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| ROME FILM FESTIVAL 2012 |
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To set up a meeting with our sales team; Nelleke Driessen (Wednesday
Nov 14th – Friday Nov 16th) or Nicole Mackey (Wednesday Nov 14th – Saturday Nov
17th), kindly contact us by email on market@fortissimo.nl.
We shall also be happy to discuss
our library of more than 300 Award Winning Features from around the world. Looking
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Other recently completed films for which we can arrange screenings for
you are:-
WHITE FROG
directed by Quentin Lee
BWAKAW
directed by Jun Robles Lana
FULL CIRCLE
directed by Zhang Yang
BEIJING FLICKERS
directed by Zhang Yuan
SHIP OF THESEUS
directed by Anand Gandhi
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| Screenings at the Business Street |
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TOUCH OF THE LIGHT
by CHANG Jung-Chi
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| TAIWAN'S FOREIGN LANGUAGE oSCAR ENTRY |
A WONG KAR WAI Presentation
Produced by Jacky Pang
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Taiwan/Hong Kong, 2012, 110’, Mandarin, Drama
Cast: Sandrine PINNA, HUANG Yu-Siang, LEE Leih
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Best Actress, Audience Choice Award - Taipei Film Festival 2012;
Audience Award - Busan International Film Festival 2012
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Based on true events related to the life of up and coming Taiwanese piano prodigy Yu Hsiang (played by himself), TOUCH OF THE LIGHT is a story of inspiration, discovery and love. Born to a rural family in Taiwan unprepared for the birth of a blind son, Yu Hsiang was a curious and precocious child. Touch and sound were everything to him. With his hands, he could feel better than anyone; with his ears and his tape recorder he could hear better than anyone. Taken together with the love of his mother, he had an inner sight and peace that enabled his imagination to soar and he excelled at the piano. Now he is about to face the real world as he leaves his family behind in order to attend university where he must compete on the same playing field as sighted students and to find his own way. He soon crosses paths with Chieh (Sandrine Pinna), a beautiful but frustrated cold drinks vendor who dreams of being a dancer. When she witnesses Yu Hsiang’s fearless determination and optimism, she is inspired to hold on to her dream.
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Nov 17
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3.00 pm
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Barberini 5
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WHAT MAISIE KNEW
by SCOTT MCGEHEE and DAVID SIEGEL
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USA, 2012, 95', English, Drama
Cast: Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan, Onata Aprile, Joanna Vanderham
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Based on a contemporary interpretation of the classic Henry James novel, and set in present day New York City, the story centers on Maisie, a charming but vulnerable seven-year-old girl enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother (Julianne Moore), an aging rock and roll icon, and her distracted and meandering father (Steve Coogan), an international art dealer. As Maisie is shuttled back and forth between them, she comes to rely more and more on her parents’ new companions; the happy go-lucky hunky bartender Lincoln (Alexander Skarsgård) and the “soon to be” ex-nanny Margo (Joanna Vanderham). With the two of them taking over the responsibilities of watching over Maisie, they begin to see how selfish and damaged Maisie’s parents really are, and find themselves falling in love with one another. Maisie sees how they each match far more than her own parents match them. In Margo and Lincoln, Maisie finds the parenting, the love and the family she craves.
Darkly comic and emotionally compelling, WHAT MAISIE KNEW is an evocative portrayal of the chaos and complexity of modern relationships and the meaning of family.
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Nov 17
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12.30 pm
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Casa del Cinema DELUXE
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AN END TO KILLING
by WANG PING
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China, 2012, Mandarin, Epic Action/Drama
Cast: Zhao Youliang, Tu Men, Park Yejin, Geng Le, Yu Shaoqun and Li Xiaoran
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The story is set against the backdrop of the later years of the reign of Genghis Khan. At a point when his power was at its peak, he decided to push westward wanting to enlarge his empire so that he could see it stretch from “the place where the sun rises to the city where the sun sets.” Smart, cunning, vicious and strategic; at that point in his life, no one could equal him and no one dared challenge him. That was until a master Daoist priest, Qiu Chuji came down from his mountain monastery, pursued Genghis Khan for three years and convinced him that immortality was only possible if he gave up violence and killing. Thus the mighty Khan was tamed.
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Nov 17
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9.00 am
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Barberini 5
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SIMON KILLER
by ANTONIO CAMPOS
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From the filmmakers who brought you
AFTERSCHOOL
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE
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USA, 2012, 105’, English, Psychological Drama
Cast: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop, Michaël Abiteboul
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Brady Corbet plays Simon, a recent college graduate full of promise and potential, who goes to Paris to begin a trip around Europe after a bad break-up with his long-time girlfriend. Although he’s leaving behind a bad memory, he can’t manage to shake off his feelings of loss. Like many young people living overseas and away from home for the first time, he’s both an adventurer and an outsider in a very strange land. When Simon falls in love with a young, mysterious prostitute, their fateful journey begins.
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Nov 15
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1.30 pm
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Barberini 4
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| We would like to show you 1st footage from Upcoming Films |
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SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S
by MATTHEW MIELE
USA, English, Documentary
Status: Post Production
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BORGMAN
by ALEX VAN WARMERDAM
The Netherlands / Belgium / Denmark, Dutch, Drama
Status: Post Production
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AND TO UPDATE YOU ON OTHER FILMS IN PRODUCTION:-
DJINN
directed by Tobe Hooper
CAMERA
directed by James Leong
MONSOON SHOOTOUT
directed by Amit Kumar
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….and in development/pre-production:-
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
directed by John Cameron Mitchell
SUNSET SONG
directed by Terence Davies
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The Netherlands
P: +31-20-627-3215
F: +31-20-626-1155
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Nelleke Driessen (+31 6 1100 2501)
(Wed, Nov 14th - Fri, Nov 16th)
(Wed, Nov 14th - Sat, Nov 17th)
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