FONKO BRAND NEW SERIES
Sweden 2014, 6x26', 3x52', 1x90', Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén & Göran Olsson, Story Production with SVT, SBS, WDR

From the awardwinning makers of BLACK POWER MIXTAPE and CONCERNING VIOLENCE (Sundance, Berlin): the great music revolutions of our times have come from Africa, and the next one is brewing there right now. Soon, our local music industries will be swamped with it. Afrobeats, Azonto, Kuduro and South African House are club music styles based on traditional rhythms, becoming a means of expressing the identity for an entire generation.

DEATH – A SERIES ABOUT LIFE BRAND NEW SERIES
Norway 2014, 5x52', Eivind Tolas, Flimmer Film with NRK, YLE, RUV, SBS, UR

A Feelgood Series About Life, shot on 100 locations in 25 countries: we are all going to die – sooner or later. But there can be great differences in how we relate to death. Death can appear frightening or leave us with grief, but it can also engage us, provide food on the table, money in the wallet or even entertain us. There are those who try to avoid it, but also others who deal with it on a daily basis. What is death, and how do we best live with it?

CONTACT BRAND NEW SERIES
Italy 2014, 10x26', various directors, Ballandi Arts with SKY ARTE Italy, SBS, MediaCorp, AVRO, YLE, NKS, AMP

What is the story behind the most famous iconic photos from around the world? A unique and fascinating journey of 10 episodes into the forbidden city of the contact sheets of the world renowned photographers from Magnum, the legendary agency founded in 1947.
Cartier-Bresson himself, founder of the Magnum Photo agency, was strongly opposing the disclosure of his contact sheets and yet the choice of that picture is the point of contact between the photographer's life, thoughts, philosophy and the subject he portrays.

A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
BRAND NEW SERIES & ONE OFFs
Israel 2014, 3x45', 52', 90' Ronnie Kay, Bdalak Productions with Yes Docu

For the first time orthodox Jewish people in Israel allow a camera to enter their personal lives on an intimate level, enabling us to discover the wisdom behind their way of life, so perhaps we can apply some of it to ours. A look at relationships between men and women, between singles and their friends, and between them and their families. The story is plot-based, with scenes that lead from one protagonist to the next in their search for a worthy mate.

RADICAL EVIL BRAND NEW
Germany, Austria 2014, 93', Stefan Ruzowitzky, docMovie with Aichholzer Film, ZDF, ORF

After winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Film for 'Counterfeiters', Stefan Ruzowitzky asks why normal people become mass murderers. Why decent family fathers end up killing women, children and babies on a daily basis? The perpetrators are members of the Nazi death squads, who killed about 2 million Jewish civilians in Eastern Europe – by bullets, face to face.
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men." (Primo Levi)

SOUND OF TORTURE NEW
Israel 2013, 52', Keren Shayo, Trabelsi Productions with Yes, ZDF/ARTE, SVT, SRC, SRF, VRT, VARA, Al Jazeera Int.

Live calls from the torture camps in Sinai: since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees flee their military dictator-ruled country north to Israel, their gate to the west, crossing the Sinai desert. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouins and taken to one of the hidden camps.

IDFA Competition (mid-length), Göteborg IFF, One World Prague, FIFDH Geneva, Movies that Matter FF, Sguardi Altrove FF

FOOTPRINTS OF WAR NEW
Germany 2014, 44' / 52’, Maximilian Mönch, werwiewas with ZDF/3sat, TVE, Lichtpunt, Al Jazeera ME, RSI

Military attacks have alarming consequences on our ecosystem. Radioactive contaminated landscapes, many millions of tons of ammunition in our oceans, toxic landscapes, ten percent of global carbon emissions - the military footprint is huge. From WWI until today, nature is under fire.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY NEW
USA 2013, 54' / 72', Whoopi Goldberg, One Ho II with HBO, SVT, Yes

Whoopi Goldberg's directorial debut dives into the legacy of Moms Mabley, the first black female stand-up comedienne in the US. With photography, extensive performance materials and numerous interviews by comedians such as Kathy Griffin, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Jerry Stiller, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Joan Rivers a.m.o.

Tribeca (competition), IDFA Stand-Up

THE DEFECTOR – ESCAPE FROM NORTH KOREA
Canada 2013, 46' / 58' / 71', Ann Shin, Zarathustra Films Inc. with TVO, Canal D, CTS, ABC, MediaCorp, HBO Central Europe, MCS

A 3,000 mile journey to freedom, guided by a human smuggler named Dragon, and filmed undercover and with unparalleled access into the Defectors' dramatic story. THE DEFECTOR follows the perilous journey of Sook-Ja and Yong-hee who escape from North Korea. Their journey stands for the reality of tens of thousands of North Koreans currently hiding in China.

FITC Award (Motion Graphics), Canadian Digi Award, IDFA, Sebastopol CA, Thessaloniki, Doc Edge NZ, Hot Docs, Sheffield, Boston, AlJazeera FF, Sausalito, Montreal, Ottawa, Marda Loop, Adelaide

HERE COMES UNCLE JOE
Korea 2013, 52' / 72’, Wooyoung Choi, Sinae Ha, Boda Media Group with NHK, SBS Korea, ITVS International, NRK, Encore, Channel 8

He is not their uncle, and his name is not Joe. But to the old ladies of An-dong, a rural community in southeastern Korea, Uncle Joe is almost the only contact they have to the modern world. Uncle Joe's delivery service is extraordinary. He reaches 15 isolated villages that have neither markets nor public transport and he delivers to the clients' door. The film follows Uncle Joe’s delivery road with smiles, sweat and tears.

EIDF Seoul

PROJECT WILD THING
United Kingdom 2013, 54' / 80’, David Bond, Green Lions with VRT, EBS, ERR, NKS

Too much time indoors makes children fat, depressed and out of control, yet children go out less and less. Filmmaker David Bond becomes the Marketing Director for Nature. Can he market the outdoors – a free wonder-product – to apathetic consumers, and to his own family? Or is it too late to sell Nature? David's humorous journey unearths some painful truths about modern family life.

Sheffield, Cambridge, Belfast, Cork, Melbourne

SILICON WADI – A HIGHTECH SOAP OPERA
BRAND NEW SERIES & ONE OFFs
Israel 2013, 4x48’, 1x52', 1x90', Daniel Sivan, Yossi Bloch, Plan B with Know Productions, Yes Docu

Israel is known in the world as a start-up nation. There are actually more startups in Tel-Aviv than in the whole of Europe and more Venture Capital is invested per person then anywhere else in the world. Silicon Wadi follows those who give it everything to pursue their startup dreams. They sacrifice their families, their friends and their bank account, and keep on fighting until their bankrupt or millionaires.

RAW HERRING
Netherlands 2013, 75’ / 85', Leonard Retel-Helmrich and Hetty Naaijkens-Helmrich, In-Soo Radstake & Esther van Messel for In-Soo Productions with EO, VRT, EBS, LRT

Fished for over a thousand years, the 'Hollandse Nieuwe' is a phenomenon that has become a national cultural icon. More recently, the Dutch herring fleet has lost a great deal of its importance as only two vessels are now fishing for herring under the Dutch flag.

Tribeca (Intl. competition), Dokufest Kosovo, Martha’s Vineyard IFF, Filmfest Hamburg, Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, EIDF Seoul

1711 VIDEOS - TRESPASSING BERGMAN SERIES
Sweden 2013, 6x45’, Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos for Gädda Five with SVT, SFI, Pretty Pictures, SBS, Turner, Yes

A light and entertaining look at the big stories and their makers: having exclusive access to Bergman's private archive with more than 1500 films, an eclectic collection of films was found, spanning from the more predictable ones by Tarkovsky, Bunuel, Truffaut, to such as ”Blues Brothers”, ”FoulPlay”, ”Jurassic Park” and ”Ghostbusters”.

TRESPASSING BERGMAN FEATURE
Sweden 2013, 107', Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas, Fatima Varhos for Gädda Five with SVT, SFI, Pretty Pictures, TVO, VPRO

Ingmar Bergman’s life and his key films as seen and told by the greatest actors and directors of our time. Candid, funny and explicit interviews with the likes of Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Isabella Rossellini, Ang Lee, Michael Haneke and many others. Some of these trespassed at Bergman’s last home on the island of Fårö...

Venice (Venice Classics), Montréal, CPH:DOX, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, Göteborg, DocAviv, Planete Doc, ZagrebDox, Istanbul IFF