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Born in London, he grew up listening to heavy metal. Having met the band Anvil, he joined the band for three tours during the 80’s and learned how to play drums with Robb Reiner. Returning home, Sacha earned a degree in Modern History from King’s College but turned down a fellowship in Harvard to form a rock band which he left quickly after. He would work for British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes for some time before moving to the USA to attend a graduate screenwriting program at UCLA Film School. While still at UCLA, a script he co-wrote with Craig Ferguson was made into a film called The Big Tease by Warner Bros. In 2004, Sacha wrote The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. He has since written projects for Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves. Anvil! The Story of Anvil is his directorial feature film debut.

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Yann Le Gal - Directed the short film Le Griselet (1992), and has been screenwriter for such films as Marie-Antoinette, by Alain Brunart, Josephine, by Jean-Marc Vanvoort, A La Recherche de Largo Winch, by Yves Legrain-Crist, and Les Larmes du Petit Prince by Erwan Legal. Isild Le Besco - Directed the awarded Demi-Tarif (2003) and her first feature film is Charly (2007). She is also an actress in films such as À Tout de Suite (2004), Camping Sauvage (2005) and Backstage (2005). Joana Hadjithomas e Khalil Joreige - Two young Lebanese producers who have being working together for many years, in Paris and in Beirut. Graduated in Cinema, they wrote e directed a several short-films, among them The Agony of the Feet, 333 Sycamore and Faute d`Identités. Around the Pink House is their first feature-length film (23th Mostra). They directed also the fiction film A Perfect Day (2005). Ismaël Ferroukhi - Born in Kenitra, Morocco. After directing his first short film, the awarded L`Exposé, in 1993, he co-wrote the script for Trop de Bonheur (19th Mostra), by Cédric Kahn, in 1994. He worked again with Kahn in Zero Guilt (1996) and L’Avion (2005). Le Grand Voyage is his first feature and has been shown at the 29th Mostra. Corinne Garfin - She directed the awarded short films Les Vagabonds (1996), Anissa (1998), La Collection de Judicael (2003), and Seul (2005), and also the documentaries L’Ordre Vert and Bakary et les Autres. Safy Nebbou - He directed the awarded short films Bertzea (2002) and Lepokoa (2003), and his first feature film is The Girafe’s Neck (2004).

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He was born in Palermo, Italy, 1960. He has created several performances and installations, like Hortophonìa (Palermo, 1997), with Bob Ostertag (samplers) and Lelio Giannetto (contrabass), Cieli Altissimi Retrocedenti (Palermo, 1998), Specular Cities in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (2000 – 2002) and others. He has directed Duo with Peter Kowald (1993), Raoul Not Making (1994), Angelica (1995), Videoplunders (1995), Un Sogno di Lumaca (1995), Terra Madre (1996), Palermo (1996), Prima Sicilia (1997), Bambini Intravisti (1997), Hortophonìa (1997), La Cena Informale (1998), Cieli Altissimi Retrocedenti (1998-1999), Verso Venezia (2000), Ce ne Ricorderemo, di Questo Pianeta (2000), Paesaggi Italiani (2000-2001), Specular Cities (2000-2002), La Vaga Sfera è in questa Mano (installation 2002-2003), Il Satiro Danzante (2003-2005), Détour De Seta (2004), Beyond Selinunte (2006) and Rockarbëresh (2007). Beyond Selinunte was granted the prize Cinemavvenire at Turin Film Festival 2006.

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PAUL FIERLINGER He was born in 1936 in Ashiya Japan, where his parents were Czechoslovak career diplomats. He spent the WWII years in the USA, and at the age of 12, while living in a boarding school in Czechoslovakia, created his first animated film by shooting drawings from his flipbook. In 1955, he graduated from the Bechyne School of Applied Arts. In 1967, escaped from Czechoslovakia to Holland. He arrived in the USA in 1968, where he first worked for Universal Pictures as a documentary director. In 1971, formed AR&T Associates, his own animation house, which has produced over 800 films, including television commercials. SANDRA FIERLINGER She grew up in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1978 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has collaborated with her husband Paul on several dozen films for TV channels such as Sesame Street, Nickelodeon and the American Playhouse.

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Chris Teerink - He was born in 1966, in Netherlands. He is a filmmaker and editor living and working in Amsterdam. He studied Visual Art at the Academy for Art and Industry (Enschede) and Documentary Filmmaking at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam. His films include Ceci n’Est pas une Voiture (1991), Exil (1995), Amstelland (1996), Life and Death in an American Desert (2002), Songs Along a Stony Road (2003), Mojave (2004) and Living Here (2005), co-directed by Sarah Payton. Sarah Payton - She was born in 1967, USA. She lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied Critical Theory at Oberlin College (Ohio) and Documentary Filmmaking at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England. Her films include No Place Like Home (1999), A Place to Be (2000), and Living Here (2005), co-directed by Chris Teerink.

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She majored in cinema and then opted for journalism and contributed to magazines. In 1994, she made Napoli 90, a documentary on the city of Naples, followed by Les Limbes (1998), evoking post-Soviet Russia. In 2001, she directed L’Arpenteur, followed by Le Lac et la Rivière (2002, also a fiction medium-length film. For 12 years, he worked as production director producing short and medium-length films, mainly by Armenian directors, amongst these Arthur Pelechian. In 2001, together with Sarah Petit, he made L`Arpenteur, a film on the subject of the absence of roots and life in a community. Last year, he founded a company, Les Films Hatari, and produced Le Lac et la Rivière, a supplement to L`Arpenteur. Today, he is producing a series of short films entitled Portraits.

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Was born in Passos, Minas Gerais, in 1972. He started acting in his childhood, making his TV debut at the age of 8. Has worked in TV series such as O Auto da Compadecida (1999), A Inveção do Brasil (2000) and Os Maias (2001). Has also starred the movies To the Left of the Father (2001), by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, awarded with the Audience Prize at the 25th Mostra; Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003), by Guel Arraes; Heitor Dhalia’s Drained (2006), awarded with the Critics and Jury prizes at the 30th Mostra; My Name Ain`t Johnny (2008), by Mauro Lima; The Herb of the Rat (2008, 32nd Mostra), by Julio Bressane; A Mulher Invisível (2009), by Cláudio Torres; and Jean Charles (2009), by Henrique Goldman. Has directed the short film Quando o Tempo Cair (2006, 30th Mostra), and December (2008, 32nd Mostra), his first feature as a director. O Palhaço was awarded best director at the Paulínia Film Festival.

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SERGE BROMBERG Serge Bromberg has been the CEO of Lobster Films since 1984 and has established a collection of vintage cinema with over 40,000 rare titles, thus making the company a major global player in film restoration. Since 1992, he presents these films to audiences and accompanies them on the piano in film concerts set in places like Musée d’Orsay, Louvre and Tuilleries Garden. He is also a TV executive producer and the Artistic Director of Annecy Animation Film Festival. He was made a Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2002. RUXANDRA MEDREA Born in 1977, she began her career in film as a lawyer specialized in intellectual properties. Born in Romania, she left her home country in the late 80’s to live in Austria and then in France. She would later study at universities throughout Europe. Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno is her first feature documentary.

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Born on January 23, 1898, in Riga, Latvia. Even today, he is one of the most famous Russian film makers. He started a career in film making at the age of 26 with Strike, a criticism on Czarism. One year later, he filmed The Battleship Potemkin, regarded, today, as a classic in cinema. He then made Ten Days That Shook the World, where he developed his theory of editing. Suffocated by the Stalin regime, he made his way to the U.S., but, also, did not adapt to Hollywood. Following advice, he left for Mexico, where he started Que Viva Mexico!, but the filming was canceled by the sponsor. In Russia again, he was the target of attacks from the Soviet press for his long period of absence. Years later, he devoted himself to a project Ivan, the Terrible, that was forbidden for 13 years. He died in

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Born in Tiflis, now Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1924. In 1942, he enrolled at the Institute of Railway Transport. He soon left the job to pursue an artistic path at the Tbilisi Music and Arts Conservatory. In 1945, he was admitted to the film directing course at VGIK. Under the creative guidance of Igor Savchenko and Alexander Dovzhenko, he made his first film, A Moldovian Tale, in 1952. In 1964, he directed Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, considered one of his masterpieces. The director was honored at the 35th Mostra with a retrospective of nine of his films, including The Color of Pomegranates, Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961) and The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984), the latter had already been exhibited and awarded at the 11th Mostra. Died in Armenia in 1990 at the age of 66.

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Born in Rome, Italy, in 1929. Son of Roberto Roberti, one of the pioneers of Italian cinema, he began as an assistant in international productions within the peplum genre, sometimes co-directing films without receiving credit. His first official directorial job came with the peplum The Colossus of Rhodes (1959). His next film, the western A Fistful of Dollars (1964), became a worldwide success and launched the career of Clint Eastwood. After filming two more films featuring the same protagonist, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), he directed the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). He bid farewell to the western genre with Duck, You Sucker! (1971) and ended his career with his dream project, Once Upon a Time in the America (1984). He died in 1989 while planning a film about the Siege of Leningrad.

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ALLEN HUGHES Born in Michigan, USA, in 1972. He made his feature debut as a producer-director, along with his partner and twin brother Albert, with Menace II Society (1993). His filmography includes Dead Presidents (1995), American Pimp (2000), From Hell (2001), Justine (2004), Mercy (2005). BRETT RATNER An American filmmaker and music video director, he was born in 1969 in Miami, USA. He is best known for his films such as The Family Man (2000), Red Dragon (2002), the Rush Hour series (1998, 2001,2007), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). FATIH AKIN He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1973 as son to Turkish parents. He directed his first full-length feature film Short Sharp Shock in 1998. It was followed by In July (2000), Solino (2002), the short The Evil Old Songs (2004, 28th Mostra) and Head On (2004, 28th Mostra), Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival. He also made the music documentary Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istambul (2005, 29th Mostra) and the fiction The Edge of Heaven (2007, 31st Mostra), awarded best screenplay at Cannes Festival. In 33rd Mostra, he also presents the feature film Soul Kitchen. JIANG WEN Born in Tangshan, Hebei province, China, he shifted to Beijing at the age of 6. He wrote and directed his first film in 1994, In the Heat of the Sun. Jiang`s second feature, Devils on the Doorstep, set during the Japanese occupation of China in the early 1940s, won him the Grand Prix in the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. JOSHUA JACOB MARSTON Born in 1968 in Los Angeles, USA. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War. He returned to the United States and earned a master`s degree in Political science from University of Chicago in 1994 before earning a Master of Fine Arts in film at New York University. He debuted in the direction of feature films with Maria Full of Grace (2004), Great Prize of the Jury at 28th Mostra. MIRA NAIR She was born in 1957 in Orissa, India. She was educated at Delhi University. She is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988) won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival. Her filmography includes Mississipi Masala (1991, Special Prize at 15th Mostra); Monsoon Wedding (2002), Golden Lion at the Venice Festival; Vanity Fair (2004) and The Namesake (2007). NATALIE PORTMAN An Israeli-American actress, she was born in Jerusalem in 1981. She debuted in Luc Besson’s The Professional (1994). Among others, she acted in the prequel trilogy Star Wars (1999-2005); Mike Nichol’s Closer (2005), for which she received a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress; Amos Gitai’s Free Zone (2005, 29th Mostra) and Milos Forman’s Goya’s Ghosts (2006, 31st Mostra). She completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Harvard College. In 2008, she was member of the Cannes Film Festival Jury. Portman’s directorial debut, Eve (2008), opened the Venice Film Festival’s shorts competition. RANDALL BALSMEYER Director, animation and visual effects supervisor.His filmography includes Shaft (2000) e Pride and Glory (2008), both he is animation and visual effects supervisor. SHEKHAR KAPUR Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1945. He studied business before immigrating to Great Britain. In Bombay, he embarked on a career as a print model and performer. Abandoning acting, he moved to the director`s chair with the Innocent (1983). After that, he directed Bandit Queen (1994), Elizabeth (1998), The Four Feathers (2002) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). SHUNJI IWAI Born in 1963, in Sendai, Japan. Filmmaker, video artist, writer and documentarian. He attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987. He directed TV dramas and music videos in Japan. In 1995, he went on to start his career in feature films, starting with Love Letter. Outstanding among his feature are Picnic (1996), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), Hana & Alice (2004) e The Kon Ichikawa Story (2006). YVAN ATTAL Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel to French-Algerian Jewish parents, in 1965, he grew up in the Paris suburbs. His acting debut was in Un monde sans pitié (1989). His first feature film as director was My wife is an actress (2001). He also acted in The Patriots (1994, by Éric Rochant, 18th Mostra) and Bon Voyage (2003, by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 28th Mostra)

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O produtor, diretor e narrador deste filme começou a sua carreira no cinema japonês, ainda garoto, em 1930, exatamente como um `benshi`. Seu pai fora `benshi` também num elenco que atuava em cinemas da província. Com o surgimento do cinema falado, o papel de narrador de filmes desaparecia. A partir dos anos 60, Matsuda passou a se dedicar fixamente a coleta de velhos filmes mudos com o propósito de reviver a era dos `benshi`. Em 1985 o autor deste trabalho foi premiado pela prefeitura de Tóquio em reconhecimento a sua nobre pesquisa. Ele morreu em 87. O seu filho, Eigasha Matsuda, passou então a cuidar da valiosa obra deixada pelo pai. Tadao Sato, colaborador do projeto com o roteiro e as entrevistas, é crítico de cinema e autor do livro "The History of Japanese Cinema".

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Was born in New York, USA, in 1971. Daughter of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, she made her first appearance on the screen when she was still a baby in The Godfather (1972, 32nd Mostra). She played several walk-on parts in her father’s films and, in 1990, was given one of the main roles in The Godfather: Part III. She studied Fine Arts in California and debuted as a filmmaker with the short film Lick the Star (1998). Her first feature The Virgin Suicides (1999) was selected for the ‘Quinzaine des Réalisateurs’ at the Cannes Festival. She is also the director, screenplay writer and producer of the features Lost in Translation (2002, 27th Mostra), honored with the Academy Award of Best Original Screenplay as well as nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Film; and Marie Antoniette (2006), for which the film’s costume designer, Milena Canonero, won an Academy Award. Somewhere won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

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Born in Atlanta, USA, in 1957. Since his first movie, She`s Gotta Have It (1986), the director exposes his concern with the themes that predominate in his whole work: the racism and the situation of black people in the American society. With Do the Right Thing (1989), Lee gained enough repercussion to place him among the most discussed filmmakers in the United States. Directed, among others, the titles Mo` Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Macolm X (1992), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996, 20th Mostra), Bamboozled (2000), 25th Hour (2002) Inside Man (2006), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Red Hook Summer (2012) and Chi-Raq (2015) He also signed the direction of the television documentary A Huey P. Newton Story (2001), of a segment of Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet (2002) and of the short movie Jesus Children of America (2005), all exhibited at Mostra.

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Born in New York City in 1926, Stanley Kubrick is now regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Beginning his career as a professional photographer for Look magazine at the age of seventeen, the job led to the production a series of self-financed short newsreels for movie theaters. His first attempt at making a feature was Fear and Desire (1953), a film he later pulled out of circulation. His feature film career officially began with the film noirs Killer’s Kiss (1953) and The Killing (1955). The latter’s success brought Kubrick to the attention of MGM, where he made his third feature: the WWI film Paths of Glory (1957), with Kirk Douglas. His association with Douglas led to him replacing the initial director of Spartacus (1960), the historical epic where the actor played the title role. After the film’s financial success, Kubrick relocated to England, where he would spend the rest of his life directing films with more artistic freedom, tackling the most diverse of cinematic genres: comedy with Lolita (1962) and Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), science fiction with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971), costume drama with Barry Lyndon (1975), horror with The Shining (1980) and war film with Full Metal Jacket (1987). Kubrick died months before the release of his last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The 37th Mostra is holding a complete retrospective of his work, along with co-publishing Michel Ciment’s book Kubrick with Cosac Naify.

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Born in 1947, in Chicago, United States. In 1974, he produced and directed a play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Marnet. He directed his first feature in 1985 - Re-Animator, winner of the 1985 Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, in Spain, and of the 1986 Fantafestival, in Italy. This was followed by, among others, From Beyond (1986), Dolls (1987), The Pit and the Pendulum (1990), Fortress (1993), Castle Freak (1995), Space Truckers (1996), The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998), Prize for Best Direction at the 1998 Fantafestival, Dagon (2001), and King of the Ants (2003). Edmond marks his return, over thirty years later, to the universe of David Marnet and was awarded the Prize for Best Actor (William H. Macy) at the 2006 Mar del Plata Film Festival and a collective Prize for the Cast at the 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival.

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Sven Taddicken was born in 1974 in Hamburg. He has been studying Direction at the Baden-Wuerttemburg Film Academy since 1996 and has won numerous international awards including the National Short Film Prize at Dresden 1999, the Main Prize at the Finnish festival Lappeenraanta, and the First Prize at Short Cuts Cologne 1999. He was also nominated for the Honorary Foreign Student Award/Student OSCAR 2000 for his film Schaefchen Zaehlen, which also opened the Max Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken that same year. In 2000, he was awarded the renowned Caligari stipend from the Baden-Wuerttemburg Film Academy. His other films include the shorts: Whodunit?! and Fisch (1997), as well as El Cordobes and Ice Cream (1998), and Getting My Brother Laid (Mein Bruder der Vampir), his feature debut.

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43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA