284 0719 

F. +34 93 219 5117 

david@benece.es 

www.benece.es 


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T 4 TROUBLE AND THE 

SELF ADMIRATION SOCIETY 

Dimitris Athiridis 

Fifty-six-year-old Terry Papadinas lives in Thessaloniki, Greece, is a musician and is desperately 

seeking a job. Raised in New York during the 60s, he became a star of the indie 

rock scene upon his return to seventies Greece. A charming, charismatic man, he became 

an icon and a representative of rock subculture, so often typified by reactionary self-destruction. 

Today, a recluse living on the fringes of society, Papadinas bears his soul to the 

camera and reveals a state of mind that reflects a wider societal phenomenon. This is the 

story of a life lived by the values of rock mythology; a unique journey through the songs 

of a forgotten artist, painfully seeking recognition and salvation. 





2K Films 

George Kalomenopoulos 

47 Kokkinara Str. 


T. + 30 210 801 0432 

calomen@yahoo.com 


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USA 


TAKING ROOT: 

THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI 

Lisa Merton & Alan Dater 

Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari 

Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. 

In response to rural women’s problems stemming from a degraded environment, Maathai 

suggested they plant trees. Starting with this simple act, these women worked successively 

against deforestation, poverty, and violent political oppression until they became a 

political force that helped to bring down Kenya’s 24-year dictatorship. The film follows 

Maathai’s courageous thirty-year journey to safeguard the environment, democracy and 

peace. 





Marlboro Productions 

Rebecca Rueter 

PO Box 96 

Marlboro, VT 05344-0096, USA 

T. +1 802 257 0743 

F. +1 802 257 0743 

takingrootfilm.actions@gmail.com 


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THE TALE OF NICOLAI & 

THE LAW OF RETURN 

David Ofek 

The story of Nicolai begins in a tiny, remote village in the Romanian region of Moldavia. 

With the collapse of communism, Nicolai – like many thousands of other villagers – suddenly 

found himself out of work, so he decided to seek his fortune overseas, far from his 

family and home. For three years he worked as a guest laborer in Israel, exploited to the 

hilt by the company that sent him there. He had little contact with his wife, who gave 

birth in his absence. Finally, determined to gain control of his destiny, Nicolai fled his employer 

and became an “illegal”. He was caught by the police and sent to prison, but suddenly 

his life took an abrupt turn and at once everything changed… 

Nicolai plays himself in this film, and relives the dramatic events of his life. As his story unfolds, 

the film raises ethical questions about life in Israel and the kind of law that defines 

Israel’s national identity. 





Eden Productions 

Edna Kowarsky 

84 Arlozorov St. 


T. +972 3 527 3403 

F. +972 3 523 6076 

info@edenproductions.co.il 

www.edenproductions.co.il 


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ITALY 


THE TALKING TREE 

Nello Correale 

A journey of discovery of the rural radio stations in Mali. From Bamako to Djennem, down 

to the Dogon people, the film is a refreshing account of the day-to-day struggles of ingenious 

local broadcasters. We get to see first-hand a largely unknown face of Africa, 

through encounters with colorful characters in unexpected places and the telling of their 

entertaining stories. In times of technological divide, radio may be considered the most 

democratic media and is certainly the one that best reflects Africa’s tradition of oral communication. 

Rural radio has come to play an important role throughout the continent, 

and Mali is the country where it has gained its strongest foothold. 





Vitagraph 




T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 



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TANTRIC TOURISTS 

Alexander Snelling 

A cult comedy/documentary combining the rich and slightly tarnished tapestry of India 

with a hysterical comedy of errors. Enigmatic New York tantric guru/charlatan Laurie Handlers 

aims to transform a small group of American followers through the misadventure of 

their first trip to India in search of spiritual enlightenment; a very human and remarkably 

warm tale unfolds. This cinematic documentary, narrated by Steven Berkoff, is a study in 

contradiction which invites the audience to laugh at the Tantric Tourists, then laugh with 

them, ultimately turning the mirror on themselves. Tantric Tourist works on many levels, 

it is a quest in cutting edge cinema, set to challenge preconceptions and entertain. 





Slack Alice Films 

Kirsty Allison 

Lionel Road Studios, 370 Lionel Road North 

London TW8 9QX, UK 

T. +44 20 8560 8006 

kirsty@slackalicefilms.com 

www.slackalicefilms.com 


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PALESTINE 


TASTE THE REVOLUTION 

Buthina Canaan Khoury 

A personal family story about my brothers who returned to Palestine after living in the US 

for 30 years to fulfill our father’s dream and establish a business. Not only returning to 

Palestine, but also investing his education, experience, knowledge and the family money 

to open the first micro brewery in the entire Middle East right after the Oslo agreement on 

the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis. In spite of the hardship and constant 

obstacles of the unpredictable life in Palestine, Nadim Khoury and his brother Dahoud 

Khoury’s success has given hope to others. Taybeh brewery became the central focus for 

the international media and attracted many tourists and locals to trust the new taste of the 

revolution in making an excellent quality local product. 





Majd Production 

Buthina Canaan Khoury 

Main St #1 

Taybeh Ramallah 0000, Palestine 

T. +972 599 423 408 

F. +972 2 289 8022 

buthinack@hotmail.com 


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UK 

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THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC 

Chris Swanton 

Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones. The old musical masters are back, courtesy of a curious 

sleight of hand and clever counterfeit skills. The forgers are good and bad, but the 

best can pack the Albert Hall and pull in a good living. The greatest fakes play full time, 

touring the UK and the world. 

This film looks at some of the most successful acts on the UK tribute scene, goes backstage 

with them and watches them on stage, seeing the rapturous reception they receive. The 

Bootleg Beatles have been together for 26 years; but as they approach middle-age, we ask 

if they mind still pulling on the wigs and pulling in the stomachs. 

We also talk to the fake Marc Bolan, who has the blessing of Marc’s wife June, is a close 

friend of Bolan’s son, Roland, and is married to Bolan’s ex-baby sitter, Karen. And the onetime 

girlfriend of Brian Jones is very close to the fake Brian in the fake Rolling Stones. So 

have the fakes become a little too real And are they real enough to satisfy fans In the end, 

we ask if being fake is real enough. 





Espresso TV 

David Hooper 



T. +44 1273 730 929 

F. +44 1273 299 403 




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THAT SHOULD NOT BE 

Jean Paul Jaud 

In Europe every year 100,000 children die of diseases caused by the environment. 

In Europe 70% of cancers are linked to the environment: 30% to pollution and 40% to 

food. In Europe cases of cancer in children have been increasing by 1.1% yearly for 30 

years. In France the number of cancers in males has increased by 93% in 25 years. In a little 

French community at the foot of the Cévennes Mountains, the mayor has decided to 

take a stance by making the school canteen organic. Here, as everywhere else, people are 

confronted with the anxiety of the dangers of industrial and agro-chemical pollution. It’s 

the start of a fight against a process that could become irreversible, a fight to stop our 

children from blaming us in the future. 






Anais Clanet 



T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 



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399 


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THEM, US AND SKITSKOJ – 

A DIALOGUE IN THE EDITING ROOM 

Zdeněk N. Bričkovský 

In an inaccessible forestland on the river Pizhma, on the island of Skitskoj located in the 

north of European Russia, there lives a community of Old Believers,. They are hidden from 

civilization and the changing outside world. The film is about isolation, prejudice and 

building“bridges”to bring people together. 









T. +972 52 363 3398 




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508 

GERMANY 


THEO ANGELOPOULOS 

FILMS DUST OF TIME 

Nicos Lygouris 

Berlin, winter 2008. Theo Angelopoulos is shooting Dust of Time. This film is not a “making 

of documentary”, but rather the portrait of a monomaniac artist at work during 8 days 

of shooting, from 18 January to 16 February 2008. 





German united distributors 

Betina Oebel 

48-50, Breite Str. 

Cologne 50667,Germany 

T. + 49 2219 2069-31 

F. + 49 2219 2069-69 

betina.oebel@united-docs.com 

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THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY 

Stavros Psillakis 

Even after the Civil War had ended in the rest of Greece, a small rump of the Democratic 

Army, six men and two women, remained in hiding for 14 years in Hania, Crete, where 

they continued to take part in illegal political activity. In 1962, six of the former partisans 

escaped, via Italy, to Tashkent. The documentary focuses on the three who are still alive. 

The film reveals the miraculous endurance of the broken remnants of the Democratic Army 

and the self-sacrifice of the ordinary people who hid them. It shows that the main protagonists 

and the unsung heroes of this story are equally exceptional, embodying not just 

ideology, but a deep dedication to mankind and human dignity. 







Stavros Psillakis 

Stavros Psilakis 

5 Avgerinou Str. 


T. + 30 210 646 4797 

spsill@tee.gr 


Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503 

F. + 30 210 361 4336 

info@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


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USA 


THIS DUST OF WORDS 

Bill Rose 

Thirty years after he last saw her, Stanford English professor John Felstiner finds mystery 

and wonder in the life of a former student, and in her death. 

This Dust of Words, whose title is taken from Elizabeth Wiltsee’s Stanford honors’ thesis, is 

a meditation on her extraordinary and tumultuous life, as well as the story of how parishioners 

in a small central California town managed with uncommon kindness and compassion, 

to keep this brilliant and fragile woman alive, for a time. An elegy for a life lived 

differently – tragic, beautiful and haunting, right to the end. 




Bill Rose 

1990 Newell Road 

Palo Alto CA 94303, USA 

T. +1 650 324 1799 

F. +1 650 325 3211 

bill@thisdustofwords.com 

www.thisdustofwords.com 

452 


320 

USA 

T 


THIS IS NOT A ROBBERY 

Lucas Jansen & Adam Kurland 

J.L.“Red”Rountree was the oldest bank robber in US history. He spent his final years robbing 

banks up and down the Gulf Coast. But the real story’s not about where Red ended 

up, but how he got there. 

In this perversion of the American dream, we explore the life of an outrageous and 

poignant character and his transformation from millionaire family man to 92-year-old 

outlaw. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




T 

376 

BELGIUM 


THOSE WAITING FOR THE BIRDS 

Eve Dea 

The portrait, against the backdrop of a small mining town, of a long-time homing pigeon 

champion who perpetuates this popular practice. A traditional sport, amateur, open to 

all, that questions contemporary sport’s evolution. In Belgium, internationally renowned 

for breed quality and for specialized products, this sport has become a business and a science. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 


454 


102 

LATVIA 

T 


THREE MEN AND A FISH POND 

Laila Pakalnina & Māris Maskalāns 

Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to 

birds and pond fish than to humans. 





Vides Filmu Studija 

Uldis Cekulis 

17 Lapus Street 

Riga LV1002, Latvia 

T. +371 6750 3588, F. +371 6750 3589 

uldis@vfs.lv 

www.vfs.lv 


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530 

BULGARIA 


THREE MEN BY THE WATER 

Ralitza Dimitrova 

Three men are awaiting the Big Fish. They have the camera on standby so that they can 

photograph it, hanging on the fishing string. They discuss the ways to cook it for dinner. 

Or simply how to deep freeze it and preserve it for the next day. This is a documentary 

about the faith in the Big Catch – while standing by the water where you can see the fin 

of the fish sparkling right next to you, only to swim away. And you keep on waiting with 

the same old smile upon your face. 







29 San Stefano Street 


T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 

sales@bnt.bg 

www.bnt.bg 

456 


349 

FRANCE-ITALY 

T 


TIBER 

Catia Ott 

An unusual portrait of Rome viewed from the Tiber, a historical walk starting in the northern 

residential districts and continuing along the buildings of the Fascist age and the locations 

of Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thief, down to the relics of the commercial port near the 

seaside. Discovering an unknown Rome, between the remains of industrial archaeology, 

the districts being renovated and the spots that inspired Pier Paolo Pasolini’s early novels. 





Vitagraph 




T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 



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122 

DENMARK 


TICKET TO PARADISE 

Janus Metz 

In a small village in the northeast of Thailand there are two kinds of families. Those who 

have a daughter married to a Dane, and those who don’t.The former live in concrete buildings, 

the latter in small wooden cottages. Sommai is the queen of the village. Normally 

she works in a factory in Denmark. But now she is back in Thailand, where the young girls 

flock around her. They hope she can help them find a Danish husband. Life in the West, 

however, has its price and the women often need to make difficult decisions while pursuing 

their dreams. For the newly-married Kae this means that she has to leave her child 

behind. As for young Saeng, her ticket to paradise is through the sex-bars in Pattaya. 






Sanna Arlø 



T. +45 3520 3040 

F. +45 3520 3969 

saar@dr.dk 


458 


286 

USA 

T 


THE TIGER NEXT DOOR 

Camilla Calamandrei 

As populations of tigers in the wilds of Asia and India dwindle dangerously close to extinction, 

experts estimate that there are currently 7,000-10,000 domestically bred tigers 

being kept by private individuals in the United States. This means that there are more 

tigers in private captivity, eating frozen turkey, and living in roadside zoos, in this country 

than there are roaming the wilds in the world. Twenty-four of them live in Dennis H’s 

backyard in Flat Rock, Indiana. The Tiger Next Door follows the story of one man who has 

been keeping, breeding, and selling Bengal tigers from his backyard for over fifteen years. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




T 

390 

USA-CHINA 


TONGZHI IN LOVE 

Ruby Yang 

“Of the three filial offenses, failing to maintain the subsequent generation is the worst.” 

Confucian Teaching “Frog” Cui and his gay friends are torn between the lures of city life 

and the stern demands of Chinese tradition. They live in cosmopolitan Beijing, reveling in 

the freedom that it affords them. But traditionally, a Chinese son’s solemn duty is to produce 

a child and carry forward the family line. That China’s laws limit most families to a 

single child only compounds the pressures on gay men. Many resort to sham marriages. 

When his mother arrives to find him a girlfriend, Frog, 28 years old, understands that he 

cannot delay much longer. “Some of my gay friends have married lesbians,”he confides. 

“At the wedding, I saw how happy their parents were.” Long Ze, even as he relishes his sexual 

life with men, lashes out against gays who refuse to marry. “That attitude is selfish, 

completely selfish… If you live your whole life for yourself, not for your parents,”he says, 

“how are you going to fulfill your responsibilities as a Chinese man” Frog’s good friend, 

Xiang Feng, has asserted that he will come out to his parents on his next visit home. But 

when he and Frog travel the thousand miles into the Chinese countryside to the family village, 

events do not unfold as planned. The film is directed by Ruby Yang who, together 

with producer Thomas Lennon, won a documentary Oscar in 2006. Yang Yishu was field 

producer and cinematographer. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325, F. +64 9 360 0163 



460 


116 

ΙRAN 

T 


TORGHEH 

Mohammad Hassan Damanzan 

Four Iranian women from the northern province of Khorasan, who play the dotar and sing, 

come up against life’s challenges. Although they face several social problems, they have 

a common passion: to relieve their pain through music. Even though they suffer social 

prejudice and segregation on a daily basis, the film depicts how music soothes them. 







2, 3 rd Sarvestan, Pasdaran St., Shariati Ave. 


T. +98 21 2286 3260 / +98 21 2286 3261 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 





T 

428 

BULGARIA-ITALY 


TOTAL DENIAL 

Milena Kaneva 

Burmese activist Ka Hsaw Wa, who lives as a fugitive outlaw, and his American wife initiated 

a lawsuit in a US court against Unocal, an oil company. In the case, 15 villagers sued 

the company for human rights abuses, accusing it of collaborating with the Myanmar military 

to build a pipeline using forced labor. The film reveals the crisis in Myanmar and 

demonstrates how international companies cooperate with tyrant governments for financial 

profit. 





Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



462 


510 

GREECE 

T 


TOWARDS A NEW BEGINNING 

Maria Schina 

The stories of three families of immigrants who now live permanently on the island of 

Kythera. Through their narration we follow their journeys from their countries of origin to 

Greece and the problems they have to deal with as they adapt to their new homeland. 

Edi from Albania, who has lived in Kythera for the past seventeen years, has built a steady 

life for himself and his family, although he still has the same problems with his residence 

papers as he did 17 years ago. 

Maria from Bulgaria, who went through many difficulties along the way, can now finally 

say: “The world is ‘open’, borders are free, you can go wherever you want, live wherever 

you want”. Lastly, there’s Liana and her husband, both from Georgia and with roots in Asia 

Minor. They were uprooted from their motherland, just as their grandparents were in 1922. 



Sales Contact: Kytherios Music 

Contact Persons: Panayotis Leftheris, Maria Schina 

Trifillianika 

Kythera 80 200, Greece 

T. +30 2736 033 327 

schmaria@yahoo.com 


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252 



TRANSIT DUBAI 

Ineke Smits 

In the heart of the Middle East, a brand new, modern city is rapidly rising – the city of 

Dubai. But no city can or will exist without a population, and Dubai’s population is a 

unique one. More than 80 percent of its inhabitants are temporary immigrants of European, 

Asian, American and Middle-East origin. Whether it be to earn fast money, to live 

a life of luxury, to labor seven days a week to support the family back home, or to enjoy 

the freedoms of a Middle-East city with flexible morals, they all eventually want to go 

home. Except for the privileged locals, who have no choice but to see their home town 

grow into something nobody can predict the future of. 

Through the eyes of four photography students, we step through the glittering façade of 

a city that might just be a mirage. 





NPO/RNW Sales 

Kaisa Kriek 



T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 



464 


400 

ISRAEL 

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TRANSPARENT TIME 

Gali Meiri 

At the age of 33, Eylon Nuphar, co-creator and founder of Mayumana the world-renowned 

performance group, is at the peak of her career. One day, in the middle of a European 

tour, Eylon gets a distressing message: The mammogram that she had taken revealed a 

suspicious lump in her breast; she finds herself facing a whirlwind of challenges while 

fighting breast cancer. 









T. +972 52 363 3398 




T 

475 

SWITZERLAND 


THE TWILIGHT OF THE CELTS 

Stéphane Goël 

French-speaking Switzerland is the scene of an extraordinary discovery. On Mormont Hill, 

diggers have unearthed a huge Celtic sanctuary, the largest known to date. Two thousand 

years ago, the Helvetians dug hundreds of shafts in this isolated spot to deposit offerings 

to their gods: objects, animals, and fragments of human bodies. The discovery enables 

archaeologists to inquire into the religious practice of our ancestors. Rituals, sacrifices and 

Druids: what do we know, or think we know, about the remarkable Celtic civilization In 

an attempt to answer this question, this thriller-like film follows the excavations of the site 

and the archaeologists’ work step by step. 

Sudden new discoveries immerse us in a mysterious world between the imaginary and the 

real. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



466 


160 

FRANCE 

U 


UMOJA, THE VILLAGE WHERE 

MEN ARE FORBIDDEN 

Jean Crousillac & Jean-Marc Sainclair 

From 1970 to 2003, about 1600 women said they had been raped by British soldiers in 

Northern Kenya. Husbands felt dishonoured and rejected their wives after beating them. 

In 1990, a few women gathered and created Umoja, a village forbidden to men. Jealous 

men frequently attack Umoja and create many problems to Rebecca, founder of the village. 

In 2005, a woman was killed in the village. Rebecca fights for women rights and educates 

them in the Samburu region; she is even going to the Nairobi international summit 

to find help. 





Manta Productions 

Jean-Marc Sainclair 

12 rue d’Orsel 


T. +33 6 6700 7265 

contact@mantaprod.com 

www.mantaprod.com 


467

U 

114 

SWITZERLAND-FRANCE 


UNWANTED WITNESS 

Juan José Lozano 

At the heart of the humanitarian drama in Colombia, a journalist fights to denounce atrocity 

and to document events through his weekly television program “Contravía” – a oneof-its-kind 

program among a plethora of soap operas and show-biz gossip shows. 

Hollman Morris’s exclusive eyewitness accounts have won him international recognition 

and prestigious prizes, as well as intimidation and death threats. Living in an increasingly 

hostile environment, Morris and his family contemplate leaving the country. Going beyond 

the typical war reporter’s account on courage and heroics, Unwanted Witness draws a candid 

portrait of a complex person who, at the heart of a country torn apart by war, is full of 

conviction, motivation and fear, yet devoted to freedom of expression. 

Running time: 52’& 78’& 87’ 




Cinephil 




T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




149 

GERMANY 

U 


UPSTREAM BATTLE 

Ben Kempas 

“When the fish are sick, we are sick.”Native Americans in Northern California fight for the 

survival of their fish and their culture. They’re up against an energy corporation that runs 

hydro-electric dams on their river which have devastated the salmon stocks. Tribal members 

first take on a global energy giant in Scotland, and eventually the second-richest man 

in the United States. The dam owners defend hydro-power as a low-cost, climate-friendly 

electricity, a resource they say they couldn’t afford to lose.Yet, the tribes along the Klamath 

River may soon trigger the largest dam removal project in history. 

Running time: 52’& 59’& 97’ 




601 Production Ltd. 

Todd Gamble 

14 Auerfeld Strasse Rgb 

Munich 81541, Germany 

T. +49 89 9508 0733 

F. +49 89 9508 0759 

todd@601production.com 

www.601production.com 


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136 

USA 

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VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR 

Matt Tyrnauer 

Valentino: The Last Emperor is an intimate, engaging, and humorous exploration of one of 

Italy’s most extravagant icons. At the heart of the film is the unique relationship between 

Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. 

Valentino is the last of the great couturiers. He is a design genius, an Italian legend, and 

the man who lives in a lost world of luxury and extravagance unparalleled in Europe. The 

film provides an insider’s view of his creative brilliance, as well as his opulent lifestyle, as 

he rubs shoulders with the Hollywood and political elite, and the European royal families 

– a true maestro of la dolce vita. He dressed the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana 

and now, finally, on the heels of his retirement from the fashion world, the film provides 

a very human portrayal of the man at the center of a brilliant, colorful chapter in the history 

of Rome and Europe, and the end of an era in global fashion. 







2 Rue Turgot 


T. +33 1 49 700 370 

F. +33 1 49 700 371 




V 

184 

MALI-FRANCE 


VICTIMS OF OUR RICHES 

Kal Touré 

One year after the tragic events that took place near the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and 

Melilla in northern Morocco in September 2005, young deported African men and women 

talk about their unfortunate attempts to cross over to Spain and give us their own versions 

of those events. What drives these young people to risk so much in this adventure Different 

voices from middle-class society – a historian, a jurist, a writer – attempt to explain 

the cause of this emigration from their own perspective. 





10 Francs 

Guy Knafo 



T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



472 


230 

GREECE 

V 


VICTORIA THEODOROU: THE WAVES 

THAT TAUGHT ME TO BE UNSUBDUED 

Costas Dandinakis 

The life and work of Victoria Theodorou, representative poet of the first postwar generation. 

Her childhood and adolescence in Chania (Crete), the years she spent in exile, her isolation and 

the writing of her work: Poetry: Laudation (1957), Threshold and Window (1962), Northern 

Suburb (1966), Lute (1971), Excursion (1973), Urania (1978), Supreme Sleep (1983), The 

Night Ode of Frontiers (1986), Offerings (1990), Chronicle (1994), Encouraged (1998), Lament 

for the Craftsman (2008). Prose: Women’s Camps (1975), Traiko (1982), Nuptial Gift (1995), 

The Young Ladies of Lampsakou Street (2005). Victoria Theodorou extended her poetry beyond 

the reverberations of the“generation of defeat”, gazing at the‘struggling human being’ 

of history through his awe and loneliness in the face of time and the universe. 






Costas Dandinakis 

15 Protopapadaki Str. 

Chania 73100, Greece 

T. + 30 697 905 8458 

costasdandinakis@gmail.com / anax1960@yahoo.gr 


Evi Lazari 



T. + 30 210 368 7503 

F. + 30 210 361 4336 



V 

327 

FRANCE-SPAIN-MEXICO 


LA VIDA LOCA 

Christian Poveda 

In Central America they are called Maras, these groups of youngsters who have modeled 

themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating 

terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through photography and the 

personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon that has been imported 

from the USA. 






Anais Clanet 



T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 




381 

BELGIUM 

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VOLUNTEER 

Sylvie Bonsangue 

Louise is 65 and Valery 19. They are volunteers in a Brussels hospital. Several hours a week, 

they come and help with hospital work. When Louise starts her 20th year of volunteering, 

Valery is confronted for the first time with the distress of a visitor. Faced with fate and 

hope, this experience becomes a landmark in their lives. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



475

V 

430 

FRANCE 


VOTE FOR DREAMS 

Julia Laurenceau 

Dreams, anxiety, anger… In Vote for Dreams, Camille, Julien and Julia the director meet 

together. Their first meeting came about during the student’s strike against the French 

government in 2006, in the city of Strasbourg. They demonstrated against the first employment 

contract law which would have made it easier for the employer to fire employees 

by removing the need to provide reasons for dismissal for an initial “trial period” of 

two years. Today they are wondering about how to insert themselves into French society 

and how to change it. 

Vote for Dreams is made of knots, doubts, and family stories that intersect. It’s a political 

discourse between very particular things and collective ones, between anger and rationality, 

between hope for a new world and everyday life. 





dora films 

Daniel Coche 

1a place des Orphelins 

Strasbourg 67000, France 

T. +33 388 379 528 

production@dorafilms.com 

www.dorafilms.com 


295 

UK 

W 


WAITING FOR WOMEN 

Estephan Wagner 

In the remote Spanish village of Riofrio the women left years ago. Only men are left without 

the slightest possibility of finding a partner. Unable to bear the situation any longer, 

they organize a busload of single women to come from Madrid and rid them of their loneliness. 

Their ideal aim is to fall in love! But having never learned how to deal with women, 

besides their mothers and a few motorway prostitutes, the event goes terribly wrong. 

Waiting for women is a heart-warming documentary about love and solitude, about gender, 

migration and hope. 

Running time: 30’& 34’& 45’ 




Wagnerdocs 

Estephan Wagner 

55 Malvern Road 

London E83LJ, UK 

T. +44 785 271 5191 

info@wagnerdocs.com 

www.wagnerdocs.com 


477

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304 

GREECE 


WAR ZONE: THE POLYGON 

Dimitris Gerardis 

From 1949, when the first Soviet atomic bomb was detonated, to 1989, 456 nuclear tests 

were conducted at the “Polygon”, a testing ground covering 18,000 square kilometers. 

Until 1992, more than 20,000 military officers and scientists worked in the area, living in 

a top-secret Soviet Union town that went under the code name“Moscow 400”or“Semipalatinsk-21”. 

Filmed on the icy steppes of Kazakhstan, where the nuclear test site of the 

former Soviet Union was located, the documentary explores secret cities and areas where 

radiation is as much as 200 times above normal levels, revealing an unknown chapter of 

the Cold War, and, more importantly, its effects on the local population. 





Teletypos SA - Mega Channel 

Litsa Deli & Ioanna Louloudi 

Roussou 4 & Messoghion Ave. 


T. + 30 210 690 3656 

F. + 30 210 699 6811 

warzone@megatv.com 

www.megatv.com 


441 

GERMANY 

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THE WAY OF A WARRIOR 

Andreas Pichler 

“The only way is to believe in the revolution, which is identical with the belief in the Kingdom, 

or rather: the Realm of God.” 

Ernesto Cardenal 

Michael N. is a wild child. On his sledge he races down the snowy slopes of the forest, almost 

unable to brake. He leaves his home in South Tyrol in the early 80s, determined to become 

a Catholic priest. Eventually he turns his back on Europe and, as a novice, joins the 

Jesuits in South America, where the Catholic priests have sided with the powerless and the 

wretched. Eight years later, as the head of a Bolivian guerilla troop, he carries out terrorist attacks 

and kidnaps Bolivia’s Coca-Cola boss. Several days later he dies in a hail of police bullets, 

taking with him the abductee and almost every commando member. He leaves behind 

letters addressed to his family, audio recordings of religious and Bolivian folk songs and a 

stunned, speechless family, along with a diary of the kidnapping.This happens in 1990.The 

wall has fallen. The cold war and all the ardent visions that went with it are declared dead 

and forgotten. No one is interested in the boy who wanted to become a priest and bring 

God’s Kingdom to one of the poorest countries in the world. Ten years later, Europe is confronted 

with a new generation of educated idealistic young men: men who are deadly serious 

about God’s Kingdom on Earth. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638, F. +49 341 215 6639 




479

W 

478 

FRANCE 


WE DRANK THE SAME WATER 

Serge Avédikian 

When Serge Avédikian was invited to a theater festival in Istanbul in 1987, he could not 

resist crossing the Sea of Marmara to go and seek the town his Armenian grandfather 

Avédis had lived in. 

The day he spent in this town left him with haunting memories. Incomplete, half-stolen 

images remain, revealing the furtive traces of a community driven away in 1922 – a torn 

down church and some beautiful tombstones, lying about or used for other purposes. And 

the dialog that had been started with the inhabitants in 1987 was interrupted, too. 

Now, nearly twenty years later, film director Serge Avédikian aims to return to Soloz, to 

break the deep-seated taboo between Armenians and Turks, and to enable people to turn 

their minds to the future without forgetting their past. 





Les films d’ici 

Céline Paini 

62 Bd Davout 


T. +33 1 4452 2323 

courier@lesfilmsdici.fr 

www.lesfilmsdici.fr 


265 

ITALY 

W 


THE WEAK CURRENT – 

PIETRO SAVORGNAN DI BRAZZA 

Nicole Leghissa 

In the late 19th century, a young nobleman left the comforts and privileges of his homeland 

in Friuli, northern Italy, bound for those unexplored areas in Africa that were still 

marked white on the atlas. His name was Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà. 

Finally, after all this time, the bongo drums salute the Great Spirit of this hero as he returns 

to his river, to the place that bears his name: Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo. 

In 2006 a great mausoleum in Italian marble was erected to house his remains. 

Behind all the fine words, the red carpets and the cutting of ribbons arranged for Brazzà’s 

family so that they would allow the removal of the remains of their illustrious ancestor, lies 

a dark and highly lucrative reality.The timber, rubber and ivory of yesterday have given way 

to a far more interesting export: oil. Alongside Brazzà’s face in the foreground stand the victors, 

the accomplices and even the vanquished. Behind everything, the stakes. 





Tico Film Company 

Sarah Pennacchi 

91 Viale Parioli 


T. +44 753 102 9340 

sarah.pennachi@ticofilm.com 

Federico.saraceni@ticofilm.com 

www.ticofilm.com 


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567 

CANADA 


WEB WARRIORS 

Edward Peill 

Web Warriors offers an unprecedented glimpse into the world’s newest and most vulnerable 

frontier: cyberspace We enter the world of hackers like Mafia Boy – a 15-year-old 

high school student who rose to infamy in 2000 by causing millions of dollars in damage 

after single-handedly shutting down internet giants, includingYahoo, Amazon, eBay, Dell, 

eTrade, and CNN. We meet Donnie, who goes on a journey into the Russian cyber underground 

searching for the creators of a computer virus with the hopes of collecting the 

$250,000 reward being offered by Microsoft. Computer viruses now have the ability to 

control millions of computers unbeknownst to their owners, creating massive illegal computer 

networks known as “Botnets”. These Botnets are being put to illicit uses including 

identity theft and cyber extortion. A massive cyber attack against Estonia in 2007 virtually 

shut down the country. Web Warriors offers rare interviews with cyber sleuths from 

the FBI, the Pentagon, NATO, and the Department of Homeland Security who explain how 

cyberspace has become the latest battle ground between nation states and how terrorist 

groups are already plotting their next move. Some reports say the cost of cyber crime is 

now on par with the illegal drug trade. 





Films Transit 

Jan Rofekamp 



T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 



482 


324 

SWEDEN 

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WELCOME TO HEBRON 

Terje Carlsson 

An intimate portrait of 17-year-old Leila Sarsour, a charming and intelligent Palestinian 

schoolgirl whose daily life involves talking to friends on MSN, listening to Jimi Hendrix 

and being attacked on her way to school by Israeli settlers... Welcome to Hebron. Filmed 

over three years in the West Bank, this hard-hitting documentary reveals the reality of 

life under occupation. 









T. +44 20 7221 7221 

F. +44 20 7221 7228 




W 

370 

BELGIUM 


WELCOME TO PARADISE 

Manuel Poutte & Florence Vandendorpe 

From a refugee camp to a small American town, the film depicts the destiny of a Somali 

couple, who are candidates for asylum. A portrait of their waiting, exile and integration, 

the film questions the sacrifices consented to for a “better life”, as well as the values of our 

occidental world in regard to work, such as the US Patriot act. 









T. +32 47 761 7170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 


484 


491 

TURKEY 

W 


WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY! 

Belmin Soylemez & Berke Bas & Hasmet Topaloglu 

& Somnur Vardar 

Turkey, summer 2007. The general election is in two months’ time and political campaigning 

is everywhere. Six different women are working hard to reach the same goal: to 

become a member of parliament for the first time in their lives. One successful businesswoman 

runs from house visits packed with women to mass-circumcision ceremonies to 

ensure that her party, already in power, will gain more seats. Her rival warns women that 

there will be a sheria regime if they don’t vote for the opposition party. Meanwhile, the 

Kurdish candidate tries to console mourning mothers but faces strong criticism because 

she can’t speak Kurdish. And two former sex-workers claim the street even though there 

is hardly a penny in their pockets and the police are hard on them. There is pressure at 

every level: Men, money, time, voters and rivals. 

Istanbul based film collective Filmist’s What A Beautiful Democracy! is an observational 

feature documentary reflecting both women’s struggle for power and also the social face 

of today’s polarized Turkey. 





Filmist 

Hasmet Topaloglu 

PK 244 Beyoglu 


T. +90 532 695 4198 

F. +90 212 252 7255 

filmist@filmist.org 

www.filmist.org 


W 

394 

USA 


WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE 

Brandon Klein & Nicholas Klein & Daniel Klein & Tim Klein 

What Are We Doing Here explores why the charity given to Africa over the last four 

decades has been largely ineffective and often harmful. The film tells the story of Brandon, 

Nicholas, Daniel and Tim Klein who travel across Africa in an attempt to understand one 

of the greatest problems of our time: the failure to end poverty. 

In the film, the Klein family travel 15,000 miles via public transportation from Cairo to 

Cape Town. They cross war torn and famine-ridden regions where aid workers, politicians, 

and inspiring individuals tell about the incredibly complex and often misunderstood issues 

that affect hundreds of millions of people across the continent. 

Daring to ask the questions no one else will, the filmmakers invite the world to rethink the 

fight against poverty in Africa. Could our good intentions be causing more harm than 

good Have humanitarian interventions prolonged suffering Who is actually benefiting 

from our good intentions These questions and many more are addressed for the first time 

ever in this groundbreaking feature length film. If you ever wanted to know what happened 

to the $10 dollars you donated to charity last year, look no further. This film will 

change the way you look at charity in Africa forever. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 



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WHERE MY HEART BELONGS 

Villant Virginia Ndasowa 

Jen, a Briton, came to Malawi on holiday and finding love in the small fishing village of 

Chembe, on the shores of Lake Malawi, was not something that she expected. Mateyu 

(Mathew) is a fisherman, and now Chembe is her second home. Despite all the problems 

they face she is determined to fit into a society that is not ready to accept her as one of their 

own. Only love will see her through. 






Nazeer Ahmed 



T. +27 21 465 4686 

F. +27 21 461 6964 




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264 

MEXICO 


WHO AM YOU 

Pavel Aguilar 

According to official information, Pável Antonio Aguilar Martínez was born on the 20th of 

August, 1974 and he is currently wanted by Interpol and the CIA. My name is also Pável 

Antonio Aguilar Martínez and I was also born on the 20th of August 1974. These coincidences 

have given me the opportunity, both in Berlin and New York, to know prison from 

the inside. 

This story is based on true events, my own experiences with seers and shamans, with the 

police and jail. Different worlds mix, crossroads open, chances multiply. I look for clues in 

different faces, in far away places, 

O my doppelganger Where are you Who AM You 





Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica 

Jessy Vega 

Calzada de Tlalpan 1670 Col. Country Club 

Mexico City 04220, Mexico 

T. +52 55 4155 0090 

F. +52 55 4155 0092 

divulgacion@ccc.cnart.mx 

www.ccc.cnart.mx 


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WHO’S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER 

Barbara Caspar 

Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker is the first film to explore the outrageous life and times of the 

banned American writer, Kathy Acker, a woman who lived her life without boundaries. 

Named one of America’s original “outlaw writers” by the New York Times, Acker created 

challenging and sexually graphic fiction rooted in the same New York underground scene 

which inspired the worldwide punk movement. The film covers every aspect of Acker’s 

life, from her wild early years in New York City to her untimely death in Tijuana, Mexico, 

of breast cancer in 1997. Caspar’s film is a multi-layered, artistic tour de force - a sophisticated 

mix of animation, graphic text and filmed re-enactments of scenes from Acker’s 

bestseller Blood & Guts in High School, shot in NYC, as well as a host of interviews with 

leading figures of the time connected with Kathy, including William Burroughs, Kathleen 

Hanna & Bikini Kill, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Barney Rosset, and Ira Silverberg. 




Barbara Caspar 

16 Dr. Robert Siegerstrasse 

Graz 8010, Austria 

T. +43 676 646 0039 

barbara@fragilefeatures.com 

www.fragilefeatures.com 


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389 

CANADA 


WITH AND WITHOUT YOU 

Maryse Chartrand 

The Beaudry family was to embark on the trip of a lifetime – an extensive backpacking 

adventure in exotic locations around the world and a welcome respite from Samuel 

Beaudry’s high pressure city job. 

Twelve months into the trip, Samuel decided to take a trip of his own. Only this time, it was 

a journey of no return for Samuel – he had taken his own life. With and Without You is a 

first-hand account of the impact of male suicide on the family left behind. What began as 

footage for a travel diary documentary about an enchanted trip quickly turned into a 

nightmare exploration into the dark and unspoken dimensions of male suicide. 

With and Without You is one woman’s quest to understand and grow instead of breaking 

and sinking. An audacious and acclaimed first documentary, the film has been described 

as an astonishing and vibrating anthem to life. 






Ewa Bigio 



T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 



490 


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THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL 

Simona Ercolani 

December 6, 2007, at dawn. A fire breaks out at line 5 of the ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali 

Terni plant in Turin. It’s hell on earth: seven steelworkers out of eight will burn to death. 

One worker is killed during the blaze, while six others will die later in hospital from serious 

burns. Paradoxically, the massive media coverage of the disaster gave the victims a 

privileged position in the tragic frame of the work related deaths… 





Rai Trade 




T. +39 06 3749 8341 

F. +39 06 3701 1343 




W 

494 

ICELAND 


THE WORLD MUSIC: JORUNN VIDAR 

Ari Alexander & Ergis Magnusson 

A documentary about the coming of modern music and the creative avant-garde in Reykjavik 

with a unique soundtrack, in-depth history and breathtaking Icelandic visuals. From 

the makers of Screaming Masterpiece. 






14 Tungata 


T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 



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ICELAND 

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THE WORLD MUSIC: 

MAGNUS BLONDAL 

Ari Alexander & Ergis Magnusson 

A documentary about the coming of modern music and the creative avant-garde in Reykjavik 

with a unique soundtrack, in-epth history and breathtaking Icelandic visuals. From 

the makers of Screaming Masterpiece. 







14 Tungata 


T. +354 562 3580 

F. +354 562 7171 




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511 

GREECE 


THE WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE 

PROJECT IN THESSALONIKI 

Elli Zerbini 

The World Naked Bike Ride is a worldwide movement that supports the use of the bicycle 

as an alternative means of transportation. It took place for the first time in Vancouver, 

Canada in 2004. Since then, it has been held annually in 73 different cities around the 

world.The documentary is about a group of Greek cyclists that decided to organize a naked 

bike ride in the city of Thessaloniki. The camera records their effort to get their ecological 

message across to the citizens ofThessaloniki. The film includes the bike ride itself that took 

place on 27 June 2008, the way the mass media covered it and the reaction of local authorities, 

as well as events and actions organized after June 2008. 





Spirto Productions 

Manos Papadakis 

1 Odisseous Str. 


T. + 30 2310 51 9930 

info@manospapadakis.gr 


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GHANA-UK 

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YAA ASANTEWAA; 

THE SPIRIT OF ASHANTI NATION 

LJ Aryeetey 

Yaa Asantewaa, the grandmother who led an army to resist colonization is a story woven 

into the fabric of African myths and legends. As a Queen, she had foresight and conviction 

to fight the concept of colonization. In November 1884, the imperial chancellor Otto 

von Bismarck convened a conference in Berlin to settle the political partitioning of Africa. 

After the Berlin conference, the British Government began pressuring the Ashanti King to 

become part of the British protecterate. When the king refused, the British army invaded 

Ashanti. These events prompted Yaa Asantewaa to take up arms against the British Army. 

Lord Baden-Powell described her as the antithesis of Ashanti womanhood, who went 

against the grain of accepted norms, defied the male traditional rulers and called the bluff 

of the British by declaring war on them. 





LJ Pictures 

LJ Aryeetey 

13867 Sunshine Terrace 

Victorville CA 92394, USA 

T. +1 323 244 2142 

odolace@netzero.com 


495

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402 

ISRAEL 


YOLKI PALKI 

Alexander Gentelev 

Director Alexander Gentelev takes us on a personal journey to seek out fellow passengers 

from the flight on which he came to Israel in the early 1990s. 

Through the stories of Russian immigrants scattered across Israel and outside of it – from 

a simple kibbutz in the valley to a lavish office atop a Moscow skyscraper – the image of 

the last great wave of Russian immigration unfolds in all its facets. The complexity underlying 

the stereotypes attached to Russian immigration, the difficulties, the achievements 

and the failures, are at the center of this film that painfully confronts the question 

of what it means to be Israeli and what chance does a public of over a million people have 

of receiving the stamp of “Israeliness” – a question that has accompanied the director 

since his arrival in Israel. 

Running time: 2 x 52’& 91’ 




Eden Productions 

Edna Kowarsky 

84 Arlozorov St. 


T. +972 3 527 3403 

F. +972 3 523 6076 

info@edenproductions.co.il 

www.edenproductions.co.il 

496 


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Y 


YOU CHUSE 

Rehad Desai & Anita Khanna 

You Chuse is a documentary on the role of new media democracy movements in Africa. 

Using innovative remixing and reworking of various media sources, the film looks at wideranging 

initiatives from the Open Source Software movement and the use of such technology 

in the fight against AIDS in Malawi, to organizations like the Creative Commons and 

the attempt to bring a nuanced argument to debates around piracy and intellectual property. 

The documentary is an exploration of the problems and solutions to the ever-broadening 

Digital Divide between rich and poor nations in the information age. 





Uhuru Productions 

Zivia Desai Keiper 

10th Floor, Sable Centre 

41 De Korte Street, Braamfontein 

Johannesburg 2001, South Africa 

T. +27 84 526 1155 

F. +27 86 671 8295 

zivia@uhuruproductions.co.za 

www.uhuruproductions.co.za 


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450 

SWEDEN 


YOUNG FREUD IN GAZA 

Peå Holmquist & Suzanne Khardalian 

Ayed is a 28-year-old Palestinian who is a field psychologist working at the Jabaliya 

refugee camp in Gaza. Our camera follows him as he goes on home visits around the 

camp, his briefcase swinging from his hand. 

Ayed treats young Inas who has suicidal thoughts; Maysa who has had traumatic experiences; 

Hanan who lives in extreme poverty; and Abed, a former militant and suicide 

bomber driver. 

Ayed is a dedicated psychologist who attempts to offer his patients a life of light and 

warmth.“A million psychologists are needed in Gaza,”he says. 

A comic yet tragic film from the“secret rooms”of Gaza. Filmed between 2006-2008, when 

Gaza was isolated from the world. 






Heino Deckert 

1 Marienplatz 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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USA 

Y 


YOUSSOU NDOUR: 

I BRING WHAT I LOVE 

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 

Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a 

world-renowned musician and the iconic representative“voice of Africa.” At the height of 

his career, Youssou became frustrated by the negative perception of his Muslim faith and 

composed “Egypt”, a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam. 

It was a critical and career-defining moment. Ndour’s brave musical message was wholeheartedly 

embraced by Western audiences but ignited serious religious controversy in his 

homeland of Senegal. Combining unprecedented images of Senegal’s most sacred Muslim 

rituals, vibrant concert performances filmed around the world and intimate access to 

Ndour and his family, I Bring What I Love chronicles the difficult journey Youssou must undertake 

to assume his true calling. Youssou Ndour is a voice of hope and tolerance, a modern 

day moral and political leader whose message transcends music but remains 

grounded in the universality of faith. 







2 Rue Turgot 


T. +33 1 49 700 370 

F. +33 1 49 700 371 




499

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GREECE 

Z 


ZERU ZERU, THE GHOSTS 


The new documentary of the“Exandas”series. A crazy manhunt has broken out in peacefulTanzania. 

Bounty hunters murder and mutilate Albinos so that they can take their limbs. 

According to the paranoid superstition that has been initiated by 167,000 Tanzanian witch 

doctors, the limbs of the bodies of those who were born without melanin in their skin 

bring good fortune and wealth. A horror trade of human limbs has been set up and is 

spreading like wildfire into neighboring countries. Albinos are being slaughtered like animals. 

They are the Zeru Zeru; the Nobodies; the Ghosts. 











T. + 30 210 607 5711-12 

F. + 30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 

Small Planet 




T. + 30 210 951 5295 

F. + 30 210 951 5294 



Z 

396 

ISRAEL-GERMANY 


ZITRA (TOMORROW) – 

OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION 

Judd Ne’eman 

Students from Schwerin (Germany) and Tel Avi, are co-producing a musical cabaret. They 

are speaking and singing in German and Hebrew as if the two languages were one and 

the same. The rehearsals and the staging of the cabaret are intertwined with the reenacting 

of the scenes from the play on the streets of Schwerin and Berlin, and with Manka 

Alter’s personal story as a survivor of the Terezin ghetto (Theresienstadt).The love of music 

and an experience of reconciliation are shared. 









T. +972 52 363 3398 



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ITALY 

Z 


ZULU MEETS JAZZ 

Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani 

Zulu meets Jazz provides an opportunity to learn the history of Jazz music in the townships 

of Durban, a link between music and the social movement “A long walk towards 

freedom”, which brought an end to Apartheid. The film also recounts the musical journey 

and the challenges faced by a few South African musicians who were forced into exile or 

fled their homeland where their human rights were denied. Thanks to the musician Paolo 

Fresu and filmmaker Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, we experience a very special journey 

into the South African music, guided by the KZNVintage Legends Orchestra, a group of over 

20 Zulu musicians that include Theo Bophela and Ndikho Xaba, two very important figures 

in the South African music scene, both in their late seventies. 





Rai Trade 




T. +39 06 3749 8341 

F. +39 06 3701 1343 




I n d e x e s

Index of Directors 

Abrahams, Leonard 367 

Abramo, Luigi 210 

Aghion, Anne 230 

Aguilar, Pavel 488 

Akil, Miryam 84 

Alaveras, Philippos 233 

Alexander, Ari 492, 493 

Alpandakis, Nikos 304 

Alpert, Jon 407 

Alsheich, Alon 350 

Andjus, Dimitris 69 

Angelos, Kovotsos 220 

Anker, Daniel 309 

Apel, Niko 422 

Appetito, Andrea 284 

Ardito, Ernesto 219 

Aristomenopoulou, Angeliki 266 

Armstrong, Franny 31 

Aronowitsch, David 418 

Aryeetey, LJ 495 

Asliuk, Victor 391 

Assmann, David 189 

Athanasopoulos, Angelos 97 

Athiridis, Dimitris 441 

Attali, Laurence 389 

Avédikian, Serge 480 

Avgeropoulos, Yorgos 92, 

119, 157, 501 

Awwad, Nahed 22 

Babouris, Teo 57 

Bachelier, Heiki 282 

Backès, Simon 433 

Balsamo, Mario 227 

Bandmann, Maria Ingrid 153 

Bar On, Uri 262 

Bari, Laura 46 

Barletti, Davide 370 

Barous, Christos 105 

Bas, Berke 485 

Bellini, Chiara 231 


Benger, Robin 352 

Bensimon, Agnes 338 

Bergkraut, Eric 275 

Bergman, Sunny 333 

Berlinger, Joe 137 

Betzl, Klaus 76 

Białobrzeski, Maciej 229 

Bilgin, Sibel 218 

Bliley, Robyn 122 

Blumenschein, Viviane 206 

Błaszczyk, Anna 59 

Bôas, Bhig Villas 273 

Bonsangue, Sylvie 475 

Boucault, Mosco 81 

Bouchet, Alexandre 51 

Boulet, Jean-Marie 232 

Boutang, Pierre-Andre 126 

Bozzo, Sam 95 

Braubach, Mary Ann 226 

Brettkelly, Pietra 54 

Bričkovský, Zdeněk N. 449 

Broadbent, Lucinda 376 

Brooke, James 260 

Brouillette, Richard 165 

Brunetti, Raffaele 215 

Brzakovic, Tanja 246 

Burkovska Jacobsen, Ilze 314 

Burt-Wintonick, Mira 345 

Cajori, Marion 283 

Calamandrei, Camilla 459 

Calamari, Giovanni 295 

Cardona, Joe 111 

Carlsson, Terje 483 

Carmosino, Christian 284 

Caspar, Barbara 489 

Cattier, Thandiwe 308 

Cattin, Antoine 305 

Çelebi, Emel 415 

Chamman, Rishi 96 

Chartrand, Maryse 490 

Chevillard, Eric 380 

Chressanthis, James 322 

Cole, Simon 420 

Cornellier, Robert 88 

Correale, Nello 444 

Crepu, Jean 405 

Crichton, Sandy 114 

Cropp, Ben 138 

Crousillac, Jean 467 

Curtin, John 184 

Damanzan, Mohammad Hassan 461 

Dandinakis, Costas 473 

Danezis, Sotiris 256 

Dater, Alan 442 

Datta, Anirban 234 

Davidson, Kief 258 

De Garis, Kirsty 30 

De Perlinghi, Tatiana 348 

De Putter, Jos 83 

De Roos, Prosper 104 

De Varona, Mario 111 

Dea, Eve 454 

Del Deo, Adam 168 

Delassus, Jean-François 20 

Deluz, Anne 408 

Dembinski, Miroslaw 310 

Desai, Rehad 497 

Dethloff, Sigrid 127 

Devlin, Paul 89 

Dimellas, Manolis 233 

Dimitriou, Alinda 35 

Dimitrov, Atanas 355 

Dimitrova, Ralitza 456 

Dobrucki, Leslaw 98 

Doğan, Özgür 330 

Doggart, Sebastian 136 


Doringer, Marko 216 

Dothan, Dani 315 

Dov, Ori Ben 377 

Drew, Robert 248 

Ducat, François 324 

Dzianowicz, Beata 263 

Eckert, Eva 307 

Economou, Marianna 80 

Efrat, Jonatan Ben 23 

Efroni, Neta 255 

Efthymiou, Vangelis 116 

El-Tahri, Jihan 77 

Emery, Dan 251 

Ercolani, Simona 491 

Eskiköy, Orhan 330 

Farges, Joël 202 

Faroux, Bernard 332 

Faver, Paolo 185 

Ferdek, Pawel 203 

Filho, Rene Goya 175 

Finnochiaro, Turi 287 

Fiorou, Eleonora 163 

Fonjallaz, David 268 

Fontana, Angelo 185 

Foschi, Andrea 392 

Franke, Dorte 434 

Gage, George 34 

Gage, Margaret 34 

Gajá, Lucía 312 

Galison, Peter 404 

Gaylor, Brett 388 

Gentelev, Alexander 496 

Georgiev, Atanas 109 

Gerardis, Dimitris 256, 478 

Gertten, Magnus 279 

Geyrhalter, Nikolaus 25 

Giannaris, Constantine 200 

Giannouli, Maria 294 

Gieling, Ramon 247 

Gillard, Khristine 301 

Gilley, Jeremy 145 

Ginter, Jonas 356 

Giommi, Giovanni 321 

Giugliano, Renato 198, 204, 435 

Goël, Stéphane 466 

Gogan, Nicky 403 

Goren, Amit 369 

Gough, David 419 

Grammatopoulos, Alexandros 400 

Grandclément, Daniel 249 

Greenfield, Shoshi 373 

Greenspan, Michael 424 

Greuling, Heinz 162 

Grigor, Murray 239 

Gudmundsdottir, Maria 169 

Gudnadóttir, Hulda Rós 134 

Guelpa, Béatrice 408 

Guiro, Idrissa 70 

Guo Jing 123 

Haasen, Bettina 224 

Habelsreiter, Martin 186 

Hanachi, Khatereh 135 

Hansen, Markus 232 

Haronitis, Lefteris 320 

Hattum, Rob van 63 

Heathcote, Andy 282 

Hedin, Oscar 29 

Heilborn, Hanna 418 

Heise, Thomas 297 

Hernández, Roberto 357 

Hien, François 398 

Hill, Sven O. 382 

Hindash, Fadi 325 

Hjelm, Mats 87 

Hoel, Dag 28 

Hoffman, Jens 21 


Holmquist, PeA 498 

Honigmann, Heddy 327 

Hoogendijk, Oeke 319 

Jacob, Justine 396 

Jacoby, Oren 129 

Jafari, Mohammad Sadegh 131 

Jäggi, Simon 268 

Jala, Rajesh S. 120 

Janek, Miroslav 124 

Jang, Okepne 128 

Jansen, Lucas 453 

Jaud, Jean Paul 448 

Jayanti, Vikram 32 

Jensen, Nele 91 

Jezior, Katarzyna 229 

Jolley, Timothy 30 

Jonsson, Arnar 164 

Jönsson, Elin 279 

Jóźwiak, Michał 188 

Kambandu, Mali 329 

Kaneva, Milena 462 

Karaisaridis, Iordanis 112 

Karakasis, Apostolos 317 

Karras, Nick 342 

Karrer, Cristina 221 

Karttunen, Tanja Katinka 361 

Kaspiris, Ioannis 401 

Katomeris, Yannis 303 

Katsaros, Eleftherios 426 

Kazamias, Manolis I. 171 

Ke Dingding 123 

Kemezys, Algis 296 

Kempas, Ben 469 

Kerekes, Peter 132 

Khanna, Anita 497 

Khardalian, Suzanne 498 

Khonsari, Vassiliki 363 

Khoshnoudi, Bani 339 

Khoury, Buthina Canaan 446 

Kieft, Martijn 62 

King, Jamie 431 

King, Peter 259 

Kipper, Yael 154, 410 

Kleijn, Debbie 252 

Klein, Brandon 486 

Klein, Daniel 486 

Klein, Nicholas 486 

Klein, Tim 486 

Kohn, Diego Rivera 172 

Komasa, Jan 182 

Kooij, Floor 218 

Kostomarov, Pavel 305 

Kouloglou, Stelios 50 

Koutecký, Pavel 124 

Kovotsos, Angelos 423 

Krajinovic, Jasna 141 

Krass, Michael 139 

Kreso, Sergej 245 

Krilovs, Peteris 265 

Krogh, Mikala 170 

Kuenne, Kurt 148 

Kuras, Ellen 82 

Kurland, Adam 453 

Lainé, Brice 143 

Lakatos, Robert 71 

Lamby, Stephan 125 

Lamprinos, Fotos 106 

Lassche, Geertjan 176 

Laurenceau, Julia 476 

Lazarescu, Anca Miruna 406 

Lee, Alexander Sebastien 372 

Legaki, Calliope 180 

Legars, Yvon 86 

Leghissa, Nicole 481 

Lehotský, Juraj 90 

Leontis, Isidor John 179 


Leopardi, Marco 215 

Levitan, Joanne 147 

Lin Yu-hsien 290 

Lindwer, Willy 43 

Linszen, Tom 43 

Löhr, Sandra 178 

Lom, Petr 276 

Longinotto, Kim 394 

Louka, Natasa 213 

Lourens, Darell 91 

Lozano, Juan José 468 

Lozinski, Pawel 264 

Lygouris, Nicos 450 

Maciejko, Kuba 280 

Magnusson, Ergis 492, 493 

Marczewski, Filip 253 

Martens, Renzo 166 

Mascara, Tina 121 

Mascaro, Gabriel 75 

Maskalāns, Māris 455 

Mataré, Louis 268 

Matsikas, Yorgos 55 

Mazaheripoor, Pezhman 271 

Meck-Chimbuya, Dorothy 299 

Meddeb, Hind 108 

Meerman, Marije 64 

Meijer, Menna Laura 438 

Meiri, Gali 465 

Menneking, Matis 127 

Merton, Lisa 442 

Messina, Piero 347 

Metz, Janus 285, 458 

Metzgar, Eric Daniel 379 

Meunier, Jean Henri 326 

Mevorach, Dalia 315 

Meynadier, Pierre 159, 270 

Mezzapesa, Pippo 346 

Millan, Ramiro 331 

Minnich, Rick 192 

Miranda, Anna Recalde 272 

Mirtahmasb, Mojtaba 269 

Misch, Georg 390 

Mishto, Elisa 430 

Moatsos, Michalis 130 

Mohammadi, Abbass 313 

Mohseni, Ala 311 

Moldoványi, Ferenc 44 

Molina, Virna 219 

Mołodecki, Igor 201 

Montanyà, Anna 237 

Moss, Robb 404 

Mouriki, Pandora 349 

Mühlenbeck, Horst 336 

Muñoz, David 183 

Murimi, Peter 190, 286, 419 

Najafi, Ayat 189 

Narr, Sophie 36 

Ndahayo, Gilbert 79 

Ndasowa, Villant Virginia 487 

Ne’eman, Judd 502 

Necmi, Ismail 411 

Neri, Marco 392 

Nestoridis, Panayiotis 42 

Ney, Michael 277 

Nikolic, Dragan 110 

Nikolopoulos, Dimitris 97 

Nivet, Gilles 156 

Norouzi, Minou 33, 37 

Norvind, Eva 99 

Novikova, Masha 238 

O’Donoghue, Kyle 128 

O’Neill, Matthew 407 

Ochoa, Mariana 146 

Oddsson, Hilmar 152 

Ofek, David 443 

Onken, Insa 387 


Orgnani, Ferdinando Vicentini 503 

Ott, Catia 457 

Østergaard, Anders Hosbro 101 

Pakalnina, Laila 455 

Palit, Ranjan 191 

Palos-Papantonopoulos, 

Athanasios 371 

Panagou, Angelos 429 

Paoli, Stephane 337 

Papaeliou, Alexandros 340 

Papastathis, Lakis 68 

Papathanassiou, Anneta 365 

Parkes, Jo 382 

Pasquini, Marco 199, 385 

Paterakis, Yorgos 112 

Patsalidis, Constantinos 223 

Pawłowski, Marek Tomasz 395 

Peacock, Richard Beck 342 

Pearlman, Bari 144 

Pedroso, Marcelo 75 

Pehlivanidis, Chronis 260 

Peill, Edward 482 

Pelletier, Margo 193 

Pergolizzi, Vincenzo 362 

Peter, Levin 356 

Petrov, Damyan 381 

Piano, Emanuele 210 

Pichler, Andreas 479 

Pieczonka, Marcin 432 

Pluta, Kryspin 197 

Pohlmeier, Alexandra 417 

Polgovsky, Eugenio 240 

Polunina, Aliona 384 

Poutte, Manuel 484 

Poveda, Christian 474 

Profit, Patrick 316 

Prud’homme, Olga 217 

Psillakis, Stavros 451 

Pululu, Makela 413 

Rafnsdóttir, Helga Rakel 134 

Redelinghuuys, Miki 128 

Redelinghuys, Miki 261 

Redmon, David 241 

Reed, Kimberly 359 

Renton, Polly 190 

Rhalib, Jawad 142 

Rikaki, Lucia 414 

Ripper, Velcrow 177 

River, Mem 236 

Rivera, Javier Garcia 427 

Rodríguez, Mercedes Moncada 302 

Roegler, Lukas 416 

Roggon, Andrea 167 

Rorke, Robyn 409 

Rose, Bill 452 

Rossetti, Nathalie 287 

Roussy, Marianne 399 

Rowley, Paul 403 

Rubino, Vito 293 

Russo, Robert A. 27 

Rutter, Naftali Beane 85 

Sabin, Ashley 241 

Sabo, Yoram 222 

Sainclair, Jean-Marc 467 

Salahshour, Sahar 78 

Salameh, Georges 289 

Samoladas, Zahos 48 

Sannia, Gwyn 133 

Santi, Guido 121 

Saporito, Steve 428 

Sarvestani, Nahid Persson 366 

Sasa, Makoto 181 

Saywell, Shelley 151 

Schina, Maria 463 

Schmedes, Adam 113 

Schmiderer, Othmar 61 


Schrijber, Coco 93 

Schwartz, Andrei 343 

Schweizer, Werner 221 

Schwietert, Stefan 161 

Seeger, Petra 235 

Sfyris, Dimitris 140 

Shaffer, Zach 428 

Shal, Shahriar Siami 328 

Shamir, Yoav 149 

Shirvani, Mohammad 24 

Shishmanova, Sevda 72 

Sirignani, Giulia 155 

Skarentzos, Nikos 386 

Skevas, Yorgos 67 

Smits, Ineke 464 

Snelling, Alexander 445 

Snore, Edvins 425 

Solomon, Alexandru 49 

Soylemez, Belmin 485 

Spears, Libby 351 

Stalenhoef, Mercedes 107 

Stefani, Eva 73 

Steinman, Jennifer 306 

Steinthorsdottir, Anna Thora 228 

Stern, James D. 168 

Stimmel, Jeff 53 

Stone, Dan 58 

Suau, Christian 331 

Suber, Pietro 52 

Subirana, Carla 439 

Suh, Caroline 196 

Svezia, Emanuele 160 

Swanton, Chris 447 

Sweetwood, Matt 192 

Sylla, Khady 412 

Symons, Johnny 56 

Takahashi, Taro 291 

Tal, Nili 100 

Tammiksaar, Arbo 318 

Taner, Mujgan 257 

Taviani, Franco Brogi 298 

Taylor, Chris 187 

Taylor, Cory 353 

Theotokis, Etienne Nikolaos 45 

Thomas, Lisa 193 

Tielsch, Thomas 383 

Todd, Richard 205 

Topaloglu, Hasmet 485 

Touliatos, Takis 250 

Touré, Kal 472 

Trachtman, Ilana 354 

Třeštíková, Helena 378 

Tselentakis, Emmanouil 194 

Tsiandos, Pavlos 195 

Tsitsoulis, Apostolos 208 

Tyrnauer, Matt 471 

Unen, Nezih 281 

Ushpiz, Ada 150 

Valentini, Marco 436, 437 

Van Damme, Charlie 412 

Van Zantvoort, Ton 94 

Vandendorpe, Florence 484 

Vardar, Somnur 485 

Vasarhelyi, Elizabeth Chai 499 

Vázquez, Rodrigo 118 

Vecchiet, Jean Michel 243 

Verboud, Mathieu 103 

Verster, François 402 

Vianellis, Freddy 173 

Vila, Rodrigo H. 360 

Villerius, Jessica 393 

Virve, Kristian Paul 47 

Von Glasow, Niko 323 

Voros, Christina Alexandra 267 

Wagenhofer, Erwin 274 

Wagner, Estephan 477 


Walencik, Bożena 397 

Walencik, Jan 397 

Wallach, Amei 283 

Wassef, Engi 292 

Weber, Eva 421 

Webster, John 374 

Wege, Tim 225 

Weidenbach, Thomas 162 

Wilke, Ira 356 

Wintonick, Peter 345 

Wogrolly, Markus 207 

Wolski, Tomasz 209 

Worcester, Tracy 344 

Wróblewska, Edyta 358 

Wulff, Constantin 242 

Wuytack, Fabio 341 

Xanthopoulos, Lefteris 66 

Xirou, Efi 115 

Yang, Ruby 460 

Yannakakis, Εlias 65 

Yates, Pamela 375 

Yehezkel, Eran 350 

Yezi, Abdon 74 

Yoffe, Tal Haim 211 

Zerbini, Elli 494 

Zervas, George 278 

Zervas, Yorgos Ch. 212 

Zorzos, Gregory 38, 39, 

40, 41, 300, 335 

Zucchelli, Gabriele 368 


Index of Sales Companies 

10 Francs 86, 108, 139, 156, 159, 202, 217, 

270, 273, 277, 316, 362, 380, 408, 427, 466, 472 

2K Films 441 

3DD 145 

601 Production Ltd. 469 

Accent Films International Ltd. 275 

Ad Lumina Productions 33, 37 

Aktis AVteam 220, 340, 371 

Alexandra Pohlmeier Filmproduktion 417 

Alida Dimitriou 35 

Altadena Films 111 

Ambiances…asbl 301 

American Princess LLC 136 

Andana Films 70, 245, 312, 412 

Andoliado Producciones 165 

Art in Vision 179 

ARTE France 81, 103, 126, 243, 332, 337 

Arthouse Films 283 

Associazione Culturale Balamòs 436, 437 

Autlook Filmsales 25, 29, 90, 109, 161, 166, 186, 188, 207, 242, 

307, 318, 323, 325, 341, 343, 390, 420 

Auto Images 279 

Autoproduction 389 

B&B Film 117, 215 

BAK 296 

Barbara Caspar 489 


Benece Produccions 439 

Big World Cinema 77 

Bill Rose 452 

Bluprint Films 351 

Bonanza Films 93 

Bulgarian National Television 72, 355, 381, 456 

Celluloid Dreams 31, 82, 274, 471, 499 

Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica 146, 488 

Cinema 7 Films 360 

Cinephil 28, 56, 149, 211, 216, 222, 230, 262, 369, 377, 462, 468 

Cinetic Media 322 

CL Productions 106 

Costas Dandinakis 473 

Cyprus Broadcasting Corporations 213 

Deckert Distribution 50, 124, 191, 224, 234, 297, 374, 376, 391, 479, 498 

Dethloff /Mennekinf Film 127 

Diego Rivera Kohn 172 

Dimitris Sfyris 140 

dora films 476 

DR International Sales 123, 285, 310, 458 

Eden Productions 443, 496 

een2dee Productions 91 

Efubun-no-ichi Inc. 291 

Eleonora Fiorou 163 

Elmadno Productions 143 

Encounters FF & Distribution 147, 299, 329, 413, 487 

Engram Film Productions Ltd. 44 

Ernesto Ardito 219 

ERT 3 208 

Espresso TV 43, 138, 259, 282, 361, 447 

ExploreNatureGR 105 

Eyesteelfilm 46 

Filmist 485 

Filmoption International Inc. 95 

Films Transit 53, 83, 88, 104, 110, 151, 184, 192, 226, 239, 248, 251, 

276, 309, 327, 342, 345, 352, 357, 363, 372, 375, 379, 459, 482 

First Hand Films 101 

Fluid Video Crew 370 


Fortissimo Films 168, 330 

Forward Entertainment 403 

FP Films 69 

Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion 206, 336, 356 

George Matsikas 55 

German united distributors 450 

Go2Films 150, 154, 315, 373, 410, 424 

Goethe Institute Athen 200 

Graal S.A 73 

Greek Film Center 80, 106, 115, 212, 250, 317, 386, 414, 451, 473 

Gregory Zorzos 38, 39, 40, 41, 300, 335 

HBO International Distribution 407 

Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT SA 45, 65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 92, 106, 113, 

119, 157, 265, 317, 349, 401, 423, 501 

Heraclion Prefecture Self-Government 320 

Herrlander Pictures 87 

Hi Film Productions 49 

Hibrida 183 

Historical & Literary Archives of Kavala 42 

Illumina Films 144, 189, 333 

Inkas Film Productions 80 

Iranian Independents 24, 269 

Irin News 190, 286, 419 

Iris Productions 195 

Ironick Ltd 304 

Java Films 21, 34, 51, 84, 100, 118, 249, 393, 405 

JMT Films Distribution 23, 255, 350, 365, 449, 465, 502 

Joint Entertainment International Inc. 290 

Journeyman Pictures 263 

K Production 326 

Kaos World Studios 47 

Kazco Ltd 171 

Klaus Betzl 76 

Krakow Film Foundation 98, 182, 197, 203, 209, 253, 264, 280, 358, 432 

Kytherios Music 463 

La Boia 237 

Latido Films 302 

Latinofusion 99 


Le Artigiane Della Comunicazione 289 

Les films d’ici 480 

Les Films du Voilier 399 

Les Films Hors-Champ 305 

Lioba Film 153 

LJ Pictures 495 

Lomotion AG 268 

Louise Rosen Ltd. 89, 359, 404 

MachineOff - TV & Cinema Productions Company 130 

Magic Lantern 48 

Majd Production 446 

Manolis Dimellas 233 

Manolis Tselendakis 194 

Manta Productions 467 

Maria Giannouli 294 

Marlboro Productions 442 

Media Space Inc. 367 

Mercurio Cinematografica 321 

Mercury Media International 30, 205, 306, 344, 396, 402, 425, 431, 453, 483 

Migrant Turtle Films 267 

Modiano S.A. 173 

Morgana Production s.r.l. 231 

Moving Forward Pictures 428 

Myrsini Lionaraki 116 

National Film Board of Canada 177, 388 

National Geographic Television International 113 

Ndahayo Films 79 

Newton Film 94 

Nezih Unen Productions 281 

nightswimming films cc 409 

Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH 178 

Non Stop Media PC 97 

Nordic World 314 

NPO/RNW Sales 62, 63, 64, 176, 238, 464 

Odd Girl Out Productions 421 

Okna Produções 175 

Ondamax Films 331 

Onos Productions 260, 266 


Oscilloscope Laboratories 196 

Oyibo Productions 52, 133, 160, 185, 210, 284, 370, 392 

Parallel Film 218 

PBS International 148 

Pensée Sauvage Films 339 

Pieter van Huystee Film 96, 107, 247, 319, 438 

Pietra Brettkelly 54 

Plexus Films 128, 225, 261 

Point du Jour International 22 

Portolanos Films 180, 317 

Positively 25th St Prods 187 

Progressive Productions 122 

Protasis Production 250 

Radical Media 137 

Rai Trade 293, 298, 346, 491, 503 

Rajesh S. Jala 120 

Repo Film 429 

Rise and Shine World Sales 36, 167, 181, 384, 406, 422 

Rise Films 394 

RLP - Renato Giugliano 198, 204, 435 

Ro*co Films 27, 258 

Roaring Films 252 

Rosalind Lichter Law Firm 292 

Schooligans Creative Team 400 

SF Film Production 170 

Sheherazad Media International 78, 131, 135, 271, 311, 313, 328, 461 

Shoreline Entertainment 366 

SKAI TV 303 

Slack Alice Films 445 

Small Planet 92, 119, 157, 501 

Smiley Film Sales 114, 129, 236, 241, 354, 460, 486, 490 

Spirto Productions 494 

Spotlight Pictures 58 

Stavros Psillakis 451 

Story AB 418 

Suttvuess 155, 199, 272, 385 

Talas Film 246 

Taskovski Films 71, 75, 132, 353, 378, 382 


Tecolote Films 240 

Teletypos SA - Mega Channel 256, 478 

Telewizja Polska S.A 59, 201, 229, 395, 397 

Teo Babouris 57 

The Film Sales Company 121 

The Icelandic Film Center 134, 152, 164, 169, 228, 493 

The Match Factory 61 

Thin Edge Films 193 

Tico Film Company 481 

Top Cut 386 

Tricky Trick Films Ltd 414 

TRT 257 

Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion 387 

Uhuru Productions 497 

United Docs 125, 162, 235, 383, 416, 434 

Ventes - CBA/WIP - SALES 141, 142, 287, 308, 324, 338, 348, 

398, 433, 454, 475, 484 

Video-books.gr 426 

Vides Filmu Studija 265, 455 

Virna Molina 219 

Vitagraph 227, 295, 347, 368, 444, 457 

VIXPIX Films Ltd. 32 

VOX Documentaries 115, 278 

Wagnerdocs 477 

Walking Around the World 223 

Waterbound Pictures 85 

Wide Management 20, 221, 232, 430, 448, 474 

World Alone 112 

Yezi - Arts Promotions and Productions 74 

Zeyno Film 411 

ZeZe Film 415

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