swiss films in toronto 2014
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Swiss films at TIFF 2014 and Swiss films coming soonTRANSCRIPT
T O R O N T O
at Toronto 2014Please visit us at booth # 5
in the Industry Office Location at The Hyatt Regency Hotel,
King Ballroom, 370 King Street WestT +1 416 934 7385
Catherine Ann BergerManaging Director
[email protected] +41 76 368 02 65
Selina WillemseHead of Festivals & Markets
[email protected] +41 79 286 51 88
Annick MahnertForeign correspondent:
Festivals & [email protected]
T +33 6 37 12 81 36
T E A M TABLE OF CONTENTS
SWISS FILMS screened in Toronto 2014 3
SWISS FILMS Line-Up Fiction 2014 6
SWISS FILMS Line-Up Documentaries 2014 10
SWISS FILMS Coming Soon 13
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Switzerland / Germany / United Arab EmiratesDocumentary, DCP, colour, 162 min, 3D
World premiere: 39th Toronto International Film Festival
September 2014
Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich
Coin Film, CologneWDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk
SRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenSanad Fund
World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna
T +43 720 34 69 34, www.autlookfilms.comPeter Jager: [email protected]
T +43 664 510 5552
Press Agent:David C. Magdael
[email protected] +1 213 399 14 34
T I F F D O C S
Iraqi OdysseyA Global Family Saga
Bombs, bearded men, sobbing women, shattered cities: Iraq, as seen through the eyes of the western media these days. These images are juxtaposed with those from the fifties and seventies: films with frivolous music, unveiled women who study; elegantly dressed men in Bagdad, a modern city. Film director Samir tells the story of his globalised middle-class Iraqi family, scattered around the world.
www.iraqiodyssey.com
Press and Industry ScreeningsFriday, September 5, 9:00am
Scotiabank 6
Thursday, September 11, 8:45amScotiabank 6
Public ScreeningsSaturday, September 6, 9:30pm
Scotiabank 13
Sunday, September 7, 5:30pmScotiabank 9
Saturday, September 13, 9:00amTIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Samir
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Clouds Of Sils Maria
Maria Enders is at the peak of her international career. She was discovered twenty years earlier when playing the role of Sigrid, a girl who fascinates Helena and drives her to suicide. Now she is asked to perform the play again but this time in the role of Helena. Will she act the victim and thereby confront her mid-life doubts and insecurities which she has managed to doge until now?
World premiere: Cannes 2014, International Competition
Olivier Assayas
France / Germany / SwitzerlandFiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 123 min.
Cast: Juliette Binoche / Kristen StewartChloë Grace Moretz / Lars Eidinger / Johnny FlynnBrady Corbet / Gilles Tschudi
Production: CG Cinéma, ParisPallas Film GmbH, HalleCAB Productions SA, Chavannes-près-RenensVortex Sutra, BagnoletARTEZDF Zweites Deutsches FernsehenOrange Studio, ParisRTS Radio Télévision Suisse
World Rights: MK2 International, Paris, T +33 1 44 67 30 00www.mk2pro.com
Press and Industry ScreeningThursday, September 4, 5:15pmScotiabank 12
Public ScreeningsThursday, September 4, 9:45pmPrincess of Wales
Friday, September 5, 9:30amTIFF Bell Lightbox 1
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SwitzerlandFiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 12 min.
Production:Box Productions sàrl, RenensÉcole Cantonale d‘Art de LausanneRTS Radio Télévision Suisse
World Sales: Salaud Morisset, BerlinT +49 1 52 25 19 23 36www.salaudmorissetproduction.comfestival@salaudmorissetproduction.com
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Discipline
A father looses his patience and disciplines his disobedient child in a store. A shocked customer immediately intervenes. Other customers join in.
Press and Industry Screening
Saturday September 6, 11:45am
Scotiabank 5
Public ScreeningsFriday
September 5, 7:30pmTIFF Bell Lightbox 3
FridaySeptember 12, 5:30pm
Scotiabank 10
Christophe M. Saber
Xavier RuizXavier Ruiz was selected to be one of the 10 European participants.
Born in 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland. 1992-99 Producer and line producer of numerous short films. Intern in international sales at Alliance International, Paris and international sales manager at Fox Lorber, New York. 1995 Attends AVID Workshop Film, Video & Arts in New York. 1995-2003 Independent film editor. From 2001 teaches audiovisual production and film post production classes in Geneva, Lausanne and Barcelona. 2003 Atelier EAVE (Entrepreneurs de l'Audiovisuel Européen) and Producer On the Move in Cannes. Producer of fiction and documentary films.
Filmography as director:Sweet Girls, fiction, planned for 2015Verso, fiction, 2009Swiss Made in Hollywood, documentary, 2005Neutre, fiction, 2001The Toilet Zone, tv series, 1996Dieu que pour toi, short film, 1992
Filmography as producer:Carré blanc, directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti, fiction, 2011Verso, directed by Xavier Ruiz, fiction, 2009Max, directed by Jean-Paul Cardinaux, short film, 2008Togo, directed by Pierre Morath, Nicholas Peart, documentary, 2008Tango Lola, directed by I. Rieben, S. B. Youssef, animation, 2008Ryna, directed by Ruxandra Zenide, fiction, 2005Love Express, directed by Elena Hazanov, fiction, 2004Weekend Break, directed by Jean-Paul Cardinaux, short film, 2001
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The CircleDer Kreis
A docudrama set in Zurich’s gay underground movement during the post-war years, based on a true love story.
Honoured with the Teddy and Panorama Audience Award Berlinale 2014.
www.thecircle-movie.com
Stefan Haupt
SwitzerlandFiction, DCP, colour, 2014, 101 min.
World premiere: Berlinale Panorama 2014
Cast: Matthias Hungerbühler / Sven SchelkerMarianne Sägebrecht / Anatole TaubmanAntoine Monot Jr. / Stefan Witschi
Production: Contrast Film Zurich GmbH, ZurichSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
World Sales: Wide House, ParisT +33 1 53 95 04 64Anais Clanet, T +33 83 22 18 06ac@ www.widehouse.orgwww.widehouse.org6
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Switzerland / Croatia / Bosnia and HerzegovinaFiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 83 min.
World premiere: Festival del Film Locarno 2014, Concorso internazionale
Cast: Sylvie Marinkovic / Lucia Radulovic Mirjana Karanovic / Marija Skaricic
Leon Lucev / Franjo Dijak
Production: Okofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich
Ziva Produkcija, ZagrebDeblokada, Sarajevo
SRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenZDF/ARTE
World Rights: Okofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich
Thomas Imbach, T +41 79 230 79 65, [email protected] www.okofilm.com
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Cure - The Life Of AnotherCure – Das Leben einer Anderen
Dubrovnik in 1993, after the war. 14-year-old Linda has gone to a secluded beach with her new girlfriend Eta. She comes back alone but wearing Eta’s clothes. It doesn’t occur to anyone that Linda has anything to do with Eta's disappearance. Only her boyfriend Ivo has his suspicions.
www.cure-film.com
Andrea Štaka
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Pause
Sami, a laid-back songwriter, is shocked when Julia, a brilliant lawyer with whom he’s been living for the last four years, decides to put their relationship on hold. Coached by his old friend Fernand, an alcoholic country musician living in a nursing home for the elderly, he tries to achieve the impossible to prove to her she’s the only woman for him.
Mathieu Urfer
SwitzerlandFiction, DCP, colour, 2014, 82 min.
World premiere: Festival del Film Locarno, Piazza Grande, 2014
Cast: Baptiste Gilliéron / Julia FaureAndré Wilms / Nils AlthausRoland Vouilloz / Nicole Letuppe
Production: Box Productions sàrl, RenensRSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, BerlinT +49 30 420 82 48 14www.picturetree-international.com
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SwitzerlandFiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 94 min.
World premiere: Festival del Film Locarno, Piazza Grande, 2014
Cast: Esther Gemsch / Karim Rahoma
Komi Mizrajim Togbonou / Newroz BazElvis Clausen / Klaus Wildbolz
Production: Spotlight Media Productions, Zurich
Leaves & Leaches Pictures, ZurichSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Teleclub
World Sales: m-appeal, Berlin
[email protected] www.m-appeal.comAleksandra Abykova, T +49 30 61 10 71 49
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Unlikely HeroesSchweizer Helden
Sabine is a recently separated housewife who wants to stage the story of William Tell with asylum seekers. When news of the performance suddenly hits the media, Sabine goes beyond her limits to ensure the success of the play.
UBS Audience Award Festival del Film Locarno 2014
www.schweizerhelden.ch
Peter Luisi
L I N E - U P D O C U M E N T A R I E S
Seven Americans – neighbours of an immense fence, erected to control Mexican immigration – unfold how the nearby US-Mexican border transforms their lives. Out in the desert they observe the haunting traces left by the crossing migrants, people they never come face to face with. They confide their fear, defiance and at times even their compassion.
Stéphanie Barbey / Luc PeterArtistic collaboration:
Peter Mettler
SwitzerlandDocumentary, 2014, DCP, colour, 75 min.
World premiere:Festival del Film Locarno, Semaine de la critique, 2014
Production: Intermezzo Films SA, GenevaRTS Radio Télévision SuisseSRG SSRARTE
World Sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH, LeipzigT +49 341 215 66 [email protected]
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Broken Land
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SwitzerlandDocumentary, DCP, colour, 92 min.
World premiere: Visions du Réel, April 2014
Production: Christian Frei Filmproduktion GmbH, Zurich
SRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenSRG SSR
ZDF/ARTE
World Sales: Films Transit International, Inc
Montreal Head Office T +1 514 844 33 58, [email protected]
USA Office T +1 212 614 28 08, Cell: T +1 917 757 14 44
[email protected] www.filmstransit.com
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Sleepless In New York
The film explores the difficult path out of self-destructive obsessive behaviour, toward a new self. And it wonders about the unwavering desire – despite it all – for love.
The new film from Academy Award® Nominated Swiss Director Christian Frei (WAR PHOTOGRAPHER)
www.sleepless-in-new-york.com
Christian Frei
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Yalom’s Cure
The 80-year-old psychiatrist and best-selling author Irvin D. Yalom is considered to be the most influential psychotherapist in the USA. The film offers more than a classic biography: Yalom takes the viewer on an existential journey, navigating the depths and shallows of the human psyche. In this role as a guide, he imparts his discernments and provides insight into his own inner life.
www.yalomscure.com
Sabine Gisiger
SwitzerlandDocumentary, 2014, DCP, colour, 77 min.
World premiere: Festival del Film Locarno, Fuori concorso, 2014
Production: Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH, ZurichVega Film AG, ZurichSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, ViennaT +43 720 34 69 34www.autlookfilms.com
C O M I N G S O O N
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SwitzerlandFiction, DCP, colour, 93 min.
World premiere:Planned for Autumn 2014
Cast: Max Hubacher / Sabine Timoteo Marcus Signer / Scherwin Amini
Jessy Moravec / Susanne-Marie WrageAdrian Furrer / Andrea Zogg
Production and World Rights: Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein
T +41 44 865 66 27www.langfilm.ch
Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to unravel – they are connected by the strong bond of a dark past.
DriftenKarim Patwa
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SwitzerlandFiction, DCP, colour, 108 min.
World premiere:62nd Festival internacional de Cine San Sebastian, September 2014
Cast: Benjamin Lutzke / Ste / Ella Rumpf Sascha Gisler / John Leuppi / Livia S. Reinhard Ernst C. Sigrist
Production: Hugofilm Productions GmbH, ZurichSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
World Sales:Picture Tree International GmbH, BerlinT +49 30 420 824 80www.picturetree-international.com
Fifteen-year-old Matteo is attractive, albeit somewhat girlish and frail. The whole world is against him. The pressure increases as his awkward attempts to win his father’s respect fail. One night two men carry him off: his parents send him to a remote alp, where he is forced to work hard on a family farm.
Simon Jaquemet
Chrieg
Switzerland / Germany / South AfricaFiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 90 min.
World premiere:Planned for Autumn 2014
Cast: Tom Hopper / Ryan Kwanten / Ken Duken
Charlie Murphy / Ed Skrein / Anatole TaubmanJames Norton / Leo Gregory / Darrell D‘Silva
ProductionElite Filmproduktion AG, Zurich
Jumping Horse Film GmbH, HannoverTwo Oceans Production (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
World Sales:
The Salt Company (International) Ltd., Londonwww.salt-co.com
James Norrie, T +44 79 58 520 099
C O M I N G S O O N
Northmen – A Viking Saga
A band of Vikings are stranded behind enemy lines on the coast of Alba as their longboat goes down in a dreadful storm. Their only chance of survival is to find a path to the Viking settlement, Danelag, traversing an unfamiliar and hostile land they have never known.
www.northmen-derfilm.ch
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Claudio Fäh
SWISS FILMSNeugasse 6 | Postfach | CH-8031 Zurich T +41 43 211 40 50info @ swissfilms.ch
SWISS FILMS in TorontoPlease visit us at booth # 5 in the Industry Office Location at The Hyatt Regency Hotel, King Ballroom, 370 King Street WestT + 1 416 934 7385
+++ Visit us at our stands at the Berlinale European Film Market EFM, Cannes Village International and Festival del Film Locarno +++
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