KIMI

Angela Childs is a tech analyst who reviews data streams for the Amygdala Corporation, purveyor of the voice-activated companion server KIMI. Amidst a pandemic, even though restrictions have eased, Angela suffers from agoraphobia and follows a strict routine within the safety of her loft apartment in downtown Seattle. Between computer breaks, Angela flirts – among other things – with her neighbor across the street, and communicates with her mother, her dentist, and her therapist via video chat, proving she never needs to leave the comforts of home. But that changes when she hears something horrific in one of the streams she is analyzing. Reporting it over email is deemed too risky, so a trusted co-worker advises Angela to go to their head office downtown and speak directly to executive Natalie Chowdhury and alert her to what Angela is certain is a serious crime. But Angela hasn't ventured outside since before the pandemic. Just getting to the office is a huge challenge, but she's determined to do the right thing. But Angela has no idea what will actually happen when – and if – she's able to step out of her comfort zone. screenplay David Koepp cinematography Peter Andrews editing Mary Ann Bernard music Cliff Martinez sound Larry Blake production design Philip Messina costumes Ellen Mirojnick cast Zoë Kravitz (Angela Childs) Derek DelGaudio (Bradley Hasling) Jacob Vargas (Glasses Thug) Byron Bowers (Terry Hughes) Robin Givens (Angela's Mother) Rita Wilson (Natalie Chowdhury) Jaime Camil (Antonio Rivas) Charles Halford (Tall Thug) Erika Christensen (Samantha Gerrity) Devin Ratray (Kevin) producers David Koepp Michael Polaire productions Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema Steven Soderbergh is a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. He most recently directed the features No Sudden Move and Let Them All Talk, which debuted on HBO Max in July 2021 and December 2020, respectively. His television film Behind The Candelabra, for which he won a 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing, debuted on HBO in May of that year. He earned the Academy Award in 2000 for directing Traffic, and in the same year was nominated for Erin Brockovich. Soderbergh earlier gained an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for sex, lies, and videotape, his feature film directorial debut. That film also won the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Among his other credits are the HBO limited series Mosaic, the 2014-2015 Cinemax series The Knick, and the HBO series K Street, and the films The Laundromat, High Flying Bird, Unsane, Logan Lucky, Side Effects, Magic Mike, Haywire, Contagion, And Everything is Going Fine, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Che, the Ocean's Trilogy, The Good German, Bubble, Solaris, Full Frontal, The Limey, Out of Sight, Schizopolis, Gray's Anatomy, The Underneath, King of the Hill, and Kafka. His film Equilibrium, one of a trio of short eroticism-themed films

KIMI2022-11-25T17:50:44+01:00

TAFRIGH – SUBTRACTION

When Farzaneh spots a man on a city bus who looks an awful lot like her husband, Jalal, she follows him to an unfamiliar building. There, she sees the residents greet him as if they know him and watches from the street as he enters an apartment to meet with another woman. Three months pregnant and barely present in her job as a driving instructor, Farzaneh is convinced she’s caught Jalal in an affair. When they discuss it, he’s adamant about his alibi, reminding her that he was miles away at the time. Farzaneh begins to fall apart, but she swears she saw him, and, unable to let go, she continues to pull on the thread before making an unsettling discovery about the man on the bus.  screenplay Amir Reza Koohestani Mani Haghighi cinematography Morteza Najafi editing Meysam Molaei music Ramin Kousha sound Amir Hossein Ghasemi Rashid Daneshmand direction design Mohsen Nasrollahi costumes Neda Nasr cast Taraneh Alidoosti (Farzaneh, Bita) Navid Mohammadzadeh (Jalal, Mohsen) Esmail Poor-Reza (Jalal's father) Farham Azizi (Bardia) producer Majid Motalebi production Majid Film Production world sales Films Boutique contact@filmsboutique.com www.filmsboutique.com Mani Haghighi studied philosophy at McGill University in Montréal. His first feature, Abadan (2003) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Men at Work (Berlinale, Forum 2006), based on a story idea by Abbas Kiarostami, won the Best Screenplay Prize at the 2007 Asian Film Awards. Haghighi has co-written two screenplays with the Oscar-winning Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi: Fireworks Wednesday (2006) and Canaan (2008), based on a short story by Alice Munro. Modest Reception (Berlinale, Forum 2012) won the Free Spirit Award at the Warsaw Film Festival. After A Dragon Arrives! (Berlinale, Competition 2016), Haghighi made the romantic comedy 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries (2017). Pig (Berlinale, Competition 2018) earned him l’Amphore d’Or for Best Film at the Festival du film Grolandais in Toulouse. 2022 Tafrigh (Subtraction) 2018 Pig 2017 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries 2016 Dragon Arrives! 2012 Modest Reception 2006 Men at Work 2003 Abadan

TAFRIGH – SUBTRACTION2022-11-25T15:43:19+01:00

SASHENKA

A shocking murder that shook Soviet society in the seventies and exposed the flip side of Soviet morality. In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple had lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother’s pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka like a girl, dresses him like a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. screenplay Olexandr Zhovna cinematography Sergey Kolbinev editing Olexandr Zhovna music Olexandr Zhovna sound Viktor Nikityuk production design Dmitri Svyatkin costumes Inga Sovenko cast Milena Kompaniiets (Lena) Dmitry Orlov (Mikola) Dmitry Nizhelsky (Sasha) Oksana Burlay-Piterova (Sasha's mother) Viktor Rybchinskiy (Sasha's father) producers Olexandr Zhovna Evgeny Sivkov production Cinemastudio world sales Antipode festivals@antipode-sales.biz www.antipode-sales.biz Alexander Zhovna is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter and director. He is a member of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. He was designated Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2008. He is known for directing documentaries, and as a cinematographer on multiple documentaries, and short films. 2022 Sashenka 2019 Liza’s Tale 2014 My Dear Ukrainians (doc)   2007 Small Life (short) 1997 Massacre (doc)

SASHENKA2022-11-23T15:33:37+01:00

PROFETI

Sara is an Italian journalist who has come to the Middle East to report on the war waged against the Islamic State. Nur is a foreign fighter who was radicalized in London, married another fighter, and now lives in the caliphate. When Sara is kidnapped by ISIS and can’t be held in a prison alongside male prisoners – since, as a woman, she is considered an inferior being whose dignity lies solely in her submission to men – she is entrusted to the care of one of her ‘peer’s: a woman. Nur becomes her jailer, and her home, Sara’s prison. That house, in the middle of a training camp run by the Islamic State, is the place where Sara and Nur will face off. Their interaction is practically impossible and turns into psychological warfare as bombs explode all around them and enemies of the State are burned alive in revenge. It’s a dynamic based on silences, blackmail, and manipulation, as Nur gradually attempts to convert Sara. screenplay Alessio Cremonini Monica Zapelli cinematography Ramiro Civita editing Marco Spoletini production design Sabrina Balestra costumes Angela Tomasicchio cast Jasmin Trinca (Sara) Isabella Nefar (Nur) Ziad Bakri (Isis Leader) Omar El-Saeidi (prisoner) Mehdi Meskar (Abdullah) Marco Horanieh (Hassan) Orwa Kulthoum (Omar) producers Olivia Musini Luigi Musini Mattia Guerra Stefano Massenzi Andrea Occhipinti productions Cinemaundici Lucky Red with Rai Cinema in collaboration with Sky Cinema world sales True Colours info@truecolours.it www.truecolours.it Alessio Cremonini got his start as an AD to Ettore Scola on the film The Dinner. In 1997, he wrote and co-directed the short film Marta with Camilla Costanzo. In 2000, he co-wrote Voci, directed by Franco Girardi and based on the novel by Dacia Maraini. In 2003, he and Camilla Costanzo wrote and directed the Raiuno TV movie Una famiglia per caso. Cremonini co-wrote Private, Saverio Costanzo’s directorial debut, in 2004. In 2013, he wrote, directed and co-produced Border, a low-budget film about the civil war in Syria that screened at the festivals of Toronto, Rome, Cleveland, and Belfast, among others. In 2018, he wrote and directed On My Skin, his second feature film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the Horizons section and went on to win four David di Donatello awards and the Silver Ribbon that year. 2022 Profeti 2018 Sulla mia pelle 2013 Border 1997 Marta (short)

PROFETI2022-11-23T23:26:42+01:00

LA NIÑA DE LA COMUNIÓN

Spain, late 1980s. Newcomer Sara tries to fit in with the other teens in a tight-knit small town in the province of Tarragona. If only she were more like her extroverted best friend, Rebe! They go out one night and take drugs at a nightclub. On the way home, they come upon a little girl holding a doll, dressed for her first communion. And that’s when the nightmare begins. screenplay Guillem Clua Víctor García Alberto Marini cinematography José Luis Bernal editing Clara Martínez Malagelada music Marc Timón production design Marc Pou costumes Ariadna Papio cast Carla Campra (Sara) Aina Quiñones (Rebe) Marc Soler (Pedro) Carlos Oviedo (Chivo) Olimpia Roch (Judit) producers Mercedes Gamero Edmon Roch productions Atresmedia Cine Ikiru Films Warner Bros Entertainment Spain world sales Film Factory Entertainment info@filmfactory.es www.filmfactoryentertainment.com Victor García’s short film The Cycle premiered at the 2003 Sitges Festival and opened the doors for him to the American market, where he directed his first films: Return to House on Haunted Hill and Mirrors 2. Since then, he has continued directing international productions such as the film Gallows Hill, which also premiered at Sitges in 2013, and the 2019 An Affair to Die for, in which, for the first time, García decided to step back from the classic horror genre to shoot a claustrophobic thriller.  2022 La niña de la comunión 2019 An Affair to Die for 2013 Gallows Hill 2011 T Is for Tiles (short) 2011 Hellraiser: Revelations 2010 Mirrors 2 2010 Arctic Predator 2007 Return to House on Haunted Hill 2003 El ciclo (The Cycle, short)

LA NIÑA DE LA COMUNIÓN2022-11-23T15:31:16+01:00

HEON-TEU – HUNT

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where, if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth.  screenplay Lee Jung-jae Jo Seung-hee cinematography Lee Mo-gae editing Kim Sang-bum music Cho Young-wuk sound Jung Gun production design Park Il-hyun costumes Cho Sang-kyung Choi Yoon-sun cast Lee Jung-jae (Pyong-ho) Jung Woo-sung (Jung-do) Jeon Hye-jin (agent Ju-kyung) Heo Sung-tae (agent Cheol-sung) Go Youn-jung (Yoo-jung) Kim Jong-soo (director Ahn) Jung Man-sik (agent Yang) produttori Han Jae-duk Lee Jung-jae produzioni Artist Studio Sanai Pictures world sales Megaboxjoongang Plus M sales@megabox.co.kr www.megaboxplusm.co.kr Lee Jung-jae’s career as an actor spans three decades. Among the many titles to his credit, The Housemaid by Im Sang-soo competed at Noir in Festival in 2010. Last year, Lee starred in the controversial hit series Squid Game, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – the first Asian to win an award in this category. Lee was supposed to co-star in Hunt, but when he read the story for the film, he decided to direct what would become his directorial debut. The film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival out of competition. 2022 Heon-Teu (Hunt)

HEON-TEU – HUNT2022-11-23T15:35:52+01:00

ENYS MEN

In 1973, on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. The film was shot on 16mm. screenplay Mark Jenkin cinematography Mark Jenkin editing Mark Jenkin sound Mark Jenkin music Mark Jenkin production design Joe Gray Mae Voogd cast Mary Woodvine (volunteer) Edward Rowe (boatman) Flo Crowe (girl) John Woodvine (preacher) Joe Gray (miner) Loveday Twomlow (baby) producer Denzil Monk production Bosena world sales Protagonist Pictures info@protagonistpictures.com www.protagonistpictures.com Mark Jenkin is a filmmaker based in West Cornwall. His unique filmmaking style involves him also acting as cinematographer and editor, and often hand-processing his own footage. He won a BAFTA for his second feature film Bait, which premiered at Berlinale 2019 and became a significant breakout arthouse hit with critics and audiences alike. Other works include the mid-length Bronco’s House and short films Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape and Hard, Cracked the Wind. 2022 Enys Men 2019 Bait 2018 Hard, Cracked the Wind (short) 2018 Vertical Shapes in a Horizontal Landscape (short) 2018 David Bowie is Dead (short) 2016 The Road to Zennor (short) 2015 Dear Marianne (short) 2014 Bronco's House (short) 2007 The Midnight Drives

ENYS MEN2022-11-23T15:32:01+01:00

BOWLING SATURNE

When his father dies, Guillaume, a police officer, inherits the family bowling alley and decides to give it to his half-brother Armand. But the gift is haunted, setting off a series of murders. Both brothers find themselves drawn into a demon-filled abyss and will have to come to terms with their heritage. Darkness reigns over a world where the only rule is the rule of the hunt. screenplay Patricia Mazuy Yves Thomas cinematography Simon Beaufils editing Mathilde Muyard music Wyatt E. production design Thierry François costumes Khadija Zeggai cast Arieh Worthalter (Guillaume) Achille Reggiani (Armand) Y-Lan Lucas (Xuan) Leila Muse (Gloria) producers Patrick Sobelman Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Delphine Tomson productions Ex Nihilo Les Films du Fleuve world sales Totem Films hello@totem-films.com www.totem-films.com Patricia Mazuy was a good student who went to business school to make her baker father happy. There, she ran the movie club and discovered the Doors, who were already dead. She quit to go to LA, where she used her babysitting money to make a short. Thanks to Sabine Mamou, who hired her for A Room in Town by Jacques Demy, she finally learned something. Out of work after editing Vagabond, she began working on her first feature film, Thick Skinned. 2022 Bowling Saturne 2019 X 2017 Paul Sanchez est revenu! 2011 Sport de filles 2004 Basse Normandie (directed with Simon Reggiani, doc) 2000 Saint Cyr 1988 Peaux de Vaches (Thick Skinned)

BOWLING SATURNE2022-11-23T14:20:08+01:00