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Dheepan goes around the world on Celluloid The Visitors: Bastille Day

The Visitors draws buyers for Gaumont

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Gaumont’s The Visitors: Bastille Day, a reboot of the popular French 1990s film franchise starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, has been racking up buyers since its launch at the EFM. The film, which is in post-production, has sold to Benelux (Paradiso Filmed Entertainment), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Switzerland (JMH Distributions), CIS (Luxor Entertainment), Greece (Odeon), Turkey (Ozen Film), China (HGC Entertainment), Middle East (Four Star) and Portugal (Outsider Films). Gaumont has done a pan-European deal with Monolith/Freeman.

The cast of the film will hit the Croisette today to meet buyers.

Directed by franchise creator JeanMarie Poiré, The Visitors: Bastille Day transports its hapless antiheroes back to the French Revolution.

Gaumont, which is co-producing the $28m (¤25m) feature with Ouille Productions, will release in France on April 6, 2016.

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Celluloid Dreams has closed more than 20 territories for Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan, ahead of its Competition screening next week.

Set against the backdrop of a down-at-heel Paris suburb, the film revolves around a Tamil freedom fighter called Dheepan who has fled the civil war raging in his native Sri Lanka only to be confronted by urban violence in his new life in the French capital.

In Europe, Celluloid has sold the film to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Benelux (Lumiere), Scandinavia

(Triart), Italy (Cinema), Iceland (Greenlight), Greece (Seven), former Yugoslavia (2i Film), Hungary (Cirko), Poland (Solopan), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe) and Romania (Independenta 97).

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Mad Max: Fury Road stars Zoë Kravitz, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult with the film’s director George Miller on the red carpet for the out of competition screening last night

Curzon captures Cannes trio Curzon Artificial Eye has scored a hat-trick of deals on films playing in official selection at Cannes.

The UK distributor has prebought Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley Of Love, which stars Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert and is playing in Competition, in a deal with Le Pacte.

It has also picked up UK and Eire rights for another Palme d’Or contender, Nanni Moretti’s

Dheepan

In Asia, it has sold to Japan (Longride), South Korea (Green Narae), Hong Kong (Edko) and China (DDDream).

Elsewhere, it has sold to Latin America (California), Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Middle East (Front Row) and Israel (United King).

As previously announced, it has also been picked up for the UK (StudioCanal), France (UGC) and US (Sundance Selects).

The film is produced by Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat of Why Not Productions.

My Mother, in a deal with Films Distribution. The independent distributor has also taken rights for Gaspar Noé’s 3D sex drama Love in a deal with Wild Bunch.

Curzon Artificial Eye, which has distributed Still Alice, Wild Tales and Force Majeure, previously picked up Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World, after negotiating with Seville International.

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Chesneau embarks on search for quality indies with Cercamon

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Sebastien Chesneau has launched sales company Cercamon, aimed at quality independent titles from across the world.

Its debut Cannes slate comprises Dalibor Matanic’s Un Certain Regard title The High Sun as well as Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia, Tom Roberts’ Every Last Child, Peter Sattler’s Camp X-Ray and Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film.

“Cercamon means ‘world searcher’ in Occitan,” said the former Rezo Films sales chief, referring to a Romance language spoken in southern France.

“We plan to handle around eight films a year — 50% English-speaking films and 50% arthouse films selected in A-list festivals,” said Chesneau, who is based in Dubai, having moved there from Paris last year.

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Swallows flies with HanWay, StudioCanal

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

StudioCanal has snapped up UK rights to the upcoming feature version of UK classic book series Swallows And Amazons from HanWay Films, which has launched world sales at Cannes.

Boardwalk Empire star Kelly Macdonald has newly joined the Harbour Pictures (Calendar Girls) production alongside Rafe Spall (Get Santa), who will lead the cast as the enigmatic Captain Flint.

Philippa Lowthorpe (Jamaica Inn) will direct from a screenplay

by Andrea Gibb (Dear Frankie).

Production on the film will begin in the UK’s Lake District this summer. BBC Films and the BFI developed the project and are on board for production finance.

The film is set during an idyllic English summer holiday when the Walker children and their sailing rivals, the Blacketts, run amok in their boats. But when the Walkers’ uncle Jim is revealed to be a spy, all of the children are forced to band together to protect him from his enemies.

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Bernal, Vacth put heart into Chemla’s next noir

By Melanie Goodfellow

Gael Garcia Bernal and Marine Vacth are to co-star in Joan Chemla’s film noir If You See His Heart (Si Tu Voyais Son Coeur).

Based on Cuban novel Boarding Home by Guillermo Rosales, it is produced by Pierre Guyard at Paris-based Nord-Ouest, whose credits include Thomas Cailley’s Love At First Fight, which swept the awards at Directors’ Fortnight last year.

Guyard is also one of Screen’s Future Leaders this year.

Prolific Greek cinematographer and Theodoros Angelopoulos collaborator Yorgos Arvanitis is also attached to the production, which is due to shoot in early 2016. “It is a moving and hypnotic film noir in the vein of Takeshi Kitano or James Gray,” said Guyard, who is talking to potential distributors and co-producers in Cannes.

Chemla’s credits include the shorts Dr Nazi, adapted from a short story by Charles Bukowski, and 2012’s The Man With The Golden Brain, in which Vacth had a role.

Vacth was previously in Cannes as the star of Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful in 2013. Bernal was at the festival last year as a member of the Competition jury, as well as for the out of competition premiere of El Ardor.

Tennant, Moss check in for Laing

By Andreas Wiseman

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss are to star in a biopic of renowned Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing.

Metanoia, a UK-Germany coproduction, will chart the story of Laing and his unique community in east London in the 1960s. He became known as the ‘Acid Marxist’ for his therapeutic use of LSD. London-based Gizmo Films produces in collaboration with MMC Studios in Germany (Only Lovers Left Alive, Rush) and Bad

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Penny Productions, the production company led by Phin Glynn (The Unbeatables). Peter Dunphy is among the executive producers.

It marks the fourth feature for Gizmo Films writer and director

Robert Mullan, who has written three books about Laing.

Shooting will take place in the first quarter of 2016 at MMC’s studios in Cologne and on location in London.

Tennant said: “I have long been fascinated by the life and work of RD Laing. Robert Mullan’s passion for the subject is inspiring and the presence of the brilliant Elisabeth Moss makes this something I cannot wait to start work on.”

The production is in Cannes talking to potential financiers.

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Brimstone inks key deals ahead of shoot

By Andreas Wiseman

Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone, starring Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson, has closed key deals and added finance.

Ahead of the June 15 shoot, Embankment Films has closed pre-sales with Germany (Koch Media) and France (The Jokers Films). French outfit Back-Up Media and Holland’s N279 Entertainment are arranging financing on the film with London-based New Sparta Films and Filmwave.

Producers are Uwe Schott (Cloud Atlas, Amour) of X-Filme, Els Vandevorst of N279 and Belgium’s Prime Time.

Wasikowska will play a heroine on the run, chased by a diabolical preacher played by Guy Pearce.

Pattinson will play an outlaw.

UK outfit Embankment handles international rights. CAA and WME represent the US sale.

Wonderful sales for M-Line Distribution

By Liz Shackleton

Green Day Geezer in Cannes Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong makes his starring debut in the comedy Geezer, and Hyde Park International president Eric Christenson will show early footage here.

Lee Kirk wrote and directed the film about a former punk rocker whose brother helps him throw a huge 40th birthday party that gives him a chance to revive his stalled career.

Process Media’s Tim Perell, and Let It Play’s Alex A Ginzburg and Tony Lee produce the film, which is in post-production.

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Korea’s M-Line Distribution has sold North American rights to Kang Hyo-jin’s comedy Wonderful Nightmare to Asia Releasing.

M-Line has also sold the film to China Asia Film Distribution for Australia, Viva Communications for the Philippines and Mega Movie Technology for Myanmar, while Emphasis has taken inflight rights.

Starring Uhm Jeong-hwa (Dancing Queen) and Song Seungheon (Obsessed), the film tells the story of a high-flying female lawyer who dies but is returned to earth to live as a housewife with two children.

The film’s Korean release is scheduled for July.

M-Line is also selling Im Sangsoo’s action comedy Intimate Enemies, starring Ryoo Seung-bum and produced by Fox International Productions; action comedy Untouchable Lawmen, starring Daniel Choi and Im Chang-jung; and Park Jae-sik’s medical thriller The Black Hand, starring Han Go-eun and Kim Sung-su.

The Seoul-based company has also picked up Korea-Estonia erotic drama Angry Painter, directed by Jeon Kyu-hwan (Mozart Town) and starring Yu Jun-sang and Moon Jong-won.

eOne has licensed a large swathe of the world on its Catholic Church abuse drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton and Liev Schreiber, including a multiterritory deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.

Ferrara’s goes to Siberia Abel Ferrara has shed more light on his $3m Jungian drama Siberia, to star Willem Dafoe, ahead of Monday’s press conference to promote a Kickstarter campaign. » See ScreenDaily.com for an exclusive interview

Sackhoff knocks twice Katee Sackhoff has signed on to star in Red & Black Films’ supernatural horror Don’t Knock Twice, which Content is selling here. Caradog James will direct.

TIFF Philippines focus Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) and Japan Foundation have announced they will focus on the cinema of the Philippines for the second edition of the festival’s Crosscut Asia sidebar. The line-up includes a special programme of the work of Brillante Mendoza, whose film Taklub is screening in Un Certain Regard.

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Films Boutique puts Eisenstein on the map

By Geoffrey Macnab

Films Boutique has been racking up sales for Eisenstein In Guanajuato from veteran UK director Peter Greenaway.

The film, which premiered at the Berlinale, has gone to France (Pyramide Distribution), Italy (Teodora Films), US (Strand Releasing), Spain (Betta Pictures), Germany (Salzgeber), Brazil (Esfera Filmes), Benelux (Cinemien), Baltics (A-One Films), Bulgaria (Film Vision), Central America (Palmera International), Hungary (Cirko Film), Romania (Clorofilm), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), ex-Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom) and Russia and CIS (Volga Film).

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China’s C2M backs sci-fi Neuromancer

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Chinese outfit C2M Media Group is to co-develop and co-finance long-gestating sci-fi feature Neuromancer with UK sales team GFM Films.

C2M, a co-production partner of CJ Entertainment, recently backed successful China-Korea

productions A Wedding Invitation and Miss Granny.

William Gibson’s sci-fi novel follows a smooth ‘computer cowboy’ who is banished from cyberspace after double-crossing the wrong people. Mr & Mrs Smith and Man On Fire producer Lucas Foster is in talks with new writers and

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“C2M will collaborate with GFM not only in financing, but also in script development, film production and global distribution,” said Josh Dong, president of C2M. C2M partner Mike Hsu introduced the partnership between C2M and GFM.

Director Matteo Garrone and actors Salma Hayek and Vincent Cassel at the photo call for Palme d’Or contender Tale Of Tales.

Kino Lorber has pounced on US rights to Sembene! ahead of tonight’s screening in Cannes Classics. Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman directed the doc about the life of Senegal film-maker Ousmane Sembene. Kino Lorber brokered the deal with worldwide rights holder The Film Sales Company.

Micro fund greenlights duo

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

UK micro-budget film fund Film London Microwave has selected chase thriller Kill Her Witch and psychological horror The Visitor as its two films to go into production later this year.

Each team will receive $16,000 (£10,000) develop-

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The goal is for the companies to jointly finance and launch four to six new features a year while operating separately.

Former Cargo sales chief Mark Lindsay has left.

The Visitor explores family relationships and comes from brothers Sebastian Godwin (writer/director) and Hugo Godwin (producer). The Film London, BFI, BBC Films and Creative Skillset scheme has previously backed titles including Shifty and Lilting.

Sam Neill on Hunt New Zealand director Taika Waititi (What We Do In The Shadows) has recruited Sam Neill and Paper Planes star Julian Dennison for his next film, Hunt For The Wilderpeople.

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Wanda scares Ghouls sales China’s Wanda Pictures has sold a string of Asian territories on Wuershan’s The Ghouls, including Taiwan (CMC), the Philippines (MVP) and Singapore (Shaw).

The fantasy film has also gone to Indonesia (Cinemaxx), Vietnam (BHD) and Thailand (IPA). It is one of 10 to make the quota for mainland films in Taiwan this year.

Wanda is handling Asian and US sales on the film. IM Global handles the rest of the world.

“It’s a big-budget commercial adventure film, but with a Chinese story and elements such as feng shui,” Wuershan told Screen.

Wanda VP Jerry Ye said the studio had spent three years developing the $40m project to work as a global franchise in Chinese and international markets.

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Kross scores goal role

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German actor David Kross, who starred opposite Kate Winslet in The Reader, has been cast as the legendary German-born goalkeeper Bernd ‘Bert’ Trautmann, who played in England for Manchester City from 1949-64.

Trautmann will be Bavarian director Marcus Rosenmüller’s first English-language feature and will be produced by Munichbased Lieblingsfilm with UK pro-

ducer Alex Boden’s Pistachio Pictures.

Principal photography is set to begin this autumn, with most of the shoot concentrated in Germany and some location work in northern England.

“The action on the football pitch will provide the backdrop for the story of the former German POW Trautmann falling in love with his coach’s daughter, Margaret,” producer Robert Marciniak

Eurimages unveils gender report

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Eurimages, the Council of Europe’s Co-production Fund, has revealed the results of its latest report into gender equality.

For the last two years, the fund has surveyed how many women directors and producers apply for Eurimages support.

This time, according to Roberto Olla, executive director of the fund, Eurimages “went a little further than this and tried to look at what kind of films men and women proposed to us”.

Of the 170 projects that applied to Eurimages for funding in 2014, 134 had male directors.

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Degeto Film has already come on board as a co-financing partner, and SquareOne Entertainment will release the film in German cinemas.

The producers will be in Cannes this week for talks about financing the $11.4m (¤10m) production and casting for the English roles.

Opinion is split as to whether Eurimages should look to “soft measures” to address the imbalance or whether more dramatic policy intervention is needed.

Olla said the fund was looking at measures that have already been taken to combat gender inequality in Scandinavian countries.

Seigner joins Stalin’s Couch

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Venus In Fur star Emmanuelle Seigner has signed on to appear opposite Gérard Depardieu in Fanny Ardant’s $2.9m (¤2.5m) feature, Stalin’s Couch.

The film, sold by Alfama and due to shoot later in the year, follows the young artist Danilov as he travels to Stalin’s secret residence to present his plans for a monument to the dictator.

The news of Seigner’s casting was revealed by veteran producer Paulo Branco, who also offered further casting and production news on his packed Cannes slate.

One new title is Fred Vargas adaptation The Chalk Circle Man (L’homme Aux Cercles Bleus), directed by Nicolas Lévy-Beff.

Also, Mathieu Amalric has been confirmed as lead alongside Julia Roy in Benoit Jacquot’s His Body, likely to start shooting in early 2016.

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Marché launches highrolling investors’ club

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

In a sign of the growing importance of private money in film finance, the Marché has launched an investors club aimed at highnet-worth individuals (HNWI) seeking to invest in cinema.

Under the initiative, the Marché will host a day of workshops for a dozen wealthy individuals and introduce them to top producers and sales agents in the industry.

“They are HNWIs who don’t know the cinema world and want to get involved,” said Marché chief Jérome Paillard. “They’re looking to diversify their investments.

“Lots of investors tell me that in the current climate, in which returns in the financial markets are weak, cinema, when it’s managed well, makes sense.”

Speaking generally about the Marché, Paillard said there were “all the ingredients” for it to be a bumper year. A total of 3,300 films are on offer, some 1,000 at the project stage.

“Acquisition agents are telling me it’s the first time in a number of years there are so many big projects on offer.” He added: “I’ve been told there are around 50 high-profile projects on offer — it’s

impressive. Of course, many are from the US but StudioCanal, Wild Bunch, Pathé are also out in force.”

A record 117 countries are represented this year, noted Paillard.

“The number is growing but also the diversity of the countries. New attendees include Albania, Nepal — despite the situation — Sri Lanka and Afghanistan,” he said.

Overall, roughly 11,000 film professionals are set to attend the Marché, in line with last year.

Highlights of the Marché’s programme include a talk by Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos today.

Gallego embraces Sister, Birds

BY JEREMY KAY

Cristina Gallego, the fast-rising Colombian producer in Directors’ Fortnight with Embrace Of The Serpent, set to premiere today, is putting together her follow-up pipeline.

Gallego, one of this year’s Screen International Future Leaders, is producing Sister Of Mine (Demonios Tus Ojos) through her Bogota-based Ciudad Lunar alongside Spain’s Carmelita Films and Chapinero Films of Colombia.

Pedro Aguilera directs and produces with Gallego the story of a film-maker who becomes fasci-

nated by his younger half-sister after he accidentally discovers her on a porn site. Ivana Baquero and Julio Perillan star.

Aguilera has completed early shots and plans to resume principal photography in September in Catalonia.

Gallego and Embrace Of The Serpent director Ciro Guerra are lining up Birds Of Passage (Pajaros de Verano), set to kick off in the first quarter of 2017 in La Guajira Desert in the north of Colombia.

Ciudad Lunar and Colombia’s Blond Indian have just struck a co-production deal with Pimienta

Films of Mexico and Gallego and fellow producer Katrin Pors say they have already assembled the bulk of financing.

The story takes place in the 1970s in an arid region where a rainstorm leaves a path of devastation and despair in its wake.

Embrace Of The Serpent tells of a fateful excursion by two scientists into the Amazon. Gallego produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur and MC Producciones and Buffalo. Germany’s Films Boutique represents world sales on the Croisette. Disney holds Colombian rights.

CANNES BRIEFS SPC grabs Kore-eda Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister from Wild Bunch. It screened in Competition yesterday (see review, page 26).

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Efe Cakarel’s fast-expanding VoD service MUBI is in Cannes looking to make global distribution deals for selected titles in the Marché.

MUBI has already struck two recent all-rights deals. It has now taken all rights on Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Second Game.

The director’s latest feature, The Treasure, is premiering in Un Certain Regard this week.

Just prior to Cannes, the company took all rights to Locarno Golden Leopard winner From What Is Before by director Lav Diaz. The company is also on the prowl for further acquisitions.

“We are here in Cannes actually negotiating to buy a film for the UK, all rights,” MUBI founder and chief executive Cakarel said.

The company looks to take rights on a 30-day basis. MUBI, which currently has 7 million users globally, recently raised $15m to invest further in its growth. Among its backers and new board members are Working Title co-chairman Eric Fellner and Pascal Cagni, formerly chief executive of Apple in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Cakarel has also raised the possibility that MUBI will eventually invest in original content.

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Ennis Hensley has been promoted to president of international sales and distribution for The Weinstein Company. The company’s sales slate includes boxing drama Hands Of Stone, which TWC has acquired for the US from CAA.

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Bangkok-based Five Star Production has picked up international rights to biopic F.Hilaire, about a French priest who wrote a famous Thai-language textbook.

Francois Touvenet Hilaire visited Thailand in the early 1900s and not only mastered the language but wrote a textbook that is still used in Thailand today.

Directed by Surussavadi Chuarchart, the film tells his story through a present-day teacher.

Jason Young, a Bangkok-based actor who is fluent in Thai, stars as Hilaire, while the teacher is played by Pharunyoo Rotchanawutthitham (Still 2).

Scheduled for Thai release in July, the project was produced by Bluering Company and OMAC. Five Star is also launching sales on Achira Nokthet’s horror film Ghost Ship, which is currently in pre-production and being lined up for release towards the end of the year.

MUBI seeks out Cannes deals

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TWC ups Hensley

Myriad lays out Bare Myriad Pictures is introducing drama Bare, starring Glee’s Dianna Agron and Paz de la Huerta, to international buyers here following its world premiere at Tribeca last month.

Electric sparks $20m Electric Entertainment has closed a $20m production facility with First Republic Bank to finance the second season of US drama The Librarians — part of an overall $75m credit line spanning three years to allow Electric to expand its film, TV and sales operations.

Sheehan in Love Robert Sheehan (The Mortal Instruments) is to star opposite Hailee Steinfeld in Dustin Lance Black’s The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight, which The Exchange sells in Cannes. » Full stories on ScreenDaily.com

FilmNation promotes trio

BY JEREMY KAY

Phenomena in the Village The producers behind the upcoming adaptation of the Phenomena Norwegian fantasy book series will present the project to buyers tomorrow.

Gudrun Giddings and Christian Arnold-Beutel are taking part in the ‘Best Seller to Box Office’ literary adaptations programme at the International Village.

Phenomena is based on the

seven-book series by Ruben Eliassen. It centres on two elf children who may hold the key to saving the world.

Giddings optioned the series and brought on Christian Limmer to adapt the books. The producers have earmarked an autumn shoot in Ireland and Bernd Schlötterer’s Palatin Media handles sales.

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FilmNation has promoted to vicepresident three executives attending Cannes.

Jennifer Fradlin works in business and legal affairs, Patrick Chu in production and acquisitions and Selena Saldana in publicity.

Fradlin joined the company in 2009 and has developed strong ties with producers and financiers.

Chu joined three years ago and expands his role to supervising inhouse productions. Saldana joined FilmNation in 2012 and began running publicity in 2013.

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Vision snares UK thriller Containment

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Vision Films has boarded rights to UK thriller Containment, the debut feature from London-based director Neil Mcenery-West.

Lee Ross (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes), Louise Brealey (Sherlock), Sheila Reid (Brazil), Andrew Leung (Lilting) and rising theatre stars Pippa Nixon and William Postlethwaite star in the story of an artist who wakes one morning to discover his apartment sealed shut, sinister figures lurking outside and a killer virus within.

The deal was brokered between Lise Romanoff at Vision Films and Simon Sole at Bandoola Productions, the financing and production outfit behind the film.

Producers are Christine Hartland of Patchwork Productions, and Casey Herbert and Pete Smyth of Bright Cold Day Films.

Cinema do Brasil lands with promotion in mind

BY JEREMY KAY

Cinema do Brasil attends Cannes this year promoting 31 companies as well as Cesar Augusto Acevedo’s Critics’ Week entry Land And Shade (La Tierra Y La Sombra) and Joao Paulo Miranda Maria’s short Command Action.

The support body — a partnership between Sao Paulo’s Audiovisual Industry Guild and the Land And Shade Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency — will cham- Ontario Media Development Corpion, among other things, the poration to honour six producers Pitching Training sessions. from Brazil and Canada.

South African producer and Officers from ANCINE, the director Stefano Tealdi will lead national cinema agency of Brazil, the sessions today. will issue a statement on co-proCinema do Brasil will promote ductions with Latin American two co-production meetings with countries at a reception on May 18.

Quebec and the Netherlands on As always, Cinema Do Brasil will May 17 and 18 and host a lunch on announce details of the upcoming dreamteam2015_scr_path01.psd bei 50% May 18 in partnership with applications cycle for its annual

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International Distribution Support Award. “As Brazilian productions are now quite mature, diversified and recognised for their artistic quality, the main objective in our 10th consecutive year at the Marché Du Film is to provide consultancy to our associates in pitching and promote co-production and networking meetings,” said Cin(CMYK/8) * ema Do Brasil CEO Andre Sturm.

Twins drama hits a gallop

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Benelux sales outfit Be For Films is launching international sales on Galloping Mind, the new feature from ballet star turned filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus. The English-language film, shot in Hungary, is produced by Savage Film’s Bart Van Langendonck.

Galloping Mind begins with a nurse who discovers her partner is the father of newborn twins and decides to steal one of the babies.

Years later, the boy meets his sister during a street robbery and together they discover their common fate.

The film is co-produced by Belgium’s Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks and Olivier Rausin of Climax Films as well as Laszlo Kantor of UJ Budapest Film Studio and Petra Goedings of Dutch outfit Phanta Vision.

Benelux distribution will be handled by Kinepolis.

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The True Cost

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Fashion’s hidden costs

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Film-maker Andrew Morgan convinced Livia Firth (sustainability pioneer, founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and wife of Colin Firth) to executive produce documentary The True Cost simply by calling her office and introducing himself:. “I said, ‘I feel like I need to make this film’,” explains the Los Angeles-based film-maker.

“For a long time I wanted to make a film about global inequality and poverty and the role business plays in that.”

After Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza

garment factory tragedy in 2013, Morgan thought the fashion world could be his lens into issues from the exploitation of cheap labour to the use of toxic chemicals in dyes.

Firth is using her influence to drum up attention for the nowfinished film, but she wasn’t heavy-handed during production.

“She pushed me to make the film I wanted to make. She said, if I could go tell the story from my perspective, it would have more resonance with the everyday person,” Morgan says. He hopes the film

Klown Forever

Klowning on the Croisette

BY WENDY MITCHELL

Those rapscallions Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam from the cult hit comedy Klown are in Cannes to tout their much-anticipated sequel, Klown Forever. They are calling it a “Tour De Croisette”,

which is at least more family friendly than the first film’s famous “Tour De Pussy”. It makes The Hangover look like a kid’s film.

Klown Forever sees the Danish duo visiting Los Angeles and engaging in their usual inappro-

tells a meaningful, global story without becoming “a guilt trip”.

Colin and Livia Firth will join The True Cost team today for a market screening and reception for the film (sold by The Film Sales Company).

Morgan says: “I think a lot of people are going to start to care and start to ask questions, and we can see profound change.”

After Cannes, there will be a series of European premieres and then a theatrical release for The True Cost in select cities on May 29, followed by an iTunes launch.

priate hijinks — there’s more nudity, cameos from Isla Fisher and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, and a Great Dane added to the mix.

The film’s sales company, Protagonist Pictures, along with Nutmeg Movies and the Danish Film Institute, are stirring up a little ‘tys tys’ (as the boys might say, translation: hush hush) fun with buyers tonight.

“It is a rare treat to have Frank and Casper among us at Cannes.

Klown featured some of the most extraordinary, eye-popping, gaspinducing, side-splittingly funny moments of any film I have ever seen, and Klown Forever is even better. Seriously, these guys are amazing,” says Protagonist chief executive Mike Goodridge.

Lanthimos on set

Cannes Competition entry The Lobster marks Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Englishlanguage debut after 2009 Un Certain Regard title Dogtooth and 2011 drama Alps. The Lobster is set in a dystopian near-future where single people must find a matching mate in 45 days or be transformed into animals. The film premieres today and Protagonist Pictures handles sales.

How did you come to this idea?

Efthymis [Filippou, frequent writing collaborator] and I just started discussing. We built it in increments. We started with relationships and couples and single people and that led to The Lobster. I knew that I wanted to make a film in English after moving to London four years ago.

The film seems to explore humans’ desire for intimacy.

We’re exploring the need for people to be in couples and the pressures associated with conforming to that standard. But we go to an extreme. It’s about love and whether love is real.

Are you interested in the absurd?

Not per se. I find situations absurd and I try to reveal them or I just find situations interesting and they turn out to be thought of as absurd. By exploring something in an exaggerated way, it makes it seem absurd or reveals the absurdity of the truth of it.

What was the biggest challenge?

Working in a different country where there are very different structures and practices from what I’m used to. In Greece we were just friends making films.

The more professional structure was a hard adjustment. There are many rules. This film’s budget [around $4m] was 10 times what I was used to.

What’s next?

Efthymis is writing a new Englishlanguage film, a psychological thriller with a supernatural element. We also have a period film about British monarch Queen Anne, written by Tony McNamara.

Both films are with Element.

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Tale Of Tales Reviewed by Lee Marshall Brave to the point of madness, Italian auteur Matteo Garrone’s most visually and aurally ravishing film to date gives flesh and blood to three Neapolitan fables from a collection by 17th-century author Giambattista Basile. Garrone’s courage lies not only in a choice of folk tales that will be unknown to the majority of viewers, or in the costly cast and production values, but in his decision to present the stories relatively straightforwardly. In the process, he preserves the matter-of-fact human comedy and Baroque terror of Basile’s originals and avoids the Hollywood character-arc trap of recent fairy-tale refurbishments such as Snow White And The Huntsman.

This is a film in which ogres are ogres rather than victims of prejudice, and when a hermit tells a queen to eat the heart of a sea monster if she wants to fall pregnant there’s a palpable sense of a real, grubby, Medieval world in which such things were possible.

Loud with lust and gravid with violence, or the threat of it, this is not one of those crossover films that will please kids and adults alike. In fact, it’s this unearthing of the strange power of fairytales to stir up raw emotions and buried instincts that makes Garrone’s strange, original, uneven but still impressive film such a memorable cinematic experience.

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COMPETITION It-Fr. 2015. 133mins Director Matteo Garrone Production companies Archimede, Le Pacte, Rai Cinema, Recorded Picture Company International sales HanWay Films, info@hanwayfilms.com Producers Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean and Anne-Laure Labadie Screenplay Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso Cinematography Peter Suschitzky Editor Marco Spoletini Production designer Dimitri Capuani Music Alexandre Desplat Main cast Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Shirley Henderson, John C Reilly, Hayley Carmichael, Stacy Martin, Bebe Cave, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees

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The orthodox industry view would be that this is a difficult product to sell as it falls into no neat genre or sub-genre. Even the obvious Game Of Thrones parallels aren’t quite right as that TV franchise is a much more self-aware, post-modern beast than Garrone’s genuine tribute to the ability of folk tales to cut to the quick of our human foibles, desires, dreams and illusions.

The name cast and English-language dialogue (which survives a couple of laborious passages that sound translated from the Italian) will help to win over uncertain distributors, and old-fashioned cinematic values — the tactile opulence of costumes and interiors, the lambent, dreamlike photography of regular Cronenberg DoP Peter Suschitzky and a playful, nuanced soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat — should do the rest. Granted, the film still represents a theatrical challenge, but a tasty one.

Of the three stories that intertwine in the course of the film, one stands out. This is the tale of the King of Altomonte, a monarch whose high castle (in reality the striking Castel del Monte in Puglia) and absolutist power have become incubators for folly. Toby Jones is perfectly cast as a weak man who lets the business of state slide while, on a whim, he nurtures a pet flea until it swells up to the size of a sheep. His vain, closeted daughter Viola at first seems little more than a throwaway role, but in the hands of relative newcomer Bebe Cave — who has something of a young Emma Thompson about her — she blossoms unexpectedly into the film’s most engaging and surprising character.

A second tale centres on a barren queen played by Salma Hayek, whose doting royal husband (John C Reilly) agrees to the aforementioned hermit’s deal. The queen duly eats the huge heart but soon discovers the servant girl who prepared the delicacy has delivered a child as well, and the two boys — the prince and the pauper, both albino — become inseparable, identical playmates.

The third story, and perhaps the one with most comic potential, revolves around Vincent Cassel’s lustful King of Roccaforte, who takes a fancy to a woman he hears singing in the street below his castle. She is one of two old crone sisters who dye rags for a living in their hovel.

When the randy king persists, dominant sister Dora (Hayley Carmichael) agrees to visit her monarch in his bed on condition he keeps all the lights out during their encounter.

Left to tease out themes, we spot a few that have interested Garrone at least since the days of L’Imbalsamatore (2002) and First Love (2004): namely, body images; the way certain people attempt to control their own storylines and those of their loved ones, and the way this can rebound against them.

As with the recently released English translation of the unadulterated first edition of Grimms’ fairytales, Tale Of Tales reminds us that traditional fables don’t need injections of contemporary relevance to grip, stir and disturb.

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The Anarchists Reviewed by Charles Gant An intriguing premise, resonant themes and some winning performances from a cast led by Tahar Rahim and Adele Exarchopoulos still fall short of fulfilling the promise suggested by Elie Wajeman’s second feature, The Anarchists (Les Anarchistes).

Set in Paris in 1899, this drama pivots around the conflicted loyalties of an undercover cop who infiltrates the titular revolutionary cell. Cast names — and a trailer spotlighting the film’s modest moments of action — should help The Anarchists storm a few barricades in its native France. Elsewhere, expect some niche theatrical and festival play, following the picture’s openingnight slot in Critics’ Week.

An orphan of humble origins, Corporal Jean Albertini (Rahim) makes a natural choice for his assigned task: lacking any political affiliations or even any notable characteristics, he is an affable presence who blends into any scene. He also possesses a quiet ruthless streak, callously breaking off with his girlfriend to clear the decks for his new life as a double agent.

Jean has been chosen to target a group of radicals led by Elisée Mayer (Swann Arlaud), who is naturally initially suspicious of the genial fellow who joins the ranks at his workplace, a nail factory. But after Jean proves his mettle when a political meeting is broken up by

OPENING FILM, CRITICS’ WEEK Fr. 2015. 101mins Director Elie Wajeman Production companies 24 Mai Production, France 2, Mars Films International sales Wild Bunch, edevos@wildbunch.eu Producer Lola Gans Screenplay Elie Wajeman, Gaelle Macé Cinematography David Chizallet Editor Francois Quiqueré Production design Denis Hager Music Gloria Jacobsen Main cast Tahar Rahim, Adele Exarchopoulos, Swann Arlaud, Guillaume Gouix, Karim Leklou, Sarah Le Picard, Cédric Kahn, Emilie De Preissac

the police, Elisée takes him home to the handsome apartment owned by a rich sympathiser (Sarah Le Picard). Now Jean becomes the sixth member of a group that is defiantly opposed to the state and any kind of alternative power structures that might take its place.

The drama adds a welcome, if less-than-surprising, element when attraction burgeons between Jean and Elisée’s girlfriend Judith (Exarchopoulos), even as the respectful friendship between the two men deepens.

The growing disaffection with parliamentary

democracy and establishment political parties in the West makes the arrival of The Anarchists particularly timely for audiences, while the group’s chatty exploration of personal growth and gender equality feels similarly resonant.

And when Elisée’s band targets a private bank to liberate funds for the cause, modern audience sympathies can be taken for granted.

The cell’s felonious activities follow a lengthy middle segment that feels rather claustrophobically imprisoned in the Paris flat, during which time the interplay of the characters plays out through devices such as a word association game. Although Jean later risks exposure when he encounters his ex-girlfriend while out drinking with his new friends, the inherent drama of the film’s undercover premise seems of less interest to Wajeman and co-writer Gaelle Macé than its exploration of character and political themes.

A sense of real jeopardy is rarely felt urgently, and the always-engaging Rahim has his work cut out filling in the blank that has been sketched for this particular protagonist. Scenes with his cynical police supervisor (film-maker Cédric Kahn, one of several cast members who featured in Wajeman’s earlier Aliyah) register most strongly, and the temperature sizzles appropriately whenever, in snatched moments of passion, the camera zeroes in on Exarchopoulos’s mouth.

devoted wife Manon (Clotilde Courau). Pierre is assembling a documentary on a wartime resistance hero and Manon offers him unconditional support in their work and home life. When Pierre embarks on an affair with intern Elisabeth (Lena Paugam), he believes it is entirely possible to have both women in his life. It’s just what men do.

The rude awakening comes when he discovers that Manon has also been having an affair. Pierre never thought it was possible for women to be unfaithful and the discovery fills him with jealousy and creates a much more provocative second half of the film as Garrel and his team reveal more of the central couple’s insecurities and vulnerabilities.

Esteemed veteran Jean-Claude Carriere is another screenplay collaborator on In The Shadow Of Women and his mark is detectable in the precision and polish of the dialogue. Garrel ensures that the film is a very concise, intimate piece of storytelling, choosing to let it unfold in cramped apartments, dishevelled bedrooms and clandestine meetings in corner cafés. The modern world rarely seems to impose on characters who are tormented by emotions that scarcely seem to bring them happiness or contentment. The focus falls very much on the actors, with Merhar capturing the stony, implacable nature of Pierre and his arrogant sense of entitlement, and Courau revealing

the complexity of a doe-eyed wife who very much has a mind and ideas of her own.

The quality of the performances and the tight, incisive script provide a good deal of the pleasure in an elegantly engaging effort that might even have benefited from a longer running time.

In The Shadow Of Women Reviewed by Allan Hunter It may be set in contemporary Paris, but In The Shadow Of Women (L’Ombre Des Femmes) has the textures and trappings of a nouvelle vague relic from the 1960s. The moody, black-and-white cinematography, literary voice-over and intense exploration of messy relationships and broken hearts effortlessly evoke the world of Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut. Veteran director Philippe Garrel subverts the nostalgic mood by turning the travails of a married couple into a lightly witty treatise on double standards in relationships where men think they can act with impunity and women are merely expected to suffer in silence.

Garrel has remained stubbornly under-appreciated and under-exposed throughout his 50-year career and In The Shadow Of Women, which opened Directors’ Fortnight, is unlikely to win a whole new army of converts. It will make a welcome addition to festival programmes, however, and will be best appreciated by older cineastes and Garrel loyalists.

Garrel’s screenwriting collaborators once again include his partner, the actress and writer Caroline Deruas, which can’t help but suggest elements of autobiography in the story of struggling filmmaker Pierre (Stanislas Merhar) and his deeply

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Our Little Sister Reviewed by Dan Fainaru Yasujiro Ozu hovers all over Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary), Hirokazu Kore-eda’s adaptation of a graphic novel about three sisters who attend their father’s funeral, find out they have a younger half-sister and decide on the spur of the moment to adopt her. The settings are modern and the camera is not submitted to the rigours of the late master, but somehow the deliberately unhurried pace, the subtle, unprepossessing storytelling, the profound humanity of the characters and the emotional undercurrents beneath its calm, composed surfaces, suggest the master is here in spirit. (It is no accident that Kore-eda chose to shoot the entire film in Kamakura, the small beach town outside Tokyo that is the final resting place of the great Ozu.) Premiering in Cannes Competition, further festivals should welcome this intimate drama, which has already been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for North America. It follows the lives of three sisters: Sachi (Ayase Haruka); Yoshino (Nagasawa Masami, who was in Koreeda’s I Wish) and Chika (Kaho) who share a big, old rambling house left in their care after their parents’ divorce.

Though these three sisters bicker, fight and argue like normal siblings, there is a strong feeling of a close alliance that bonds them together.

COMPETITION Jap. 2015. 126mins Director-screenplayeditor Hirokazu Kore-eda Production companies Fuji Television Network, Shogakukan, Toho Co, Gaga Corporation International sales Wild Bunch, c.baraton@wildbunch.eu Producers Matsuzaki Kaoru, Taguchi Hijiri Screenplay Hirokazu Kore-eda, based on the graphic novel Umimachi Diary by Yoshida Akimi Cinematography Takimoto Mikiya Production design Mitsumatsu Keiko Music Kanno Yoko Cast Ayase Haruka, Nagasawa Masami, Kaho, Hirose Suzu

This warmth and complicity never falters despite the evident differences between the older, responsible and devoted Sachi, the independent Yoshino, who likes drinking and men, and the younger, eccentric Chika.

They are soon joined by the adolescent Suzu (Hirose Suzu), whose polished manners and talent for football cannot disguise the far more complex identity to be revealed in the course of the film. The sisters, and all those surrounding them, are deep down as Japanese in their conduct and perception of life as were Ozu’s characters, though they may no longer sleep on a tatami at night and put on a kimono for their daily routines.

Kore-eda’s film is more than the beautifully luminous faces of his actresses, the particular

way they move and speak, or the lovely landscapes of Kamakura, even though these all should be admired. So much more lies between the lines, from perceptions about life and death and how to accept them, to family ties, compassion, responsibility and human fallacy.

All is suggested through slight inflections of the voice, underlined by brief outbursts of temper and elaborate, profuse apologies at the most unexpected moments. Patience is needed as the characters grow and blossom towards an end that suggests each one of the four sisters is approaching some kind of peace with herself and with the other three also.

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Afterthought Reviewed by Dan Fainaru Seven years after receiving the Cinefondation’s top prize for Anthem, a brief, concise and brilliant portrait of Israel, Elad Keidan is back with his first feature film, a cryptic sketch of two characters, Moshe and Uri (the most familiar names in Israel), with one literally walking up, the other going down, the steps criss-crossing the slopes of Israel’s northern port city of Haifa.

Practically plotless, but perceptive, intelligent, ironic and often touching, the main obstacle to Afterthought (Hayored Lema’ala) reaching wider audiences may be the use of typical Israeli elements, with which many viewers will be unfamiliar.

Keidan uses his two protagonists as prototypes for his fellows Israelis. Topics such as politics and social issues, brought up every time the country is discussed, are of course present, but pushed into the background, part of a vast colourful canvas though never dealt with in depth.

Afterthought opens with a long travelling shot taken, most likely, from the top of a giant crane in Haifa’s harbour. It starts off with the city’s refineries, one of the country’s most lucrative industries but also a polluting monster that affects the quality of life across the city, pulling

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out to survey the surrounding hills covered with new high rises before sweeping over to Mount Carmel, home of the city’s aristocracy, the much less fashionable downtown and finally the port area and its busy harbour.

Once the background is established, Keidan enters the home of his first protagonist, Moshe (Uri Klauzner), a middle-aged man gazing lovingly at his wife as she gets dressed. When she can’t find one of her earrings, which she might have lost the night before on her way home, the adoring husband immediately offers to go and look for it on the steps to Mount Carmel.

The other protagonist, Uri (Itay Tiran), is caught on his way down the same flight of

stairs. Much younger, Uri has broken up with his girlfriend and left the barbershop quartet in which he used to sing. He is generally disgusted with life, doubtful about his writing abilities and badly in need of a break. Skipping the call for an army reserve training session, he is on his way to the harbour to catch a boat and leave the country.

The two meet only once, in the middle, and have a short conversation during which it transpires that Moshe used to be Uri’s teacher in elementary school. They both go on, one up, the other down until, at the very end, unexpected circumstances cause each to turn in the opposite direction. Every encounter they have on their way is another piece of a puzzle that fits together to give two generic images: one of a melancholy middle-aged man crushed by the past; the other of a rather confused young man facing an uncertain future. Together, they suggest Keidan’s personal view of Everyman, Israeli style.

Haifa’s picturesque nooks and crannies, old colourful neighbourhoods and new nondescript malls — supported by a rich sound tapestry of classical music, pop music and snippets of unrelated conversations — serve to add colour to the backdrop.

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Latin flair The booming epicentres within Latin America continue to thrive as Hollywood scours the region for opportunities. Jeremy Kay reports

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or many years now, US majors have enjoyed strong results for tentpole productions in countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

Within the past couple of years, Colombia, Chile and Venezuela in particular have also begun to deliver larger returns.

Brazil remains something of a law unto itself — a Portuguese-speaking giant where the influence of broadcaster Globo cannot be overstated. Some observers argue that if there were a Spanish-language company operating on an equivalent scale, awareness of content from the region within neighbouring countries — which has proved something of a challenge over the years — would be even greater than it already is.

The region continues to develop apace, operating on its own terms and in concert with the US, which brings investment and in turn offers an investment opportunity and strategic value, given the growth of the Latino demographic. Corporate alliances with Hollywood have seen Lionsgate, Participant Media and IM Global take significant strides into the region to capitalise on local talent and production expertise and test the water for the global appeal of Spanish-language titles.

Colombia’s promotional body Proimagenes Colombia has aggressively courted outside investment through tax incentives as the country seeks to distance itself from its troubled recent past.

Colombia’s Law 1556 has become a focus of enterprising US producers willing to take the trip south and benefit from the country’s diverse scenery, vital urban life and increasingly competent crew base. The authorities are reviewing submissions to decide which projects are eligible for the incentive, which

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provides 40% rebate on local labour spend and a 20% savings on items such as catering, transport and hotels.

The first international project to benefit from the incentive was The 33, the $20m Chilean mine collapse survival story that Alcon Entertainment recently snapped up for most of the world. The Los Angeles-based company will channel the film, which stars Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche and Rodrigo Santoro, through its deal with Warner Bros, while Fox will distribute in Latin America and Good Universe continues to service in its select territories.

The presence of lead producer Mike Medavoy — who lived in Chile for a decade — meant the US-Chile-China co-production was imbued with plenty of US know-how, but the competence of local partners including Dynamo as the production services company in Colombia did not go unnoticed.

Indeed Dynamo, producer of local and Spanish hit Hidden Mirror among others, is one of the partners in Participant PanAmerica, the

(Above) Directors’ Fortnight title Embrace Of The Serpent; (below) The Princess and (inset) The Chosen Ones

development and co-financing venture launched two years ago by Participant Media that backed Pablo Fendrik’s Argentina-set jungle revenge thriller El Ardor.

The partnership was conceived with the goal of making 10-12 films over five years. It has clearly not been as “fast-moving” as the recently departed Participant chief executive Jim Berk promised, but Screen understands a second title is expected to be confirmed shortly. El Ardor star Gael Garcia Bernal’s Mexico City-based Canana Films is one of the key elements in Participant PanAmerica and continues to evolve as a creator of intelligent fare such as Cesar Chavez, directed by Canana partner Diego Luna, and David Pablos’s Un Certain Regard selection The Chosen Ones (Las Elegidas).

A thriving scene World-class studios, diverse locations and highly regarded local crews allied to a robust patchwork of generous Foprocine, Fidecine, Eficine and ProAV incentive schemes ensure Mexico’s huge entertainment sector continues to prosper. The country boasts a solid digital distribution infrastructure and thriving festival and market scene. Guadalajara International Film Festival has been a circuit staple for years — even if some say its influence is waning — while Los Cabos International Film Festival in midNovember is rising as a hip new destination that has already won the hearts and minds of Hollywood agents.

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been setting up a pan-continental distribution and production network and is involved in dozens of projects. Nicolas Posada and Jason Tamasco’s Dark Factory is making a name for itself. The company produced this year’s Sundance entry Reversal and the upcoming Topher Grace musical One Shot, a co-financing deal with Garcia’s AG Studios.

The fourth party in the Participant PanAmerica deal is Fabula, run by the brothers Pablo and Juan de Dios Larrain, whose famous recent collaboration No! starred Bernal and flew the flag for Chile at the 2013 Academy Awards. Juan de Dios Larrain will attend Cannes to talk to partners about Neruda, a film about Chile’s celebrated mid20th century poet and Communist sympathiser Pablo Neruda, which may fall under the Participant PanAmerica deal.

In development is Gloria director Sebastian Lelio’s follow-up Iguazu, while Pablo Larrain’s Catholic Church abuse drama The Club is set to open in Chile at the end of the month. Fabula is also in post on The Princess from Young And Wild director Marialy Rivas.

The collaboration with Spain’s Setembro Cine and Argentina’s Sudestada Cine is a psychological thriller inspired by true events that took place in southern Chile.

The enterprising Fabula offers production services that enable foreign partners to benefit from the country’s 19% tax exemption and earlier this year launched Fabula TV with Spanish content supplier Grupo Secuoya. Despite his swelling in-tray, Juan de Dios Larrain is acutely aware of the ongoing impact of Hollywood on local product and has called for distribution and marketing support. “We have a lot of new directors,” he says. “But we have the same problem that a lot of other countries face — not a lot of new audiences.

“Cultural policy requires efforts from producers, exhibitors and government to ensure Chilean movies get special treatment,” he continues. “I don’t understand how a ticket for a $20m movie is the same price as a ticket for a $2m movie. Argentina and Mexico have the same problem.”

Nonetheless Chilean cinema, aided by the tireless support of promotional agency CinemaChile, finds a way to earn renown beyond borders. Fabula produced Sebastian Silva’s English-language drama and recent Sundance entry Nasty Baby, starring Kristen Wiig, and 2013 selection Crystal Fairy And The Magical Cactus.

Santiago-based Nicolas Lopez has taken matters into his own hands. The comedian, film-maker and entertainment entrepreneur makes low-cost English-language fare with his ‘Chilewood’ partner Eli Roth, such as Knock, Knock and Aftershock. He cut a deal with Netflix to stream the local Spanish-language titles that emanate from his Santiago production hub.

Damian Szifron reminded observers of the potency of Argentinian film-makers with his Oscar shortlisted Wild Tales, and has broken out with a Six Billion Dollar Man writing

(Clockwise from top left) Beyond My Grandfather Allende, Paulina and Land And Shade

assignment for TWC-Dimension, setting up a partnership with Bob Weinstein.

Pablo Trapero, one of the foremost Latin American directors of his generation, is applying the finishing touches to The Clan, which shines a light on a disturbing episode in his country’s recent past and will be sought out when it emerges, possibly at a major festival later this year. Meanwhile a groundswell of film-making talent is emerging in Peru, as evidenced by Tondero Films and Pendulo Films, as well as an emerging body of work from The Vanished Elephant s director Javier Fuentes-Leon. ■

FESTIVAL TITLES Beyond My Grandfather Allende Directors’ Fortnight Dir Marcia Tambutti Allende (Chile-Mex)

This documentary by Chile’s Tambutti is a personal essay to her grandfather Salvador Allende, the socialist physician and politician who led his country in the early 1970s. Beyond My Grandfather Allende explores the interplay between his public and private lives.

Contact Doc and Film International sales@docandfilm.com

The Chosen Ones Un Certain Regard Dir David Pablos (Mex-Fr) Hailing from San Sebastian’s 2014

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Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, The Chosen Ones (Las Elegidas) is a child prostitution drama produced

by Mexico’s hip Canana, which was founded by Pablo Cruz, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. Canana’s El Ardor partner Manny Films from France is also on board.

Contact Mundial cristina_garza@ mundialsales.com

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man and two scientists, and is claimed to be the first film to shoot in the Colombian jungle in three decades.

Screen Future Leader Cristina Gallego of Colombia’s Ciudad Lunar produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur, MC Producciones and Buffalo.

Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto, Edison Raigosa and Juan Felipe Cardenas star.

Contact Films Boutique info@filmsboutique.com

Critics’ Week Dir Santiago Mitre (Arg-Bra-Fr)

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Argentinian director Mitre earned admirers with his first film The Student and hopes are high for his follow-up adaptation of Daniel Tinayre’s 1961 film La Patota. The thriller centres on a social action lawyer whose ideology is put to the test when she is raped by a gang. Dolores Fonzi and Oscar Martinez star.

Directors’ Fortnight Dir Ciro Guerra (Col-Ven-Arg)

Critics’ Week Dir Augusto Cesar Acevedo (Col-Fr-Neth-Chile-Bra)

Anticipation surrounds Colombian Guerra’s return to the Croisette after his acclaimed 2009 Un Certain Regard entry The Wind Journeys. His new film, Embrace Of The Serpent, chronicles the friendship between an Amazonian sha-

First-time Colombian director Acevedo’s Land And Shade (La Tierra Y La Sombra) follows the story of a man who arouses long-buried feelings in his ex-wife as he returns to his home after 17 years when his son falls ill.

Contact Burning Blue (Colombia) contacto@burningblue.com.co

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rom any film-maker’s perspective, trying to encapsulate a life as brilliant but troubled as Amy Winehouse’s in a two-hour documentary was always going to be daunting. But with Amy, which is showing in a Midnight slot on Saturday, director Asif Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees have assembled an intimate, revealing and at times painful-towatch portrait of one of the most famous women on the planet, who died tragically young, at the age of 27, of alcohol poisoning in 2011.

Kapadia and Gay-Rees, who collaborated on the director’s first feature documentary Senna, about Brazilian Formula One champ Ayrton Senna, were approached in late 2012 by David Joseph, chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK, about making a “warts-and-all” documentary on the singer.

Universal Music Group, who released Winehouse’s studio albums under its Island banner, fully financed the film then sold territory rights at the 2013 Cannes Market, where a Winehouse documentary from the Senna team generated bidding wars in some territories.

Former Focus Features International copresident Alison Thompson is selling Amy here through Cornerstone Films, her recently established sales and production outfit with Mark Gooder; A24 recently acquired US distribution rights, and Film4 has picked up UK TV rights.

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Creative control UMG gave the Senna pair full editorial independence on Amy, as well as the rights to use her music, including previously unheard material. London-born Kapadia had fielded several offers in the wake of the multi-award winning Senna to make more documentaries about sporting figures — “Some of the biggest names you can imagine,” he says — but he was drawn to Winehouse’s tragic tale as a young woman from his own neck of the woods: north London.

“Senna came from another universe but Amy felt like someone I could have gone to school with,” he says. “For me it became personal because the more research I did, the more I realised that she had lived just down the road from me.” While not a particularly huge fan going in, Kapadia immersed himself in Winehouse’s music and resolved that the spine of Amy would be her music and lyrics. “It was almost my version of doing a Bollywood film,” he muses, “where the songs are the narrative and we have to find a way to link between these very personal songs.”

As he did in Senna, Kapadia forgoes any talking-head chats, instead piecing together Winehouse’s story through archive footage and voiceover interviews with a vast array of friends, family, former partners and music industry professionals who, at one point or another, found themselves in her orbit. Of the archive footage, much of it derives from

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media appearances, studio sessions and concerts, but the most compelling are the private videos supplied by family and friends, which start off revealing a bright, talented, witty girl before she began to fray at the edges under the scrutiny of fame and her growing addictions.

The starting point was approaching people from Winehouse’s life, few of whom had any interest in participating at first. Those close to her largely clammed up after her death, devastated by her passing and stung by her (or in some cases their own) treatment at the hands of the media. It is an impressive feat Kapadia and Gay-Rees have pulled off in corralling every key figure in Winehouse’s life (not least her father Mitch and the man demonised by many in her close circle not to mention fans, ex-husband Blake FielderCivil) and convince them to go on the record.

“Nobody wanted to be involved in this movie,” admits Gay-Rees. “It took a lot of trust building. You try to get in front of the family and talk about it. Senna was obviously a great selling document. It helped when we told them we meant to do a piece with sincerity and integrity. But it was a delicate process. It required a lot of managing.

“Sometimes,” he adds, “it was about saying, ‘Listen, you were close to her — if you don’t put your side of the story, it’s not going to be in the movie.’”

Even more than with Senna, Kapadia says, sensitive handling skills were paramount. “There was a lot of distrust and paranoia,” he notes. “My job as a director on this film came in earning the trust from people who had never spoken before, who had been carrying this trauma of what went on, and getting them to open up. One by one, somebody would trust me and say, ‘You should talk to his person.’”

Kapadia calls Senna and Amy “yin and yang”, and believes the adulation for the former compared with the mockery of the latter (in some quarters) can partly be attributed to the fact Winehouse was a woman. “Senna has this heroic story in the macho world of race-car driving,” he says. “And then you have the inverse of that journey — a young girl who’s not built for it, not comfortable in the glare and treated quite badly. Because she’s a girl, the media felt entitled to comment on her weight, her look, her hair, her boobs, whatever.”

Back in black Eventually, Kapadia and his team conducted around 100 interviews. His process was methodical: he would sit with each person in a Soho sound studio and dim the lights or sometimes turn them off completely. “I would say to the mixer, ‘Just turn the lights down,’ because people tend to be very uncomfortable,” says the director. “I’m a fan of the power of speech and imagination and because I’m not filming you, I don’t need to see you.”

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Amy Winehouse’s troubled life was cut short at 27

Unsurprisingly, the sessions provoked tears, sorrow, guilt and recrimination. “Everybody would break down at some point,” says Kapadia. “The whole process was a form of therapy for people to get off their chest what they’d been privately carrying.”

His mission became messianic, too, about showing ‘the real Amy’. Kapadia notes that even seasoned entertainment professionals seemed to have formed negative opinions of Winehouse based on her media portrayal.

“When I mentioned I was going to do the film, one person in particular looked me in the eye and said, ‘Why do you want to make a film about a junkie?’,” he reveals. “I remember thinking, ‘How can you say that about someone you’ve never met? How can you form that opinion so decisively?’ That’s why I had to make this film, because people like that have this opinion about someone who was only a kid.”

“We set out to re-educate people about her because she had almost become a laughing stock,” says Gay-Rees. “A line was crossed by certain parts of the media in a pretty unacceptable way.”

In terms of the nuts-and-bolts assembly of a Kapadia documentary, the methodology involves a team of researchers pulling footage, as Gay-Rees describes it, “left, right and centre for six months”, before the creative editor — in Amy’s case, Chris King, who also edited Senna and two other Gay-Rees-produced projects, Exit Through The Gift Shop and All This Mayhem — comes on board.

From an initial assembly that can run several hours in length in rough chronological order, Kapadia and King start to winnow down, working out where the holes are and what they need to fill them. As they went along, and participants were asked to return

‘Everybody would break down at some point’ Asif Kapadia, director

for second, third and sometimes fourth interviews, Kapadia’s interrogation became more pointed. With their objective approach to Winehouse’s story, some figures inevitably end up coming off in a less flattering light than others.

“You can’t make this movie without going to some uncomfortable places,” admits Gay-Rees. “We never had an agenda to say, ‘Right, here is who’s responsible for what happened.’ It was about trying to show the real person. But in trying to condense 10 years into under two hours, you can’t represent everything that everybody would like in the movie.”

“It had to be as honest as we could make it,” concludes Kapadia. “The person who comes out of it amazingly is Amy and she’s s the one I’m interested in.” ■

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ometimes it can be hard to prove to others that you’re serious,” says AMBI Pictures co-founder Monika Bacardi, whose surname reveals a famous legacy. But Bacardi, the former realestate entrepreneur turned film financier whose late husband was an heir to the famous rum empire, knows it will take more than money to forge success in the film business. “Without hard work, there are no results,” says the Italian businesswoman, whose ambitious entrée into the industry seemingly belies inevitable suspicions of short-lived ‘red carpet finance’.

Based in Monaco, Bacardi — whose full name is Monika Gomez del Campo Bacardi, Lady of Bayfield Hall — set up fast-growing AMBI Pictures with Italy-born, Canadabased producer Andrea Iervolino in 2013.

Since then the ambitious duo have amassed a busy slate and are rapidly growing their vertically integrated production and distribution company, which now has outlets in seven countries.

AMBI’s production arm has backed some 14 features in the past 18 months, including In Dubious Battle, an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel starring James Franco, Selena Gomez and Robert Duvall; romantic comedy All Roads Lead To Rome starring Sarah Jessica Parker; futuristic sci-fi film Andron with Alec Baldwin, Danny Glover and Michelle Ryan; and Barry Levinson-directed drama The Humbling with Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig.

The team has a hand in development, production, post-production, international sales and Italian distribution. Backing comes in the form of equity investment, sales and post-production and VFX commitments.

The company’s Los Angeles-based licensing unit, AMBI Distribution, is headed by former Lakeshore Entertainment and NBC executive Julie Sultan, who spearheads a team aiming to sell eight to 10 commercially oriented, English-language films per year, some in-house and others third-party productions.

“Films have always been a passion of mine,” says Bacardi. “Films offer the opportunity to deliver diverse messages to diverse audiences. But I’m well aware this is a very complex and serious business. A lot of people sometimes think it’s just fun. If you want to succeed long term, it’s hard work.

“There are a lot of people with ulterior motives in the business,” she continues. “It’s not safe as houses — it’s a risk. But without risk you don’t get anything in life. You have to risk something. It’s a calculated risk if you have the right partner.”

Clear heads AMBI’s foundations are built on the trust accrued between Bacardi and her prolific business partner Iervolino, who is only 27 years old but already had a string of producer credits to his name before the two met,

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Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino (right) with James Franco on the set of In Dubious Battle

In high spirits Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino, the duo behind rising finance and distribution outfit AMBI Pictures, discuss their plans with Andreas Wiseman ‘Films offer the opportunity to deliver diverse messages to diverse audiences’ Monika Bacardi, AMBI Pictures

(Right) Al Pacino in The Humbling

including Michael Radford’s The Merchant Of Venice and Stefano Incerti’s Gorbaciof.

“Neither of us drink, smoke or take drugs,” laughs Bacardi. “That’s already quite a commitment in this business. It’s important to have a clear head.”

As for Iervolino, who oversees the day-today running of the company, he cites their desire “to make every type of film — sci-fi, drama, comedy, animation, all genres. Our clients need everything.”

The outfit’s most recent projects include big-budget animation Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad and Rupture, which Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) is producing. Both films are in pre-production. Sci-fi thriller Rupture is being introduced to buyers at Cannes and (Secretary has Steven Shainberg (Secretary) attached to direct, with Noomi Rapace on board to star. It is the tale of a struggling single mother abducted by a mysterious organisation.

Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad is an ecology-themed 3D animation, to be directed by Canada’s Matthew Lyon, about a sinister walrus who plots to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle. A rag-tag group of inexperi-

Alec Baldwin in Andron

enced heroes, led by a fox, must foil his plan and save the Arctic.

Few Italian outfits have cracked the animation market in recent years, but not many have had access to AMBI’s resources. The company operates a post-production, VFX and animation house in Canada (where Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad will be made) and has a production servicing team in Italy. AMBI also has designs on further exploitation of its copyright through merchandising, with plans afoot for a subsidiary company to handle the merchandising of projects such as Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad.

It seems Iervolino’s ambitions for AMBI are boundless. “We would like to start a new animation movie every six months,” he says.

“We believe AMBI can be a studio one day.

We would like our own searchlights, like Fox. We have time and we’ll invest plenty of hard s work. If we want it, we can do it.” ■

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Makinarium: an Italian fairytale Rather than looking abroad, Matteo Garrone asked Rome-based VFX house Makinarium to craft the visual effects for his Competition entry Tale Of Tales

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Rome-based effects studio Makinarium provided the film-maker not only with stunning technical solutions but a distinctly Italian mode of collaboration in which the traditional divisions between departments were swept away. Makinarium’s proprietary workflow, the LCW FX Integrated System, has been at the core of the company’s success in producing life-like effects, combining practical on-set effects with digital enhancements.

Makinarium’s System integrates visual effects and practical effects through scanning, new marker systems, and even the use of panels and technologies employed in the bio-medical and geodetic fields. But Leonardo Cruciano, the company’s founder and mastermind, explains it is not the technology that makes Makinarium special, but the methodology behind it.

“We have not invented anything new. We have just developed a very personal path to dealing with the work, and then we formalised it,” he declares. “We put digital artists, electrical engineers, animatronics mechanics, make-up artists, compositors, sculptors and painters all together. In this environment, technicians and artists can share and exchange their ideas and expertise in the same place. Our system gives them a structure to guide everyone towards achieving the same goals.”

Makinarium was involved with Tale Of Tales at a very early stage. Cruciano and Garrone both trained as artists, and through an exchange of drawings and creative dialogue, the fairytale world of Tale Of Tales began to take shape.

“Garrone had it in mind to achieve a fairytale in all its primordial essence,” says Cruciano, noting that Makinarium’s “deep

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collaboration” approach favours becoming involved with a production at the earliest stages. “I was involved with him in the design of the creatures, and then of their realisation on screen. I then began to study how to adapt both special and visual effects solutions to the storytelling and Garrone’s unique directing style.”

Makinarium made fantasy a reality with Matteo Garrone’s Competition film Tale Of Tales

Visual landmark Tale Of Tales is something of a landmark film for Italian visual effects and will significantly boost Makinarium’s international profile. The company’s recent move to the Cinecittà Studios lot will also make it easier for international producers to access the company’s services. Being able to deliver visual effects of big-budget quality for independent film-makers is a key part of Makinarium’s strategy.

With Garrone’s film one of this year’s most anticipated Competition titles, the company now has a superb showreel for its interdisciplinary approach, which Cruciano is keen to highlight as Makinarium’s hallmark.

“Many European professionals took part in the project,” he says. “And many Italians, who had been working abroad for years on some very big film projects, returned to work here. When you have this possibility, everyone becomes really passionate. Everyone put his or her creativity at the service of this adventure.”

“Our way of working is very important for the producer,” says Angelo Poggi, Makinarium’s business development manager (the firm’s other two partners are Nicola Sganga and Bruno Albi Marini). “You can sometimes spend less in terms of money because you can find a solution before you go to the set. You find it in the concept and in the preparation.”

Poggi echoes Cruciano’s sentiments about quality being the result of the company’s ethos: “Perhaps it’s because we’re Italian — we love to work together and to share.

Every person, every artist can contribute, and sometimes you end up with a more important artistic result.” » For more information on Makinarium, visit www.makinarium.it

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A short time later, in December 1895, a series of public screenings in Le Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris, organised by the Lumieres, marked the birth of one of the most cinephile nations on the planet. Today, the country that pioneered cinema is home to one of the most important film industries in the world. A quarter of the Cannes titles premiering in this year’s Official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week and ACID hail from France.

Gritty social dramas such as Dheepan by Cannes habitué Jacques Audiard and Standing Tall by second-time feature director Emmanuelle Bercot will play alongside Valérie Donzelli’s costume drama Marguerite And Julien and the low-budget existentialist sci-fi tale Cosmodrama by Philippe Fernandez.

With some 250 features produced a year, France covers all the bases.

But while the strong selection suggests France’s film industry is in rude health, recent production figures and anecdotal accounts paint a different picture. An annual

FRENCH FILMS AT CANNES The Anarchists dir. Elie Wajeman Asphalte dir. Samuel Benchetrit Cowboys dir. Thomas Bidegain Dheepan dir. Jacques Audiard Disorder dir. Alice Winocour Don’t Tell Me The Boy Was Mad dir. Robert

Guédiguian Fatima dir. Philippe Faucon I Am A Soldier dir. Laurent Lariviere Ice And The Sky dir. Luc Jacquet In The Shadow Of Women dir. Philippe Garrel The Little Prince dir. Mark Osborne Love dir. Gaspar Noé Marguerite And Julien dir. Valérie Donzelli Mon Roi dir. Maïwenn The Measure Of A Man dir. Stéphane Brizé My Golden Days dir.

Arnaud Desplechin Standing Tall dir.

Emmanuelle Bercot Two Friends dir.

Louis Garrel Valley Of Love dir.

Guillaume Nicloux Learn By Heart

dir. Mathieu Vadepied The Wakhan Front dir. Clément Cowboys

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Fast forward As France celebrates 120 years of cinema, its film industry is facing economic pressures and a production downturn. But entrepreneurial producers are already finding solutions. Melanie Goodfellow reports

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study by the country’s National Cinema Centre (CNC), released in January, showed that investment in French film production plummeted by 20% in 2014 to reach a 13-year low, with the number of features falling to 258, some 12 fewer than in 2013. The numbers are not expected to pick up in 2015.

Loss of appetite The industry is facing multiple challenges, including one of the most difficult economic periods for France since the Second World War and the rise of digital distribution platforms outside the country, which are putting pressure on its traditional release windows and intertwined funding mechanisms. Other pressures include the shift from the big screen to smartphones and tablets by younger generations, which is forcing broadcasters to rethink formats, and a new labour agreement for crew, the Convention Collective, which has driven up production costs.

Linked to all of the above, the biggest challenge for producers today is securing the backing of broadcasters and distributors which, alongside the CNC, are traditionally the backbone of film financing in France.

Falling investment by pay-TV channel Canal Plus, which under French law is obliged to invest 12.5% of its budget in European film, with the onus on French productions, is particularly affecting the industry.

“The French side? It’s hell,” says JeanBaptiste Babin, founding partner of Parisbased film financiers Backup Media Group, which works on French and international productions. Recent titles include French

‘No-one is sure of finding a distributor or a broadcaster’ Jean-Baptiste Babin, Backup Media Group

writer-director Nicolas Saada’s India-set Taj Mahal, reconstructing the Mumbai attacks of 2008, as well as international productions Brimstone by Martin Koolhoven, Julio Medem’s Ma ma and, before that, Still Alice.

“To present a French project internationally, we’ve got to show it has attracted investment back home, to give investors confidence, but that’s proving difficult,” says Babin, noting that Backup has seen an uptick in producers seeking its services. “There were producers we knew who would always get a distributor and Canal Plus. Today, nobody is taking that for granted. No-one is sure of finding a distributor or a broadcaster.”

The CNC figures showed Canal Plus investment in feature films dropped by 15% in 2014 to $151m (¤136m). In total, the broadcaster pre-bought 103 European titles, 92 of them French. It was the first time in a decade that Canal Plus had invested in less than 40% of all French film productions, and the second year in a row its investment in European cinema had fallen. In 2013, it financed 126 films to the tune of $185m (¤167m), representing a 14% fall.

Producers also complain Canal Plus and the other broadcasters are increasingly focussed on middle-of-the-road, crowdpleasing fare, or arthouse films by established auteurs, rather than taking a punt on new directors or riskier titles. Last year, more than 100 French films — mainly in the lowbudget $1m-$2m (¤1m-¤2m) range — were made without a broadcaster, a figure that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.

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obligations in European cinema; it remains to be seen what this means for independent film-makers.

“There’s increasing concentration of investment on commercial films where the outcome is more certain. It’s difficult to find investors who are prepared to take a risk,” says Charles Gillibert of CG Cinema, producer of Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria as well as the Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang, which will premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.

Crossover with TV As French producers face up to the new realities of financing and digital distribution, a number of interesting developments are taking place. There is greater crossover between the film and TV worlds — which, unlike the UK, have always remained quite separate — with more and more big-name film directors turning to the small screen.

Bruno Dumont, for example, made the acclaimed police thriller Li’l Quinquin miniseries for Franco-German broadcaster ARTE last year. After premiering at a special screening in Directors’ Fortnight last year, the complete series was seen by 1.4 million viewers when it aired in September. Elsewhere, film directors Samuel Benchetrit — whose latest film Macadam Stories (Asphalte) will premiere in a special screening at Cannes — and Florent-Emilio Siri are expected to shoot the upcoming Netflix series Marseille.

A number of companies with roots in cinema have also diversified into TV — such as EuropaCorp, with series such as No Limit

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‘People are increasingly looking to private individuals and companies for support’ Charles Gillibert, CG Cinema

and Taxi Brooklyn, and Haut et Court, which produced the Emmy-winning international hit The Returned.

“There is a mutation in public taste,” says Juliette Prissard-Eltejaye, managing director of France’s Independent Producers’ Syndicate, which represents 400 producers.

“Younger generations are watching a lot of series — a lot of them are very interesting and not just from the US but also elsewhere.

I hear people who talk about The Wire in the same way they would discuss a cinema classic. We must take this on board.”

Alternative finance The other big development is the rise in private finance. “There are more and more funds specialising in cinema, something that has long been common in the UK and the

Macadam Stories

US, but which didn’t really exist in France until recently,” says Gillibert. “A number are structured in such a way to help finance minimum guarantees alongside the distributors or the sellers, who want to reduce risk.

“People are also increasingly looking to private individuals and companies for support. I’ve turned to private financiers a number of times, mixing their investment with more traditional sources of finance. I also work hard to involve one or two distributors in territories where I think the film will have particular resonance early on. I increasingly look to investors and international income.”

For Mustang, about four Turkish sisters who rebel against pre-ordained lives in a conservative village, Gillibert lined up a chunk of private finance as a precaution while waiting for answers from the CNC and broadcasters. “I had private investors who were prepared to come on board,” he says.

“That allowed me to advance with the project even though, in the end, I got the World Cinema Support, and other sources came through, so I didn’t need it.”

Christophe Cervoni turned to private funder Cinéfrance for the financing of Philippe Lacheau and Nicolas Benamou’s 2014 breakout hit Babysitting, a foundfootage comedy about a babysitting gig that takes a chaotic turn. Launched in 2012, Parisbased Cinéfrance has been involved in roughly 20 productions to date, including Julien Leclercq’s upcoming action thriller The Crew, Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent and Woody Allen’s Magic In The Moonlight.

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tional agreed to back Babysitting to the tune of $1.6m (¤1.4m), Cervoni still struggled to finance the film because he couldn’t get Canal Plus to bite. “We found ourselves in a paradoxical situation,” explains Cervoni, who produces under the Axel Films banner. “We had a big distributor, Universal, which was ready to pre-finance the film for a large sum, but then Canal Plus didn’t want to come in and it wasn’t the type of film we could sell to the free-to-air channels.”

He pulled the rest of the $3.3m (¤3m) budget together through a combination of tax incentives, a cash and services production deal with post-production house Film Factory and a $612,000 (¤550,000) injection by Cinéfrance, which bridged the gap he needed to complete the film. “Cinéfrance was the last partner to come on board. There’s a need for this sort of innovative fund in France right now,” says Cervoni. “That said, you wouldn’t necessarily turn to them if you have alternative sources of funding. They drive a hard bargain.” For the Brazil-set Babysitting 2, Cervoni is taking a more traditional route.

Established producers are also becoming more creative in the way they fund their films. Bertrand Faivre, for example, founder of independent UK production company The Bureau, Paris-based Le Bureau and sales arm The Bureau Sales, has become adept at juggling traditional and more innovative sources of finance due to the fact he often makes nonFrench language fare.

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‘We’ve been through a golden era but, if you think a golden era is forever, you’re in trouble’ Bertrand Faivre, The Bureau

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“France’s film-financing ecosystem is mainly tied to the French language and, for the past 15 years, I’ve produced films that are not all in French so I’ve often had to work outside of the system,” says Faivre. “This has led me to forge links with foreign sales companies outside France, investors, bonds and equity funds, which have a very different approach from the usual funders operating in the French system.”

Pulling together Faivre also makes use of the returns from a growing library of prestigious titles by the likes of Arnaud Desplechin, Xavier

Beauvois and André Téchiné to be financially self-sufficient. For Fabienne Berthaud’s upcoming English-language drama Sky, starring Diane Kruger as a woman who sets off alone across California and Nevada after a violent dispute with her husband, Faivre pulled together a patchwork of support.

Partners for Sky included pay-TV operator Orange Cinéma Séries, Haut et Court, Germany’s Film und Medien Stiftung NRW fund (through co-producer Pandora Film), German distributor Alamode Film and private equity fund Vamonos Films, which was launched last year by French entrepreneur Grégoire

Lassalle, the driving force behind the powerful AlloCiné cinema and TV information website. Le Bureau also put $612,000 (¤550,000) of its own investment into the production and handles foreign sales.

Faivre thinks his way of financing will become more prevalent in France in the future. “Because the French cinema sector is in turmoil, I see increasing numbers of producers opening up to alternative ways of financing French films, which was not the case 10 years ago,” he says. “The French are coming round to the fact that the luxury situation we had is changing. French pay and free TV have a smaller appetite for cinema, which is also under pressure from other formats such as video games and series.

We’ve been through a golden era but, if you think a golden era is forever, you’re in trouble.”

At a time when the French film industry is celebrating its past, it is also prepars ing for a very different future. ■

120 YEARS OF CINEMA Alongside pulling together this year’s festival, delegate general Thierry Frémaux also curated a major exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris devoted to the pioneering work of the Lumiere brothers. Marking the 120th anniversary of their first film, Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory In Lyon (La Sortie De l’Usine Lumiere A Lyon), the multimedia event features early cameras from the Lumiere Institute and showcases many of their early films, until June 14.

At the same time, Gaumont, which claims the title of the world’s oldest film company, beating rival Pathé by a year, is also celebrating its 120th anniversary.

The company has organised a free exhibition at Paris’s Cent Quatre (104) art space, featuring drawings by Jean Cocteau, vintage posters, stills from classic films such as Elevator To The Gallows and Fantomas, and extracts from productions dating back more than 100 years, such as the 1896 film La Biche Au Bois, capturing a ballet performance at the Chatelet theatre in Paris.

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hile Estonia celebrated the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Estonia-Georgia co-production Tangerines, the film industry of the small Baltic country found another reason to celebrate.

Black Nights Film Festival — which takes place chiefly in Estonia’s capital, Tallinn — was granted ‘A-List’ status by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), placing it among the top 15 film festivals in the world. Already the biggest and most recognised festival in northeastern Europe, Black Nights now looks poised to fulfil its A-list status in 2015 and beyond.

The festival will run three competitive programmes: International Competition, the Tridens Estonian Feature Competition and the Tridens First Film Competition, which will be eligible for directing debuts from all over the world.

“Black Nights Film Festival is excited to meet the challenge of its mission to compose a culturally and cinematographically diverse programme to excite professionals as much as the general audience,” says Tiina Lokk, director of Black Nights. “With this year’s new Tridens First Feature competition, we aim to promote the diversity of young film-making talent as well as give a boost to their careers through festivaldriven promotion and industry backing.

The festival has always had a keen eye on new discoveries, with many debutantes starting their careers in Tallinn.”

Black Nights Film Festival’s industry programme consists of Industry@Tallinn and the Baltic Event regional co-production market. Industry@Tallinn, which runs from November 16-20, regularly welcomes more than 450 guests and has garnered a reputation as one of the most important industry and sales destinations in the winter season.

Industry delegates travel from Asia, the US and Latin America, and the event has

Black Nights Film Festival has been granted ‘A-List’ status by FIAPF

Back in Black Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) in Tallinn, Estonia, is looking to be the place where the future of European cinema is mapped out become an effective gateway through which the European industry can connect with buyers, producers, talents, and movers and shakers from northeastern Europe, Scandinavia and CIS. In 2015, Industry@Tallinn will launch the Black Nights Sales Confab, which will invite up to 60 worldwide sales agents to meet with regional and CIS buyers. Also new will be the Black Nights Digital Corner, a four-day showcase of audiovisual technology and software from northeastern European manufacturers.

THE ESTONIAN FILM INDUSTRY Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines may have garnered the headlines but other Estonian film-makers are enjoying international success. Martti Helde’s Second World War drama In The Crosswind screened at Toronto last year and has gone on to become a festival favourite, winning accolades including the audience award at Gothenburg. New films to watch out for include Toomas Hussar’s tragicomedy The Spy And The Poet, and Triin Ruumet’s directorial debut Days That Confused.

The Estonian Film Institute oversees a minority co-production fund of $314,600 (€280,000) annually and hopes to introduce an incentive system to attract

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international films to shoot in Estonia with a local co-producer. Tartu, Estonia’s second largest city, has just launched the Tartu Film Fund with an initial annual budget of $168,500 (€150,000) to provide a cash rebate to visiting productions.

This follows hot on the heels of Estonia’s first regional fund for the audiovisual industry, the Viru Film Fund.

In the Crosswind

‘The festival has always had a keen eye on new discoveries’ Tiina Lokk, Black Nights Film Festival

In partnership with the European Commission and Creative Europe, the festival is hosting the first European Film Forum Tallinn. The two-day event will focus on the synergy between the audiovisual and entertainment sectors and will explore issues including new sales and distribution frameworks, audience development and partnerships between venture capitalists and the film industry.

Further sessions at Industry@Tallinn will include the Film Festival Summit, a chance for festival professionals to discuss key issues; the European Genre Forum, a focus on new genre talents and prospects; the Estonian Film Music Showcase; and Focus on Estonia, which will spotlight the country’s locations, music and post-production opportunities for international visitors.

“The focus of Tallinn’s intimate yet dealdriven industry programme is to embrace the new trends within the industry as well as serving as a crossroads between the film business and other players in the creative economy,” explains Sten-Kristian Saluveer, the director of Industry@Tallinn.

In addition to the main programme, Black Nights will present three mini-festivals: Just Film (November 13-22), dedicated to films for children and young people, Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival (November 17-21) and Animated Dreams (November 19-23).

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(Iceland) 93mins.

Dir: Grimur Hakonarson.

Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Theodor Joelousson, Charlotte Boving.

08:30 SLEEPING GIANT

(Canada) 89mins. Dir: Andrew Cividino. Cast: Jackson Martin, Reece Moffett, Nick Serino, David Disher, Erika Brodzky, Rita Serino, Katelyn Mckerracher, Kyle Bertrand, Lorraine Philp.

Teenager Adam is spending his summer vacation with his parents on rugged Lake Superior. His dull routine is shattered when he befriends Riley and Nate, cousins who pass their ample free time with debauchery and reckless cliff jumping. The revelation of a hurtful secret triggers Adam to set in motion irreversible events.

Critics’ Week Miramar

THE ANARCHISTS

(France) 101mins.

Dir: Elie Wajeman.

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Adele Exarchopoulos.

Nineteenth century Paris.

An ambitious officer finds himself torn between desire and duty when he is charged with infiltrating an anarchist organisation.

Critics’ Week Salle Bunuel

THE LOBSTER

(Ireland) 119mins.

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux, Olivia Colman, Ariane Labad, Angeliki Papoulia.

An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of “The City”, are arrested and transferred to “The Hotel”.

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09:00 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

(Colombia) 122mins.

Dir: Ciro Guerra.

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TALE OF TALES

FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:15 MY GOLDEN DAYS

(France) 123mins.

Dir: Arnaud Desplechin.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Rabourdin, Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet.

Paul Dedalus is preparing to leave Tajikistan. He Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Luigi Sciamanna.

A tale of the first encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship between an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of ancestral knowledge.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

11:00 ONE FLOOR BELOW

(Romania) 95mins.

Dir: Radu Muntean.

Cast: Teo Corban, Iulian Postelnicu, Oxana Moravec.

After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbours: one

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for one of his students. remembers his childhood in Roubaix — his mother’s attacks of madness… the bond that united him and his brother Ivan, a devout and violent child… and his first — only — true love, Esther.

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is the bizarre murderer; the other is his very own conscience.

(US) 120mins. Dir: George Miller. Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult.

Post-apocalytpic action movie. Former policeman Max must transport a group known as the Five Wives across a vast desert and protect them from bandits at all cost.

Un Certain Regard Salle Bazin

Out of Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

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PAULINA

(Iceland) 93mins.

Dir: Grimur Hakonarson.

Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Theodor Jœlousson, Charlotte Boving.

In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what is dearest to them: their sheep.

(Argentina) 103mins.

Dir: Santiago Mitre.

Cast: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martinez, Esteban Lamothe.

Paulina abandons her successful career as a lawyer in Buenos Aires to engage in social activism back in her homeland on the border between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.

After two weeks working in a neighbourhood scarred by poverty and marginalisation, she is assaulted by a gang.

Despite the brutality of the attack, Paulina resolves to survive, against the odds.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

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11:30 IRRATIONAL MAN

(US) 96mins. Dir: Woody Allen. Cast: Jamie Blackley, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey.

A philosophy professor falls

Critics’ Week Miramar

A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS

(Israel) 105mins.

Dir: Natalie Portman.

Cast: Natalie Portman.

Amos Os’ love letter to his mother Fania, who struggles with post-war realities while raising her son in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Dealing with a married life of unfulfilled promises and integration in a foreign land, Fania battles depression and can only escape in a world of daydreams.

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12:15 MY GOLDEN DAYS See box, above

(Italy) 125mins.

Dir: Matteo Garrone.

Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C Reilly.

From the bitter quest of a jealous queen, to an Ogre thwarting the love of a young princess, to a mysterious woman provoking the passion of a king, these stories weave the beautiful with the grotesque, creating a stunning and unique work of gothic imagination.

Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

15:00 THE ANARCHISTS

(France) 101mins.

Dir: Elie Wajeman.

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Adele Exarchopoulos.

Critics’ Week Miramar

BY SIDNEY LUMET

(US) 103mins.

Dir: Nancy Buirski.

Cast: Sidney Lumet.

Documentary on the great American film director.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

15:15 IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN

(Serbia) 97mins.

Dir: Pavle Aoekovia.

Cast: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac, Tamara Dragicevic, Nebojsa Milovanovic, Jelisaveta Orasanin.

A vision of love tainted by pornography and social media.

(France) 73mins.

Dir: Philippe Garrel.

Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau, Lena Paugam.

Pierre and Manon make low-budget documentaries and live off odd jobs.

When Pierre meets a young trainee, Elisabeth, she becomes his mistress.

But Pierre doesn’t want to leave Manon — he wants to keep both women.

Out of Competition press Salle Bazin

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

13:30 PANAMA

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(Hungary) 107mins. Dir: Laszlo Nemes. Cast: Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn.

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a

16:00 AN: SWEET RED BEAN PASTE

(Japan) 113mins. Dir: Naomi Kawase. Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida.

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis — pastries filled with sweet red bean paste.

When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. But Tokue proves to have magic in her hands.

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16:30 THE FOURTH DIRECTION

(India) 115mins. Dir: Gurvinder Singh. Cast: Suvinder Vicky, Rajbir Kaur, Kanwaljit Singh.

Based on the short stories “The Fourth Direction” and “I Am Feeling Fine Now” by Indian author Waryam Singh Sandhu about the Sikh separatist movement of the 1980s.

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OUR LITTLE SISTER

(Japan) 128mins. Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose.

prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere

When three young women invite their shy teenage half-sister to live with them, a new life of joyful discovery begins for all four siblings.

Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

17:15 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

(Colombia) 122mins.

Dir: Ciro Guerra. Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Luigi Sciamanna.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

SEMBENE!

(US) 88mins. Dir: Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman.

A freedom fighter who used stories as weapons: meet Sembene Ousmane, the father of African cinema.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

17:30 PAULINA

(Argentina) 103mins.

Dir: Santiago Mitre.

Cast: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martinez, Esteban Lamothe.

Critics’ Week Miramar

18:45 BLACK GIRL

(Senegal) 65mins. Dir: Sembene Ousmane. Cast: Mbissine Therese Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek,

Robert Fontaine.

A young Senegalese woman moves from Senegal to France to work for a rich French couple.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

19:00 THE SEA OF TREES

(US) 110mins. Dir: Gus Van Sant. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts.

A moving story about the destructive, redemptive and healing nature of love.

It is love and loss that leads Arthur Brennan to Aokigahara, a mysterious forest known as The Sea of Trees lapping the foothills of Mount Fuji, where people go to contemplate life and death. Arthur enters the depths of the forest. Having found the perfect place to die, Arthur encounters Takumi Nakamura, a Japanese man who also appears to have lost his way.

Unable to leave Takumi behind, Arthur invests all of his remaining energy into saving Takumi and returning him to safety.

The two men embark on a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur’s will to live and reconnects him to his love for his wife.

Competition press Theatre Claude Debussy

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Sooni Taraporevala WRITER: Sooni Taraporevala PRODUCER: Michael Roiff EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ritesh Batra PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Night & Day Pictures, Jigri Dost Productions DIRECTOR:

‘LUDE BEHAVIOR

(Québec) DIRECTOR: Renaud Gauthier WRITER: Renaud Gauthier & Mary Elizabeth Hickey PRODUCER: Mathieu Gauthier PRODUCTION COMPANY: GoBROS Pictures

CARNY KILL (USA)

John McNaughton WRITERS: John McNaughton & Ted Mann (SCREENPLAY) Robert Edmond Alter (NOVEL) PRODUCER: Steven A. Jones DIRECTOR:

SINGER (Canada)

Seth Smith WRITER: Darcy Spidle, Seth Smith PRODUCER: Rob Cotterill PRODUCTION COMPANY: Yer Dead Productions DIRECTOR:

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Anouk Whissell, François Simard & Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS FILMS) WRITERS: Anouk Whissell, François Simard & Yoann-Karl Whissell PRODUCER: Anne-Marie Gélinas PRODUCTION COMPANY: EMAfilms Inc. DIRECTORS:

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(USA/Canada/Haiti) Matt Swinsky WRITER: Bryan Strickland PRODUCERS: Katarina Gligorijevic, Tim Reis, Matt Swinsky EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Colin Geddes PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ultra 8 Pictures & Vrille Film

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Visit frontieresmarket.com for more information Co-funded by the European Union

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19th edition

July 14 to August 4, 2015

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19:30 IRRATIONAL MAN

(US) 96mins. Dir: Woody Allen. Cast: Jamie Blackley, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey.

Out of Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere

19:45 AFTERTHOUGHT

(Israel) 105mins. Dir: Elad Keidan. Cast: Itay Tiran, Uri Klauzner.

Haifa walks down Mount Carmel to catch a ship and forever leave all the things he loves to despise. He’s evading military reserve service, thus risking jail.

Moshe is a crumbling man going up the mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse?

Will the two collide or pass one another by?

Out of Competition Salle Bazin

20:15 THE OFFICIAL STORY

(Argentina) 112mins.

Dir: Luis Puenzo.

Cast: Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio.

1983 — Alicia, the mother of an adopted five-year-old girl, teaches history in a Buenos Aires high school. Both in her profession and in her private life she has always accepted the “official version”, until one day when the regime’s facade and that of its surroundings begin to fall to pieces around her. In the crevices of this enormous lie Alicia dares to suspect that Gabi, the girl she has adopted, might be the daughter of a “desaparecido”. It is then that she begins a painful and inexorable journey towards truth.

Cannes Classics Salle Bunuel

MY GOLDEN DAYS

(France) 123mins. Dir: Arnaud Desplechin. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Rabourdin, Quentin Dolmaire, Lou RoyLecollinet.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

21:00 RAN

(Japan) 162mins. Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, 52 Screen International at Cannes May 15, 2015

FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:00 PAULINA

(Argentina) 103mins. Dir: Santiago Mitre.

Cast: Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martinez, Esteban Lamothe.

Paulina abandons her successful career as a lawyer in Buenos Aires to engage in social activism back in her homeland on Jinpachi Nezu.

Classic samurai drama.

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the border between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. After two weeks working in a neighbourhood scarred by poverty and marginalisation, she is assaulted by a gang.

Despite the brutality of the attack, Paulina resolves to survive, against the odds.

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THE SEA OF TREES

(US) 110mins. Dir: Gus Van Sant. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts.

Competition press Salle Bazin

THE SHAMELESS

(South Korea) 120mins.

Dir: Oh Seung-Wook.

Cast: Jeon Do-Yeon, Kim Nam-Gil, Park Sung-Woon.

In order to capture a mob enforcer, homicide detective Jung befriends his girlfriend, Hye-kyung, only to fall in love with her.

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22:30 THE LOBSTER

(Ireland) 119mins.

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux, Olivia Colman, Ariane Labad, Angeliki Papoulia.

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09:15 CHRIST THE LORD

(US) Hyde Park International. 110mins.

Dir: Cyrus Nowrasteh.

Tells the story of Jesus as a seven-year-old boy. Although Mary and Joseph try their best to give Jesus a normal childhood, he inevitably begins to realise he is different and grapples to understand his miraculous gifts. Conflicted about placing a massive burden on the shoulders of such a young boy, Mary, Joseph and his relatives try in vain to shelter him from the truth about his divine abilities and birth.

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09:30 A PERFECT MAN

(France) SND — Groupe M6. 103mins. Dir: Yann Gozlan. Cast: Ana Girardot, Pierre Niney.

Mathieu Vasseur is a struggling writer. Looking for inspiration at night, he moves houses for a living.

Luck strikes when he finds a manuscript in a dead man’s house while working.

The memoirs of a soldier which turns out to be a masterpiece. Mathieu can’t help but submit the book as his own. For the first time he is offered a publishing deal. The book is a huge success. Mathieu will soon find fame and the girl of his dreams. He finally seems to have it all but he will soon realise that his lies come at a price.

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ABATTOIR FOOTAGE

(US) Versatile. 30mins.

Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman.

Cast: Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Dayton Callie, Lin Shaye, Bryan Batt.

After the death of her sister and nephew, a realestate reporter Julia Talben uncovers the sinister truth behind a mysterious man who has been buying houses where tragedies have occurred. Set in a world where it is always night, even in daylight hours, Julia’s life is turned upside down when her family is murdered.

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ARTEHOLIC

(Germany) Parkland Pictures. 86mins. Dir: Hermann Vaske. Cast: Udo Kier, Lars Von Trier.

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(US) The Exchange. 98mins.

Dir: Justin Kelly. Cast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts.

Udo Kier is an arteholic.

He lives and breathes art.

He is addicted to art. A living art piece. An odyssey into the addiction and abyss of art.

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THE BEAUTY INSIDE

(South Korea) Contents Panda Next Entertainment. 127mins.

Dir: Baik. Cast: Han HyoJoo, Park Seo-Jun, Juri Ueno.

You never know what will happen tomorrow.

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CROW’S EGG

(India) Fox Star Studios India. 99mins. Dir: M Manikandan. Cast: Ramesh Thilaganathan, J Vignesh, Iyshwarya Rajesh.

When a pizza parlour opens on their old playground, two carefree slum boys are consumed by the desire to taste this new-fangled dish called pizza. Realising that one pizza costs more than their family’s monthly income, they begin to plot ways to earn more money — inadvertently beginning an adventure that will involve the entire city.

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EVA & LEON

(France) Pyramide International. 85mins.

Dir: Emilie Cherpitel.

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The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

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Cast: Clotilde Hesme, Florian Lemaire, Clotilde Courau.

Thirty-five-year-old Eva is unpredictable, charmingly immature and has no children. Leon is 10, he’s got the seriousness and reasoning of an adult and has no parents. Eva is bored in her privileged life as well as in her love life.

Leon has just run away to try to find his mother. They weren’t meant to meet but will spend five unforgettable days together. He will teach her to grow up, and she will teach him to become a child again.

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recognition. Two painters show up to renovate her apartment, but end up changing her life. This film is a portrait of a lost generation in the midst of perfect wealth.

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THE GREAT BRITISH MORTGAGE SWINDLE

(UK) AFP. 110mins. Dir: Michael O’Bernicia, Michael O’Deira.

A shockumentary film about banking crimes, the arrogant complicity of the legal professions and Her Majesty’s judiciary; and five pioneering lay litigants fighting for justice.

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THE FOUR WARRIORS

(UK) Metrodome International. 89mins.

Dir: Phil Hawkins.

Cast: Christopher Dane, Kristian Nairn.

Darkness is coming.

Heroes must rise. The legend begins.

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FROM GREEN TO WHITE

(Norway) Freedom From Fear. 94mins.

Dir: Mona Hoel. Cast: Nicole Madeleine Aurdal, Raymond Lorentzen, Mattias Cantzler.

A raw and naked story of a young girl, encountering society after serving time in jail. She is all alone and in deep need of parental

THE HALLOW

(US) Altitude Film Sales. 95mins. Dir: Corin Hardy. Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic.

Adam and Clare move with their baby Finn to rural Ireland after Adam’s research takes him to the Irish countryside. But what seems a rural idyll soon becomes a terrifying fight for survival when the couple come under attack from horrifying and demonic creatures that lurk in the woods.

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ARTEHOLIC

Hermann Vaske 86 min Sales: Parkland Pictures

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Oliver Hirschbiegel 109 min Sales: Beta Cinema

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MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER

Tommy Krappweis 90 min Sales: Sola Media

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THE PASTA DETECTIVES

Neele Leana Vollmar 96 min Sales: Beta Cinema

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THE SINGING SHOES

(Bulgaria) Bulgarian National Film Center.

130mins. Dir: Radoslav Spassov. Cast: Raya Peeva, Yuliyan Petrov, Donna Bangiozova.

Pop singer Lia Ivanova’s life story is a chance to explore survival as a spiritual drama in a dark era. In his old age, the composer Edward Kazasyan discovers that his late wife Lia, after surviving a concentration camp, had worked for the secret service. The dusty folders at the State Security Archive of their dossiers and her childhood diary reveal to him a second life, directed by others.

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SONG OF THE SEA See box, below

THE SURVIVALIST

(UK) K5 International.

112mins. Dir: Stephen Fingleton. Cast: Martin McCann, Mia Goth, Andrew Simpson, Olwen Fouere, Barry Ward.

In a dystopian, kill-orbe-killed world where strangers are always dangerous, The Survivalist lives off the grid and by his wits. Until two starving women, a mother

and her daughter, find his forest refuge.

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through a series of deep conversations and passionate lovemaking.

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THE WANNABE

(US) Electric Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Nick Sandow.

Cast: Patricia Arquette, Vincent Piazza, Michael Imperioli.

Follows a man obsessed with mob culture who attempts to fix the trial of John Gotti. But as the plot begins to unravel and he is rejected by the ones he idolises most, he sets off on a ride worthy of mob lore.

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YOU CAN’T SAVE YOURSELF ALONE

(Italy) Beta Cinema.

103mins. Dir: Sergio Castellitto. Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca.

Gaetano and Delia meet for dinner to discuss the terms of a holiday break for their children. The meal immediately becomes a wide reflection of the past 10 years which led this separated couple to the sad, but realistic, point. Through several flashbacks, we see the two recount their past, from good times to bad.

We witness the early days of their relationship

09:45 PIONEER HEROES

(Russia) Alpha Violet.

116mins. Dir: Natalya Kudryashova. Cast: Daria Moroz, Aleksei Mitin, Varya Shablakova, Natalya Kudryashova.

1987. Olga, Katya and Andrey dream of becoming heroes. They are going to be the last “Pioneers of the USSR”. Today, aged in their 30s, they are facing another reality with no place for heroic deeds.

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10:00 ALL ABOUT THEM

(France) Versatile.

90mins. Dir: Jerome Bonnell. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Sophie Verbeeck, Felix Moati.

Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Melodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte — but also with Melodie.

For Melodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies and is in love with both of them at the same time.

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THE MISPLACED WORLD

Margarethe von Trotta 101 min Sales: Wild Bunch

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GHOSTHUNTERS – ON ICY TRAILS

Tobi Baumann 99 min Sales: Beta Cinema

MARKET 09:30 SONG OF THE SEA

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(Ireland) Westend Films. 90mins.

Dir: Tomm Moore. Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan.

Tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse — the last Seal-child — who

embark on a fantastic journey back to their home by the sea, across a fading world of ancient Irish legends and magic, a world that needs Saoirse to find her voice and sing the “Song of the Sea” to save all of fairykind.

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DOGWOOF PROMO REEL

(US) Dogwoof. 110mins.

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FAMILY FOR RENT

(France) Studiocanal.

97mins. Dir: Jean-Pierre Ameris. Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira.

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FLORIDA

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of international billionaires are sent to a wilderness camp/school in order to learn discipline. When the school is taken hostage by a group of sophisticated and well-armed kidnappers, the kids take the situation into their own hands.

TAKE DOWN

(UK) Radiant Films International.

108mins. Dir: Jim Gillespie. Cast: Jeremy Sumpter, Phoebe Tonkin, Sebastien Koch, Ed Westwick.

A group of rebellious sons and daughters

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THE LOBSTER Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos Sc: Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos NL Co-prod: Lemming Film Sales: Protagonist Pictures

HALF SISTER, FULL LOVE

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I’M DEAD BUT I HAVE FRIENDS

Festival screenings: Fri May 15, 08:30 Lumière Fri May 15, 22:30 Lumière Sat May 16, 11:15 Soixantième Market screenings: Mon May 18, 09:45 Olympia 5 Fri May 22, 09:30 Olympia 1

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(France) Le Pacte.

95mins.

Dir: Marion Vernoux.

Cast: Virginie Efira, Geraldine Nakache, Gregoire Ludig.

Pierre is invited by his best friend Tessa into her family home, where he encounters her sister Mary. After a particularly drunken night and Tessa’s unforeseen arrival, the trio will go through awkward situations and unexpected revelations.

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(France) Gaumont.

110mins. Dir: Philippe Le Guay. Cast: Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain.

At over 80, Claude Lherminier has lost none of his charm and presence. Dressed in a white linen suit and a colourful cravat, we meet him on a plane bound for Florida. On a whim, Claude has decided to visit his youngest daughter, Alice, who is married to an American and living in Miami. Soon we’ve rewound several weeks to follow the events leading up to Claude’s trip.

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(Belgium) Be For Films.

96mins. Dir: Guillaume Malandrin, Stephane Malandrin. Cast: Bouli Lanners, Lyes Salem, Wim Willaert.

On the eve of their departure for their first California concert tour, three rock musicians must face the senseless death of their lead singer. Because friendship is stronger than anything, they decide to go on the long-hopedfor tour in his honour.

Their journey takes an unexpected turn, however,

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when their now deceased best friend’s lover shows up — a mustachioed army pilot.

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ONE & TWO

(US) Protagonist Pictures. 91mins. Dir: Andrew Droz Palermo.

Cast: Kiernan Schipka, Timothee Chalamet, Grant Bowler, Elizabeth Reaser.

Siblings Zac and Eva possess a supernatural means of escape from their oppressive home life, but struggle with their secret when their mother falls gravely ill.

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ROAD TO YOUR HEART

(South Africa) Princ Films. 115mins. Dir: Jaco Smit. Cast: Ivan Botha, Donnalee Roberts, Marius Weyers.

A successful young businessman, Basson, has to get to Cape Town in five days for his father’s funeral. In order to inherit the family’s company he has to complete certain tasks that his father assigned to him in his will. His journey doesn’t start well and on his first stop he loses his car and he must accept the help of a free-spirited young woman, Amory.

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STANDOFF

(US) Voltage Pictures.

88mins. Dir: Adam Alleca. Cast: Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne.

Carter is a troubled veteran who gets a chance at redemption by protecting a 12-year-old girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder.

Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl’s life.

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THE SUMMER OF SANGAILE

(Lithuania) Films Distribution. 88mins.

Dir: Alante Kavaite.

Cast: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirziute.

Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter a cockpit. At a summer aeronautical show near her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste, a local girl of her age who unlike Sangaile lives her life to the full with creativity and dare. As the two girls become lovers, Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret, and finds in her teenage love the only person to truly encourage her in flying.

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THE SENSE OF WONDER

(France) TF1 International. 101mins.

Dir: Eric Besnard. Cast: Virginie Efira, Benjamin Lavernhe.

A whimsical, engaging romantic comedy about two lost souls whose accidental collision sparks a wonderful feeling.

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SIDETRACKED

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment. 103mins.

Dir: Alvaro Fernandez Armero. Cast: Raul Arevalo, Inma Cuesta, Alberto Sanjuan.

A fun and optimistic comedy about six young adults trying to find their way out of a personal crisis, each one breaking free in the most creative and surprising way possible.

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11:30 13 MINUTES

(Germany) Beta Cinema.

108mins. Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel. Cast: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schcttler, Burghart Klaussner, Johann Von Bulow.

Portrait of the resistance fighter who tried to assassinate Hitler in the Munich Burgerbraukeller on November 8, 1939.

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AFTERTHOUGHT

(Israel) The Match Factory. 105mins.

Dir: Elad Keidan. Cast: Itay Tiran, Uri Klauzner.

Haifa walks down Mount Carmel to catch a ship and forever leave all the things he loves to despise.

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crumbling man going up the mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse?

Will the two collide or pass one another by? An existential comedy, where the overbearing mountain with its endless stairs takes control over their destinies.

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ALLY WAS SCREAMING

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A young man desperate to save his mother from addiction and reunite his broken family is forced to take a job, entangling him in the criminal world, which pushes him and his relationships to the limits.

GLASSLAND

(Ireland) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution. 93mins. Dir: Gerard Barrett. Cast: Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley.

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(Canada) Artist View Entertainment. 88mins.

Dir: Jeremy Thomas.

Cast: Camille Sullivan, Charlie Carrick, Giacomo Baessato, Niall Matter.

While two young men are sorting through their recently deceased best friend Ally’s apartment, they find a winning lottery ticket — unclaimed and worth millions. Legally, her ex-husband is entitled to the winnings but they know that’s the last thing she would have wanted to have happen. Now what should they do?

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club, realises that his football career has come to an end. Aged 35, without fame or fortune, he must face the real world.

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FEAST OF VARANASI

(India) Raafilms. 97mins.

Dir: Rajan Kumar Patel.

Cast: Adil Hussain, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Holly Gilbert.

She killed herself for love.

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INFINI

(Australia) Kathy Morgan International. 105mins.

Dir: Shane Abbess. Cast: Daniel Macpherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth.

A futuristic “Search and Rescue” team is transported into a hostile environment to save the survivor of a freak accident and stop a biological catastrophe on Earth.

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THE BARBER

(US) The Little Film Company. 95mins.

Dir: Basel Owies. Cast: Scott Glenn, Chris Coy, Stephen Tobolowsky.

A man’s appearance is everything.

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CLEVER

(Uruguay) Habanero.

83mins. Dir: Federico Borgia, Guillermo Madeiro. Cast: Hugo Piccini, Antonio Osta, Marta Grane.

Clever is a lonely divorced father and martial arts instructor obsessed with getting some special flames painted on his car.

To meet the artist who can make it happen, he must travel to a remote village.

Along the way he will encounter some eccentric and mysterious characters who will drive him to an unexpected destination.

Chauthi Koot Dir: Gurvinder Singh Sc: Waryam Singh Sandhyu, Gurvinder Singh Prod: The Film Café (IN), supported by BOOST!: CineMart, Binger Filmlab, Hubert Bals Fund, NFDC India and MEDIA Sales: Elle Driver Festival screenings: Fri May 15, 16:30 Debussy Sat May 16, 11:00 Bazin Fri May 22, 22:00 Debussy Market screenings: Sat May 16, 17:30 Olympia 7 Mon May 18, 16:00 Olympia 2

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EL CINCO

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(Argentina) Films Boutique. 100mins.

Dir: Adrian Biniez.

Cast: Esteban Lamothe, Julieta Zylberberg, Nestor Guzzini.

Paton Bonassiolle, captain of a C division football

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NIGHT FARE

(France) WTFilms.

80mins. Dir: Julien Seri.

Cast: Fanny Valette, Jonathan Howard, Jess Liaudin, Jonathan Demurger.

After a party, three friends leave a taxi without paying their fare. But they discover there is no such thing as free ride when the psychotic driver hunts them all night to make them pay.

Dir: Narin Visitsak.

Pran Boon, or Hunter Boon, saves a child’s life by killing a young Sming that attacked him. Little did he know that the young Sming was not the only one in the area.

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SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD

(UK) Altitude Film Sales. 104mins. Dir: Bharat Nalluri. Cast: Kit Harington, Jennifer Ehle, Peter Firth.

Based on the Baftawinning international hit TV series, a high-octane espionage thriller set around the covert world of MI5.

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LA TIERRA ROJA

(Belgium) Latido.

104mins. Dir: Diego Martinez Vignatti.

Cast: Geert Van Rampelberg, Eugenia Ramirez Miori.

Pierre is one of the plantation managers pouring chemicals into the poor region of Misiones. In love with a young militant, he will try to step back. But with the social war going on, you can’t switch sides so easily. Truth, freedom, love… it will cost you everything.

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THE TRUE COST

(Serbia) Wide. 97mins.

Dir: Pavle Vuaœkovia.

Cast: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac.

A vision of love tainted by pornography and social media.

(US) Film Sales Company. 89mins.

Dir: Andrew Morgan.

This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.

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PANAMA

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT

(US) Hanway Films.

97mins. Dir: Lisa Immordino Vreeland.

An intimate portrait of the life of the art icon.

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SMING

(Thailand) Five Star Production. 105mins.

11:45 LAST CAB TO DARWIN

(Australia) Films Distribution. 123mins.

Dir: Jeremy Sims.

Cast: Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver.

Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, has spent his life avoiding getting close to people. One day, he discovers he is dying

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Director: Trey Edward Shults Cast: Krisha Fairchild, Bill Wise (Boyhood)

GRAND JURY AWARD WINNER

A holiday celebration turns ugly when a troubled woman returns to the family she abandoned years ago, in an attempt to prove that she has changed.

“An extraordinary portrait of addiction and family strife.” – Indiewire “Intimate and unnerving (...) a ferociously impressive debut.” – Variety

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER

“Exhilarating (...) a stunning central performance.”

– The Hollywood Reporter “An emotional gut punch of a film.” – Vanity Fair FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: MARKET SCREENINGS: May 17 / 16:00 / Riviera 3 (Buyers Only) May 20 / 11:30 / Miramar May 18 / 10:00 / Lerins 2 (Buyers Only) May 20 / 18:00 / Miramar

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JUST JIM

Director: Craig Roberts Cast: Emile Hirsch (Prince Avalanche, Into the Wild), Craig Roberts (Submarine) In a small Welsh town, a teenage outcast becomes the cool kid when an enigmatic American moves in next door and takes him under his wing.

“Absurdly hilarious (...) quirky, sad, and amusing.” – MxDwn “One of the best quirky coming-of-rage comedies.” – Hammer to Nail “A twisted sense of humor.” – Side One Track One “A certain neurotic charm about Roberts’ onscreen persona that shines through.” – Little White Lies MARKET SCREENINGS: TODAY / 12:00 / Riviera 1 May 18 / 14:00 / Lerins 2

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Director: Adam Salky (Dare) Cast: Sarah Silverman (Take This Waltz, The Sarah Silverman Program), Josh Charles (The Good Wife) A suburban housewife struggles to keep her family together as her secret life of drugs, alcohol, and infidelity spirals out of control.

“A gutsy performance by Sarah Silverman.” – The Hollywood Reporter “[Silverman is] terrific as a self-destructive housewife.” – The Guardian “A showcase for Silverman’s considerable prowess as a dramatic lead actress.” – Indiewire “[Silverman] delivers a vulnerable, raw performance.”

– Consequence of Sound

MARKET SCREENING: May 16 / 14:00 / Riviera 3

THE NYMPHETS

Director: Gary Gardner Cast: Kip Pardue (The Rules of Attraction, Remember the Titans) A well-to-do 30-something man invites two rowdy young girls to party in his loft, leading to a night of provocation and cruelty, all in the name of getting laid.

“Unpredictable, wonderfully awkward, sad and sexy.”

– Film School Rejects “Exhilarating (...) a joy to watch.” – Sound on Sight “As uncomfortable as they come, in the absolute best way possible.”

– Examiner “Bristling with energy.” – Silver Screen Riot MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 14:00 / Riviera 3

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of stomach cancer.

He doesn’t want to be forced to rely on anyone so he decides to leave his home alone and drive 300km across the continent to Darwin, where the recently passed euthanasia laws lead him to believe he can be in control of his own death.

On this epic journey he meets people who force him to re-evaluate his life.

night on the north-eastern front, following the last bloody battles of 1917 on the Altopiano. Events follow one another without any kind of pattern.

Everything told in this film really happened.

(Italy) Rai Com. 80mins. Dir: Ermanno Olmi. Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Alessandro Sperduti, Francesco Formichetti.

The story unfolds in the space of one

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GREENERY WILL BLOOM TODAY

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MANPOWER

(Colombia) Voltage Pictures. 96mins. Dir: Ken Sanzel. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Freida Pinto, Ryan Kwanten.

A young man is part of a violent, money-making subculture in which people don bulletproof vests and shoot at each other, inflicting “blunt force trauma”.

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BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

GREENERY WILL BLOOM TODAY

(UK) Visit Films.

84mins. Dir: Craig Roberts. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Craig Roberts.

In a small Welsh town, a teenage outcast becomes the cool kid when an enigmatic American moves in next door and takes him under his wing.

(France) Wild Bunch.

73mins. Dir: Philippe Garrel. Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau, Lena Paugam.

Pierre and Manon make low-budget documentaries and live off odd jobs. When Pierre meets a young trainee, Elisabeth, she becomes his mistress. But Pierre doesn’t want to leave Manon — he wants to keep both women.

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JUST JIM

(France) SND — Groupe M6. 90mins. Dir: Jerome Le Maire. Cast: Jalil Lespert, Alice Taglioni, Gerard Lanvin.

A heady and delicate romance set in Burgundy.

(Israel) Stray Dogs.

85mins. Dir: Noam Kaplan. Cast: Yossi Marshak, Shmulik Calderon, Sun Intusap.

Immigration police officer Meir confronts his own values as a human being when asked to enforce “The New Zionism”. A story of manhood in crisis, “Manpower” is an ironic yet compassionate film about belonging and upheaval, exile and immigration, home and family.

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inch-tall wizard can be.

Wiplala befriends a family until he shrinks all of its members. Oops: the spell can’t be undone.

Thrills and adventure ahead.

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AU PLUS PRES DU SOLEIL

(France) BAC Films.

103mins. Dir: Yves Angelo. Cast: Sylvie Testud, Gregory Gadebois, Mathilde Bisson.

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DEAD UNCLE

(Italy) Rai Com. 95mins.

Dir: Antonio Manzini.

Cast: Libero De Rienzo, Pietro Sermonti, Rocco Ciarmoli, Giselda Volodi.

Cristian, a young unemployed man unable to care for himself, agrees to act as a courier for drug traffickers to repay his gambling debts. In a world with reverse morals, Cristian seems to have all it takes to succeed and achieve success.

Star 4

BODY

MARKET 12:00 MUCH LOVED

(France) Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares.

108mins. Dir: Nabil Ayouch. Cast: Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima Karaouane, Sara Elmhamdi Elalaoui.

Marrakech today: Noha, Randa, Soukaina and Hlima live a life of “love for sale”. They’re whores, objects of desire, flashes of flesh. In

the heat of the night, money flows freely to the rhythms of pleasures and humiliations suffered. But united in their womanhood, they’re queens of their kingdom. Full of light, dignity and joy, they manage to keep their spirits and dreams alive.

They’re loved, they’re unloved, they’re too much loved.

Olympia 4 priority badges only

On a summer day, a man, his daughter and his companion arrive at their country house to spend the weekend. The daughter has just moved in with her father, whose attention she desires. The man is tired of his life and does not know where to find the strength to carry on living.

The woman, a violinist, is confused in her priorities — music, love or career?

Despite the fact that the man and the woman love each other, their tense relationship is on the brink of collapse.

Auteuil, Richard Berry, Thierry Lhermitte.

Palais I priority badges only

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SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME

(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins.

Dir: Ariel Winograd.

Cast: Diego Peretti, Maribel Verdu.

After four years separated, Gabriel is now exclusively devoted to his little daughter Sofia.

The arrival of Vicky, a beautiful woman and a true believer in the No Kids movement, shakes up his lethargic love life and, in order to keep the relationship afloat, Gabriel decides to keep her daughter a secret.

PAPA

(US) Premiere Entertainment Group.

90mins. Dir: Bob Yari.

Cast: Adrian Sparks, Giovanni Ribisi, Minka Kelly, Joely Richardson.

Based on a true story, “Papa” follows journalist Ed Myers on his adventure to Cuba in 1959, on a mission to meet his idol, the legendary writer Ernest Hemingway.

(US) Fortissimo Films.

94mins. Dir: Chloe Zhao.

Cast: Irene Bedard, John Reddy, Jashaun St. John.

A complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

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PEACE TO US IN OUR DREAMS

VIOLENT SHIT: THE MOVIE

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(Lithuania) NDM. 107mins. Dir: Sharunas Bartas. Cast: Sharunas Bartas, Lora Kmieliauskaite, Ina Marija Bartaite.

MUCH LOVED See box, above

NO KIDS

OUR WOMEN

(France) Kinology.

93mins. Dir: Richard Berry. Cast: Daniel

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(Germany) DC Medias.

80mins. Dir: Luigi Pastore. Cast: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Antonio Zequila, Simone Destrero.

13:30

(US) Archstone Distribution. 75mins.

Dir: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen. Cast: Helen Rogers, Alexandra Turshen, Lauren Molina, Larry Fessenden.

A night out turns deadly when three girls break into a seemingly empty mansion.

Gray 4

THE AMAZING WIPLALA

(Netherlands) Attraction Distribution. 100mins.

Dir: Tim Oliehoek.

Cast: Geza Weisz, Sasha Mylanus, Kee Ketelaar, Peter Paul Muller, Paul Kooij, Marjan Luif.

Young Johannes’ Wiplala is no imaginary friend; he’s as real as a four-

CAVANNA, HE WAS CHARLIE

(France) The Bureau Sales. 90mins.

Dir: Denis Robert, Nina Robert.

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CHASUKE’S JOURNEY See box, below

FACE OF THE DEVIL

(Peru) Jinga Films.

87mins. Dir: Frank Perez-Garland.

Cast: Vania Accinelli, Sergio Gjurinovic, Vanessa Saba.

Seven friends go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorised by a primeval spirit, but as they struggle to survive they come to realise that they brought the demon with them and evil lies within.

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I’M ALL YOURS

(France) Indie Sales.

99mins. Dir: Baya Kasmi.

Cast: Vimala Pons, Mehdi Djaadi, Agnes Jaoui,

MARKET 13:30 CHASUKE’S JOURNEY

(Japan) Films Boutique. 106mins.

Dir: Sabu. Cast: Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Ito Ohno, Ren Osugi.

In heaven, scribes are busy writing scenarios for all of mankind,

dictating everyone’s upcoming destiny.

Celestial tea server Chasuke never misses a chance to catch up on some of the latest chapters, especially those about Yuri, on whom he has a secret crush.

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MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER

(Germany) Sola Media. 90mins.

Dir: Tommy Krappweis.

Mara faces many challenges. She is being bullied at school and her single mother is drifting into an extreme esoteric spirituality. She just wants to be a normal kid. But when Mara starts

PAY THE GHOST

Star 3 priority badges only

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LOEV

SCOUT

(India) Wide. 90mins.

Dir: Sudhanshu Saria.

Cast: Shiv Pandit, Dhruv Ganesh.

In some countries, true love can be a crime.

MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER

(US) Angel Grace Productions. 92mins.

Dir: Laurie Weltz. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Danny Glover, Jane Seymour.

A rebellious girl takes a troubled young man on a road trip to find her little sister, who has gone missing.

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MICROBE & GASOLINE

SEOUL STATION

(France) Studiocanal.

103mins. Dir: Michel Gondry. Cast: Theophile Baquet, Ange Dargent, Audrey Tautou.

(South Korea) Finecut Co. 90mins. Dir: Yeon Sangho. Cast: Ryu Seung-Ryong, Shim EunKyong, Lee Joon.

A homeless man shows

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MARKET 13:30

Ramzy Bedia.

Hanna and Hakim are Franco-Algerian and, like their parents, have always been incapable of saying no. This neurotic kindness will lead them to different paths: Hanna choosing France; and Hakim Algeria.

to have visions of ancient gods, she soon discovers her biggest challenge is hidden in the past. With the help of a professor of ancient mythology she discovers that the “Twilight of the Gods” is approaching and that she is the only one who has the ability to travel back in time and the power to save us all.

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(US) Voltage Pictures.

91mins. Dir: Uli Edel.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Veronica Ferres.

A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween parade.

strange symptoms, which starts a chaos that spreads throughout the area, changing the world into a place dominated by zombies.

Lerins 1 priority badges only

13:40 FRANCIS: PRAY FOR ME

(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins.

Dir: Beda DocampoFeijoo. Cast: Dario Grandinetti.

Based on the Pope’s official biography “Francisco, Vida y Revolucion” by Elisabetta Pique.

Palais E

14:00 ATOMIC EDEN

(US) Generation X Group. 90mins.

Dir: Nico Sentner.

Cast: Fred Williamson, Mike Moller, Hazuki Kato.

A team of mercenaries find themselves in a laststand scenario against an

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SCREENINGS

another part of life.

Palais E Invitation only

ZUTABORO

(Japan) Toei Company.

110mins. Dir: Hajime Hashimoto. Cast: Tasuku Nagase.

Koichi gets involved in a painful conflict among high-school villains, gangs and yakuza. He fights against them together with his bad friends to survive in his town.

Palais G

15:00 TOHO PROMO REEL

(Japan) Toho Co. 15mins.

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15:30 AURORA

MARKET 14:00 THE NYMPHETS

(US) Visit Films.

75mins. Dir: Gary Gardner. Cast: Kip Pardue, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Jordan Lane Price. army of Hazmat-wearing, trigger-happy madmen during a mysterious mission in Chernobyl.

Eight against 800, they just couldn’t lose.

Gray 5

BEFORE I WAKE

(US) Sierra/Affinity.

100mins. Dir: Mike Flanagan. Cast: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay.

Cody’s new foster parents Jessie and Mark can’t wait to welcome the special little boy into their home.

Once he settles in, Jessie and Mark soon discover Cody has a very unique gift — his vibrant and imaginative dreams come to life all around him while he is sleeping.

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EMELIE

(US) 6 Sales. 80mins.

Dir: Michael Thelin.

Cast: Sarah Bolger, Joshua Rush, Carly Adams, Thomas Bair.

The Thompsons, a loving family living in the peaceful suburbs of Buffalo, New York, are the definition of wholesome

A well-to-do 30-something man invites two rowdy young girls to party in his loft, leading to a night of provocation and cruelty, all in the name of getting laid.

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American normalcy.

On the eve of their 3oth wedding anniversary, Dan and Joyce head into the city to celebrate, leaving their three children: Christopher, Sally and Jacob. However, when their usual babysitter has to cancel, the Thompsons call upon a new girl, Anna.

As the nights creeps along, the kids slowly realise that Anna is not exactly who she claims to be.

An epic journey across history, from Saint Petersburg to the far north.

Riviera 1 priority badges only

NECKTIE YOUTH

(Netherlands) Premium Films. 86mins. Dir: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer. Cast: Bonko Cosmo Khoza, Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, Colleen Balchin.

Haunted by the memory of Emily, a girl who live-streamed her suicide one year ago, Jabz and his best friend September go on a drug-fuelled joyride through the affluent suburbs of Johannesburg.

might be the daughter of a “desaparecido”.

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TOHO PROMO REEL THE PARISIAN BITCH

(Japan) Toho Co. 15mins.

(France) Gaumont.

82mins. Dir: Eloise Lang, Noemie Saglio. Cast: Camille Cottin.

Camilla, 30 years old and a born bitch, realises she deserves a better life, and decides that the only fate suitable for her is that of a Royal Highness.

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PRIVATE SCREENING

BAC Films. 100mins.

Palais I Invitation only

TRUMAN

(Spain) Filmax International. 110mins.

Dir: Cesc Gay. Cast: Ricardo Darin, Javier Camara.

Two childhood friends are reunited after years without seeing one another. A humorous and honest portrait of the courage it takes to accept that death is just

(Chile) Films Boutique.

86mins. Dir: Rodrigo Sepulveda. Cast: Alfredo Castro, Francisca Gavilan, Luis Gnecco.

Sofia, a teacher from Ventana, an industrial city in Chile, is in the process of adopting a child when she reads the news about a baby found dead in a landfill. From then on she will start a personal transformation that will change her life.

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BELGIAN RHAPSODY

(Belgium) Be For Films.

100mins. Dir: Vincent Bal. Cast: Arthur Dupont, Amaryllis Uitterlinden,

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THE NYMPHETS See box, above

Gray 1 press allowed

THE OFFICIAL STORY THE FEAR OF DARKNESS

(Australia) Arclight Films. 92mins. Dir: Christopher Fitchett.

Cast: Penelope Mitchell.

A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural disappearance of a university student.

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LONG WAY NORTH

(France) UDI — Urban Distribution International. 81mins.

Dir: Remi Chaye.

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(Argentina) Pyramide International. 112mins.

Dir: Luis Puenzo. Cast: Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio.

1983 — Alicia, the mother of an adopted five-year-old girl, teaches history in a Buenos Aires high school.

Both in her professional and in her private life she has always accepted the “official version”, until one day when the regime’s facade and that of its surroundings begin to fall to pieces around her. In the crevices of this enormous lie Alicia dares to suspect that Gabi, the girl she has adopted,

MARKET 14:00 THE PROPAGANDA GAME

(Spain) Memento Films International (MFI). 90mins. Dir: Alvaro Longoria.

North Korea. Unknown, hermetic

and fascinating. With information practically non-existent, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.

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MARKET 15:30 THE CHRISTMAS FAMILY

(Denmark) Global Screen. 90mins.

Dir: Carsten Rudolf. Cast: Pelle Krusbæk, Sofie Lassen-Kahlke, Marie Askehave.

Jos Verbist, Tom Audenaert, Marc Weiss.

A musical romantic comedy about Belgium, where all possible means are used to outdo the other: doublecrossing, schmaltzy songs and even love.

Six-year-old Hugo gets the surprise of his life when he realises that a magical elf boy has moved into the family home. The elf ’s name is Pixy, and he can only return to his world next Christmas.

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Pictures. 95mins.

Dir: Tate Steinsiek.

Cast: Ian Harding, Evanna Lynch, Carol Kane.

Heroin and pornography — New York in the late 1960s.

Gray 4

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FRONT COVER BRAVETOWN

(US) Lightning Entertainment. 110mins.

Dir: Daniel Duran. Cast: Lucas Till, Maria Bello, Josh Duhamel, Laura Dern.

We all move to our own beat.

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THE CHRISTMAS FAMILY See box, above

CONVERGENCE

(US) Tricoast Worldwide.

100mins. Dir: Drew Hall.

Cast: Clayne Crawford, Ethan Embry, Mykelti Williamson, Gary Grubbs.

An arson detective finds himself in a modern-day Dante world, passing back and forth between the present and the future. Surrounded by the residents seeking redemption, he is left with the task to find a way out.

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THE GOLDEN HORSE

(Latvia) Rija Films.

79mins. Dir: Reinis Kalnaellis, Valentas Askinis. Cast: Rimantas Bagdzevicius, Dainius Gavenonis, Sigutis Jacenas.

A young peasant attempts to climb the unscalable Glass Mountain to save the princess and restore happiness to the kingdom.

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DYNAMITE: A CAUTIONARY TALE

(UK) Metrodome International. 95mins.

Dir: Paul Hyett. Cast: Ed Speleers, Sean Pertwee,

(US) Breaking Glass 72 Screen International at Cannes May 15, 2015

(US) Fortissimo Films.

87mins. Dir: Ray Yeung.

Cast: Jake Choi, James Chen, Jennifer Neala Page.

Ryan, a gay Chinese American fashion stylist, who detests and rejects his cultural heritage, is given an assignment to style Ning, an actor from Beijing for a photo shoot. After a rocky start, an unlikely friendship develops between them.

Shauna MacDonald, Rosie Day. Joe, a young ticketcollector, is riding the last train out of London on a dark and stormy night along with a meagre bunch of passengers. When the train brakes violently and comes to a sudden halt deep in the middle of a forest, it seems they have hit something on the line. But when the driver ventures out to investigate he never returns, leaving the passengers in a state of panic.

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INITIATION LOVE

(Japan) Nippon Television Network Corp.

(NTV). 110mins.

Dir: Yukihiko Tsutsumi.

Cast: Atsuko Maeda, Shota Matsuda.

Palais D press allowed

THE PASTA DETECTIVES

(Germany) Beta Cinema.

96mins. Dir: Neele Leana Vollmar. Cast: Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, Karoline Herfurth.

Searching for the owner of a “lost and found macaroni”, the lowly gifted Rico meets the highly gifted Oskar and the two become friends for life. Across Berlin they are after Mr 2000, a notorious kidnapper. But suddenly Oskar disappears »

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SCREENINGS

son of Consul Crassus, from his vicious brother Tiberius.

Riviera 3 invitation only

HILLSONG: LET HOPE RISE

MARKET 15:30 SWORN VIRGIN

(Italy) The Match Factory. 90mins. Dir: Laura Bispuri. Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Flonja Kodheli, Lars Eidinger, Luan Jaha.

The story of a woman who sacrifices her femininity for her and Rico has to pluck up all his courage to find his friend.

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freedom, and years later must renounce her honour to become a woman again. It is a journey inside the complexity of a woman’s world; a film about finally breaking free from invisible prisons.

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at a retirement village.

Palais F

16:00 ADDERALL DIARIES

POD

(US) Raven Banner Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Mickey Keating.

Siblings Ed and Lyla stage an intervention on their increasingly paranoid brother, Martin, who has constructed an elaborate and horrifying conspiracy theory surrounding a sinister creature that he believes he has trapped in the basement.

(US) Kathy Morgan International.

105mins. Dir: Pamela Romanowsky. Cast: James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris.

Based on the groundbreaking memoir

by Stephen Elliot, “The Adderall Diaries” explores truth and identity through a new romance and a notorious murder trial.

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AFERIM! SWORN VIRGIN See box, above

DIE WINDPOMP

(South Africa) Zenhq Films. 102mins. Dir: Etienne Fourie. Cast: Armand Greyling, Grethe Fox, Ian Roberts.

A multi-award winning film that quickly became a top favourite in South Africa. A quirky, humorous and endearing love story between two young people during their summer

(Romania) Beta Cinema.

108mins. Dir: Radu Jude.

Cast: Teodor Corban, Mihai Coma‚ Noiu, Toma Cuzin.

An Eastern Western and an exotic coming-of-age film, with a deep touch of black humour.

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Clovis Cornillac.

A romantic comedy about two people who fall in love while they live separated by a wall. He is an inventor and can work only in silence, she is a pianist and needs to prepare for a contest.

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BORDERING ON BAD BEHAVIOR

(South Africa) Montecristo International. 105mins.

Dir: Jac Mulder. Cast: Tom Sizemore, Bernard Curry, Oz Zehavi.

A Lebanese solder walks into an Israeli communications centre on the Lebanese border and encounters an Israeli solder and a CIA agent.

A scuffle ensues and, in the melee, the centre’s emergency lockdown mechanism is triggered, leaving the sworn enemies trapped together for six hours and having to survive the ordeal without killing each other. War kills, weed heals!

DRAGON BLADE

(China) Golden Network Asia. 103mins.

Gray 1 invitation only

JOHNNY WALKER

(Belgium) Zoffa.

84mins. Dir: Kris De Meester. Cast: Mieke Daneels, Hank Botwinik, Christelle Cornil, Eric Godon, Astrid Whettnall.

A has-been Hollywood director is forced to confront his own fears in a Dostoevskian moral fable.

Gray 5

LUCHA MEXICO See box, below

THE DANIEL CONNECTION

(UK) California Pictures.

91mins. Dir: Stewart Menelaws. Cast: Caroline Goodall, Gray O’Brien, Robert Yates.

The abomination of desolation.

BLIND DATE

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Arcades 2

Dir: Daniel Lee. Cast: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody.

Two thousand years ago, a mysterious legion of troops — with deepset eyes and arched noses — galloped along the Silk Road. Dressed in exquisitely carved amour with red manes on their helmets, the legion employed weapons and battle formations never before witnessed on the plains of China.

The soldiers were a Roman legion led by General Luciu. He led his men east to protect Publius, the youngest

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(France) Other Angle Pictures. 90mins.

Dir: Clovis Cornillac.

Cast: Melanie Bernier,

Cawthorne, James Blake, Kimberly Crossman.

High school is hell!

Metal-thrashing Brodie is an outcast in a sea of jocks and cheerleaders until he meets a kindred spirit in fellow metalhead Zakk. After starting their own band, Brodie and Zakk’s resentment of the suburban wasteland leads them to a mysterious piece of sheet music said to grant ultimate power to whoever plays it.

(US) Relativity International. 104mins.

Dir: Michael John Warren. Cast: Hillsong United, Pastor Brian Houston, Pastor Bobbie Houston.

Chronicles the spectacular and unlikely rise to prominence of the Australia-based Christian band Hillsong United.

The film follows the band as they labour to record their next album and explores the history of Hillsong, a 30-year journey from a tiny church in the Sydney suburbs to a vibrant international ministry.

DEATHGASM

(US) MPI Media Group.

85mins. Dir: Jason Lei Howden. Cast: Milo

MARKET 16:00 LUCHA MEXICO

(US) Wide House. 100mins.

Dir: Alexandria Hammond, Ian Markiewicz. Cast: Blue Demon Jr, Joseph Soria, Jon Anderson.

An exciting inside look at the stars of Lucha Libre, Mexico’s distinctly colourful brand of professional wrestling, where flesh and blood superheroes have performed for generations of fans.

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A company of young British soldiers find themselves courageously fighting for each other’s lives in a terrifying minefield where the next step could be their last.

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THE MIDWIFE

MARKET 17:30 BACKTRACK

(Australia) Bankside Films. 90mins. Dir: Michael Petroni. Cast: Adrien Brody, Sam Neill.

PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE SCREENING

Pyramide International.

100mins.

Star 1 priority badges only

RATCHET & CLANK

(Canada) Cinema Management Group.

94mins. Dir: Kevin Munroe, Jericca Cleland.

Cast: James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward.

Based on the bestselling PlayStation video game franchise.

Olympia 5 invitation only

WINTER CICADAS

(China) Shanghai Normal University.

85mins. Dir: Hong-Bo Zhou. Cast: Li-Fang Hu, Shuo Chen, Ai-Guo Wu. A young film-maker returns to China from study abroad. He journeys from the bustling metropolis of Shanghai to a remote monastery on Tian-Mu Mountain where he’s reunited with his mother after a tragic fire. “Winter Cicadas” is a subtle, intimate and mysterious study in contrasts that touches on family,

when he is charged with infiltrating an anarchist organisation.

A ghost story in which a psychiatrist begins to see the ghosts of people all killed on the same day 20 years previously.

Star 2 press allowed

Star 4

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loss, guilt and creativity.

BRAND: A SECOND COMING

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17:30 ABSENCE

(Brazil) IM Global.

90mins. Dir: Chico Teixeira. Cast: Matheus Fagundes, Irandhir Santos, Francisca Gavilan.

An everyday, family, sexual and emotional drama centred on Serginho – no-longer-aboy, not-yet-a-man. We follow his daily routine: the recently acquired role of man of the house, looking after his mother and younger brother; his job at the market; his friendship with Mudinho and Silvinha; and his messy relationship, mixing sex and affection, with Professor Ney. Arcades 3

BACKTRACK

(UK) Myriad Pictures.

105mins. Dir: Ondi Timoner. Cast: Russell Brand.

Follows comedian/author/ activist Russell Brand as he dives headlong into drugs, sex and fame in an attempt to find happiness, only to realise we have all been nurtured on bad ideas and empty celebrity idols. Brand leaves Los Angeles to embark on a stand-up comedy tour about his own true icons — Gandhi, Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Jesus Christ — and transforms from addict and Hollywood star into an unexpected political disruptor and new-found hero.

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BREATHLESS TIME See box, right

THE ANARCHISTS

(France) Wild Bunch.

101mins. Dir: Elie Wajeman. Cast: Tahar Rahim, Adele Exarchopoulos.

Nineteenth-century Paris. An ambitious officer finds himself torn between desire and duty

76 Screen International at Cannes May 15, 2015

THE FAITH OF ANNA WATERS

(US) Highland Film Group. 100mins. Dir: Kelvin Tong. Cast: Elizabeth Rice, Matthew Settle.

When the young and successful reporter Jamie

finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister’s husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.

(Finland) Picture Tree International. 118mins.

Dir: Antti J. Jokinen.

Cast: Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Tommi Korpela.

Finland, 1944. The country is shaken by the Lapland War, a conflict between Germany and Finland in the last stages of the Second World War. Helena, a small community’s midwife nicknamed Wildey, meets the Finnish-German Nazi officer Johannes Angelhurst. She is attracted to the mysterious stranger and follows him to the prisoner of war camp where he serves to start working as a nurse.

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THE MISPLACED WORLD

(Germany) Wild Bunch.

101mins. Dir: Margarethe Von Trotta. Cast: Katja Riemann, Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich.

Sophie flies to New York to find a woman who bears an inexplicable resemblance to her dead mother, unaware of the shocking revelations that await her.

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ROAR: TIGERS OF THE SUNDARBANS

(India) Fantastic Films International. 123mins.

Dir: Kamal Sadanah.

Cast: Aadil Chahal, Aaran Chaudhary, Pranay Dixit.

A thrilling action adventure where Uday, a photojournalist, rescues a white tiger cub caught in a poacher’s trap. He brings the cub to a local village, causing the villagers to panic until the forest warden takes the cub away. The cub’s

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GRASSHOPPER

(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation. 119mins.

Dir: Tomoyuki Takimoto.

Cast: Toma Ikuta, Asano Tadanobu, Ryosuke Yamada.

Palais B invitation only

IDYLL

(Slovenia) Slovenian Film Centre. 83mins.

Dir: Tomaz Gorkiaœ.

Cast: Nina Ivanisin, Lotos Sparovec, Nika Rozman.

Nothing could seem further from the frivolous world of trendy young city people on a fashion shoot than the basement of two demented hillbillies. But in fact, something even darker than this basement brings them together.

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BREATHLESS TIME

(UK) Metro International Entertainment. 108mins.

Dir: Paul Katis. Cast: Mark Stanley, David Elliot, Malachi Kirby.

(Spain) Latido.

106mins. Dir: Samuel Martin Mateos, Andres Luque Perez. Cast:

Juana Acosta, Carmelo Gomez, Adriana Ugarate, Felix Gomez.

How far would you go to avenge your daughter?

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THE BIG BEE

(Japan) Shochiku Co., Ltd. 136mins. Dir: Yukihiko Tsutsumi. Cast: Yosuke Eguchi, Masahiro Motoki.

Time limit: eight hours.

Hostages: the whole population of Japan.

Mission: save them at any cost. A suspensefilled blockbuster revolving around a nuclear terrorism crisis and a desperate rescue operation.

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DON’T TELL ME THE BOY WAS MAD

(France) MK2. 134mins.

Dir: Robert Guediguian.

Cast: Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ariane Ascaride, Simon Abkarian.

Paris, 1981. Aram, a young man of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish Ambassador’s car, seriously injuring Gilles, who just happens to have been passing by on his bicycle.

Arcades 2 priority badges only

BOMBAY VELVET

MARKET 18:00 TAXI

(Iran) Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares.

82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi.

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing

VICTORIA

their views while being interviewed by the driver who is none other than the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive.

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(Germany) The Match Factory. 140mins. Dir: Sebastian Schipper. Cast: Laia Costa, Frederik Lau, Burak Yigit.

On a night out in Berlin, Victoria meets four young local guys — after joining their group, she becomes their driver when they rob a bank. Finally, as dawn breaks, everyone meets their destiny.

Chekhov even gains Tolstoy’s admiration. But when his brother dies from tuberculosis, Chekhov, remorseful, decides to flee his growing notoriety and travels to the penal colony of the Sakhalin Island, in Siberia, to write about the depraved society the convicts live in.

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(India) Fox Star Studios India. 212mins.

Dir: Anurag Kashyap.

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar.

Set against the jazz age of Mumbai, the story spans a period from the late 1940s through to the 1970s. “Bombay Velvet” is the story of the rise and fall of one boy, Balraj, who transforms into Karan, a gangster in Mumbai post-independence and on the verge of becoming a metropolis.

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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID

(Turkey) Cam Film.

110mins. Dir: Mehmet Binay, M Caner Alper.

Cast: Nilufer Acikalin, Taner Birsel, Ece Dizdar, Tilbe Saran.

Deniz, age 33, ends up in hospital after a traumatic night.

Her shocking, tragic, finally liberating life journey of 25 years is reflected on a parallel timeline, as she gets physical and physiological recovery based on what she can remember from the age of five until the night she was brought in.

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mother, a white tigress, enters the village at night and when she can’t find her lost cub she unleashes her wrath on Uday and disappears with his dead body.

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STREIF — ONE HELL OF A RIDE

(Austria) Red Bull Media House. 98mins.

Dir: Gerald Salmina.

Cast: Aksel Lund Svindal, Erik Guay, Max Franz, Yuri Danilochkin.

Five downhill ski-racers offer a glimpse into the soul of extreme athletes as they take on the Super Bowl of Skiing in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

Film Corporation.

93mins. Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Cast: Erina Mano, Rina Ohta, Seiji Fukushi.

It is 2013, Tokyo. SV2 Division 1 has disbanded.

The third-generation Division 2 is barely surviving. When a terrorist organisation attacks the capital city with the “invisible” stealth helicopter, SV2 is commanded to stand up against the threat.

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THE NEXT GENERATION: PATLABOR — TOKYO WAR

(Japan) Tohokushinsha

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TAXI See box, above

(US) The Exchange.

100mins. Dir: Andy Tennant. Cast: Jessica Lange, Shirley Maclaine, Demi Moore.

A widowed retired history teacher enjoys a quiet life in a small town.

Everything changes when she receives a life insurance cheque made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000.

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THE TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN

(Hong Kong (China)) Distribution Workshop.

143mins. Dir: Hark Tsui.

Cast: Han-Yu Zhang, Tony, Ka Fai Leung, Geng-Xin Lin. A battle of wits between a small military unit and the ruthless heavy-armed bandits during the civil war era of the 1940s.

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(France) Wide. 96mins.

Dir: Rene Feret. Cast: Nicolas Giraud, Lolita Chammah, Robinson Stevenin.

Anton Chekhov, a humble Russian doctor, writes novels he sells to newspapers to feed his family. As his talent gets noticed by his peers,

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(France) Elle Driver. 96mins.

Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon.

Early 20th century, in the French provinces. Much courted for her beauty, Celestine is a young chambermaid who has just arrived from Paris in

the service of the Lanlaire household.

Fending off her master’s advances, Celestine must also deal with the very strict Madame Lanlaire, who lords over the house with an iron fist. Among the domestics is Joseph, the enigmatic gardener, who exerts total fascination over her.

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INTIMATE WITNESS

left in her letters for him.

(Argentina) Blood Window. 100mins.

Dir: Santiago Fernandez Calvete.

Facundo is a lawyer and he’s having an affair with Violeta, his brother Rafa’s girlfriend. When Rafa finds Violeta dead in their apartment, Facundo has to help him get rid of the body. The night turns into a perverse game of spite, violence, revenge and death.

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SHADES OF TRUTH

(US) Condor Pictures.

92mins. Dir: Liana Marabini. Cast: David Wall, Gedeon Burkhard, Jennifer Mischiati.

The difficult history of a controversial Pope, Pius XII, accused of not having condemned the Holocaust. The film portrays a very different truth, based on a huge amount of documentation.

But the subject continues to create discussions and contestation.

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LITTLE BIG MASTER

(Hong Kong (China)) Universe Films Distribution Co. 112mins.

Dir: Adrian Kwan. Cast: Miriam Yeung, Louis Koo, Richard Ng, Philip Keung, Anna Ng. Based on a true story of an enthusiastic headmaster who sticks to her principles and faith to run a kindergarten for underprivileged kids.

Regardless of the very low pay and difficulties, her sacrifice finally wins the respect of the public.

Palais E press allowed

LIZ IN SEPTEMBER

(Venezuela) Cinema Management Group.

100mins. Dir: Fina Torres. Cast: Patricia Velasquez, Eloisa Maturen, Mimi Lazo, Danay Garcia.

Liz has known several things since she was a child: that she is gay, that beauty is power, and that she will never be a victim.

Determined to enjoy the time she still has left on Earth, she hides her terminal disease from her friends. Eva lost her son to cancer. The pain and guilt she feels has tarnished the relationship with her husband, sinking both into isolation.

Palais B

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(Germany) Beta Cinema. 99mins.

Dir: Tobi Baumann.

Cast: Anke Engelke, Milo Parker, Bastian Pastewka.

The often fearful 11-year-

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MAX & LENNY

SOAKED IN BLEACH

(France) Alpha Violet.

85mins. Dir: Fred Nicolas. Cast: Camelia Pand’Or, Jiska Kalvanda, Mathieu Demy.

Marseille. Lenny meets Max, who is in hiding, to rehearse rapping. Rap is her soul language. Max is a cheerful teenager who lives illegally with her Congolese family. Music will tie them together.

(US) VMI Worldwide.

100mins. Dir: Benjamin Statler. Cast: Kurt Cobain, Daniel Roebuck.

Reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain’s death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator who was hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband only days before his body was found at their Seattle home.

Palais G

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ONE WILD MOMENT

(UK) Studiocanal.

88mins. Dir: Ben Palmer.

Cast: Simon Pegg, Lake Bell.

A romantic comedy about taking chances and rolling with the consequences. One night, two people go on a first date like no other.

(France) Kinology.

105mins. Dir: JeanFrancois Richet. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Francois Cluzet, Lola Le Lann, Alice Isaaz.

Two friends bring their daughters with them on a beach vacation and find themselves in an awkward situation.

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MAN UP

old Tom discovers a green ghost in his cellar.

Slimy Hugo is an ASG, an averagely spooky ghost, whom Tom soon realises is not only completely harmless but also desperately in need of his help.

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WIND WALKERS

(US) Tricoast Worldwide.

85mins. Dir: Russell Friedenberg. Cast: Zane Holtz, Glen Powell, Rudy Youngblood, J Larose.

With one of their own missing, a group of friends travel to the remote Florida Everglades where they discover that an

ancient, malevolent curse is tracking them.

name of the Kharotabad Killing.

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20:00 A CRY FROM WITHIN

(US) Breaking Glass Pictures. 94mins. Dir: Zachary Miller, Deborah Twiss. Cast: Eric Roberts, Cathy Moriarty, Deborah Twiss.

After suffering a miscarriage, a New York family abandon their hectic life in the city in search of a quieter existence in Long Island, but soon find themselves at the mercy of a spirit inhabiting their new home.

THE MAGIC HISTORY OF CINEMA

(US) Circa Film. 54mins.

Dir: Tom Garrett, Adam Sutton. Cast: Martin Scorsese, Brian Selznick, Kevin James.

International documentary showcasing magic and movies have had a long, continued history.

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PAULINE

(France) Acid. 88mins.

Dir: Emilie Brisavoine.

A fairytale? Yes, except that the king wears high heels, the queen’s trying to make up for lost time and their heirs have become rebellious.

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ABDULLAH

THE PEARLS OF THE STONE MAN

(Pakistan) International Multi Group Of Companies. 90mins.

Dir: Hashim Nadeem.

Cast: Imran Abbass, Sajid Hassan, Hameed Shaikh, Sadia Khan.

Based on a true event in Quetta, Pakistan, which gained much hype on international media. The incident clips are still circulating under the

(Japan) Shochiku Co. 125mins. Dir: Yuzo Asahara. Cast: Koichi Sato, Kanako Higuchi, Keiko Kitagawa.

Set in the beautiful hills in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. Here comes a moving story of a widower whose world begins to expand with the guides which his late wife

(UK) Protagonist Pictures. 93mins. Dir: Nick Love. Cast: Stephen Dorff, Eddie Griffin.

Melvin, a reluctant American superhero, lives only for crime, women and drugs — until he realises that the only way he will ever get to see his estranged son is to go straight. But in a world where no-one understands Melvin’s condition, his incredible powers could ultimately be his demise.

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(Spain) Deaplaneta.

102mins. Dir: Nacho G Velilla. Cast: Yon Gonzalez, Blanca Suarez, Julian Lopez.

Hugo and Braulio are graduates fed up with Spain’s inability to provide jobs or a future.

So they decide to move to Germany, under the spell of a TV programme showing other Spanish expats’ success. But they soon discover that being surplus to requirements in one country doesn’t mean you’re wanted in another, and that following a German dream can be a nightmare.

Palais G

21:00 THE MAGIC HISTORY OF CINEMA

(US) Circa Film. 54mins.

Dir: Tom Garrett, Adam Sutton. Cast: Martin Scorsese, Brian Selznick, Kevin James.

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Australia

Stephanie Zacharek The Village Voice, US

Fabio Ferzetti Il Messaggero, Italy

Jan Schulz-Ojala Der Tagesspiegel, Germany

Julien Gester, Didier Peron Liberation, France

Michel Ciment Positif, France

Kate Muir, Wendy Ide The Times, UK

Nick James Sight & Sound, UK

The Screen jury at Cannes

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Kong Rithdee Bangkok Post, Thailand

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Our Little Sister (Jap) Hirokazu Kore-eda

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A love story set in the near future, when single people are arrested and transferred to The Hotel, where they are given

The Lobster (Ire-Gr-FrNeth-UK) Yorgos Lanthimos

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 45 days to find a mate. Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw and Léa Seydoux star in this Ireland-shot film. 0.0

Son of Saul (Hung) Laszlo Nemes

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ be that of his young son, he sets out to find a rabbi to bury him. Geza Rohrig and Levente Molnar star.

A Hungarian prisoner is assigned to work in one of the crematoria at Auschwitz. When he finds a body he believes to

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A film director shoots a film with a troublesome US actor (John Turturro), while away from the shoot she must hold her

My Mother (It-Fr) Nanni Moretti

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 life together during her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence. Margherita Buy stars alongside Moretti.

The Sea of Trees (US) Gus Van Sant

Matthew McConaughey plays a widower who makes the decision to travel to Japan’s Aokigahara, or suicide forest, ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ but has a change of mind when he encounters Ken Watanabe. Naomi Watts co-stars.

Mon Roi (Fr) Maïwenn

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ (Vincent Cassel) of her child. Louis Garrel and director Maïwenn’s sister, Isild Le Besco, co-star.

Carol (US-UK) Todd Haynes

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ in Haynes’ adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Price Of Salt, once a mainstay of lesbian fiction.

The Measure of a man (Fr) Stéphane Brizé

Vincent Lindon continues his collaboration with Brizé (Mademoiselle Chambon, A Few Hours Of Spring) with the story ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ of a 50-year-old unemployed man who faces a moral crisis when he finally finds a job as a supermarket security guard.

Louder Than Bombs (Nor-Fr-Den) Joachim Trier

Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid play the husband and sons of a late war photographer (Isabelle Huppert). ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ While mounting a retrospective of her work after her death, they must confront their very different memories of her.

Sicario (US) Denis Villeneuve

A showcase role for Emily Blunt as an FBI agent who becomes embroiled in a CIA mission to take down the boss of a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Mexican drug cartel. Sicario co-stars Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, who plays a mysterious CIA operative.

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Emmanuelle Bercot stars as a woman in hospital who looks back on a difficult relationship with the father

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1952 New York, and a department store clerk (Rooney Mara) falls in love with wealthy, married Carol (Cate Blanchett)

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Marguerite and Julien (Fr) Aristocratic siblings Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet (Jérémie Elkaïm and Anaïs Demoustier) have loved each other ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ since childhood. But as their affection veers toward voracious passion, they are hounded by society and are forced to flee.

Valérie Donzelli

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Michael Caine is a semi-retired composer on holiday in the Alps with his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and his film director

Youth (It-Switz-Fr-UK) Paolo Sorrentino

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Mountains May Depart (Chi) Jia Zhangke

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ in 1999 to Australia in 2025, with the latter section unfolding in English.

Dheepan (Fr) Jacques Audiard

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 asylum in France more solid. But life is also difficult in the slums of Paris, and he will need his warrior’s instinct to survive.

The Assassin (Tai-Chi) Hou Hsiao Hsien

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Taiwanese auteur Hou, who unexpectedly turns his hand to the wuxia action genre. Chang Chen co-stars.

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Zhao Tao and Sylvia Chang star in an unusual departure for Jia, a family drama set over three time periods from China

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A Tamil Tiger in Sri Lanka flees with a makeshift ‘family’ — a woman and a girl — in the hope they will make his claim for

Shu Qi plays an assassin ordered to kill the cousin she loves, in a 9th century Tang Dynasty China brought to life by

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Tim Roth stars in writer-director Franco’s English-language debut as David, a troubled nurse who helps terminally ill

Chronic (US-Mex) Michel Franco

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Valley of Love (Fr) Guillaume Nicloux

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 posthumously by him to Death Valley, California, where he promises to reappear. Despite obvious reservations, they go.

Macbeth (UK) Justin Kurzel

★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 0.0 crown in the bloodiest-possible manner, urged on by his scheming wife (Marion Cotillard) in Shakespeare’s brutal play.

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Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu play actors who had a son 25 years ago. After his death, they are summoned

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DCP/HD • 2015 • USA • 78’ • DOCUMENTARY

ULYANA LOPATKINA A RUSSIAN STAR

MAIKO, DANCING CHILD

FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER

MISFITS

A film by Marlène Ionesco

A film by Åse Svenheim Drivenes

A film by Rüdiger Suchsland

A film by Jannik Splidsboel

14.05 2PM Palais G

16.05 6PM Palais G

17.05 6PM Palais G

19.05 12PM Palais G

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