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BERLIN CRITICS’WEEK
A YOUNG POET, Damien MANIVEL (france, 2014, 71′)
Screening: February 10, 8:30PM, Hackesche Höfe Kino
Produced by MLD Films
CAST: Rémi TAFFANEL, Enzo VASSALLO, Léonore FERNANDES
GENRE: FIRST FILM, DRAMA, YOUTH
WORLD PREMIERE: LOCARNO 2014
SYNOPSIS:
Barely out of his teens, Rémi dreams of becoming a poet and thrilling the world with his powerful and unforgettable verse. Seeking inspiration in the oppressively hot city of Sète, pen and notebook in hand, Rémi is determined to write his poem… But where to begin?
EFM MARKET
LONELY STARS
by Fernando URDAPILLETA
Mexico, 2015, 90′
Produced by Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C., FOPROCINE
CAST: Dana KARVELAS, Jorge ARRIAGA, Mauricio ISAAC, Paty GARZA, Inés DE TAVIRA, Emilio GUERRERO
GENRE: FIRST FILM, DRAMA, MUSICAL
WORLD PREMIERE: GUADALAJARA FICG 2015
SYNOPSIS:
To the beat of punk & pop, Valentina & Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that will test their friendship. The harshness and absurdity of their lives, fuses with the sweet and sour story of a world where the party seems to go on forever.
LATE SEASON
by Danilo CAPUTO
Italy, Romania, Greece, 2014, 80′
Produced by Taratata Film, Steppenwolf Film, GRAAL S.A
CAST: Espedito CHIONNA, Michela DI NAPOLI, Francesco GIANNICO
GENRE: FIRST FILM, DRAMA
WORLD PREMIERE: KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SYNOPSIS: A small village where all change seems impossible. Three stories spelled out by sounds and noises.
Cesare, a wanna-be electronic musician, Giovanni works night shifts at the local hotel but cannot get any sleep during the day, Carosina, oppressed by the harsh voice of her dead father.
TOGETHER ALONE
by Mateo GUEZ
Canada, 2014, 78′
Produced by Théo Films, Boomerang Films
CAST: Jon RHYS, Toni EVANGELISTA, Lucas CHAN
GENRE: DRAMA, ROMANCE, AVANTGARDE
WORLD PREMIERE: TBA
SYNOPSIS: Not able to hide the true nature of their feelings for each others, Will, William and Crystal engage in a dangerous game. As a result, each of them ends up being destroyed emotionally and physically and realize that there is no way back culminating in a violent, seductive and modern meditation on the fine line between love, lust and companionship.
CARMIN TROPICAL
by Rigoberto PEREZCANO
Mexico, 2014, 80′
Produced by Cinepantera, FOPROCINE, Tiburón Filmes
CAST: Luis ALBERT, Juan Carlos MEDELLIN, José PESCINA, Marco PETRIZ, Everardo TREJO
GENRE: DRAMA, THRILLER, ROMANCE
WORLD PREMIERE: MORELIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SYNOPSIS: This is a story about coming back. Mabel returns to her hometown to find the murderer of her friend Daniela and finds herself on a journey that takes her through nostalgia, love, and betrayal in a town where transvestism takes on an unusual dimension in its day.
RAUL
by Matias VENABLES B.
Chile, 2014, 72′
Produced by Escuela de Cine de Chile, Bisagra Cine
CAST: Óscar HERNANDEZ, Paula ZUNIGA, Alejandro SIEVEKING, Teresa MUNCHMEYER, Ramón GONZALEZ
GENRE: FIRST FILM, DRAMA
WORLD PREMIERE: FESTIVAL CINE // B SANTIAGO DEL CHILE 2014
SYNOPSIS: About to turn 30 years working in the barber shop he inherited from his parents, Raúl starts to change his daily routine, in order to have something new to tell to his customers.
He tries to get closer to his neighbors, visits a bar near his home, and spends some time in the neighborhood square, where he meets a lady with whom he establishes a strange relationship.
STAND
by Jonathan TAIEB
France, 2014, 87′
Produced by Grizouille Production
CAST: Renat SHUTEEV, Andrey KURGANOV, Andrey KOSHMAN, Veronika MERKOULOVA, Ekaterina RUSNAK
GENRE: DRAMA, ROMANCE, POLITICAL
WORLD PREMIERE: FRAMELINE SAN FRANCISCO 2014
SYNOPSIS: After taking a wrong turn in their car, a young gay Russian couple witnesses what they believe is a vicious gay bashing. The slow-burning film is highly topical, given the intense worldwide outrage over Russia’s mistreatment of gays and the country’s 2013 federal law prohibiting homosexual “propaganda.”
A NOBLE REVOLUTION
by Simone CANGELOSI
Italy, 2014, 83′
Produced by Kiné, Pierrot e la rosa, with the contribution of Regione Emilia-Romagna, in association with Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Liliana Di Folco and Roberto Gramaccioni, Fausto Tomei and Murielle Moise
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY, BIOGRAPHICAL, POLITICAL
WORLD PREMIERE: TORINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SYNOPSIS: A Noble Revolution aims to decipher the historical dimension of one of the most prominent personality of the Italian political movement for civil rights of the last forty years, Marcella Di Folco, leader of the MIT (Transsexual Identity Movement). The reconstruction of the film, however, does not want to be ‘objective’, but done through the filter of an intimate relationship, that one between the director himself and the protagonist.
WALLS
by Gregorio ROCHA
Mexico, 2014, 97′
Produced by: Gregorio Carlos Rocha Valverde, FOPROCINE, Estudios Churubusco-Azteca, S.A. With the support of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Programa Ibermedia, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, 2012-2014 FONCA/ CONACULTA
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL
WORLD PREMIERE: DELHI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SYNOPSIS: A wall separates, segregates, isolates; it is a non-image. Walls is a film which narrates the reality of some disputed terrirories all around the world. From Sonora, in the north of Mexico, to Palestina, from Western Sahara to Belfast, going through Berlin. A man runs through its labyrinth and chronicles his adventures to his young son.
ANA’S JOURNEY
by Pamela VARELA
Chile/France, 2014, 90′
Produced by Tentativa Films, Les Films du Poisson
CAST: Astrid ADVERBE, Gabriela MURIEL, Maritza GONZALEZ, Jaime VARGAS, Hector ESCALANTE Silvio CANIHUANTE, Luis CONTRERAS JARA
GENRE: ROMANCE, BIOGRAPHICAL, ART
WORLD PREMIERE: FIDMARSEILLE 2014
SYNOPSIS: An implicit portrait of Francisco Contreras, a poet once forgotten in his own country, Chile, and of his wife, Andrea, seen through the eyes of Ana, a young photographer who prepares a film about the gathering of the two exiled lovers’ ashes. Always confronting fiction and reality, the film slowly weaves a framework of mysterious connections between Ana and Andrea.