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In partnership with Festival Scope, the online portal for film professionals to view new works screening at festivals, MIFF has put together a program of acclaimed new filmmaking out of the European Union. With 12 films from 12 countries – from Greece to Germany, Slovenia to Spain – TeleScope will sketch a cinematic map of contemporary European film.

All films in the TeleScope section are in the running for the TeleScope (Best New Talent from the EU) Award. The winning prize will be decided by a jury comprising six Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) members.

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THE FAIRY (Belgium/France, 93 min) Come join us on the red carpet for the glitz and glamour of the Opening Night of the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival, for a special screening of charming modern classic The Fairy. With special guests such as The Hon Ted Baillieu MP and MIFF Patron Geoffrey Rush, this will be a night of cinema, celebrity and celebration. After the film, raise a glass of bubbly at the Melbourne Town Hall, where the celebrations will kick into full gear aided by an open bar, delicious canapes and MIFF's famous music maestro Andrew McClelland. More >

	ATTENBERG (Greece, 95 min) Sex, death and nature documentaries. Marina, a 23-year-old sexual innocent and general misanthrope, is both intrigued and repelled by the idea of physical intimacy. While helping her philosophical father prepare for his imminent death, she finds herself awkwardly beginning her first sexual relationship. More >
	DAY IS DONE (Switzerland, 111 min) For fifteen years filmmaker Thomas Imbach has filmed the world that lies outside his Zurich window. As the landscape changes, so does his life: his father dies, a baby is born and hundreds of messages are left on his answering machine. Through the shifts in season, through personal disasters and through the daily life of the people below, Imbach remains the one, all-seeing constant. More >
	FINISTERRAE (Spain, 80 min) "There's something undeniably compelling about so much bizarreness." - Variety Two Russian ghosts take a 'spiritual' journey through the north of Spain, hunting a great oracle who will offer them the chance to be reborn. Through snow-covered fields, forests of plastic ears and flocks of reindeer, the ghosts - one carrying a windsock, the other on horseback (or wheelchair) - trek ever closer to their goal. More >
	MATCHMAKING MAYOR (Czech Republic/Slovakia, 72 min) "On July 25, we'll be hosting a social gathering for single men and women... Maybe we can wake up your hormones." - Mayor Josef Gajdos After bringing better roads, jobs and cable television to the eastern Slovak hamlet of Zemplínske Hámre, Burgomaster Jozef Gajdos, a retired general, turns his attention to marrying off the town's 70-odd bachelors and bachelorettes. More >
	MICHAEL (Austria, 96 min) "A triumph of uneasy cinema: Not since Todd Solondz's Happiness has a movie portrayed pedophilia in such uncomfortable detail." - indieWIRE A hard-working employee in an insurance firm, Michael leads an ordinary life, with an average car, a nice house and a nice normal girlfriend who lives abroad. Except she doesn't exist, and neither does his ordinary life. Instead, Michael has a ten-year-old boy named Wolfgang locked in his basement. More >
	PRINCIPLES OF LIFE (Romania, 97 min) How hard can it possibly be to organise a family holiday? In Principles of Life, rising star of the Romanian film scene Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, MIFF 2007) plays a self-pitying, middle-aged, middle class suburban man trying his best to arrange a simple family holiday. Beset on all sides by minor setbacks and petty frustrations, his capacity to cope with the rigours of the modern world is severely tested. More >
	SHE MONKEYS (Sweden, 82 min) Winner of Best Film at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, She Monkeys is a nuanced and provocative study of young female desire. In the height of the Swedish summer, 15-year-old Emma joins a local riding club and becomes embroiled in a disconcertingly intense friendship with the slightly older Cassandra. Meanwhile, Emma's eight-year-old sister, Sara, vies for the sexual affections of her babysitter. Lost in the hyper-sexualised churn of contemporary culture, the two girls find themselves immersed in dynamics that neither fully understands but to which both are irrevocably attracted. More >
	SILENT SONATA (Slovenia, 75 min) "Now all my teachers are dead except silence." - W.S. Merwin A man lives with his children in a half-demolished house in the middle of a warzone. His wife has been killed by a grenade and he fears for the lives of his children. But instead of an approaching army, a wandering circus stops by and a little magic materialises in their devastated world. More >
	SLEEPING SICKNESS (Germany/France/Netherlands, 91 min) Two doctors face the unknown of a defamiliarised 'home' in this smart and enigmatic feature from Ulrich Köhler (Bungalow, Windows on Monday). Smitten by the land and its people, a German doctor faces the prospect of leaving Cameroon and returning home to a country he hasn't seen in years. Tasked with replacing him is a French-born man who is apprehensive about Africa, the land of his ancestors but a place he has never before visited. More >
	THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS (Italy, 118 min) Like prime numbers, Alice and Mattia are each divisible only by one and themselves: uniquely connected, and forever apart. Adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name, The Solitude of Prime Numbers traces two decades in the lives of the emotionally scarred Mattia (Luca Marinelli) and Alice (up and comer Alba Rohrwacher, I Am Love) - from the formative traumas of their childhood to the shared loneliness of their adult existence. Essentially isolated, and knowing the other is likewise estranged, Alice and Mattia are ill-suited for romance, yet inexorably attracted to each other. More >
	TOP FLOOR LEFT WING (France/Luxembourg, 93 min) Five kilos of cocaine, an Algerian father with a shadowy past and an Islamophobic bailiff collide on 11 September 2011. When foul-tempered civil servant François (the charismatic Hippolyte Giradot) arrives at a rundown Parisian apartment to serve an eviction notice on Mohand (French-Algerian comedian Mohamed Felagg), things go quickly awry: Mohand's delinquent, dope-dealing son Salem - thinking he's about to be nabbed for the cocaine he's hidden in the flat - panics and pulls a gun. More >