Bright Future and Spectrum Line-up and Big Screen Awards nominees

44th International Film Festival Rotterdam
21st January – 1st February 2015

IFFR COMPLETES BRIGHT FUTURE & SPECTRUM LINE-UP AND ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR THE BIG SCREEN AWARD

LINE-UP INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERES FROM USA, CHINA AND THE NETHERLANDS

Rotterdam, January 7th, 2015:
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has confirmed its line-up for its Bright Future and Spectrum programmes and announced its ten nominees for The Big Screen Awards from within that selection. The programmes include 22 World Premieres, 10 International Premieres and 10 European Premieres from major territories including USA, UK, India, China, Japan, Germany, Spain, Brazil and Argentina.
Bright Future screens the first or second films by filmmakers whom the Festival has identified as young talent with huge potential while the Spectrum programme is IFFR at its most eclectic with the selected films identified as contemporary, powerful and innovative work from all over the world from veterans, maestros and lesser known directors.

The Big Screen Award is given to one of ten nominees from the Bright Future and Spectrum programmes with the winner chosen by a specially selected audience jury. The prize of €10,000 is specifically to support theatrical distribution of the film in The Netherlands. The winner is announced during the IFFR Awards Ceremony on Friday January 30th, 2015 together with the KNF Award which will also be given to one of these 10 nominated films, by the Dutch Circle of Film Critics (KNF) Jury.

Bright Future Premieres will screen 12 world, 4 international and 9 European premieres which include BANANA PANCKAKES AND THE CHILDREN OF STICKY RICE from Dutch director Daan Veldhuizen, the Brazilian production THE BULL (O TOURO) from Larissa Figueiredo, French film COSMODRAMA from Philippe Fernandez and WHITE COAL from Austrian director Georg Tiller. Bright Future will also screen selected films that have premiered elsewhere, which will resonate audiences and have been identified as being directed by young talent with great potential, at the same time providing distributors another opportunity to see those films.

Spectrum Premieres will screen 10 world, 6 international and 3 European premieres including LA LA LA AT ROCK BOTTOM from Japanese director Yamashita Nobuhiro, South Korean/French production BLACK STONE from Roh Gyeong-Tae, THE WOLF’S LAIR from Portuguese director Catarina Mourao and the American production STINKING HEAVEN from Nathan Silver. Spectrum will also screen the most recent work from acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui, THE GOLDEN ERA (HUANGJIN SHIDAI), Swedish/Danish production STRANDED IN CANTON from Mans Mansson and Miike Takashi’s AS THE GODS WILL (KAMISAMA NO IU TORI).


THE BIG SCREEN AWARDS NOMINEES:
I SWEAR I’LL LEAVE THIS TOWN, Danial Aragão, Brazil – Bright Future
JAUJA, Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/USA/Netherlands/France/Mexico/Denmark/Germany/ Brazil - Spectrum
KEY HOUSE MIRROR, Michael Noer, Denmark - Spectrum
THE LESSON, Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Bulgaria/Greece – Bright Future
MAGICAL GIRL, Carlos Vermut, Spain – Bright Future
A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION, Lee Kwang-Kuk, South Korea – Bright Future
THE MOVE, Marat Sarulu, Kyrgyzstan - Spectrum
SECOND COMING, Debbie Tucker Green, United Kingdom – Bright Future
UNDULANT FEVER, Ando Hiroshi, Japan - Spectrum
DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN, Ingo Haeb, Germany - Spectrum


BRIGHT FUTURE PREMIERES LINE-UP:
World Premieres:
BANANA PANCAKES AND THE CHILDREN OF STICKY RICE by Daan Veldhuizen (The Netherlands)
BATTLES by Isabelle Tollenaere (Belgium/The Netherlands)
COSMODRAMA by Philippe Fernandez (France)
CRUMBS by Miguel Llansó (Spain/Ethiopia/Finland)
EL LEGADO by Roberto Anjari-Rossi (Germany/Chile)
ERDOS RIDER by Wang Haolin (China)
HEARTS KNOW * THE RUNAWAY BRIDES by Kris Kristinsson (The Netherlands)
SOLOS by Joanna Lombardi (Peru)
THE BULL by Larissa Figueiredo (Brazil)
THE MAN IN THE WALL by Evgeny Ruman (Israel)
VALEDICTORIAN by Matthew Yeager (USA)
WHITE COAL by Georg Tiller (Austria)

International premieres;
A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION by Lee Kwang-Kuk (South Korea)
CALLING by Marcin Dudziak (Poland, France)
I SWEAR I'LL LEAVE THIS TOWN by Daniel Aragão (Brazil)
TRANSATLANTIQUE by Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Canada)

European premieres:
CHIGASAKI STORY by Misawa Takuya (Japan/Thailand)
FOREVER by Margarita Manda (Greece)
GOD LOVES THE FIGHTER by Damian Marcano (Trinidad and Tobago)
RIVER OF EXPLODING DURIANS by Edmund Yeo (Malaysia)
SAM KLEMKE'S TIME MACHINE by Matthew Bate (Australia)
SET ME FREE by Kim Tae-Yong (South Korea)
SITI by Eddie Cahyono (Indonesia)
THE INSEMINATOR by Bui Kim Quy (Vietnam)
THINGS OF THE AIMLESS WANDERER by Kivu Ruhorahoza (Rwanda, United Kingdom)

SPECTRUM PREMIERES LINE-UP:
World Premieres:
BLACK STONE by Roh Gyeong-Tae (South Korea/France)
DESAPARADISO by Khavn (The Philippines)
JADE MINERS by Midi Z (Taiwan/ Myanmar)
LA LA LA AT ROCK BOTTOM by Yamashita Nobuhiro (Japan)
LA VIE DE JEAN-MARIE by Peter van Houten (The Netherlands)
LI WEN AT EAST LAKE by Li Luo (China)
MIJN WITTE HEMD by Dré Didderiëns (The Netherlands)
POET ON A BUSINESS TRIP by Ju Anqi (China)
STINKING HEAVEN by Nathan Silver (USA)
THE WOLF’S LAIR by Catarina Mourao (Portugal)

International premieres:
BRAVE MEN'S BLOOD by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (Iceland)
KEY HOUSE MIRROR by Michael Noer (Denmark)
LA SCUOLA D'ESTATE by Jacopo Quadri (Italy)
LE PARADIS by Alain Cavalier (France)
THE END OF AN AGE by Bruno Safadi and Ricardo Pretti (Brazil)
UNDULANT FEVER by Ando Hiroshi (Japan)

European premieres:
CORNER OF HEAVEN by Miaoyan Zhang (China/France)
MIDSUMMER'S FANTASIA by Jang Kun-Jae (South Korea/Japan)
THE SECOND LIFE OF THIEVES by Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia)

BRIGHT FUTURE:
ALIVE by Park Jung-Bum (South Korea)
APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT by Amanda Rose Wilder (USA)
BUZZARD by Joel Potrykus (USA)
CATCH ME DADDY by Daniel Wolfe (United Kingdom)
CINCO by Adrián Biniez (Argentina)
COURT by Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
FORT BUCHANAN by Benjamin Crotty (France/Tunisia)
JE SUIS LE PEUPLE by Anna Roussillon (France)
LA CREAZIONE DI SIGNIFICATO by Simone Rapisarda Casanova (Canada, Italy)
LA TIRISIA by Jorge Pérez Solano (Mexico)
LABOUR OF LOVE by Aditya Vikram Sengupta (India)
LIMBO by Anna Sofie Hartmann (Germany)
LOS HONGOS by Oscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia/Argentina/France/Germany)
MAGICAL GIRL by Carlos Vermut (Spain)
MAURO by Hernán Rosselli (Argentina)
MEN WHO SAVE THE WORLD by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia/Netherlands/Germany/France)
NN by Héctor Gálvez Campos (Peru/Colombia/Germany/ France)
SECOND COMING by Debbie Tucker Green (United Kingdom)
SHE COMES BACK ON THURSDAY by André Novais Oliveira (Brazil)
THE LESSON By Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Bulgaria/Greece)
THE MONK by The Maw Naing (Myanmar/Czech Republic)
TITLI by Kanu Behl (India)
UN JEUNE POÈTE by Damien Manivel (France)
WIR SIND JUNG. WIR SIND STARK. by Burhan Qurbani (Germany)



SPECTRUM:
AS THE GODS WILL by Miike Takashi (Japan)
AUGUST WINDS by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil)
CAVALO DINHEIRO by Pedro Costa (Portugal)
DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN by Ingo Haeb (Germany)
DIE GELIEBTEN SCHWESTERN by Dominik Graf (Germany)
FATHER AND SONS by Wang Bing (China/France)
FROM WHAT IS BEFORE by Lav Diaz (The Philippines)
GENTLE by Le-Van Kiet (Vietnam/USA)
HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie (USA/France)
JAUJA by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina/Denmark/USA,/Netherlands/France/Mexico/Germany/Brazil)
LETTERS TO MAX by Eric Baudelaire (France)
NATURAL HISTORY by James Benning (USA)
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY by Miike Takashi (Japan)
SPEED WALKING by Niels Arden Oplev (Denmark)
STORM CHILDREN - BOOK ONE by Lav Diaz (The Philippines)
STRANDED IN CANTON by Måns Månsson (Sweden/Denmark)
THE GOLDEN ERA by Ann Hui (China/Hong Kong)
THE IRON MINISTRY by J.P. Sniadecki (China/USA)
THE MOVE by Marat Sarulu (Kyrgyzstan)
THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric (Croatia/Slovenia)
THE WORLD OF KANAKO by Nakashima Tetsuya (Japan)
TODAY by Reza Mirkarimi (Iran)
TOKYO TRIBE by Sono Sion (Japan)
TOTO AND HIS SISTERS by Alexander Nanau (Romania)

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