ROTTERDAM 2012 HUNTING THE TIGER
The International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards competition section presents a diverse line-up of cutting-edge cinema from around the world. Profiles by Leon Forde
BLACK’S GAME (Ice) World premiere Dir Oskar Thor Axelsson Executive produced by Nicolas Winding Refn, this crime thriller is based on the bestseller Black Curse by Stefan Mani. Black’s Game is Axelsson’s feature debut, and the cast includes Thorvaldur David Kristjansson, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Damon Younger and Egill Einarsson. Sales TrustNordisk
info@trustnordisk.com
CLIP (Serb) World premiere Dir Maja Milos The feature debut of Belgrade-born Milos, Clip is a portrait of teenagers stuck in sexual and social turmoil. Sexually explicit and emotionally dis- turbing, the film focuses on 16-year- old Jasna, who is angry with everyone and everything. Sales Jelena Mitrovic, Film House Bas Celik
jelena@bascelik.net
EGG AND STONE (Chi) World premiere Dir Huang Ji A quietly disturbing drama, Egg And Stone follows a 14-year-old girl forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside while her parents work in the city. For her feature debut, director Huang shot the film in her hometown in the province of Hunan using non-professional actors. Sales Otsuka Ryuji, Yellow-Green Pi
ryujiotsuka@hotmail.com
A FISH (S Kor) International premiere Dir Park Hong-min The first 3D film in Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards competition, A Fish is the feature debut of writer-director Park. The road movie follows a pro- fessor of logic and metaphysics who is travelling with a detective who says he has found the professor’s missing wife on an island. Sales Isabelle Park, Mirovision Inc
isabelle@mirovision.com
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LIVING (Rus) World premiere Dir Vasily Sigarev Russian playwright and film-maker Sigarev won international acclaim for his 2009 feature debut Wolfy, win- ning prizes at the Sochi and Zurich film festivals, among others. Sigarev returns with Living, an existential portrait of several protagonists living in a wintry Russian province. Sales Dmitry Pleshkov, Koktebel Film Company
dima@koktebelfilm.ru
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IN APRIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THERE WAS A FIRE (Thai) World premiere Dir Wichanon Somumjarn The voyage of a young man into the real and the imagined past and present, In April… follows a con- struction worker who travels to a school-friend’s wedding. It is the first feature from director Somum- jarn, whose short film Four Boys, White Whiskey And Grilled Mouse won the best fiction award at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland in 2010. Sales Anocha Suwichakornpong, Electric Eel Films maigoodness@
mac.com
IT LOOKS PRETTY FROM A DISTANCE (Pol-US) International premiere Dirs Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal The winner of the best film in the
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Polish film competition at the 2011 New Horizons International Film Festival, It Looks Pretty From A Dis- tance portrays a love story in a Polish village between a girl and a scrap collector whose disappearance trig- gers a chain of unexpected events. Sales Agata Szymanska, Filmpolis
szymanska.agata@
gmail.com
L (Gr) European premiere Dir Babis Makridis L is the story of a man who lives in a car and meets his family in parking lots, and whose job it is to supply the finest honey to a 50-year-old man. L was co-written by Makridis and Efthimis Filippou, a co-writer of Yor- gos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Alps, which won the best screenplay prize at Venice last year. L was a world premiere at Sundance. Sales Amanda Livanou, Beben Films
amanda@bebenfilms.com
NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS (Bra) World premiere Dir Kleber Mendonca Filho Neighbouring Sounds is set in a mid- dle-class neighbourhood in Recife, Brazil, where life takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of a private secu- rity firm. It is the first fiction feature from Filho, whose shorts have screened in festivals such as Karlovy Vary, Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes and Rotterdam, where a retrospective of his films was part of the 2007 pro- gramme. He also directed the docu- mentary feature Critico in 2008. Sales Emilie Lesclaux, Cinemascopio Producoes
emirecife@gmail.com
RETURN TO BURMA (Tai-Bur) European premiere Dir Midi Z Return To Burma tells the story of an immigrant labourer in Taiwan who saves enough money to return home. Bringing the remains of a friend who died in a construction accident, he begins to look for busi- ness opportunities — revealing the true face of Burma and the angst of its youngsters. The film is the first feature from Midi Z, who was selected as a leading director of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy in 2009, organised by Hou Hsiao- hsien, who produced the director’s short Hua-Xing Incident. Sales Patrick Mao Huang, Flash Forward Entertainment
patrick@ffe.com.tw
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