New Morning Line up in Berlin /EFM

My dear colleagues and friends,

NEW MORNING FILMS is thrilled to introduce you to the highlights of our 2015 line up and will attend the EFM from February 5th-10th .

To book a meeting, check availabilities, request a link or a screener, please contact Germain Labeille: germain@newmorningfilms.com

BERLIN LOCATION: MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU STAND 24, Central Hall, at the Creative Europe MEDIA Stand.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN BERLIN!
Fore more info: www.newmorningfilms.com or on Cinando

STRONG CROATIAN DRAMA/COMPLETED/MARKET PREMIERE
Screening: Friday 6th 11:15 Cinestar 1
 

Unfolding over a summer night in a rural Croatian village, the new film from director Zvonimir Juric is a bold, humane, and morally challenging social drama.

The Reaper begins with Ivo (Ivo Gregurevic), a quiet labourer in the employ of an agro-industrial conglomerate, coming to the aid of a woman whose car has run out of petrol on a dark, deserted road. Though he first appears in the guise of a saviour, the truth is that Ivo is anything but a hero: he did time in prison for raping a woman many years ago. These days, he is quiet and withdrawn, struggling with his demons and with the ugly past that his fellow villagers refuse to let him forget.

Juric subtly orchestrates The Reaper's volatile narrative, maintaining a sense of danger that pervades the gloomy, austere atmosphere right up until the grim climax.

Three intertwined stories that unfold over a single night in an isolated Croatian village add up to grim but compelling viewing in “The Reaper,” a tense, nuanced drama from helmer Zvonimir Juric (“The Blacks”). Aided by a superb, seasoned cast and stellar camerawork from Branko Linta (a prizewinner at the Pula Film Festival), Juric captures the atmosphere of volatility and despair in a place where former deeds are not easily forgotten and the recent past is still a raw wound.

Variety
 

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GERMAN SUICIDE HOTEL DRAMA/COMPLETED/MARKET PREMIERE
Screening: Sunday 8th 13:00 CinemaxX 14
 

KATE, a young actress, has decided to kill herself. She checks into a suicide hotel, which features total privacy and different suicide options to choose from. Here, she meets VIKTOR, a room service waiter, who introduces her to the hotel's 'menu'. The two of them end up spending the night together and fall in love. The next day, Kate embarks on an intense, alcohol-fueled relationship with Viktor, who seems to be harboring problems of his own. Sooner or later, however, Kate's suicidal tendencies return in full force...

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POIGNANT ENSEMBLE DRAMA ABOUT KURDISH REFUGEES

A group of refugees are on a bus bound for Oslo, visiting the capital city in a land promising new beginnings. But for five people, it’s a day to rectify their past and justify a new future. We follow them as they each explore their possibilities – a secret love, a new life, a white lie, fulfilling a dream and avenging the death of a husband. 

Their stories are bound together by a letter to the King of Norway, written by eighty-two year old Mirza.

Having nabbed the Nordic film prize at the Gothenburg Film Festival for 2013′s “Before Snowfall,” Norwegian helmer Hisham Zaman pulled off the same honor for the second year in a row with his sophomore effort, “Letter to the King,” a poignant ensemble drama that crosscuts among various refugees and asylum seekers, each with their individual hopes and agendas, as they spend a day in Oslo.

Variety
 

The film’s only 75 minutes long, which means that each of the five interconnected storylines has less than 15 minutes to introduce the characters, develop their conflicts and bring their stories to a close. But Zaman does so beautifully, further confirming he’s a storyteller of significant economy and observational skill as well as talent.

With this low-budget but impressive film, which was released in Norway at the end of January, the writer-director managed to take win the top prize at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the Dragon Award, for the second year in a row after last year’s win for his debut, Before Snowfall.

The Hollywood Reporter

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SURREAL, ASTONISHING, ABSURD, HUGELY DYNAMIC FORM OF STORYTELLING, CLEVER DIALOGUE AND ALL THE WAY FROM POLAND!

Little Crushes takes us into the lives of three young adults looking for solidarity, love and independence. Kasia and Asia share an apartment, a car and a job: clearing out the houses of the recently deceased and selling the treasures they find at a second-hand market. Peter works in a factory screwing lids onto jars, but ends up on the street. He is still struggling with his recent divorce and a mother who isn’t exactly the most stable person on earth.

When the girls ask him to help out with their ‘two-person business’, he needs no second bidding. He quickly falls for Asia, but this disrupts the balance of the brand-new friendship between the three; it turns out Kasia is also in love…

Mumblecore from Poland? This fresh-faced auteur film may not tick all the genre boxes, but it makes a lot of nods in that direction. The natural dialogues, dry humour and delicate singer-songwriter music from Polish band Enchanted Hunters make a comparable, natural impression.

Rotterdam Int. Film Festival

Through keen humour, this Polish indie debut portrays three grownups in search of love, friendship and independence. Aleksandra Gowin and Ireneusz Grzyb present this triangle drama in a style that is as natural as it is eccentric. Little Crushes is a film about the beauty in everyday simplicity.

Göteborg Int. Film Festival

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BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARY SHOWED IN PARIS, WARSAW AND ROME. AVAILABLE IN FILM AND TV VERSION. MINKOWSKI'S CAPTURED CONCERT ALSO AVAILABLE.
 

It is in Warsaw that the celebrated French conductor Marc Minkowski uncovers the fascinating past of his Jewish paternal ancestors, fervent Polish patriots, who belonged to the elite of their country prior to the Second World War. Yet today there remains little of their previous splendor.

This documentary film accompanied by the famous symphonic orchestra "Sinfonia Varsovia", under the direction of Minkowski himself, takes an unprecedented look into the turbulent fate of Jewish families in Central Europe.

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