In Portugal, a father, a mother and a daughter’s daily lives are being subsumed by the effects of the economic crisis. This is a process which begins to influence their life together by degrees while their nicely furnished high-rise flat continues to tell a tale of different, bygone times. The unemployed father spends his days on the roof gazing at the horizon which no longer offers him a future. The mother returns home exhausted from working double shifts. Their adolescent daughter keeps her secrets to herself and wonders if there is enough money to pay her bus fare to school. It may not be apparent to father, mother or daughter but each of them has long since begun to take their lives in their own hands and to reshape them.

Director’s Biography
Teresa was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1966; she began her career as an actress, co-writer and co-director at the theatre of the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She appeared as an actress in À Flor do Mar, then worked as an assistant to Paulo Rocha and as a co-writer with José Álvaro Morais and João Canijo. Since the 1990s she has directed her own films including A idade maior (The Major Age) which screened at the Berlinale in 1991. She made her international breakthrough in 1998 with Os Mutantes (The Mutants).

Director  : Teresa Villaverde
Producer : Cécile Vacheret , Teresa Villaverde
Cast : Beatriz Batarda, Angela Cerveira, Marcello Urgeghe, Ricardo Aibéo, Clara Jost
Screenplay  : Teresa Villaverde
Cinematographer : Acácio de Almeida
Editor : Rodolphe Molla
Production Company : Alce Filmes, Sedna Films
World Sales : Indielisboa
World Sales Phone : +351213158399
World Sales Emali  : www.indielisboa.com
Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival 2017
Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2017
Original Title  : Colo
English Title  : Colo
Language : Portuguese
Country  : Portugal | France
Year : 2017
Runtime : 136 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
A Idade Maior (1991)
Os Mutantes (1998)
Visions of Europe (2004)
Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Colo (2017)

A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an outrageous request: he wants Alexandru to help him overcome the despair caused by Ioana's death.

Director’s Biography
Former film critic, Andrei Cretulescu produced for HBO Romania the first season of In Deriva (a remake of famous show In Treatment) and nine original documentaries. Andrei wrote and directed short films Bad Penny (2013), and Kowalski (2014. His third short, Ramona, won the Canal Award at La Semaine de la critique at the CANNES International Film Festival and the best short award in Transylvania International Film Festival.

Director : Andrei Cretulescu
Producer : Andrei Cretulescu, Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha, Velvet Moraru
Cast : Serban Pavlu, Radu Iaconban, Ana Ularu
Screenplay : Andrei Cretulescu
Cinematographer : Barbu Balasoiu
Editor : Catalin Cristutui
Music : Massimiliano Nardullli
Sound Designer :  Nicolas Waschkowski, Marius Leftarache, Yann Legay
Production Designer : Malina Ionescu
Production Company : Icon Production, Les Films du Tambour
World Sales : Versatile
World Sales Phone  : +33176216168 +33
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Festivals
Locarno International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
Braunschweig International Film Festival
Director’s Filmography
Charleston
Original Title :  Charleston
English Title :  Charleston
Country :  France/Romania
Language :  Romanian
Year : 2017
Runtime : 119Mins
Colour

In 1932, experiencing a midlife crisis aggravated by the coming of the talkies, Chaplin decides not to return to Hollywood after his movie City Lights. Instead, with his brother Sydney, he "escapes" to Bali. The island seems to be a peace haven as he is virtually unknown there. Chaplin finds rejuvenation and inspiration in their dances, which he films extensively with the help of his brother. Most importantly, Bali helps him resolve his fear of sound, thus enabling him to embark on a new phase of filmmaking that will lead him to Modern Times, the first movie in which he does even better than speak - he sings! Yet, this moment of epiphany in Bali is not pure naivety on the part of Chaplin, as he also encounters the colonial world first hand and is able to perceive its dark side. It contributes to further his political awakening and reinforce his dislike of any form of domination.

Director’s Biography
Raphaël Millet is a French writer, producer and, director of cinema and television, as well as an organiser and programmer of photographic and cultural events. During 1996 to 2007, he worked with various government organisations promoting culture, cinema and, art, including France Télévisions. In 2007, he founded a production company called Nocturnes Productions. Under the company, he has directed feature documentaries such as Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory (2011), The Cinematographic Voyage of Gaston Méliès to Tahiti (2014), Gaston Méliès and his Wandering Star Film Company (2015) and, Chaplin in Bali (2017)

Director  : Raphaël Millet
Producer : Olivier Bohler
Cast : Jonathan Sawdon, Simon Shrimpton-Smith, Cathy Smith
Screenplay  : Raphaël Millet
Cinematographer : Lucas Jodogne
Editor : Bertrand Amiot
Music Department
Camille Fabre ... composer: additional music
Wei Yong Teo ... composer: theme music
Production Company : Nocturnes Productions
World Sales  : Doc & Film International
World Sales Phone : +33 1 42 77 56 87
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Film website :  https://www.chaplininbali.com/
Original Title  : Chaplin in Bali
English Title  : Chaplin in Bali
Language : English
Country  : France | Belgium | Singapore
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 80 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour/Black and White
Director’s Filmography
Chaplin in Bali (Documentary)
Gaston Méliès and his Wandering Star Film Company (Documentary)
Pierre Schoendoerffer, La Sentinelle De La Mémoire (Documentary)

After an illegal militant group kills her husband, ordinary housewife Kusum does anything to support her eight children and her mother-in-law. However, there is not only a huge amount of work to do for a poor and powerless working class widow, but she also has to endure the contempt and surliness of a male-oriented society. She finally loses the last vestiges of dignity when she is driven to prostitution and in the end, she makes a truly extreme choice.

Director biography
Sanjeewa Pushpakumara is a Sri Lankan writer and, director. He pursued a diploma in filmmaking at the Sri Lanka National Film Corporation in 2006. In 2014 he obtained his advanced degree in film-making from the Chung-Ang University in South Korea as a Korean Government Scholarship Holder (KGSP). In 2009. His first feature film, Flying Fish received support from the Hubert Bals Fund of Rotterdam IFF. In 2012, Sanjeewa was invited to Paris by Cinéfondation of Cannes Film Festival to develop his second feature film, Burning Birds.

Director : Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
Producer : Antonin Dedet, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
Cast : Anoma Janadari, Samanalee Fonseka, Chandani Senavirathne
Screenplay : Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
Director : Sanjieewa Pushpakumara
Producers : Antonin Dedet ,Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
Director of photography : Kalinga Deshapriya
Editors : Ajith Ramanayake, Katharina Wartena
Music : R.Abaji, Philip David Sheppard
Art director : Piyathissa Akurambada
Costume Designer : Ajantha Alahakoon
Sound Engineer : Aruna Priyantha Kaluarchchi, Nicolas D'halluin
Production Company : Neon Productions
World sales : Film Republic
World sales phone : +44 (0)203 287 9112
Festivals :
Busan IFF
Tokyo FILMeX IFF
Rotterdam IFF
Locarno Film Festival
Selected Filmography
Flying Fish
Burning Birds
Original title : Davena Vihagun
English title : Burning Birds
Country : France, Sri Lanka
Language : Sinhala
Year : 2016
Runtime : 84 min
Colour

Liliana Pereira is returning to her country. There she will have to confront a past which meant persecution, imprisonment and the loss of custody of her son.
A victim with other women of systematic violence, Liliana must choose between what her heart demands and what her conscience dictates.

Director’s Biography
Manane Rodriguez was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1975, during the onset of military dictatorship, she left her country and, after a brief spell in Argentina, settled in Spain. She began her professional career in Madrid and in 1990 directed her first short film, COFFEE SET. Her films The Lost Step, and Woman Portrait’s With Man In The Background have been well received and awarded in Festival Circuits.

Director  : Manane Rodríguez
Producer : Xavier Bermúdez, Cecilia Ibáñez
Cast : Cecilia Roth, Justina Bustos, Quique Fernández
Screenplay : Manane Rodríguez, Xavier Bermúdez
Cinematographer : Diego Romero
Editor : Sandra Sánchez
Sound : Daniel López
Music by : Costume Designer, Alba Cuesta
Production Company
RCI Producciones
Xamalú Filmes
Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC)
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
Original Title  : Migas De Pan
English Title  : Breadcrumbs
Language : Spanish
Country  : Spain  | Uruguay
Year : 2016
Runtime  : 110 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour
Selected Filmography
Woman portrait’s with man in the background
The Lost Steps
A Tale for Olivia
Breadcrumbs

Pipo is forty years old. To make ends meet, he has to take the worst and the hardest job without complaint. He must support himself and Cyril, a teenage lover. The girl and work are the only things left in his life. He fights with an unfriendly boss every day, and recently he has also fought with Ben, a childhood friend who wants to get Cyril back, his daughter. Pipo has lived under stress as long as he remembers. He is like a ticking bomb. Recent events make him literally seconds away from explosion.

Director’s Biography
Ralston G. Jover hails from Manila, where he attended Creative Writing and Film Studies at the Mowelfund Film Institute. His first big break came in 2006 when he wrote Kubrador (The Bet Collector), tackling the gambling menace called jueteng in the Philippines. In 2009, he directed BAKAL BOYS (CHILDREN METAL DIVERS), which reveals social condition of poor children diving for scrap metals in Manila Bay. It received Best Film Prizes in Vancouver, Torino, Barcelona and Lyon. It also garnered Best Screenplay Award in Thessaloniki. BAKAL BOYS became the most awarded Filipino film of 2009.

Director  : Ralston Jover
Producer : Dennis C. Evangelista ... executive producer / producer, Ferdinand Lapuz
Cast : Allen Dizon, Angeli Nicole Sanoy, Allan Paule
Screenplay  : Ralston Jover ... (story) (as Ralston Gonzales Jover)
Dennis C. Evangelista ... (story)
Ralston Jover ... (screenplay) (as Ralston Gonzales Jover)
Cinematographer : Pipo Domagas
Editor : Jess Navarro
Sound Department : Albert Michael Idioma
Music by : Emerzon Texon
Production Company : ATD Entertainment, Heaven's Best Entertainment
Production Designer : Harley Alcasid
Original Title  : Bomba
English Title  : The Bomb
Language : Tagalog
Country : Philippines
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 94 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour
Director’s Filmography
The Bomb
Magdarame: To Suffer with Him (Documentary)
The Dog Show
Bendor
Children Metal Divers
Marlon (Documentary)

Sara, who left her own country Iran without permission of her parents when she was a teenager, is an actress in Paris, France. She receives a letter from Iran and she wants to go to her village. The best way to do this is to pass Turkish border (illegally) which is full of danger.

Director’s Biography
Tayfur Aydin was born in Bitlis, in 1981. He directed his first short length film named Sen Olmak(To Be Her) in 2007. Iz (rêç) which he wrote and directed in 2011 is his first full length film. His films are Iz-Rec, Ic Ses, Yasak Elma (the Forbidden Apple) ,Esikte, Icimdeki Mezar (the Ground in Me),Sen Olmak (To Be Her) which are awarded with worldwide prizes.

Director : Tayfur Aydin
Producer : Muslum Aydin
Cast : Sebnem Hassanisoughi, Sedat Culum, Ayhan Eren
Screenplay  : Tayfur Aydin
Cinematographer : Emre Konuk
Editor : Selim Demirdelen
Production Company  : Mta Film
Festivals
Chennai Film Festival
Rode Tulp Film Festival
Istanbul Film Festival
Bogazici Film Festival
Original Title  : Siyah Karga
English Title  : The Black Crow
Language : Kurdish | Turkish | English | Persian
Country  : Turkey
Year : 2016
Runtime  : 98 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour
Music Composer : Selim Demirdelen
Director’s Filmography
Siyah Karga
Iz (rêç)
Yasak Elma
Esikte
Sen Olmak

It is 1994. Anna- a Polish ornithologist who is in Africa to study the decline of the vulture population in Rwanda - witnesses the horrifying violent incident. Rwanda’s Hutu majority has unleashed genocide against the smaller population of Tutsis. When the genocide begins, Anna rescues a young Tutsi girl - Claudine. Taking her along, Anna escapes to Poland. Both women are struggling to shake off the trauma of the events they had experienced and, go on with the routine life. However, it’s difficult for both of them to be normal. One day, after a few years, Claudine decides to return to her homeland. Helpless in her efforts to stop her, Anna decides to accompany Claudine. Everywhere she goes, Claudine comes up against the survivors’ attempts to come to terms with what they have lost. Although in 1996 power is in the hands of the Tutsis, the peace is fragile, and the near universal poverty aids the forces of evil. This is an extremely emotional journey to the heart of Africa.

Director biography
Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze, a writer-director duo of husband and wife have worked on some remarkable Polish films of recent times. Their films include My Nikifor (Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary in 2004), Plac Zbawiciela /Saviour square. In 2013, they completed work on a biopic about the Romani poet, Papusza. They started working on Birds Are Singing In Kagali few years ago. After sad demise of Krzysztof in 2014, Joanna finished the film alone by 2017.

Director : Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Producer : Joanna Kos-Krauze
Cast : Jowita Budnik, Eliane Umuhire , Witold Wieliński
Screenplay : Joanna Kos-Krauze , Krzysztof Krauze
Cinematographer : Jozefina Gocman, Wojciech Staron, Krzysztof Ptak
Editor : Katarzyna Lesniak
Costume Designer : Agnieszka Zawadowska
Music : Beata Shyaka, Pawel Szymanski
Production designer : Krzysztof Benedek, Andrzej Kowalewski, Claudine Murenzi, Miroslaw Naslawski, Agnieszka Zawadowska
Production Company : Kosfilm
Festivals
Chicago International Film Festival 2017
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017
Polish Film Festival 2017
Haifa International Film Festival 2017
Hamburg Film Festival 2017
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland 2017

Director Filmography
Krzysztof Krauze
Dług
Wielkierzeczy
Papusza
Saviour Square
Mój Nikifor
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Papusza
Saviour Square
Mój Nikifor
Original title : Ptaki spiewaja w Kigali
English title : Birds are singing in Kigali
Country : Poland
Language : Polish | English | Kinyarwanda
Year : 2017
Runtime : 113 min
Colour

Great Britain, 1953. Dora Szumski is an English woman married to a Polish immigrant Eryk. He is a former Polish Military officer for whom the existing power balance doesn't leave much choice. He can either be sentenced to death in his homeland or be an immigrant. After a failed suicide attempt he stays in a mental hospital for Polish ex-soldiers. His wife, Dora, does not only sense the secret behind Eryk's illness, she also has some proof... She starts her journey to visit her husband in the asylum. However, the long expected encounter of the spouses does not end at the hospital. Eryk runs away and turns up in a wayside inn. She wants her husband to go immediately back to the hospital. Yet, Eryk tricks her. Not aware of the deception, drugged with psychotropic drugs, Dora allows Eryk to kidnap her to desolated seashore. We are following Dora's trip into the heart of her husband's mystery.

Director’s Biography
Jaroslaw Marszewski (born 1967 in Wrocław ) - Polish director and screenwriter. He studied directing at the Film Academy in Prague and on the WRiTV in Poland. A graduate of English studies at the University of Wroclaw, his short films and feature films have won over 20 awards at international festivals. Produces feature films, television shows, music videos, operas.

Director : Jaroslaw Marszewski
Producer : Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Bromski, Ewa Jastrzebska, Zbigniew Kula, Magdalena Kula, Błażej Moder
Cast : Tomasz Kot, Lianne Harvey, Lech Mackiewicz
Screenplay : Jaroslaw Marszewski
Music by  : Bartosz Chajdecki
Cinematography by  : Jacek Podgórski
Film Editing by  : Jaroslaw Kaminski
Production Design by : Katarzyna Filimoniuk
World Sales : SONOVISION Sp.z.o.o.
World Sales Phone : +48 669 518 787
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Festivals:
2017 Los Angeles Film Awards
2017 Rosarito International Film Festival
2017London Eye International Film Festival
2017 Madrid International Film Festival
Director’s Filmography-
2017 Bikini Blue
2001 Jutro bedzie niebo
Original Title : BIKINI BLUE
English Title : BIKINI BLUE
Country : POLAND
Year : 2017
Runtime : 90MIN
LANGUAGE : ENGLISH

Belinda is 9. Not the easily intimidated. She loves life, she loves snow, ice to slide on, the children's home where she lives with her sister. Her sister whom she loves even more than the rest. The authorities part them. So the sisters run away, crossing forests at night to reunite.
Belinda is 15. Not the type to work in a shoe shop. She lives with her mother and is about to become godmother to Nicolas, her sister's son.
Belinda is 23. She lives with her father, Frantz. She still loves dresses, high-heeled shoes and wearing her hair in a chignon. But, more than anything, she loves Thierry, his blue eyes and his accent from the Vosges mountains. She is there to meet him when he is released from jail. They want to get married so that nothing will ever part them again. But...

Director’s Biography
Marie Dumora is a French director who films all her documentaries in the same area which spans only a few kilometres in eastern France. She thus creates a cinematic terrain where the characters of one film lead to the next. Her works have screened at numerous festivals and
won various awards, including the Intangible Heritage Award at the Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris for La Place (2012). Her latest documentary Belinda (2017) screened as part of Berlinale Panorama.

Director : Marie Dumora
Producer : Laurent Lavolé
Cast : Belinda Baudein, Thierry Baudein , Sabrina Bensmail-Muller, Frantz Muller, Auguster Gersheimer
Screenplay : Marie Dumora.
Cinematographer : Marie Dumora
Editor : Catherine Gouze
Production Company : Gloria Films
World Sales : Be For Films
World Sales Phone : +32 489 80 21 23
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Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival 2017
ACID Cannes
São Paulo International Film Festival
Viennale
Filmer à Tout Prix
Original Title  : Belinda
English Title  : Belinda
Language : French
Country  : France
Year : 2017
Runtime  : 107 min
Type (colour/ black & white) : Colour

Director’s Filmography
Belinda (Documentary)
Forbach for Ever (Documentary)
Je voudrais aimer personne (Documentary)
La Place (Documentary)
Emmenez-moi (Documentary)
Avec ou sans toi (Documentary)