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Best Friend Forever
SPRING 2021
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CAST Zagazig, a small city on the Nile Delta in Egypt. Today.
Bassant Ahmed
Basmala El Ghaiesh Souad, 19-year-old young woman, leads a double life. While
Hussein Ghanem remaining conservative and veiled among her family and
society, Souad is obsessed with her image on social media,
PRODUCERS and goes in several secret virtual relationships with men.
Sameh Awad for Vivid Reels She constantly lies about her personal life, projecting
wishfully images of a different desired life. Her ambitions
CO-PRODUCERS are slowly crushed by the invasion of her true reality.
Wim Wenders for Road Movies
(Everything Will be Fine, Pina) A series of small incidents lead to a tragic event, that
Dora Bouchoucha for Nomadis makes Rabab, her 13-year-old little sister, embarks on a
Images (Hedi, Dear Son) real-life journey looking for answers.
Mohamed Hefzy for Film Clinic
(Yomeddine, Luxor)
Mark Lotfy for Fig Leaf Studios
LANGUAGE
Arabic
WORLD PREMIERE.
US REPRESENTATION
EGYPT, TUNISIA,
Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
GERMANY.
MIDDLE EAST DISTRIBUTOR
Film Clinic Indie Distribution 96 MIN.
“Intensely involving... authentic and haunting... “Ayten Amin’s bold second feature is brilliantly
completely captivating performances... like a alive… razor-sharp, nonjudgmental insight,
window into a world we might never otherwise which captures lives as well as environment
see... should travel extensively on the festival with a cleareyed neorealist sensibility… flowing
circuit, attracting the attention of streaming dialogue that feels unscripted and true… both
services and distributors along the way.” loving and critical.”
SOUAD
Directed by
Ayten Amin
Director Villa 69 - Special Jury
Award Abu Dhabi 2013,
Co-director Tahrir 2011
Documentary - Venice &
TIFF 2011
CAST Tel Aviv, today.
Elisheva Weil Danny is looking for Max through a party to share that she’s
Leib Lev Levin pregnant with his child.
Yoav Hait But Max just started a new relationship with Avishag and
Hadar Katz attempts to realize her rough sexual fantasy.
Truth is, Avishag actually has someone else in mind.
PRODUCERS
Hadas Ben Aroya
Maayan Eden
LANGUAGE
Hebrew
WORLD PREMIERE.
ISRAEL.
90 MIN.
“If there is one thing that All Eyes Off Me, captures really,
really well, it’s that divide between trying to be liberated
versus actually, truly being so.”
ALL EYES
Written & Directed By
Hadas Ben Aroya
OFF ME People That Are Not Me –
(MISHEHU YOHAV
Locarno 2016
MISHESHU)
CAST Brussels, today.
Harpo Guit
Maxi Delmelle Issachar & Zabulon are two brothers in their twenties living
Mathieu Amalric (The French with their mother Cashmere in a low-rent neighborhood.
Dispatch, Sink or Swim) Supremely stupid, they are never bored. For them, madness
Claire Bodson (Young Ahmed) is part of daily life. When they lose January-Jack, their
mother’s beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it
PRODUCER otherwise she will kick them out.
Roue Libre Production
They certainly won’t get away from trouble...
LANGUAGE
French
WORLD PREMIERE.
BELGIUM.
70 MIN.
“A shot of John Waters recklessness to a
national cinema that has rarely behaved
this badly since Man Bites Dog.”
MOTHER
Written & directed by
Lenny and Harpo Guit
SCHMUCKERS
Radio Kiff, Nathalie f** you all
short films
(FILS DE PLOUC)
CAST Louise revisits her childhood when her family decides
Laure Calamy (My Donkey, to sell their farm.
My Lover and I, Call My Agent!
TV Series) 20 years ago, she was Louloute, a mischievous and
Erika Sainte (Sink or Swim, exuberant little girl, helping her father with their farm,
Montparnasse Bienvenüe) fighting with her siblings and worrying her mother…
Alice Henry
Bruno Clairefond When the family’s debts accumulate and overwhelm them,
tender childhood moments become intertwined with the
PRODUCER harsh adult reality of a disappearing rural world.
bathysphere
(Makala, 10 000 Nights in the
Jungle)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
Tandem (April 21, 2021)
LANGUAGE
French MARKET PREMIERE.
FRANCE.
86 MIN.
Laure Calamy awarded
2021 Cesar for
Best Actress
LOULOUTE
Directed by
Hubert Viel
Girls in the Middle Age
CAST Corsica, in a small village.
Jean-Christophe Folly
(Montparnasse Bienvenue, Kids brighten the streets, teens mess around, grown-ups
Blind Spot) discuss the future while elders reflect on time passing by.
Pascal Tagnati Those who never left welcome back those who went abroad.
(Fidelio - Alice’s Journey, Struggle Family and long time friends share together this precious
for Life) moment in the mountains.
Cédric Appietto
(A Violent Life, Monsieur Chocolat, Under the burning sun and to the sound of rippling
An Easy Girl) laughter, summer suspends time but doesn’t heal all
wounds.
PRODUCERS
5à7 Films – Martin Bertier
(Isadora’s Children, Takara) & Helen
Olive (Los Conductos)
Coproduced by Lotta Films -
Delphine Leoni
(A Violent Life)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
KMBO
WORLD PREMIERE.
FRANCE.
LANGUAGE
French
124 MIN.
“An ambitious debut”
I COMETE -
Written & directed by
Pascal Tagnati
A CORSICAN Acting coach on
SUMMER
Thierry de Peretti’s film,
The Fan short film
CAST Paris, 1993.
Zoé Adjani
Amira Casar (At Eternity’s Gate, Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family.
OPENING FILM Call me by your Name) When she meets Julien, a provocative young man, she
Lyes Salem (Abou Leila, realizes for the first time how the heavy rules of the
The Man from Oran) patriarchy affect her intimacy.
Louis Peres (How I Became
a Super Hero) As she faces her own fears to explore the power and
dangers of her desire, her family crumbles and the terror
PRODUCERS of fundamentalism emerges in her country of origin.
Christine Rouxel Selma must fight back to reclaim her body and become
(Houba! On the Trail of a free woman.
the Marsupilami, Babies)
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
(Heaven Will Wait,
Once in a Lifetime)
Coproduced by Luc et Jean-Pierre
Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Dany
COMPLETED.
Boon, Malek Ali Yahia.
FRANCE, ALGERIA.
DOP
Jeanne Lapoirie 100 MIN.
(Benedetta, BPM (Beats per Minute)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
Paname Distribution
(April 2021)
LANGUAGE “In the headstrong Selma, viewers may
French with some Berber see shades of Lady Bird. In the plight of a “Adjani is
young woman seeking liberation, Mustang impressively
might also spring to mind. Honey Cigar natural.”
should earn a continued audience.”
HONEY
Written & directed by
Kamir Aïnouz
CIGAR
Sundance
Screenwriters Lab
(CIGARE AU MIEL)
CAST Canada, 1972.
Felix-Antoine Duval
Tania Kontoyanni 22 year-old Dominic has a fetish... for himself. Nothing
CLOSING FILM Alexandra Petrachuk turns him on more than his own reflection and he spends
Andreas Apergis much of his time taking Polaroid selfies. When his loving
grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret:
PRODUCERS his lesbian mother didn’t die in childbirth, like he has
Nicolas Comeau for been told, and he has a twin brother who was raised by a
1976 Productions depraved priest in a remote monastery.
Paul Scherzer for
Six Island Productions The power of destiny brings the two handsome, identical
brothers back together. After being reunited with their
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS mother, they are soon entangled in a strange web of sex,
Raven Banner & AZ Films revenge and redemption.
US DISTRIBUTOR
Film Movement
LANGUAGES
English with some French
COMPLETED.
CANADA.
101 MIN.
The long awaited new “The filmmaking isn’t only ravishing to look; the
writing and narrative construction have become a
film of the iconic little more sophisticated, too (...). A wild ride that’s
queer director enjoyable in all its B-movie glory while also titillating
the intellect.”
SAINT- Directed by
Bruce LaBruce
NARCISSE
Misandrists - Berlinale 2017,
Pierrot Lunaire - Berlinale Teddy
Award 2014, Gerontophilia -
Venice Days 2013, , L.A. Zombie
- Locarno 2010
—
EW NE France, today.
N E W —N
W
CAST Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt
— NEW
Denis Podalydès tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is
—
—NEW
(La Belle Epoque, Sorry Angel) suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a
Blanche Gardin sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the
(Delete History, France) social ladder.
Christophe Paou
(Synonyms) When the shoe drops, the winner won’t necessarily be the
Alexandre Steiger one we expected.
(Alice and the Mayor)
Vincent Dedienne (The Rose Maker)
Olivier Saladin (Apnee)
Lorella Cravotta (Romantics Anonymous)
UPCOMING.
EDITOR
Flora Volpelière (Les Misérables)
PRODUCERS
Rectangle Productions
FRANCE.
(Aline, It Must Be Heaven, Climax)
Mamma Roman
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
The Jokers
LANGUAGE
French
BLOODY
Directed by
Jean-Christophe
ORANGES
Meurisse
Apnee - Cannes Critics’ Week
2016
(ORANGES SANGUINES)CAST Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter.
Devery Jacobs
(The Order Netflix TV Series, Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s, returns to her remote
American Gods TV Series) Indigenous community and realizes that many outdated
Pascale Bussières paternalistic laws are still in force. In hopes of emancipating
(The Demons, Ville-Marie) her people, she proposes a radical referendum to end the
prohibition of alcohol.
DOP
Nicolas Canniccioni This is catastrophic for Laura, a 45-year-old bootlegger
(Gerontophilia, Genesis) who has been smuggling illegal alcohol onto the reserve for
years. Mani’s and Laura’s opposing forces quickly divide the
PRODUCERS community into two clans who must come face to face to
Produced by Catherine Chagnon determine the best path to independence.
for Microclimat Films
(The Seven Last Words)
Executive produced by Pierre
Even (War Witch, C.R.A.Z.Y)
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR
MK2 Mile End UPCOMING.
LANGUAGES CANADA.
French with some
Anishinaabemowin
Best Screenplay
at Cannes
Cinéfondation 2017
BOOTLEGGER Written & directed by
Caroline Monnet
Mobilize Short film -
Sundance 2015,
6 Short Films in TIFFCAST Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human
Andriy Rymaruk habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks.
Liudmyla Bileka A Wall is being build-up on the border.
Vasyl Antoniak
Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to
PRODUCERS his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip
Iya Myslytska mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses.Together, they
Valentyn Vasyanovych try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are
Vladimir Yatsenko also allowed to fall in love again.
(Homeward)
UKRAINIAN DISTRIBUTOR
Arthouse Traffic ON RELEASE.
US DISTRIBUTOR UKRAINE.
Grasshopper Film
(January 22, 2021) 108 MIN.
LANGUAGE
Ukrainian
“One of the most jaw-dropping shots
of the year… absolutely deserving of
the biggest canvas possible — it’s a
Official Oscar
world you want to live in.”
contender for
Ukraine
“Dazzling, strange, tragic, comic, “Vasyanovych’s style is informed
touching and eventually optimistic. by both Kubrick and early
Immensely compelling. Masterful.” Jim Jarmusch.”
ATLANTIS
Directed by
Valentyn Vasyanovych
DOP & Editor on The Tribe –
Cannes Critics’ Week 2014
Winner, Business as Usual
— Odessa IFF Special Jury
MentionCAST Colombia, on the banks of Magdalena Medio, 2002.
Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo
José returns to his home deep in the jungle after a long
DOP fishing night to discover that paramilitary forces killed his
Juan Sarmiento G. two sons, Dionisio and Rafael, and threw their bodies into
(Central Airport THF) the river.
PRODUCERS José begins a lonely journey to retrieve and provide a
Medio de Contención Producciones proper burial for his boys preventing their tormented souls
from being stuck in this world. Aboard his canoe, José
COPRODUCERS discovers the magic of a country torn in pieces.
Neon Rouge / NRW SPRL
STO Lat Films
Tact Production
(The Mercy of the Jungle)
COLOMBIAN DISTRIBUTOR
Cine Colombia
ON RELEASE.
BELGIAN DISTRIBUTOR
COLOMBIA, BELGIUM,
Galeries Distribution
BRAZIL, FRANCE.
LANGUAGE
Spanish 137 MIN.
“An immersive, riveting, exceptional debut,
(…) a film of astonishing power. The way the
swampy air feels thick with faith, phantasm
“Arresting and accomplished, (...) and fear recalls fellow Colombian Ciro
striking widescreen cinematography.” Guerra’s masterful Embrace of the Serpent.”
VALLEY Directed by
Nicolas Rincón Gille
OF SOULS
Cold Kisses – Cinéma du Réel
2016, Wounded Night – Special
Mention Cinéma du Réel 2015 &
(TANTAS ALMAS)
Best Film at FICCI 2016CAST Medellin, Colombia.
Luis Felipe Lozano Pinky is on the run. He has just freed himself from the grip
Fernando Úsuga Higuíta of a religious sect. He finds a place to squat and a job in
WINNER
a t-shirt factory. Misled by his own faith, he questions
PRODUCERS everything.
5à7 Films
Mutokino But as he tries to put back together the pieces of his
If You Hold a Stone broken life, violent memories return to haunt him, and ask
Montanero Cine for Revenge.
US DISTRIBUTOR
Grasshopper Film
LANGUAGE
Spanish
Freely inspired by
a true story
ON RELEASE.
FRANCE, COLOMBIA,
BRAZIL.
70 MIN.
SHOT ON KODAK
16MM FILM.
“Striking and evocative. A fever- “Restrepo’s scintillating first work is
dream.An arresting, committed a medicinal film. A cathartic antidote
performance from newcomer Luis designed to heal a man’s soul.”
Felipe Lozano.”
LOS Written & directed by
Camilo Restrepo
CONDUCTOS
Awarded two times Silver
Pardino at Locarno Film
Festival 2015 & 2016 with
short films, La Bouche, Short
Film – Cannes Directors’
Fortnight 2017SCREENWRITERS Romania, 1981.
Radu Jude & Ceaușescu is in office, leading a communist Romania.
Gianina Cărbunariu He writes the official story with the help of the National
Television.
CAST
Bogdan Zamfir (Young Ahmed, Mugur Călinescu, a 16 y.o. teenager, writes another story on
The Apparition) walls with chalked uppercase protest messages against the
Șerban Lazarovici regime. His actions are compiled in a voluminous file kept by
Ioana Iacob the Secret Police (Securitate), which observed, apprehended,
Șerban Pavlu interrogated and destroyed him.
PRODUCERS Linking both stories - secret and public - personal and
Ada Solomon for MicroFILM collective - brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after
(Toni Erdmann,Child’s Pose, the fall of communism.
Radu Jude’s Films)
In coproduction with
Romanian Public Television,
Hi Film Productions
ON RELEASE.
ROMANIAN DISTRIBUTOR ROMANIA.
HiFilm (February 21, 2020)
128 MIN.
LANGUAGE
Romanian
The play ‘Tipografic
Majuscul’ by Gianina Cărbunariu
Latest film from 2021 Inspired by true
Golden Bear Winner events
“Kafka meets Brecht with a splash of
“A fierce and impassioned Pop Art (...). It delivers a quietly devas-
denunciation of evil.” tating emotional punch.”
UPPERCASE Directed by
Radu Jude
PRINT
Aferim! – Silver Bear Berlinale
2015, Scarred Hearts – Special
Jury Prize Locarno 2016,
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in
(TIPOGRAFIC History as Barbarians – Crystal
MAJUSCUL)
Globe Karlovy Vary 2018CINEMATOGRAPHER Fifteen young dancers of different origins and horizons
Jordane Chouzenoux are on tour with ‘Crowd’, Gisèle Vienne’s epic dance piece
(Cannabis - Arte TV Serie & exploring the 90’s rave scene. From theatre to theatre,
The Night Eats the World) the work mutates into strange, intimate relationships.
WINNER
Is the stage contaminating real life – or the opposite?
PRODUCER
Aurora films A disturbing journey exploring our nights, our parties, our loves.
(Diamond Island, Heaven Sent,
Patric Chiha’s films)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
Norte Distribution
(Back in cinemas on June
22, 2020)
LANGUAGES
French, English
ON RELEASE.
Based on Gisèle
Vienne’s dance FRANCE.
piece ‘Crowd’ 82 MIN.
“A sensational journey, widening our
perception of time, space, movement « A dazzling piece, transfixing
and emotion (...), an extremely powerful and strangely resonant. »
work.” on ‘Crowd’
IF IT A dance documentary
directed by
WERE LOVE
Patric Chiha
Brothers of the Night
– Berlinale Panorama 2016
(SI C'ETAIT DE
L’AMOUR)CAST Toronto, 1899.
Dan Beirne Aspiring young politician Mackenzie King dreams of
(FX’s Fargo TV Series) becoming the Prime Minister of Canada. In his quest for
Mikhaïl Ahooja power, he must face his imperious Mother, a war-mongering
Sarianne Cormier Governor-General and the utopian idealism of a Québécois
Catherine St-Laurent mystic.
PRODUCERS Meanwhile, King hesitates in love between a British soldier
Voyelles Films and a French-Canadian nurse and furtively indulges a
(All You Can Eat Buddha) fetishistic obsession for women’s footwear…
US DISTRIBUTOR When his vainglorious run for leadership culminates in
Oscilloscope Laboratories an epic battle between good and evil, King will learn that
disappointment may be the only way to survive the
LANGUAGES 20th century.
English with some French
Based upon the
perfervid youth
ON RELEASE.
of Canada’s most CANADA. 90 MIN.
enigmatic politician,
W. L. Mackenzie King 3 CANADIAN SCREEN
AWARDS WINNER.
“A twisted, cult atmosphere.”
“Feel like both a throwback to an A compelling pastiche of German “Possibly the craziest and most
MGM weepie and a colorized acid Expressionism, early melodrama, science unique biopic ever made.”
Canadian Best First feature WINNER WINNER
trip through historic hell (...). fiction, disturbing midnight madness
WINNER FIPRESCI AWARD So enjoyable.” situations, Monty Python.”
SLASH FILM
THE Written, directed &
edited by Matthew
TWENTIETH
Rankin
The Tesla World Light Short
CENTURY
Film – Cannes Critic’ Week
2017. TIFF & Sundance
AlumnusCAST Belgium, today.
Valentin Novopolskij Oleg is a young Latvian butcher. He arrives in Brussels
Dawid Ogrodnik in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory.
(European Shooting Star 2019) His experience turns short after being betrayed by
Anna Prochniak a colleague.
(The Innocent)
VACANT POSITION IN BELGIUM. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls
PRODUCERS under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.
Tasse Film
(Dogs Don’t Wear Pants)
Iota Productions
(Our Struggles, Keeper)
In Script (Miracle)
Arizona Productions
(The Gentle Indifference of
the World, Aga, My Happy Family)
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
Arizona Distribution
(October 30, 2019) ON RELEASE.
LANGUAGES
English with some Russian,
LATVIA, BELGIUM,
Polish, Latvian, French & Flemish
LITHUANIA, FRANCE.
108 MIN.
“A sharp, scorching, surprisingly “A timely and impressive sec- “Thanks to welcome flecks of
raucous social thriller (...), “Oleg” ond feature. The screenplay is comic relief, Oleg is consist-
S L A V E . would be politically essential a particular strong point.” ently watchable as well as il-
even if it weren’t so cinematically luminating about an emerging
exciting.” social problem.”
OLEG
Directed by
Juris Kursietis
Modris – New Directors
Award Special Mention in
San Sebastian 2014CAST Pierreville, Quebec. End of summer.
Emilie Bierre (Genesis)
Irlande Côté Mylia, a timid 12-year-old, must leave her little sister and
Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie native countryside to enter high school. Lost in this new
hostile environment, she meets Jacinthe, who introduces
WINNER PRODUCER her to teenage rituals and absurdities, and Jimmy, a fierce
Colonelle Films young native from the neighbouring reserve with whom she
secretly befriends.
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR
Funfilm Distribution Together, they will trace the contours of a new life. The age
(February 1, 2019) of the first times…
FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR
Waynapitch (November 6, 2019)
LANGUAGE
French
Best Film, Best
Actress & Best
ON RELEASE.
First Feature at the CANADA.
Canadian Screen
Awards 102 MIN.
“A Colony showcases an emotional
sensitivity and cultural specificity that
gives it a strong individual identity,
(...), handled with a quiet dignity by
“Award-Winning both writer/director De Celles and her
crowd-pleaser.” accomplished young star Emilie Bierre.” “Berlin hidden gem.”
A COLONY Directed by
Geneviève
Dulude-De Celles
The Cut – Best International
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