The Golden Bear at the Berlinale (with Touch Me Not [+lee también:
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entrevista: Adina Pintilie
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"This year's selection reflects a general movement towards the exploration of gender and a reflection on family relationships, but also intimate relationships with the virtual world," observes TFL director Savina Neirotti. The relationship between technology and human beings, and the representation of a dystopian future, with a focus on environmental issues, were certainly central themes in the various pitches presented over the course of two days at the Meeting Event (20 projects in the ScriptLab programme and 10 in FeatureLab – the latter including a production prize competition). In the British-Chinese title Success in Circuit , by the visual artist Redmond Entwistle, a man and a woman meet in a Chinese microchip factory, chasing the promises of freedom and profit that come with new technology. The French film She Wolf by Magali Magistry (Méliès d'oro for Best European Fantasy Short Film in 2017 with Expire) talks about biotechnology and hyperconnectivity through the story of a woman who discovers she is being watched and photographed at night while she sleeps. The Finnish project The Squirrel by Markus Lehmusruusu, imagines a near future in which animals are all extinct (except for one squirrel), a comedy that ponders whether it is possible to be happy without a link to nature. The selection also includes An Endless Sunday [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alain Parroni
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The Catalonian director Carla Simón (Summer 1993 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Carla Simón
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entrevista: Giovanni Pompili
ficha de la película], in which a dynasty of farmers finds itself suddenly without land or a future, while the Czech project The Caravan by Zuzana Kirchnerova is born from a personal story – a road movie starring a mother and her disabled son, focusing on love and a desire to escape – as is Costa Brava, Lebanon [+lee también:
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The Woodcutter Story [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mykko Myllylahti
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entrevista: Juho Kuosmanen
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"TFL receives around 800 applications a year. We only select 30 fiction projects and a dozen TV series, we therefore obviously miss out on projects," stated Neirotti, “which is why we have created faster programmes (TFL Extended) that go deeper, and that can be used for projects that do not have the time to participate in our entire process." The next TFL Extended workshop, on TV series, will be held in Turin from 12 to 15 April 2019. 

The projects presented at the 11^th TFL Meeting Event: 

ScriptLab

A Piece of Sky [+lee también:
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entrevista: Michael Koch
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Alcarràs [+lee también:
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entrevista: Carla Simón
entrevista: Carla Simón
entrevista: Giovanni Pompili
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An Endless Sunday [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alain Parroni
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Dandelion Seed - Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter (France/United States)
Grand Ciel - Akihiro Hata; co-written by Jérémie Dubois (France)
Life in a Spiral - Rama Thiaw (Senegal/France/Switzerland)
Mignon - Sofia Georgovassili (Greece/Romania)
Petrichor - Esther May Campbell (United Kingdom)
She Wolf - Magali Magistry; co-written by Julie Peyr (France)
Success in Circuit - Redmond Entwistle (United Kingdom/China)
Thanatos - E del Mundo (Philippines/United States)
The Accident - Bruno Carboni; co-written by Marcela Bordin (Brazil)
The Camera - Viktor van der Valk; co-written by Jeroen Scholten van Aschat (Netherlands/Belgium)
The Caravan - Zuzana Kirchnerová; co-written by Tomáš Bojar (Czech Republic)
The Landscapes That You Seek - Juanita Onzaga (Belgium/Colombia)
The Root Crown - Katarzyna Gondek (Poland)
The Squirrel - Markus Lehmusruusu (Finland)
The Succession - Martín Kalina; co-written by Alex Cherniavsky (Argentina)
Therefore I Am - Wregas Bhanuteja; co-written by Daud Sumolang (Indonesia)
Vesna - Sara Kern (Australia) 

FeatureLab

Blood and Water - Jianjie Lin (China) (first feature)
Producers: Yue Zheng & Yiwen Wang – First Light Films (China)

Costa Brava, Lebanon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Mounia Akl (Lebanon/France/Sweden/Norway) (first feature)
Co-written by Clara Roquet
Producer: Myriam Sassine - Abbout Productions (Lebanon) 

Rift in the Ice - Maja Miloš (Serbia/Italy/Slovenia) (second feature)
Producer: Jelena Mitrovic - Film House Baš Čelik (Serbia)

Small Body [+lee también:
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entrevista: Laura Samani
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Co-written by Elisa Dondi & Marco Borromei
Producer: Nadia Trevisan - Nefertiti Film (Italy) 

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entrevista: Felipe Gálvez
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Co-written by Antonia Girardi
Producer: Giancarlo Nasi – Don Quijote Films (Chile) 

The Woodcutter Story [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mykko Myllylahti
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Producer: Emilia Haukka - Aamu Film Company (Finland) 

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entrevista: Juanjo Giménez
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Co-written by Pere Altimira
Producer: Luisa Romeo - Frida Films (Spain) 

Titanic Ocean - Konstantina Kotzamani (Greece) (first feature)
Producer: Maria Drandaki - Homemade Films (Greece) 

You Are There - Nicole Midori Woodford (Singapore/Japan) (first feature)
Producer: Jeremy Chua - Potocol (Singapore) 

Yuni [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Kamila Andini (Norway/Malaysia/Indonesia)
Co-written by Prima Rusdi
Producer: Ifa Isfansyah - Fourcolours Film (Indonesia)