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IFFR 2005 Market

Participation at the CineMart breaks all records

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The 22d CineMart, organised in Rotterdam during the Film Festival, ends this year with very satisfying results: over 900 participants gathered around film projects and allowed a total budget of 103 million euros. This year, 48 projects —31 of which are European (co)productions — were selected amongst the 540 which applied. From the 30th January to the 3d of February, the directors selected met with hundreds of financers, producers, and potential investors, and presented their projects with their costs. This implied thousands of one-to-ones in only five days! "The very high quality of the selected projects and the presence of so many financers make Rotterdam THE first big platform to occur each year", Ido Abram (the director of CineMart) reckons.

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Besides, this year's selection was very clever, for it included promising young directors as well as famous ones. Thus, Marion Hänsel presented Camel, the final part of her trilogy after Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and The Quarry, with a budget of 3.739.013 euros (Man's Film / Belgium). Laurent Achard came with his project Le dernier des fous, which requires a budget of about 2.787.709 euros (Agat Films & Cie, Ex Nihilo / France) while Alain Raoust presented L'été indien (Sunday Morning Productions/France). Peter Greenaway brought 55 Men on Horsebeck, a period movie about the 18th Century with a budget of 4.800.000 euros (The Kasander Film Company Netherlands/England). As for the beginners, Jaime Rosales came with the project for his second film La Soledad (Fresdeval Films / Spain). Selected in extremis, Triple Theo, an English remake of three of Theo van Gogh's films, was the most expensive project with 5 million euros (Column Films/Netherlands).
CineMart is sponsored by MEDIA, the Rotterdam Film Fund, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, the Dutch Film Fund, and Hivos. This great event will continue in Berlin since three of the projects selected at the CineMart were chosen to participate to the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express, a coproduction market which takes place at the Berlin Film Festival. Amongst these projects, we find Où est la main de l'homme sans tête, first feature film for the Belgian Guillaume Malandrin (La Parti Production), and White Male Heart by the English David Mackenzie (Hepp Film / Broken Spectre).

European projects selected for CineMart 2005
55 men on horseback by Peter Greenaway (The Kasander Film Company, Netherlands/England)
American Widow by Christian S.Leigh (American Widow 2 Ltd, England/Germany)
Chamelle by Marion Hänsel (Man's Film, Belgium/France)
The Clogged Town by Gert Embrechts (Filmprodukties de Luwte, Netherlands/Belgium)
El Custodio by Rodrigo Moreno (Rizoma Fims, Argentina/Germany)
Daratt by Mahamat Saleh-Haroun (Chinguitty Films, France/Chad)
Le dernier des fous by Laurent Achard (Agat Film & Cie / Ex Nihilo, France)
Dochtertje by Boris Paval Conen (SNG Film BV, Netherlands)
L'été indien by Alain Raoust (Sunday Morning Productions, France)
Exhibit by Dom Rotheroe (Bent Films, England)
Fallen Hero by Partho Sen Gupta (Santocha Productions, France/India)
Hamaca Paraguaya by Paz Encina (Slotmachine, Paraguay/France)
Hamelin by Kurosawa Kiyoshi (1001 Productions (Japan/France)
Helen by Sandra Nettelbeck (Echo Lake Productions, Germany/USA)
Jean-Baptiste by Wayn Traub (Sciapode, Belgium/France)
Johanna by Kornél Mundruczó (Proton Cinema Ltd, Hungary)

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(Translated from French)

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