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UK FILMS AT TIFF 2018
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION – UK FILMS AT TIFF 2018 2
UK FEATURE FILMS AT TIFF 2018 3
UK DOCUMENTARIES AT TIFF 2018 15
UK SHORT FILMS AT TIFF 2018 19
INDEX OF FILMS 23
Cover: Wild Rose, Director: Tom Harper
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INTRODUCTION - UK
FILMS AT TIFF 2018
The 2018 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival Several of the short film-makers whose work is selected for this
boasts a bumper crop of 34 British productions and co- year’s TIFF are taking advantage of our Short Film Travel Grant
productions, a diverse selection of films that range from Scheme (run in partnership with the BFI) to fund their trips to
starry awards-season contenders to edgy low-budget Toronto.
features. Showing the strength of rising British talents,
During the festival, British Council is a partner at the UK Film
there are seven first features selected. An encouraging
Centre on the ninth floor of the Hyatt Hotel, where industry
11 out of the 34 selected films are directed or co-directed
attendees learn more about the British film industry and buy
by women.
and sell British films. British Council also co-hosts the UK Film
Just a few of the selected films to mention: Steve McQueen’s Reception at the Spoke Club, which allows British filmmakers
Lynda La Plante re-imagining WIDOWS; Peter Strickland’s chilling and industry to meet their international counterparts.
IN FABRIC, Chanya Button’s anticipated VITA & VIRGINIA, Naziha
We are also a proud member of European Film Promotion, the
Arebi’s affecting documentary FREEDOM FIELDS, Tom Harper’s
umbrella organisation that has a large presence at TIFF including
Nashville-themed WILD ROSE; David Mackenzie’s rousing
a stand in the industry centre at the Hyatt, a popular networking
historical OUTLAW KING, Claire Denis’s first English-language
event, and partnering with the Producers Lab Toronto.
feature HIGH LIFE, Carol Morley’s OUT OF BLUE (featuring a
knock-out performance from Patricia Clarkson); and feature- There are so many great British films to discover at TIFF 2018,
length directorial debuts including artist Richard Billingham’s there really is something for everyone. Happy viewing!
extraordinary RAY & LIZ, Max Minghella’s pop-fuelled TEEN SPIRIT
British Council representative at TIFF 2018:
and Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble’s glorious documentary
Briony Hanson, Director, Film
THE ELEPHANT QUEEN.
briony.hanson@britishcouncil.org
Many of these films were introduced to Toronto during British
Council’s selector screenings, which are bespoke previews
Questions? Contact
for the world’s top film festival programmers that we organise
films@britishcouncil.org
throughout the year. In June 2018, we welcomed Piers Handling,
CEO, and Kerri Craddock, Director of Programming, to London for Sign up for our newsletter at
screenings of a variety of new UK films, many of which are now www.britishcouncil.org/film
having their world premieres at TIFF.
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UK FEATURE FILMS AT TIFF 2018 3
Cold War (Zimna Wojna) Colette
Synopsis Synopsis
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds Keira Knightley leads this timely film about the struggles of the
and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully avant-garde French novelist, Colette; a story that resonates in the era of
condemned to love each other. Set against the background of the Cold female empowerment.
War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts
an impossible love story in impossible times. Colette’s marriage to Henry ‘Willy’ Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West) thrusts
her from a simple country life into the raucous creative demi-monde of
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Paris. Swiftly developing her talent as a writer, Colette’s first novels are
Presentations published under Willy’s name. An author in his own right, Willy mentors
Colette and later betrays her as her stories gain them fame and notoriety.
Whip-smart, precocious and unapologetic, not only is Colette a talented
Details author, actor and journalist, but also a trailblazer, fighting for the survival
Year: 2018 of her voice and identity in a male-dominated world, who shines a light
Running Time: 87 mins for future generations of female artists.
Director: Paweł Pawlikowski
Producer: Ewa Puszczyńska, Tanya Seghatchian Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
Co-Producer: Piotr Dzięciol, Małgorzata Bela Presentations
Executive Producer: Nathanael Kermit, Jeremy Gawade, John
Woodward, Daniel Battsek
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Screenwriter: Paweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Głowacki, with the Details
collaboration of Piotr Borkowski Year: 2018
Director of Photography: Łukasz Żal Running Time: 112 mins
Production Designer: Katarzyna Sobańska, Marcel Sławiński Director: Wash Westmoreland
Sound: Maciej Pawłowski, Mirosław Makowski Producer: Pamela Koffler, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Christine
Principal Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Borys Szyc, Vachon, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters
Giorgio Rayzacher, Jeanne Balibar, Cédric Kahn Co-Producer: Caroline Levy, Ildiko Kemeny, David Minkowski
Executive Producer: Mary Burke, Svetlana Metkina, Norman Merry
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Production Company Sales Agent Screenwriter: Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Poland, France, UK coproduction Protagonist Pictures Director of Photography: Giles Nuttgens
42-48 Great Portland Street Production Designer: Michael Carlin
An Opus Productions (PL), MK2 London Music: Thomas Adès
Productions (FR), Protagonist W1W 7NB Principal Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona
Pictures (UK), Apocalypso Pictures +44 (0)20 7734 9000 Shaw, Robert Pugh, Eleanor Tomlinson, Julian Wadham, Al Weaver,
Ltd (UK) film with support from info@protagonistpictures.com Shannon Tarbet, Ray Panthaki, Dickie Beau, Jake Graf, Janine Harouni,
Polish Film Institute (PL), CNC - www.protagonistpictures.com Aiysha Hart, Polina Litvak, Johnny K. Palmer, Rebecca Root and Arabella
Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (FR), Weir
Arte France Cinéma (FR), Film4 MK2 Costume Designer: Andrea Flesch
(UK), BFI (UK) 55 Rue Traversière
75012 Paris Production Company Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures France UK, US coproduction HanWay Films
42-48 Great Portland Street +33 1 44 67 30 00 24 Hanway Street
London intlsales@mk2.com Number 9 Films (UK), Killer Films London
W1W 7NB www.mk2films.com (US) with support of BFI (UK) W1T 1UH
+44 (0)20 7734 9000 +44 (0)20 7290 0750
info@protagonistpictures.com Number 9 Films info@hanwayfilms.com
8-9 Stephen Mews www.hanwayfilms.com
London
W1T 1AF
+44 (0)20 7323 4060
info@number9films.co.uk
www.number9films.co.uk
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The Death and Life of John F. The Dig
Donovan
Synopsis Synopsis
A young man's calculated reassessment of his infamous, and ultimately After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find
disastrous, childhood correspondence with an American television star. A Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. Callahan soon realises
decade after the death of the TV star, the young man, now an actor that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig.
himself reminisces the written correspondence he shared with the star,
as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Discovery
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 97 mins
Details Director: Ryan Tohill, Andrew Tohill
Year: 2018 Producer: Brian J. Falconer
Running Time: 127 mins Executive Producer: Andrew Reid, Kathleen Ying McKinley
Director: Xavier Dolan Editor: Helen Sheridan
Producer: Lyse Lafontaine, Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan, Michael Merkt Screenwriter: Stuart Drennan
Co-Producer: Peter Carlton, Barry Ryan Director of Photography: Angus Mitchell
Executive Producer: Joe Iacono, Patrick Roy, Anick Poirier, Nathanaël Production Designer: Ashleigh Jeffers
Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz Sound: Chris Woodcock
Editor: Mathieu Denis, Xavier Dolan Music: James Everett
Screenwriter: Xavier Dolan, Jacob Tierney Principal Cast: Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee, Lorcan
Director of Photography: André Turpin Cranitch
Production Designer: Colombe Raby, Anne Pritchard
Sound: Sylvain Brassard
Music: Gabriel Yared Production Company Sales Agent
Principal Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Kit Harington, Susan Sarandon, Jessica An Out of Orbit and Wolfhound XYZ Films
Chastain, Nathalie Portman, Thandie Newton, Sarah Gadon Media production 3103-B, South La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
Out of Orbit CA 90016
Production Company Sales Agent 51 Malone Road USA
Canada, UK coproduction Seville International Belfast +1 310 956 1550
455, St-Antoine West, Suite 300 +44 (0)7845 652646 info@xyzfilms.com
Lyla Films (CA), Sons of Manual H2Z 1J1 Montreal Brian J. Falconer www.xyzfilms.com
(CA), Warp Films (UK) Quebec brian@outoforbit.tv
Canada www.outoforbit.tv
Warp Films +1 514 878 2282
33 Riding House Street sevilleinternational@filmsseville.co
London m
W1W 7DZ www.sevilleinternational.eonefilms.
production@warpfilms.com com
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Driven Farming
Synopsis Synopsis
California ‘77: playground of the rich and famous, sun-soaked, Based on his autobiographical story, writer-director Adewale
sex-crazed and powered by shitloads of Colombian cocaine. Leading the Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s 'Farming' follows a young Nigerian boy as he is
parade is maverick auto-designer John DeLorean, a high-risk gambler drawn into the warped world of a racist skinhead gang in 1980s England.
and corporate vampire. Blinded by ambition, even if that means selling
his soul, DeLorean will stop at nothing to design the ultimate car of the Enitan is a young boy “farmed out” by his parents to a white British family
future, a sports car with wings. in the hope of giving him a better future. Caught between two worlds and
belonging to neither, Enitan’s need for love and acceptance is exploited
On the outside looking in is DeLorean’s neighbour Jim Hoffman, barely by the adults in his life, transforming a sweet boy into a teenage menace.
supporting his family while living high-end on the pay of a low-end
bullshit artist. When busted by the feds with a planeload of drugs, Jim is Driven by themes of identity, power, love and betrayal, and rich with
forced to turn snitch by Special Agent Benedict Tisa. His ultimatum: compelling characters: complex and dubious foster mother Ingrid, Levi
deliver the head of John DeLorean. the charismatic gang leader whom Enitan must overcome, and at its
heart a flawed hero, Enitan, a lost soul desperately searching for a
A turbo-charged tale of ambition, entrapment and betrayal based on a mother’s love as he struggles to find himself in a brutal world. And, when
true story of sting operations and lurid celebrity scandals. all seems lost and Enitan spirals into self-destruction, a benevolent
teacher offers him one last chance at redemption.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
Presentations Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Discovery -
World premiere
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 108 mins Year: 2018
Director: Nick Hamm Running Time: 107 mins
Producer: Piers Tempest, Luillo Ruiz, Brad Feinstein Director: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Co-Producer: Belly Torres Producer: Michael London, François Ivernel, Andrew Levitas, Janice
Editor: Brett M. Reed Williams
Screenwriter: Colin Bateman Co-Producer: Miranda Ballesteros
Director of Photography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub Executive Producer: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Ostrander,
Production Designer: Fernando Carrion Richard Abend, Fréderic Fiore, Eric Tavitian, Marie-Gabrielle Stewart
Music: Geronimo Mercado Editor: Tariq Anwar
Principal Cast: Lee Pace, Jason Sudeikis, Judy Greer, Isabel Arraiza, Erin Screenwriter: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Moriarty, Corey Stoll Director of Photography: Kit Fraser
Production Designer: Miren Marañón
Sound: Glen Gathard
Production Company Sales Agent Music: Ilan Eshkeri
UK, US coproduction Embankment Films Principal Cast: Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw,
Westbourne Studios – WE 020 Genevieve Nnaji, Zephan Amissah, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone
Tempo Productions Ltd (UK), Blue 242 Acklam Road
Rider Pictures (US), Greenroom London
Entertainment (UK), Pimienta (PR) W10 5JJ Production Company Sales Agent
+44 (0)20 7183 4739 A Montebello Productions (UK), HanWay Films
Tempo Productions info@embankmentfilms.com Groundswell Productions (UK), The 24 Hanway Street
Piers Tempest www.embankmentfilms.com Sundance Institute (US) production London
Lower Scarcliffe W1T 1UH
Off Carleton Lane Montebello Productions +44 (0)20 7290 0750
Carleton François Ivernel info@hanwayfilms.com
Skipton 79A Gloucester Avenue www.hanwayfilms.com
BD23 3HS London
+44 (0)20 7097 8973 NW1 8LB
pt@tempoproductions.net +33 6 31 69 00 83
www.tempoproductions.net ivernel.francois@gmail.com
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Gwen High Life
Synopsis Synopsis
In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries A group of convicts is duped into joining a difficult space mission in the
desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s belief they will be freed if they are successful. But, the authorities have no
mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company intention of ever letting them return to earth. They want the inmates to
encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her procreate and raise a child in space as part of a larger experiment.
home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.
The film follows the character of Monte a few years after the mission’s
Official Selection Toronto Intenrational Film Festival 2018 - Discovery - launch as he raises his daughter, Willow, in complete isolation on the
World premiere empty spacecraft as it heads towards its final destination, a black hole.
He fathered Willow against his will after his sperm was used to
inseminate another convict in space as part of the experiment. In the
process of raising her, however, he comes to experience real love for the
Details first time in his life.
Year: 2018
Running Time: 84 mins Claire Denis's first English-language feature is "an adventure beyond the
Director: William McGregor solar system set in a future that seems like the present".
Producer: Hilary Bevan Jones, Tom Nash
Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Adam Partridge, Fergus Haycock, Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala
Paul Grindey, Charles Moore Presentations - World premiere
Editor: Mark Towns
Screenwriter: William McGregor
Director of Photography: Adam Etherington
Production Designer: Laura Ellis Cricks Details
Sound: Jonny Seale Year: 2018
Music: James Edward Barker Running Time: 110 mins
Principal Cast: Maxine Peake, Eleanor Worthing-Cox, Richard Harrington, Director: Claire Denis
Mark Lewis Jones Producer: Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, D.J.
Gugenheim, Andrew Lauren, Klaudia Smeija, Claudia Steffen, Olivier
Théry-Lapiney
Production Company Sales Agent Executive Producer: Julia Balaeskoul Nusseibeh, Isabel Davis
An Endor Productions Ltd film with Great Point Media Editor: Guy Lecorne
support from BFI, Ffilm Great Point 3rd Floor Screenwriter: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox, Nick Laird
Media, Cymru Wales 14 Floral Street (consultant)
London Director of Photography: Yorick Le Saux, Tomasz Naumick
Endor Productions Ltd WC2E 9DH Production Designer: François-Renaud Labarthe, Mela Melak, Jagna
20 Greek Street +44 (0)20 3873 0020 Dobesz
London info@greatpointmedia.com Music: Original Music and Sound Design: Stuart Staples, Tindersticks
W1D 4DU www.greatpointmedia.com Principal Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia
+44 (0)20 7851 1300 Goth, Lars Eidinger
www.endorproductions.co.uk Film Image: © 2018 Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion, The
Apocalypse Films, Madants
Rise Films
46 Berwick Street Production Company Sales Agent
London UK, Germany, France, Poland Wild Bunch (World sales excluding
W1F 8SG coproduction US)
+44 (0)20 3214 6072 65 rue de Dunkerque
info@risefilms.com An Alcatraz Films (FR), Pandora 75009 Paris
www.risefilms.com Filmproduktion (DE), The FRANCE
Apocalypse Films Company (UK), +33 1 43 13 21 34
BFI Film Fund (UK), Madants (PL), sales@wildbunch.eu
Andrew Lauren Productions (US) www.wildbunch.biz
film in co-production with Arte
France Cinéma (FR) Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US
sales)
The Apocalypse Films Company 2000 Avenue of the Stars
10 Heathcroft Los Angeles
Hampstead Way CA 90067
London USA
NW11 7HH +1 424 288 2000
contact@theapocalypsefilms.com filmsales@caa.com
www.caa.com
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In Fabric Jerimiah Terminator LeRoy
Synopsis Synopsis
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to
period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her
passes from person to person, with devastating consequences. sister-in-law.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Midnight Based on the true story of two women who created the persona of a
Madness - World premiere boy-wonder author JT LeRoy, fooling the literary community, the fashion
world, and the Hollywood elite for six years before the hoax was finally
revealed.
Details Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala
Year: 2018 Presentations - World premiere
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Peter Strickland
Producer: Andy Starke
Co-Producer: Ian Benson Details
Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Rose Garnett, Stephen Kelliher, Year: 2018
Hilary Davis, Patrick Howson, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Ben Wheatley, Running Time: 108 mins
Ian Benson Director: Justin Kelly
Editor: Matyas Fekete Producer: Mark Amin, Jeff Beesley, Thor Bradwell, Cassian Elwes, Dave
Screenwriter: Peter Strickland Hansen, Phyllis Laing, Gary Pearl, Giri Tharan, Patrick Walmsley, Julie
Director of Photography: Ari Wegner Yorn
Production Designer: Paki Smith Co-Producer: Evan Arnold
Sound: Martin Pavey Executive Producer: Nadine de Barros, Tyler Boehm, Tracy Christian,
Music: Cavern of Anti-Matter Anders Erden, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Margot Hand, Jere Hausfater,
Principal Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, Julian Barratt, Robert Jones, Justin Kelly, Phyllis Laing, Jed Root, Devan Towers, Cami
Steve Oram, Gwendoline Christie, Leo Bill Winikoff
Editor: Aaron I. Butler
Screenwriter: Justin Kelly (screenplay), Savannah Knoop (memoir)
Production Company Sales Agent Director of Photography: Bobby Bukowski
A Rook Films production Bankside Films Production Designer: Jean-Andre Carriere
developed in association with Blue Krisztina Laszlo Music: Tim Kvasnosky
Bear Film and Television, Ashley House, 5th Floor Principal Cast: Kristen Stewart, Diane Kruger, Laura Dern, Jim Sturgess,
co-financed by BFI Film Fund, 12 Great Portland Street Courtney Love
BBC Films, Head Gear Films London
W1W 8QN
Rook Films +44 (0)20 7636 6085 Production Company Sales Agent
P.O. Box 6465 krisztina@bankside-films.com Canada, US, UK coproduction Fortitude International
Bridport films@bankside-films.com 15260 Ventura Blvd.
DT6 9AS www.bankside-films.com A Buffalo Gal Pictures (CA), Black Suite 1040
info@rookfilms.co.uk Leather Jacket (US), Crosby Street Sherman Oaks
www.rookfilms.co.uk Films (US), Fortitude International CA 91403
(US), LBI Entertainment (US), USA
Sobini Films (US), Thirty Three +1 424 284 1330
Management (US), The Fyzz info@fortitudeint.com
Facility Film One (UK) www.fortitudeint.com
The Fyzz Facility
77 Fortress Road
London
NW5 1AG
+44 (0)20 7388 7868
info@thefyzz.com
www.thefyzz.com
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Out of Blue Outlaw King
Synopsis Synopsis
When female homicide detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate Set over the historic year when Robert the Bruce, the great 14th Century
the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Scottish king, fought to regain control of his country.
Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
A true David and Goliath story: Having been crowned King of Scots, and
'Out of Blue' is a neo-noir detective story, a metaphysical mystery then defeated in a surprise attack and made an 'outlaw' by the English
revolving around contemporary Atlanta and the mysteries of the universe, King and his occupying forces, the 'Outlaw King' used cunning and
in which Mike’s quest for the truth destabilizes her view of the world, and bravery to repel and defeat the much larger and better equipped
herself. occupying English army.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Platform - Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala
World premiere Presentations - World premiere
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 110 mins Running Time: 137 mins
Director: Carol Morley Director: David Mackenzie
Producer: Cairo Cannon, Maggie Monteith, Luc Roeg Producer: Gillian Berrie, Steve Golin, Richard Brown
Co-Producer: Gary Giudice Co-Producer: Danny McGrath
Executive Producer: Philip Herd, John Jencks, Andrew Orr, Ben Roberts, Editor: Jake Roberts
Joe Simpson, Jay Taylor, Simon Williams Screenwriter: David Mackenzie, Bathsheba Doran, David Harrower,
Editor: Alex Mackie James MacInnes, Mark Bomback
Screenwriter: Carol Morley (screenplay), Martin Amis (novel) Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Director of Photography: Conrad W. Hall Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
Production Designer: Jane Levick Principal Cast: Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, Tony
Principal Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Curran, Stephen Dillane, Billy Howle
Caan, Mamie Gummer, Teyonah Parris, Aaron Tveit, Yolanda Ross,
Jonathan Majors, Devyn A Tyle
Production Company
UK, US coproduction
Production Company Sales Agent
An Independent (UK), Cannon and Independent A Sigma Films (UK), Anonymous
Morley Productions (UK), BFI Film 195 Wardour Street Content (US), Netflix (US)
Fund (UK), BBC Films (UK), Dignity London production supported by Creative
Film Finance (US), Ellenglaze Films W1F 8ZG Scotland
(UK) production +44 (0)20 7257 8734
mail@independentfilmcompany.co Sigma Films
Independent m Film City Glasgow
195 Wardour Street www.independentfilmcompany.co Summertown Road
London m Glasgow
W1F 8ZG G51 2LY
+44 (0)207 257 8734 +44 (0)141 445 0400
mail@independentfilmcompany.co latenights@sigmafilms.com
m www.sigmafilms.com
www.independentfilmcompany.co
m
Cannon and Morley Productions
53 Parfett Street
London
E1 1JR
+44 (0)20 7247 0664
info@campfilms.co.uk
www.campfilms.co.uk
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UK Feature Films at TIFF 2018Peterloo RAY AND LIZ
Synopsis Synopsis
A drama based on events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society, the
Massacre, where British forces fired on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break cultural taboos as
St Peter's Field in Manchester. they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control.
The notorious massacre saw British government forces charge into a Turner Prize-nominated and Deutsche Börse Prize-winning artist, Richard
crowd of 60,000 that had to demand political reform. The forces killed an Billingham, returns to the striking photographs of his family during
estimated 18 protestors and injured hundreds, sparking outcry but also Thatcher-era Britain. The film is based on Billingham’s memories,
further government crackdowns. focussing on his parents Ray and Liz, their relationship, and its impact on
Richard and his younger brother Jason.
This was a defining moment in radical British history which also played a
significant role in the founding of the UK's leftwing broadsheet At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humour, three episodes
newspaper The Guardian. unfold as a powerful evocation of experience of growing up in a Black
Country council flat.
"There has never been a feature film about the Peterloo Massacre. The
universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths
our own turbulent times." Mike Leigh
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Masters
Details
Year: 2018
Running Time: 108 mins
Details Director: Richard Billingham
Year: 2018 Producer: Jacqui Davies
Running Time: 154 mins Executive Producer: Adam Partridge, Ed Talfan
Director: Mike Leigh Editor: Tracy Granger
Producer: Georgina Lowe Screenwriter: Richard Billingham
Executive Producer: Gail Egan Director of Photography: Daniel Landin
Editor: Jon Gregory Production Designer: Beck Rainford
Screenwriter: Mike Leigh Sound: Joakim Sundström
Director of Photography: Dick Pope Principal Cast: Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Patrick Romer, Deirdre Kelly,
Production Designer: Suzie Davies Tony Way, Sam Gittins, Joshua Millard-Lloyd
Music: Gary Yershon Film Title Format Note: Film title should read RAY & LIZ
Principal Cast: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake
Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran Production Company Sales Agent
A Primitive Film production in Luxbox
Production Company Sales Agent association with Rapid Eye Fiorella Moretti
UK, US coproduction Cornerstone Films Movies. Financed by the BFI and Hédi Zardi
12 Sunray Avenue Ffilm Cymru Wales with National 6 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud
A Thin Man Films (UK) production London Lottery funding, in association with 75011 Paris
with support of Amazon Studios SE24 9PY Severn Screen. Developed with France
(US), Film4 (UK), BFI (UK), Lipsync +44 (0)20 3457 7257 support from agnès b and BFI +33 626 10 07 65
(UK) office@cornerstonefilm.com +33 664 46 10 11
www.cornerstonefilm.com Primitive Film fiorella@luxboxfilms.com
Thin Man Films +44 (0)7711 416621 hedi@luxboxfilms.com
9 Greek St jacqui@primitive.film www.luxboxfilms.com
London www.primitive.film
W1D 4DQ
+44 (0)20 7734 7372
info@thinmanfilms.co.uk
www.thinmanfilms.co.uk
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UK Feature Films at TIFF 2018Red Joan Teen Spirit
Synopsis Synopsis
In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley, lives in contented Violet, an aspiring singer, dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her
retirement. Her tranquil existence is shockingly shattered as she’s small English town and a shattered family life. With the help of an unlikely
arrested by MI5. For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one mentor, Violet enters a singing competition that will test her integrity,
of the most influential spies in living history… talent, and ambition.
Cambridge University in the 1930s, and the young Joan, a demure Set in the world of pop music, a visceral and uplifting story about
physics student, falls intensely in love with a seductively attractive growing up, dreaming big, and finding your voice.
Russian saboteur, Leo. Through him, she begins to see that the world is
on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
military supremacy. Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear Presentations - World premiere
research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: would you
betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them? What
price would you pay for peace?
Details
Inspired by an extraordinary true story, a taut and emotional discovery of Year: 2018
one woman’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A woman Running Time: 92 mins
to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom. Director: Max Minghella
Producer: Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Co-Producer: Michael S. Constable
Presentations - World premiere Executive Producer: Jamie Bell, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross
Screenwriter: Max Minghella
Director of Photography: Autumn Durald
Production Designer: Kave Quinn
Details Music: Music Producer: Marius de Vries; Music Supervisor Steven Gizicki
Year: 2018 Principal Cast: Elle Fanning, Millie Brady, Zlatko Buric, Agnieszka
Running Time: 110 mins Grochowska, Clara Rugaard, Olivia Gray, Ruairi O’Connor, Archie
Director: Trevor Nunn Madewke, Jordan Stephens
Producer: David Parfitt
Co-Producer: Ivan Mactaggart, Alice Dawson
Executive Producer: Ivan Mactaggart, Tim Haslam, Hugo Grumbar, Zygi Production Company Sales Agent
Kamasa, James Atherton, Jan Pace, Kelly E Ashton, Karl Sydow UK, US coproduction Mister Smith Entertainment
Editor: Kristina Hetherington 77 Dean Street
Screenwriter: Lindsay Shapero Automatik Entertainment (US) in London
Director of Photography: Zac Nicholson association with Aperture Media W1D 3SH
Production Designer: Cristina Casali Partners (US) Head Gear Films +44 (0)20 7494 1724
Sound: Will Whale (UK), Metrol Technology (UK), info@mistersmithent.com
Music: George Fenton Interscope Records (US), Blank www.mistersmithent.com
Principal Cast: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tape (US)
Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Tereza Sbrova, Nina Sosanya
Head Gear Films
Ashley House, 5th Floor
Production Company Sales Agent 12 Great Portland Street
Trademark Films Embankment Films London
14A Goodwin's Court Westbourne Studios - WE 020 W1W 8QN
London 242 Acklam Road +44 (0)20 7363 6085
WC2N 4LL London info@headgearfilms.com
+44 (0) 20 3322 8900 W10 5JJ www.headgearfilms.com
mail@trademarkfilms.co.uk +44 (0)20 7183 4739
www.trademarkfilms.co.uk info@embankmentfilms.com
www.embankmentfilms.com
11 Film Catalogue
UK Feature Films at TIFF 2018Tell It to the Bees Vita and Virginia
Synopsis Synopsis
Gripped by a failing marriage and the responsibilities of having a young By the 1920s Virginia Woolf has reached the apex of modern world
son, Lydia finds solace in her growing bond with the town’s recently literature with her landmark novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', but nothing seems to
returned female doctor Jean. But this is the 1950s in a post-WWII rural soothe the darkness that plagues her. She is powerless over the mood
Scotland, and the womens’ relationship prompts raised eyebrows in their swings that alternately lift her to manic creative heights and then crush
provincial circles. A heart-wrenching portrait of a love against all odds. her under suffocating melancholia, driving her deeper into seclusion...
Poems and letters of admiration from Vita Sackville-West lead to a
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special courtship that is hardly concealed from their respective husbands. Soon,
Presentations - World premiere Virginia is enthralled by Vita. She is everything Virginia is not –
extroverted, direct, in possession of a strongly magnetic personality and,
as Virginia notes, a pair of the most "amazing legs".
Details Focusing on the period in 1927-8 during which Woolf wrote 'Orlando', the
Year: 2023 novel their relationship inspired, 'Vita & Virginia' is the long-gestating
Running Time: 106 mins feature adaptation of actor and writer Dame Eileen Atkins’ play of the
Director: Annabel Jankel same name.
Producer: Daisy Allsop, Nick Hill, Annabel Jankel, Nik Bower, Laure
Vaysse Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
Co-Producer: Sean Whelan, Tomas Eskilsson Presentations - World premiere
Executive Producer: Deepak Nayar, Alison Owen, Ben Roberts, Lizzie
Francke, Sunny Vohra, Ross McKenzie
Editor: Jon Harris, Maya Maffioli
Screenwriter: Henrietta Ashworth (adaptation), Jessica Ashworth Details
(adaptation), Fiona Shaw (novel) Year: 2018
Director of Photography: Bartosz Nalazek Running Time: 110 mins
Production Designer: Andy Harris Director: Chanya Button
Music: Claire M. Singer Producer: Evangelo Kioussis, Katie Holly
Principal Cast: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Emun Elliot, Lauren Lyle, Executive Producer: Simon Baxter, Christopher Figg, Nicolas Sampson,
Kate Dickie Norman Merry, Dave Bishop, Gemma Arterton
Editor: Mark Trend
Screenwriter: Chanya Button (screenplay), Eileen Atkins (play,
Production Company Sales Agent adaptation), Vita Sackville-West (letters), Virginia Woolf (letters)
Motion Picture Capital and the BFI Film Constellation Director of Photography: Carlos De Carvalho
in association with Creative 1 Green Bank Production Designer: Noam Piper
Scotland present a Reliance London Music: Isobel Waller-Bridge
Entertainment Productions 8 E1W 2PA Principal Cast: Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini,
production in association with +44 (0)20 7702 0605 Rupert Penry-Jones, Emerald Fennell, Peter Ferdinado
Taking A Line For A Walk, info@filmconstellation.com Film Title Format Note: Film title should read Vita & Virginia
Archface Films, Riverstone www.filmconstellation.com
Pictures and Cayenne Film Production Company Sales Agent
Company, in association with UK, Ireland coproduction Protagonist Pictures
Twickenham Studios, Film i Väst, 42 - 48 Great Portland Street
Filmgate Films and Film Mirror Productions (UK), Blinder London
Constellation Films (IE), Sampsonic Media (CY) W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
Motion Picture Capital Mirror Productions info@protagonistpictures.com
18 Soho Square 54 Broadwick Street www.protagonistpictures.com
London London
W1D 3QL W1F 7AH
+44 (0)20 7025 8195 +44 (0)7792 950905
info@motionpicturecapital.com info@mirror-productions.com
www.motionpicturecapital.com www.mirror-productions.com
Riverstone Pictures
72 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QF
+44 (0)20 7268 9820
info@riverstonepictures.com
www.riverstonepictures.com
12 Film Catalogue
UK Feature Films at TIFF 2018The Wedding Guest Where Hands Touch
Synopsis Synopsis
A mysterious young British man (Dev Patel) journeys across Pakistan and Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna, daughter of a white German mother
India. and a black African father meets Lutz, a member of the Hitler Youth -
compulsory for all Aryan boys since 1936. They are bound by the
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special realisation of the horrors being committed against the Jews, as Leyna
Presentations - World premiere tries to avoid the fate of black Germans at the time. Can she find an ally
in Lutz, himself battling the fate laid before him?
This is a coming of age story set in the most brutal of times.
Details
Year: 2018 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
Running Time: 94 mins Presentations - World premiere
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Melissa Parmenter, Michael Winterbottom, Deepak Nayar, Nik
Bower, Dev Patel
Co-Producer: Pravesh Sahni, Anthony Wilcox Details
Executive Producer: Andrea Scarso, Peter Touche Year: 2018
Editor: Marc Richardson Running Time: 122 mins
Screenwriter: Michael Winterbottom Director: Amma Asante
Director of Photography: Giles Nuttgens Producer: Charlie Hanson
Production Designer: Ravi Srivastava Editor: Steve Singleton
Sound: Joakim Sundström Screenwriter: Amma Asante
Music: Harry Escott Director of Photography: Remi Adefarasin
Principal Cast: Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh, Nish Nathwani Production Designer: Arwel Jones
Music: Anne Chmelewsky
Principal Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Abbie Cornish, George MacKay,
Production Company Sales Agent Christopher Eccleston, Tom Sweet
A Revolution Films, Riverstone Endeavor Content (US sales)
Pictures production 9601 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills Production Company Sales Agent
Revolution Films CA 90210 A Tantrum Films (UK), Pinewood Protagonist Pictures
9A Dallington Street USA Pictures (UK), BFI (UK), Isle of Man 42 - 48 Great Portand Street
London +1 310 8594521 (UK), Head Gear (UK), British Film London
EC1V 0BQ GT@endeavorcontent.com Company (UK) film in W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7566 0700 www.wmeentertainment.com co-production with Umedia (BE) +44 (0)20 7734 9000
email@revolution-films.com info@protagonistpictures.com
www.revolution-films.com Charlie Hanson www.protagonistpictures.com
c/o Tantrum Films
+44 (0)20 7371 8431
charlie@tantrumfilms.co.uk
British Film Company
34 Fouberts Place
London
W1F 7PX
www.britishfilmcompany.com
Head Gear Films
Ashley House, 5th Floor
12 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 8QN
+44 (0)20 7636 6085
info@headgearfilms.com
www.headgearfilms.com
13 Film Catalogue
UK Feature Films at TIFF 2018Widows Wild Rose
Synopsis Synopsis
A blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh
passion and corruption: the story of four women with nothing in common out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow
except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. and make it as a country singer. Her mum Marion has had a bellyful of
Rose-Lynn’s Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility,
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the
Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle middle-class lady of the house.
Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands
and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. A comedy-drama about mothers and daughters, dreams and reality and
three chords and the truth.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala
Presentations - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special
Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 128 mins Year: 2018
Director: Steve McQueen Running Time: 101 mins
Producer: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan Director: Tom Harper
Executive Producer: Daniel Battsek, Rodrigo Cortés, Rose Garnett, Producer: Faye Ward
Matthew Senreich, Bergen Swanson Co-Producer: Eugenio Pérez
Editor: Joe Walker Executive Producer: Natascha Wharton, Leslie Finlay, Alison Owen,
Screenwriter: Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Steve McQueen (screenplay), Xavier Marchand, Polly Stokes
Lynda La Plante (original characters) Editor: Mark Eckersley
Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt Screenwriter: Nicole Taylor
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen Director of Photography: George Steel
Music: Hans Zimmer Production Designer: Lucy Spink
Principal Cast: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Sound: Colin Nicolson
Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Music: Jack C. Arnold
Weaver, Garret Dillahunt, Carrie Coom, Jon Bernthal, Manuel Principal Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, James
Garcia-Rulfo, with Robert Duvall and Liam Neeson Harkness, Neill McColl, Aly Bain, Phil Cunningham, Bob Harris
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, US coproduction Twentieth Century Fox Film A Fable Pictures production with Sierra / Affinity
Corporation the support of BFI, Creative 9378 Wilshire Blvd. #210 Suite 210
Twentieth Century Fox (US) and 10201 West Pico Blvd. Scotland, Film4 Beverly Hills
Regency Enterprises (US) present Los Angeles CA 90212
in association with Film4 (UK), A CA 90035 Fable Pictures USA
New Regency (US), See-Saw Films USA +44 (0)20 7533 1315 +1 424 253 1060
(UK), Lammas Park (UK) +1 310 369 1000 info@fablepics.com info@sierra-affinity.com
production foxmovies@fox.com www.@fablepics.com www.sierra-affinity.com
www.fox.com
See-Saw Films
3rd Floor
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London
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+44 (0)20 3301 6268
info@see-saw-films.com
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Film4
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14 Film Catalogue
UK Feature Films at TIFF 2018UK DOCUMENTARIES AT TIFF 2018 15
American Dharma The Elephant Queen
Synopsis Synopsis
From groundbreaking documentarian Errol Morris comes a probing A majestic female elephant leads her herd in search of a new place to call
portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Trump advisor, Stephen K. home, in this empowering and breathtaking documentary from veteran
Bannon. wildlife filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble.
If Stephen K. Bannon were a fictional character, you'd have a hard time The human world is, even to this day, remiss in its acceptance of female
believing his narrative arc. He did stints as an investment banker and leadership but the animal kingdom has forged ahead. Enter Athena, a
movie producer before steering the far-right media site Breitbart News as charismatic giant tusker with an unmistakable attitude. Earning the
it swiftly moved from the fringe to the centre of American politics. As the respect of her extended family by ruling with loving practicality, Athena
chief executive of Donald Trump's campaign, he helped the candidate knows that the fate of her herd is on her shoulders — a responsibility she
navigate several controversies that would have ended the career of any does not take lightly. The challenges faced by one newborn, Mimi,
previous politician. He had a brief run in the White House as Trump's remind us how fragile life can be in an unforgiving climate, and just how
chief strategist. After being ousted, he continues to exert a powerful much herd members rely on one another.
influence on right-wing ideologues in the US and abroad.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs -
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs World premiere
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 95 mins Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Errol Morris Director: Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble
Producer: Robert Fernandez, Steven Hathaway, Errol Morris, Marie Producer: Victoria Stone, Lucinda Englehart
Savare, P.J. van Sandwijk Editor: David Dickie
Executive Producer: Michael Lesslie Screenwriter: Mark Deeble
Editor: Steven Hathaway Director of Photography: Mark Deeble
Director of Photography: Igor Martinovic Sound: Tim Owens, Ben Peace
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen Principal Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Sound: Stephen Bores
Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan
Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Kenya coproduction Mister Smith Entertainment
Production Company Sales Agent 77 Dean Street
US, UK coproduction WME - William Morris Endeavor Victoria Stone, Mark Deeble London
Entertainment hello@deeblestone.com W1D 3SH
Fourth Floor Production (US), Maje Liesl Copland www.deeblestone.com +44 (0)20 7494 1724
Production (UK), Storyteller 9601 Wilshire Boulevard info@mistersmithent.com
Productions (US, UK), Moxie Beverly Hills www.mistersmithent.com
Pictures (UK) CA 90210
USA
Storyteller Productions UK +1 310 285 9000
c/o Casarotto lcopland@wmeentertainment.com
Waverley House www.wmeentertainment.com
7-12 Noel Street
London
W1F 8GQ
+44 (0)20 3900 1060
info@storytellerprod.co.uk
16 Film Catalogue
UK Documentaries at TIFF 2018Freedom Fields Maiden
Synopsis Synopsis
In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one A moving portrait of resilience chronicling the unprecedented journey of
dream: to play football for their nation. But as the country descends into 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter
civil war, their personal stories of aspirations, love and struggle collide the Whitbread Round the World Race.
with history.
The Whitbread Round the World Race (rechristened the Volvo Ocean
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs - Race in 2001) was considered an exclusively masculine endeavour when
World premiere Edwards came along and, in the face of much sexist condescension,
proved that skill, perseverance, and courage at sea know no gender.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs -
Details World premiere
Year: 2018
Running Time: 99 mins
Director: Naziha Arebi
Producer: Flore Cosquer, Naziha Arebi Details
Executive Producer: Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle Year: 2018
Editor: Ling Lee, Alice Powell, Maya Hawke Running Time: 93 mins
Screenwriter: Naziha Arebi Director: Alex Holmes
Director of Photography: Naziha Arebi Producer: Victoria Gregory, Alex Holmes
Sound: Giovanni Buccomino Executive Producer: James Erskine, Oli Harbottle, Anna Godas
Music: Katya Mihailova Editor: Katie Bryer
Screenwriter: Alex Holmes
Director of Photography: Chris Openshaw
Production Company Sales Agent Music: Rob Manning, Samuel Sim
Libya, UK, Netherlands, US, Qatar, Wide House Principal Cast: Tracy Edwards
Lebanon, Canada coproduction 9, Rue Bleue
75009 Paris
SDI Productions (UK), HuNa France Production Company Sales Agent
Productions (LY) +33 1 53 95 24 41 New Black Films Dogwoof
infos@widehouse.org 5 Denmark Street 19-23 Ironmonger Row
Scottish Documentary Institute www.widehouse.org Second Floor London
SDI Productions Ltd London EC1V 3QN
Flore Cosquer WC2H 8UP +44 (0)20 7253 6244
ECA +44 (0) 207 836 8660 info@dogwoof.com
74 Lauriston Place info@newblackfilms.com www.dogwoof.com
Edinburgh www.newblackfilms.com
EH3 9DF
+44 (0)131 651 5874
flore@scotdoc.com
www.scottishdocinstitute.com
17 Film Catalogue
UK Documentaries at TIFF 2018Meeting Gorbachev Women Make Film: A New Road
Movie Through Cinema
Synopsis Synopsis
Prolific director Werner Herzog’s candid conversations with the former Mark Cousins' upcoming film project will be 16 hours when completed (in
Soviet head of state form the backbone of this illuminating documentary, Spring 2019). The first four hours episodes are narrated by Tilda Swinton.
co-directed by André Singer, on one of the 20th century’s most defining
politicians. The complete film will be made up of forty “chapters” to be narrated by
Tilda Swinton and other key women in cinema. Following in the footsteps
Across a six-month period, Werner Herzog conducted three interviews of Mark Cousins’ 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey', giving a guided tour of
with Mikhail Gorbachev that are the foundation for this riveting film. Now the art and craft of the movies. Using almost a thousand film extracts
87, Gorbachev speaks like a man with nothing to lose. He is respected from thirteen decades and five continents, Cousins asks how films are
more outside Russia than inside, where he's blamed for the Soviet made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict
Union's breakup in 1991. He laments that "we didn't finish the job of life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of
democracy in Russia." And he worries that others took the wrong lessons some of the world’s greatest directors – all of them women.
from perestroika: "Americans think they won the Cold War and this went
to their head. What victory?" “Many films about cinema feature mostly male directors – 'Women
Directing Film' challenges that. It tries to change the canon. It’s not about
Herzog applies his own unique perspective and narration to a deep the lives of these great directors, it’s about their work. It is a film school,
archive of footage, often with his eye oriented toward the absurd. Other where all the teachers are female. The intention of this film is to, as
key eyewitnesses to this history from the US, Germany, Hungary, and Diaghilev and Cocteau said, “astonish us.” To campaign for equality in
Poland are also interviewed, building a personal and revealing picture of cinema is compellingly right and part of that campaign must be to
Gorbachev as a statesman and as a human. celebrate the great women directors from around the world and from
every decade, to insert them into the canon where they rightly belong
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs and from which they have been excluded by many film historians, mostly
male.” (Mark Cousins)
“Cinema: the great empathy machine. The ultimate invitation to walk in
Details other people’s shoes, to look through their eyes, follow their thoughts,
Year: 2018 make their connections. This is the radical project of cinema itself. It
Running Time: 90 mins transforms - it liberates us as we watch. It makes us fit for evolution.”
Director: Werner Herzog, André Singer (Tilda Swinton)
Producer: Svetlana Palmer, Lucki Stipetic
Executive Producer: Richard Melman, Molly Thompson, Eli Lehrer Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - TIFF Docs
Editor: Michael Ellis
Screenwriter: Werner Herzog, André Singer
Director of Photography: Richard Blanshar, Yuri Barak
Sound: Vladimir Rizun, Vasily Amochkin, Simon Bishop, Alexander Details
Kuckuck Year: 2018
Music: Nicholas Singer Running Time: 240 mins
Principal Cast: Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Németh, George P. Shultz, Director: Mark Cousins
James A. Baker III, Lech Walesa, Horst Teltschik Producer: John Archer
Executive Producer: Tilda Swinton, Clara Glynn
Editor: Timo Langer
Production Company Sales Agent Screenwriter: Mark Cousins
UK, US, Germany coproduction A+E Networks (International sales) Sound: Becky Thompson
235 E 45th St Music: Germaine Tailleferre, Suite Burlesque, Clinton-Narboni Duo
Werner Herzog Film GMBH (DE), New York Principal Cast: Tilda Swinton
Spring Films (UK) NY 10017 Running Time Note: Complete version running time will be c. 960 mins
USA
Spring Films +1 212 210 1400 Production Company Sales Agent
47 Conduit Street www.aetv.com A Dogwoof Hopscotch Films Dogwoof
London production 19-23 Ironmonger Row
W1S 2YP Submarine Entertainment (US London
+44 (0)20 3327 4930 sales) Hopscotch Films EC1V 3QN
info@springfilms.tv 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W John Archer +44 (0)20 7253 6244
www.springfilms.tv New York Film City Glasgow info@dogwoof.com
NY 10013 401 Govan Road www.dogwoof.com
USA Glasgow
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Dogwoof
19-23 Ironmonger Row
London
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18 Film Catalogue
UK Documentaries at TIFF 2018UK SHORT FILMS AT TIFF 2018 19
Circle Dodgy Dave
Synopsis Synopsis
The poignant and personal story of 13 year-old Khushboo. A portrait of a An east-end drug dealer has to take his son to work and spends the day
rape victim, caught in the devious ploys of her family. Stories of the struggling to connect with him.
horror of her gang-rape, emotional abuse at the hands of her
grandmother, who orchestrated her rape, and that of her child marriage Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Short Cuts -
to a man she does not know are poignantly woven. As Khushboo World premiere
changes hands from one abuser to another, we delve deeper into her
grandmother’s story – to where this circle traces back.
Told simplistically through an observational lens, this intimate and Details
delicate film attempts an understanding of the nature of abuse, and a Year: 2018
closer look at the perpetrator, as much as it does of the victim itself. Running Time: 8 mins
Where does this circle begin? Where does it go? And can there be any Director: Charlotte Regan
release? Producer: Grace Carroll
Executive Producer: Blake Powell, Jon Lawton, James Morris, John
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Short Cuts Layton
Editor: Pete Fullarton
Screenwriter: Charlotte Regan
Director of Photography: Arran Green
Details Production Designer: Jason Synnott
Year: 2018 Sound: Emanuele Correani
Running Time: 14 mins Music: Patrick Jonsson
Director: Jayisha Patel Principal Cast: Neil Maskell, Sian Clifford, Mitchell Brown
Producer: Jayisha Patel, Ruchi Bhimani, Harini Lakshmanarayn
Editor: Mdhamiri A Nkemi
Director of Photography: Jayisha Patel, Amith Surendran Production Company
Sound: Sound Design: Anita Kushwaha, Adam Woodhams; Sound Stink Films
Recordist: Anita Kushwaha grace.carroll@stinkstudios.com
Principal Cast: Kushbu Devi, Shabha Devi, Chandna Devi www.stinkfilms.com
Production Company Sales Agent
UK, India, Canada coproduction National Film and Television
School (NFTS)
Jayisha Patel Films (UK), One Eyed Hemant Sharda
Turtle Films (IN) Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Jayisha Patel Films Beaconsfield
Studio 53 HP9 1LG
Somerset House Studios +44 (0)1494 671234
New Wing Hsharda@nfts.co.uk
Somerset House www.nfts.co.uk
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
www.jayishapatel.com
20 Film Catalogue
UK Short Films at TIFF 2018Fallen Arches The Field
Synopsis Synopsis
Global in scope but intimate in spirit, a dizzying assembly of footage shot A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last
between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.
York and Hong Kong.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Short Cuts
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths -
World premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Details Running Time: 19 mins
Year: 2018 Director: Sandhya Suri
Running Time: 11 mins Producer: Balthazar de Ganay, Thomas Bidegain
Director: Simon Liu Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge
Producer: Rachael Lawe Director of Photography: Benoit Soler
Editor: Simon Liu Sound: Sound Mixer: Maxence Dussère; Sound Recordist: Erwan
Director of Photography: Simon Liu Kerzanet; Sound Designer: Nikola Medic
Production Designer: Simon Liu
Production Company Sales Agent
Production Company Sales Agent UK, India, France coproduction Balthazar de Ganay
UK, US, Hong Kong coproduction Simon Liu Lionfish Films
liufilmsliu@gmail.com Film London (UK), Lionfish Films 34 bd. des Italiens
Liu Films Liu www.liufilmsliu.com (FR), L'Homme du Train (FR) 75009 Paris
liufilmsliu@gmail.com France
www.liufilmsliu.com Film London +33 6 79 08 05 75
Ste 6.10, The Tea Building bdg@lionfishfilms.fr
56 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JJ
+44 (0)20 7613 7676
info@filmlondon.org.uk
www.filmlondon.org.uk
21 Film Catalogue
UK Short Films at TIFF 2018I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead TREES DOWN HERE
Synopsis Synopsis
By turns raucous and reserved, 'I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead' A beautiful and enigmatic collection: wedding architecture; animals; John
ponders the future of a world in flux as seen through the eyes of Cage; and John Ashbery
motherhood accented by poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths -
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere
International premiere
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 20 mins Year: 2018
Director: Beatrice Gibson Running Time: 14 mins
Producer: Denna Cartamkhoob Director: Ben Rivers
Executive Producer: Martin Clark, Axel Wieder, Mason Leaver Yap, Julia Producer: Tom Emerson, Efe Çakarel
Paoli, Sally Campbell, Tim Nash Editor: Ben Rivers
Editor: Beatrice Gibson, Ben Crooks Director of Photography: Ben Rivers
Screenwriter: Beatrice Gibson Sound: Ben Rivers
Director of Photography: Sean Price Williams, Ben Rivers, Nick Gordon,
Beatrice Gibson
Sound: Adam Gutch, Chu-Li Shewring Production Company Sales Agent
Principal Cast: Beatrice Gibson, CAConrad, Eileen Myles, Obie Gordon, A Ben Rivers Film co-produced MUBI
Laizer Gordon, Nick Gordon with 6a and MUBI 215 Park Avenue South
Commission Details: A KW Production Series co-commission with FL 12, Suite #12
Mercer Union (CA), Camden Arts Centre (UK), and Bergen Kunsthall (NO) Ben RIvers New York
supported by Julia Stoschek Foundation (DE) and Outset c/o Kate MacGarry Gallery NY 10003
Germany_Switzerland (DE, CH) 27 Old Nichol Street USA
London hello@mubi.com
Production Company E2 7HR www.mubi.com
US, Italy, UK coproduction +44 (0)20 7613 0515
mail@katemacgarry.com
Somesuch www.katemacgarry.com
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41 Wenlock Road 6a Architects
London Rapier House
N1 7SG 40 Lambs Conduit Street
+44 (0)20 3487 1270 London
www.somesuch.co WC1N 3LJ
+44 (0) 20 7242 5422
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