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Kurzels serve up Volley

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

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Riseborough joins flock of Shepherds

Macbeth director Justin Kurzel is to produce a darkly comic sports drama that marks the directorial debut of his brother, acclaimed composer Jed Kurzel.

Ivan Lendl Never Learnt To Volley, attracting finance in Cannes, will star Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds) as a man who has a fanatical desire to see his son become a tennis champion at any cost.

Due to shoot later this year in Europe and Australia, it will be produced by Kurzel alongside Warp Films Australia’s Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw, who produced the Macbeth director’s debut Snowtown and Sundance hit Partisan, starring Vincent Cassel.

Protagonist Pictures has boarded sales in Cannes. Madman Entertainment will distribute in Australia and New Zealand.

The team is currently in talks with a number of well-known names to play alongside Ménochet. The film is based on a fictional story by the brothers, inspired by their own experiences as tennis prodigies when they were teenagers.

Composer Jed Kurzel (The Babadook) also collaborated with his brother on 2011 Critics’ Week hit Snowtown.

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NEWS Bac in business Hiner Saleem’s Money Babe among three picked up by Bac Films » Page 2

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Birdman star Andrea Riseborough is to star opposite Steve Coogan (Philomena) in apartheid drama Shepherds And Butchers.

WestEnd Films has launched Cannes sales on the project from Oliver Schmitz, director of Life, Above All. Shooting is due to begin in South Africa on June 15.

Brian Cox’s script, adapted from the novel of the same name, sees a hotshot lawyer (Coogan) defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men.

Anant Singh (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and Cox (Kite) produce the drama for Distant Horizon and Videovision Entertainment. Sudhir Pragjee, Sanjeev Singh and Basil Ford are executive producers.

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Tangerine dream for Magnolia

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Magnolia Pictures International has licensed key territories for Sundance pick-up Tangerine, which screens in the market tonight.

Film-maker Sean Baker’s comedy has been licensed in France (ARP Selection), UK (Metrodome), Australia (Rialto), South Korea (Mirovision), Taiwan (Double Edge) and Portugal (Films4You).

As previously announced, Magnolia will handle the US release on the Duplass Brothers Productions and Through Films comedy.

Head of worldwide sales Christina Rogers and director of international sales Scott Veltri brokered the deals.

A Tale Of Love And Darkness actor Gilad Kahana, actor-director Natalie Portman and producer Ram Bergman at the world premiere here in Cannes. Review, page 16

Buyers keen to claw in Lobster

Screen, BFI see Stars at LFF

BY JEREMY KAY

BY FIONNUALA HALLIGAN

US acquisitions teams on the Croisette were last night circling prestige titles and packages including Competition selection The Lobster.

With bids on Bleed For This up to $3m and the Lionsgate deal on A Hologram For The King reportedly close, buyers were also pursuing HHHH, Message From The King, The Infiltrator, The Sense Of An Ending and A Willing Patriot.

Screen International is to join with the BFI London Film Festival to launch its celebrated Stars of Tomorrow as part of an ongoing collaboration.

This year’s selected actors, directors, writers and producers will be unveiled by Screen and the LFF at an event in London’s West End during the first weekend of the festival (October 7-18).

Stars of Tomorrow will celebrate its 12th anniversary this year. It has a significant track record in identifying future stars since its first edition in 2004, which named James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Emily Blunt, followed by Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne in 2005. Film-makers spotlighted have included Andrea Arnold (2004), writer Abi Morgan (2005), and Andrew Haigh (2008).

The presentation of this year’s UK Stars of Tomorrow at the BFI London Film Festival will be followed by an exclusive industry dinner hosted by the British Council with support from the Casting Society of America.

Dumont’s Slack Bay closes deals Memento Films International (MFI) is reporting brisk business on Bruno Dumont’s dark comedy Slack Bay, starring Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

Early deals on the film include to Austria (Thimfilm), Mexico (Mantarraya), Brazil (Alfa Films), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Benelux (Cinéart), Czech Republic (Aerofilms), Hungary (Monizet),

ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom MCF), South Korea (Main Title), Switzerland (Praesens-Film), Greece (Weird Wave), airlines (Skeye) and Germany (Neue Visionen), the latter via a co-production deal.

Set against the backdrop of a northern French beach resort, the film revolves around two socially opposed families and a series of mysterious disappearances.

MFI has also signed a raft of deals on Josh Mond’s James White

following its first screening in the market, selling the title to Benelux (September Films), Greece (Weird Wave), Scandinavia and the Baltics (Non Stop), Australia and New Zealand (Madman) and Switzerland (Praesens-Film). There were previously announced deals to Latin America and Spain (Sun Distribution) and France (Diaphana).

The film world premiered at Sundance this year, winning the Best of Next audience award.

Reilly and Roth report for spy duty in Secret Kelly Reilly and Tim Roth have signed to co-star in John Hay’s thriller Lives In Secret, inspired by the true story of Second World War spy mistress Vera Atkins.

The project, formerly titled Night

And Fog, will start shooting in northern England in August. It is produced by Jeremy Bolt (Resident Evil, Pompeii ).

Adapted from Sarah Helm’s A Life In Secrets, the film tells the true

story of a British intelligence agent who trained hundreds of agents.

After the war, Atkins made it her personal mission to ascertain the fate of all the female agents she lost.

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Michael Shannon

Price is right for Shannon

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Michael Shannon and Matthias Schweighöfer (Valkyrie) have joined Siofra Campbell’s thriller The Price, which Cargo represents for world sales.

As previously announced, indemand Noomi Rapace plays the mother of a kidnapped child who realises her ex-partner is the instigator and must deal with the fallout when he is double-crossed.

Radiant Films International’s Mimi Steinbauer has introduced the project to buyers in her additional new role as Cargo’s president of distribution following the pact between the companies announced last week. Peggy Cafferty and Patrick Campbell produce and principal photography is set for September in Europe.

Cargo’s roster includes Welcome To Me starring Kristen Wiig, political thriller and Sundance world premiere Zipper, Josh Duhamel starrer Lost In The Sun in post, and Derrick Borte’s upcoming drama London Town to star Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Bac on the money for trio of new talent

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based Bac Films has picked up world sales on three arthouse films by emerging talents.

Hiner Saleem’s Money Babe is a film noir that centres on a former Kurdish resistance hero who is now a businessman, and a former comrade in arms. It marks Saleem’s first feature since My Sweet Pepper Land (Un Certain Regard 2013) and is due to shoot in Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey this autumn.

Babak Jalali’s Land explores the issue of alcoholism within a Native American community, through the tale of a family awaiting the return of the body of their dead GI son from Iraq.

The project, due to shoot in New Mexico this September, won the top prize at the 2012 Torino Film Lab and is supported by Doha Film Institute.

Finally, Bogdan Mirica’s rural dark comedy, Dogs, revolves

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Disorder (Maryland) director Alice Winocour with stars Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger at the photocall for the Un Certain Regard film. The tense thriller received its world premiere here yesterday. See Screen’s review on Monday

Zhang Yang drama in Shadows

Chan nets Li Na biopic

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

HK film-maker Peter Ho-sun Chan will produce and direct a biopic of Chinese tennis player Li Na.

Hong Kong-based sales company Asian Shadows has picked up international rights to Zhang Yang’s Tibetan drama, Paths Of The Soul.

Zhang, whose credits include critical and commercial hits such as Shower, Quitting and Getting Home, has spent the past year filming his new project in Tibet.

Paths Of The Soul, in post-production, follows a small group of Buddhists who embark on a 2,000-km bowing pilgrimage to Lhasa. Based on true events and using non-professional actors, the film is set against some of the most stunning landscapes in China.

“The film reveals the realities of Tibetan life rather than imposing the film-maker’s perspective,” said

Child 44 director Daniel Espinosa is to helm a new adaptation of period epic The Emigrants.

Lotus enters Sevastopol Lotus Film International Culture has acquired Russia-Ukraine epic Battle For Sevastopol from Film.ua for release in China.

Oyelowo wants Seconds David Oyelowo will join Luke Evans in Otto Bathurst’s Three Seconds, which Bloom is touting to buyers. » Full stories on ScreenDaily.com

French sales company SND is reporting strong buyer interest on Tommy Wirkola’s sci-fi action film What Happened to Monday?, starring Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close.

The production, due to shoot in Romania this summer, has sold to Germany and Austria (Splendid), Latin America (Sun Distribution) and Thailand and Malaysia (Sahamongkol Film International).

Norwegian film-maker Wirkola and Swedish actress Rapace decided to work together two years ago after a chance meeting in Oslo airport and have been in Cannes this week meeting buyers.

Rapace will star as seven sisters struggling to survive in the near future, where famine has forced governments to undertake a one-child policy.

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F&ME pacts with Georgian producer

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Espinosa joins Emigrants

around a man who discovers the land he recently inherited from his grandfather is at the heart of a major trafficking route.

Shooting is set to begin in Romania in July.

Other recent Bac acquisitions include Paolo Virzi’s Like Crazy, starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti as two psychiatric patients who embark on a road trip between Florence and Rome.

Wirkola’s Monday sells for SND

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Asian Shadows founder Isabelle Glachant.

Asian Shadows is the new sales arm of Glachant’s production company Chinese Shadows, which is also producing Liu Shu’s Lotus Position.

The project, selected for this year’s Fabrique Les Cinemas Du Monde in Cannes, follows a woman searching for the driver who killed her mother in a hitand-run accident. Liu Shu’s debut film, Lotus, screened in Critics’ Week at Venice in 2012.

Glachant changed the name of the company’s sales arm to reflect that it is also working with films from outside China, such as Eddie Cahyono’s Siti (Indonesia) and Lior Shamriz’s Cancelled Faces (Korea-Germany).

DAS Award moves host Locarno Film Festival is to host the eighth Doc Alliance Selection (DAS) Award. The prize has been announced during Cannes for the past seven years.

The seven documentary festivals that make up Doc Alliance decided to make the move to Locarno to gain more attention for the DAS Award.

The winner of the $5,700 (€5,000) prize will be announced at a ceremony during Locarno’s Industry Days on August 8 by a jury of European film critics.

Martin Blaney » See ScreenDaily.com for the list of nominated films

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The UK’s Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a threepicture deal with Tbilisi-based 20 Steps Productions and the Caucasian Film Service.

The partnership, which previously produced Mohsen Makhmalbaf ’s Venice opener The President, will shoot the films across 2015-16.

The first, How To Sell A War, will be directed by Rudolph Herzog and scripted by Tim Price.

Production is set to begin later this year on the political satire, cofinanced with Creative England.

Dede will centre on a young woman in a village in the Caucasus Mountains. Directed by Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani, the team includes The President producer Vladimer Katcharava, and the project has been selected for this summer’s Sundance Lab. The final film is untitled but will be set in London and directed

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By Melanie Goodfellow

Distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis has acquired Italian rights to Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette from Pathé International.

Rome-based De Paolis is in Cannes acquiring for both BIM, fully owned by Wild Bunch since June 2014, as well as his new boutique label, Cinema.

“I’m contracted to acquire four titles a year for BIM for the next three years until 2017 and then we’ll see where I am and they are,” explained De Paolis, who founded BIM some 30 years ago.

Other recent pick-ups under the accord include Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan and Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner. For his own label, De Paolis has recently acquired Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, as well as documentary Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words, from TrustNordisk.

“I want to focus on art and cinema, and films that are beautiful but don’t necessarily attract huge audiences,” said De Paolis. “These sorts of films have a tough time getting shown in Italy and I want to work out how to do it.”

Beautiful begins on Bombairiya Production has started on IndiaUK-UAE co-production Bombairiya, a comedy thriller starring Radhika Apte, Akshay Oberoi and Siddhanth Kapoor.

Directed by first-time feature director Pia Sukanya, the film is the first in a planned slate to be produced by UK and Mumbai-based Beautiful Bay Entertainment, founded by Michael Ward and Colin Burrows, and their Dubai-based partners, Kreo Films.

Set in modern-day Mumbai, the story follows a young woman who

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Italy has extended its highly successful 25% tax credit, first introduced in 2011 for film, to include television productions.

“Like the UK, TV fiction will also be covered by the credit in the same way as it is applied to film, covering 25% of expenses incurred in Italy,” said Cinecitta Studios CEO Giuseppe Basso.

“The aim is to attract high-profile TV productions which have budgets and aspirations on a par with feature films,” he added.

There has been a surge in incoming feature productions over the last 12 months, following improvements to the original 2011 credit at the end of last year.

The changes raised the cap on support from $5.4m (¤5m) to $10.7m (¤10m) and made it per production company, not per project. The credit is accessed through a local executive producer.

The extension will be backdated to January 1, 2015 so NBC’s Hannibal, which shot briefly in Italy this year, could benefit.

International features to have benefited from the incentive include Ben-Hur, Christ The Lord: Out Of Egypt, Spectre, The Tourist, Inferno and Zoolander 2.

Paramount Pictures and MGM’s Ben-Hur, shooting at Cinecitta, managed to raise $16m (¤14m) through the combined support of Cinecitta Studios and Filmmaster, both subsidiaries of the Italian Entertainment Group, acting as executive producers. Ron Howard’s Inferno combined the credit with one from Hungary.

Latham-Jones to head Ealing arm

By Andreas Wiseman

In a multimillion-dollar deal, producer Ben Latham-Jones (Nina) has bought Ealing Studios Entertainment — the production arm of the iconic studio — from Barnaby Thompson and will take over the role of head of studio.

Thompson, who is set to focus on directing, will retain his shares in Ealing Studios Operations, which runs the stages and facilities side of the business, alongside partners Harry Handelsman and Uri Fruchtmann. Included in the deal is part of the studio’s cata-

loses her phone during a frenzied day as a film PR executive and enlists the help of a hapless bystander to pursue the thief.

The Hindi and Englishlanguage film is aimed at the domestic Indian market, but with an eye on its potential in the international arena. “It’s one of the first examples of international independent producers taking a look at a sector that only the bigger studios have addressed through their local offices,” said Ward.

Ward was lead producer on The Far Pavilions musical, which ran at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre, and theatrical director for Miss Bollywood, starring Shilpa Shetty.

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logue, comprising 26 films, while further library and company acquisitions are understood to be in the works for former Fox Searchlight creative director Latham-Jones, who raised a multi-

million-dollar fund to support Ealing Studios Entertainment, where he has worked since 2013.

New projects on the outfit’s development slate include Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt’s (Blondie) drama Vacation, set to star Noomi Rapace, and Callas, also starring Rapace. Ealing is also making two Georges Simenon TV films for ITV, with Rowan Atkinson set to star as the Belgian writer’s famed detective Maigret.

Ealing’s upcoming features include biopic Nina, Chris Foggin’s Kids In Love and The D Train.

Yash Raj hits the road with Piku

By Liz Shackleton

India’s Yash Raj Films is launching international sales on Shoojit Sircar’s Piku here in Cannes. Produced by MSM Motion Pictures, the film recently grossed $10m on its opening weekend in India and diaspora markets.

The film stars Amitabh Bachchan as a cranky father who blackmails his free-spirited daughter (Deepika Padukone) into taking a road trip with him.

The $10m box-office result is the biggest opening for a Hindi film so far this year. MSM Motion Pictures, the film arm of Sony Entertainment TV’s parent company Multi Screen Media, produced with Saraswati Entertainment and Rising Sun Films.

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Yash Raj is also selling My Big Fat Bride, directed by Sharat Katariya who wrote Titli, which screened in Un Certain Regard last year; Dibakar Banerjee’s Calcutta Detective; and Pradeep Sarkar’s Mardaani, about child trafficking, which stars Rani Mukerji. My Big Fat Bride was also a sleeper hit in India, grossing $6m, while Mardaani recently opened in Poland through FilmVillage.

Visit seals US deals on duo

By Jeremy Kay

New York-based Visit Films has closed US sales on SXSW titles Just Jim and The Nymphets.

Invincible Pictures will release Just Jim, starring Emile Hirsch and Craig Roberts (Submarine) who makes his feature directorial debut. The story tells of a teen outcast who befriends an enigmatic American who moves in next door.

Gravitas Ventures will release The Nymphets in the US and Canada. Kip Pardue stars in the thriller about a debauched night between a thirtysomething man and two young girls he invites to his loft. Gary Gardner directs.

Metrodome gets gangster

By Andreas Wiseman

Metrodome has picked up gangster docs Kray Twins — Kill Order and Decade for international sales and UK distribution from Revelation Films. Metrodome’s Jezz Vernon reps for overseas sales.

Levring sails on Devil’s Lake Danish director Kristian Levring (The Salvation) is set to make a new Prohibition-era drama, Devil’s Lake. The project is set to shoot in the Czech Republic next spring.

This will mark the latest collaboration between Danish outfit Zentropa and Sirena Film, the Prague-based production company that has also worked on such recent Scandinavian projects as A Royal Affair, The Shamer’s Daughter, 1864 and US film Serena by Oscarwinning director Susanne Bier. TrustNordisk will be handling sales.

Levring’s revenge western The Salvation, starring Mads Mikkelsen, was a Midnight Screening in Cannes last year The new project was confirmed in Cannes by Sirena’s Kristina Hejdukova.

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Terminator will be back UK classics specialist Park Row is to give its remastered version of The Terminator a 20-territory release on close to 1,000 screens this summer. The re-release of the film, from Sony Pictures, is being timed to tie in with Terminator Genisys. James Cameron’s 1984 blockbuster is receiving a screening on the beach here in Cannes.

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Buyers find Allies

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Following US and UK releases via eOne, Parkland Pictures has sold Second World War action drama Allies to a raft of international territories, including Japan (New Select), South Korea (Scene & Sound), Middle East (Cinescape) and Poland (Monolith).

Spotlight shines on Franco’s Yosemite

BY JEREMY KAY

Spotlight Pictures has unveiled five titles on its slate led by James Franco starrer Yosemite. The coming-of-age drama also stars Henry Hopper. Franco’s Rabbit Bandini Productions produced its fourth collaboration with Spotlight.

Chinese family animation Polar Adventure from Ori Animation

centres on a penguin who returns home to the South Pole in search of his missing grandfather. The film is scheduled to open this summer in China and Spotlight is working on the English-language dub.

Rom-com Ely And Naomi’s No Kiss List stars Victoria Justice in the tale of a college freshman in love with her gay friend.

UK comedy Chicklit with John Hurt, Christian McKay and Dakota Blue Richards is about small-town men who attempt to raise money to save their local pub by writing a Fifty Shades-style erotic novel.

The roster also includes David Cross’s drama Hits starring Michael Cera, Amy Sedaris and Julia Stiles.

Galaxy Studios ties up Elfman trio

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Wilfried Van Baelen’s Belgiumbased post-production outfit Galaxy Studios has finalised a three-film deal with director Richard Elfman (Modern Vampires).

The deal will see Elfman working with Van Baelen’s Auro Tech-

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nologies, using new immersive sound format Auro-3D on all three of the films.

Richard Elfman’s first film under the Galaxy/Auro-3D deal will be a sequel to his cult hit, the musical fantasy Forbidden Zone.

Composer Danny Elfman and

actress Jenna Elfman are both attached to Forbidden Zone 2, with further names to be announced.

The Auro-3D format is on display at the festival in a theatre specially constructed next to the Auro offices and lounge on the Hotel Majestic Plage.

Forum set for Venice, London

BY MARTIN BLANEY

As the European Commission readies its second European Film Forum in Cannes tomorrow, plans are afoot to take the summit to the film festivals in Venice, San Sebastian, London and Tallinn.

The forum’s edition in Tallinn will be held during the Black Nights Film Festival’s Industry@ Tallinn event (November 16-20), addressing issues such as distribution channels and audience development.

Latvia boosts film funds Latvia has raised its cash rebate levels and added $8.5m (€7.5m) in funding for film. Details of the boost were revealed in Cannes.

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Friends in high places Billionaire financiers are now building up sophisticated movie businesses rather than simply backing projects that take their fancy. Geoffrey Macnab reports from the Winston Baker Film Finance Forum

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illionaires in the film business are given a bad rap. That was the consensus from a panel with the provocative title, ‘Is It Real Movie Money Or Just Another Big Yacht Passing?’, at the sixth Annual Winston Baker Film Finance Forum on Friday afternoon in Cannes.

A high-level panel including Micah Green, co-head of the Film Finance and Sales Group at CAA, Mark Hutchison, partner at NKSFB, and Bill Lischak, co-president of OddLot Entertainment, pointed to the transformative role played by high-net-worth individuals in today’s film industry. “Within the business there are some very prominent, very well-informed billionaire financiers and companies backed by billionaire financiers, who are not only very active and even central to the movie business right now, but better positioned to become part of a sustainable future infrastructure of the movie business,” suggested Green.

The CAA executive pointed to a change: a decade ago, high-net-worth individuals were drawn to financing films “largely” out of “personal interest and passion”, using their wealth to “help make movies that were of interest to them”.

Now, these individuals are “building up proper movie businesses” with “pretty sophisticated” enterprises and strategies for building and maintaining ongoing slates of production.

Megan Ellison at Annapurna, Sidney Kimmel at SKE, Steven Rales at Indian Paintbrush, Bill Pohlad at River Road, Teddy Schwarzman at Black Bear, Tommy Thompson at Cross Creek, Molly Smith at Black Label, Fred Smith at Alcon and Jeff Skoll at Participant were a few of the names mentioned who have helped to produce and finance a host of recent Oscar winners. Their filmographies encompass such films as Whiplash, 12 Years A Slave, The Imitation Game, Foxcatcher, Brokeback Mountain, The Wolf Of Wall Street, Black Swan and The Grand Budapest Hotel among many others.

“It is really impressive when you think those films wouldn’t have happened without the people and the companies that were involved,” said OddLot’s Lischak. At a time when the studios have gravitated to the tentpoles, this new wave of financiers has moved into the space they vacated. “And very few of them own yachts!”

“Years and years ago, it was German tax

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Lone Scherfig (centre) and Ariel Vromen (right)

The panel ‘Is It Real Movie Money Or Just Another Big Yacht Passing?’

funds or UK tax funds or insurance companies,” Lischak said of where the backing for major independent film-makers used to be found. Now, these new financiers are bringing “rigour” and a sense of strategy to their film-making activities. There may still be dilettante billionaires, dipping their toes into the business, but there are also many serious new players.

Another significant change is that these financiers are tending to surround themselves with experienced management teams.

They don’t just rush into the business, staffing up with friends and associates from outside the business, and committing to films without assessing their international value.

The right partners Micah Green mentioned another pothole into which the less astute new financiers sometimes fall. They will hire a president of production or a partner whose reputation doesn’t necessarily bear up to scrutiny: “Someone who has not been successfully putting movies together,” someone who is out looking for work and meets the “right individual” and then “attaches themselves like a barnacle” to their patron.

At an earlier session, ‘View From The Director’s Chair: Banking on Content vs

‘As a producer, make sure the director cares’ Ariel Vromen, film-maker

Talent’, The Iceman director Ariel Vromen (now in post-production on Criminal starring Kevin Costner) had some intriguing insights on what it has been like working with Avi Lerner, the celebrated producer and founder of Nu Image and Millennium. As Vromen joked, Lerner loves movies… and he also loves money, “and he loves to keep it”.

“Every time you ask him for more, you take it away from his pocket,” the director said.

“Avi’s a lovely guy but their mechanism of making movies is that they package a film and sell it so they are already in profit.”

However, Vromen also told a packed audience in the Carlton Hotel that Lerner was about more than action movies and explosions. The Nu Image boss wrong-footed the director at a lunch by saying he wanted a film that took audiences by the “throat” and made them “cry”. Vromen added that working on post-production is the most “fragile” time in making a movie. “Working with a guy like Avi is a blessing,” he said, drawing a contrast with certain other producers. “If all they care about is the prestige… they will go to war with you no matter what.”

From the director’s point of view, Vromen said: “Life stops when you are making films.

You don’t even know what is going on out there.” That is why producer-director relations are so important. “You’ve got to be grateful and humble because they give you the opportunity to be there,” he said of the debt directors owe their producers.

“I really don’t see producers as enemies at all,” said Lone Scherfig, the Danish director of An Education. She added that directors should “choose their battles” and that when they work well with their producers, they will always “make each other better”.

The worst that can happen, the two directors suggested, was for a director to stop caring about a project. “This is when you lose. As a producer, make sure the director s cares,” Vromen said. ■

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At 6.00am, Rodrigo Teixeira is already on the phone talking with Europe. At midnight, the founder and chief executive of Brazil’s RT Features is still awake to answer the e-mails from Los Angeles.

“Despite living in Sao Paulo, I am crossing multiple time zones on a regular basis,’’ says Teixeira, the most successful Brazilian producer working abroad today.

His most recent international film is Gaspar Noé’s Love, pro-

duced alongside Wild Bunch and Rectangle Productions. The filmmaker promises a sexually charged love story between a guy and two girls. “Cannes has the power to make or break a movie.

But it is the perfect showcase for a film like this,” says Teixeira. “Gaspar is an artist with a strong and bold vision, exactly the kind of director I want to work with.”

The film premieres on Wednesday in Midnight Screenings.

Teixeira’s credits also include

Cannes gets ready to give Cannes is mostly about receiving — prizes, free glasses of rosé — but sometimes it’s also about giving.

Benicio del Toro will host the Hollywood Domino VIP reception tonight, benefiting Action Against Hunger and Nepal Emergency Response.

Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics is the event chair for the annual Generous People Ball at the Carlton on Monday night, to benefit The Heart Fund.

And amfAR will hold its annual glamorous fundraiser, with event chairs including Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein, on Thursday at the Hotel du Cap.

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South Korean film director Sungbok ‘Myron’ Jung and Auro-3D founder Wilfried Van Baelen brought their high-flying 4K and 3D spectacle Odysseo 3D by Cavalia to the Marché on Thursday.

The all-immersive experience centres around an ambitious live show that marries equestrian arts and daring acrobatic performances. On tour primarily in the US and Canada since 2011, Jung

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recent Sundance award winner The Witch, Night Moves and Love Is Strange. He also worked with Noah Baumbach on Mistress America and Frances Ha. “We are represented by the same agency in the US, which puts us in contact for our similar artistic sensibility,” he says.

Thanks to Frances Ha, Teixeira caught the attention of Martin Scorsese, who invited him to form a partnership to produce five lowbudget films made by emerging directors worldwide. “For being so passionate about movies, Scorsese tested my cinema knowledge during our first meeting, in his house, in New York. He asked me about Jean Renoir and Glauber Rocha,’’ he recalls.

Teixeira will also produce James Gray’s To The Stars, a sci-fi thriller that takes place in the near future and follows a group of astronauts who have to bring a renegade colleague back to Earth.

Gray has just finished writing the script and the next step is to complete financing and start casting.

Teixeira also develops local films, including RT’s Drained, Heleno and The Silver Cliff. “Life gets much crazier producing locally and internationally, but that’s the way I like it,” he says.

opted for a 4K 3D capture to best convey its grandeur and mesmerising visuals.

“The show deserves more than conventional filming. I wanted it to also have a 3D sound experience where audiences literally feel as if they are in the venue with the artists,” said Jung.

Through a kismet meeting in Los Angeles, Jung was introduced to Van Baelen, who helped him transform the sound from 5.1 to the multi-layered 3D set-up that includes sound above, below and directly overhead.

“Auro-3D takes sound to another level. You can easily convert from a 5.1 mix, or you can arrange with an ample amount of microphones during production,” explained Belgium-based Van Baelen.

“When done correctly, you can hear ambiences and reflections you can’t imagine.”

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Magnus von Horn left his native Sweden to attend Lodz Film School. The Warsaw-based director now comes to Directors’ Fortnight with his Sweden-set debut feature The Here After, about a teenage boy who gets out of a juvenile detention centre after committing a murder but finds it hard to be accepted by his community. TrustNordisk handles sales. The film premieres on Thursday.

What surprised you about making your first feature?

I could never imagine it would take such a long time. I don’t think I’ve learnt so much on any other project, except maybe my daughter being born.

What brought you to Poland?

I knew I wanted to study film directing — I’d been working on film sets in Sweden. I heard the Polish [Lodz] Film School was the best. It was an exciting adventure — I had to learn the language. I was young at the time, and I felt the challenge was the biggest I could give myself.

Is it important that this film is set in a small town?

It’s a place where people know each other. He commits a horrible crime aged 15, and comes back at 17, but does society give him a second chance?

How did you and your DoP Lukasz Zal (Ida) prepare?

With Lukasz, we made a ‘Bible’, like a ‘10 Commandments’ for the film: one was that the camera is a cat and not a dog. If you’re fighting in a kitchen, a dog will run around and try to engage; the cat will be on a windowsill, watching.

What stories are you drawn to?

Young people unable to analyse what they are going through, in extreme situations. And the concept of evil. I’m interested in extreme emotions and extreme situations.

What’s next?

Next I have one film in Sweden and one in Poland. One is going to be very plot-driven, and the other is not very plot-driven at all.

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The Sea Of Trees Reviewed by Charles Gant Mystical mood piece, marital melodrama, mismatched buddy tale and extreme-survival genre piece make for an uneasy mix in The Sea Of Trees, the latest Cannes Competition entry from former Palme d’Or winner (Elephant) Gus Vant Sant. Starring Matthew McConaughey as an American who travels to Japan to commit suicide in the picturesque Aokigahara forest in the foothills of Mount Fuji, this will likely struggle to engage the middlebrow cinema-goers who might most appreciate it, especially given its rather gloomy-sounding premise. Chris Sparling’s 2013 Black List script clearly impressed its admirers on the page, but pulling off the film’s tonal shifts was always going to be a challenge.

In the absence of any familiar source material to seed audience interest, international distributors will need critical support and awards heat, both of which look to be in short supply — at least judging by the reaction at its Cannes premiere (see Jury Grid, page 72).

The film begins with an evidently distracted McConaughey — later revealed to be maths professor Arthur Brennan — driving to the airport to board a flight to Tokyo. He has not bought a return ticket, for reasons that soon become all

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COMPETITION US. 2015. 110mins Director Gus Van Sant Production companies Netter Productions, Waypoint Entertainment, Bloom International sales Bloom, bmcphee@ bloom-media.com Producers Gil Netter, Ken Kao, Kevin Halloran, F Gary Gray, Brian Dobbins, Allen Fischer, Chris Sparling Screenplay Chris Sparling Cinematography Kasper Tuxen Editor Pietro Scalia Production design Alex DiGerlando Music Mason Bates Main cast Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe

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too apparent. “The life you were given by your parents is precious,” cautions a sign at the entrance to a lush forest, into which Arthur stumbles. He has already begun to chug down the contents of a bottle of pills when his attention is caught by a bloodied salaryman (Ken Watanabe), who is trying to find his way back through the trees. He has been in the woods for two days, he tells Arthur, revealing his slashed wrists, but now wishes to rejoin his wife and daughter.

A series of flashbacks hint at the reasons for Arthur’s suicidal despair, or at least appear to do so: in fact, Sparling’s sensitive-seeming, increasingly manipulative screenplay is not above brazen miscues in its attempt to inject fresh twists into the back story. What is clear is that the marriage between Arthur and his realtor wife Joan (Naomi Watts) has spiralled over recent years into mutual dislike.

More hopeful is the present drama, as Arthur forgets his own quest and becomes focused on the need to help this stranger, who gives his name as Takumi Nakamura. But the Aokigahara forest, an area that is revealed to host around 100 suicides every year, is more perilous than it appears: one man plummets over a rock face, while a rainstorm unleashes a torrent that nearly drowns them. (These scenes suggest a more genre-oriented treatment for this story, more akin to Sparling’s Buried.) The perils stack up when a compass fails to function because of the iron content in the volcanic Fuji rock.

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The setting — in fact mostly filmed in various state parks in Massachusetts — certainly provides plenty of cinematic scope for Van Sant and director of photography Kasper Tuxen, taking advantage of dappled sunshine and eerie moonlight. But the poetic musings of the mysterious Takumi (“The forest has a reason for keeping us...”), presented largely as a battle of ideas with western rationalist Arthur, fail to bring the desired emotional depth while also straying into eastern-mystic cliché. As a result, Mason Bates’ busy, progressively more surging score is left exposed as one more layer of manipulation.

McConaughey, cast shortly before his early 2014 Dallas Buyers Club awards sweep, holds up his end of the bargain as Arthur, who successfully hits a multitude of notes in the increasingly eventful back story while also completing a fairly generous arc on his Japanese odyssey.

Watanabe has the trickier role, starved of much in the way of character development for a reason that eventually becomes apparent. This is one of the protracted ending’s many reveals that collectively tie up too many carefully seeded story points. As all the dots join in a pattern that strives for deeper meaning, the just toodamned-cute The Sea Of Trees becomes undone by a surfeit of contrived ingenuity.

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Amy Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy tells the sad and, it would appear, inevitably tragic story of the late jazz singer Amy Winehouse framed entirely through archive footage (much in the same style as Senna, which was made by the same team). Scores of interviews provide a voiceover narration that, combined with extensive archive footage, cumulatively rescue Winehouse from her sorry fate as a paparazzi footnote: dead at 27 from alcohol poisoning after a long, public battle with drug addiction, devoured by the media and her own demons.

No talking heads detract from Amy’s story throughout the film’s 123-minute running time, although voiceover interviews provide narration and colour. Kapadia shines some love on Winehouse, and a good deal of light into what happened to the tiny Jewish girl from Southgate with the pure jazz voice. It’s uneasy viewing.

Premiering as a special screening at Cannes, Amy can look forward to healthy returns theatrically in the UK; international interest should also be strong, with TV and VoD very healthy in all markets. Awards attention is possible. Amy is the product of a media age, with seemingly endless footage of varying quality (mobile phones included) available for an enormous research and editing task. The picture it paints

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS UK. 2015. 123mins Director Asif Kapadia Production company On The Corner Film, International sales Cornerstone Films, office@ cornerstonefilm.com Producer James Gay-Rees Executive producers David Joseph, Adam Barker Editor Chris King Music Antonio Pinto Archive producer Paul Bell Featuring Blake Fielder, Andrew Morris, Darcus Beese, Janis Winehouse, Juliette Ashby, Mark Ronson, Mitch Winehouse, Nick Gatfield, Pete Doherty, Salaam Remi, Tony Bennett

is often shocking — how completely Winehouse unravelled and the squalor of her addiction, although perhaps the biggest surprise is how she survived for so long in that condition.

Also alarming is the extent of the conflicted roles played by Amy’s manager and family, in particular her father, who has already protested loudly to the British media.

Kapadia has sourced considerable, previously unseen private footage from the singer’s family and friends (Amy was fully financed by Universal Music Group, parent company of her label Island Records).

The resulting film clearly shows Winehouse as she once was — mouthy, challenging and endowed with a vast, natural talent. Deeply troubled, she is revealed to have suffered from depression and bulimia throughout her short life. She was also possessed by a prodigious appetite for hard drugs, booze and the wrong kind of man.

Kapadia and his team interviewed more than 100 people in their endeavour, including her father Mitch and elusive ex-husband Blake Fielder, both enablers and uneasy testifiers.

Whatever Mitch Winehouse might claim, though, Kapadia treads lightly over Amy’s early years when she was already being treated for mental health issues and began to flirt with the bulimia that also hastened her death (an illness her parents treated with surprising indiffer-

ence). She is shown leaving home at 16 already intent on “smoking weed all day”.

Amy was clearly a mammoth task and a partnership between Kapadia, his editor Chris King and producer James Gay-Rees, with Antonio Pinto providing a sympathetic score. It seems as if they all fell a little in love with Winehouse along the way, and encourage the viewer to do the same. It’s hard not to. Amy is a cautionary tale — she was the Janis Joplin of our age; and as it’s the media age, we get to see the full price of fame this time as a fragile talent self-combusts. It’s not a pretty picture.

ited mother Fania (Portman). At first, Tale seems to be more of a personal history of the formation of Israel, as the boy’s parents are deeply invested in a free Jewish state — especially Fania, whose family fled anti-Semitism in Poland when she was a girl. But, slowly, the story shifts its focus toward Fania’s growing unhappiness, as she becomes detached and melancholy.

Filmed with a nostalgic, intimate eye by cinematographer Slawomir Idziak, Tale has an abiding tastefulness that is a double-edged sword for Portman. She elicits refined performances from her cast and there is a delicate tenor to the events depicted. But the abundance of restraint can leave the movie feeling like it is encased in amber, Portman being so respectful of the source material that the story never quite breathes. That said, Tale exhibits a moment-tomoment beauty that is affecting, presenting an ordinary Jewish family who just happen to be alive during one of the first of many tumultuous periods in Israel’s history.

Intriguingly, Tale then shifts direction, devoting its second half to Fania’s gradual spiritual and physical deterioration. When we first meet her, she is a lively young woman entertaining Amos with fictional tales and proverbs, opening

the boy up to literature and poetry. (It is intimated that it is Oz’s mother who made him the writer he became.) But her gratitude and excitement for Israel’s independence proves shortlived, as Fania finds herself drifting deeper into a depression she cannot quite articulate.

This is one of Portman’s warmest, saddest performances, but it is also surprisingly superficial. To be sure, Fania is meant to be an enigmatic figure — even her husband, who loves her dearly, does not quite understand her — but the character’s slow-motion withdrawal from the world lacks the heartbreak it deserves.

A Tale Of Love And Darkness Reviewed by Tim Grierson A minor-key drama about a mother whose poetic soul has a profound effect on her son, A Tale Of Love And Darkness is very much like its matriarch: lovely, mysterious but also a bit insular and ephemeral. First-time feature director Natalie Portman has taken on a considerable challenge with this adaptation of Amos Oz’s memoir of his upbringing in Israel and the sad decline of his mother, and she’s not wholly successful in the endeavour.

A Tale Of Love And Darkness boasts Portman’s drawing power — she’s not just the director and screenwriter but also the film’s star — as well as the popularity of the Oz novel upon which the movie is based. Because Tale is in Hebrew, the movie could face obstacles in the US, where subtitled films rarely become breakout hits. The betting is that Portman’s muted passion project will remain a niche theatrical performer that will fit comfortably on VoD and home-video platforms.

Told in flashback by Amos as an older man, A Tale Of Love And Darkness starts in 1945 as the 10-year-old boy (Amir Tessler) grows up in a happy Jewish home in Jerusalem with bookish father Arieh (Gilad Kahana) and free-spir-

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SPECIAL SCREENING Isr. 2015. 98mins Director Natalie Portman Production companies Movieplus Productions, Ram Bergman Productions International sales Voltage Pictures, allison@ voltagepictures.com Producers Ram Bergman, David Mandil Screenplay Natalie Portman, based on the novel by Amos Oz Cinematography Slawomir Idziak Editor Andrew Mondshein Production design Arad Sawat Music Nicholas Britell Main cast Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler

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Rams Reviewed by Allan Hunter The reconciliation of long-estranged brothers is hard won and tenderly felt in Rams (Hrutar), an accomplished, original work from Summerland (2010) director Grimur Hakonarson. Filled with wintry melancholy and captivating charm, it is a smaller festival delight that should also have commercial legs. Recent titles Of Horses And Men, Life In A Fishbowl and the Tribeca winner Virgin Mountain have shown there is an appetite for Icelandic cinema, and the humour and humanity in Rams should ensure it reaches an international arthouse audience.

Hakonarson’s background in documentaries is felt in a pitch-perfect evocation of an isolated rural community largely populated by men in Santa Claus beards and baggy, well-worn woolly jumpers. Cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grovlen captures images of rugged, snow-covered landscapes and ferocious weather conditions to emphasise this is no country for the faint-hearted. It is a lonely life for the stoical Gummi (Sigurdur Sigurjonsson) even though his brother Kiddi (Theodor Juliusson) shares their family land and lives in a neighbouring farmhouse. The two men have not spoken in 40 years and Gummi considers his flock of sheep more like members of his family than is his brother. Any communication between the two men takes the form of hand-

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written messages carried by a trusty sheepdog.

The shadow that Kiddi casts over Gummi’s existence is economically conveyed during a ram judging contest. Gummi’s evident delight at taking second place disappears when Kiddi is announced the winner by half a point. Sigurjonsson seems to visibly deflate at the news.

The discovery of a lethal disease in the flock means that all the sheep must be slaughtered.

Compensation will be paid, but for many it is the last blow in their struggle to survive. Clandestine moves to keep the flock alive might be the only thing that will force the brothers to finally set aside their differences.

Rams may sound bleak and unforgiving but it has a generous spirit and wit that make it entirely accessible. Gummi’s scheme to ensure the survival of the flock has elements of Ealing comedy, but it is the deadpan sensibility of a Kaurismaki or a Bent Hamer that percolates

through the film in both visual gags and the general tone. When Kiddi is found dead drunk in freezing conditions yet again, the weary Gummi merely scoops him up in a tractor and drops him outside the nearest hospital.

The film’s warmth comes in the affectionate, believable relationship Gummi has with his sheep and in scenes like a solitary Christmas supper that he prepares by glowing candlelight in a spiffy Sunday-best jumper.

There is abundant skill in the performances, with Sigurjonsson bringing the lightest of touches to his portrayal of Gummi as a decent, gentle soul whose inner life is revealed in a modest frown, the heartbreak in his eyes at the death of his sheep or the generous hug he bestows on a prize ram.

A lovely, lilting accordion score from Atli Orvarsson adds considerably to the film’s lugubrious charm.

She is also the mistress of a mob boss, so when detective Jung comes investigating, he is approached by someone from this gang (aka Jay Investments) and asked to treat the case as a feud. Jung tries to resist any underhand dealings.

In order to find Joon-gil, the detective gets closer to Hye-kyung and works undercover at her bar. Unsurprisingly, as they spend more time together, they develop feelings for one another.

Oh’s attempt to bridge two genres is both a strength and a weakness. On the one hand, the film’s rich and stylishly dark tone is reminiscent of Korean noirish thrillers which, combined with the melodramatic aspects of the story, delivers something quite unique. On the other hand, with little in the way of suspense, The Shameless essentially becomes a visually enticing but drawn-out hardboiled romance.

The film reveals more as the narrative progresses but, unlike Kilimanjaro, which remained engaging throughout due to its compelling premise of a detective returning to his home town where he is mistaken for his dead twin, the audience here isn’t really looking for answers. The film establishes early on who the suspect is, and why, and it’s not especially difficult for Jung to track him down.

Jeon Do-yeon is billed as the main lead, perhaps for marketing purposes as it is Kim Namgil (The Pirates) who takes centre stage, and the detective is one of his strongest performances to date. Jeon, as ever, embraces her challenging role with skill, but it probably won’t go down as her most memorable performance.

The Shameless Reviewed by Jason Bechervaise South Korean director Oh Seung-uk made his debut in 2000 with the well-received but littleseen crime drama Kilimanjaro and, 15 years later, he returns with a blend of film noir and gritty melodrama in The Shameless (Mu-RoeHan). Starring Jeon Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine) as a bar hostess and girlfriend of a wanted killer, this is absorbing for the most part, but unable to produce the spark of Oh’s impressive debut.

A Cannes world premiere combined with Jeon Do-yeon’s star-power may give The Shameless the push it needs on the international stage but with little in the way of substance or strong pacing it may struggle at home when it hits screens in Korea on May 27, unless the Cannes publicity can help it attract a dedicated following.

The film starts off strongly in a stylised sequence set in an urban slum surrounded by modern construction where detective Jung Jaegon (Kim Nam-gil) is called to a crime scene. A man named Hwang has been found dead, and it soon becomes apparent the suspect the police are hunting for is Park Joon-gil (Park Sung-woong).

Joon-gil is in a relationship with a woman called Hye-kyung (Jeon Do-yeon) who works at a shady bar in order to repay her rising debts.

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Embrace Of The Serpent Reviewed by Tim Grierson The sublime and the insane make engaging travel companions in Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo De La Serpiente), which traces the journey of two different scientists down the Amazon, their destination just as rewarding as the arduous road to get there. Colombian director Ciro Guerra (The Wind Journeys) has some familiar things to say about respecting the natural world and not overvaluing technological advancement, but this widescreen black-andwhite odyssey, which cuts between two time periods, slowly and satisfyingly transitions from realism to the fantastical, even the cosmic.

Screening in Directors’ Fortnight, Embrace Of The Serpent looks to be a favourite on the festival circuit, whereas theatrical prospects may be a far trickier proposition. With no stars, a period time setting and filmed in black and white, this defiantly arthouse offering will need glowing reviews to make commercial headway.

That said, Embrace’s increasingly wacked-out tenor might attract genre crowds, who could embrace the film’s brand of stoned strangeness.

The movie takes inspiration from two men, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes who, separately, travelled down the Amazon in the early 20th century looking for information about the primitive cultures that lived there. That factual jumping-off point

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allows Guerra to construct an almost mythical tale that has more than a passing resemblance to Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness — or, at the very least, Francis Ford Coppola’s audacious adaptation, Apocalypse Now. In Embrace, Theo (Borgman’s Jan Bijvoet) travels with Amazonian shaman Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) by boat in search of a fabled plant with healing properties, while 40 years later Evan (Brionne Davis) takes the same path with an older Karamakate (Antonio Bolivar), hoping to complete Theo’s research.

Judged by its opening reels, Embrace seems to be a gorgeous-looking but rote travelogue in which supposedly enlightened white westerners discover how little they understand about nature’s elemental powers. (Cinematographer David Gallego gives the locations an otherworldly quality, the black-and-white not just suggesting the past but, more specifically, a land out of time.) But Embrace’s somewhat pedestrian opening is a bit of a feint, luring us into the expectation of one kind of story when, in fact, Guerra plans to go much darker and more philosophical than we imagine.

In keeping with the film’s folktale-like simplicity, the performances are unadorned, bordering on stoic. Bijvoet plays Theo as a dedicated scientist who is about to realise his years of painstaking research can’t prepare him for what the jungle has in store. However, he’s

not a cartoon villain — an easy fill-in for the stereotypical Conquering White Man — and neither is Evan, who Davis portrays with sympathy while hinting at the man’s overconfidence in his own intellect.

It would be unfair to reveal Embrace’s surprises, but let it be said that everything from cannibalism to deranged religious cults are in the offing for Theo and Evan, and the deeper these men venture into the Amazon, the less logic has a place in their journeys. The going can be a bit slow at first, but the interweaving narratives, which comment on (and sometimes echo) each other, begin to develop a hypnotic grandeur. It’s a hell of a trip.

The film’s first episode shows two Hindus, Jugal (Kanwaljit Singh) and Raj (Harnek Aulakh), in a hurry to reach the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, who force their way onto a freight train the army has ordered to travel empty and find themselves in the company of an irate guard and several more illegal passengers.

In a second bridge episode that flashes back in time five months to June 1984, Jugal and his wife and child are lost at night in the Punjabi countryside. They reach the house of a villager, Joginder (Suvinder Vikky), who offers his hospitality and then puts them on the right road.

Then, in the film’s main section, Joginder and his family are visited at night by the village’s Sikh terrorist cell who first beat them up, and then insist they will kill the family dog that is drawing the attention of the military with its incessant barking.

The next day, the military arrive. They turn the house upside down, suspecting guerilla fighters are hidden there. Both sides treat Joginder and his family with the same brutal authority awarded to people who carry guns.

The finale takes the plot back into the train chugging on its way to Amritsar, with the guard asking his unwanted passengers to leave before anyone notices them.

While the film’s moral code is fairly obvious, Singh’s directorial choices are often remarkably effective, whether in the camera angles or the long travelling shots, the nervous tension and insecurity transmitted via his actors’ powerfully expressive faces. The empty fields of the Punjab seem threatening despite their innocent appearance (a nod to Hitchcock’s North By Northwest).

Unfortunately, the pace inflicted on the above — with prolonged sequences and themes repetitively overstated — risks alienating viewers to the point where 30 minutes less would be so much more.

The Fourth Direction Reviewed by Dan Fainaru More remarkable for its imaginative direction and colourful photography than for the political message it attempts to deliver, Gurvinder Singh’s second feature The Fourth Direction (Chauthi Koot) combines two unrelated stories in an attempt to recreate the fear, suspicion and paranoia generated by the Punjab insurgency in the early 1980s, which culminated in the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

Singh doesn’t try to explain the background to the confrontation between Punjabi militants and the Indian government, focusing on the climate they created rather than the events that took place. The Fourth Direction points out the real victims of the conflict were not just the thousands shot on both sides, but the locals caught up in the fighting. Only wanting to be left alone, they were alternately terrorised by both the forces of law and order and the rebels fighting them. As such, Singh’s message is easily applied to present-day conflicts more familiar to contemporary audiences, from Boko Haram to Isis. This gives The Fourth Direction the potential to sit comfortably on western arthouse screens — but not before something is done about its self-indulgent pace.

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by Alante Kavaité (Lithuania, France, The Netherlands)

Name In The Dark, 2013

by Agne Marcinkeviciute (Lithuania) Loss, 2008

by Maris Martinsons (Lithuania, Ireland) Whisper Of Sin, 2007

by Algimantas Puipa (Lithuania) co-producer

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by Rocco Papaleo (Italy) Basilicata Coast To Coast, 2010

by Rocco Papaleo (Italy) Cover Boy, 2007

by Carmine Amoroso (Italy)

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ARTURO PAGLIA Italy selected films Correspondence, in production

by Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) First Light, in postproduction

by Vincenzo Marra (Italy) The Best Offer, 2013

by Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy)

JULIETTE BONASS Ireland selected films The Gee Gee’s, in development

by David Kerr (Ireland) A Date For Mad Mary, in postproduction

by Darren Thornton (Ireland)

Glassland, 2014

by Gerard Barrett (Ireland) Get Up And Go, 2013

by Brendan Grant (Ireland) Noreen, 2010

by Domhnall Gleeson (Ireland) short

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JAN MACOLA Czech Republic selected films Il Boemo, in development

by Petr Vaclav (Czech Republic) Normal Autistic Film, in production

by Miroslav Janek (Czech Republic) documentary Into The North, in postproduction

by Natasha Dudinski (Czech Republic) documentary

We Are Never Alone, in postproduction

by Petr Vaclav (Czech Republic) Confession Of The Vanished, 2015

by Petr Vaclav (Czech Republic, France) documentary The Way Out, 2014

by Petr Vaclav (Czech Republic, France)

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by K. Olafsdottir & H. Gunnsteinsdottir (Iceland) doc.

The Wall, in postproduction

by David Kinsella (Norway, Iceland, Northern Ireland) doc.

Trend Beacons, 2014

by Thorkell Hardarson & Orn Marino Arnarson (Iceland, The Netherlands) documentary Of Good Report, 2013

by Jahmil X. T. Qubeka (South Africa, Iceland) ASH, 2013

by Herbert Sveinbjornsson (Iceland) documentary

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by Teemu Nikki (Finland) The Lie, in development

by Paavo Westerberg (Finland) The Unknown Soldier, in development

by Aku Louhimies (Finland)

Uncle Vanya, in development

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by Mikko Kuparinen (Finland) Distractions, 2015

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by Mirjana Karanovic (Serbia, Bosnia a. Herzegovina, Croatia) Perseverance, in postproduction

by Miha Knific (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia) co-producer

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by Darko Lungulov (Serbia, Germany, Macedonia, Croatia) In The Dark, 2014

by Goran Stankovic (Serbia, USA) documentary Battery Man, 2012

by Dusan Saponja & Dusan Cavic (Serbia, Sweden, Denmark) documentary

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Love At First Fight, 2014

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by Ruben Östlund (Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden) co-producer

Not At Home, 2013

by Shahrbanoo Sadat & Katja Adomeit (Denmark, Germany, Afganistan) documentary Pine Ridge, 2013

by Anna Eborn (Denmark) documentary The Weight Of Elephants, 2013

by Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark)

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by Ivan Grgolett (Slovenia, Italy, Argentina) co-producer Fight For, 2014

by Siniša Gacic (Slovenia)

* part one on May 16 Svetozar Ristovski (FYR of Macedonia), Joana Ferreira (Portugal), Ingmar Trost (Germany), Ellen Havenith (The Netherlands), Kjetil Omberg (Norway), Aline Schmid (Switzerland), Mariusz Włodarski (Poland), Montse Triola (Spain), Marek Urban (Slovak Republic), Annika Rogell (Sweden) Participating EFP members: Czech Film Center, Danish Film Institute, EYE International/The Netherlands, Film Center Serbia, Finnish Film Foundation, German Films, ICA I. P./Portugal, ICAA/Spain, Icelandic Film Centre, Irish Film Board, Istituto Luce-Cinecittà/Italy, Lithuanian Film Centre, Macedonian Film Agency, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Slovak Film Institute, Slovenian Film Centre, Swedish Film Institute, Swiss Films, Unifrance films EFP is supported by:

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FEATURE POLAND

Poland’s power generation Films such as Oscar winner Ida, Berlinale success Body and Directors’ Fortnight title The Here After are putting the new generation of Polish film-makers firmly on the international stage. Martin Blaney reports

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am positive about the future of Polish cinema,” says leading local filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, pointing to the “incredible success story” of the Polish Film Institute, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

The international acclaim accorded to Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida — which won the Oscar for best foreign language film as well as five European Film Awards and the European Parliament’s LUX Film Prize — and the Berlinale selection of Malgorzata Szumowska’s Body, have instilled a renewed confidence in the Polish film community.

“When Polish film-makers see these films are finding their audiences and travelling the world, it gives them that important push,” Holland observes.

“The most positive change in the 10 years since the Polish Film Institute started work is that of the maturing tastes of the public. Beforehand, the most popular films were either rather simple romantic comedies or adaptations of great literary classics. But now young people are coming to see films about serious contemporary issues. I call it the ‘Cinema of the Middle’ because it is accessible to audiences, tries to tell stories in an attractive way and doesn’t shy away from serious subjects.”

Significantly, the Polish industry has advanced so that local producers such as Ida’s Ewa Puszczynska are considered reliable international partners. Marie Noelle’s Maria Sklodowska-Curie (working title) is shooting in Poland with Pokromski Studio on board as local partner.

Poland is increasingly being discovered by foreign producers as an attractive shooting location, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Tomasz Dabrowski and his team at the Polish Film Commission. At the end of 2014 Steven Spielberg travelled to Wroclaw to film scenes for his Cold War espionage film Bridge Of Spies, while French film-maker Anne Fontaine’s Agnus Dei recruited 50 of its 60-strong crew locally.

Among the emerging generation of local film-makers, the industry is excited about the Swedish-born Lodz Film School graduate Magnus von Horn, who the industry is claiming as its own, as well as Grzegorz Jaroszuk, Kuba Czekaj s and Jan P Matuszynski. ■

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The Here After Dir Magnus von Horn The Here After, which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight, is about a 17-yearold boy released from prison after serving time for killing his girlfriend. Screen Future Leader Mariusz Wlodarski first met the Swedish-born von Horn when they were both studying at Lodz Film School. Their latest collaboration features the work of another fellow student, cinematographer Lukasz Zal, who also shot Ida for Pawel Pawlikowski.

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Waves Dir Grzegorz Zariczny Zariczny’s feature debut Waves (Fale) (Fale) is a (Fale coming-of-age tale about a young woman

training to become a hairdresser in Nowa Huta. The director’s short The Whistle was a prize-winner at Sundance in 2013.

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The debut narrative feature by documentary film-maker Kasperski is based on a true story about a father and his two sons travelling to the Bieszczady Mountains in southeast Poland to help resolve a family tragedy. Oscar and European Film Awards-nominated director of photography Lukasz Zal is behind the camera.

Demon Dir Marcin Wrona The new film from the director of The Christening is a horror thriller based on a play by Piotr Nowicki. It stars Israeli actor Itay Tiran, best known to international audiences for his role in Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon Lebanon.

Demon is being compared to The Orphanage and The Others Others.

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The Erlprince Dir Kuba Czekaj This feature debut follows a gifted 14-year-old (Stanislaw Cywka) who is studying physics at university. The lives of the boy and his overbearing mother change when a man enters the picture.

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FEATURE FRANCE FOCUS

On good authority French producers are rising to the challenges in the changing landscape of finance and production.

Melanie Goodfellow meets some of the most enterprising players Alain Attal Les Productions Du Trésor In Cannes with…

Maïwenn’s Palme d’Or contender Mon Roi and Cowboys, the debut feature of long-time Jacques Audiard collaborator Thomas Bidegain, which is screening in Directors’ Fortnight.

Behind the scenes “The work of an artist is complicated,” says Attal, when quizzed about producing Maïwenn’s passionate, destructive love story Mon Roi, their second collaboration after Polisse, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2011.

“First of all, you’ve got to leave one adventure behind,” he says. “But as the boat draws to the quay it sometimes takes longer to get off than you expect, especially if you’ve been enjoying the journey.

Then you’ve got to be in the right frame of mind to set off on a new adventure.”

Philosophical, supportive and pragmatic, Attal acted as a sounding board for Maïwenn’s early ideas, accompanied the writing of a first rough draft and brought in Of Gods And Men and Haute

Mon Roi

Cuisine co-writer Etienne Comar to assist in the final screenplay. “Maïwenn is very intuitive while Etienne is more structured,” says Attal. “I put them together and crossed my fingers.”

In the backdrop, financing the film was tough according to Attal but the presence of Vincent Cassel opposite Emmanuelle Bercot helped, as did the support of Canal Plus and StudioCanal. “It belongs to that category of so-called ‘films du milieu’ — films budgeted between ¤5m and ¤9m

[$5.6m and $10m] — which are the hardest to finance in France,” he says.

Upcoming titles Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of The Moon (Mal De Pierres), a French-language adaptation of Milena Agus’ Italian novel, starring Marion Cotillard as a woman in a loveless marriage who embarks on an affair. Stephanie Di Giusto’s period drama The Dancer, starring musician and actress Soko as US dancer Loie Fuller, creator of

happy to be part of it,” he says. “I like to trace a path with my directors, rather than make one or two films and then move on.”

Rectangle produces a range of works, from first and second films, handled mainly by in-house producer Alice Girard, to bigger budget comedies and dramas.

Upcoming productions Rectangle is shooting David Charhon’s

Edouard Weil and Alice Girard Rectangle Productions In Cannes with…

Valérie Donzelli’s Palme d’Or competitor Marguerite And Julien and Gaspar Noé’s Midnight-screener Love.

Behind the scenes Rectangle founder Weil first worked with Donzelli on her much-praised 2011

Critics’ Week opener Declaration Of War (La Guerre Est Declarée). “We met one another at the right time. There was a determination to make the film happen… on whatever amount of money we managed to pull together. A relationship of trust grew from there,” says Weil.

Their second collaboration Hand In Hand (Main Dans La Main) was not as well received. “That didn’t matter, it was part of her journey and I was

Marguerite And Julien

the serpentine dance. Long-time collaborator Guillaume Canet’s next film, and a project by Populaire director Régis Roinsard set in London.

Future of French cinema “As time passes, French producers have to be more and more ingenious and inventive. Auteur films, and in particular ambitious auteur films — not formatted for a 9:30pm TV slot — are increasingly complicated to finance,” says Attal.

$16.7m (¤15m) comedy Les Naufragés, starring Daniel Auteuil and Laurent Stocker as two men marooned on an island. Charhon’s last film Other Side Of The Tracks starred Omar Sy and was acquired by The Weinstein Company for the US. Also, there is Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven, a fairy-tale about the absurdity of life, which is a co-production with Wild Bunch; Bertrand Bonello’s Paris Is Happening; Antonin Peretjatko’s comedy La Loi De La Jungle; and Tonnerre director Guillaume Brac’s next film.

Future of French cinema?

“We’re blessed with an extraordinary system in France. We must ensure it survives and continues to adapt, to preserve something important in our national filmography — diversity. It’s the makers of the fragile films of today who become the big cineastes of tomorrow,” says Weil.

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Guillaume Nicloux’s Palme d’Or contender Valley Of Love and Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure.

Behind the scenes It has been a high-profile 12 months for Pialat, producer of Abderrahmane Sissako’s Oscar-nominated Timbuktu, which premiered in Competition at Cannes last year.

“It didn’t win any prizes but it didn’t matter… the screenings went well, the critics loved it; it all started at Cannes,” says Pialat over the phone, on the eve of a trip to Cuba for a screening of the film in Havana. The picture swept the board at the French Césars this year, having gained fresh resonance for its antiextremism message following the Charlie Hebdo killings in January, while Pialat won the Toscan du Plantier award for producer of the year.

The Cannes habitué, whose other

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recent notable festival debut was Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger By The Lake, is back at the Palais with two titles.

Nicloux’s Valley Of Love, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu as a divorced couple reunited in Death Valley by their dead son, is their fourth collaboration.

“The important thing for me is the director and whether we connect. I met Guillaume a long time ago through my husband who wanted to adapt a book he had written,” says the producer referring to her late partner, the director Maurice Pialat.

“Valley Of Death is very different from The Nun. It’s a personal subject that Guillaume wrote alone straight after The Nun and working with Isabelle Huppert on that film,” she adds.

Behind the scenes Having produced 40 shorts in just five years, La Fémis-trained producers Reymond and Ovise are segueing into features.

Cogitore’s The Wakhan Front, about a French army operation in Afghanistan that takes a strange turn, marks their fourth and most ambitious feature to date. “It was a complicated shoot.

Apart from the fact it’s set in Afghanistan but shot in Morocco, it’s a film in which 10 characters are on screen practically all the time,” says Reymond.

“The screenplay is fantastic but people were scared we wouldn’t do it justice because of the budget,” he adds.

“Our background in shorts, however, means we know how to shoot economically without losing the core elements of the story.”

Belgian actor Jérémie Renier co-

stars alongside up-and-coming French actors Kévin Azaïs, the co-star of Thomas Cailley’s Fighters, and Swann Arlaud. “Jérémie is curious, he reads lots of scripts and isn’t scared of first films,” says Reymond.

Upcoming titles Compte Tes Blessures, starring Azaïs; Nicolas Silhol’s Corporate about an HR manager dealing with a wave of company suicides; and Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s second film Un Vrai Batard, co-written with Rebecca Zlotowski, about a rising comic who tries to cut ties with his difficult background.

Future of French cinema “For producers like us of mainly firsttime auteur films costing around ¤1m to ¤2m [$1.1m to $2.2m], the convention collective [the new collective labour accord for crew introduced in 2013] does not facilitate film-making.

We work with young technicians who want to get experience on their first feature and the convention prevents them from coming on board. Once you’ve made a film, it’s often difficult to get a decent release in theatres, which in turn has a negative impact on getting future s projects financed,” says Reymond. ■

Upcoming titles?

Guiraudie’s road movie Rester Verticale, which is due to shoot in September. Les Films Du Worso has recently completed Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Evolution, set against the backdrop of a mysterious island inhabited solely by women and young boys, and Joachim Lafosse’s The White Knights. Both films are expected to find festival slots over the summer.

Future of French Cinema “Each film is a prototype. Each time you have to go and convince people, find money. It’s the same work over and over again.

“The success of one auteur does not necessarily shine on the others. It’s the same struggle every time,” says Pialat.

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Screen at 40 To celebrate 40 years of Screen International, several of our illustrious previous editors reflect on their favourite Cannes memories

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t was 1975 when Peter King purchased what was then known as CinemaTV Today from Sir John Woolf and relaunched the publication as Screen International.

In the four decades since we’ve existed under that name, we’ve covered Cannes with an annual fervour

bordering on fanaticism (how else to describe the effect of working round the clock covering the nittygritty of the festival in daily editions?).

We’ll be celebrating 40 years of Screen in a special issue later this year but for now, a few of our previous editors share their festival memories.

Quentin Falk (left) with longtime Screen editor-in-chief Peter Noble at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival

Colin Vaines Co-editor 1982-83

Colin left Screen to run the UK’s National Film Development Fund and went on to senior exec roles at Columbia Pictures, Miramax, The Weinstein Company and GK Films. He returned to freelance production in 2010 with Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus.

Quentin Falk Editor 1979-82

Quentin has authored books on Anthony Hopkins, Alfred Hitchcock and the Rank Organisation and been a critic for the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Mirror.

Biggest Cannes drama? I had accepted an invitation to be lunched in Corsica. Seemed like a great idea at the time. My amiable producer host had his own private plane and assured me it was a short hop across the Med and I’d be back in plenty of time for the afternoon countdown to the editorial deadline.

After a delicious if abbreviated feed on the island, we took a taxi back to the small airport, climbed aboard… and the engine wouldn’t fire up. More than three hours

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later, it was finally ignition and we got back into town at around 7pm. Remember, these were the days before mobile phones. The staff seemed peculiarly unmoved by my plight and had sent the magazine to ‘bed’ on time. As I took refreshment that evening in the Petit Carlton, several people inquired after my health. Word had apparently leaked that I’d gone AWOL. Favourite Cannes moment? I enjoyed my favourite moment having a one-to-one with Muhammad Ali over breakfast in his Carlton suite. He didn’t even look up as I came into the room and plonked myself nervously into a chair opposite the great man, who had his face stuck into a bowl of cornflakes. Finally, he asked me to repeat my name. “Quentin,” I said. He pondered for a moment, then lisped, giggling, “Oh, Queenie.” I didn’t rise to the bait though made sure I asked all my subsequent questions in suitably macho tones.

Biggest Cannes drama? Facing the wrath of a Very Famous American Director after tracking him down in Cannes and interviewing him about a notoriously troubled production that had yet to be finished, and then being told the interview was off the record. Very young and very green, I knew nonetheless that I had a scoop, and ambition overcame discretion.

Cue explosive appearance the following morning by said director, who screamed, shouted and hurled the contents of my in-tray into my face. His (completely understandable) rant was only interrupted by one of the sub-editors, whose expertise was in getting a daily paper out, not in the workings of the film industry. His wonderfully bathetic interjection — ‘Who are you, love?’ — rings in my ears to this day.

Favourite Cannes moment? I could list half-adozen memorable incidents, like the time Isabelle Adjani informed me, after 10 minutes of gushing to her about The Driver, that she thought it was “pitiful”; or even the evening at my first Cannes, when a handful of people worked 24/7 to turn out a massive daily edition, that I literally fell asleep headfirst into my soupe de poissons. All that posh stuff going on at the Palais de Festivals tended to pass me by, to be honest.

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Terry Ilott Editor 1983-87

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Terry left Screen to write My Indecision Is Final: The Rise And Fall Of Goldcrest Films and was later part of an investment group that bought Hammer Films, serving as CEO until 2006. Since 2010, he has been teaching, writing novels and undertaking occasional consultancy projects.

1984

Biggest Cannes drama? I can’t recall any one specific drama. It was more the ongoing pressure of getting out a daily magazine in the pre-computer age. The pressure was unbelievable but it was huge fun, not least because Screen International was the dominant player in the market for those two weeks so everyone wanted to talk to us. I would say the biggest single drama was the rise of Cannon Films and the way they completely dominated the marketplace at that time. It seems incredible now.

Favourite Cannes moment?

I remember escaping to a latenight screening of Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life (pictured) with my co-editor Colin Vaines. We laughed like idiots and at the end a nice American man leaned over and asked, “Can you tell me what was so funny about that film?,” to which there was no answer really. Whether I was hysterical with the pressure or just in the right mood, it seemed like the funniest thing I’d ever seen and still The Meaning Of Life does.

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1989

Favourite Cannes moment? Again, too numerous to mention. High on the list would have been the occasion I was invited out to a villa on the Cap d’Antibes and found myself in very select company — the beautiful people, no less. It was a dreamy afternoon spent swimming, eating and lying around in the sun.

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Johnny Flynn (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and George MacKay (Pride) are to play musician brothers Ray and Dave Davies, respectively, in Recorded Picture Company’s biopic of UK band The Kinks.

Director Julien Temple (London: The Modern Babylon) is set to shoot You Really Got Me later this year, with daughter Juno Temple (Far From The Madding Crowd) on board to play Ray’s former wife, Raza, who sang on key tracks.

HanWay is handling international sales in Cannes with a UK deal understood to be close.

The long-time passion project of Croisette veteran Jeremy Thomas (Crash) — producer of Matteo Garrone’s Competition entry Tale Of Tales — will focus on the turbulent relationship between the brothers who fronted the 1960s band.

BBC Films has backed the picture while co-producers in Belgium are Jacqueline de Goeij and Ralph Broos from Zilvermeer, supported by Screen Flanders.

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Marc Butan has launched MadRiver Pictures to develop, finance and produce three to four star-driven films a year in the $15m-$50m range.

Backing the company is a consortium of investors that includes a $30m revolving equity investment from Christopher Woodrow’s new Vendian Entertainment.

MadRiver is financing and producing Martin Zandvliet’s A Willing Patriot, with Liam Neeson in final negotiations to star in the tale

revenge tale set against the backdrop of the Miami music scene.

Focus Features will release in the US and Lionsgate International is selling per a prior arrangement.

MadRiver will also put at least 10 projects into development over the next 12 months.

CAA negotiated on behalf of Vendian Entertainment and MadRiver Pictures. MadRiver and Sierra/ Affinity are working on Butan’s slate of Triple 9, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies and Lost City Of Z.

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Epic Pictures hits Turbo button Epic Pictures has reported a roaring trade here on its Sundance pick-up Turbo Kid, led by a deal with Lionsgate for the UK. Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson have closed deals in Germany (Ledick), France (109 Films), Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment), Middle East (Eagle Films) and Latin America (SWEN Group). Filmoption will distribute in

of a CIA agent pursuing a terrorist.

Butan recently left Sierra/Affinity and will continue to work with Nick Meyer, who handles international sales on this and all other titles that originate at MadRiver.

CAA represents US rights.

The new venture is also edging closer to co-finance and co-produce Harmony Korine’s The Trap with DCM and Le Grisbi’s John Lesher. Idris Elba, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco and Al Pacino will start work in early 2016 on the

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Biggest Cannes drama? Too numerous to mention. Many of the best and worst involved the Go-Go Boys, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus of the Cannon Group. They enlivened my entire tenure at Screen. On one occasion, we’d published a story to which they took great exception and they decided to pay a personal visit to the editorial office. Moments before they arrived, I took a phone call and, the noise in the office being so great, I found the only way to concentrate was to duck under the desk. I was thus out of sight when they stormed in, demanding my head. Disappointed by my absence, they withdrew, but not before they had terrorised the entire office. I am pleased to say that relations were quickly restored.

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French-speaking Canada, and Raven Banner in the Englishspeaking region. Japan, Russia and Australia are under discussion.

Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf and Michael Ironside star in the retro action-adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future where a young man sets out to overthrow a warlord.

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IM Global has picked up international rights outside the US and Southeast Asia to Chinese action comedy Hollywood Adventures, produced by Justin Lin. Directed by Timothy Kendall, the film stars Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Vicki Zhao Wei. It was backed by Enlight Pictures and Seven Stars Entertainment and is set for a China release on June 26.

IM Global is also selling Wuershan’s big-budget adventure The Ghouls at Cannes.

“We’re seeing more of these big Chinese movies that, in terms of production values and visual sophistication, can compete with anything out there,” said IM Global’s Stuart Ford.

Under its output deal with Huayi Brothers, IM Global is also selling Cheng Er’s The Wasted Times, starring Zhang Ziyi.

WWE Studios and Gene Simmons’ Erebus Pictures joint venture has struck a sales deal with Voltage Pictures, who are in Cannes talking up the pipeline.

The partnership kicks off with Temple, which WWE Studios acquired and developed with screenwriter Matt Savelloni.

A director will be announced shortly on the story of a highly trained unit that infiltrates an isolated military compound and experiences strange phenomena.

“The Voltage team and I are incredibly excited to partner with the legendary Gene Simmons, Michael Luisi and the entire WWE Studios team on this exciting slate of films,” said Voltage president and chief operating officer Jonathan Deckter.

“With WWE’s marketing muscle and Michael and Gene’s creative direction, we are confident the Erebus Pictures brand will quickly become synonymous with highquality, smart genre films the world over,” he added.

“We are excited to introduce our label internationally with a sales partner that understands and influences the international marketplace,” said Simmons, the cofounder of KISS and a media entrepreneur.

Bradley Buchanan negotiated the deal for WWE Studios with Deckter.

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Boyd Farrow Editor 1995-98

Mike Goodridge Editor 2009-12

Boyd switched his focus away from film journalism after leaving Screen, taking over the editorship of CNBC Business in 2009. Three years ago, he moved to Berlin, where he now lives.

Biggest Cannes drama? Truthfully, the only drama I recall was when we were let down by technology: phones, modems, computers, the office burglar alarm.

When I first started, the stories would be uploaded onto floppy disks, which a guy would take to the printers in Nice on his motorbike. I always imagined the printers looked like characters in a Claude Berri film, toiling over old flatbed cylinder presses and nonchalantly dropping cigarette ash over photos of the stars.

Favourite Cannes moment? I had some surreal moments, such as babysitting a starlet who liked to party too much and scrambling down a hillside at the Cap-Eden-Roc to avoid the bill after inadvertently buying cocktails for most of Hollywood. But my favourite moment happened every afternoon, when the front page of the paper was sent to the printers. I’d sit in an exhausted stupor, brimming with that mixture of joy, pride, relief and utter dread that only a Screen editor would recognise.

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Colin Brown Editor-in-chief 1998-2008

Colin is the editorial director for Slated, managing partner in MAD Solutions and an adjunct professor at New York University. He is a speaker at the inaugural Cannes Investors Club being launched this year by Marché du Film.

Biggest Cannes drama? Memory tends to exaggerate the levels of festival hysteria, so best I leave the episodes of highest drama at the back of my mental cupboard. What happens on the Croisette stays on the Croisette. But I still have a vivid recollection of my first Cannes, arriving at the Carlton Hotel as a wide-eyed reporter to witness Peter Noble, the paper’s legendary gossip columnist, still very much in his element amid that stench of cigar.

All around him there was screaming: ad pages being negotiated on the fly, screening times being confirmed in faltering French and journalists hunting down a desk phone through the tangle of landlines and littered press releases. And there they were, publicists, executives and would-be stars, all lined up to see Peter in the desperate hope of a name-check in tomorrow’s column. They fawned,

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After 19 years at Screen, including 12 years as the Los Angeles-based US editor, Mike joined Protagonist Pictures as CEO in 2012.

Biggest Cannes drama? We have had a long history of theft during the festival. Our French correspondent one year woke up in the middle of the night to find a burglar in her hotel room. Bags, money, perfume, phones. You name it, we had it stolen. Once I had my wallet stolen from my inside jacket pocket as I was walking down the Croisette.

Michael Gubbins Editor 2004-09

Michael is the co-founder of film and media consultancy SampoMedia. He moderates industry events and serves as chair of the Film Agency for Wales.

Biggest Cannes drama? In my time, we worked in an art gallery at the Carlton Hotel.

Exhaustion, heat, technical troubles and a dash of prima donna-ism could produce the occasional unwanted drama, but mostly I remember the Screen team as funny, professional and insanely committed.

Every now and again there would be an entertaining flare-up: I recall a row with a bald Natalie Portman, wanting to use our office as a rat-run to a limo.

pleaded and even shed their clothing for him — all in the knowledge that what would be pounded out on his manual typewriter bore little relation to fact.

Favourite Cannes moment? It’s all those surreal moments that make Cannes, those collisions between the high-minded and the crass. Being able to share those moments with Screen family and friends in overpriced bars, restaurants and beach-party corners was always an annual highlight. But the real answer to this question occurred at Majestic Hotel bar, exactly 20 years ago, when I was introduced to the woman I would later marry.

Colin Brown (top left) with friends including Robert De Niro at Cannes in 1991

Favourite Cannes moment? There are many treasured moments, mostly related to seeing films. Pulp Fiction (pictured), Breaking The Waves, Mulholland Drive, Irreversible, Le Havre, 2046, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Silent Light, The White Ribbon, Amour.

I love how world cinema becomes the currency for two weeks and opinions on films dominate the conversation.

And, of course, how each film is referred to by the director’s name… the von Trier, the Reygadas.

Having a white press badge made the whole process a lot easier!

Favourite Cannes moment? Speaking as a daily newspaper journalist before joining Screen, I liked the old-fashioned scoops-driven competition with Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. I’m pretty sure we kicked their arses every year. There were lots of surreal highlights in the rare breaks from Screen: talking football with Pele; swearing down the phone at Christopher Lee, thinking his complaint was a wind-up from a colleague; and a heroic but failed attempt to organise a spillover party for a supermodels event outside our office.

Wendy Mitchell Editor 2012-14

Wendy first joined Screen in 2005 and, alongside her new position as a film programme manager at the British Council, is still a contributing editor.

Biggest Cannes drama? There have been a few office screaming matches, and maybe a few crying spells along the way due to the pressure of putting out a huge daily magazine. In 2012, I had an inexperienced producer calling the office about 15 times, trying to play us off against other trades for a story.

That was so annoying I remember it three years later.

And you always remember the mistakes. I still owe Jamie Carmichael at Content a beer for the time I said IFC had closed a US deal for Fish Tank well before it was signed.

Favourite Cannes moment? My first year attending Cannes as a Screen reporter, I was visualising interviewing Brad Pitt on Paul Allen’s yacht, but the reality was the guy who played Max Rebo in Return Of The Jedi hunting me down to offer himself up for interview. That was a trend throughout all my Cannes experiences: interviewing David Hasselhoff, never George Clooney.

To read the complete interviews and our former editors’ thoughts on changes and challenges in the internas tional film industry, go to www.screendaily.com ■ With thanks to La Cinématheque De Toulouse and the BFI Reuben Library on BFI Southbank

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(France) 126mins.

Dir: Maiwenn.

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot.

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation centre after a serious ski accident.

Dependent on the medical staff and pain relief, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.

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.

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THE WAKHAN FRONT

(France) 100mins.

Dir: Clement Cogitore.

Cast: Jeremie Renier, Kevin Azais.

Afghanistan 2014. As the troops’ withdrawal approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned to a surveillance mission in the remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan.

Despite Antares’ and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. On a dark September night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.

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09:00 BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER ALLENDE

(Chile) 97mins. Dir: Marcia Tambutti Allende.

Marcia wishes to change her family’s habit of not speaking about their tragic past. Thirty-five years after the coup d’etat that overthrew her grandfather, Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected socialist president, she believes that it’s time to recover the family memories and images of their daily life, snatched away during the coup — an intimate past unknown to her,

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 11:30 THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT

(Belgium) 113mins.

Dir: Jaco Van Dormael. Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau.

Set in Jaco Van Dormael’s

buried under Allende’s political transcendence, exile and family pain.

Using a warm yet sharp view, Marcia tries to decipher silence sustained over decades. An honest family portrait without grandiloquence that addresses the complexities of irreparable losses and the role of memory in three generations of a wounded family.

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11:00 THE HIGH SUN

(Croatia) 118mins.

Dir: Dalibor Matanic.

Cast: Tihana Lazovic, Goran Markovic, Nives Ivankovic, Dado Cosic, Trpimir Jurkic, Mira Banjac.

Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred. This is a film

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native Belgium. A surreal comedy in which God is a real-life character who lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward with pathetic morals who is odious to his family.

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about the dangers — and the enduring strength — of forbidden love.

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MACADAM STORIES

(France) 102mins.

Dir: Samuel Benchetrit.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Michael Pitt, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jules Benchetrit.

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.

Out of Competition press Salle Bazin

SON OF SAUL

(Hungary) 107mins.

Dir: Laszlo Nemes.

Cast: Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn.

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a 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 Salle Bunuel

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DEGRADE

(France) 84mins.

Dir: Arab and Tarzan Nasser. Cast: Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad.

Gaza Strip, present day.

Thirteen women are stuck in a beauty salon for a whole afternoon because of gunshots that break out just in front of the salon.

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11:45 MY MOTHER

(Italy) 106mins.

Dir: Nanni Moretti.

Cast: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Nanni Moretti, Giulia Lazzarini.

Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor Barry Huggins, who is quite a character on set. Away from the set, Margherita tries to hold her life together while feeling powerless when facing her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.

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12:00 CAROL

(UK) 118mins.

Dir: Todd Haynes.

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson.

Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere

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COIN LOCKER GIRL

(South Korea) 110mins.

Dir: Han Jun-Hee. Cast: Kim Hye-Soo, Kim Ko-Eun. Abandoned in a train station coin locker when she was a baby, Il-young was sold to a woman referred to simply as Mother, the boss of a remorseless loan shark group. Now 18, she is exposed to the world that everyone calls normal.

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JOURNEY TO THE SHORE

(Japan) 128mins.

Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Cast: Eri Kukatsu, Tadanobu Asano.

Mizuki’s husband, Yusuke, drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly returns home she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki wonders what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.

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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

GREEN ROOM

(US) 95mins. Dir: Jeremy Saulnier. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart.

A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.

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15:00 LUMIERE!

(France) 90mins.

Dir: Louis Lumiere.

A selection of 114 restored films, directed by Louis Lumiere and his cameramen between 1895 and 1905.

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famous war photographer Laura Freed brings her husband and their two sons together for the first time in years. When an unsettling secret resurfaces, the three men are forced to look at each other and themselves in a new light, redefining their innermost needs and desires.

Competition press Theatre Claude Debussy

MACADAM STORIES

(France) 102mins.

Dir: Samuel Benchetrit.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Michael Pitt, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jules Benchetrit.

Out of Competition Salle Du Soixantieme

19:30 THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT

FESTIVAL & PRESS 15:30 NAHID

(Iran) 105mins.

Dir: Ida Panahandeh.

Cast: Sareh Bayat, Navid Mohammad Zadeh, Pouria Rahimi, Nasrin Babaei, Milad Hossein Pour.

A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city in Iran falls in love with a man who wants to marry her.

According to the current rules the father has the custody of children;

LA MARSEILLAISE

(France) 135mins.

Dir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir.

Classic film detailing the French Revolution in the style of a newsreel.

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however, her ex-husband has granted her that right on the condition she doesn’t remarry.

Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones, she has to think about the third option: temporary marriage (Sighe). However, this puts her in a predicament. Despite being legal, Sighe is not well-received by society.

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millennium. Using neverbefore-seen archival footage, “Amy” will tell the story, in the megastar’s own uncensored words and actions, of a tragic young woman from London who came of age in the public eye and whose genius and artistry propelled a celebrity she could never truly come to terms with.

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AMY

THE HIGH SUN

(UK) 127mins.

Dir: Asif Kapadia.

Explores the life of Amy Winehouse, five-time Grammy award-winner and arguably Britain’s greatest female singer/ songwriter of this

(Croatia) 118mins. Dir: Dalibor Matanic. Cast: Tihana Lazovic, Goran Markovic, Nives Ivankovic, Dado Cosic, Trpimir Jurkic, Mira Banjac.

Un Certain Regard press Theatre Claude Debussy

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17:00 BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER ALLENDE

(Chile) 97mins.

Dir: Marcia Tambutti Allende.

Directors’ Fortnight Theatre Croisette

17:15 DEGRADE

(France) 84mins.

Dir: Arab and Tarzan Nasser. Cast: Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad.

Chandler, Sarah Paulson.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere

19:15 LOUDER THAN BOMBS

(Norway) 103mins.

Dir: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn, Devin Druid.

Three years after her unexpected death, the preparation of an exhibition celebrating the

21:45 JOURNEY TO THE SHORE

(Japan) 128mins.

Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Cast: Eri Kukatsu, Tadanobu Asano.

Un Certain Regard press Theatre Claude Debussy

22:00 DEGRADE

(France) 84mins. Dir: Araband Tarzan Nasser.

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad.

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LOUDER THAN BOMBS

(Norway) 103mins.

Dir: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn, Devin Druid.

(Belgium) 113mins.

Dir: Jaco Van Dormael.

Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau.

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(US) 95mins. Dir: Jeremy Saulnier. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart.

21:00 IVAN THE TERRIBLE

(Russia) 186mins.

Dir: Sergei Eisenstein.

Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman.

Classic Soviet epic about the historical figure.

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22:15 GREEN ROOM

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(France) 126mins.

Dir: Maiwenn.

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot.

Competition Grand Theatre Lumiere

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18:30 ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS

(Italy) 177mins.

Dir: Luchino Visconti.

Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot.

Italian film classic. A poor southern family moves to the industrialised north, only to face further struggles.

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19:00 CAROL

(UK) 118mins.

Dir: Todd Haynes.

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle

FESTIVAL & PRESS 17:30 DISORDER

(France) 100mins. Dir: Alice Winocour.

Cast: Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy.

Set in Antibes in the present day.

A former soldier suffering from

post-traumatic stress disorder finds himself tasked with protecting the wife and son of a rich Lebanese businessman while he is away.

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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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SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL 3D

(China) Arclight Films.

100mins. Dir: Tianyu Zhao, Peter Pau. Cast: Bingbing Li, Kun Chen.

revenge-fuelled journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover’s death.

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BIBI & TINA: BEWILDERED AND BEWITCHED!

(China) Wild Bunch.

118mins. Dir: JeanJacques Annaud.

Cast: Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Shawn Dou, William Feng.

A young man discovers the mystical bond between herdsman and wolf in the beautiful wilderness of Inner Mongolia.

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(Canada) Nu Image/ Millennium Films.

90mins. Dir: April Mullen. Cast: Katherine Isabelle, Michael Ironside.

Gwen, a young woman who comes to a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there, gets taken on a violent,

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(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 American normalcy. On the eve of their 30th 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,

MARKET 09:30 BIBI & TINA: BEWILDERED AND BEWITCHED!

(Germany) Beta Cinema. 109mins.

Dir: Detlev Buck. Cast: Lina Larrissa Strahl, Lisa Marie Koroll, Louis Held.

The atmosphere is gloomy at Falkenstein Castle. Amid preparations for a festive costume ball, there is a burglary. And the miscreants have not only made off with valuable paintings,

but Count Falko’s entire collection of monocles. The mood at neighbouring Martinshof holiday farm is equally glum — not a single guest has booked in. Bibi and Tina need to come up with a plan to promote the farm. To top it all, Bibi has her first serious crush. Of course, it would have to be on Tarik, who is turning Martinshof upside down… while guarding a dark secret.

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

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(France) Pathe International. 87mins.

Dir: Olivier Baroux. Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Francois Berleand, Gerard Jugnot.

Richard, Gilles and Philippe have been friends for nearly 50 years. For the duration of one summer, they set sail with their partners on a magnificent sailing boat, heading for the Mediterranean island of Corsica. But things do not always go smoothly on board, especially since each couple has their own problems, and the weather has some surprises in store for them.

87mins. Dir: Ray Yeung.

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

Ryan, a gay ChineseAmerican 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.

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has only one thing in mind: to win back Chantal, the love of his life, who moved in with the village butcher while he was serving time.

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MEDITERRANEA

(Italy) NDM. 107mins. Dir: Jonas Carpignano. Cast: Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy, Mary Elizabeth Innocent.

Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off the continent.

(France) Jour2Fete.

100mins. Dir: Laurent Laffargue. Cast: Sergi Lopez, Celine Sallette, Eric Cantona.

In Casteljaloux, a town in southwestern France, friendship, drunken nights, heat and the pleasure of conversation set the pace of daily life. And here, Star 1 Palais J priority badges only men are “Kings of the World”. But when Jeannot THE SEVENTH FIRE FRONT COVER gets out of prison, he (US) Fortissimo Films.

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(US) Wide House. 78mins.

Dir: Jack Pettibone Riccobono.

Rob’s 37-year story spans 39 foster

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TABULA RASA

(Indonesia) Indonesian Cinema. 105mins. Dir: Adriyanto Dewo. Cast: Dewi Irawan, Jimmy Kobogau, Yayu Unru, Ozzol Ramdan.

Hans, a young man from Papua, migrates to the capital city to become a football player. Yet fate has a different agenda: it brings him to a Padang restaurant, where he finds new hope in life as a cook.

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THE VISIT

(Denmark) Autlook Filmsales. 83mins.

Dir: Michael Madsen.

Cast: Dave Forstner.

This film documents an event that has never taken place. With unprecedented access to the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs,

leading space scientists and space agencies, “The Visit” explores humans’ first encounter with alien intelligence.

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THE WANNABE

(US) Electric Entertainment. 90mins.

Dir: Nick Sandow.

Cast: Patricia Arquette, Vincent Piazza, Michael Imperioli.

Set in New York City during the early 1990s. A man obsessed with mob culture 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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WILD OATS

(US) The Exchange.

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

Eva, a widow and retired history teacher, enjoys a quiet life in a small town. Everything changes when she receives a life insurance cheque made out for $5m instead of the $50,000 she expected.

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(Germany) HanWay Films. 118mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: James Franco, Rachel Mcadams, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

A haunting and tender tale from acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders.

Tomas drives in his car aimlessly on the outskirts of town following an argument with his wife.

On this winter night, with the snow falling thick around the car, Tomas fails to see a young boy in the road before it’s too late.

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(UK) Altitude Film Sales. 104mins.

Dir: Bharat Nalluri. Cast: Kit Harington, Jennifer Ehle, Peter Firth.

When charismatic terrorist Adam Qasim escapes from MI5 custody during a routine handover, the legendary Harry Pearce, head of counter-terrorism, is blamed. Disgraced and forced to resign,

no one’s surprised when Harry disappears one night off a bridge into the Thames.

Will Crombie could have been a great spy, but Harry abruptly ended his promising career three years ago for reasons that remain unclear. Now, without purpose, Will’s life is spiralling out of control. So why did Harry try to contact him minutes before his suicide?

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(Hong Kong (China)) Bravos Pictures. 120mins.

Dir: Soi Cheang.

Cast: Jing Wu, Louis Koo, Jin Zhang, Simon Yam, Tony Jaa. Undercover cop Kit becomes a junkie in order to catch Mr Hung, the mastermind behind a crime syndicate.

When the operation goes sour and Kit blows his cover, his supervisor and uncle Wah decide to terminate the operation.

When Kit disappears without a trace, Wah defies the order from his commanding officer and tracks Kit to a prison in Thailand.

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BIS

(US) Film And Business Law. 82mins. Dir: Monica Richardson.

Exposes the murky underbelly of Alcoholics Anonymous.

(France) Europacorp.

100mins. Dir: Dominique Farrugia.

Cast: Franck Dubosc, Kad Merad, Alexandra Lamy,

Gerard Darmon, Julien Boisselier, Anne Girouard, Eleonore Bernheim.

Best buddies experiencing a mid-life crisis get a shot at starting over.

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ALBERT

(Denmark) Sola Media.

80mins. Dir: Karsten Kiilerich.

To become the local hero of his hometown, Kalleby, Albert decides to go on an adventure.

He wants his friend Egon to join him, who unfortunately doesn’t have the same idea of adventures as Albert.

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AYANDA

(South Africa) National Film & Video Foundation

Of South Africa. 105mins.

Dir: Sara Blecher.

Cast: Fulu Mugovhani, Nthati Moshesh, Oc Ukeje, Kenneth Nkosi.

In a community vibrant with migrants from across the African continent, against the backdrop of unspoken love, a young woman tries to navigate a path for herself. But this is a world where everything keeps shifting — everything except the one thing that really does need to change.

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FIRST GROWTH

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

A heady and delicate romance set in Burgundy.

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HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT

(US) Stray Dogs.

85mins. Dir: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie.

Cast: Caleb Landry

Jones, Arielle Holmes.

A vagabond couple in NYC battle addiction amid a manic love affair.

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KOZA

(Slovakia) Pluto Film Distribution Network.

75mins. Dir: Ivan Ostrochovsky. Cast: Peter Balaz, Zvonko Lakcevic, Jan Franek.

A former Olympic boxer’s journey to his final defeat.

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LONG WAY NORTH

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

Dir: Remi Chaye.

An epic journey across history, from Saint Petersburg to the Far North.

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THE NINTH CLOUD

(Switzerland) MCE (Marina Cordoni Entertainment). 93mins.

Dir: Jane Spencer. Cast: Michael Madsen, JeanHugues Anglade, Megan Maczko.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE

(Brazil) Habanero.

100mins. Dir: Andre Ristum. Cast: Eduardo Moscovis, Davi Galdeano, Simone Iliescu.

Every family has a dream.

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PIZZA AND DATES

(Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. 92mins.

Dir: Fariborz Kamkari.

Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Medi Meskar, Maud Buquet.

The story of the lives of a small community of

Muslims living in Venice and their daily problems along the way to becoming integrated into Italian society.

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THE PEARL BUTTON

(France) Pyramide International. 82mins.

Dir: Patricio Guzman.

A story about water, the cosmos and us..

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THE THIN YELLOW LINE

(Mexico) Latido. 90mins.

Dir: Celso Garcia.

Cast: Damian Alcazar, Joaquin Cosio, Silverio Palacios, Gustavo Sanchez Parra, Americo Hollander.

The journey of five men who are hired to paint the median line of a road that connects two villages in Mexico.

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Dir: Radu Muntean.

Cast: Ionut Bora, Liviu Cheloiu, Calin Chirila.

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 is the bizarre murderer.

The other is his very own conscience.

At the height of this culinary career, master chef Sergio Herman feels he needs to let go of his three-star restaurant Oud Sluis in order to fulfil his dreams. A revealing documentary about perfection, ambition and sacrifices.

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RAIN DOLL

(France) Wide. 117mins.

Dir: Jean-Louis Daniel.

Two young women’s destinies parallel each other as they go from Paris to Cambodia, hell to redemption. They will finally meet at the seventh wonder of the world: the Angkor Temples, lost in the deep jungle.

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(US) Versatile.

100mins. Dir: Sebastian Silva. Cast: Kristen Wiig, Sebastian Silva, Tunde Adebimpe.

Centres on a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly.

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(Spain) Filmsharks International. 103mins.

Dir: Santiago Segura.

Cast: Santiago Segura.

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11:30 AWAKEN

(US) Archstone Distribution. 89mins.

Dir: Mark Atkins.

Cast: Jason London, Daryl Hannah, Robert Davi, Natalie Burn, Michael Copon.

A random group of people wake up on an island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs.

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BLIND DATE

(France) Other Angle Pictures. 90mins.

Dir: Clovis Cornillac.

Cast: Melanie Bernier, Clovis Cornillac.

A romantic comedy

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The film follows the trio as they navigate the idea of creating life while confronted by growing harassment from a menacing local known as “The Bishop”. As things take a dark turn, their joyous pursuit of parenthood is suddenly clouded.

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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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GHOSTHUNTERS — ON ICY TRAILS

(Germany) Beta Cinema.

99mins. Dir: Tobi Baumann. Cast: Anke Engelke, Milo Parker, Bastian Pastewka.

Based on “Inkheart”, Cornelia Funke’s bestselling novel.

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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

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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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she has to think about the third option: temporary marriage (Sighe).

However, this puts her in a predicament. Despite being legal, Sighe is not wellreceived by society.

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MY MOTHER

(Italy) Films Distribution.

106mins. Dir: Nanni Moretti. Cast: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Nanni Moretti, Giulia Lazzarini.

Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor Barry Huggins, who is quite a character on set. Away from the set, Margherita tries to hold her life together while feeling powerless when facing her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.

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ONE FLOOR BELOW

(Romania) Films Boutique. 95mins.

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(India) Stray Dogs.

82mins. Dir: Partho Sen-Gupta. Cast: Adil Hussein, Tannishta Chatterjee, Ashalata Wabgaonkar.

When a new series of child abductions come up, a detective haunted by the disappearance of his daughter 10 years before must race against the clock to save the girls and redeem his soul.

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ROMANIAN SHORT WAVES

(Romania) Short Film Corner. 110mins.

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TWO WOMEN SERGIO HERMAN: FUCKING PERFECT

(Netherlands) Fortissimo Films. 80mins. Dir: Willemiek Kluijfhout.

Cast: Sergio Herman, Ellemieke HermanVermolen, Michel Herman.

(Russia) Media Luna New Films. 100mins.

Dir: Vera Glagoleva.

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Sylvie Testud, Anna Astrakhanceva.

Natalya is married to a land baron. Her feelings for her son’s

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NAHID

(Iran) Noori Pictures.

105mins. Dir: Ida Panahandeh. Cast: Sareh Bayat, Navid Mohammad Zadeh, Pouria Rahimi.

A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city in Iran falls in love with a man who wants to marry her.

According to the current rules, the father has the custody of children; however, her ex-husband has granted her that right on the condition she doesn’t remarry.

Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones,

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(France) Indie Sales. 100mins.

Dir: Louis Garrel. Cast: Louis Garrel, Vincent Macaigne.

Vincent has known Mona barely a week

but he’s already completely in love with her. But Mona has a secret: she goes home to prison every night. When Vincent doesn’t understand her intentions, he asks his only friend, Abel, for help.

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OFFICIAL SELECTION – SPECIAL SCREENINGS A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS Director: Natalie Portman Producer: David Mandil, Ram Bergman Production Companies: Movie Plus Productions, Ram Bergman Productions World Sales: Voltage Pictures E-mail: Allison@voltagepictures.com Web: www.voltagepictures.com FRI MAY 15 11:00 SAT MAY 16 18:30 MARKET SCREENINGS: MON MAY 18 20:30 TUE MAY 19 12:00

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AFTERTHOUGHT Director: Elad Keidan Producers: Eitan Mansuri, Elie Meirovitz, Danny Goldberg, Jonathan Doweck Production Companies: Spiro Films, EZ Films World Sales: The Match Factory E-mail: nadja.jumah@matchfactory.de Web: www.the-match-factory.com THU FRI

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CINÉFONDATION TEN BUILDINGS AWAY Director: Miki Polonski Producer: Maya Zaydman Production: Minshar School of Art Sales Contact: Maya Zaydman E-mail: production@minshar.org.il THU

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SHORT FILM CORNER Short Film corner 2015

BARREN Director: Esti Shushan Producer: Offir Itzhak, Hasifa Film School World Sales: Go2Films E-mail: hedva@go2films.com Web: www.go2films.com TO BOOK A SCREENING ON DEMAND - PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR OFFIR AT THE ISRAELI STAND, TELEPHONE NO. 04-9299-3239 A film by Esty Shushan

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attractive new tutor will confront her with her own daughter and turn her apparently devoted life into a complex web of unreturned love, guilt, lust and jealousy.

violent adolescent. They clash incessantly and even uncontrollably. However, one day, thanks to the little love that remains between them, they decide to opt for life.

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VIRGIN MOUNTAIN

A PERFECT DAY

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(Spain) Westend Films.

105mins. Dir: Fernando Leon De Aranoa.

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko.

A group of aid workers try to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.

Dir: Michael Petroni.

Cast: Adrien Brody, Sam Neill.

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

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12:00 #HORROR

(US) Submarine Entertainment. 100mins.

Dir: Tara Subkoff. Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Taryn Manning, Natasha Lyonne.

Inspired by actual events.

A group of 12-year-old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of a cyber bullying into insanity.

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A MOTHER

(France) Les Films Du Losange. 95mins.

Dir: Christine Carriere.

Cast: Mathilde Seigner, Kacey Mottet Klein, Pierfrancesco Favino.

Marie is an ordinary woman with a strong personality. She lives alone with her son, a withdrawn and often

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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 army of Hazmat-wearing, trigger-happy madmen during a mysterious mission in Chernobyl.

Eight against 800 — they just couldn’t lose.

I’M DEAD BUT I HAVE FRIENDS

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

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BACKTRACK

ME HIM HER

(Australia) Bankside Films. 90mins.

(US) Protagonist Pictures. 97mins.

Bar Peled

Written and Directed by Esty Shushan | Producer: Offir Yitzhak | Director of photography: Yoav Gertner | Asst. director and Editor: Elad Sulami | Costume supervisor: Malki Fogel | Soundman: Daniel Dolan | Makeup: Yael Brod, Hadar Friedman | Grading: Tomer Bahat | Sound Editor: Nir Antman | Subtitles: Raz Elmaleh

THE MAN IN THE WALL Director: Evgeny Ruman Producers: Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon Production Company: UCM – United Channels Movies World Sales: 6 Sales E-mail: info@6sales.es Web: www.6sales.es

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SUICIDE Director: Benny Fredman Producer: Shachar Zefania Production Company: Zefania Films’ Productions World Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment E-mail: kiki@DutchFeatures.com Web: www.dutchfeatures.com WED MAY 13 SUN MAY 17

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(Iceland) BAC Films. 94mins.

Dir: Dagur Kari. Cast: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjandottir.

Fusi is in his 40s and yet to find the

courage to enter the adult world. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key. When a bubbly woman and an eight-year old girl unexpectedly enter his life, he is forced to take a leap.

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Dir: Max Landis. Cast: Dustin Milligan, Luke Bracey, Emily Meade.

A comedy of errors, manners and fencing in which three people in their 20s try to figure out love, friendship, sex, identity and life.

Ready for some fun?

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THE WOLFPACK

(UK) Carnaby International. 107mins.

Dir: Zackary Adler. Cast: Mariola Jaworska, Nicola Stapleton, Kevin Leslie.

An epic, period gangster film based on the true story of how two unknown boys fought to become the most feared and respected villains in London.

(US) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing.

82mins. Dir: Crystal Moselle. Cast: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo.

Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films they watch.

Nicknamed the Wolfpack, the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favourite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes.

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UNBRANDED

(Spain) Filmax International. 84mins.

Dir: Alberto Marini. Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Diego Boneta, Maiara Walsh, Andres Velencoso.

(US) Dogwoof. 105mins.

(Argentina) Pyramide International. 112mins. Dir: Dir: Phillip Baribeau.

Luis Puenzo. Cast: Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio.

Cast: Jonny Fitzsimons, 1983 — Alicia, the mother of an adopted five-year-old Thomas Glover, Ben girl, teaches history in a Buenos Aires high school.

Masters.

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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”.

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Ledes. Cast: Michael Imperioli, David Costabile, Wendell Pierce, Spencer List.

The story of a broken family striving to stay together while a curse and the ghosts of a haunted house try to tear them apart.

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MICROBE & GASOLINE

(France) Studiocanal.

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

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(Canada) Short Film Corner. 110mins.

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GERMAN ANGST

(Germany) Reel Suspects.

110mins. Dir: Joerg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall, Michal Kosakowski. Cast: Milton Welsh, Desiree Giorgetti, Matthan Harris.

Three tales of love, horror and sex in Berlin.

(UK) Wide. 82mins.

Dir: Joanna Coates.

Cast: Hannah Arterton, Josh O’Connor, Rea Mole.

Four young people flee from London and set up a polyamorous commune in the country, choosing total isolation as a form of protest against the ills of the world.

(Spain) Filmax International. 80mins.

Dir: Rafael Martinez.

Cast: Ingrid GarciaJonasson, Bruno Sevilla.

Alicia has a surprise to celebrate her boyfriend Simon’s birthday: a romantic dinner for two in one of the almost uninhabited buildings she inspects as part of her job. The evening starts out perfectly, but the couple soon makes the startling discovery that they are not the only intruders in the building that night, after Alicia witnesses a chilling act at the hands of three mysterious hooded men.

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(Italy) Rai Com. 94mins. Dir: Lamberto Sanfelice. Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Piera Degli Esposti, Giorgio Colangeli, Ivan Franek, Anatol Sassi, Andrea Vergoni.

Mexico to Canada, four friends embarked on the journey of a lifetime. Across solely public land, Ben Masters, Jonny Fitzsimons, Ben Thamer and Thomas Glover traversed desert to mountain across five states and 3,000 miles with 16 horses in tow.

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(France) Les Films Du Losange. 115mins.

Dir: Barbet Schroeder.

Cast: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grunberg.

Stefan, a German student, hitchhikes to Paris.

After playing a game of cards, he forms a friendship with Charlie, a card shark and conman who soon drags Stefan into his schemes. One evening at a party, Stefan falls madly in love with Estelle. She leaves Paris and a week later he goes to join her in Ibiza.

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Jenny is 17 and dreams of becoming a synchronised swimmer, but her carefree adolescent life in Ostia, a seacoast town near Rome, is shaken by the sudden death of her mother.

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13:30 600 MILES

(Mexico) NDM. 85mins.

Dir: Gabriel Ripstein.

Cast: Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Harrison Thomas, Monica Del Carmen.

Arnulfo Rubio, a young gun trafficker between the United States and Mexico, is being followed by ATF agent Hank Harris.

After a risky mistake by Harris, Rubio makes a desperate decision: he smuggles the agent to Mexico. While these two apparent enemies will slowly connect, they reach a dangerous place. The only way out will be by trusting each other.

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BEING 14

(France) Versatile.

86mins. Dir: Helene Zimmer. Cast: Galatea Bellugi, Athalia Routier, Najaa Bensaid.

The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of 14-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three

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young girls: Sarah, Jade and Louise. One last year to go before high school.

exerts total fascination over her.

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FLOCKING

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BUNNY THE KILLER THING

(Finland) Black Lion Pictures. 88mins.

Dir: Joonas Makkonen.

Cast: Enni Ojutkangas, Jari Manninen, Katja Jaskari, Marcus Massey, Orwi Imanuel Ameh, Roope Olenius, Veera W Vilo, Vincent Tsang.

A hilarious horrorsplatter-comedy about a creature, half-man, half-rabbit, who is after anything that resembles female genitals.

FORECLOSURE

(US) California Pictures.

86mins. Dir: Richard

SWEET HOME

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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID

(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

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(Sweden) Media Luna New Films.

110mins. Dir: Beata Gardeler. Cast: Fatime Azemi, John Ristu, Eva Melander, Jakob Ohrman, Malin Levanon.

When 14-year-old Jennifer claims to have been raped by classmate Alexander, the rumour rapidly spreads throughout the small community. To stick with the flock, they will all turn against the young girl, convinced that she is lying.

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MARKET 13:30 THE GREATEST HOUSE IN THE WORLD

(Guatemala) Premium Films. 74mins.

Dir: Ana V Bojorquez, Lucia Carreras.

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THE MIDNIGHT MAN

(US) Expression Entertainment. 113mins.

Dir: DC Hamilton. Cast: Will Kemp, Brinna Kelly, William Forsythe.

When Grady, an assassin with a genetic disorder that renders him unable to feel pain, is sent on a high-stakes assignment, his world is turned upside-down after an attack from which awakens to discover that he can feel pain for the first time in his life.

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(Israel) Voltage Pictures.

105mins.

Dir: Natalie Portman.

Cast: Natalie Portman.

Amos Oz’s 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 56 Screen International at Cannes May 17, 2015

A story of children, which we all are when facing our fears, the unknown, the uncertain: the fog.

Gray 4

integration in a foreign land, Fania battles depression and can only escape in a world of daydreams.

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THE AMAZING WIPLALA

(Netherlands) Attraction Distribution. 100mins.

Dir: Tim Oliehoek.

Cast: Geza Weisz, Sasha Mylanus, Kee Ketelaar.

Young Johannes’ Wiplala is no imaginary friend; he’s as real as a fourinch-tall wizard can be.

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

Thrills and adventure lie ahead.

Palais C

ANESTHESIA

(US) Cercamon. 93mins.

Dir: Tim Blake Nelson.

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Glenn Close, Corey Stoll.

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

Riviera 3

BODY

(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 3

AN

(Japan) MK2.

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.

CHERRY TREE

Star 2

(Spain) El Gato Persa

(Ireland) MPI Media Group. 90mins.

Dir: David Keating.

Cast: Anna Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine.

A young woman makes a fateful pact with a witches’ coven that can save her dying father’s life.

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CHICAS PARANOICAS

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by Vera Glagoleva

Starring Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter, The English Patient) and Sylvie Testud (La Vie en Rose, Lourdes).

Based on the Ivan Turgenev’s classic play A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. (Period Drama)

market screenings FLOCKING

by Beata Gårdeler

Based on true stories. Winner of the Crystal Bear at Berlinale 2015 (Drama)

Screening:

Screening:

Sun 17th, 11:30H (Riviera 4)

Sun 17th, 13:30H (Lerins 1)

3 BEAUTIES

ABSOLUTION

by Carlos Caridad Montero

The obsession for beauty and cosmetic surgery is taken too far, when Perla is willing to do whatever it takes to make her Miss Venezuela dream come true. Including: destroying her own family.

(Comedy)

by Petri Kotwica

When the truth finally dawns… How to bear the guilt? How to forgive? (Drama)

Screening:

Screening:

Sun 17th, 15:30H (Palais F)

Mon 18th, 10:00H (Riviera 3)

I WAS THERE

THE SNAKE BROTHERS

by Jorge Valdés-Iga

by Jan Prusinovsk ˇ y´

A New York firefighter racked by survivor’s guilt at surviving the 9/11. Years later, the truth comes to confront him. Is he really a hero? (Drama)

Viper does not know how to escape from the shadow of his junkie and troublemaker brother, Cobra. Until one day he decides to teach him a life lesson that will change their lives forever. (Drama)

Screening:

Screening:

Mon 18th, 12:00H (Riviera 3)

Mon 18th, 13:30H (Riviera 4)

GUARANI

TALION

Atilio is eager to have a grandson to heritage his Guarani culture. However, life gives him only female descendents. How far can someone go to keep a tradition alive? (Drama) Winner of the European Vision Award at Ventana Sur (Work in Progress)

A mysterious masked person is an avenger punishing pedophiles. Police, Government and Journalists eager to uncover the truth behind it.

A ride to determine who is on the right side and who is not. (Thriller)

Screening:

Screening:

Mon 18th, 16:00H (Lerins 2)

Tue 19th, 10:00H (Riviera 1)

THE MUD WOMAN

SWEET GIRLS

by Luis Zorraquín

by Martín Tuta

by Jean-Paul Cardinaux & Xavier Ruiz

by Sergio Castro San Martín

Ten years have passed since the last time Maria worked as a seasonal worker. When she decides to do this job again, she will have to face her unsolved past. (Drama)

A generation clash when two teenagers come together to face their lack of opportunities by aiming the end of the aged population.

(Comedy/Drama)

Screening:

Screening:

Tue 19th, 14:00H (Riviera 1)

Tue 19th, 15:30H (Lerins 1)

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SCREENINGS

Films. 90mins.

Dir: Pedro Del Santo.

Cast: Mairen Munoz, Marta Mir, Patricia Valley, Antonio Ibanez.

Comedy about the world of fashion in a fictional work with dramatic elements.

Tells the story of three girls — Ana, Paula and Veronica — who enter it by chance, seeing a way to earn a little easy money and soon become fascinated.

Olympia 2 press allowed

CHORUS

(Canada) Doc & Film International. 97mins.

Dir: François Delisle.

Cast: Sebastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette.

Hugo was eight when he went missing. When searches turn up nothing, his parents, Christophe and Irene, split up under the excruciating pressure of waiting. He moves to Mexico. She goes back to her career as an alto in an early music choir.

GIRLS’ STEP (WORKING TITLE)

(Japan) Toei Company.

115mins. Dir: Taisuke Kawamura. Cast: Anna Ishii.

Takes you along for that small, hesitating yet very important first step towards maturity that all teen girls experience in their lives. An exquisitely charming, heartwarming and cheerful movie for all young girls who feel the need to be themselves.

Palais G

GOATSPEAK

(India) Smile Films.

108mins. Dir: Judhajit Sarkar. Cast: Naseeruddin Shah.

Story about the journey of a 22-year-old girl through kinship, friendship, failure and success.

Gray 5

(US) Duck Diver Films.

72mins. Dir: Jason Scheunemann.

Palais K

Lerins 2

DAVID LYNCH: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

(Japan) Wild Bunch.

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

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.

Olympia 8 press allowed

THE SECRET SOCIETY OF SOUPTOWN

(Estonia) Estonian Film Institute. 97mins.

Dir: Margus Paju.

An adventure you cannot even imagine.

Palais I

VOLLEY

(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins.

Dir: Martin Piroyansky.

Cast: Martin Piroyansky, Chino Darin, Ines Efron, Violeta Urtizberea.

Palais E

LUCKY STIFF

(US) Arclight Films.

79mins. Dir: Christopher Ashley. Cast: Dominic Marsh, Nikki M James, Pamela Shaw.

A bachelor travels to Monte Carlo to claim an inheritance from his late rich uncle.

Riviera 1

OUR LITTLE SISTER

15:30 3 BEAUTIES See box, below

EL ACOMPANANTE

(Cuba) Habanero.

104mins. Dir: Pavel Giroud. Cast: Yotuel Romero, Armando Miguel Gomez.

MARKET 15:30 3 BEAUTIES

(Venezuela) Media Luna New Films.

97mins. Dir: Carlos Caridad Montero.

Cast: Diana Penalver, Josette Vidal, Fabiola Arace, Fabian Moreno.

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true — including destroying her own family.

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SCREENINGS

In the 1980s, when fear spread faster than HIV, Cuba confined the epidemic behind a wall.

Gray 4 invitation only

AFERIM!

(Romania) Beta Cinema.

108mins. Dir: Radu Jude.

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

In 19th-century Romania, a policeman and his son travel through the south of the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave.

Palais J

BILL

MARKET 15:30 DARK HORSE

(UK) Protagonist Pictures. 86mins.

Dir: Louise Osmond.

An inspirational and life-affirming rags-to-riches true story of a barmaid who bred a champion racehorse.

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(UK) Independent.

94mins. Dir: Richard Bracewell. Cast: Jim Howick, Martha HoweDouglas, Mathew Baynton.

The untold story of Shakespeare — how Bill became William. A comedy about living the dream and saving the Queen.

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BOONIE BEARS — A MYSTICAL WINTER

(China) All Rights Entertainment. 96mins.

Dir: Leon Ding.

The Boonie Bears take us back to their childhood and the deeper history that the Bear Brothers share with Logger Vick, from playmates to adversaries.

During a particularly heavy snowstorm on Pine Tree Mountain that places everything under its frozen spell, a mysterious creature appears causing Bramble’s memories of childhood to come back.

DARK HORSE See box, left

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

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DIRTY WOLVES

(US) California Pictures.

90mins. Dir: Rudolf Buitendach. Cast: Kyle Schmid, Lucas Till, Sonja Kinski.

In love and art, there’s a thin line between passion and obsession.

(Spain) Latido.

105mins. Dir: Simon Casal De Miguel.

Cast: Manuela Velles, Marian Alvarez, Sam Louwyck.

They had to sacrifice evertything to help win someone else’s war.

Palais B

Lerins 1

DARK HEARTS

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SIXTH EDITION / MONTREAL / JULY 23–26, 2015 For its 2015 return to the Fantasia International Film Festival, Frontières is pleased to announce a first wave of selected projects for its 6th edition. The full line-up will be announced at the end of May. 3 1/2 (USA/India)

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:

ELORA (Québec)

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:

KILL MODE (Netherlands) DIRECTOR: Thijs

Meuwese Colinda Bongers WRITER: Thijs Meuwese PRODUCERS: Colinda Bongers & Thijs Meuwese

CO-DIRECTOR:

SYNCRETIZE

(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

DIRECTOR:

WHEREOUT (Serbia)

Srdjan Spasojevic Aleksandar Radivojevic & Srdjan Spasojevic

DIRECTOR: WRITERS:

INDUSTRY ACCREDITATIONS NOW OPEN Past Frontières delegates include representatives from Backup Media, CAA, Celluloid Dreams, Drafthouse Films, eOne Enterainment / Les Films Séville, Fortissimo Films, Le Pacte, Magnolia Pictures, MK2, Memento Films, Mongrel Media, Preferred Content, Protagonist Pictures, Raven Banner Entertainment, UTA, Universal Pictures International, Visit Films, The Weinstein Company, Wild Bunch, William Morris Endeavor, The Works Film Group, XYZ Films & Zentropa Spain.

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

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19th edition

July 14 to August 4, 2015

Montreal

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SCREENINGS

Urs Rechn.

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a 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.

Riviera 2

15:45 TALE OF TALES

MARKET 15:30 MOTHER’S TREES

(Japan) Toei Company.

114mins. Dir: Itsumichi Isomura. Cast: Kyoka Suzuki.

You are not to cut those trees. Those are the Mother’s trees. During the Second World War,

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

(Colombia) Films Boutique. 122mins.

Dir: Ciro Guerra. 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.

MEDUSA

the Mother raised seven of her sons by herself. As the war became fiercer, the sons were called up for military service one by one. Wishing they would return alive someday, she planted a tree for each son.

Palais H

(US) Panama Film Commission. 108mins.

Dir: Jorge Ameer. Cast: Jeff Allen, Jorge Ameer, Tom Struckhoff, William McNamara, Britt Rose, Katy Foley.

A dedicated mythology professor finds an evil witch doctor who summons the spirit of the gorgon Medusa.

their emotions and Ben and Audrey’s family hanging in the balance.

Palais D press allowed

Arcades 3

(Hong Kong (China)) Media Asia Film. 85mins.

Dir: Wai Ching Yip. A zoo monkey in Sichuan travels to New York City to rescue a human friend from a trio of nefarious kidnappers, only to realise the Demon King is behind it all. With the help of a huge pig, he learns to channel the power of the Monkey King to defeat the villains.

HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A LOVE STORY

(US) Adama Films.

Dir: Daniel Raim.

The inspiring love story between storyboard artist Harold Michelson and film researcher Lillian Michelson spanned 60 years, during which they created some of Hollywood’s most iconic examples of visual storytelling.

years. Chloe wants a new image and product, while Vivien wants to make sure nothing changes.

Gray 2

(Italy) HanWay Films.

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.

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?

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DECADENCE

(Mexico) Multivisionnaire Pictures. 91mins.

Dir: Joaquin Rodriguez.

Cast: Alejandro Estrada, Nataly Umana.

Fun and sexy games begin to decay and spiral downward into dangerous acts that lead to tragedy.

Palais C

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DISORDER

16:00

SON OF SAUL

AFTERTHOUGHT

(Hungary) Films Distribution. 107mins.

Dir: Laszlo Nemes.

Cast: Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar,

(Israel) The Match Factory. 105mins.

Dir: Elad Keidan.

Cast: Itay Tiran, Uri Klauzner.

(France) Indie Sales.

100mins. Dir: Alice Winocour. Cast: Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy.

Antibes, nowadays. A former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress

MONKEY KING RELOADED

Arcade 1

Olympia 6 priority badges only

THE MISPLACED WORLD

MOTHER’S TREES

(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.

See box, above

Star 3

GUROV & ANNA

(Canada) Filmoption International. 112mins.

Dir: Raphael Ouellet.

Cast: Andreas Apergis, Sophie Desmarais, Carlo Mestroni.

With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control,

Riviera 4

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MY BAKERY IN BROOKLYN

(Spain) Moonrise Pictures. 95mins.

Dir: Gustavo Ron. Cast: Aimee Teegarden, Ward Horton, Blanca Suarez.

Vivien and Chloe have just inherited their Aunt Isabelle’s bakery, a boulangerie that has been the cornerstone of the neighbourhood for

MARKET 16:00 COSMOS

(France) Alfama Films. 103mins.

Dir: Andrzej Zulawski. Cast: Jonathan Genêt, Sabine Azema, Jean-François Balmer.

Witold, a law student, decides to escape from the city in order to study for his

exams. On his way he meets the young Fuchs, who was recently fired, and both want to see and live other things in the distant countryside. They arrive at the family home of a retired couple, living with their beautiful daughter Lena and their maid.

Arcades 2

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SCREENINGS

suitable for her is that of a Royal Highness.

MARKET 16:00 PAPERS IN THE WIND

(Argentina) Filmsharks International. 100mins.

Dir: Taratuto Juan.

Cast: Diego Peretti, Pablo Echarri, Pablo Rago, Diego Torres.

When El Mono dies, his three longtime friends try to recover from the loss disorder finds himself tasked with protecting the wife and son of a rich Lebanese businessman while he is away.

Star 1

ELECTRICITY

(UK) 4Square Films.

96mins. Dir: Bryn Higgins. Cast: Paul Anderson, Christian Cooke, Lenora Crichlow.

An astonishing journey seen through the eyes of a young woman whose epilepsy brings extraordinary hallucinations as she searches for her lost brother.

Gray 1

GAYBY BABY

(Australia) Rise And Shine World Sales.

85mins. Dir: Maya Newell.

There’s more than one way to make a family.

Palais G press allowed

GREEN ROOM

(US) Westend Films.

and want to secure his little girl’s future. But for Fernando, Mauricio and El Ruso this will not be easy. They decide to recover a big investment El Mono had made when he had bought a soccer player who was supposed to become a star.

Shakespeare, comic books and impossible love affairs.

Lerins 2

IT’S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

95mins. Dir: Jeremy Saulnier. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart.

A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.

(Norway) Princ Films.

91mins. Dir: Arild Ostin Ommundsen. Cast: Vegard Hoel, Fredrik Hana, Silje Salomonsen, Tomas Alf Larsen.

This is the story of murder that never should have happened, about friends that never should have been trusted and debt that can never be paid.

During a robbery Jenny tells her boyfriend Frank, a small-time criminal, that she is pregnant.

Frank is overjoyed and proposes to her on the spot. But the robbery is a disaster and they are caught in a chaotic gunfight.

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Gray 5

HEROES, POETS & THIEVES

KRISHA

(US) Tricoast Worldwide.

87mins. Dir: Antonia Bogdanovich.

Cast: Rebecca Romijn, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Tobin Bell.

Brothers Samuel and Beckett Emerson are barely scraping by. Their father, Warren, continues to gamble and drink away any money they bring home. With all the havoc that is constantly going on in their lives, the family members each find solace in their own way, through

(US) Visit Films. 83mins.

Dir: Trey Edward Shults.

Cast: Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Bill Wise.

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.

Palais E

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Riviera 3 priority badges only

PANAMA

(Serbia) Wide. 97mins.

Dir: Pavle Vuckovic.

Cast: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Milos Pjevac.

A vision of love tainted by pornography and social media.

Palais I

PAPERS IN THE WIND See box, left

THE PARISIAN BITCH

(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

17:30

Star 2

AURELIE LAFLAMME — LES PIEDS SUR TERRE

SLEEPING GIANT

(Canada) Telefiction Distribution. 113mins.

Dir: Nicolas Monette.

Cast: Marianne Verville.

In her previous adventures, Aurelie Laflamme was looking for her place in the universe. Two years later, she is now looking for her place in life. We meet her at the end of high school, where she faces the obstacles and rites of passage of this incredible stage of life.

(Canada) Seville International. 89mins.

Dir: Andrew Cividino.

Cast: Jackson Martin, Reece Moffett, Nick Serino.

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 that test the bonds of friendship and change the boys forever.

Palais K

WAR PIGS

(US) VMI Worldwide.

100mins. Dir: Ryan Little. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Luke Goss.

Disgraced Second World War Army Captain Jack Wosick is given the opportunity for redemption when asked to lead a rag-tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs on a secret mission to go behind enemy lines.

Gray 3

Arcades 3

THE CLUB

(Chile) Funny Balloons.

98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro.

Four men live together in a secluded house in a small, seaside town. Each of them has been sent to this place to purge sins from the past. They live according to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker, when the fragile stability of their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth man, a newlydisgraced companion, bringing with him the past they thought they had left behind.

Star 4

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MARKET 17:30 HALF SISTER, FULL LOVE

(France) Le Pacte. 95mins. Dir: Marion Vernoux. Cast: Virginie Efira, Geraldine Nakache, Gregoire Ludig.

Pierre is invited by his best friend Tessa to

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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Time limit: eight hours.

Hostages: the whole population of Japan.

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

JAPAN PROMO REELS

(Japan) Japan Day Project Consortium.

110mins.

Riviera 2

THE LESSON

(Bulgaria) Wide. 111mins.

Dir: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov. Cast: Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivan Savov, Stefan Denolyubov.

Nadezhda is a highschool English teacher near Sofia. Stunned by a reported theft by one of her students, she is determined to find the culprit and punish him.

As this episode unravels at work, her personal life changes drastically.

She is notified by a bailiff that the bank is about to seize her house and put it up for auction due to overdue mortgage payments.

Lerins 1

MUSTANG

(France) Kinology.

94mins. Dir: Deniz Gamze Erguven. Cast: Gunes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu.

In a remote Turkish village, five vivacious girls led by the youngest — rebellious 13-year-old Lale — grow out of childhood in a family obsessed with tradition and, specifically, the girls’ virtue.

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ON A LONG BREATH 3D

(France) Stray Dogs.

80mins. Dir: Philippe Gerard.

This immersive 3D diving documentary follows Pierre Frolla, quadruple world champion of freediving, and his unique relationship with the ocean and its wild creatures.

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OUT OF THE BURNING BLUE

(US) Archstone Distribution. 90mins.

Dir: Damien Lay. Cast: Chris Klein, Victoria Summer, Werner Daehn.

A rescue attempt of a German traitor during the First World War has unexpected consequences and sets off an adventure across the Arabian desert.

Gray 4

Gray 3

FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER

(Germany) Wide House.

118mins. Dir: Rudiger Suchsland.

The first feature documentary on German cinema from the 1920s.

Palais G

THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ

MARKET 17:30 SUMMERS DOWNSTAIRS

(France) Arri Worldsales. 100mins.

Dir: Tom Sommerlatte.

Cast: Sebastian Frasdorf, Alice Pehlivanyan, Karin Hanczewski.

The holidays of the Landberg brothers Matthias and David

with their girlfriends at their parental holiday villa on the French Atlantic coast, seem to show the clear balance of power between both brothers.

Only Camille, Matthias’ girlfriend, wants to change everything about it.

Riviera 4

PAWS, BONES AND ROCK’N’ROLL

has always been his main enemy.

(US) Red Sea Media.

86mins. Dir: Maxim Sveshnikov.

Two dogs enjoy being home alone when their owners go away on vacation. By themselves, they are able to play around the entire house, but their fun is interrupted when two burglars try to break in and they must defend their home.

Palais F

Palais B

PEREZ

(Italy) Intramovies.

92mins. Dir: Edoardo De Angelis. Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Marco D’Amore, Massimiliano Gallo.

Perez could have become a great lawyer but instead he works as a counsel appointed by the court, like his long-time friend Merolla, and does his job with no passion or ideals.

He could have become a great man of law but fear

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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.

hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumour.

Arcades 1

TAXI

(Iran) Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmares. 82mins.

Dir: Jafar Panahi.

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

friends — brave little bird Kari, smart insect Walker and super ferret Freddy — on an animated quest to bring Christmas to every pet.

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17:40 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.

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18:00 10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE

(US) Tricoast Worldwide.

111mins. Dir: Tim Hines, Tim Hines. Cast: Caroline Barry, Christopher Lambert, Kelly LeBrock.

Getting in was easy.

Getting out was impossible. The real-life experience of Nellie Bly.

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TRIPLE TROUBLE

BBOY IN A DREAM

(Netherlands) Attraction Distribution. 67mins.

Dir: Albert ‘T Hooft, Paco Vink. Cast: Hans Sommers, Georgina Verbaan, Reinder Van Der Naalt.

It will soon be the holiday season. Children around the globe are expecting gifts from Santa Claus. What about animals? They feel left out. Meet three intrepid

(UK) RME Films.

150mins. Dir: Takako Imai.

Documentary based on real-life breakdancers and hip-hop artists.

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TANGERINE

(US) Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing.

87mins. Dir: Sean Baker. Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian.

It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon

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THE BIG BEE

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

(Spain) Blood Window.

75mins. Dir: Hector Hernandez Vicens. Cast: Alba Ribas, Cristian Valencia, Bernat Saumell.

Anna Fritz — a famous and beautiful actress — just died. Three young guys sneak into the morgue not only to see her naked body but also to have sex with her corpse.

But sometimes the dead come back to life.

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HONEYGLUE

(US) Greta Joanne Entertainment. 107mins.

Dir: James Bird. Cast: Adriana Mather, Zach Villa, Christopher Heyerdahl.

After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative, protected life upside down. This is where she meets Jordan, a purse-snatching art school dropout cross dresser, who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.

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IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN

(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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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 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.

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LIVEFOREVER See box, right

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THE LOBSTER

LIVEFOREVER

(Ireland) Protagonist Pictures. 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”.

(Colombia) IM Global.

101mins. Dir: Carlos Moreno. Cast: Paulina Davila, Alejandra Avila, Luis Arrieta.

Hovering over the river that segregates Cali, Colombia, into haves and have-nots, a haunting presence identifies a perilous

new girl arrives in class.

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THE MAGIC BRUSH

SACRIFICE

(China) All Rights Entertainment. 87mins.

Dir: Zhixing Zhong.

In the small village of Baihua lives Ma Liang, a cute boy who loves to paint. One day, he is given a brush with magical powers that transforms whatever he paints into reality.

(US) VMI Worldwide.

100mins. Dir: Michael Cohn. Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Melora Walters, Austin Abrams, Luke Kleintank.

Young superstar athlete Hank goes on a celebratory hunting trip with his younger brother and teammates. An accidental shooting leads to a series of bad decisions, tragedy and cover-ups. Hank finds himself at the centre of a desperate situation that threatens to destroy his family and future.

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THE NEW KID

(France) Indie Sales.

85mins. Dir: Rudi Rosenberg. Cast: Raphael Ghrenassia, Johanna Lindstedt, Max Boublil.

Benoit, 14 years old, leaves the countryside for Paris.

His first day at school turns out to be more difficult than expected, and he quickly becomes isolated… until one day a

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STANDING TALL

(France) Elle Driver.

120mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot.

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Benoit Magimel, Sara

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WONDROUS BOCCACCIO

willingness among the populace to do anything that is asked of it. A blonde teenage girl, knowing she must change her life, leaves her well-appointed house and flagrantly gives herself over to this tolerant city, saying “yes” to everything provocative it offers her.

Riviera 1

Forestier, Rod Parodot.

The story of Malony, from the age of six to 16 as he goes through the juvenile justice system, and the tireless efforts of a judge and a counsellor to save him.

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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 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.

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(Italy) MK2. 121mins.

Dir: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani. Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Kim Rossi Stuart, Michele Riondino.

Florence, Italy, 1348. As the plague ravages the city dwellers of Tuscany, a group of young men and women takes shelter in a remote villa in the surrounding hills. Now living as a community, they decide to tell each other a story a day to take their minds off their precarious situation.

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19:30 BESTFRIENDS

(Germany) Achtfeld.

84mins. Dir: Jonas Grosch, Carlos Val. Cast: Katharina Wackernagel (Art.3, 10), Sebastian Schwarz, Bjarne Madel.

Susi Q loves to travel. To dance. To get drunk. She loves women. She loves her best friend. She loves life! And now all that should suddenly change?

Because she’s getting “too old”? Take responsibility… settle down with someone… live a normal life… like everyone else? Not Susi Q. Riviera 4

20:00 THE EMPEROR IN AUGUST

(Japan) Shochiku Co. 135mins. Dir: Masato Harada. Cast: Koji

Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Shinichi Tsutsumi.

The war ended on August 15, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night? The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled.

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GAZ DE FRANCE

(France) Ecce Films.

86mins. Dir: Benoit Forgeard. Cast: Philippe Katerine, Olivier Rabourdin, Alka Balbir.

France, 2020. The president gathers a crisis team of spindoctors to raise his popularity, after the fiasco of his “sing along austerity” campaign.

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SUICIDE

(Israel) Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

110mins. Dir: Benny Fredman. Cast: Mali Levi Gershon, Rotem Keinan, Dror Keren.

How do you commit the perfect crime in 24 hours?

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WALLABOUT

(US) Veronique Films.

102mins. Dir: Eric McGinty. Cast: Ivy Elrod, Steve Ward, Jo-Anne Lee, Jessica Kahler.

A single woman struggles to rebuild her life in Brooklyn after spending 10 years in Europe as the unrecognised muse to a

famous film-maker.

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20:30 CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU: SURVIVING THE POLICE

(US) Cinema Libre International. 79mins.

Dir: Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin. Cast: Andy Summers, Sting, Stewart Copeland.

Based on the memoir “One Train Later” by guitarist Andy Summers.

Tells of the rise of rock group The Police.

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NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2015

(Germany) German Films Service & Marketing. 87mins.

The annual short film programme.

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22:30 MY GOLDEN DAYS

(France) Wild Bunch.

123mins. Dir: Arnaud Desplechin. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Rabourdin, Quentin Dolmaire.

Paul Dedalus is preparing to leave Tajikistan. He 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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OUR LITTLE SISTER (Jap) Hirokazu Kore-eda

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CAROL (US-UK) Todd Haynes

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SICARIO (US) Denis Villeneuve

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

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MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Chi) Jia Zhangke

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DHEEPAN (Fr) Jacques Audiard

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THE ASSASSIN (Tai-Chi) Hou Hsiao Hsien

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VALLEY OF LOVE (Fr) Guillaume Nicloux

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