INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN (Feb 9-19, 2012) CANNED DREAMS by Katja Gauriloff Available for interviews: director Katja Gauriloff Screenings: Canned Dreams is a lyrical journey across the world. It builds a portrait of ordinary workers through their own personal stories. All this happens within a frame work of following the route of one canned food product, which starts its journey at other side of the world and travels all across Europe. Canned Dreams show the uncountable pairs of hands and their stories behind the making of this product. Festival website, press kit, stills, trailer INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM BACK TO THE SQUARE by Petr Lom (Signals: Power Cut Middle East) - world premiere Available for interviews: Petr Lom and special guest Mark Nabil Screenings: Exactly one year after the euphoria of Tahrir Square and Mubarak's fall, Egypt's revolution remains incomplete: many continue to suffer from state-inflicted cruelty. The film follows five people who suffered injustice at the hands of the current post-revolutionary military regime. Special guest: Mark Nabil, the brother of jailed blogger Michael, who was released earlier this week, both featured in the film. Festival website, press kit, stills Peter von Bagh Retrospective (Signals) Available for interviews: Peter von Bagh Screenings take place from Jan 17-Feb 4 in various locations. Complete line-up. IFFR pays tribute to Peter von Bagh by presenting a selection of his films, as well as showing three rare classics from Finnish cinema history that have been essential in his body of work. Never simple history lessons, his films usually draw on Finnish history. His latest work LASTUJA (SPLINTERS - A Century of an Artistic Family, 2011, international premiere) shows Finland's painful path to independence, its development from a poor rural backwater to a prime example of progress and liberalism as seen through three generations of the Aho family. LASTUJA Screenings: Festival website, press kit, stills BUNOHAN by Dain Said (Spectrum) - European premiere Available for interviews: director Dain Said Screenings: Bunohan is a tragic action drama about love lost between three estranged brothers and their ailing father. A kickboxer, a businessman, and an assassin fight for their lives in a dark web of deceit, regret and murder. Each man’s unfulfilled struggle for forgiveness leads to violence. As quickly as their lives reunite, their ties are forever ripped apart. IN POST-PRODUCTION: MYN BALA by Akan Satayev This year's highest profile Kazakh production, MYN BALA by director Akan Satayev features a coming of age story about a group of teenage warriors who successfully battle their oppressors of the Dzhungar tribe. Top tech talent from Europe, the US and Asia have come on board of this historic adventure film currently finishing post-production. As a co-producer on the project, Silversalt PR advises producer Aliya Uvalzhanova and the Kazakhfilm studio on festival and sales strategies. |
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