NEWSLETTER N°176: Jan 29 - Feb 3, 2004
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AWARDS UPDATE: RED HOT from awards season.
* Oscar nominees: 11 for LOTR: ROTK and a few surprises
* Golden Globes awards
* Sundance awards announced
* Writers Guild of America award nominees
* Cesar nominees
* Fipresci awards in Dhaka, Palm Springs and Tromsø
http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/festivals_wrapup.shtml
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SUNDANCE REPORTS
* Primer and Dig! win at Sundance
* Slamdance awards
* Getting Picked Up In Park City
* Sundance Hollywood and Politics In Park City
* Slamdance schedule of final party
* First Time Directors Ski To Success at Sundance
* Sundance Welcomes the Women
* Complete line up
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BERLINALE NEWS
* Monster review on a contreversial film
* Cold Mountain, Berlin opener review
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NEWS FROM FESTIVALS
* AFM seminars and panels Feb 27- March 2
* Large French Filmmaker quota at Rotterdam, Anatomy of Hell and more
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D-CINEMA NEWS
* Virtual Reality father keynotes in Santa Barbara's 6th Annual Digital Days
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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS
*Monster Director: Profile on Patty Jenkins
* Peter jackson Modern Master award at Santa Barbara
* Film festivals: too many of them?
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FRENCH NEWS ON THE FRENCH WEBSITE
* Fantastic'arts ouvre les portes des mondes virtuels
* Les nominations aux César 2004
* La position de l' Adami sur le P2P
* Newport Beach appel à candidatures de l'europe
http://www.filmfestivals.com/fr/index.shtml
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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS
* "In Your Eyes"an urban love story
* Cold Mountain review
* Monster review
* Secrecy clause for Stranger Than Love
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SCREENINGS BERLIN 2004
BALLROOM - DANCING
France - 2003 - 93 minutes - 35mm - Color
Directed by : Patrick Mario BERNARD, Xavier BRILLAT,
Pierre TRIVIDIC
Cast : Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic, Peter Bonke,
Jean-Yves Jouannais.
Synopsis : Rene is an artist. His studio is set up in a disused dance hall and he lives on the premises with his boyfriend. Life swims
along nicely, only he seems to be coming down with something such is the expression used. Its not that he feels sick exactly,
more that he is getting distinctly oversensitive.Things pop into his mind and then won't leave. Like that picture of two spooky clowns
seen in a magazine. Hard work and play make no difference at all. The image
becomes an idée fixe and with every passing day Rene is increasingly tormented by obsessions that, in his rational mind, he rejects.
Until one fine day his world goes off the rails as he finds himself face to face with a doppelganger.
Produced by : Ex Nihilo - Patrick Sobelman
SCREENING :
February8th, 12.00, CINEMAXX STUDIO 14
BROTHERS - FRERES
France - 2003 - 80 minutes - 35mm - Color
Directed by : Xavier de CHOUDENS
Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Matthieu Genet, Elisabeth Kaza,
Bruce Myers.
Synopsis : Vincent is a young man of 20 leading a mundane existence. One day, he narrowly escapes being mugged. His life turns
upside down when he finds out that the mugger is actually his own brother Serge, whom he hadn't seen since childhood, and who has
just escaped from prison. By and by each one reveals his true self in this quest for the other and the discovery of past made of grief,
silence and absence.
Produced by : Agat Films & Cie Nicolas Blanc
SCREENING :
February 6th, 4.00 PM, CINEMAXX STUDIO 14
THE WALL - LE MUR
France 2004 100 minutes 35mm - Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Simone BITTON
Synopsis : In June 2002, the israeli authorities began the construction of a gigantic security fence, aimed at preventing palestinian
terrorists infiltrations. With an original cinematographic approach, the director, jewish and arabian as well, aims to go to the human
universal heart of israeli and palestinian tragic reality.
Produced by : Cinesud Promotion - Thierry Lenouvel
SCREENING :
February 7th, , 11.00 AM, CINEMAXX STUDIO 19
February 11th , 5.00 PM, CINEMAXX STUDIO 19
LINE UP 2004
A SON - UN FILS
France 2003 58 minutes 35mm - Color
Directed by : Amal BEDJAOUI
Cast : Mohamed HICHAM - Hammou GRAIA - Isabelle
PICHAUD - Aurélien RECOING
Synopsis : Selim, young man with derive, is disguised and prostitue. It seeks to be made like of sound avoids. Omar, who lives locked
up in a mourning since the disappearance of his wife. The father and wire pass one to with dimensions of the other without managing to
meet. Only the destiny will bring them closer a little too late...
Produced by : ML Productions
SUN'S END - LE SOLEIL ASSASSINE
France 2003 85 minutes 35mm - Color
Directed by : Abdelkrim Bahloul
Cast : Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, Ouassini Embarek
Synopsis : The Assassinated Sun, based on actual events in the newly independent Algeria of the 1970s. Following the country's
liberation in 1962, the police didn't take kindly to gay poet Jean Senac. Nevertheless, he was appreciated by a large liberal audience.
The police also don't approve of writing student Hamid who writes and stars in a French-language play during a national theater
competition. Senac, however, enjoys the play and proceeds to develop a friendship with Hamid. Even though the two were never publicly
declared.
Produced by : Mact Productions
WHEN I SEE THE SUN - QUAND JE VOIS LE SOLEIL
France 2003 88 minutes 35mm - Color
Directed by : Jacques Cortal
Cast : Florent Pagny, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, François Cluzet, Sophie Broustal, Delphine Rouffignac.
Synopsis : Raphaël and Margot like themselves. But one day, the young woman, a star dancer, learns that she is condemned. They
both choose to burn their mad love during these last months instinctively. But Margot, that her body betrays gradually, accept the idea
that he will love another when she will have left...
Produced by : Odessa films
A SUBMARINE IN TROUBLED WATERS LE KOURSK
France 2004 52 minutes (100 minutes in production) - 35mm Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Jean-Michel Carré
Produced by : Films du grain de sable
Synopsis : In August 2000, 118 men die on board the state of the art submarine, Kursk, in the Barents Sea. Kursk, the pride and glory
of the Northern Fleet, was said to be invincible. What were the real reasons for this tragic accident, why, were these men not saved ?
Behind these questions lies a deeper one concerning the role of power in Russia today, but also that of world powers in general and the
current evolution in East- West relations.
THE LIVING WORLD - LE MONDE VIVANT
France 2003 35mm - 75 minutes - Color
Directed by : Eugene GREEN
Cast : Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret, Laurène Cheilan, Christelle Prot, Achille Trocellier.
Synopsis : Two children are captured by an ogre equipped with a wife as beautiful as good. The ogre has another captive, a blonde girl
locked up in a vault. He intends to eat the children and to marry the young lady of the vault. Two young knights, one occur accompanied
by a lion and which got excited of the young prisoner. They will achieve the prowess to deliver the victims of the ogre. The knight with
the lion will know death, but will come back to life.
VANISHED - DISPARUES - Shooting February 2004
France 2004 90 minutes - Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Alain Mazars
Synopsis : Thanks to the help of a young medium, the investigation, led through Laos, permits to establish that the young child of
Khema, a chamane singer vanished , could be even living.
The ghosts of this mother and her daughter, mysteriously vanished to 12 years of interval, will they end up taking life at the end of this
road movie "initiatique" to the heart of the Laotian forest?
Produced by : New Deal Films
THE SOUL OF STAX - L'AME DE STAX
France 2003 52 minutes (90 minutes in production) - 35mm Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Philippe Priestley
Cast : Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Booker T. Jones.
Produced by : Films du grain de sable.
Synopsis : It's in first place the history of a music, the Soul, and of a record company, the Stax, who will live forever during the years of
the american life. Soul of black american music, Stax is part of the recent history of their actors : the riots of Watstax, the Black
Panters...
FROM HEAVEN QUAND TU DESCENDRAS DU CIEL
France 2003 100 minutes - 35mm Color
Directed by : Eric GUIRADO (Best short film César 2001)
Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Benoît Giros, Jean-François Gallotte.
Produced by : Harpo Films
Synopsis : Jerôme, since the death of his father, has not a single day off in five years. He and his mother struggle to maintain a small
dairy farm. Its December and Jerôme uses the Christmas vacations to find a work in the city. Once in the city he realises the
harshness of life outside of the countryside
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European Film Market, Berlin
LENA -THE BRIDE OF ICE Sentimental/Germany-UK/2003
MARKET PREMIERE!!
Directed by Polly Steele with Valentina Cervi, Ciaran McMenamin
A contemporary take on the story of the greatest muse of the 20th century, Alma Mahler. Trapped on an emotional roller coaster a young woman must untangle a web of ill-fated love affairs before their sinister connections to a past life destroy her.
Screening Time: February 6 at 16:00 CINEMAXX2
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THE LETTER SentimentalDrama/ Italy/ 2003
Directed by Luciano Cannito With Vittoria Belvedere, Dino Abbrescia, Timothy Dalton, Raffaella Appià
The Battle of a class of 18 children of an elementary school and their young teacher, to safe the life of a death row in Austin, Texas. Nothing can stop them: The Mafia, neither the mentality of the village's people nor the Governor of Texas...
Screening Time: February 11 at 16:00 CINEMAXX2
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LADY Sentimental/Italy/2003
Directed by Francesco Laudadio With: Sonia Aquino, Paolo Seganti, Angela Finocchiaro
The passionate and romantic love affair between a bourgeois lady and the leader of an anti-fascist group.
Screening Time: February 7 at 20:00 CINEMAXX2
BERLIN 2004
Dear Friends,
Loïc Magneron (Cell : + 33 6 60 43 96 86) and Matteo Lovadina (Cell : + 33 6 14 45 62 78) will be attending the upcoming
"EUROPEAN FILM MARKET 2004" in Berlin from the 5th till the 15th of February 2004.
Please note our location :
BERLIN OFFICE
Booth N°60 (Unifrance)
Tel: + 49 30 200 57 360
Fax: + 49 30 200 57 359
Please find here after our line-up and screening schedule for the market.
Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin, our best regards,
Loic Magneron
&
Matteo Lovadina
Manager
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SCREENINGS BERLIN 2004
BALLROOM - DANCING
France - 2003 - 93 minutes - 35mm - Color
Directed by : Patrick Mario BERNARD, Xavier BRILLAT,
Pierre TRIVIDIC
Cast : Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic, Peter Bonke,
Jean-Yves Jouannais.
Synopsis : Rene is an artist. His studio is set up in a disused dance hall and he lives on the premises with his boyfriend. Life swims
along nicely, only he seems to be coming down with something such is the expression used. Its not that he feels sick exactly,
more that he is getting distinctly oversensitive.Things pop into his mind and then won't leave. Like that picture of two spooky clowns
seen in a magazine. Hard work and play make no difference at all. The image
becomes an idée fixe and with every passing day Rene is increasingly tormented by obsessions that, in his rational mind, he rejects.
Until one fine day his world goes off the rails as he finds himself face to face with a doppelganger.
Produced by : Ex Nihilo - Patrick Sobelman
SCREENING :
February8th, 12.00, CINEMAXX STUDIO 14
BROTHERS - FRERES
France - 2003 - 80 minutes - 35mm - Color
Directed by : Xavier de CHOUDENS
Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Matthieu Genet, Elisabeth Kaza,
Bruce Myers.
Synopsis : Vincent is a young man of 20 leading a mundane existence. One day, he narrowly escapes being mugged. His life turns
upside down when he finds out that the mugger is actually his own brother Serge, whom he hadn't seen since childhood, and who has
just escaped from prison. By and by each one reveals his true self in this quest for the other and the discovery of past made of grief,
silence and absence.
Produced by : Agat Films & Cie Nicolas Blanc
SCREENING :
February 6th, 4.00 PM, CINEMAXX STUDIO 14
THE WALL - LE MUR
France 2004 100 minutes 35mm - Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Simone BITTON
Synopsis : In June 2002, the israeli authorities began the construction of a gigantic security fence, aimed at preventing palestinian
terrorists infiltrations. With an original cinematographic approach, the director, jewish and arabian as well, aims to go to the human
universal heart of israeli and palestinian tragic reality.
Produced by : Cinesud Promotion - Thierry Lenouvel
SCREENING :
February 7th, , 11.00 AM, CINEMAXX STUDIO 19
&
February 11th , 5.00 PM, CINEMAXX STUDIO 19
LINE UP 2004
A SON - UN FILS
France 2003 58 minutes 35mm - Color
Directed by : Amal BEDJAOUI
Cast : Mohamed HICHAM - Hammou GRAIA - Isabelle
PICHAUD - Aurélien RECOING
Synopsis : Selim, young man with derive, is disguised and prostitue. It seeks to be made like of sound avoids. Omar, who lives locked
up in a mourning since the disappearance of his wife. The father and wire pass one to with dimensions of the other without managing to
meet. Only the destiny will bring them closer a little too late...
Produced by : ML Productions
SUN'S END - LE SOLEIL ASSASSINE
France 2003 85 minutes 35mm - Color
Directed by : Abdelkrim Bahloul
Cast : Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, Ouassini Embarek
Synopsis : The Assassinated Sun, based on actual events in the newly independent Algeria of the 1970s. Following the country's
liberation in 1962, the police didn't take kindly to gay poet Jean Senac. Nevertheless, he was appreciated by a large liberal audience.
The police also don't approve of writing student Hamid who writes and stars in a French-language play during a national theater
competition. Senac, however, enjoys the play and proceeds to develop a friendship with Hamid. Even though the two were never publicly
declared.
Produced by : Mact Productions
WHEN I SEE THE SUN - QUAND JE VOIS LE SOLEIL
France 2003 88 minutes 35mm - Color
Directed by : Jacques Cortal
Cast : Florent Pagny, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, François Cluzet, Sophie Broustal, Delphine Rouffignac.
Synopsis : Raphaël and Margot like themselves. But one day, the young woman, a star dancer, learns that she is condemned. They
both choose to burn their mad love during these last months instinctively. But Margot, that her body betrays gradually, accept the idea
that he will love another when she will have left...
Produced by : Odessa films
A SUBMARINE IN TROUBLED WATERS LE KOURSK
France 2004 52 minutes (100 minutes in production) - 35mm Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Jean-Michel Carré
Produced by : Films du grain de sable
Synopsis : In August 2000, 118 men die on board the state of the art submarine, Kursk, in the Barents Sea. Kursk, the pride and glory
of the Northern Fleet, was said to be invincible. What were the real reasons for this tragic accident, why, were these men not saved ?
Behind these questions lies a deeper one concerning the role of power in Russia today, but also that of world powers in general and the
current evolution in East- West relations.
THE LIVING WORLD - LE MONDE VIVANT
France 2003 35mm - 75 minutes - Color
Directed by : Eugene GREEN
Cast : Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret, Laurène Cheilan, Christelle Prot, Achille Trocellier.
Synopsis : Two children are captured by an ogre equipped with a wife as beautiful as good. The ogre has another captive, a blonde girl
locked up in a vault. He intends to eat the children and to marry the young lady of the vault. Two young knights, one occur accompanied
by a lion and which got excited of the young prisoner. They will achieve the prowess to deliver the victims of the ogre. The knight with
the lion will know death, but will come back to life.
VANISHED - DISPARUES - Shooting February 2004
France 2004 90 minutes - Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Alain Mazars
Synopsis : Thanks to the help of a young medium, the investigation, led through Laos, permits to establish that the young child of
Khema, a chamane singer vanished , could be even living.
The ghosts of this mother and her daughter, mysteriously vanished to 12 years of interval, will they end up taking life at the end of this
road movie "initiatique" to the heart of the Laotian forest?
Produced by : New Deal Films
THE SOUL OF STAX - L'AME DE STAX
France 2003 52 minutes (90 minutes in production) - 35mm Color - DOCUMENTARY
Directed by : Philippe Priestley
Cast : Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Booker T. Jones.
Produced by : Films du grain de sable.
Synopsis : It's in first place the history of a music, the Soul, and of a record company, the Stax, who will live forever during the years of
the american life. Soul of black american music, Stax is part of the recent history of their actors : the riots of Watstax, the Black
Panters...
FROM HEAVEN QUAND TU DESCENDRAS DU CIEL
France 2003 100 minutes - 35mm Color
Directed by : Eric GUIRADO (Best short film César 2001)
Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Benoît Giros, Jean-François Gallotte.
Produced by : Harpo Films
Synopsis : Jerôme, since the death of his father, has not a single day off in five years. He and his mother struggle to maintain a small
dairy farm. Its December and Jerôme uses the Christmas vacations to find a work in the city. Once in the city he realises the
harshness of life outside of the countryside
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Gemini Films at MIFED 2003
34, boulevard de Sébastopol
75004 Paris
Tel : 33 1 44 54 17 17
Fax : 33 1 44 54 17 25
Email : elisabeth.perlie(a)gemini-films.com
Berlin 2004
Dear friends,
We are proud to present our list of titles for the upcoming European Film Market.
Please, book your meeting now.
Sales contacts :
Paulo BRANCO
Laurent BAUDENS,
Acquisitions & Sales Manager : + 33 (0)6 70 79 05 17
Elisabeth PERLIE,
Acquisitions & Sales : + 33 (0)6 63 86 77 02
GEMINI FILMS in Berlin :
GEMINI FILMS will be on the Unifrance booth: n°60.
Tel : 00 49 30 200 57 360
Fax : 00 49 30 200 57 359
E-mail back to: elisabeth.perlie(a)gemini-films.com or fax to : + 33 (0)1 44 54 17 25
Name:_________________ Company Name:_______________
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Preferred meeting times:
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MARKET SCREENING
TOMORROW WE MOVE
(Demain On Déménage)
Director : Chantal AKERMAN
Status : Completed
Language : French
Genre : Drama
Cast : Aurore CLEMENT - Sylvie TESTUD - Jean-Pierre MARIELLE - Natasha REGNIER
Synopsis :
It's the story of a mother, who after the death of her husband, comes to live with her daughter with piano, baggage and furniture in tow. It soon becomes a nightmare of clutter. The daughter can't manage to write her erotic story despite the judicious advice of her mother who knows quite a bit in the field while her daughter still has everything to learn.
Thus they have to sell up and move.
And that's when the round of visitors begins.
And the tale takes a twist.
Market Screenings
February 8th at 3:30 pm at CinemaxX Studio 11
February 11th at 9:30 am at CinemaxX Studio 11
Panorama Screenings
February 9th at 7:00 pm at Zoo-Palast
February 10th at 11:30 am at CinemaxX 7
February 11th at 2:30 9m at International
February 15th at 9:30 pm at Zoo-Palast
LES TEMPS QUI CHANGENT
Director : André TECHINE
Language : French
Status : pre-production
Cast : Gérard DEPARDIEU - Catherine DENEUVE
Pre Sales : Scripts availables
MA MERE
Director : Christophe HONORE
Language : French
Status : post-production
Cast : Isabelle HUPPERT - Louis GARREL - Emma DE CAUNES
Pre Sales : Scripts and pictures availables
IN AMERICA
Director : Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKY
Language : English
Status : pre-production
Cast : Isabelle HUPPERT
Pre Sales : Scripts availables at AFM 2004
ORDO
Director : Laurence FERREIRA BARBOSA
Language : French
Status : post-production
Cast : Marie-Jose CROZE - Roschdy ZEM
ACTRICES
Director : Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI
Language : French
Status : pre-production
POST-PRODUCTION
SEVEN INVISIBLE MEN
Director : Sharunas BARTAS
Cast : Sharunas BARTAS
SHOOTING
LE DERNIER JOUR
Director : Rodolphe MARCONI
Cast : Gaspard ULLIEL - Nicole GARCIA - Mélanie LAURENT - Christophe MALAVOY
PRE-PRODUCTION
LE CINQUIEME EMPIRE
Director : Manoel DE OLIVEIRA
Cast : Ricardo TREPA - Luis Miguel CINTRA
LA QUESTION HUMAINE
Director : Nicolas KLOTZ
Cast : Mathieu AMALRIC - Bruno GANZ
TRANSE (TRANCE)
Director : Teresa VILLAVERDE
C'EST PAS TOUT A FAIT LA VIE DONT J'AVAIS REVE
Director : Michel PICCOLI
LA SEULE SOLUTION
Director : Luc MOULLET
CALL ME AGOSTINO
Director : Christine LAURENT
Cast : Michel PICCOLI - Jeanne BALIBAR
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