Berlin EFM 2007
Dear friends,
Wide Management will attend the Berlin International Film Festival and we are proud, this year, to present you two films at the Panorama and three films at the Forum. We would be really pleased to set up a meeting with you at the market, from February 8th till 18th.
Please find attached our complete line up and screenings schedule.
In Official Selection, at the Panorama:
- Riparo, a film by Marco Simon Puccioni, produced by Mario Mazzarotto (Intelfilm), Francesca Van Der Staay (Adesif), France/Italy, 2007,100' : World Première
Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them. Gradually Anis establishes himself in the life of the couple and for a brief moment, the three manage to help and support each other in an unusual and emotionally intricate relation. Yet this precarious balance is short-lived: Anis loses his job and is rejected by Mara who he has fallen in love with and Anna has to witness her idyllic domestic arrangement fall to pieces. Riparo portrays three human beings, diverse from each other and the majority, compelled to deal, with compassion, trust and fear, with issues raised by sexual orientation, coming of age, immigration and work related problems.
Screening dates and times:
12-feb, 20:00 - Cubix 7 & 8
13-feb, 22:30 - CinemaxX Studio 7
14-feb, 17:00 - Cubix 9
15-feb, 17:30 - CineStar 3
In Official Selection, at the Panorama:
- A Casa de Alice, a film by Chico Teixeiro, produced by Patrick Leblanc, Zita Carvalhosa (SUPERFILMES), Brazil, 2007, 90' : World Première
In São Paulo, in a working-class district, Alice, a 40-year-old woman and manicurist has been married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver. They live with Alice’s mother, who cooks, cleans, and does the household laundry, listening all day to her favourite radio program. Alice and Lindomar have 3 children living with them. Alice’s marriage is undergoing a crisis and Lindomar doesn’t try to hide his adventures with teenage girls. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice’s life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. She envies her clients and is unable to handle this feeling. Although she’s a good girl, the chance to betray uncovers other betrayals.
Screening dates and times:
10-feb, 14:30 - Cubix 9
13-feb, 17:30 - CineStar 3
14-feb, 20:00 - CinemaxX 7
15-feb, 22:45 - CineStar 3
16-feb, 22:30 - Cubix 7 & 8
In Official Selection, at the Forum:
- The Sugar Curtain (El Telon de Azucar), directed by Camila Guzman Urzua, produced by Paraiso Productions Diffusion, France/Spain, 2007, 80'.
This is an autobiographic documentary on the generation of Cuban borns, raised in the golden years of the Revolution. Camila Guzman Urzua goes back to Cuba after years of exil to remember her early childhood and to figure out what happened to her generation who used to live with ideals and got disappointed as they came of age.
The screening dates and times:
14-feb, 19:30 - CinemaxX Studio 5
15-feb, 20:00 - Cubix 9
16-feb, 12:30 - CineStar 8
18-feb, 15:15 - Arsenal
18-feb, 21:45 - Delphi-Filmpalast
In Official Selection, at the Forum:
- Faro, a film by Salif Traore, co-produced by Philippe Quinsac (P.A.V. Communication), Daniel Morin (Boréal Films), Salif Traoré (Sarama Films), Bärbel Mauch (Bärbel Mauch Films), France/Canada/Mali/Germany, 2007, 90' : World Première.
Dra, an engineer, comes from a small village on the Niger, but has long since established a life for himself in the city. Only after he is rejected by his fiancé’s parents, because he is the son of a single mother, does he begin to confront his past. In the hope of finding his father, he returns to his childhood village. The journey reveals the enormous differences between rural and urban life and sheds light on the conflict between the modern world and superstitious customs.
Screening dates and times:
14-feb, 10:00 - CinemaxX Studio 5
15-feb, 20:00 - CineStar 8
16-feb, 12:30 - Cubix 7
17-feb, 12:30 - Arsenal
18-feb, 19:30 - Delphi-Filmpalast
In Official Selection, at the Forum:
- Substitute, a documentary by Fred Poulet and Vikash Dhorasoo, produced by Local Film (Nicolas Brevière), France, 2007, 70'.
The story begins on June 2006. Fred POULET, singer, author and video clipper, entrusted a Super 8 camera to his friend, the football player Vikash DHORASOO, so that he can film his everyday life until July 9th, date of the World Football Cup finale in Berlin… The movie follow up will be written day after day in Le Havre, Paris, then in Germany, in hotel rooms, in buses or over the phone. Also a bit in stadiums… In fact, Vikash DHORASSO will only play 16 minutes during this World Cup full of new developments and with the French team eventually reaching the finale. The twelfth man, the substitute, such was the destiny of this original player. This is the sincere portrait of a man who was hurt and lost in the largest sport event of the world.
Screening dates and times:
08-feb, 10:30 - CinemaxX Studio 5
09-feb, 17:30 - CineStar 8
10-feb, 13:00 - Cubix 7
11-feb, 22:45 - Arsenal
12-feb, 20:00 - Colosseum 1
AT THE MARKET (MARKET PREMIERE), WIDE WILL PRESENT:
- Ex Drummer, a film by Koen Mortier, produced by CCCP (Eurydice Gysel), Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, France, 2007, 104', World Premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2007.
Three handicapped musicians from a provincial rock band find their missing drummer in the form of the arrogant and manipulative well-known writer Dries. His arrival leads to increasingly violent situations in which the band members seem to lose all control over their lives.
Screening date and time :
10-feb, 17:50 - CinemaxX Studio 14
12-feb, 13:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Dreams of Dust, directed by Laurent Salgues, co production between France, Canada and Burkina Faso, 2007, 86'.
World Première in Sundance 2007, the film tells about Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerian peasant, who goes to look for work in Essakane, a gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso. In this prison with bars of wind and dust, he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.
Screening dates and times:
12-feb, 16:30 - CinemaxX Studio 14
14-feb, 10:00 - CinemaxX Studio 14
- Fissures, a 87' feature film directed by Alanté Kavaïté, produced by Les Films d'Antoine (Antoine Simkine), France, 2007, 87'. Fissures, is already optionned by Joe Dante for the remake rights in the US.
The film tells the story of Charlotte (Emilie Dequenne), a sound engineer who's actually listening to a record made in the house where her mother was murdered. Charlotte discovers sounds from the past blend with sounds from the present and reconstructs the events which lead to her mother's death.
Screening dates and times:
09-feb, 11:45 - CinemaxX Studio 14
12-feb, 10:00 - CinemaxX Studio 14
- Stolen Holidays (Les Petites Vacances), directed by Olivier Peyon, produced by Tu Vas Voir, France, 90'.
Stolen Holidays tells the story of Daniele, a retired teacher, for whom weekends with her grandchildren are the highlights of her everyday routine. Sometimes, however, she does little more than "transfer" the two children between their divorced mother and father. And suddenly there are some "friends of friends" who take care of the children when the father has no time for them. Everything is organised – wonderful patchwork family chaos. One day, the grandmother takes the two children on an improvised trip. She tries to hold onto the precious atmosphere of these stolen holidays as long as possible – until it seems impossible to go back. The fun trip becomes a journey to the melancholy of farewell.
Screening dates and times:
09-feb, 18:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
11-feb, 14:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Gradiva directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, starring James Wilby and Arielle Dombasle, France, 114'.
John Locke, an art historian, is doing research on Orientalism in the visual arts — with a particular focus on Delacroix and the work he did in Morocco — under the jealous scrutiny of Belkis, his very young and enigmatic servant-mistress. John stumbles into a series of recurring, elusive encounters with a willowy, evanescent woman in the medina, who lures him through a labyrinth of Marrakech alleyways and then vanishes into thin air. Finally, he meets Anatoli, an alleged antiques dealer and coordinator of Orientalism exhibitions for perverse amateurs. Despite Belkis’ desperate objections, John is drawn into this web of sado-erotic phantasms by Anatoli and the pseudo-ghost of the too-beautiful woman, without realizing that he’s being manipulated.
Screening date and time :
9-feb, 13:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Once upon a tomorrow (Il sera une fois), a film by Sandrine Veysset, produced by Art'mell Producteurs Associés, France, 2007, 75' and starring Michael Lonsdale and Alphonse Emery.
Countdown is Pierrot’s way of living. He has for obsession the time going by and fears his mother’s death. His only friend Elise, and the lonely bunker on top of the hill, here is all Pierrot’s universe. Visions come to him more often, becoming hallucinations. Old age is everywhere, already surrounding him. One night, the countdown comes to its end, madness reaches its limits and Pierrot finds himself facing the old man he will become. A strange journey starts for this improbable duet….
Screening date and time:
11-feb, 17:45 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree by Pierre-Yves Bourgeaud, produced by CAB Productions (Jean-Louis Porchet and Gerard Ruey), Iris Productions (Jesus Gonzales and Nicolas Steil) and Dreampixies, Switzerland and Luxembourg, 2007, 112'.
This musical road-movie tells the story of the African singer Youssou N’Dour and his epic journey following the trail left by the black slaves and the jazz music they invented. Youssou N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his journey by the blind pianist Moncef Genoud, N’Dour travels across the United States and Europe. Along with some of the world’s most exceptional musicians, they meet well- known figures and create a music which goes beyond cultural division.
Screening date and time:
13-feb, 17:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Carla's List (La Liste de Carla), by Marcel Schupbach, produced by CAB Productions (Jean-Louis Porchet and Gerard Ruey), Switzerland, 93' and 52'
Following for the first time Carla del Ponte behind the scenes of the ICTY, the journey brings us from The Hague to New York, from Belgrade to Washington, Zagreb or Luxemburg, in a thrilling atmosphere of manhunt, gambling and risk. We follow her quest between truth and lies, between success and deceived hopes, fake news, and lobbying.
Screening date and time:
09-feb, 9:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Piazza Vittorio's Orchestra (L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio), directed by Agostino Ferrente, produced by Lucky Red, Italy, 93'.
The film is now released in Italy, and is a big success in the Nanni Moretti's theater in Roma where the concert follows the screenings.
L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio combines music, interviews, solidarity and human comedy. Created at the instigation of Mario Tronco, a film score composer and pianist with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel and the collective Apollo 11, this musical group has its roots in a working-class district of Rome where the Italians are «an ethnic minority». Shot over a five-year period, from the birth of the orchestra to its recent successes, this documentary brings together thirty professional and street musicians of various nationalities (some of them illegal), five cameramen, and three sound engineers. The film highlights and echoes aspects of contemporary Italy, representative of a varied sociological and cultural mix. The result is an extraordinary alliance of sounds, harmony and life stories.
Screening dates and times:
11-feb, 11:45 - CinemaxX Studio 14
13-feb, 11:30 - CinemaxX Studio 14
- Border Post (Karaula), directed by Rajko Grlic, produced by Refresh Productions, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, 95'.
1987: It’s the seventh year anniversary of Tito’s death and official celebrations paralyse the country. A military detachment on the Albanian border is on standby due to strong rumours of movements by Albanese troops preparing to invade Yugoslavia. If the truth must be told, the soldier in charge of the post has cancelled all permits for far more prosaic reasons. An X-ray of a multiethnic group, obvious parabola of the falling apart Yugoslavia, directed at a jaunty speed which doesn’t give the spectator a minute’s rest.
Screening date and time :
8-feb, 16:00 - CinemaxX Studio 16
- Anytime Soon, directed by Anahí HOENEISEN & Daniel ANDRADE, produced by Verónica Andrade (La Maquinita), Ecuador, 2007, 84'
A day in the life of five long-time schoolmates from Quito, who decided to get together again after 14 years. Elena is expecting her second child. Marina lives the ups and downs of infedility. Diana, a premature widow, shares her loneliness with her teenage daughter. Tamara still lives a crazy life amongst drugs and one night’s stands. That night they will visit Alejandra who has been seriously ill. “Anytime Soon” is a choral film where each character delivers the lights and shadows of their paradoxical middle class life in an Andean city. In that unusual encounter, these women will weave –swinging between guilt and hope, solitude and solidarity- a tapestry of emotions that arise in the middle of the apparent monotony of their lives…
Screening date and time :
10-feb, 11:30 - CinemaxX Studio 15
- My time will come, directed by Victor Arregi, produced by Paul Venegas, Ecuador, 2007, 84'
Love, chance, city and death. All these elements are articulated in thousand ways in the town of Quito, capital of Ecuador, in order to precipitate destinies of multiple characters. Arturo Fernandez, medical examiner, his mother, his brother, his assistant, a taxi driver… God gives birth to them and Quito gathers them. Only death makes them equal.
Screening date and time :
14-feb, 13:30 Marriott 2
Wide Management will be located at the UNIFRANCE BOOTH N°33:
Attending:
- Loïc Magneron, General Manager (Cell: +33 6 60 43 96 86, lm@widemanagement.com)
- Matteo Lovadina, International Sales (Cell: +33 6 14 45 62 78, ml@widemanagement.com)
- Agathe Valentin, International Sales (Cell: +33 6 62 44 92 35, av@widemanagement.com)
- Anaïs Clanet, Documentary Division (Cell: +33 6 16 11 71 19, ac@widemanagement.com)
We would be happy to schedule a meeting with you. Please complete the following form and return it via e-mail at wide@widemanagement.com or by fax to the + 33 1 53 95 04 65
Name(s) : ........................................................
Company : ......................................................
Date : ..............................................................
Time : ..............................................................
We really do hope to meet you soon.
Best regards,
Wide Team
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Wide Management will attend the Berlin International Film Festival and we are proud, this year, to present you two films at the Panorama and three films at the Forum. We would be really pleased to set up a meeting with you at the market, from February 8th till 18th.
Please find attached our complete line up and screenings schedule.
In Official Selection, at the Panorama:
- Riparo, a film by Marco Simon Puccioni, produced by Mario Mazzarotto (Intelfilm), Francesca Van Der Staay (Adesif), France/Italy, 2007,100' : World Première
Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them. Gradually Anis establishes himself in the life of the couple and for a brief moment, the three manage to help and support each other in an unusual and emotionally intricate relation. Yet this precarious balance is short-lived: Anis loses his job and is rejected by Mara who he has fallen in love with and Anna has to witness her idyllic domestic arrangement fall to pieces. Riparo portrays three human beings, diverse from each other and the majority, compelled to deal, with compassion, trust and fear, with issues raised by sexual orientation, coming of age, immigration and work related problems.
Screening dates and times:
12-feb, 20:00 - Cubix 7 & 8
13-feb, 22:30 - CinemaxX Studio 7
14-feb, 17:00 - Cubix 9
15-feb, 17:30 - CineStar 3
In Official Selection, at the Panorama:
- A Casa de Alice, a film by Chico Teixeiro, produced by Patrick Leblanc, Zita Carvalhosa (SUPERFILMES), Brazil, 2007, 90' : World Première
In São Paulo, in a working-class district, Alice, a 40-year-old woman and manicurist has been married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver. They live with Alice’s mother, who cooks, cleans, and does the household laundry, listening all day to her favourite radio program. Alice and Lindomar have 3 children living with them. Alice’s marriage is undergoing a crisis and Lindomar doesn’t try to hide his adventures with teenage girls. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice’s life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. She envies her clients and is unable to handle this feeling. Although she’s a good girl, the chance to betray uncovers other betrayals.
Screening dates and times:
10-feb, 14:30 - Cubix 9
13-feb, 17:30 - CineStar 3
14-feb, 20:00 - CinemaxX 7
15-feb, 22:45 - CineStar 3
16-feb, 22:30 - Cubix 7 & 8
In Official Selection, at the Forum:
- The Sugar Curtain (El Telon de Azucar), directed by Camila Guzman Urzua, produced by Paraiso Productions Diffusion, France/Spain, 2007, 80'.
This is an autobiographic documentary on the generation of Cuban borns, raised in the golden years of the Revolution. Camila Guzman Urzua goes back to Cuba after years of exil to remember her early childhood and to figure out what happened to her generation who used to live with ideals and got disappointed as they came of age.
The screening dates and times:
14-feb, 19:30 - CinemaxX Studio 5
15-feb, 20:00 - Cubix 9
16-feb, 12:30 - CineStar 8
18-feb, 15:15 - Arsenal
18-feb, 21:45 - Delphi-Filmpalast
In Official Selection, at the Forum:
- Faro, a film by Salif Traore, co-produced by Philippe Quinsac (P.A.V. Communication), Daniel Morin (Boréal Films), Salif Traoré (Sarama Films), Bärbel Mauch (Bärbel Mauch Films), France/Canada/Mali/Germany, 2007, 90' : World Première.
Dra, an engineer, comes from a small village on the Niger, but has long since established a life for himself in the city. Only after he is rejected by his fiancé’s parents, because he is the son of a single mother, does he begin to confront his past. In the hope of finding his father, he returns to his childhood village. The journey reveals the enormous differences between rural and urban life and sheds light on the conflict between the modern world and superstitious customs.
Screening dates and times:
14-feb, 10:00 - CinemaxX Studio 5
15-feb, 20:00 - CineStar 8
16-feb, 12:30 - Cubix 7
17-feb, 12:30 - Arsenal
18-feb, 19:30 - Delphi-Filmpalast
In Official Selection, at the Forum:
- Substitute, a documentary by Fred Poulet and Vikash Dhorasoo, produced by Local Film (Nicolas Brevière), France, 2007, 70'.
The story begins on June 2006. Fred POULET, singer, author and video clipper, entrusted a Super 8 camera to his friend, the football player Vikash DHORASOO, so that he can film his everyday life until July 9th, date of the World Football Cup finale in Berlin… The movie follow up will be written day after day in Le Havre, Paris, then in Germany, in hotel rooms, in buses or over the phone. Also a bit in stadiums… In fact, Vikash DHORASSO will only play 16 minutes during this World Cup full of new developments and with the French team eventually reaching the finale. The twelfth man, the substitute, such was the destiny of this original player. This is the sincere portrait of a man who was hurt and lost in the largest sport event of the world.
Screening dates and times:
08-feb, 10:30 - CinemaxX Studio 5
09-feb, 17:30 - CineStar 8
10-feb, 13:00 - Cubix 7
11-feb, 22:45 - Arsenal
12-feb, 20:00 - Colosseum 1
AT THE MARKET (MARKET PREMIERE), WIDE WILL PRESENT:
- Ex Drummer, a film by Koen Mortier, produced by CCCP (Eurydice Gysel), Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, France, 2007, 104', World Premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2007.
Three handicapped musicians from a provincial rock band find their missing drummer in the form of the arrogant and manipulative well-known writer Dries. His arrival leads to increasingly violent situations in which the band members seem to lose all control over their lives.
Screening date and time :
10-feb, 17:50 - CinemaxX Studio 14
12-feb, 13:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Dreams of Dust, directed by Laurent Salgues, co production between France, Canada and Burkina Faso, 2007, 86'.
World Première in Sundance 2007, the film tells about Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerian peasant, who goes to look for work in Essakane, a gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso. In this prison with bars of wind and dust, he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.
Screening dates and times:
12-feb, 16:30 - CinemaxX Studio 14
14-feb, 10:00 - CinemaxX Studio 14
- Fissures, a 87' feature film directed by Alanté Kavaïté, produced by Les Films d'Antoine (Antoine Simkine), France, 2007, 87'. Fissures, is already optionned by Joe Dante for the remake rights in the US.
The film tells the story of Charlotte (Emilie Dequenne), a sound engineer who's actually listening to a record made in the house where her mother was murdered. Charlotte discovers sounds from the past blend with sounds from the present and reconstructs the events which lead to her mother's death.
Screening dates and times:
09-feb, 11:45 - CinemaxX Studio 14
12-feb, 10:00 - CinemaxX Studio 14
- Stolen Holidays (Les Petites Vacances), directed by Olivier Peyon, produced by Tu Vas Voir, France, 90'.
Stolen Holidays tells the story of Daniele, a retired teacher, for whom weekends with her grandchildren are the highlights of her everyday routine. Sometimes, however, she does little more than "transfer" the two children between their divorced mother and father. And suddenly there are some "friends of friends" who take care of the children when the father has no time for them. Everything is organised – wonderful patchwork family chaos. One day, the grandmother takes the two children on an improvised trip. She tries to hold onto the precious atmosphere of these stolen holidays as long as possible – until it seems impossible to go back. The fun trip becomes a journey to the melancholy of farewell.
Screening dates and times:
09-feb, 18:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
11-feb, 14:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Gradiva directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, starring James Wilby and Arielle Dombasle, France, 114'.
John Locke, an art historian, is doing research on Orientalism in the visual arts — with a particular focus on Delacroix and the work he did in Morocco — under the jealous scrutiny of Belkis, his very young and enigmatic servant-mistress. John stumbles into a series of recurring, elusive encounters with a willowy, evanescent woman in the medina, who lures him through a labyrinth of Marrakech alleyways and then vanishes into thin air. Finally, he meets Anatoli, an alleged antiques dealer and coordinator of Orientalism exhibitions for perverse amateurs. Despite Belkis’ desperate objections, John is drawn into this web of sado-erotic phantasms by Anatoli and the pseudo-ghost of the too-beautiful woman, without realizing that he’s being manipulated.
Screening date and time :
9-feb, 13:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Once upon a tomorrow (Il sera une fois), a film by Sandrine Veysset, produced by Art'mell Producteurs Associés, France, 2007, 75' and starring Michael Lonsdale and Alphonse Emery.
Countdown is Pierrot’s way of living. He has for obsession the time going by and fears his mother’s death. His only friend Elise, and the lonely bunker on top of the hill, here is all Pierrot’s universe. Visions come to him more often, becoming hallucinations. Old age is everywhere, already surrounding him. One night, the countdown comes to its end, madness reaches its limits and Pierrot finds himself facing the old man he will become. A strange journey starts for this improbable duet….
Screening date and time:
11-feb, 17:45 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree by Pierre-Yves Bourgeaud, produced by CAB Productions (Jean-Louis Porchet and Gerard Ruey), Iris Productions (Jesus Gonzales and Nicolas Steil) and Dreampixies, Switzerland and Luxembourg, 2007, 112'.
This musical road-movie tells the story of the African singer Youssou N’Dour and his epic journey following the trail left by the black slaves and the jazz music they invented. Youssou N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his journey by the blind pianist Moncef Genoud, N’Dour travels across the United States and Europe. Along with some of the world’s most exceptional musicians, they meet well- known figures and create a music which goes beyond cultural division.
Screening date and time:
13-feb, 17:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Carla's List (La Liste de Carla), by Marcel Schupbach, produced by CAB Productions (Jean-Louis Porchet and Gerard Ruey), Switzerland, 93' and 52'
Following for the first time Carla del Ponte behind the scenes of the ICTY, the journey brings us from The Hague to New York, from Belgrade to Washington, Zagreb or Luxemburg, in a thrilling atmosphere of manhunt, gambling and risk. We follow her quest between truth and lies, between success and deceived hopes, fake news, and lobbying.
Screening date and time:
09-feb, 9:30 - CinemaxX Studio 13
- Piazza Vittorio's Orchestra (L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio), directed by Agostino Ferrente, produced by Lucky Red, Italy, 93'.
The film is now released in Italy, and is a big success in the Nanni Moretti's theater in Roma where the concert follows the screenings.
L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio combines music, interviews, solidarity and human comedy. Created at the instigation of Mario Tronco, a film score composer and pianist with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel and the collective Apollo 11, this musical group has its roots in a working-class district of Rome where the Italians are «an ethnic minority». Shot over a five-year period, from the birth of the orchestra to its recent successes, this documentary brings together thirty professional and street musicians of various nationalities (some of them illegal), five cameramen, and three sound engineers. The film highlights and echoes aspects of contemporary Italy, representative of a varied sociological and cultural mix. The result is an extraordinary alliance of sounds, harmony and life stories.
Screening dates and times:
11-feb, 11:45 - CinemaxX Studio 14
13-feb, 11:30 - CinemaxX Studio 14
- Border Post (Karaula), directed by Rajko Grlic, produced by Refresh Productions, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, 95'.
1987: It’s the seventh year anniversary of Tito’s death and official celebrations paralyse the country. A military detachment on the Albanian border is on standby due to strong rumours of movements by Albanese troops preparing to invade Yugoslavia. If the truth must be told, the soldier in charge of the post has cancelled all permits for far more prosaic reasons. An X-ray of a multiethnic group, obvious parabola of the falling apart Yugoslavia, directed at a jaunty speed which doesn’t give the spectator a minute’s rest.
Screening date and time :
8-feb, 16:00 - CinemaxX Studio 16
- Anytime Soon, directed by Anahí HOENEISEN & Daniel ANDRADE, produced by Verónica Andrade (La Maquinita), Ecuador, 2007, 84'
A day in the life of five long-time schoolmates from Quito, who decided to get together again after 14 years. Elena is expecting her second child. Marina lives the ups and downs of infedility. Diana, a premature widow, shares her loneliness with her teenage daughter. Tamara still lives a crazy life amongst drugs and one night’s stands. That night they will visit Alejandra who has been seriously ill. “Anytime Soon” is a choral film where each character delivers the lights and shadows of their paradoxical middle class life in an Andean city. In that unusual encounter, these women will weave –swinging between guilt and hope, solitude and solidarity- a tapestry of emotions that arise in the middle of the apparent monotony of their lives…
Screening date and time :
10-feb, 11:30 - CinemaxX Studio 15
- My time will come, directed by Victor Arregi, produced by Paul Venegas, Ecuador, 2007, 84'
Love, chance, city and death. All these elements are articulated in thousand ways in the town of Quito, capital of Ecuador, in order to precipitate destinies of multiple characters. Arturo Fernandez, medical examiner, his mother, his brother, his assistant, a taxi driver… God gives birth to them and Quito gathers them. Only death makes them equal.
Screening date and time :
14-feb, 13:30 Marriott 2
Wide Management will be located at the UNIFRANCE BOOTH N°33:
Attending:
- Loïc Magneron, General Manager (Cell: +33 6 60 43 96 86, lm@widemanagement.com)
- Matteo Lovadina, International Sales (Cell: +33 6 14 45 62 78, ml@widemanagement.com)
- Agathe Valentin, International Sales (Cell: +33 6 62 44 92 35, av@widemanagement.com)
- Anaïs Clanet, Documentary Division (Cell: +33 6 16 11 71 19, ac@widemanagement.com)
We would be happy to schedule a meeting with you. Please complete the following form and return it via e-mail at wide@widemanagement.com or by fax to the + 33 1 53 95 04 65
Name(s) : ........................................................
Company : ......................................................
Date : ..............................................................
Time : ..............................................................
We really do hope to meet you soon.
Best regards,
Wide Team
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WIDE MANAGEMENT
40, rue Sainte-Anne
75002 Paris
Tel: +33 1 53 95 04 64
Fax: + 33 1 53 95 04 65
Email. wide@widemanagement.com
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