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As shadows fade

AS SHADOWS FADE

Trapped by the Turkish traditional, heteronormative family ideal, Esin lives like a ghost, unaware of her passions. When she falls for the fiery, playful Deniz, a distant family friend who takes refuge in their house, she discovers the possibility of a genuine life. Their intimacy pushes her to transcend her boundaries, towards a dark place of secrets, deceit and heartache.

DIRECTOR

Burcu Aykar

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

in development

GENRE

Feature Film

CO PRODUCTION

Liman Film

FUNDERS

German Turkish Co-Development Fund

MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Meetings on the Bridge IKSV Istanbul

SØR Fund Norway

Hubert Bals Fund Netherlands

MARKETS

Best Project Award 32nd Ankara Film Festival 2021

Mattepost Post Production Online Award @Meetings on the Bridge 2022

Transylvania Pitch Stop Award @Meetings on the Bridge 2022

Best Adapted Screenplay @Anatalya Film Festival 2022

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My Stolen Planet

MY STOLEN PLANET

"My Stolen Planet" is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn't know. Relying on others' recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories.

 

Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of her archive's faces. Farah's mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, motivates her to fight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising became a turning point in Farah's life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran.  

                                                                                                                                              

This is a homemade history.

DIRECTOR

Farahnaz Sharifi

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2024

GENRE

Feature Length Documentary

82 min.

COPRODUCTION

Pakfilm Germany/Iran

FESTIVALS

Worldpremiere @Berlinale Panorama 

TIDF#26 - International Premiere in competition @Thessaloniki International Film Festival 

48th HKIFF Hong Kong International Film Festival - Reality Bites - Asian Premiere

Visions du Réel - Highlights - Swiss Premiere

Hot Docs - Persister - North American Premiere

37. Bolzano International Film Festival Bozen

Dokfest Munich - Filmmakers in Exile - Regional Premiere

Taiwan International Documentary Filmfestival 

Beldocs IDFF - Serbian Premiere

Innsbruck IFFI - Austrian Premiere

Bildrausch Filmfest Basel - Regional Premiere

71. Sydney Film Festival - Australian Premiere

Golden Apricot - Regional Competition - Armenian Premiere

MDOC Melgaco International Documentary Film Festival - Portuguese Premiere

Lemesos International Documentary Festival - Cyprus Premiere

Dokufest Prizren - Kosovo Premiere

Make Docs Skopje - Macedonia Premiere

Freistadt der Neue Heimatfilm - local Austrian Premiere

Sofia DocuMental - Bulgarian Premiere

Busan IFF - South Korean Premiere

BFI London Film Festival - UK Premiere

Inconvenient Films Documentary Festival - Lithauanian Premiere 

Brussels Festival des Libertés - Belgian Premiere

Middle East Now Festival Firenze - Italian Premiere

Nuremberg Interantional Human Rights Film Festival - Regional Premiere

Slovenska Kinoteka - Slovenian Premiere

Astra Filmfestival - Rumanian Premiere

Chicago International Film Festival - US Premiere

Westlake Int. Documentary Festival - Mainland China Premiere

Duisburger Filmwoche - Local Premiere

Dresden MOVE IT Festival - Local Premiere

ZINEBI Bilbao int. Film Festival - Spain Premiere

Kassel Dokfest - Local Premiere

Doc NYC - New York Premiere

IDFA - Netherlands Premiere

FIDOCS Chile - South American Premiere

14th int. Crime & Punishment Film Festival - Turkish Premiere

Les Rencontres du Cinéma Docmentaire - French Premiere

21st Verzió Film Festival - Hungarian Premiere

5th Orient Express Film Festival - Regional Premiere

MARKETS

DocFest Munich Masterpitch 2023

Berlinale Producers Hub 2023

AWARDS

Second Panorama Audience Award 2024

German Documentary Music Award 2024 for the

Composition of Atena Eshtiaghi

Golden Alexander @TIDF#26 Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival

FIPRESCI Award @TIDF#26 Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival

Roman Brodmann Preis - Haus des Dokumentarfilms - Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik

Martin Award Film Festival Innsbruck 2024

Audience Award - Bolzano Film Festival Bozen 2024

Peter Liechti and Audience Award @Bildrausch Basel 2024

Audience Award and Next Generation Award

@TIDF Taiwan 2024

Silver Apricot -  Golden Apricot Film Festival Armenia in Regional Competition

Jean-Loup Passek Award for Best International Feature Length Film @Melgaçao Documentary Fim festival 2024​

Documentaryfilm prize and Prize of the youth jury @Der NEUE HEIMATfilm, Freistadt Austria 2024

Silver Hugo Documentary Chicago International Film Festical

Best Director Award Astra Film Festival Official Selection

Youth Jury Award ZINEBI International Film Festival

10. Move it! Filmprize for Human Rights Dresden

Best Film International Competition @FIDOCS Chile

Boeld & Geluid ReFrame Award @IDFA

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life in the shadows

LIFE IN THE SHADOWS

Years after his classmates were massacred at his school in Pakistan, director K.D. records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.

Jury statement Sunny Side of the Docs 2023:

“This project successfully highlights the significance of portraying the narratives of marginalized individuals who are often unheard in society.”

DIRECTOR

Anonymous

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

in development

GENRE

Feature Length Documentary

 

CO PRODUCTION

Kamay Film, Ilyas Yourish 

 

MARKETS

Hot Docs Dealmaker 2023

Sunny Side of the Docs 2023, Winner New Voices

Special Award - Pitch the Doc Prize

DMZ Docs Pitch, Korea – Global Pitch

abo zabaal

ABO ZAABAL 89

Bassam Mortada was five years old when he first visited his father Mahmoud in the notorious Abo Zaabal prison. With the police raid still fresh in his mind, his experience was dominated by incomprehension. But in the years that followed, resentment took hold.

Bassam was raised by his mother Fardous, a socialist activist herself. As a single parent, her life was hard, and when Mahmoud was finally released from prison he seemed like a different person. He left for Vienna, and for a second time she was left behind, this time embittered. Bassam grew alienated from both, suppressing his own trauma and confusion.

In this documentary, he films his efforts to renew and restore relationships with his parents and find a path to historical truth, emotional comprehension and psychological healing, as he tries to reconstruct how his parents’ political activism has shaped their family. Through conversations with his parents and their friends, the cassette tapes his father sent from Vienna, a theatrical monologue by his father’s best friend, newspaper archives and found footage, he shows the impact of the “big” history of Egypt on the “small” history of his family.

DIRECTOR

Bassam Mortada

DOP

Mohamad el-Hadidi

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2024

GENRE

Feature Length Documentary

FESTIVALS

IDFA Luminous Selection

MARKETS

Robert Bosch Film Prize, winner 2019

IDFA Forum 2022

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les enfants terribles

LES ENFANTS
TERRIBLES

Filmmaker Ahmet Nacdet Cupur returns to his small home village in the southeast of Turkey to follow his brother Mahmut while he frees himself out of his marriage - arranged when his wife was still a child - and his sister Zeynep studies long hours after her work in a factory to get a school degree and the chance to build up her own existence. Their parents and the people in the village do not receive these decisions with cheers…

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DIRECTOR

Ahmet Necdet Cupur

 

DOP

Ahmet Necdet Cupur

Lucie Baudinaud

 

EDITOR

Mathilde Van de Moortel

Elif Uluengin

Nicolas Sublarti

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2021

GENRE

Feature Length Documentary

 

CO PRODUCTION

TS Production France

Liman Film Turkey

 

MARKETS

Vision du Réel 2019

Docs Barcelona 2019

Copro Market DokLeipzig 2019

Winner Poster Award Meetings on the Bridge 2020

Winner of Work in Progress Antalya Film Forum 2020

FESTIVALS

International Feature Film Competition @Visions du Réel 2021

Official Section Panorama @DocsBarcelona 2021

Competition Programme @Sarajevo Film Festival 2021

fARAD, Rumania 2021

National feature film competition @Adana Film Festival 2021

International Competition @Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021

Official Selection @BFI London Film Festival 2021

Section Documentaire @Cinemed Montpellier 2021

West Lake IDF, China 2021 

Guangneung, South Korea 2021

Documentary Section @Camerimage 2021

Family Topography section @RIDM Montréal 2021

German Premiere @Kasseler Dokfest 2021

Best of Fests @IDFA 2021

Selection @European Film Awards

official selection @Zurich HRFF 2021

Crime & Punishment Festival @Istanbul 2021

Section Competition Revolution @Cinemamed, Belgium 2021

Cinema Verité IDF, Iran 2021

Fipadoc Panorama Section, France 2022

Doc Point Helsinki, Finland 2022 

int. Documentary Competition @SIFF, Bulgaria 2022

section Filmlandschaften @26. Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland, Nuremberg 2022

Türkische Filmtage, Munich 2022

Filmreihe Typisch Türkisch, Cologne 2022

Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022

Zagreb DOX, Croatia 2022

Millenium IDF, Belgium 2022

Docs Against Gravity, Poland 2022

HADOC Festival, Portugal 2022

Neisse IFF, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic 2022

One World Romania, 2022

Türkisches Filmfestival Berlin 2022

Rome International Filmfestival 2022

Sinema Transtopia, Berin 2023

AWARDS

Special Jury Award @Visions du Rèel 2021

Human Rights Award Sarajevo 2021

Best Film, Best Editing, Special Jury Mention to Zeynep Cupur

@Adana Film Festival 2021

Second Silver Nanook and Audience Award @Flahertiana Film Festival, Perm, Russia 2021

Mention @Cinemed Montpellier 2021

Jury Special Award @Crime and Punishment Festival Istanbul 2021

Young Jury Award @Cinemamed Belgium 2021

Best Film international competition @Cinema Verité, Iran 2021

Best Documentary @Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards 2022

Grand Jury Prize @Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022

Best Cinematography @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022

Zalab Prize @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022

WEBSITE

lesenfantsterriblesfilm.com

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lift like a girl

LIFT LIKE A GIRL

On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s most elite champions - female weightlifters. Zebiba (Arabic for “raisin”) has been training at the site for five years, since she was 9, following in the footsteps of Egypt’s most famous athletes of all time - including the first Arab, female, two-time Olympic medalist weightlifter, Abeer Abdel Rahman, and World champion and Olympic athlete, Nahla Ramadan. Nahla’s father, the visionary Captain Ramadan, has bred champions, female champions, from his makeshift corner-lot training site for over two decades - 4 Olympic, 9 World and 17 Pan African champions. Now it is Zebiba’s turn. But can Zebiba put aside her youthful instincts, and direct her focus to be the weightlifting champion the Captain is sure she is?

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DIRECTOR

Mayye Zayed

 

DOP

Mohamed El-Hadidi

 

EDITOR

Sara Abdallah

 

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2020

GENRE

Feature Length Documentary

 

CO PRODUCTION

Cleo Media
Rufy’s Film Egypt

a coproduction with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel

on Netflix in non german speaking countries

 

FESTIVALS

TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival [World Premiere] 2020
DOK Leipzig [European Premiere] Winner of Golden Dove 2020
DOCNYC [US Premiere] 2020
CIFF - Cairo International Film Festival  [MENA premiere] 2020
MED Film Festival, Italy 2020

THESSALONIKI Documentary Festival 2021

Sofia Film Festival 2021

JEONJU Int. Film Festival 2021

Krakow FF 2021

Sheffield DocFest 2021

Doc Edge 2021

ONE WORLD Int. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2021

SIFF Shanghai International Film Festival 2021

GABES CINEMA FEN 2021

GUKIFF 2021

Safar London Filmfestival 2021

Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021

Zwickl Dokumentarfilmfest  Schwandorf 2023

AWARDS

Golden Dove in German competition @DOKLeipzig 2020

Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First or Second Film @CIFF2020

Audience Award @CIFF 2020

Isis Award for Best Egyptian Film highlighting Women's Economic and Social Role @CIFF2020

Best Documentary @Critics Award for Arab Cinema, Festival de Cannes 2021

Best Director @GUKIFF South Korea Filmfestival 2021

Nomination @Cinemaforpeace Foundation Award for Women's Empowerment

Filmprize for Global Learning @Filmtage Globale Perspektiven

WEBSITE

liftlikeagirlfilm.com

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CALLE DEL ARTE

Calle des Arte is a documentary directed by Viviane Blumenschein, which accompanies Clemencia Labin, the inhabitants and the artists before, during and after the Velada Santa Lucía 2012.

DIRECTOR

Viviane Blumenschein

 

DOP

Björn Knechtel

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2013

GENRE

TV Documentary

FUNDERS

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein in collaboration with ZDF/arte

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