Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary. West of the Jordan River describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

Director’s Biography
Amos Gitai is an Israeli filmmaker, mainly known for making documentaries and feature films, surrounding the Middle East and Jewish-Arab conflict. Between 1999 and 2017 ten of his films were entered in the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d'Or as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award. He received several prestigious prizes, in particular the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno International Film Festival (2008), the Roberto Rossellini prize (2005), the Robert Bresson prize, the Paradjanov prize (2014), and Légion d'Honneur (2017).

Director : Amos Gitai
Producer : Amos Gitai
Screenplay : Amos Gitai
Cinematographer : Oded Kirma, Eitan Hai, Vladimir Truchovski
Editor : Tal Zana, Vincent Schmitt, Yuval Orr
Production Company : Nilaya Productions (co-production), Agav Films (co-production), France Télévisions (co-production), Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (support)
World Sales : Doc And Film International
World Sales Phone : +33(0)1 42 77 56 87
World Sales Email : docandfilm.com
Festivals:
Cannes International Film Festival 2017
Festival International du Film de La Rochelle 2017
Original Title : A L’ouest Du Jourdain
English Title : West Of The Jordan River
Country : France
Year : 2017
Runtime : 90min
Language : English | Hebrew | Arabic
Sound Designer : Amos Zipori
Nir Alon
Yishai Ilan
Colour-Colour

Director’s Filmography
2017 West of the Jordan River (Documentary)
2015 Rabin, the Last Day
2013 Ana Arabia
2002 Kedma
2000 Kippur

This docufilm is not only the story of the artistic life of Carlo Di Palma, director of photography, but also a veritable journey into Italian cinema through more than 100 films on which he collaborated — from the neorealism of Visconti, De Sica, and Rossellini — to the masterpieces that marked the history of world cinema, including "Deserto Rosso" and "Blow Up" by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Carlo Di Palma's long collaboration with Woody Allen.
Anecdotes, reflections and commentary by prestigious figures of world cinema such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Woody Allen, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlondorf and Ken Loach, accompany us on this fascinating voyage infused with the colours and vision of an Italian cinema that will remain forever in the annals of world cinema and the films of the great contemporary genius, Woody Allen.

Director’s Biography
Fariborz Kamkari is a Kurdish Iranian film director and producer. Kamkari was born in 1971 in Iran, and studied cinema and theatre in Tehran, Iran. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Black Tape. The film won the top jury prize at Cinequest Film Festival, and was in competition at the Venice Film Festival. His recent documentary about the life of legendary cinematographer Carlo Di Palma went on to be screened at many festivals and, won accolades.

Director : Fariborz Kamkari
Producer : Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
Cast : Bernardo Bertolucci, Woody Allen, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay : Fariborz Kamkari
Cinematographer : Fabio Zamarion
Editor : Fabio Nunziata, Luigi Capalbo
Production Company : Acek srl
World Sales : Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
World Sales Phone : +39 06 8086052
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Festivals :
NASTRO D’ARGENTO ELLO
DAVID DI DONAT
Venice Film Festival 2016
Toronto International Film Festival 2016
Moscow International Film Festival 2017
Original Title : Acqua E Zucchero Carlo Di Palma,I Colori Della Vita
English Title : Water And Sugar. Carlo Di Palma, The Colours Of Life
Country : Italy
Language : Italian, English, Russian, French
Runtime : 90mins
Year : 2016
Colour : Colour

Director’s Filmography
2016 Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
2015 Pitza e Datteri (Pitza and Dates) comedy
2010 Golakani Kirkuk - The Flowers of Kirkuk
2002 Black Tape: A Tehran Diary, the Videotape Fariborz Kamkari Found in the Garbage

In China more people are on death row than in the rest of the world combined. In a culture of shame, the children of the convicts are often left alone. Over a period of two years, we follow these children in Sun Village orphanage, as they learn to live a life without parents and prepare for the outside world. Even if, contrary to all expectations, their parents were still to be released, the road back to the rest of society would be hard and long. And yet this is what all the children in Sun Village are dreaming of.

Director’s Biography
Kaspar is a self taught film director and multidisciplinary artist. He has directed feature length documentaries that have been distributed internationally and premiered at some of the biggest film festivals, such as IDFA, Planete Doc, It's All True, Hot Docs, SFIFF and CPH:DOX. Kaspar won the Golden Eye Award 2013 in the category 'Best International Documentary for his film 'RENT A FAMILY INC.' At Zurich IFF. Besides film making, Kaspar works as a graphic designer, painter, musician and designs furniture.

Director : Kaspar Astrup Schrøder
Producer : Katrine A. Sahlstrøm
Screenplay : Kaspar Astrup Schrøder
Cinematographer : Kaspar Astrup Schrøder
Editor : Cathrine Ambus
Sound : Rasmus Winther Jensen
Music : Povl Kristian
Production Company : Good Company Pictures
World Sales : Autlook Filmsales
World Sales Phone : +43 -720.34.69.34
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Festivals:
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Original Title :  De dømtes børn
English Title : Waiting For The Sun
Country : Denmark | China
Year : 2017
Runtime : 90min
Colour : Colour
Language : Mandarin

Director’s Filmography
2017 Waiting for the Sun (Documentary)
2012 Rent a Family Inc. (Documentary)
2009 My Playground (Documentary)
2009 The Invention of Dr. Nakamats (Documentary)

Klas Batalo, Giutizia, Ordine Nuovo and Tumulto are four Quebecers in their twenties who reject the world they live in. Incensed with the apathy of society following the excitement surrounding the events of the 'Maple Spring', the quartet engage in actions that are increasingly flirting with terrorism.

Director’s Biography
Mathieu Denis is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is best known for his films Corbo, which was a Canadian Screen Award and Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Picture in 2016, and Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves, which won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Denis made several short films before his feature film debut, Laurentie, in 2011.Most but not all of his films have been made in collaboration with Simon Lavoie.

Director  : Mathieu Denis , Simon Lavoie
Producer : Hany Ouichou
Cast : Charlotte Aubin, Laurent Bélanger, Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
Screenplay  : Mathieu Denis ... (co-writer), Simon Lavoie
Cinematographer : Nicolas Canniccioni
Editor : Mathieu Denis
Costume Designer : Becca Blackwood
Production Designer : Eric Barbeau
Production Company : Art & Essai
World Sales  : K-Films Amérique
World Sales Phone : +1 514-277-2613
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Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Canadian Screen Awards
Guadalajara International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Original Title : Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitién'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau
English Title  : Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves
Language : French | English
Country  : Canada
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 183 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves
Corbo
Laurentia

Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun “They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition. Over this crucial weekend while their parents are away, J’s sister Lauren and her Iranian friend/partner Araz arrive to take care of ”They”.

Director’s Biography
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (b1989, Tehran, Iran) got her BFA in cinema from Tehran University of Art and her MFA in studio arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Anahita has studied with Abbas Kiarostami and is influenced by his cinematic style. Her short Needle (2013) was premiered in Cannes Film Festival, Cinefondation selection and won the Premier Prix.She is also the co-writer of the acclaimed feature film, Mourning (2011). Childhood and parenthood, family theater, and exploring notions of growth and gender identity are the main themes of her work.

Director : Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Producer : Zoa Sua Cho, Simone Ling
Cast : Rhys Fehrenbacher, Koohyar Hosseini, Nicole Coffineau
Screenplay : Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Cinematographer : Carolina Costa
Editor : Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, Dean Gonzalez
Composer : Vincent Gillioz
Production Designer : Yong Ok Lee
Production Company : Mass Ornament Films
World Sales : LUXBOX
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Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival 2017
Deauville Film Festival 2017
Chéries-Chéris 2017
Original Title : THEY
English Title : THEY
Country :  USA | Qatar
Year : 2017
Runtime : 80 min

Director’s Filmography
2017 They
2013/I Needle (Short)
2011 Bache Vaghti Bache Bood (Short)
2011 When the Kid Was a Kid (Short)

A seven-year-old Marcin , yearing for love and warmth, escapes into a land of fictitious characters of Hans Christian Andersen’s tales thanks to retired writer, Kazimierz. There, hidden in fantasy from the reality which he is unable to deal with for different reasons, he feels safe. His mother Anna in her twenties, raises him alone, barely making ends meet. She has two full-time jobs to afford renting a room from Zofia and to earn a living. Struggling with the mundane, under pressure from her environment, she fails to notice the most important things in file. When she meets Kamil, a hope of a better future appears. Only, will Anna, who tries to please the modern temptation-filled world, choose the right path?
A blend of drama and modern fable where good fights evil.

Director’s Biography
Director, screenwriter and producer. Graduate of the University of Gdańsk, The Łódż Film School and the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Krakow. Author of music videos, commercials, TC series and much-awarded documentaries (In the Shadow of K2 won the Award of the Jury at the Mountaineering Film Festival 2004 in Cieplice, whereas Tears of Champions-a special Mention at the Milano International FICT Fest 2001).In 2006 he made his debut with a feature-length film The French Trick (the Golden Grenade at the Polish Comedy Film Festival 2006 in Lubomierz)

Director : Robert Wichrowski
Producer : Piotr Mikołajczak
Cast : Maciej Bożek, Robert Czebotar, Rafal Fudalej, Michalina Olszańska, Franciszek Pieczka, Anna Seniuk, Ewa Szykulska
Screenplay : Pawel Sala , Robert Wichrowski
Cinematographer : Miroslaw Brożek
Production Company  : URSA MAJOR
World Sales  : KONDRAT-MEDIA SP. Z O.O.
World Sales Phone : +48 663 351 962
World Sales Email : Paulina Olczyk , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Original Title  : Syn Królowej Śniegu
English Title  : The Son of Snow Queen
Language : Polish
Country  : Poland
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 85 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour
Music By : Piotr Mikołajczak

Director’s Filmography
Director selected films
2000 Łzy Mistrzów (document)/Tears Of Champions(documentary)
2003 W cieniu K2 (document)/In the Shadow of K2(documentary)
2006 Francuski Nuner / The French Trick
2014 Karuzela / Merry-Go-Round
2017 Syn Królowej Śniegu / The Son of Snow Queen

Beginning of 1945, Poland. At the just liberated areas, the Communist Security Service eliminates its enemies under the pretext of punishing "national traitors". It organizes a labour camp for Germans, Silesians and Poles, at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, which is named Zgoda/Reconciliation. Franek, who is in love with a Polish prisoner Anna, joins the camp crew to rescue her. He doesn't know that one of the inmates is Erwin, his German friend, who, like himself, has also loved Anna for a long time. Franek joins Communists in the illusory hope of outsmarting the system.

Director’s Biography
Maciej is a Director and screenwriter from Poland. He co-directed his debut feature film Performer (winner of the THINK: FILM AWARD at the Berlin IFF) with Lukasz Ronduda. His second film The Reconciliation was awarded in the FIRST LOOK section at the Locarno International Film Festival. He is a lecturer at the PWSFTViT in Lodz and the DEVELOPENT LAB Programme at the Wajda School, Polish Film Institute.

Director : Maciej Sobieszczanski
Producer : Zbigniew Domagalski
Cast : Julian Swiezewski, Jakub Gierszal, Zofia Wichlacz, Danuta Stenka, Wojciech Zielinski
Screenplay : Malgorzata Sobieszczanska
Cinematographer : Valentyn Vasyanovych
Editor : Rafal Listopad
Music by : Bartek Gliniak
Costume Designer : Agata Culak
Production Designer : Bartosz Mrozowski, Ewa Skoczkowska, Anna Wlodarczyk
Production company : Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop, EBH Polska, Wajda Studio
World Sales  : Kino Swiat
World Sales Email  : www.audiowizualni.pl
Festivals
Polish Film Festival 2017
CameraImage Film Festival 2017
Original Title  : Zgoda
English Title  : The Reconciliation
Language : Polish
Country : Poland
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 87 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
The Reconciliation
Performer
Urodziny (Short)

Athens 2015. Five murders occur in the city. Dimitris Lainis, a criminology professor with Asperger’s syndrome, undertakes to assist police in solving the hidden mystery behind these five murders. His only allies are the puzzle of the Pythagorean theorems and Marcel De Chaf, a professor of mathematics, who as another “deus ex machina” will lead Lainis towards the solution to the mystery. The closer he gets to solving the murders, the more he enters dangerous paths. Will he be able to solve the mystery and discover the guilty ones?

Director’s Biography
Sotiris Tsafoulias (1975) studied business and Maritime Law. After a successful career in business, he returned to the cinema that has always been his goal. In 2014 he made his debut Common Denominator. His second feature, Other Me was well received by critics and, audience alike and, won Audience Award at Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Director : Sotiris Tsafoulias
Producer : Fenia Cossovitsa
Cast : Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Dimitris Katalifos, Manos Vakousis, Ioanna Kolliopoulou
Screenplay : Sotiris Tsafoulias
Music by : Kostas Maragos
Cinematography by  : Giorgos Mihelis
Film Editing by : Giorgos Georgopoulos  : Giorgos Mavropsaridis
Casting By  : Makis Gazis
Production Design by  : Elias Ledakis
Production Company : Green Dragon Movies
Website of the film : https://www.facebook.com/EterosEgo/
Festivals :
Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2017
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) 2017
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2016
Original Title : Eteros Ego
English Title : The Other Me
Country : Greece
Year : 2016
Runtime : 101min
Language : Greek
Colour : colour

Director’s Filmography
2016 The Other Me
2014 Common Denominator

One night, a group of workers realizes that their administration has organized the stealing of machines from their factory. They soon understand that this is the first signal of a massive layoff. Most of them refuse to cooperate during the individual negotiations and they start to occupy their workplace. So when the administration vanishes to their great surprise, they’re left with a half-empty factory... As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.

Director’s Biography
Pedro Pinho studied Cinema in Lisbon and Paris. In 2008 he co-directed with Frederico Lobo the documentary feature Bab Sebta (Prize Marseille Esperance award at FID MARSEILLE’08,Best Film at Doclisboa and Forum Doc Bh. The End Of The World (2013) is his first medium-length fiction film ad it was screened at the 63rd Berlinale, Indielisboa, and Festival Do Rio. Currently he works as a director, writer and producer. The Nothing Factory is his first fiction feature.

Director  : Pedro Pinho
Producer : Tiago Hespanha, Luisa Homem, João Matos,Susana Nobre , Leonor Noivo , Pedro Pinho
Cast : Carla Galvão, Daniele Incalcaterra, Hermínio Amaro, Joaquim Bichana Martins, José Smith Vargas, Njamy Sebastião
Screenplay  : Tiago Hespanha, Luisa Homem , Leonor Noivo, Pedro Pinho , Jorge Silva Melo
Cinematographer : Vasco Viana
Editor : Edgar Feldman , Luisa Homem , Cláudia Oliveira
Sound  : João Gazua
Production Company : Terratreme Filmes
World Sales  : Memento Films International
Festivals
Cannes Film Festival 2017 - FIPRESCI Prize
CPH PIX 2017
Mar del Plata Film Festival 2017 Cut if not fitting in design.
Munich Film Festival 2017 Cut if not fitting in design.
Toronto International Film Festival 2017
Original Title  : A Fábrica de Nada
English Title  : The Nothing Factory
Language : Portuguese | French
Country  : Portugal
Year : 2017
Runtime : min 176
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
The Nothing Factory
As Cidades e as Trocas (Documentary)
Um fim do mundo
Bab Sebta (Documentary)

When a less talented, but very attractive writer Brigitte arrives with a bad manuscript at publishing house, the brothers Marc and Boudewijn, directors of a distressed family publishing house, immediately see possibilities. Creating a publicity gimmick, they let her change roles with the stuttering author of a literary masterpiece. The trick works; the book becomes a mega-success both artistically and commercially, but the initial agreement between all parties turns into a bitter battle for recognition.

Director’s Biography
Joram Lürsen is a Dutch film and television director. He graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam in 1990 with his film De Finales (The Finals). Lürsen directed several TV series for Dutch television: Vuurzee (2005), Baantjer (1995), Flodder (1993) and many more. He directed the family film In Orange (2004), which received international awards at film festivals in Hamburg, Esfahan, Kristiansand, Los Angeles, Poznań, and Rimouski.

Director : Joram Lursen
Producer : Gemma Derksen, Arnold Heslenfeld , Laurette Schillings , Frans van Gestel
Cast : Chantal Janzen, Gijs Naber, Alex Klaasen, Peter Bolhuis
Screenplay : Joram Lursen
Cinematography  : Mark van Aller
Film Editing  : Peter Alderliesten
Production Designer : Harry Ammerlaan
Production Company : Topkapi Films, BNN-VARA
World Sales : Dutch Features
World Sales Phone : +31-23-8880168
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Original Title : HET VERLANGEN
English Title : THE LONGING
Country : NETHERLANDS
Year : 2017
Runtime : 90MINS
Language : Dutch
Colour : Colour
Music : Merlijn Snitker

Director’s Filmography
2017 Het Verlangen
2015 A Noble Intention
2014 Reckless
2012 Family Way
2011 Dolfje Weerwolfje