13th T H E S S A L O N IK I IN T E R N A T IO ...

13th Thessaloniki 

DocumenTary FesTival 

IMages of The 21st CenTury 

11-20 MarCh 2011 

13th Thessaloniki 

International 

Doc Market 

14-19 March 2011 

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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: 

Screening 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 

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

watched. 

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

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

• Priority to screenings booths is given to Doc Market Accreditations.

Indexes 

Index of Directors 563 

Index of Sales Companies 571 

Documentaries Participating 

0-9 14 

A 23 

B 57 

C 99 

D 127 

E 151 

F 177 

G 197 

H 209 

I 233 

J 267 

K 277 

L 289 

M 313 

N 349 

O 367 

P 393 

Q 421 

R 423 

S 443 

T 487 

U 521 

V 525 

W 533 

Y 557 

Z 559

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 

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Coordinator: Fotis Zampetakis, Angeliki Vergou 

Assistant: Katerina Chatzidiki 

Digitization Coordinator: Yorgos Nounesis 

Sales Manager, ERT: Yannis Kollias 

Sales Assistant Manager, ERT: Zefi Tsoukala, Nikoleta Karra 

Doc Market Catalogue Editor-in-Chief: Mary Kitroeff 

Coordination: Ioanna Loukopoulou 

Design-Art Direction: Andreas Remountis 

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

1 3 t h T H E S S A LO N I K I D O C UMENTA RY FESTIVA L 

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 13th edition 

of the Thessaloniki International Doc Market 

The Thessaloniki International Doc Market is evolving into an important international market 

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

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

film industry. 

We are very proud that from last year the Doc Market is fully digitalized. We have made 

a great effort the last years to achieve that. Our purpose is always to improve the facilities 

we offer to the participant buyers, but also to the directors and producers who entrust 

their work to us. The viewing results will be easily distributed and the buyers will have the 

opportunity to watch more documentaries than in past years. 

The last years the Doc Market took place in Electra Palace and after its success we decided 

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

the collaboration with the Media Program of the European Union continuous. 

The 2011 Doc Market welcomes more than 60 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 theatres and Doc Market facilities and meet with producers, directors and sales agents. 

The Doc Market catalogue includes more than 520 titles, 160 of which have been selected 

for the 13th TDF program. In our selection we have included productions from various 

countries, representing different topics, views and approaches of 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 13th 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 

Director

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Current Affairs 

+ OR - CONFUSED SEX. TALES OF 

WORLDS IN THE AIDS AGE 

Andrea Adriatico & Giulio Maria Corbelli 

Stories and faces of people, very different the one from another: doctors, lawyers, social 

health workers, showmen, politicians and common people. Everyone introduces themselves 

by answering basic questions about AIDS, happiness, life and sex. Among a mix of 

thoughts, stories and descriptions, everyone will show us + or – / more or less/ positive 

or negative, the truth... 

Running time: 92΄ 

Year of production: 2010 

Production Company: Cinemare 

Production Contact Person: Saverio Peschechera 

Sales Company: Vitagraph 

Sales Contact Person: Filippo D’Angelo 

Via Schiavonia 1 

Bologna 40121 Italy 

T.-F. +39 051 267 150 

vitagraph@libero.it 

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ITALY 

1 3 t h T h e s s a l o n i k i D o c u m e n t a r y F e s t i v a l

Science & Technology 

0.9 AMPERE 

Giotto Barbieri 

Electroshock, cure or torture? 

- The history of a medical treatment 

- A quick sharp shock inside the complex labyrinth of depression. 

ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy), also known as “electroshock”, is still used today and is 

probably one of the most controversial therapies. 

Electroshock was invented by an Italian neuropsychiatrist, Ugo Cerletti, Professor of Psychiatry 

at the University of Rome, in the late 30s and was based on inducing convulsions 

on a patient through an electric current of 0.9 Ampere to the brain using electrodes attached 

to the head. For some people the practice should have been banned, for others it was the 

last resort for severe pathologies. 

What do we really know about Electroshock? 



559 

ITALY 

Production Company: Filmcome 14 

Sales Company: 10 Francs 

Sales Contact Person: Guy Knafo 

28, rue de l’Equerre 

75019 Paris, France 

T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 

10francs@10francs.fr 

www.10francs.fr 

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12 ANGRY LEBANESE – 

THE DOCUMENTARY 

Zeina Daccache 

A theater director specializing in working with disadvantaged and traumatized people, 

Zeina Daccache struggled to set up Lebanon’s first prison-based drama project in the country’s 

notorious Roumieh Prison. For fifteen months, forty-five inmates, some completely 

illiterate, found themselves working together to present an adaptation of the famous stage 

play 12 Angry Men, here re-named 12 Angry Lebanese. In the film, the drama therapy sessions, 

the interviews with the inmates, and the interaction with both director and audience, 

convey a message of hope, forgiveness and change. Through their artistic journey, 

these “murderers, drug dealers and rapists” reveal kindness and faith in life. Inspiring and 

honest, this account of the prisoners’ journey demonstrates the positive effect of drama 

therapy and the positive effect on some of the most ostracized individuals in society. 



Production Company: Catharsis-LCDT 

Sales Company: Zeina Daccache 

Sales Contact Person: Zeina Daccache 

Rue v6; maison 7 Zone verte 

Kfarhbab-Ghazir, Lebanon 

T. +961 333 69 32 

F. +961 9 926 932 

zeina@zeinadaccache.com 

www.zeinadaccache.com 

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Sports 

Lucie and Sarah are both European boxing champions in their category. They also have been 

admitted at one of the top schools in France: Sciences Po Paris. Sarah Ourahmoune is the 

reserved brunette while Lucie Bertaud is the spirited blonde. 

Both of them have set two goals for the year 2009: the Boxing world’s championship in 

China and success in their first year of college. 

They’re always doing their best, whether in school, in the boxing ring or at work. Indeed 

they both have to keep a job to support themselves. 

As far as university is concerned, everything went well and they both have passed the first 

year. In regard to boxing, things were more complicated... Their journey has been full of hazards 

and even accidents. Lucie broke her elbow a month before the competition but she 

hid it and went to the championships anyway. 



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FRANCE 

2 GIRLS IN THE BOXING RING 

Alexandra Riguet 

Production Company: Actual Prod 




75019 Paris France 

T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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20,000 CABLES UNDER THE SEA 

Gerhard Widmer & Michael Wolff 

How do the incredible volumes of data that are coursing through our air manage to cross 

the world’s oceans? The answer lies on the seabed in several million kilometres of very delicate 

glass fibre bundles. How does the Internet work so reliably, and what is done when 

faults have to be repaired at sea? This film poses questions about the future of broadband 

communication and looks over the shoulders of the people who dedicate their every-day 

lives to this globe-spanning cable network. 



Production Company: fact+film Medienproduktion (for NDR/ARTE/RB) 

Sales Company: united docs 

Sales Contact Person: Anne Hufnagel 

Breite Strasse 48-50 

Cologne 50667, Germany 

T. +49 221 92069 0 

F. +49 221 92069 69 

anne.hufnagel@united-docs.com 

www.united-docs.com 

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GERMANY 


Lifestyles 

At some point in every marathon route, almost every runner has to face the following 

dilemma: to listen to the body that screams it’s had enough, or to the inner voice urging 

the runner to stay the course to the finish line. Life has a lot in common with a marathon 

race with one significant difference: there is no finish line – just running. Dr. Becky Clark, 

50, athlete and writer, is a licensed clinical social worker and sport psychologist in New York 

City. Deaf since her early teens, she successfully reconnected to the world of sound in 2008 

with the aid of cochlear implants. In 2009, she ran the Athens Classic Marathon as a celebration 

of her healing journey from child physical/sexual trauma. 



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GREECE 

26.2 THE ROAD TO HERE 

Lefteris Fylaktos 

Production Contact Person: Lefteris Fylaktos 

Sales Contact Person: Lefteris Fylaktos 

61 Archagelou Iatrou St 

Thessaloniki 56728, Greece 

T. +49 176 7028 4806 

lefteris.fylaktos@gmail.com 


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Lifestyles 

45365 

Bill and Turner Ross 

45365 takes us on an unforgettable journey into America’s heartland. Through beautiful 

imagery and intimate access into the participants’ lives, filmmakers Turner and Bill Ross 

present the intricate connections, close relationships, small moments and life-changing 

events of a small town in Ohio, giving us a cinema verité mosaic, reminiscent of the great 

Frederick Wiseman. From the man who calls a local policeman because his cable is out, to 

an ex-con who is just trying to get by, to a judge running for re-election, 45365 captures 

what it means to live in small town America. 



Production Company: Ross Bros. 

Sales Company: Seventh Art Releasing 

Sales Contact Person: Shane Griffin 

6579 Pickwick Street 

Los Angeles CA 90042 USA 

T. +1 323 259 8259 

F. +1 323 474 6371 

seventhart@7thart.com 

www.7thart.com 

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USA 


History & Politics 

The documentary takes the viewers on a journey to the bottom of the Black Sea, where 

the Soviet L-24 submarine, dating back to WWII, and its 57-member crew lie on the sea 

bottom. Bulgarian and Russian divers carry out a series of complex and dangerous dives 

in search of answers. How did the submarine sink? Was there any chance for the crew to 

be saved? What was its mission along the Bulgarian coast-line in the winter of 1942, since 

at that time there was no formal war declared between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Historians 

and military experts comment on the facts. The film was shot in the summer of 

2009 near the Bulgarian town of Shabla. Original video footage was also used of several 

cameras filming the joint Bulgarian-Russian expedition. 



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BULGARIA 

60 METERS UNDER THE SEA 

Kuzov Milan 

Production Company: Bulgarian National TV 

Sales Company: Bulgarian National TV 

Sales Contact Person: Daniela Kuzmanova 

29 San Stefano Street 

Sofia 1504, Bulgaria 

T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 

d_kuzmanova@bnt.bg 

www.bnt.bg 


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Art, Music & Culture 

7.1.2011 

Dimitris Theodoropoulos 

It’s January the 7th 2011 and master drummer Dimitri Varzabetian, is setting up for one 

last time his Gretsch drum-set in the yard, next to one of the few remaining active water 

wells in Athens. He has practiced there for twenty years. The new owners have decided that 

it’s time for a new apartment-building... 



Production Company: Theodoropoulos / Nikolakakis 

Production Contact Person: Dimitris Theodoropoulos 

Sales Contact Person: Dimitris Theodoropoulos 

24 Manoliassas St Athens 16121, Greece 

T.-F. +30 210 723 0054 

thinktank@ath.forthnet.gr 

Dimitris@theodoropoulos.info 

www.theodoropoulos.info 

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This film is a short document of the “Peri Peripterou”(About the Kiosk) action which took 

place at 8 Aristotelous Street in Thessaloniki from 13th to 22nd November 2009. This film 

shows the process of this action from the beginning until the end, marking some events 

which transform the real kiosk into an open public platform of artistic creation. 

The Independent Peri Peripterou action is kindly supported by the State Museum Centre 

of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki. 



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GREECE 

ABOUT THE KIOSK 

Yorgos Paliatsios & Dimitris Ameladiotis 

Sales Contact Person: Yorgos Paliatsos 

20 Stromnitsis St 

Thessaloniki 54248, Greece 

T. +30 6976 744 804 

paliatsos@yahoo.gr 


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ADRIANA 

Goran Music 

Adriana is about a Paris-born sculptor of Serbian origin, Adriana Popovic. The film searches 

for the origins of her vocation, her efforts, initially interior, to fight, as a young child, for her 

own identity and desire to create. 

Then, the film continues with the author’s own visual interpretation of her own world, expressed 

through her sculptures, being less concerned with the work process itself (even 

if it is visible) but more with the roots of her inspiration and at the same time accentuating 

her impressive artistic achievements. 

This film is a romantic, poetic vision of creativity in general. 



Sales Contact Person: Goran Music 

2 rue Gustave Rouanet 

Paris 75018, France 

T. +33 6 8089 9081 

music_goran@hotmail.com 

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Environment & Wildlife 

It’s official: we’re facing a problem over water! But what exactly is the nature of the problem? 

The film points to concrete examples: the inhabitants of a village in Mali live on 6 litres 

of water per day and person, while at the same time in Barcelona the authorities fear a water 

shortage: each citizen uses on average 120 litres per day! This clearly demonstrates that 

the definition of need and shortage is a question of proportion. We investigate in Spain, 

Mali and Mexico and discover that water shortage is rarely only a question of resource. What 

if it were, above all, a question of democracy? 



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FRANCE 

AGAINST THE FLOW 

Vassili Silovic 

Production Company: Point du Jour – Intuitive Pictures 

Production Contact Person: Doris Weitzel 

Sales Company: Point du Jour International 

Sales Contact Person: Doris Weitzel 

23 rue de Cronstadt 


T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 

d.weitzel@pointdujour.fr 

www.pointdujour-international.fr 


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AGNUS DEI: LAMB OF GOD 

Alejandra Sanchez 

Jesús was sexually abused by a priest when he was an 11-year-old boy. As an adult, he 

decides not only to denounce his aggressor but also to find him and confront him. This is 

a story that reveals the impunity of the Catholic Church towards acts of pederasty committed 

by some of its members, while Jesús Romero tells his life story. 



Production Company: La Femme Endormie 

Production Contact Person: Carole Solive 

Sales Company: CAT&Docs 

Sales Contact Person: Catherine Le Clef 

18 rue Quincampoix #133 


T. +33 1 4459 6353 

cat@catndocs.com 

www.catndocs.com 

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AISHA 

Oshri Hayun & Hila Cohen 

Born in the Atlas mountains of Morocco, Aisha was married at 11 when she fell in love with 

Joseph. They immigrated to Israel in 1955 and had 14 children, of which 11 are still alive. 

At 96, with her husband deceased and her children rarely visiting, she only has her animals 

to keep her company, and among them Booba, the goat with whom she has the kind 

of relationship normally seen between a mother and adolescent daughter. 

Aisha may live among the spectacular landscapes of Yavniel, but in her heart she is still at 

the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, refusing to let go of the traditions of her childhood, 

traditions that have alienated her children. 



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ISRAEL 

Production Company: Sapir College 

Production Contact Person: Sigal Golan 

Sales Company: JMT Films Distribution 

Sales Contact Person: Michael Treves 

20 Bialik Str. 

Tel Aviv 63324 Israel 

T. +97 25 2363 3398 

michael@jmtfilms.com 

www.jmtfilms.com/index.htm 


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AISHEEN, STILL ALIVE IN GAZA 

Nicolas Wadimoff 

Director Nicolas Wadimoff arrived in Gaza one month after the end of the Israeli military 

attack, in Febuary 2009. Among the rubble and ruins, he met people who “tried to put their 

life back together with little pieces of furniture or trinkets they found here and there…” 

Aisheen does not indulge in self-pity. There is no political or humanitarian analysis. Instead, 

it offers poignant scenes of every day life that speak louder than any commentary. “We don’t 

need aid, we need freedom!” sing the DARG Team rappers. Aisheen is a tribute to life – 

against all odds! 

2010 Award-winner: Berlin and Nyon 



Production Company: JCCTV – Akka Films 






T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



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Like all modern conflicts, the war in Algeria has challenged the value of reported images. 

Confronted with the abundance of films produced by the French army, a few filmmakers 

like René Vautier, in reaction to propaganda, pledged allegiance to the Algerian fighters, 

depicting their struggle. Camera in hand, they brought crucial images back, although most 

of them were then censored. 



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BELGIUM 

ALGERIA. IMAGES OF A FIGHT. 

A PORTRAIT OF RENÉ VAUTIER 

Jérôme Laffont 

Production Company: Sourat Film 

Production Contact Person: Michel Khleifi 

Sales Company: Ventes-CBA/WIP Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Thierry Detaille 

Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles, 

19 F, avenue des Arts 

Brussels 1000, Belgium 

T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 

ventes-cbawip-sales@skynet.be 


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ALGIERS, EL BADJA 

Nasser-Eddine Benalia 

In 1992, the Kasbah of Algiers was listed by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage to Humanity. 

The Kasbah is made of 1,700 houses and around 80,000 inhabitants. Slowly the 

term was given to the rest of the city. But what is really the state of the Kasbah today? 



Production Company: Peloche Prod. 




Paris 75019 France 

T. +33 14 8744 377 

F. +33 14 8748 265 



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FRANCE 



For centuries, the most talented storytellers have been performing their craft in the unique 

market square Jemâa El Fna in Marrakesh. Recently, their oral transmissions have been declared 

as “Intangible World Heritage” by UNESCO. 

Abderahim is one of the most well known storytellers on the square. He takes his son Zoheir 

on a journey through Morocco. Zoheir experiences that there is much more to storytelling 

than just voice, rhythm and intonation. He has to learn that the first story to know 

is your own. 



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GERMANY 

AL-HALQA – IN THE 

STORYTELLER’S CIRCLE 

Thomas Landerburger 

Production Company: Thomas Ladenburger 

Sales Company: Taskovski Films 

Sales Contact Person: Manuela Buono 

463 Russell Court, Woburn Place 

London WC1H0NL UK 

T. +38 76 5906 583 

festivals@taskovskifilms.com 

www.taskovskifilms.com 


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ALI PROJEKT 

Team “Rough Cats” 

Ali is an economic immigrant from Afghanistan. Trying to reach to Greece, he trekked 

through the mountains of Iraq and Pakistan and almost drowned in the Aegean Sea. Why 

did he finally stay in Greece? Is his life in Thessaloniki as he had imagined it would be? 



Production Company: Iris 

Production Contact Person: Anna Podara 

Sales Company: Iris 

Sales Contact Person: Anna Podara 

239, Lagada St., Stavroupoli 

Thessaloniki, Greece 

T. +30 6997 025 859 

F. +30 2310 662 944 

apodara@hotmail.com 

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Lifestyles 

ALIAS 

Jens Junker 

A fascinating account of a man who grew up in apparently idyllic circumstances as part 

of a strictly religious German family. Never really registering that his appearance seems different 

to that of his brothers. He is in his twenties before his father reveals the truth of his 

son’s real identity during an argument. The family emerges as a structure of hypocrisy, its 

members as silent guardians of secret knowledge. Years later, the protagonist finds the 

courage to return to his childhood village, to speak with members of his family, and to subsequently 

travel to Lebanon, where he encounters a familiar-looking stranger. 



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GERMANY 

Production Company: Walker+Worm Film GmbH&Co. KG 

Sales Company: Tobias Walker 

Sales Company: Rise and Shine World Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Diana Karklin 

Schlesische Str. 29/30 

Berlin 10997, Germany 

T. +49 30 4737 298 0 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 

diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de 


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ALL FOR THE GOOD 

OF THE WORLD AND NOSOVICE 

Vit Klusak 

An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea’s 

Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had 

no intention of selling their plots of land. At least not until many of them faced pressure 

from their neighbors who had accepted approximately 4,000 euros in compensation and 

not until they received death threats. Using nine protagonists, the film paints a portrait of 

a village changed beyond recognition. A humorous yet compelling film about a field that 

yields cars. 



Production Company: Hypermarket Film 

Production Contact Person: Tereza Horska 


Sales Contact Person: Vesna Cudic 

463 RUSSELL COURT, WOBURN PLACE 

London WC1H 0NL, UK 

T. +44 207 278 4284 

sales@taskovskifilms.com 


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In medical science, progress is made by virtue of man’s incessant curiosity and percipience. 

Because of this, together with patience and a bit of luck, humankind is moving step by step 

toward an understanding of mysterious diseases like cancer. 

Guided by, among others, a cancer surgeon, a cell biologist and a night nurse, we witness 

their fascination with the daunting phenomenon of cancer. Although they are well aware 

that they themselves will not live to see the day that the disease is fully understood, and 

that the available treatments are as yet inadequate, they give it their heart and soul. 



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THE NETHERLANDS 

ALL MY TOMORROWS 

Sonia Herman Dolz 

Production Company: Hasten Slowly Films 

Production Contact Person: Sonia Herman Dolz 

Sales Company: NPO/RNW Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Ellie Beijaard 

Sumatralaan 45 

Hilversum 1217 GP, The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 

ellie.beijaard@omroep.nl 


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ALL THAT GLITTERS 

Tomas Kudrna 

Situated at the crossroads of global interests, Kyrgyzstan reflects the political rivalry between 

Russian and American influence, reveals the religious rivalry between Christianity and Islam, 

and lies between the economic predominance of China and Russia. All That Glitters 

examines how strange capitalism and democracy can be when introduced to a former Soviet 

country, where people who were never given autonomy are suddenly expected to 

make their own financial and political decisions. 



Production Company: Armada Films 

Production Contact Person: Tomas Kudrna 


Sales Contact Person: Maëlle Guenegues 



T. +33 6 8177 6505 

maelle@catndocs.com 


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ALLENTSTEIG 

Nikolaus Geyrhalter 

This portrait of Allentsteig, a military training area and nature reserve, presents various aspects 

of life. Without comment but with a keen eye for humorous details. 



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AUSTRIA 

Production Company: Geyrhalter Filmproduktion 

Production Contact Person: Nikolaus Geyrhalter 

Sales Company: Autlook Filmsales GmbH 

Sales Contact Person: Andrea Hock 

Trappelgasse 4/17 

Vienna 1040, Austria 

T. +43 720 346 934 

andrea@autlookfilms.com 

www.autlookfilms.com 


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Lifestyles 

ALMA BONITA (BEAUTIFUL SOUL) 

Alexis Ponce & Vivi Zografou 

This documentary film discusses the way in which our children are born nowadays in 

Greece. The film puts forward the aspect that labor and pregnancy are experiences of selfknowledge 

and that Greek women are deprived of that experience, because labor in 

Greece is dealt with as a mere medical procedure. The central narrative axis is formed by 

mothers’ narrations who describe their labors. These narrations provoke discussions with 

doctors, midwives, psychiatrists, etc., on disputable medical practices and matters, and pose 

questions about our global civilization and Greek culture and mentality. Among others, we 

interview famous researcher Dr. Michel Odent, whom we meet in London. More than a 

medical documentary film, this film is a human conversation about labor, full of wisdom, 

humor, revelations and emotions. 



Production Company: Euroirida 

Production Contact Person: Vivi Zografou 

10, Tsotyliou St 

Athens, Greece 

T.-F.+30 210 682 6955 

vivizog@yahoo.gr 

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Fatma is Turkish. 

She loves an Italian man. 

Her family has always arranged marriages for the women. 

She wants to marry him. 

Huseyin is Turkish. He ran away to marry his love. 

Now he has four daughters, Turkey is awakening to modernity but he wants to decide for 

them. 

His younger daughter ran away to Italy to live a free life… but this summer she’s back… 

and she has something to tell him. 



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ITALY, TURKEY 

ALMOST MARRIED 

Fatma Bucak & Sergio Fargnachino 

Production Company: Move Productions, Zenit Arti Audiovisive 



463, Russell Court, Woburn Place 


T. +38 76 5906 583 




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AN AMERICAN JOURNEY 

IN ROBERT FRANK’S FOOTSTEPS 

Philippe Séclier 

In contemporary photography, everybody agrees there is a “before” and an “after” The Americans, 

Robert Frank’s 1958 photographic manifesto. 

Half a century later, French director Philippe Séclier decided to follow (shot in France, USA, 

China, Switzerland, Germany) in Robert Frank’s footsteps to explore the spirit of the Beat 

Generation and the impact of his book, The Americans, not only on the art of photography, 

but also on American culture. 

From Texas to Montana, from Nebraska to Louisiana, from New York to San Francisco, An 

American Journey is a 15,000-mile odyssey through contemporary America, moving between 

past and present, photography and cinema, and two Americas, separated by time. 



Production Company: AD Vitam Production 





T. +33 14 8744 377 

F. +33 14 8748 265 



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FRANCE 



AMMOCHOSTOS 

Costas Orthodoxou 

The documentary is essentially a profile of the city of Ammochostos (Famagusta), starting 

from ancient times until today. To Cyprus, Famagusta has always been a major city, a 

port, a gateway for foreign cultures and civilizations. At the same time it is a gateway that 

has provided entry to many conquerors. 

Over the past 36 years, Famagusta has become a symbol of the struggle for liberation of 

Cypriots; in particular the closed city, the tourist part of Famagusta, has become a point 

of reference. Footage from a walk we took through the city – as far as we were allowed 

to by the occupying forces – is intercut with narratives by Famagustans; shocking testimony 

and accounts from people who were living in Famagusta during the tragic and heroic 

events of 1974. 



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CYPRUS 

Production Company: Cybc 

Production Contact Person: Costas Orthodoxou 

Ayias Theodoras 22, Strovolos 

Nicosia 2046, Cyprus 

T. +357 99 65 7833 

costas.orthodoxou@cybc.com.cy 


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AMONG HORSES AND MEN 

Marjolein Boonstra 

In the desert of Nevada, two raw and unpolished worlds come together in a unique program 

where men and horses meet. 

“We’re not out here to babysit. We want to develop these guys, let them learn something, 

let them do something.” Hank Curry Chris, Dean, Gilbert, Charles, Steven, Bo and Mike are 

all young inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. The men are in the last phase 

of lengthy prison sentences and are given the chance to enter a new world; they have three 

months to tame a wild mustang and transform it into a reliable, trustworthy riding horse. 

Marjoleine Boonstra follows the detainees over the course of this intensive training during 

which the men see themselves reflected in the eyes of their horses. The men learn to 

win the trust of another living being once again, a skill that has slipped away during their 

time on the inside. 




Production Company: Viewpoint Productions 

Production Contact Person: Valerie Schuit 

Sales Company: Illumina Films 

Sales Contact Person: Robin Brinster 

Leidsestraat 106-IV 

Amsterdam 1017PG, The Netherlands 

T. +31 20 6248 3985 

F. +31 20 3308 155 

robin@illuminafilms.nl 

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ANDREAS CALVOS 

Tasos Psarras 

Andreas Calvos, a major Greek poet, was born in 1792 on the island of Zakynthos. He traveled 

to Livorno, Pisa, Florence, Zurich and London, and then he returned to Florence. He 

was arrested by the police for political reasons and was deported to Geneva. There, in 1824, 

he wrote his ten first odes. He then went to Paris, where he wrote another ten odes. He 

moved to Corfu where he taught at the Ionian Academy. He died in 1869 in London. 



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Production Company: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 

Sales Company: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 

Sales Contact Person: Yannis Kollias 

432 Messoghion Ave 

Agia Paraskevi 153 42, Greece 

T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 

ykollias@ert.gr 

www.ert.gr 


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ANPO: ART X WAR 

Linda Hoaglund 

The United States has operated military bases in Japan for six decades. Their presence has 

rubbed salt into unhealed wounds from the war – a complex trauma. 

But ANPO is not a straightforward political documentary. Instead, the film depicts resistance 

to US military bases in Japan through an electrifying collage of paintings, photographs 

and animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan’s foremost contemporary artists. 

Running time: 60’ 


Production Contact Person: Linda Hoaglund 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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ARAB ATTRACTION 

Andreas Horvath 

Arab Attraction explores the unusual paradigm shift of a woman known for her pronounced 

feminist views. 

She falls in love with a 20 years younger man from Yemen, to become his second wife and 

a devoted Muslim. 



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Production Contact Person: Andreas Horvath 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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THE ARBOR 

Clio Barnard 

British playwright Andrea Dunbar was 19 when her play The Arbor was staged at London’s 

Royal Court Theater in 1980. Its raw, incisive portrayal of the cycles of violence and addiction 

on a tough Bradford housing estate was drawn directly from her own experience, brutalized 

and pregnant at 15. Two plays and one film (the raucous, funny Rita, Sue & Bob Too) 

later, the young playwright once acclaimed as a “genius from the slums”, was dead, aged 

just 29. Clio Barnard’s film also entitled The Arbor looks both at Dunbar’s life and the experiences 

of the young family she left behind and in particular her eldest daughter whose 

life followed a remarkably similar downward spiral to her mother. This is a documentary 

uniquely told, whereby audio interviews given by family members are lip-synced on-screen 

by actors to very powerful effect. 



Production Company: Artangel Trust 

Production Contact Person: Tracy O’Riordan 

Sales Company: Wavelenght Pictures 

Sales Contact Person: John Flahive 

24 Alexandra Grove, Apt. 4 

London N42LF UK 

T. +44 79 6877 2792 

info@wavelenghtpictures.co.uk 

www.wavelengthpictures.co.uk 

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ART UBER ALLES 

Yorgos Dimitsanos 

Art Uber Alles is a musical/cultural TV show and its main purpose is to make known and 

promote artists from all the spectrum of music and arts. The show mostly supports the 

kinds of music that aren’t represented adequately by the media, despite the fact that they 

have a special musical and cultural interest. The themes of the show are: 

1) Profiles of Greek and international music artists 

2) Concerts, events and exhibitions 

3) Do It Yourself column of musical engineering 

4) Cofix Wiggler informative and educational inset. This is an inset in the Art Uber Alles show 

about comics and animation. 

5) Blow Up is an inset about cinema, theater, plastic arts, directors, actors, painters, video 

artists, street artists, etc. 

Our purpose is to promote musical culture abroad as well as in Greece, to support and present 

new, noteworthy artists and to satisfy the TV public’s need for something different and 

not to create another show in order to support the established mainstream status. 

This particular show serves the artistic/creative concerns of thousands of young people. 


Year of production: 2008-2011 

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Production Company: Mysterious Art 

Production Contact Person: Kika Yannou 

Sales Company: Mysterious Art 

Sales Contact Person: Kika Yannou 

27 Aristotelous St, Nea Ionia 

Athens 142 33, Greece 

T. +30 6976 994 175, +30 211 7057 121 

artuberalles.nettv@gmail.com 


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AS LILITH 

Eytan Harris 

An absurd, brilliant and surreal film about an orthodox Jewish organization and an eccentric 

mother who lock horns over the remains of her teenage daughter’s body. 

Lilith, a charismatic single mother with an unusual life story, has clashed with one of the 

largest religious organizations in Israel, only because she’s determined to cremate, not to 

bury in the Jewish way, the body of her 14-year-daughter, who unexpectedly committed 

suicide. A real witch hunt, with no limits, is taking place in the tiny suburban town. 

Eytan Harris’s darkly funny film is filled with situations so bizarre and carried out by a cast 

of characters so crazy, that you would swear it was all made up. But it’s not, and Harris, a 

skilled cinematographer and ace storyteller, is there to capture everything as it unfolds. As 

Lilith is an impeccably well-crafted film that uses fly-on-the-wall filmmaking to capture 

a completely off-the-wall story. 



Production Company: Eytan Harris Productions 

Production Contact Person: Eytan Harris 



20 Bialik St 

Tel Aviv 63324, Israel 

T. +972 5 2363 3398 


http://www.jmtfilms.com/index.htm 

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Who is Assen Peikov? For over thirty years he lived and worked in Rome, until his death 

in 1973. Today the atelier of the great Bulgarian sculptor in Via Margutta in Rome is part 

of the cultural history of The Eternal City. The people working in the artists’ street, also 

known as the Roma Montmartre, still cherish the memory of the “Bulgarian from Rome”. 

His works are an original gallery, reminiscent of a certain historical age, marked by great 

names from the early 20th century. 



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ASSEN PEIKOV – THE BULGARIAN 

FROM ROME 

Maria Trayanova 



Sofia 1504 Bulgaria 

T. +35 92 8142 390 

F. +35 92 9436 045 


www.bnt.bg 


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AT HOME WITH NEFERTITI 

Hubert Schäfer & Christoph Martin Grosser 

This documentary takes you behind the scenes of Berlin’s Egyptian Museum, one of the 

most renowned collections in the world, and of the dazzling Neues Museum. It explains 

about the origins, background and details of this unique collection. Explore how so many 

magnificent artefacts from ancient Egypt ended up in Berlin. The history of the museum 

is a tale of triumph and tragedy, passion and politics, failure and, ultimately, success. In the 

summer of 2005, the Egyptian Museum was moved from its post-war home in West Berlin 

to Museum Island. More than 1,800 priceless pieces, from massive statues to fragile papyrus, 

had to be packed up. We’ll take you into the heart of this enormous logistical undertaking 

and you’ll see exclusive footage of the final piece, the bust of Nefertiti, being 

moved in a spectacularly planned overnight operation. 



Production Company: Oculus Film 

Production Contact Person: Hubert Schäfer 





T. +49 30 4737 298 0 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 


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Lifestyles 

Alexei is a nineteen-year-old recruit being flown in to perform his military service on the 

frontier of northern Russia. The base is one of few such remaining outposts on the Arctic 

Ocean. There are five other seasoned and long serving soldiers stationed here, each with 

their own personal story or secret that has caused them to retreat from the real world. Their 

training and breaking in of the new arrival is sometimes humorous, at times harsh. Gradually, 

they each reveal something of themselves in their daily interactions and private moments 

as they continue their absurd duty in this snow covered no man’s land, hundreds 

of miles from the nearest human settlement. 



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AT THE EDGE OF RUSSIA 

Michal Marczak 

Production Company: Ozumi Films 

Contact Person: Michal Marczak 

Mokotowska 46a, Suite 28 

Warsaw 00-543, Poland 

T. +48 602 737 079 

marczakmarczak@gmail.com 


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AUNG SAN SUU KYI – 

LADY OF NO FEAR 

Anne Gyrithe Bonne 

We know Aung San Suu Kyi as “a golden bird in a cage”; she is a valuable icon representing 

freedom and democracy of which the oppressed population of Burma much hopes for. 

In the West she stands out as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, she has been awarded 

countless prizes for her effort, among them the Nobel Peace Prize. But who is the person 

and woman behind it all? In this film, her close family, friends and close colleagues tell 

about a daughter, a wife, a friend, a mother, and a rebel, that early in life knew deep grief 

and deprivation. 



Production Company: Kamoli Films 

Production Contact Person: Helle Ulsteen 

Sales Company: First Hand Films 

Sales Contact Person: Gitte Hansen 

Fritz Heeb-Weg 5 

Zurich 8050, Switzerland 

T. +41 44 3122 060 

F. +41 44 3122 080 

info@firsthandfilms.com 

www.firsthandfilms.com 

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Fifty years ago autism was a highly obscure disorder which affected four people in 10,000. 

Today some scientists believe the rate is1 in 100. What’s happened? Is there an epidemic 

of autism, and if so, what’s causing it? Or is it that awareness has grown and the definition 

of autism changed? Film-maker Saskia Baron’s older brother Timothy was one of the 

first children diagnosed with autism in Britain in the 1960s. This film mixes personal history 

and interviews with some of the world’s leading experts on autism and was acclaimed 

for being ‘a moving and important investigation’ by The Times of London. 



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“How I Αm: Challenging Perceptions” 

THE AUTISM PUZZLE 

Saskia Baron 

Production Company: BBC 

Sales Company: BBC Active 

Sales Contact Person: Richard Donnelly 

80 Strand 

London WC2R ORL, UK 

T. +44 20 70202 2751 

richard.donnelly@pearson.com 

www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com 


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AUTISTICS 

Wolfram Seeger 

“Haus Bucken” is a hostel for adult autistic individuals, founded by stricken parents twenty 

years ago. For one year, director Wolfram Seeger visited the hostel and watched the daily 

life of the inhabitants. The documentary affords an insight into the peculiarities and rituals 

of the autistic individuals, but also into the experiences of the parents and the nursing 

staff. 



Production Company: Exit Filmproduktion 

Production Contact Person: Wolfram Seeger 

Sales Company: Exit Filmproduktion 

Sales Contact Person: Wolfram Seeger 

Stoecken 34 

Roesrath D-515-3 Germany 

T. +49 22 0589 6610 

F. +49 22 9589 7459 

mail@exit-seeger.de 

www.exit-seeger.de 

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“How I Am: Challenging Perceptions” 



“After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It 

is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be Baudelaire or Bolintineanu, 

Louis XVI or Nicolae Ceauşescu.” 

Andrei Ujică 

During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceauşescu reviews 

his long reign in power: 1965-1989. The film uses unknown official footage from the 

Romanian National Television and National Film Archives. 



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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU 

Andrei Ujică 

Production Company: Icon Production 

Production Contact Person: Velvet Moraru 

Sales Company: Mandragora International 

Sales Contact Person: Ronald Chammah 

29 Rue Des Pyramides 


T. +33 1 40 20 91 70 

F. +33 1 42 86 02 24 

ronald@mandragorasales.com 

www.mandragorasales.com 


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AUTUMN GOLD 

Jan Tenhaven 

Autumn Gold tells the life-affirming story of five athletes as they prepare for the Track and 

Field World Championships. Their toughest challenge is their age: these potential world 

champions are between 80 and 100 years old. With ambition and plenty of humor, they 

accept the task. At the finishing line of their lives, and true to the motto “We can rest after 

we’re dead”, they seek one more ultimate challenge and give their best on the way to 

a gold medal in Finland. They want to stand on the podium one last time. It is a competition 

against age and the other hurdles of life. A story of winning and losing, of setbacks 

and triumphs. Autumn Gold is an homage to life as it can be: not smooth and wrinkle-free, 

but full of humor and determination. 



Production Company: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Berlin Gmbh 

Production Contact Person: Christian Beetz 

Sales Company: Films Transit International 

Sales Contact Person: Jan Röfekamp 

252 Gouin Boulevard East 

Montreal/Quebec H3L 1A8, Canada 

T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 

jan@filmstransit.com 

www.filmstransit.com 

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BACK AND FORTH 

Uri Rosenwaks 

Made up of four short films, all of which are directed by Bedouin directors in their debut 

as filmmakers, this unique film is an unprecedented, authentic self-portrait of current life 

in Bedouin society, portraying the struggle for progress that in many ways is held back by 

the traditions of the nomadic past. Back and Forth is the second documentary feature produced 

as part of the independent cinematic project in Rahat, by Uri Rosenwaks; the first 

one was The Film Class. 



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Sales Company: Ruth Diskin Films 

Sales Contact Person: Cara Saposnik 

5 Issachar Street 

Jerusalem 93629, Israel 

T. +972 2 672 4256 

F. +972 2 672 4210 

cara@ruthfilms.com 


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BACK TO LIFE 

Carlos Haggerman 

How did a poor Mexican scuba diver get to marry an American top model? What was she 

looking for when she drove from New York to Acapulco with her 3-year-old son? What happened 

to that white freckly boy who grew up in a world that reminded him everyday that 

he was a gringo? Using a legendary shark hunt in the late seventies as our story’s core, we 

will meet the Martinez-Sidney family and discover the secrets of their peculiar past. They 

will also show us a bigger picture of a new view of the Mexican-American relationship. 



Production Company: Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica 

de Calidad (Foprocine) 

Sales Company: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine) 

Sales Contact Person: Pablo Briseño 

Insurgentes Sur #674 del Valle 

Mexico DF 03100, Mexico 

T. +525 55 448 5345 

F. +525 55 448 5345 

mercaint@imcine.gob.mx 

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In the spring of 2010, two ancient Kouroi statues were found in the zucchini field of a poor 

Greek farmer. Costas, the farmer, was accused of wanting to smuggle the statues out of the 

country. Greece was one of the first European countries that was seriously affected when 

the credit crunch hit in 2008. What does it do to the psyche of a society when a country 

is on the verge of bankruptcy? Backlight: Greek Tragedy focuses on the story of a small farming 

community in crisis, featuring Costas, the farmer, who would sell anything, including 

his own cultural heritage, in order to survive. 



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BACKLIGHT: A GREEK TRAGEDY 

Shuchen Tan 

Production Company: VPRO 

Sales Company: NPO Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Kaisa Kriek 

PO Box 26444 

Hilversum 1202JJ, The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 6773 760 

F. +31 35 6775 318 

info@nposales.com 

www.nposales.com 


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BACKLIGHT: CALIFORNIA DREAMING 

Bregtje van der Haak 

California is bankrupt. Many people have lost their jobs, their health insurance and homes 

too. At the same time optimism and confidence in the American way are unbreakable. Traditionally, 

California is an experimental garden that people visit to reinvent themselves and 

their lives. So who are the new dreamers and doers and how do they see the future? Will 

America turn into a 3rd world country, or will Los Angeles continue to develop as an experimental 

garden of the post-consumer society with new, post-gold rush, forms of life, 

in which freedom gets new meaning as a core value? 




Production Contact Person: Jos de Putter 




Hilversum 1217GP, The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6775 318 



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A documentary on the crash of the Polish government aircraft on April 10, 2010 near the 

Russian airport of Smolensk. The plane was on its way to attend ceremonies commemorating 

one of the greatest traumas in Polish history: the killings at Katyn. There, in 1940, 

over 20,000 Poles were killed by the Russian secret service. A more dramatic concurrence 

of circumstances is hardly imaginable. Poland was overcome with grief, but also with fear 

and suspicion towards the still threatening and dangerous bear: Russia. The tragedy of 

Smolensk demonstrates the paper-thin sense of security of the Poles, despite being embedded 

in “greater Europe”. 



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BACKLIGHT: LETTER FROM POLAND 

Mariusz Pills 

Production Company: VPRO Television 

Production Contact Person: Jos de Putter 





T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6775 318 




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BACKLIGHT: OUR PERSIAN RUG 

Massoud Bakhshi 

The world’s best rugs are Iranian and Iran is the country of beautiful handmade rugs. This 

is the story of a rug which represents Iran and Iranians today. With a poetic and metaphorical 

approach, the film takes us on a journey and we fly on this rug to different periods of 

the troubled history of an ancient country in the Middle East. It is also through the story 

of this rug that we get to know different generations of women in a traditional family. 




Sales Company: NPO Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Kaisa Kriek 

PO Box 26444 

Hilversum 1202JJ, The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 6773 760 

F. +31 35 6775 318 

info@nposales.com 


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The Stranger deals with Islam in the western world, especially in Europe. It portrays 62year-old 

Sheikh Khalid Yasin, a radical and controversial teacher and lecturer of Islam, who 

is also known as the most popular sheikh among young Muslims throughout the world, 

especially on YouTube. In The Stranger, questions are raised about how Islam will get along 

with the liberal democracy, and vice versa. 



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BACKLIGHT: THE STRANGER 

Hans Otten 


Production Contact Person: Hanneke Hagen 





T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6775 318 

elle.beijaard@omroep.nl 



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BACKSTAGE: THE BITTER STORY 

OF ANDREI GORENKO 

Lefteris Xanthopoulos 

The Russian scholar Andrei Gorenko, brother of the great poet Anna Achmatova (1889- 

1966), who came to Greece as a refugee following the Bolshevik revolution and the civil 

war, attempted to commit suicide with his wife Maria in a cheap hotel room hotel in the 

center of Athens, in February 1920. A few hours later, Andrei died while Maria survived. 

As soon as she recovered in the hospital, she was told by the doctors that she was pregnant. 

Some months later, she gave birth to a healthy boy, Andrei junior. We follow the story 

of the family from the October revolution in St Petersburg to the present day. 



Production Company: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA & Cinetic 





T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 

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BAD TIMING 

Tessa Doulkeri 

The documentary deals with the social phenomenon of violence in modern societies. Five 

examples from the real world, a fight in a neighborhood, a domestic argument, an act of 

violence in a football match, an attack on a university campus or in the workplace can have 

unpleasant results. We are used to solving our differences in a violent manner and almost 

never retreat. We tend to push things to the limit and when our behaviour has hurtful consequences 

we tend to call it “bad timing”! Could it possibly be that not only the person using 

the violence was to blame, but also the one who suffered it? Could the conflict stop 

with dialogue, with retreat? The documentary unravels real incidents, which may happen 

to any of us at any time! 



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Production Company: Dept. of Journalism and Mass Media, 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 

Production Contact Person: Yorgos Kalliris 

Sales Company: Lab of Electronic Media – 

Dept. of Journalism and Mass Media, 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 

Sales Contact Person: Tessa Doulkeri 


T. +30 2310 992 052 

doulkeri@jour.auth.gr 


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BAGHDAD FILM SCHOOL 

Shuchen Tan 

In 2003, shortly after the liberation of Baghdad, Iraqi born filmmakers Maysoon Pachachi 

and Kasim Abid developed the challenging idea to open up the first independent film 

school in Iraq. Their mission was to give a voice to a new generation of filmmakers and to 

let them tell their personal stories. This is a story about film making in a (post) war environment 

and what it takes to be an independent filmmaker in a country tormented by violence. 

What kind of problems do you have to face when you walk the streets of Baghdad 

with your film camera? 




Production Contact Person: Swaze Hertog 





T. +31 356773561 

F. +31 356775318 



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Battle of Brooklyn follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to 

save his home and community from being demolished to make way for the densest real 

estate development in US history. Along the way, he falls in love, gets married and starts 

a family while living in an abandoned building located at the heart of the project site. Over 

the course of seven years, Daniel and his community fight tenaciously in the courts, the 

streets, and the media to stop the abuse of eminent domain and reveal the corruption at 

the heart of the plan. 



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BATTLE OF BROOKLYN 

Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley 

Production Company: rumur 

Production Contact Person: Michael Galinsky 

Sales Company: rumur 

Sales Contact Person: Michael Galinsky 

164 Hall St 

New York NY 11205 USA 

T. +1 718 636 0949 

M_galinsky@yahoo.com 


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THE BAY OF WOLVES 

Bruno & Fabrizio Urso 

The ruination continues thanks to the production facilities of both chemical industries and 

refineries established on the bay of Priolo-Siracusa, an ancient site and coastal ecosystem 

on the Mediterranean Sea. Over the past several years, pollution particles have been detected 

in the air, toxic compounds in the soil, mercury has been found in the water. Public 

pressure to protect the environment is strong and growing but ignored by the Italian 

government as well as by company managers in the drive to increase the profits of the 

largest petrochemical pole in Europe. The Brothers Urso investigate a devastating past that 

weighs on the present and announces a not so comfortable future in an area prone to earthquakes. 



Production Company: Nois snc, C4 Production 

Production Contact Person: Jean-Marie Antonini 




Bologna 40121, Italy 

T. +39 05 126 7150 


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Current Issues 

BEATING TIME 

Odette Orr 

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The minute Avi Kremer, 29, finds out that he has only four years to live, he decides to do 

the impossible and find a cure for ALS, the incurable Lou Gehrig’s disease he has contracted. 

Avi, an MBA student at Harvard University believes that he is not going to die of ALS and 

there’s a reason why he of all people contracted the disease. He masters all of his business 

knowledge, builds a plan of action, and sets out on a search for funds, investors and researchers 

who will join him in his race for the cure. He’s accompanied in his struggle by 

two other patients, Nir and Dov. As their muscles get weaker and weaker, they manage 

to raise millions of dollars and bring about a revolution in research of the disease throughout 

the world. The documentary film Beating Time follows Avi and his friends’ extraordinary 

struggle and achievements over five years as they search for the cure, as well as their 

personal battle against time. Only one question hovers over the entire film: Will they manage 

to beat time and survive until the first treatment becomes available? 



Production Company: Unicorn Content & Media 

Production Contact Person: Youval Orr 

Sales Company: Unicorn Content & Media 

Sales Contact Person: Youval Orr 

PO Box 8475 

Jaffa 61084, Israel 

T. +972 523 939 343 

info@unicornpro.net 


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BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ, WHY ARE YOU 

CRYING? MONOLOGUE IN THREE VOICES 

Diego García-Moreno 

What happened to the painter Beatriz González, whose ironic works so often made us 

laugh, to lead her to paint a self-portrait of herself, naked and in tears? 

I spent the past three years following her as she worked on her “Auras Anonymous” project, 

a monumental work involving 9,000 mausoleum plaques in Bogotá’s abandoned Central 

Cemetery, in hopes of answering that question. The resulting documentary reveals the 

trajectory of a body of work that developed alongside a nation steadily sinking into tragedy. 

The work of painter Beatriz Gonzalez follows the history of Colombia, step by step, during 

half a century. Initially full of humor and irony, her work has in time adopted the tragic tone 

that currently characterizes her country. This documentary in the form of a monologue 

weaves together the life of a great thinker, a witty and critical body of work, and the somber 

future of a nation grown accustomed to violence and death. 



Production Company: Lamaraca Producciones 

Production Contact Person: Diego García-Moreno 

Sales Company: Lamaraca Producciones 

Sales Contact Person: Diego García-Moreno 

Cra. 5 No. 26-57 Ap. 1802 

Bogotá 11001000, Colombia 

T. +57 1 340 00 96 

F. +57 1 702 11 97 

lamaracaprod@yahoo.com 

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Lifestyles 

BEAUTIFUL SON 

Julianne & Don King 

Beautiful Son is a personal story of a family’s effort to help their son with autism. When 

the medical establishment has little to offer, a family turns to a community of doctors and 

parents who are experimenting with treatments to help children recover. Through one family’s 

struggle to save their child, Beautiful Son explores the complex and sometimes controversial 

world of autism. 



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Production Company: Bright Child Films 

Production Contact Person: Don King 

Sales Company: Bright Child Films 

Sales Contact Person: Don King 

320 Poopoo Place Kailua 

Hawaii 96734, USA 

T. +1 808 286 4383 

donking@hawaii.rr.com 


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BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO 

Jessica Oreck 

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo delves into the ineffable mystery of Japan’s age-old love affair 

with insects. A labyrinthine meditation on nature, beauty, philosophy and Japanese 

culture that might just make you question if your “instinctive” repulsion to bugs is merely 

a trick of Western conditioning. 



Production Company: Myriapod Production 

Production Contact Person: Jessica Oreck 





T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 


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BERLIN 

Sam Hobkinson 

In 2009, Berliners will celebrate twenty years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and once again 

all eyes will be on a city that has changed from a 13th century swamp to the center of 

Prussian excellence; from Bauhaus to Nazi Imperialism; from Europe’s spy capital to the spiritual 

home of dance music. 

This is the city that invented the döner kebab, traffic lights, commercial cinema and Turkish 

hip hop, and it’s the first city ever to elect a gay mayor: Klaus Wowerweit. Berlin has 

been home to some of history’s biggest thinkers and talents – from Bertholt Brecht to Fritz 

Lang, from Marlene Dietrich to David Bowie, from Albert Speer to Albert Einstein. 

Running time: 3 x 58΄ 


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Sales Company: Open University Worldwide 

Sales Contact Person: Marie Roche 

The Open University, Open University 

Worldwide, Walton Hall, Michael Young Building. 

Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK 

T. +44 1908 332 470 

F. +44 1908 858 787 

marie.roche00@gmail.com 


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BERLIN BEASTS 

Reinhard Schädler 

Wild animals are returning to this major metropolis. 

A true clash between urbanization and nature – 

will humans and beasts be able to share the same home? 



Production Company: Büsch/Schädler 

Production Contact Person: Hans Bouma, Reinhard Schädler 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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Lifestyles 

BEYOND LIFE 

Salma Hassaballa 

The film questions the concept of a continued existence of the soul, the spirit or the mind 

after our physical death. This is done through interviews with scholars intercut with the 

dramatized journey of a protagonist to an unknown destination, and exploring all the questions 

and worries that arise among the passengers who are stuck in a train with firmly 

closed curtains, completely unaware of what might be outside. The film attempts to answer 

some contemporary questions that arise from the evolution of quantum science as 

well as other questions that have been lingering in the mind of humans since the dawn 

of history to the present. 

The film encourages the audience to take a deeper look into their own lives in an eye opening 

journey – igniting their every sense of imagination and curiosity with depth and the 

setting of great expectations, perhaps not experienced before. 



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EGYPT 

Production Contact Person: Salma Hassaballa 

Sales Contact Person: Salma Hassaballa 

50 Kournish El Nile Street, 

Maadi, Cairo, Egypt 

T. +20 10 194 0561 

saloosh@gmail.com 


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BIBLIOBURRO, THE DONKEY LIBRARY 

Rendon Zipagauta 

Each weekend, Luis Humberto Soriano, a teacher living in the remote hamlet of La Gloria 

in the north of Colombia, brings, with the help of his two donkeys “ALPHA” and “BET”, the 

written word and knowledge to communes as secluded as Nueva Granada. With the kids 

– whose parents are peasants or members of FARC, paramilitaries, drug cartels – Luis gives 

lectures and private tutoring, organizes puppet shows and board game sessions. 



Production Company: Granade Production 

Production Contact Person: Anais Clanet 

Sales Company: Wide House 

Sales Contact Person: Anais Clanet 

40, rue Sainte Anne 


T. +33 15 3950 464 

F. +33 15 3950 465 

wide@widemanagement.com 

www.widemanagement.com 

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Alzheimer’s disease has no cure and affects over 24 million people worldwide, a number 

that will quadruple within 10 years. 

This unique documentary blends human drama with science following Pasqual Maragall’s 

life, a born fighter and beloved politician who brought the Olympics to Barcelona, as he 

works with the leading doctors in the field to eradicate the disease, knowing that he will 

never reap the benefits because he is a victim as well. 



384 

SPAIN 

BICYCLE SPOON APPLE 

Carles Bausch 

Production Company: Cromosoma 

Production Contact Person: Toni Marin 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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BILLY THE KID 

Jennifer Venditti 

Jennifer Venditti’s debut film is a provocative coming-of-age story, an odyssey into the soul 

of an American teenager. Following Billy as he bicycles through the quiet streets of smalltown 

Maine, we watch him traverse the frustrating gap between imagination and reality, 

grappling with isolation and first-time young love. By turns exhilarating and disturbing, 

we see the world from the intimate view of an expressive and seemingly fearless 

outsider. 



Production Company: Eight Films, Isotope Films 

Production Contact Person: Chiemi Karasawa 

Sales Company: Roco Films 

Sales Contact Person: Annie Rooney 

80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5 

Sausalito 94965 USA 

T. +1 415 332 6471 

F. +1 415 332 6798 

annie@rocofilms.com 

www.rocofilms.com 

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USA 




BLACK DIAMONDS 

Saskia Vredeveld 

They hang out in glitzy bars, drive luxury cars, compete for the best homes and shop in 

supermarket stores. South Africa’s black middle class has arrived. How do they live as nouveau 

riche in South Africa? 



490 



Production Contact Person: Nellie Kamer 





T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6775 318 




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BLACK SANDS 

Anastasis Agathos 

Black Sands focuses on the significant archaeological discoveries of Professor Victor Sarianidis 

in the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan. According to Professor Sarianidis, it is an important 

centre of a hitherto unknown Bronze Age civilization, identified as the early Iranian 

kingdom of Margiani/Margus. The documentary focuses on the physical surroundings 

and natural beauty of the desert itself, as well as on the people working there and their 

everyday life in the simplicity and harshness of their surroundings. As such, Black Sands 

is not solely an archaeological documentary, but broadens its scope to encompass a fuller 

expression of the Gonur Tepe expedition and reveals the eerie and enchanting beauty and 

sheer energy of the desert and its surroundings, as well as the living conditions and traditional 

setting of the excavation team. 



Production Company: Urgh Productions 

Production Contact Person: Tatiana Karapanagioti 

Sales Contact Person: Ioanna Asmeniadou Phocas 

1a Stesichorou St 


T.-F. +30 210 729 5605 

urghproductions@gmail.com 

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Lifestyles 

BLATTANGELUS 

Araceli Santana 

As a member of a traditional Catholic family, Jorge Sosa was immersed since childhood 

in schools, activities and unions in which his homosexuality created an unbearable ideological 

conflict. This ended when he decided to move completely away from the precepts 

and practices of his religion. However, years later, he received the counsel of a priest who 

reconciled him with his faith. He went on to lead a church whose mission is to reconcile 

individuals with a god outside the precepts laid down by the Catholic Church; but above 

all, a god who promotes in his believers responsibility and full awareness of their freedom. 



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MEXICO 

Production Company: Fondo para la Producción 

Cinematográfica de Calidad (Foprocine) 




Mexico DF 03100, Mexico 

T. +525 55 448 5345 

F. +525 55 448 5345 



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BLOOD IN THE MOBILE 

Frank Piasecki Poulsen 

We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. 

But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side. The main part of minerals used 

to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern Democratic Republic of 

Congo. During the last fifteen years, the conflict has cost the lives of more than five million 

people and 300,000 women have been raped. Director Frank Poulsen travels to Congo 

to see the illegal mine industry for himself. He is given access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, 

which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in 

narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones. After visiting the 

mine, Frank Poulsen talks to Nokia, the world’s largest phone company. He wants them 

to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby financing the war in 

D.R. Congo. Nokia cannot give him that guarantee. 



Production Company: Koncern TV-og Filmproduction A/S 

Production Contact Person: Ole Tornbjerg 

Sales Company: DR TV, International Sales 

DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20 

Kobenhavn C 0999 Denmark 

T. +45 3520 3040 

F. +45 3520 3969 drsales@dr.dk 

www.dr.dk 

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BLOOD RELATION 

Noa Ben Hagai 

At 14, my grandmother’s sister disappeared from her home in Israel. 

Years later, she started sending her family letters from a refugee camp in the West Bank, 

where she lived as an Arab, with a desperate plea for contact. 

When I discovered her letters, after my grandmother died, I decided to search for my lost 

Palestinian family on the other side of the border. Little did I know that I was opening a 

Pandora’s Box; what started out as an exciting family reunion turned sour when reality 

knocked on the door. 



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ISRAEL 

Production Company: Eden Productions 

Sales Company: Cinephil 

Sales Contact Person: 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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BLUE SKY. DARK BREAD 

Ilya Tomashevich 

It is summer, the harvest season. A festival of dust and light. The village is effervescent. Life 

flows by, peaceful and joyous. The image plays with time, the sound plays with space. A 

poetic gathering set to an up-tempo rhythm; lively, swirling shots framing human beings 

and nature. 



Production Contact Person: Ilya Tomashevich 

Sales Contact Person: Ilya Tomashevich 

9-10 Kiseleva Str. 

Saratov 410600, Russia 

T. +7 985 255 6517 

tomat1812@mail.ru 

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RUSSIA 



A fast-paced film about people whose feet are their primitive and powerful instrument of 

artistic expression. 

Beginning with “Bödälä” in Central Switzerland, this film journeys from tap dance and flamenco 

to Irish dance. The rhythmic stamping of the feet is reminiscent of ethnic ritualistic 

folk dances. Evolving from the “dances of the folk” are shows and competition dance. 

The film provides insight into passionate dancers and people who express joy, desire and 

sadness through rhythm with their feet. 



564 

SWITZERLAND 

BODALA – DANCE THE RHYTHM 

Gitta Gsell 

Production Company: Reck Filmproduktion 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 487 48265 




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THE BOY INSIDE 

Marianne Kaplan 

An award-winning Canadian filmmaker turns the camera on her 12-year-old son Adam 

in this powerful and ground-breaking documentary about growing up with autism. 

Adam has Asperger Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism characterized by socially 

and emotionally inappropriate behavior. Unable to socialize normally with his classmates, 

school is a nightmare for Adam. He is regularly excluded or bullied, and left his last school 

after a boy pulled a knife on him. 

A rare and intimate portrait of an increasingly common form of autism, The Boy Inside follows 

Adam’s dramatic family life as he struggles against the odds to graduate elementary 

school and make sense of bullies, girls and life in the real world. 

Winner of the NHK Japan Prize, Golden Eagle Award and a Freddie award (the “Oscar” of 

the health and medical media awards). 



Production Company: MSK Productions 

Production Contact Person: Marianne Kaplan 

Sales Company: DR International Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Sanne Arlo 

DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20 

Copenhagen 0999, Denmark 

T. +45 3520 3040 

F. +45 3520 3969 

drsales@dr.dk 

www.dr.dk 

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CANADA 




Award-winning British filmmaker Phil Grabsky found 8-year-old Mir shortly after the fall 

of the Taliban in 2001. This cheeky, smart young boy was living with his family in a cave 

next to the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan. Over the course of a year, Grabsky filmed and 

then released the international hit The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan. He then 

decided to carry on filming until Mir reached adulthood. The result is an extraordinary, indeed 

unique, portrayal of an Afghan childhood at a time of terrible danger. Grabsky captures 

the day-to-day life of a poor Afghan family in a way that even Afghan experts are 

saying is remarkable. If you watch only one film to understand better this vitally important 

country, then this is the one. Above all, however, the film is full of humor and fun – 

a testimony to Mir and the resilience of the human spirit. 



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UK - AFGHANISTAN 

THE BOY MIR – TEN YEARS 

IN AFGHANISTAN 

Phil Grabsky 

Production Company: Seventh Art Productions 

Production Contact Person: Leigh Gibson 

Sales Company: Seventh Art Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Sam Gunningham 

63 Ship Street 

Brighton BN11AE , UK 

T. +44 1273 777 678 

F. +44 1273 323 777 

sgunningham@seventh-art.com 


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BOYAMBA/BELGIQUE, OR WHY A KING 

SHOULD NOT LOSE HIS SWORD 

Dries Engel & Bart Van Peel 

The day before the Congo gained independence, the sabre of the Belgian king Baudouin 

was stolen by a young Congolese. Half a century later, we embark on a quest for the thief 

and discover the deeper meaning of his act. 



Production Company: Serendipity Films 

Production Contact Person: Ellen De Waele 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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BELGIUM 


BREADMAKERS 

Yasmin Fedda 

At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes 

a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The workers interact 

using individual expressions and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships 

with each other and their support workers .The Garvald Bakery is part of a centre inspired 

by the ideas of Rudolph Steiner where the workers realise their potential for 

self-discovery and creativity in a social environment. 



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UK 


Production Company: Cadies Productions Ltd. 

Production Contact Person: Robin Mitchell 

Sales Company: Network Ireland Television 

Sales Contact Person: Derry O’Brien 

23 South Frederick Str. 

Dublin 2 Ireland 

T. +353 1 679 7309 

F. +353 1 670 8493 


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Sports 

BREAKING AND ENTERING 

Benjamin Fingerhut 

Some say that to embrace one’s greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others 

see a grown man spinning a seventeen-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions. 

Breaking world records is a mysteriously seductive tradition, alternately inspiring, 

reckless, and bizarre. Follow a joggler, a grape catcher, and a man who cycles nowhere 

as they battle the odds – and their respective nemeses – in pursuit of global dominance. 

Since when is it trivial to dream? 



Production Company: Chump Change Productions 

Production Contact Person: Benjamin Fingerhut 

Sales Company: John Iltis 

Sales Contact Person: John Iltis 

5413 North Lakewood Ave 

Chicago IL 60640 USA 

T. +1 312 953 5411 

F. +1 773 769 5370 

jiltis@iltischicago.com 

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A library in Cape Town contains 150 small notebooks. The marbled covers mention a date 

and initials. The books’ pages show two columns. One column contains strange symbols 

and the other an English translation. This is all that remains of the language of the IXam, 

the aboriginal people in northern South Africa. 



491 


THE BROKEN STRING 

Saskia van Schaik 


Production Contact Person: Swaze Hartog 





T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6775 318 




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EL BULLI – COOKING IN PROGRESS 

Gereon Wetzel 

The starred chef Ferran Adrià is known as the best, most innovative and craziest cook in 

the world. Every year, the restaurant closes for six months. During this time, Adrià and his 

creative team retire to their cooking laboratory in Barcelona, to create a new menu for the 

following season. Everything is allowed – except copying each other. 

One year with Ferran Adrià, the development of a new menu, searching for the essence 

of creativity and obsession in a place where they already call the “frozen parmesan air with 

cereals” from 2004 a classic dish. 



Production Company: If Production 

Production Contact Person: Ingo Fliess 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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“Only when there is discipline will there be progress” reads the billboard on the side of a 

Burmese road. Indeed, “discipline”, by the standards of the ruling Burmese army, means 

keeping civilians living in terror and violently crushing any sign of dissent. Myo Mint knows 

this first-hand – he entered the army as a teenager, attracted by the promise of security 

and power. But his harrowing stint came to an equally harrowing end when an arm and 

leg were blown away while clearing mines. Discharged and disillusioned, he began to try 

to educate himself – illicitly through banned books – on just why Burma was at war with 

itself. He soon became an outspoken activist, campaigning against the very regime he used 

to represent – a dangerous undertaking which soon led to brutal repercussions. Using 

smuggled footage, Burma Soldier tells us Mint’s story, and in so doing sheds light on the 

ever present fear that drives both civilians and soldiers in this tragic land. 



383 

IRELAND - USA 

BURMA SOLDIER 

Nic Dunlop, Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern 

Production Company: LeBrocquyFraser 

Production Contact Person: Julie LeBrocquy 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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Arts & Culture - Environment 

BURNING ICE 

Peter Gilbert 

In September 2009, Peter Gilbert (Hoop Dreams, At the Death House Door) joined more than 

40 observers – including musicians Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock, 

Ryuichi Sakamoto and writers Suzan-Lori Parks and Andrew Revkin – on an ice-breaking 

ship for a nine-day voyage off the coast of Greenland with artist-led climate change project 

Cape Farewell. Their goal was to see, experience and contemplate the effects of climate 

change first-hand, and to begin a creative conversation with the rest of the world about 

one of the most important and pressing issues facing the future of humanity. 



Production Company: Cape Farewell 

Production Contact Person: Peter Gilbert 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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BYE BYE BLUE SKY 

Patrick Pasin 

For more than twenty years, people all over the world, but first in the USA and Canada, have 

noticed strange persistent trails in the sky created by airplanes. In the meantime, people 

are becoming increasingly ill (with multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, cancer, autism, etc., as 

well as with new diseases like Morgellons). The situation is the same with the trees and 

the plants, and also animals. Is there a link? Have there been illegal sprayings of metallic 

particles (barium, aluminum, and lithium) and virological agents which are responsible 

for these illnesses? For what purpose(s)? By whom? The military, the scientists, the governments 

keep replying that everything is normal and that they don’t do such things. How 

can we be sure? This documentary proves the contrary. Some of the information it reveals 

has since been deleted by a foreign army. To answer these questions, many people have 

been interviewed: scientists, politicians, activists, pilots... 

A journey from North America to Europe, from Africa to Asia. One thing is certain: after having 

watched this film, you will look – differently – at the sky! 



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UK 

Production Company: Telma Studios 

Production Contact Person: Patrick Pasin 



40, rue Saint Anne 


T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 



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BYZANTIUM AFTER BYZANTIUM 

Erato Paris 

This production aims at revealing the major contribution of a specific elite, the Greek “Phanariotes” 

or byzantine and post-byzantine families, in shaping and reconstructing European 

and multinational identity in the East and West from the 15th to the 21st century, 

on a cultural, economic, historical, linguistic, political, financial, religious and social level. 

The original scenario is based on a new and thorough research of the past and presentday 

of the Phanariote families in Paris, Athens, Marseilles, Constantinople, Bombay, 

Odessa, Alexandria, Calcutta, Chios, Bucharest, Iaşi, and Syros. Never before has a film been 

made about the major influence of the Phanariotes on the shaping of an international culture 

and the defining of the best of what Hellenism can provide: its culture and its civilization. 



Production Company: Paris Films and TV Productions 

Production Contact Person: Erato Paris 

Sales Company: F Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Pascale Bensoussan 

14 rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques 


T. +33 1 42 60 6632 

fproductions@orange.fr 

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Eleven centuries have passed full of arts and culture. In this documentary we analyze the 

most important arts (Hagiography, Sculpture, Architecture, Byzantine music, etc.), as 

well as the way of life of society of those times and how they regarded the arts and the 

artist. Information on the Byzantine Empire is provided by art historian Georgios Fousteris, 

Professor at the higher church academy of Thessaloniki, the hagiographer Nikolaos Kalafatis 

and the Priest Iakovos. All this is enriched not only with narration, pictures and videos from 

the Byzantine culture museum of Thessaloniki, but also with the music accompaniment 

of the talented Omid Tahmasebpour on the dulcimer. 



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GREECE 

BYZANTIUM: THE ARTS AND CULTURE 

Ioannis Alexiou & Charalambos Barkanikas 

Production Contact Person: Ioannis Alexiou & Charalambos Barkanikas 

Sales Contact Person: Ioannis Alexiou & Charalambos Barkanikas 

18 th Oktovriou & Lazou Streets 

Lamia 351 00, Greece 

T. +30 6981 208 479 

giannisnem89@hotmail.com 

haris-rodos@hotmail.com 


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Antoine d’Agata, a Magnum Agency photographer, is in Phnom Pen (Cambodia) where his 

artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting his art to capture desolate landscapes 

and borderline realities, Antoine d’Agata focuses on his intimate human relations. 

His latest work concentrates on body and flesh, in a narrow room. 

This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice to live constantly on the edge, 

and considering sex as extreme vitalism. 

An apocalyptic and sublime course, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary 

culture, from Kerouac to Artaud, from Bacon to Pasolini. 



574 

FRANCE 

THE CAMBODIAN ROOM – 

SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA 

Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento & Giuseppe Schillaci 

Production Company: Kolam Productions 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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CAMP VICTORY, AFGHANISTAN 

Carol Dysinger 

This tells the story of a battle-tested Afghan Brigadier General Fazel Ahmad Sayar, a veteran 

who has been fighting since the age of 13, and the friendship he develops with an 

American Colonel enlisted with helping him turn ragtag groups of uncertain, impoverished 

men into a trained, standing Afghan National Army. The film is an intimate, realistic account 

of constant cultural and professional conflicts between the Afghans and the visiting 

Americans. While lack of trust runs strong, stronger are the tight emotional bonds 

sometimes formed by leaders in the rebuilding of a nation. 



Sales Company: Cargo Film & Releasing 

Sales Contact Person: David Pipemi 

611 Broadway, #360 


T. +1 212 995 8139 

dpipemi@cargofilm-releasing.com 

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CANNIBAL ISLAND 

Cédric Condom 

In 1933, Stalin organized a great pogrom in Moscow and Leningrad of all citizens deemed 

a social nuisance. This film recounts the untold story of these 6,000 undesirables, who were 

sent to a forgotten island in the middle of the Siberian River Ob. Deported with no food, 

clothes or tools, these poor men, women and children suffered the torture of hunger until 

they had no choice but to devour each other... An unbelievable and terrible story that 

plays like a thriller, suspenseful to the end. 



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FRANCE 

Production Company: Kilaohm Productions 

Production Contact Person: Emmanuel Migeot 

Sales Company: Zed 

Sales Contact Person: Céline Payot 

42 rue Eugene Carriere, 


T. +33 1 5309 9876 

F. +33 1 4262 6460 

cpayot@zed.fr 


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CAR PARK GLAMOUR 

Michael Trabitzsch 

Multi-storey car parks, car dealerships, car museums and underground garages are not 

places one normally associates with art and design. The fact is, however, that over the last 

15 years, the most famous names on the international architectural scene have thrown 

themselves into this area. Bright halls were created underneath the ground; spaces reminiscent 

of banqueting halls or even cathedrals. Car showrooms were created which were 

singularly bold and breathtakingly courageous. 



Production Company: Prounen Film 





T. +49 22 1920 690 

F. +49 22 1920 6969 



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GERMANY 



CATCHING MLADIC 

Oliver Pighetti 

He was the Butcher of Bosnia’s right hand man. Along with Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan 

Milosevic, Ratko Mladic spearheaded the ethnic cleansing campaigns against Muslims 

and Croats. Milosevic died in prison. Karadzic was arrested in 2008. Only Mladic remains 

at large. How has such a notorious criminal evaded arrest? Who is protecting him 

and why? Will he ever be caught? In a bid to find out, we speak to the International Criminal 

Tribunal, the Serbian army and police force and Eufor, the EU rapid response unit. 



307 

FRANCE 

Sales Company: Java Films 

Sales Contact Person: Kathryn Bonnici 

4-6 Villa Thoreton, 


T. +33 1 4060 2624 

kathryn@javafilms.fr 

www.javafilms.fr 


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CATENACCIO A LA DRNOVICE OR 

JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME 

OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION 

Radim Prochazka 

The small Czech village of Drnovice that is the home of two thousand residents boasts a 

football stadium for eight thousand fans. It is a pyramid of a long-lost football civilization. 

The rise and fall of the local football club is typical of Czech football, politics and business 

of the 1990s, revealing not only beautiful goals but also mysterious sponsors, corruption 

or doping. This ironically investigative film takes us back to a time when top ministry officials 

had no clue about huge financial scams and when Czech footballers played for the 

European cup. 



Production Company: Produkce Radim Prochazka 

Production Contact Person: Radim Prochazka 

Sales Company: OutCome 

Sales Contact Person: Jarmila Outratova 

Jizni namesti 23 

Prague 14100, Czech Republic 

T. +42 07 7606 6165 

jarmila@outcome.cz 

www.outcome.cz 

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CAVE 

Júlia Szederkényi 

A musical and poetic look at a group of Hungarian Roma living in a camp according to their 

own rules, forgotten, outside the surrounding civilization. A look at a content and uncomplicated 

existence. 



340 

HUNGARY 

Production Company: Új Budapest Filmstúdió Ltd.. 

Production Contact Person: László Kántor 

Donáti utca 59 

1015 Budapest, Hungary 

T. +36 30 919 6687 

F. +36 1 336 1009 

ujbpfilm@ujbudapestfilmstudio.hu 

www.ujbudapestfilmstudio.hu 


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CECIL TAYLOR – ALL THE NOTES 

Christopher Felver 

Cecil Taylor is the grand master of free jazz piano. All the Notes captures in a breezy fashion 

the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one 

of the true giants of post-war music. Taylor is first seen musing over Santiago Calatrava’s 

fleecy architecture – a typical sign of the pianist’s famed eclectic interests, which extend 

from soloing, combo and small orchestra work to spoken word performance. 

Seated at his beloved and battered piano in his Brooklyn brownstone, the maestro holds 

court with frequent stentorian pronouncements on life, art and music, while demonstrating 

his technique and views infusing his super clustered playing. Students at Mills College, 

where Taylor has a regular teaching gig, devise an avant-garde “free composition” under 

his generous tutelage. Taylor plays with his band at Yoshi’s in Oakland, NYC’s Lincoln Center, 

and the Iridium with his large ensemble Orchestra Humane. 



Production Company: Photography Felver 





T. +33 14 8744 377 

F. +33 14 8748 265 



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USA 



The fact of film education in Greece has been a “taboo” for many years because of the lack 

of a national film school. Theo Angelopoulos, Werner Hertzog, Michael Cacoyannis, Emir 

Kusturica and others participate in this discussion about Film Education today. 



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GREECE 

CHAMPIONS: A COMIC TALE 

Gabriel Tzafka 

Sales Company: Vox Documentaries 

Sales Contact Person: Gina Petropoulou 


T. +30 6937 419 383 

ginapetropoulou@hotmail.com 


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CHANT DES SOLEILS 

Panayiotis Kyriakopoulos & Yorgos Matsikas 

June 21st is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere 

(summer solstice).Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied from culture 

to culture but most have held recognition of a sign of fertility, involving holidays, festivals, 

gatherings, rituals or other celebrations around that time. On June 21st 1982, on an initiative 

by the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, la Fête Européenne de la Musique (World 

Music Day) was celebrated for the very first time. Its goal was to offer free music concerts 

in public places. On June 21st 1983, Iannis Xenakis composed Chant des Soleils for that 

year’s Fête de la Musique. Τhe lyrics were inspired by the 16th century French poet Jacques 

Peletier du Mans. June 21st 2009 was the 10th anniversary of European Music Day in 

Athens. 



Sales Contact Person: Panayiotis Kyriakopoulos & Yorgos Matsikas 

5 Sarantaporou St 


T. +30 6972 074 176 

kyriakopoulospanagiotis@gmail.com 

thegeomat@gmail.com 

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GREECE 



This documentary tells about the legacy of the two Chechen wars (1994-96, 1999-2000) 

through the story of the famous Chechen surgeon Dr. Khasan Baiev. During the wars, he 

happened to be the only doctor for several big villages near Grozny. Working in primitive 

and life-threatening conditions, he saved the lives of more than 10,000 people – civilians, 

Chechen fighters and Russian soldiers. “The only weapon I had in those days was my 

scalpel,” Dr. Baiev said. 



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BULGARIA 

THE CHECHEN DOCTOR FROM GOD 

Hristo Chilingirov 




Sofia 1504 Bulgaria 

T. +35 92 8142 390 

F. +35 92 9436 045 


www.bnt.bg 


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CHILDHOOD UNDER SURVEILLANCE 

Marie-Pierre Jaury 

In today’s post-modern society, behavioral disorders in children and teenagers have become 

a matter of serious concern. Encouraged by recent research, the issue has even entered 

the political arena, since several scientific studies claim that particular behavioral patterns 

point to possible future delinquency. In Europe and North America, scientific research 

is orientated towards possible medical causes for violent behavior in youngsters and recommends 

screenings at an ever earlier stage. 

Does this mean that delinquency is an illness? We filmed in France, Canada, the USA, Belgium, 

the UK and Germany, to understand how behavioral science might influence our society 

in the future. 



Production Company: Point du Jour – Intuitive Pictures 




23 rue de Cronstadt, 


T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



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CHILDREN IN HIDING 

Vassilis Loules 

Rosa, Iossif, Eftyhia, Shelly and Marios, five Greek Jewish children are saved from certain 

death by Christian families during the German Occupation. These children remain hidden 

for a long time, using fake names, often separated from their parents. Days in total silence, 

days that forced them to mature suddenly. This experience marked their lives and sense 

of identity forever. Five survivors, who were once “children in hiding”, tell their stories, trying 

to recall memories and fragments from their childhood. Stories of terror and persecution, 

anguish and bewilderment. Stories of salvation and carefree childhood. Five small 

nests of peace amidst the turmoil of war, five secret gardens of Eden away from the horror 

of the Holocaust. 

Running time: 95΄ (also available: 124΄ & 3x52΄) 


Production Company: Massive Productions 

Production Contact Person: Vangelis Fabas 

Sales Company: Greek Film Center 

Sales Contact Person: Lina Manolopoulou 

7 Dion.Areopagitou St 

Athens , 1742, Greece 

T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 361 4336 

lina.mano@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


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THE CHILDREN OF MIMAS 

Tahsin Isbilen 

The Prefecture of Ilia, the Municipality of Vartholomio and the “Agia Marina” Educational 

and Beautification Society of Glyfa created the documentary film The Children of Mimas. 

Mimas a mountain of Asia Minor, at the foothills of which lived for centuries the ancestors 

of many people from Glyfa, Gastouni, Korinthos and other places in Greece. Ninety years 

later, The Children of Mimas searched for their roots and traveled to the land of Ionia. Their 

efforts were captured in a documentary film of 50 minutes. It presents the placement of 

the refugees in Greece and the civilization that they created after the first years of the struggle 

to survive in the new place. 



Production Company: The “Agia Marina” Educational 

and Beautification Society of Glyfa, Ilia 

Production Contact Person: Andreas Baltas 

Glyfa Vartholomio Ilias 

Ilia 270 50, Greece 

T. +30 26230 96460 

glyfa@glyfa.gr 

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‘The Children of Teheran is the story of the rescue of 700 children from occupied Poland and 

their grueling journey to Palestine/Israel in the winter of 1943. This unprecedented operation 

took the children, many without their parents, on a tortuous path that led them to 

distant lands, including Tehran, before they arrived safely in Palestine. The Children of Tehran 

was the first large group of Holocaust survivors to reach Palestine/Israel from occupied Europe. 



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THE CHILDREN OF TEHRAN 

Yehuda Kaveh, David Tour & Dalia Guttman 

Production Contact Person: Dalia Guttman 



20 Bialik St 


T. +972 5 2363 3398 


www.jmtfilms.com/index.htm 


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THE CHILEAN BUILDING 

Macarena Aguiló 

At the end of the 1970s, many militant Chileans returned home from exile in Europe to help 

their comrades in the struggle against the Pinochet dictatorship. In her first full-length documentary, 

Macarena Aguiló relates a personal story played out against the backdrop of 

this period in history. She uses photographs, diaries and interviews to reconstruct an important 

time from her youth, when she lived in a commune in Cuba. Project “Homes” was 

set up by freedom fighters who could not take their children with them for reasons of personal 

safety. Together with 60 others, Aguiló was brought up by “social parents”. Aguiló 

paints a picture of a tight community where ideals of freedom and solidarity initially prevailed. 

But a few years later, the news from Chile that the struggle was not having the desired 

result and that increasing numbers of arrests and murders were taking place there also 

caused a loss of morale in Cuba. A sense of tragedy filters through in the stories from their 

childhoods (despite all good intentions, they felt abandoned) and the sacrifices their parents 

made in the name of freedom. 



Production Company: Aplaplac Producciones 

Production Contact Person: Juan Manuel Egaña 

Sales Company: Aplaplac Producciones 

Sales Contact Person: Juan Manuel Egaña 

Av. Bustamente 30, dpt. 31 

Santiago 9999, Chile 

T. +56 2 494 4009 

jmegana@aplaplac.cl 

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China’s unprecedented growth has placed it on the verge of overtaking the United States 

as the world’s preeminent power. But what type of power will China become? In today’s 

interconnected and globalized world, the answer effects each and every one of us. In Pakistan 

and Afghanistan, China’s humanitarian activities and investment in infrastructure have 

won it the hearts and minds of the people. Yet in Tibet and Xinjiang, China is reviled as an 

imperialistic abuser of human rights. Will China use its strength to dominate its neighbors 

and become a 21st century empire, or will China’s youth lead the country towards democracy? 

Whether it’s a peaceful rise or potential threat, China’s 21st century emergence as a 

great world power will change the lives of everyone. 



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CHINA: THE REBIRTH OF AN EMPIRE 

Jesse Veverka & Jeremy Veverka 

Production Company: Veverka Bros 

Sales Company: Sideways Film 

Sales Contact Person: Kazz Basma 

178 Stoke Newington High Street 

London N16 7JL, UK 

T. +44 788 147 3603 

kazz@sidewaysfilm.com 

www.sidewaysfilm.com 


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Christini’s life is being turned into a movie. Christini is a 31-year-old, Down syndrome girl, 

leading an ordinary life at an educational and occupational center for individuals with mental 

disabilities. She cares about clothes, about make-up, she flirts, she needs to charm; love 

occupies a central place in her life. Still, her engaging in theater activities, and, most importantly, 

her acting in the performance of Yorgos Dialegmenos’ play Bella Venezia, as 

staged by Lefteris Voyagis, take her to the epicenter of the debate which addresses the incorporation 

of people with mental disabilities in mainstream life. Can people with mental 

disabilities co-operate with so-called normal individuals? What are the latter to gain 

from such a collaboration? Can people with mental disabilities benefit from mixed education? 

Can people with mental disabilities start their own families? These are some of the 

questions this movie addresses to those officially involved, as well as to people with 

mental disabilities themselves, whom we get to know as the movie evolves and they make 

their personal statement about the case. 



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CHRISTINI, A PRINCESS 

Iris Zachmanidi 

Production Company: Studio Alfa SA & Iris Zachmanidi 

Production Contact Person: Dimitris Evangelopoulos & Iris Zachmanidi 

Sales Company: Studio Alfa SA 

Sales Contact Person: Dimitris Evangelopoulos 

10-12 Stoudiou St 

Maroussi 15126, Athens, Greece 

T. + 30 210 613 2900 

F. + 30 210 613 2906 

devangel@hol.gr 

devangel@studioalfa.gr 


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CINEMATHERAPY 

Ivan Vojnar 

Living in the age of reality TV, in a society hungry for sensation, it is easy to feed on the 

highly emotional stories of people whose futures are being shaped by dozens of professionals. 

Cinematherapy takes a slightly different approach. A commercial aired on Czech 

Television invited viewers to attend a casting session and tell their stories. Later on, eleven 

of them underwent “cinematherapy” – provided by the camera as an intermediary between 

them and the outside world. Blurring the lines between feature film, documentary and reality 

show, the film does not offer the participants plastic surgery or a reunion with a long 

lost friend but lets them witness their often bizarre lives and thus move forward in dealing 

with their issues. 



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Production Company: Ivan Vojnar Film & i/o post & Czech Television 

Production Contact Person: Jitka Prochazkova 

Sales Company: Czech Television 

Sales Contact Person: Jitka Prochazkova 

Kavci hory 

Prague 4, 140 70 

Czech Republic 

T. +420 736 531 568 

F. +420 261 216 628 

jitka.prochazkova@ceskatelevize.cz 


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CLOSE TO HEAVEN 

Titus Faschina 

Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for 

thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches 

of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, close to the edge of heaven...Vivid stories and 

fantastic myths, far from the world of today, cinematically narrated over the course of a year. 

The last refuge in Europe for a forgotten profession in an unhurried world. 



Production Company: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion 

Production Contact Person: Heino Deckert 

Sales Company: Deckert Distribution GmbH 

Sales Contact Person: Heino Deckert 

Marienplatz 1 

Leipzig 04103 Germany 

T. +49 34 1215 6638 

F. +49 34 1215 6639 

info@deckert-distribution.com 

www.deckert-distribution.com 

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For many years, radio in Greece was the medium which, besides being a source of immediate 

information and news, also gave sound a magical dimension, offering quality musical 

programs and radio plays and inspiring listeners to for their own picture of people and 

events. Using rare audiovisual material, Close Your Eyes and You Will See“recreates” the first 

years of Greek radio. 



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CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU WILL SEE 

Stavros Stratigakos 





T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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COAL IN THE SOUL 

Ondrej Provaznik & Martin Dusek 

A documentary portrait of two women who play a very personal game with the fate of 

Horni Jiretin, a town endangered by the coalmining industry. With a sensitive approach 

tinged with irony, the directors present the case and use the two women, the press agent 

of the mining company and a chatelaine/eco-activist as their guides. Their personal stories 

mirror the current case of total liquidation of Horni Jiretin, a small town that stands in 

the way of further coalmining. 



Production Company: Czech Television 

Production Contact Person: Jitka Prochazkova 

Kavci hory 

Prague 4, 140 70 


T. +420 261 137 438 

F. +420 261 216 628 

jitka.prochazkova@ceskatelevize.cz 

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Welcome to the picturesque world of the Kalderash Roma – a closed community of no 

more than one million people all over the world. Concrete Pharaohs take us on a journey 

into the lifestyle and traditions of the most hidden and intriguing Roma communities. A 

charismatic Gypsy baron will walk us through his stories and his new house. We will learn 

the hot trends in Roma tombstone design. We will go down into the underground homes 

of African granite, furnished with beds, wardrobes, stereos and a charged cell phone – a 

direct line to the other world. A celebration of life and the afterlife in all of their manifestations. 



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CONCRETE PHARAOHS 

Jordan Todorov 

Production Company: Agitprop Ltd 

Production Contact Person: Martichka Bozhilova 

Sales Contact Person: Martichka Bozhilova 

68, Budapest Str., Apt.1 

1202 Sofia, Bulgaria 

T. +359 888 579 959 

F. +359 298 319 29 

producer@agitprop.bg 


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THE CONTRACT 

Lina Mannheimer 

In 2005, Beverly Carpentier declared an oath of allegiance to Catherine Robbe-Grillet. She 

thereby gave up her freedon for the rest of her life. 

The Contract is a film about the relationship between Beverly Charpentier, a married 

mother of two and the writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet. The film portrays two strong 

women’s unconventional love story, two women who have chosen to explore their love 

in a unique way, without compromise. 



Production Company: Fasad 

Production Contact Person: Lina Mannheimer 

Bogatan 3b 

Gothenburg 41272 Sweden 

T. +46 73 3120 218 

lina.mannheimer@gmail.com 

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This film tells the story of activist Matthew Goniwe and three of his comrades, schoolteachers 

in the town of Cradock in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, as they take on the 

powerful security forces and racist generals with the view to bring Apartheid to an end. 

Their assassination was the trigger that should ultimately lead to liberation and the election 

of Nelson Mandela, in a new, multi-colored democracy. These murders marked the 

beginning of the end of South Africa’s fascist white-only government. 



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THE CRADOCK MURDERS 

David Forbes & Michel Noll 

Production Company: Solferino Images 

Production Contact Person: Michel Noll 

Sales Company: ICTV 

Sales Contact Person: Lydia Castellano 

17 rue du Colisee 


T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 

lydia.c@ictv-solferino.com 

www.ictv.fr 


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CRISIS 

Myrto Papadogeorgou 

The most commonly used word of late is crisis. The Greek crisis. But what does that phrase 

mean for someone living in it? 

Crisis tells the story of the Greek crisis from the perspective of a young Athenian woman 

as she struggles to deal with something very simple in very complicated times: her everyday 

life in the complicated Greek capital, Athens. She tells us about life in a city that made 

international news when its youth took to the streets to express their frustration at a deadend 

situation. A youth stigmatized with the burden of a gloomy future. 



Production Company: Phos Productions 

Production Contact Person: Eleni Atsikbasis 

75 El. Venizelou 

Athens 155 61 Greece 

T. +30 6974 328 808 

eleni@phos.gr 

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CZECH PEACE 

Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda 

The story of Star Wars, the Cold War and the War on Terror of a small Czech village. As part 

of its National Missile Defense Program, the United States plan to build a military base in 

the Czech Republic, a former hiding place for Soviet nuclear rockets during the Cold War. 

Despite the fact that 73% of Czechs are against the project, the government has continued 

with negotiations. Supporters of the base claim that it will strengthen the country’s 

defense against the global threats of the 21st century. Opponents point out that the plan 

essentially shifts the Iron Curtain toward the east; they also insist that it represents an attempt 

by the United States to rule the world. 



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Production Company: Hypermarket Film 

Production Contact Person: Tereza Horska 


Sales Contact Person: Vesna Cudic 

463 Russell Court, Woburn Place 


T. +44 207 278 4284 

sales@taskovskifilms.com 



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On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass 

came across a sixteen-year-old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing natural 

charm and grace as a dancer. A longtime devotee of the world of dance, Bass felt compelled 

to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that 

he could not yet have fully imagined. From the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the 

halls of New York’s School of American Ballet to the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet 

in Seattle, Dancing Across Borders peeks behind the scenes into the world of dance and 

chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of a boy who was discovered, and who only 

much later discovered all that he had in himself. 



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DANCING ACROSS BORDERS 

Anne Bass 

Production Company: 123 Productions, Inc. 

Production Contact Person: Anne Bass 





T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 

infos@widemanagement.com 



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THE DANCING BOYS OF AFGHANISTAN 

Jamie Doran 

As the West pours billions of dollars into the fight against the Taliban in southern 

Afghanistan, an ancient tradition (banned when the Taliban were in power) has reemerged 

across the rest of the country. Many hundreds of boys, as young as 10, living in 

extreme poverty, are lured off the streets on the promise of a new life away from destitution, 

unaware their real fate is to be used for entertainment and sex. They’re the “Bacha 

Bereesh”, literally “beardless boys”, chosen for their height, size and beauty to sing and dance 

before an audience prior to being traded for sexual favors among the warlords and powerful 

men of Afghanistan. Bought and sold by their rich masters, most will suffer 

grotesquely. All efforts by the authorities to eradicate the practice have failed largely because, 

as we will show, the authorities themselves are involved. 



Production Company: Clover Films 

Production Contact Person: Tracey Doran-Carter 

Sales Company: TVF International 

Sales Contact Person: Leila Monks 

375 City Road 

London EC1V 1NB, UK 

T. +44 207 837 3000 

F. +44 207 833 2185 

int@tvf.co.uk 

www.tvfinternational.com 

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Madrid dance troop Danza Down enchants audiences with classical ballet, traditional Spanish 

dance and musical theater performances. What makes this dance troop special is that 

all of the dancers in the troop have Down Syndrome. 

Under the nurturing and patient tutelage of Director Elias Lafuente, children and adults with 

Down Syndrome blossom, gain confidence and develop a love of music and dance. 



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DANCING WITH DOWNS 

Elizabeth Wood 

Production Contact Person: Elizabeth Wood 

Sales Contact Person: Elizabeth Wood 

Calle Freixa 37, piso 3 

Barcelona, Spain 

T. +34 689 195 013 

woodbarcelona@yahoo.com 


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DANIEL SCHMID – LE CHAT QUI PENSE 

Pascal Hofmann & Benny Jaberg 

Daniel Schmid, who grew up during the 1940s in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Swiss Alps, 

succumbed to the powers of the imagination already as a child. Spurred on by his grandmother’s 

fantastic stories, he made the hotel foyer his stage and its international array of 

guests his protagonists. Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his 

life. Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the eventful life and 

unusual work of an outstanding Swiss film artist. 



Production Company: T&C Film AG, Zürich 

Production Contact Person: Nicole Barras 

Sales Company: T&C Edition 

Sales Contact Person: Susa Katz 

Seestrasse 41a 

Zürich, 8002 

Switzerland 

T. +41 44 208 99 55 

F. +41 44 208 99 54 

edition@tcfilm.ch 

www.tcfilm.ch 

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Lifestyles 

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 

16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the isolation, and the desire to escape 

are recorded on film in various contexts. Voice-over readings from the journal kept 

by a brother of the filmmaker’s friend who committed suicide in 1990 intermix with a range 

of compelling stories, from the poignant double suicide of an elderly American couple to 

a Japanese teenager who jumped into a volcano, spawning over a thousand imitations. 

While this is a serious exploration of a cultural taboo, its lyrical qualities invite the viewer 

to approach the subject with understanding and compassion. 



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THE DARKNESS OF DAY 

Jay Rosenblatt 

Production Company: Locomotion Film 

Production Contact Person: Jay Rosenblatt 



Marienplatz 1 Leipzig 04103 

Germany 

T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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DAVID WANTS TO FLY 

David Sieveking 

In search of enlightenment, young David follows his idol David Lynch and uncovers the billion-dollar 

industry behind Transcendental Meditation. 

“A sprightly docu about finding your own artistic inspiration, both tongue-in-cheek and 

seriously questioning the TM financial empire.” Variety 



Production Company: lichtblick media 

Production Contact Person: Martin Heisler & Carl-Ludwig Rettinger 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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DEAF JAM 

Judy Lieff 

In Deaf Jam, Aneta Brodski seizes the day. She is a deaf teen introduced to American Sign 

Language (ASL) Poetry, who then boldly enters the spoken word slam scene. In a wondrous 

twist, Aneta, an Israeli immigrant living in Queens NY, eventually meets Tahani, a 

hearing Palestinian slam poet. The two young women embark on a hearing/deaf collaboration, 

a performance duet that is a metaphor for the complex realities they share. 



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Production Company: Made-By-Hand, LLC 

Production Contact Person: Judy Lieff 

Sales Contact Person: Judy Lieff 

227 West 11th Street, #52 

New York ΝY 10014 USA 

T. +1 212 929 6878 

judylieff@mac.com 


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DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY 

Marcin Koszalka 

In his new film, Marcin Koszałka returns to a forgotten genre, namely a mountain film. The 

protagonist of his story is Piotr “Mad” Korczak, and somewhere in the background there is 

his rival Andrzej Marcisz. The director focuses on the decline of the career of the great master, 

provoking his reflection on his future life, when he will no longer be able to climb 

mountains. It’s a moving story about inability to come to terms with old age and about 

the desire for immortality. 



Production Company: TVP S.A., WRiTv US 

Production Contact Person: Marcin Koszalka 

Sales Company: Krakow Film Foundation 

Sales Contact Person: Katarzyna Wilk 

Basztowa 15/8a 

Krakow 31-143 Poland 

T. +48 12 294 6945 

katarzyna@kff.com.pl 

www.kff.com.pl 

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Sports 

DEEP BLUE 

Axel Ramonet & Aurore Asso 

They are the “fish” men that make a living from apnea. 

Twenty years after The Big Blue, these explorers of the world of the deep beat depth records 

and snatch the headlines from each other. 

Among them, 27-year-old Guillaume Nery has been champion and world record holder 

of free diving several times. In the discipline of constant weight, he is the third man that 

has gone the deepest, with a dive to 113 meters. 

With a hundred men practicing this sport at the highest level, only 3 or 4 are qualified for 

these depths (the height of the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower). They will all compete in the 

World Championship which takes place in the Bahamas. 

The Austrian phenomenon Herbert Nitsch will also participate in the competition. 

The big race of the depths is on; each meter counts and William’s life is punctuated by trips 

to the sea, physical, but also psychological preparation. 



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Production Company: Actual Prod 





T. + 33 1 4874 4377 

F. + 33 1 4874 8265 




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THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART 

Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev 

How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule, artists who stay true 

to their vision were executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspired young 

Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 

forbidden fellow artist’s works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from 

the watchful eyes of the KGB. This is his story. 



Production Company: Desert of Forbidden Art LLC 

Production Contact Person: Tchavdar Georgiev 





T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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The idea of choosing your baby’s hair and eye colour, IQ, height, weight and talents fills most 

of us with a sense of horror, evoking memories of Nazi breeding programs from the 

1930s. Yet some are overcoming the taboo in a bid to create “the perfect child”. 

Filmed in the USA, India and Denmark, this documentary explores the new techniques that 

make what was once science fiction a reality. We hear from key figures in the debate on 

the ethics of this controversial practice. 



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DESIGNER BABIES: 

THE NEW EUGENICS 

Camelle le Pomellec 

Production Company: Tac Presse 





T. +33 1 4060 2624 

Kathryn@javafilms.fr 



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DESPERATELY SEEKING EUROPE – 

SOMETHING ABOUT GEORGIA 

Nino Kirtadzé 

This fable of power takes place in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia. From the nation’s first 

truly free elections, when everything seemed possible, to a state of chaos and war and the 

resulting aftermath, the film exposes this critical year and turning point that reveal an international 

power struggle much larger than Georgia’s borders. 



Production Company: Zadig Productions 

Production Contact Person: Paul Rosenberg 




Paris F-75004, France 

T. +33 1 44 59 63 53 



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Environment & Wild Life 

The emergence of tourism in Antarctica is the subject of this film. The growth rate of tourism 

towards Antarctica is 500 % these last five years and is expected to exceed in 2009 the 

threshold of 40,000 tourists, with the more and more frequent use of large capacity ships, 

able to carry more than 800 passengers. 

What will be the impact of this tourism on such a fragile environment? 

This documentary helps us to better understand the fragility of this continent, its role in 

the balance of our planet and the fantasy which urges tens of thousands tourists to make 

a trip to Antarctica in the same way that they would go on photo safari in Kenya. 



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DESTINATION: ANTARCTICA 

Hervé Nicolas 

Production Company: F Productions 





T. + 33 1 4874 4377 

F. + 33 1 4874 8265 




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THE DEVIL OPERATION 

Stephanie Boyd 

The charismatic Father Marco Arana, named a Hero of the Environment in 2009 by TIME 

magazine, has been so effective in advocating against the US-owned Yanacocha mine that 

he’s code-named “the Devil” and targeted in a campaign of harassment and terror. 

When one colleague is threatened with rape and another is killed, the activists fight back, 

capture a spy, and uncover a military-scale operation of surveillance and violence that 

shocks even them. 

When billions of dollars are at stake, just how far are corporations willing to go to protect 

their bottom line? 

A gripping David and Goliath tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, 

intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking 

video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms 

working for gold mines are uncovered by the filmmakers to reveal the truth in this reallife 

political thriller. 



Production Company: Oxyopia / Udris Productions 





T. +44 788 147 3603 



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For over 80 years, the Alexkor mine in South Africa’s Richtersveld region has been producing 

diamonds of exceptional quality. But since the end of Apartheid, the black and coloured 

people who have been deprived of their rights battle hard to have the land of their ancestors 

returned to them. Mining exploitation is becoming more difficult and the diamond veins 

are showing signs of depletion. The Richtersvelders hope to regain possession of the 

mines before resources are depleted in order to secure a better future for their community 

in this “new” South Africa. 



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DIAMONDS OF RECONCILIATION 

Laure Poinsot 

Production Company: Bonne Compagnie 






T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 




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Adventure & Travel 

DIOL KADD. LIFE, DIARIES 

AND TAKES ON A VILLAGE IN SENEGAL 

Gianni Celati 

Diol Kadd is the result of three years spent filming in a small Senegalese village. The film 

offers no facile exoticism or filters, just the daily lives of these polygamist families who have 

17 children and a 104-year-old grandmother who still dances the seductive dance typical 

to the region. Where animist beliefs mix with the readings of the Koran. Where time 

has a different meaning and where desertification is consuming the Savannah. The writerdirector 

Celati enters the community and, together with actor-director Mandiaye N’Diaye, 

also captures the farmers’ comic desires for wealth, the kind of “disastrous wealth that blinds 

people”. 

Gianni Celati, one of the greatest living Italian writers and the author of this African diary, 

recounts the continent as perhaps an Italian intellectual has not done since Pasolini and 

Moravia. 



Production Company: Pierrot e la rosa srl 

Production Contact Person: Luca Buelli 





T. +39 05 1267 150 

F. +39 05 1267 150 


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Disco and Atomic War tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian 

regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture; and loses. Western popular 

culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children’s worldviews in those days 

– in ways that now seem slightly odd. Finnish television was a window to a world of 

dreams that the authorities could not block in any way. Though Finnish channels were 

banned, many households found some way to access 

the forbidden fruit. Disco and Atomic War offers its own version of recent history, mixing 

spy games into a human tragicomedy. 



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DISCO & ATOMIC WAR 

Jaak Kilmi 

Production Company: Eetriüksus 

Production Contact Person: Kiur Aarma 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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Lifestyles 

DISH: WOMEN, WAITRESSING 

AND THE ART OF SERVICE 

Maya Gallus 

Dish delves into North American classic diners, the “sexy restos of Montreal”, the “haute 

eateries” in Paris, and Tokyo’s fantasy “maid bars” in an insider’s look at gender, power, and 

the art of service. Experience life on the other side. You’ll never look at a waitress the same 

way again. 



Production Company: Deep Dish Films Inc. 

Production Contact Person: Maya Gallus 





T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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Lifestyles 

DIVINE PIG 

Hans Dortmans 

In many parts of the world the pig is considered harmful and impure. But still, the pig is the 

most-eaten animal in the world. Will Dorus be an exception? Dorus is a pig living in the back 

yard of a Dutch butcher. During their walks together through the Netherlands Dorus becomes 

a local celebrity. Some customers try to discourage the butcher from killing Dorus. Others look 

forward to tasting its rich meat. As Dorus matures into his second year and reaches the point 

of slaughter, the butcher faces a difficult choice. Does his love for the pig run deeper than his 

love of pork? Divine Pig explores this controversial animal and challenges our cultural assumptions 

and tastes. A Palestinian woman married to a Dutchman discusses with her religious 

mother whether she should forbid her young son to eat pork. A Christian university 

doctor strictly observes the Jewish food laws, but despite his efforts to prove differently, cannot 

find evidence that pork is unhealthy. A medical researcher is working on a revolutionary 

cure for diabetes transplanting pig cells into humans. But for every patient he must kill five 

pigs. From every angle, our feelings for the pig and for Dorus’s fate are challenged. Will Dorus 

survive the film? By the time we learn of his fate, where do our sympathies lie? 



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Production Company: Pieter van Huijstee Film 

Production Contact Person: Curien Kroon 

Sales Company: Pieter van Huijstee Film 

Sales Contact Person: Curien Kroon 

Noordermarkt 37-39 

1015 NA Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

T. +31 20 421 0606 

curien@pvhfilm.nl 


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DOBUY. THE FABRIC OF FAITH 

Soniya Kirpalani 

Reflections on a Cultural Revolution, lead by two Arab girls, who work along with a design 

community to develop national brands. Demanding equal opportunities in their 

malls to stand alongside multinational brands, they use design as an element for change. 

Representing modern Arab culture, they challenge the social and political dimension of 

veils, using it as cultural armor against an increasingly globalized economy. 



Production Company: Sprocket Science 

Production Contact Person: Soniya Kirpalani 

Sales Company: Thierry Detaille Int’l imports 


Rue Stevin, 174 

Brussels 1000 Belgium 

T.-F +32 477 617 170 

thierry.detaille@gmail.com 

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99 Laskareos St, Athens is the first episode of Docville, a cinéma-vérité documentary series 

about urban life in Greece today, in times of crisis. 

Zoe and Athina, two women in their fifties, own two small shops in the same neighborhood. 

Everyone around knows them and shops from them. Their stores are a daily meeting 

point for the locals to exchange their news and discuss issues that relate to their common 

microcosm. Due to the crisis, most small businesses in this neighborhood are closing 

down. However, Zoe and Athina are fighting hard to keep their businesses afloat, even 

though they know that very soon their life is going to change, as is the local area. 



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GREECE 

DOCVILLE – 99 LASKAREOS ST, ATHENS 

Katerina Patroni 

Production Company: Minimal Films (Athens) 

Production Contact Person: Marco Gastine 

Sales Company: Minimal Films (Athens) 

Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA, Greece 

Sales Contact Person: Marco Gastine, Yannis Kollias 

5 Fotiou Patriarchou St 


T. +30 210 360 6730 

F. +30 210 360 6730 

fminimal@otenet.gr 



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THE DOG HILL 

Grzegorz Zariczny 

A story about three men of different ages who spend six months each year working as 

shepherds, away from their families and civilization. They have a lot of time to talk about 

the most important aspects of life. The highlander’s philosophy in short. 



Production Company: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing 

Production Contact Person: Joanna Skalska 




Krakow 31-143, Poland 

T. +48 12 294 6945 



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POLAND 



The search for extraterrestrial life is officially 50 years old. In 1961, an astronomer called 

Frank Drake took everything we knew about star formation, planetary systems, the evolution 

of biology and the lifecycle of civilizations; and from this jumble of science he formulated 

one of the most controversial formulae in science. It came to be known as the 

Drake Equation. 

It’s a complex set of factors which looks impenetrable to the unmathematical eye. But behind 

it lies an amazing theory: That the Universe is teeming with intelligent life. 

Using the equation, Drake fed in values for each of the factors based on his astronomical 

knowledge, and he came up with a number. He suggested that there could be 10 alien civilizations 

capable of contacting us, right now, in our own galaxy; the Milky Way. That would 

be staggering enough, but our galaxy is just one of a mind-blowing 170 billion galaxies 

in the Universe. 



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UK 

DRAKE EQUATION – 

THE SEARCH FOR LIFE 

Tim Usborne 




The Open University, Open University Worldwide, 

Walton Hall, Michael Young Building. 


T. +44 1908 332 470 

F. +44 1908 858 787 



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DUNDUN 

Ibisankale Kayode 

Dundun, also called the Talking Drum, is considered by many to be the most eloquent of 

all the African drums, and is believed to have originated within the divinity. In the southern 

Sahara in Africa, the Dundun is traditionally regarded as “the instrument of the Kings.” 

Dundun – The Talking Drum takes the viewer to the city of Oyo in Nigeria where the drum 

is believed to have originated. This comprehensive documentary shows the cultural and 

historical context surrounding the drum and an in-depth examination of its construction, 

from chopping down the correct tree to the finishing design touches. The film also presents 

many performances and demonstrates who may use the drum, when and for what 

it is used, and what is communicated. 

* GZ DOC Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival - China 2010 

* The Toronto African Film & Music Festival - Canada 2010 

* Eko International Film Festival - Nigeria 2009 

* Ife International Film Festival - Nigeria 2009 

* Nigerian Festival of Festival of Arts and Culture, Tel Aviv - Israel 2009 



Production Company: Kadibis Entertainment 

Production Contact Person: Ibisankale Kayode 



20 Bialik St. 


T. +972 52 363 3398 

michael@JMTFilms.com 

www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#dundun 

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E. CH. GONATAS 

Michalis Lykoudis 

E.Ch. Gonatas (1924-2006) holds a particular place in Greek literature as both an original 

author and a creative translator of, among others, Yvan Goll, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 

and Samuel Coleridge. His short paradoxical texts, often oscillating between poetry and 

fiction, together with his low public profile, have made him into an enigmatic figure and 

have, to a certain extent, hindered the wider acclaim of his work. This short film, which was 

prepared as part of a research program on teaching literature at a distance, aims to introduce 

Gonatas to a wider public and facilitate the understanding of his captivating work. 



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GREECE 

Sales Contact Person: Michalis Lykoudis 

Athens 17561, Greece 

T. +30 6979 981 284 

F. +49 22 1952 2113 

lykoudim@otenet.gr 


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ECHO OF TIME 

Panos Kekas 

“Somewhere near the limits of our imagination there exists a Labyrinth. It twists and pulsates, 

and no one has reached its center so far.” 

Echo of Time explores this labyrinth of legends and the transcendent spirituality of Ross 

Daly’s music. Director Panos Kekas follows and records the compelling forays of the world 

renowned Irish musician and composer Ross Daly into Tropical Music. Ross Daly has lived 

in Crete for the past thirty years and always remains a tireless tracker of new musical paths. 

He travels with the Labyrinth giving concerts and bringing different cultures together, 

guided by integrity and his endless inspiration. 



Production Company: PK Productions 

Production Contact Person: Panos Kekas 

Sales Contact Person: Panos Kekas 

13 Tassopoulou St. 


T. +30 210 639 4933 

F. +30 210 639 8616 

panfilm@otenet.gr 

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OK, so maybe Greece isn’t exactly a green produce export giant - and it probably never will 

be. But that doesn’t mean it can’t offer a premium boutique portfolio, worth its weight in 

gold, to be sold in every upscale department store in the world. Alexandros is one of the 

few farmers in Thessaly that has latched on to the growth potential of this exclusive organic 

market. In fact, he’s even expecting a food scout from a luxury store in London who’s interested 

in his tomato sauce. His bright example has gotten the entire local community to 

thinking that maybe there’s a different approach to farming, where small-scale organic produce 

could equal big bucks. Just like limited edition art. 



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GREECE 

ECOLOGICAL DIARIES: 

LITTLE BIG IDEAS 

Marianna Economou 

Production Company: DOC 3 & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT S.A 

Production Contact Person: Marianna Economou 

Sales Company: DOC 3 

Sales Contact Person: Marianna Economou 

12 Athinas St, Athens 118 51, Greece 

T. +30 210 322 3395 F. +30 210 322 3395 

mecon2@gmail.com 





T. +30 210 607 5711 F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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ECOLOGICAL DIARIES: ON THE ROAD 

Alexis Alexiou 

Featuring the largest trail network in the Cyclades Prefecture, the island of Tinos is aching 

to be walked but visitors are still dragging their feet. Split down the middle by its dual 

Catholic-Orthodox faith and strewn with intricate pigeon lofts that may appear quaint but 

in fact attest to the island’s past idiosyncratic eating habits, Tinos largely remains a mystery. 

And the best way to explore it is still on foot. Karolos Merlin, a trekking guide and cartographer, 

has already unearthed 300km of well-carved footpaths and is struggling to create 

human traffic, the only remedy against the all-effacing forces of time. On a nearby trail, 

a group of volunteers from the EU are engaged in a hands-on preservation program coordinated 

by local architect Ioanna Papastathopoulou. A cultural heritage management 

specialist, Papastathopoulou sheds some light on the sloping landscape that turned pigeons 

into an animal farming asset, while dedicated plant pathologist Yiannis Aspromougos, 

a recent addition to the island, is doing his damnedest to help local farmers make 

the best of what they’ve got. 



Production Company: DOC 3 & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 

Production Contact Person: Valerie Kontakos 

Sales Company: DOC 3 

Sales Contact Person: Valerie Kontakos 

12 Athinas St 


T. +30 210 322 3395 F. +30 210 322 3395 

vkontakos@gmail.com 



432 Messoghion Ave, Agia Paraskevi 153 42, Greece 

T. +30 210 607 5711 F. +30 210 607 5715 

ykollias@ert.gr www.ert.gr 

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Lifestyles 

EGG FOR LATER 

Marieke Schellart 

This personal documentary tells the story of 35-year-old filmmaker Marieke Schellart, 

struggling with her ticking biological clock. The right guy hasn’t arrived yet and now she’s 

starting to worry she might never have children. To give herself a bit more time, she wants 

to extend her fertility by freezing her eggs, but in The Netherlands freezing eggs for social 

reasons isn’t allowed. She openly discusses her plans and doubts with her friends and parents, 

finding support and resistance along the way. She also looks for Mr. Right by asking 

dates for presents on her 36th birthday. For Marieke, a long journey started which even 

takes her abroad, trying to find a solution to a very common problem for modern women. 



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Production Company: Trueworks, NCRV Television 




Hilversum 1217 The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6753 18 




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EHRE (HONOR) 

Aysun Bademsoy 

In her documentary film, Aysun Bademsoy tries to approach the term “honor” by searching 

for distinctions and similarities of the term in different sociocultural contexts. 



Production Company: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion 

Production Contact Person: Heino Deckert 



Marienplatz 1, Leipzig 04103 

Germany 

T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 



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GERMANY 



The prospect of manipulating our minds with machines has for decades been considered 

a cybernetic fantasy, but nowadays the accelerating advancements of brain science are materializing 

into a genuine cure for people. This film tells the story of four people ill with Depression, 

PTSD, Dystonia and Schizophrenia, as they go through various cutting edge neuroenhancement 

therapies. 



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ISRAEL 

THE ELECTRIC MIND 

Nadav Harel 

Production Company: NoProcess Films 

Production Contact Person: Nadav Harel 




Paris 75004 , France 

T. +33 1 44 59 63 53 




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THE EMBRACE OF THE RIVER 

Nicolas Rincon 

On one of the rocks of the Magdalena, first river of Colombia, the Mohan smokes and drinks, 

waiting for women to drag them to his underwater palace. They come back pregnant or 

disappear. He scares fish away and holds the nets; sometimes he drowns a fisherman. But 

lately, he rarely appears. One is less afraid of spirits than of paramilitary terrorists. And the 

Magdalena rolls corpses in its depths. 



Production Company: VOA 

Production Contact Person: Marie Betbeze 



19F Avenue des Arts 


T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 2 227 22 39 


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BELGIUM 


EMBRACEABLE 

Jon Kent 

You think you know the meaning of kindness, charisma, musical passion and joy until you 

meet Ben Monkaba and others like him with a rare genetic condition called Williams Syndrome. 

Despite medical hardships and intellectual challenges, people with Williams embrace 

life, and everyone around them, with unconditional love and acceptance. Embraceable 

celebrates this beautiful variation of life through candid interviews, unforgettable social 

encounters, amazing musical performances and dramatic portrait photography. Running 

commentaries by top scientific experts bring to light how a rare genetic abnormality can 

teach us a great deal about ourselves. 



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USA 


Production Company: Kent Creative/501Cinema 

Production Contact Person: Dana Christina 

Sales Company: Kent Creative/501Cinema 

Sales Contact Person: Dana Christina 

123 South 11th Street 

Nashville ΤΝ 37206 USA 

T. +1 615 226 2202 

dana@kentcreative.com 


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ENCOUNTERS WITH KIKI DIMOULA 

Katerina Patroni 

A deeply personal and disarmingly frank encounter in which Kiki Dimoula lays chunks of 

her life, feelings and thoughts on the line. The camera remains tightly focused on the poetess 

throughout, searching her face with its lens and capturing an unbroken stream of consciousness 

with all its doubts, silences and tensions. 



Production Company: Periplus 

Production Contact Person: Thanos Lambropoulos 



7, Dionysiou Areopagitou St. 


T. +30 210 367 8500 

F. +30 210 364 8245 


www.gfc.gr 

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GREECE 



Discovering Tierra del Fuego in the footsteps of the explorer Father Alberto Maria De 

Agostini. 

One hundred years after the first missionary landed in Tierra del Fuego, and fifty years since 

returning to Italy, his nephew Giovanni De Agostini visits the places his uncle described with 

such a wealth of detail during his short stays at home. Thanks to his uncle’s stories, Giovanni’s 

childhood was filled with dreams of uncontaminated peaks such as Mount 

Sarmiento and Fitz Roy; animals like penguins and whales; glaciers, fjords, and above all 

people dressed in guanaco skins, which he’ll never be able to see. 

Since the death of Father Alberto, a long while back in 1960, Giovanni has longed to carry 

out this journey. We’ll follow him, as he finally fulfils the dream of a lifetime. 



569 

ITALY 

END OF THE WORLD 

Davide Demichelis 

Production Company: Eurofilm 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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THE ENDLESS HIGHWAY. 

A PORTRAIT OF ALLAN TAYLOR 

Patrick Ferryn 

Allan Taylor is a stranger, a troubadour who has spent over 40 years observing the customers 

of shady bars, cafés in the early morning, of cheap hotels and places where people 

living on the margins of society open their hearts. A film as the story of a talented composer, 

inspired poet, accomplished musician, and folk singer who went on the road, 

influenced by the Beat Generation. A biographical film which offers a better understanding 

of the process of composing a song, from a bar table to the mixing table of a studio. 



Production Company: Kabooze 

Production Contact Person: Patrick Ferryn 



19F, avenue des Arts 

Bruxelles 1000 Belgium 

T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 


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588 

BELGIUM 



Throughout the year, a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the world. Has our 

food, from being both a temptation for our taste buds and a source of social gathering, degenerated 

to a matter of conscience? 

Under what conditions is it being produced? Fish-breeding ponds polluting the environment, 

patches of bush being chopped down to have cattle grazing and beans also have 

their dark side: a shortage of water in the region of origin. If we want to behave like conscientious 

consumers, we will have to clear a path through a minefield of moral choices 

and dilemmas. 



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BELGIUM - NETHERLANDS 

ENJOY YOUR MEAL – HOW FOOD 

CHANGES THE WORLD 

Walther Grotenhuis 

Production Company: Kleine Beer Films & Associate Directors 

Production Contact Person: Wouter Snip 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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ENRAGED DECEMBER 

Chryssa Tzelepi & Akis Kersanidis 

What was the uprising of December 2008? Who were the social subjects that participated? 

What were the causes and how will it affect the future of socio-political demands in Greece? 

All these questions try to find answers in the documentary Enraged December which was 

filmed by a group of people who met in Thessaloniki during the first days following the 

murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (6th December 2008) in Athens. The film attempts 

to describe the chronicle of revolt through the eyes of those who participated in the mobilizations 

during the first three highly charged weeks. 



Production Company: Anemicinema 

Production Contact Person: Chryssa Tzelepi 

7 Skra St 

Thessaloniki 546 22, Greece 

T. +30 2310 266 702 

xryssasu@yahoo.gr 

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ENTELECHY 

Stavros Papageorghiou 

“The human soul is the entelechy of a natural body having life potentially within it.” 

Aristotle’s concise reasoning, hovering in the vast universe, beams out to merge with the 

main body of Cypriot director-producer, Stavros Papageorghiou’s documentary Entelechy; 

a Ulyssean, twenty-year long journey in the labyrinths of archaeo-astronomy, geodesy and 

philosophy. 

His navigator and fellow traveller in this journey of initiation, is Cypriot researcher and 

painter Goris Gregoriades. Since 1990, Stavros Papageorghiou’s camera has been following 

and recording Goris’s quest for the discovery of the geodetic and archaeo-astronomical 

dimension of Cyprus’s ancient sacred temples and sanctuaries. For the director, recording 

Goris’s research and findings turns into a parallel personal journey of investigation and 

exploration of the secrets that lie hidden in the ancient stone books of Knowledge. 



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Production Company: Tetraktys Films 

Production Contact Person: Stavros Papageorghiou 

Sales Company: Tetraktys Films 

Sales Contact Person: Stavros Papageorghiou 

95 Kerynia Ave, Aglanjia 


T. +357 99 694 407 

F. +357 22 339 286 

tetraktys@cytanet.com.cy 

www.tetraktys.tv 


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ETHOS 

Pete McGrain 

Ethos, a powerful new documentary hosted by Woody Harrelson, is an investigation into 

the flaws in our systems, and the mechanisms that work against democracy, our environment 

and the common good. With a stunning depth of research and breadth of analysis, 

this film delves deep into the inter-connected worlds of Politics, Multi-National Corporations 

and the Media. Most of us have wondered at some point how we have arrived 

at a situation where democracy is touted as having created an equal society when all we 

see is injustice and corruption. Politicians openly deceive the public with the support of major 

corporations and the mainstream media. Wars are waged, the environment is destroyed 

and inequality is on the rise. But what is the source of these institutional mechanisms which 

– when we scratch the surface – are so clearly anti-democratic, so contradictory to the 

values we hold in common and yet so firmly embedded that they seem beyond discussion? 



Production Company: Media for Change 





T. +44 788 147 3603 



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USA 


Lifestyles 

An actress, a performance and a psychotherapy session. The vanishing point between a theatrical 

role and real life. 



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GREECE 

ETHOS PROCESS PART II 

Spyros Amiropoulos 

Production Company: One Touch 

Production Contact Person: Spyros Amiropoulos 

91 Vas. Olgas Ave 


T. +30 6936 809 371 

thouhast@gmail.com 


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EUROPALIVE 

Anaud Jullien 

Getting to know today’s Europeans better through 140 interviews in 23 languages in 24 

states of the European Union. 

A young filmmaker travels around Europe in 75 days. Through ad-hoc interviews on 

streets, in parks, but also at people’s homes, different categories of people share their opinions 

in front of the camera. The answers given to the same list of questions about politics, 

culture, money, the EU and other personal concerns aim at providing a better understanding 

of who Europeans are today. 



Production Company: Europalive 

Production Contact Person: Arnaud Jullien 



Jizni namesti 23 

Prague 14100 Czech Republic 

T. +42 07 7606 6165 


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FRANCE 



In 1999, Sean Sellers, sentenced to death at sixteen, was executed in Oklahoma at the age 

of twenty-nine. A few days earlier, the director filmed him on death row. He also met the 

victims’ families who were present at the clemency hearing, demanding justice. Ten years 

later, the director returns to Oklahoma in search of the protagonists he filmed, with one 

question in mind: does the death penalty really provide healing or does it act as a poison? 

The prosecutor admits his failure, the executioners are haunted by their memories, the victims’ 

families are torn between shame, hatred and their sorrow still intact. 



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FRANCE 

EVERLASTING SORROW 

AFTER THE DEATH PENALTY 

David André 

Production Company: AMIP 

Sales Company: Doc and Film World Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Daniela Elstner 

13 rue Portefoin 


T. +33 1 4277 5687 

F. +33 1 4277 3656 

d.elstner@docandfilm.com 

www.docandfilm.com 


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EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: 

THE STORY OF FISHBONE 

Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler 

Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have 

been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South 

Central-Los Angeles and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980s, the band 

rose to prominence, only to fall apart when on the verge of “making it”. 

Laurence Fishburne narrates Everyday Sunshine, an entertaining cinematic journey into the 

personal lives of this unique Black rock band, an untold story of fiercely individual artists 

in their quest to reclaim their musical legacy while debunking the myths of young Black 

men from urban America. Highlighting the parallel journeys of a band and their city, Everyday 

Sunshine explores the personal and cultural forces that gave rise to California’s legendary 

Black punk sons that continue to defy categories and expectations. 

At the heart of Fishbone’s story is lead singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher 

who show how they keep the band rolling, out of pride, desperation and love for their art. 

To overcome money woes, family strife, and the strain of being aging Punk rockers on the 

road, Norwood and Angelo are challenged to re-invent themselves in the face of dysfunction 

and ghosts from a painful past. 



Production Company: Pale Griot Film 

Production Contact Person: Chris Metzler 

1588 Hayes Str., Ste. #2 

San Francisco CA 94117 USA 

T. +1 415 771 9987 

cametzler@gmail.com 

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EVRIDIKI’S CASE 

Freddy Vianellis 

A creative documentary about the triumph of will. After seven years of heroin addiction, 

Evridiki sobers up by realizing that the root of her problems lies within her dysfunctional 

family and past. The film is based on the theatrical play Evridiki’s Case and follows the story 

of a girl who was bound to the world of drugs for 13 years. After hitting rock bottom, she 

turned to therapy to start all over again. 

The film weaves around four cinematic themes: Evridiki’s personal statement, the staging 

and development of the theatrical play, the everyday reality of drugs in downtown Athens 

and the normal upbringing of five girls between the ages of 3 and 16 which directly clashes 

with Evridiki’s childhood years. 



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GREECE 

Production Company: Modiano SA 

Production Contact Person: Freddy Vianellis 

73 K. Palaiologou St 

Athens 152 32 Greece 

T. +30 210 684 6398 

F. +30 210 684 4078 

freddy@modianotv.com 


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EX-MOTHER 

Nadine Kuipers 

In 2007, director Nadine Kuipers completed her final project for the Film Academy, Moeders 

Mooiste, about her reunion with her drug-addicted, estranged mother. Now, in a new 

documentary, she explores her dilemma: should she keep fighting and caring for her 

mother, or should she choose her own life instead? How unconditional is a daughter’s love 

for her mother? Would she rather just have an “ex-mother”? 



Production Company: Submarine 

Production Contact Person: Yaniv Wolf 

Sales Company: Submarine 

Sales Contact Person: Yaniv Wolf 

Rapenburgerstraat 109 

1011 VL Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

T. +31 2033 01226 

F. +31 2033 01227 

yaniv@submarine.nl 

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EX-VOTO 

Caroline D’Hondt 

Alfredo Vilchis is one of the last mexican painters of ex-votos, these small paintings, naive 

and touching, offered to thank a saint or the Virgin Mary for his/her miraculous intervention. 

Alfredo takes social facts out of anonymity and gives them a life. Chronicler of his time, 

he also makes personal ex-votos dealing with symptomatic issues of contemporary Mexican 

society, on the eve of the centennary of its revolution. 



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BELGIUM 

Production Company: Cobra Film 

Production Contact Person: Vincent Tavier 



19F Αvenue des Arts 


T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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EYE OVER PRAGUE 

Olga Spatova 

The extraordinary tale of Jan Kaplicky, one of the most consummate visionaries of modern 

architecture. Shot over 3 years in the UK, the Czech Republic and Italy, the film portrays 

Kaplicky at the height of his profession and the petty political gamesmanship that 

denied him his crowning achievement. His most audacious building would have been the 

Czech National Library, a triumphant return to his home country and vindication of his uncompromising 

philosophy. The organic design was too forward-looking for the political 

powers in Prague, however, and the architect tragically died, uncertain whether his 

achievement would ever be realized. 



Production Company: Simply Cinema 

Production Contact Person: Eliska Kaplicky-Fuchsova 

Krizeneckeho nam. 322/5, Barrandov film studios 

Prague 5, 15200, Czech Republic 

T. +420 251 819 441 

eliska@simplycinema.cz 

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EYEWITNESS 

Kate Shiers-Ghelliere 

Many of us will witness a violent crime at some point in our lives. The police will want us 

to describe what happened in detail, but our memory can play tricks on us. Could you give 

a reliable statement of exactly what happened? 

Using actors, hidden cameras and interviews, we show the difference between what witnesses 

remember and what actually happened. Ten volunteers, who think they are taking 

part in a series about memory, find themselves key witnesses to two dramatic and violent 

crimes, secretly staged and filmed. Our volunteers find it surprisingly hard to remember 

the sequence of events, let alone who did what. 

Running time: 3x60΄ 


333 

UK 




The Open University, Open University Worldwide, 

Walton Hall, Michael Young Building. 


T. +44 1908 332 470 

F. +44 1908 858 787 



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Familia is a poignant documentary spanning over 35 years about a poverty-stricken Peruvian 

family trying to stay together in the midst of great difficulty. The story begins in 2006. 

Naty has lost her steady employment and can’t find a new job. With great anxiety she decides 

to leave her family to look for work in Spain. Two years later she returns to Peru, and 

finds her family in turmoil. But Naty has also changed... 



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FAMILIA 

Alberto Herskovits & Mikael Wistroem 

Production Company: Månharen Film & TV 

in co-production with Ventana Film AB and SVT 

Production Contact Person: Mikael Wistroem 




Germany 

T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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FAMILY INSTINCT 

Andris Gauja 

Family Instinct is a film about incest – an illegal act, social taboo and a violation of religious 

norms. Zanda is a 28-year-old woman, worn out by hard work. Surrounded by 

poverty and despair, she is trying to survive with her two children in a god-forsaken Latvian 

village. Her hardships can be traced back to living in a relationship with her brother 

Valdis. When Valdis is put in jail, the local community forces her to make a difficult choice: 

to stay with him or with her children. Despite her ill fortune, she manages to express her 

love for the children, still hoping to save her family. The film offers a tragicomic but highly 

authentic insight into the bleak reality of Latvian countryside today. 



Production Company: Fa Filma 

Production Contact Person: Madara Melberga 



Autlook Filmsales GmbH 


Vienna A-1040 Austria 

T. +43 6764 3720 



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Lifestyles 

In December of 2002, McDonald’s had to shut down their restaurants in Bolivia. The company 

cited financial problems, but the real reasons were to be found elsewhere. Bolivia may 

be a small, poor nation on the global market, but strong traditions and national tastes are 

sometimes more powerful factors than economic clout. Filmmaker Fernando Martinez 

shows us the characters behind the events and their life stories. The symbolism is obvious 

when a multinational giant is brought to its knees by a country’s traditions and heritage. 

Through six intimate stories with renowned cooks and a review of popular sayings about 

Bolivian food, travel by the variety of its flavor, you’ll discover that love is in this home cooking, 

the market, the barter and the low cost of one of the cuisines that has not yet been 

recognized. 

* GIFF Göteborg IFF, Sweden 2011 



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BOLIVIA - VENEZUELA - ARGENTINA 

FAST FOOD OFF THE SHELF 

Fernando Martínez 

Production Company: Producen Bolivia & 

Azpurua Productions & Lagarto Cine 

Production Contact Person: Viviana Saavedra 



20 Bialik St 


T. +972 52 363 3398 

Michael@JMTFilms.com 

www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#fastfood 


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FATAL PROMISES: BOUGHT, SOLD 

AND DISCARDED A CLOSE LOOK 

AT HUMAN TRAFFICKING 

Kat Rohrer 

Fatal Promises is a controversial new documentary that takes an in-depth and refreshingly 

honest look into the scourge of human trafficking. Through personal stories of victims of 

trafficking, and interviews with politicians, non-governmental organizations and prominent 

spokespeople like Emma Thompson and Gloria Steinem, Fatal Promises cleverly juxtaposes 

the brutal realities of human trafficking suffered by victims and battled by activists, 

with the hollow rhetoric of politicians and pundits who claim to be making significant 

strides in combating this horrific crime against humanity. 



Production Company: GreenKat Productions 

Production Contact Person: Katharina Rohrer 





T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 



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Environment & Wild life 

Alan Howell Parrot is one of the worlds leading falcon trainers with powerful connections 

in the Middle East, where he formerly trained hunting falcons for the Persian Gulf power 

elite. After witnessing relentless falcon smuggling in the wake of the USSR’s collapse, he 

left the Middle East and formed a global nature conservation group to protect the falcons. 

Through his connections, Mr. Parrot learned of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, who 

is an obsessed falconer…. 



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FEATHERED COCAINE: FOLLOW THE 

FALCON, FIND THE TERRORIST 

Orn Marino Arnarson & Thorkell Hardarson 

Production Company: Markell Productions 

Production Contact Person: Thorkell Hardarso 





T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 




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FERLINGHETTI 

Christopher Felver 

The poet and writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an iconic presence in the world of arts and 

letters. He is also the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco 

as well as a painter and a liberal activist. 

For well over half a century he has helped shape the currents of poetry and literature 

through his forceful engagement with society. Armed with an ideological position that often 

found him at odds with the political dogma of his day, Ferlinghetti became the best 

selling poet of the modern era in the USA (A Coney Island of the Mind, 1958, a collection 

of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million 

copies), a literary mercenary and a rebel at the forefront of a cultural revolution. 



Production Company: Photography Felver 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



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We follow Welshman Paul Duddridge as, with the help of some of the world’s greatest writers, 

thinkers and academics, he pushes aside society’s taboos to find out what “race” really 

is. Along the way he attempts to solve the Middle East peace crisis, buys hundreds of 

Twinkies and desperately tries to find contestants to join him for a mini-Olympics staged 

in Los Angeles where teams are split by race rather than nationality. 

There is a serious point to the seemingly irreverent approach: if we can’t easily define race, 

why can it sometimes seem so easy to define racism? 

Filmed on location in Los Angeles, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and the UK, 

A Film about Races is an entertaining exploration of the common myths and misconceptions 

about race. 



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A FILM ABOUT RACES 

Jonathan Baker 

Production Company: Seagull Designed Films 





T. +44 788 147 3603 




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FILMING, AN EVERYDAY STRUGGLE 

Nicolas Ploumpidis 

The voice here is that of those who still try to create cinema d’auteur in Greece. The film 

follows Margarita Manda who is shooting her first feature film. The set operates as a window 

on the often hard reality of the country and attests to the resourcefulness that today’s 

Greeks need to show in order to face reality: solidarity, smartness and a decent amount of 

poetry. The images are those of a film shoot, yet the editing renders it a real-life experience. 



Production Contact Person: N. Ploumpidis 

Sales Contact Person: N. Ploumpidis 


T. +33 6 2783 9078 

filmingos@gmail.com 

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THE FIRE WITHIN 

Petros Charalambous 

“The Power of Art is that it can carry the talent of artist through the centuries…” 

Now, regretfully, I think that ¨Art can be more ephemeral than the artist himself¨ 

The painter’s workshop, destroyed by a fire, was a really priceless cultural treasure, with 

paintings of unique value, theatrical maquettes and hand-written scripts, rare collections 

of books, precious stones and photographs. The loss for the painter, who lost the work of 

a lifetime, but also for the culture of our country cannot be measured. 

Andreas Charalambous has dedicated himself to the art of Cyprus and to the cultural happenings 

of our country. This film is a small token of our appreciation to the artist and what 

he represents. 



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Production Company: Film Etc. Ltd. 

Production Contact Person: Petros Charalambous 

4 Kyprou Chrysanthi St 

Engomi 2412, Cyprus 

T. +357 9955 6086 

F. +357 2235 5899 

filmpetros@gmail.com 


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THE FIRST GREEK WOMAN ARTIST 

Kleoni Flessa 

Eleni Boukouli Altamura. Searching for a glimpse of the first avant-garde woman artist of 

the 19th century against the backdrop of the Greek reality in which she lived, an alluring 

and enigmatic woman who somehow managed to turn her era’s every convention on its 

head. 

Dressed as a man, Eleni studied Painting at the Nazarene School in Rome (1847-50) and 

in Florence (1850-51). Her example became a demand for schools of art and universities 

around the world to open their doors to women and grant them access to knowledge. 

Eleni fell in love with an Italian artist, Saverio Altamura, and dared to live her life rebelliously 

and poetically, whatever the cost. And it cost her very dearly indeed. 



Production Company: Kleoni Flessa 

Production Contact Person: Kleoni Flessa 





T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 341 4336 


www.gfc.gr 

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Lifestyles 

It is 6:00 am, in Canton, in the South of China. The employees of the Jin Cheng restaurant 

are getting ready: collective dancing and singing will contribute to make this new day a 

successful one. The stakes are high: the restaurant has a reputation of excellence due to its 

“Chao” specialties: to guarantee the authenticity of “Chao” flavors, the supplying of fish, 

shellfish and tofu, among many others items, must come from the original source, where 

the skills of this ethnic group are still applied in accordance with the ancestral rules and 

where the quality and freshness of the products is indisputable. Nothing can be properly 

done if the traditions are not respected. As we follow the workings of this enterprise, we 

will understand how for the Chao Diaspora, cooking is an excellent cure for nostalgia. 



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FLAVOR AND BONDAGE 

Feng Wang 

Production Company: Solferino Images, Grand Entertainment 




17 rue du Colisée 


T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 


www.ictv.fr 


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FLYING HOME 

Tobias Wyss 

After a tragic car accident, Walter Otto Wyss immigrated to the United States in 1939. There 

he developed a revolutionary hybrid-car which will never be produced. Having interrupted 

his relationship to an Afro-American dancer, Martinique Landois, in the late fifties, he learns 

Japanese in Tokyo, living like a hermit. 

The last thirty years of his live, he lived alone in Hawaii, where he passed away in 2001. 

In spite of many opportunities to realize his dream of freedom, success and security, he 

never managed to free himself of Switzerland, his mother, his guilt. Walter’s nephew, the 

director Tobias Wyss, tells the story of his uncle in a personal way, using photos and videos 

from the family’s archive. 



Production Company: Mira Film GmbH 

Production Contact Person: Anna Martensen 

Sales Company: Mira Film GmbH 

Badenerstr. 129, 


T. +41 43 960 3684 

info@mirafilm.ch 

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This is the story of an inspiring group of people and their dream to make music. This documentary 

film follows the members of the Spirit of Goodwill Band while they prepare for 

the concert of a lifetime. As they navigate daily life, these 28 musicians and singers, all with 

a wide range of severe mental and physical disabilities, display innate talent, humor and 

tenacity. For Once in My Life shatters preconceived notions of what it means to be “disabled” 

and reveals the humor, hope and the greatness within us all. 



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FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE 

Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann 

Production Company: Visit Films 

Sales Company: Visit Films 

Sales Contact Person: Aida LiPera 

89 5th Ave., Suite 806, 


T. +1 718 312 8210 

F. +1 718 362 4865 

intern@visitfilms.com 

www.visitfilms.com 


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FOREIGN PARTS 

Verena Paravel & J.P Sniadecki 

A hidden enclave in the shadow of the New York Mets’ new stadium, the neighborhood 

of Willets Point is an industrial zone fated for demolition. Filled with scrapyards and auto 

salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. 

But Foreign Parts discovers a strange community where wrecks, refuse and recycling 

form a thriving commerce. Cars are stripped, sorted and catalogued by brand and part, then 

resold to an endless parade of drive-thru customers. Joe, the last original resident, rages 

and rallies through the street like a lost King Lear, trying to contest his imminent eviction. 

Two lovers, Sara and Luis, struggle for food and safety through the winter while living in 

an abandoned van. Julia, the homeless queen of the junkyard, exalts in her beatific visions 

of daily life among the forgotten. The film observes and captures the struggle of a contested 

“eminent domain” neighborhood before its disappearance under the capitalization of 

New York’s urban ecology. 



Production Company: Verena Paravel and J.P Sniadecki 

Production Contact Person: Verena Paravel 

17 marie ave. #3 

Cambridge ΜΑ 02139 USA 

T. +1 617 223 7732 

paravel@mit.edu 

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FRITKOT 

Manu Poutte 

Humorous, featuring colorful characters, the film portrays a traditional and endangered 

chips snack, as the little theater of contemporary troubled Belgium. A cramped hut where 

queuing brings dialogue and improbable encounters. A friendly place, which represents 

a chance, in compartmented societies, of living together. 



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BELGIUM 

Production Company: Lux Fugit Film 

Production Contact Person: Manu Poutte 



Wallonie Image Production 

Quai des Ardennes 16 

Liège 4020, Belgium 

T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 4 340 1041 



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FROM CALLIKRATES TO CALATRAVA – 

THE GREEK APARTMENT BUILDINGS 

Yannis Skopeteas 

Which was the first block of flats in Athens? Are lofts the luxurious apartment blocks of the 

21st century? What does the condominium represent? What changes occurred after World 

War II, when there was a building boom of blocks of flats in most major Greek cities? This 

documentary traces the evolution of the apartment building from the first ones that appeared 

in Greece in the early 20th century to the luxurious apartments of wealthy Greeks 

in the early 1930s, the mass-produced bourgeois blocks of flats of the 1960s, the condominiums 

of the two past two decades and the lofts of 2010. Special emphasis is given to 

the apartment buildings which became landmarks of the evolution of that type of building, 

such as apartment blocks built by the architects Valsamakis, Dekavallas, Manetas, and 

Biris, as well as Panagiotakos’s legendary “Blue Block of Flats” in the Exarcheia district of 

Athens. 



Production Company: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA & Studio Pixel 





T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 

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Whatever your preconceptions about hip hop may be, throw them out the window. The 

Furious Force of Rhymes explodes the stereotypes of swagger and bravado to reveal an irresistible 

unifying force of global significance. Lushly photographed, bursting with music 

and dance, this powerful documentary carries you away on a trans-national hip hop 

Road Movie. Startling and provocative, with an uplifting message of hope and reconciliation, 

it reveals how a single genre of music connects people as diverse as American Blacks, 

East German Skinheads, Israeli Jews, Palestinians, African Feminists and French Banlieusards. 

Alternately exuberant, moving and humorous, The Furious Force of Rhymes is a 

stirring chronicle of the combustible intersection between politics and art. 



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THE FURIOUS FORCE OF RHYMES 

Joshua Atesh Litle 

Production Company: Les Films d’Ici 

Sales Company: Doc & Film International 


13 rue Portefoin 


T. +33 1 4277 5687 

F. +33 1 4277 3656 

d.elstner@docandfilm.com 



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FUTURE OF HOPE 

Henry Bateman 

Everything bubbles to the surface in its purest form: lava, spouting geysers and the untouched 

hilly landscape that stretches out as far as the eye can see. The banking crisis hit 

Iceland hard, but not everyone here considers it to have been a disaster: of all people, it is 

a bankrupted entrepreneur who says, “It’s the best thing that could happen to the soul of 

Iceland. We had lost ourselves in greed.” So keep your spirits up: in the words of Vala Ragnarsdottir 

from the University of Iceland, her country is “the best place to be when the energy 

crisis hits.” The opportunities for sustainable development are boundless. All that is 

required is a shift in mentality, a shift from importing nearly all the population’s food to 

installing greenhouses on a volcano. Future of Hope presents Icelanders who are leading 

their compatriots in a new way of thinking. Images of the spectacular Icelandic landscape 

are intercut with interviews that strike a hopeful chord. 



Production Company: Future of Hope 

Production Contact Person: Heather Millard 

Sales Company: Raven Films/Spier Films 

Sales Contact Person: Heather Millard 

10 Old House Road, Balsham 

Cambridge CB21 4EF, UK 

T. +44 7793 030 475 

heather@spierfilms.com 

www.spierfilms.com 

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When President of Ecuador Rafael Correa announced in 2007 that he will not exploit the 

country’s Amazonian oil fields in exchange for financial compensation from industrialized 

countries, he makes a very bold move. The challenge? To convince them that the safeguarding 

of nature is worth more than petroleum extraction. The film tells the three-yearstory 

of Correa’s team as they try to convince the international community that both 

north and south would gain by supporting this post-petroleum-era model for sustainable 

development. 



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A FUTURE WITHOUT OIL 

Laëtitia Moreau 

Production Company: What’s Up Films 

Production Contact Person: Matthieu Belghiti & Pierre Carrique 

Sales Company: Zed 

Sales Contact Person: Céline Payot 

42 rue Eugene Carriere 


T. +33 1 5309 9876 

F. +33 1 4262 6460 

cpayot@zed.fr 

www.zed.fr 


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GENPIN 

Naomi Kawase 

Life born into this world, life that ends at the moment of birth, life that ends before birth. 

Lives do not cease as a solitary life, but are carried on by the species, and continue. 

Through the flux of the Japanese seasons, Kawase Naomi entered the circle of the women 

giving birth at the Yoshimura Clinic and the world of Dr. Yoshimura, who has spent forty 

years on the path of natural childbirth, and wove the footage she shot with her own 16mm 

camera into this film. 

The film takes place at the Yoshimura Clinic, in the city of Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture, near 

central Japan. The clinic stands in a dense forest, as if protected by something in the midst 

of a rapidly developing residential district. Expectant mothers come here from across the 

country, seeking a natural childbirth that doesn’t depend on medical intervention. 

The work of childbirth, essential and instinctive to humans, has continued without change 

from the beginning of time. But in today’s world, with the flood of information about childbirth, 

pregnancy brings anxiety along with joy. 



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Production Company: Kumie Inc. 

Sales Company: Kumie Inc. 

Sales Contact Person: Yuko Naito 

2-14-2, Shitaya,Taito-Ku 

Tokyo 110 0004, Japan 

T. +81 3 5942 4610 

F. +81 3 5942 4610 

noirmam@sepia.ocn.ne.jp 


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GIRLS AND GANGS: THE CHANGING 

FACE OF MEXICO’S DRUG CARTELS 

Stephanie Brillant & Manon Quérouil 

In today’s Mexico, the role of women in drug cartels has evolved beyond that of the traditional 

girlfriend. As women, they arouse less suspicion transporting drugs and arms, enabling 

them to gain greater influence within the cartels. Some have risen up the ranks to 

become involved in money laundering or even murder. A handful have even reached the 

level of gang leaders, becoming icons. 

How has this happened? Mexican drug cartels are notoriously macho, so what has 

changed? An investigation into the changing face of Mexico’s drug cartels. 



Production Company: She is the Boss 





T. +33 1 4060 2624 



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Following the renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai in the course of directing his latest and 

most personal film to date, Carmel. 



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GITAI – IN SEARCH OF HIS CARMEL 

Ran Tal 




Tel Aviv 65112 

Israel 

T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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GOD NO SAY SO 

Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky 

God No Say So finds the uplifting spirit in those who suffered horrible war in Sierra Leone. 

From the hard working Bonka people, through the prostitute Julietta, and the wild, hilarious, 

organized antics of the school children, we are treated to a spirit of togetherness, optimism, 

and sheer joy. 



Production Company: dit MagpieDreamPictures 

T. +41 71 374 1809 

phil@kornetzky.ch 

www.kornetzky.ch 

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Gold has never been as expensive as it is today. “Gold is safe”, they say. But is that really true? 

And who wins and who loses in the gold trade? The Newmont Company likes to hold its 

cards close to its chest, but in 2008 it “won” the Public Eye Award – a negative award for 

companies who exploit their employees particularly badly. The Newmont mines in Peru 

and Ghana are the particular focus of criticism. At the edge of the town of Cajamarca in 

Peru lies the Yanacocha gold mine; it is the largest mine in Latin America. The very substance 

that represents so wealth in the industrial nations is making the people here poor, 

because in the gold rush, only the companies and the speculators make money. The film 

presents a boom’s winners and losers, about whom the people on the world’s gold markets 

know nothing. 



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GOLDEN AGE? 

THE DUPLICITOUS GOLD TRADE 

Ralph Weihermann & Mirjam Leuze 

Production Company: Kigali Films 



48-50, Breite Str. 

Cologne 50670 Germany 

T. +49 22 1920 690 

F. +49 22 1920 6969 




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THE GOOD LIFE 

Eva Mulvad 

Two women, mother and daughter, live on the sunny Portuguese coast. They have been 

exceptionally wealthy all their lives and have relished the “good life”. There has been ample 

pleasure and a total absence of work. Now, however, they have one big problem. Their 

wealth has run out. How do they now cope with a life of poverty after having been born 

into wealth? How do they manage to find a job and keep it, when nobody in the family 

has ever worked? And who is to blame now that the sweet and dreamy life has turned into 

a nightmare? 



Production Company: Danish Documentary Production 

Production Contact Person: Sigrid Dyekjær 

Sales Company: Danish Documentary Production 

Sales Contact Person: Sigrid Dyekjær 

Danish Documentary Production 

Kompagnistræde 20 B 

1202 København K, Denmark 

T. +45 6060 6810 

info@danishdocumentary.com 

www.danishdocumentary.com 

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Goodnight Nobody takes us on a journey through night, space and time. Four protagonists 

from four different continents share the same handicap: they can’t sleep. With varying tactics, 

they resign themselves to the fact that they must live around the clock without interruption. 

Four ways of killing time. 

Their stories follow the rhythm of the night, like flickering dreams in calm REM sleep. Narrations 

become fragments, the transition between reality and fantasy begins to flow and 

develop suction, making the feeling of sleeplessness palpable. A hypnotic journey through 

the most beautiful of all film settings: the night. 

Running time: 58΄ & 77΄ 


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SWITZERLAND 

GOODNIGHT NOBODY 

Jacqueline Zünd 

Production Company: DOCMINE Productions 

Production Contact Person: Patrick M. Mueller & Sebastian Zembol 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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GRACE, MILLY, LUCY… 

CHILD SOLDIERS 

Raymonde Provencher 

Over the past twenty years, more than 30,000 Ugandan children have been abducted by 

rebel troops and forced into armed conflict. Many of these child soldiers are girls. Grace, 

Milly Lucy... Child Soldiers explores this little-known reality. 

When they return from captivity, girls who were trained to kill and often forced to “marry” 

their captors must readjust to life within their community. Clinging to their dreams, Grace, 

Milly and Lucy are trying to restore meaning to their lives and break the silence surrounding 

the fate of a sacrificed generation. 

Combining personal accounts and scenes from daily life, this documentary conjures up the 

stifled echoes of a painful past and dares to believe that a better future is within reach for 

these women who are united in a common struggle. 



Production Company: Macumba Doc & National Film Board οf Canada 

Sales Company: National Film Board of Canada 

Sales Contact Person: Christina Rogers 

3155 Cote-De-Liesse Rd. 

St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada 

T. +1 514 496 4134 

distribution@nfb.ca 

www.nfb.ca 

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The Lausanne Population Exchange subjected Greeks living in Anatolia and Turks living in 

the Balkans to forced immigration on an unprecedented scale. These populations encountered 

life-threatening dangers on their journeys as they left their homelands never 

to return again. Grandchildren of the Lost Lands brings together contemporary high school 

students from Greece and Turkey on the occasion of a school trip. The two different societies 

have coexisted in the same lands for centuries. The children trace their ancestries and 

travel to Thessaloniki and İzmir to find out together about their own social and cultural heritage 

that lives on by the grandparents left behind, as well as the cultural interaction between 

the two societies in the two lands. Despite the emotional pain these new experiences 

bring, the children are also very happy to get to know each other. 



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GRANDCHILDREN OF THE LOST LANDS 

Berfi Dicle Ogut 

Production Company: Tane Film 

Production Contact Person: Viron Cavaras 

Ogul Sok. No:3 D:4 Arnavutkoy 

Istanbul, Turkey 

T. +90 21 2265 7692 

tanefilm@yahoo.com 


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GREECE: THE EMBERS OF REVOLT 

Cyril Lafon 

Giorgos joined the December 2008 riots that set fire to Greece after the murder of Alexandros 

Grigoropoulos, a 16-year-old boy. A few months after the events, he talks about his 

dreams and disappointments. 

Thanassis, Nikos, Zoe and Adriani are part of the “€700 generation”. After finishing high 

school, they studied for five years or more and they graduated in economics, sociology and 

law. They joined the protests because they feel their condition is unbearable. How can they 

live, when at the age of 30 they earn a monthly wage of €700 which as much as their rent? 

“We are the Iphigenia generation. Society has sacrificed us just as the ancient princess was 

by her father.” 

But will the fight go on? Have the December riots forged a new path and brought a glimmer 

of hope to a dying society? 



Production Company: L’Oeil de la chouette 

Production Contact Person: Danae Otatzi 

Sales Company: L’Oeil de la chouette 

Sales Contact Person: Danae Otatzi 

24 rue Francoeur 


T. +33 688 831 511 

oeildelachouette@yahoo.fr 

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The Greek Crisis Explained trilogy is NOMINT’s interpretation of the Greek Financial Crisis. 

And the story goes like this: Greece, a young spoiled girl gets devoured by Dept, a humongous 

monster. The EU cannot help Greece out of its own. And when all hope is lost, 

the IMF is brought into play... 



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GREEK CRISIS EXPLAINED 

ΝΟΜΙΝΤ 

Production Company: NOMINT 

Production Contact Person: Marianna Papachristodoulou 

Sales Company: NOMINT 

Sales Contact Person: Marianna Papachristodoulou 

45 Michalakopoulou St 


T. +30 210 724 2994 

F. +30 210 976 7208 

mananna@nomint.gr 

www.nomint.gr 


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GUAÑAPE SUR 

Janos Richter 

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of 

birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. But in the 

eleventh year, hundreds of workers arrive to harvest the birds’ excrement. 



Production Company: ZeLIG School for Documentary, 

Television and New Media 

Production Contact Person: Georg Zeller 

20d, via Brennero 

Bolzano 39100, Italy 

T. +39 04 7130 2028 

F. +39 04 7197 7931 

zeller@zeligfilm.it 

www.zeligfilm.it 

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Lifestyles 

HAMMADA 

Anna Bofarull 

Dadah, a Saharawi child who lives in the refugee camp of Dajla, does not know anything 

but the life in the desert, the air full of sand, the dunes as horizon, the school, the games, 

the world-weariness of adults’ long conversations while they prepare tea… Through the 

cinema he will discover very different worlds. 



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Production Company: Kaboga 

Production Contact Person: Anna M. Bofarull 

4, Sant Eulogi 

Tarragona 43002, Spain 

T. +34 60 5610 889 

F. +34 97 7225 219 

info@kaboga.eu 

www.kaboga.eu 


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THE HANGMAN 

Netalie Braun 

The administrator of the mass deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Adolf Eichmann, 

was hanged in Israel’s first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual 

slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was the hangman. 



Production Company: Pardes 

Production Contact Person: Avigail Sperber 


Sales Contact Person: Esther van Messel 


Zurich 8050 Switzerland 

T. +41 131 220 60 

F. +41 131 220 80 



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The Harvest/La cosecha tells the story of three of the estimated 400,000 children in the 

United States who leave behind their homes, schools, and friends to migrate across the 

country from farm to farm and crop to crop. They work brutally long days, exposed to the 

elements and pesticides and without the protection of child labor laws, to help their families 

survive. The Harvest/La cosecha boasts unparalleled access to their lives and gives us 

the opportunity to connect with these children who live these unthinkable lives to feed 

their fellow citizens, and more importantly to them, to feed their families and themselves. 

The Harvest/La cosecha is the story of the children who feed America. 



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THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA 

U. Roberto Romano 

Production Company: Shine Global, Inc. 

Production Contact Person: Alexandra Blaney 

Sales Company: The Film Sales Company 

Sales Contact Person: Andrew Herwitz 

The Film Sales Company 

165 Madison Ave., Suite 601 

New York NY 10016, USA 

T. + 1 212 481 5020 

F. + 1 212 481 5021 

contact@filmsalescorp.com 

www.filmsalescorp.com 


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HEALTH FACTORY 

Håvard Bustnes 

Health care institutions mimic industry production to become more efficient. The goal is 

to get more health for the money spent, based on the presumption that private corporations 

are more efficient and less wasteful than public institutions. Do we have to be in a 

competitive state in order to work efficiently, or does professional pride really exist? Are we 

about to lose our humanity in our struggle to increase productivity? 



Production Company: Faction Films 

Production Contact Person: Dag Hoel 




Paris 75004 , France 

T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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The exciting story of a unique church: its roots lie in Antiquity, its walls originate from the 

Middle Ages, but its art treasures and the breathtaking cupola bear witness to an era that 

changed Europe forever. How could a goldsmith with no experience as an architect create 

the largest masonry dome of all time? Detailed animations show how Filippo 

Brunelleschi revolutionized architecture. Historic documents and fascinating images tell of 

his life, his visionary genius and his bitter rivalry with colleague Lorenzo Ghiberti. With his 

Gates of Paradise, Ghiberti created an unparalleled masterpiece. The film shows their 

magnificence in details that only the camera can capture – together with an astonishing 

wealth of art treasures: the baptistery with its mosaics and the masterful portals, Giotto’s 

bell tower, the fantastic visual realm of the cupola frescoes and, last but not least, the 

groundbreaking sculptures of Donatello and Michelangelo. 



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THE HEART OF FLORENCE 



Sales Company: Hubert Schäfer 





T. +49 30 4737 298 0 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 



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HEAVEN HELL 

David Calek 

Heaven Hell is a full-length documentary film project dealing with human diversity that 

doesn’t necessarily lead to hell even though it might seem like that from the outsider’s point 

of view. It is an attempt to defend even very extreme notions of freedom if such notions 

are well-founded and lead to new horizons of human understanding. The film portrays 

people who have found pleasure in pain and decided not to hide this passion, or at least 

not to suppress and deny it any more. These people either inflict pain or demand it from 

others, but they do not force anyone to do anything. This closed society is often labeled by 

its members as BDSM. 



Production Company: Jacket Bros., HBO Czech Rep. 

Sales Company: Martina Santava 



Jizni namesti 946/23 

Prague 4, 141 00 


T. +420 776 066 165 


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HEAVY METAL 

Huaging Jin 

For more than twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from Japan, 

the USA, Australia and Europe was transported to a Chinese town called Fengjiang, in the 

south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers, avoiding the living conditions of the 

western poor regions of China, formed a real army of dismantling of this metallic waste. 

These “green soldiers” decompose and recycle with the most rudimentary means, almost 

two million tons of garbage every year. The whole city seems to be given rhythm by this 

relentless work and the noise seems to become blurred only in the dark night... 



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Production Company: Solferino Images, China Screen 




17, rue du Colisee 


T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 


www.ictv.fr 


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HELL IN PARADISE 

Frank Garbely 

“Agro-energies” are developed very drastically in the Chocó Province, in Colombia. Some 

kind of hidden war has been going on there for about ten years. Heavily armed paramilitary 

enter little accessible rain forests only to leave behind a trace of blood and fire. They 

chase the inhabitants, burn their villages and steel their land to sell it to willing consortia 

of palm oil producers. As they do so, drug money is laundered and palm oil is exported 

to Europe and the United States. It will be transformed into agro fuel, products of the foodprocessing 

and cosmetic industries... 



Production Company: R Film, SF, 3 Sat 




17, rue du Colisee 


T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 


www.ictv.fr 

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This deeply personal documentary tells the saddest of stories—not just because we feel 

sorry for actress Sandrine Bonnair’s mentally abnormal sister but because we can imagine 

how she might have turned out differently. That’s because for decades Sandrine has 

been filming Sabine. However strange, unpredictable, and angry she may have been, she 

had intelligence and talent, could read and write, taught herself English and Bach on the 

piano, and had a capacity for joy. She loved America and as a young person Sandrine took 

her there. She could travel! She was so happy!! And then, today, at 38, and institutionalized, 

she weeps. For joy, she says. But she is a devastated person, beaten down by five years 

in a psychiatric hospital, heavily medicated but undiagnosed, insecure, repetitive, sluggish, 

70 pounds heavier, drooling and with the shakes. 



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HER NAME IS SABINE 

Sandrine Bonnaire 

Production Company: Mosaique Films 

Production Contact Person: Thomas Schmitt 

www.mosaique-films.com 


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HERO OF ALL SEAS 

Talal Derki 

The documentary deals with humanitarian problems facing Kurdish communities in Iraq, 

Iran, Turkey, and Syria. These problems have led to the exodus of three million Kurds, 2.5 

million of which have gone to the EU as illegal immigrants. Abu Yashar, one of the main 

characters, is someone worthy of media attention given that in his life journey lie the hardships 

and upheavals of the Kurds. In four main episodes, we re-visited his journey and emigration 

as a case study and template for other Kurds who went through the same path. 

The four parts of his journey are: 1) Prison 2) Emigration 3) Exile 4) Nostalgia. “Champion 

of the Seas” is what the Kurds of Greece nicknamed Abu Yashar. On June 21-22, 2001, Abu 

Yashar managed to swim from the shores of Turkey to the island of Samos. The real reason behind 

his illegal immigration, he says, is to register his marriage and children. When he had originally 

asked to do that in Syria, his request had been turned down and he had been asked for 

“security cooperation” after all his ID papers were confiscated by authorities. Along with his 

wife and children he fled to Turkey, since his wife is a Turkish Kurd. After that, he immigrated 

to Greece and was unable to unite with his family until 2010. 



Production Company: Cinema Group Production 

Production Contact Person: Talal Derki 

Sales Company: Cinema Group Production 

Sales Contact Person: Talal Derki 

Al Akhdar Alarabi Str 7 

Damascus, Syria 

T. +963 944 489 985 

talalderki@yahoo.com 

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The Hidden Tomb is a documentary series for children aged 8-12 years about antiquities 

and archaeology in Greece, Egypt and Cyprus. 

The first episode tells the story of the treasure of Aidonia, through re-enactments, archive 

material, three-dimensional graphics and stunning cinematography. 

The second episode brings to life the discovery of the hidden treasure of the Deir El Bahri 

Cache in Egypt and the third episode is about the looting of Cyprus by Cesnola in the 19th 

Century and the Metropolitan Museum. 



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GREECE 

THE HIDDEN TOMB 

Angeli Andrikopoulou & Argyris Tsepelikas 

Production Company: Anemon Productions 

Production Contact Person: Rea Apostolides 

Sales Company: Anemon Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Rea Apostolides 

5 Stisihorou St 

Athens, 106 74, Greece 

T. +30 210 721 1073 

F. +30 210 722 8023 

info@anemon.gr 


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HOLY WARS – WAR IS HEAVEN 

Stephen Marshall 

Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative 

Christian on a mission to evangelize the world’s Muslims. Which man will be left standing? 

The film follows danger-seeking Christian missionary Aaron Taylor and radical Muslim 

Irish convert Khalid Kelly, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which 

their religion will ultimately rule the world. Tracking their lives from the onset of the “War 

on Terror” to the election of Barack Obama, Holy Wars shows that even the most radical of 

believers can be transformed by our changing world. 



Production Company: Smuggler Films and Revolution Theory Pictures 

Production Contact Person: Stephen Marshal 





T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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This is the story of over 350,000 Romanian children left “home alone”. One or both their 

parents are working abroad, in Italy, Spain and other Western European countries. The kids 

were left to be taken care of by relatives or even neighbors. Many of them committed or 

attempted suicide. How can one explain what they did? What did these kids think? What 

drove them to the point of losing everything? 

The film tells three of these stories, three stories about children that ended their own lives. 

The observational style is mixed with interviews, as the film weaves between the three stories 

and their characters, the parents that opened their hearts in front of the camera and 

shared their profound grief but also their ideas about what caused the tragedies. 

This is not only a Romanian tragedy; it’s a human tragedy that we all have to reflect upon. 



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ROMANIA 

HOME ALONE – 

A ROMANIAN TRAGEDY 

Ionut Carpatorea 

Production Company: Evolution Film Production 

Production Contact Person: Carmen Manu 

22, bl. 104/1, ap. 29 

Bucharest 060382, Romania 

T. +40 721 590 285 

F. +40 318 170 998 

Carmen@evolutionfilm.ro 


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HONEYMOON 

Grzegorz Krawiec 

Tomek has just got out of jail after seven years. On the day he is released he gets married to 

Agnieszka. She has to stay in prison longer because she’s waiting for her trial. And Tomek 

needs to start his life all over again. He wants to visit his mother and above all tries to stay 

in touch with his new wife who is still a prisoner. 



Production Company: Polish National Film School in Lodz 

Production Contact Person: Maria Gawinek 




Krakow 31143, Poland 

T. +48 12 2946 945 



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THE HORSE BOY 

Michel Orion Scott 

The Horse Boy is a film about one family’s struggle to find answers to their son’s autism. 

Shot over the course of two years, this film follows the Isaacson family as they journey on 

horseback across Mongolia from healer to healer, and the amazing healings they found for 

their son, and for themselves. An inspiration to think outside the box, a travel adventure, 

an insight into shamanic traditions, the autistic mind, and man’s relationship with animals; 

at its heart, The Horse Boy is a film about a family that went to the edge of the earth to find 

a way into their son’s life. 



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Production Contact Person: Michel Scott 

Sales Contact Person: Film Sales Co. 

Andrew Herwitz 

165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601 

New York NY 10018, USA 

T. +1 212 481 5020 

F. +1 212 481 5021 

contact@filmsalescorp.com 



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THE HOUSE IN THE PARK 

Hercli Bundi 

Architects from Europe, America and China are invited to a Chinese provincial town. 

Within several months, they are to construct a park in Jinhua, intended to form the center 

of a new district of that town. Where green fields now flourish and farmers plough the 

land, investors will soon flock, followed by new inhabitants and political reforms. 

But the project ends up being drawn out over years. The euphoria of the early stages runs 

up against a reality in which torn-open earth and the ambitious hopes of politicians, workers 

and locals are the only manifest features. 

The film documents the changes leading to the Jinhua Architecture Park – from the laying 

of the foundation stone to its final opening. In giving all participants in this process an 

opportunity to comment, one central question proved to be a common concern: What is 

there for individuals to contribute, when the world around them is changing at such a rapid 

pace? 





Badenerstr. 129 


T. + 41 43 960 3684 


www.mirafilm.ch 

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“I’m like a hermit on an island.” This is what Patrick writes about his life as an autistic who 

lives caught in his own body. 

With the wisdom of a thinker and the dreams and fears of a teenager, Patrick takes us on 

a trip into his world and allows us a glimpse of his inner feelings. 

How I Am introduces us to Patrick, a teenage autistic boy. With indelible imagery, the film 

follows him at school, with family and by himself, and transcribes his innermost thoughts 

onto the screen to reveal his point of view, which is normally muffled by his condition. What 

is revealed is a complex, philosophical soul. This shows one mission that movies can accomplish: 

giving us insight – not pity, but sympathy – into another’s life. 



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HOW I AM 

Ingrid Demetz & Caroline Leitner 

Production Company: ZeLIG School for Documentary 

Production Contact Person: Georg Zeller 

Sales Contact Person: Icarus Films 

Anthony Sweeney 

32, Court St. 21st floor 


T. +1 718 488 8900 

F. +1 718 488 8642 

anthony@icarusfilms.com 

icarusfilms.com 


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HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL 

Jörg Adolph & Gereon Wetzel 

Who’s the man behind Robert Frank, Karl Lagerfeld and Günter Grass? 

Their publisher, Gerhard Steidl. 

Spend an exclusive year with the greatest publisher and printer of the 21st century and be 

part of the fragile processes when creativity is captured in a book. The art of publishing at 

its perfection. 



Production Company: If Production 

Production Contact Person: Ingo Fliess 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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The use of illegal drugs is one of the most divisive issues today. With opinions ranging from 

those who want outright prohibition to those who believe in legaliζing even the strongest 

of narcotics, the battle lines are firmly drawn in this drug war. For now, the likes of amphetamines, 

heroin, LSD and cocaine are all controlled substances. However, as others like 

meow meow – or mephedrone – are added to the list, we ask whether our drugs policy 

is on the right track. 

Writer, broadcaster and convicted drugs smuggler Howard Marks finds out which substances 

are illegal, explores the hidden human cost of an outright ban, and ponders what 

might happen if the drug laws were ripped up and all substances either decriminalised or 

legalized. Is it really high time for a change? 



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HOWARD MARKS ON DRUGS 

Jonathan Brooks 

Production Company: Current TV 





T. +33 1 4060 2624 




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HUMAN TERRAIN 

James der Derian, Michael Udris & David Udris 

Human Terrain exposes the US effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities 

in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies. Facing long wars in Iraq and 

Afghanistan, the US military has adopted a controversial new program, “Human Terrain Systems”, 

to make cultural awareness a key element of its counterinsurgency strategy. Designed 

to embed social scientists with combat troops, the program swiftly comes under attack by 

academic critics who consider it misguided and unethical to gather intelligence and target 

potential enemies for the military. 

Gaining rare access to war games in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico 

and Fort Leavenworth, Human Terrain takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine 

and the shadowy collaboration between American academics and the armed services. 



Production Company: Oxyopia, Udris Productions 





T. +44 788 147 3603 



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In this beautiful film, we follow the attempts to harness wind and solar energy for the benefit 

of the residents of the Palestinian village of Susia. And in the process we come to know 

extraordinary individuals from both sides of the conflict. What was missing in Noam 

Dotan’s otherwise perfect life? What made him, and others, leave symbols of success and 

devote themselves to a renewable energy project in a Palestinian village? What is this 

dream, shared with the residents of Susia, which is today coming to fruition? They work 

through action, rather than through protest or demonstrations. Three years in the making, 

in joint meetings with local residents, they have created a renewable energy project at Susia. 

They have succeeded in supplying electricity for residents living in tents and caves, figuratively 

and literally lighting up their lives. 



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THE HUMAN TURBINE 

Danny Verete 

Production Company: Yehuda Bitton Productions 

Production Contact Person: Yehuda Bitton 



5 Issachar St 


T. +972 2 672 4256 

F. +972 2 672 4210 



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HUMANITARIAN CITADEL 

Frederic Gonseth 

The extraordinary human adventure of the first delegates of the International Committee 

of the Red Cross, sent on a mission during civil war in Yemen in the sixties, to “humanize 

the war” and ensure compliance with the Geneva Convention. The exciting stories of André 

Rochat, who, for thirty years, ran the ICRC, the testimonies of his contemporaries, as 

well as rare archival documents give new perspective to recent international events, but 

also to the limits of diplomacy. A destiny that leads us behind the scenes of humanitarian 

power, to the roots of the right to interfere and the source of the struggle for human 

dignity. 

Running time: 96΄ & 52΄ (TV version) 


Production Company: Frederic Gonseth Production 

Production Contact Person: Sophie Bonaudi 



174, rue Stevin 

Brussels 1000 Belgium 

T. +32 47 7617 170 


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The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter 

Forgács, created a documentary exploring the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian 

men and women who arrived in the United States between 1890 and 1921. To tell their 

sagas, Forgács weaved this grand epic from the early American cinema, found footage, 

photographs and interviews. The film reveals the difficult moments of arrival, integration 

and assimilation, which eventually fed the happiness of the later generations and their fulfilment 

of the American dream. 



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HUNGARY 

HUNKY BLUES – 

THE AMERICAN DREAM 

Péter Forgács 

Production Company: Filmpartners Ltd. 

Production Contact Person: Gabor Kovacs 

Hüvösvölgyi út 62 

Budapest 1021 Hungary 

T. +36 1 391 4800 

F. +36 1 391 4809 

filmpartners@filmpartners.hu 


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I AM ELEVEN 

Genevieve Bailey 

I Am Eleven is a globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age – no longer children, 

not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they 

are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries, each 

speaking in their own words and revealing the private obsessions and public concerns that 

animate their lives. It is simultaneously an epic survey of the similarities and distinctions 

between cultures and an intimate account of these young personalities finding their way 

in the world today. 

I Am Eleven is multi platform, please visit www.iameleven.com 



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Production Company: Proud Mother Pictures 

Production Contact Person: Genevieve Bailey 

447 Church St 

Victoria 3121, Australia 

T. +61 40 3983 934 

gen@iameleven.com 

proudmother.com.au 


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I FINALLY DID IT 

Apostolos Paraskevas & Mathew Tucciarone 

When Grammy® nominated composer Apostolos Paraskevas was given a commission to 

write a piece, he took it even further by making the short film I Finally Did It, a peculiar film, 

part musical-comedy but also a remarkable trip of friendship and artistic creativity. Directed 

by Apostolos and filmmaker Mathew Tucciarone, I Finally Did It is a feature-length documentary 

that opens with a short film and explores the power of friendship, music, and 

death. It features a soundtrack filled with Paraskevas’s original music as performed by legendary 

conductors and world renowned musicians. Death has a life. He lives in an apartment 

downtown, he has friends, he wakes up late, he enjoys a cup of coffee. Death is also 

disgruntled. They don’t pay him enough. He wants to retire. Returning home one day from 

his second job, he finds an assignment from “the Boss” in his mailbox: a picture of someone 

he has failed to find for the past 50 years. “Find him this time!” the note orders. And 

thus starts the search... for Gerald. This musical comedy brings up the sensitive issue of mortality 

from a different point of view, featuring original music by Apostolos Paraskevas as 

the only medium that brings our character in harmony with our environment. 



Production Company: Silver Sickle Productions 

Production Contact Person: Apostolos Paraskevas 

Sales Company: Silver Sickle Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Apostolos Paraskevas 

735 Harrison Ave, W302 

Boston MA 02118 USA 

T. +1 617 680 2160 

aparaskevas@berklee.edu 

ifinallydiditmovie.com 

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Lifestyles 

The true story of Sandrine, deaf since birth but born to hearing parents. From early childhood 

to adult age, we discover the “hearing universe” as Sandrine did – looking at her surroundings 

with wonder and puzzlement. At first, no one fully realised she was deaf. She 

even went to regular school and was left wondering how the others understood what the 

teacher was trying to impart… We accompany Sandrine on her voyage of discovery into 

the strange land of the hearing. Her innate sense of humor makes this a very touching and 

surprisingly funny film. 



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FRANCE 

I’M DEAF AND I DIDN’T KNOW 

Igor Ochronowicz 

Production Company: Point du Jour 






T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 




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I WAS WORTH 50 SHEEP 

Nima Sarvestani 

The Afghani girl Sabere was ten years old when she was sold to an abusive 55-year-old 

Taliban member. Now she is sixteen and is being helped by a Women’s Shelter to fight for 

her freedom. But her eleven-year-old half-sister Farzaneh is now at risk, as the family has 

decided to sell her to pay off their debts. Once the price of 50 sheep will be fully paid, the 

buyer will come to claim Farzaneh. 



Production Company: Nima Film 

Production Contact Person: Maryam Ebrahimi 




Germany 

T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 



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A music documentary about an unmarried accordion player who has decided to find wives 

for all the unmarried men in his village, himself included. In a world full of cynicism, he 

may be the last romantic. With his motto – I’m going to marry the whole village, even if I 

regret it – he is a modern day Don Quixote. This is a somewhat funny, somewhat sad documentary 

fairy tale about an ordinary man who endeavors to change the world around 

him. A beautiful, life-affirming film, full of hope and the belief in the good of humankind. 



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I WILL MARRY THE WHOLE VILLAGE 

Zeliko Mirkovic 

Production Company: Optimistic Films 

Production Contact Person: Zeliko Mirkovic 



463, Russell Court, Woburn Place 


T. +44 7977 051 577 




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MY HEART FOREVER ZITA-MI 

Antonis Kioukas 

Zita-Mi was established in 1955 by Pavlos Zannas and Alexandros Mavrokordatos. At first 

it sold Olivetti typewriters, records of classical and jazz music, and objects of art. For the 

generation of the 60s, the Zita-Mi is a symbol, a meeting point for poets, film lovers, and 

intellectuals. The Thessaloniki Film Festival, the “Techni” Macedonian Art Association and 

the “Democratic Defence” were all conceived on its premises. In the 1970s, Maro Layia and 

Katerina Kamara transformed Zita-Mi into a gallery. 320 exhibitions of the work of pioneers, 

rebels, perfectionists, and self-taught painters, find a warm welcome there. The Macedonian 

Museum of Contemporary Art was also born here. During its 55 years, Zita-Mi was 

an open window to all new or different ideas in Thessaloniki, gathering the intellectual and 

political elite of the city and contributing to its cultural development. 



Production Company: Antonis Kioukas 

Production Contact Person: Antonis Kioukas 

60, Kolokotroni St 


T. +30 210 331 3004 

F. +30 210 331 3005 

kioukas@otenet.gr 

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In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep 

of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI has 

called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat”. For years, the ELF had launched 

spectacular arsons against dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment: 

timber companies, SUV dealerships, wild horse slaughterhouses, and a $12 million 

ski lodge at Vail, Colorado. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front tells the remarkable 

story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and 

radicalization of one of its members. Drawing from striking archival footage – much of it 

never before seen – and intimate interviews with ELF members, and with the prosecutor 

and detective who were chasing them, the film explores the tumultuous period from 1995 

until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law 

enforcement, and the word “terrorism” had not yet been altered by 9/11. 



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IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY 

OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT 

Marshall Curry 

Production Company: Marshall Curry Productions 

Production Contact Person: Marshall Curry 


Sales Contact Person: Jan Rofekamp 

252 Gouin Blvd. East 


T. +1 514 844 3358 




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IF NOT US, WHO? 

Nikoletta Papathanassiou 

The students are lead into a world full of colors, emotions, music, visions, dreams and 

hopes. By occupying their school and according to the general situation in Greece in 2006, 

the students are demanding the obvious: a better school infrastructure and more advanced 

lessons and teachers within an educational framework that will quench their thirst for 

learning and open horizons. As a team and individually, with seriousness, consistency and 

humor, they contribute to a better educational system in the future, having lived a unique 

experience that brings them closer to one another and which they will never forget. 



Production Company: Noima & Periplous 

Production Contact Person: Nikoletta Papathanassiou 

Athens Greece 

T. +30 69 4480 8428 

nicolpapa@yahoo.com 

Sales Company: Noima 

Sales Contact Person: Alexis Komnakos 

T. +30 210 513 1295 

alexis@nohma.gr 

Sales Company: Periplus 

Sales Contact Person: Thanos Lambropoulos 

T. +30 210 867 0478 

periplus@ath.forthnet.gr 

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ILJA 

Ivan Ostrochovsky 

A film manual on how not to get dragged down by communism or by one’s own death 

or the last days of Ilja Zeljenka, the most famous music composer of the second half of the 

20th Century, known for his forbidden cantata Auschwitz, for two speakers. 



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Production Company: sentimentalfilm s.r.o. 

Production Contact Person: Marek Urban 

Spitalska 20 

Bratislava 81108, Slovak Republic 

T. +421 903 229 446 

F. +421 252 492 175 

email@sentimentalfilm.com 

http://www.sentimentalfilm.com 


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IMPUNITY 

Juan José Lozano & Holloman Morris 

Columbia today: the biggest trial against Paramilitary forces – accused of killing thousands 

of Colombians – is designed to create “peace and justice”. Instead, the process comes to 

an abrupt halt, when the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are uncovered. 

Are the victims’ families doomed to stay victims forever, or will they be able to fight Impunity? 



Production Company: Dolce Vita Films & Intermezzo Films 

Production Contact Person: Isabelle Gattiker 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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Fugitive, student, mercenary, aviator, shipbuilder and seafarer, Manolis Calliyannis left his 

homeland Lesbos at the age of seventeen with a dream of becoming a painter and only a 

painter. Turkey, Palestine, South Africa, England, France, Crete, Lesbos and the shimmering 

waters of the Aegean Sea are the backdrops against which his life – a never-ending 

quest – unfolds. In 2008, the Spanish Hellenist, writer and photographer Pedro Olalla 

meets Calliyannis and decides to devote a film portrait to him. A twist of fate turns this creative 

adventure into the painter’s last confession, and what begins as an attempt to make 

a documentary becomes – by the force of circumstance – an evocative film about life itself 

and, what’s more, about our amazement and perplexity before life. 



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IN COMPANY WITH CALLIYANNIS 

(CINEMATOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT) 

Pedro Olalla 


Production Contact Person: E. Fabas 

Sales Company: Massive Productions 

Sales Contact Person: E. Fabas 

Perrikou 3 


T. +30 210 699 5320 

akron@hol.gr 


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IN MOTU GRATIA 

Andrea Zanoli 

The first World Graziella Bicycle Olympics (Grazielliadi), the famous Italian 60s folding bike. 

Mouad and Asghar, two young Afro-Italians, pimp their ride with a big stereo set and a 

car steering-wheel and challenge hundreds of other weird cyclists in a “fully sustainable 

sport event”. 



Sales Company: Lab 80 Film 

Sales Contact Person: Alberto Valtellina 

123 via Pignolo 

Bergamo 24121, Italy 

T. +39 33 3849 0808 

F. +39 03 534 1255 

alberto@lab80.it 

www.lab80.it/index.php 

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Brother Jay recently moved into the world’s most unusual flat share. Nestled in the center 

of Jerusalem lies the heart of Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Under its roof, 

six Christian denominations live door to door. The young Fransican’s gentleness is severely 

challenged by the conflicts in this multi-cultural collective. As Father Samuel, Prior of the 

Armenian community, defends his brother’s rank in the pecking order with ploy and passion. 

Partriarch Theophilos III, on the other hand, is content: his Greek-Orthodox monks rule 

over the house as if they were in sole reign. Abdilkadr Joudeh and Wajeeh Nusseibeh lock 

the door in the morning and at night. They keep out of all this – they are Muslim. Nevertheless, 

they endlessly argue over the question which job is more prestigious: to hold the 

key or to actually turn it. 

Running time: 52΄& 89΄ 


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GERMANY - SWITZERLAND 

IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE 

ARE MANY MANSIONS 

Hajo Schomerus 

Production Company: busse&halberschmidt 

Production Contact Person: Marcelo Busse 





T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 



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IN SEARCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 

Wilma Pradetto & Eberhard Ruhle 

Starting from Cape Town and traveling as far as Botswana and Namibia, we encounter all 

kinds of people, marvel at breathtaking nature while listening to numerous individual stories 

from the big cities, the townships and the national parks, where entrepreneurs are 

grasping new opportunities in a changing cultural and economic landscape, environmentalists 

are facing new challenges to protect this ecologically diverse region, and poor 

parents are finding means to give their children a bright future. 



Production Company: Looks Filmproduktionen, NDR/Arte 





T. +49 22 1920 690 

F. +49 22 1920 6969 



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IN TALLINN 

Dimitris Vrakas 

Tallinn: the capital of the small country of Estonia, between Russia and Scandinavia. The 

pace of the city is evoked through its streets, architecture and people. The film travels from 

the old city center to the suburbs, often making stops at various neighborhoods to hear 

the thoughts of Estonians. A journey to the accompaniment of electronic pop music by the 

Estonian band Antonina. In modern-day Tallinn, the skyscrapers encircle the medieval town 

and romance succeeds modernism in a country of socially sensitive people. The impassive 

objectivity of the camera creates a pleasant visual impression with no tendency towards 

drama. 



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Production Contact Person: Dimitris Vrakas 

4 Aristeos St 


T. +30 6957 629 450 

sou192@yahoo.com 


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IN THE BAZAAR OF SEXES 

Sudabeh Mortezai 

A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah 

are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran. Their stories revolve 

around the institution of temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia practice that 

allows a man and a woman to legally marry for a fixed period of time ranging from one 

hour to 99 years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole for couples to have a relationship 

within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho, sentimentality 

meets female realities. A relentlessly honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account 

of Islamic sexual and gender politics. 



Production Company: Freibeuterfilm 

Production Contact Person: Oliver Neumann 

Kellermanngasse 1-3/1-6 

Vienna A-1070 Austria 

T. +43 720 346 510 

oliver@freibeuterfilm.at 

www.freibeuterfilm.com 

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Three men from Veracruz who want to convert to Judaism embark on a spiritual quest that 

leads them to face various situations, obstacles and sacrifices on their journey to the Holy 

Land to achieve religious and personal fulfilment. 



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MEXICO 

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ABRAHAM 

Daniel Goldberg 

Production Company: Fondo para la Producción 

Cinematográfica de Calidad (Foprocine) 




Mexico City 03100, Mexico 

T.-F +52 55 5448 5345 


www.imcine.gob.mx 


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In the Garden of Sounds is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, 

body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication. 

Nicola Bellucci’s documentary tells the extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musician 

and soundscape artist, who works with severely handicapped children. On his own 

way into the darkness, Fasser discovered the world of sounds, a parallel universe to our visual 

world. His far-reaching explorations of the effect of sound on mind and body led him 

to the field of music therapy. Today, the Swiss native lives in a beautiful valley near Florence. 

Most of his young patients have multiple disabilities; some are blind and can’t speak, others 

seem to be completely oblivious to the world around them. Step by step, through the 

use of all kinds of sound, Fasser establishes a dialogue with the children and dramatically 

improves their abilities of expression and perception. 



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IN THE GARDEN OF SOUNDS 

Nicola Bellucci 

Production Company: soap factory 

Production Contact Person: Frank Matter 

Juramento 1081 

Basel 4057 Switzerland 

T. +41 61 6320 050 

film@soapfactory.ch 

www.soapfactory.ch/filme-giardino3-e.html 



On December 10, 2007, a 16-year-old Toronto schoolgirl, Aqsa, was strangled to death by 

her father; Three weeks later, two teenage sisters were shot to death by their father in Dallas. 

Six months later a 19-year-old college student was stabbed by her brother. In the Name 

of the Family is a chilling investigation into honor killings in the Western world, the heartbreaking 

tragedies committed against young girls caught between two cultures. 



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CANADA 

IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY 

Shelley Saywell 

Production Company: Bishari Films 

Production Contact Person: Shelley Saywell & Deborah Parks 





T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 




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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: 

BRITISH NOVELISTS 

David Berry 

This is the story of the British novel in the 20th century, as told by those who know it best 

– the authors themselves. Plundering the BBC archive, In Their Own Words: British Novelists, 

produced in partnership with The Open University, reveals Britain’s greatest novelists 

talking candidly about their life and work. Some of these recordings have not been seen 

again since their original broadcast. 







Worldwide, Walton Hall, Michael Young Building 


T. +44 1908 332 470 

F. +44 1908 858 787 


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IN THIS WAITING 

Anna Tsiarta 

Some two thousand Greek and Turkish Cypriots went missing during the bi-communal conflicts 

of the 1960s and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Seven relatives of these missing 

recall their harrowing stories: from their last moments together until recent excavations 

began to shed light on their possible fate. As these individuals struggle to come to terms 

with both their past and their possible future, their stories reveal how these events have 

shaped not only their lives but also their 

divided country. 



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GREECE - CYPRUS 

Production Company: Roads and Oranges / New Films 

Production Contact Person: Anna Tsiarta 

P.O. Box 28386 


T. +357 9941 4683 

F. +357 2232 3149 

annatsiarta@mac.com 


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IN WHAT WE TRUST 

Claus Strigel 

Money: a magical substance that can mean anything and yet has no worth. Poverty 

guarantees its value: If everyone had enough money, it would have no worth. Some are 

convinced that the current challenges to humanity cannot be solved within our monopolistic 

monetary system. In a favela on the edge of Brazil’s Fortaleza, a second, homemade 

currency, the palmas, has given this poor quarter a flourishing economy. Thousands of complementary 

currencies around the world are proving this now. 



Production Company: DENKmal-film 





T. +49 22 1920 690 

F. +49 22 1920 6969 



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Before his son Samuel was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, photojournalist Dan Habib rarely 

thought about the inclusion of people with disabilities. Now he thinks about inclusion every 

day. Shot and produced over four years, Habib’s award-winning documentary film, Including 

Samuel, honestly chronicles the Habib family’s efforts to include Samuel in every 

facet of their lives. The film also features four other families with varied inclusion experiences, 

plus interviews with dozens of teachers, young people, parents and disability 

rights experts. Including Samuel is a highly personal, passionately photographed film 

that captures the cultural and systemic barriers to inclusion. 



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USA 


INCLUDING SAMUEL 

Dan Habib 

Production Company: DH Photography LLC 

Production Contact Person: Dan Habib 

40, Roger Ave. 

Concord NH 03301 USA 

T. +1 603 848 5301 

F. +1 603 228 3270 

dan.habib@unh.edu 


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INGRID BETANCOURT: 

6 YEARS IN THE JUNGLE 

Angus Macqueen 

For over six years, Ingrid Betancourt was one of the most famous hostages in the world. 

Kidnapped in Colombia by Marxist guerrillas of the FARC (The Revolutionary Armed 

Forces), she was released in 2008 in an audacious rescue operation, together with 15 other 

hostages. In an exclusive documentary interview, she sheds light on her experience and 

on the meaning of being denied your freedom; awaiting your rescue or death. The film takes 

us along rivers and thick jungle to confront the past events through extensive interviews 

and unique archives, including FARC footage from the jungle and material shot during the 

rescue operation. 






Tel Aviv 65112 

Israel 

T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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Lifestyles 

INSIDE OUT 

Vangelis Rigas 

The testimony of Fanis Zografos, who served a life-sentence (twenty years) in prison. His 

narration and those of his former cellmates – other notorious “lifers” – paint a picture of 

the conditions that the inmates have to contend with in prison, and the scars the experience 

must leave behind. The film also provides insights both into the enormous difficulties 

prisoners face following their release when, burdened with a criminal record, they 

struggle to reintegrate themselves into a prejudiced society, and into their hopes of succeeding 

using their skills and talents, and with the help – rather than the hindrance – of 

others. 



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GREECE 

Production Contact Person: Vangelis Rigas 

9-11 K. Oreopoulou St 


T. +30 6945 629 306 

F. +30 210 271 2385 

klagosdim@vidi.gr 


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Lifestyles 

INSIDE THE METAVERSE 

Steven Dhoedt 

Reality, as we know it, is not the same anymore but has split in two: a factual, physical reality 

and a synthetic, virtual reality. All across the network society, people have started to 

flock to online worlds for very different reasons. We call this on-line universe “the Metaverse”. 

Inside the Metavesre introduces a patch-work of characters from all walks of life and 

nationalities for whom virtual worlds have become an important part of their lives. 



Production Company: Visualantics 

Production Contact Person: Steven Dhoedt 



45, Sumatralaan Str. 

Hilversum 1217, The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 675 318 



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Imagine a future world. Imagine a world where technology has taken over society and 

mankind now makes all the choices based on instincts. Imagine a derelict world of the future. 

Where would these people live? What would the cityscape look like? 

J.G. Ballard suggests it wouldn’t be far away from what we can see now in contemporary 

London. 

Canary Wharf is an example of what J.G. Ballard was trying to say through his novels. 

Through the observational analysis of the architectural structures of Canary Wharf, the 

docuemntary attempts to discover how they affect our lives and how they are also affected 

by our dystopian thoughts of the future. What is Dystopia and where is it located? Analyzing 

the people, their habits and the social structures, the film attempts to glimpse the 

future. Because, in a way, we love to hate our dystopian realities. 



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INTO THE GARDEN 

OF GLASS AND STEEL 

Aristotelis Marangos 

Production Company: London Film School 

Production Contact Person: Mark Rance 

Sales Company: London Film School 

Sales Contact Person: Aristotelis Marangos 

342 Kingsland Road 

London E8 4DA, UK 

T. +44 7542 635 223 

aristotelis_m@yahoo.com 


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INTO THE WIND 

Steve Nash & Ezra Holland 

In 1980,Terry Fox continued his fight against cancer with the pursuit of a singular, motivating 

vision: to run across Canada. Three years after having his right leg amputated six 

inches above the knee after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma, Fox set out to cover a 

marathon’s distance each day until he reached the shores of Victoria, British Columbia. 

Anonymous at the start of his journey, Fox steadily captured the heart of a nation. Twotime 

NBA MVP and proud Canadian Steve Nash shares Fox’s incredible story of perseverance 

and hope. 



Production Company: ESPN Films in association with Meathawk 

Production Contact Person: Connor Schell & Erin Leyden 

1011 S Figueroa St 


T. +213 405 4321 (work) 

+646 245 5888 (cell) 

Erin.G.Leyden@espn.com 

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THE INVISIBLE 

Gil Karni 

The film documents a period of twelve years in the un-recognized Arab village of Al-Naim 

in Galilee. The Bedouins, who have lived there for over a century, serve as scouts for the 

IDF (Israel Defense Forces). One of them is Fahim, the protagonist of the film. They have 

been living in tin huts since 1963, no electricity, rationed water and no asphalt road. 

Despite the change in the status of the village that was officially recognized in 1999, the 

red tape of government offices and political considerations have delayed the construction 

permits. Fahim, wanting to right the wrongs and bring progress, fights his own personal 

battle to receive authorization for a power connection in a place where the inhabitants get 

by using generators and camp fires. 



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Production Contact Person: Gil Karni 



20, Bialik St 


T. +972 52 363 3398 


www.jmtfilms.com/document.htm 


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THE INVISIBLE DIRECTOR 

Nikos Theodosiou 

The profile of the film maker Robert Manthoulis, through 25 distinctive scenes from own 

films. 



Production Company: Neaniko Plano 

Production Contact Person: Myrto Mavroidakou 

18, Rodou St 


T. +30 210 866 4470 

F. +30 210 866 2344 

youthplan@olympiafestival.gr 

www.olympiafestival.gr 

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Júlia and Ágnes Pusker are sisters from Kecskemét who play the violin wonderfully. For 

those less versed in the world of classical music, perhaps their names are unknown. The 

media has not discovered them yet, although they have performed at many prestigious 

venues both at home and abroad. Basically, they are just two girls who are simply doing 

what they love, what they have talent for, what they inherited from their family and what 

is an eternal bond between them… they are playing music. For an average person, this 

in itself would not be especially interesting. Many talents, many gifted musicians live 

among us, why would they be any different? However, the interest of director Ágnes Sós 

and HBO Hungary was aroused by the intimate relationship between the two girls, to which 

their musical talent – to use a violinist term, the “soul” – is only an addition. 



611 

HUNGARY 

INVISIBLE STRINGS. 

THE TALENTED PUSKER SISTERS 

Agnes Sos 

Sales Company: HBO Central Europe 

Sales Contact Person: Dita Krivska 

1037/49, Jankovcova Str. 

Prague 17000, Czech Republic 

T. +42 02 6109 4444 

dita.krivska@hbo.cz 


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IRAN, THE MESSENGER OF GORGAN 

(BUS STOP COLLECTION) 

Hervé Rébillon 

We’ll be boarding a bus in Tehran for a 500km and 12-hour trip to Gorgan, the capital of 

the province of Golestan in north-eastern Iran. It is a voyage through ancient legends and 

harsh realities, at the crossroads of the steppes of the north-east and the wooded Alborz 

mountain range. 700 years ago, Marco Polo travelled along the same routes as the modern-day 

passengers we meet on board our regular bus: Anaba, a Turkmen horse breeder, 

Reza the fisherman, Hussein who is a calligraphist and, of course, Ali, our bus driver. The 

bus route follows the traces of the Silk Road. Along just a few hundred kilometres, we are 

offered a glimpse into a mysterious past as well as a voyage through majestic landscapes 

– the Mount Damavand, the green plains along the Caspian Sea, the little-known Kordkuy 

valley... 









T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



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A small island, a great history. Long before giving its name to the country, Mozambique 

Island had a fundamental role in the Indian Ocean for centuries. An anchorage for caravels, 

a meeting point for pirates, it is a melting pot of races. It raises its walls in the middle of 

the sea. Its winding streets full of life reveal small places, churches and white houses. Its 

inhabitants are eccentric characters, proud of the island’s past history. As we wander 

through the streets, we meet an historian, a maritime archaeologist, a fisherman, the “doorman” 

of the island, a dancer, many spirits... 



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PORTUGAL - MOZAMBIQUE 

THE ISLAND OF SPIRITS 

Licinio Azevedo 

Production Company: Ebeno Multimedia 

Production Contact Person: Pedro Pimenta 

Sales Company: Marfilmes 

Sales Contact Person: Renee Gagnon 

Av. Duque de Loule 79 R/C Dto A 

Lisbon 1050-088, Portugal 

T. +35 12 1314 0339 

F. +35 12 1353 3075 

marfilmes@netcabo.pt 

www.marfilmes.com 


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Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit originated 

from Palestine and known worldwide for centuries as the “Jaffa orange”. 

The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, 

paintings, workers in the citrus industry and historians, memory and present mythologies, 

Palestinians and Israelis cross and combine. The close reading of the Jaffa brand’s visual 

representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the “Holy 

Land” and the “State of Israel” and a tool to reveal the untold story of what was once a commune 

industry and symbol to Arabs and Jews in Palestine. 



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JAFFA, THE ORANGE’S CLOCKWORK 

Eyal Sivan 

Production Company: Trabelsi productions Ltd & Alma films & The Factory 

Production Contact Person: Osnat Trabelsi 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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JANE’S JOURNEY 

Lorenz Knauer 

More than twenty years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall decided to give up her career as a primatologist 

in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then 

she has traveled around the globe more than 300 days per year, spreading hope by giving 

lectures, writing books and through her youth organization “Roots & Shoots”, active in 

more than 100 countries worldwide. Jane’s Journey is a portrait of the private person behind 

the world-famous icon – an exceptional woman, possibly the most fascinating 

woman of our time. 

With its unhurried pace and unobtrusive camera, this documentary shows the charismatic 

and eloquent Jane Goodall as she has never been seen before. Intimate conversations with 

Goodall alternate with spectacular footage of her and her beloved chimpanzees as well as 

revealing comments by her son, her colleagues and even Hollywood celebrities. The definitive 

film on the ardent advocate for the protection of the earth! 



Production Company: Neos Film GmbH & Co. KG 

Production Contact Person: Philipp Schall 



Breite Str. 48-50 


T. +49 22 1920 690 

F. +49 22 1920 6969 



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JANINE 

Paul Cohen 

Violinist Janine Jansen is the most frequently downloaded classical artist. This film shows 

the hectic life of a musician of worldwide renown. And still she is just as uninhibited and 

spontaneous as ever. 

Colleagues from the music scene comment on her talent. For herself, she does not want 

to know how she does it, afraid she will no longer be able to do it anymore. Meanwhile, 

other people are preparing the launch of the once-only glossy Janine. Because Janine 

Jansen is also a marketable product. 



495 


Production Company: IDTV Docs 

Production Contact Person: Susanne van Voorst 




Hilversum 1217 GP 

The Netherlands 

T. +31 35 6773 561 

F. +31 35 6775 318 




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JEREMIAH 

Eran Paz 

Yura (Jeremiah), his wife, and two children live in the Shapira neighborhood in the southern 

part of Tel Aviv. They live among junkies, prostitutes and alcoholics; a different image 

than the one expected when hearing the words: Tel Aviv. In one of the rooms lives Valera, 

an alcoholic. In the storage room lives Gora, Yura’s cousin and a drug addict. Misha, a former 

boxer, needs a place to stay and is willing to sleep in the yard. Yura accepts him without 

thinking. 

* “Festival Award Winners”: Krakow Film Festival - Poland (23-29/5/2011) 

* Documentary Competition: goEast, Festival of Central & Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden, 

Germany (6-12/4/2011) 

* Best Director Award (Documentary): Jerusalem International Film Festival - Israel 2010 



Production Company: Ilan Moskovitch Productions 

Production Contact Person: Ilan Moskovitch 



20 Bialik St 


T. +972 52 363 3398 


www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#jeremiah 

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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were homeless, 

sick and desperate to find lost family members. Jewish Transit Berlin will explore what 

many European Jews experienced on the “day after”. Without papers and with unclear futures, 

thousands came to Berlin to seek refuge in the Allied occupied city. It was in Berlin’s 

Displaced Persons Camp at Schlachtensee where as many as 200 people per day settled 

in the weeks after the war. Refugees came from all over middle and Eastern Europe. 

Schlachtensee soon became a magnet for the thousands who had nowhere else to go. Despite 

the still pervasive anti Semitism openly shown on the streets of Berlin, many Jews 

began to enter the city’s public life again. Their stories reveal the despair, survival and ultimate 

hope of people who overcame human history’s worst atrocity. 



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GERMANY 

JEWISH TRANSIT BERLIN – 

FROM HELL TO HOPE 

Gabriel Heim 

Production Company: DOKfilm with RBB 





T. +49 22 1920 690 

F. +49 22 1920 6969 




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JIMMY DOHERTY 

IN DARWIN’S GARDEN 

Matt Barrett 

Charles Darwin returned from his five year expedition aboard The Beagle with some revolutionary 

ideas about the diversity of the world’s flora and fauna. However, before he could 

begin work on one of the most influential scientific publications of all time, On the Origin 

of Species, Darwin needed to expand his early hunches into a fully formed theory of evolution 

through a series of ingenious and astonishing experiments. 

Jimmy Doherty, farmer and entomologist, follows Darwin’s intellectual journey, recreating 

ground breaking experiments on in-breeding in plants, natural selection, and some 

quirky tests involving earthworms and music. Filmed in the gardens and greenhouses of 

Darwin’s home in Kent, this series rediscovers the science underpinning evolution. 







Worldwide, Walton Hall, Michael Young Building 


T. +44 1908 332470 

F. +44 1908 858787 


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The life of musician José Cruz Camargo Zurita, leader, composer and singer of the Real de 

Catorce blues band, told through a moving review of their songs, allows us to get to know 

an essential part of Mexican Blues, while, at the same time, showing us how he tries to 

overcome multiple sclerosis through music. 



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JOSÉ CRUZ THIRTY FEET FROM HELL 

Leobardo Jacob Lechuga 

Production Company: Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de 

Calidad (Foprocine) 





T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 




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JOY OF LEARNING 

Stéphane Xhrouet 

Teens arrive from the city at a village in the Belgian Ardennes to rehabilitate a half destroyed 

farm: a school should soon open there. Its educational context will be radically new, based 

on the pleasure and the appetite for knowledge, and learning freedom within a community. 

While teachers unlearn traditional methods and requirements, the students, however, 

stimulated by the trust given to them suddenly, are soon overwhelmed by the adventure 

of living their freedom. 



Production Company: La Parti Production 

Production Contact Person: Vincent Tavier 



Quai des Ardennes, 16. 

Liège 

T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 43 401 041 


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Lifestyles 

JULIEN 

Gael Leingle 

Julien was eighteen. He was playing the knight in the village play. At the same time he 

was preparing to leave his friends and family, and the landscapes of his childhood; to go 

out into the world and earn his living. One could say... “Once upon a last time, between 

the Beauce and the Loire valley, last summer...” 



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Production Contact Person: Nicolas Anthome 

Sales Company: bathysphere productions 

Sales Contact Person: Nicolas Anthome 

11, rue Manin 


T. + 33 1402 1370 2 

contact@bathysphere.fr 


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Gorette Mawazu has had her land stolen from her. Too poor to afford a lawyer, she defends 

herself in the courts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, Bahati Lukwebo, 

deputate and quaestor in charge of the finances of the Congolese National Assembly, 

seeks to retain his position coveted by many candidates. But how to defend their rights 

or be elected in a country where officials are not paid and voters too poor to make a free 

choice? 



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BELGIUM 

KAFKA IN CONGO 

Arnaud Zajtman & Marlène Rabaud 

Production Company: Eklektik Production 

Production Contact Person: Marie Besson 




Quai des Ardennes, 16 


T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 4 340 1041 



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KAMENGE NORTHERN QUARTERS 

Manu Gerosa & Salva Muñoz 

Kamenge, Northern Quarters is the picture of the soul of a whole country, Burundi, which 

asks for freedom and justice, the ideals Alexis Sinduhije is fighting for. 

His story is closely linked to the life of his quarter, the Northern Quarters of the capital city 

Bujumbura, a symbol of one of the most cruel wars the world has ever known, the conflict 

between Hutu and Tutsi. 

The background and the glances of the ones who have not left are interwoven with the 

life of Alexis who gave up his job as a journalist in 2007 to found a political party, standing 

for President in 2010. 

“It is possible to build a liveable Burundi, it is possible. You must only believe it and take 

the risk,” Alexis says. 

In Burundi, although the present government was elected democratically, the people who 

profess freedom of speech put their life in danger. 



Production Company: One World DocuMakers 

Production Contact Person: Manu Gerosa 

Sales Company: Journeyman Pictures 

Sales Contact Person: Edward Caffrey 

4 High Street 

Thames Ditton KT7 0RY (Surrey), UK 

T. +44 2087 866 058 

eddie@journeyman.tv 

www.journeyman.tv 

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KARLA’S ARRIVAL 

Koen Suidgeest 

In Managua, Nicaragua, teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on 

the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Based in a city park 

and part of a larger group of youngsters, mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s 

first birthday. Beautifully told and full of hope, Karla’s Arrival offers an intense personal story 

about second generation street children. 



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Production Company: El Rayo Films 

Production Contact Person: Koen Suidgeest 




Paris F-75004, France 

T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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KATKA 

Helena Třeštíková 

Helena Třeštíková’s film is a remarkable documentary tracing fourteen years in the life of 

a young junkie and her futile battle with drug addiction. Why did she start taking drugs? 

She claims she wanted to be different. The year is 1996 and 19-year-old Katka is living in 

the Sananim therapy community in the town of Němčice with hope for a normal life – she 

dreams of having a boyfriend and even a family, some day. But there’s no happy ending. 

The director records Katka’s descent over the years into a spiral of theft, prostitution, physical 

and psychological deterioration – a spiral that is broken only by brief flashes of hope 

and resolutions to stop taking drugs. Katka’s desire is sincere, but in the end drugs always 

win. Will Katka finally find the strength when she becomes pregnant and motherhood offers 

her life-sustaining motivation? 



Production Company: Negativ 

Production Contact Person: Zuzana Bielikova 



463 Russel Court, Woburn Place 


T. +44 7977 051 577 



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KHAIMA 

Athanasios Karanikolas 

For the past twelve years, a provisory camp was set up by Afghan refugees in the harbor 

of Patras, in Greece. About 400 to 600 men, aged 12 to 60, lived in makeshift housing made 

out of found building materials and cardboard boxes. Most of the refugees living in the 

camp tried to get to their final destination, usually a country in Central Europe, by hiding 

themselves inside or under trucks which would then board ferries to Italy. Others tried to 

survive as long as possible in Patras, hoping to be granted asylum by the Greek state. On 

the 12th of July 2009, following orders by the Greek government, two bulldozers and four 

trucks demolished the camp, with the support of 150 riot police. No other living alternatives 

were planed for the refugees beforehand. Today, over 700 refugees spend the night 

on the streets of Patras. 



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Production Contact Person: Athanasios Karanikolas 

Leipziger Str.46 


T. +49 30 2529 8582 

athanasios.k@gmx.net 


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KINBAKU – ART OF BONDAGE 

Jouni Hokkanen 

Kinbaku, “tight binding”, is a Japanese style of bondage which involves tying up the bottom 

using simple, yet visually intricate, patterns and several pieces of rope, usually made 

of hemp or jute. In Shinto religion, in order to make something sacred, a man ties a rope 

around it. This sacred quality of tying can also be applied to Kinbaku, which is an erotic, spiritual 

and artistic connection between the people who do it. It started with the samurais capturing 

enemies on the battlefield 500 years ago. “Rope is an extension of one’s arms and a 

communication tool. Two people can really be close and have emotional exhange,” says rope 

master Osada Steve from Tokyo. Osada Steve is a student of Haruki Yukimura, a rope master 

who has tied over 3,000 people in his life. “If you look at the Japanese samurai armor, 

it’s tied on. If you’ve ever received a Japanese gift, it’s an exquisite thing,” says Asagi Ageha, 

the most popular star of the new generation. Japan places a ritualistic weight on everyday 

acts and talent our own culture lacks – and turns almost anything, including knots and 

ropes, into art. Nowadays rope is used to create an artistic, meaningful scene between two 

people. Kinbaku is about creating a beautiful climate and an exciting dramatic experience. 



Production Company: Hakalax Productions Oy 

Production Contact Person: John Hakalax 

Sales Company: Hakalax Productions Oy 

Sales Contact Person: John Hakalax 

Topeliuksenkatu 3b A9a 

Helsinki 00260, Finland 

T. +358 9 852 1448 

hakalax@hakalaxproductions.com 

www.hakalaxproductions.com 

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Lifestyles 

KING MATHIAS 

Milan Urbajs 

The story of a fallen son. Seppl has turned his back on his family and the conventions of 

society. Inspired by the legend of Kralj Matjaž, who ruled in Carinthia (Austria) in the Middle 

Ages, he is now setting out to save the world – from Catholicism, Capitalism and the 

strata of society who are destroying everything, academics. When Seppl sees his sister 

again, his hard shell is softened for a short time. Their family history has left its wounds 

on both sides. 



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Production Company: AGRFT 

Production Contact Person: Milan Urbajs 

Ulica Talcev 7 

Lyubljana 1000, Slovenia 

T. +38 631 893 534 

milan.urbajs@gmail.com 


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KINSHASA SYMPHONY 

Claus Wischmann & Martin Baer 

Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Orff’s Carmina Burana in total darkness. A 

power cut has hit the Ngiri Ngiri district of Kinshasa, only a few bars before the last section 

of the work. Kinshasa’s power stations and main networks are insufficient to supply 

electricity to all the 10 million inhabitants of what is Africa’s third-largest city. Once again 

the lights have gone out in the “Salle des fêtes”, a kind of open garage where the orchestra 

practices. But for its members this is no reason to stop rehearsing. Most of them know 

their parts by heart. Small lapses of memory are compensated for by a talent for improvisation 

and the grace of God. 



Production Company: Sounding Images 

Production Contact Person: Claus Wischmann 

Sales Company: C Major Entertainment GmbH 

Sales Contact Person: Elmar Kruse 

Kaiserdamm 31 


T. +49 30 3030 6464 

F. +49 30 3030 6468 

e.kruse@cmajor-entertainment.com 

www.cmajor-entertainment.com 

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The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground, is a feature-length documentary about the Grammy 

Award-winning, New York-based, klezmer band. The Klezmatics have made numerous television 

and radio appearances, including PBS’s Great Performances series with Itzhak Perlman 

as well as on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion on NPR. In 2006 the band 

released Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie. It was their first English language LP and 

won a Grammy Award for Best World Music. Anjou and crew followed the Klezmatics for 

over three years, capturing the band’s highs, lows, and relentless march forward. 



703 

USA 

THE KLEZMATICS: ON HOLY GROUND 

Erik Greenberg-Anjou 

Production Company: Roots First 



6579 Pickwick Street 


T. +1 323 259 8259 

F. +1 323 474 6371 




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KOMEDA – A SOUNDTRACK FOR A LIFE 

Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy 

Almost all metal scrap was sold from Kyrgyzstan to China. This film shows the global phenomenon 

in micro scale: the hard work of a Russian truck driver, the slow pace of one Kyrgyz 

family, and a few events from a long journey across the Tien Shan Mountains. 



Production Company: Film Studio Kalejdoskop & Benedikt Pictures 

Production Contact Person: Wojciech Szczudlo 





T. +48 12 294 6945 



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Lifestyles 

KOSTAKIS 

Theodora Malliarou 

We are a group of young filmmakers who love documentaries. We live in the very polluted 

city of Thessaloniki. Most of the people around us keep mumbling about the long working 

hours and their misery of not having enough money to live “the good life”. So, what 

is missing from our everyday lives? Could nature and the connection to our roots bring back 

the smile on our faces? Kostakis is our young protagonist. When he was 16 years old, he 

chose to become a maker of horse saddles, because of his vast love for animals and nature. 

To our eyes, he is a man who emanates happiness. 



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Production Contact Person: Theodora Malliarou 

13 Timandras St 


T. +30 210 777 7181 

F. +30 210 777 7181 

thmalliarou@yahoo.com 


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KYPSELI 

City of Athens Cultural Organization 

Documentary Group 2009 

Vassiliki is a young poet and writer, a bohemian type that lives on Tinos Street. Mr. Mimis 

lives in his truck with his puppy. Lopez is a troubadour who sings a chorus at the corner 

of Ithakis and Drossopoulou Streets. Mrs. Aristea feels connected to the area where she has 

lived for more than thirty years. The old Neoclassical villas remind her of her lovely youth. 

The people who walk through Kypseli, who come from here and elsewhere, make up one 

of the most densely populated neighborhoods on earth. 



Production Company: Poulidis Productions 

Production Contact Person: Yorgos Poulidis 

Sales Company: Cultural Organization of the City of Athens – 

Poulidis Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Yorgos Poulidis 

50 Akadimias St 


T. +30 6972 833 318 

poulidis2003@in.gr 

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This is a tribute to Euphrosyne Proestou, an old woman from the village of Lapithos, who, 

in August 1974 in the midst of war, without taking into account the risk, hid and protected 

for a whole month 12 soldiers. We traveled to occupied Lapithos and recorded the shocking 

testimonies of soldiers who were one step from death. 

The subject of the documentary, in the consumer society we live in now, seems distant and 

perhaps unfashionable, but the sight of the Turkish flag flying on Mount Pentadaktylos reminds 

us once again that some people gave their lives for us to be here. 



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THE LADY FROM LAPITHOS 

Costas Orthodoxou 

Production Company: Cybc 

Production Contact Person: Costas Orthodoxou 

Sales Contact Person: Costas Orthodoxou 

Ayias Theodoras 22, Strovolos 


T. +357 99 657 833 

costas.orthodoxou@cybc.com.cy 


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THE LAMENT OF THE FIRS 

Nick Theodorakis 

Documentaries such as this try to raise awareness and to stand against the barbarity and 

harmfulness of such customs as are the cutting of Christmas trees and the slaughter of the 

lambs at Easter, highlighting their absurdity. Every year millions of fir trees are being cut 

throughout the world over the Christmas period and each of them has had to be alive for 

25 years in order to be at the right height. By taking the life of a fir tree, what remains is 

empty and thus phony. It no longer is authentic and alive. So the question arises: What do 

we want with it? Do we want “real” essence but lifeless? This is a horrible notion. These 

kinds of ideas we can fight against with our hearts and our souls. 



Production Company: FineworldProductions & 

Solon for Synthesis and Ecological Civilization 

Production Contact Person: Nick Theodorakis 

19 Kaningos St 


T. +30 210 383 7840 

F. +30 210 330 3441 

theodorakisnik@hotmail.com 

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A true scenario, with the island of Spinalonga being a blot on civilisation. A treatise expressed 

in words, narratives, tears, pain, hope for life, through the eyes and lips – or whatever 

was left of them – of the 330 lepers who became the protagonists. A tribute to those 

whom the scythe of Fate, for 53 years, cut off from society and cast on Spinalonga to die. 

Their lives, an everyday struggle to pull down the dark walls of prejudice, to change the 

horror of Spinalonga, in hopes of a humane life, even though everything around them led 

to death. Finally, there came the miracle, the cure, the great illusion of freedom; there came 

the obstacle of the world of men, where no one was waiting for them. 



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GREECE 

THE LAND OF THE WEEPING GODS 

Eleni Vlassi 

Production Company: Icons World 

Production Contact Person: Eleni Vlassi 

Sales Company: Icons World 

Sales Contact Person: Eleni Vlassi 

100 Astrous St 


T. +30 6948 541 393 

F. +30 210 514 6963 

elenivlassi@yahoo.com 


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THE LAST DAYS OF WINTER 

Mehrdad Oskouei 

This film depicts the life of seven children under fifteen in the House of Correction before 

New Year in Tehran. By allowing the camera to be one of them, we will get to know their 

analyses of the situation and solutions for escaping their sad destiny. 



Production Company: Oskouei Film Production 

Sales Company: Sheherazad Media International (SMI) 

Sales Contact Person: Katayoon Shahabi 

1, 3rd Sarvestan, Pasdaran St, Shariati Ave, 

Tehran 16619, Iran 

T. +98 21 2286 3260 / 61 

F. +98 21 2285 8962 

sheherazad@smediaint.com 

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The local movie theater that once was the vibrant center of the village of Panayia has been 

closed for more than 20 years. Two local men try to reopen it hoping to relive the memories 

of their youth and bring life back to the village. 



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THE LAST REMAINING SEATS 

Marios Piperides 

Production Company: AMP Film Works Ltd 

Production Contact Person: Marios Piperides 

Sales Company: AMP Film Works Ltd 

Sales Contact Person: Marios Piperides 

4 Agias Elenis, Office 603 


T. +357 993 376 85 

F. +357 228 751 86 

marios@film-works.tv 


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THE LAST SURVIVOR 

Michael Pertnoy & Michael Kleiman 

Have you ever wondered how survivors of genocide who lost everything manage to put 

their lives together again? Hedi Fried survived the Holocaust, immigrated to Sweden 

where she became a renowned psychologist who offers survivors of genocide support. 

Jacqueline, the sole survivor in her family from the Rwanda genocide, studied political science 

in the United States where she now gives lectures on the subject. Justin, who found 

asylum in the United States after his tribe was slaughtered during the civil war in the Congo, 

established a center meant to document the heritage of his people. United by the will to 

make a difference, these inspiring characters are testimonies to the power of life. 







T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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Lifestyles 

Another painfully intimate documentary by Marcin Koszałka is devoted to family matters 

seen through his sister’s experience. With a running camera, adult siblings dissect their relations 

with parents and with each other. The protagonist of the film, an affluent businesswoman, 

who still hasn’t come to terms with the death of their mother and father, becomes 

the director’s conscience. He is trying to get closer to his dead parents in his own 

way – filming the last moments of patients in a hospital. 



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POLAND 

LET’S RUN AWAY FROM HER 

Marcin Koszałka 

Production Company: HBO Central Europe 

Production Contact Person: Dita Křivská 


Sales Contact Person: Dita Křivská 

Jankovcova 1037/49 

Prague 170 00, Czech Republic 

T.-F. +420 261 094 444 



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THE LETTER 

Rafael Bonilla 

She came from El Salto, Durango to Lomas de Poleo, in Ciudad Juárez, the most violent border 

zone in Mexico. Paula Flores writes letters and tells us about her life: The kidnapping 

and murder of her daughter María Sagrario, the search for the killers, her fight against feminicide, 

the struggle for the land in Poleo, where there is a concentration camp, and the suicide 

of her husband, Chuy... In spite of everything, Paula is a human rights activist, fighting 

impunity and fear, always championing peace, planting this seed in the children of 

Lomas de Poleo, and trying to spread it around the world. 









T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 



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Lifestyles 

The world runs. Hari walks. His worn-out shoes cover long distances in the desert to deliver 

messages written in elegant handwriting for addressees who live in remote villages. 

The letters talk about loves, weddings, successes and deceases. Those that bear news of 

death have the right corner torn off. Hari reads them out in the doorway, and then tears 

them to bits, because bad news must be destroyed, deleted forever. In a world in which 

time is luxury, and speed is synonymous with efficiency and civilization, the story of Hari 

is an island fossilized in time. When the only way to communicate was a sheet of paper, 

a pen, and some ink; when people were still able to wait. A return to slowness, and to the 

harsh nature of the Thar Desert. Until a strange metallic tower appears, an intruder on the 

landscape, which will revolutionize the life of the small village… 



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ITALY 

LETTERS FROM THE DESERT 

(EULOGY TO SLOWNESS) 

Michela Occhipinti 

Production Contact Person: Michela Occhipinti 

Sales Contact Person: Michela Occhipinti 

Borgo Vittorio 33 

Rome 00193, Italy 

T. +39 339 534 1007 

michela_o@hotmail.com 


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THE LIFE & DEATH OF CELSO JUNIOR 

Panagiotis Evangelidis 

What is more important? The boots or the man wearing them? 

In a storeroom in Brazil, a pair of leather boots catches the eye of little Celso. He is in awe, 

like a bird in front of a snake. 

Today he is an artist living in Switzerland, married to his beloved. 

The life and musings, the art and the many deaths of a fetishist. 



Production Contact Person: Amanda Livanou 

35, Dervenion St 


T. + 30 210 330 2860 

F. + 30 210 610 0109 

amandalivanos@yahoo.com 

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Since 2003, Italy and Europe have asked Libya to stop the African migrants. 

What are the Libyan police really doing? 

From what thousands of African men and women suffer? 

Why does everybody pretend they do not know about it? 

Giving voice to the Ethiopian refugees living in Rome, the film (shot in Mini DV) provides 

a direct insight into the brutal ways in which Libya, aided also by Italian and European 

funds, is operating to control the immigration movements of people from Africa. 

Dagmawi Yimer was studying Law in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Prompted by the severe political 

oppression he had to face in Ethiopia, he decided to leave the country... 



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ITALIA 

LIKE A MAN ON EARTH 

Andrea Segre & Dagmawi Yimer 

Production Company: Zalab 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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LITTLE BRIDE 

Leslaw Dobrucki 

Our heroine stopped praying long ago. As a thirteen-year-old girl she was brought from 

her native Turkey to Germany to marry one of her cousins. This is how her childhood ended 

– she became the property of a husband who tortures and degrades her. She finally decides 

to flee, but must continuously be in hiding. Condemned by both families, she has no 

chance at a normal life, neither as a wife nor as a divorcee. The film is not a typical intervention 

reportage, but a poetic collage comprising documentary material, family photographs 

and children’s drawings. This individual life story reflects the stories of many other 

girls and women subjected to a patriarchal law still enforced by tacit consent in the multicultural 

societies of Western Europe. 



Production Company: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing 






T. +48 12 294 6945 



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Children are the protagonists of a social phenomenon that first appeared in Greece three 

decades ago. The children of immigrants and children immigrants, the so-called second 

generation, are parts of a jigsaw puzzle that is trying to be put together. The children communicate 

their apprehension for the future, as well as their dream of a multicolored world 

that respects diversity. The documentary is divided into three parts: education, social protection 

and integration. The Children’s Ombudsman and the non-profit organizations AR- 

SIS, PRAKSIS, ΒABEL, i-RED, YRE, Hellenic Action for Human Rights, the Immigration Policy 

Department of the Ministry of the Interior, the immigration-related organizations and 

the Church, describe the phenomenon from a legal, social and psychological point of view 

and suggest solutions. 



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THE LITTLE OTHERS 

Nikos Drosakis 

Production Company: Artistic Organisation Tabula Rasa 

Production Contact Person: Nikos Drosakis 

Sales Company: Artistic Organisation Tabula Rasa 

Sales Contact Person: Nikos Drosakis 

250 Sofokleous St 


T. +30 6945 031 693 

F. +30 210 942 9545 

nikosdrosakis@gmail.com 


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THE LITTLE SEED ON THE ASPHALT 

Pedro Daniel López 

Dolores Santiz, Pascuala Díaz, Floriano Enrique Ronyk and Flavio Jiménez belong to several 

indigenous groups in Chiapas. They leave their home communities to go to the big city 

to follow their dream of a worthy and just life. In the city, they seek the recognition of a 

new community that is growing stronger. They struggle daily to build their identities. They 

do not want to remain stigmatized; they want to become symbols of power. 









T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 


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Living with Fragile X takes a rare and intimate look at the lives of several families who live 

with a loved one affected by fragile X syndrome. 

Fragile X is the leading known cause of inherited mental disability and autism. The disorder 

drastically and forever changes the lives of the children, parents and family members 

it touches. But fragile X goes largely undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because it is virtually 

unknown to the public and often to the medical community. 

Living with Fragile X explains what fragile X is and how it is passed, exposes the day-today 

challenges faced by those who have it, and explores the deep frustration and fear that 

families experience. 

As the stories unfold, challenging issues emerge, including reproductive choice, acceptance 

of differences, the aging of a lifelong-dependent child, and the ethical implications 

of a genetic “fix” for those with disabilities. 



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LIVING WITH FRAGILE X 

Kathy Elder & Greg Mishey 

Production Company: ThinkMedia 

Production Contact Person: Kathy Elder 

Sales Company: ThinkMedia 

Sales Contact Person: Kathy Elder 

1385 47th Ave. 

Capitola CA 95010 USA 

T. +1 831.239.1896 

info@livingwithfragilex.com 

www.livingwithfragilex.com 


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LOBOTOMY 

Yury Khashchavatski 

Lobotomy is Yuri Khashchavatski’s personal indictment of the Russian media’s brainwashing 

tactics. Taking the recent war between Russia and Georgia as a point of departure, he 

illustrates how far removed actual events were from the conflict as it was reported on Russian 

state television. The director’s own voice drives the argument, but journalists, military 

experts and politicians also have their say. The film intersperses interviews (live or via 

Skype) with archive footage that is, in turn, contrasted with amateur clips found on the Internet. 

Khashchavatski contends that “Montage is a powerful and insidious weapon.” And 

he would be the one to know, because in addition to directing the film, he also edited it 

and its highly effective audio mix. He is a master of the art of irony as well. This personal 

account by the director suggests that the Russian state is not being governed according to 

democratic principles, but by a Mafia-style hierarchy. 



Production Company: FreeProVideo & Baltic Film Production 

& Bramafilm Belsat TV 

Production Contact Person: Marianna Kaat 

Sales Company: Baltic Film Production 

Sales Contact Person: Marianna Kaat 

Paldiski mnt. 183-38, 

P.O. Box 4752 

Tallinn 13517, Estonia 

T. +372 502 7509 

marianna.kaat@neti.ee 

www.bfp.ee 

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LOST BODIES 

Yannis Misouridis 

The founding members of a legendary underground band forge their way through life, one 

revolution at a time. Besides, what is life but one big joke? An idiosyncratic duo takes the 

lead in a music documentary where melody plays second fiddle. Still, they would be nothing 

without music. Thanos, 52, is a prospective pensioner, currently unemployed. Antonis, 

51, is a part-time utility meter reader and a take-out delivery guy. Masquerading behind 

their band, iconic undergrounders the Lost Bodies, they’ve made a life out of ignoring the 

system, seeking refuge in an alternative universe of their own. Principal characters in an 

as yet unwritten literary masterpiece, they oscillate wildly between existentialism and 

oafishness, clinging to humor as their last stand against reality. Besides, what is life but 

one big joke? 



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Production Company: Exile Room 


12 Athinas St 


T. +30 210 322 3395 

F. +30 210 322 3396 

vkontakos@gmail.com 

exile.room@gmail.com 


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LOST DOWN MEMORY LANE 

Klara Van Es 

This is the first documentary about living with Alzheimer’s, as seen through the eyes of the 

people who suffer from it. The characters live together in an apartment called Iduna, under 

constant supervision and care. Iduna is a somewhat unusual department of The Bijster, 

a nursing home for people with dementia in Belgium. The eight residents of Iduna are in 

– scientifically considered – the first phase of the disease: flurries of lucidity, forgetfulness 

and falling into oblivion alternate constantly. 



Production Company: Associate Directors 

Production Contact Person: Bram Crols 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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LOST IN RELIGION 

Marc Burth 

After becoming a father, Marc Burth has a problem: Two children and no fitting religion for 

them. His father is Protestant, his mother is Jewish, and his sister a shaman. His wife’s dad 

is a Moslem; her mother, Catholic. Making the right choice for his children in this intersection 

of religions is a difficult job for the confused filmmaker! Searching for answers, Marc 

Burth meets people that have a relationship with God and some that consciously don’t. 

He talks to atheists, shamans, Jesuits, Jews, Moslems, heathens and many more. He 

wants to know if God exists and why religion should be important to his children. The film 

is a playful, crazy, slightly neurotic approach to the question many people find a hard nut 

to crack and humanity will always search answers for: Does God exist? And if yes, how 

many gods are there? 



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Production Company: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion 

Production Contact Person: Nick Pastucha 

Sales Company: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion 

Sales Contact Person: Nick Pastucha 

Heinrich-Roller-Straße 15 


T. +49 30 695 669 10 

F. +49 30 695 669 15 

n.pastucha@gebrueder-beetz.de 

www.gebrueder-beetz.de 


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LOU BIOU, THE FEAST OF THE 

FABULOUS BULL 

Jascha de Wilde 

Lou Biou is a documentary about a community with a deep-seated passion for the wild 

bull in the French Camargue. 

In the Camargue region of Southern France, a village festival without bulls is unthinkable. 

The inhabitants of this region have a deep-seated passion for this quick, agile, and above 

all deadly animal. Bull breeders, “manadiers”, identify with their bulls as much as with their 

own family. 



Production Company: Second Skin Film 

Production Contact Person: Jascha de Wilde 






T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 



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LOVE ETC. 

Jill Andresevic 

Love Etc. is a witty, poignant and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love, 

depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. Young, old, 

gay, straight – everyone has experienced love – and the joy and frustration that come with 

it. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage, 

newlyweds to a recent divorcee, and even a bachelor so frustrated in his search that he 

chooses to have children without a partner, Love Etc. documents the intimate journeys of 

engaging characters aged 18-89 who reflect the city’s diversity, and takes an honest look 

at life’s most challenging pursuit. 



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Production Company: Walnut Hill Media 

Production Contact Person: Chiemi Karasawa 


Sales Contact Person: Annie Rooney 


Sausalito CA 94965 USA 

T. +1 415 332 6471 

F. +1 415 332 4798 




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LOVE HATE LOVE 

Dana Nachman & Don Hardy 

9/11, London, and a car bomb in Bali: a film chronicling the transformation of three families 

whose worlds are torn apart by terrorism. Can love triumph over pain and prove that 

terrorists don’t win? Executive produced by Sean Penn and with music from U2, Bruce 

Springsteen and Radiohead. 



Production Company: KTF Films 

Production Contact Person: Dana Nachman 





T. +41 44 312 2060 

F. +41 44 312 2080 



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LOVING SOPHIA 

Ohad Itach 

The dark corners of growing up as a new immigrant are powerfully explored in this intense 

documentary. Arriving in Israel from Moldova in the 1990s left Sophia unstable and 

yearning for more. Her well educated parents are unable to control their only daughter as 

she rapidly descends from singer in a rock-band to drug addict and to prostitute. Sophia 

is strong and weak, vulnerable and impervious. Her wrenching journey into darkness is 

strikingly documented by filmmaker Ohad Itach, whose chance meeting with Sophia leads 

not only to a powerful film, but to the possibility of moving forward. 



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T. +972 2 672 4256 

F. +972 2 672 4210 



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LUANDA, THE MUSIC FACTORY 

Kiluanje Libertade & Ines Gonsalves 

In the middle of a Luanda slum, DJ Buda owns a recording studio, giving the opportunity 

to young singers to express themselves. Rhyming to Buda’s beats, the kids shout out all their 

worries and everyday experiences into his old micro with an incredible energy. In the end, 

they dance joyfully, laugh and listen to their own work with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. 

It’s impossible not to dance with them. 



Production Company: Walnut Hill Media 

Production Contact Person: Ines Gonsalves 



Ave. Duque de Loule 79 R/C Dto A 

Lisbon 1050-088 Portugal 

T. +35 12 1314 0339 

F. +35 12 1353 3075 



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LA MACHINA 

Thierry Paladino 

Simple but also poetic, this is the journey of an old puppet master and his eight-year-old 

apprentice, entrusted by his mother over summer holidays. It is the first the boy will be traveling. 

Inexperienced but excited and eager to learn, he’s off on a journey of initiation. It’s 

a sunny southern France summer, and they set off on a long tour in the old truck. They bring 

a little stage, lights, and the sleeping puppets. They go from town to town to perform for 

the country people, taking them into their storytelling world. Meanwhile, the boy discovers 

the power of imagination and of freedom. A high quality “cinéma du réel”, feel good movie. 



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FRANCE 

Production Company: Centrala 

Production Contact Person: acek Naglo 



Rue Stevin, 174, 


T.-F. +32 477 617 170 



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MADE IN BIRMINGHAM: 

REGGAE PUNK BHANGRA 

Deborah Aston 

Reggae, Punk and Bhangra musicians from the UK city of Birmingham discuss their distinctive 

musical styles and reflect on how music has played its own role in fostering a new 

sense of collective identity in the city. Birmingham has a rich, but largely, ignored musical 

history. Made in Birmingham - Reggae Punk Bhangra explores the social, political and 

cultural issues that gave rise to music emanating from the city, using rare archive footage 

and interviews to shed new insight into the city and its music. 

Including interviews and archives: Brian Travers (UB40) Dennis Seaton (Musical Youth) Amlak 

Tafari (Steel Pulse), Pete Hammond and Paul Foad (Au Pairs) Pete Hyde (Spizz Energi) 

Janice Connolly and Conrad Swartz (The Ever Readies) Alan Apperley (The Prefects, The 

Nightingales) S-Endz (Swami) Vix (Fuzzbox) and archives include Patti Bell, Ranking 

Roger (The Beat) David Hines (Steel Pulse) Kevin Rowland ( Dexys Midnight Runners) and 

Anachak. 



Production Company: Swish Films 

Production Contact Person: Roger Shannon 

Sales Contact Person: Roger Shannon 

81 Blenheim Rd 

Birmingham B139TZ, UK 

T. +44 7887 5668 78 

rogershannonswish@gmail.com 

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MAIDS & BOSSES 

Abner Benaim 

Through the very peculiar relations between several live-in housemaids and their employers, 

Maids and Bosses evaluates human relations between social classes in Latin 

America. Rich and poor, under the same roof, share a big part of their life, and very complex 

emotional relations surge. Despite their physical proximity, maids and bosses are separated 

by an invisible socio-economic barrier. 

In this creative documentary, the class divide and its implications is approached from an 

intimate, personal point of view, focusing on those who choose to, or not, look each other 

in the eyes and accept each other as equals. 



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PANAMA 

Production Company: Apertura Films 

Production Contact Person: Abner Benaim 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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A MAN CAME AND TOOK HER 

Jędrzej Niestroj & Rafał Przybył 

June 14, 2002: eight-year-old Ola went missing. On this day, time stopped for the whole 

family. Despite the lack of support, the girl’s mother Dorota trusts that her daughter is alive, 

somewhere, waiting to be found. Unfortunately, some hard facts indicate that Ola has been 

brutally murdered. Seers hired by Dorota follow misleading traces, the court is helpless in 

the absence of evidence, the main suspect smiles at the camera. The search has been going 

on for seven years in an atmosphere of both hopefulness and suspicion. The film depicts 

a Polish province of the 19th century, not only through the attitude of its inhabitants 

towards the unexplained tragedy, but also through a dramatic vision of nature. 



Production Company: Kalejdoskop Film Studio 

Production Contact Person: Wojciech Szczudło 

Sales Company: Kalejdoskop Film Studio 

Sales Contact Person: Wojciech Szczudło 

ul. Chełmska 21, 

Warsaw 00724, Poland 

T. + 48 22 851 1779 

F. + 48 22 841 2135 

szczudlo@kalejdoskop.art.pl 

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Sports 

Manu and Erol, kings of Belgian wheelchair-football, had promised to lead their MEC team 

up to the 1st Division. Erol died. The film captures the intimacy of the severely disabled although 

almost like others athletes. It portrays a challenging Manu, a captain fighting 

against the wind, the tides and his myopathy to lead his ship to port. 



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BELGIUM 

MANU, HIGH ON WHEELS 

Vincent Deveux 

Production Company: Instants Production 

Production Contact Person: Vincent Deveux 



Quai des Ardennes, 16 


T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 4 340 1041 



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MANUAL ON HOW 

TO CREATE A TERRORIST 

Tereza Reichova 

In the Basque region of Navarra, the director – a stranger – stops passersby next to fragments 

of political graffiti, letting them explain what they mean and why they were 

painted. A feature-length documentary about repression, the anti-terrorist act and the 

events that happen within our common borders. 



Production Company: Studio FAMU 

Production Contact Person: Alice Tabery 

Vitezne namesti 13 

Prague 6, 160 00, Czech Republic 

T. +420 732 883 260 

tabery.alice@gmail.com 

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MARIA AND I 

Félix Fernández De Castro 

Maria lives with her mother May, in the Canary Islands, 3,000 km from Barcelona, where 

Miguel Gallardo lives. Sometimes Miguel and Maria go on holiday together, spending a 

week at a resort in Gran Canaria South; an unusual setting that doesn’t often have among 

his guests a single father who used to be a well-known underground comic books author 

and his fourteen-year-old autistic daughter. 

This is the story of one of their journeys, but above all it’s an original tale, full of humor, 

irony and sincerity, about how to live with a disability. 



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Production Company: Bausan Films, S.L. 

Production Contact Person: Loris Omedes 

Sales Company: Bausan Films, S.L. 

Sales Contact Person: Loris Omedes 

C/ Muntaner 244, 4º 2º 

Barcelona 08021, Spain 

T. +34 93 241 1511 

F. +34 93 414 1797 

comercial@bausanfilms.com 

loris@bausanfilms.com 


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MARIA’S WAY 

Anne Milne 

A woman, María, sits by the side of the road behind a rickety, homemade stall, her expression 

a blend of forbearance and exasperation. She greets passers-by and invites them 

to stop, to spend a few minutes with her as they continue on down the road. They are pilgrims 

and have a long, arduous journey ahead of them, on the ancient Camino De Santiago. 

María’s encounters with the passing strangers allow us to catch a glimpse of the modern 

pilgrim. Despite encountering some difficult pilgrims throughout her day, María nobly 

continues her task. 



Sales Contact Person: Anne Milne 

52/2 Marchmont Crescent 

Edinburgh EH9 1HE, Scotland 

T. +44 7794 709 802 

anne@annemilne.com 

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Lifestyles 

Marina Valieri, daughter of Jerome Valieri and Chariklia Cavafy, narrates her life journey, from 

the bourgeoisie of interwar Europe to rural life on the island of Lesvos in the 50s and 60s, 

to the present day. 

A life like a fairy tale, where everything you’re afraid of happens to you, but you keep on 

being optimistic. 



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GREECE 

MARINA VALIERI, 

CAVAFY’S GRAND NIECE 

Simos Korexenidis 

Production Company: Simos Korexenidis 

Sales Contact Person: Simos Korexenidis 

23 Evripidou St 


T. +30 210 213 9995 

mahi@otenet.gr 


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THE MARKET 

Rama Rau 

In India, the fishermen who witnessed the 2004 tsunami refuse to go back to the sea and 

their wives are now selling their kidneys to feed their families. Hema wants to sell her kidney 

to pay off family debts but there’s no guarantee she’ll get paid, and losing a kidney will 

undermine her ability to work. In Canada, Sandra’s kidneys are failing. She has been on a 

new kidney waiting list for 5 years. To survive, she’s on dialysis four times each day. Two 

different people. Two journeys. With one end. To find a kidney, someone has to lose one... 



Production Company: Storyline Entertainment 

Production Contact Person: Ed Barreveld 

Sales Company: Storyline Entertainment 

Sales Contact Person: Ed Barreveld 

115 Palmerston Ave. 

Toronto M6J 2J2, Canada 

T. +1 416 603 8333 

F. +1 416 603 6318 

ed@storylineentertainment.com 

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Lifestyles 

Maserati has been one of the legends of motor racing for almost a century. Through numerous 

interviews with the protagonists and witnesses of the epic deeds of Maserati, a 

unique fresco has been created with the use of rare and fascinating images from the era, 

which originate from the company’s archives, as well as spectacular images from a more 

contemporary era. Discover the history of a true standard bearer of Made in Italy products, 

in a passionate and fascinating documentary that looks towards the future. 



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ITALY 

MASERATI: HISTORY OF A LEGEND 

Nicola Nannavecchia 

Production Contact Person: Nicola Nannavecchia 





T.-F. +39 05 126 7150 



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MATCHMAKING MAYOR 

Erika Hnikova 

A situational documentary film about a village mayor trying to match local people in their 

thirties who are still single. Slowly but surely, the Slovak village Zemplínské Hámre is dying 

out. Its mayor, a retired general, doesn’t want to give up. Fighting the thirty-year-olds’ 

loneliness, he has used various means such as offering a financial reward for each newborn 

child or encouraging people on the local public address system to have children. None 

of it has worked. However, the mayor has a new plan. He decides to organize a dating party 

for singles from all the neighboring villages... 



Production Company: endorfilm s.r.o. 

Sales Contact Person: Jiri Konecny 

Primeticka 4 


T. +420 602 358 373 

F. +420 241 730 780 

jiri@endorfilm.cz 

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Sixteen-year-old Mbambu lives in the village of Kilembe, Uganda. She is an activist and 

wants to be the first in her family to get a secondary education. She decides to become a 

mountain guide to pay for her schooling. Her story is interwoven with the lives of the people 

who live at the foot of the beautiful Mountains of the Moon. They share their culture, 

customs and the problems facing their community and the humor they employ to cope. 



507 

SERBIA 

MBAMBU AND THE 

MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON 

Lucian & Natasa Muntean 

Production Company: Lunam Docs 

Production Contact Person: Natasa Muntean 


Sales Contact Person: Robin Brinter 


Amsterdam 1017PG 


T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 




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MEMORY 

Eftychia Melanitou 

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is 

secret, the rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful and everything conceals something 

else.” Italo Calvino, Invisibles Cities 

Memory, a short film of nine minutes, interferes with the city, using street images, natural 

sounds and music. The cinematographic frame pinpoints, disconnects, segregates and 

creates correlations. 

The film’s narrative relates a passage, a wandering – real and imaginary – in the Athens 

of today, the one of the past, or possibly of an Athens that is “invisible”. 



Production Company: Eftychia Melanitou 

Sales Contact Person: Eftychia Melanitou 

44 Platonos St 

Alimos 174 55, Greece 

T.-F. +210 988 6591 

melan@in.gr 

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MIEKO 

Yannis Misouridis 

In wintry Athens, a mysterious Japanese girl goes somewhere on a public bus. We look at 

her face and notice that it twitches, until a tear falls from her eye... 

But why? 



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GREECE 

Production Company: Portolanos Films 

Production Contact Person: Maria Gentekou 





T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 361 4336 

Lina.mano@gfc.gr 

www.gfc.gr 


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MILONGUEROS 

Andrea Zambelli & Andrea Zanoli 

Each night, in the historical and important milongas of Buenos Aires, the most famous old 

Milongueros explain, not only why the tango is a wonderful and sensual dance, but why 

it is also a “way of life”. 

Featuring: Alberto Dassieu, Flaco Dany, El Nene Masci, Hector “Cachirulo” Pellozo (“Cachirulo”), 

Julio Duplaa, Ricardo Suarez, Tito Roca, Tito Escarpe. 



Production Company: Pesca Production & Lab 80 film 

Production Contact Person: Emanuele Persico 

Sales Company: Pesca Production 

Sales Contact Person: Emanuele Persico 

via Borgo S. Caterina 86 

Bergamo, 24124 Italy 

T. +39 33 3849 0808, +39 035 578 1021 

F. +39 035 341 255 

emanuele@lab80.it 

www.lab80.it 

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THE MIRACLE YEAR 

Simha Lev 

Four Jewish women are getting ready for a journey. They are about to travel to Ukraine to 

visit a holy man’s grave. They believe that if they pray on his grave, all their wishes will come 

true within a year. 

These women go to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, who died 200 years ago and 

is considered to be a “Miracle Man” and founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty. This 

branch of Hasidic Judaism, which celebrates life and joy, has acquired tens of thousands 

of followers in the last ten years. When the four return to their day to day life, they have 

to find out if the miracles will happen. 

* Religion Today – International Festival of Cinema and Religion, Trento, Italy 2010 

* TRANZYT International Documentary Film Festival, Poland 2010 

* TV Broadcast: Polish Television 



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ISRAEL 

Production Company: The Communa 

Production Contact Person: Ziv Lev 

Sales Contact Person: JMT Films Distribution 


20 Bialik St. 


T. +972 52 363 3398 


www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#miracleyear 


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MISHA VS MOSCOW 

John Philp 

Having led his country into a disastrous war against Russia, Georgian president Mikheil 

“Misha” Saakashvili now finds himself ostracized by his western allies and facing demands 

at home to resign. With exclusive access to Saakashvili, his inner-circle and his most vocal 

critics, Misha Versus Moscow asks whether Saakashvili can regain his crown as the darling 

of international politics or whether the war has torpedoed for good any chance of peace 

with Russia. 



Production Company: Bad Dog Tales 



6579 Pickwick St 


T. +1 323 259 8259 

F. +1 323 474 6371 



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USA 



Modou crosses borders with an instrument as a passport: the Hang. 

This instrument is a UFO, a folly that came out of Felix’s imagination and with which it is 

quite difficult to travel incognito. 

In a workshop lost in the middle of Bern’s peaceful countryside, Modou and Felix explore 

and develop the possibilities of this instrument. 

In Paris at night, Modou experiment these new sounds during improvised concerts. Languages, 

instruments and styles try to associate their singularity. 

This is how he prepares himself for the Ramadan Nights Festival in Cairo. There, famous oriental 

and international musicians invite him to join them on stage with his mysterious instrument. 

Then comes the time of retreat. Modou takes the path to Mount Sinaï. It is a story 

between him and God. At dawn he plays him the music that has been nourished by a year 

of exchanges and encounters. 



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FRANCE 

MODOU, THE HANG PLAYER 

Mino Dutertre & Cyrille de Canson 

Production Company: FTS Productons 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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MOTHER TERESA, ONLY GOD MATTERS 

Carine Lefebvre 

The story of Mother Teresa and the Order she established in 1950 – the Missionaries of 

Charity – is known the world over: she is an icon, the very symbol of unshaken faith. It 

came therefore as a shock to the world to discover the letters she’d written to her confessors 

and spiritual fathers which reveal the endless darkness of faith she experienced for the 

greatest part of her life. Yes, her surrender to God’s will was complete – but also blind – 

since it brought her fifty years of life in shadows and darkness. Has this self-confessed spiritual 

emptiness influenced her approach to charity? 

Through the prism of her life and extracts from her letters, the film explores Mother 

Teresa’s vision of Christian charity – which is perpetuated today by the Missionaries of Charity. 

The film looks at the charity work she incarnated – a “model” radically centered on God. 









T. +33 01 7544 8080 

F. +33 01 4531 1305 



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A moving, compassionate portrayal of a mother’s desperate quest to understand the perplexing 

condition that controls her son. A journey through different countries and cultures, 

where every stopover opens a new path into the depths of autism – and places her son 

in a strikingly different perspective as it reaches the end. Autism has neither a known cause 

nor cure but it affects one child in every 150. The film deals with autism in a deeply comprehensive 

way, as the growing global issue it has become. 



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A MOTHER’S COURAGE: 

TALKING BACK TO AUTISM 

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson 

Production Company: Frontier Filmworks 

Production Contact Person: Margaret Dagmar Ericsdottir 

Sales Company: The Film Sales Company 

Sales Contact Person: Andrew Herwitz 

165 Madison Ave., Suite 601 


T. +1 212 481 5020 

F. +1 212 481 5021 

andrew.herwitz@filmsalecorp.com 



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MUGABE & THE WHITE AFRICAN 

Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson 

A South African family fights to retain possession of their farm in the face of the “Land Reform” 

programme operated by Robert Mugabe. Shot undercover, when foreign press was 

banned from the country, it offers an extraordinary glimpse into the dangerous reality of 

life in Zimbabwe. 



Production Company: Arturi Films Limited 

Production Contact Person: David Pearson 

Sales Company: HanWay Films 

Sales Contact Person: Mark Lane 

24 Hanway St 

London W1T 1UH, UK 

T. +44 207 290 0776 

F. +44 207 290 0751 

mfl@hanwayfilms.com 

www.hanwayfilms.com 

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UK 



In the late morning of January 16th 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila is murdered in his presidential 

office by a child-soldier who had become his bodyguard. We are in the Congo (former 

Zaire), the very country where four years earlier Kabila had seized power thanks to his 

army of child-soldiers, putting an end to Mobutu’s dictatorial reign of several decades. A 

few minutes later, Kabila’s assassin is shot to death as he attempts to escape from the scene 

of his crime. Later, on his dead body a letter is found signed by the Military Attaché of the 

American Embassy: “Should there be a problem, call this number”. 

Many other trails will weave a thick curtain of mystery around this murder, which, to this 

day, has not yet been solved. 



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BELGIUM - FRANCE 

MURDER IN KINSHASA 

David Forbes & Michel Noll 

Production Company: Entre chien et loup & Solferino Images 

Production Contact Person: Sebastien Delloye & Michel Noll 





T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 



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A MUSEUM IS BORN 

Anna Kesisoglou 

I was looking up at the Hadjikyriakos-Gika building at number 3 Kriezotou Street which 

had been beautifully renovated. The door was open and I entered. Boxes, paintings, sculptures, 

and workers were coming and going and among them stood the director of the Benaki 

Museum, Mr. Angelos Delivorrias. “Can I turn on my camera?” I asked. With a smile, 

he answered “yes”. And that is how I began my journey into the interwar years, together 

with the major Greek artists of that time whose works will be housed in this new museum. 



Production Contact Person: Anna Kesisoglou 

T. +30 6973 668 884 

pnasium@yahoo.com 

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THE MUSIC COURT 

Sergio Visinoni 

Gianluigi often talks about this, and he really looks amazed by a musical and social phenomenon 

that seems to defy passing time. This is the starting point of a journey into Gianluigi 

Trovesi’s music along the many years of his activity. 

Featuring: Gianluigi Trovesi, Barre Philips, Manfred Schoof, Günter “Baby” Sommer, Paolo 

Fresu, Giordano Montecchi, Gianni Coscia, Stefano Montanari. 



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ITALY 



via Pignolo 123 Bergamo 24121, Italy 

T. +39 333 849 0808, +39 035 578 1021 

F. +39 035 341 255 


www.lab80.it 


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THE MUSIC PATHWAYS OF SALONIKA 

Ciners8 

This documentary attempts to register the variety of the musical trends and new trends 

that emerge in the musical scene of Thessaloniki, a city situated at the crossroads of the 

East and the West which has always been in the vanguard of the Greek music scene. A map 

of musical groups, a network of artistically creative bands seems to exist within the urban 

area. Representatives of ten musical bands that work out of Thessaloniki speak about the 

city and the times, the era of digital reality that has begun to prevail (Internet), allowing 

musicians and performers to claim our attention and build their reputation “gratis”, thus 

altering the rules of the game. Music producers, representatives of the radio and the municipal 

authorities also express their opinions. 



Production Company: Digital Video School & Ciners8 

Production Contact Person: Dimitri Papadopoulos 

18 Valaoritou St 


T. 2310 62114, 6972 252 708, 6974 707 430 

dpapadd@gmail.com 

souvatzi@eled.auth.gr 

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Lifestyles 

Filmmaker Morgan Dews was very close to his grandmother Allis, but it wasn’t until after 

her death in 2001 that he became aware of an astounding archive she’d amassed 

throughout the 1960s. Filled with startlingly intimate and candid audio recordings detailing 

her family’s increasingly turbulent lives, the collection also contained hundreds of silent 

home movies, photographs and written journals. Using only these found materials, Dews 

has fashioned a searing family portrait that affords fly-on-the-wall access to one family’s 

struggles amid an America on the verge of dramatic transformation. 



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USA 

MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH 

Morgan Dews 

Production Company: Gigantic Pictures 

Production Contact Person: Morgan Dews 





T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 



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MY BAREFOOT FRIEND 

Seong-gyou Lee 

In Calcutta, 20 thousand feet are running tangled up, all barefoot. They are rickshaw 

pullers, slowly disappearing out of the city’s landscape. Among them are Manoj, a feeble 

young man; Mohamad, a lovely trickster; and Hussein, the street sage who knows all about 

the city. And Shallim, an ordinary man: a husband of a wife, a father of a son. For Shallim, 

an old and tired rickshaw has been the only means of hope. He’s run endless miles with 

it to save up money to buy an auto-rickshaw that will realize his dream: a house for his family. 

However, despair comes to the weakest first. Shallim’s wife is found to be seriously ill. 

His son catches swine flu while working at a factory. Hospital expenses are mounting and 

Shallim’s dream is on the verge of collapsing. Meanwhile, the trauma suffered by Manoj 

by his father’s death is revealed. Is there any hope left for barefoot Calcutta? 



Production Company: CreativEast 

Production Contact Person: Min-Chul Kim 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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Looking back on his years of living in a closed institution for people labelled mentally retarded, 

Vermont-based autistic artist Larry Bissonnette assesses this form of “apartheid” as 

“better for growing vegetables rather than people.” This documentary is filled with Bissonnette’s 

humorous yet poignant assessments of his life – growing up, his family, and creating 

art. Moving back and forth between speech, typing, and painting. Bissonnette’s wit 

and insight punctuate a day in the life of this Outsider artist, and artfully illustrate the complexities 

of expression. 

(Produced by Douglas Biklen & Zach Rossetti.) 



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MY CLASSIC LIFE AS AN ARTIST: 

A PORTRAIT OF LARRY BISSONNETTE 

Douglas Biklen & Zach Rossetti 

Production Company: Syracuse University 

Production Contact Person: Dani Weinstein 

Sales Company: Syracuse University 

Sales Contact Person: Dani Weinstein 

Institute on Communication and Inclusion, 

370 Huntington Hall 

Syracuse NY 13244 USA 

T. +1 315 443 9379 

F. +1 315 443 2274 

daweinst@syr.edu 


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MY MESSY LIFE 

Josh Freed 

Successful and highly paid people are organized and work in neat offices… or do they? 

Montreal journalist and author Josh Freed confesses to an “order disorder.” His office is an 

extraordinary mess where he claims he gets his best ideas – although everyone else wants 

him to clean it up. But should he? 

He wonders if this obsession with order isn’t overrated. In an effort to bring clutterers out 

of the closet for the first time, he has written and directed the entertaining and humorous 

documentary, My Messy Life. Does a disorderly desk really mean a disorderly mind? 

Or does an empty desk mean an empty mind? 

Starting out in his own office mess (“a fragile ecosystem”), Josh goes on an odyssey to meet 

other successful slobs and see what they have to say in defence of mess! 



Production Company: Janet Torge Prod 






T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



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Lifestyles 

MY OWN IKARIA 

Spyros Teskos 

Can an ideal society be based on love, solidarity and equity so that there will be no need 

for it to impose its will? History says no. The reality is different. An island in the Aegean Sea, 

Ikaria, has for centuries developed such social structures that would be the envy of most 

virtual communities... 

The film focuses on the “Mnemosyno” (memorial) custom observed by the villagers on 

Ikaria which is very characteristic of their culture. “The mnemosyno is the culmination of 

love, solidarity and equality,” says the main character of the film. 



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Production Contact Person: V. Fabas 





T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 361 4336 


www.gfc.gr 


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MY PERESTROIKA 

Robin Hessman 

When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of 

possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, 

Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates 

who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of 

glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid 

first- person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, 

who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where 

people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country. Engaging, funny, 

and positively inspiring, in My Perestroika politics is personal, honesty overshadows ideology, 

and history progresses one day, one life at a time. 

(A perfect film to consider for 2011 – the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR.) 



Production Company: Red Square Productions 




Sausalito CA 94965 USA 

T. +1 415 332 6471 x 200 

F. +1 415 332 6798 


info@myperestroika.com 


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Sports 

MY PLAYGROUND 

Kaspar Astrup Schröder 

Parkour is a sport on which you have to go from one point of the city to another as efficiently 

and quickly as possible, overcoming any obstacles in your way: walls, fences, 

trees, etc. This has made Parkour the urban sport and one of the most dangerous in the 

world. 

Danish film maker Kaspar Astrup Schröder directed and produced My Playground, a documentary 

on movement, tricking, freerunning and parkour, and its relation with urban 

spaces. This documentary features scenes with parkour masters Team Jiyo and interviews 

with urban planners, local politicians, architects and philosophers. 

We journey to China, the USA, Japan and Denmark with these athletes who risk their lives 

for fun. 



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DENMARK 

Production Company: Kaspar Works 

Sales Company: Objective Cinema 

Sales Contact Person: Tara Farrell 

171 Topanga, 

Topanga CA 90290 USA 

T. +1 310 933 5828 

tara@objectivecinema.net 


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MY SWEET CANARY 

Roy Sher 

Roza Eskenazi sang the way she lived: with passion, fire and love. 

This is the story of three young musicians from Greece, Turkey, and Israel, who embark on 

an exciting musical journey, to tell the story of Greece’s best-known and best-loved rebetiko 

singer for the first time on film. 

It’s a journey that will take them from Istanbul to Thessaloniki and to Athens, following the 

musical trail she left behind. Most of all, it’s a journey into a world that has largely vanished, 

but whose sounds continue to echo throughout the Mediterranean Basin. 



Production Company: Sher Film and Music 

Production Contact Person: Roy Sher 



18 Levontin St. 


T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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MYKONOS BLUES 

Omiros Evangelinos 

An interesting example is Mykonos, which par excellence combines all of the contradictions 

between the old and new way of life. 

During the cosmopolitan summer, transitory entertainment and exorbitant consumption 

reign supreme, while winter brings desolation, with no one working to restore the summer 

wounds. 

In the four months of the tourist season, local and international entrepreneurs make millions 

next to a small population of farmers, stock breeders, fishermen, craftsmen and artists 

who predominantly follow the traditional way of life. 

This society was certainly ill-prepared to handle an experiment of this magnitude: criminal 

acts against public health and the environment are being committed on this beautiful 

and cosmopolitan island. 



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Production Contact Person: Omiros Evangelinos 

Mykonos 846 00, Greece 

T. +30 6974 120 833, +30 22890 24767 

omirosastra@yahoo.com 


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Napoli Napoli Napoli is not only a portrait of the city itself, but a deep sight into its humanity, 

vital and brutal, passionate and cruel at the same time. While interviewing a group 

of female convicts in Pozzuoli State Prison, Abel Ferrara was deeply impressed by their 

statements, so harsh and fatalistic. 

He then decided to base on their life experiences three different screenplays, written by 

Peppe Lanzetta, Maurizio Braucci and Gaetano Di Vaio. 



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NAPOLI NAPOLI NAPOLI 

Abel Ferrara 

Production Company: Minerva Pictures & PFA Films & Figli del Bronx 

Sales Company: Minerva Pictures Group 

Via del circo Massimo 9 

00153 Roma Italy 

T. +39 06 842 42430 

F. +39 06 855 8105 

minerva@minervapictures.com 

www.minervapictures.com 


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NEGATIVE HISTORY 

OF HUNGARIAN CINEMA 

Gyula Nemes 

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian 

film directors. 



Production Company: Absolut Film Studio Bt. 

Production Contact Person: Gyula Nemes 

Pusztaszeri út 11-13 

Budapest 1025, Hungary 

T. +36 209 856 277 

F. +36 130 261 76 

nemes@absolutfilm.hu 

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NEL’S LOVE WILL 

André Dartevelle 

Nel tells a writer, in the early 60s, about her companion who died in 1916 in the midst of 

war, the painter-sculptor Rik Wouters. With these unpublished letters, the film gives voice 

to the woman who was the only model of her husband. In their forest village, she lived 

with Rik in a love fusion, blending art, creation, and life. World War I destroys their happiness: 

Rik is sent to the battlefield. 



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BELGIUM 

Production Company: Hallolalune Production 

Production Contact Person: Michel Khleifi 



Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles 

19 F avenue des Arts 


T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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NEUROTYPICAL 

Adam Larsen 

What is the standard that identifies one person as whole and capable and another as 

disabled and broken? 

Neurotypical parallels the lives of three individuals on the autism spectrum, each facing a 

pivotal stage of growth. Violet, 3 years old, is absorbing the sensory world and learning 

ways to navigate through it; Nicholas, a teenager, is coming to terms with his diagnosis 

and his identity; and Paula, newly diagnosed, balances her autism advocacy work with the 

demands of homeschooling her son and sorting out a disintegrating marriage. 

By exploring the behavioral and perceptual differences that autistics express, differences 

that tend to separate them from a society that both sets the standard and attempts to have 

them meet it, the definition of “normal” comes into question. Neurotypical ultimately broadens 

the concept of what it means to be human. 



Production Company: Hum Bar 

Production Contact Person: Adam Larsen 

Sales Contact Person: Adam Larsen 

1719 Sherwood Ave. SW. 

Roanoke VA 24015 USA 

T. +1 828 280 0626 

adam@neuro-typical.com 

www.neuro-typical.com 

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By questioning the new space owners, these two documentaries report on the state of contemporary 

architecture and design, enlightening the knowledge of ourselves throughout 

our environment. 

1st part: “Indoors: architects and designers” by C. Guichard shows 6 artists: Elliot Barnes, 

Frédéric Sicard, Joseph Dirand, Leiko Oshima, Isabelle Stanislas and Charles Zana, who dedicated 

their work and a great part of their life to re-designing and enchanting our habitats. 



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NEW MASTERS OF SPACE – 1ST PART 

Camille Guichard, Laure Ducaroir & Christophe Touzalin 

Production Company: Injam Production & Cap 24 





T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 

infos@widemanagement.com 



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NEW MUSLIM COOL 

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor 

Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, 

and started down a new path as a young Muslim. 

Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild 

his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through his 

uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team. 

But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 

world, and challenge himself. He starts reaching for a deeper understanding of his faith, 

discovering new connections with people from Christian and Jewish communities. 

New Muslim Cool takes viewers on Hamza’s ride through the streets, projects and jail cells 

of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places where we can 

all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing. 



Production Company: Specific Pictures 





T. +1 323 259 8259 

F. +1 323 474 6371 



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USA 



THE NEW SAINT 

Allard Detiger 

The church, army and people of Russia embrace a fallen soldier and his mother, when after 

his death the boy becomes a religious icon glorifying self-sacrifice in the battle against 

Islam. Yevgeny Rodionov was an ordinary young Russian soldier who fell in Chechnya after 

being taken prisoner and refusing to convert to Islam. He was proclaimed a martyr and 

became an unofficial saint for many Russians. 

The life of Yevgeny’s mother Lyubov underwent a radical change when her child “became” 

a saint. Unable to let go of her grief, she keeps his iconic memory alive with the support 

of Orthodox priests, biker gangs and the Russian army, which uses his legend as an example 

for young soldiers. While the saint’s mother appears on TV shows, young cadets are 

preparing to sacrifice themselves and follow in their hero’s footsteps. 



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Production Company: Volya Films 

Production Contact Person: Denis Vaslin 

Sales Contact Person: NPO/RNW Sales 





T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




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NEXT YEAR IN BOMBAY 

Jonas Pariente & Mathias Mangin 

Bene Israel is a Jewish community that settled in India over 2,000 years ago, and who only 

counts 4,000 people still living in and around Mumbai (ex-Bombay) today, a community 

that is now disappearing. 

Sharon and Sharona Galsulrkar are its last educators. Concerned for their daughters’ future, 

they are also committed to their community’s needs. Whose education will they sacrifice? 

* Mumbai Film Festival, India 2010 

* Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA 2011 

* Worldfilm Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, Estonia 2011 



Production Company: Chai Chai Films 

Production Contact Person: Jonas Pariente 

Sales Contact Person: JMT Films Distribution 


20 Bialik St. 


T. +972 52 3633 398 


www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#nextyearbombay 

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NIGGERS 

Antonio Martino 

What happens to asylum-seekers once they’ve reached the Italian shores? The tensions between 

immigrants and locals in a little village in southern Italy, which hosts one of the 

greatest transit camps in Europe, reflect the social problems growing everywhere in Italy: 

fear of diversity and poverty, alarmed reactions against the uninterrupted arrivals of so 

many people in need. 



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ITALY 

Production Company: Videoinflussi 

Production Contact Person: Antonio Martino 

Sales Contact Person: Vitagraph 




T. +39 05 126 7150 

F. +39 05 126 7150 



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NIGHTMARE IN DREAMLAND 

Edgar Wolf, Eva Grün & Adamu Adamni 

Dubai is the Gulf’s very own fairytale city, yet tales of misery lurk behind its gleaming facades. 

Many emirate families retain a housemaid, mostly from the Philippines, Ethiopia and 

elsewhere. What initially seemed to be a dream job often turns out to be the stuff of nightmares, 

with long working days, no breaks, very little food and no wages. Many of these 

young women are beaten, and even sexually assaulted by the men of the house. The investigation 

relates a tale of modern slavery. It accompanies Trungu, a young Ethiopian 

woman, as she prepares for her new job. The camera follows her as she flies to Dubai up 

until the moment her passport is taken from her upon arrival. After that, the contact with 

Trungu breaks up. Searching the city’s maze of houses and shopping malls for her, the authors 

soon find themselves being observed and hindered. 



Production Company: Berlin Producers film 





T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 



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If your neighbors were being hunted down and came to your door begging for help, would 

you risk your life to save theirs? 

This film tells the remarkable, yet little-known, story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish- 

Catholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust, while cleverly 

passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer. 

The film draws on excerpts from a diary kept by one of the survivors, Moshe Maltz, whose 

granddaughter is one of the filmmakers. It also incorporates testimonies from other Jews 

saved by Halamajowa, her descendants and former neighbors, as they reconnect on a trip 

back to Sokal. Powerful location shots add another rich dimension to the story, providing 

the backdrop as the drama unfolds. 



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USA 

NO. 4 STREET OF OUR LADY 

Barbara Bird, Judy Maltz & Richie Sherman 





T. +1 323 259 8259 

F. +1 323 474 6371 




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NOBODY IS INNOCENT 20 YEARS LATER 

Sarah Minter 

2008, Ciudad Neza and the great metropolis. The movements of Pablo “El Podrido” Hernández 

intertwine the stories of “Cienfuegos”, “Rafa Punk”, Benjamín “El Costras”, “Moroco”, 

“Búho”, and others who are no longer with us. They are all young adults between 38 and 

45. They share three things: they grew up in Ciudad Neza, they belonged to the same gang 

Los Mierdas Punk (The Punk Shits) and they all starred in the documentary Nadie es inocente 

(nobody is innocent), filmed in 1986 by Sarah Minter. Now, twenty years later, she 

shows us their current lives and their memories of the past, reconstructing their footprints 

and weaves a new visual map of the city and other geographies through these characters’ 

present as they confront their achievements, frustrations and the nostalgia for their past 

and youthful dreams. 








Mexico City 03100, México 

T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 



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Norm is a love story pure and simple. But there is nothing simple about it. 

A loving sister decides to take her older brother with Down syndrome into her home to provide 

the care and the sense of family she feels he has been denied since childhood. Like 

many aging adults living with Down syndrome, he begins to experience the symptoms of 

Alzheimer’s disease. Her greatest fears have become a reality: “What if she can’t keep him 

at home forever?” 



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NORM 

Kent Nason & Teresa MacInnes 

Production Company: Sea to Sea International Productions 

Sales Company: TVF International 

Sales Contact Person: Leila Monks 

375 City Road 

London EC1V 1NB, UK 

T. +44 207 837 3000 

F. +44 207 833 2185 

info@tvf.co.uk 


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NORTH OF CALABRIA 

Marcin Sauter 

North of Calabria is about a dream place to live, where living is easy and people know each 

other, tolerate their faults, like to meet, to talk and just be together. For one summer, Sauter’s 

film crew mingles with the inhabitants of a small town to enact an almost Italian comedy. 

It appears that all they needed was a few classes of Italian cuisine and the art of carpe 

diem to turn this Polish province into Calabria alike. A documentary midsummer night’s 

dream. 



Production Company: Studio Munka - Polish Filmmakers Association 

& Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing 






T. +48 12 294 6945 



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NOT AN ILLUSION 

Torang Abedian 

Sara is a young Iranian woman with a captivating voice who wants to be a singer. Yet according 

to the rules in the Islamic Republic of Iran, women should not sing solo in public. 

According to the clerics, God does not want to hear a woman’s voice even at prayers. But 

Sara, who used to be the champion gymnast of Iran and became disabled after a freak accident, 

is a highly motivated individual with great determination. She joins the Piccolo band 

as a backing vocalist and a co-singer. Although everything still has to be approved by the 

Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, she hopes for a better time in an explosive society 

which is confused between modernity and tradition, as the band prepares for its first 

public concert. 



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IRAN 

Production Company: nuts films 

Production Contact Person: Torang Abedian 

Tehran, Iran 

T. +98 001 822 6162 

torang@nutsfilms.com 


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LA NUEVE, THE FORGOTTEN 

MEN OF THE 9TH COMPANY 

Alberto Marquardt 

History does not always recognize true heroes. The Spanish Republican soldiers of the 9th 

company in General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division had fled their country and fought 

Nazism on the side of the Allies, yet their contribution and sacrifice had not been acknowledged. 

Yet, on August 24th 1944 they were among the first soldiers of liberated 

France to enter occupied Paris. 

Luis Royo and Manuel Fernandez are the last survivors of this epic tale. They speak of those 

years with humor and great dignity: “We did not fight for a flag, we fought for our ideals.” 









T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



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In the mountains of Hindu Kush, in Pakistan, amongst 165 million Muslims, unfolds the 

unique story of 4,000 Kalasha, an ancient Pagan tribe that worships nymphs, gods and 

fairies. Kalasha women are strong, lovable and, oddly enough, free. Shamim is the first 

woman who has managed to go to university. She dreams of working with Athanassios 

Lerounis, the president of the “Greek Volunteers” NGO, who organize developmental and 

educational projects in the region that help her tribe. But, suddenly, Athanassios is kidnapped 

by the Taliban. His abduction fills the whole Kalasha tribe with insecurity and fear. 

Everything changes. How will the Kalasha women of Hindu Kush cope with this? What will 

happen to Shamim and her dreams? 



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THE NYMPHS OF HINDU KUSH 

Anneta Papathanassiou 

Production Company: Modiano SA 

Production Contact Person: Photini Economopoulou 

Sales Company: Modiano SA 

Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT SA - 

Intl’ co-production Department 

Sales Contact Person: Photini Economopoulou, Anneta Papathanassiou, 

Ilia Papaspyrou 

73, K. Palaiologou St, Halandri 152 32, Greece 

T. +30 210 684 6398 

F. +30 210 684 4078 

info@modianotv.gr 

anpap@otenet.gr 

ipapaspyrou@ert.gr 


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THE OATH 

Laura Poitras 

An extraordinary inside view of militant Islamism. A quietly disturbing, often complex portrait 

of an Al Qaeda insider and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, The Oath offers a chilling preview 

of emerging Middle East battleground Yemen and poignantly questions American 

policies over the past decade in the Middle 

East. The Oath tells the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim 

Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the first man to face the controversial 

military tribunals. 



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USA 

Production Company: Praxis Films 

Production Contact Person: Laura Poitras 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS 

Xiaolei Zheng 

There are more than 2,500 pensioners living in a large private retirement home located in 

a suburb of Canton (Guangzhou), China. As we discover the daily lives of these old people, 

the film focuses on the lives of two elderly ladies: Ms. Kuang and Ms Xie. As they are both 

counting the last days of their lives, one is worrying about her sick father and the other about 

her distant son. Our camera will reveal how today’s urban China can be reflected by the story 

of these two heroines who find themselves away from their families, in a retirement home. 

Here, in the wake of serious health considerations, they have to build new relationships, define 

a new rhythm to their daily life and invent new ways to be with others. 



Production Company: Solferino Images & Guangzhou TV 






T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 


www.ictv.fr 

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OFFSIDE 

Reyan Tuvi 

Offside is the story of two young, illegal African immigrants who left their country to come 

to Turkey, hoping to be successful football players. The paths of Taju and Rachid, who are 

both Nigerian, cross in İstanbul. 

While Taju (TJ) dreams of becoming a member of a 3rd league football team, he spends 

his days working to make a living in a small barber shop in Kumkapı, a district where many 

illegal immigrants from different countries live. 

Rachid (Ade), who unlike Taju has come to the realization that he will not be able to realize 

his dream of becoming a football player in Turkey, tries to find ways to go to Europe, 

to join his English girlfriend Diane whom he has met on the Internet. 

Their plans are suddenly shattered when their teammate Okute (Festus Okey) is killed in 

police custody. This event leaves them with many questions about the future. 

As their shared passion for football brings them closer, it also forces them apart. Eventually 

each chooses his own way... 



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TURKEY 

Production Company: Ominira 

Sales Company Person: Reyan Tuvi 

Prof. Dr. Tarik Zafer Tunaya sok. No:7/4 

Beyoglu 

Istanbul 34427, Turkey 

T. +90 532 332 2935 

reyantuvi@gmail.com 


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OHAD NAHARIN – OUT OF FOCUS 

Tomer Heymann 

A month before their New York premiere, groundbreaking choreographer Ohad Naharin is 

working with the Cedar Lake Company on a selection of his world known works. 





18 Levontin St 


T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 


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The third film in Julien Temple’s trilogy (The Filth and the Fury, Joe Strummer: The Future 

Is Unwritten) about the British music culture of the 70s features Dr Feelgood, four men in 

cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island and sandpapered the face of rock ’n’ roll. Featuring 

contributions from members of The Clash, Blondie and the Sex Pistols. 



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UK 

OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL 

Julien Temple 

Production Company: Cadiz Music Limited 

Production Contact Person: Stephan Malit 


Sales Contact Person: Fabien Westerhoff & Mark Lane 

24 Hanway Street 


T. +44 207 290 0776 

F. +44 207 290 0751 

fw@hanwayfilms.com 




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ON RUBIK’S ROAD 

Laila Pakalnina 

If the entire world can be reflected in a single drop of dew (and it can!), then why couldn’t 

it fit onto a single bicycle road in Latvia? A film about a world that walks, runs, crawls, 

sits, rides, flies; and falls. A world alive. 



Production Company: Hargla Company 

Production Contact Person: Laila Pakalnina 

Valtaiku 19 

Riga 1029, Latvia 

T. +371 292 356 180 

laila.pakalnina@inbox.lv 

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ON THE ROAD 

Leszek Dawid 

A road movie in which the director, driving across the country, picks up hitch-hikers. A 

patchwork of their stories, fears and dreams combined with the changing landscapes outside 

the car creates a picture of mankind which is still on the road. 



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POLAND 

Production Company: Anagram Film 

Production Contact Person: Anna Pachnicka 





T. +48 12 294 6945 




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ONE DAY LESS 

Dariela Ludlow 

Carmen (84) and Emeterio (97) are an elderly couple living out their last years in their home 

in Acapulco, the house they built with their own hands. Time seems to stand still for them; 

no day is more or less special than the one before. All they can do is wait. Carmen and Eme 

survive together and, as every New Year’s eve, they expect their family’s visit. 









T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 



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Stories of encounters and separations in a dividing frontier wall that impedes families, 

friends and lovers to touch and kiss each other. In some cases, the wall does not obstruct 

human contact, while in some other cases it presents itself as a metaphor of division in human 

relationships. 



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ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS 

David Pablos 

Production Company: IMCINE 

Sales Contact Person: Angelica Ramirez 


T. +52 55 5448 5337 

aramirez@imcine.gob.mx 



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ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT: 

A TEN THOUSAND POUND LOVE STORY 

Lisa Leeman 

Where does an elephant go after a life in the circus? Sixteen years have passed since David 

Balding adopted Flora, the orphaned baby African elephant he lovingly raised as part of 

his family and made the star of his circus. Now an adult animal, he realizes that she is not 

happy performing. The road to Flora’s retirement, however, is a difficult and emotional journey 

which tests their bond in unexpected ways. Ten years in the making, One Lucky Elephant 

explores the consequences of keeping wild animals in captivity, while never losing 

sight of the delicate love story at its heart. 



Production Contact Person: Cristina Colissimo & Jordana Glick-Franzheim 





T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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ONE OF SEVEN 

Goel Pinto 

One of Seven is a fascinating journey along journalist and film critic Goel Pinto’s life stations. 

Goel, born to an Oriental religious family, one of seven children, in the ultra-Orthodox city 

of Bnei Brak. Going back to his childhood memories, the director, along with his mother 

Monique, peel off the layers of his past, in order to get to the root of the lack of identity 

that accompanies him. He tries to reconcile the different elements that shape his being: 

religion, ethnicity, homosexuality and the memory of the Holocaust. 

* Documentary Competition: Cape Winelands Film Festival 2011, South Africa 

* Fipatel: FIPA International Film Festival 2011, Biarritz, France 

* Haifa Film Festival 2010, Israel 

TV Broadcast: Channel 8, Israel (Noga Communications) 



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ISRAEL 

Production Company: Goel Pinto 

Production Contact Person: Goel Pinto 



20 Bialik St 

Tel Aviv, 63324 Israel 

T. +972 52 363 3398 


www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#oneofseven 


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ONLY THE WORDS CONTINUE 

Kalliopi Legaki 

It was in the winter of 2010, at the “Dasein” bar in the Exarcheia district of Athens, that the 

Confession Session project began. It all started with an idea by Alkis Gounaris, who invited 

52 of the bar’s regulars to confess personal stories. These stories went online and also became 

the material for this documentary. In front of the camera, words, phrases and people 

take on an added gravity. They reveal feelings, thoughts, pursuits and decisions that 

have played a decisive role in each person’s life. By filming people’s confessions, we chart 

their inner world – a world which has been forgotten in the din and alienation of modern-day 

cities. 



Production Company: Portolanos Films & Alkis Gounaris 


120, Agiou Eleftheriou St 

Piraeus 185 41, Greece 

T. +30 210 483 3515 

F. +30 213 030 2506 

portolan@hol.gr 

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Art, Culture & Music 

Operetta, Your Inner World portrays the magic world of the Greek operetta through the 

words of leading figures of the theater and music, as well as people who simply love the 

operetta. These interviews, intercut with images and musical excerpts from exceptional performances, 

take us back to a time of innocence and romance. Director George Danopoulos 

is a sound engineer for the Greek National Opera and has taken part in over 700 operetta 

performances during the last 10 years. Enchanted by this musical genre, he depicts 

his own theatrical experience and through images, interviews and theatrical excerpts, he 

creates a cinematic fresco of the 100-year-long history of the Greek operetta. The final target 

of the director remains the heart of the audience: to get closer to the operetta by a work 

of simple technique, but full of artistic feeling and devoted passion. 



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GREECE 

OPERETTA, YOUR INNER WORLD 

Yorgos Danopoulos 

Production Company: G.D. 

Production Contact Person: Giorgos Danopoulos 

5, Ko Str. 


T. +30 6945 244 250 

gdanopoulos@otenet.gr 


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ORCHIDS – MY INTERSEX ADVENTURE 

Phoebe Hart 

“Hermaphrodite” is a word used to describe Phoebe, a woman with a man’s chromosomes. 

Wherever possible, Phoebe actively seeks to disrupt the cataloguing with as much honesty 

and humor as she can. In her film Orchids she comes clean on her journey of self-discovery 

to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding 

her intersex condition. Despite her mother’s refusal to be in the film, Phoebe hits the 

road... 



Production Company: Hartflicker Moving Pictures 

Production Contact Person: Phoebe Hart 




Zürich 8050, Switzerland 

T.-F. +41 44 312 2060 



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Lifestyles 

Mr. Liang has a passion for cooking. Aged around 60, he is today the owner of two restaurants 

and an organic farm in the rich Southern Province of Guangdong, China. A few years 

ago, he converted his farm to an organic holding and it became a modest success. Encouraged 

by this experience, he bought a huge restaurant, seating 500 people, right in the 

heart of the province’s capital, the city of Canton. He attempts to convert this one also into 

an organic restaurant, but in Canton competition is fierce. Mr Liang’s ideals and his absolute 

quest for a healthier way of life have not yet made his Canton business a profitable one. 

Many still doubt the pertinence of the concept and keep resisting it… 



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ORGANIC, AGAINST ALL ODDS 

Shi Wei 

Production Company: Solferino Images & CCIC & Guangzhou 

Documentary Association & China Screen 


Sales Company: ICTV (Rest of the World) 




T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 


www.ictv.fr 


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OUR LANGUAGE 

Elisavet Laloudaki & Massimo Pizzocaro 

In the Eastern Peloponnese, in a remote region in the shadow of Mt Parnon, live the Tsakonians, 

a stubborn group of native Greeks. For the past 3,000 years they have been speaking 

an ancient dialect, the only surviving example of a Doric language. They never abandoned 

it, not even when the Attic-based Koiné (from which Modern Greek derives) 

became the first common dialect of all Greeks and the lingua franca of the entire Mediterranean. 

Having survived for a great many centuries, the Tsakonian dialect entered a period 

of neglect in the 1960s, and may currently be approaching its end. The national language 

was imposed through compulsory schooling, roads were opened for the first time, tourists 

began to arrive, many locals emigrated or took to the sea. Now the time has come to face 

a simple truth: when you lose your language, you lose your world. Tsakonian is not unique 

in this respect. According to the UN, half of the languages spoken today face the same threat 

of extinction and oblivion. This film is about the loss of identity: what it means to know 

that your language will have vanished in a hundred years’ time. 



Production Company: HappyAnt TV 

Production Contact Person: Elisavet Laloudaki 

T. +30 201 341 2687 

eli@happyant.tv 

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Lifestyles 

The life and viewpoint of the farmers of Southern Baja California, Mexico, told through people 

who are as interesting as they are unknown, living in remote and isolated parts of the 

desert, facing the changes in their current reality. 



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MEXICO 

THE OTHER CALIFORNIANS 

César Talamantes 







T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 




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THE OTHER CHELSEA – 

A STORY FROM DONETSK 

Jakob Preuss 

Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the 

run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide 

you are on, coming from Donetsk you will almost certainly be an opponent of the Orange 

Revolution and a fan of the local football team, Shakhtar Donetsk. Billionaire Akhmetov 

invests heavily in the club, which is becoming a major European force during the season 

followed by the film. Yet this sporting success funded by an Oligarch fortune only seems 

to highlight the wider social and political stagnation of the region. Off the pitch, the outlook 

appears bleak... 



Production Company: Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH 

Production Contact Person: Stefan Kloos 





T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 


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THE OTHER TOWN 

Nefin Dinç 

Why do neighbors fight? Why do the world’s ethnic or religious groups experience mutual 

hatred and suspicion? The documentary film The Other Town, explores the negative 

feelings of a Greek town, Dimitsana, and a Turkish town, Birgi, towards the Other. Bitter sentiments 

and prejudices are widespread in both societies. Locals of all ages are caught in a 

web of stereotypes that impedes bilateral relationships between Turkey and Greece. Similar 

situations exist in many other societies around the world. 

The Other Town examines the key issues of why peace is sometimes so difficult to achieve, 

and why hate is constantly reproduced in public life. While visiting the two towns and talking 

with the inhabitants during the span of a year, the documentary’s makers come to understand 

that bad relations between the two nations exist not so much due to their turbulent 

past, but due to contemporary nationalistic mentalities and education. 



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TURKEY 

Production Company: Atlantik Film 

Production Contact Person: Nefin Dinç 

Sales Company: Atlantik Film 

Sales Contact Person: Claudine Avetyan 

Ust Zeren sokak, no:2 34330 


T. + 90 212 278 3611 

F. + 90 212 278 1971 

dinc@theothertown.com 

www.theothertown.com 


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OTHER WOMEN’S NARRATIVES 

Maria Pesli 

Other Women’s Narratives is a collaborative creative documentary, inspired by the tradition 

of participatory video. On the theme of foreignness and migration, it employs the personal 

narratives of Aferdita Çako and Manjola Milla (from Albania) and Svetlana Blakhina (from 

Belarus), who have lived in Greece for the past 12-15 years. Drawing upon their names, 

jobs and habits, the work recomposes thoughts and feelings of their daily living, in an effort 

to trace changes of their identity as it is being shaped miles away from their native 

countries. What is remarkable in this documentary is the fact that all three women participated 

actively in almost all production phases. Working closely with the director Maria 

Pesli, they took lessons on filmmaking literally on the road, and managed to shoot their 

stories themselves. 



Production Contact Person: Maria Pesli 

3, Aischylou St 

Pireaus 185 33, Greece 

T. +30 6973 042 133, +30 210 412 7295 

mpesli@gmail.com 

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Three Roma (Gypsy) children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to 

desegregate the local school, struggling against indifference, tradition and bigotry with humor, 

optimism and sass. Shot over four years in an unflinching yet intimate visual style 

characteristic of the new Romanian naturalistic cinematography, Our School is a bittersweet 

story about hope and race, and an elegy about generational prejudice and squandered 

opportunities. 



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OUR SCHOOL 

Mona Nicoara & Miruna Coca-Cozma 

Production Company: Sat Mic Film 

Production Contact Person: Mona Nicoara 

124 First Place 


T. +1 917 574 2329 

mona.nicoara@gmail.com 


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OUT OF CONCRETE 

Vana Alexopoulou 

For many people, camping is an “outdoor recreational activity during which the participants 

(known as campers) leave urban areas, their home and civilization, and enjoy nature while 

spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite” (Wikipedia). But what exactly 

is “free camping” and what are the real reasons behind it? Is it just an alternative way 

of vacationing or is there also a political aspect to it? Do campers really leave behind civilization 

or do they just recreate another form of it? 

Out of Concrete is a film that explores a different point of view of what camping can be, 

walking with the campers along the cliff, drinking coffee with them and traveling through 

beautiful scenery. 



Production Contact Person: Vana Alexopoulou 

5, An. Romilias St 

Athens Greece 

T. +30 6973 786 289 

vialexopoulou@yahoo.gr 

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GREECE 



OUT OF REACH 

Jakub Stozek 

Karolina and Natalia seek refuge from their domineering father and reminisce about their 

sad childhood without a mother in a basement of a block of flats. When the younger sister’s 

poor eyesight starts to deteriorate, the girls decide to find Bożena, their mother, who 

left the family when they were young. The director, Jakub Stożek, accompanies Karolina 

on her journey to Paris where the older sister is supposed to meet the mother, whom the 

girls know only from the voice message left on the phone she never answers. Will the 

daughter be able to establish a bond with the mother she has not seen for fourteen years? 



526 

POLAND 

Production Company: Darklight Film Studio 

Production Contact Person: Anna Zajaczkowska 





T. +48 12 294 6945 




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OUT OF ROUND: WHAT IS BEHIND? 

Jaro Vojtek 

After the festival success of his films Here We Are and The Border, documentary filmmaker 

Jaro Vojtek returns with the short social documentary Out of Round. The main protagonist 

is a Roma man called Jožo/Fero whose addiction has taken everything from him and 

pushed him and his family to the edge of society. Marked by difficult fate, he is still an eternal 

child whose best friend is Nemo the dog. Despite his primary backwardness, he feels 

mentally superior to other members of his family and is the only one who makes an effort 

to return to normal life. 



Production Company: Ugly Agency & Production 

Kresankova 13 

Bratislava 840000, Slovakia 

T. +421 905 648 024 

jarovojtek@gmail.com 

390 

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SLOVAK REPUBLIC 



The documentary Ovriokastro is a 2010 production, funded by Local Government and the 

Municipality of Keratea. It presents people who represent the community of Keratea and 

reveals the identity of the residents in the area who for 15 years have been fighting for a 

better and more civilized quality of life. In 1995, when the people of Keratea learnt that 

the archaeological site of Ovriokastro was to become a landfill, they strongly objected and 

produced for the state all the evidence prohibiting the location of a landfill in the area. The 

documentary reveals the untrustworthy attitude towards the community adopted by 

governments over the last 15 years and presents the people of Keratea’s methodical and 

determined stand. 



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GREECE 

OVRIOKASTRO KERATEAS 

Christos Akridas 

Production Contact Person: Michalis Lykoudis 


T. +30 6979 981 284 

lykoudim@otenet 


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PACKAGING 

Antoine Laguerre 

Packaging was born during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Today it has become 

an instrument of communication. Now, to buy “good”, you have to buy “beautiful”. 

From Paris to New York, this documentary shows designers who explain how packaging 

now acts as a promise of quality of the product in our modern society. 



329 

FRANCE 

Production Company: Injam Production 

Production Contact Person: Marc Andreani 





T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 




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THE PAINTER SAM F RANCIS – 

A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTISTE 

Jeffrey Perkins 

Forty years in the making, The Painter Sam Francis is artist Jeffrey Perkins’ lyrical and intimate 

portrait of a friend, mentor, and leading light of American abstract art. The film retraces 

Francis’ life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in 

post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his return to the United States. Hinging on an 

interview that Perkins conducted with Francis in 1973, as well as extended scenes of the 

artist at work in the studio, the film provides deep insight into a man for whom creativity 

was a powerful life-sustaining force. Interviews with friends, family, and fellow artists – 

including Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Bruce Conner, Alfred Leslie, and others – illuminate a 

mysterious and complex personality, and its reflection in a body of work that is simultaneously 

diverse and singular. For Francis, art was a path to transcendence; for Perkins, Francis 

was art. The Painter Sam Francis is a labor of love, a moving portrait of a man, and a 

tribute to the power of art. 



Production Company: Body & Soul Productions 





T. + 33 1 4874 4377 

F. + 33 1 4874 8265 



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575 

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THE PALACE 

Ioannis Roumeliotis 

Six men from Pakistan live and work cut off from society for the past seven years on a deserted, 

rocky island in Greece. They are working on a fish farm and are waiting for the moment 

when they will have collected the money they need, so that they and their families 

can have a better life back home. The Palace is the metaphorical meaning of the dream, 

the time spent realizing it. The poetical recording of time, of images, of sounds and objects, 

behaviors and situations as they occurred. 



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GREECE - GERMANY 

Production Contact Person: Ioannis Roumeliotis 

Sales Contact Person: Ioannis Roumeliotis 

67, Kottbusser Damm 


T. +49 30 5595 8780 

zariinberlin@yahoo.gr 


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PALINDROME 

Roger Villarroya 

When we depend on the others. 



Production Company: Mailuki Films 

Production Contact Person: Eduardo M. Escribano 

Sales Contact Person: Eduardo M. Escribano 

4 Villarias St, 3A 

Bilbao, Spain 

T. +34 650 761 484 

escribanosolera@mac.com 

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An atypical figure in Belgium and in the Congo. He was the first Congolese to have pursued 

advanced studies in Belgium in the 20th century. Appointed agricultural agent, he 

returned to the Congo as the first black Belgian civil servant. He suffered from exclusion 

and renounced his career. A volunteer in 1914, he was taken prisoner and spent his captivity 

in Germany. After the war, he devoted his energy to promoting equality between 

whites and blacks. 



558 

BELGIUM 

PANDA FARNANA. 

AN UNSETTLING CONGOLESE 

Françoise Levy 

Production Company: Memento Production 

Production Contact Person: Françoise Levy 




Quai des Ardennes 

Liège 16 4020, Belgium 

T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 4 340 1041 



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PARADISE HOTEL 

Sophia Tzavella 

The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block on the outskirts of a 

provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. Twenty-five years ago it had all it took 

to be considered a socialist heaven: from parquet floors to intercom, an exemplary central 

hot water system, street lamps, benches where one could sit and listen to the rustling apple 

trees. Someone called the place Paradise Hotel – and the name stuck. But as time went 

by, the building changed. The parquet disappeared. The water was cut off. The lights 

went out. But each of its 1,500 residents has a plan of getting back the dream of Paradise 

Lost. And if you cross the field behind the Paradise Hotel, where heaven and earth meet, 

you will see Bozhidar “the God Given”, who protects everyone from evil and excessive happiness, 

in a documentary about social integration, love, poverty, countless dreams, some 

song lyrics and one gypsy wedding. 



Production Company: Agitprop Ltd. 

Production Contact Person: Martichka Bozhilova 

Sales Contact Person: Martichka Bozhilova 

68, Budapest str., ap.1 


T. +359 888 579 959 

F. +359 298 319 29 

producer@agitprop.bg 

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PEACE 

Kazuhiro Soda 

What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the bases for them? 

Peace is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates these 

questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where 

life and death, acceptance and rejection are intermingled. 

Three people and stray cats are the main characters. 

Toshio Kashiwagi runs an affordable taxi service for the disabled and the elderly, having 

retired as a principal at a special school. Meanwhile, he feeds a group of stray cats everyday. 

However, there is a growing tension in the cats’ peaceful community because a male 

“thief cat,” an outsider, is trying to invade it. Toshio’s wife, Hiroko Kashiwagi, runs a nonprofit 

organization, which sends home helpers to houses of the elderly and the disabled. 

But her organization is facing financial difficulties because of budget cuts from the government. 

At home, she has been grumbling about the way Toshio feeds his cats... 



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JAPAN - USA - SOUTH KOREA 

Prosuction Company: Laboratory X 

Sales Company: Laboratory X, inc. 

Sales Contact Person: Kiyoko Kashiwagi 

25-90, 35th Street #4H 

Astoria NY 11103 USA 

T. +1 917 586 8620 

kiyoko@laboratoryx.us 


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THE PEASANT AND THE PRIEST 

Esther Podemski 

The Peasant and the Priest tells the story of two Italian men in their eighties whose ways 

of life have survived from medieval Italy to the present. Sergio, a Tuscan sharecropper, uses 

ancient farming methods that have become overshadowed by corporate agriculture. Father 

Oreste fights the tide of sexual slavery, which grows each day as more and more 

women from Africa and Europe are forced into prostitution in Italy. Each man tries to make 

his contribution to a globalized world that moves relentlessly and carelessly forward. 

Podemski’s film offers a re-reading of this much-loved region, a landscape shaped and continually 

transformed by co-existing extremes of human labor, cultivation, and exploitation. 

The point of departure for exploring these parallel lives is a 14th-century fresco, The Allegory 

of Good and Bad Government, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The mural tells a timeless, cautionary 

tale of the struggles necessary to establish and maintain social justice. 



Production Company: Always at Sea Productions 

Production Contact Person: Esther Podemski 

Sales Company: Always at Sea Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Esther Podemski 

128 St Marks Avenue, #2 

Brooklyn NY 11217 USA 

T. +1 718 857 8375 

F. +1 718 753 8789 

epodemski@verizon.net 

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PELICAN’S WATCH 

Lea Binzer 

A small community on the island of Santorini has a unique duty: that of preserving the tradition 

of vine growing. We follow two vine growers and one wine maker, during a year of 

work in the vineyards and the winery. Nikos Pelekanos, Christos Dalmiras and Paris Sigalas 

are facing issues, due not only to the current financial climate: the Santorini vineyard may 

be the oldest in Europe, but it is threatened with extinction, compromised by the more profitable 

and ever-growing activity of construction and tourism. In the end, and despite all 

obstacles, the community achieves a harmonious coexistence through a commonly shared 

reality: that of vine growing and wine drinking. 



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GREECE 

Production Company: studioCrocus 

Production Contact Person: Lea Binzer 

Sales Company: studioCrocus 

Sales Contact Person: Lea Binzer & Nico Manessis 

P.O. Box 163, Emporeio 

Santorini 84 703, Greece 

T. +30 22860 83194 

lea@studiocrocus.com 


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PEOPLE I COULD 

HAVE BEEN AND MAYBE AM 

Boris Gerrets 

What would it be like, to enter into the life of a complete stranger? People I Could Have Been 

and Maybe Am evolved from two chance encounters in the streets of London. Its protagonists 

are Sandrine, an attractive young woman from Brazil on a mission to find a husband, 

Steve, a seasoned beggar, whose life is a continuous struggle with drug addiction, and Precious, 

a poet who became Steve’s girlfriend. The stories of these three characters emerge from 

the coarse anonymity of the city, and were shot entirely on a mobile phone camera. The filmmaker 

mostly remains off screen while he struggles to determine his own role between observer 

and participant. Originally begun as a documentary project, the film soon developed 

its own distinct dynamic where the confines between fact and fiction became blurred. 

Questions arise. Questions about the relationship between filmed and filmmaker and about 

real and imagined realities. There is a paradoxical sense of failure: the closer he gets to his subjects, 

the more the obstruction of his camera seemed to distance him from them. Yet ultimately, 

and perhaps unexpectedly, People... reveals a personal, humane and fragile space that 

only came into existence precisely because it had been filmed. 



Production Company: Pieter van Huystee Film & Pippacine 

Production Contact Person: Pieter van Huystee 



463 Russell Court, Wobum Place 


T. +3934 7627 3390, +3876 5906 583 



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PERA BEAUTY 

Soner Sevgili 

Pera Beauty is a documentary inspired from a story of two women, Laterna and Nilüfer 

Saltık. Laterna is a coy lady bearing pictures of beautiful ladies on her chest. After hearing 

Laterna’s voice once, Nilüfer bonded with her insolubly, and took her back to her homeland. 

This film documents the resurrection and reintroduction of the laterna, a mechanical 

barrel piano that was once a common sight in Istanbul. Even though the laterna was 

born in Europe, it had its golden age in Istanbul between 1850 and 1950, becoming an 

indispensable element at the celebrations of the city’s Greek community. With the advent 

of the gramophone and the radio, the popularity of this fascinating instrument waned, and 

as the last craftsmen died, it seemed destined to disappear forever. Ηalf a century later, 

Nilüfer Saltık meets Greek piano maker Panos Ioannidis and he agrees to build the first new 

laterna. Its name was to be “Pera Beauty”. Through a series of street performances and 

recordings, the laterna has been given a new lease on life. 



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TURKEY 

Production Company: Z. Muzik 

Production Contact Person: Nilufer Saltik 

IMC 6, Block 6609, Unkapani 


T. +90 21 2512 6673 

F. +90 21 2528 1134 

saltik@gmail.com 


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PERFORMANCE 

Nikos Alevras 

The Small Experimental Theater Group of Penteli, Athens, and its Special Education Workshop 

Margarita, put on a theater play inspired by the Japanese fairy tale The Maiden with 

the Wooden Bowl. While shooting the rehearsals, the efforts of the children and the performance 

itself, we came to realize once more that the independence, the autonomy and 

finally the uniqueness that we all nurture, bears the authenticity that leads us to the Truth, 

aiming at Harmony and Happiness... 



Production Company: Panos Kekas 

Sales Contact Person: Panos Kekas 

13 Tassopoulou St 


T. 210 639 4933 

panfilm@otenet.gr 

404 

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GREECE 




It is the last days of the summer holidays. A grandfather, who works in the Bieszczady 

Mountains, awaits the arrival of his grandson. Surrounded by wild nature they try to reach 

an understanding of each other. The camera keenly observes, with a slow and subtle pace, 

their developing relationship to one another and to the world that envelops them. 



522 

POLAND 

A PIECE OF SUMMER 

Marta Minorowicz 

Production Company: Studio Munka – Polish Filmmakers Association, 

Film Studio Krkonika, TVP S.A. 

Production Contact Person: Liwia Madzik 





T. +48 12 294 6945 




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PINK SARIS 

Kim Longinotto 

At the heart of Pink Saris are the four young women who we meet when they come to 

Sampat for help. They are all at a great crisis in their lives and see Sampat as their last hope. 

We watch their stories unfold; we know they are stories which are being played out 

countless times across India. Change is a subtle, shifting thing. It needs people like Sampat 

to stand out and defy superstition and tradition. But it happens in countless other, often 

hidden, ways: in families, in villages, in cities all over the world. Pink Saris is a reflection 

of that longing for change. 



Production Company: Vixen Films 

Production Contact Person: Kim Longinotto 

Sales Company: Vixen Films 

Sales Contact Person: Kim Longinotto 

26 Balfour Road, 

London N5 2HE, UK 

T. +44 207 359 7368 

F. +44 207 226 7874 

tg@tgraham.demon.co.uk 

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THE PIPE 

Risteard O Domhnaill 

A village on the magnificent coast of Ireland is attacked by the Shell oil company. They want 

to build a gas pipe through their community. 

The village fights back. This is their story. 

A compelling, challenging, provocative, first-rate film over 4 years in the making. (Reviews 

in Screen, Variety, and TimeOut.) 

Running time: 60΄ & 83΄ 


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IRELAND 

Production Company: Scannain Inbhear 

Production Contact Person: Risteard O Domhnaill 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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PIT NO. 8 

Marianna Kaat 

In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs – retirees, unemployed 

miners and even the children. Years ago, the town’s desperate residents decided 

to start mining illegally; they excavate everywhere. The story focuses on the Sikanov 

family, which has three children. Fifteen-year-old Yura, the grandson of a powerful Soviet 

plant director, is the head of the family working as a miner in the illegal pit. More than anything, 

Yura wants to run his own cafe somewhere far from home, but the responsibility for 

his two sisters and the looming economic crisis pushes his dreams into the distant future. 



Production Company: Baltic Film Production & Interfilm Production Studio 

Production Contact Person: Marianna Kaat 



Marienplatz 1 

Leipzig 04103, Germany 

T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 



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The Galata bridge in Istanbul is a cosmos of its own. Between shops, restaurants and tourists 

we meet people for whom the bridge is home, hope and their purpose in life. There is 

restaurant owner Kemal; Gaffur and Erkan, who work in the kitchen at the restaurant next 

door; the paper collectors Bayram and Erdogan; Sadiye, who there to fish since her husband 

died; and Ömer, the director and secret king of the bridge. Florian Thalhofer has been 

engaged with non-linear storytelling for more than a decade. For this cross-media project 

on the microcosm of Istanbul’s Galata bridge, he teamed up with Turkish filmmaker 

Berke Baş. 



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GERMANY 

PLANET GALATA – 

A BRIDGE IN ISTANBUL 

Florian Thalhofer & Berke Baş 

Production Company: Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH 

Production Contact Person: Stefan Kloos 





T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 



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PLANET KIRSAN 

Magdalena Pieta 

Thirteen-year-old Alehan and his brother Amir spend several hours everyday hunched over 

a chessboard. It’s Alehan’s biggest dream to become the next World Chess Champion. The 

first step on the way to becoming a grandmaster is a tournament in Chess-City. The 

event. Full of young players, it allows us to see the actors and creators while also exposing 

the mechanisms behind the Kalmykian chess fairytale. For Alehan it’s a chance to examine 

his dreams more closely. Ilyumzhinov’s revolution was supposed to transform the 

whole republic, but can it even change the life of just one small boy? 



Production Company: Eureka Media 

Production Contact Person: Krzysztof Kopczynski 





T. +48 12 294 6945 



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POLAND 



In the middle of the Pacific, the Polynesian islands are scattered throughout a huge triangle, 

the 3 points of which are Hawaii, the Easter Islands and New Zealand. These islands 

are inhabited by a single people, the Polynesians. Where did they come from? From South 

America – or from Asia? How could people without maps or compass colonize this vast 

ocean? This mystery has always fascinated travelers. In the 20th century, many sailors and 

scientists of every nationality set off to solve the enigma: Eric de Bisschop, Francis Cowan, 

David Lewis, James Siers... 



371 

FRANCE 

POLYNESIAN ODYSSEY 

Olivier Comte 







T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 




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PORTRAIT OF A MAN 

Visa Koiso-Kanttila 

Portrait of a Man is a rough but beautiful documentary film about the crisis of a man in 

his forties and his desire for a better life; its a story of parenthood, alcohol, a Finnish man 

and his desire for love. Portrait of a Man is also an unusually intimate depiction of the relationship 

between the father and his son. Despite the seriousness of the topic, Portrait of 

a Man includes black humor and situational comedy. 

Portrait of a Man is the final film of Visa Koiso-Kanttila’s manhood trilogy (Father to Son 

[2004] and A Winter’s Journey [2007]). 



Production Company: Guerilla Films 

Production Contact Person: Iiris Härmä 



Marienplatz 1 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 



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1992. Manolo and Lalo, obsessed with the terror cult-film Alucarda, which they say is a 

representation of their lives, try in vain to get a copy. Dutring their search, they find the film’s 

director, Juan Lopez Moctezuma, in a mental hospital suffering from amnesia. They kidnap 

him for three days. They show him his films and take him to the filming locations. Thus 

he regains his memory. To repay them, he makes them the heirs of his work. 



320 

MEXICO 

PORTRAIT OF A VAMPIRE 

Ulises Guzmán 







T.-F +52 55 5448 5345 




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POSITION AMONG THE STARS 

Leonard Retel Helmrich 

For tweleve years, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich has followed an Indonesian family 

from the slums of Jakarta. Just as in his previous two multiple award-winning documentaries 

The Eye of the Day and The Shape of the Moon, in Position among the Stars, Retel continues 

to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. He presents this both literally 

and metaphorically with his revolutionary camera work. His intimate access to the 

Indonesian Sjamsuddin family provides viewers with a microcosm depicting the most important 

issues of life in Indonesia today: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling 

addiction, the generation gap, and the growing difference between poor and rich. One does 

not have to have seen Retel’s previous films to fully enjoy Position among the Stars. 



Production Company: Scarabee Films 

Production Contact Person: Hetty Naaijkens & Retel Helmrich 





T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 



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Praying with Lior introduces Lior Liebling, also called “the little rebbe”. Lior has Down syndrome 

and has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. Is he a “spiritual genius” 

as many 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 life spent “praying with Lior”. The 

movie poses difficult questions such as what is “disability” and who really talks to God? 



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PRAYING WITH LIOR 

Ilana Trachtman 

Production Company: Ruby Pictures, Inc. 

Production Contact Person: Ilana Trachtman 

Sales Company: Smiley Film Sales 

Sales Contact Person: Ewa Bigio, Go Eun Yoon 

PO Box 90943 AMSC 

Auckland 1011, New Zealand 

T. +64 9 360 0325 

F. +64 9 360 0163 

bigio@smileyfilmsales.com 

sales@smileyfilmsales.com 


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PRECIOUS LIFE 

Shlomi Eldar 

A Palestinian woman, unable to treat her baby in Gaza, is struggling to save his life after 

loosing two other children to the same genetic defect. As a last resort, she sets out to get 

treatment in an Israeli hospital. There, she meets Dr Somech who immediately joins her 

campaign; the boy could be saved. To raise the money required, he brings aboard a journalist 

who airs a piece on Israeli TV and raises the full amount within hours. The mother, 

doctor and journalist are now bound together in what soon develops into a suspenseful 

saga in the race to save one child’s life against the backdrop of the conflict in Gaza. 



Production Company: Bleiberg Entertainment 



18 Levontin St. 


T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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ISRAEL 



The island lies in Oslofjord, Norway. 115 men are imprisoned there: bank robbers, drug 

dealers, sex criminals, Hell’s Angels, fraudsters, gang leaders and murderers. Mostly serving 

long terms. On the island there are no cells, no cameras, no fences. The guards don’t 

carry weapons while the prisoners work with chainsaws and kitchen knives. It’s only a twohour 

swim to the mainland and yet no one goes for it. 



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PRISON ISLAND BASTØY 

Michel Kapteijns 

Production Company: DNU Film 

Production Contact Person: Rolf Orthel 





T. +41 44 312 2060 

F. +41 44 312 2080 




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PROGRAMMING THE NATION 

Jeff Warrick 

Programming the Nation is a feature documentary about the history of subliminal messaging 

in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content 

has been delivered through all forms of mass media. The modern military has even been 

accused of these practices in the War on Terror. Director Jeff Warrick leads this journey 

through the subconscious mind while examining the reported history, scientific research 

and potential effects of such techniques on society. With eye-opening footage, revealing 

interviews, humorous anecdotes, and an array of visual effects, this fast-paced film explores 

the alleged use of subliminals in advertising, music, film, political propaganda and the military. 

It takes in the entire history of alleged subliminal messages, from hidden sexual imagery 

in Disney cartoons and satanic messages in rock music, to the James Vicary experiment 

where “drink coca-cola” was flashed between frames at a cinema, and the infamous 

Republican “RATS” campaign that won Bush the presidency. Warrick makes it his mission 

to determine if these manipulative tactics have succeeded in programming the nation, or 

if subliminal programming belongs in the category of what many consider an urban legend. 

Now, you be the judge. 

Running time: 2 X 52΄ 


Production Company: Ignite Productions 





T. +44 788 147 3603 



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USA 



THE PROSECUTOR 

Stevens Barry 

A fascinating story with extraordinary access, Prosecutor follows the Chief Prosecutor 

through the first trials of the newly formed International Criminal Court. Luis Moreno- 

Ocampo investigates and prosecutes some of the world’s worst criminals for some of the 

world’s worst crimes. 

He’s a hero to genocide survivors, but has bitter enemies on both the Right and the Left. 

Prosecutor offers front-row seats to the historic events that will determine whether the ICC 

is a groundbreaking new weapon for global justice 

or just an idealistic dream. 



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CANADA 

Production Company: White Pine & National Film Board οf Canada 



3155 Cote-de-Liesse Rd. 

St-Laurent, 

Quebec H4N 2N4, Canada 

T. +1 514 496 4134 


www.nfb.ca 


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PROVINCIAL CALENDAR 

Stergios Mountsakis 

The Provincial Calendar is made up of 12 images of the Greek provinces captured over one 

year – one for each month. It is a commentary on all that is changing, on the environment 

and on alternative proposals. 



Production Contact Person: Stergios Mountsakis 

Sales Contact Person: Stergios Mountsakis 

Xilagani 694 00 Greece 

T. +30 6979 289 316 

smountsakis@hotmail.com 

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GREECE 


Lifestyles 

QUEST 

Ionut Piturescu 

Two characters, a carriage and a horse. Where are they going? Towards what? Joy, torment 

and indefinable music. Vulnerable, yet not ready to surrender. They are the poets of time. 



361 

ROMANIA 

Production Company: Aristoteles Workshop 

Production Contact Person: Ionut Piturescu 

Sos. Stefan cel Mare, nr. 1 

7000 Bucharest, Romania 

T. +40 746 240 090 

goionutgo@yahoo.com 


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A QUESTION OF CHOICE 

Karim Miské 

Each week at the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris (a renowned paediatric hospital), the medical 

staff has to grapple with fate: based on the results of a number of medical exams, they 

will have to decide whether a foetal handicap represents a “substantial risk” (“une particulière 

gravité”) which justifies a voluntary termination of pregnancy. An article of French 

law places them in a position to decide over life and death. The film follows three stories, 

three cases, each of them presenting a different challenge and requiring the most difficult 

of all decisions: to authorise or not an abortion. The film sheds light on a bio-ethical issue 

that raises debates in every country, since scientific progress allows for early detection of 

a variety of foetal handicaps. Because in the end, it is the parents who have to make the 

most difficult choice of their lives... 









T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



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RAINING IN BILIN 

Glafkos Economides 

In the village of Bilin, in the West Bank Occupied Palestinian Territories every Friday it rains. 

In the village of Bilin, every Friday after the morning mass a crowd of Palestinians, Israelis 

and Internationals demonstrate against the building of the illegal Israeli wall. In the village 

of Bilin every Friday it rains toxic tear gas and rubber bullets. 



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Production Company: Hellenic Visual Archives 

Production Contact Person: Kitsos Tripos 

Sales Company: Hellenic Visual Archives 

Sales Contact Person: Kitsos Tripos 

hellenicvisualarchives@gmail.com 


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RAINMAKERS: CHINA’S WARRIORS 

FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 

Floris-Jan Van Luyn 

Rainmkers is a shocking investigative documentary about the decline of China’s environment, 

told from the perspective of four civil activists who refuse to accept the ongoing ecological 

destruction of their homeland. On the border of heroism and insanity, these four 

diverse and remarkable Chinese explain why they have the courage to fight, against all 

odds, the narrow-minded and sometimes even aggressive local authorities. 



Production Company: Submarine BV 






T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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RAW MATERIAL 

Christos Karakepelis 

The dreams of large steelworks for dirt-cheap scrap, Greece’s environmental obligations to 

the European Union, and the Western dream of an army of illegal immigrants come together 

in a string of shanty towns in the shadow of the Acropolis. Which of the three is trodden underfoot? 

Three Roma from Albania, two Indians, a Turk, one Greek and a boy among them 

are a mere sample of the endless army of desperados who recycle the metal of an entire nation. 

The heroes of Raw Material are raw material themselves, hunter-gatherers in the heart 

of a modern European capital city. The film documents their toil in the city streets, through 

the turning of the seasons and the frenetic cycles of global economy. 



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Production Company: CL Productions 

Production Contact Person: Zoe Lisgara 

Sales Company: CL Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Zoe Lisgara 

65 Vrilissou St 


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

papa_zoe@otenet.gr info@clproductions.gr 



7 Dion.Areopagitou str 11742, Athens, Greece 

T. +30 210 3678525 F. +30 210 3614336 



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RAW OPIUM 

Peter Findlay 

Opium is a commodity that has tremendous power – both to ease pain and to destroy lives. 

For centuries, this flower has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role, not just in the 

lives of people who grow, manufacture and use it, but also in the increasingly tense 

sphere of international relations. Through the interconnected stories of Raw Opium, filmed 

in East and West, our assumptions about drug addiction and the War on Drugs are profoundly 

challenged. 



Production Company: Submarine BV 






T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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Jamie Kastner (Kike Like Me) sets off on a black-comic road trip through California, Europe 

and Dubai, meeting those who manage to turn the world economic crisis into opportunity. 

The quirky cast, at times funny and absurd and at times heart-rending, ranges from kids 

at “Camp Millionaire”, to Berlin prostitutes offering eco-discounts, to the owners of a 

French hotel promising a “hamster-like” experience. 

The present-day journey is interwoven with the ironic tales of various financial solutions 

people resorted to during the 1930s Great Depression. 

A bittersweet tale, the film touches on the universal ironies of modern market-guided existence. 



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CANADA 

RECESSIONIZE! FOR FUN AND PROFIT! 

Jamie Kastner 





T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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THE RED ARMY CHOIR – 

PALAIS DES FESTIVALS DE CANNES 

Thierry Wolf 

Discover the very successful French tour of The Red Army Choir in 2008. For this birthday 

tour, those amazing voices sang the most beautiful airs of the immortal Russia with – for 

the first time – female choirs (from the Air Force) ! 

An unforgettable moment with more than 150,000 spectators applauding the famous 

band of the Ballet Chorus under the direction of Colonel Alexandre Drouzhinine. 

This exceptional film will let you discover or rediscover the show of The Red Army Choir, 

recorded in the beautiful theater of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on March, 28th, 2008. 

Nearly 2 hours of agrandiose show that celebrates the triumph of the Red Army Choir reunited 

with bands of musicians, dancers, male and female chorus. 



Production Company: FGL Productions 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



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A music journey from the 60s to the present day. A journey through the underground 

haunts of Exarhia, underground stages of Thessaloniki, secret schools of the provinces where 

for years Greek rock has been hiding. An appointment with today’s Mainstream Rock. 

A documentary that records the most powerful, the most seditious sound of the town, filming 

the Rock Fathers, the seminal musicians as well as the younger generation. 

Savopoulos, Mikroutsikos, Maheritsas, Thivaios and other vocalists talk about their career 

and the contradictory world of the rock movement. 

At the same time, children in youth hang-outs, in school bands, thinking up songs with 

music and lyrics on the canvas of their asymmetrical dreams and their unconventional lives. 

Rock sounds everywhere. In festivals, quarries, music stages. Ally for those kids, rock, by 

its nature, network that swept over the walls of entertainment industry. 



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RELFECT SOCIETY – 

ROCKING IN GREECE 

Yorgos Papatheodorou 

Production Company: The Art Factory & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 





T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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RELATIONSHIPS & CRISIS 

Prodromos Trochidis 

A research on relationships today affected by the global economic and social crisis. 

Real time shooting with a handycam as the protagonist is looking for answers by watching 

a couple breaking up and interviewing people looking for answers on what is different 

nowadays . 



Production Contact Person: Prodromos Trochidis 

Sales Contact Person: Prodromos Trochidis 

21 Irodotou St 


T. +30 6943 074 130 

maktro@hotmail.com 

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RELIGIOUS FEAST 

Yorgos Antoniou 

What has remained, nowadays, from the old, traditional, authentic, country feast of the 

past? To what extend are the nouveu riche aesthetic choices of the Modern Greeks for the 

“mass” feast, the electric sounds of popular folk songs, and the “famous names” of the entertainment 

hall, who tour the countryside every summer, related to genuine popular entertainment? 

Where do the populist, the spree, the exhibitionism, the kitsch, the motto “live 

it up or we are lost”, start and where do they end. The film tries, thoughtfully, to approach 

all these decadent phenomena of the alienated aesthetic look of the modern Greek, 

through many feats that took place last summer. 

Undoubtedly, they constitute the elements of the modern urban folklore. 



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Production Contact Person: Yorgos Antoniou 

Nafplio 211 00, Greece 

T. +30 6936 704 131 

giorg.antoniou@gmail.com 


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RESEARCH TODAY: 

ABOUT CHILDREN’S RIGHTS 

Laurence Scarbonchi 

Over 2 billion children in the world live in poverty. 275 million children are exposed to domestic 

violence. 246 million children are working, including 2 million in rich countries. 170 

million suffer from malnutrition. 130 million do not go to school. 40 million are born without 

being declared. 25 million orphans die in Africa because of AIDS. 2 million girls are circumcised. 

1 million children are on the sex market. 300,000 children are soldiers. 

Given this, there is the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It turned 20 in 2009 November 

the 20th. 

Why does it exist? How does it help kids to protect and enforce their rights? 

Why is it important for the future of mankind? 



Production Company: C Productions Chromatiques 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



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Disability is not just a state of birth. Each of us can be a victim. It is not a personal attribute, 

it is situational. 

In this film, specialists lead research to improve the autonomy of persons with disabilities. 

Technological, sociological and political speeches are present in the film, between high tech 

and human. 



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DISABILITIES – AUTONOMY 

Anne Guicherd 






T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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Sports 

RESEARCH TODAY: SPORT AND HEALTH 

François-Xavier Busnel 

Disease prevention, preservation of youth, it allows quality for optimal life. Sport is 

healthy. It now occupies an important place in schools and its practice attracts all generations. 

In a society where race performance doesn’t stop, what about doping? Is doping dangerous 

for your health? What other techniques exist to improve performance? 

Today, new coaching techniques are used by athletes. The highest technology takes place 

in sports halls, to accurately assess the skills and abilities of muscular athletes. 

But between high tech and personal challenge, sport remains primarily a pleasure for the 

body and the mind. 








T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 



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Human beings have an ever-growing need to produce and reproduce constantly objects, 

which are supposed to make life easier. Can you imagine a human without any of these 

objects in his everyday life? The ability to invent and create objects is characteristic of the 

human species. From the flint of our prehistoric ancestors to the modern computer, all in 

their scale have had, have and will affect our lives. Whether it is technological or symbolic 

objects, items are a medium between man and nature. 

Historians, anthropologists, philosophers and scientists are doing research on the consequences 

of technological progress, regarding the symbolic role of the object, its impact on 

human behavior and on our environment. 

But in the future do we have to focus on technologies? 

And where will it lead us to? 

Should we fear that the man is increasingly shaped by objects rather than the shape itself? 



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THESE ITEMS THAT SURROUND US 

Rafaël Gutiérrez 






T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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RESTREPO 

Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger 

One platoon. One valley. One year. Restrepo chronicles the one-year deployment of a platoon 

of American soldiers to one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan. 



Production Company: Outpost Films 

Production Contact Person: Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger 

Sales Company: Goldcrest Films International 

Sales Contact Person: Penny Wolf 

65-66, Dean St 

London W1D 4PL, UK 

T. +44 207 437 8696 

F. +44 207 437 4448 

sales@goldcrestfilms.com 

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REVOLUTION 101 

Doron Tsabari 

A journey into the real world of Israeli society and politics, Revolution 101 is not only a guide 

to the revolution but a film about film and its powerful essence. Combining both documentary 

and fictional material, this unique film outlines the path to change. The focus is 

on a film director and his producer and their struggle to restore the public in “public broadcasting”. 

Following the two protagonists over a period of seven years, we see their experience 

with corruption, inflexibility and deterioration against which they strive in their quest 

to guarantee a new law that will ensure well-managed public broadcasting. The two central 

characters share a strong and unshakable belief in the power of film – it is an almost 

religious belief that the revolution will indeed be televised. 



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Production Company: Guerilla Films 

Production Contact Person: Ori Inbar 





T. +972 2 672 4256 

F. +972 2 672 4210 



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RIVKA’S TRIBE 

Sabrina Van Tassel 

The Zalcbergs, a joyful, close and solid family are gathering in order to celebrate the Jewish 

New Year. Six siblings, living life to the fullest, recall their childhood spent during World 

War ΙΙ in France. Brought up in a Jewish family of Polish immigrants, the eldest brother is 

fifteen when his father is arrested by the French police and sent to Auschwitz. From then 

on, he has only one goal: save his entire family from death. 

The film tells the amazing story of a family which was united by mutual love and faith, and 

which today numbers over sixty people. 



Production Company: Injam Production 

Production Contact Person: Marc Andréani 



20 Bialik St 


T. +972 52 363 3398 


www.jmtfilms.com/document.htm#rivkastribe 

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THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS TODAY 

(A CONVERSATION BETWEEN COSTAS DOUZINAS 

AND SLAVOJ ZIZEK) 

Yorgos Keramidiotis 

In Athens, below the Acropolis, London University Professor Costas Douzinas, and the 

philosopher Slavoj Žižek discuss the role of intellectuals today, in a world marked by economic, 

moral and cultural crisis and corruption. 



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Production Contact Person: Yorgos Keramidiotis 

5, Stefanou Tatti St 

Thessaloniki Greece 

T. +30 2310 278 710 

F. +30 2310 545 349 

georgekeramidiotis@yahoo.gr 


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RONIT ELKABETZ – 

“STRANGER IN PARIS” 

Nir Bergman 

An intimate portrait of Israel’s cinematic diva who made an international career, first as an 

actress and then as an accomplished director. 







T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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Lifestyles 

A romantic documentary about love in a foreign city. Disillusioned by love, four Bulgarian 

guys who emigrated to Helsinki decide to give themselves a task: they need to find new 

girlfriends in Helsinki in 12 months. Otherwise – they figure – they won’t deal with Nordic 

ladies ever again. 



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RULES OF SINGLE LIFE 

Tonislav Hristov 

Production Company: Making Movies Oy 

Production Contact Person: Kaarle Aho 





T. +41 44 312 2060 

F. +41 44 312 2080 


www.firsthandfilms.co 


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SALAAM ISFAHAN 

Sanaz Azari 

Isfahan, June 2009. In the street or in their home, Iranians have their picture taken by the 

director, revealing themselves. One question emerges: the spatial and moral limits of the 

regime's authority. The film portrays a society before, during and after elections, a short 

period of hope when change was taking shape. 



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BELGIUM 

Production Company: Entre Chien et Loup 

Production Contact Person: Sébastien Delloye 



Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles 

19 F, avenue des Arts 


T. +32 477 617 170 

F. +32 2 227 2239 



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THE SAMBA WITHIN ME 

Georgia Guerra-Peixe 

The Samba within Me is a documentary set in the Mangueira Hill, Rio de Janeiro, during 

the pre-carnival period. The starting point is the Estação Primeira de Mangueira samba 

school, the place where the director Georgia Guerra-Peixe reencounters her own history. 

In the beginning of the documentary, she tells us what the carnival has always meant to 

her and to her family. From the school, she starts her way up the Hill, driven by her desire 

to go beyond the samba “If I could silence a Samba school...”. Beyond the school lies the 

samba of Georgia Guerra-Peixe, a samba that is a way of being, of living and, also, a way 

of singing and dancing. 



Production Company: BossaNovaFilms 

Production Contact Person: Paula Cosenza 

Sales Company: BossaNovaFilms 

Sales Contact Person: Paula Cosenza 

Rua das Tabocas, 170 

São Paulo 5445-020, Brazil 

T. +55 11 3811 2000 

F. +55 11 3811 2000 

pcosenza@bossanovafilms.com.br 

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SAMPLE RETURNS 

Sofia Touboura 

A modular documentary, a fragmentary and subjective portrait of urban isolation, alienation 

and decline in Greece, at the beginning of the 21st century. Three stories/moments 

are narrated visually through the personal view of the filmmaker, with detached sympathy 

towards the main subjects as well as with an ironic attitude towards the situation they 

find themselves in. 

(A sample return mission is a spacecraft mission with the goal of returning tangible samples 

from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis.) 



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Production Company: OpenShowstudio 

Production Contact Person: Sofia Touboura 

14 Ag. Eleousis St 


T. +30 6977 977 126 

os@openshowstudio.gr 


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THE SARI SOLDIERS 

Julie Bridgham 

Nepal, in the aftermath of the massacre of the royal family, the ensuing deadly battle between 

the Royal Army and Maoists is largely told through the story of one woman’s search 

for her missing daughter. Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time 

in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers tells the extraordinary story of six very different 

women’s bold efforts to shape Nepal’s future. 



Production Company: Butter Lamp Productions 

Production Contact Person: Julie Bridgham 



Leidseatraat 106-IV 


T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 


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Satsang, Sitting by the Truth is the everyday life of people devoted to the search of themselves 

– yogis, monks, hermits and ascetics who live in the Himalaya Mountains and the 

jungle of India. They share their thoughts, their emotions, and their perception of the world. 

They answer the basic questions of human existence and they suggest ways for our own 

journey to our own truth. 



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SATSANG – SITTING BY THE TRUTH 

Marianna Astraka & George Fotiadis 

Production Company: Dangerous Productions 

Production Contact Person: Andreas Siadimas 

Sales Company: Dangerous Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Andreas Siadimas 

29 Kirikis St 


T. +30 6944 973 009 

andreas@dangerousprods.com 


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SAVING EDWARDS 

Dagmar Smrzova 

For the purposes of this film, Edwards is a child; a long-awaited child of a loving couple, 

a child struck with a terrible and fatal mistake at conception. Edwards had an extra chromosome, 

one more than the exact number required for the development of a healthy baby. 

This flaw causes severe developmental disorders that cannot support life. The condition was 

first described by American medical scientist John Alexander Edwards, hence the name Edwards 

Syndrome. Considering modern prenatal diagnostics, it is very uncommon for such 

children to be born. In the majority of cases, the pregnancy is terminated. The parents of 

this child decided otherwise. The film follows the struggle of the parents to save a child 

who was buried by many, long before being born. 



Production Company: FEBIO 

Production Contact Person: Fero Fenic 

Sales Company: HBO Czech Republic 

Sales Contact Person: Martina Santava 



T. +420 606 604 310 

F. +420 261 094 455 

martina.santava@hbo.cz 

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SCARECROW 

Vassilis Economou 

“Mountainous Greece and its villages comprise one of the country’s landscapes still largely 

unexplored...” 

A journey in space and time in search of the few remaining scarecrows to be found scattered 

in the rural landscape of the region of Western Macedonia. A storyline that unfolds 

along the words of locals, now coping with declining agricultural activities. A glimpse into 

the Greek countryside and what is swiftly becoming recent memory. Scarecrows, agents 

of a different era, represent the focal elements in the ongoing battle between people and 

birds. Personal narratives give flesh and bones in those often elaborate assemblages that 

have served not only as a means of imposition of fear, but also as an inexhaustible source 

of metaphysical fables and superstitions. 



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Production Company: Vassilis Economou 

Sales Contact Person: Vassilis Economou 

36 Ioustinianou St 


T. +30 6934 175 678 

vasilikonomu@yahoo.gr 


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SCAVENGERS’ UNION 

Marina Danezi 

The Scavengers’ Union was founded in 1992. “Before we set up our union, we depended 

on the goodness of each institution,” says Spyros, the chairman. Their need for a steady 

livelihood led them to organize, in order to claim and finally procure a regular venue for 

their weekly bazaar, every Sunday. People with different cultures, backgrounds and religious 

views coexist in harmony. The honorary chairman, the chairman, the secretary, the 

treasurer, the members, the honorary members – they all form a human mosaic, our society 

in miniature. 



Production Company: NiMa / Marni Film SA 

Production Contact Person: Nikos Triandafyllidis 

Sales Contact Person: Nikos Triandafyllidis 

203 Liosion St 


T. +30 210 822 6445 

triandafyllidis@gagarin205.gr 

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“It’s better to hear the sound of the prison gate closing than to hear church bells ringing,” 

says a Neapolitan adage. Better behind bars than dead. The teens that are locked up on the 

prison island of Nisida, situated across from the shores of Naples, use it as a wry joke to put 

their hopeless situation into perspective. 

Scena del Crimine is a frame narrative in seven “scenes” that begins and ends on the prison 

island of Nisida. In between, we see five views of the city that have been determined by 

the underworld. We hear the sad story of a grandmother about her murdered grandson. 

At the forensic department of the police, detective Baiano tells how his former classmates 

fell prey to the mafia one by one. At the military academy, they aspire to counterbalance 

the chaos of the city with forced efforts. We see how petty thief Mauro, confined to his 

home under house arrest, is going out of his mind with boredom while looking down longingly 

at the lively streets of Naples. 



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SCENA DEL CRIMINE 

Walter Stockman 

Production Company: Zeppers Film & TV 

Production Contact Person: Frank van den Engel 





T. +33 15 395 0464 

F. +33 15 395 0465 




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SCHOINOUSA, 

THE ISLAND OF THE RISING SUN 

Isabella Mavraki 

Schoinousa, this naturally beautiful island was not inhabited during the last century, as 

some people think. At times, the island was abandoned by its inhabitants. In the mid-19th 

century it began to be inhabited by families mainly from Amorgos. It is said that they were 

undesirables, encouraged to leave by the monks. During the past ten years, things on the 

island have changed dramatically. Rapid construction, improvement of transport conditions, 

a new port, a desalination plant, tourist development and therefore a lot of people 

visiting in the summer. The island has passed into the hands of the younger generation and 

is moving ahead irrepressibly. Where to? The film has no narrator. Whatever is said comes 

from the lips of the islanders. Through their stories we learn the history of the island and 

its current state. History and memories from the older inhabitants; problems, dreams and 

aspirations from the younger ones. 



Production Company: Studio ALPHA 

Production Contact Person: Dimitris Evangelopoulos 

10-12 Studiou 

Marousi, Greece 

T. +30 210 613 2900 

F. +30 210 613 2906 

devangel@hol.gr 

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Honest, objective and nuanced, this documentary aims to show why individuals are consciously 

or unconsciously drawn into the Church of Scientology. It asks why they stay, sometimes 

for long periods of time and sometimes despite doubts as to the Church’s true nature, 

which is often revealed as devouring, indoctrinating and even totalitarian. 



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SCIENTOLOGY. THE TRUTH ABOUT A LIE 

Jean-Charles Deniau 

Production Company: Novaprod Owl 

Production Contact Person: Andrew Orr 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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SCRAP ODYSSEY 

Pawel Ferdek 

Almost all the metal scrap was sold from Kyrgyzstan to China. This film shows the global 

phenomenon in micro scale: by the hard work of the Russian truck driver, the slow rhythm 

of one Kyrgyz family, and events from a long journey across the Tien Shan Mountains. 



Production Company: Film Studio Kalejdoskop 

Production Contact Person: Wojciech Szczudlo 





T. +48 12 294 6945 



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Darek Ambroszczyk is the only person working at a small declining cinema in Łódź. He 

spends long hours in the ticket office of the empty Tatry cinema, indulging in grumbling 

and manifesting his dislike for the world and chance customers. Is it possible that the every 

day routine may have completely drained his passion? Professional burnout is exposed by 

Darek’s hopelessness and apathy. Darek lives the life of a local freak, spending time in his 

cluttered flat with two unruly dogs. 



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SCREENING AT THE TATRY CINEMA 

Igor Chojna 

Production Company: Polish National Film School in Lodz 

Production Contact Person: Maria Gawinek 





T. +48 12 294 6945 




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SCRIPTWRITERS’ SHADOWBOXING 

Dimitris Yatzouzakis 

What does a screenwriting workshop mean? This documentary follows 25 screenwriters 

and their trainers in their effort to find the different tools required for each one of the writers’ 

stories in order for them to become film screenplays. It presents the privileges, joys and 

torments of people who have made the obscure act of narration their profession; of writers 

and directors who insist, even in this day and age, on practicing the ancient art of the 

storyteller. The filming of the documentary took place during the last summer that Professor 

Lewis Cole worked at the Mediterranean Film Institute’s Workshops. He was suffering 

from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and used an electric wheelchair in order to 

move. He knew he was running out of time. He could have opted not to spend it teaching 

at the Nisyros workshop, but travelling around the Mediterranean Sea, to some of the 

cities of the ancient Greco-Roman world that he knew so well and loved. Instead, he chose 

to spend his last summer teaching screenwriting in Nisyros. 



Production Company: Mediterranean Film Institute 

Production Contact Person: Apostolia Papaioannou 





T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 361 4336 


www.gfc.gr 

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Lifestyles 

Alice, a blind person, sets off on an unusual voyage on the sailing ship Zawisza Czarny. Full 

of doubts and anxiety about the wisdom of her decision, she slowly starts to see the value 

of the experience. This isn’t just a trip. It’s hard work, it’s an adventure, but most of all it’s 

a chance for her to perceive her life differently. Alice is one of the blind people who make 

up half of the ship’s crew. Until the very last minute of the film we doubt whether she is 

indeed blind, since she behaves as if she can see. She doesn’t even wear dark glasses. We 

observe Alice changing, as the ship sails from Holland to Poland, across the North and the 

Baltic Seas. 



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THE SEA THROUGH YOUR EYES 

Lech Mikulski 

Production Company: Studio Obrazu – Lech Mikulski 

Production Contact Person: Lech Mikulski 

Sales Company: Studio Obrazu – Lech Mikulski 

Sales Contact Person: Lech Mikulski 

Plac Inwalidow 6/5 


T. +48 696 440 215 

mikulski@studioobrazu.com.pl 


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SELLING THE SILENCE 

Markku Tuurna 

Salla, a small town in Finland lies at the southernmost border of Lapland. For filmmaker 

Markku Tuurna, it was where he and his boyhood friend, Jyrki, spent many joyous years 

skiing, sledding, swimming, boating and fishing in the huge natural reserve. 

Today, Salla, as well as Markku’s friend, has been devastated by depopulation, recession 

and countless income generating schemes. From a failing ski resort to a year-round 

Christmas village, the struggle between environmentalists, entrepreneurs and the local citizenry 

comes to blows, leaving Salla as the bigger casualty. 



Production Company: Filmimaa Ltd 

Production Contact Person: Markku Tuurna 





T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 


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“What you do makes me cry at night [...] Please make your actions reflect your words [...] 

I am here to speak for all generations to come [...]” 

1992, 1st Summit of the Earth, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: For the first time in human history, 

a child calls out to the whole planet. Eighteenyears later, we still don’t practice what we 

preach. The Earth is still in the same state and Severn is now expecting a baby. She speaks 

again, showing that despite the emergency, it is still possible to change the course of things. 

In this documentary full of hope and emotion, Severn embodies a reference for those people, 

from Canada to Japan, going through France, who act in concrete and positive terms 

in order to respect biodiversity. 

Who will answer Severn’s call? 



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SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN 

Jean-Paul Jaud 

Production Company: J+B Sequences 

Production Contact Person: Jean-Paul & Béatrice Jaud 





T. +33 15 395 0464 

F. +33 15 395 0465 




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SHOOTING VS SHOOTING 

Nikos Mengrelis 

The documentary Shooting vs. Shooting presents a group of astonishing stories about journalists 

who suffered in the Iraq war, by following a journalist’s journey to Baghdad in 2009 

and the story of a mother who seeks an answer to the question of why her son was killed 

when his only weapon was his camera. Shooting vs. Shooting narrates incredible moments 

and adventures; reveals unknown sides to the facts; and shows the dramatic stories of media 

workers who lost their lives, trying to freely broadcast the truth to the public. Through 

the documentary, we witness the absurdity of war, the responsibility of governments and 

armies, and the barbarity of blinded fanatics. 



Production Company: CL Productions 

Production Contact Person: Costas Lambropoulos 

Sales Company: CL Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Costas Lambropoulos, 

65 Vrlilissou St, Athens 114 76, Greece 

T. +30 210 641 2700 

info@clproductions.gr 



7 Dionissiou Areopagitou St, Athens 117 42, Greece 

T. +30 210 367 8525 F. +30 210 361 4336 


www.gfc.gr 

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Best friends Ezat and Bayan are about to make the journey they have planned since they 

were children. Born on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, they’ve lived all of their lives 

right next to the closed border with their homeland Syria. Now eighteen, they’re given the 

opportunity to cross the UN-monitored no man’s land to study in the capital, Damascus. 

Feeling young, invincible and a hundred percent Syrian, they say goodbye to their village 

and families, knowing they won’t be able to return for the next year. 

Like young people all over the world, Ezat and Bayan are pursuing their dreams and enjoying 

their new freedom. But Damascus also proves to be a city where it’s not easy to feel 

at home and where you have to watch what you say. 

What started out as an adventure to an unknown homeland leads to a dilemma that forces 

them to choose sides. 



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SHOUT 

Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Ester Gould 

Production Company: Pieter van Huystee Film 






T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




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THE SHUKAR COLLECTIVE PROJECT 

Matei-Alexandru Mocanu 

The Shukar Collective is a Romanian music project that fuses electronic music with Gypsy 

bear tamers’ music. At night, the enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Uranus Garden (a former 

factory transformed into an open air cinema and music concert venue) gives Shukar 

Collective a standing ovation. The Shukar Collective play bear tamer music using spoons, 

wooden barrels or daraboukas, while a pair of djs add layer after layer of urban sound over 

this traditional music. It is this kind of eclectic environment that best describes what the 

documentary deals with: “culture contact”. 



Production Company: HBO Central Europe 






T.-F. +420 261 094 444 


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Lifestyles 

A Juarez hit man speaks: El Sicario, Room 164 is an eighty-minute documentary about a 

hit man. He has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for 

many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. He even received some 

training from the FBI. He has lived in Ciudad Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico 

and the United States. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000 and 

he lives as a fugitive, though he is still free and has never been charged with a crime in any 

country. 

The film takes place in a motel room on the US-Mexico border. The sicario is highly intelligent, 

very articulate and all too believable. The film stems from Charles Bowden’s essay 

The Sicario, published in 2009 in Harper’s Magazine. 



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EL SICARIO, ROOM 164 

Gianfranco Rosi 

Production Company: Les Films d’Ici 

Production Contact Person: Serge Lalou 

Sales Company: Doc & Film International 


13, rue Portefoin 


T. + 33 1 4277 5687 

F. + 33 1 4277 3656 

itl@docandfilm.com 



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THE SILENT TRUTH 

Joan Brooker-Marks 

On a US military base in Iraq, US Army private LaVena Lynn Johnson is found dead, shot 

in the head. The Army rules it a suicide. Later, independent forensic evidence reveals she 

was raped, mutilated and murdered. 

The Silent Truth follows the search by the parents of LaVena for the truth behind their 

daughter’s death. They confront the US Army and embark on an agonizing and obstacle 

filled journey to bring justice to their daughter and expose a pattern of cover-ups and impunity. 



Production Company: Midtown Films 

Production Contact Person: Joan Brooker-Marks 



Leidsestraat 106 -IV 

Amsterdam 1017PG, Τhe Netherlands 

T. +31 20 624 8395 

F. +31 20 330 8155 



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Bibi Russell seeks to take the Asian textile tradition out of its curse, its economic servitude. 

Former international top model and United Nations ambassador, she denounces the absence 

of a local textile brand in countries which supply the international brand retail stores. 

Providing livelihood to millions of weavers and artisans, Bibi encourages a cultural identity 

conducive to responsible development. Nurturing national talent across the Silken 

Route, she refuses to let eastern creativity be nameless providers servicing the interest of 

global brands. 



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SILKEN SYNERGY. THE MORAL FABRIC 

Soniya Kirpalani 

Production Company: Sprocket Science 

Production Contact Person: Soniya Kirpalani 





T.-F. +32 477 617 170 



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SKYDANCER 

Katja Esson 

The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120 

years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called “sky 

walkers” because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the 

city. Who are these Mohawk sky walkers? What is their secret for overcoming fear? Has “sky 

walking” replaced an ancient rite of passage? Or is it the pure need to adapt in order to survive? 

And what is their life really like when, every Friday at quitting time, they jump in their 

cars and make the eight-hour drive up north to their families on the reservation? 

Skydancer is a feature length documentary that takes a provocative look at Indian life in 

the 21st Century. 



Production Company: Penelope Pictures & ma.ja.de. filmproduktion & 

WDR & ARTE & Schenk Production 

Production Contact Person: Katja Esson 



Marienplatz 1 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 



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Lifestyles 

A SMALL ACT 

Jennifer Arnold 

Can one small act dramatically change multiple lives? Chris Mburu was the top student 

in his Kenyan village, but without money for school fees, he had little hope of a future – 

until Hilde Back, a Swedish teacher, sponsored his early education. Unknowingly, her tiny 

contribution paved the way for Mburu to go all the way to Harvard Law School. Today he 

is a Human Rights officer for the United Nations. He’s dedicated his life to fighting genocide 

and has no idea that the woman who sponsored him is a Holocaust survivor. A Small 

Act follows Mburu’s efforts to find his benefactor, give back to his community and continue 

the cycle of sponsorship. This award-winning film uses a strong narrative thread to capture 

the ripple effect that one singular action can have. 

*World Premiere: Sundance 

* International Premiere: Hot Docs (Top Ten Audience Favorite) 

* New York Times Critic’s Pick 

* Roger Ebert top ten documentary of 2010 

(Broadcasts include: HBO, ABC Australia, TV4 Fakta) 



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Production Company: Harambee Media / HBO Documentary Films 

Production Contact Person: Jennifer Arnold 

Sales Company: Louise Rosen Ltd 

Sales Contact Person: Louise Rosen 

16 High Street 

Brunswick MA 04011 USA 

T. +1 207 725 8215 

F. +1 207 725 8057 

LRosenltd@aol.com 


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THE SMALLEST PLACE 

Tatiana Huezo Sánchez 

A cow carer that guards storms. A peasant that writes the story of his town on the walls 

of his house. A woman that wanders the streets avoiding her dead teenage daughter, 

drawn on the town walls. A young man that turned in his rifle and lost his job. 

This documentary tells the everyday life of some characters that live in a small town stuck 

in the mountains of El Salvador, where you can see the scars of the past that this country 

has inherited and where their capability of assuming this legacy to keep on growing is 

shown. 

The story takes place in El Salvador, Central America. In this country, the smallest in Latin 

America, more than 80,000 people died during the civil war in the 80s. 



Production Company: Centro de CapacitaciónCinematográfica (CCC) 





T.-F. +52 55 5448 5345 



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SMASH 

Andreas Morgan 

The film follows a group of 16-year-old graffitists on their night walks in Athens. Drawings, 

paintings, references to master pieces, train carriages, obsessions with the art of the 

street, colours against the grey cement, a barrage of images, in combination with hip hop 

music – these are the film’s elements, with just one camera in hand and pictures. Worries, 

questions, conclusions, a monologue that is their voice, experiments and mixed media 

techniques. A first step. This is the first attempt of a group of 16-year-old boys of the city 

who paint graffiti. Holding the camera, they filmed their adventures during the night in 

hot spots. With no script, they used the image and their idea as well as their daily obsession 

with the art of graffiti. We have always liked street signs, graffiti on football stadiums. 

We used to write everywhere. It was an expression of our feelings, which were being caged 

inside this sterile city of concrete. Our group used to look outside the train window, eagerly 

searching for a piece of wall where we would go to write during the night. Writing was 

like breathing to us... Once a policeman let us continue, saying “you are artists, but please 

don’t write on the 2004 bridge on Kifissias Avenue”. Our names are still there... 



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Production Company: Andreas Morgan 

Production Contact Person: Andreas Morgan 

Sales Contact Person: Andreas Morgan 

34 Andrea Syngrou 

Marousi 151 26, Greece 

T. +30 210 612 7867 +30 6977 775 244 

andreasmorgan156@hotmail.com 


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SOLARTAXI – AROUND 

THE WORLD WITH THE SUN 

Erik Schmitt 

What began as a childhood dream is now an epic 18-month adventure that spans the 

globe. More than a few have embarked on an “around the world” adventure; some have 

even completed it, but no one has ever done so powered exclusively by the sun. Meet Louis 

Palmer and his home-made “Solartaxi”. Full of surprises and apparently insurmountable 

obstacles, his journey begins in the summer of 2007. Solar energy is functional, efficient, 

and most importantly, reliable. A car with zero emission is not a dream. This film is proof. 

Along the way, Louis and his Solartaxi meet princes, movie stars, politicians and scientists, 

but most importantly, they encounter ordinary people, showing them that mobility with 

the mere power of the sun is possible. 



Production Company: Daniel Thomaser 

Production Contact Person: Daniel Thomaser 





T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 


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SOMETIMES CITY 

Tom Jarmusch 

“Sometimes City is a gritty and personal documentary portrait of Cleveland Ohio. Sometimes 

City suggests the city’s people, landscape, and decline. It was conceived to include 

documentary, home movie, personal, and possibly fictional elements and was originated 

from two different video installations with the intention that it would evolve into a film. 

As filmmaking progressed, it became important to let different people speak, people that 

we do not usually hear from. I filmed a great deal and found what I would. The movie juxtaposes 

many scenes of residents and some performed music becoming kind of a ‘spareparts 

scavenging of stories’. The title comes from a poem by D. A. Levy and part of one of 

his poems is read in the movie. Sometimes City was photographed during 2008 and 2009 

using various consumer video formats, 16mm and Super 8 film.” 

Tom Jarmusch 



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Production Company: Tom Jarmusch 

Production Contact Person: Tom Jarmusch 

Sales Contact Person: Tom Jarmusch 

17 Cleveland Place # 18 


T. + 1 347 613 7821 

jarmuschtom@hotmail.com 


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SONG OF THE LODZ GHETTO 

David Kaufman 

Brave Old World’s haunting musical program of street songs from the Lodz Ghetto serves 

as the backdrop for David Kaufman’s definitive new film about the “first and last ghetto” 

in Poland. The film consists of a chilling narrative, stirring concert performances, unforgettable 

photographs and extensive interviews with survivors of the Holocaust from 

Lodz. 

The film focuses on the lives of two historical figures: the Ghetto’s beloved and popular 

street-singer, Yankele Herszkowicz, and the Nazi-appointed Jewish leader of the ghetto, 

Chaim Rumkowski. This documentary explores the uplifting role that music and culture 

played for ghetto dwellers who faced the constant fear of death. This history of the Lodz 

Ghetto is an extraordinary Holocaust narrative. 



Production Company: Sun-Street Inc. 





T. +1 323 259 8259 

T. +1 323 474 6371 



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Music elates, touches the soul, and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this 

magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. 

In Songs of War, we explore this extraordinary harmony between music and violence. 

The film’s main protagonist is Christopher Cerf, a composer who wrote more than 200 songs 

for the children’s TV series Sesame Street. He always wanted his music to be fun, educational 

and entertaining. But then he learned that his songs had been used to torture prisoners 

in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. He is stunned by this abuse of his work and wants 

to find out how this could happen. 

Cerf embarks on a journey to learn how the military has been employing music as a powerful 

stimulant and mighty weapon for hundreds of years. 



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SONGS OF WAR: MUSIC AS A WEAPON 

Tristan Chytroschek 

Production Company: A & O Bureau 



4-6 Villa Thoreton 


T. +34 634 869 646 

kathryn@javafilms.fr 



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SONS OF THE SUN 

Simeon Idakiev 

A film about the little-known details of the daily life, traditions, customs and religious beliefs 

of the inhabitants of the Inca Empire. 

The film explores Machu Picchu and Olyantayatambo, built by “the sons of the Sun”. These 

two most popular buildings are still hiding many secrets and mysteries. 

Sons of the Sun is part of a series of six films shot in South America by the journalist Simeon 

Idakiev, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Bulgarian National Television. 






29 San Stefano Street 


T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 


www.bnt.bg 

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This intriguing film tells the story of a fairytale church and a city without compare, in an 

hour of gripping accounts and magical images: Venice, melting pot of the Occident and 

Orient for a thousand years. To this day, the lustrous soul of Venice is the Basilica of St. Mark’s. 

Inside St. Mark’s Basilica, the Venetians celebrate God – and themselves. In its overwhelming 

beauty, the Patriarch’s cathedral also relates to the history of the city: from a cluster 

of marshy islands to the world’s most magnificent trading centre, from the spectacular 

abduction of the remains of St. Mark from Alexandria, via the conquest of the imperial 

city of Constantinople with its unimaginable treasures, to the eventual demise of the Republic, 

sealed by Napoleon’s troops. From the breathtaking exterior to the unique huge ceiling 

mosaics, you will experience the history and the drama of this church and its treasures 

from fascinating perspectives. 



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THE SOUL OF VENICE 








T. +49 30 4737 298 0 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 



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SOUTH CENTRAL GOSPEL 

Chronis Pechlivanidis & Jim Whitney 

South Central Gospel is an intimate peek into the down-home gospel churches of South 

Central, Los Angeles, an area plagued with poverty, racial oppression and gang warfare. 

Gospel music, or “the Word of God in song,” heals the spirit, calms the soul and provides 

solace and release amidst the troubles of life. Rooted in the spirituals and blues of the American 

slave south, gospel music continues today as α central part of lives of many African 

Americans. South Central Gospel weaves lively, heartfelt performances together with 

compelling interviews, including with 60s icon Willie Chambers, for a moving and entertaining 

look into the world of authentic gospel culture. 



Production Company: Onos Productions 

Production Contact Person: Chronis Pechlivanidis 

Sales Company: Onos Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Chronis Pechlivanidis 

18 Iraklidon St 


T. +30 210 341 7228 

F. +30 210 341 7256 

info@onos.gr 

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Lyrical, intimate, and sometimes humorous, Souvenirs is a eulogy in film of a Veteran whose 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder case is actively under review by the Veterans’ Affairs office 

8 years after his suicide. Ivars “Andy” Pelecis was a man who wanted to move on. Andy survived 

the Vietnam War physically, but lived without recognition of his war-related mental 

illness until the day he took his own life in 2002. After 30 years of struggling to “survive 

the peace” through alcohol and ten stays in the locked ward at hospital, Andy’s case 

was reopened by his social workers. Mara Pelecis, Andy’s daughter, seeks to reveal her dad’s 

real story that was hidden from her as a child. She continues to ask the question “Why he 

was the way he was?” 



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SOUVENIRS: HEALING AFTER WAR 

Mara Pelecis 

Production Company: Documentary Media LLC & Whirlygig Productions 

Production Contact Person: Mara Pelecis 

4814 Colfax Ave. S. 

Minneapolis MN 55419 USA 

T. +1 612 227 8979 

marapele@mac.com 


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SPYROS PAPALOUKAS – 

THE ADVENTURE OF PAINTING 

Kalliopi Legaki 

Throughout my childhood, my teacher used to criticize my drawings so severely that painting 

became an ordeal for me. As the years went by, I often felt the need to paint. But I never 

dared draw a line, maybe because – having been so traumatized in the past – I always 

thought I’d never succeed. 

Thumbing through an album about the painter Spyros Papaloukas one day, I was deeply 

touched by a remark he made in his notes, saying that anyone can learn to sketch as long 

as they have a method to follow. From that moment on, painting was no longer something 

inaccessible to me. It became an art with codes and secrets I could decypher. 

Through the dark paths of time, I tried with my camera to trace the painter’s course and 

started to “sketch” his portrait. But at the same time, the painter himself paved the way for 

me to explore the enigma of painting and let me wander inside strange and enchanting 

landscapes, where painting comes together with the other arts and reveals the deepest 

meaning of Art and Life. 



Production Company: Portolanos Films 




7 Dionissiou Areopagitou St, 


T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 361 4336 


www.gfc.gr 

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STAINED IMAGE 

Eleni Choumou 

In Greece between the Wars banditry flourished. In the region of Western Thessaly, in the 

mountain villages of Elassona, Thomas Gadaras becomes an outlaw in 1917, creating a kind 

of folk legend. Thefts, robberies, escapes, kidnapping well-off members of society, charities 

for the disadvantaged, murders, betrayals, escaping to Albania, all these contribute 

to the creation of a feared but also admired popular idol. In 1923, Gadaras, just before his 

enigmatic end, decides to be photographed by A. Manthos, thus capturing on photographic 

paper his personal story, and representing the social role of bandits, who served as scapegoats 

for the socio-political situation at the time. The story of Gadaras comes to life 

through the memories and aspects of his 3rd generation offspring, the grandson of A. Manthos 

and music composer Thanasis Papakonstantinou. 



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Production Company: Eleni Choumou 

Sales Contact Person: Eleni Choumou 

4A Grigoriou Afxentiou St 

Evangelistria 


T. +30 6984 760 005 

e.xoumitsa@yahoo.gr 


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THE START 

Marineta MAK Kritikou 

The Start, a movie about the 1st Tinos Jazz Festival and the first ever visual live recording 

of major musicians of the Greek Jazz Scene. 

A musical surprise, the vision of a local Jazz musician come true. 

Eight ensembles of musicians who for four days live on the same island 

play together, jam and for the first time talk about Jazz in Greece. 

The encounter of prominent Greeks and Finnish jazzmen in a really beautiful place, 

where the music adds to the history, art and cultural tradition of Tinos. 



Production Company: Cultural Foundation of Tinos 

Production Contact Person: Marineta MAK Kritikou 

Sales Company: Cultural Foundation of Tinos 

Sales Contact Person: Marineta MAK Kritikou 

47, Kokkinara St 

Kifissia 145 63, Greece 

T. +30 210 801 0432 

kmarineta@gmail.com 

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Lifestyles 

The film travels through Finland joining men of all walks of life in many different saunas 

to let us hear their touching stories about love, death, birth and friendship; about life. In 

all its simplicity, the camera records the raw and rare beauty of landscapes, saunas and men 

in almost magical pictures. The presence of the characters and the depth of their emotion 

reaches a limit where it is almost intolerable for the viewer to watch. Steam of Life reveals 

the men’s naked souls in an exceptionally intimate and poetic way. 



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STEAM OF LIFE 

Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen 

Production Company: Oktober Oy 

Production Contact Person: Joonas Berghall 




Montreal/Quebec H3l 1A8, Canada 

T. +1 514 844 3358 

F. +1 514 844 7298 

janrofekamp@filmstransit.com 



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STREET SPECTACLES 

Sotiris Kappos 

Street Spectacles is a documentary about street theater. 

The film tries to show the education that a person needs for this polymorphic kind of art, 

the communication between the artist and the audience, the response of the audience, the 

reasons that make a person perform in the street and whether street theater can provide 

the artist with enough money to make a living. 

In this movie you can also watch street theater performances such as 

pantomime, marionette shows and acrobatics, all taking place in the historical 

center of Athens. Finally, there is a short reference to the history of street theater after the 

first interviews. 



Production Company: M.C.R. Production 

Production Contact Person: Sotiris Kappos 

Sales Company: M.C.R. Production 

Sales Contact Person: Sotiris Kappos 

103-105 Momferatou St 


T. +30 210 647 1064 

s.kappos@hotmail.com 

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STUDIO VAROUJ 

Yakie Ayalon 

Varouj Ishkinain, the third generation in an Armenian family of photographers, is nearly 

80 years old. Many know the studio, a local establishment, located in an alley in the old 

city of Jerusalem. Varouj has come to a point where he needs to close his studio, since his 

sons are not interested in maintaining the trade, and Varouj himself can no longer deal with 

a rapidly changing digital world. The documentary accompanies Varouj during the last 

month before he closes the studio. 

The documentary shows Varouj at a moment when he retires and has to leave behind 

friends, habits and work which he has done for a lifetime. Photography for Varouj is not 

just work – it is his entire life, a way to watch the history of a city and a way to communicate 

with the different nationalities that make up Jerusalem. 



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Production Company: Yakie Ayalon Broadcast Pro. 

Production Contact Person: Yakie Ayalon 

Sales Contact Person: Yakie Ayalon 

Haarazim 9, Mevaseret Zion 

P.O Box 890 


T. +972 54 566 5502 

F. +972 25 333 664 

yakiayalon@hotmail.com 


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SUBMISSION 

Stefan Jarl 

Submission is a documentary about “chemical society” – the society we have been building 

since World War II. 

Back then, humans used 1 million tons of chemicals per year; the figure today is 500 million 

tons. The chemical industry is the fastest-growing industry in the world and this film 

is about the 100,000 chemicals we use every day – what they’re used for and what they 

do to us and our health. Not only food additives, but also the chemicals we are exposed 

to in our daily environments: softeners, flame retardants, surfactants and so on. 

Consulting a wide range of scientists from the United States, the UK, Canada, Germany, 

Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, documentary film maker Stefan Jarl 

seeks answers: What problems can these chemicals cause? What are we passing on to our 

unborn children? And why do we submit? 



Production Company: Stefan Jarl AB 

Production Contact Person: Stefan Jarl 

Sales Company: Svesnk Filmindustri 

Sales Contact Person: Josephine Julner 

Greta Garbos väg 13 

Solna 169 36, Sweden 

T. +46 8680 3704 

F. +46 8710 4460 

josephine.julner@sf.se 

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Lifestyles 

SURVIVING AMINA 

Barbara Celis 

Surviving Amina is a love story challenged by illness and death, an intimate diary of resilience 

and hope. It’s a compelling lesson on life that explores how we construct meaning 

from events that defy our emotional understanding: the illness and loss of a child. 



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Production Company: Life is Great Productions 

Production Contact Person: Barbara Celis 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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SURVIVING IN KABUL – 

A CITY AND ITS WOMEN 

Elke Jonigkeit 

Kabul is still a city of men, of abductions, of attacks. But how are the women of this unsettled 

metropolis faring? The author has been following the stories of three women in 

Afghanistan for some 25 years, during the Soviet era and when the Taliban was overthrown. 

Now ISAF troops patrol the country; their aim is to make it safe so that a democracy can 

be established. But what is the reality on the ground? Parwin is the head mistress of a girls’ 

secondary school. Hafiza runs the seamstress shop in the women’s prison in Kabul. Now 

her daughters want to be doctors or journalists. But don’t they have to worry about being 

forced into an arranged marriage? The documentary allows us to share directly in the 

fates of Parwin, Hafiza and their daughters. It is a story of strength and beauty but also of 

disappointment and uncertainty. 



Production Company: Circe Film with HR 





T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 



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The documentary Take to the Hills portrays people who decided to leave the big city and 

to completely change the kind of life they lead and work they do, alone or with their families. 

We follow the journey an “internal immigrant” makes in search of a more humane and 

better life for himself and his family. How will life in Athens be in a relatively short time, 

given that more than half of the country’s population is squeezed in the Attica basin? What 

kind of people decide to move away from urban centers? How, why, when and what are 

their motives? The human geography of “internal immigrants” under the microscope. 



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TAKE TO THE HILLS – EVIA 

Pinelopi Krontiropoulou 

Production Company: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA & 

Fine World Productions 






T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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TALES 

Nikolay Vassilev 

For the past 15 years, a former miner has been sheltering orphans from all over Bulgaria. 

Their childhood ends, yet with it ends the chance for them to have a hot meal and a roof 

over their heads. Kicked out in the street after they come of age, they have to learn how 

to survive and how to be men of worth at the same time. Will their benefactor succeed in 

making their dreams come true, and at what price? 

Tales is a story about snails and dreams, desolate graveyards and fondness, fears and 

hopes… 






29 San Stefano St 


T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 


www.bnt.bg 

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The film is about one of the most charming places in Bulgaria in the Rhodopi Mountains 

– homeland to Dionysus, Orpheus and Spartacus. Here is where the mysterious and 

enigmatic cave leading to the Underworld is. The gorge in its very throat, the so-called 

Devil’s Throat (Dyavolskoto Garlo), formed by a mountain river, is home to many rare and 

endangered species, where they live in natural harmony. And when autumn gives way to 

winter, nature’s beauty overwhelms us. 



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TALES OF THE TRIGRAD GORGE 

Dobrin Keresteliev 




29 San Stefano St 


T. +359 2 814 2390 

F. +359 2 943 6045 


www.bnt.bg 


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TCHILOLI, MASKS AND MYTHS 

Kiluanje Liberdade & Ines Gonsalves 

The Tchiloli is performed only by prominent men from certain quarters of the island. 

Originally from France, the Tchiloli was introduced in Sao Tome in the XVIth century. The 

main roles are transmitted from generation to generation. Dressed in European clothes 

(mainly women’s costumes) and wearing masks, the actors of Tchiloli narrate a Renaissance 

text with music and dance, turning the spectacle into an extravagant cultural manifestation 

of African and European heritage. 



Production Company: Noland Filmes 

Production Contact Person: Ines Gonsalves 





T. +35 12 1314 0339 

F. +35 12 1353 3075 



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TEACHER IRENA 

Itamar Chen 

Summer vacation is over and 26 kids come back to school fearful of their notoriously strict 

new teacher, Irena. Russian born Irena immigrated to Israel with her son and husband who 

died shortly after. She faces the challenge of teaching the third grade in one of the most 

difficult neighborhoods in Jerusalem, where poverty, violence and unemployment are 

widespread. Using her unique approach, combining uncompromising discipline and love, 

she brings about a real change in the lives of her students. Following the course of the 

school year, the film offers a window onto the confines of a classroom. 



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ISRAEL 

Production Company: Blacksheep 





T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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THE TEAM 

Patrick Reed 

Kenya has long been Africa’s success story – relatively stable and ethnically harmonious. 

But following the 2007 elections, everything changed. Voting controversies split the 

country along ethnic lines, pushing Kenya toward civil war. 

In an attempt to deal with the ethnic strife, a taboo-breaking TV soap, The Team, was created, 

following the struggles of a fictional multi-ethnic soccer squad to overcome their differences, 

both on and off the shoot. What can a soap opera achieve in a place desperate 

for change but teetering on the brink of collapse? Watch and find out. 



Production Company: White Pine Pictures Inc. 

Production Contact Person: Peter Raymont 





T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 



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TEARS OF GAZA 

Vibeke Lokkerberg 

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are 

exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday 

life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls 

or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family 

members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create 

peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire. 



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NORWAY 

Production Company: Nero Media AS 

Sales Company: AB Svensk Filmindustri 

Sales Contact Person: Ann-Kristin Westerberg 

Stockholm 169 86, Sweden 

T. +46 8680 3500 

F. +46 8680 3783 

international@sf.se 

www.sfinternational.se 


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TED NOTEN: GOLD, SWEAT & PEARLS 

Frank van den Engel & Simone de Vries 

Jewelry designer Ted Noten (1956) is well-known for his cheeky pieces of jewelry. Are they 

wearable? Not necessarily. Are they provocative? Absolutely. Noten: “I make jewelry that 

takes some time getting used to. When you wear it, you make yourself vulnerable as it 

makes such a striking statement. I speak out through my jewelry and objects. I comment 

upon jewelry as a phenomenon, upon the industry or – like any artist – upon humanity.” 

The documentary is an intimate portrait of an artist who throws his golden formula overboard 

abruptly and faces the future fearlessly and with an open mind. 



Production Company: Zeppers Film & TV 

Production Contact Person: Simone de Vries 





T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 



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Lifestyles 

She was a dreamer, he was a thinker. 

He had a question, she was the answer. 

Two people once met and created the poetry of life and inspired generations of artists in 

Europe. 

Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost 60 years, first in 

Poland, then in France, eventually settling in England. The only time when they were separated 

was the outbreak of World War II, but even then they remained connected. 

The unusual love story of a unique, creative couple from Poland. 



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THEMERSON & THEMERSON 

Wiktoria Szymanska 

Production Company: Luna W & 24 Images & ARTE & TVP 

Production Contact Person: Wiktoria Szymanska 



Marienplatz 1 


T. +49 341 215 6638 

F. +49 341 215 6639 




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THEODORE TERZOPOULOS – 

ENCOMIUM OF THE THEATER 

Dimitris Trikas 

The portrait of the Greek stage director Thodoros Terzopoulos. Through the confessions of 

the director and interviews with his protagonists, intercut with excerpts from his work and 

archival photographic material, the film traces the creative course of the theater group AT- 

TIS from the early eighties to the present. 


Year of production: 2010-2011 


Production Contact Person: Lena Choida 





T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


dtrikas@ert.gr 

www.ert.gr 

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GREECE 



What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there 

was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community 

of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips 

through their already damaged home, the Takuu community experiences the devastating 

effects of climate change first hand. In this verite-style film, three intrepid characters – Telo, 

Endar and Satty – allow us into their lives and their culture and show us first hand the human 

impact of an environmental crisis. Two scientists, oceanographer John Hunter and geomorphologist 

Scott Smithers, investigate the situation with our characters and consider 

the impact of climate change on communities without access to resources or support. Intimate 

observational scenes allow Teloo, Endar and Satty to take us on their personal journeys 

as they consider whether to move to an uncertain future in Bougainville or to stay on 

Takuu and fight for a different, but equally uncertain, outcome. This film gives a human face 

to the direct impacts of climate change in the Pacific, challenging audiences everywhere 

to consider their own relationship to the earth and the other people on it. 



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NEW ZEALAND - USA - PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND: 

TE HENUA E NNOHO 

Briar March 

Production Company: On the Level Productions 

Production Contact Person: Lyn Collie 

Sales Company: Journeyman Pictures 

Sales Contact Person: Rose Hughes 

4-6 High St, Thames Ditton 

Surrey KT7 0RY, UK 

T. +44 208 786 60 F. + 44 20 8972 9100 

sales@journeyman.tv 

www.journeyman.tv 


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(THERE’S ALWAYS) A BETTER PLACE 

Sara Luraschi 

The portrait of a family originally from India that has settled permanently in the deep north 

of Italy, suspended between new roots and the impossible desire of leaving and finding 

a new, better place to stay. 



Production Company: Lab 80 film 

Production Contact Person: Alberto Valtellina 



via Pignolo 123 


T. +39 33 3849 0808 +39 03 5578 1021 

F. +39 03 534 1255 


www.lab80.it 

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ITALY 



The idea emerged out of the need to organize a very different “party” for the 20th birthday 

of the oldest free-press in Greece, parallaxi. Having already contributed a great deal 

to the city’s public affairs, the parallaxi team moved to a series of cultural, architectural and 

environmental events, which transformed a large part of the city’s urban area. This urban 

experiment was carried out in June 2010, inspired by World Environment Day. The Thessaloniki 

in a Different Way project is the largest cooperation of creative teams from different 

professional sectors, institutions, private initiatives and volunteers ever to take place 

in Thessaloniki. In total, 1,000 people and 120 local authorities and groups worked together 

towards this idea, while 60,000 people attended the events. 



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GREECE 

THESSALONIKI IN A DIFFERENT WAY 

Christos Nikoleris 

Production Company: N-ORASIS 

Production Contact Person: Frida Spathaki 

Sales Company: N-ORASIS 

Sales Contact Person: Frida Spathaki 

3 Vafopoulou St 


T. +30 2310 42 5880 

F. +30 2310 42 5882 

mail@n-orasis.gr 


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THIEVES BY LAW 

Alexander Gentelev 

For the first time ever, the vori v zakone, (thieves by law), former heads of Russia’s criminal 

underworld, share their story with the world. 

The thugs who transformed themselves into reputable businessmen reveal in the most intimate 

detail how they came to influence Russia’s economy as it emerged from decades 

of Soviet rule, and how they used their vast wealth to build up a political base in a land 

that once treated them as common criminals. 

Now with a strong base at home, they are eager to embark on a new crusade to spread 

their influence over the rest of the world. 



Production Company: SMS Productions & LE Vision 





T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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ISRAEL - GERMANY 


A short documentary about a boy with Down Syndrome. The boy’s father, Dwight L. Core 

Sr., an amateur filmmaker and Air Force veteran of World War II, originally produced the 

film over the course of the 1960s, incorporating home movies he had shot of his son 

throughout his childhood and teenage years. 

In 2006, Dwight Core Sr.’s grandson, George Ingmire, discovered the film, along with a separate 

narration track, while doing research for a feature length documentary about his 

grandfather’s work as an unknown filmmaker. 

This film explores perceptions about Down Syndrome from multiple viewpoints: the boy, 

his sister and the father. The sincere tone and heartwarming narration by the father lends 

a remarkable poignancy to this film. The story that unfolds within this documentary is sure 

to shed light on both the struggles and blessings of raising a child with special needs. 


Year of production: 1975/2006 

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USA 


THINK OF ME FIRST AS A PERSON 

George Ingmire 

Production Company: Mi Abuelo Productions 

Production Contact Person: George Ingmire 

Sales Company: Mi Abuelo Productions 

Sales Contact Person: George Ingmire 

PO Box 50294 

New Orleans LA 70150 USA 

T. +1 504 975 6353 

miabuelo@miabuelo.com 


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THIS IS MY PICTURE 

WHEN I WAS DEAD 

Mahmoud Al Massad 

Athens, 1983. The world press reports that 4-year-old Palestinian Bashir is killed in the assassination 

of his father, Mamoun Meraish, a top PLO lieutenant. But what if death was not 

the end of his journey? What if he was brought back to life and has to dig through his past 

and discover his future? In finding out what his life would have been like, it turns out that, 

like his father, he would have been political. But instead of expressing himself with 

weapons, he uses what he loved doing as a child: drawing. He would become the finest 

political cartoonist in Jordan. But while his drawings mirror the escalating misery and 

poverty of his people, getting the cartoons published is proving increasingly harder. 



Production Company: KeyDocs 

Production Contact Person: Hanneke Niens 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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What happens... 

-When development – albeit with an ecologically friendly face – comes into conflict with 

conservation over a huge stretch of “protected” land in Eastern Crete? 

-When a loose alliance of environmentalists, green groups, archaeologists and concerned 

citizens stand up against powerful business interests in alliance with church and government? 

-When a few people set out to find out the facts for themselves in the face of widespread 

cover-ups and misinformation? 

A Thousand Lost Golf Balls tells the story. 



212 

GREECE 

A THOUSAND LOST GOLF BALLS 

Vangelis Kalaitzis 

Production Company: Real Life Documentaries 

Production Contact Person: Cliff Cook 

Sales Contact Person: Cliff Cook 

7 Kryoneridos St 

Chania 73133 

Crete, Greece 

T. +30 28210 66274 

cliffcoo@otenet.gr 


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THREE STARS 

Lutz Hachmeister 

They are set in an alien and exclusive world, inaccessible to most of us: the highly stylized 

gourmet restaurants and their often cramped and noisy kitchens. Focusing on nine Michelin 

starred chefs from three continents, skilled both in charming small talk with their guests 

and a gruff commanding tone towards their kitchen brigades, the film depicts their everyday 

life behind the scenes and reveals the real business of cooking on the highest level. 



Production Company: HMR (for WDR/ARTE) 





T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 92069 69 



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GERMANY 



THUNDER SOUL 

Mark Landsman 

The film is about the 70s. About James Brown, afros and how a school band made history. 

An inspiring professor turns a mediocre inner-city high school band into a funk sensation 

– the Kashmere Stage Band went on to tour the world and release several albums. Thirtyfive 

years later, his students reunite to pay tribute to the man who changed their lives. Some 

haven’t played their horns in decades, but they dust off their instruments, determined to 

retake the stage to show the ailing Prof that they’ve still got it. 



598 

USA 

Production Company: Snoot Entertainment, USA 

Production Contact Person: Keith Calder 


Sales Contact Person: Fabien Westerhoff & Mark Lane 

24 Hanway St 


T. +44 207 290 0776 

T. +44 207 290 0751 

fw@hanwayfilms.com 




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THE TILLMAN STORY 

Amir Bar-Lev 

When Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002, 

he became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about 

Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, then the caricature. And 

when the government tried to turn his death into propaganda, they took on the wrong 

family. From her home in Northern California, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s 

crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death. The Tillman 

Story resounds with emotion and insight, and goes beyond an indictment of the government 

to touch on themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself. 



Production Company: A&E IndieFilms 

Production Contact Person: Ryan Howard 

Sales Company: AETN International 

Sales Contact Person: Jonathan South 

6 Sloane Square 

London SW1W 8EE, UK 

T. +44 207 824 9233 

F. +44 207 730 9569 

jonathan.south@aetn.com 

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Think about your first school day... Hope, fear, grand expectations and the attendant feelings 

of triumph. 

We see Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred growing up in the course of their first school year – 

an essential milestone in the lives of children and their parents. 



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ESTONIA 

TIME IS HERE 

Marje Jurtshenko & Kertu Köösel 

Production Company: Kopli Kinokompani 

Production Contact Person: Anneli Ahven 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES 

Jocelyn Cammack 

With a combined age of almost 300, Hetty, Rose and Alison live in a home for the “active 

elderly” and regularly share their impassioned concerns on everything from terrorism to 

global warming – not to mention the meaning of life, death and sex. Rose, 101, is the oldest 

newspaper columnist in the world; Hetty, 102, is still marching against war and Alison, 

88, a one time Communist Party member is now a self-styled “establishment lady”. 

But despite their unstoppable enthusiasm and disarming humour, all three women are not 

simply ready for death – they actively want to die. Surprising, poignant and at times very 

funny, this documentary reveals the everyday mystery of how very old people experience 

life and the intense challenges that old age brings. Hetty, Rose and Alison tell us things 

of which no one ever speaks. 



Production Company: Redbird Productions & Certain Pictures 

for BBC Storyville 

Production Contact Person: Hilary Durman 





T. +49 30 4737 298 0 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 


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UK 



In the summer of 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the American government sent 19 

young jazz musicians with the legendary “King of Swing” Benny Goodman on an adventurous 

tour of the Soviet Union. This was the first American big band on Soviet soil. With 

their emotive and stirring music, the big band would open a Pandora’s Box from which the 

“American way of life” would unfold in the darkness of the USSR, and awaken the American 

desire for freedom in the hearts and minds of the supposed archenemy. Under constant 

scrutiny by the KGB, they were witness to the repression of their Soviet fans. Benny 

Goodman and his Orchestra played 30 concerts to almost 180,000 people in Moscow, 

Sotschi, Tiflis, Taschkent, Leningrad and Kiev and with their music tore the first holes in the 

Iron Curtain. 



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GERMANY 

TO RUSSIA WITH JAZZ 

Konstanze Burkard 

Production Company: Sarabandefilm with WDR 





T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 




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TODAY’S MAN 

Lizzie Gottlieb 

Today’s Man tells the story of Nicky Gottlieb, a former child genius who, at age 21, is diagnosed 

with Asperger Syndrome. People with Asperger’s, which is a form of autism, tend 

to be highly intelligent – often geniuses in certain subjects – but are unable to pick up 

on social cues. Their own behavior can be considered by others to be bizarre and inappropriate. 

One in 160 children today are born with some form of autism. While there are an increasing 

number of resources for Asperger’s children, there are surprisingly few organizations and 

programs for adults with the syndrome, resulting in a “lost generation” of people like Nicky 

who must find their own ways to navigate life with this perplexing disorder. 

Today’s Man follows Nicky as he struggles to leave the safety of his family’s home and the 

comfort of his favorite TV shows in order to find a job and an apartment. Made by Nicky’s 

sister Lizzie Gottlieb, the film is a sister’s search to understand her brother’s mysterious inner 

life and a larger effort to comprehend Asperger Syndrome and the people who struggle 

with it. 



Production Company: YoungLove Productions 

Production Contact Person: Lizzie Gottlieb 

Sales Contact Person: Lizzie Gottlieb 

285 Garfiled Place 

Brooklyn NY 11215 USA 

T. +1 917 650 1822 

lizziegottlieb@mac.com 

510 

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USA 




Some know Tom Zé is the man behind tropicalism, that movement which, in the sixties, 

revealed the potential and voracity of a young Brazil willing to incorporate the world to its 

art, and vice versa. Some understand Tom Zé was not part of that because his art never fitted 

in any movement. 

His life puts together all that makes a biography interesting: talent, opportunity, success, 

oblivion, withdrawal, ostracism, rediscovery and return. His work is melody and spirit, cosmos 

and polyrhythm, a mix of moods and disciplines, kindness and life. 



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TOM ZÉ LIBERATED ASTRONAUT 

Ígor Iglesias González 

Production Company: Xiquexique Films 

Sales Contact Person: Ígor Iglesias 

c/Toledo 105-4ºB 

Madrid 28005, Spain 

T. +34 678 630 750 

igor_iglez@hotmail.com 


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THE TOWN OF BADANTE WOMEN 

Stephan Komandarev 

A town without women. The men look after the children, cook, do the washing and... wait 

for money from their wives who work abroad. 

The Bulgarian town of Varshets is the site of a staggering social experiment. Many of its 

women work as “badante” in Italy, taking care of the old and the sick. The social structure 

of Varshets is changing and the transformations – some dramatic, others humorous – are 

everywhere: in the pubs, in the families, in the local brass band... And at the bus station, 

where once a year the women arrive on holiday. 

The Town of Badante Women is a film about the new realities in today’s Europe. It tells the 

story of a small town in northwestern Bulgaria transformed through the role its women 

play on the growing market for care giving services across the continent. 



Production Company: ArgoFilm 

Production Contact Person: Stephan Komandarev 





T. +43 720 346 934 



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BULGARIA 


Lifestyles 

TRANS-ACTION 

Sławomir Grünberg 

Anna Grodzka was born in a male body and for many years tried to live as was expected 

of her. The man she was until 2009 got married and became a father but could not fully 

enjoy his life. As an adult and father of an adult son, he decided to undergo a long term 

process of sex change. The crew accompanies Anna in crucial moments on the way to 

womanhood – at the courtroom, in plastic surgery clinic in Bangkok, where she undergoes 

an operation, but as well in common, everyday life moments, when she talks to her 

son, goes shopping, goes to the beauty parlor, works in her fund. Anna is surrounded by 

people who support her through the tough process of change. 



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POLAND 

Production Company: HBO 






T.-F. +1 420 261 094 444 



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THE TRAP 

Marina Danezi 

When you are caught, unsuspectingly, in the Trap, it is almost certain that the end has come. 

The Trap is a documentary film about the rehabilitation of disabled/handicapped people. 

A glance at psychiatric institutions, operating as storehouses for human beings, and endangered 

hostels in Christmastime Athens. Our hero, Dionysis, is 34 years old and lives with 

his mother. He is a quadriplegic and suffers from slight mental retardation. He loves Sunday 

“strolls”, singing, talking on the phone and secretly drinking coke. His future is uncertain. 

In his own words: “Today’s society is a very tough place to live. OK, our parents will 

eventually pass, but what is there left to see for us children?” 



Production Company: ΝIMA Productions 

Production Contact Person: Marina Danezi 

Sales Company: NIMA Productions 

Sales Contact Person: Marina Danezi 

203 Liosion St 


T. +30 210 822 6445 

marinadanezi@yahoo.gr 

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638 

GREECE 



A portrait of the Afghan community in Athens, through the every day lives of its people: 

Sadad the teacher, Abdul the former officer, Yonous the doctor of the community, Tahir the 

sculptor. The effort of integration and the memories of refugees. The hope of a new life in 

the “light” of the West and the struggle for survival. The rise in xenophobia, but also the 

joy of different cultures living together. Our own “foreigners”, the people who left everything 

behind to start over. Faces, like mirrors, reminding us of our past, making us think 

of our future, beyond our personal and national microcosm. 



709 

GREECE 

TRIBES OF ATHENS: 

NEW LIFE (AFGHANISTAN) 

Anthi Daountaki 


Production Contact Person: Dimitris Kodossis 


Sales Contact Person: Dimitris Kodossis 



T. +30 210 606 6650 

dkodossis@ert.gr 

www.ert.gr 


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TRIBES OF ATHENS: PHILIPPINES 

Stavros Psyllakis 

It is estimated that around 11 million Filipino people live in approximately 200 countries 

abroad. Since the early eighties, thousands of Filipino immigrants have been living and 

working in Athens. We follow our active, multi-tasking protagonists in their personal life, 

in their work environment, in daily, routine moments or more special ones with family and 

friends, in social gatherings and cultural events of their home country that are celebrated 

in Greece, adapted to the life and habits of Greek reality. Filipino community members that 

live among us today have dreams and hopes about their children leading a better life, while 

the old generation still experiences the contradictory feelings of the immigrant. The history, 

the rights and ambitions of a community that is perhaps the “aristocracy” of immigrants 

in this country. 




Production Contact Person: Dimitris Kodossis 


Sales Contact Person: Dimitris Kodossis 



T. +30 210 606 6650 

dkodossis@ert.gr 

www.ert.gr 

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GREECE 



TUBE PIPES 

Andreas Andonopoulos 

Tube pipes at the centre of Athens. 



265 

GREECE 

Production Company: Andreas Andonopoulos 

Sales Contact Person: Andreas Andonopoulos 

4 Bouboulinas St 


T. +30 6945 586 058 

andreas.tps@gmail.com 


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TURF WAR IN NO MAN’S LAND 

Suvi Andrea Helminen 

Turf War in No Man’s Land is about man’s attempt to leave its fingerprints on the last spots 

of unspoiled nature. Five countries are making competing claims to the Arctic Ocean’s underground 

and its natural resources while Russia, Canada and Denmark have interests in 

overlapping areas around the North Pole. 

Borders have to be drawn. The territorial war of today is scientific, it is about collecting the 

most convincing data to prove that the underwater bedrock is an extension of the respective 

countries. Should every spot on the planet be divided and conquered? 

* CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark 



Production Company: Nordlys Film 

Production Contact Person: Suvi Andrea Helminen 



20 Bialik St 


T. +972 52 363 3398 


www.JMTFilms.com/document.htm#turfwar 

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DENMARK 



What could connect a Pakistani immigrant, a poet, and two 80-year-old sisters dispensing 

funeral offerings? What is the association between Michael Cacoyannis directing Lysistrata, 

the woman who dances in the dry cleaners, the local drug addict and the old man 

who watches life go by from his open window? Twelve socially, culturally and ethnically 

different neighbors share a small inner city street in Athens. The film is a puzzle of everyday 

incidents and personal confessions, revealing the diversity of human experience and 

touching upon deep existential concerns. Despite the major socioeconomic changes in this 

underprivileged area, a sense of neighborhood still exists. The “different” doesn’t seem so 

threatening and people find ways to accept each other. 



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GREECE 

TWELVE NEIGHBOURS 

Marianna Economou 

Production Company: Marianna Economou 

Production Contact Person: Marianna Economou 



7 Dionissiou Areopagitou St 


T. +30 210 367 8525 

F. +30 210 361 4336 


www.gfc.gr 


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Unhinged: Surviving Johannesburg is an honest, quirky and sometimes frenzied documentary 

about Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city and the world’s gateway to 

Southern Africa. With a rapid narrative, dry humor, insightful observations and a fantastic 

soundtrack, this film tells a slice-of-city-life story. 

Johannesburg has often been portrayed in the world’s media as a death trap, or marketed 

as the ultimate get-rich-quick destination. A hot-bed of hope, fear and opportunity, Johannesburg 

is a place where, with a little ingenuity, anyone can prosper, though just as 

easily find themselves stripped at gun-point. 

Using the city itself as the principle character, Adrian Loveland, an entrepreneur who was 

born and raised in Jo’burg, is the eccentric tour guide, exploring the glorious highs and the 

heart-stopping lows. 

Featuring interviews with an engaging group of Jo’burgers from the worlds of politics, business, 

the media and the street, Unhinged is a part-documentary, part-travelogue film that, 

like its subject, sparkles with energy, charisma and a touch of chaos. 



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SOUTH AFRICA 

UNHINGED: SURVIVING 

JOHANNESBURG 

Adrian Loveland 

Production Company: Loveland Plant Hire 





T. +44 788 147 3603 




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THE UNKNOWN ISLANDS 

Jorge Silva Melo 

The Azores Islands, set halfway between Europe and America, are still one of the best kept 

natural paradises left on earth. In 1924, Portuguese writer Paul Brandao left for the Azores 

on board a steam cruiser. During that journey, he wrote one of the best travel books of Portuguese 

literature. Portuguese filmmaker Vicente Jorge Silva leads us through the Islands, 

following in the steps of Brandao, 85 years after his inaugural journey. What forces lie there, 

in the middle of the Atlantic, in a land of eternal volcanoes, deep dark forests, blue lagoons 

and fearless whalers? 



Production Company: Contracosta Producaoes 

Production Contact Person: Francisco Vilardebo 





T. +35 12 1314 0339 

F. +35 12 1353 3075 



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PORTUGAL 



On the evening of June 27th, 1980, off the Italian island of Ustica, a passenger plane 

crashed into the sea with the loss of 81 lives. Was it an assassination attempt on Gaddafi, 

an explosion or just a technical default? In the search for the truth, this film delves deep 

into the Europe of the Cold War. Following long years of investigation, this film finally sheds 

light on one of the most mysterious aviation disasters in European post-war history. 



472 

GERMANY 

THE USTICA CONSPIRACY 

Hans Von Kalckreuth 

Production Company: Bilderfest factual entertainment 





T. +49 221 920 690 

F. +49 221 920 6969 




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It is held daily by a million hands. The sound of its soul gives meaning to silent moments... 

We keep it between our fingers and we dream... It’s not only the beauty that we feast our 

eyes on; it’s more than that. It’s part of our self. 

Its complaint is that few know its course through the centuries, but the time came for us 

to travel together in Egypt and Greece, following the vestiges of the humble and beloved 

object of our prosaic life: the worry beads. 

A presentation of the worry beads through time: from his first worldwide presentation until 

today, giving emphasis to the shape of the Greek worry beads. 



287 

GREECE 

THE VESTIGE OF WORRY BEADS 

Alexander Pittidis 

Production Company: OPA TV 

Production Contact Person: Alexander Pittidis 

Sales Company: OPA TV 

Sales Contact Person: Alexander Pittidis 

10-12 Gripari St 

Kallithea 176 71, Greece 

T.-F. +30 210 956 8213 

apittidis@windowslive.com 


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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. 



Production Company: La Femme Endormie 




T. +33 1 5395 0464 

F. +33 1 5395 0465 



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FRANCE - SPAIN - MEXICO 


Lifestyles 

LA VIE EN ROSE 

George Papagaroufalis 

Elias is a mentally disturbed and the camera follows his theory of life and his philosophy 

upon theater. The story begins with three women acting parts of plays like Elektra and Macbeth. 

As the story proceeds, the relationship of Elias and Maria (his partner) is developed 

and more secrets about Elias’s case as an actor and psychopath are reveled. The story ends 

with Elias acting various plays and singing the song La vie en rose. 



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GREECE 

Production Company: George Papagaroufalis 

Production Contact Person: George Papagaroufalis 

1, Goura St 


T. +30 210 322 4190 

F. +30 210 923 4779 

geephalis@yahoo.gr 


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VIETNAM, A CONTAGIOUS 

REVOLUTION 

Thuy-Tiên Ho 

For centuries, the fertility of the land and its vast coastal geography had turned Vietnam 

into coveted geopolitical prey. To achieve independence from their colonizers and shape 

their own destiny, the Vietnamese had to first neutralize China, free themselves from Japanese 

domination, and win the “French war” at Diên Biên Phu. Finally, with the “American 

War”, they had to overcome the most powerful army of the time, with under-equipped volunteers, 

supported by the majority of the population, North and South. 

Their leader, Ho Chi Minh, painted as a devil by Western Cold-War propaganda, in fact 

played a major role in bringing freedom and self-determination to his people, in a way like 

Gandhi did for the Indians. The evolution of Viet Nam in the 20th century is indissolubly 

connected to this man, to his political vision and to his revolutionary achievements. 



Production Company: Solferino Images 






T. +33 1 6403 7098 

F. +33 1 6403 7101 


www.ictv.fr 

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484 

FRANCE 



Three Serbian brothers from a deserted village are looking for wives from Albania, a once 

bitter enemy of their country. Zoran, Dragan, Rodoljub and their neighbor Velimir are the 

only remaining inhabitants of the small womanless village of Zabrdje, on the top of a 

mountain. They are in the market for wives, but no woman has been seen there for the past 

fifteen years. Most have either died or moved to the city. Soon, Zoran leaves on an organized 

trip to Albania, and is soon being seated at a long table with fifteen attractive women. 

But which of these beauties would like to marry him? 



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FRANCE - CROATIA 

VILLAGE WITOUT WOMEN 

Srdjan Sarenac 

Production Company: Les Films du Balibari 

Production Contact Person: Estelle Robin 





T.-F. +32 477 617 170 



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VINYL (TALES FROM 

THE VIENNA UNDERGROUND) 

Andrew Standen-Raz 

Vinyl (Tales from the Vienna Underground) is the first feature-length documentary to reveal 

the interconnected world of experimental, trash and electronic musicians in Vienna, 

and how the artists in this historically unique space interpret which sounds make music 

in very different ways. Vinyl is also partly a love letter to a cultural icon – vinyl records – 

which have been a part of so many people’s lives for decades, and which persist in the future 

of music creation and distribution, despite the pervasiveness of digital technology. In 

this film, vinyl is a metaphor for something we love, even for its imperfections and 

scratches, and so it is with these musicians’ love-hate relationship with their city. Some 

things must change, but some things will be important forever. 



Production Company: Lush Films 

Production Contact Person: Andrew Standen-Raz 

18B Vicarage Gate 

London W8 4AA, UΚ 

T. +43 650 411 0681 

vinyl@lushfilms.com 

www.lushfilms.com 

530 

365 

GERMANY 



The World Wide Web is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote 

and make friends. Twenty years on from the invention of the Web, how, for better and for 

worse, is the digital revolution reshaping all our lives? 

The series brings together everyone who’s anyone on the Web – from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee 

to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to Amazon’s Jeff 

Bezos, and online giants Al Gore and Bill Gates. 

Through stories of how the Web is being used and abused today, this series explores the 

revolutionary benefits and uncovers the hidden costs of the Web’s culture of global, instant 

and free information. 



335 

UK 

THE VIRTUAL REVOLUTION 

Philip Smith 




The Open University 

Open University Worldwide 

Walton Hall, Michael Young Building 


T. +44 1908 332 470 

F. +44 1908 858 787 



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VISA TO PARADISE 

Lillian Liberman Shkolnikoff 

Gilberto Bosques, people who knew him and those he rescued describe the actions that 

took place between 1939 and 1942 in Marseille, when he was the Mexican Consul General 

to France and saved tens of thousands of Spanish republicans, Jews, socialists, communists 

and other people persecuted by the Nazis. 









T.-F. + 52 55 5448 5345 



532 

322 

MEXICO 



WADAN’S WORLD 

Dieter Schumann 

Wismar, 120km east of Hamburg, 45,000 citizens. The income of every third family here 

depends on Wadan Yards, the only large company in the region. In August, 2008, a Russian 

investor took over the old German company and the future seemed safe. Shortly 

thereafter, the world financial and economical crisis started somewhere in the United States 

and hit the old Hanseatic city hard. 5,000 jobs were endangered. 

A race against time began. We accompany a group of welders throughout the turbulent 

months and learn that the loss of work means a lot more than just the loss of income. “If 

you want to be a shipbuilder, you have to be born for it,” says one of the protagonists. 

The film captures what the crisis leaves behind and how the loss affects social values. People 

are divided into winners and losers, people with work and people without work. 



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GERMANY 

Production Company: Geb. Beetz Filmpoduktion 

Production Contact Person: Nick Pastucha 

Sales Company: Realfiction Film 

Sales Contact Person: Joachim Kuhn & Dirk Steinkuhler 

Hansaring 98 


T. +49 22 1952 211 

F. +49 22 1952 2113 

info@realfictionfilme.de 

www.realfictionfilme.de 


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WAR GAMES AND 

THE MAN WHO STOPPED THEM 

Dariusz Jablonski 

War Games is a story about a man whom historians consider to be the most important spy 

of the cold war era. The main character of Dariusz Jabloński’s documentary is Ryszard Kukliński 

(pseudonym: Jack Strong), a colonel of the Polish Army (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie) in 

the 70s. Between 1972 and 1981 he handed over to the West more than 40 thousand pages 

of the top secret Warsaw Pact documents. Some people claim that if it weren’t for those 

documents, maybe all of Europe would be licking their wounds after the worldwide nuclear 

cataclysm. Americans see him as a hero; Russians as a traitor. The Poles are divided... 



Production Company: Apple Film Production & Trigon Production 

Production Contact Person: Izabela Wojcik 


Sales Contact Person: Esther van Messel 



T. +41 131 220 60 

F. +41 131 220 80 

esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.com 


534 

366 

POLAND - SLOVAKIA 



Members of the Military Intelligence, politicians, experts and researchers outline the new 

culture of conflict and the types of warfare at the turn of the 21st century, more invisible 

and enslaved to a Science without limits. 



519 

ITALY 

WAROLOGY – OPERATIONS 

OTHER THAN WAR 

Morgan Menegazzo 

Production Company: HGMobile 

Production Contact Person: Morgan Menegazzo 





T.-F. +39 05 126 7150 



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WATER ROUTES IN AMORGOS 

Efi Latsoudi 

Fresh water is decreasing. What’s more, we have forgotten the methods by which to conserve 

it. In just a few decades, easy access to water has led to over-consumption, leaving 

traditional ways of water management behind. On the island of Amorgos, following the 

words of those who remember, we discover cisterns, wells, springs and fountains, all made 

with different techniques and materials but always with the same care. We listen to their 

stories, flowing like water, about the relation of their daily life to this valuable resource, and 

about the ancient tradition of dowsers and water-divination. This documentary was 

made on the occasion of the restoration and enhancement works of the water monuments 

on the island of Amorgos as co-ordinated by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the 

Environment and the Cultural Heritage. 



Production Company: Efi Latsoudi-Apostolos Makaratzis 

Production Contact Person: Efi Latsoudi 

8 Kenteri St 

Mytilini 81100, Greece 

T. + 30 6976 234 668 

F. +30 22510 20994 

elat@aegean.gr 

536 

289 

GREECE 


WE, THE CYCLOPES 

Maria Economou 

A team of children from the Alexandroupoli Special Vocational Education and Training 

School turn an idea into a short video. The children will discuss and examine the limits of 

myth and truth in relation to the story of the Cyclops Polyfimos in Homer’s Odyssey. According 

to myth, the Cyclops lived in a cave, a few kilometers away from the school. The 

team invites us to their school and we visit the workshops where the children’s creative 

work unfolds as they talk about the myth. Who were the Cyclopes and what was their true 

nature? 



648 

GREECE 


Production Company: Thessaloniki Film Festival 

Production Contact Person: Betty Semakoula 

T. +30 2310 378 631 

www.filmfestival.gr 


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WELCOME TO EUROPE 

Stelios Kouloglou 

Α refugee camp across the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders made of carton boxes and filled 

with stories of people tortured by the police. A prison in Jordan with cells designed for five 

people but in which more than a hundred people reside, reaching for fresh air through the 

prison bars. A makeshift camp in a forest in Kenya, the only refuge of people who have 

nowhere else to go. A mass grave in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an imam praying for their 

souls. There is only one problem: these pictures, as we will find out towards the end of the 

film, are not telling us the truth… 



Production Company: Lynx Productions 

Production Contact Person: Spyros Mavrogennis 

Sales Company: Lynx Productions 

Sales contact person: Spyros Mavrogennis 

25 Chaimanta St 


T. +30 210 685 5098 

F. +30 210 680 1019 

lynx@lynxsa.gr 

538 

207 

GREECE 


The dire conditions of one of the few schools that exist in Greece for children with special 

needs is seen through Yianna’s struggle to attain a decent education for her intellectually 

challenged son Dimitri. There are very few choices for them. The school he is attending is 

plagued with problems. Structurally and physically the school building is substandard and 

a public hazard. It is over crowded, understaffed and undersupplied. All children, regardless 

of their needs are thrown together. We observe Dimitri and his parents as they attempt 

to find a place for him in a vocational school that could provide him with a chance at becoming 

self-sufficient in society. 



631 

GREECE 


WHAT’S EATING DIMITRI? 

Valerie Kontakos & Yannis Misouridis 

Production Company: Doc3 & Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 






T. +30 210 607 5711 

F. +30 210 607 5715 


www.ert.gr 


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WHERE DID I PUT MY MEMORY? 

Josh Freed 

We meet people we know, but can’t recall their names. We forget where we put our wallet 

or our keys. As we live to an older age, memory loss is becoming one of the great health 

concerns. Are we all doomed to lose our minds? Or are there ways to keep our memories 

– and even improve them? Like the competitors of “The World Memory Championship”: 

an annual battle of the brains where the world’s best memories meet in a gruelling mental 

Olympics. If you can lose your memory, can you find it? Our film goes on a light-hearted 

and enlightening journey into our memories – and how we can improve them. 



Production Company: Morag Loves Company 






T. +33 1 7544 8080 

F. +33 1 4531 1305 



540 

372 

CANADA 



WHERE IS GARY? 

Jean-Baptiste Dumont 

Documentary maker Jean-Baptiste Dumont (JB), has been scammed by a certain Gary in 

a train station in Brussels. Out of curiosity he launches an interactive online investigation 

and soon realizes that Gary scammed many people all around Europe. Who is this guy? 

JB gives himself ten weeks to find Gary with the help of the audience. Twice a week he publishes 

a website, and Where Ιs Gary? becomes an interactive documentary. But it also raises 

many questions. How to avoid the search becoming a manhunt? What about privacy? What 

role does Facebook play? And is Gary for real? 



500 


Production Company: Potemkino 

Production Contact Person: Peter de Maegd 





T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




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Lifestyle 

WHO LOOKS AFTER 

Muriel Rebora 

Narda, a 28-year-old Βolivian student, leaves her country when she can no longer hide her 

pregnancy. In the face of family rejection and increasing difficulties with her career, she 

moves to Argentina with motherhood and saving money as her only goals. No previous 

arrangements, no warranties. In time, she’ll find herself building a life that both keeps and 

scares her. During her long hesitation on whether to go back or not, she will learn how to 

be a mother, look after, and be looked after, moving forward with the strength of her most 

unique quality: tenderness. 



Production Company: Jugo 

Production Contact Person: Muriel Rebora 

Sales Contact Person: Muriel Rebora 

Juramento 1081 

Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina 

T. +54 11 4786 9271 

reboramuriel@gmail.com 

542 

605 

ARGENTINA 



“The Orgasm as life-energy”. For this radical discovery, Wilhelm Reich was the last censored 

scientist of the 20th century. 

Arrested by the FBI, he died in prison. Now we discover that his findings are true... The 

amazing biography of a visionary. 



433 

AUSTRIA 

WHO’S AFRAID OF WILHELM REICH 

Antonin Svoboda 

Production Company: Coop99 

Production Contact Person: Antonin Svoboda 





T. +43 720 346 934 




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WIEBO’S WAR 

David York 

Wiebo Ludwig is the prime suspect in a series of pipeline bombings near his family’s farm. 

The bombings echo a campaign of sabotage he waged against the gas industry 10 years 

ago: barricading roads, blowing up wells, and culminating in the unsolved death of a 16year-old 

girl. 

The Ludwig family lives according to strict religious values, and under the sway of Wiebo, 

their patriarch. They are self-sufficient in food and energy, but isolated, with seven unmarried 

adult children, and 38 grandchildren, many entering their teenaged years. 

And they believe that those who don’t share their beliefs, like filmmaker David York, are 

living in terrible darkness. 



Production Company: 52 Media Inc. & National Film Board of Canada 



3155 Cote-de-Liesse Rd., St-Laurent, 

Quebec H4N 2N4, Canada 

T. +1 514 496 4134 


www.nfb.ca 

544 

166 

CANADA 



Some people call him a racist, others adore him. Why has politician Geert Wilders turned 

so popular? 

The world is under the spell of Geert Wilders. The politician generates discussion, anger and 

admiration everywhere. During the elections of June 9th 2010, his Party for Freedom (PVV) 

was the major winner and became the third biggest party of the Netherlands. This journey 

takes us from the Netherlands to London, to the United States, and ends up in Israel. 



487 


WILDERS, THE MOVIE 

Joost van der Valk & Mags Gavan 

Production Company: Pieter van Huystee Film&TV and VPRO Television 






T. +31 35 677 3561 

F. +31 35 677 5318 




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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: 

A MAN WITHIN 

Yony Leyser 

Burroughs was one of the first writers to cross the boundaries of queer and drug culture 

in the 1950s. He has influenced generations of artists. However, his friends were left 

wondering, did William ever find happiness? This intimate documentary breaks the surface 

of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time. 



Production Company: Yonilizer Productions 

Production Contact Person: Yony Leyser 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 



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171 

USA 



Sin País (Without Country) attempts to get beyond the partisan politics and mainstream 

media’s “talking point” approach to immigration issues by exploring one family’s complex 

and emotional journey involving deportation. 

After living in the United States for nearly twenty years, immigration agents stormed the 

Mejias’s house in 2007. Sam and Elida Mejia were undocumented and became deeply entangled 

in the US immigration system. After a passionate fight to keep the family together, 

Sam and Elida are deported back to Guatemala and leave their two teenage children in the 

United States. 

With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País explores the complexities of the 

Mejias’s new reality of a separated family – parents without their children, and children 

without their parents. 



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US - GUATEMALA 

WITHOUT COUNTRY 

Theo Rigby 

Sales Contact Person: Theo Rigby 

318 Laidley St 

San Francisco CA 94131 USA 

T. +1 415 867 5977 

theorigby@yahoo.com 


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THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS 

Vadim Jendreyko 

Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Recently 

she completed her life work – the translation of the five great novels by Dostoyevski, 

also known as “the five elephants”. Swetlana was born in Ukraine, which she left during 

the war in 1943. She never went back. 

The film interweaves the story of Swetlana Geier’s life with her literary work and traces the 

secret of this inexhaustible mediator of language. It tells of great suffering, silent helpers 

and unhoped-for chances. And a love of language that outshines all else. 




Production Contact Person: Anna Martensen 


Sales Contact Person: Badenerstr.129 


T. +41 439 603 684 


548 

457 

SWITZERLAND - GERMANY 



Hamas taking over Gaza turned it into one of the most controversial organizations in the 

world. While the most prominent members of the group are men, most of its field work 

is carried out by cadres of women supporters. Some serve as leaders of the movement 

while others are recognized for their social welfare activities on behalf of women and children 

and for being the mothers of suicide bombers. 

Director Suha Arraf obtained unprecedented access to three women who are active members 

of the organization in Gaza, and sheds light on the work of those who spend their life 

in the shadows. 



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ISRAEL - GERMANY 

WOMEN OF HAMAS 

Suha Arraf 





T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 




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WOMEN WITHOUT A PAUSE 

Paula Palacios 

Women without a Pause compares the most significant transition in all women’s life 

throughout different cultures: the menopause. 

Women from France, Brazil, Japan, Tanzania and USA share their experience and remind 

us that the menopause is a universal reality. 



Production Company: Palacios Films 

Production Contact Person: Paula Palacios 





T. +43 720 346 934 



550 

434 

FRANCE 



THE WOODMANS 

C. Scott Willis 

The Woodmans is an inspiring portrait of one family’s fall and redemption in the often brutal 

world of art. Family patriarch George is a professor and painter. Wife and mother Betty 

is a ceramicist who earns her own show at The Met. Charlie, their son, is a video artist. Most 

highly regarded is Francesca, their daughter, one of the late 20th century’s most recognized 

photographers, whose fame came after a tragedy that would forever scar the family. 

Through candid interviews with George, Betty, Charlie, and a host of friends, we come to 

understand how significant the importance of art-making has been to this family. 

Francesca’s work emerges in a highly developed way at a very early age. Through the creative 

use of her journal entries, experimental videos, and dynamic photographs, director 

C. Scott Willis brings us into the life of this young artist in a very intimate, visceral, and tragic 

way. His debut feature documentary is an original and extraordinary work that plumbs the 

depths of what it truly means to be an artist. 



394 

USA 

Production Company: C. Scott Films 

Production Contact Person: C. Scott Willis 





T. +33 1 4459 6353 




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WORDS OF RESISTANCE 

Timon Koulmasis 

The taxi driver refused to be paid. Athens, late July 1974. The Greek military junta has collapsed 

the night before. Arriving from Cologne, Germany, my mother insists. The taxi driver 

does not answer. “May my hand wither if I take money from you!”, he utters finally. He had 

recognized her voice. She had been one of the three or four principal voices of the Greek 

radio program of the International German Radio Broadcast Deutsche Welle, a daily program 

that nearly all Greeks were listening to in secret during the dark years of the dictatorship 

of the colonels. 

Words of Resistance tells the story of the men and women who created this program and, 

forced into exile by the fascist regime, continued to fight for seven years to keep up the dignity 

and the hope of a whole people. 

This film tries to uncover for the first time the important part they played during and after 

the dictatorship and indicates their place in collective memory today. It questions the 

power of the critical, politically engaged speech and redefines its necessity today. 



Production Company: TK Films 

Production Contact Person: Timon Koulmasis 

Sales Company: AIA Films 

Sales Contact Person: Timon Koulmasis 

223 bd Raspail 


T. +33 1 4565 4241 

aia.films@orange.fr 

552 

203 

GREECE 


Sports 

The European championship football madness, drunken “experts” at the provincial stadium, 

the backstage of the National team, raving fans in the streets of Paris and Lisbon. Football 

is a sport and entertainment, though possibly there is more to the game. In the film Working 

Class Ballet, philosophers, linguists, a neuropsychologist and a football coach contemplate 

the parallels between football and the drama of life, forming an unusual tale on 

what football is or could be. 



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LATVIA 

WORKING CLASS BALLET 

Roberts Vinovskis 

Production Company: Locomotive Production 

Production Contact Person: Roberts Vinovskis 

Bruņinieku iela 28-57 

Riga LV 1011, Latvia 

T. +371 292 986 67 

F. +371 672 985 38 

rv@locomotive.lv 


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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B. 

Alexander Nanau 

The film starts in 2008. Ion B. is a 62-year-old homeless man living in Bucharest. As a young 

man, he had dreamed of becoming a film director. In the 70s he started creating collages 

that he refers to as “my films”. In 2008, a young gallery owner heard by chance about Ion 

and his work. 

The homeless man showed him a collection of old suitcases filled with almost 1000 collages 

he had made between the 70s and the 90s. Only one year later, in 2009, Ion is living 

in his own home and has become one of the most important contemporary artists in 

Romania. 

This is the story of a genuine artist living on the edge of society, creating art in its purest 

form: for himself. 



Production Company: Alexander Nanau Production & HBO Romania 

Production Contact Person: Alexander Nanau 

Sales Company: HBO Romania 

Sales Contact Person: Andrei Cretulescu 

62-64 Buzesti street, 3rd floor 

Bucharest 011017, Romania 

T. +40 21 307 7777 

F. +40 21 307 7788 

andrei.cretulescu@hbo.ro 

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ROMANIA 



This fascinating 3-part documentary series is a journey into the past, spanning 500 years 

of European history. Enjoy twelve gripping stories about the Old Masters, their secrets and 

often adventurous lives. What is concealed within their pictures? How did they see the 

world? And what high-tech methods do scientists employ today to uncover evidence of 

times past? Dive into the world of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, 

Rubens, Lucas Cranach and many others. With great narration, the films explore connections 

that can’t easily be seen during a visit to the gallery. Crystal-clear close ups reveal 

those fascinating details that turn a painting into a masterpiece. Experience the immortal 

works of the Old Masters in all their beauty and discover the many stories they tell us. 



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GERMANY 

WORLDS OF THE MASTERS 







Berlin10997, Germany 

T. +49 30 4737 2980 

F. +49 30 4737 298 20 



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In Wretches & Jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing 

attitudes about disability and intelligence. With limited speech, Tracy Thresher, 42, 

and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both faced lives of social isolation in mental institutions or adult 

disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives 

changed dramatically. Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others 

like themselves. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a 

hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Along the way, they reunite 

with old friends from the USA, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and 

make new allies in their cause. 



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USA - SRI LANKA - JAPAN - FINLAND 


WRETCHES & JABBERERS 

Gerardine Wurzburg 

Production Company: State of the Art, Inc 

Production Contact Person: Dan Curl 

Sales Company: Area 23A 

Sales Contact Person: Kirt Eftekhar 

1223 Wilshire Blvd. #820 

Santa Monica CA 90403 USA 

T. + 1 310 399 7937 

kirt@ocule.com 



Canadian citizen Omar Khadr has been in Guantánamo since 2002. He was 15 when he 

was arrested in Afghanistan and according to international law he is a child-soldier. This 

documentary shows the encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and 

Omar Khadr, using the never before seen seven hours of video footage of his questioning 

recently declassified by the Supreme Court of Canada. The film delves into the unfolding 

high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four day period and 

analyzes the political, legal and scientific aspects of a forced dialogue. 



108 

CANADA 

YOU DON’T LIKE THE TRUTH – 

4 DAYS INSIDE GUATANAMO 

Luc Cote & Patricio Henriquez 

Production Company: Les Films Adobe 

Production Contact Person: Luc Cote 


Sales Contact Person: Jan Rofekamp 



T. + 1 514 844 3358 

F. + 1 514 844 7298 




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The Pantanal is a wild region in Brazil where the arid season rotates with the rainy one. Οld 

Zog, the dean of the howler monkeys, was serenely ruling his people in the haven of a generous 

forest. But for obscure reasons that no-one can explain, the winds haven’t blown this 

time. And they haven’t brought the usual flood with them which is terrible as they usually 

give life back to the dried out forest. The lack of rain will turn upside down what Zog 

always believed to be the natural order of things. His people will know hunger and thirst 

for the very first time. 

The buds have not blossomed, the water saved up in tree trunks has dried up and the king 

of the swamp, the anaconda Olim, has infiltrated the forest with the intention of capturing 

Zog who is really weakened. 

But the water brings forth all its efforts to save the inhabitants of the forest and it finally 

rains. Zog and his clan are saved but the old king is worried: What ever happened to the 

natural order of things? 



578 

FRANCE 

ZOG AND THE FLOOD 

Pierre Meynadier 

Production Company: Image Images Productions 





T. +33 1 4874 4377 

F. +33 1 4874 8265 




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ZUBIN MEHTA – “ZUBIN AND ME” 

Ori Sivan 

The director follows world famous Maestro Zubin Mehta from his home town in India to 

his adopted city, Tel Aviv, to discuss his career and personal choices. 







T. +972 3 566 4129 

F. +972 3 560 1436 



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407 

ISRAEL 



Voices, aspirations and contradictions of contemporary Iran in a journey across the undocumented 

world of Zurkhaneh, the traditional Iranian gymnasia where martial arts and 

music come together. 



503 

CANADA - IRAN - KOREA 

ZURKHANEH: 

THE HOUSE OF STRENGTH 

Federico Spinetti 

Production Company: University of Alberta (Canada) & Lab 80 film 

Production Contact Person: Alberto Valtellina 



via Pignolo 123 


T. +39 333 849 0808 +39 03 5578 1021 

F. +39 03 534 1255 



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Index of Directors 

Abedian, Torang 363 

Adamni, Adamu 358 

Adolph, Jörg 226 

Adriatico, Andrea 14 

Agathos, Anastasis 80 

Aguiló, Macarena 114 

Akridas, Christos 391 

Al Massad, Mahmoud 502 

Alevras, Nikos 404 

Alexiou, Alexis 154 

Alexiou, Ioannis 97 

Alexopoulou, Vana 388 

Ameladiotis, Dimitris 23 

Amiropoulos, Spyros 167 

Anderson, Lev 170 

Andonopoulos, Andreas 517 

André, David 169 

Andresevic, Jill 309 

Andrikopoulou, Angeli 219 

Antoniou, Yorgos 431 

Arnarson, Orn Marino 181 

Arnold, Jennifer 467 

Arraf, Suha 549 

Asso, Aurore 135 

Aston, Deborah 314 

Astraka, Marianna 447 

Atesh Litle, Joshua 193 

Ayalon, Yakie 483 

Azevedo, Licinio 265 

Bademsoy, Aysun 156 

Baer, Martin 284 

Bailey, Genevieve 233 

Bailey, Lucy 334 

Baker, Jonathan 183 

Bakhshi, Massoud 62 

Bar-Lev, Amir 506 

Barbieri, Giotto 15 

Barkanikas, Charalambos 97 

Barnard, Clio 46 

Baron, Saskia 53 

Barrett, Matt 272 

Barry, Stevens 419 

Baş, Berke 409 

Bass, Anne 127 

Bateman, Henry 194 

Bausch, Carles 77 

Bellucci, Nicola 250 

Ben Hagai, Noa 83 

Benaim, Abner 315 

Benalia, Nasser-Eddine 30 

Berghäll, Joonas 481 

Bergman, Nir 440 

Berry, David 252 

Bigham, Jim 189 

Biklen, Douglas 341 

Binzer, Lea 401 

Bird, Barbara 359 

Bofarull, Anna 209 

Bonilla, Rafael 296 

Bonnaire, Sandrine 217 

Boonstra, Marjolein 42 

Boyd, Stephanie 140 

Braun, Netalie 210 

Bridgham, Julie 446 

Brillant, Stephanie 198 

Brooker-Marks, Joan 464 

Brooks, Jonathan 227 

Bucak, Fatma 39 

Bundi, Hercli 224 

Burkard, Konstanze 509 

2 0 1 1 T h e s s a l o n i k i D o c M a r k e t G u i d e 

563

Burth, Marc 307 

Busnel, François-Xavier 434 

Bustnes, Håvard 212 

Buthenhoff-Duffy, Claudia 286 

Calek, David 214 

Cammack, Jocelyn 508 

Carpatorea, Ionut 221 

Castro, Félix Fernández De 319 

Celati, Gianni 142 

Celis, Barbara 485 

Charalambous, Petros 185 

Chen, Itamar 491 

Chilingirov, Hristo 109 

Chojna, Igor 455 

Choumou, Eleni 479 

Chytroschek, Tristan 473 

Ciners8 338 

City of Athens Cultural Organization 

Documentary Group 2009, 288 

Coca-Cozma, Miruna 387 

Cohen, Hila 27 

Cohen, Paul 269 

Comte, Olivier 411 

Condom, Cédric 101 

Corbelli, Giulio Maria 14 

Cote, Luc 557 

Curry, Marshall 239 

D’Hondt, Caroline 173 

Daccache, Zeina 16 

Danezi, Marina 450, 514 

Danopoulos, Yorgos 379 

Daountaki, Anthi 515 

Dartevelle, André 351 

Dawid, Leszek 373 

De Canson, Cyrille 331 

De Vries, Simone 494 

De Wilde, Jascha 308 

Demetz, Ingrid 225 

Demichelis, Davide 161 

Deniau, Jean-Charles 453 

Der Derian, James 228 

Derki, Talal 218 

Detiger, Allard 355 

Deveux, Vincent 317 

Dews, Morgan 339 

Dhoedt, Steven 258 

Dimitsanos, Yorgos 47 

Dinç, Nefin 385 

Dobrucki, Leslaw 300 

Doran, Jamie 128 

Dortmans, Hans 145 

Doulkeri, Tessa 65 

Drosakis, Nikos 301 

Ducaroir, Laure 353 

Dumont, Jean-Baptiste 541 

Dunlop, Nic 93 

Dusek, Martin 120 

Dutertre, Mino 331 

Dysinger, Carol 100 

Economides, Glafkos 423 

Economou, Maria 537 

Economou, Marianna 153, 519 

Economou, Vassilis 449 

Eldar, Shlomi 416 

Elder, Kathy 303 

Engel, Dries 88 

Esson, Katja 466 

Evangelidis, Panagiotis 298 

Evangelinos, Omiros 347 

Fargnachino, Sergio 39 

Faschina, Titus 118 

Fedda, Yasmin 89 

Felver, Christopher 106, 182 

Ferdek, Pawel 454 

Ferrara, Abel 349 

Ferryn, Patrick 162 

Findlay, Peter 426 

Fingerhut, Benjamin 90 

Flessa, Kleoni 186 

Forbes, David 123, 335 

Forgács, Péter 231 

Fotiadis, George 447 

Freed, Josh 342, 540 

Fridriksson, Fridrik Thor 333 

Fylaktos, Lefteris 19 

Galinsky, Michael 67 

Gallus, Maya 144 

Garbely, Frank 216 

García-Moreno, Diego 70 

Gauja, Andris 178 

Gavan, Mags 545 

Gentelev, Alexander 500 

Georgiev, Tchavdar 136 

Gerosa, Manu 278 

564 1 3 t h T h e s s a l o n i k i D o c u m e n t a r y F e s t i v a l

Gerrets, Boris 402 

Geyrhalter, Nikolaus 37 

Gilbert, Peter 94 

Goldberg, Daniel 249 

Gonsalves, Ines 312, 490 

Gonseth, Frederic 230 

Gottlieb, Lizzie 510 

Gould, Ester 461 

Grabsky, Phil 87 

Greenberg-Anjou, Erik 285 

Grosser, Christoph Martin 50, 213, 475, 555 

Grotenhuis, Walther 163 

Grün, Eva 358 

Grünberg, Sławomir 513 

Gsell, Gitta 85 

Guerra-Peixe, Georgia 444 

Guichard, Camille 353 

Guicherd, Anne 433 

Gutiérrez, Rafaël 435 

Guttman, Dalia 113 

Guzmán, Ulises 413 

Gyrithe Bonne, Anne 52 

Habib, Dan 255 

Hachmeister, Lutz 504 

Haggerman, Carlos 58 

Hardarson, Thorkell 181 

Hardy, Don 310 

Harel, Nadav 157 

Harris, Eytan 48 

Hart, Phoebe 380 

Hassaballa, Salma 75 

Hawley, Suki 67 

Hayun, Oshri 27 

Heim, Gabriel 271 

Helminen, Suvi Andrea 518 

Henriquez, Patricio 557 

Herman Dolz, Sonia 35 

Herskovits, Alberto 177 

Hessman, Robin 344 

Hetherington, Tim 436 

Heymann, Tomer 370 

Hnikova, Erika 324 

Ho, Thuy-Tiên 528 

Hoaglund, Linda 44 

Hobkinson, Sam 73 

Hofmann, Pascal 130 

Hokkanen, Jouni 282 

Holland, Ezra 260 

Horvath, Andreas 45 

Hotakainen, Mika 481 

Hristov, Tonislav 441 

Huezo Sánchez, Tatiana 468 

Idakiev, Simeon 474 

Iglesias González, Ígor 511 

Ingmire, George 501 

Isbilen, Tahsin 112 

Itach, Ohad 311 

Jaberg, Benny 130 

Jablonski, Dariusz 534 

Jarl, Stefan 484 

Jarmusch, Tom 471 

Jaud, Jean-Paul 459 

Jaury, Marie-Pierre 110 

Jendreyko, Vadim 548 

Jin, Huaging 215 

Jonigkeit, Elke 486 

Jullien, Anaud 168 

Junger, Sebastian 436 

Junker, Jens 33 

Jurtshenko, Marje 507 

Kaat, Marianna 408 

Kalaitzis, Vangelis 503 

Kaplan, Marianne 86 

Kappos, Sotiris 482 

Kapteijns, Michel 417 

Karakepelis, Christos 425 

Karanikolas, Athanasios 281 

Karni, Gil 261 

Kastner, Jamie 427 

Kaufman, David 472 

Kaveh, Yehuda 113 

Kawase, Naomi 197 

Kayode, Ibisankale 150 

Kekas, Panos 152 

Kent, Jon 159 

Keramidiotis, Yorgos 439 

Keresteliev, Dobrin 489 

Kersanidis, Akis 164 

Kesisoglou, Anna 336 

Khashchavatski, Yury 304 

Kilmi, Jaak 143 

King, Julianne & Don 71 

Kioukas, Antonis 238 

Kirpalani, Soniya 146, 465 

2 0 1 1 T h e s s a l o n i k i D o c M a r k e t G u i d e 565

Kirtadzé, Nino 138 

Kleiman, Michael 294 

Klusak, Vit 34, 125 

Knauer, Lorenz 268 

Koiso-Kanttila, Visa 412 

Komandarev, Stephan 512 

Kontakos, Valerie 539 

Köösel, Kertu 507 

Korexenidis, Simos 321 

Koszalka, Marcin 134 

Koszałka, Marcin 295 

Koulmasis, Timon 552 

Kouloglou, Stelios 538 

Krawiec, Grzegorz 222 

Krontiropoulou, Pinelopi 487 

Kudrna, Tomas 36 

Kuipers, Nadine 172 

Kyriakopoulos, Panayiotis 108 

Laffont, Jérôme 29 

Lafon, Cyril 206 

Laguerre, Antoine 393 

Laloudaki, Elisavet 382 

Landerburger, Thomas 31 

Landsman, Mark 505 

Larsen, Adam 352 

Latsoudi, Efi 536 

Le Pomellec, Camelle 137 

Lechuga, Leobardo Jacob 273 

Lee, Seong-gyou 340 

Leeman, Lisa 376 

Lefebvre, Carine 332 

Legaki, Kalliopi 378, 478 

Leingle, Gael 275 

Leitner, Caroline 225 

Leuze, Mirjam 201 

Lev, Simha 329 

Levy, Françoise 397 

Leyser, Yony 546 

Liberdade, Kiluanje 490 

Liberman Shkolnikoff, Lillian 532 

Libertade, Kiluanje 312 

Lieff, Judy 133 

Lokkerberg, Vibeke 493 

Longinotto, Kim 406 

López, Pedro Daniel 302 

Loules, Vassilis 111 

Loveland, Adrian 521 

Lozano, Juan José 242 

Lubbe Bakker, Sabine 461 

Ludlow, Dariela 374 

Luraschi, Sara 498 

Lusena de Sarmiento, Tommaso 99 

Lykoudis, Michalis 151 

MacInnes, Teresa 361 

Macqueen, Angus 256 

MAK Kritikou, Marineta 480 

Malliarou, Theodora 287 

Maltz, Judy 359 

Mangin, Mathias 356 

Mannheimer, Lina 122 

Marangos, Aristotelis 259 

March, Briar 497 

Marczak, Michal 51 

Marquardt, Alberto 364 

Marshall, Stephen 220 

Martínez, Fernando 179 

Martino, Antonio 357 

Matsikas, Yorgos 108 

Mavraki, Isabella 452 

Maytorena Taylor, Jennifer 354 

McGrain, Pete 166 

Melanitou, Eftychia 326 

Menegazzo, Morgan 535 

Mengrelis, Nikos 460 

Metzler, Chris 170 

Meynadier, Pierre 559 

Mikulski, Lech 457 

Milan, Kuzov 21 

Milne, Anne 320 

Minorowicz, Marta 405 

Minter, Sarah 360 

Mirkovic, Zeliko 237 

Mishey, Greg 303 

Miské, Karim 422 

Misouridis, Yannis 305, 327, 539 

Mocanu, Matei-Alexandru 462 

Moormann, Mark 189 

Moreau, Laëtitia 195 

Morgan, Andreas 469 

Morris, Holloman 242 

Mortezai, Sudabeh 248 

Mountsakis, Stergios 420 

Mulvad, Eva 202 

Muñoz, Salva 278 


Muntean, Lucian and Natasa 325 

Music, Goran 24 

Nachman, Dana 310 

Nanau, Alexander 554 

Nannavecchia, Nicola 323 

Nash, Steve 260 

Nason, Kent 361 

Nemes, Gyula 350 

Nicoara, Mona 387 

Nicolas, Hervé 139 

Niestroj, Jędrzej 316 

Nikoleris, Christos 499 

Noll, Michel 123, 335 

ΝΟΜΙΝΤ 207 

O Domhnaill, Risteard 407 

Occhipinti, Michela 297 

Ochronowicz, Igor 235 

Ogut, Berfi Dicle 205 

Olalla, Pedro 243 

Oreck, Jessica 72 

Orion Scott, Michel 223 

Orr, Odette 69 

Orthodoxou, Costas 41, 289 

Oskouei, Mehrdad 292 

Ostrochovsky, Ivan 241 

Otten, Hans 63 

Pablos, David 375 

Pakalnina, Laila 372 

Palacios, Paula 550 

Paladino, Thierry 313 

Paliatsios, Yorgos 23 

Papadogeorgou, Myrto 124 

Papagaroufalis, George 527 

Papageorghiou, Stavros 165 

Papathanassiou, Anneta 365 

Papathanassiou, Nikoletta 240 

Papatheodorou, Yorgos 429 

Paraskevas, Apostolos 234 

Paravel, Verena 190 

Pariente, Jonas 356 

Paris, Erato 96 

Pasin, Patrick 95 

Patroni, Katerina 147, 160 

Paz, Eran 270 

Pechlivanidis, Chronis 476 

Pelecis, Mara 477 

Perkins, Jeffrey 394 

Pertnoy, Michael 294 

Pesli, Maria 386 

Philp, John 330 

Piasecki Poulsen, Frank 82 

Pieta, Magdalena 410 

Pighetti, Oliver 103 

Pills, Mariusz 61 

Pinto, Goel 377 

Piperides, Marios 293 

Pittidis, Alexander 525 

Piturescu, Ionut 421 

Pizzocaro, Massimo 382 

Ploumpidis, Nicolas 184 

Podemski, Esther 400 

Poinsot, Laure 141 

Poitras, Laura 367 

Ponce, Alexis 38 

Pope, Amanda 136 

Poutte, Manu 191 

Poveda, Christian 526 

Pradetto, Wilma 246 

Preuss, Jakob 384 

Prochazka, Radim 104 

Provaznik, Ondrej 120 

Provencher, Raymonde 204 

Przybył, Rafał 316 

Psarras, Tasos 43 

Psyllakis, Stavros 516 

Quérouil, Manon 198 

Rabaud, Marlène 277 

Ramonet, Axel 135 

Rau, Rama 322 

Rébillon, Hervé 264 

Rebora, Muriel 542 

Reed, Patrick 492 

Reichova, Tereza 318 

Remunda, Filip 125 

Retel Helmrich, Leonard 414 

Richter, Janos 208 

Rigas, Vangelis 257 

Rigby, Theo 547 

Riguet, Alexandra 17 

Rincon, Nicolas 158 

Rohrer, Kat 180 

Romano, U. Roberto 211 

Rosenblatt, Jay 131 

Rosenwaks, Uri 57 


Rosi, Gianfranco 463 

Ross, Bill and Turner 20 

Rossetti, Zach 341 

Rough Cats 32 

Roumeliotis, Ioannis 395 

Ruhle, Eberhard 246 

Sanchez, Alejandra 26 

Santana, Araceli 81 

Sarenac, Srdjan 529 

Sarvestani, Nima 236 

Sauter, Marcin 362 

Saywell, Shelley 251 

Scarbonchi, Laurence 432 

Schädler, Reinhard 74 

Schäfer, Hubert 50, 213, 475, 555 

Schellart, Marieke 155 

Schillaci, Giuseppe 99 

Schmitt, Erik 470 

Schomerus, Hajo 245 

Schröder, Kaspar Astrup 345 

Schumann, Dieter 533 

Séclier, Philippe 40 

Seeger, Wolfram 54 

Segre, Andrea 299 

Sevgili, Soner 403 

Sher, Roy 346 

Sherman, Richie 359 

Shiers-Ghelliere, Kate 175 

Sieveking, David 132 

Silovic, Vassili 25 

Silva Melo, Jorge 522 

Sivan, Eyal 267 

Sivan, Ori 560 

Skopeteas, Yannis 192 

Smith, Philip 531 

Smrzova, Dagmar 448 

Sniadecki, J.P 190 

Soda, Kazuhiro 399 

Sos, Agnes 263 

Spatova, Olga 174 

Spinetti, Federico 561 

Standen-Raz, Andrew 530 

Stern, Ricki 93 

Stockman, Walter 451 

Stozek, Jakub 389 

Stratigakos, Stavros 119 

Strigel, Claus 254 

Suidgeest, Koen 279 

Sundberg, Annie 93 

Svoboda, Antonin 543 

Szederkényi, Júlia 105 

Szymanska, Wiktoria 495 

Tal, Ran 199 

Talamantes, César 383 

Tan, Shuchen 59, 66 

Temple, Julien 371 

Tenhaven, Jan 56 

Teskos, Spyros 343 

Thalhofer, Florian 409 

Theodorakis, Nick 290 

Theodoropoulos, Dimitris 22 

Theodosiou, Nikos 262 

Thompson, Andrew 334 

Todorov, Jordan 121 

Tomashevich, Ilya 84 

Touboura, Sofia 445 

Tour, David 113 

Touzalin, Christophe 353 

Trabitzsch, Michael 102 

Trachtman, Ilana 415 

Trayanova, Maria 49 

Třeštíková, Helena 280 

Trikas, Dimitris 496 

Trochidis, Prodromos 430 

Tsabari, Doron 437 

Tsepelikas, Argyris 219 

Tsiarta, Anna 253 

Tucciarone, Mathew 234 

Tuurna, Markku 458 

Tuvi, Reyan 369 

Tzafka, Gabriel 107 

Tzavella, Sophia 398 

Tzelepi, Chryssa 164 

Udris, David 228 

Udris, Michael 228 

Ujică, Andrei 55 

Urbajs, Milan 283 

Urso, Bruno & Fabrizio 68 

Usborne, Tim 149 

Uttar Kornetzky, Brigitte 200 

Van den Engel, Frank 494 

Van der Haak, Bregtje 60 

Van der Valk, Joost 545 

Van Es, Klara 306 


Van Luyn, Floris-Jan 424 

Van Peel, Bart 88 

Van Schaik, Saskia 91 

Van Tassel, Sabrina 438 

Vassilev, Nikolay 488 

Venditti, Jennifer 78 

Verete, Danny 229 

Veverka, Jeremy 115 

Veverka, Jesse 115 

Vianellis, Freddy 171 

Villarroya, Roger 396 

Vinovskis, Roberts 553 

Visinoni, Sergio 337 

Vlassi, Eleni 291 

Vojnar, Ivan 117 

Vojtek, Jaro 390 

Von Kalckreuth, Hans 523 

Vrakas, Dimitris 247 

Vredeveld, Saskia 79 

Wadimoff, Nicolas 28 

Wang, Feng 187 

Warrick, Jeff 418 

Wei, Shi 381 

Weihermann, Ralph 201 

Wetzel, Gereon 92, 226 

Whitney, Jim 476 

Widmer, Gerhard 18 

Willis, C. Scott 551 

Wischmann, Claus 284 

Wistroem, Mikael 177 

Wolf, Edgar 358 

Wolf, Thierry 428 

Wolff, Michael 18 

Wood, Elizabeth 129 

Wurzburg, Gerardine 556 

Wyss, Tobias 188 

Xanthopoulos, Lefteris 64 

Xhrouet, Stéphane 274 

Yatzouzakis, Dimitris 456 

Yimer, Dagmawi 299 

York, David 544 

Zachmanidi, Iris 116 

Zajtman, Arnaud 277 

Zambelli, Andrea 328 

Zanoli, Andrea 244, 328 

Zariczny, Grzegorz 148 

Zheng, Xiaolei 368 

Zipagauta, Rendon 76 

Zografou, Vivi 38 

Zünd, Jacqueline 203 


Index of sales Companies 

10 Francs 15, 17, 30, 40, 85, 99, 106, 135, 139, 161, 

182, 299, 331, 394, 428, 432, 433, 434, 435, 559 

AB Svensk Filmindustri 493 

AETN International 506 

AIA Films 552 

Always at Sea Productions 400 

AMP Film Works Ltd 293 

Anemon Productions 219 

Aplaplac Producciones 114 

Area 23A 556 

Artistic Organisation Tabula Rasa 301 

Atlantik Film 385 

Autlook Filmsales GmbH 37, 44, 45, 74, 92, 132, 143, 163, 

178, 203, 226, 242, 315, 407, 507, 512, 543, 550 

Baltic Film Production 304 

bathysphere productions 275 

Bausan Films, S.L. 319 

BBC Active 53 

BossaNovaFilms 444 

Bright Child Films 71 

Bulgarian National TV 21, 49, 109, 474, 488, 489 

C Major Entertainment GmbH 284 

Cargo Film & Releasing 100 

2 0 1 1 T h e s s a l o n i k i D o c M a r k e t G u i d e 

571

CAT&Docs 26, 36, 77, 88, 93, 94, 138, 157, 212, 

267, 279, 306, 340, 367, 453, 485, 502, 546, 551 

Cinema Group Production 218 

Cinephil 83, 199, 256, 294, 346, 370, 416, 427, 440, 491, 500, 549, 560 

CL Productions 425, 460 

Cultural Foundation of Tinos 480 

Cultural Organization of the City of Athens – Poulidis Productions 288 

Czech Television 117 

Dangerous Productions 447 

Danish Documentary Production 202 

Deckert Distribution GmbH 118, 131, 156, 177, 236, 408, 412, 466, 495 

Doc & Film International 193, 463 

DOC 3, 153, 154 

Doc and Film World Sales 169 

DR International Sales 86 

DR TV, International Sales 82 

Exit Filmproduktion 54 

F Productions 96 

Films Transit International 56, 136, 144, 180, 181, 220, 

239, 251, 376, 414, 424, 426, 481, 492, 557 

First Hand Films 52, 210, 310, 380, 417, 441, 534 

Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion 307 

Goldcrest Films International 436 

Greek Film Center 111, 160, 186, 327, 343, 425, 456, 460, 478, 519 

Hakalax Productions Oy 282 

HanWay Films 334, 371, 505 

HBO Central Europe 263, 295, 462, 513 

HBO Czech Republic 448 

HBO Romania 554 

Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT SA 43, 64, 119, 153, 

154, 192, 429, 487, 496, 515, 516, 539 


Hellenic Visual Archives 423 

Icons World 291 

ICTV 123, 187, 215, 216, 335, 339, 368, 528 

ICTV (Rest of the World) 381 

Illumina Films 42, 325, 446, 458, 464 

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine) 58, 81, 249, 273, 

296, 302, 360, 374, 383, 413, 468, 532 

Iris 32 

Java Films 103, 137, 198, 227, 473 

JMT Films Distribution 27, 48, 113, 150, 179, 261, 270, 329, 356, 377, 438, 518 

Journeyman Pictures 278, 497 

Kalejdoskop Film Studio 316 

Kent Creative/501Cinema 159 

Krakow Film Foundation 134, 148, 222, 286, 300, 362, 373, 389, 405, 410, 454, 455 

Kumie Inc. 197 

L’Oeil de la chouette 206 

Lab 80 Film 244, 337, 498, 561 

Lab of Electronic Media – Dept. of Journalism and 

Mass Media, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 65 

Laboratory X, inc. 399 

Lamaraca Producciones 70 

London Film School 259 

Louise Rosen Ltd 467 

Lynx Productions 538 

M.C.R. Production 482 

Mandragora International 55 

Marfilmes 265, 312, 490, 522 

Massive Productions 243 

Mi Abuelo Productions 501 

Minerva Pictures Group 349 

Minimal Films 147 


Mira Film GmbH 188, 224, 548 

Modiano SA 365 

Mysterious Art 47 

N-ORASIS 499 

National Film Board of Canada 204, 419, 544 

Network Ireland Television 89 

NIMA Productions 514 

Noima 240 

NOMINT 207 

NPO Sales 59, 62 

NPO/RNW Sales 35, 60, 61, 63, 66, 79, 91, 155, 258, 269, 308, 355, 461, 494, 541, 545 

Objective Cinema 345 

Onos Productions 476 

OPA TV 525 

Open University Worldwide 73, 149, 175, 252, 272, 531 

OutCome 104, 168, 214 

Periplus 240 

Pesca Production 328 

Pieter van Huijstee Film 145 

Point du Jour International 25, 28, 110, 141, 235, 264, 332, 342, 364, 411, 422, 540 

Raven Films/Spier Films 194 

Realfiction Film 533 

Rise and Shine World Sales 33, 50, 72, 213, 245, 384, 409, 470, 475, 508, 555 

Roco Films 78, 309, 344 

rumur 67 

Ruth Diskin Films 57, 229, 311, 437 

Seventh Art Productions 87 

Seventh Art Releasing 20, 285, 330, 354, 359, 472 

Sheherazad Media International (SMI) 292 

Sideways Film 115, 140, 166, 183, 228, 418, 521 


Silver Sickle Productions 234 

Smiley Film Sales 415 

Storyline Entertainment 322 

Studio Alfa SA 116 

Studio Obrazu – Lech Mikulski 457 

studioCrocus 401 

Submarine 172 

Svesnk Filmindustri 484 

Syracuse University 341 

T&C Edition 130 

Taskovski Films 31, 34, 39, 125, 237, 280, 402 

Tetraktys Films 165 

The Film Sales Company 211, 333 

Thierry Detaille Int’l imports 146, 230, 313, 465, 529 

ThinkMedia 303 

TVF International 128, 361 

Unicorn Content & Media 69 

united docs 18, 102, 201, 246, 254, 268, 271, 358, 486, 504, 509, 523 

Ventes-CBA/WIP Sales 29, 158, 162, 173, 191, 274, 277, 317, 351, 397, 443 

Visit Films 189 

Vitagraph 14, 68, 142, 323, 357, 535 

Vixen Films 406 

Vox Documentaries 107 

Wavelenght Pictures 46 

Wide House 76, 95, 127, 353, 393, 451, 459, 526 

Zed 101, 195 


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