NOTHING’S ALL BAD (Smukke Menesker) (Denmark) Dir/scr Mikkel Munch-Fals Nothing’s All Bad is produced by Meta Louise Foldager and Stine Meldgaard for Zentropa and New Danish Screen. It made its world premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2010 where it won a special mention as part of the Zabaltegi New Directors selection. Nothing’s All Bad is the story of four social misfits of differ- ent ages, filled with love, longing and lust and coping with contemporary life in the big city. Bodil Jørgensen, Sebastian Jessen, Mille
Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt and Henrik Prip star in the film, which marks the anticipated directorial debut of illustrator, critic and film-maker Mikkel Munch-Fals. Munch-Fals has previously made two short films: First Flush, which won the best short fiction award at the Expresión en Corto awards in Mexico, and Partus, which won five awards including a Robert from the Danish Film Academy. Nothing’s All Bad won Munch-Fals the New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier this year.
OXYGEN (Adem) (Belgium-Netherlands) Dir/scr Hans Van Nuffel Oxygen is Van Nuffel’s first feature film and, like his main characters, the director suffers from cystic fibrosis. His short films have won him the Wildcard award from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, and the jury award at the 2008 Montréal World Film Festival. In Oxygen, Stef Aerts and Maarten Mertens play two brothers, Tom and Lucas, battling to embrace life despite spending much of it in hospital. During one stay Tom meets Xavier, played by Wouter Hendrickx, whose energetic love of life inspires Tom to a more optimistic outlook. Co-produced by Belgium’s A Private View and
the Netherlands’ Lemming Film, Oxygen is co- scripted by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, a pro- lific writer whose credits include Moscow, Belgium. The film has played the festival circuit throughout 2010 and 2011, premiering at the Amiens International Film Festival in France and screening in competition at Karlovy Vary earlier this summer. It has grossed nearly ¤625,000 in Belgium via Kinepolis.
TILVA ROŠ (Serbia) Dir/scr Nikola Ležaic After director Nikola Ležaic saw footage of Ser- bian skateboarders from his home town perform- ing stunts for fun, he met them and decided to make a fictional film in which the skaters, Marko Todorovic and Stefan Djordjevic, play them- selves. In Tilva Roš, Toda and Stefan are best friends and skaters who are spending a carefree summer together after finishing high school. However, the arrival of a girl from France threat- ens to unbalance their friendship. Labour union protests taking place in the town also begin to infiltrate their consciousness. The film, set in the Serbian copper-mining
town of Bor, is a low-tech mixture of hand-held clips and long wide-shots. Tilva Roš had its first screening at the Sarajevo
Film Festival in 2010 where it won the best fea- ture award and Todorovic picked up the best actor prize. It is produced by Ležaic with Uroš Tomić and Mina Ðukić and won backing at project stage from the Hubert Bals Fund.
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