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ICEMAN

SATURDAY | AUGUST 5TH | 11:00 AM | RIALTO 1 (INDUSTRY)MONDAY | AUGUST 7TH | 9:30 PM | PALACINEMA (PRESS)

TUESDAY | AUGUST 8TH | 9:30 PM | PIAZZA GRANDE (WORLD PREMIERE)

WORLD PREMIEREICEMAN by Felix Randau ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Page 5

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THE INVISIBLES by Claus Räfle ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 13

GODLESS YOUTH by Alain Gsponer ....................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 15

A SUMMER AFFAIR by Sönke Wortmann ........................................................................................................................................................................................Page 17

FORWARDS EVER! by Franziska Meletzky.........................................................................................................................................................................................Page 19

UPCOMINGSWHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY by Iram Haq ..............................................................................................................................................................................................3

SOLDIERS. A STORY FROM FERENTARI by Ivana Mladenovic ................................................................................................................................................Page 24

CANDELARIA by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza ...................................................................................................................................................................................Page 25

3 DAYS IN QUIBERON by Emily Atef ...................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 26

STYX by Wolfgang Fischer ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 27

COBAIN by Nanouk Leopold ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 28

DRIVER by Yehonatan Indursky ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 29

SHELTER by Eran Riklis ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 30

CALIBRE by Matt Palmer ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 31

3 WAY JUNCTION by J. Bollmeyer ........................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 32

THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER by Aku Louhimies .................................................................................................................................................................................Page 33

WERK OHNE AUTOR by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ...................................................................................................................................................Page 34

THE HAPPY PRINCE by Rupert Everett ..............................................................................................................................................................................................Page 35

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ORIGINAL TITLE ICEMAN

DIRECTOR Felix Randau (NORTHERN STAR)

DOP Jakub Bejnarowicz (WETLANDS)

CAST Jürgen Vogel (THE WAVE) André M. Hennicke (VICTORIA) Sabin Tambrea (LUDWIG II) Martin Augustin Schneider Susanne Wuest (GOODNIGHT MOMMY) Violetta Schurawlow (COLD HELL) Franco Nero (DJANGO UNCHAINED)

PRODUCER Jan Krüger

PRODUCED BY Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion in co-production with Echo Film, Lucky Bird Pictures and Amour Fou Vienna

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The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled nearby a creek. It is their leader Kelab´s (JÜRGEN VOGEL) responsibility to be the keeper of the group’s holy shrine Tineka.

While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, amongst them Kelab’s wife and son, only one newborn survives... and Tineka is gone! Blinded by pain and fury, Kelab is out for one thing alone – vengeance!

The pursuit of the murderers is shaping up to be quite an odyssey for Kelab. He fights for the infant’s survival and against the forces of nature. And a fatal error even turns Kelab from hunter to hunted. On top of all that, the loneliness causes Kelab to doubt his actions more and more.

When Kelab finally faces the murderers of his clan, his greatest challenge will be not to become a victimizer himself…

THEY FOUND A MAN, BUT NOT HIS STORY.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE

I was at the Berlin Wall Park fleemarket when I ran into a copy of STERN magazine, on its cover a fur-clad man as he fought his way up the mountain through the ice and storm, his dogged determination palpable. The headline read „The Last Days of the Oetzi“. Of course, the case of the „man from the ice“ had come to my attention before but now the curiosity of the filmmaker had been roused: A man, alone in the Alps, at an altitude of over 3.000 meters, killed from behind 5.000 years ago.

The „oldest unsolved murder mystery ever“ unfolded before my inner eye. After some intense, in-depth research the story of a man came to life on an ominous quest – that of a longing for revenge. What does that longing do to him? How does it change his relationship to the world around him? But also – what happens after revenge has been achieved? A man in a constant battle with hostile, overwhelming nature, but always also with himself. A journey into the heart of darkness – as historic as it is emotionally timeless.

THE DIRECTOR

Felix Randau is a well-known director and author, born in Emden, Germany in 1974. While studying German Literature and Cultural Anthropology at the University in Bonn, he was guest student at Schauspielhaus Bonn and worked on his first film projects.

From 1995-2003 he studied at the Deutsche Film– und Fernsehakademie (dffb) in Berlin and already worked as an assistant director for film and commercials. Randau wrote and directed various feature films such as NORTHERN STAR and DIE ANRUFERIN (nominated at the German Film Awards in 2008).

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ORIGINAL TITLE ALI‘S WEDDING

DIRECTOR Jeffrey Walker

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

CAST Osamah Sami (LUCKY MILES) Helana Sawires Don Hany (LUCKY MILES) Frances Duca

PRODUCER Sheila Jayadev and Helen Panckhurst

PRODUCED BY Matchbox Pictures


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Ali is the charming son of a much-loved Muslim cleric who has migrated to Australia from Iraq. Desperate to please his family and community whilst juggling two very different worlds, Ali sets off a calamitous chain of events that sees him attending medical school despite not being enrolled, and falling in love despite being promised to another. As his wedding day draws ever closer, Ali’s double life is on the brink of exposure.

THE DIRECTOR

Born in 1982, Jeffrey Walker started his career as an actor at the age of seven. After winning the Australian Film Institute‘s Best Young Actor Award in 1997, he went on to become one of Australia‘s youngest ever television directors at nineteen. For over a decade, Jeffrey helmed major Australian television productions shown domestically and around the world, including Chris Lilley‘s ANGRY BOYS for HBO, RAKE, H2O: JUST ADD WATER, the Emmy nominated DANCE ACADEMY and

the JACK IRISH TV movies starring Guy Pearce, which won him the Australian Academy Award for Best Direction in Television – making him the youngest ever recipient. In addition, he has won four Australian Directors Guild awards in the past five years, and received a further three nominations for his various comedic and dramatic works. Jeffrey began directing in the US in 2012 and so far has directed episodes across eleven TV series. These include MODERN FAMILY, BACKSTROM, RAISING HOPE, BONES, MIXOLOGY, RAKE (US) and the critically acclaimed DIFFICULT PEOPLE, where he directed all episodes and executive produced alongside Amy Poehler. In 2014, Jeffrey directed the prestigious BBC mini-series, BANISHED, again receiving nominations for the finale episode of the series in both the Australian Academy Awards and the Australian Directors Guild awards. ALI‘S WEDDING is his debut feature film. Currently, his second feature, DANCE ACADEMY - THE COMEBACK, is in the works. Jeffrey has directed over ninety hours of television, two feature films, all by the age of 34.

„authentic, affectionate and amusing” (SCREENDAILY)

„surefire crowd-pleaser“(THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

“one of the most sweet, funny, well-rounded and remarkably affecting films in quite some time”

(SPARKLYPRETTYBRIIIIGHT)

“impossible to dislike”(THE REELBITS)

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ORIGINAL TITLE DIE UNSICHTBAREN – WIR WOLLEN LEBEN

DIRECTOR Claus Räfle

DOP Jörg Widmer (PINA, TREE OF LIFE)

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

PRODUCER Claus Räfle and Frank Evers

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


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BASED ON THEIR LIFE STORIES: FOUR YOUNG JEWS SURVIVETHE NAZI TERROR IN BERLIN BY BECOMING INVISIBLE IN PLAIN SIGHT.

Berlin, February 1943: The NS regime declares the Reich’s capital “free of Jews.” At this point in time, 7000 Jews have succeeded in going underground. Almost 1700 will survive the horrors of the war in Berlin. The Invisibles tells the stories of four of these contemporary witnesses.

Hanni Lévy, who has just turned 17, has lost both of her parents. Thanks to her dyed, blonde hair, she is practically invisible to her pursuers, and strolls along the Ku’damm to pass the time away.

Cioma Schönhaus has also gone underground and leads an adventurous life that consists of buying a sailboat, dining in Berlin’s best restaurants, and becoming a forger of passports, through which he saves the lives of dozens of other Jews.And while Eugen Friede joins a resistance group that distributes anti-government leaflets, Ruth Arndt dreams about a life in America during the daytime; at night, she pretends to be a war widow and serves black-market gourmet foods in the apartment of an NS officer.

The dramatic re-enactments are intertwined with impressive interviews with the actual people whose lives inspired this film. The two levels blend together into an intensive, emotionally moving feature film and a historical tribute to the witnesses – of whom two are still alive.

THE DIRECTOR

Since the early 90ies, Claus Räfle has proven a sense for provocative issues and exciting subject matters with his body of work, distinctive through its modern journalistic approach and visual sophistication.

Time and again, profound humor and laconic narrative style were noted as the signature style of his productions by jurors and TV critics alike. Thus his satirical TV documentary Die Heftmacher was praised by the jury of the German Grimme Award as the most important work of TV journalism in that year. His video clips from the 1990s garnered lots of attention with their pointedly told stories. He developed and wrote THE INVISIBLES together with Alejandra López.

Many of his almost 40 feature-length TV documentaries, on which he has also served as writer, are distinct through their unconventional perspective, thoroughly entertaining in the best sense of the word and have found their way across borders.

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ORIGINAL TITLE JUGEND OHNE GOTT (WT)

DIRECTOR Alain Gsponer (HEIDI)

DOP Frank Lamm (PAULA)

CAST Jannis Niewöhner (4 KINGS) Fahri Yardim (ALMANYA) Alicia von Rittberg (FURY) Emilia Schüle (LENALOVE) Jannik Schümann Anna Maria Mühe (MY BLIND DATE WITH LIFE) Rainer Bock (TWO LIVES, BARBARA) Katharina Müller Elmau (COLONIA)

PRODUCER Uli Aselmann and Sophia Aldenhoven

PRODUCED BY die film gmbh in co-production with Constantin Film Production


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In a not-too-distant future, in which integration serves to protect the elite and isolate the weak, the cities are hellholes and the countryside holds the fairytale promise of a better life, a young school girl is found in the woods during the annual graduates’ assessment camp.

Known for his upstanding morals, a teacher breaks with his own values on a quest for the truth – and is increasingly entangled in a net of his own lies.

Suddenly someone confesses to a murder that they couldn‘t have committed and the fragile cohesion of a youthful elite society is threatened to destroy itself.

THE DIRECTOR

Alain Gsponer was born 1976 in Zürich. After working as a radio journalist he began to study directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in 1997.He successfully completed his studies in 2002 with his graduation film KIKI&TIGER. Ever since, he has been working as a director, writer and as a dramaturgical consultant for films like THE EDUKATORS.

His gripping tragicomedy ROSE was nominated in the categories Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Volker Bruch) at the German Television Awards in 2007 and won Best Picture.

His feature film HEIDI, based on Johanna Spyrl’s internationally acclaimed, multi-million selling and eponymous classic novel, was a worldwide success with over nine million Euros box office and releases in 28 countries.

IN A DYSTOPIAN, PERFORMANCE-ORIENTED SOCIETY, ADOLESCENTS STRUGGLE FOR GOOD GRADES WHILE THEIR DREAMS ARE SHATTERED BY AN INDIFFERENT SYSTEM.

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ORIGINAL TITLE SOMMERFEST

DIRECTOR Sönke Wortmann (THE MIRACLE OF BERN)

DOP Michael Wiesweg

CAST Anna Bederke (SOUL KITCHEN) Peter Jordan (THE INTERNATIONAL) Sandra Borgmann (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX) Nicholas Bodeux Markus John André Rohde

PRODUCER Stefan Arndt, Tom Spieß and Uwe Schott

PRODUCED BY X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment GmbH and Little Shark Entertainment GmbH in co-production with WDR, ARTE and WS Film


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One day, the middle-aged actor Stefan receives an unsettling phone call during a play; his father has passed away. In a mad rush, Stefan travels back to his home town near Bochum. It’s been years since he had turned his back on this seemingly depressing place. Planning to settle his father’s affairs rather quickly, he expects to be able to get back to Munich within four days. A chance for a part in a new soap opera is waiting for him.

Soon after arriving though, Stefan gets caught up in his past: his old room in the dilapidated house; his dead father at the funeral home; his childhood friend Toto, who takes him around town. At least, that last part seems a welcome distraction. Together, they embark on a journey taking them through a world which couldn’t be further away from Stefan’s life back in Munich, taking him back to the old days…

As Stefan is confronted with his old flame and new chances, he soon finds himself forced to make a choice that will change his life.

THE DIRECTOR

Sönke Wortmann is a German director and producer. He studied at Munich Film Academy (HFF) and his graduation film DREI D was nominated for a Student Academy Award.

His first big success was 1991’s ALONE AMONG WOMEN, which he topped with MAYBE… MAYBE NOT, the most successful German film of the 1990ies. After working as a producer on LAMMBOCK, he directed THE MIRACLE OF BERN, a film about the 1954 World Cup final. It went on to become a huge box-office hit for which he received several awards, amongst them the German Film Award (Silver).

Wortmann’s film DEUTSCHLAND. EIN SOMMERMÄRCHEN about the German national team’s journey to winning the 2006 World Cup remains the most successful documentary in German cinemas to this day. His adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller POPE JOAN has attracted an audience of more than 2.6 million in Germany alone.

STEFAN MUST RETURN TO BOCHUM TO SELL THE HOUSE OF HIS DECEASED FATHER. IN JUST FOUR DAYS EVERYTHING IS SUPPOSED TO BE SETTLED SO HE CAN HEAD BACK TO MUNICH. AT LEAST

THAT WAS THE PLAN…

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ORIGINAL TITLE VORWÄRTS IMMER!

DIRECTOR Franziska Meletzky

DOP Bella Halben (THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK)

CAST Jörg Schüttauf (THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER) Josefine Preuß (EMERALD GREEN) Jacob Matschenz (RICO, OSKAR AND THE MYSTERIOUS STONE) Devid Striesow (THE COUNTERFEITERS)

PRODUCER Philipp Weinges, Andreas Richter and Günter Knarr

PRODUCED BY Crazy Film Produktion in co-production with Roxy Film and ARD Degeto


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October 1989. Faced with an unwanted pregnancy, the young drama student Anne wants to leave East Berlin with forged papers to live with her mother in the West.

When her father Otto, a well-known, honored East-German actor and impersonator of the GDR General Secretary of the Central Committee Erich Honecker, gets wind of her plans, he rips up her fake passport to save her from herself. To get new papers, Anne and the young civil rights activist August drive to Leipzig for a Monday demonstration. There are rumors that tanks are to waltz through the protest.

Matti, father of the unborn child, is unaware of their plans but follows them relentlessly. Otto learns of his daughter’s daring intentions and resolves to dress up as Honecker to try and get the central committee to stop the tanks. As Anne, August and Matti are pursued by the ever tightening grip of State Security agents, Otto finds himself believed by high-ranking party members. He has to keep up his charade as the tanks draw closer to Leipzig.

THE DIRECTOR

Franziska Meletzky was born 1973 in Leipzig. From 1993-1997, she studied German language and literature, culture and media studies, as well as English in Leipzig before attending Film University „Konrad Wolf“ in Potsdam Babelsberg, where she graduated in 2004.

During her studies, Meletzky already shot several award-winning shorts. Her graduating film WANTED! was nominated for the 2004 First Steps Award and received the DEFA sponsorship award for young talents as well as the award for Best Picture at the Miskolc International Film Festival in Hungary.

Meletzky‘s tragicomical ensemble film ACCORDING TO THE PLAN received the Audience Award at the Filmkunstmesse Leipzig and the Golden Goblets for Best Film and for Best Actresses at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007 before its German release in March 2008.

A COMEDY OF ERRORS SET IN THE EVE OF THE GDR.

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ORIGINAL TITLE HVA VIL FOLK SI

DIRECTOR Iram Haq (I AM YOURS)

DOP Nadim Carlsen (SHELLY)

CAST Maria Mojdeh Nawabi Estanegzai Adil Hussain

PRODUCER Maria Ekerhovd and Karsten Stöter

PRODUCED BY Mer Film in co-production with Rohfilm Factory and Zentropa Sweden


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WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?

Fifteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home in Oslo, she obeys the traditions and values of Pakistani family life, but outside with her friends she is just like any other Norwegian teenager. One day, Nisha´s two worlds brutally collide when her father catches her in bed with her white, Norwegian boyfriend.

Nisha is kidnapped by her parents and sent to live in Pakistan. At first, Nisha feels alone and afraid in the strange, new land, but then slowly, she starts to discover her parents’ culture in a new way.

AN EMOTIONAL AND TOPICAL STORY ABOUT LOVE, SOCIAL CONTROL AND A YOUNG GIRL FINDING HER OWN WAY BETWEEN NORWAY AND PAKISTAN.

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DRAMA / ROMANIAN / APPROX. 119 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE SOLDAȚII. POVESTE DIN FERENTARI

DIRECTOR Ivana Mladenovic

DOP Luchian Ciobanu

CAST Adrian Schiop Vasile Pavel - Digudai

PRODUCER Ada Solomon

PRODUCED BY Hi Film Productions in co-production with Film House Bas Celik and Frakas Productions


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SOLDIERS. A STORY FROM FERENTARI

Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who recently got dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the most notorious outcast neighbourhood in Bucharest. He plans to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly it is one more ploy for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency.

While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the

unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted signs of affection. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn‘t understand.

A modern Romeo & Juliet set in the Roma outskirts of Bucharest.

A CONTEMPORARY LOVE STORY SET IN THE MOST NOTORIUOS OUTCAST NEIGHBORHOOD OF BUCHAREST.

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ORIGINAL TITLE CANDELARIA

DIRECTOR Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza

DOP Soledad Rodriguez

CAST Verónica Lynn Alden Knight Philipp Hochmair

PRODUCER Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza

PRODUCED BY Antorcha Films in co-production with Razor Film Produktion, Dag Hoel DHF, La 5ta Avenida and Pucará Cine


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CANDELARIA

Havana, 1994. Right when the embargo is at its peak, the Cold War comes to an end and the Soviet Union disintegrates. But the life of CANDELARIA (75), and VÍCTOR HUGO (76) continues at a slow pace. The days are repetitive, conversations are sparse, dinners are sad. But the monotony is broken when Candelaria finds a video camera hidden in the dirty sheets of the hotel where she works. Not sure of what to do with it just yet, she brings it home. This camera, a foreign object to both of them, subtly sneaks into their lives as the couple learns to

manipulate it and later to use it to film themselves dancing, kissing and making love. This spark of recovered love helps them forget that one of them is sick.Now, they have each other. Now, everything is life. But one day the camera disappears. Desperate about losing the very thing that brought back joy to his life, Victor Hugo goes to “El Hormigueo,” a dangerous place in downtown Havana where everything stolen can be found…

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ORIGINAL TITLE 3 TAGE IN QUIBERON

DIRECTOR Emily Atef (THE STRANGER IN ME)

DOP Thomas Kiennast (GHOSTHUNTERS: ON ICY TRAILS)

CAST Marie Bäumer (THE COUNTERFEITERS) Birgit Minichmayr (DOWNFALL) Charly Hübner (THE LIVES OF OTHERS) Robert Gwisdek Denis Lavant (HOLY MOTORS, THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE)

PRODUCER Karsten Stöter

PRODUCED BY Rohfilm Factory in co-production with Dor Film and Sophie Dulac Productions


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3 DAYS IN QUIBERON

1981, Quibéron, a small village at the Breton coast. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons. Shortly after, the young journalist Michael Jürgs and Romy´s long-time acquaintance, photographer Robert Lebeck, arrive to conduct an interview for a large German publication.

Immediately, a cat-and-mouse game ensues between the fragile diva and the ambitious author. The ups and downs of emotions, between tenderness and mutual manipulation, amidst Hilde’s attempts to guard her friend while the journalists try to capture for their audience the most inner feelings of this fascinating woman – all of it keeps these four people deeply engaged for three days and nights and reveals Romy Schneider to be more vulnerable than ever. And yet, by the end of those days, she may have found the inner strength to be able to start over, something she desperately wants…

IN A REHAB CLINIC ROMY SCHNEIDER - THE BIGGEST FEMALE STAR IN EUROPE OF HER TIME, GIVES HER LAST INTERVIEW TO TWO JOURNALISTS. THREE DAYS, DRIVEN BY ROMANTIC DESIRE,

PROFESSIONAL AMBITION AND THE URGE FOR LIVING.

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ORIGINAL TITLE STYX

DIRECTOR Wolfgang Fischer

DOP Benedict Neuenfels (COUNTERFEITERS)

CAST Susanne Wolff (RETURN TO MONTAUK) Gedion Wekesa Oduor Alexander Beyer (GOOD BYE LENIN!) Inga Birkenfeld (THE LIVES OF OTHERS)

PRODUCER Marcos Kantis, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Martin Lehwald

PRODUCED BY Schiwago Film GmbH in co-production with Amour Fou Vienna GmbH


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STYX

Rike - mid-30s, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typically Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike‘s everyday life, as an overworked emergency doctor, before she sets out on a much-needed holiday on Gibraltar. There she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken refugee boat. Unless she intervenes, around a hundred people will drown – their utterly overloaded boat has sprung a leak. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help - legally, she is not obliged to do any more. But when her calls are left unanswered, and then rejected for spurious reasons, she decides to overcome her fear and try to rescue whoever she can.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF A STRONG WOMAN TORN FROM HER CONTENTED WORLD DURING A SAILING TRIP.

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ORIGINAL TITLE COBAIN

DIRECTOR Nanouk Leopold (BROWNIAN MOVEMENT)

DOP Frank van den Eeden

CAST Bas Keizer Naomi Velissariou (OUT OF LOVE) Wim Opbrouck Dana Marineci (TONI ERDMANN)

PRODUCER Stienette Bosklopper and Lisette Kelder

PRODUCED BY Circe Films in co-production with A Private View, COIN Film, VPRO Television and The Film Kitchen


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COBAIN

Cobain comes from a broken home. His mother Mia, a drug addict, is heavily pregnant, which doesn‘t keep her from using and getting drunk every day. As he worries about her, he resolves to run away from his new foster family to try and get Mia help. Yet his efforts remain futile, his love rejected and the two separate after a bitter argument.

He finds shelter with Mia‘s ex Wickmayer, a man who „employs“ a couple of foreign women. Cobain helps them in their daily life with translations and groceries. For the first time in his life, he feels he has something resembling a home. As Mia - now in an even worse condition - attempts to contact her son again, Wickmayer sends her away. But Cobain takes responsibility and tries to help Mia to be a good mother for once.

COBAIN WORRIES ABOUT HIS ERRATIC MOTHER MIA, WHO IS PREGNANT AGAIN. DRIVEN BY LOVE, COBAIN GOES TO EXTREMES TO FORCE MIA TO BE A GOOD MOTHER FOR ONCE.

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ORIGINAL TITLE LIFNEY HAZIKARON

DIRECTOR Yehonatan Indursky

DOP Shai Goldman

CAST Moshe Folkenflik Manuel Elkaslassy Vardi

PRODUCER Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman Keren, Moshe Edery and Leon Edery

PRODUCED BY Pie Films, United King Films, Haut et Court in co-production with Carole Scotta


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DRIVER

Nahman Ruzumni lives on the fringes of the ultra-orthodox community in Bnei Brak, Israel. As a „Driver,“ he takes beggars to wealthy homes and coaches them telling their stories in order to inspire philanthropy. For his services he gets a cut of the money and writes down their stories in his notebook. He spends the rest of his nights in makeshift casinos and dining halls with the more questionable members of this pious society. But when his wife suddenly leaves, Ruzumni is faced with

the responsibility of taking care of his nine-year-old daughter alone. Now, he has to take her with him on his nightly journeys, exposing her to his world for the first time. Getting to know his daughter, Ruzumni remembers the only story he could never tell…his own. Together in the dark alleys of Bnei Brak, they each find their lost childhoods – even if it is for just one moment.

FROM THE PRODUCERS OF THE FAREWELL PARTY.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / ENGLISH, HEBREW & ARABIC / 93 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

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DIRECTOR Eran Riklis (LEMON TREE)

DOP Sebastian Edschmid (THE LAST STATION)

CAST Golshifteh Farahani (PATERSON) Neta Riskin (SHTISEL) Lior Ashkenazi (WALK ON WATER, NORMAN) Haluk Bilginer (WINTER SLEEP) Yehuda Almagor (PLAYOFF) Mark Waschke (BARBARA)

PRODUCER Bettina Brokemper, Michael Eckelt, Eran Riklis and Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre

PRODUCED BY Heimatfilm, Riva Film, Eran Riklis Productions and MACT Productions in co-production with ZDF-ARTE and ARTE France Cinema


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SHELTER

LEMON TREE meets JOHN LE CARRÉ in a thriller set in Germany involving a Lebanese woman (Mona - Golshifteh Farahani) and an Israeli Mossad agent (Naomi - Neta Riskin) sent to protect her. Mona and Naomi - together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg. A safehouse. A safe house. A refuge. No one saw what was coming, no one knew that this supposedly quiet fortnight would turn into a

nightmare and that refuge would need to be found elsewhere. The intimacy of the relationship that develops between the two women is exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned and choices are made that are not their own. And yet their fates take a surprising turn in this suspense laden, elegant neo-noir.

TWO WOMEN TRAPPED IN A SAFEHOUSE WHERE NOTHING IS SAFE AND NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED.

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DIRECTOR Matt Palmer (THE GAS MAN)

DOP Márk Györi (KATALIN VARGA)

CAST Jack Lowden (71, DUNKIRK) Martin McCann (THE SURVIVALIST) Tony Curran (GLADIATOR) Iain Pirie (SUNSET SONG)

PRODUCER Alastair Clark and Anna Griffin

PRODUCED BY Wellington Films


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Father-to-be Vaughn and his lifelong friend Marcus head to an isolated, struggling Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. After a first night of heavy drinking with the villagers, the men head out on a misty autumnal morning, into a vast forest. When Vaughn tries to shoot a deer, a fatal accident happens. Instead of hitting the animal, his bullet rips into a child in the distance. The men make the fateful

decision to cover up the tragic incident. But piece by piece, their secret unravels as they become stranded in the village and sucked into a never-ending nightmare. As the locals close in on the truth, Vaughn is drawn into a series of increasingly unbearable and impossible moral choices that place both his survival and his family at stake.

AN INTENSE, FEVERISH THRILLER SET IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDSFEATURING JACK LOWDEN (DUNKIRK, ENGLAND IS MINE) AND MARTIN MCCANN (THE SURVIVALIST).

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ADVENTURE THRILLER / ENGLISH / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

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DIRECTOR J. Bollmeyer (Cannes 2014 Silver Lion)

DOP Kay Madsen

CAST Tom Sturridge (ON THE ROAD) Stacy Martin (REDOUTABLE) Tommy Flanagan (SONS OF ANARCHY)

PRODUCER Maggie Monteith, Oliver Stoltz and Michael Auret

PRODUCED BY Spier Films, Dignity Film Finance and Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduction


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3 WAY JUNCTION

Suffering from a massive career disappointment, London architect Carl Walters travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. However, destiny soon strikes and he finds himself stranded alone in the African nowhere, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes.

Carl embarks on a bitter rite of passage, a trial only overcome if he is willing to radically change his attitude towards life. In the face of his own demise, Carl learns the simple truth: To survive, you need to act.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF UNDEFINED DESIRE, A LONGING AND A CRAVING FOR A FULL AND DARING LIFE.

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WAR DRAMA / FINNISH / 135 MIN AND 4 X 50 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

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DIRECTOR Aku Louhimies

DOP Mika Orasmaa F.S.C.

CAST Eero Aho Aku Hirviniemi Jussi Vatanen Joonas Saartamo Johannes Holopainen Samuli Vauramo Arttu Kapulainen Paula Vesala

PRODUCER Aku Louhimies and Mikko Tenhunen

PRODUCED BY Elokuvaosakeyhtiö Suomi 2017 in co-production with Scope Pictures and Kvikmyndafélag Íslands


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THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

The Unknown Soldier is an explosive war drama about a platoon of Finnish soldiers fighting the Soviets in the Second World War.Based on the best-selling novel by Väinö Linna and drawing from the author’s own experiences, The Unknown Soldier’s historical accuracy embraces the harsh realities of war—gritty and realistic, yet an unpolitical and humane account.

The story revolves around a diverse group of men, all at odds with how they see themselves, each other, and the common cause. Warm humour, camaraderie, and basic survival instincts are requisite for them to retain their humanity on the excruciating journey to Russia and back again.

THERE ARE STORIES THAT EVERY GENERATION SHOULD TELL THEMSELVES. THE PRESENT DOES NOT ERASE HISTORY, BUT CERTAIN THINGS FADE AWAY AND ARE LEFT IN THE BACKGROUND.

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Young artist Kurt Barnert has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets

the student Ellie, he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / GERMAN / APPROX. 120 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE WERK OHNE AUTOR

DIRECTOR Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (THE LIVES OF OTHERS)

DOP Caleb Deschanel (THE PATRIOT, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL)

CAST Tom Schilling (OH BOY, GENERATION WAR) Paula Beer (FRANTZ) Sebastian Koch (THE LIVES OF OTHERS) Saskia Rosendahl (LORE) Ina Weisse

PRODUCER Jan Mojto, Quirin Berg, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Max Wiedemann

PRODUCED BY Pergamon Film and Wiedemann & Berg Film in co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD Degeto


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AN EPIC PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT THREE PERIODS OF GERMAN HISTORY.FROM THE DIRECTOR OF OSCAR WINNING “THE LIVES OF OTHERS”.

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ORIGINAL TITLE THE HAPPY PRINCE

DIRECTOR Rupert Everett (AN IDEAL HUSBAND)

DOP John Conroy (LUTHER, THE SEA)

CAST Rupert Everett (MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING) Colin Firth (THE KING’S SPEECH, KINGSMAN) Edwin Thomas Colin Morgan (MERLIN) Emily Watson (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING) Tom Wilkinson (THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) Miranda Richardson (SLEEPY HOLLOW)

PRODUCER Sébastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer and Jörg Schulze

PRODUCED BY maze pictures and Entre Chien et Loup in co-production with Palomar and in association with BBC Films, Beta Cinema, Lionsgate UK, Concorde Filmverleih, Raindog Films, Movie Management Corporation, Zielke GmbH, Daryl Prince Productions, Strat et Go International and co-produced by cine plus Filmproduktion, Tele München Group, Radio Television Belge Francophone and Proximus


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THE HAPPY PRINCE

The Happy Prince is an intimate portrait of the passionate, chaotic and ultimately tragic final chapter in the life of Oscar Wilde. Though much is known of his celebrated literary career and his devastating fall from grace, this film is a compelling exploration of the tumultuous and little known circumstances of his years in exile. It charts his doomed attempts to repair his reputation after release from prison, his failure to reconcile with long-suffering wife Constance, the reprisal of his stormy love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, aka Bosie, the warmth and devotion of the many friends who try to save him from himself, and the impulsive

recklessness that leads to his heartbreakingly destitute final days. In a story so infused with misfortune, his incomparable wit remains remarkably intact, delivered with the eloquence and irresistible charm that helped to make him so famous in his earlier years. But the film also reveals a darker side to his genius: an arrogance and selfishness that eventually destroys not just his own life but those of the many he loves so dearly. This honest and at times startling profile reveals a new side to a global icon who is so widely revered yet so often misunderstood.

THE STORY OF THE LAST DAYS OF OSCAR WILDE IN EXILE.STARRING COLIN FIRTH, EMILY WATSON, TOM WILKINSON AND RUPERT EVERETT.

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