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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI 1 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI 2 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI 3 MICHAEL Festival Participation/Awards: Cannes IFF 2011 Moscow IFF 2011 Munich FF 2011 Karlovy Vary IFF 2011 Brussels Cinédécouvertes 2011 Melbourne IFF 2011: TeleScope! Award for Best 1st Film Sarajevo IFF 2011 Toronto IFF 2011 Miskolc IFF 2011: Grand Prix Special Tokyo IFF 2011 London BFI FF 2011 Rio de Janeiro IFF 2011 Haifa IFF 2011 Gijon IFF 2011 Markus Schleinzer MICHAEL describes the last five months of 10-year- old Wolfgang and 35-year-old Michael’s involuntary life together. Director’s Statement: A society can only develop to the same extent that it is able to get to grips with its offenders. Markus Schleinzer Born in Vienna in 1971, he worked as a casting director from 1994 to 2010. During this time he participated in over 60 feature film projects, including Jessica Hausner’s LOVELY RITA, HOTEL and LOURDES, Ulrich Seidl’s DOG DAYS, Benjamin Heisenberg’s SLEEPER and THE ROBBER, Shirin Neshat’s WOMEN WITHOUT MEN and Michael Haneke’s THE PIANO PLAYER, TIME OF THE WOLF and THE WHITE RIBBON, for which he also cast the children, coached them and worked out their scenes with them. Austria 93 min. www.michaelfilm.com MICHAEL Production: NGF - Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Hildebrandgasse 26 1180 Wien AUSTRIA tel. +43 1 40 30 162 fax +43 1 40 30 162 15 [email protected] World Sales: Les Films du Losange 22, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75116 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 44 43 87 28 fax +33 1 49 52 06 40 [email protected] Press: NGF - Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Hildebrandgasse 26 1180 Wien AUSTRIA tel. +43 1 40 30 162 fax +43 1 40 30 162 15 [email protected] WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Markus Schleinzer PRODUCED BY: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter & Markus Glaser DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Gerald Kerkletz EDITOR: Wolfgang Widerhofer PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Katrin Huber, Gerhard Dohr MAIN CAST: Michael Fuith (Michael), David Rauchenberger (Wolfgang), Christine Kain (mother), Ursula Strauss (sister), Viktor Tremmel (brother-in-law), Gisela Salcher (Christa) OXYGEN Festival Participation/Awards: Montreal World FF 2010: Grand Prix des Amériques, Ecumenic Jury Award FF Oostende 2010 Netherlands FF 2010 Zurich FF 2010: Variety New Talent Award Rome FF, Alice nella città: Marco Aurelio Nella Città Prize IFF Amiens: Best Actor (Stef Aerts), Prize of the Public Sevilla European FF 2010 Tallinn Black Nights FF 2010 Les Arcs European FF 2010 Palm Springs IFF 2011 Istanbul IFF 2011 Palm Beach IFF 2011 Hans Van Nuffel Filmography: 2005 THE END OF THE RIDE, short 2007 F.A.L., short 2009 NACHTRAVEN, short 2010 ADEM Tom and his brother Lucas are young men who suffer from cystic fybrosis, a genetic disease that slowly destroys their lungs. Tom is struggling to cope with his short life expectancy and hangs around with a gang of hoodlums. In the hospital, he meets Xavier, a young man suffering from the same illness but behaving like a top athlete. Xavier is a confirmed optimist, even when he is dumped by his girlfriend Anneleen. Tom takes in Xavier’s energy and joy of life. He roams the hospital grounds and falls for the charms of quirky Eline, who has been quarantined for months due to an infection. They are not allowed to touch and can only talk to each other over the phone. Yet, they start a romance. When Tom’s brother Lucas dies during lung transplantation surgery, Tom is inconsolable. He seeks refuge among his rough friends, avoids Xavier and breaks up with Eline. But one day, he again crosses Xavier’s path who gives him back his taste for life … Director’s Statement: The films that have made a difference in my life are those where you feel a certain necessity. Stories that are charged with an emotional truth so strong it resonates long after the credits have rolled. The main characters in OXYGEN are two young men who struggle with their mortality. They’re cystic fibrosis patients and have been pushed around a lot at a young age. One of them prefers a life in denial, rather than facing his demons head-on. The other one, arrogant and proud, constantly pushes his limits beyond his capacities. Both are fighters in their own way and their fates are forever intertwined. What interested me most was the precious balance between hope and despair, the fear of what is to come infused with the manic energy of a shortened lifespan. Commenting on my own experiences as a CF patient proved to be key element in developing the script. By polarising and staging my own inner conflicts, I made a lot of abstract fears more palpable somehow. It’s something that the cast and crew intuitively picked up on while shooting the film. Their willingness to dive into a universe so utterly unknown to them was heart-warming. I sensed we were on to something potent once we entered post-production. It felt fresh, somehow, this story about young bodies with old souls. In the end, OXYGEN proved to be a celebration of life, however ironic and unfair it might sometimes be. Belgium/the Netherlands 96 min. www.oxygenthemovie.com ADEM OXYGEN Production & Press: A Private View Begijnhof ter Hoyen Lange Violettestraat 237 9000 Gent BELGIUM tel. +32 9 240 10 00 fax +32 9 240 10 09 [email protected] World Sales: Premium Films 130, rue de Turenne 75003 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 1 42 77 06 31 fax +33 1 44 54 05 02 [email protected] DIRECTED BY: Hans Van Nuffel WRITTEN BY: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem & Hans Van Nuffel PRODUCED BY: Dries Phlypo, Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Joost De Vries, Leontine Petit & Marleen Slot DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ruben Impens EDITOR: Alain Dessauvage PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Steven Liegeois ORIGINAL SCORE: Spinvis & Geike Arnaert MAIN CAST: Stef Aerts (Tom), Wouter Hendrickx (Xavier), Marie Vinck (Anneleen), Anemone Valcke (Eline), Rik Verheye (Jimmy) & Maarten Mertens (Lucas) BREATHING Festival Participation/Awards Cannes IFF 2011: Label Europa Cinemas Award Sarajevo FF 2011: Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film & Best Actor, CICAE Award Brussels Cinédécouvertes 2011: Public Award Miskolc IFF 2011: Emeric Pressburger Prize for Best Film, International Ecumenical Award, Critics Award Zurich FF 2011: Golden Eye Quebec City FF 2011: Best First Feature Film Karl Markovics 19-year-old Roman Kogler has a chance to be released early from his young offenders’ institution. The odds are against him, however: he is an uncommunicative and solitary character without a family and doesn’t seem to be fit for re-socialisation. As a day-release prisoner he has a job at a funeral home. Of all things, it is this job dealing with death that shows him the path back to life. Karl Markovics Born on 29 August 1963 in Vienna, he is a respected stage actor, appearing in many theatre plays and musicals. He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s 2007 film THE COUNTERFEITERS, which was awarded with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and more recently in UNKNOWN IDENTITY. BREATHING is his first feature film as a writer and director. Austria 93 min. www.breathing-the-movie.at ATMEN BREATHING Production: Epo-Film Produktionsgesellschaft Edelsinnstraße 58 1120 Wien AUSTRIA tel. +43 1 812 3718 fax +43 1 813 8773 [email protected] World Sales: Films Distribution 34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris FRANCE tel. +33 4 92 99 32 09 [email protected] Press: Thim-Film Hermang 18/5 1070 Wien AUSTRIA tel. +43 1 236 2190 [email protected] WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Karl Markovics PRODUCED BY: Dieter Pochlatko DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin Gschlacht EDITOR: Alarich Lenz PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Isi Wimmer ORIGINAL SCORE: Herbert Tucmandl MAIN CAST: Thomas Schubert (Roman Kogler), Karin Lischka (Margit Kogler), Gerhard Liebmann (Walter Falker), Georg Friedrich (Rudolf Kienast)
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI1 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI2 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI3
MICHAEL
Festival Participation/Awards:Cannes IFF 2011Moscow IFF 2011 Munich FF 2011Karlovy Vary IFF 2011 Brussels Cinédécouvertes 2011Melbourne IFF 2011: TeleScope! Award for Best 1st FilmSarajevo IFF 2011Toronto IFF 2011Miskolc IFF 2011: Grand Prix SpecialTokyo IFF 2011London BFI FF 2011Rio de Janeiro IFF 2011Haifa IFF 2011Gijon IFF 2011
Markus Schleinzer
MICHAEL describes the last five months of 10-year-old Wolfgang and 35-year-old Michael’s involuntary life together.
Director’s Statement:A society can only develop to the same extent that it is able to get to grips with its offenders.
Markus Schleinzer Born in Vienna in 1971, he worked as a casting director from 1994 to 2010. During this time he participated in over 60 feature film projects, including Jessica Hausner’s LOVELY RITA, HOTEL and LOURDES, Ulrich Seidl’s DOG DAYS, Benjamin Heisenberg’s SLEEPER and THE ROBBER, Shirin Neshat’s WOMEN WITHOUT MEN and Michael Haneke’s THE PIANO PLAYER, TIME OF THE WOLF and THE WHITE RIBBON, for which he also cast the children, coached them and worked out their scenes with them.
Austria93 min.www.michaelfilm.com
MICHAEL
Production:NGF - Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Hildebrandgasse 261180 Wien AUSTRIAtel. +43 1 40 30 162fax +43 1 40 30 162 [email protected]
World Sales:Les Films du Losange22, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie75116 ParisFRANCEtel. +33 1 44 43 87 28fax +33 1 49 52 06 [email protected]
Press:NGF - Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Hildebrandgasse 26 1180 Wien AUSTRIAtel. +43 1 40 30 162fax +43 1 40 30 162 [email protected]
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Markus SchleinzerPRODUCED BY: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter & Markus GlaserDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Gerald KerkletzEDITOR: Wolfgang WiderhoferPRODUCTION DESIGNER: Katrin Huber, Gerhard DohrMAIN CAST: Michael Fuith (Michael), David Rauchenberger (Wolfgang), Christine Kain (mother), Ursula Strauss (sister), Viktor Tremmel (brother-in-law), Gisela Salcher (Christa)
OXYGEN
Festival Participation/Awards:Montreal World FF 2010: Grand Prix des Amériques, Ecumenic Jury Award FF Oostende 2010Netherlands FF 2010Zurich FF 2010: Variety New Talent Award Rome FF, Alice nella città: Marco Aurelio Nella Città PrizeIFF Amiens: Best Actor (Stef Aerts), Prize of the PublicSevilla European FF 2010Tallinn Black Nights FF 2010Les Arcs European FF 2010Palm Springs IFF 2011Istanbul IFF 2011Palm Beach IFF 2011
Hans Van Nuffel
Filmography:2005 THE END OF THE RIDE, short2007 F.A.L., short2009 NACHTRAVEN, short2010 ADEM
Tom and his brother Lucas are young men who suffer from cystic fybrosis, a genetic disease that slowly destroys their lungs. Tom is struggling to cope with his short life expectancy and hangs around with a gang of hoodlums. In the hospital, he meets Xavier, a young man suffering from the same illness but behaving like a top athlete. Xavier is a confirmed optimist, even when he is dumped by his girlfriend Anneleen. Tom takes in Xavier’s energy and joy of life. He roams the hospital grounds and falls for the charms of quirky Eline, who has been quarantined for months due to an infection. They are not allowed to touch and can only talk to each other over the phone. Yet, they start a romance. When Tom’s brother Lucas dies during lung transplantation surgery, Tom is inconsolable. He seeks refuge among his rough friends, avoids Xavier and breaks up with Eline. But one day, he again crosses Xavier’s path who gives him back his taste for life …Director’s Statement:The films that have made a difference in my life are those where you feel a certain necessity. Stories that are charged with an emotional truth so strong it resonates long after the credits have rolled.The main characters in OXYGEN are two young men who struggle with their mortality. They’re cystic fibrosis patients and have been pushed around a lot at a young age. One of them prefers a life in denial, rather than facing his demons head-on. The other one, arrogant and proud, constantly pushes his limits beyond his capacities. Both are fighters in their own way and their fates are forever intertwined. What interested me most was the precious balance between hope and despair, the fear of what is to come infused with the manic energy of a shortened lifespan.Commenting on my own experiences as a CF patient proved to be key element in developing the script. By polarising and staging my own inner conflicts, I made a lot of abstract fears more palpable somehow. It’s something that the cast and crew intuitively picked up on while shooting the film. Their willingness to dive into a universe so utterly unknown to them was heart-warming.I sensed we were on to something potent once we entered post-production. It felt fresh, somehow, this story about young bodies with old souls. In the end, OXYGEN proved to be a celebration of life, however ironic and unfair it might sometimes be.
Belgium/the Netherlands96 min.www.oxygenthemovie.com
ADEMOXYGEN
Production & Press:A Private ViewBegijnhof ter HoyenLange Violettestraat 2379000 GentBELGIUMtel. +32 9 240 10 00fax +32 9 240 10 [email protected]
World Sales: Premium Films130, rue de Turenne75003 ParisFRANCEtel. +33 1 42 77 06 31fax +33 1 44 54 05 [email protected]
DIRECTED BY: Hans Van NuffelWRITTEN BY: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem & Hans Van NuffelPRODUCED BY: Dries Phlypo, Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Joost De Vries, Leontine Petit & Marleen SlotDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ruben ImpensEDITOR: Alain DessauvagePRODUCTION DESIGNER: Steven LiegeoisORIGINAL SCORE: Spinvis & Geike ArnaertMAIN CAST: Stef Aerts (Tom), Wouter Hendrickx (Xavier), Marie Vinck (Anneleen), Anemone Valcke (Eline), Rik Verheye (Jimmy) & Maarten Mertens (Lucas)
BREATHING
Festival Participation/AwardsCannes IFF 2011: Label Europa Cinemas Award Sarajevo FF 2011: Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film & Best Actor, CICAE AwardBrussels Cinédécouvertes 2011: Public Award Miskolc IFF 2011: Emeric Pressburger Prize for Best Film, International Ecumenical Award, Critics Award Zurich FF 2011: Golden Eye Quebec City FF 2011: Best First Feature Film
Karl Markovics
19-year-old Roman Kogler has a chance to be released early from his young offenders’ institution. The odds are against him, however: he is an uncommunicative and solitary character without a family and doesn’t seem to be fit for re-socialisation.As a day-release prisoner he has a job at a funeral home. Of all things, it is this job dealing with death that shows him the path back to life.
Karl Markovics Born on 29 August 1963 in Vienna, he is a respected stage actor, appearing in many theatre plays and musicals. He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s 2007 film THE COUNTERFEITERS, which was awarded with the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and more recently in UNKNOWN IDENTITY. BREATHING is his first feature film as a writer and director.
Austria93 min.
www.breathing-the-movie.at
ATMENBREATHING
Production:Epo-Film ProduktionsgesellschaftEdelsinnstraße 581120 WienAUSTRIAtel. +43 1 812 3718fax +43 1 813 [email protected]
World Sales:Films Distribution 34, rue du Louvre75001 ParisFRANCEtel. +33 4 92 99 32 [email protected]
Press:Thim-FilmHermang 18/51070 WienAUSTRIAtel. +43 1 236 [email protected]
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Karl MarkovicsPRODUCED BY: Dieter Pochlatko DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin GschlachtEDITOR: Alarich LenzPRODUCTION DESIGNER: Isi WimmerORIGINAL SCORE: Herbert TucmandlMAIN CAST: Thomas Schubert (Roman Kogler), Karin Lischka (Margit Kogler), Gerhard Liebmann (Walter Falker), Georg Friedrich (Rudolf Kienast)
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI4 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011 European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI5
TILVA ROŠ
Festival Participation/Awards:Sarajevo FF 2010: Best Film, Best ActorLocarno IFF 2010Warsaw IFF 20112-in-1 IFF Moscow 2010: Best Film, Best StoryNoordelijk FF 2010: Best Film, Matad’OrFF Cottbus 2010: Spirit AwardEstoril FF 2010: Best Film, Cineuropa AwardGijon IFF 2010: Special Jury AwardBelfort IFF 2010: Best Film, Audience AwardThessaloniki IFF 2010Festival Européen Les Arcs 2010Trieste FF 2011Rotterdam IFF 2011Miami IFF 2011Buenos Aires IFF 2011San Francisco IFF 2011Transylvania IFF 2011: FIPRESCI AwardCinema City IFF 2011: Best Film, Best ScreenplayFF Sopot 2011: Best FilmMotovun FF 2011: Bauer Award
Nikola Ležaić
Filmography:2007 BOXER GOES TO HEAVEN, short2008 NYLON-DRESSED GROUND, short2008 BOR, WORKERS’ OASIS, mockumentary2010 TILVA ROŠ
Toda and Stefan are best friends, skaters, who spend their first summer after finishing high school. Stefan will go to university in Belgrade in fall while Toda will stay back home. They spend their time shooting “Jackass-like” videos and hanging out with Dunja, who has come back from France for her holidays, and get into a quiet battle for her attention. In that strange relationship of a dying friendship and rivalry they try to get ahead of each other.
Nikola LežaićNikola Ležaić is born on 6 August 1981 in Bor, Serbia. He studied film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. He made a couple of short films before TILVA ROŠ.
Serbia95 min.www.tilvaros.com
TILVA ROŠ
Production:Film House Kiselo DeteDalmatinska 1711000 BelgradeSERBIAtel. +381 11 275 12 [email protected]
World Sales: Visit Films89 Fifth Ave, Suite 806New York, NY 10003USAtel. +1 718 312 8210fax +1 718 362 [email protected]
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WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Nikola LežaićPRODUCED BY: Uroš Tomić, Mina Đukić & Nikola LežaićDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Miloš JaćimovićEDITOR: Nikola LežaićPRODUCTION DESIGNER: Nikola BerčekMAIN CAST: Marko Todorović (Toda), Stefan Đorđević (Stefan), Dunja Kovačević (Dunja), Marko Milenković (Mare), Nenad Stanisavljević (Mekica)
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NOTHING’S ALL BAD
Festival Participation/Awards:Santo Domingo IFF 2011Glasgow FF 2011AFI Los Angeles IFF 2011Les Arcs European FF 2010London FF 2011Palm Springs IFF 2011: New Voices New Visions AwardSan Sebastian FF 2010: Special mentionStockholm IFF 2010
Mikkel Munch-Fals
We meet four people who all long for love and cross paths in unpredictable ways.We meet Ingeborg, who no longer feels attractive, and the young guy Jonas, who is so attractive that he can literally make a living of it. We meet Anna, a younger, physically disabled woman, and Anders, an older man with a mental issue. All of them are determined to fight for a better life, which causes the lives of the four people to become entwined.Director’s Statement:To understand who we are, we need to be put on display and laughed at. And to be forgiven, we need someone to defend and love us. In NOTHING’S ALL BAD, I display and defend the characters so you can laugh at them and love them a bit. I defend them tooth and nail, because second to hunger and thirst, loneliness is the toughest human condition.When we human beings are lonely, we behave undignified and amorally: We use and abuse, sell ourselves, buy others, blame ourselves, blame others, cry, and forgive. It’s all both endlessly tragic and endlessly comic.Although our loneliness can be self-inflicted, there is no limit to the lengths we will go to in order to make contact with others and find love. And that is what my film is about.
Mikkel Munch-FalsMikkel Munch-Fals holds a master’s degree in Film Studies from the Univer-sity of Copenhagen. Mikkel is an artist, illustrator and author, and has been a host and critic on the acclaimed TV programme “DR2 Premiere”. Munch-Fals’ directorial debut YNGLINGE (First Flush) was winner of Best Short Fiction Award at festivals in San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) and Tampere (Finland). His second short PARTUS won five awards – including a Robert in Denmark.
Denmark93 min.www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/danishfilms/dffilm.aspx?id=19551
SMUKKE MENESKERNOTHING’S ALL BAD
Production & Press:Zentropa Entertainments Filmbyen 222650 Hvidovre DENMARKtel. +45 36 86 87 88 [email protected]
World Sales:TrustNordiskFilmbyen 282650 HvidovreDENMARKtel. +45 36 86 87 [email protected]
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Mikkel Munch-FalsPRODUCED BY: Meta Louise Foldager & Stine Meldgaard DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Eric KressEDITOR: Carsten SøstedPRODUCTION DESIGNER: Charlotte BechORIGINAL SCORE: Jomi MassageMAIN CAST: Bodil Jørgensen (Ingeborg), Sebastian Jessen (Jonas), Henrik Prip (Anders), Mille Hofmeyer Lehfeldt (Anna)
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