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Montreal World Film Festival The Midwife

You’re Ugly Too

Chrieg

Toronto International Film Festival

A Heavy Heart

Jack

Upcoming Titles

Fack Ju Goehte 2

Mammal

Egon Schiele

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Montreal - Toronto Lineup 2015

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The Midwife

You`re Ugly Too

Chrieg

Montreal Screening Schedule Toronto Screening Schedule

Friday / Sept 4th / 09.00 a.m. / Quartier Latin 11 / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Saturday / Sept 5th / 07.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 11 / public screening

Tuesday / Sept 1st / 09.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 16 / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Wednesday / Sept 2nd / 12.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 16 / public screening

Tuesday / Sept 1st / 04.30 p.m. / Cinéma Impérial / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Wednesday / Sept 2nd / 07.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 17 / public screening

A Heavy Heart

Jack

Thursday / Aug 27th / 09.30 a.m. / Varsity Cineplex #6 / advance press screening

Friday / Sept 11th / 01.45 p.m. / Scotiabank 14 / press & industry screening

Saturday / Sept 12th / 10.00 p.m. / Scotiabank 2 / WORLD PREMIERE

Monday / Sept 14th / 03.30 p.m. / Scotiabank 10 / public screening

Thursday / Sept 17th / 04.45 p.m. / Scotiabank 7 / press & industry screening

Friday / Sept 18th / 03.00 p.m. / Scotiabank 2 / public screening

Monday / Aug 24th / 10.00 a.m. / Varsity Cineplex #5 / advance press screening

Monday / Sept 14th / 11.30 a.m. / Scotiabank 7 / press & industry screening

Tuesday / Sept 15th / 07.00 p.m. / Scotiabank 10 / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Thursday / Sept 17th / 09.15 p.m. / Scotiabank 10 / public screening

Sunday / Sept 20th / 09.00 a.m. / Scotiabank 14 / public screening

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Original Title: Kätilö

Director: Antti J. Jokinen Genre: Drama

Length: 118 min.

Cast: Krista Kosonen Lauri Tilkanen Tommi Korpela Pirkka-Pekka Petelius Production: Solar Films Inc. Status: Completed

Delivery: Fall 2015

Nationality: Finland

Language: Finnish

Finland, 1944. The country is shaken by the Lapland War, a conflict between Germany and Finland in the aftermath of WWII. Helena, a small community’s midwife nicknamed “Wildeye”, meets the Finnish-German Nazi officer Johannes Angelhurst. She is attracted to the mysterious stranger and follows him to the prisoner of war camp where he serves to start working as a nurse. For Angelhurst, Helena is different from any other woman, and they develop a wild and passionate relationship. Yet their burning love neither removes the traumatic war images that haunt the officer nor the gruesome secrets hiding behind the walls of the camp.When the turmoil of war separates the lovers, they make a pact to reunite at the remote cabin where they spent their happiest times together. At the end of the war, Helena and Johannes put their lives at risk and suffer tremendous hardship to fight their way back to each other, guided by a will to survive so strong that it bypasses the expectations of morality.THE MIDWIFE is based on the the best-selling novel by Katja Kettu.

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Antti J. Jokinen’s feature debut was the Brooklyn-set thriller THE RESIDENT (2011) starring Hilary Swank and Christopher Lee. His second feature PURGE (2012), based on Sofi Oksanen’s bestselling novel, became Finland’s official entry to the 2013 Academy Awards. A graduate in film from East Carolina University, Antti has worked on several TV series and directed music videos for artists such as Will Smith, Beyoncé and Eminem. THE MIDWIFE is his third feature film.

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE IN MERCILESS TIMES

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noRTH AMeRICAn PReMIeRe Friday / Sept 4th / 09.00 a.m. / Quartier Latin 11

Public screening Saturday / Sept 5th / 07.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 11

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Director: Mark Noonan

Genre: Drama

Length: 81 min.

Cast: Aidan Gillen Lauren Kinsella George Pistereanu Erika Sainte

Production: Savage Productions

Status: Completed

Delivery: Spring 2015

Nationality: Ireland

Language: English

Will is released from prison on compassionate leave to care for his niece Stacey after the death of her mother. As they both head into the sleepy Irish midlands and attempt to be a family, they suffer a series of setbacks; Stacey is refused admission to the local school because of her recently developed narcolepsy; Will repeatedly comes close to breaking his prison-ordered curfew; and his attempts at being a father figure to her prove disastrous… As Stacey’s future hangs in the balance and Will must reckon with his own demons they search for a new way forward together.

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Mark Noonan is a writer/director working in drama and documentary. His first short film Questions (2008) won the Claire Lynch Award at Cork International Film Festival and an Honourable Mention at Galway Film Fleadh, while his second dramatic short film Getting Air (2010) was selected for Official Competition at Sapporo Short Film Festival. A participant of the 2011 Berlinale Talent Campus, Mark Noonan presented his debut feature YOU’RE UGLY TOO in the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival’s Generation Kplus Competition. The film was also nominated for the Berlinale Best First Feature Award.

WHEN FAMILY FINDS YOU

You’re Ugly Too

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noRTH AMeRICAn PReMIeRe Tuesday / Sept 1st / 09.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 16

Public screeningWednesday / Sept 2nd / 12.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 16

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Director: Simon Jaquemet Genre: Drama

Length: 108 min.

Cast: Benjamin Lutzke Ste Ella Rumpf Sascha Gisler Production: Hugofilm Productions Status: Completed Delivery: Fall 2014 Nationality: Switzerland Language: Swiss German

Matteo is fifteen, a fragile boy. He runs into the woods carrying his baby brother. It‘s a desperate attempt to strike back at his oppressive father. The parents’ punishment for kidnapping the baby: three months of hard work on a remote farm. On arrival, three hostile teenagers grab Matteo and lock him into a dog cage. The farmer, who was supposed to take care of the kids, has lost control. Anton, an unpredictably aggressive boy, is now in charge. He has given shelter to two other troubled, angry teenagers: Dion, a boy from Serbia, and Ali, a girl with a shaved head. Matteo is their dog. He earns their respect only when he starts to stand up against them. He joins them on a mission: they drive down to the city. A feverish night full of violence and destruction. Their own war. Their own revenge against grown-ups. Against everything. Matteo gets stronger, learns to fight and falls in love with Ali. He’s finally part of the pack. The farm is their perfect hide-out, but there is no more going back.

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Born in Zurich in 1978, Simon Jaquemet studied Film Directing at the Zurich Academy of Arts and has won several young director’s awards for his short films and music videos. CHRIEG is his debut feature film.

THE STATE WE ARE IN

Chrieg

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noRTH AMeRICAn PReMIeRe Tuesday / Sept 1st / 04.30 p.m. / Cinéma Impérial

Public screeningWednesday / Sept 2nd / 07.00 p.m. / Quartier Latin 17

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Original Title: Herbert

Director: Thomas Stuber Genre: Drama

Length: 109 min.

Cast: Peter Kurth Lina Wendel Lena Lauzemis Edin Hasanovic

Production: DEPARTURES Film in co-production with deutschfilm Status: Completed

Delivery: Fall 2015

Nationality: Germany

Language: German

Former Eastern German boxing champ Herbert has not been a winner in life since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a hard-up bouncer and debt collector, he tries to revive the past by coaching his young boxing protégé, Eddy. After a training session, Herbert suddenly collapses with spasms of pain; however, he initially chooses to ignore the signs. When his physical deficiencies become more and more apparent, Herbert finally sees a specialist who ultimately diagnoses him with a fatal neural disease. With not much time left, Herbert struggles with himself and the hard outer shell he‘s cultivated over time. Not many things really matter to him apart from his ‘lost’ daughter Sandra, whom he abandoned when the family fell apart. Now a mother herself, Sandra is still deeply hurt and afraid of allowing her dying father to be a part of her life again. Student Academy Award winner Thomas Stuber tells the touching story of a lone wolf who takes a long time to find the meaning of his life.

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Thomas Stuber, born in Leipzig in 1981, worked as a script supervisor for various film and TV productions before studying at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His student feature TEENAGE ANGST (2008) was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival and he received a Silver Student Academy Award for his short film adaptation of Clemens Meyer’s short story OF DOGS AND HORSES (2012). The two writers teamed up once more for the script of A HEAVY HEART, which was nominated for the German Script Award.

OLD WOUNDS ARE HARD TO HEAL

A Heavy Heart

Advance press screeningThursday / Aug 27th / 09.30 a.m. / Varsity Cineplex #6

Press & industry screeningsFriday / Sept 11th / 01.45 p.m. / Scotiabank 14 Thursday / Sept 17th / 04.45 p.m. / Scotiabank 7

WoRLd PReMIeReSaturday / Sept 12th / 10.00 p.m. / Scotiabank 2

Public screeningsMonday / Sept 14th / 03.30 p.m. / Scotiabank 10 Friday / Sept 18th / 03.00 p.m. / Scotiabank 2

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Director: Elisabeth Scharang Genre: Drama

Length: 95 min.

Cast: Johannes Krisch Corinna Harfouch Birgit Minichmayr Sarah Viktoria Frick Paulus Manker

Production: epo-film produktionsges.m.b.h. Vienna

Status: Completed

Delivery: Fall 2015

Nationality: Austria

Language: German

One winter’s night a girl freezes to death after suffering brutal injuries. Jack is convicted of her murder. When released from prison 15 years later, he becomes an acclaimed writer and well-known ladies’ man, and Vienna’s society celebrates his example of successful social rehabilitation. But questions arise when more and more prostitutes are being found dead. Can a man change that fundamentally?

From murderer of a woman to ladykiller, from jailbird poet to society darling – Jack Unterweger was the talk of the town in early 1990s’ Vienna. His suicide following the conviction for multiple murder left many questions unanswered, and 20 years later, his story has not lost any of its mystery. Focusing on the enigmatic title character, Elisabeth Scharang (IN ANOTHER LIFETIME) presents a breath-taking and haunting psychograph.

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Elisabeth Scharang, born in Styria/Austria in 1969, started as a journalist and radio presenter at the Austrian broadcaster ORF in the late 1980s and continues to work for their radio stations until today. Since 1997, she has worked as a freelance feature and documentary director, writing the scripts for most of her films. JACK is her second feature film after IN ANOTHER LIFETIME (2011).

POET. LOVER. KILLER

Jack

Advance press screeningMonday / Aug 24th / 10.00 a.m. / Varsity Cineplex #5

Press & industry screeningMonday / Sept 14th / 11.30 a.m. / Scotiabank 7

noRTH AMeRICAn PReMIeReTuesday / Sept 15th / 07.00 p.m. / Scotiabank 10

Public screeningsThursday / Sept 17th / 09.15 p.m. / Scotiabank 10 Sunday / Sept 20th / 09.00 a.m. / Scotiabank 14

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Director: Bora Dagtekin Genre: Comedy

Length: approx. 110 min.

Cast: Elyas M‘Barek Jella Haase Karoline Herfurth Katja Riemann Max von der Groeben

Production: Constantin Film Produktion

Status: In Post-production

Delivery: Fall 2015

Nationality: Germany

Language: German

Everyone loves Zeki Müller (Elyas M’Barek) at the Goethe Comprehensive School, but he’s beginning to lose enthusiasm for his accidental vocation: waking up early, delinquent students and endless pa-perwork. And now, overly-ambitious Principal Gerster (Katja Riemann) has set her sights on stealing the Thailand school partnership away from the elite Schiller School. Her dream: to boost the image of her derelict school in order to become the model for the Ministry of Education’s new public campaign. Müller and Schnabelstedt (Karoline Herfurth) are condemned to accompany the class on a trip to a remote Thai village.

Chantal (Jella Haase), Zeynep (Gizem Emre), Danger (Max von der Groeben) & Co. are in prime form during their first trip abroad, rampantly displaying their full spectrum of social incompetence and cul-tural ignorance. And if that wasn’t enough already for Zeki, to have to deal with the constant teachers vs. students war, he also has to lead the charge against the snobby Schiller School and their pompous über-Teacher, Hauke Wölki (Volker Bruch) - whose sole goal is to end Müller’s career!

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Bora Dagtekin’s first comedy as a writer, WHERE IS FRED, hit the big screen in 2006. His debut feature, TURKISH FOR BEGINNERS – THE MOVIE, based on a series he created, became the most successful German movie of 2012, receiving Bambi Award, Video Champion Award and Bavarian movie audience award. SUCK ME SHAKESPEER, Dagtekin’s second feature as writer/director, became one of the top ten grossing German Films of all time.

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Director: Rebecca Daly Genre: Drama

Length: 99 min.

Cast: Rachel Griffiths Barry Keoghan Michael McElhatton

Production: Fastnet Films Calach Films & Rinkel Films Status: In Post-production

Delivery: Spring 2016

Nationality: Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg

Language: English

Margaret, a separated woman living alone in Dublin, learns that her teenage son has been found dead. Enduring her unsettlinggrief privately, she escapes daily to the local swimming pool. One day at the pool she runs into Joe, a homeless youth she found injured late one night in the deserted laneway behind her work. Margaret offers Joe a room in her house and an unorthodox relationship starts to develop between them. Margaret‘s exhusband Matt begins to turn up randomly in Margaret‘s life. As Margaret and Joe’s mutual reliance grows their tentative trust is threatened by the escalation of Matt’s grieving rage and Joe’s involvement with a gang of violent youths.

DIRECTOR

Rebecca Daly studied theatre directing and acting and then went on to study film. Her first short, JOYRIDERS (2006), won the Irish Film Award and several international awards. Her first feature film, THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP (2011), premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival and in the Discovery section of Toronto International Film Festival. Rebecca was selected to participate in the first Berlinale Residency with her second feature film MAMMAL, which is currently in post-production. She is currently in development on the feature project GOOD FAVOUR.

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Margaret, a separated woman living alone in Dublin, learns that her teenage son has been found dead. Enduring her unsettling grief privately, she escapes daily to the local swimming pool. One day at the pool she runs into Joe, a homeless youth she found injured late one night in the deserted laneway behind her work. Margaret offers Joe a room in her house and an unorthodox relationship starts to develop between them. Margaret‘s ex-husband Matt begins to turn up randomly in Margaret‘s life. As Margaret and Joe’s mutual reliance grows their tentative trust is threatened by the escalation of Matt’s grieving rage and Joe’s involvement with a gang of violent youths.

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Director: Dieter Berner Genre: Drama

Length: approx. 110 min.

Cast: Noah Saavedra Maresi Riegner Valerie Pachner

Production: Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion Amour Fou Luxembourg Status: In Production

Delivery: Summer 2016

Nationality: Austria/Luxembourg

Language: German

Austria 1906. After the death of his father, 16-year-old Egon Schiele, who has just been accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts, takes his younger sister Gerti to the Italian seaside town of Trieste to paint her in the Southern light. Twelve years later and only a few days before the end of the First World War, he falls ill with the Spanish flu, a fatal epidemic that is plaguing Vienna. Gerti is at Egon’s side once again. While she desperately tries to save the life of her beloved brother, memories of all the other women who influenced him throughout his life come flooding back – influences that made Egon Schiele one of the most controversial and outstanding artists of his time.

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Dieter Berner was born in Vienna in 1944. Following his studies at Max Reinhardt Seminar, he worked as a stage and film actor and director in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. He played the lead in Michael Haneke’s THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989) and co-wrote and directed various award-winning TV series. His first feature film JOINT VENTURE (1994) premiered at Karlovy Vary. Since 2007, Dieter Berner has directed several film projects in cooperation with his students at the film academies in Babelsberg and Vienna.

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

Egon Schiele

Delivery: Spring 2016